REVIEW ESSAY: Somatography

A History and Criticism of American Public Address. vols. Edited by William Norwood Brigance. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., Inc., 1943; pp. xvii + 1030. $10.00.

Dictionary of World Literature: Criticism, Forms, Technique. Edited by Joseph T. Shipley. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1943; pp. xvi + 633. $7.50.

Speech in Education: A Guide for the Classroom Teacher. By Ollie L. Backus. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1943; pp. 358 + xv. $2.75.

Gesture and Environment. By David Efron. Sketches by Stuyvesant Van Veen. Foreword by Franz Boas. New York: King's Crown Press, 1941; pp. 184 + x.

The Film Sense. By Sergei Eisenstein. Translated and edited by Jay Leyda. Harcourt, Brace; pp. 288. $3.00.

Pioneering in Psychology. By Carl E. Seashore. University of Iowa Studies, No. 398. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1942; pp. 232.

A Federal Sales Tax. Compiled by E. R. Nichols. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp. 259. $1.25. Wagesand Prices Complied by Robert E. Summers. New York :The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp 219.$1.25.

The Defective in Speech. By Mildred Freberg Berry and Jon Eisenson. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1942; pp. 426. $3.00.

Interpretative Reading. By Sara Lowery and Gertrude E. Johnson. New York. D. Appleton‐Century, 1942; pp. xx + 607.

Inner Springs. By Frances Lester Warner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943; pp. 189.

The Penguin Hansard, Vols. 1–5. Taken verbatim from the House of Commons Official Report of Parliamentary Debates. Har‐mondsworth, Middlesex, England, and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1940–1942; pp. app. 300 in each vol. $.25.

The General Basic English Dictionary. Edited by C. K. Ogden with the help of a committee of the Orthological Institute. New York: W. W. Norton &; Co., 1942; pp. x + 441. $2.50.

War Words: Recommended Pronunciations. By W. Cabell Greet. New York: Published for the Columbia Broadcasting System by Columbia University Press, 1943; pp. 137. $1.50.

English Usage. By Arthur G. Kennedy. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1942; pp. xi, 166. $1.25.

The Best One‐Act Plays of 1942. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1943; pp. 265. $2.50.

25 Non‐Royalty American Comedies. Compiled by William Kozlenko. New York: Greenberg, 1943; pp. 430. $2.50.

The Writer's Radio Theatre, 1941. Edited by Norman S. Weiser. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. $2.00.

Speeches and Documents in American History, Vol. IV: 1914–1939. (No. 491, The World's Classics.) Selected and edited by Robert Birley. London: Oxford University Press, 1942; pp. xix + 300. $.95.     

Book reviews and notices

How to Teach a Trade. By R. W. Selvidge (University of Missouri). Peoria, Ill.: The Manual Arts Press, 1923. Pp.111. Price, $1.

Personal and Business Efficiency. By C. A. Henderson (Babson Institute). New York: George H. Doran Co., 1923. Pp. viii + 308. Price, $2 net.

Jefferson Davis, President of the South. By H. J. Eckerode. New York: Mac‐millan Company, 1923. Pp. 371. Price, $2.50.

The New Agriculture for High Schools. By Kaey C. Davis (George Peabody College for Teachers). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. Pp. v + 494. Price, $1.80.

Construction and Repair Work for the Farm. By F. Theodore Struck (Pennsylvania State Department of Vocational Education). Boston: Houghton‐Mifflin Co., 1923. Pp. 382; 285 drawings and photographs. Price, $2.90.

United States History. By Arches Butler Hulbert (Colorado College). Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923. Pp. xx + 656. Price, $2.

School Atlas; By J. Paul. Goode (University of Chicago). Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1923. Pp. xii + 96 (of maps) + 41 (index of places). Pages, 9x11 inches. Thickness of volume, about ½ inch.

Junior English Course. By P. H. Deffendall (St. Louis public schools). Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1923. Pp. xvi + 384.

Rip Van Winkle and Other Sketches. Edited by F. K. Ball. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1923. Pp. xii + 242. Price, 72 cents.

Specimens of Prose Composition. Revised edition. By F. W. C. Hersey and C. N. Greenough (Harvard College). Boston: Ginn & Co., 1923. Pp. viii + 510. Price, $2.20.

The Vicar of Wakefield. Edited by Archibald Rutledge. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1923. Pp. xxiv + 250. Price, 76 cents.

Motion Pictures in Education. By D. C. Ellis and L. Thornborough. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1923. Pp. xvii + 284. Price, $2.50 net.

Education for Moral Growth. By Henry Neumann (Ethical Culture School, New York). New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1923. Pp. xii + 383.     

The elimination of Greek dialect in English

Modern Speech. By Gladys Borchers and Claude M. Wise. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947; pp. 522. $3.25.

The Art of Play Production. Revised Edition. By John Dolman, Jr. New York: Harper Brothers, 1946; pp. 421. $3.50.

An Introduction to Linguistic Science. By E. H. Sturtevant. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947; pp. ix + 173. $3.00.

Speaking in Public. By Wavland Maxfield Parrish. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947; pp. ix + 455. $2.95.

Extemporaneous Speaking. By J. M. O'Neill. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946; pp. 418. $2.75.

The New Training for Effective Speech. By Robert T. Oliver, Rupert L. Cortright, Cyril F. Hacer. New York: The Dryden Press, 1946; pp. 414. $2.75.

Fundamentals of Public Speaking. By Donald C. Bryant and Karl R. Wallace. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1947: pp. 580. $3.00.

Speech and Human Relations. By Joseph G. Brin. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1946; pp. 136. $2.50.

Southern Oratory: A Study In Idealism. By Francis Pendleton Gaines. University, Albama: University of Alabama Press, 1946; pp. ii + 65. $1.75.

The Miser by Molière. A New Version with Songs in the Style of the Period. By George R. Kernodle. Iowa City: Campus Stores, State University of Iowa, 1946; pp. iv + 68 (mimeographed). $1.68.

General American Speech Sounds. By Grace Barnes. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1946; pp. vi + 129. $1.80.

Modern Theatre Practice. Third Edition. By Hubert C. Heffner, Samuel Sfxden, and Hunton D. Sellman. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company, 1946; pp. 501. $3.75.

Speech Development of a Bilingual Child: Vol. II. Sound‐Learning in the First Two Years. By Werner F. Leopold. Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No. n. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1947; pp. xxi + 295.

Etiology of Articulatory Speech Defects: A Comparison of the Incidence of Six Selected Factors in Children Having Articulatory Speech Defects with the Incidence of the Same Factors in Children Not Having Speech Defects. By Darrel J. Mase. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1946; pp. viii + 85, $2.10.

First Steps in Acting. By Samuel Selden. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company, 1947; pp. xvi + 344. $2.50.     

Opportunity in Alaska by George Sundborg. The Macmillan Company. 287 pp. $2.50

I Ought to but… A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of Weakness of Will in Education by Roger Straughan. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1982. 235 pp. $23.00.

The Problem of Values in Educational Thought by Philip L. Smith. Ames, la.: Iowa State University Press, 1982. 92 pp. $4.50.

Holistic Education: Teaching of Science in the Affective Domain by Isadore L. Sonnier. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. 126 pp. $13.95.

Shaping Legislative Decisions: Educational Policy and the Social Sciences by Douglas E. Mitchell. Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, Inc., 1981.201 pp. $22.95.

“I Respectfully Disagree with the Judge's Order”: The Boston School Desegregation Controversy by J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, Inc., 1981. 745 pp.     

Editorials

A Handbook of Public Speaking (Revised Edition). By John Dolman, Jr. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934; pp. vii, 165; $1.

Legal Reasoning and Briefing. By Jesse Franklin Brumbaugh. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Co., 1917; pp. xvi, 775; $5.

Legal and Public Speaking. By Jesse Franklin Brumbaugh. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Co., 1932; pp. xiii, 1049; $5.

Winning Orations of the Interstate Oratorical Association, 1933 Edited by I. M. Cochran. New York: Noble &; Noble, 1933; pp. 66; $1.

Modern Short Stories for Oral Interpretation. Edited by M. Pearl Lloyd and John Tryon Marshman. Boston: The Expression Company, 1933; pp. viii, 306.

Some Exercises in the Sounds of Speech. By C. C. Bell. Cambridge: at The University Press; New York: The Macmillan Company; 1933; pp. viii + 94; $1.25.

The Theatre on the Frontier. By William G. B. Carson. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1932; pp. 361; $5.

The Year Book of College Oratory. Vol. V, 1933. Edited by Evan E. Anderson, New York: Noble &; Noble, 1933; pp. 364; $2.

Poet's Gold. By David Ross. New York: The Macaulay Co., 1933; pp. 288; $2.

Intercollegiate Debates, Vol. XIV, Edited by Egbert Ray Nichols. New York: Noble &; Noble, 1933; pp. 529; $2.

Habits: Their Making and Unmaking. By Knight Dunlap. New York: Liveright, Inc.; 1932; pp. 326.

Psychology Applied. By George W. Crane. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1932; pp. 586; $4.     

Book reviews and notices

The Comparative Abilities of White and Negro Children. By Joseph Peterson (Comparative Psychology Monograph, No. 5, George Peabody College for Teachers). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1923. Price, $2.25.

Statistical Method. By Trumak L. Kelly (Stanford University). New York: The Macmillan Co., 1923. Pp. 3d + 390.

Psychology for Students of Education. By Arthur I. Gates (Teachers College). New York: The Macmillan Co., 1923. Pp. xvi + 489.

Elements of Retailing. By Ruth Leigh (Mrs. Sclater). New York: D. Apple‐ton & Co., 1923. Pp. ix + 385.

Social Science for Teachers. By C. E. Martz (Cleveland School of Education) and J. A. Kinneman (State Normal School, West Chester, Pa.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923. Pp. xii + 340. Price, $1.90.

Economics of the Household. By Benjamin E. Andrews. New York: Macmillan Co., 1923. Pp. 609.

The Boy's Own Book of Great Inventions. By Floyd H. Darrow. New York: Macmillan Co., 1923. Pp. ix + 385. Price, $1.75.

The Boy's Own Book of Science. By Floyd H. Darrow. New York: Macmillan Co., 1923. Pp. ix + 331. Price, $2.50.

Human Geography, by Grades. By James Faiegrieve and Ernest Young. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1923.     

Henrietta Crosman on voice

Good American Speech. By Margaret Prendergast Mclean. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1928.

The Psychology of Language. By W. B. Pillsbury and C. L. Meader. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928; pp. 306: $3.

Abraham Lincoln: 1809‐1858. By Albert J. Beveridge. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928: 2 volumes, pp. 1348.

The Public Mind: its disorders; its exploitation. By Norman Angell. New York, Button, 1926: pp. 220.

The Public and Its Problems. By John Dewey. New York, Henry Holt, 1927: pp. 224

Publicity for Social Work. By Mary Swain Routzahn and Evart G. Routzahn. New York: Bussell Sage Foundation, 1928, pp. xviii, 392.

Readings in Public Opinion. By W. Brooke Graves. New York: Appleton's, 1928, pp. viii, 1281. $6.

Propaganda. By Edward L. Bernays. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928, pp. 159. $2.50.

Propaganda Technique in the World War. By Harold Lasswell. New York: Knopf, 1927, pp. 283. $3.25.

Political Behavior. By Frank R. Kent. New York: Wm. Morrow, 1928, pp. 342. $2.50.

Public Discussion and Debate. By A. Craig Baird. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1928: pp. iv, 370.

Principles of Effective Speaking: A Text for Colleges and Universities. By William Phillips Sandford and Willard Hayes Yeager. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1928: pp. xv, 416.

The Art of Interpretative Speech. Principles and Practices of Effective Beading. By Charles H. Woollbert and Severina E. Nelson. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company, 1927: pp. vii, 385.

Communicative Speaking. By J. Stanley Gray. Boston: Expression Co., 1928: pp. 299: $2.50.

How to Talk. By John Mantle Clapp and Edwin A. Kane. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1928: pp. 631.

A Bibliography of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. By Clark Sutherland Northup (now President of the national Phi Beta Kappa Society). New York: The Elisha Parmele Press, 1928. pp. viii, 328.

Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar and Handbook of American Usage. By Maurice H. Weseen. New York: Thomas T. Crowell Company, 1928: pp. ix, 703.

The Influence of the Audience on Shakespeare's Drama. By Robert Bridges. New York: Oxford University Press, 1927; pp. x, 29.

The Art of Playwriting. Lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation. Philadelphia: the University of Pennsylvania Press: 1928.

The Oxford Recitations. With a Preface by John Masefield. New York: The MacMillan Company: 1928: $1.50.

Power Control. By H. S. RAushenbush and Harry W. Laidler. New York: New Republic, Inc., 1928: $1.     

The new books on our shelf

Women and Leisure: A Study of Social Waste. By Lorine Pruette (Mrs. Fryer). New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924. Pp. xxiv + 225.

Psychological Tests in Business. By A. W. Kornhauser and F. A. Kingsbury. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1924. Pp. ix + 194. Price, $1.90.

Here and Now Primer. By Mrs. Lucy Sprague Mitchell. New York: E. P. Dutton Co. Price, 70 cents.

The Nature of Intelligence. By L. L. Thurstone. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924. Pp. xvi + 167. Price, $3.75.

The Materials of Beading: Their Selection and Organization. By Willis L. Uhl (University of Wisconsin). Newark, N. J.: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1924. Pp. xiv + 386. Price, $1.50.

The Story Key to Geographic Names. By O. D. von Engeln (Cornell University) and Jane McKelway Urquhart (Cascadilla School). New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1924. Pp. xvi + 279.

Educational Tests and Measurements. By Walter Scott Monroe (University of Illinois), James Clarence DeVoss (State Teachers College, San José, Cal.), and Frederick James Kelly (University of Minnesota). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924. Pp. xxvii + 521. Price, $2.40.

Beginnings in Educational Measurement. By Edward A. Lincoln (Harvard University). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1924. Pp. 151.

Reading Blueprints. By James K. Shallenberger. Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1924. Pp. 59. Price, 85 cents.

Carpenter's New Geographical Readers: Africa. By Frank G. Carpenter. Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1924. Pp. 397.

Problems in Architectural Drawing. By F. G. Elwood (Head of Department of Architectural and Mechanical Drawing, Moosehart, Ill., High School). Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1924. Pp. 134. Price, $2.25.

Educational Measurements and the Classroom Teacher. By A. R. Gilliland (Northwestern University) and R. H. Jordan (Cornell University). New York: The Century Co., 1924. Pp. xi + 269. Price, $2.

Laboratory Studies in Educational Psychology. By Egbert Milton Turner (College of the City of New York) and George Herbert Betts (Northwestern University). New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1924. Pp. xii + 218.

An Atlas of English Literature. By Clement Tyson (University of Richmond) and Edgar Finley Shannon (Washington and Lee University). New York: Century Co., 1925. Pp. 136–8¾>×11½> inches. Price, $2.

Woodworking Machinery. By William Noyes (District Director, Bureau of Rehabilitation, Albany, N. Y.). Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1923. Pp. 144. Price, $3.

The Project Method in Geography. By Helen M. Ganey. Chicago: The Plymouth Press, 1924. Pp. 45. Price, 50 cents.

Sheet‐Metal Work. By Marion S. Trew and Verne A. Bird. Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1923. Pp. 64. Price, 85 cents.     

Review Essay: Material Rhetorics Meet Material Feminisms

People in Quandaries. By Wendell Johnson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946; pp. 532. $3.00

Now You're Talking. By Harrison M. Karr, Glendale, California: Griffin‐Patterson Company, 1946; pp. 136. $1.50.

Radio Drama Production. By Walter Krulevitch and Rome C. Krulevitch, New York: Rinehart and Company, 1946; pp. 330. $2.75.

You Can Talk Well. By Richard Reacer. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1946; pp. 312. $2.50.

Radio, The Fifth Estate. By Judith C. Waller. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946; pp. 483. $3.40.

Alexander Hamilton. By Nathan Schachner. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1946; pp. 488. $4.00.

A Guide to the Practice of International Conferences. By Vladimir D. Pastuhov. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1945; pp. 275. $2.50.

The Old Stock Company School of Acting. By Edward William Mammen. Boston: Public Library, 1945; pp. 89. $1.00.

The History of the Seattle Stock Companies from Their Beginnings to 1934. By Mary Katherine Rohrer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1945; pp. 76. $1.50.     

Freshman Disorientation

Abstract

A Provocative Collection The War against the Intellect: Episodes In the Decline of Discourse By Peter Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989, 181 pages, $22.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth

Giving Freshmen What They Deserve The Freshman Year Experience M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989, 443 pages, $32.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling     

Language of the gown

Johnson, Wendell; Darley, Frederic L.; Spriestenbach, Duane C., Diagnostic Methods in Speech Pathology. Harper and Row, Inc., 49 E. 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y., 1963, 337 pp., $7.50.

Reid, Loren, Speaking Well. Artcraft Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1962.

Reid, Loren, First Principles of Public Speaking, 2nd edition, Artcraft Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1962.

Larson, Orvin, American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll. The Citadel Press, 222 Park Avenue South, New York 3, New York, 1962.

Huber, Robert B., Influencing Through Argument. David McKay Company, Inc., 119 West 40th Street, New York 18, New York, 1963, $5.00.

Dance, Frank E. X., The Citizen Speaks : Speech Communication for Adults. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., Belmont, California, 1962, text price $3.50, trade price $4.65.

Jolliffe, H. R., Tales from the Greek Drama. Chilton Books, a Division of Chilton Company, Chestnut at 56th Streets, Philadelphia 39, Pennsylvania, 1962, $5.00.     

“To err is human”

The Emergence Of Youth Societies ... A Cross Cultural Approach. David Gottlieb, John Reeves, and Warren D. TenHouten. (New York: The Free Press, 1966. Pp. 416. $7.95.)

University Choice. Klaus Boehm, editor. (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966. Pp. 400. $1.95.)

Pickets At The Gates. Estelle Fuchs. (New York: The Free Press, 1966. Pp. 205. $2.95.)

Democracy and Education. John Dewey. (New York: The Free Press, 1966. Pp. 378. $2.45.)

Reading in the Elementary School. Jeanette Veatch. (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1966. Pp. 535. $7.00.)

Chinese Intellectuals and the West 1872–1949. Y. C. Wang. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Pp. 557 $10.00.)

Learning in the Schools. Robert A. Davis. (Belmont, Calif. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1966. Pp. 231. $3.95.)

Setting Conditions for Creative Teaching in the Elementary School. James A. Smith, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966. Pp. 207. Text Ed. $4.95.)     

General education: A college dropout

Fifty Famous Painters. By Henrietta Gerwig. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1926. Pp. ix + 416. Price, $3.50.

A Glossary of Three Hundred Terms Used in Educational Measurement and Research. By Charles W. Odell (University of Illinois). Bulletin No. 40, Bureau of Educational Research. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1928. Pp. 68. Price, 50 cents.

Three Problem Children. Narratives from the Case Records of a Child Guidance Clinic. New York: Joint Committee on Methods of Preventing Delinquency, 1926. Pp. viii + 142.

High School Chemistry. By George Howard Bruce. Yonkers, N. Y.: World Book Co., 1928. Pp. x + 550. Price, $1.68.

Psychology for Teachers. By Charles E. Benson, James E. Lough, Charles E. Skinner, and Paul V. West (New York University). Boston: Ginn &; Co., 1926. Pp. x + 390. Price, $2.

Standardizing Teachers' Examinations, and the Distribution of Class Marks. By Robert S. Ellis. Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Co., 1927. Pp. 170. Price, 75 cents.

The New Human Interest Library. S. E. Farquhar, Managing Editor. Chicago: The Midland Press, 1928. 6 volumes.

The Path of Learning. By Henry W. Holmes (Harvard University) and Burton P. Fowler. Boston: Little, Brown &; Co., 1926. Pp. x + 488.

Fundamentals of Human Motivation. By Leonard T. Troland (Harvard University). New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1928. Pp. xiv + 521. Price, $5.

School Training for Gifted Children. By Henry Herbert Goddard (Ohio State University). Yonkers, N. Y.: World Book Co., 1928. Pp. xii + 266. Price, $2.

Parents and Sex Education, By B. C. Gruenberg. New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1923. Pp. vi + 100. Price, $3.

Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis. A Laboratory Guide. By Wilfred Welday Scott. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1928. Pp. x +164. Price, $1.60.

Principles and Methods of Junior High School Mathematics. By James Herbert Blackhurst. New York: The Century Co., 1928. Pp. xvi + 355.

The Singing Farmer. By James S. Tippett. New York: World Book Co., 1927. Pp. vi + 90. Price, 68 cents.

The Techniques of Educational Research. By W. S. Monroe and Max D. Engelhart (University of Illinois). Bulletin No. 38, Bureau of Educational Research. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1928. Pp. 84. Price, 50 cents.

A Teacher's Geography. By Mendel E. Branom. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1928. Pp. xviii + 252.     

Correction of cleft‐palate speech by phonetic instruction

Speech Communication: A Brief Textbook. By William Norwood Brigance. New York: F. S. Crofts, 1947; pp. 220. $1.75.

Basic Training in Speech. By Lester Thonssen and Howard Gilkinson. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1947; pp. viii+551. $3.25.

Basic Principles of Speech. Revised Edition. By Lew Sarett and William Trufant Foster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946; pp. 592. $3.25.

Notebook for Public Speaking: A College Course in Basic Principles. By Ray Ehrensberger and Elaine Pagel. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1946; pp. x + 166.

Four Who Spoke Out. By Robert T. Oliver. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1946; pp. x+196. $2.50.

Mass Persuasion: The Psychology of a War Bond Drive. By Robert E. Merton, assisted by Marjorie Fiske and Alberta Curtis. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946; pp. 210. $2.50.

Handbook for Discussion Leaders. By J. Jeffery Auer and Henry Lee Ewbank. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1947; pp. 118. $1.75.

The Church Across the Street. By Reginald D. Manwell and Sophia Lyon Fahs. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1946; pp. 272. $2.50.

A Guide for Teachers Using The Church Across The Street. By Sophia Lyon Fahs and Reginald D. Manwell. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1946; pp. 21. 50c.

Oral Reading. By Lionel Crocker and Louis M. Eich. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1947; pp. 507. $4.25.

Are You Telling Them? By Bess Sondel. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1947; pp. 292. $2.95.

Speech for the Classroom Teacher. Revised Edition. By Dorothy I. Mulgrave. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1946; pp. 423. $3.75.

American Speech. Revised edition. By Wilhelmina Hedde and W. Norwood Brigance. New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946; pp. xi + 596. $1.96.

Manual of American Dialects: for Radio, Stage, Screen and Television. By Lewis Helmar Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman. Chicago: Ziff‐Davis Publishing Company, 1947; pp. xvii + 326. $6.00.

Visible Speech. By Ralph K. Potter, George A. Kopp, and Harriet C. Green. New York: T. Van Nostrand Company, 1947; pp. 441. $4.75.

Speech Correction: Principles and Methods. Revised edition. By C. Van Riper. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1947; pp. 470. $4.00.

Training the Singing Voice. By Victor Alexander Fields. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947; pp. x + 337. $4.00.

Your Voice and Your Speech: Self‐Training for Better Speaking. By Beatrice Desfousses. New York: Cattell and Company, Inc., 1946; pp. xiii + 224. $3.50.

Sleeping Beauty. By Agnes Curran Hamm. Milwaukee: The Tower Press, 1946; pp. 12. 50 cents.

Man Against Myth. By Barrows Dunham. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947; pp. 316.

How To Create Sound Effects for Home Recordings. By Ed Ludes and Hallock B. Hoffman. California: The Castle Press, 1946; pp. 90. $1.50.

Remembrance of Amherst. An Undergraduate's Diary 1846–1847 (William Gardiner Hammond). Edited by George F. Whicher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946; pp. 307. $3.00.     

Leaders: Latent danger for democracy even in education

The Art of Technical Writing: A Manual for Scientists, Engineers, and Students. Eugene Ehrlich and Daniel Murphy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Apollo Edition, 1969. 182 pp. $1.95 paper.

A Primer on Food, Agriculture, and Public Policy. Earl O. Heady. New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. 169 pp. $4.95.

Professional Education for Ministry. Edward E. Thornton. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970. 301 pp. $7.50.

Psychology and the Superior Athlete, Bryant J. Cratty and Miroslav Vanek. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. 212 pp. $6.95 cloth.

The Slow Learner, edited by Joseph S. Roucek. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1969. vi &; 373 pp. $10.00.

Storytelling and Creative Drama. Dewey W. Chambers. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, Publishers 1970. 92 pp.

Turmoil and Transition: Higher Education and Student Politics in India. Philip G. Altbach, editor. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1968. 277 pp. $7.50 cloth.     

The status of speech training in the secondary schools of the western and eastern states

From Art to Theatre. Form and Convention in the Renaissance. By George R. Kernodle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944; pp. 255, 62 illustrations. $5.00.

Shakespeare and the Actors—The Stage Business in His Plays (1660–1905). By Arthur Colby Sprague. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944; pp. xxv + 440. $5.00.

A Handbook of Classical Drama. By Philip Whaley Harsh. Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1944, pp. xii + 526. $4.00.

A Great Time to Be Alive. By Harry Emerson Fosdick. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1944; pp. 235. $2.00.

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. By Fremont Rider. New York: Hadham Press, 1944; pp. 236. $4.00.

Representative American Speeches: 1943–1944. Selected by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1944; pp. 360. $1.25.

American Dialect Dictionary. By Harold Wentworth. New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1944; pp. xv + 747. $6.00.     

To whom it may concern

Australian Training and Asian Living. Mary C. Hodgkin. (Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1966. Pp. 221. $3.50.)

The Changing School Curriculum. John I. Goodlad and others. (New York: The Fund for the Advancement of Education, 1966. Pp. 122.)

The Cost of Education Index 1965–1966. Prepared by the editors of School Management. (New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1966. Pp. 72. $1.50.)

Man‐Machine Systems in Education. John W. Loughary. (New York: Harper &; Row, 1966. Pp. 242. $4.50.)

Mass Media and Communication. Charles S. Steinberg, editor. (New York: Hastings House, 1966. 530 Pp. $11.50; also in paperback, $5.95.)

The Ordeal of Desegregations The First Decade. Reed Sarratt. (New York: Harper and Row, 1966. 374 Pp. $7.50.)

The Public School and the Private Vision, A Search for America in Education and Literature. Maxine Greene. (New York: Random House, 1965. Pp. 185. $1.95.)

The School and The Economic System. Charles S. Benson. (Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1966. Pp. 117. $1.95, paper.)

Student's Rorschach Manual. Robert M. Allen. (New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1966. Pp. 280. $7.00.)

Teaching in a World of Change. Robert H. Anderson. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, &; World, Inc., 1966. Pp. 180. $1.95)

The Teaching of Language in Our Schools. Miriam B. Goldstein. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. Pp. 192. $1.95, paper.)     

Today's speech books in review

Bryant, D. C., and Wallace, K. R., Oral Communication, 2nd ed. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1954. 310 pp. $4.00

White, E. E. and Henderlider, C. R., Practical Public Speaking. New York: Macmillan Company, 1954. 365 pp. $3.50

O'Connor, Lillian, Pioneer Women Orators. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. 264 pp. $3.75

Parrish, W. M., and Hochmuth, M., eds., American Speeches. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1954. 518 pp. $4.75

MacLean, Joan C., ed. Africa: The Racial Issue. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1954. 198 pp. $1.75

Summers, Robert E., ed., Freedom and Loyalty in our Colleges. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1954. 214 pp., $1.75

Potter, David, ed., Argumentation and Debate. New York: Dryden Press, 1954. 503 pp. $4.50

Bridge, Lawrence W., The Funk and Wagnalls Book of Parliamentary Procedure. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1954. 180 pp. $3.00

World Publishing Co., Websters New World Dictionary of the American Language, college ed. New York: World Publishing Co., 1953. 1724 pp. $5.00

Chase, Stuart, Power of Words. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1954. 308 pp. $3.95

Van Riper, C. G., and Smith, D. E., An Introduction to General American Phonetics. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. 152 pp. $2.50

Phillips, D. C, Grogan, J. M., and Ryan, E. H., An Introduction to Radio and Television. New York: Ronald Press, 1954. 423 pp. $5.00

Pennell, Ellen, Women on TV. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1954. 210 pp. $3.50

Lynch, James J., Box, Pit, and Gallery. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953. 362 pp. $5.00

Whiting, Frank M., An Introduction to the Theatre. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. 315 pp. $4.50

Fessenden, S. A., Johnson, R. I., and Larson, P. M., The Teacher Speaks. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1954. 359 pp. $4.65

Ogilvie, Mardel, Speech in the Elementary School. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., Inc., 1954. 318 pp. $4.50     

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A Case Book in Discussion. By Frank C. and Mary B. Mckinney, with an introduction by Joseph V. Denny. New York: The Ronald Press, 1930: pp. vi, 267 ; $2.00.

Suggestions for instructors. By the same authors; 28 pp.

The Fred Newton Scott Anniversary Papers. By Former Students and Colleagues. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1929: pp. ix, 319.

Daniel Webster. By Allan L. Benson. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929 ; pp. viii, 402.

Elements of Public Speech. By J. K. Horner. New York: D. C. Heath and Company, 1929; pp. xi, 313.

Literature for Oral Interpretation. By Eiohard Dennis Teall. Hollister. Ann Arbor, Michigan: George Wahr, 1929; pp. 752. $3.60.

Anniversaries and Holidays. By Mary Emogene Hazeltines American Library Association, 520 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 1929: pp. xx, 288.

A Practical Handbook of Play Production. By D. C. Ashton.

A Book of Dramatic Costume. By Edith Dabney and C. M. Wise. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1930; pp. x, 163. $3.

Theatre Management. By Sanford E. Stanton. New York: D. Ap‐pleton and Company, 1929; pp. vii, 154; $1.50.     

Book reviews

Modern Mathematics. By Raleigh Schorling (University of Michigan) and John R. Clark (Lincoln School of Teachers College). Three volumes. Yonkers: World Book Company, 1924.

The Unstable Child. By Florence Mateer. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1924. Pp. xii + 471.

Science Remaking the World. Edited by Otis W. Caldwell and Edwin E. Slosson. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923. Pp. xi + 292.

A Modern College and a Modern School. By Abraham Plexner. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923. Pp. xviii + 142.

The Honesty Book (fourth edition). By The National Honesty Bureau, W. B. Forbush, Managing Director. New York, 1924. Pp. iv + 59. Price, $0.80.

Psychology and Self‐Development. By H. E. Bennett. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1923. Pp. viii + 296. Price, $1.48.

Laboratory Chemistry for Girls. By Agnes F. Jaques. New York: D. C. Heath & Co., 1923. Pp. xi + 244.