New books in review

THE ETHICS OF RHETORIC. By Richard M. Weaver. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953; pp. 234. $3.50.

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL CUSTOM: A FORGOTTEN FACTOR IN THE FOUNDING. By Burleigh Cushing Rodick. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953; pp. xx+244. $4.75.

THE MISSOURI CONTROVERSY, 1819–1821. By Glover Moore. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1953; pp. viii+383. $6.00.

ABE LINCOLN. AN ANTHOLOGY COMPILED AND EDITED BY HILAH PAULMIER. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. xvi+306+xiii. $3.50.

APOSTLES OF DISCORD. By Ralph Lord Roy. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953; pp. 437. $3–75.

FREEDOM AND AUTHORITY IN OUR TIME. Edited by Lyman Bryson. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953; pp. 767. $6.00.

ELIZABETH I AND HER PARLIAMENTS. By J. E. Neale. New York: British Book Centre, Inc.; pp. 424. $5.50.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER PRIME MINISTERS. By Algernon Cecil. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953; pp. vii+356. $6.00.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS. Edited by Peter Quennell. New York: Roy Publishers, 1953; pp. vii+177. $3.50.

THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE. By John B. Carroll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953; pp. xi+289. $4.75.

A SURVEY OF VERB FORMS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. By E. Bagby Atwood. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1953. $2.50.

THE VOWEL PHONEMES OF MEIGRET. By George Raymond Shipman. Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics; No. 3. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 1953; xiii+82. $2.00.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS. By John Hospers. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1953; pp. 532. $5.95.

THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. By M. H. Abrams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953; pp. xiii+406. $7.50.

POETRY AND THE AGE. By Randall Jarrell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. 271. §4.00.

THE UNRELUCTANT YEARS. By Lillian H. Smith. Chicago: The American Library Association, 1953; pp. 300. $4.50.

THE FINER TONE. KEATS’ MAJOR POEMS. By Earl R. Wasserman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953; pp. 228. $4.00.

CHARLES DICKENS—HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH. By Edgar Johnson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952; Volume 1, pp. xxii+585+xlvii; Volume 2, pp. XXW+581+cli. $10.00.

DICKENS THE DRAMATIST. By F. Dubrez Fawcett. London: W. H. Allen, 1952; pp. 278. 21/‐net.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: A CRITICAL SURVEY. Edited by Louis Kronenberger. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1953; pp. xviii+263. $6.00.

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 6. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. New York: Cambridge University Press, American Branch, 1953; pp. viii+185. $3.75.

SHAKESPEARE. By Mark Van Doren. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1953; pp. xv+302. $.85.

SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF LEARNING: AN INQUIRY INTO THE GROWTH OF HIS MIND AND ART. By Virgil K. Whitaker. California: The Huntington Library, 1953; pp. ix+366. $6.50.

CÉCILE SOREL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By Cécile Sorel. Translated by Philip John Stead. Foreword by M. Willson Disher. New York: Staples Press, 1953; pp. 285. $2.50.

THE THEATRE ANNUAL, 1953. Edited by Blanche A. Corwin. Vol. XI. New York: Theatre Library Association, 1953; pp. 69. $1.50.

THE ART OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM. By S. R. Littlewood. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1952; pp. x+182. 15s.

TO THE ACTOR ON THE TECHNIQUE OF ACTING. By Michael Chekhov. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953; pp. xvi+201. $2.50.

PRACTICAL MAKE‐UP FOR THE STAGE. By T. W. Bamford. (Second edition.) London: Pittman Press, 1952; pp. 135. $3.50.

A RADIO AND TELEVISION BIBLIOGRAPHY. Edited by Burton Paulu. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1952; pp. 129.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ACCEPTED BY AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1951–1952. Number 19. Compiled for The Association of Research Libraries and edited by Arnold H. Trotier and Marian Harman. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1952; pp. xv+269. $5.00.

EXPOSITORY PREACHING FOR TODAY. By Andrew W. Blackwood. New York: Abingdon Cokesbury, 1953; pp. 224. $3.00.