Archives and Manuscript Depositories in the USSR. Moscow and Leningrad. Supplement 1,Bibliographical Addenda by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; Finding Aids on Microfiche. Archivesand Manuscript Collections in the USSR. Moscow and Leningrad by Patricia Kennedy GrimstedReview by: W. F. RyanThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Oct., 1979), pp. 581-582Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4207919 .

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misprints and other such minor blemishes. This book is no exception, and while many such defects are of little consequence a few more important ones need to be noted here. The work bicykl (p. i i6) denotes a penny farthing bicycle and cyrkiel (p. II 7) is a compass for drawing circles; dokto'r (p. 137) should be spelled doktor; the short forms of the adjectives zyw, mocen, powinien (p. 269) need comment since the first is commonly used only in one or two set phrases, the second only in a legal sense and the third would not be used, as implied, in the sentence 'jestem powinien'; motebny (p. 293) is one of several archaisms; the indefinite numeral para (p. 326) is declined like siostra, not ksiqdka; the spelling of several preposi- tions (pp. 337-4I) is inconsistent with modern Polish orthography which requires separate spelling of z powrotem, z zewnqtrz, z wewnqtrz, w poblitu.

The author's selected list of references identify some of the possible sources of error. Some new and later editions and much of the new material and new approaches to English-Polish studies were not available to the author. It is a surprise, however, to note among them some very old friends and such old editions as Ewa and Feliks Przylubski's Jtzyk polski na codzieni (sic) published in 1951 (before the revision of the rules governing modern Polish spelling and punctuation), and S. Szober's grammar of 1953 (subsequently revised by W. Doroszewski). It is a pity too that no use was made of Stanislawski's bilingual dictionary in addition to that published by the Kogciuszko Foundation. The use of Russian language sources in the chapters on verbs, and in discussing syntax and inflexion has led to one or two Russianisms.

Some might regard this work as something of a scholarly dinosaur- impressive and commanding attention but a little unsteady and a little dated like the knights who flit through some of its pages. The traditionalist and the modernist will no doubt find their own bones to pick. When so much is offered it would be churlish to degrade the author's efforts and achievements. A degree of tolerance and critical discernment is clearly needed but the philologist, the teacher and the advanced student will find this manual a detailed and useful compendium. London B. W. MAZUR

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Depositories in the USSR. Moscow and Leningrad. Supplement I, Bibliographical Addenda. Bibliotheca Slavica, 9. Interdocumentation Company, Zug, I976. xiv + 203 pp. Appendixes. Indexes.

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy (ed.). Finding Aids on Microfiche. Archives and Manuscript Collections in the USSR. Moscow and Leningrad. Inter- documentation Company, Zug, I976. 8o pp.

IN 1972 Professor Grimsted published with the Princeton University Press her first guide to the Moscow and Leningrad archives (reviewed in SEER, vol. LI, no. I25, 1973). This work is now the accepted standard and indispensable guide to the main Soviet collections and Professor Grimsted

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is clearly determined that it should remain so. Her first supplement extends the bibliographical coverage of the first volume, bringing it up to I973 and in some cases 1974, and repairing a few omissions in the earlier work. The format and presentation is the same as in the 1972

volume except that IDC microfiche numbers have now been added. The bibliography of 425 items is arranged in seven parts: General archival bibliography and research aids; General State archives of the U.S.S.R.; Archives and manuscript collections of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.; Special archives; Manuscript divisions of libraries and museums in Moscow; Manuscript divisions of libraries and museums in Leningrad; Republic and local state archives in Moscow and Leningrad. There are two appendixes: Archival finding aids on microfiche - Correlation table; Soviet library and museum directories available in microfiche editions. There are author-title and subject indexes. As in the main work each entry is accompanied by a wealth of detail on the history of the archive and the content and usefulness of the item in question.

Scholars everywhere are indebted to Professor Grimsted for her untiring labours, although perhaps only those who have tried to use Soviet archives will fully understand the difficulty of her task and the extent of their debt. This debt will increase with the years for Professor Grimsted promises in the near future further supplements, two more volumes to cover the Baltic republics, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and Moldavia, with later volumes on the Caucasian and Central Asian republics. All these are eagerly awaited.

Since the publication of the first volume by Princeton, Professor Grimsted's project has been extended under the auspices of IDC. This has the great advantage that users of the guides can actually obtain on micro- fiche most of the items listed, some of them very rare indeed. These are listed in alphabetical order in the second title given above, a descriptive catalogue which is itself a useful bibliographical aid. One can only applaud the industry and erudition of Professor Grimsted and the service done to scholarship by Princeton University Press and IDC in making her work available.

London W. F. RYAN

Soter, I. and Neupokoyeva, I. (eds). European Romanticism. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1977. 541 pp. $34.00.

THIS collective work by prominent Soviet and Hungarian scholars was originally published in Russian in I973 (on the verso of the title-page the year is wrongly given as 1974) at the height of the revival of interest in Romanticism associated with the Seventh International Congress of Slavists in Warsaw. Reappearing now - some thousands of articles, monographs and symposia later - the volume faces a great deal of competition, and it is to its credit that the generally high standard of the contributions combined with the unusual viewpoint make its appearance in a crowded market far from superfluous. English readers may well find

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