Briefly Noted

William J. Reese. The Power and Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 352pp.
Fritz Ringer (ed.). Toward a Social History of Knowledge: Collected Essays. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 208pp.
William H. Schubert, Ann Lynn Lopez Schubert, Thomas P. Thomas, and Wayne M. Carroll, Curriculum Books: The First Hundred Years , 2nd ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 608pp.
Thomas F. Ruffin, with Jo Jackson and Mary J. Hebert. Under Stately Oaks: A Pictorial History of LSU. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 162pp.
Eric Darner and Marilyn C. Barrick. Discovery by Design: The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of British Columbia, Origins and History: 1907–2001. Vancouver: The Mechanical Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2002. 226pp.
David J. Staley. Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002. 174pp.     

Briefly Noted

Barbara A. White. The Beecher Sisters . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.416pp.
Amanda Frisken. Victoria Woodhull's. Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America . Philadelpha: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 225pp.
Leonard Warren. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: A Voice in the American Wilderness . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. 252pp.
Wayne E. Fuller. Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 264pp.
Stephen Hardy. How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community, 1865–1915 . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. 272pp.
Jennifer D. Keene. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.294pp.
John Trumpbour. Selling Hollywood to the World: US. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 396pp.
John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds. The New Left Revisited . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. 312pp.     

Publications Received and Noted

The South Australian College of Advanced Education was formed in 1982 from an amalgamation of four Colleges of Advanced Education existing under their own Councils. Management of the new institution with a centralised decision‐making structure was complex. In 1986, it was agreed to develop an Institutional Plan using a process which acknowledged the distinctive characteristics of higher education institutions. Over a period of eighteen months and using a strategic approach, with emphasis on process, a Plan was developed. Involvement of staff at all levels of the institution, the leadership and commitment of senior management, the plan's quality and flexibility, a provision for evaluation of goal achievement and annual review and revision, were highlighted as important. The process was widely welcomed and acknowledged as a successful approach to planning in an institution of higher education.     

Briefly noted

THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD. By George Kennedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. xvi+658. $18.50; paper $9.75.     

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.