Derer Oberlausitzer Sorberwenden umständliche Kirchengeschichte by Christian KnautheReview by: Gerald StoneThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 153-154Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208482 .

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REVIEWS 153

for by not having to struggle when unfolding maps in inclement weather or in crowds. The book's format (standard paperback size - about 4 x 7/2") seems to be most suitable for its purpose.

The text follows the general Blue Guides' pattern of routes most of which can be followed on foot in a day or less. There are seventeen such routes for Moscow and fourteen for Leningrad. The Hermitage is treated as a separate route, and two further routes cover the outskirts of both cities which are open to foreign visitors. The choice of material is sensible and should cater for most tastes. The layout is clear with the principal places of interest set out in bold type. Sketch plans for museums and historical monuments are very clearly drawn. The museums' main holdings are explicitly described enabling the visitor either to obtain a cursory general view or to concentrate on a particular item, school of painting or section, without the need of consulting specialized guidebooks. There is a good index at the end. Literary associations abound which is useful, though not every tourist would want to know about the house of the Old Countess in the Queen of Spades or where was the house of the Gromeko family as described in Doctor Zhivago. Bits of incidental intelligence appeal to some readers and not to others. It is not really very relevant where Faberge had his shop in ulitsa Gertsena, but a guidebook will stand or fall if a tourist will not be able to find his way in central Moscow, would fail to find the Cameron Gallery in Pushkin or would not understand the buildings of Zagorsk. On these counts, the new Blue Guide offers a reasonable aid and manual - the rest is up to the visitor. London GEORGE LEWINSON

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Altbauer, Moshe (ed.). Der alteste serbische Psalter. Slavistische Forschun- gen, Band 23. Bohlau Verlag, Cologne, 1979. xxxi + 446 pp. Notes. Bibliography. DM i68.

THIS is an excellent facsimile edition of a Serbian Church Slavonic psalter from the Mount Sinai library, dating from the first half of the thirteenth century. The editor has provided a description, analysis and comparison with other (Old) Church Slavonic psalters. The codex is incomplete, starting with Psalm 37, 7 and ending with a fragment of the 3rd Canticle. A considerable part of the initial psalms, detached from the present codex, was also found by the editor but will have to be published separately. London M. SAMILOV

Knauthe, Christian. Derer Oberlausitzer Sorberwenden umstandliche Kirchenge- schichte. Published with a preface by R. Olesch. Reprint of the Gorlitz edition of 1767. Mitteldeutsche Forschungen, Band 85. Bohlau Verlag, Cologne, Vienna, I980. xix + 456 pp. Plate. DM I38.

THIs reprint is yet another manifestation of the sterling work of Professor Reinhold Olesch and the Bohlau Verlag in making available sources for the

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study of the West Slavs and their languages. Like the rest of their work it maintains high production standards. The sharpness of the reprint and the fact that it has been slightly enlarged make it easier to read than the original, which is, in any case, very rare.

Christian Knauthe (sometimes recorded as Knauth) (I 706-84) was a German clergyman at Friedersdorf near Gorlitz whose hobby was the study of local history. This included the study of the history of the Sorbs, whose eastern limits (Lubij/Lobau) are still only fourteen kilometres west of Friedersdorf. Knauthe is the author of about one hundred books and articles, among which the present volume holds a position of special prominence. Its account of the heathen religion of the Sorbs and their conversion to Christianity is now known to be defective in many respects, but its descriptions of their religious life during and after the Reformation up to Knauthe's own time is of unique historical value. It is, for example, largely on the basis of the evidence given here that we can tell which areas were Sorbian-speaking in the eighteenth, seventeenth, and even sixteenth centuries. The last part of the book deals specifically with the Sorbian language and with book-production. It also includes a comprehensive list of books in and about Sorbian, and reproduces the address in Sorbian, written by Michal Frencel, which was delivered to Peter the Great as he passed through Dresden in I697. Oxford GERALD STONE

Wade, Terence L. B. The Russian Preposition do and the Concept of Extent. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, no. 9. Department of Russian Language & Literature, University of Birmingham, I980. ix + 148 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. ?3.60.

THIS compactly-written synchronic study covers the period I940-78. By focusing his attention on this slice of the temporal axis, the author deals in depth with a large number of contemporary phrases of extent in do not to be found in available dictionaries or other reference works. The critical apparatus is indeed impressive: Dr Wade bases his study on over eighty primary sources, which represent an exceptionally broad spectrum of Russian literary writing; in addition, over fifty secondary sources provide the necessary scholarly backdrop to the discussion. Finally, the appendix contains some 630 prepositional collocations arranged alphabetically according to dependent noun. Illustrative Russian examples are given in transcribed form and, with only a very few exceptions, English glosses are not provided.

The author's explanations and interpretations of linguistic facts are almost always convincing, and if occasionally we are left with some lingering doubts, it is arguably owing to the fact that some developments are still crystallizing rather than as a result of a flaw in the critical approach.

One cannot but be impressed by the impact and graphic nature of much of the material cited. Witness, for example, the striking and seemingly

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