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Sound, A Textbook. By Arthur Tabor Jones. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1937; pp. xi + 450. $3.75.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. By Dale Carnegie. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936; pp. vii + 341. $2.00.

Actor in the Making. By William H. Bridge. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 115.

Public Discussion and Debate. (Revised Edition.) By A. Craig Baird. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1937; pp. iv + 400. $2.00.

Seeing and Hearing America. By Vida Ravenscroft Sutton. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 111. $1.75.

How to Improve Your Voice; Modern Theory and Practice for Singers and Speakers. By Gregory Krasnoff. New York: The Dial Press, 1936; pp. vii‐x + 181. $2.25.

Dos and Don'ts of Radio Writing. By Ralph Rogers. Boston: Associated Radio Writers, Inc., 1937; pp. 104. $1.00.

How to Speak in Public: a Natural Method. By Frank Home Kirkpatrick. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937; pp. v‐xxiii + 199. $1.75.

Tournament Plays. Thirteen hitherto unpublished one‐act plays. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. 232. $1.50.

A History of Modern Colloquial English, 3rd ed. By Henry Cecil Wyld. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1937; pp. xviii + 433. $3.00.

20,000 Words Often Mispronounced. By W. H. P. Phyfe. New edition compiled by Fred A. Sweet and Maud D. Williams. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937; pp. xvii + 791. $2.00.

You Don't Say! By Alfred H. Holt. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937; pp. xvii + 165. $1.50.

The Call of the Dead (Totenmal). By Albert Talhoff. Boston: Expression Company, n.d.; pp. 25.

Simplified Lip Reading. New York: Supplementary School for Lip Reading and Speech Correction, 1937; pp. 80. $1.50.

Practical Methods in Choral Speaking. By Marguerite E. DeWitt and Others. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 253.

European and Asiatic Plays. Edited by Joseph Richard Taylor. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. 730 + x.

Pitch and Intensity Characteristics of Stage Speech. By Milton Cowan. Iowa City: Supplement to Archives of Speech, 1936; pp. 92.

An American Phonetic Reader. By Sarah T. Barrows and Alta B. Hall. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. xvi + 58. $1.25.

An English Pronouncing Dictionary, 4th ed. By Daniel Jones. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1937; pp. xxviii + 495. $2.00.

Animal Marionettes, Handbook X. By Paul McPharlin. Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints, 1937; pp. 31. $1.50.

Puppetry, 1936. Edited by Paul McPharlin, Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints, 1936; pp. 158. $2.50.

Speech Composition. By William Norwood Brigance. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1937; pp. 385. $2.25.

Day by Day with American Playwrights. Compiled and edited with an introduction by Irene Childrey Hoch. Visalia, California: Published by the author, 1936; pp. 84. $1.00.

Catholic Evidence Training Outlines. (Third Edition, revised and enlarged.) Compiled by Maisie Ward and F. J. Sheed. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1935; pp. 330. $1.50.

Reading for Skill. By Angela M. Broening, Frederick H. Law, Mary S. Wilkinson, and Caroline L. Ziegler. New York: Noble and Noble, 1936; pp. xiii + 399. $1.30.

A Guide to Pronunciation. By Paul W. Carhart. Entirely rewritten by John S. Kenyon. Springfield: The G. &; C. Merriam Co., 1934.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, fifth edition. Springfield: The G. &; C. Merriam Co., 1936; pp. xxvi + 1274.

Poetry Arranged for the Speaking Choir. By Marion Parsons Robinson and Rozetta Lura Thurston. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. 405. $2.50.

Psychometric Methods. By J. P. Guilford. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1936; pp. xvi + 566. $4.50.

One Hundred New Declamations. Compiled and edited by Lestee C. Boone. New York: Noble and Noble, Inc., 1936; pp. xxxiii + 434. $2.50.

Film and Theatre. By Allandyce Nicoll. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1936; pp. ix + 255. $2.50.

Principles of Shakespearean Production. By G. Wilson Knight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936; pp. 246. $3.50.

Modern Rules of Parliamentary Procedure. By Robert D. Leigh. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1937; pp. 106. $1.00.

Scenery Then and Now. By Donald Oenslager, New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1936; pp. 265. $5.00.

Stage Management for the Amateur Theatre. By William Perdue Halstead. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1937; pp. xviii + 265. $2.50.

Let's Give A Play. By Gertrude Smith Buckland. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937; pp. 197. $1.50.

Adult Education. By Lyman Bryson. New York: The American Book Co., 1936; pp. 208.     

Majors and credits in public speaking

If politics is an art, then matters of style must be crucial to its practice. This essay considers how political actions are shaped by rhetorical practices that depend upon aesthetic perceptions. Modern assumptions of artistic autonomy are replaced by the classical concept of decorum, which offers a model for understanding how political life is styled for rhetorical effect. The role of decorousness in contemporary politics is illustrated by the extreme case of the courtly style, which constitutes power through propriety, is centered on the king's body, displaces speech with gesture, and ends in political paralysis.     

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THE LEGISLATIVE STRUGGLE. By Bertram M. Gross. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953; pp. xviii+472. $6.50.

MASON'S MANUAL OF LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE. By Paul Mason. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953; pp. 640. $6.50.

I AM HAPPY TO PRESENT. By Guy R. Lyle and Kevin Guinagh. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1953; pp. 265. $3.00.

THE MIRACLE OF LANGUAGE. By Charlton Laird. New York: The World Publishing Co., 1953; pp. xii+308. $4.00.

PHONETICS IN ANCIENT INDIA. By W. S. Allen. London Oriental Series, Volume 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1953; pp. x+96. $3.00.

SUPERVISING PEOPLE. By George D. Halsey. (Revised edition). New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 238. $3.00.

COMMUNICATION IN MANAGEMENT. By Charles E. Redfield. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953; pp. xvi+290. $3.75.

ADULT EDUCATION, THE COMMUNITY APPROACH. By Paul H. Sheats, Clarence D. Jayne, and Ralph B. Spence. New York: Dryden Press; pp. xiii+530. $5.75.

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING. By C. B. Eavey. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, pp. 298. $3.75.

HOW TO BECOME A BETTER READER. By Paul Witty. Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1953; pp. viii+304. $5.00.

READING ALOUD. By Wayland Maxfield Parrish. (Third Edition). New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1953; pp. iv+572. $4.25.

TIME FOR TRUE TALES AND ALMOST TRUE. By May Hill Arbuthnot. New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1953; pp. 396. $3.50.

THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF W. B. YEATS. By W. B. Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. 446. $5.00.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. 344. $5.00.

TILBURY TOWN: SELECTED POEMS OF EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON. By Lawrence Thompson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. xvi+144. $3.50.

THESE THAT I HAVE LOVED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF LIVING POETRY AND PROSE. By Mildred Welker Hufstater. New York: Pageant Press, 1953; pp. xiv+112. $3.00.

LITERARY MASTERPIECES OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Edited by Francis H. Horn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953: pp. xix+255. $3.50.     

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YANKEE REFORMERS IN THE URBAN AGE. By Arthur Mann. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1954; pp. 314. $5.00.

DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL CONSERVATISM. By Richard N. Current. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955; pp. xi+215. $3.00.

CALL TO GREATNESS. By Adlai E. Stevenson. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1954; pp. 111. $2.25.

HOW WE DRAFTED ADLAI STEVENSON. By Walter Johnson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955; pp. 172. $2.75.

YOUNG SAM JOHNSON. By James L. Clifford. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1955; pp. 377. $5.75.

DR. JOHNSONS DICTIONARY. By James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1955; pp. 256. $5.00.

GLADSTONE: A BIOGRAPHY. By Sir Philip Magnus. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1954; pp. xiv+482. $6.75.

SWIFT'S RHETORICAL ART: A STUDY IN STRUCTURE AND MEANING. By Martin Price. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953; pp. iv+115‐ $3.75.

GREAT VOICES OF THE REFORMATION. By Harry Emerson Fosdick. New York: Random House, 1952; pp. xxx+546. $2.45.

ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE. By William J. Entwistle. London: Faber and Faber, 1954; pp. ix+370. $8.00.

STUDIES IN MOTIVATION. Selected and Edited by David C. McClelland. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1955; pp. xi+552. $6.00.

INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH. By Charles T. Brown. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1955; pp. xii+458. $4.25.

SPEECH, DEBATE, DRAMA IN CONTESTS AND FESTIVALS. By William S. Howell, Donald K. Smith, and David W. Thompson. Minneapolis: The Minnesota State High School League, 1953; pp. 96. $1.00.

DISCUSSION AND CONFERENCE. By William N. Sattler and N. Edd Miller. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1954; pp. 364. $4.75.

ESSENTIALS OF DISCUSSION AND DEBATE. By Halbert E. Gully. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955; pp. vii+145. $1.20.

GENERAL EDUCATION: EXPLORATIONS IN EVALUATION. By Paul L. Dressel and Lewis B. Mayhew. Washington, D. C: American Council on Education, 1954; pp. xviii+ 302. $3.50.

ACCENT ON TEACHING. Edited by Sidney J. French. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; pp. xii+334. $4.75.

GUIDE TO COMMUNITY ACTION: A Source Book For Citizen Volunteers. By Mark S. Matthews. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; pp. 434. $4.00.

AN INTRODUCTION TO RADIO AND TELEVISION. By David C. Phillips, John M. Grogan and Earl H. Ryan. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1954; pp. ix+423. $5.00.

BROADCASTING RADIO AND TELEVISION. By Walter K. Kingson, Rome Cowgill, and Ralph Levy. New York: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1955; pp. 274. $4.00.

THIS IS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION. By William Kenneth Cumming. Lansing, Michigan: Communications Series, Michigan State College, 1954; pp. xii+264. $4.40.

CLEAR CHANNELS: TELEVISION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. By Max Wylie. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1955; pp. x+408. $4.75.

THE MURDER OF THE MAN WHO WAS ‘SHAKESPEARE.’ By Calvin Hoffman. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1955; pp. xix+232. $3.75.

SHAKSPERE AND COMMON SENSE. By Edwin R. Hunter. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1955; pp. 312. $4.00.

THE FIRST NIGHT OF TWELFTH NIGHT. By Leslie Hotson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. 256. $4.50.

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 8. Edited by Allar‐dyce Nicoll. New York: Cambridge University Press 1955; pp. viii+172. $3.75.

THE DRAMATIC EVENT: An American Chronicle. By Eric Bentley. New York: Horizon Press, 1954; pp. 285. $3.50.

THEATRE ‘54: READING VERSIONS OF THE GOLDEN DOZEN PLAYS OF THE YEAR. Edited by John Chapman. New York: Random House, 1954; pp. 568. $5.00.

FREDERICK HENRY KOCH: PIONEER PLAYMAKER. By Samuel Selden and Mary Tom Sphangos. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Library, 1954; pp. viii+92. $3.00 cloth, $1.50 paper.

THE LION OF THE WEST, retitled THE KENTUCKIAN, or A TRIP TO NEW YORK: A FARCE IN TWO ACTS. By James Kirke Paulding. Revised by John Augustus Stone and William Bayle Bernard. Edited with an introduction by James N. Tidwell. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1954; pp. 64. $3.00.

PREFACE TO DRAMA: AN INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATIC LITERATURE AND THEATRE ART. By Charles W. Cooper. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1955; pp. viii+773. $4.50.

THE ABC'S OF PLAY PRODUCING. By Howard Bailey. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1955; pp. 276. $3.50.

THEATRICAL LIGHTING PRACTICE. By Joel Rubin and Lee Watson. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1954; pp. 126. $3.75.     

Public speaking in the Philippines

Although several writers have stressed the importance of the discussion process in producing risky shifts in small‐group decision making, no researchers have attempted to discover the communicative processes of groups whose deliberations culminate in such shifts. This study examines the communication processes of risky‐shift and cautious‐shift groups in terms of the diffusion‐of‐responsibility theory (i.e., groups shifting toward risk tend to diffuse or share responsibility for the decision among group members or among elements outside the group). The results indicate that the communicative processes of risky‐shift and cautious‐shift discussion groups differ according to their handling of decisional responsibility as expected from the diffusion‐of‐responsibility theory. This finding provides warrant for additional studies examining the communicative processes of discussion groups from the vantage of other competing theories of the risky‐shift phenomenon.     

Standardization of grades in public speaking

Communicators achieve increased rule consensus as they use talk to overcome problems. Two kinds of talk seem especially useful to increasing consensus: remedial talk, which uses rules to correct past problems; and legislative talk, which uses rules to propose guides for future conduct.     

Social standards in public speaking instruction

EARTHTALK: COMMUNICATION EMPOWERMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION. Edited by Star A. Muir and Thomas L. Veenendall. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996; pp. xviii + 233. $59.00.

ECOSPEAK: RHETORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN AMERICA. By M. Jimmie Kffling‐sworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992; pp. xii + 312. $34.95.

GREEN CULTURE: RHETORICAL ANALYSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE. Edited by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996; pp. xii + 303. $45.00; paper $21.95.

IN THE NATURE OF THINGS: LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Edited by Jane Bennett and William Chaloupka. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993; pp. xvi + 275. $47.95; paper $18.95.

PLANNING AS PERSUASIVE STORYTELLING: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHICAGO'S ELECTRIC FUTURE. By James A. Throgmorton. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996; pp. xxiii + 313. $61.00; paper $19.95.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: THOREAU, NATURE WRITING, AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE. By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995; pp. xii + 586. $36.50; paper $ 16.95.     

Public speaking in the Seagram plan

Preaching Without Notes. By Richard Storrs. New York: Dodd and Mead, 1875; pp. 233.

The Origin and Progress of Writing. By Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records of the Tower of London London: 1784.