Twentieth Century Russian LiteratureReview by: A. HelliwellThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 45, No. 105 (Jul., 1967), pp. 577-578Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4205919 .

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philological sections) and its appearance no doubt reflects the growing interest in the Sorbian languages, both in and outside Germany.

The bibliography is divided into nine main sections: i. General; 2. His?

torical; 3. The Modern Languages; 4. Lexicology; 5. Dialectology; 6.

Onomastics; 7. Normalisation of the Literary Languages; 8. German- Sorbian Linguistic Interference; 9. Index of Authors. Sections 2, 3 and 4 are further subdivided and careful classification facilitates easy reference.

The way in which the 1,030 items are shared between the various sec? tions gives an interesting indication as to which fields of linguistic research have received most attention and which have, by comparison, been neg? lected. The sub-section, 'Entwicklung der Schriftsprachen', for example (part of Section 2), mentions only six articles. Section 7 ('Normierung der

Schriftsprache, Sprachkultur und Orthographic'), on the other hand, contains 180 items, mostly dealing with the grammatical, orthographical and lexical rules of the present-day literary language. By far the greater part of these are works from the post-war years occasioned by the new need for a more clearly defined norm.

The section on dialectology is particularly valuable, as half the entries have appeared since the publication of Mlynk's bibliography in 1959.

Nottingham Gerald Stone

Carlton, Robert G. (ed.). Newspapers of East, Central and Southeastern Europe in the Library of Congress. Slavic and Central European Division, Reference Department, Library of Congress, Washington, 1965. viii -f 204 pages. Indices.

This mimeographed bibliography of nearly 800 titles represents the

Library of Congress holdings of newspapers published after the first world war in Albania, the Baltic States (from 1918 to 1940), Bulgaria, Czechoslo?

vakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia. The items are simply arranged by country, and by place of publication

under which entries are alphabetically listed. Titles in Cyrillic are trans? literated. Details of holdings are given and there is a list of sources followed

by a guide to places of publication, a language index and an index of titles. Individual titles are numbered.

This bibliography should be a useful guide for specialists concerned with developments in Eastern Europe after the first world war.

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Twentieth Century Russian Literature. Widener Library Shelf list Number 3. Harvard University Library. Harvard University Press (distributors), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965. viii+140 pages.

This is the third volume of a computer-produced edition of the shelflist of the Widener Library and amounts to over 9,000 titles. It is divided into three sections: classified listing by call number, alphabetical listing by

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author or title and chronological listing. Despite its title it is, as indicated in a note on the classification, concerned only with the writings of in? dividual literary authors, both Soviet and emigre, whose main work was done after 1917, and with works about them. It does not include studies of the whole period, or of literary forms or movements. Periodicals,

periodical articles and general bibliographies are not given. All entries are transliterated into the Latin alphabet and preceded by the

call number. The classified listing by call number is arranged alphabetic? ally under the author and all books by him or about him are grouped together under his name. Where relevant, bibliographies are given first, followed by writings in the original language (sub-divided into collected

works, selections and individual works), translations, and finally bio?

graphy and criticism. The sole employment of upper-case letterings does not facilitate the use

of the book. This difficulty is accentuated by the lack of general head?

ings to the sections concerned with individual writers. This is exemplified in the treatment of A. S. Popov, who wrote under the name A. S. Serafi- movich. In the listing by call number, his works are placed between those of Semin, L. P. and Sergeev, A. S. under his real name of Popov. In the

alphabetical listing his works are again placed under his real name; his

pseudonym is omitted. However, despite the lack of headings and cross-

references, the Handlist is a considerable bibliographical aid.

London A. Helliwell

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