Book Notes
Celebrating the City: A Pictorial
Essay of Toledo, 1890-1940. Compiled
by
Morgan J. Barclay. (Toledo: Toledo-Lucas
County Public Library, 1979.
48p.; illustrations.) The Toledo-Lucas
County Public Library and Ohio Prog-
ram in the Humanities combined forces to produce an
outstanding exhibit
displaying a selection of the work of
two late-nineteenth and early twen-
tieth-century Toledo photographers,
Charles Mensing and Norman Hauger.
Thirty-eight of the photographs are reproduced in an
exhibition catalog,
along with a forword by University of
Toledo urban historian Charles N.
Glaab. The catalog and exhibit are
divided into three themes: "Toledo at
Work," "Toledo at Play," and "The
Changing Faces of Toledo." Biographical
data for the two photographers and
explanatory notes for each photo are
provided.
David A. Simmons
The Changing Face of Boston over 350
Years. A Massachusetts Historical
Society Picture Book. Edited by Malcolm Freiberg. (Boston: Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1980. 24p.;
illustrations.) The latest in the series of pic-
ture books published by the Massachusetts Historical
Society is this collec-
tion of twenty-two views of Boston
dating from the seventeenth to the
twentieth century. Included are German,
French, British, and American
derived plats, ink drawings, maps,
engravings, photographs, and litho-
graphs. All were compiled from the
collections of the historical society by
the publications editor to commemorate
Boston's "Jubilee 350," three and a
half centuries after the city's founding
in 1630. This tiny sampling of the
society's holdings begins to illustrate
the transformation of Boston from a
small colonial village to a dense
twentieth-century metropolis.
David A. Simmons
Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography. By Willard D. Hunsberger. (Metuchen,
N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1981. 215p.;
chronology, bibliography, in-
dex.) Willard D. Hunsberger has compiled
a bibliography of Clarence Dar-
row that includes a chronological
listing of Darrow's legal and literary
works, writings about Darrow, reviews of
Darrow's eight most famous court
cases, and the location of Darrow
manuscripts throughout the United
States. Each section contains a brief
introduction, and the entries have
cryptic comments on the source being
cited. The most useful section of this
work is the listing of repositories
holding Darrow manuscripts. The other
sections contain information that is
readily available in other formats.
Roger Meade
Book Notes 141
Subjugation and Dishonor: A Brief
History of the Travail of the Native
Americans. By Philip Weeks and James B. Gidney. (Huntington, New
York:
Krieger Publishing Co., 1981. x + 145p.;
notes, bibliography, index.) The
authors' purpose in writing this book is
to emphasize the tragedy that has
been the fate of the North American
Indian. In particular the authors have
attempted to give a clearer picture of
how and why real human beings,
Indians, were rejected, persecuted, and
decimated. This book is not an over-
view of Indian history, but rather a
treatment of such sagas as the coming of
the Europeans, the divesting of the
Cherokee Nation, and the fight for the
Great Plains.
Roger Meade
"No Cheap Padding":
Seventy-Five Years of the Indiana Magazine of His-
tory, 1904-1979. Compiled by Lorna Lutes Sylvester. (Indianapolis:
Indiana
Historical Bureau, 1980. xix + 558p.; illustrations,
notes, contributors.)
"No Cheap Padding" is an anthology of articles that appeared in the Indi-
ana magazine of History during its first seventy-five years of publication.
The articles were selected and arranged according to
the editorial periods of
the magazine and are intended to underscore the impact
of the magazine's
editors on content and style. The
selected articles, therefore, are not neces-
sarily the best of the IMH and
tend to over emphasize political and South-
ern influences on the history of Indiana. "No
Cheap Padding" contains a list
of contributors which gives thumbnail biographical
sketches of the authors
whose articles have been selected for inclusion in this
volume.
Roger Meade
John Paul Jones' Memoir: Presented to
King Louis XVI of France. Trans-
lated and edited by Gerard W. Gawalt.
(Washington, D.C.: Library of Con-
gress, 1979. xix + 116p.; illustrations,
notes, documentary evidence, bio-
graphical glossary.) This is an English
translation of one of two surviving
copies in French of a memoir that John
Paul Jones wrote in 1788, in his
efforts to obtain an appointment as an
officer in the French navy. He was
unsuccessful, and later accepted a
commission in the Russian navy. Con-
sidering the fact that Jones was trying
to gain employment, it is not surpris-
ing that the Memoir is highly
laudatory of his activities in the American
Revolution. Although this brief volume
is interesting, particularly in seeing
how Jones twisted the record to enhance
himself, it nevertheless adds no-
thing to our knowledge of either Jones
or the American Revolution.
William N. Still, Jr.
Newspaper Indexes: A Location and
Subject Guide for Researchers. Vol.
II. By Anita Cheek Milner. (Metuchen,
N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
1979. ix + 193p.; index.) Newspaper
Indexes is a useful reference tool for
142 OHIO HISTORY
genealogists and students of local and
state history. The guide is based on a
questionnaire completed by 566
genealogical societies, historical agencies,
large newspapers, libraries, and
selected individuals. Both volumes of the
set are divided into two primary
sections. The first lists indexed newspapers
by state and counties within each state
and indicates repositories which
hold the indexes. The second section provides detailed
information regard-
ing the indexes, the holding
institutions, and their photoreproduction and
reference policies. Each volume also
includes a short section listing news-
paper indexes for a limited number of
specialized subject areas.
Stephen Gutgesell