College and Research Libraries


Selected Reference Books of 1993 
Eileen Mcilvaine 

his article follows the pattern 
set by the semiannual series 
initiated by the late Con-
stance M. Wmchell more than 

thirty years ago and continued by 
Eugene P. Sheehy. Because the purpose 
of the list is to present a selection of 
recent scholarly and general works of 
interest to reference workers in univer-
sity libraries, it does not pretend to be 
either well balanced or comprehensive. 
A brief roundup of new editions of 
standard works is provided at the end of 
the article. Code numbers (such as 
AD540 and CJ251) have been used to 
refer to titles in the Guide to Reference 
Books, 10thed. (Chicago:ALA,1986)and 
the Supplement ... Covering Materials from 
1985-1990 (Chicago: ALA, 1992). 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

Berg, Donna Lee. A Guide to the Oxford 
English Dictionary. Oxford and New 
York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993. 206p. 
$19.95 (ISBN 0-19-869179-3). LC 91-
41383. 
The author, who is affiliated with the 

Centre for the New Oxford English Dic-
tionary and Text Research at the Univer-
sity of Waterloo (the body responsible 
for computerizing the second edition of 
the OED), has written this handbook to 
guide users, both scholarly and casual, 
through the printed OED (Guide AD27-
AD28, Suppl. AD6). The first half of the 
book describes the various parts of a 
typical dictionary entry as the reader 
would encounter them: headword, pro-
nunciation, part of speech, etymology, 
definition, quotations, etc., with many 

examples from the dictionary (presum-
ably from the second edition, but this is 
not specified). 

Part II, ''A Companion to the OED," is 
essentially an encyclopedia with one-to-
two paragraph entries defining the 
terms and identifying the people and 
institutions associated with them. It is 
unfortunate, given the author's affili-
ation with the University of Waterloo, 
that the computerized versions of the 
OED are ignored; even the term lemma, 
which caused so much confusion for us-
ers of the CD-ROM version of the first 
edition, is not defined. And nowhere is 
there any discussion of the differences 
between the first and second editions. 
Frequent users of the OED should read 
the extensive comparison of the two edi-
tions which appeared in the Review of 
English Studies, n.s.41:76-88 (Feb. 1990). 

This guide should be useful in an-
swering questions about OED entries 
and libraries will want to have it; how-
ever it is not all-you-ever-wanted-to-
know-about-the OED.-M.C. 

BIOGRAPHY 

Acker!, Isabella, and Friedrich Weissen-
steiner. Osterreichisches Personen Lexikon. 
Wien: Ueberreuter, 1992. 552p. 05497 
(ISBN 3-8000-3464-6). LC 93-116283. 
Oesterreichisches Personen Lexikon pro-

vides brief (one or two paragraphs) bio-
graphical entries for Austrians, living 
and dead, who have played a role in the 
cultural, political, or intellectual milieu 
from 1918 to the present (no Hitler, 
though). The entries, some with photo-
graphs, include brief biographical infor-

Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Reference and Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New 
York 10027. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the Reference Departments of Columbia 
University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Paula Gabbard, 
Katherine A. Keller, Barbara Sykes-Austin, Avery Library; James L. Coen, Business Libran;; Man; Cargill, 
Olha della Cam, Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, and ]unko Stuveras, Butler Library. 

242 



mation and in many cases references to 
other sources. Although much of this 
information is available in other sources, 
this is a very useful single-volume com-
pilation, especially rich in cultural fig-
ures.-M.C. 

Victorian Biography: A Checklist of Contem-
porary Biographies of British Men & 
Women Dying between 1851 and 1901. 
Compiled by Peter Bell. Edinburgh: 
Peter Bell (Bookseller), 1993. 193p. 
(ISBN 1-871538114). 
This checklist of contemporary biog-

raphies of British men and women who 
died between 1851 and 1901 was com-
piled in order to facilitate the work of 
scholars interested in researching indi-
viduals living in the Victorian era. It goes 
beyond the "greats," to include the "far 
from great'' (Pref.) and cites biographical 
material, however minor, which might 
prove to be of use to scholars. 

Working in a field already rich in bio-
graphical sources, Peter Bell, the com-
piler, has tapped existing sources, such 
as Frederic Boase's Modern English Biog-
raphy Containing Many Thousand Concise 
Memoirs of Persons Who Have Died be-
tween the Years 1851-1900 (Guide AJ222), 
for his material, while being careful not 
to duplicate them. 

The result is a compilation that briefly 
identifies over 2,000 English, Scottish, 
Welsh, and Irish men and 400 women 
who died between 1851 and 1901 and 
cites references to one or more bio-
graphical works published within a 
short period of the subject's death. Most 
of the works cited are either biographies, 
memoirs, reminiscences, or recollec-
tions, many written by family members 
and printed for private circulation. 
Where possible, the citations include 
verification information in library cata-
logs. Excluded from this compilation are 
autobiographies and diaries, as these are 
already well covered in such works as 
William Matthews' British Autobiogra-
phies: An Annotated Bibliography of British 
Autobiographies Published or Written be-
fore 1951 (Guide AJ239), and his British 
Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Brit-
ish Diaries Written between 1442 and 1942 

Selected Reference Books of 1993 243 

(Guide BD672), and in John Burnett's The 
Autobiography of the Working Class: An 
Annotated Critical Bibliography (Guide 
CH648, Suppl. CH270). Nor does it in-
clude funeral sermons and memoirs pre-
fixing literary works. 

Clearly this compilation has its niche 
and within that niche it fulfills its stated 
purpose well.-O.d.C. 

PHILOSOPHY 

Fetzer, James H., and Robert R Almeder. 
Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of 
Science. New York: Paragon House, 
1993. 149p. $17.95 (ISBN 1-55778-558-
9). LC 92-22762. 
There are many things to commend 

this little glossary: it is selective, it ex-
plains concepts rather than defining 
words, and it uses plain English rather 
than scholarly jargon. 

The glossary limits itself to about 300 
terms and twenty or so individuals-key 
concepts and persons in the study of the 
nature of knowledge. It explains each term 
in a context of related terms: "Knowing 
that vs. knowing how'' and "Historical 
possibility I necessity I impossibility'' are 
typical entries. Rather than attempting to 
trace the origins of these concepts, the 
compilers have contented themselves in 
simply presenting them as they are cur-
rently understood by scholars working on 
philosophical problems. 

As these concepts are not simple, this 
glossary, besides enlightening the curi-
ous layman, can serve as an invaluable 
reference tool for students and teachers 
of courses in epistemology and the phi-
losophy of science.-O.d.C. 

MYTHOLOGY 

Reid, Jane Davidson. The Oxford Guide to 
Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-
1990s. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 
1993.2 vols. (1310p.) $195 (ISBN 0-19-
504998-5). LC 92-33537 4. 
~pired by Andor Pigler's Barockthe-

men: eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur 
Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts 
(Guide BE195), Jane Davidson Reid has 
taken on an even more ambitious project: 
to compile a dictionary of Greek and Ro-
man mythology listing in chronological 



244 College & Research Libraries 

order (from 1300 to the 1990s) mytho-
logical characters and stories as they ap-
pear in the arts, including painting, 
sculpture, classical music, dance, and lit-
erature. Film is only included if it is a 
revision of an already cited work by the 
same artist, as in Jean Cocteau's Orphee. 
(Marcel Camus' celebrated Brazilian 
film Black Orpheus, for example, is not 
included.) Reid has tried to be as exhaus-
tive as possible, realizing from the start 
the quixotic nature of such a project. She 
immediately warns the reader that she 
did not incorporate Pigler into her work 
because it would be redundant and 
points out that incorporating the stand-
ard print catalogs,like Bartsch, Le Peintre 
graveur and its Supplements (Guide 
BE363) was not possible given her pub-
lication deadline. This work recalls Her-
bert Hunger's Lexikon der griechischen 
und romischen Mythologie, mit Hinweisen 
auf das Fortwirken antiker Stoffe und Mo-
tive in der bildenden Kunst, Literatur und 
Musik des Abendlandes bis zur Gegenwart 
(Guide CF29), but it is more exhaustive, 
more current, and has a 191-page index 
of all artists cited. 

Reid explains in her introduction that 
she chose to use Greek names of classical 
gods and goddesses with cross-refer-
ences from Roman to Greek, and she 
points out the differences between simi-
lar Greek and Roman deities within each 
entry. A brief description of the myth 
begins every entry and is followed by 
the major classical sources for the sub-
ject. Selective citations for further read-
ing are often included. Reid frequently 
divides an entry into subentries: for ex-
ample, the entry for Aphrodite has the 
subentries "General List," "Birth of Aph-
rodite," "Cythera," "Isle of Aphrodite," 
"Aphrodite and Anchises," "Girdle of 
Aphrodite," "Worship of Venus," "Ve-
nus Frigida," ''Venus and Satyrs," 
"Statue of Venus," and ''Tannhauser and 
the Venus berg." Obviously, some suben-
tries have no classical source but are 
widely depicted postclassical themes. 
"See also" references appear prior to the 
list of artworks. Each citation of an indi-
vidual artwork provides the birth and 
death dates of the artist, the title of the 

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work, its genre or medium, the date of 
the work, and where appropriate, per-
formance data, publisher, location of 
work, versions, revisions, other works 
related to the original, and source refer-
ences. It is unfortunate that sound re-
cordings are not cited. 

Jane Davidson Reid has compiled an 
immensely valuable resource for all 
scholars interested in postclassical de-
pictions of classical subjects. -P.G. 

LITERATURE 
Dictionary of British Literary Characters. 

Edited by John R. Greenfield. New 
York: Facts on File, 1993. Vol. 1. 655p. 
$SO (ISBN 0-8160-2178-3). LC 90-3998. 
(In progress; to be in 2 vols., $95.) 
The first volume, subtitled 18th and 

19th Century Novels, is an alphabetical 
list of characters in novels by authors 
whose important work appeared before 
1890 (so that Hardy and Kipling appear 
in Volume 1); Volume 2 (forthcoming) 
will be subtitled 20th Century Novels. 

The characters in Volume 1, all11,663 
of them from 486 novels, include a brief 
description of their role in the novel. 
There is an index of characters arranged 
by author, then title. The novels ana-
lyzed include all those by major writers, 
as well as representative examples of 
more unfamiliar authors; the compilers 
have consciously tried to include works 
by women writers. The novels have been 
exhaustively mined for characters, al-
most to the point of uselessness in some 
cases. Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a 
Guinea by Charles Johnstone, for exam-
ple, accounts for some 175 entries, with 
such characters as Author, Bishop, Lord 
--, Rake, etc. Looking through the 
characters included for Emma, a novel I 
have read many times, I see names I 
don't recognize; there seems to be much 
unnecessary padding. 

In fact, it is hard to know who might 
need this book. The main characters of 
the major novels are listed in other char-
acter indexes, and brief plot summaries 
are available in various guides, as well 
as the inevitable Masterplots (Guide 
BD74, BD75, Suppl. BD97). Unless, of 
course, someone wants to know about 



the character "Puppy" from Alice in 
Wonderland, in which case this book will 
come in handy.-M.C. 

Hopster, Norbert and Petra Josting. Lit-
eraturlenkung im Dritten Reich: eine Bib-
liographie. Hildesheim and New York: 
G. Olms, 1993. Vol. 1, 500p. DM 138 
(ISBN 3-487-09686-2). (In progress; to 
be in 2 vols.) LC 93-222833. 
Volume 1 of this outstanding and imagi-

native bibliography of the literary climate 
of the Third Reich is divided into two parts. 
The first is a bibliography of material writ-
ten during 1933-45; the second, smaller 
half, lists scholarly studies, including dis-
sertations, written after 1945. 

Sources appear to have been thor-
oughly examined (despite the modesty 
of the Introduction), and the researcher 
can find references to subjects as varied 
as book production, lending libraries, 
theater productions, textbooks, popular 
literature, as well as to more formal lit-
erary criticism written in Germany be-
tween 1933 and 1945. Especially 
impressive is the detailed list, including 
locations and record group numbers, of 
archival holdings related to publishing in 
the Third Reich, including official records 
on censorship, propaganda, etc. 

The bibliography has a detailed, though 
somewhat confused, classified arrange-
ment. If a researcher, for instance, were 
interested in drama in the Third Reich, 
he would find material in the section (1) 
''Literaturkritik-Rezeption der deut-
schen Gegenwartslitera tur-Dramatis-
che Formen" (this includes a citation to 
an annual listing of productions); (2) 
the section "Ideologisierung der Lit-
erature-Programmatik/Theorie-Dra-
matische Formen," and (3) the section 
"Literaturgeschichte, allgemein-Dra-
matische Formen," in addition to refer-
ences to post-1945 studies located only 
through the subject index (which does 
not refer to the 1933-45 entries-these I 
found looking through the detailed Ta-
ble of Contents). But the effort is well 
worthwhile, and researchers interested 
in the culture of Nazi Germany would 
do well to begin with this indispensable 
bibliography. 

Selected Reference Books of 1993 245 

Volume 2 will be an annotated list of 
bibliographies of bibliographies and of 
book catalogs and lists. -M.C. 

Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic Poetry by 
Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. Ox-
ford: Clarendon Pr., 1993. 484p. $72 
(ISBN 0-19-811239-4). LC 92-35190. 
Readers sometimes come to the refer-

ence desk with the assignment to locate 
a women writer who has not been col-
lected in a modern anthology and argue 
for her inclusion in future anthologies. 
These readers, as well as those engaged 
in upper-level and graduate research on 
the English Romantic period, will be 
well served by this bibliography listing 
the printed volumes of verse of nearly 
900 women writers. The bibliography is 
arranged alphabetically by writer, and 
each entry provides a brief biography of 
the author before listing chronologically 
all of her books having at least seven 
pages and published between 1770 and 
1835. Entries include publisher, date, di-
mensions of the title page, pagination, 
author as given on the title page, and the 
reference on which the entry is based. 
Verse translations into English are also 
included. Separate indexes list authors, ti-
tles, and publishers, by name and location. 
A chart showing the annual rate of pro-
duction of all editions and first editions, 
with a graph demonstrating the phenome-
nal surge in publication in 1808, complete 
the bibliography. Although there is no 
chronological index, many, but not all, of 
the authors are included in Jackson's An-
nals of English Verse 1770-1835 (Suppl. 
BD243). Recommended to all libraries sup-
porting research in English and American 
literature. -S.S. 

CINEMA 

Art on Screen: A Directory of Films and 
Videos about the Visual Arts. Compiled 
and edited by the Program for Art on 
Film, Nadine Covert, editor. New 
York: Program for Art on Film; Boston: 
G.K. Hall, [1991]. 283p., 32p. of plates. 
$65 (ISBN 0-8161-7294-3). LC 91-
34548. 
As the Preface indicates, this directory 

contains 914 films and video titles culled 



246 College & Research Libraries 

from the 17,000 entries in the Art on Film 
computer database. Compiled by the 
Program for Art on Film, a joint venture 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 
the J. Paul Getty Trust, the database pro-
vides detailed information about interna-
tional film and video productions covering 
the fine arts (painting, drawing, sculp-
ture), architecture, archaeology, photogra-
phy, decorative arts, and related topics. To 
obtain information from the database, 
researchers may apply directly to the 
Program for Art on Film. 

This directory is intended as a guide 
for film programmers,librarians, educa-
tors, art historians, and filmgoers who 
are concerned with the making or use of 
audiovisual programs on the visual arts. 
The art lover could also use this direc-
tory as a guide to the array of videos on 
art which are now available. In addition 
to the directory, Art on Screen includes 
five essays to provide context for the 
individual film listings and to stimulate 
thinking about the issues concerning the 
presentation of art on film. A filmogra-
phy and a directory of resources for film 
programmers are included. 

The work is intended to continue two 
out-of-print directories: the 1977 Films 
on Art, compiled and edited by theCa-
nadian Centre for Films on Art for the 
American Federation of Arts, published 
by Watson-Guptill; and the 1952 Films on 
Art, edited by William M. K. Chapman, 
published by the American Federation 
of Arts. A third directory that may be of 
interest to this audience is From Muse-
ums, Galleries and Studios: A Guide to Art-
ists on Film and Tape (Suppl. BE76). 

Art on Screen is arranged in two sec-
tions: Documentaries with 709 entries 
and Features with 205. The preface out-
lines the following selection criteria for 
the Documentary section: films and vid-
eos released between late 1975 and 1990 
that are in distribution in the United 
States and have been favorably re-
viewed by the Program for Art on Film 
staff, or by evaluation panels, or recom-
mended by advisory panels, or honored 
by film festivals. Art on Screen is aimed 
at an adult audience. Films and videos 
on photography are excluded because 

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they are covered by Films and Videos on 
Photography, published in 1990 by the 
Program for Art on Film. Architecture 
and landscape architecture will be 
treated in Architecture on Screen an-
nounced for spring 1994. Arrangement 
of both sections is alphabetical by title, 
usually in English unless the work is 
better known by its original title. Each 
annotated listing includes the following 
components: title, series title, running 
time, color, format, date(s), country, lan-
guage, edition/ version, producing 
agency, credits (producer, director, ex-
ecutive producer, writer, camera, art 
consultant, and, for the Features sec-
tions, cast), distributor, synopsis, evalu-
ation, comments (by the staff of the 
Program for Art on Film or the Metro-
politan Museum's Media Center), re-
views, and awards. 

The indexes include a separate subject 
index for each of the two sections, Fea-
tures and Documentaries, director index 
for the Features section, name index (art-
ists, critics, art historians, and others 
who figure prominently) for both sec-
tions; series title index with individual 
titles listed under each series title; and a 
source index with names, addresses, and 
phone/ fax number of distributors. 

Despite weaknesses such as the type-
faces and design, the inexplicable lack of 
a director index for documentaries and 
of birth and death dates for names, and 
inconsistency in the use of headings in 
the listings, Art on Screen provides essen-
tial information for large public libraries 
and film and art collections.-K.A.K. 

ARCHITECfURE 

Curl, James Stevens. Encyclopaedia of Ar-
chitectural Terms, with Illustrations by 
the Author and John J. Sambrook. Lon-
don: Donhead, 1993 (1992). 352p. il. £45 
(ISBN 1-873394-04-7). 
There are a great many encyclopedias, 

dictionaries, and glossaries of architec-
ture and its vocabulary to choose from, 
varying in scope or generality, size, his-
torical coverage, and intended audience 
(Guide BE258-BD277, Suppl. BE122-
BE124). This latest example most resem-
bles the works of Cyril M. Harris in his 



Dictionary of Architecture and Construc-
tion (Guide BE266, 2d ed. 1993), and his 
Historic Architecture Sourcebook (Guide 
BE269) in their line drawings and con-
cise definitions; Jill Lever's and John 
Harris' Illustrated Glossary of Architecture 
850-1830 (Guide BE267) and Curl's ear-
lier English Architecture: An Illustrated 
Glossary (Guide BE262, 2d rev. ed. 1986) 
for their coverage of British architectural 
terms, the subject of this work. 

The Encyclopaedia of Architectural Terms 
offers 348 pages of definitions ranging 
from two words to four pages in length, 
with line drawings or photographs on al-
most every page. All examples are from 
British buildings, which makes this often 
dense work one most suited to specialized 
collections. A four-page select bibliog-
raphy follows the glossary and supple-
ments the works cited in the Preface. 

The contents can often be very de-
tailed; e.g., the term Symbol has 19 col-
umns ofhagiological symbols represented 
in and on churches and other buildings. 
Styles, such as Gothic, Gothick, and 
Gothic Revival are both described and 
illustrated, again in a British context. 
Building materials, ornamental details, 
elements, building types, and physical 
attributes are covered. The definitions 
are often thick with cross-references, sig-
nalled by arrows, which can make com-
prehension difficult. In other instances 
more guidance on locating the illustra-
tion of a built form is needed than an 
entry provides (e.g., the definition is un-
der hip-roof but the illustration is under 
roof>. There are no biographical entries; 
for these the author refers the reader to 
Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British 
Architects 1600-1840 (Guide BE294), 
again reflecting the British focus of the 
work. The book will be of most use to the 
serious scholar of British, European, and 
Classical architectural history -B.S.-A. 

WOMEN'S STUDIES 

Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Per-
spectives. Edited by Barbara Katz Roth-
man. Phoenix: Oryx, 1993. 446p. $74.50 
(ISBN Q-89774-648-1). LC 92-14975. 
This useful interdisciplinary encyclo-

pedia treats some 250 topics related to 

Selected Reference Books of 1993 247 

childbearing. Entries are well-written, 
with a strong feminist orientation. Top-
ics range from discussions of childbear-
ing in different countries, to feminist 
analyses of motherhood, explanations of 
medical procedures and drugs, and 
presentation of a variety of statistics. Al-
though the majority of entries refer to 
issues relating to contemporary child-
birth in the United States, entries also 
discuss goddess imagery, the language 
of birth, childbirth in science fiction, bib-
lical and Talmudic images of pregnancy, 
and histories of all aspects of childbirth. 
Each signed entry includes a selective 
scholarly (three to ten items) bibliography 
of additional references. Arranged alpha-
betically with cross references and a good 
subject index. Recommended for all li-
braries supporting research on women, 
in spite of the fact that the encyclopedia 
chooses to sidestep the issue of surro-
gate motherhood, while including en-
tries on open, closed, intercountry, and 
tran.sracial adoption; birthmothers; and 
induced lactation. -S.S. 

The History of Women and Science, Health 
and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to 
the Professions and the Disciplines. Ed-
ited by Phyllis Holman Weisbard and 
Rima D. Apple. 2d ed. Madison, WISe.: 
Univ. of Wisconsin System Women's 
Studies Librarian, 1993. lOOp. Free. 
This selective bibliography was first 

published by Susan Searing in 1988 to 
"aid colleagues in both designing new 
gender-centered courses ... [and to] 
make the history of women in the pro-
fessions more accessible to practitioners 
in the various branches of science, medi-
cine, and technology." -Pref. This new 
edition nearly doubles the size of the 
first, including citations to more than 
2,500 books and periodical articles pub-
lished through 1992. There are six chap-
ters treating women in the scientific 
professions, health and biology, home 
economics/ domestic science, technol-
ogy, children and young adult litera-
ture, and a section o.f general over-
views. Each chapter is further subdi-
vided by topic; the chapter on technol-
ogy, for example, includes sections on 



248 College & Research Libraries 

reference works, individual engineers 
and technologists, and reproductive 
technology. Annotations are provided 
"in cases where titles are not fully ex-
pressive of content, or to call attention to 
specific sections of the work," and an 
author index allows one to trace the 
work of specific scholars. The bibliog-
raphy is free while supplies last and 
available from the University of Wis-
consin System Women's Studies Li-
brarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 
State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 
53706. In late January the bibliography 
will become available via the Internet. 
For more information, please contact 
wiswsl@macc.wisc.edu.-S.S. 

Huls, Mary Ellen. United States Govern-
ment Documents on Women 1800-1990: 
A Comprehensive Bibliography. Westport, 
Conn.: Greenwood, 1993.2 vols. $79.50 
(ISBN 0-313-29016-4). LC -92-38990. 
Contents: Volume 1: Social Issues; Vol-
ume 2: Labor. 
Congressional hearings, reports and 

documents, as well as publications of 
government agencies and commissions, 
and other public documents are listed 
chronologically within broad subject 
categories in this annotated bibliog-
raphy. Among the twenty-one topics in 
the first volume are suffrage and politi-
cal participation, homemaking and 
home economics, health, educational eq-
uity, divorce and child support, retire-
ment and survivor benefits, violence 
against women, and female offenders. 
The chronological arrangement within 
topics is useful for tracing government 
activity (or lack thereof) across time. 
Topics included in Volume 2 range from 
employment discrimination, affirmative 
action and pay equity, to war work, the 
Women's Bureau, and child care and 
eldercare. Although government docu-
ments are relatively easy, if time-con-
suming, to identify and locate, this 
cumulative bibliography with its brief 
annotations, subject arrangement, and 
topical indexing will considerably help 
readers seeking material on topics re-
lated to women. There are no title or 
corporate author indexes so this may not 

May1994 

be the place to verify an incomplete cita-
tion quickly.-S.S. 

STATISTICS 

Horn, Robert Victor. Statistical Indicators 
for the Economic & Social Sciences. Cam-
bridge and New York: Cambridge 
Univ. Pr., 1993. 227p. il. $17.95 (ISBN 
0-521-41333-8). LC 92-23005. 
This text provides a description of all 

the major indicators used in the presen-
tation, application, and analysis of statis-
tical data in the social sciences. Although 
written by an Australian academic, the 
content focuses on current practice in Brit-
ain, North America, and the Western 
world in general. Considered semantically 
as metadata, these indicators are the inter-
mediaries that link statistical observations 
with social or other phenomena; i.e, they 
bring the data to life. 

Initially, the author provides a histori-
cal outline of indicators and describes 
their uses. Following this, the major 
techniques are explained in detail; in-
cluded are ratios, scaling, correlation 
and regression, time series, and multi-
variate analysis. Each operation is 
placed in a comparative or historical 
context as appropriate. 

Subsequently the development, eco-
nomic, and social application of indica-
tors are treated in separate chapters. 
Development indicators explained are 
those typically reported by various agen-
cies of the United Nations, the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund, and the World 
Bank. The economic indicators are those 
characteristic of the more advanced econo-
mies, e.g., measurements of securities and 
financial markets' activities, business cy-
cles, and international comparisons. Un-
der social applications are included those 
for health, the environment, culture, war, 
and peacetime use. 

There are no footnotes to the text, but 
there are references throughout to a sub-
stantive bibliography that may be used for 
expanded reading. Highly recommended 
for social science collections.-J.L.C. 

HISTORY 

Diccionario Biogrdfico e Hist6rico de Ia 
Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de 



Mexico. Coord. Roberto Blancarte. Zi-
nacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense; . 
Toluca: Institute Mexiquense de Cul-
tura, 1992. 298p. il. (ISBN 9686341277). 
The Diccionario Biognifico e Hist6rico de 

Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de 
Mexico is an elaboration of one section-
the section for the state of Mexico-of 
the seven-volume Diccionario Hist6rico y 
Biogrtifico de Ia Revoluci6n Mexicana pub-
lished between 1990-92, in Mexico City 
by the Institute Nacional de Estudios 
Hist6ricos de la Revoluci6n Mexicana. 
This latter work is a state-by-state inven-
tory of biographical and historical infor-
mation pertaining to the Mexican 
Revolution dating from the period 1890-
1920, including information regarding 
battles, military campaigns, political 
groups, official congresses and meet-
ings, publications, laws and legal tracts, 
political manifestos and popular songs. 
For each state the arrangement of infor-
mation is the same: a short historical 
overview followed by dictionary entries 
on all the above categories arranged in 
one alphabetical sequence, and conclud-
ing with a chronology of events, a list of 
governors, a bibliography, and a list of 
archival repositories. 

For the present work, the coordinator 
of the above project, Roberto Blancarte, 
has taken the section on the state of Mex-
ico and enhanced it. To locate entries 
more easily, he has arranged them by 
categories; he has added illustrations in 
the form of historical photographs and 
reproductions of printed documents; 
and he has expanded coverage to in-
clude information about persons who 
participated in revolutionary activities 
in the state of Mexico but who were not 
natives of the state. The result is a well 
researched, clearly and attractively pre-
sented reference tool. 

For those Mexican Revolution schol-
ars whose research focuses on the state 
of Mexico and for those libraries that 
have little call for a seven-volume defini-
tive biographical and historical diction-
ary of the Mexican Revolution, the 
Diccionario biogrtifico e hist6rico de Ia 
Revoluci6n Mexicana en el Estado de 
Mexico is a most useful title.-O.d.C. 

Selected Reference Books of 1993 249 

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, 
Jacob Ernest Cooke, editor-in-chief. 
New York: Scribner, 1993. 3 vols. $280 
(ISBN 0-684-19269-1). LC 93-7609. 
The editor-in-chief, Ernest Cooke, rec-

ognizing that coverage of colonial 
America has often focused solely on the 
English colonies, has made a great effort 
to include the Dutch, Spanish, French, 
and occasionally Russian ones. Thus in 
the discussion of taxation, noted schol-
ars write essays on taxation in each: the 
British, the Spanish borderlands, the 
French, and the Dutch colonies. The dif-
ficulty with the Russian colonies in 
Alaska and California appears to be the 
unavailability of source material al-
though there are general articles on the 
Russian colonies in the Encyclopedia. 

The appearance, layout, and arrange-
ment are very similar to Scribner's Ency-
clopedia of American Social History (see the 
September 1993 column). The 274 topi-
cal and thematic essays by 193 contribu-
tors strive to present a "comprehensive 
coverage and a comparative analysis of 
the settlements ... , [incorporating] re-
cent changes of scholarly emphasis on 
the spatial, demographic, cultural, eco-
nomic and social aspects of the colonial 
past."-Pref. The essays are arranged 
within broad topics: The American con-
text, Old World expansion, Colonial set-
tings, Government and law, Economic 
life, Labor systems, Racial interaction, 
War and diplomacy, Social fabric, Folk-
ways, Families and the life course, Life 
of the mind, Science and technology, The 
arts, Education, Religion, Toward inde-
pendence. Within a topic, for example 
under Families and the life course, there 
are shorter essays, such as Family struc-
ture, Sexual mores and behavior, Mar-
riage, Childhood and adolescence, Old 
age and death, Native American families 
and life cycles; within these headings 
separate entries cover the British colo-
nies, the Dutch colonies, the French colo-
nies, and the colonies of the Spanish 
borderlands. The arrangement is all 
spelled out in the Table of Contents. 

Each article is signed, well-written, has 
copious cross-references to other essays 
as well as to maps (there are thirty-two 



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250 College & Research Libraries 

maps), and always a bibliography of ma-
jor studies mostly published within the 
last twenty years. The index is detailed 
with "see also" references, and the larger 
headings are broken down by subhead-
ings; the major articles are identified by 
boldface type and the tables by italic 
type. The Chronology runs from 985 and 
Erik the Red to 1867 when Russia sold its 
North American possessions. The list of 
contributors includes the titles of the ar-
ticles that each wrote. 

And how does this work compare 
with The Encyclopedia of Colonial and 
Revolutionary America. John Mark 
Faragher, general editor (New York: 
Facts on File, [1990]. 484p.)? The 
Faragher has an emphasis on the English 
colonies, has short articles, has maps 
and portraits, only occasional bibliog-
raphies at the ends of the articles, and a 
subject index. There are "Topic Guides" 
which accompany major articles in order 
to identify shorter articles related to 
them; for example, the topic guide with 
the article for Frontier lists about thirty-
five general articles and thirty bio-
graphical entries. 

For ready reference the Faragher 
would be a quicker starting point but for 
in-depth research, scholars will be very 
glad to have Cooke's Encyclopedia of the 
North American Colonies.-E.M. 

Epstein, Catherine. A Past Renewed: A Cata-
log of German-Speaking Refugee Historians 
in the United States after 1933. Publications 
of the German Historical Institute. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
Univ. Pr., 1993. 386p. $54.95 (ISBN 0521-
44063-7). LC 92-568. 
Catherine Epstein has compiled a bio-

bibliography of "historians of modern 
Europe ... , historians of Jewish and 
other religions' histories, historians of 
economics and law, historians of medi-
cine, and historians of Oriental and an-
cient people" (In trod.) who emigrated to 
the United States between 1933 and 1940 
from one of the German-speaking parts 
of Central Europe. To be included these 
scholars must have received formal 
training and have embarked on a career 
in Germany or the Austro-Hungarian 

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Empire, taught history after their arrival 
in the United States, and have enough 
information available for Epstein to be 
able to reconstruct their careers. 

For each scholar brief biographical in-
formation is given (birth, death, year of 
emigration, citizenship, education, pro-
fessional work), a bibliography of works 
by the subject and also works about him 
(only five women appear), references to 
any published bibliographies for the 
person, and a note locating the archives. 

Appendixes give a bibliography of 
general works on German-speaking 
refugee historians and a discussion of 
the historians for which little data can be 
found. The topical index is carefully 
done with boldface type for the individ-
ual entries; it includes references for the 
institutions with which the subjects 
were affiliated either in Europe or the 
United States. 

This compilation will be extremely 
useful, of course, to the historiographer 
but also for the student just looking for 
biographical information on an author.-
E.M. 

Favier, Jean. Dictionnaire de Ia France 
Medievale. Paris: Fayard, 1993. 982p. 
750 FF (ISBN 2-213-03139-8). 
This dictionary of medieval France is 

based on Jean Fa vier's considerable eru-
dition as a scholar and archivist. He is 
the director of the Archives Na tionales 
and author of a number of books for 
specialists and for general readers. The 
dictionary covers some ten centuries of 
the history of the French people, roughly 
spanning from the fourth to fifteenth 
centuries. Here the geographic bounda-
ries are of secondary importance: from 
England to the Middle East, whether it 
be a crusade or the house of Lusignan in 
Cyprus, the book will take us wherever 
the French were active. 

Concise and informative articles cover 
all aspects of medieval French society 
from the Church and the royal govern-
~ent systems to daily life such as cloth-
ing items and food. Each article ranges 
from a few lines to more than ten pages. 
The author omits on purpose any bibli-
ography that he considers to have a lim-



ited utility because it would become ob-
solete rather quickly and most people 
are unlikely to have access to a special-
ized research collection. Good cross-ref-
erences are throughout. Attractively 
illustrated with numerous monochrome 
photographs and thirty-two pages of 
color plates.-J.S. 

Historical Atlas of the Middle East. G. S. P. 
Freeman-Grenville. New York: Simon 
& Schuster, 1993.144p. 30cm. $55 (ISBN 
0-13-390915-8). LC 93-9294/map. 
There are surprisingly few up-to-date 

historical atlases of the Middle East. 
Some are more like picture books than 
atlases, others are limited to Biblical or 
Islamic history. The Historical Atlas of the 
Middle East is, therefore, a welcome ad-
dition to any collection of historical at-
lases in school and home libraries. 

The work is intended for the general 
reader but would serve well for college 
libraries. Arranged chronologically, the 
113 maps cover the period from earliest 
historical times to the present and treat 
the Middle East in the context of the 
Mediterranean world and beyond, rang-
ing from Spain and Morocco to Afghani-
stan. One of the maps presents the 
percentage of Muslims in the total popu-
lation for the countries of the world. 

The information is presented in dou-
ble-page spreads with maps on the right-
hand pages in shades of gray and green 
accompanied by commentaries on the 
left pages which summarize the histori-
cal background. With a detailed table of 
contents, bibliography, and an index 
which includes cross-references to vari-
ant place names, it will prove very useful 
for scholars and for students.-} .S. 

Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, 
Encyclopedias, and Handbooks. Com-
piled and edited by Murlin Croucher. 
Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Re-
sources, 1993. 2 vols. (986p.) $150 
(ISBN 0-8420-2374-7). LC 92-28912. 
This impressive survey of more than 

5,200 reference sources for the study of 
Slavic countries and cultures is clearly 
destined to become a classic. Reflecting 
many years of work, it lists major bibli-

Selected Reference Books of 1993 251 

ographies, catalogs, directories, diction-
aries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, hand-
books, and various other reference 
works in English, French, German, and 
the Slavic languages. All works were ex-
amined by the author, and most entries 
include useful annotations concerning 
contents and the place of a work in the 
broader context of reference sources. 

Two initial sections entitled "Area 
Studies" and "Eastern Europe and the 
Balkans" include works that treat the 
region as a whole (the first including the 
former Soviet Union, the second exclud-
ing it). Then follow individual sections 
devoted to Bulgaria, the former Czecho-
slovakia, Poland, the former Soviet Un-
ion, and the former Yugoslavia. At the 
end is a listing of general reference 
works that contain import ant rna terial of 
relevance to Slavic studies, followed by 
author and subject indexes. 

Croucher has done an outstanding job 
of assembling the key reference works in 
the field. Inevitably, as with any bibliog-
raphy of this kind, each user will find 
one or two additional titles that she or he 
might have included. This reviewer, for 
example, would have added Alfonsas 
Se~plaukis' s Lituanica Collections in Euro-
pean Research Libraries: A Bibliography 
(Suppl. DC162), Christoph Schmidt's 
Ausgewiihlte Bibliographien und Bibliotheks-
katalog zur russischen Sozialgeschichte, 
1861-1917 (see March 1993 column), and 
the eight-volume srownik Starozytnosci 
SlOwiariskich (Wrocaw: Ossolineum, 
1961-91), although only the last of these 
omissions could be described as a major 
oversight. 

Amore serious problem is the compli-
cated arrangement of entries, which are 
filed in alphabetical order of subject 
headings within each country chapter, 
much as in a card catalog and, within a 
given heading, in a kind of chronologi-
cal order that is not always easy to 
follow. This, combined with an absence 
of cross references in the text or index, 
makes the work somewhat difficult to 
scan and hinders quick look-ups of 
known items. A reader looking for the 
Polish literary bibliography, perhaps 
best known as "Nowy Korbut" (Guide 



252 College & Research Libraries 

BD1304) for example, will not find it 
under that entry in the index even 
though the work is included in the bib-
liography. A user scanning the Lithu-
anian entries in the former Soviet Union 
section could easily miss Patricia Grim-
sted's Archives and Manuscript Reposito-
ries in the USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 
and Belorussia (Guide AB155), since it is 
listed elsewhere as a multitopic work, 
and no cross-reference is provided. 

In short, to make the best use of this 
work, one must study it carefully, but the 
result is sure to be rewarding for schol-
ars seeking to identify the tools needed 
to begin their research or to chase down 
a particular citation. It is likewise certain 
to prove a valuable tool for librarians in 
assessing the completeness of their 
Slavic reference holdings. 

A work of this high quality and com-
prehensiveness invites comparisons 
with Paul Horecky's standard bibliog-
raphies of basic publications for Rus-
sian, East Central European, and 
Southeast European studies (Guide 
DC530, OC25, OC26 respectively). Like 
those works, it belongs in every library 
supporting research relating to the 
Slavic field, even ones without extensive 
Slavic collections of their own.-R.H.S. 

NEW EDITIONS 
AND SUPPLEMENTS 

The fifth edition of the Columbia Ency-
clopedia, edited by Barbara A. Chernow 
and George A. Vallasi (New York: Co-
lumbia Univ. Pr.; sold and distributed by 
Houghton Mifflin, [1993]. 3048p., $99; 
4th ed., 1975, Guide AC9) has been up-
dated to late 1992. The publisher esti-
mates that 40 percent of the articles are 
revised. So a cursory look reveals that 
Bill Clinton and the Commonwealth of 
Independent States have entries; 
I<Ieistel, the new president of Austria, is 
there but not Vranitzky, who has the 
more important post of prime minister; 
population figures are updated to 1990; 
the card catalog and the library entries 
are the same as in the fourth edition with 
no mention of the impact of computers; 
the article on Russia stops with the for-
mation of the USSR. "See" and "see also" 

May1994 

references abound as do the bibliog-
raphies of book titles at the end of many 
of the articles. And finally the illustra-
tions are very clear and well placed, 
mostly line drawings, maps, and charts. 

The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essen-
tial Guide for Authors, Editors,and Publish-
ers has been thoroughly revised (14th 
ed., John Grossman, managing editor. 
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1993, 
921p., $40; 13th ed., 1982. Guide AA425) 
particularly to note the "role of comput-
ers in nearly every aspect of publishing 
beginning with the preparation of 
manuscripts ... and continuing through 
editing, designing, typesetting, index-
ing and printing" (Pref.). Other changes 
include the increase in the number of 
examples, the heavily rewritten chapters 
on documentation, and the chapter on 
copyrights and permissions "which has 
been thoroughly revised by William 
Strong to reflect the most recent law and 
the most sensible current procedures." 

The fourth edition of African Books in 
Print, edited by Hans M. Zell (London: 
Hans Zell, 1993, 2 vols., 1520p., $400, 3d 
ed., 1984, Guide AA603) lists 23,186 titles 
in English, French, or African languages 
"in print as of the end of 1991 from 7 45 
publishers and research institutions 
with publishing programs in 45 African 
countries" (Introd~). These titles come 
from the list of books in the third edition. 
(1984) still in print, a cumulation of all 
titles in volumes 9-17 (1983-91) of Afri-
can Book Publishing Record (Guide 
AA602), and new records received di-
rectly from the publisher. Excluded are 
government publications and serials 
(but not annuals, yearbooks, and irregu-
lar series). 

The third cumulative index for vol-
umes 1-35 of Swedish Imprints 1731-1833: 
A Retrospective National Bibliography 
(Uppsala: Dahlia Books, 1993. Unpaged; 
for the set see Guide AA1113) supersedes 
the indexes for volumes 1-15 and vol-
umes 1-20. It provides indexing for main 
entries, added entries, including dedi-
catees, engravers, printing, publishing 
and bookselling firms, and for year and 
first word. The supplementary entries 
are addenda and corrigenda. 



The second volume of James E. 
Walsh's Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century 
Printed Books in the Harvard University 
Library (Binghampton, N.Y.: Medieval 
and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 
1993. 672p., 16pl. Medieval & Renais-
sance Texts & Studies, 97, $50) covers 
books printed in Rome and Venice and 
is indexed by author I title, by individual 
editor and translator, by provenance, 
and has a concordance for Hain/Proc-
tor /Gesamtkatalog/Goff numbers (see 
Guide AA269-AA273, AA275, AA278-
AA279). Volume 1 (1991) describes fif-
teenth-century books published in 
Germany, German-speaking Switzer-
land, and Austria-Hungary. 

With its thirty-second edition, Wrich's 
International Periodicals Directory (New 
York: Bowker, 1993. 5 vols., $395; for ear-
lier editions see Guide AE10) is taking its 
first step toward worldwide newspaper 
coverage. Volume 5 of the set lists 7,000 
daily and weekly newspapers published 
in the United States; it has its own index. 
Other changes in this edition of Wrich's 
are the addition of flags to indicate titles 
registered with the Copyright Clearance 
Center, notations for titles available 
through document delivery from six 
services, and pointers for journals avail-
able exclusively online or in both forms: 
online as well as paper. 

The third edition of the World Encyclo-
pedia of Library and Information Services, 
edited by Robert Wedgeworth (Chicago: 
ALA, 1993. 905p., $200; 1st ed., 1980, 
Guide AB32; 2d ed., 1986, Suppl. ABll), 
maintains both the objectives and the 
scope of the two previous editions - to 
present a "one-volume overview of the 
history, major institutions and the distin-
guished personalities that have shaped 
the field" of librarianship (Pref.). Articles 
have been updated and revised and oth-
ers added to reflect contemporary is-
sues, e.g., cutting-edge technologies, 
new political realities (changes in East-
em Europe and the former Soviet Union 
were addressed but because of the un-
settled nature of the area the attempt 
could only be partially successful). A 
large number of photos and charts, 
many of them new, as well as a sixteen-

Selected Reference Books of 1993 253 

page color-photo section do much to en-
hance the visual appeal of the text. 

New editions of three guides to library 
collections have appeared this year: 
World Directory of Map Collections, com-
piled by the IFLA Section of Geography 
and Map Libraries, edited by Lorraine 
Dubreuil (3d ed., Munich: Saur, 1993, 
310p., IFLA Publications 63 £35; 2d ed. 
1976, Guide CL303) which now lists 522 
collections from 67 countries that have 
more than 1,000 maps; that is, unless it's 
the national library or archives or the 
only map collection in the country and 
these are included. SCOLMA Directory of 
Libraries and Special Collections on Africa 
in the United Kingdom and in Europe, com-
piled and edited by Tom French (5th rev. 
and exp. ed. New York and London: 
HansZell,1993.355p.,$85;4thed.,1983, 
Guide DD45) is expanded to include the 
countries of Eastern Europe. The Re-
searcher's Guide to British Film & Television 
Collections, edited by James Ballantyne 
(4th rev. ed., London: British Universi-
ties Film & Video Council, 1993. 226p., 
£12.50; 3d ed. 1989, 2d ed. 1985, Suppl. 
BG84) now describes 246 collections, in-
cluding some not open to the public; for 
example, most of the BBC libraries are 
included because they are discussed in 
other guides even though the use is re-
stricted. The Appendix has a directory 
for the Republic of Ireland and a selected 
bibliography which includes a section 
listing relevant Parliamentary Papers. 

Also recently issued are several revi-
sions of archival guides: The Second 
World War: A Guide to the Public Record 
Office, 2d ed., edited by John D. Cantwell 
(London: PRO, 1993. 218p., £10.95; 1st 
ed., 1972, Guide DA209) adds coverage 
of additional files which have been 
opened since early 1972; and the Direc-
tory of Irish Archives, edited by Seamus 
Helferty and Raymond Refausse (Black-
rock, County Dublin: Irish Academic Pr., 
1993. 154p. £24.95; 1st ed., 1988) which 
has grown from 150 to 224 entries for 
libraries and archives in the Republic 
and in Northern Ireland. 

The third edition of the Directory of 
Religious Organizations in the United 
States, compiled by J. Gordon Melton 



254 College & Research Libraries 

(Detroit: Gale, 1993. 728p., $125; 2d eel., 
1982, Guide BB68) has grown to 2,500 
entries for religious groups, e.g., "rele-
vant for-profit organizations such as re-
ligious publishers and consultants, ... 
academic and historical organizations, 
social service agencies, groups engaged 
in social protest and change, centers nur-
turing spiritual life, ... denominational 
archives and historical offices" (Pref.) 
but not "offices of Christian and de-
nominational bodies covered in the En-
cyclopedia of American Religions [1989, 
Suppl. BB30]." Also omitted are social 
service organizations that serve only one 
community. 

A related title is the Encyclopedia of 
African American Religions, edited by 
Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, and 
Gary L. Ward (New York: Garland, 1993. 
926p., $125), which provides entries for 
1,200 African American religious lead-
ers, denominations, and other organiza-
tions and movements with attention to 
the political impact of the Civil Rights 
Movement, the status and role of women, 
and the role of slavery in the development 
of religious life. The longer articles are 
signed and have bibliographical notes. It 
is well indexed with subject/ organiza-
tion/personal name entries and with a 
cross-index of all biographical entries by 
church or religious tradition with which 
a person is identified. 

The Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of 
the Middle and South Atlantic States, ed-
ited by William A. Kretzschmar and oth-
ers (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1993, 
454p., $45) proposes to "help users of the 
research materials of LAMSAS [Guide 
BC93] to judge the material accurately 
and appropriately ... [by discussing] the 
history of the project and the aims of its 
designers, the communities and inform-
ants and how information was collected 
from them, and about several editorial 
stages in the processing of the informa-
tion . . . , [with] also a few comments 
about interpretation" (Pref.>. 

The Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval 
English begins with a Catalogue of 
Sources (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, 
186p. $53), compiled by Margaret Laing. 
It "aims to list all the potential sources 

May1994 

for LAEME, that is, any surviving text 
written down in English between ca. 
1150 and 1300 .... [It can also serve] as a 
useful reference book for any study of 
English at this period whether its prime 
concerns be linguistic, textual, literary or 
historical" (Introd.). The arrangement is 
by repository and the annotation in-
cludes references to indexes, antholo-
gies, further editions, other studies, and 
published facsimiles. 

Richard Combs and Nancy R. Owen 
have revised the 1971 Authors: Critical 
and Biographical References, 2d ed. 
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993. 478p., 
$49.50; 1st ed. 1971, Guide BD116). They 
have increased the number of authors 
from 1,400 to 3,317 and the number of 
books analyzed from 500 to 1,158 titles. 

Literatur Lexikon: Autoren und · Werke 
deutsche Sprache, edited by Walther Killy, 
is now complete in fifteen volumes (Giit-
tersloh and Munich: Bertelsmann, 1988-
93. 15 vols., 2520 DM). Volumes 1-12 
treat German-speaking authors and 
anonymous titles, while volumes 13-14 
concentrate on themes, methodology, 
movements such as humanism, farce, 
psychoanalysis and literature, and the 
Weimar Republic. The last volume is an 
index for personal names, anonymous 
titles, and topics. 

Another German set now complete 
is the second edition of Gerhard 
Dunnhaupt's Personalbibliographien zu den 
Drucken des Barock (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 
1990-93. 6 vols. 4723p. 2000 DM per vol-
ume). This set provides a bibliography 
of original writings and translations for 
200 major German seventeenth-century 
authors. Volume 6 completes the alpha-
bet and has the indexes: name, pseudo-
nym, publisher, anonymous title, place 
of publication, and topic. 

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Po-
etry and Poetics, edited by Alex Premin-
ger and T.V. F. Brogan (Princeton, N.J.: 
Princeton Univ. Pr., 1993. 1383p., $125) 
has totally revised the enlarged edition 
(1974, Guide. BD314) adding "all those 
movements in recent criticism and liter-
ary theory that bear on poetry, ... [as 
well as] increased coverage of emergent 
and non-Western poetry" (Pref.). The 



bibliography has been much updated, 
there are more cross-references, and the 
editors have labored for a very clear 
prose style. 

Coverage of the period 1625-1700 is 
now complete for the Index of English 
Literary Manuscripts, compiled by Peter 
Beal, with the volume for Nathaniel 
Lee-William Wycherley (London: Man-
sell, 1993. 672p. $500; for other parts of 
the title which have been published, see 
Guide BD546). Beal states that he hopes 
to issue an index for 1450-1700 with sec-
tions for titles, first lines of poems, per-
·sonal names, manuscripts by location and 
which will also include supplementary 
entries and information gained since 1980. 

The Concise Companion to Classical Lit-
erature (Oxford and New York: Oxford 
Univ. Pr., 1993. 575p., $18.95) is really a 
revised and abridged version of the Ox-
ford Companion to Classical Literature edi-
tion of 1989 (Suppl. BD366) shortened by 
about one-third by omitting a few ob-
scure mythological figures, "dropping 
or radically shortening the long general 
entries that are not specific to litera-
ture-such as agriculture, architecture, 
and army-and by recasting in pithier 
form those on the history, political and 
topographical background" (Pre[.). 

Geoffrey Parker, editor of the fourth 
edition of the Times Atlas of World History 
(London: Times Books; Maplewood, 
N.J.: Hammond, 1993. 360p., 37cm., $95; 
3d ed., 1989, Suppl. DA30) has examined 
all the maps with particular attention to 
the prehistoric and post-1945 sections. 
Also revised is the twelve-page chronol-
ogy which now covers from around 9000 
B.C. to 1991-92. 

Contrary to the usual practice, the lat-
est cumulative index for the National Un-
ion Catalog of Manuscript Collections 
(Guide DA64) covers only four years, 
1986 through 1990 (Hamden, Conn.: 
Shoe String, 1992. 597p.) because in 1986 
a national database of archives and 
manuscripts was begun on RLIN. Thus 
we should all keep the 1985 annual in-
dex. NUC-MC has broadened its defini-
tion and now covers oral histories, sound 
recordings, audiotapes, paintings, video 
recordings, playbills, and screenplays. 

Selected Reference Books of 1993 255 

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A 
Bibliography, 1900-1991, compiled by 
Joseph C. Miller (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 
1993, 576p., $90) is a major updating. 
The 19,351 entries are double that of 
the 1983 edition of 5,117 entries and 
more than six times as extensive as the 
1977 (Guide CC381) which had 1,645. 
The bibliography now includes "secon-
dary, scholarly works, written from the 
perspective of any academic discipline, 
reflecting directly on slavery or on the 
slave trade anywhere in the world and 
published in a Western European lan-
guage, ... substantial reviews and re-
view essays, unpublished conference 
papers, encyclopedia articles of more 
than routine significance, articles in 
scholarly periodicals, popular history 
magazines, and serious journalism, 
chapters in multi-authored, edited col-
lections, and books and monographs, 
translations and reprints .... " (Introd.). 

Barry Klein's Reference Encyclopedia of 
the American Indian now in its sixth edi-
tion (West Nyack, N.Y.: Todd Publica-
tions, 1993. 679p., $125; 5th ed. 1990, 

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Suppl. CC226) is in four parts: (1) 
Source listings, which is a directory of 
relevant organizations, agencies, 
tribal authorities, etc., with a new 
chapter on arts and crafts shops and 
cooperatives; (2) Canadian listings; (3) 
bibliography of approximately 4,500 
books in print presented by broad top-
ics with a publishers index; ( 4) bio-
graphical sketches of 2,500 important 
Native and non-Native Americans 
prominent in Indian affairs, business, 
arts, professions, history. 

Lionel V. Lorofia is again editing the 
supplement to Gropp's A Bibliography of 
Latin American Bibliographies (Guide 
AA77), this time the fifth, for bibliog-
raphies published 1985-89 (Metuchen: 
Scarecrow, 1993. 314p., $39.50) plus a 
few items missed in the earlier supple-
ments. This volume is arranged by broad 
topics subdivided by country with sub-
ject and author indexes and includes a 
list of serial titles cited/ examined. 

Scarecrow Press has begun another se-
ries of dictionaries of the history of a 
country: European Historical Dictionaries 
and they are leading from strength with 
Volume 1: Historical Dictionary of Portugal 
by Douglas L. Wheeler (Metuchen, N.J.: 

May1994 

1993. 288p., $37.50). Wheeler covers all 
facets of Portuguese history up to about 
1990 with articles mostly about indi-
viduals, places, organizations, including 
a few longer survey articles under such 
topics as colonial empire or relations 
with other countries. But the real joy is 
the very extensive bibliography of Por-
tuguese and English materials. 

The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological 
Excavations in the Holy Land, edited by 
Ephraim Stern (New York: Simon & 
Schuster, 1993. 4 vols., 1552p., $295; 1st 
ed., 1976-78, Guide BB187) updates the 
coverage of the sites to 1991 and adds 
new ones, with signed articles by 
scholars, a bibliography, and an index 
of people and places. The Stern ency-
clopedia is, of course, the source for 
discussion of specific sites. For inter-
pretation and extrapolation, one ref-
erence to which the reader will turn is 
the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the 
Holy Land, edited by Avraham Negev, 
3d ed. (New York: Prentice Hall, 
1990, 419p.; 1st ed. 1972, Guide 
BB188) for its articles on daily life, 
culture, technology, etc. Unfortu-
nately Negev is not indexed nor does 
it have any bibliography.