Report from the war committee

BASIC SPEECH. By Jon Eisenson and Paul H. Boase. (Second edition.) New York: Macmillan, 1964; pp. xii+388. $5.95.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEAKING. By Wilbur E. Gilman, Bower Aly, and Hollis L. White. (Second edition.) New York: Macmillan, 1964; pp. vii+440. $5.95.

PRACTICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Eugene E. White. (Second edition.) New York: Mac‐millan, 1964; pp. xi+402. $4.95.

THE CRAFT OF PLAY DIRECTING. By Curtis Canfield. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963; pp. xi+349. $6.00.

TELEVISION STATION MANAGEMENT: THE BUSINESS OF BROADCASTING. Edited by Yale Roe. Foreword by A. William Bluem. New York: Hastings House, 1964; pp. 251. $6.95; paper $3.95.

UNDERSTANDING TELEVISION: AN INTRODUCTION TO BROADCASTING. Edited by Robert L. Hilliard. New York: Hastings House, 1964; pp. 254 (75 illustrations). $6.95; paper $3.95.

SPEECH CORRECTION: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS. By Charles Van Riper. (Fourth edition.) Ehglewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1963; pp. x+528. $7.95.

DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN SPEECH PATHOLOGY. By Wendell Johnson, Frederic L. Darley, and D. C. Spriesterbach. New York: Harper &; Row, 1963; pp. xv+347. $7.50.

THE RELIGIOUS SPEECHES OF BERNARD SHAW. Edited with an Introduction by Warren S. Smith. Foreword by Arthur H. Nethercot. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1963; pp. xxiii+104. $3.50.

SHAW AND THE NINETEENTH‐CENTURY THEATER. By Martin Meisel. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1963; pp. xii+477. $7.50.

THE THEATER OF PROTEST AND PARADOX: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVANT‐GARDE DRAMA. By George E. Wellwarth. New York: New York University Press, 1964; pp. xv+315. $6.00.

THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY. Volume III, Presidential Candidate, 1821–1S24. Edited by James F. Hopkins and Mary M. W. Har‐greaves. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1963; pp. viii+933. 115.00.

PROLOGUE TO CONFLICT: THE CRISIS AND COMPROMISE OF 1850. By Holman Hamilton. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1964; pp. x+236. $5.00.

DEBATERS AND DYNAMITERS: THE STORY OF THE HAYWOOD TRIAL. By David H. Grover. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1964; pp. viii+310. $6.00.

GEORGE W. NORRIS: THE MAKING OF A PROGRESSIVE, 1861–1912. By Richard Lowitt. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1963; pp. xiv+341. $7.95.

PRAIRIE REBEL: THE PUBLIC LIFE OF WILLIAM LEMKE. By Edward C. Blackor‐by. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963; pp. xii+339. $6.50.

THE REVOLT OF THE CONSERVATIVES: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE, 1934–1940. By George Wolf‐skill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962; pp. x+303. $5.00.

VISIONS OF ORDER: THE CULTURAL CRISIS OF OUR TIME. By Richard M. Weaver. Foreword by Russell Kirk. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964; pp. ix+153. $4.50.

RHETORIC OF RACIAL REVOLT. By Roy L. Hill. Denver: Golden Bell Press, 1964; pp. 378. $5.50.

AMERICA'S NEW POLICY MAKERS: THE SCIENTISTS' RISE TO POWER. By Donald W. Cox. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1964; pp. xiv+298. $6.95.

THE PROFESSIONAL: LYNDON B. JOHNSON. By William S. White. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964; pp. 273. $5.00.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON: A BIOGRAPHY. By Harry Provence. New York: Fleet, 1964; pp. 192. $4.50.

LBJ: THE MAN FROM JOHNSON CITY. By Clarke Newlon. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964; pp. x+213. $3.75.

A TIME FOR ACTION: A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF LYNDON B. JOHNSON, 1953–64. Introduction by Adlai E. Stevenson. New York: Atheneum, 1964; pp. xv+183. $3.95; paper $.50.

IT SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE. By Sam J. Slate and Joe Cook. New York: Macmillan, 1963; pp. xliv+270. $6.95.

A GUIDE TO INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION. Edited by Robert M. Diamond. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1964; pp. ix+304. $7.50.     

Introducing group counselling into Nigerian secondary schools: Report of a three-year experience

This paper presents a progress of the efforts by a department in a Nigerian University to introduce group counselling into near-by secondary schools. First, it reviews the traditional concept of guidance and counselling in Nigeria and compares this with the western concept, with emphasis on providing guidance/counselling to one individual at a time. The paper then discusses at length the group counselling programme that is used in various schools, mentioning findings on problems that adolescents are faced with. In a section devoted to evaluation, it was shown that Nigerian schools do need guidance counsellors. The last section discusses counselling techniques. Here is emphasised that, as counselling goes into Nigerian schools, there is a need to devise culturally viable techniques of handling issues and problems that are culturally peculiar to Africans.University of Ilorin     

Picking the winners by consensus: Grant-giving practice in the Netherlands

The Netherlands form a consensus democracy. In such a society the legitimacy of decisions is of great concern to all. An elaborate system of checks and balances tends to exist and the pressure to join an emerging consensus at meetings is both subtle and tremendously powerful. In the Dutch system of higher education and research the manifestations of the consensus ideal are numerous. This paper highlights them where appropriate. It reviews the Dutch research effort in an international perspective and concludes that R&D expenditure in the Netherlands, measured as a proportion of GDP, is declining. Fairly radical changes in science policy orientation since the 1960s are reviewed and the current frameworks for policy formulation, academic foresight and the organisation of support are sketched. After discussing NWO's different funding instruments, the practices of picking the winners are described in some detail. Three different peer review models are then discussed with special attention to their strengths and weaknesses. The paper's final section is focussed on the evaluation practices in force.     

社会转折期的文学表征——1977-1978年作家回忆录研究

1977-1978年的作家回忆录具有两方面的文学史价值:首先,它是八十年代作家回忆录写作高潮的历史源头;其次,它表征了中国社会历史转折期的时代特征.对作家等级的隐性划分,对作家革命精神、道德人品的刻意强调,对知识分子思想改造问题的保留,对一些历史问题的微妙处理,以及在此过程中表现出来的情感和文风,都让这些作家回忆录成为了中国社会转折期的一个文学表征.