| Abstract: | 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. |
