Bibliographies

Valuable List Of Pacific

THAT highly skilled librarian, Miss Ida Leeson, has produced for the Social Development Section of the South Pacific Commission an invaluable com pilation, called a Bibliography of Pacific Bibliographies.

If there is one thing more than another constantly called for in connection with Pacific affairs, it is a Pacific Bibliography.

Mr. P. S. Allen, in his Handbook of the Pacific, last published 30 years ago, had a very good list of most of the published works on the Pacific; but, since then, many hundreds of new books on the Pacific have been produced, and there is no complete list of them. But there are many scores—maybe hundreds of sectional bibiographies; and the South Pacific Com mission, before proceeding to the compilation of a main bibiography, commissioned Miss Leeson formerly Mitchell Librarian in Sydney to make a list of the sectional bibliographies.

This has been done in a most efficient manner; and, even if the main bibio graphy is delayed, or never produced, Miss Leeson’s new compilation will be of great help to students of Pacific affairs.