¹ I am omitting from consideration four types of bibliographies which appear periodically: 1) national bibliographies such as the Cumulative Book Index, Bibliographie de la France, The British National Bibliography, Deutsche Nationalbibliographie (and the competing Western Zone Österreichische Bibliographie der deutschen Bibliothek), Bullettino delle pubblicazioni italiani, and so forth; 2) periodical indexes such as the Reader s Guide to Periodical Literature, Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriftenliteratur, Nijhoff s Index op de nederlandsche Tijdschriften, Norsk Tidsskriftindex, and so forth; 3) bibliographies of dissertations such as Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, Catalogue des thisès et écrits acadimiques, Jahresverzeichnis der an den deutschen Universitäten … Schriften, the British university lists, and so forth; and 4) lists of books received and the contents of learned journals, such as those found in Symposium, Language, Modern Language Journal, Review of English Studies, Romania, Eludes Germaniques, Leuvense Bijdragen, Romanische Forschungen, English Studies, Neophilologus, Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, and many other journals. Complete and clear informaon the first three types of bibliographies will be found in the new (7th) edition of the American Library Association s (Mudge) Guide to Reference Books, prepared by Constance M. Winchell (Columbia Univ. Library), scheduled to appear in June or July 1951. The fourth group is omitted because of its limited usefulness as a tool for research.

² Midwest Folklore, a quarterly Journal scheduled to begin publication in March 1951, announces that it will carry an annotated annual bibliography of significant items dealing with the folklore of the Middle West.