Repertory of the Comédie humaine, tr. by J. W. McSpadden. Phil. Avil pub. CO. 1902. 522 p. 21cm. (Balzac. Works. Popular libr. ed. v. 36). o. p.

843 Compendium, H. de Balzac's Comédie humaine, tr. and ed. by J. Rudd. Phil. Gebbie pub. co. 1899. 583 p. o. p. 843

Gillette, Fredericka B. Title index to Bost. the works of Honoré de Balzac. Boston book co. 1909. 24 p. 22cm. (Bulletin of bibliography pamphlets, no. 19) 843 25 cts. Reprinted from the Bulletin of bibliography, v. 5, nos. 6-8, July, October, 1908, January, 1909.

An index of all the titles to be found in two French editions and four English translations of Balzac's complete works. French and English titles are given in one alphabet and all references to any one story are given under each form of the title.

Another useful title index which indexes more French editions, but no translations, is given at the head of the Balzac entries in the Catalogue général of the Bibliothèque nationale.

Dante

Snell, Frederick John. Handbook to the works of Dante. Lond. Bell, N. Y. Macmillan, 1909. 378 p. 17cm. 6s. $1.50 851 A handbook, not a dictionary; useful for the more popular questions.

Scartazzini, Giovanni Andrea. Enciclopedia Dantesca; dizionario critico e ragionato di quanto concerne la vita e le opere di Dante Alighieri. Milano, Hoepli, 1896851 1905. 3 v. 19cm. 37.50 L

v. 1-2, A-Z. v. 3, Vocabolario-concordanza delle opere latine e italiane di Dante Alighieri, preceduto dalla biografia di G. A. Scartazzini.

Toynbee, Paget. Dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante. Ox. Clarendon press, 1898. 616 p. 851 25cm. 25s. o. p.

Concise dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante. Ox. Clarendon press, 1914. 568 p. fold. 851 geneal. tab. 20cm. 7s. 6d.

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Based upon his larger work, 1898, but not mere abridgment, as it includes some names and material not included in the earlier work, omits names in one poem now known not to have been written by Dante and brings other matter in line with more recent information. Conciseness is attained by judicious condensation rather than by omission of any. thing vital. Dickens

Fyfe, Thomas Alexander. Who's who in Dickens. A complete Dickens repertory in Dickens' own words. Lond. Hodder, N. Y. Doran [1912] 355 p. 23cm. 6s. $2.

823

Gives for each character included an illustrative quotation and the title of the story in which the character figures. No chapter references, full descriptions or analyses of characters, or synopses of plots. List of characters is selected, not complete.

Philip, Alexander J. Dickens dictionary; the characters and scenes of the novels and miscellaneous works alphabetically arranged. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Dutton, 823 1909. 408 p. 23cm. 8s. 6d. $3.

Contains (1) Synopses of plots, (2) alphabetical list of characters and places, (3) Index of originals. Includes names from all Dickens' works except the Child's history of England. Differs from Pierce's Dickens dictionary in having all names in one alphabetical list, instead of separate lists for each novel; in referring only to the first chapter in which a character appears, not to all chapters; in omitting quotations and in giving no authorities for originals.

Saxelby, F. Outwin. A Thomas Hardy dictionary; the characters and scenes of the novels and poems alphabetically arranged and described. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Dutton, 1911. lxxviii, 238 p. map. 23cm. 8s. 6d. $3. 823

Contains: Biographical sketch, List of first edi tions, Bibliography of the novels, Short list of books about Hardy and Wessex, Map of the "Heart of Wessex," List of fictitious place-names followed by real names, Synopses of the novels, and Dictionary of characters and places. The dictionary gives brief account of each character and some illustrative quotations, and refers to all chapters in which the character appears.

Contents: (1) List of books and contents; (2) Index of stories and poems; (3) Index of first lines. More complete for indexing of first lines than Saxton's Kipling index. Can be used in part with American editions.

Saxton, Eugene F. Kipling index, being a guide to authorized American trade editions of Rudyard Kipling's works. N. Y. Doubleday, 1911. 44 p. Free on receipt of postage, 5 cents. 823

Compiled from the Authorized American trade edition, published by Doubleday, and from the editions of the first and second Jungle books and Captains courageous published by the Century co. A publishers' list but useful for reference purposes because it tells in what books or collections the various short stories, poems, introductory or appended poems, rhymed chapter headings, etc., may be found. Gives contents of collections and also enters each title in the collection in its proper alphabetical place. Verses which have no title are indexed under first lines. Can be used in part with the Outward bound ed.

Young, W. Arthur. Dictionary of the characters and scenes in the stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling, 1886-1911. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Dutton [1911] 231 p. 23cm. 8s. 6d. $3.

823 Contains: Summary of the books (giving synopses of plots), and Dictionary proper, which gives names of the characters and titles of books, stories and poems in one alphabet. Accounts of characters are brief, do not include illustrative quotations and do not refer exactly to all chapters in which char

Desfeuilles, Arthur, and Desfeuilles, Paul. Lexique de la langue de Molière, avec une introduction grammaticale. Paris, Hachette, 1900. 2 v. 23cm. 15 fr.

842 v. 12-13 of the Grands écrivains edition of Molière.

Livet, Charles Louis. Lexique de la langue de Molière comparée à celle des écrivains de son temps, avec des commentaires de philologie historique et grammaticale. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1895-97. 3 v. 25cm. 45 fr.

"Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française." Newman

842

Rickaby, Joseph. Index to the works of John Henry, cardinal Newman. Lond. N. Y. Longmans, 1914. 156 p. 19cm. 6s. $1.75. 824 Racine

Marty-Laveaux, Charles Joseph. Lexique de la langue de J. Racine, avec une introduction grammaticale par C. MartyLaveaux, précédé d'une étude sur le style de Racine par P. Mesnard et suivi des tableaux des représentations de Corneille et de Racine par E. Despois. Paris, Hachette, 1873. cxliv, 616 p. 23cm. 7.50 fr. 842

v. 8 of the Grands écrivains edition of Racine. Retz

Regnier, Adolphe. Lexique de la langue du cardinal de Retz, avec une introduction grammaticale. Paris, Hachette, 1896. 1xxxiv, 437 p. 23cm. 7.50 fr.

848

Gives the characters and scenes of all the novels in one alphabetical ist, but contains no outlines of plots. Differs from Rogers' Waverley dictionary in having the one list instead of a separate list for each novel and in referring only to the title of the story in which a character appears, not to specific chapters. In this latter respect less useful than Rogers, but lists more characters than the latter.

McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Waverley synopses; a guide to the plots and characters of Scott's "Waverley novels," by J. Walker McSpadden. N. Y. Crowell [c 1909] 280 p. 15cm. 35 cts.

823

Arranges the novels in historical sequence and gives for each novel the date of the first edition, time and scene of plot, cast of main characters and synopsis of plot. There is a general index of characters at the end. Useful in the small library which cannot afford the larger works by Rogers and Husband, and in a larger library as supplement to these two works, neither of which gives plots.

Rogers, May. Waverley dictionary. 2d ed. Chic. Griggs, 1885 [78] 357 p. 19cm. 823

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Dyce, Alexander. Glossary to the works of William Shakespeare, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. The references made applicable to any edition of Shakespeare, the explanations revised and new notes added by Harold Littledale. Lond. Sonnenschein, N. Y. Dutton, 1902. 570 p. 22cm. 7s. 6d. $3. 822.33 Foster, John. A Shakespeare wordbook, being a glossary of archaic forms and various usages of words employed by Shakespeare. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Dutton, 1908. 735 P. 23cm. 7s. 6d. $3. 822.33 Gollancz, Israel. Pocket lexicon and concordance to the Temple Shakespeare. N. Y. Macmillan, 1909. 273 p. illus. 15cm. 60 822.33

cts.

Lond. Dent, 1s. 6d.

A useful little work for the small library or for the individual.

Luce, Morton. Handbook to the works of William Shakespeare. Lond. Bell, N. Y. Macmillan, 1906. 463 p. 17cm. 6s. $1.75.

822.33

Onions, Charles Talbut. Shakespeare glossary. Ox. Univ. press, 1911. 19cm. 2s. 6d. 85 cts.

259 P. 822.33

An excellent small dictionary, by a man who has been for fifteen years on the staff of the New English dictionary. The aim of the glossary is to supply (1) definitions or illustrations of words or senses now obsolete or surviving only in archaic or provincial use, (2) explanations of other words involv ing allusions not generally familiar, (3) explanations of proper names carrying with them some connotative significance or offering special interest or difficulty, and of idioms, or colloquial phrases, specialized uses of pronouns and particles and the relation of the poet's vocabulary to the midland area, especially Warwickshire. Includes also obsolete and technical terms which occur only in the stage directions.

Schmidt, Alexander. Shakespeare-lexicon; a complete dictionary of all the English words, phrases, and constructions in the works of the poet. 3d ed. rev. and enl. by Gregor Sarrazin. N. Y. Lemcke, 1902. 2 v. 24cm. $8. 822.33

Contains: (1) "Synopses" giving time and scene of the novels and short stories and outlines of the plots, (2) main alphabetical list of historical and fictitious characters and place names, and (3) index of originals. Refers to all chapters in which a character appears, differentiates historical and fictitious names and gives authorities for originals. Vedas

Macdonell, Arthur Anthony, and Keith, A. B. Vedic index of names and subjects. Lond. Murray, pub. for the govt. of India, 1912. 2 v. 23cm. 24s. 891.2 Wordsworth

Tutin, J. R. Wordsworth dictionary. Hull [Eng.] Tutin, 1891. 216 p. 21cm. 821 Contents: (1) Dictionary of persons with indica

tion of the poems in which they are mentioned; (2) Dictionary of places; (3) Familiar quotations; 4, Chronological list of best poems; 5, Birds, trees and flowers of Wordsworth.

The section of quotations is now superseded by Cooper's Wordsworth concordance but the other sec tions are still useful.

Scotch and colonial lists under one heading, the cz tension of the foreign lists, the omission of the his torical appendix and the combination of the indexes. There are separate national lists for English, American, Belgian (including Dutch and Flemish), Celtic, French, German, Greek (ancient and modern), Hungarian, Latin, Scandinavian, Slavonic,

Each

A supplement to his Wordsworth dictionary, and usually bound with it.

Zola

Patterson, J. G. Zola dictionary; the characters of the Rougon-Macquart novels of Emile Zola, with a biographical and critical introduction, synopses of the plots, bibliographical note, map, genealogy, etc. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Dutton, 1912. 232 843 p. map. 23cm. 8s. 6d. $3.

Contains note on the French editions and the English translations, short synopses of plots, the dictionary of characters, and an alphabetical list of principal scenes. The dictionary gives brief de scriptions of each character but no illustrative quotations, and refers only to the title of the story in which a character appears, not to specific chapters.

FICTION

Reference books on fiction are needed for finding many things e. g. author's name when only title of book is known, lists of novels dealing with special subjects, localities or historical periods, descriptive or critical notes and outlines of plots, the title of the work in which a certain fictitious character appears, the collection or other work in which a story not published separately may be found, etc. The following books will help on most of these points, but the handbooks of allusions and the various author dictionaries must also be used. Printed library catalogs which contain many title and analytic entries are useful, and the indexes of periodicals must often be used for stories and novels printed in periodicals.

Baker, Ernest Albert. Guide to the best fiction in English. New ed. enl. and thoroughly rev. Lond. Routledge, N. Y. Macmillan, 1913. 813 p. 24cm. 21s. $6. 016.8

A thorough revision of the first edition, 1903, differing from the first edition by the addition of much new material, the combination of the English, Irish,

important list is divided into periods and the authors of each period listed alphabetically. The foreign books included are in English translations, whenever possible. Good annotations, and an excellent index of authors, titles, subjects, historical names, allusions, places, characters, etc.

Guide to historical fiction. Routledge, N. Y. Macmillan, 1914. 23cm. 21s. $6.

Lond.

566 p. 016.8

Practically a new work, although based upon the author's History in fiction, 1907. Lists about 5,000 novels which in any way portray the life of the past, including mediaeval romances and novels of manners, as well as avowedly historical novels. Ar rangement is first by country and then chronologi. cally by the historical period illustrated and descriptive notes indicate briefly the plot and scene of each story, its historical characters, etc. Full index (148p.) of authors, titles, historical names, places, events, allusions, etc. Best and most comprehen. sive list yet published.

Bethleem, Louis, abbé, Romans à lire et romans à proscrire. Essai de classification au point de vue moral des principaux romans et romanciers de notre époque, 1800-1911, avec notes et indications pratiques. 5. éd. Sin-le-Noble, Romansrevue, 1911. 414 p. 19cm. 3.50 fr. 016.853 First edition, 1905. An interesting selection of the principal works of about 1,200 authors, mostly French but including the best known names of other nationalities, with brief comment on subject and tone of each novel, and an indication as to whether it is allowed or proscribed, and why. Contains six alphabetical lists: (1) books forbidden because on the Index; (2) books forbidden on moral grounds; (3) books for mature readers; (4) safe novels; (5) stories for younger readers; (6) juveniles. From the French Catholic point of view, but not limited to Catholic authors. Not of frequent use in the average American public library, but occasionally useful for the point of view and for the comments on the subjects and tone of the French authors included.

6th edition, including titles to 1914, Lille, "Romans-Revue," 1914. 3.50 fr.

Brown, Stephen James. Ireland in fiction; a guide to Irish novels, tales, romances and folk-lore. Dublin, Maunsel, 1916. 304 p. 22cm. 7s. 6d.

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