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This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in the field.
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This excellent annual fills a financial information gap about Canadian public companies. It is fashioned after the Japan Company Handbook and also resembles the standard US titles Moody's Handbook of Common Stocks and Standard & Poor's Stock Market Encyclopedia. It claims to provide current news and financial and general information for 390 Canadian public companies including the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) 300 and former TSE 300 firms since 1984 that remain publicly traded. Caution: "current" for the 1991 handbook means 2nd quarter 1990 for news items, July 5, 1990, for stock prices, and 1989 for financial information. To keep really up to date with these companies students will need to consult the publisher's Corporate Canada Online via the Dow Jones News Retrieval Service or the Canadian Business and Current Affairs database available via Dialog Information Services. The companies are grouped into 24 industry categories and listed alphabetically within industry. The introductory page for each industry ranks companies by total assets giving a page reference number for companies listed. The single page devoted to each company is structured into six major sections: summary stock market information, financial information, stock graphs, business description, current news synopsis, and general information (officers, address, industry code, and rankings). The information sources for the handbook are the publisher's reliable Report on Business Corporate Database, The Globe and Mail Online, and MarketScan Plus. In addition to a table of contents, preface, and introduction, there is a five-star "explanatory notes" section followed by a financial glossary making the use and understanding of the handbook and its financial contents uncomplicated. Also furnished is a company index. This handbook is recommended for business libraries, libraries within 200 miles, n 1991jun 28 10 28-5479 REFERENCE PM155 90-13438 CIP Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian literatures: an introduction, bibliographic review, and selected bibliography. Modern Language Association of America, 1990. 200p bibl index ISBN 0-87352-191-9, $45.00; ISBN 0-87352-192-7, $19.50 This bibliographic review and compilation of Native American literatures of the US reflects the MLA's continuance of dialogue about the canon. LaVonne Ruoff's dedication to this field is evident in scholarship and teacher education. Her project has three major sections. Her deftly succinct introduction provides an overview of orality, autobiographies, creative writings, and essays. Part 2 is a lengthy bibliographic essay whose subdivisions encompass a range of critical and historical inquiry, anthologies, and ancillary studies. A selected bibliograpy, extensive and impressive, is the third section. Brief discussions and listings of videos, journals, women's studies materials, and so on will assist teachers' preparation for classroom effectiveness. Yet, there is no listing of storytelling in audio tape format. "Selected" bibliographies will always elicit comment on works left out. Among these writers and scholars are Simon Ortiz, Anna Lee Walters, Joseph Bruchac, Maurice Kenny, Craig Strete, and Beth Brant, along with bibliographer Arlene B. Hirshfelder, all of whom have one or more publications not listed; also not included is Paul Weinman's 1969 bibliography of Iroquois literature. Ruoff pursues a decidedly English-language focus, highlighting the first publication by an Indian in 1772. Ironically, the first Indian novel, by the Cherokee John Rollin Ridge (1854), was about the Mexican figure Joaquin Murieta, and should serve notice that American literary scholars must inquire about mestizo writing from the earliest times. Still, this is a major achievement by LaVonne Ruoff and should be a welcome resource for students and teachers on all levels. R. Welburn Weste 1991jun 28 10 28-5481 REFERENCE Orig Something about the music: guide to contemporary repertory. v.2: Anthology of critical opinions, ed. by Thomas P. Lewis. Pro/Am Music Resources/Kahn & Averill, 1991 (c1990). 624p ISBN 0-912483-66-0, $44.50; ISBN 0-912483-54-7, $29.50 This anthology contains information on more than 300 20th-century compositions by 78 composers. There are no stated criteria for inclusion other than that they are all 20th-century composers. Thus, they range from the world-famous (Virgil Thomson) to the unknown (Mark N. Grant), from the neoromantic (Ned Rorem) to the minimalist (John Adams), and from the composer of serious music (Ellen Taaffe Zwilich) to the composer of musicals (Stephen Sondheim). The main section of the book is arranged alphabetically by composer. Under each composer there is brief biographic information, a selected list of compositions, a general note about the composer's composition, and annotations on specific compositions. These annotations, the major portion of each entry, are mostly reprints of articles or reviews from magazines, journals, newspapers, monographs, and record liner notes. Thus the style, content, and depth of discussions vary; and these variations could be frustrating if one follows the editor's suggestion to use the book as a resource guide for performance. One of the most useful features in this volume is the directory of music centers and publishers. J. Tsou University of California, Berkeley