THERE IS NOTHING in the world to keep the intellectually tempted reader from finding his own way among the multitude of readings on structuralism. But in the interest of sparing him time and exasperation, the accompanying glossary and bibliography are offered. A good beginning is Piaget's Structuralism, which offers the reader a survey of all the arts and sciences under one rubric: how they function as structures. To proceed to the special concerns of literature and anthropology, the reader might use Michael Lane's Introduction to Structuralism, a solid text with a prefatory history, a compilation of basic articles, and good bibliographies. One will inevitably read Claude L6vi-Strauss's works, possibly beginning with Tristes Tropiques, surely a classic in Twentieth Century self-discovery, travel, anthropology, and structuralism. In Structural Anthropology L6vi-Strauss's early, lucid syle clarifies the structural study of myth and the scientific validity of both shaman and psychoanalyst. The Raw and the Cooked moves into more complex relationships among myths, customs of food preparation, kinship relations and other aspects of culture. Further studies in the mythical-anthropological vein are those of Leach, Kirk, and Haugen. Here are re-orienting views of the Bible, the classics of Greece, and the myths of Scandinavia, all seen as man's imaginative ways of coping with nature. Surely at some point along the way the reader will want to review modern linguistics, no matter how briefly, for structuralists apply to all cultural artifacts the same methods that linguists use. Even as a novice the reader will not be put off by Saussure's Course in General Linguistics; it is a record of lecture notes which slowly and lucidly sets forth the modern principles of language. To read it is to relive a historic event. Readings in Jakobson and Propp follow readily, and we arrive at the Russian formalists, seen pro and con in the histories of Erlich and Jameson. As to structuralist criticism of what we call literary texts, the major practitioner is Roland Barthes-witness his insights into the motivation of characters in classical French drama and into the style of the Robbe-Grillet novel. Jakobson and L6vi-Strauss's analysis of Baudelaire's Les Chats seemed ill-fated; as critic