The eastern public speaking conference

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.     

An Immodest Proposal

[CICERO] AD C. HERENNIUM DE RATIONE DICENDI (RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM) WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION. By Harry Caplan. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954; pp. lviii+434. $3.00.

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING. By David P. Edgell. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955; pp. xv+264. $4.00.

HOOF BEATS TO HEAVEN: A True Chronicle of the Life and Wild Times of Peter Cartwright, Circuit Rider. By Sidney Greenbie and Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. Penobscot, Maine: Traversity Press, 1955; pp. xx+623. $6.00.

MAKING DEMOCRACY A REALITY: JEFFERSON, JACKSON AND POLK. By Claude G. Bowers. Memphis: Memphis State College Press, 1954; pp. ix+170. $3.75.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE HUMANITARIAN REFORMERS. By Russel B. Nye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955; pp. vii+215. $3.00.

ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE. By Fola and Belle Case La Follette. Two vols. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1953; pp. xx+vii+1305. $15.00.

JOHN HART'S WORKS ON ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION [1551 : 1569 1570], Part I, Biographical and Bibliographical Introductions, Texts and Index Verborum. By Bror Danielsson. Stockholm: Almquist &; Wiksell, 1955; pp. 338.

THE TEACHING OF MODERN LANGUAGES. A volume of studies deriving from the International Seminar organized by the Secretariat of UNESCO at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, in August, 1953. Paris, France: UNESCO, 1955; pp. 294. $2.50.

PHILOSOPHY AND ANALYSIS. Edited by Margaret Macdonald. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954; pp. viii+296. §7.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS. By H. A. Gleason, Jr. New York: Henry Holt, 1955; pp. ix+389. $5.50.

WORKBOOK IN DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS. By H. A. Gleason, Jr. New York: Henry Holt, 1955; pp. 88. $2.25.

LANGUAGE, MEANING AND MATURITY. Edited by S. I. Hayakawa. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; pp. xii+364. $4.00.

NOAH WEBSTER'S PRONUNCIATION AND MODERN NEW ENGLAND SPEECH: A Comparison. By Karl‐Erik Lindlad. (American Institute, Upsala University, Sweden: Essays and Studies on American Language and Literature: XI). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954, pp. 90. $2.00, paper.

PRINCIPLES OF THEATRE ART. By H. D. Albright, William P. Halstead, and Lee Mitchell. Boston: Houghton Miffln Company, 1955; pp. xii+547. $6.00.

TRAGICOMEDY. By Marvin T. Herrick. Urbana, Illinois: The University of Illinois Press, 1955; pp. 331. $5.00 cloth; $4.00 paper.

AMERICA TAKES THE STAGE ROMANTICISM IN AMERICAN DRAMA AND THEATRE, 1750–1900. By Richard Moody. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955; pp. viii+328. $5.00.

WILLIAM POEL AND THE ELIZABETHAN REVIVAL. By Robert Speaight. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954; pp. 302. $4.75.

SPEECH: CODE, MEANING, AND COMMUNICATION. By John W. Black and Wilbur E. Moore. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955; pp. viii+430. $4.50.

GUIDE TO GOOD SPEECH. By James H. McBurney and Ernest J. Wrage. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955; pp. vi+346. $3.75.

HANDBOOK OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. By Henry A. Davidson. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1955; pp. xviii+292. $3.75.

TELEVISION PROGRAM PRODUCTION. By Carroll O'Meara. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1955; pp. vii+361. $5.00.

PREACHING THE WORD WITH AUTHORITY. By Frederick W. Schroeder. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954; pp. 128. $2.50.

SPEAKING IN THE CHURCH. By John Edward Lantz. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. ix+202. $3.75.

A MOUSE IN THE CORNER. By Dorothy Will Simon. Illustrated by Patricia Holston. New York: Exposition Press, Inc.; pp. 63. $2.50.     

Review Essay: Mourning Humanism,or, the Idiom of Haunting

LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT: LAST FULL MEASURE. By J. G. Randall and Richard N. Current. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1955; pp. vii+421. $7.50.

THE METALOGICON OF JOHN OF SALISBURY. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Daniel D. McGarry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955; pp. xxvii+305. $5.00.

THE HUMANISM OF CICERO. By H. A. K. Hunt. Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1954, and London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954; pp. viii+215. $4.50.

LIBERTY AND REFORMATION IN THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. By William Haller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955; pp. xv+410. $6.00.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN THE UNITED STATES. By Richard Hofstader and Walter P. Metzger. New York: Columbia University Press; pp. 527. $5.50.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN OUR TIME. By Robert M. MacIver. New York: Columbia University Press; pp. 329. $4.00.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM. By Harry H. Clark, Richard H. Fogle, Robert P. Falk, John H. Raleigh, and C. Hugh Holman. Edited by Floyd Stovall. Chapel Hill, N. C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955; pp. ix+262. $4.00.

ONE MIGHTY TORRENT: THE DRAMA OF BIOGRAPHY. By Edgar Johnson. New York: Macmillan Co., 1955; pp. 591. $6.50.

THE THEATRE ANNUAL, 1955. Edited by Blanche A. Corin. Vol. XIII. New York: Theatre Annual, Inc., 1955; pp. 89. $1.50.

THE FLOWER IN DRAMA AND GLAMOUR: THEATRE ESSAYS AND CRITICISM. By Stark Young. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955; pp. xiv+223. $3.00.

THE TEMPEST. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Frank Kermode. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954; pp. lxxxviii+167. $3.50.

CYMBELINE. By William Shakespeare. Edited by J. M. Nosworthy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955; pp. lxxxiv+224. $3.85.

KING JOHN. By William Shakespeare. Edited by E. A. J. Honigmann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955; pp. lxxv+176. $3.85.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. By William Shakespeare. Edited by J. R. Brown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955; pp. lviii+174. $3.25.

PRESENT DAY PSYCHOLOGY. Edited by A. A. Roback, with the Collaboration of Forty Experts in the Various Fields. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955; pp. xiv+995. $12.00.

THE SANE SOCIETY. By Erich Fromm. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1955; pp. 370. $5.00.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM. By Charles Van Riper and Katherine G. Butler. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955; pp. 150. $2.50.

HEARING THERAPY FOR CHILDREN. By Alice Streng, Waring J. Fitch, LeRoy D. Hedgecock, James W. Phillips, and James A. Carrell. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1955: pp. 371. $6.75.

LISTENING FOR SPEECH SOUNDS. By Empress Y. Zedler. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1955; pp. xi+145. $3.00.

THE ART OF COMMUNICATING. By Thomas Pollock, Marion Sheridan, Frances Ledbetter and Ronald Doll. New York: Macmillan Company, 1955; pp. ix+438. $2.88.

SPEECH AND YOUR PERSONALITY. By Theodore F. Nelson and W. Kirtley Atkinson. Chicago: B. H. Sanborn &; Company, 1955; pp. vii+454.

ORAL COMMUNICATION IN BUSINESS. By David C. Phillips. New York: The McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1955; pp. x+223. $3.75.

HOW TO WIN THE CONFERENCE. By William D. Ellis and Frank Siedel. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1955; pp. x+214. $3.95.

THE STAFF ROLE IN MANAGEMENT. By Robert C. Sampson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955; pp. xii+226. $4.00.

GROUP‐CENTERED LEADERSHIP. By Thomas Gordon. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955; pp. 366. $5.00.

SPIRITUAL VALUES IN SHAKESPEARE. By Ernest Marshall Howse. New York: Abingdon Press, 1955; pp. 148. $2.50.

SENT FORTH TO PREACH. Studies in Apostolic Preaching. By Jesse Burton Weatherspoon. New York: Harpers and Brothers, 1954; pp. 182. $2.50.     

The role of rhythm in the correction of stammering

PIONEER WOMEN ORATORS. By Lillian O'Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954; pp. xvii+264. $3.75.

A HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. By Clement Eaton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. ix+335. $5.50.

LINCOLN'S IMAGERY: A STUDY IN WORD POWER. By Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1954; pp. 32. $2.00.

THE ANTISLAVERY ORIGINS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By Jacobus ten‐Broek. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951; pp. 232. $3.00.

ELIHU ROOT AND THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION. By Richard W. Leopold. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1954; pp. x+222. $3.00.

THE MAN BEHIND ROOSEVELT, THE STORY OF LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. By Lela Stiles. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1954; x+311. $4.75.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: THE ORDEAL. By Frank Freidel. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954; pp. 320. $6.00.

A SHORT HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT, 1295–1642. By Faith Thompson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1953; pp. vi+280. $4.50.

SAMUEL JOHNSON'S PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING: DEBATES IN THE SENATE OF LILLIPUT. By Benjamin Beard Hoover. (University of California Publications, English Studies: VII). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953; pp. xi+227. Cloth, $2.50; paper, $1.75.

SAVANNAH'S PIONEER THEATRE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1810. By J. Max Patrick. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1953; pp. viii+94. $1.75.

TWINS OF GENIUS. By Guy A. Cardwell. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Press, 1953; pp. iii+134. $2.50.

THE THEATRE IN THE FIFTIES. By George Jean Nathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. viii+298. $4.50.

THEATRE, ‘53. Edited by John Chapman. New York: Random House, 1953; pp. 564. $5.00.

“MODERNISM”; IN MODERN DRAMA. By Joseph Wood Krutch. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1953; pp. 138. $2.75.

AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL AMERICAN PHONETICS. By Charles Van Riper and Dorothy Edna Smith. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954: pp. vi+152. $2.50.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ENGLISH. By Stuart Robertson. (Revised by Frederic G. Cassidy). New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1954; pp. viii+469. $7.35.

POWER OF WORDS. By Stuart Chase. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954; pp. xii+308. $3.95.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Mardel Ogilvie. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1954; pp. vi+318. $4.50.

TOWARD BETTER SPEECH: A Manual for Teachers of All Grades. Prepared for the Board of Education of the City of New York Curriculum Bulletin Series by Grace V. Dooley and Leontine A. Murtha, under the supervision of Letitia Raubicheck. Curriculum Bulletin Series Number 5. New York: Board of Education, 1953; pp. 130. $.40.

SPEECH AND THE DEAF CHILD. By Irene R. Ewing and A. W. G. Ewing. Washington, D. C.: The Volta Bureau, 1954; pp. xii+256.

AUDITORY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN: A MANUAL FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. By Helmer R. Myklebust. New York: Grune &; Stratton, 1954; pp. 471. $6.00.

PLANNED PREACHING. By George Miles Gibson. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954; pp. 140. $2.50.

PREACHING. By Walter Russell Bowie. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1954; pp. 217. $2.75.

Edmund H. Linn, Andover Newton Theological School

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY. By Bernard Notcutt. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953; pp. 255. $4.75.     

News and notes

AMERICAN PUBLIC ADDRESSES: 1740–1952. Edited by A. Craig Baird. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956; pp. xiii+301. $4.50.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: 1734–1832. By Gerrit P. Judd, IV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955; pp. vi+389. $6.00.

JOHN WESLEY: PREACHER. By W. L. Doughty. London: The Epworth Press, 1955; pp. 211. 18s/6d.

ELIAS HICKS: QUAKER LIBERAL. By Bliss Forbush. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956; pp. 355. $5.00.

HENRY WATTERSON: RECONSTRUCTED REBEL. By Joseph Frazier Wall. Introduction by Alben W. Barkley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956; pp. xiii+362. $6.00.

THE AGE OF REFORM: FROM BRYAN TO F. D. R. By Richard Hofstadter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955; pp. 328+xx. $4.50.

HOW COMMUNISTS NEGOTIATE. By Admiral C. Turner Joy, with a Foreword by General Matthew B. Ridgway. New York: Macmillan, 1955; pp. xiii+178. $3.50.

NEGOTIATING WITH THE RUSSIANS. Edited by Raymond Dennett and Joseph E. Johnson. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1951; $3.50.

WORLDWIDE COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES. Edited by F. Bowen Evans. New York: Macmillan, 1955; pp. xiii+222. $3.00.

THE LANGUAGE OF COMMUNISM. By Harry Hodgkinson. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1954. Originally published in England under the title, Doubletalk. Pp. xiii+149. $3.75.

PUBLIC OPINION IN SOVIET RUSSIA: A STUDY IN MASS PERSUASION. By Alex Inkeles. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, second printing, 1951; pp. xviii+379. $5.00.

JULIUS CAESAR. By William Shakespeare. Edited by T. S. Dorsch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955; pp. lxxiv+166. $3.25.

ENGLISH STAGE COMEDY. Edited by W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955; pp. x+182. $3.50.

ADVICE TO A YOUNG CRITIC AND OTHER LETTERS. By Bernard Shaw. Notes and Introduction by E. J. West. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955; pp. xvi+208. $3.00.

GRASSROOTS THEATER: A SEARCH FOR REGIONAL ARTS IN AMERICA. By Robert Gard. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1955; pp. xiv+263. $4.00.

HOW NOT TO WRITE A PLAY. By Walter Kerr. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955; pp. x+245. $3.50.

UNEXPECTED TRUCE. By Don Geiger. Los Altos, California: Round Table Books, 1956; pp. xi+64. $2.50.

SANTAYANA AND THE SENSE OF BEAUTY. By Willard E. Arnett. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955; pp. xviii+252. $4.50.

DIE GESTALT DES GEDICHTES, SEINE SPRECHKUNDLICHE INTERPRETATION UND NACHGESTALTUNG. By Dr. Marie‐Hed Kaulhausen. Göttingen: Göttinger Verlaganstalt, 1953; pp. 149.

SPEECH AFTER LARYNGECTOMY. By Louis M. Di Carlo, Walter W. Amster, and Gilbert R. Herer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1955; pp. xxiii+184. $4.00.

SLOW TO TALK. By Jane Beasley. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956; pp. xi+109. $2.75.

STUTTERING: A PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH TO ITS UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT. By Dominick A. Barbara. New York: Julian Press, Inc., 1954; pp. xii+304. $5.00.

LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND REALITY: SELECTED WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN LEE WHORF. Edited by John B. Carroll. New York: The Theology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 1956; pp. 279. $7.00.

LANGUAGE, MEANING AND REALITY: A STUDY OF SYMBOLISM. By F. F. Nesbit. New York: Exposition Press, 1955; pp. 181. $3.00.

DISCUSSION. By William S. Howell and Donald K. Smith. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956; pp. 292. $4.00.

THE ROAD TO PERSUASION. By William Muehl. New York: Oxford University Press: 1956; pp. x+254. $3.95.

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PREACHING. By Ilion T. Jones. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1956; pp. 272. $3.75.

HOW TO PREACH TO PEOPLE'S NEEDS. By Edgar N. Jackson. New York: Abingdon Press, 1956; pp. 191. $2.75.

BILLY GRAHAM: A MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. By George Burnham. Westwood, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1955; pp. 158. $2.00.     

The organization of departments of speech science in universities

Churchill by his Contemporaries. Edited by Charles Eade. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. $6.00.

Winged Words: Sir Winston Churchill as Writer and Speaker. By H. L. Stewart. New York: Bouregy and Curl, Inc., 1954; pp. vi+114.

Winston Churchill: The Biography of a Great Man. By Robert Lewis Taylor. New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1954; pp. 405. $.25.

Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War. By Winston S. Churchill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953; pp. vii+800. $6.00.     

In other journals

LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN ENGLAND, 1500–1700. By Wilbur Samuel Howell. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1956; pp. vii+411. $6.00.

THE AMERICAN LYCEUM: TOWN MEETING OF THE MIND. By Carl Bode. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956; pp. xxi+275. $5.00.

THE LIFE OF MATTHEW SIMPSON. By Robert D. Clark. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956; pp. xi+344. $5.50.

EDEN: THE MAKING OF A STATESMAN. By Alan Campbell‐Johnson. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1955; pp. xiv+306. $5.00.

ANTHONY EDEN: THE CHRONICLE OF A CAREER. By Lewis Broad. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955; pp. viii+280. $5.00.

PORTRAIT OF A STATESMAN. By Dennis Bardens. London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1955; pp. 326. 215.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1954–1955. Edited by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1955; pp. 190. $1.50.

MRS. FISKE AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE. By Archie Binns, in collaboration with Olive Kooken. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955; pp. x+436. $5.00.

THESE WERE ACTORS: A STORY OF THE CHAPMANS AND THE DRAKES. By George D. Ford. New York: Library Publishers, 1955; pp. xx+314. $5.00.

DRAMATIC THEORY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Richard B. Vowles. New York: The New York Public Library, 1956; pp. 59. $.85.

HANDBOOK OF SPEECH IMPROVEMENT. By Charles Kenneth Thomas. New York: The Ronald Press, 1956; pp. 135. $2.75.

A HANDBOOK FOR SPEECH IMPROVEMENT: KINDERGARTEN—GRADES ONE TO SIX. By the New England Speech Association, Committee on Speech in the Elementary Schools. New England Speech Association, 1956; pp. 67. $1.50.

TRIPPINGLY ON THE TONGUE. By Harry J. Heltman. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1955; pp. 123. $1.60.

SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL. Edited by Merle E. Frampton and Elena D. Gall. Three volumes. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1955.

LANGUAGE: A MODERN SYNTHESIS. By Joshua Whatmough. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1956; pp. ix+270. $4.75.

STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION. By A. J. Ayer and others: London, 1955, and published in the U. S. A. by Essential Books, Inc., Fairlawn, New Jersey; pp. viii+184. $3.40.

CYBERNETICS: CIRCULAR, CAUSAL AND FEEDBACK MECHANISMS IN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. Edited by Heinz von Foerster. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Publications, 1955; pp. 100. $2.75.

OPINIONS AND PERSONALITY. By M. Brewster Smith, Jerome S. Bruner, and Robert W. White. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 1956; vii+294. $6.00.

THE ART OF INTERPRETATIVE SPEECH: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF EFFECTIVE READING. By Charles H. Woolbert and Severina E. Nelson. (Fourth edition), New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1956; pp. ix+676. $4.50.

HELPING THE BIBLE SPEAK. By Johnnye Akin, Seth Fessenden, P. Merville Larson, and Albert N. Williams. New York: Association Press, 1956; pp. 117. $2.50.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ON THE JOB. Edited by M. Joseph Dooher and Vivienne Marquis. New York: American Management Association, 1956; pp. 294. $4.50.

THE FOCUSED INTERVIEW: A MANUAL OF PROBLEMS AND PROCEDURES. By Robert K. Merton, Marjorie Fiske and Patricia L. Kendall. Illinois: The Free Press, 1956; pp. xxii+185. $3.00.

THE TELEVISION‐RADIO AUDIENCE AND RELIGION. By Everett C. Parker, David W. Barry and Dallas W. Smythe. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955; pp. xxx+464. $6.00.

HOW TO DIRECT FOR TELEVISION. Edited by William L. Kaufman. New York: Hastings House, 1955; pp. 96. $2.50.     

A bibliography of debating

ROGER WILLIAMS. By Perry Miller. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, Inc., 1953; pp. xiii+373. $3.00.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By I. Bernard Cohen. Indianpolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, Inc., 1953; pp. xix+320. $3.00.

ANDREW JACKSON. By Harold C. Syrett. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, Inc., 1953; pp. 298. $3.00.

THE STATESMANSHIP OF THE CIVIL WAR. By Allan Nevins. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. 82. $2.25.

HORACE GREELEY: NINETEENTH‐CENTURY CRUSADER. By Glyndon G. Van Deusen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953; pp. 445. $5.00.

COUNSEL FOR THE DAMNED. By Lowell S. Hawley and Ralph Bushnell Potts. New York: The J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953; pp. 320. $3.75.

PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE. Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1953; pp. 679. $6.00.

A FAITH TO PROCLAIM. By James S. Stewart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953: pp. 160. $2.50.

BEYOND CRITICISM. By Karl Shapiro. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1953; pp. 73. $3.00.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE ALPHABET. By Alfred C. Moorhouse. New York: Henry Schuman, 1953; pp. 223. $3.50.

ONEIDA VERB MORPHOLOGY. By Floyd G. Lounsbury. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 48. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. pp. 111. $1.50.

WORDS AND SOUNDS IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH. By John Orr. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. viii+279, 2 maps. $4.25.

FLAMING MINISTER: A STUDY OF OTHELLO AS TRAGEDY OF LOVE AND HATE. By G. R. Elliott. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1953; pp. xxxvi+245. $4.50.

MACBETH. Edited by Kenneth Muir. (Eighth edition, revised). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953; pp. lxxiv+200. $2.75.

CURTAIN TIME. By Lloyd Morris. New York: Random House, 1953; pp. xvi+380. $5.00.

PLAYS AS LITERATURE FOR AN AUDIENCE. By George F. Reynolds. Boulder, Colorado: The University of Colorado Press, 1953; pp. 51. $1.50.

SCENERY DESIGN FOR THE AMATEUR STAGE. By Willard J. Friederich and John H. Frazer. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1950; pp. 264. $3.75.

FILM FORM. By Sergei Eisenstein. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1953; pp. 279. $4.50.

TEEN THEATRE: A GUIDE TO PLAY PRODUCTION. By Edwin and Natalie Gross. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953; pp. 245. $3.25.

TELEVISION IN SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY. By Jennie Waugh Callahan. New York: The McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1953; pp. xvi+389. $4.75.

PRODUCING AND DIRECTING FOR TELEVISION. By Charles Adams. New York: Henry Holt &; Co., 1953; pp. 282. $3.95.

TELEVISION ADVERTISING AND PRODUCTION HANDBOOK. Edited by Irving Settel and Norman Glenn. New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953; pp. xv+480. $6.00.

RADIO AND TELEVISION ANNOUNCING. By Lyle D. Barnhart. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 283. $5.00.

SPEECH THERAPY: A BOOK OF READINGS. By Charles Van Riper. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. xiii+319. $3.95.

SPEECH AND HEARING THERAPY. By Ruth Beckey Irwin. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 243. $3.50.

KEEP YOUR VOICE HEALTHY. By Friedrich S. Brodnitz. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. xiv+234. $3.50.

CLINICIAN'S HANDBOOK FOR AUDITORY TRAINING. By J. C. Kelly. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1953; pp. iv+155. $2.00.

SPEECH: A HANDBOOK OF VOICE TRAINING, DICTION, AND PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Dorothy Mulgrave. With Chapters by Wilbur E. Gilman and Wilbert L. Pronovost. (College Outline Series, No. 89). New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1954; pp. xvii+270. $1.50.

TEACHING SPEECH IN HIGH SCHOOLS. By Willard J. Friederich and Ruth A. Wilcox. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. xi+487. $4.75.

LEARNING PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. By Alice Sturgis. New York: The McGraw‐Hill Company, Inc., 1953; pp. xvi+ 358. $4.00.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN INTERGROUP EDUCATION: EVALUATION OF WORKSHOPS. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education, 1953; pp. 243. $2.50.

GROUP DYNAMICS: RESEARCH AND THEORY. By Dorwin Cartwright and Alvin Zander. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1953; pp. xiii+642. $6.00.

PEOPLE IN LIVINGSTON: A READER FOR ADULTS LEARNING ENGLISH. By Virginia French Allen. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953; pp. vi+122. $1.25.     

Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect

THE ETHICS OF RHETORIC. By Richard M. Weaver. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953; pp. 234. $3.50.

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL CUSTOM: A FORGOTTEN FACTOR IN THE FOUNDING. By Burleigh Cushing Rodick. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953; pp. xx+244. $4.75.

THE MISSOURI CONTROVERSY, 1819–1821. By Glover Moore. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1953; pp. viii+383. $6.00.

ABE LINCOLN. AN ANTHOLOGY COMPILED AND EDITED BY HILAH PAULMIER. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. xvi+306+xiii. $3.50.

APOSTLES OF DISCORD. By Ralph Lord Roy. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953; pp. 437. $3–75.

FREEDOM AND AUTHORITY IN OUR TIME. Edited by Lyman Bryson. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 767. $6.00.

ELIZABETH I AND HER PARLIAMENTS. By J. E. Neale. New York: British Book Centre, Inc.; pp. 424. $5.50.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER PRIME MINISTERS. By Algernon Cecil. London: Eyre &; Spottiswoode, 1953; pp. vii+356. $6.00.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS. Edited by Peter Quennell. New York: Roy Publishers, 1953; pp. vii+177. $3.50.

THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE. By John B. Carroll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953; pp. xi+289. $4.75.

A SURVEY OF VERB FORMS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. By E. Bagby Atwood. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1953. $2.50.

THE VOWEL PHONEMES OF MEIGRET. By George Raymond Shipman. Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics; No. 3. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 1953; xiii+82. $2.00.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS. By John Hospers. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 532. $5.95.

THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. By M. H. Abrams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953; pp. xiii+406. $7.50.

POETRY AND THE AGE. By Randall Jarrell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. 271. §4.00.

THE UNRELUCTANT YEARS. By Lillian H. Smith. Chicago: The American Library Association, 1953; pp. 300. $4.50.

THE FINER TONE. KEATS’ MAJOR POEMS. By Earl R. Wasserman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953; pp. 228. $4.00.

CHARLES DICKENS—HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH. By Edgar Johnson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952; Volume 1, pp. xxii+585+xlvii; Volume 2, pp. XXW+581+cli. $10.00.

DICKENS THE DRAMATIST. By F. Dubrez Fawcett. London: W. H. Allen, 1952; pp. 278. 21/‐net.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: A CRITICAL SURVEY. Edited by Louis Kronenberger. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1953; pp. xviii+263. $6.00.

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 6. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. New York: Cambridge University Press, American Branch, 1953; pp. viii+185. $3.75.

SHAKESPEARE. By Mark Van Doren. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1953; pp. xv+302. $.85.

SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF LEARNING: AN INQUIRY INTO THE GROWTH OF HIS MIND AND ART. By Virgil K. Whitaker. California: The Huntington Library, 1953; pp. ix+366. $6.50.

CÉCILE SOREL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By Cécile Sorel. Translated by Philip John Stead. Foreword by M. Willson Disher. New York: Staples Press, 1953; pp. 285. $2.50.

THE THEATRE ANNUAL, 1953. Edited by Blanche A. Corwin. Vol. XI. New York: Theatre Library Association, 1953; pp. 69. $1.50.

THE ART OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM. By S. R. Littlewood. London: Sir Isaac Pitman &; Sons, Ltd., 1952; pp. x+182. 15s.

TO THE ACTOR ON THE TECHNIQUE OF ACTING. By Michael Chekhov. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. xvi+201. $2.50.

PRACTICAL MAKE‐UP FOR THE STAGE. By T. W. Bamford. (Second edition.) London: Pittman Press, 1952; pp. 135. $3.50.

A RADIO AND TELEVISION BIBLIOGRAPHY. Edited by Burton Paulu. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1952; pp. 129.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ACCEPTED BY AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1951–1952. Number 19. Compiled for The Association of Research Libraries and edited by Arnold H. Trotier and Marian Harman. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1952; pp. xv+269. $5.00.

EXPOSITORY PREACHING FOR TODAY. By Andrew W. Blackwood. New York: Abingdon Cokesbury, 1953; pp. 224. $3.00.     

Review Essay: Addressing the Epidemic of Epidemics: Germs,Security, and a Call for Biocriticism

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND. By Bradford Smith. Philadelphia: The J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953; pp. 375. $5.00.

PETER E. DIETZ: LABOR PRIEST. By Mary Harrita Fox. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1953; pp. ix+285. $4.75.

THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN CONGRESS. By George G. Galloway. New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953; pp. xii+689. $6.00.

THE YALTA BETRAYAL. By Felix Wittmer. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1953; pp. 135. $1.25.

A GUIDE TO HELP THE SEVERELY HARD‐OF‐HEARING CHILD. By Helen Hulick Beebe. Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger, 1953.

SPEECH COMPOSITION. By William Norwood Brigance. (Second Edition). New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1953; pp. vii+385. $3.00.

YOU'RE THE SPEAKER. By Vera Gough. New York: William Morrow &; Company, 1954; pp. 158. $2.50.

INTERPRETATIVE READING. By Sara Lowrey and Gertrude E. Johnson. (Revised Edition). New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1953; pp. xvii+595. $3.75.

HEALTH AND SAFETY PLAYS AND PROGRAMS. By Aileen Fisher. Boston: Plays, Inc., 1953; pp. viii+267. $3.50.

PARKER'S TELEVISION PLAYS. By Kenneth T. Parker. Minneapolis: The Northwestern Press, 1954; pp. 245. $2.75.

WEIRD TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By Eisaburo Kusano. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., 1953; pp. iii+127. $2.50.

GUIDE TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ITS BACKGROUNDS SINCE 1890. By Howard Mumford Jones. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953; pp. 151. $1.50.

TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC WORK PROCESS. By Fred H. Blum. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. xxi+229. $3.50.

HOW TO BE A BOARD OR COMMITTEE MEMBER. By Roy Sorenson. New York: Association Press, 1953; pp. 64. $1.00.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE MADE EASY: A VISUAL AID BASED ON ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER. By Rheva Ott Shryock. Ellenton, Florida: College Offset Press, 1953; pp. 16. $2.50.

TEACHING SPEECH IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL. By Karl Robinson. (Second Edition). New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1954; pp. vii+438. $4.25.

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NURSERY SCHOOL. By Nelly Wolffheim. Translated by Charles L. Hannam. New York: The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1953; pp. 144. $3.75.     

On a Violence Unseen: The Womanly Object and Sacrificed Man

EXAMINING FOR APHASIA: A MANUAL FOR THE EXAMINATION OF APHASIA AND RELATED DISTURBANCES. By Jon Eisenson (Rev. ed.) New York: Psychological Corp., 1954; pp. 78. $3.50.

HANDBOOK FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS. By J. Jeffery Auer and Henry Lee Ewbank. (Rev. ed.) New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1954; pp. 153. $2.50.

THE CHILD'S BOOK OF SPEECH SOUNDS. By Sylvia Chipman. Magnolia, Massachusetts: Expression Co., 1954; pp. 43. $1.25.

RHETORIC AT ROME: A HISTORICAL SURVEY. By M. L. Clarke. London: Cohen and West Ltd., 1953; pp. 203. 21s.

HUGH ROY CULLEN: A STORY OF AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY. By Ed Kilman and Theon Wright. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1954: pp. viii+376. $4.00.

MASTERS OF THE DRAMA. By John Gassner. (Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged). New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1954; pp. xxii+890. $5.95.

THE TRAGEDIES OF GEORGE CHAPMAN: RENAISSANCE ETHICS IN ACTION. By Ennis Rees. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954; pp. 235. $4.50.

EDWARD ARLINGTON ROBINSON: THE LITERARY BACKGROUND OF A TRADITIONAL POET. By Edwin S. Fussell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954; pp. 221. $3.50.

THE MODERN IRISH WRITERS: Cross Currents of Criticism. By Estella Ruth Taylor. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1954; pp. 176. $3.50.

THE ANGLICAN PULPIT TODAY: REPRESENTATIVE SERMONS BY LEADING PREACHERS OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION. Edited by Frank D. Gifford. New York: Morehouse‐Gorham Co., 1953; pp. 235. $3.50.

THE PROCESS AND EFFECTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION. Edited by Wilbur Schramm. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1954; pp. x+586. $6.00.

THE MENTAL HOSPITAL. By Alfred H. Stanton and Morris S. Schwartz. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1954; pp. vii+484. $7.50.

STAGING TV PROGRAMS AND COMMERCIALS. By Robert J. Wade. New York: Hastings House, 1954; pp. xiii+216. $6.50.     

The eastern public speaking conference

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.     

The war and intercollegiate contests

Educational Wastelands. By Arthur E. Bestor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953; pp. 226. $3.50.

General Education and the Liberal College. By William F. Cunningham. St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1953; pp. 286. $4.00.

Causes of Public Unrest Pertaining to Education. Edited by Raymond F. Howes. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education, 1953; pp. 80. $1.00.

The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society. By Robert M. Hutchins. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953; pp. 112. $2.00.

The University of Utopia. By Robert M. Hutchins. University of Chicago Press, 1953; pp. 103. $2.50.

Quackery in the Public Schools. By Albert Lynd. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953; pp. 282. $3.50.

How to Judge a School—A Handbook for Puzzled Parents and Tired Taxpayers. By William F. Russell. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; pp. 143. $2.50.

Education and Social Integration. By William O. Stanley. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1953; pp. 290. $4.50.

The Changing Humanities. By David H. Stevens. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953; pp. 272. $4.00.

Public Education and Its Critics. By V. T. Thayer. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. 170. $2.50.

Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools. By Paul Woodring. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1953; pp. 215. $3.50.     

On good writing

1. ON PHILOSOPHICAL STYLE. By Brand Blanshard. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1954; pp. 69. $1.00.

2. THE MAGIC OF WORDS. By The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Birkett. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1953. pp. 15. 2s net.

3. GUIDE FOR AIR FORCE WRITING, Air Force Manual 11–3. By the Department of the Air Force. Washington, D. C: 1954; pp. 133. (For use by USAF officers and Air Force ROTC cadets; not sold publicly.)

4. HOW TO MAKE SENSE. By Rudolf Flesch. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; PP‐ 202‐ $2.75.

5. PLAIN WORDS: THEIR ABC. By Sir Ernest Gowers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954; pp. vii+298+viii. $2.50.

6. The essays on Language, Rhetoric, Sign and Symbol in GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD. In vols. 2 and 3 of 54 vols. Edited by Robert M. Hutchins. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1952‐

7. GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Otto Jespersen. Ninth Edition. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955; pp. vi+274. $0.95.

8. KNOW YOUR READER: THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO READABILITY. By George R. Klare and Byron Buck. New York: Hermitage House, 1954; pp. 191. $2–95‐

9. RECURRENT MALADIES IN SCHOLARLY WRITING. By Eugene S. McCartney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1953; PP‐ xi+141. $2.50.

10. THE CONCISE USAGE AND ABUSAGE. By Eric Partridge. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954; pp. ix+219. $3.50.

11. ASPECTS OF READABILITY IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES. By Eleanor M. Peterson, Ph.D. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1954; PP‐ ix+118. $3.50.     

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     

The problem of listening

MAJOR CAMPAIGN SPEECHES OF ADLAI E. STEVENSON—1952. New York: Random House, 1953; pp. 320. $3.50.

TRUTH IS OUR WEAPON. By Edward W. Barrett. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1953; pp. xviii+355. $4.00.

EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY. By Edmund Ezra Day. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1952; pp. 203. $2.50.

MODERN EDUCATION AND HUMAN VALUES. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Philip Rhys Adams, Samuel H. Goldenson, Clyde Kluckhohn, and William G. Carr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1952; p. 134. $3.00.

IMPATIENT CRUSADER. By Josephine Goldmark. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953; pp. xii+217. $3.50.

WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE ERA AND THE MAN. By Virginia Cowles. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 378. $5.00.

THE WRITTEN WORD AND OTHER ESSAYS. By Hardin Craig. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953; pp. x+90. $3.00.

GENERAL EDUCATION IN SCHOOL AND COLLEGE: A COMMITTEE REPORT. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953; pp. v+142. $2.00.

INTEGRATIVE SPEECH. By Elwood Murray, Raymond H. Barnard, and J. V. Garland, in collaboration with Guthrie E. Janssen. New York: Dryden Press, 1953; pp. 617. $4.75.

SPEECH FUNDAMENTALS. By Harry G. Barnes and Loretta Wagner Smith. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 554. $3.45.

PROJECT TEXT FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Clark S. Carlile. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 180. $2.00.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION: A GUIDE TO READING, WRITING, SPEAKING, AND LISTENING. By Howard H. Dean. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 682. $4.95.

A CASE BOOK IN SPEECH THERAPY. By Charles Van Riper. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 141. $2.75.

IMPROVING THE CHILD'S SPEECH. By Virgil A. Anderson. New York: Oxford Press, 1953; pp. 370. $4.00.

DIRECTING THE PLAY: A SOURCE BOOK OF STAGECRAFT. Edited, with an Illustrated History of Directing, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. New York: Bobbs‐Merrill Company, Inc., 1953; pp. viii+341. $4.00.

PLAY DIRECTION. By John Dietrich. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. xii+484. $7.35.

SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE PRODUCTION: THEN &; NOW. A MANUAL FOR THE SCHOLAR‐PLAYER. By Cécile de Banke. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1953; pp. xviii+342. $6.00.

PLAYWRIGHT AT WORK. By John Van Druten. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 210. $3.00.

THE STAGE MANAGER'S HANDBOOK. By Bert Gruver. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. xviii+202. $2.50.

THE SECRET OF PULPIT POWER. By Simon Blocker. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1951; pp. 209. $3.00.

STIR UP THE GIFT. By Paul S. Rees. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1952; pp. 159. $2.00.

COMMUNION THROUGH PREACHING: THE MONSTRANCE OF THE GOSPEL. By Henry Sloane Coffin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952; pp. ix+124. $2.50.

READER IN PUBLIC OPINION AND COMMUNICATION. Edited by Bernard Berelson and Morris Janowitz. (Revised edition). Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1953; pp. xi+612.

N. R. B. PUBLIC SPEAKING MANUAL. Compiled by the Editoral Staff of the National Research Bureau, Inc., Chicago: The National Research Bureau, Inc., 1953; pp. 237, 81/2”; by 11”;. $17.95.     

Public speaking and public opinion

SPEECH CRITICISM. The Development of Standards for Rhetorical Appraisal. By Lester Thonssen and A. Craig Baird. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948; pp. xvi+542. $5.00.

ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM: THE RENASCENCE. By J. W. H. Atkins. London: Methuen and Company, 1947; pp. xi+371. 16s.

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE DICTIONARY. Edited by Clarence L. Barnhart. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948; pp. lx+1432. $6.00.

PUBLIC OPINION AND PROPAGANDA. By Leonard W. Doob. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948; pp. vii+600. $5.00. Text edition, $3.75.

TONE LANGUAGES: A Technique for Determining the Number and Type of Pitch Contrasts in a Language, with studies in Tonemic Substitution and Fusion. By Kenneth L. Pike. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948; pp. xii+187. Paper, $2.25. Cloth, $3.00.

TREASURY OF RELIGIOUS PLAYS. Edited by Thelma Sharman Brown. New York: Association Press, 1947; pp. 345. $3.00.

ENCORES ON MAIN STREET. By Talbot Pearson. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology Press, 1948; pp. 175, $3.00.

EFFECTIVE TALKING IN CONFERENCE. By John Mantle Clapp. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948; pp. v+140. $2.50.

THOUGHT PICTURES IN READING AND WRITING. By Roland Barker. New York: Published for Metropolitan School Study Council by Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1948; pp. ix+ 114. $2.00.

THE LANGUAGE AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN. By A. F. Watts. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1947; pp. v+354. $3.25.

PAPERS GIVEN AT A CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COURSES IN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Clyde W. Dow. East Lansing: Michigan State College, 1947; pp. 79. $2.00.

SING WELL, SPEAK WELL. By J. Albert Fracht and Emmett Robinson. Brooklyn: Remsen Press, 1948; pp. vii+178. $3.75.

THE PATTERN OF SPOKEN ENGLISH. By Barbara Storey. The Speech Fellowship Booklet No. 1. Oxford: University Press, 1948; pp. 28. $.50.

TWENTIETH CENTURY SPEECH AND VOICE CORRECTION. Edited by Emil Froeschels. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948; pp. 321. $6.00.

PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES IN ENGLISH FOR THE FOREIGN‐BORN. By M. Elizabeth Clarey and Robert J. Dixson. New York: Regents Publishing Company, 1947; pp. 119. $1.25.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Mabel F. Gifford. Bulletin of the California State Department of Education. Vol. 17, No. 1. Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1948; pp. vi+33.

THE VIRGINIA PLAN FOR AUDIO‐VISUAL EDUCATION. Prepared by James W. Brown. Chicago: The Center for the Study of Audio‐Visual Instructional Materials, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1947; pp. vi+31.

LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN. A Manual on the Use of Audio‐Visual Materials in Informal Education. By L. Harry Strauss and J. R. Kidd. New York: Association Press, 1948; pp. x+234. $3.50.

AUDIO‐VISUAL AIDS IN THE ARMED SERVICES. By John R. Miles and Charles R. Spain for the Commission on Implications of Armed Services Educational Programs. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education, 1947; pp. xi+96. $1.25.

AUDIO‐VISUAL AIDS TO INSTRUCTION. By William Exton, Jr., Captain, USNR, Inactive. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947; pp. xiii+344. $4.00.

RADIO'S BEST PLAYS. Edited by Joseph Liss. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1947; pp. xiv+383. $3.00.

THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR. Edited by H. William Fitelson. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1947; pp. xiii+430. $4.00.

FM FOR EDUCATION. By Franklin Dunham, assisted by Ronald R. Lowdermilk and Gertrude G. Broderick. (Revised). Washington, D. C.: Federal Security Agency. U. S. Office o£ Education. Misc. No. 7, 1948; pp. vi+30. $.20.     

Speech in the Senate

Gard, Robert, Grassroots Theatre, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1955, 263 pp., $4.00.

Cooper, Charles W., Preface to Drama, New York: Ronald Press, 1955, 773 pp., $4.50.

Joels, Merrill E., Acting is a Business, New York: Hastings House, 1955, 96 pp., $2.50.

Kaufman, W. I., How To Write For Television, New York: Hastings House, 1955, 95 pp., $2.50.

Macgowan, K., and Melnitz, W., The Living Stage, New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1955, 543 pp., $6.00.

Bettinger, H., revised by Corberg, S., Television Techniques, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955, 236 pp., $3.75.

Kingston, W. K., Cowgill, R., and Levy, R., Broadcasting Television and Radio, New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1955, 274 pp., $4.00.

Oliver, R. T., Dickey, D., and Zelko, H., rev. ed., Communicative Speech, New York: Dryden Press, 1955, 386 pp., $3.60.

Crocker, L., and Eich, L. M., Oral Reading, 2nd. ed., New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1955, 492 pp., $5.50.

Brigance, William N., Speech Communication, 2nd. ed., New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1955, 202 pp.

Black, J. W., and Moore, W. E., Speech: Code, Meaning, and Communication, New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1955, 430 pp., $4.50.

McBurney, J. H., and Wrage, E. J., Guide to Good Speech, New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1955, 346 pp., $3.75.

Brown, Charles T., Introduction to Speech, New York: Houghton‐Mifflin, 1955, 458 pp., $4.25.

Braden, W. W., and Brandenburg, E., Oral Decision Making, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955, 572 pp., $4.75.

Davidson, Henry A., Handbook of Parliamentary Procedure, New York: Ronald Press, 1955, 292 pp., $3.75.

Phillips, David C., Oral Communication In Business, New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1955, 229 pp., $3.75.

Smith, Henry C., Psychology of Industrial Behavior, New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1955, 477 pp., $6.00.

Perry, John, Human Relations In Small Industry, New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1955, 313 pp., $5.50.

Zedler, Empress Y., Listening For Speech Sounds, New York, Doubleday and Company, 1955, 145 pp., $3.00.

Streng, Alice et al, Hearing Therapy for Children, New York: Grune and Stratton, 1955, 371 pp., $6.75.

Johnson, Wendell, assisted by Leutenegger, Ralph R., Stuttering in Children and Adults, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955, 472 pp., $5.00     

Speech books in review

Barbara, Dominick A., Stuttering: A Psychodynamic Approach To Its Understanding and Treatment, New York: The Julian Press, Inc., pp. 304, $5.00.

Braden, W. W. and Brandenburg, E., Oral Decision‐Making, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955, pp. 572, $4.75.

Henneke, Ben G., Reading Aloud Effectively, New York: Reinhart and Co., Inc., 1954, pp. 481, $5.00

Huston, A. D., Sandberg, R. A., rev. by Mills, Jack, Effective Speaking in Business, New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955, pp. 399, $6.35.

Moses, Paul J., The Voice of Neurosis, New York: Grune and Stratton, 1954, pp. 131, $4.00.

Mulgrave, Dorothy I., Speech for the Classroom Teacher, 3rd. ed., New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955, pp. 470, $5.75.

Painter, Margaret, Ease in Speech, 3rd. ed., Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1954, pp. 456, $3.00.

Sisson, Charles J., ed., William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, New York: Haprer and Brothers, 1953, pp. 1376, $4.50.     

Remembering the AIDS Quilt

FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Donald C. Bryant and Karl R. Wallace. (Second edition). New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1953; pp. xiv+493. $4.00.

BASIC TRAINING IN SPEECH. By Lester Thonssen and Howard Gilkinson. (Second edition). Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1953; pp. 494. $4.00.

AN INFORMAL GUIDE TO PUBLIC SPEAKING. By William Freeman. Edited by Quincy Howe. (Revised edition). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953; pp. xiv+141. $2.95.

NOTEBOOK FOR VOICE AND DICTION. By Lyle V. Mayer. Dubuque, Iowa: Win. C. Brown Co., 1953; pp. vii+168. $2.50.

COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH AND HOW TO AVOID THEM. By Alexander M. Wither‐spoon. (Everyday Handbook Series. #240). New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1952; pp. 344. $1.25.

AMERICAN PROBLEMS TODAY. By Robert Rienow. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1953: pp. xv+704. $4.00.

THE WRITER IN AMERICA. By Van Wyck Brooks. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1953; pp. 203. $3.00.

PEOPLE, PLACES, AND BOOKS. By Gilbert Highet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953; pp. x+277. $3.50.

ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS. By Carl Sandburg. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1953; pp. 445. $5.00.

THE CULTIVATION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS. By William W. Biddle. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 203. $3.00.

SPEECHREADING—JENA METHOD. By Anna M. Bunger. (Revised edition). Danville, Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers, 1952; pp. 109. $2.50.

NOTES ON SCENE PAINTING. By Bradford Ashworth. New Haven, Connecticut: Whit‐lock's, Inc., 1952; pp. 45. $2.00.

LIVING THEATRE. Edited by Alice Venezky Griffin. Foreword by Helen Hayes. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1953; pp. 510. $4.50.

THE THEATER DICTIONARY: BRITISH AND AMERICAN TERMS IN THE DRAMA, OPERA, AND BALLET. By Wilfred Granville. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952; pp. xii+227. $5.00.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. By A. F. Scott. London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1953; Book III, pp. 107. Book IV, pp. 74. Each $1.00

BRITISH AUTHORS BEFORE 1800. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1952; pp. vi+ 584. $6.00.