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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00028.] This is an excellent survey about Room squares and related designs. A Room square of side \(n\) is an \(n\times n\) array on a set \(S\) of \(n+1\) elements satisfying that (1) each cell is empty or contains an unordered pair of elements in \(S\) and (2) each element of \(S\) appears exactly once in every row and every column. It has been known that the Room square of side \(n\) exists if and only if \(n\) is odd and \(n\neq 3, 5\). However, many open questions still remain on constructing Room squares with some additional conditions. This paper contains a lot of interesting historical notes, examples for explaining constructions, and also 271 references. It is certainly a very valuable work.