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Reviews 547Although certainly Nemirovskij deserves admiration for his industry, hecould have done far better in providing specialists in this field with a basicclassified checklist and chronological index.Edward KasinecUniversity of California, BerkeleyETUDES UKRAINIENNES: PETIT GUIDE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE. By Françoisede Bonnières. Paris: Réunion des bibliothèques universitairesde Paris, 1979. iii, 35 pp.This brief French bibliographie guide to Ukrainian studies provides basicbibliographical information on over 400 monograph and serial titles. It formspart of a series in which two previous guides have been published: Etudestchèques and Etudes bulgares. Organized into a dozen subject areas, itincludes sections on bibliographies (and generalities), encyclopedias, languageand literature, geography, ethnography and folkore, history, economy,archaeology, art, religion, and philosophy.The author, Françoise de Bonnières, is in charge of the Slavic collections(Conservateur du Service slave) at the Ecole des langues orientales in Paris,and she has brought a considerable expertise in Slavic bibliography to thisvolume. Her two previous publications in Slavic studies, Guide de l'étudianten russe (Paris, 1977; 220 p.) and Histoire de la bibliographie russe des originesà 1917 (Paris, 1978; 324 p.), were published in the series Documents pédagogiquesde l'Institut d'études slaves. Since the publication of this Ukrainianguide, she has also produced Guide de l'étudiant en Polonais (Paris, 1980,139 pp.).The preface states that the guide is based on the holdings of the Bibliothèquedes Langues orientales and was designed to be of assistance tostudents at the Institut national des Langues et civilisations orientales. Apparently,the bibliographer did not intend to create a full scholarly bibliography.The size and contents of the volume reflect to some degree the limitedholdings of the library or the limited needs of the students. The volume lacksan index and, for the most part, there are no annotations. Scholars searchingfor a good bibliographic survey of materials in French on Ukrainian studieswill find this work inadequate. For instance, Borschak's excellent, L'Ukrainedans la littérature de l'Europe occidentale (Paris, 1935), which Bonnièresherself lists, is a much better source on older material. No modern scholarlybibliography of the Ukraine in French language publications has yet beenpublished, so it is regrettable that Bonnières's work is not on a larger scale.Overall the presentation of the bibliographical data is good, and the accur-