quinquennial volumes until superseded by a new quinquennial, and (3) monthly issues, cumulating quarterly (i. e., March 3 months, June 6 months, September 9 months, etc.) until the last or December number forms a new annual volume. A complete set to date always consists of all quinquennial volumes, all annuals since the last quinquennial, the latest quarterly cumulation of the current year and the current (latest monthly) number.

Started in 1901 as an index for the small library, covering at first only 15 of the more popular periodicals, and gradually extended until in 1903 it absorbed the Cumulative index (see below, p. 7) and in 1911 took over the work of the Annual library index. The three five-yearly volumes indexed a total of about 567,000 articles in 2,456 volumes of 136 different periodicals, and the 1915 annual covered 92 periodicals. A modern index of the best type. Its special features are: (1) full dictionary cataloging of all articles, i. e., their entry under author, subject, and title when necessary; (2) uniformity of entries, owing to the fact that the work is done by a few professional indexers rather than by many voluntary collaborators; (3) use of catalog subject headings instead of catchword subjects; (4) full information in the references, i. e., refers not only to volume and page. but also to exact date and inclusive paging, and indicates illustrations, portraits, etc.; (5) the cumulative features of the monthly issues, which keep the index well to date without multiplying alphabets to be consulted; (6) the indexing of all book reviews, through 1904, under author reviewed; after 1905 reviews are generally omitted because included in the Book review digest; (7) the indexing, in the 2d and 3d quinquennial volumes, of some 597 composite books, thus forming an unofficial continuation of the A. L. A. index of general literature (see p. 24) This book indexing was abandoned after 1914 because the analytic work in the Standard catalog now being prepared by the same firm will take its place.

Readers' guide to periodical literature: Supplement, 1907-15; author and subject index to a selected list of periodicals not included in the Readers' guide, and to composite books. White Plains, N. Y. Wilson 1252 p. 26cm. Price on service basis; apply to publisher.

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Author and subject index, on the same plan as the Readers' guide. Indexes 74 periodicals of which 55 are indexed for the period 1907-15, and 19 for the period 1913-15 only, as they were already indexed for previous years in the Readers' guide. Indexes also some 55 composite books. In all about 89,000 articles are listed. Continued by the following:

Readers' guide to periodical literature: Supplement. An author and subject

Annual cumulation $7. Subscription price varies according to number of periodicals taken. Apply to publisher.

Bi-monthly, cumulating throughout the year. Follows the same system of indexing as the Readers' guide. Material indexed is less popular in character than that included in the Readers' guide. v. 1-3 superseded by the 1907-15 cumulation noted above.

Cumulative index to a selected list of periodicals, 1896-Jun. 1903. Cleveland, Cumulative index co. 1897-1903. 8 v. 25cm. $5 per year. 050

Started by the Cleveland public library (v. 1-3), continued by the Helman-Taylor co. (v. 4), then by the Cumulative index co. (v. 5-8) Consolidated with the Readers' guide to periodical literature, July, 1903.

Indexed 50 periodicals.

The Cumulative index was published monthly with quarterly and annual cumulations. No annual cumulations after 1898.

The indexing is by authors, titles, subjects. Portraits and book reviews are indexed. Now largely superseded but still occasionally useful for material not included in the corresponding volumes of Poole.

Magazine subject-index; a subject-index to seventy-nine American and English periodicals, forty-four indexed from their first issues to December 31, 1907, thirtyfive indexed for the year 1907; comp. by F. W. Faxon. Boston book co. 1908. v. 1. 050 24cm. $3.

An index of subjects only, not of authors or titles, except that fiction when included is indexed under author's name. Indexes all material with exact reference, giving abbreviated title of periodical, volume, date, inclusive paging and indication of illustrations, portraits, maps, and plans. Intended as a supplement to other indexes and so includes no periodicals indexed in either Poole, the Readers' guide, or Annual library index. While the whole list of periodicals is general in character about half of the titles relate to history, especially local history, and the index specializes also in travel, mountaineering, exploration, out-door life, and fine arts. Indexes all important articles in the periodicals covered but omits short or trivial articles, poetry, and most fiction, though continued stories and short stories by notable writers are included. Continued by the following:

Annual magazine subject-index for 19081915. A subject-index to American and

Compiler: F. W. Faxon. Beginning with 1909, includes as pt. 2 the Dramatic index for 1909-15.

An annual supplement to the Magazine subject index, compiled on the same plan and specializing in the same subjects. In accordance with the plan of not indexing any periodicals covered by other general indexes, this index varies its list from year to year, dropping periodicals which have been taken The over by other indexes and adding new titles. annual volumes add many new local history titles, especially transactions of local history societies indexed in Griffin's bibliography (see p. 30), and as these are in many cases indexed back to the date when Griffin stopped, the index constitutes an informal continuation of Griffin. The only exception to the rule not to index material included elsewhere is in the case of a few of these history periodicals which are left in for the sake of completeness in this specialty. Indexes more English periodicals than other American indexes; out of 163 periodicals indexed in 1915, 26 are English and 8 Canadian.

Eclectic library catalog, 1908-1912. Minneapolis, Wilson, 1908-12. 5 v. $2.50 ea., bound together $5.

Title changed, 1911, to Readers guide abridged. Planned especially for the small library, indexing about twenty periodicals and selected public documents. Discontinued after 1912.

Review of reviews. Index to the periodicals of 1890-1902. [v. 1]-13. Lond. and N. Y., Review of reviews, 1891-1903. V. illus., ports. 25cm. annual. vol.

13 15s. per 050

Title varies: v. 1, 1891, The Annual index of periodicals & photographs for 1890; v. 2-4, Index to the periodical literature of the world. (Covering the year 1891-1893.)

No more published.

Primarily a subject index, but contains a fair number of author entries also, especially in the later volumes. Indexes material under rather broad subjects and gives for each, brief title, author's name when known, periodical, volume, month, and page reference, and, in parentheses, a reference to the volume, month, and page of the Review of reviews where a summary or other notice of the article is to be found. Indicates maps and illustrations. Indexes novels, short stories and poems under authors' names, not under title; as a special feature gives under such subjects as music, architecture, fiction, etc., a list of persons connected with those subjects who are noticed elsewhere in the index. The number of periodicals indexed varies from 117 in 1890 to 195 in 1902. Principally useful because it covers many English periodicals (about 100 in the later

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volumes) which not indexed in Poole. Not needed in the small library.

Athenaeum subject index to periodicals, 1915. Issued at the request of the council of the Library association. Lond. Athenaeum, 1916. 350 p. 32cm. £2, 10s. 050

Issued in two forms (1) preliminary class lists, as follows: A, Theology and philosophy; B, History; B1, European war; C, Geography, anthropology, and folk-lore; D, Sports and games; E, Economic and political sciences; F, Education; G, Fine arts and archaeology; H, Music; I, Language and literature; J, Science and technology; K, Preventive medicine and hygiene; (2) annual volume, combining in one alphabet the material of the class lists and adding other references.

A subject index to some 13,374 articles in 420 periodicals, principally English and American, although 17 French, 2 German, 2 Italian and 2 Russian periodicals are also included. Gives full title, with occasional brief explanatory notes, author's name, date, volume, and inclusive paging. The main index is to subjects only, but there is also an author index which refers to the subject list.

FOREIGN

Bibliographie der fremdsprachigen zeitschriftenliteratur, 1911-14. Lpz. Dietrích, 1911–14. v. 1-13. 26cm. (Internationale bibliographie der zeitschriftenliteratur, Abteilung B.) 30m. per vol. 050

Similar in general plan and arrangement to the Bibliographie der deutschen zeitschriftenliteratur which now forms Abteilung A of the Internationale bibliographie. Indexes about 2,000 periodicals and general works in English and all the principal foreign languages except German. In the English and American library the principal use of this index will probably be for the large amount of French and Italian material indexed.

BELGIAN

Bibliographie de Belgique: 2eme partie, Sommaire des périodiques, 1897-1913. Bruxelles, Van Oest., 1897-1913. 17 v.

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Title and frequency vary. 1899-1911, is 3d part of Bibliographie de Belgique and has title Bulletin des sommaires; 1912-13, is 2d part and has title Sommaire des périodiques; 1899-1911, frequency varied, monthly (sometimes bimonthly or quarterly) with annual author index; 1912-13, semiannual with annual author and subject indexes. Each number is a classed subject index arranged by the Belgian Dewey D. C. numbers; indexes a large number of periodi cals, gives fairly full information for each article, i. e. author, title, periodical volume and number. A cumbersome but usable index, not easy to handle

Monthly, Feb.-Dec. 11 numbers a year. The first volume indexed 440 periodicals, the second nearly as many. A monthly classified subject index arranged, like the Belgian index noted above by a modified decimal classification order, with annual index of (1) authors (2) small subjects, alphabetically. Gives for each article included author, full title, periodical, volume, year and inclusive paging and D. C. class number, with occasional contents or descriptive notes. Issued in three forms: on ordinary paper printed on both sides; (2) on thin paper printed on one side only; (3) on cards. For the very large library or the library specializing in Dutch material, but not needed in other types.

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v. 1, Sept. 1909-Dec. 1910; v. 2, 1911; v. 3, 1912; v. 4, 1913; v. 5, 1914; v. 6, 1915; v. 7, 1916. Monthly index to 49 general periodicals, includ ing a few newspapers. No annual cumulations. Each number contains authors and subjects in one alphabet with a separate list of book reviews at the end. Useful in the very large library, or in the smaller library which specializes in Dutch material.

cumulations. Gives only brief title of article, author, title and number or date of periodical in which found. Not satisfactory for quick reference work, but offers the only substitute for a general French index covering a long period and so is often useful when it is important to get at a large amount of French material. For the university or large reference library only.

Discontinued 1914, because of the European War. Répertoire bibliographique des principales revues françaises, 1897-99. Paris, Per Lamm, 1898-1900. v. 1-3. 26cm. v. 1,. 054 16.50 fr.; v. 2, 20 fr.; v. 3, 22 fr.

A useful and important index, unfortunately discontinued after the third volume because of lack of support. Each volume contains: (1) a subject index giving title of article, author's name, and title and volume or number of the periodical and page reference, (2) an author index giving somewhat briefer information. Vol. 1 indexes 147 period. icals, vol. 2, 257, and vol. 3, 346. The Société française de bibliographie, organized in 1904, planned to revive this index but so far the plan has not been carried out.

GERMAN

Bibliographie der deutschen zeitschriftenliteratur, mit einschluss von sammelwerken. Alphabetisches nach schlagworten sachlich geordnetes verzeichnis von aufsätzen, die in zeitschriften und sammelwerken deutscher zunge erschienen sind, mit Autoren-register, 1896-1915. Lpz. Dietrich, 1897-16. v. 1–37. 25cm (Internationale bibliographie der zeitschriften literatur, Abteilung A) price varies, about 25m. per vol. 053

Title varies slightly.

Editors: 1896-, Felix Dietrich and others.

Ergänzungs-band 1-8. Lpz. Dietrich, 1908–1915. v. 1-8. 25cm.

Numbered in set as v. 22A, 24A, 28A, 30A, 32A, 33A, 35A. 35B, 36B.

Contents: Erg. bd. 1, 1896-98; 2, 1896-1908; 3, 1893-95; 4, 1891-92; 5, 1889-90; 6, 1911-13; 7, 1887-88; 8, 1913-14; 9, 1885-86.

A voluminous and comprehensive index valuable because of the large number of important German periodicals, transactions, yearbooks and other composite works indexed, but difficult to use for quick reference partly because of the abbreviation of references and compactness of printing, and partly be cause the form of publication in semi-annual volumes with no cumulation necessitates the consultation of many alphabets-46 subject and 45 author alphabets in the set listed above. Except in the case of vols. 34-35 which have a combined author index each volume consists of (1) a subject index arranged

alphabetically by rather large subjects, giving for each article indexed its title, author's name in curves when known, reference to periodical by key number instead of title, and volume and page reference; and (2) an author index to the subject index. The number of periodicals indexed is very large, ranging from 275 in the first volume to about 3,000 in later volumes. The period covered in the whole set is 31 years, for while vol. 1 starts with 1896 the retrospective indexing of the Ergänzungsbände carries the work back to 1885. Important in university work and in large libraries which have many German periodicals, but not generally recommended for other libraries. Often especially important for biography because it indexes many yearbooks of learned societies containing obituary notices.

ITALIAN

Italy. Parlamento. Camera dei deputati. Biblioteca. Catalogo metodico degli scritti contenuti nelle pubblicazioni periodiche italiane e straniere. Parte 1. Scritti biografici e critici. Roma, Tip. della Camera dei deputati, 1885-1914. v. 1-7. 28cm --Indice generale a tutto l'anno 1906. Roma, Tip. della Camera dei deputati, 1909. 117 p. 28cm. 050

Contents: v. 1, to 1883; suppl. 1, 1884-87 and earlier; suppl. 2, 1887-88 and earlier; suppl. 3 1889-94; suppl. 4, 1895-1900; suppl. 5, 1901-1906; [suppl. 6] n. s. v. 1, 1907-12.

Supplementary volumes to be issued every six

years.

Not a general index, but a subject catalog of some 71,198 biographical articles in the sets of 448 periodicals (16,161 volumes) contained in the library of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Each volume has (1) a main subject list which gives for each article indexed its title, author and the title and volume or year of the periodical in which it is to be found, and (2) a brief author index referring to the subject list. The supplementary volumes index both the volumes added during the period covered and also earlier material omitted from the first volume. The "Indice generale" refers to all names included in the subject lists of the first volume and supplements 1-5. Sets indexed include the principal Italian periodicals and society transactions and also many important English, French, German and Spanish titles. In the American library the principal use of this catalog is for the Italian and French material indexed, but it is occasionally useful even for the American and English material already indexed in Poole, because it can be used from the author as well as the subject side, and therefore serves to supplement Poole. Useful in the university or large reference library, but not recommended for the small library.

NORWEGIAN

Deichmanske bibliotek. Register til Norges tidsskrifter, v. 1-2. Christiania, Cammeyer, 1908-1911. 2 v. 23cm. 8 kr.

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Contents: v. 1, Topografi; v. 2, Norsk biografi. Arranged by subject, each volume indexing one subject. V. 1 (1908) indexes the topographical articles in 75 periodicals of varying dates from about the beginning of the 19th century to 1907; v. 2 indexes the biographical articles in more than 700 periodicals of the 19th and the first part of the 20th century, giving not only references to periodicals, but also dates of birth and death and very brief characterization for each name indexed. The list of periodicals included in v. 2 furnishes a nearly complete bibliography of Norwegian periodicals. Very valuable in the large reference library or in the library specializing in Scandinavian material.

Agricultural index, a cumulative index to agricultural periodicals and bulletins, 1916. White Plains, N. Y. Wilson, 1916-. v. 1. 26cm. 016.63

Price varies according to number of periodicals subscribed for by library. Minimum, $4, maximum, $25 per year. Apply to publisher.

A subject index similar in general plan and ar rangement to the Industrial arts index published by the same firm (see p. 15). Issued five times a year, cumulates throughout the year, the last issue, 10. 5, forming the annual bound volume. Indexes about 200 periodicals, bulletins and reports, all in English.

U. S. Office of experiment stations. Experiment station record. Sept. 1889-July 1916. Wash. Govt. print. off. 1890-1916. v. 1-35. 23cm. monthly. $1 per vol. 630.5

A record and digest of current agricultural literature, not planned as an index of the subject but covering the field so fully that it serves practically as an index to the periodical, bulletin, and report material on this subject, in English and the principal foreign languages. Each monthly number contains a digest of recent important articles and reports with exact reference to the full article. In addition to monthly numbers there are bimonthly abstract numbers, so that a semiannual volume consists of nine numbers. There are no cumulations of the digests, but there is an author and subject index to each volume referring to the monthly is sues and for the volumes before 1911 these separate indexes are superseded by the two general indexes 1889-1901 and 1901-11. Less easy to use for quick reference than the new Agricultural index, but better for scientific use as it indexes more scientific material and includes foreign language material as well as English.

Archaeology

6.93 Gomme, George Laurence. Index of archæological papers, 1665-1890. Lond. Constable, 1907. 910 p. 22cm. 25s.

016.913

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A useful author index to some 94 sets of English archæological periodicals and transactions of local antiquarian societies. Gives for each article indexed author's name, full title, periodical, volume date, and inclusive paging. Principally British archæology but includes also material on classical and other non-British antiquities. A subject index to the same material, which was contemplated but not undertaken when the author index was made, is now in preparation. Continued by the following:

Index of archæological papers published in 1891-1910. Lond. Constable, 1892-1914.* v. 1-20. 22cm. 1s. each. 016.913

An annual continuation of Gomme's index, indexing the same type of material and following the same plan as far as the author index is concerned, but differing from the main work in that each annual volume has a subject index to the author list. While each volume nominally covers one year, many cover a longer period since whenever a new periodical is added to the list it is indexed back

to 1891.

Book reviews

Book review digest, 1905-16. Plains, N. Y. Wilson, 1905-16. 26cm. $5 per year.

White v. 1-12. 050

A digest and index of selected book reviews in over 50 English and American periodicals, principally general in character. Arranged alphabetically by author of book reviewed, with subject and title index. For each book entered gives author, title, place, publisher and price, a brief descriptive note, quotations from selected book reviews with exact reference to periodical in which review appeared, and references only, without quotation, to other reviews. Indicates length of review in num ber of words and whether favorable or unfavorable. From the public library point of view and primarily useful in the selection of books for such a library;' less useful in the college or university library partly because of the type of book listed and partly be cause the reviews indexed are taken principally from the general and not to any great extent from the special journals. Monthly; with a semi-annual cumulation in August, and an annual cumulation of the main list in February which forms an annual volume; the subject, title and pseudonym index cumulates monthly, the index in a current number referring to all previous issues of the current volume since the last cumulation.

Bibliographie der rezensionen, mit einschluss von referaten und selbstanzeigen. Lpz. Dietrich, 1901-15 V. 25cm. 37.50 m. per vol.

1-20.

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Title varies, 1901-10 Bibliographie der deutschen rezensionen.

1901-10 inclusive, one volume per year, indexing reviews of books printed in some 3,000 German periodicals; 1911- date, two volumes per year, the first volume of each year indexing reviews in German periodicals, the second volume indexing reviews in about 2,000 periodicals in other languages than German. A very comprehensive list, including more books of the university grade than the Book review digest and many references to special journals, and therefore often more useful than the Book review digest in the university library, when only references to reviews are wanted. Does not give digests or quotations from the reviews listed. The volumes which index reviews in German periodicals only cover the same list as the Bibliographie der deutschen zeitschriften literatur (see p. 9) and supplement that work; the volumes indexing nonGerman periodicals do the same thing for the Bibli ographie der fremdsprachigen zeitschriften literatur (see p. 8).

Drama

Dramatic index for 1909-15, covering articles and illustrations concerning the stage and its players in the periodicals of