At 09:58 AM 7/20/99 -1000, Wayne Pounds wrote: >If this is indeed an encyclopedia rather than a >dictionary, which i doubt, how can it's organization >be left to the judgment of two persons (however >brilliant). I know nothing specifically about this particular volume, but I can say that it's one of a series of such small single-author encyclopedias published by Greenwood Press. I've contributed to the Emily Dickinson volume (395 pp., 1998), and though I'm not the person to say so I think it's a generally more useful book than the equally new _Emily Dickinson Handbook_ (University of Massachusetts Press). I know I use my copy all the time. But: But Greenwood Press is a niche marketer which sells almost exclusively to university libraries, and its pricing policy seems to have been inspired by the late Robert Maxwell. The Dickinson Encyclopedia, for instance, costs $85 -- i.e., more than four times as much as it would cost to borrow the book from the library and photocopy the whole thing. Now that Xerox manufactures an automated printer that can economically produce a hardbound book in a print run as small as 1, there's no excuse for that price. EP had a word for it. Jonathan Morse