The second edition of this title improves on the first by including the titles of recent guides to reference works in Romance linguistics and by changing the previous title slightly to reflect the preponderance of space devoted to French linguistics as opposed to other Romance languages. The major appeal of this title is that it devotes a separate chapter to each of the Romance languages, even the more minor ones. Each chapter is subdivided into various specific sections such as bibliographies, periodicals, handbooks, onomastics, metrics, etc.
Entries are brief, omitting series.
This reference tool opens itself to criticism, however, because of its continued omission of important bibliographic sources and the absence of a title index. In spite of these shortcomings, however, it remains a useful bibliography.