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Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.
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+ + Lit. D. 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 500w.
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+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 470w.
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