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LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN ENGLAND, 1500–1700. By Wilbur Samuel Howell. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1956; pp. vii+411. $6.00.

THE AMERICAN LYCEUM: TOWN MEETING OF THE MIND. By Carl Bode. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956; pp. xxi+275. $5.00.

THE LIFE OF MATTHEW SIMPSON. By Robert D. Clark. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956; pp. xi+344. $5.50.

EDEN: THE MAKING OF A STATESMAN. By Alan Campbell‐Johnson. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1955; pp. xiv+306. $5.00.

ANTHONY EDEN: THE CHRONICLE OF A CAREER. By Lewis Broad. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955; pp. viii+280. $5.00.

PORTRAIT OF A STATESMAN. By Dennis Bardens. London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1955; pp. 326. 215.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1954–1955. Edited by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1955; pp. 190. $1.50.

MRS. FISKE AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE. By Archie Binns, in collaboration with Olive Kooken. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955; pp. x+436. $5.00.

THESE WERE ACTORS: A STORY OF THE CHAPMANS AND THE DRAKES. By George D. Ford. New York: Library Publishers, 1955; pp. xx+314. $5.00.

DRAMATIC THEORY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Richard B. Vowles. New York: The New York Public Library, 1956; pp. 59. $.85.

HANDBOOK OF SPEECH IMPROVEMENT. By Charles Kenneth Thomas. New York: The Ronald Press, 1956; pp. 135. $2.75.

A HANDBOOK FOR SPEECH IMPROVEMENT: KINDERGARTEN—GRADES ONE TO SIX. By the New England Speech Association, Committee on Speech in the Elementary Schools. New England Speech Association, 1956; pp. 67. $1.50.

TRIPPINGLY ON THE TONGUE. By Harry J. Heltman. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1955; pp. 123. $1.60.

SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL. Edited by Merle E. Frampton and Elena D. Gall. Three volumes. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1955.

LANGUAGE: A MODERN SYNTHESIS. By Joshua Whatmough. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1956; pp. ix+270. $4.75.

STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION. By A. J. Ayer and others: London, 1955, and published in the U. S. A. by Essential Books, Inc., Fairlawn, New Jersey; pp. viii+184. $3.40.

CYBERNETICS: CIRCULAR, CAUSAL AND FEEDBACK MECHANISMS IN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. Edited by Heinz von Foerster. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Publications, 1955; pp. 100. $2.75.

OPINIONS AND PERSONALITY. By M. Brewster Smith, Jerome S. Bruner, and Robert W. White. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1956; vii+294. $6.00.

THE ART OF INTERPRETATIVE SPEECH: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF EFFECTIVE READING. By Charles H. Woolbert and Severina E. Nelson. (Fourth edition), New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1956; pp. ix+676. $4.50.

HELPING THE BIBLE SPEAK. By Johnnye Akin, Seth Fessenden, P. Merville Larson, and Albert N. Williams. New York: Association Press, 1956; pp. 117. $2.50.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ON THE JOB. Edited by M. Joseph Dooher and Vivienne Marquis. New York: American Management Association, 1956; pp. 294. $4.50.

THE FOCUSED INTERVIEW: A MANUAL OF PROBLEMS AND PROCEDURES. By Robert K. Merton, Marjorie Fiske and Patricia L. Kendall. Illinois: The Free Press, 1956; pp. xxii+185. $3.00.

THE TELEVISION‐RADIO AUDIENCE AND RELIGION. By Everett C. Parker, David W. Barry and Dallas W. Smythe. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955; pp. xxx+464. $6.00.

HOW TO DIRECT FOR TELEVISION. Edited by William L. Kaufman. New York: Hastings House, 1955; pp. 96. $2.50.

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