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The Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest, Volume 1. Harold B. Allen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 425

a work in progress for more than two decades. As the first comprehensive report of findings from a region west of the Atlantic States, this folio volume is a large and important publication. The book is necessarily large because it covers material that might be expected in no fewer than three volumes: a handbook that outlines the history of the project, the region, and the native population and summarizes the methodology, the sample, and the findings; a linguistic atlas that organizes the data in a collection of descriptive maps; a word geography that analyzes the regional vocabulary. The book is important because it offers valuable information about the development and composition of American English in the Upper Midwest and raises interesting questions about the domain of linguistic geography. Those questions concerning the theoretical, investigative, and descriptive range and responsibilities of the discipline are inevitable reflexes of a pioneering effort. This program was the first to combine the methodologies of the Wenker and Gilliéron traditions of dialectology in a coherent survey by using the postal questionnaire as a supportive component of a conventional field in-