GENERAL INDEXES TO PERIODICALS

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GENERAL INDEXES TO PERIODICALS .The most complete collection of

periodicals

PERIODICALS

in all languages ever brought together is that preserved in the British Museum, and the excerpt from the printed catalogue of the library, entitled Periodical Publications (London, 18991900, 2nd ed. 6 parts folio, with index), includes journals, reviews, magazines and other works issued periodically, with the exception of transactions and proceedings of learned societies and of British and Colonial

newspapers

NEWSPAPERS

later than 1700. The titles of these

periodicals

PERIODICALS

, which number about 23,000, are arranged under the town or place of their publication.
The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, the Revue des deux mondes, the Revue historique, Deutsche Rundschau and others issue from time to time general indexes of their contents, while the periodical literature of

special

SPECIAL

departments of study and research are noted in the various Jahresberichte published in Germany, and indexed monthly in such English and American magazines as the Engineering Magazine, the Geographical Journal, English Historical

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

, American Historical

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

, Economic Journal (for political

economy

ECONOMY

), Library Journal and Library Association

Record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

(for bibliography) and the Educational Review. The Cat. of Scientific Papers (18001900) of the Royal Society (18671908), and the Repertorium der techn. Journ. Literatur (18791899) of the German Patent Office, are specimens of indexes of

special

SPECIAL

periodicals. There are also annual indexes such as those in the Zoological

Record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

and Annales de geographic. Complete lists are given by A. B. Kroeger (Guide to Reference Books, 1908) and

Stein

(Manuel de bibliographie generale, 1897). See also Bibliography of Books reviewed in American Periodicals, by G. F. Danforth (19021903); Book Review Digest (1906), &c.; H. C. Bolton's Cat. of Scientific and Technical Periodicals 16651895, Smithsonian Inst. (2nd ed., 1897) ; Harrison's Int. Cat. of Scientific Lit. (19031904) ; 'S. H. Scudder's Cat. of Scientific Serials, 16331876 (Camb. [Harvard Univ.] 1876) ; Cat. of Periodicals (English and Foreign) in Bod. Lib., 1878188o; Bibliotheque Nationale,

Lisle

LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)

des periodiques strangers (1896). A useful select

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

, including all languages, is J. D. Brown's Classified

List

of Current Periodicals (1904). (H. R. T.)

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