Book Reviews

Carol Summers. Colonial Lessons: Africans’Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 212pp. Cloth $64.95. paper $24.95. Ienaga Saburo. Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 198pp. Ting‐Hong Wong. Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong. New York: Routledge‐Falmer, 2002. 290pp. Sherri Broder. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth‐Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 259pp. Joan Marie Johnson, ed. Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882–1916. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.258pp. Vincent Fitzpatrick. Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 352pp. Leonard Ray Teel. Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 576pp. Wendy Kline. Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 254pp. Patricia A. Carter. “Everybody's Paid But the Teacher”: The Teaching Profession and the Women's Movement. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 179pp. Aileen Kilgore Henderson. Tenderfoot Teacher: Letters from the Big Bend, 1952–1954. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002. 158pp. Wayne J. Urban. Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000. 304pp. Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann (eds.). Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference? New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2000. 288pp. Michael A. Oliker and Walter P. Krolikowski, S.J. (eds.). Images of Youth: Popular Culture as Educational Ideology. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 227pp. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance (eds.). Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 344pp. Joan W. Scott and Debra Keates (eds.). Schools of Thought: Twenty‐Five Years of Interpretive Social Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 432pp. John P. Jackson, Jr. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 288pp. Mary Ann Stankiewicz. Roots of Art Education Practice. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2001. 146pp. Linda Symcox. Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 228pp. Thomas Ehrlich, ed. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. American Council on Education, Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000.448pp.     

The expert judge of debating

Speech and Voice. By G. Oscar Russell. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931 ; pp. xvii, 250. $4.00.

Prose, Poetry and Drama for Oral Interpretation. By William J. Faema. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1930; pp. 526.

Voice and Speech. By M. R. Drennan. Capetown, South Africa: The Mercantile Press (A. W. Elford and Co., Ltd.), 1929; pp. 67, 5 shillings six‐pence, post free.

Projects in Speech for a Foundation Course. By Alan Houston Monroe and Paul Emerson Lull. New York: D. C. Heath and Co., 1931 ; pp. iii + 168.

The Art of Directing Plays, By D. C. Ashton. Franklin, Ohio and Denver, Colorado: Eldridge Entertainment House, Inc., 1931 ; pp. 119, $1.50.

Modern Speeches (Revised Edition). By Homer D. Lindgren. New York. F. S. Crofts Company, 1930; pp. xv, 514; $3.00.

Language Development of the Preschool Child. By Dorothea A. McCarthy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1930. pp. 174.

Short Plays. By Edwin Van B. Knickerbocker. New York: Henry Holt, 1931; pp. 532.

Stammering. By Elsie Fogerty, New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1930; pp. 64, $.95.

Personality. By A. A. Roback. Cambridge, Mass.: Sci‐Art Publishers, 1931: pp. 144.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Candy Gunther Brown. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 352pp. Julie Des Jardins. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 380pp. Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow‐Ennker, eds. Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 448pp. Rodney Koeneke. Empires of the Mind: I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929–1979. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 272pp. Karl‐Heinz Füssl. Deutsch‐amerikanischer Kultzlraustausch im 20. Jahrhundert: Bildung—Wissenschaf—Poolitik. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag, 2004. 325pp. David C. Engerman. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2004. 399pp. Hamilton Cravens (ed). The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 235pp. David C. Mowery, kchard R. Nelson, Bhaven Sampat, and Arvids Ziedonis. Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University‐Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh‐Dole Act. Stanford: Stanford Business Books, 2004. 264pp. Karyn L. Hollis. Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer. School for Women Workers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 192pp. Peter Cunningham and Philip Gardner. Becoming Teachers: Texts and Testimonies, 1907–1950. London: Woburn Press, 2004. 250 pp. Richard Aldrich (ed.). Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History. London: Woburn Press, 2004. 221pp. Andrea Hamilton. A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 237pp. Illana DeBare. Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls’Schools. New York: Penguin Group, 2004. 392pp. Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson (eds.). Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth Century Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 342pp. Doris Hinson Pieroth. Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 283pp. Stephanie Nicole Robinson. History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 144pp. Charles Bishop. The Community's College: A History of Johnson County Community College, 1969–1999. Pittsburg, KS: Johnson County Community College/Pittcraft Printing, 2002. 277pp. Lee Hargrave. LSU Law: The Louisiana State University Law School from 1906 to 1977. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 329pp. Amilcar Shabazz. Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 376pp. Steven Noll and James W. Trent (eds.) Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (The History of Disability) New York: New York University Press, 2004. 506pp. David Hutchison. A Natural History of Place in Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. 170pp.     

Book Reviews

Catherine Cocks. Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 305pp. Anne E. Gorsuch. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 384pp. Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001. 224pp. Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. 235pp. Kevin Manton. Socialism and Education in Britain 1883–1902. London: Woburn Press, 2001. 224pp. Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley (eds.). Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727–1925. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. 364pp. Edward J. Cashin. Beloved Bethesda: A History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys, 1740–2000. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. 288pp. Keith R. Widder. Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823–1837. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. 220pp Kenneth M. Gold. School's In: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 315 pp. Adrian Jones. Follow the Gleam: A History of Essendon Primary School 1850–2000. Kew: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000. Carrie Tirado Bramen. The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 380pp. Philip Massolin. Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939–1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 357pp. Jonathan E. Helmreich. Eternal Hope: The Life of Timothy Alden, Jr. New York: Cornwall Books, 2001. 211pp. Carolyn B. Matalene and Katherine C. Reynolds. Carolina Voices: Two Hundred Years of Student Experiences. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 272pp. Theodore J. Crackel. West Point: A Bicentennial History. Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2002. 368pp. Paul C. Helmreich. Wheaton College, 1834–1957: A Massachusetts Family Affair. New York: Cornwall Books, 2001. 536pp. Clark Kerr. The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. 585pp. Sidney Gelber. Politics and Public Higher Education in New York State–Stony Brook–A Case History. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 375pp. Claude J. Summers and Ted‐Larry Pebworth. Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. 243pp. Brian Pullan with Michele Abendstern. A History of the University of Manchester 1951–73. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 186pp. George M. Logan. The Indiana University School of Music: A Histoy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. 360pp.     

William James and the Art of Popular Statement

Reading Aloud, by Wayland Maxfield Parrish. New York: Thomas Nelson &; Sons, 1932; pp. 401.

A Theatre Library. By Rosamond Gilder. (A publication of the National Theatre Conference.) New York: Theatre Arts, 1932; pp. xiv, 74; $1.

The Stage Is Set. By Lee Simonson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1932; pp. 585; $5.

Correction of Defective Speech. By E. B. Twitmyer and Y. S. Nathanson. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son &; Co., Inc., 1932; pp. 413.

The Year Book of College Oratory, Volume IV. Compiled by Evan A. Anderson. New York: Noble and Noble, 1932; pp. 378; $2.

Intercollegiate Debates, Vol. XIII, Edited by Egbert Ray Nichols. New York: Noble and Noble, 1932 ; pp. x, 466 ; $2.

Straight and Crooked Thinking. By Robert H. Thouless. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932; pp. 261.

Preparing the Commencement Address. By F. W. Lambertson. Cedar Falls, Iowa: College Print Shop, 1932; pp. 84.

Man as Psychology Sees Him. By Edward S. Robinson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932; pp. 376; $2.50.

A Method of Lighting the Stage. By Stanley R. McCandless. New York: Theatre Arts Inc., 1932; pp. 132; $1.50.     

From beyond our borders: Other readings on environmentalism and communicative action

Sharon Beder. Global Spin. The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1998. 277 pp., $19.95 (paper).

Daniel Faber (Ed.). The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. New York: Guilford, 1998, 366 pp., $18.95 (paper).

Rom Harre, Jens Brockmeier, Peter Muhlhausler. Greenspeak. A Study of Environmental Discourse. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage, 1999, 201 pp., $29.95 (paper).

David Harvey. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 468 pp., $27.95 (paper).

Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie. Eco‐Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology. Thousand Oaks/London: Sage, 1997, 301 pp., $27.95 (paper).

Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Brian Wynne (Eds.). Risk, Environment and Modernity. London/ Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996, 294 pp., $24.95 (paper).

Raymond Murphy. Sociology and Nature: Social Action in Context. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 336 pp., $28.00 (paper).

David Schlosberg. Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 223 pp., $45.00 (cloth).     

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.     

Speech training through children's plays

Four‐Star Scripts. By Lorraine Noble. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936; $1.50.

A History of the American Drama. By Arthur Hobson Quinn. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1936; pp. xxv + 432. $5.00.

Historic Costume. By Nevil Truman. New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1936; pp. 152; 300 illustrations. $3.00.

The Philosophy of Rhetoric. By I. A. Richards. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936; pp. 138. $1.75.

The Psycho‐Biology of Language. By George Kingsley Zipf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935; pp. ix + 336.

An Actor Prepares. By Constantin Stanislavski. Translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. New York: Theater Arts, Inc., 1936; pp. 295. $2.50.

Modern Acting: A Manual. By Sophie Rosenstein, Larrae A. Haydon, and Wilbur Sparrow, New York: Samuel French, 1936; pp. 129. $1.50.

Reorganisation of the Supreme Court. The Reference Shelf, vol. xi, no. 4. Compiled by Julia E. Johnson. New York, The H. W. Wilson Co., 1937; pp. 326. $.90.

You, Too, Can Become a Public Speaker. By John Hewins Kern. New York: Governor Publishing Corp., 1937; pp. 72. $1.00.

Industrial vs. Craft Unionism, The Reference Shelf, vol. xi, no. 3. Compiled by Julia E. Johnson. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1937; pp. 320. $.90.

General Principles of Play Production. By Gilmor Brown and Alice Garwood. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. 177. $2.00.

The Art of Make‐Up. By Serge Strenkovsky. New York: E. P. Dutton Co., 1937; pp. 350. $3.75.

How To Teach Good Speech in the Elementary Schools, Letitia Raubicheck. New York: Noble and Noble, 1937; pp. 276. $2.00.

Twenty Short Plays on a Royalty Holiday: Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. 435. $3.00.

The Flying Wasp. By Sean’ O'Casey. London: The Macmillan Co., Ltd., 1937; pp. xiii +201. $2.25

Ease in Speech. By Margaret Painter. Chicago: D. C. Heath and Co., 1937; pp. 420, $1.64.

Going To Make a Speech? By E. St. Elmo Lewis. New York: The Ronald Press, 1937; pp. x +350. $3.00.

A Contemporary of Shakespeare on Phonetics and on the Pronunciation of English and Latin. By H. G. Fiedler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936; pp. 21. $1.00.

S.P.E. Tract No. XLVIII. New York: Oxford University Press, 1937; pp. 12. $.85.

Your Everyday Speech. By William Norwood Brigance. New York: Whittlesey House, 1937; pp. ix + 230. $2.50.

University Debaters’ Annual. Edited by Edith M. Phelps and Julia E. Johnson. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1937; Vol. XXIII, pp. 533. $2.25.

The Speech Choir. With American Poetry and English Ballads for Choral Reading. By Marjorie Gullan. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1937; pp. vii‐xix + 284. $1.75.

The Art of Choral Speaking. By Cécile de Banke. Boston: Baker's Plays, 1937; pp. 227. $1.75.

Reading, Writing and Speech Problems: A Presentation of Certain Types of Disorders in the Development of the Language Faculty. By Samuel Torrey Orton, M.D. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1937; pp. 215. $2.00.

Smith, Joseph E.: Better Speech Training Through Teaching Technique. (Papers from the Convention of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech). Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, Inc.; 1936; pp. 72. $1.60.

The New Better Speech (Revised Edition.) By A. T. Weaver, Gladys L. Borchers and C. H. Woolbert. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937; pp. xii + 548. $1.60.

Handbook of Broadcasting: How to Broadcast Effectively. By Waldo Abbot. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1937; pp. xi + 424. $3.50.

Ways of Thinking and Writing. By Frank W. Cushwa and Robert N. Cunningham. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936; pp. xviii + 542. $1.80.     

Oral communications in industry

Essay review: A new aesthetic of theatrical performance: Interface, encounter, or event

VISUAL THINKING. By Rudolf Arnheim. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. pp.xi+345. $11.50

DTNAMICS OF DRAMA. By Bernard Beckerman. New York: Random House, 1970. pp. 263. $3.50 (paper)

TOWARDS A POOR THEATRE. By Jerzy Grotowski. New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1969. pp. 262. $2.45 (paper)

TOTAL THEATRE. Edited by E. T. Kirby. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. pp. xxxi+280. $1.95 (paper)

THE ART OF TIME. By Michael Kirby. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. pp. 255. $1.95 (paper)     

Book Reviews

Caroline Winterer. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 272pp. Susan Schulten. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 328pp. Alan R. Sadovnik and Susan F. Semel (eds.). Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 288pp. Thomas A. O'Donoghue. Upholding the Faith: The Process of Education in Catholic Schools in Australia 1922–1965. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 170pp. Mariorie Lamberti. The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. 240pp. John L. Rudolph. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 288pp. David O. Solmitz. Schooling for Humanity: When Big Brother Isn't Watching. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 244pp. William Westfall. The Founding Moment: Church, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2002.200pp. Tracy Schier and Cynthia Eagle Russett (eds.). Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 480pp. Michael Dennis. Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 272pp. Charles A. Nelson. Radical Visions: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. 248pp. Martha Stephens. The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 349pp. Karen Graves, Timothy Glander, and Christine Shea (eds.). Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 313pp. F. Stuart Gulley. The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney at Emory University, 1977–1993. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. 250pp. Philippa Strum. Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 448pp. Ernest Freeburg. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 272pp. Ellis L. Yochelson. Smithsonian Institution Seretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. 589pp.     

Review Essay: Activating the AIDS Archive

The Railroad Problem with Reference to Government Ownership. Compiled by Harrison Boyd Summers and Robert E. Summers. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 308. $1.25.

Government Ownership of Railroads. Compiled and arranged by J. Weston Walch. Portland: The Platform News Publishing Co., 1939; pp. 164. $2.50.

The United States and War. The Reference Shelf, Vol. 12, No. 8. Compiled by Julia E. Johnson. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 179. $.90.

Chain Stores and Legislation. The Reference Shelf, Vol. 12, No. 7. Compiled by Daniel Bloomfield. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 466. $1.25.

Debate Index (New Edition Revised) The Reference Shelf, Vol. 12, No. 9. Compiled by Edith M. Phelps. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 130. $ .75.

You Sell with Your Voice. By E. C. Buehler and Martin Maloney. New York: Ronald Press, 1939; pp. VI + 93. $2.00.

A Drill Manual for Improving Speech. By William Norwood Brigance and Florence M. Henderson. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939; pp. xxi + 246.

Speech Correction, Principles and Methods. By C. Van Riper. Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1939; pp. 434. $2.50.

Correcting Nervous Speech Disorders. By M. F. Gifford. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. XV + 197. $2.85.

The Personality Structure of Stuttering. By James F. Bender. New York: The Pitman Publishing Co., 1939; pp. XVI + 189. $2.00.

Voice and Speech Problems. By Letitia Raubicheck, Estelle H. Davis, and L. Adèle Carll. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. xxviii + 559. $1.60.

Taking the Stage. By Charlotte Crocker, Victor Fields, Will Broomall. New York: Pitman Publishing Co., 1939; pp. 339. $2.00.

Shakespeare. By Mark Van Doren. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1939; pp. 336. $3.00.

Modern Theatre Practice. (Second Edition) By Hubert C. Heffner, Samuel Selden, and Hunton D. Sellman, with an Appendix on Costume by Fairfax Proudfit Walkup. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1939; illustrated; pp. 425. $3.00.

Early Stages. By John Gielgud. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1939; pp. 322. $3.00.

Strolling Players and Drama in the Provinces 1660–1675. By Sybil Rosenfeld. Cambridge, England: The University Press; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1939; pp. 333. $4.00.

American Folk Plays. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick H. Koch. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Co., 1939; pp. xlvi + 592, illustrated. $4.00.

The Stage and the School (Revised Edition). By Katherine Anne Ommanney. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939; pp. xix + 504. $1.60.

Theatre For Children. By Winifred Ward. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Co., 1939; pp. xiv + 333. $3.00.

Everyday English. By G. E. McElfresh and E. C. Ingalls. New York: Thomas Nelson &; Sons, 1939; pp. 372.

The Best One‐Act Plays of 1938. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York: Dodd, Mead &; Company, 1939; pp. 392. $2.50.

Magic Dials. By Lowell Thomas. New York: Lee Furman Inc., 1939; pp. 142. $2.00. Also published in a $1.00 edition. New York: James Werblow Polygraphic Company of America.

Journalism on the Air. By Dowling Leatherwood. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Publishing Co., 1939; pp. iii + 100. $1.75.

How to Write for Radio. By James Whipple. New York: Whittlesey House 1938: pp. xxi+425. $3.50.

How to Succeed Through Speech. By E. F. Du Teau. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1938: pp. 171. $1.75.

The Mechanics of Instantaneous Acetate Recording. By Sam H. Hawver. Los Angeles: Cellutone Record Manufacturing Co., 1937; pp. 14. 50c.

Advanced Disc Recording. Inglewood, California: Universal Microphone Co., Ltd., 1937; pamphlet, pp. 30. 10c.

Suggestive Outlines in Speech for the Elementary, Intermediate, and Secondary Schools. Prepared by the Michigan Association of Teachers of Speech. J. A. McMonagle, Michigan State College, President. Mimeographed; pp. iii + 69. $1.00.

A Course Book in Public Speaking (Second Revised Edition). By Wilbur E. Gilman, Bower Aly, Loren D. Reid. Columbia, Missouri : The Artcraft Press; pp. xii + 227.

Latin and Greek in Current Use. By Eli E. Burriss and Lionel Casson. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. xiv + 286. $2.50.     

Book Reviews

Anne Allison. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 225pp. Cloth 29.00, paper 18.95. Jeffrey A. Brown. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2001. 256pp. David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli, eds. Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789–1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 384pp. Jeffrey L. McNairn. The Capacity to Judge: Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada, 1791–1854. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 504pp. Elizabeth Rapley. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. 376pp. Steven P. Remy. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 329pp. Brian J. McVeigh. Japanese Higher Education as Myth. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. 318pp. Richard Aldrich. The Institute of Education 1902–2002: A Centenary History. London: Institute of Education, University of London, 2002. 296pp. J. David Hoeveler. Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 512pp. Thomas C. Dalton. Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 416pp. Marvin R. O'Connell. Edward Sorin. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2001. 800pp. Henry H. Lesesne. A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940–2000. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. 448pp. Jonathan Zimmerman. Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 320pp. Alaric Dickinson, Peter Gordon, and Peter Lee (eds.). International Review of History Education: Raising Standards in History Education. Oregon: Woburn Press, 2001. 260pp. James Turner. Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 208pp.     

Laboratory and research

Representative American Speeches, 1941–1942. Selected by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp. 297. $1.25.

Principles of Effective Speaking. By William Phillips Sandford and Willard Hayes Yeager. Fourth edition. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1942; pp. xii + 580. $2.75.

Studies in Honor of Frederick W. Shipley (Washington University Studies: Language and Literature: No. 14). By His Colleagues. St. Louis: Washington University, 1942; xi + 314 pp.

The Story of the Eight‐Year Study. By Wilford M. Aikin. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1942; pp. 157. $1.75.

Here's How, a Guide to Economy in Stagecraft. By Herbert V. Hake. Illustrated by the author. Evanston: Row, Peterson &; Co.; pp. 108. $2.00.

Speech Abstracts, vol. II. Mimeographed. Compiled by Clyde W. Dow. $1.00.

The “Eight Points”; of Post‐War World Reorganization. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp. 126. $.90.

The Practice of Speech Correction in the Medical Clinic. By Mary Wehe Huber. Together with Speech Correction from a Dental Viewpoint by A. E. Kopp. Boston: The Expression Company, 1942; pp. 72. $1.75.

Speech Training for the Deaf Child. By Sylvian M. Martin. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.; New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., Distributors, 1941; pp. 114. $1.00.

Training the Speaking Voice. By Virgil A. Anderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942; pp. xx, 387.

Terminology and Definitions of Speech Defects. By Mardel Ogilvie. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Contributions to Education, No. 859, 1942; pp. 300. $3.25.

Wartime Censorship of Press and Radio. Compiled by Robert E. Summers. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1942; pp. 297. $1.25.

Permanent Price Control Policy. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1942; pp. 113. $1.25.

Plans for a Post‐War World. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1942; pp. 238. $1.25.

Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms. Springfield: G. &; C. Merriam Co., 1943; pp. 908. $3.50 (with thumb index, $4.00).

The Extempore Speech. By Earl W. Wells and Paul X. Knoll. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1942; pp. 362. $3.50.

Essentials of Parliamentary Procedure. By J. Jeffery Auer. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1942; pp. 41. $.45.

Poems of Fun and Fancy. By Edith Martha Deplitch. Boston: Expression Company, 1942; pp. 75. $1.25.

American Speech. By Wilhelmina G. Hedde and William Norwood Brigance. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942; pp. xi + 596. $1.80.

Rehearsal. By Miriam A. Franklin. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1942; pp. 447. $4.00.

The Psychology of Persuasive Speech. By Robert T. Oliver. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1942; pp. 389. $2.75.

The Speech Teacher and Competition. By Roy Bedichek and F. L. Winship. Austin: The University of Texas Publication, 1941; pp. 131. 25 cents.

Poems for Playtime. By Carrie Rasmussen. Boston: Expression Company, 1942; pp. 93. $1,25.

University Debaters’ Annual, 1941–42. Edited by Edith M. Phelps. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1942; pp. 459. $2.25.

Leadership Through Speech. By Joseph G. Brin. New York: Harbinger House, 1942; pp. 140. $2.00.     

Briefly noted

Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, by Paxton Hibben. New York: Doran (now Doubleday, Doran &; Company, Garden City), 1927: pp. 390.

D. L. Moody: A Worker in Souls, by Gamaliel Bradford. New York: Doran, 1927: pp. 320.

Intercollegiate Debates (Volume VIII). Edited by Egbert Ray Nichols. New York: Noble and Noble, 1927: pp. viii, 565.

Debating as an Educator. By John G. Sims, Jr. Published by the author, Box 652, Fort Worth, Texas, 1926: pp. 112.

Four Speeches by Abraham Lincoln Hitherto Unpublished or Unknown. With an introduction by Earl Wellington Wiley, The Ohio State University Press, 1927: pp. 112.

An Introduction to the Drama. Edited by J. B. Hubbell and J. O. Beatty. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.

Talking. By J. B. Priestley. New York: Harper &; Bros., 1926.

An Essay on Conversation. By Henry W. Taft. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927

Conversation. By Olive Heseltine. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1927.

The Road to Xanadu. By John Livingston Lowes. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927: pp. xviii, 639.

The Function and Forms of Thought. By Albert E. Avey. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927: pp. xii, 395.

Demosthenes and His Influence. By Charles Darwin Adams. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927: pp. 184. $1.75.

Les idées politiques d'Isocrate. By Georges Mathieu. Paris: So‐ ciété d'éditions Les Belles Lettres, 1925: pp. 228.

Integrity in Education and Other Papers. By George Norlin. New York: Macmillan, 1926: pp. vi, 231.

Spoken Thought. By Lily C. Whitaker. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1927: pp. x + 596.

Training for Speaking. By Paul Berton. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926.

Stammering and Its Treatment. By Samuel D. Bobbins. Boston: Boston Stammerers’ Institute, 1926; 12 mo, Cloth; pp. 121.

Our Times. Volume II, America Finding Herself. By Mark Sullivan. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1927.     

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.     

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     

A transfer in learning

A Bibliography of Speech Pathology. By Robert West and Mildred Gottbank. Madison, Wisconsin: College Typing Co., 1940; pp. 41, mimeographed.

Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XI. By George C. D. Odell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. $8.75.

Broadcast Receivers and Phonographs for Classroom Use. New York: Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1939; pp. 95. Paper.

Central Sound Systems for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 69. Paper.

Sound Recording Equipment for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 52. Paper.

The Enjoyment of Drama. By Milton Marx. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1940; pp. 242. $1.50

Essentials of Parliamentary Procedure. By J. Jeffery Auer. New York : F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1940 ; pp. x + 35. $.40.

A Handbook of Voice and Diction. By F. Lincoln D. Holmes. F. S. Crofts and Company, 1940; pp. 270. $2.00.

The Logic of Language. By James MacKaye. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Publications, 1939; pp. 303.

Plays of America's Growth. By Samuel S. Ullman. New York: Dodd, Mead &; Company, 1940. pp. 227. $2.00.

The Effect of Varied Amounts of Phonetic Training on Primary Reading. By Donald C. Agnew. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. viii + 50. $1.00.

Minor Mental Maladjustments in Normal People. By J. E. Wallace Wallin. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. IX + 296. $3.00.

Science of Language: Vol. II, Word Study. By J. J. Callahan. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1939; pp. 272 + xi.

Stage Fright And What To Do About It. By Dwight Everett Watkins and Harrison M. Karr, with illustrations by Zadie Harvey. Boston: Expression Company, 1940; pp. 110. $1.50.

The Actor's Handbook, By Caroline Silverthorne. Boston: Expression Company, 1939 ; pp. xiii + 350. $2.50.

Twenty Short Plays On A Royalty Holiday, Vol. II. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York : Samuel French, 1940 ; pp. viii + 486. $3.00.

With Puppets Mimes And Shadows. By Margaret K. Soifer. Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Furrow Press, 1936; pp. 116. $1.50.

Handbook of Parliamentary Law—Revised Edition. By F. M. Gregg. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1940; pp. xii + 112. $1.00.

In a Word. By Margaret S. Ernst. Drawings by James Thurber. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939; pp. 251. $2.50.

Art and Craft of Play Production. By Barnard Hewitt. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940; pp. xii + 388; illustrated. $2.90.

How to Increase Reading Ability: A Guide to Diagnostic and Remedial Methods. By Albert J. Harris. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1940 ; pp. xix + 403. $3.00.

The Mechanism of the Human Voice. By Robert Curry, with a foreword by Douglas Guthrie. New York—Toronto (printed in Great Britain): Longmans, Green &; Co., 1940; pp. ix + 205.

The Language of Gesture. By Macdonald Critchley. London: Edwin Arnold &; Co., (New York: Longmans, Green) 1939; pp. 128. $1.75.

The World's Greatest Debate. Edited by Glenn Clark. St. Paul, Minn. Macalester Park Publishing Co., 1940 ; pp. viii + 214. $2.75.

Public Speaking for Technical Men. By S. Marion Tucker. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939; pp. xvi + 397. $3.00.

Education on the Air. Tenth Yearbook of the Institute for Education by Radio. Edited by Josephine H. MacLatchy. Columbus : Ohio State University, 1939; pp. ix + 436. $3.00.

Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy. By Gilbert Murray. New York : Oxford University Press, 1939; pp. 220.

Your Speech, Sixth Grade I, II ; Seventh Grade I ; Eighth Grade I. By David Powers and Suzanne Martin. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1940; pp. 192, 202, 168, 168. $.75 each.

Interpretation of the Printed Page. By S. H. Clark, revised by Maud May Babcock. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1940; pp. 402. $2.00.

Effective Speaking for Every Occasion. By Willard Hayes Yeager. New York : Prentice‐Hall, 1940 ; pp. viii + 444. $2.60.

Building Your Vocabulary. By John G. Gilmartin. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. v‐ix + 281. $1.12.

Tested Public Speaking. By Elmer Wheeler. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. vii‐x + 173. $2.00.

How to Overcome Stammering. By Mabel F. Gifford. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1940; pp. XII + 169. $2.45.

Sophocles, Poet and Dramatist. By William Nickerson Bates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940; pp. xiii + 291. $3.50.

The Invasion from Mars. By Hadley Cantril, with the assistance of Hazel Gaudet and Herta Herzog. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1940; pp. xv + 228. $2.50.

Filibustering in the Senate. By Franklin L. Burdette. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1940 ; pp. ix + 252. $2.50.

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy. By Fredson Thayer Bowers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940 ; pp. viii + 288. $3.00.

Rhode Island Speaks, and Rhode Island High School Model Congress. Bristol, R.I. : Rhode Island Speech Association, Monographs No. 1 and 2, 1940.

Make Yourself a Better Speaker. By E. C. Buehler. New York : The Ronald Press Company, 1940 ; pp. xii + 250. $2.50.

Children and the Theater. By Caroline E. Fisher and Hazel Glaister Robertson. California: Stanford University Press, 1940. pp. XIII + 191. $3.00.

A Speech Teacher's Manual By Florence Henderson. Honolulu, T.H.: University of Hawaii Book Store, 1940; pp. v + 111; mimeographed.

Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends. By Donald Cross Bryant. St. Louis : Washington University Studies—New Series. Language and Literature— No. 9. 1939; pp. xii + 323. $2.75.

Representative American Speeches: 1938–1939. Selected by A. Craig Baird. The Reference Shelf, vol. 13, no. 3. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 265; $1.25.

Anthology of Public Speeches. Compiled by Mabel Platz. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 852; $3.75.

The American Neutrality Problem. Compiled and edited by Charles F. Phillips and J. V. Garland. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 404. $2.00.

The Student Congress Movement: with Discussion on American Neutrality. Edited by Lyman Spicer Judson. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 225. $1.25.

The American Drama Since 1918. By Joseph Wood Krutch. New York: Random House, 1939; pp. 325. $2.50.

American Playwrights: 1918–1938. By Eleanor Flexner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939; pp. 331. $2.50.

How to Make Good Recordings. Audio Devices, 1600 Broadway, New York, 1940. pp. 128. $1.25.

Yearbook of Drama Festivals and Contests. By Ernest Bavely. Cincinnati, Ohio: Educational Theatre Press, 1939; pp. 144.

Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane. By Richard Hindry Barker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; pp. 278. $3.00.

Today in American Drama. By Frank Hurburt O'Hara. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1939; pp. 277. $2.50.     

Today's speech books in review

Boardman, Gail, Oral Communication of Literature, 1953, N. Y.: Prentice‐Hall, pp. 472, $4.95.

Gassner, John, Producing The Play, (rev. ed.), 1953, N. Y.: Dryden Press, pp. 915, $5.75.

Gottlober, A. B., Understanding Stuttering, 1952, N. Y.: Grune and Stratton. pp. 288, $5.50.

Harding, H. F., The Age of Danger, 1952, N. Y.: Random House, pp. 561, $3.25.

Haut, Lillian, Speak Correctly, 1952, N. Y.: Speech Handbooks, pp. 56, $1.50.

Huston, A. D., and Sandberg, R. A., Everyday Business Speech, 1952, N. Y.: Prentice‐Hall, pp. 302, $4.00.

Johnson, W., et al, Diagnostic Manual In Speech Correction, 1953, N. Y.: Harper, pp. 221, $2.50.

Lee, C. I., Oral Interpretation, 1952, N. Y.: Houghton‐Mifflin. pp. 596, $3.50.

Lee, I. J., How To Talk With People, 1952, N. Y.: Harper, pp. 176, $2.00.

O'Brien, J. F., Parliamentary Law for The Layman, 1952, N. Y.: Harper, pp. 248, $3.00.

Van Dusen, C. R., Training The Voice For Speech, sec. ed., 1952, N. Y.: McGraw Hill. pp. 232, $3.50.

Van Riper, C., A Case Book In Speech Therapy, 1953, N. Y.: Prentice‐Hall, pp. 144, $2.75.     

Eastern public speaking conference

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.     

Graduate study and research

Speech Correction on the Contract Plan. By Ruth B. Manser. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1935; pp. xix + 333.

Leadership in a Changing World. Ed. by M. David Hoffman and Ruth Wanger. New York: Harper and Bros., 1935 ; pp. xv + 418.

Your Telltale English. By Sophie C. Hadida. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935 ; pp. 419. $2.00.

Propaganda; Its Psychology and Technique. By Leonard W. Doob. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1935; pp. x + 424. $3.00.

The 1932 Campaign: An Analysis. By Roy V. Peel and Thomas C. Donnelly. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935; pp. viii + 242. $1.50.

A B C of Reading. By Ezra Pound. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934; pp. xii + 197.

Lotteries. Compiled by Helen M. Muller. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1935 ; pp. 128. $0.90.

Old Age Pensions. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1935 ; pp. 295. $0.90.

Socialized Medicine. A debate reprinted from the University Debaters’ Annual for 1933–1934. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1935 ; pp. 31: $.35.

Road To War: America 1914–1917. By Walter Millis. Boston and New York: Houghton Miffiin Company, 1935 ; pp. ix + 466. Index. $3.00.

Speech Therapy. By Emil Fröschels. Translated from the German by Joseph Noyes Haskell. Boston: The Expression Company, 1933 ; pp. 252.

Speech in Childhood: Its Development and Disorders. By George Seth and Douglas Guthrie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935 ; pp. x + 224. $3.50.

A Study of Illiteracy in C.C.C. Camps. Washington: Bulletin 110068 of the United States Office of Education, Department of the Interior, 1935.

Propaganda and Promotional Activities. An Annotated Bibliography. By H. D. Lasswell, R. D. Casey, and B. L. Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1935 ; pp. 450.

World Politics and Personal Insecurity. By H. D. Lasswell. New York: Whittlesey House, 1935 ; pp. 307.

Fox. By Christopher Hobhouse. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935; pp. 320. $3.50.

Architecture for the New Theatre. Edited by Edith J. R. Isaacs. Published for the National Theatre Conference. New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1935 ; pp. 125. $2.50.

Directing for the Amateur Stage. By Leslie Crump. New York: Dodd, Mead &; Co., 1935; pp. xi + 235. $2.50.

Freedom of the Press. By George Seldes. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐ Merrill Co., 1935 ; pp. 380. $2.75.

Psychology of Acting. By Lorenz Kjerbühl‐Petersen, translated by Sarah T. Barrows. Boston: Expression Company, 1935 ; pp. 255. $3.50.

Congress or the Supreme Court. Edited by Egbert Ray Nichols. New York: Noble &; Noble, Inc., 1935; pp. 476. $2.00.

Aphasia: A Clinical and Psychological Study. By Theodore Weisenburg and Katherine McBride. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1935 ; pp. 634. $5.00.

Current English. By Arthur G. Kennedy. Boston: Ginn &; Co., 1935; pp. xiii + 737. $3.50.

The Development of Modern English. By Stuart Robertson. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1934; pp. vii + 559. $2.50.

The Politician: His Habits, Outcries, and Protective Coloring. By James Harold Wallis. New York: The Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1935; pp. x + 333. $3.00.

Play Production. By M. V. C. Jeffreys and R. W. Stopford. London: Methuen &; Co., New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1933; pp. xviii + 199. $2.50.

The Genesis and Growth of English. By J. S. Armour. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935; pp. xi + 182. $1.25.

The Neutrality Policy of the United States. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. The Reference Shelf, vol. X, no. 7. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1936; pp. 267. $0.90.

How to Conduct Group Discussion. By A. F. Wileden and H. L. Ewbank. Madison: Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 1935; pp. 64.

Who Should Pay the Doctor Bills. By H. L. Ewbank and Martin P. Anderson. Madison: Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 1936; pp. 38.

Effective Speech: First Course. By Lousene Rousseau and Mary E. Cramer. New York: Harper &; Bros., 1936; pp. xii + 300. $1.20.

The Science and Art of Speech. By Charles Robert Walsh. New York: Benziger Bros., 1935; pp. xvii + 193. $2.60.

Mediaeval Artes Praedicandi: A Supplementary Hand‐List. By Harry Caplan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1936; pp. 36.

Masks and Marionettes. By Joseph Spencer Kennard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935; pp. ix + 129. $3.50.

The Public Speaker's Scrapbook. By William G. Hoffman. New York: Whittlesey House, 1935; pp. xi + 269. $2.50.

For Stutterers. By Smiley Blanton, M.D., and Margaret Gray Blanton. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Co., 1936; pp. xi + 191. $2.00.

Basic Speech and Voice Science. By L. S. Judson and A. T. Weaver. Madison: The College Typing Company, 1933; pp. iv + 218. $4.25.

Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound, to the Beginning of the 20th Century. By Dayton C. Miller. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935 ; pp. xi + 114. $2.50.

Lucius Q. C. Lainar. By Wirt Armistead Cate. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935 ; pp. xiii + 594. $5.00.

Disorders of Speech and Voice, 4th ed. By Robert West. Madison: College Typing Co., 1935; pp. 144. $2.75.

Bibliography of Disorders of Speech and Voice. By Robert West. Madison: College Typing Co., 1934; pp. 21. $0.50.

Signals and Speech in Electrical Communication. By John Mills. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934; pp. 281. $2.75.

Something About Words. By Ernest Weekley. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1936; pp. 233. $1.75.

A History of the Philadelphia Theatre 1835–1855. By Arthur. Herman Wilson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935 ; pp. 724. $6.00.

How to Develop Your Speaking Voice, By E. H. Baxter Rinquest. Denver: Frank J. Wolf Publishing House, 1935; pp. 228.

An Experience Curriculum in English. A Report of a Commission of the National Council of Teachers of English. W. Wilbur Hatfield, Chairman. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, Inc., 1935; pp. x + 323. $1.50. (To members of the N.C.T.E. $1.00.)