Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1977 (5. évfolyam, 13-15. szám)
1977 / 13. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Address Correction Requested Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 257 _________EDITORS CORNER_________ As you readily noticed, this issue again attempts to expand the reference sources on Hungarian-related research and writing. We are making resource data available in two ways: (a) through occasionally enlarged issues of the HSN containing such data as the filmography in issue #12, and the list of theses in the present issue; and (b) through the Hungarian Reference Shelf series, including such bibliographies as David R. Howell’s Hungarian Ethnography, and Garbiel Horchler’s Hungarian Economic Reforms. You will notice that both, the special HSN issues and the books in the series are made available at cost (see advertisement on this page), providing a most inexpensive service. We have a number of manuscripts on hand which must await replenishing of our publication fund. This depends on sales. So, if you or your library intend to purchase any of these reference sources, do not postpone it. Your immediate action will expedite publication of the next item. The responses to our reader’s survey is gratifying, indeed. Many thanks to those who have already mailed in the return letter, and a plea for action to those who keep putting it off. We need your comments. Many thanks to those who wrote but did not receive a reply in return: Kalman Bognár, A.L. Gabriel, László Harangi, Tarnak Hofer, Andrew Kerek, Tibor Körtvélyessy, Brian MacWhinney, John Miska, Karoly Nagy, Joseph Széplaki, Katherine Verdery. The Editor BOOKS (Continued) of brains’). Társadalmi Szemle, March 1971, pp. 8186; J. Martin’s “Va'ndorlo' agyak” (Migrating Brains), Magyar Nemzet, May 1, 1971; his own article “Az agyak elrablása” (The robbery of brains) from Népszabadság November 19, 1972; and many others. Xantus, John. LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA. Translated and edited by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoenman, Wayne State U. Press, Detroit, Ml 48202, 1975. 198 pages, lllustr., maps, biblio. $12.95 cloth. (Original title: Xantus levelei Ejszakamerikából [sic].) In the HSN nos. 8 and 9 references were made to H.M. Madden’s Xantus, Hungarian Naturalist in the Pioneer West (1949). Now, here is a volume by and on Xantus giving translations of his letters from America to his family in Hungary. In these, he tells about his life, the organization of his expeditions, and his several journeys through the unexplored West. As Is readily known, Xántus was imprisoned by the Austrians after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution of 1848. Escaping, he came to the U.S. and quickly rose to fame as a naturalist and collector of the American West. Spencer F. HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarianrelated research for the English speaking scholar: HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries, 24 pages. $1.80 plus 20<t handling, $2.00 EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIAN SUBJECTS. Compiled by Joseph Széplaki (University of Minnesota), 1976. 48 entries, in issue no. 11 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 20<P handling, $1.70 HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977. 1,620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $8.95 cloth. MASTERS THESES RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIANS ACCEPTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Joseph Széplaki; and UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ON HUNGARIAN-CANADIANS: A Preliminary Check List of Theses. Compiled by John P. Miska. Both: 1977. 53 entries in issue no. 13 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 20<P handling, $1.70. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University). In Preparation. Order: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Instiution wrote that Xa'ntus’ collections “are believed to have been much larger and more complete, than any ever made before in America during the same period of time by any one person.” This book contains a prefatory note and an introduction written by Theodore Schoenman, then a translation of letters in chronological order. They begin with one from Missouri dated at December 1, 1852, and ending with one from California, dated July 5, 1857. The illustrations in the volume are Xantus’ hand drawings. Mr. Schoenman is a chemist and lives in retirement with his wife Helen Benedek Schoenman. The second Xantus volume, Travels in the Southern California, originally published in Hungarian at (Buda) Pest in 1860, has been translated and published also. This work will be summarized in a future issue of HSN. 12 NO. 13, 1977 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
