O'Donnell, 'Introductory Bibliography to the History of Classical Scholarship Chiefly in the XIXth and XXth Centuries', Bryn Mawr Classical Review v3n06
URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n06-o'donnell-introductory

3.6.18, ALSO SEEN

W.M. Calder III and D.J. Kramer, An Introductory Bibliography to
the History of Classical Scholarship Chiefly in the XIXth and XXth
Centuries.  Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1992.  Pp. xiv, 410.  ISBN
3-487-096443-9.

  This volume is neither introductory nor a bibliography.  It
comprises an annotated handlist of the holdings on the specified
subject matter of Professor Calder's private library, amounting to
3147 items plus a few addenda.  It is arranged with the compiler's,
not the reader's, needs in mind, and demonstrates conclusively that
the age in which a scholar could rely on a private library, with
its patchy and erratic holdings, is long past.  It will be of use
mainly to anyone who will form an opinion of the erudition, taste,
and judgment of the scholar who collected these books.  Only a
brave man would be so self-revealing.  It is impossible to turn
these pages without thinking of Elias Canetti's Die Blendung.

James J. O'Donnell 
University of Pennsylvania