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Dialectic. By Mortimer J. Adler. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1927. International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. Pp. 265. $3.50.

An Outline of Contemporary Drama—By Thomas H. Dickinson, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1927. 298 pp.

The Drama in Adult Education, A Report by the Adult Education Committee of the Board of Education. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1927.

Persuasion and Delate. By George Rowland Collins and John Seybold Morris. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1927. Pp. 3d, 280.

The Teacher's Book of Phonetics, by Sarah T. Barrows and Anna D. Cordts. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1927. $1.40.

Successful Speaking. A Text for Secondary Schools. By William Phillips Sandford and Willard Hayes Yeager. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1927. Pp. ix, 223, with appendix

Fifth National Oratorical Contest and Third International Oratorical Contest for Secondary Schools. Randolph Leigh, Director, 323 Star Building, Washington, D. C. Pp.51.

The Pronunciphone Course. A set of seven double‐faced phonograph records with a Manual of Instruction called good taste in speech. Prepared by a group of educators, writers and speakers under the direction of Professor Edward Hall Gardner, A. M., for 18 years a member of the faculty of the University of “Wisconsin, and E. Bay Skinner, Phonetician, Department of Speech, University of Wisconsin. The Pronunciphone Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Voice Beautiful. By Earnest G. White. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, New York; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1927. Pp. viii, 166. (First edition appeared as Science and Singing, 1909, enlarged as Voice Beautiful in 1918, again enlarged in 1922, and once more presented in 1927.)

Gray's Public Speaking Test. By J. Stanley‐ Gray. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Book Company, 1928.

Speech Criticism Folder. By Arleigh B. Williamson and William J. Farma. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1928.