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GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS & THE GENTEEL TRADITION. By Gordon Milne. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1956; pp. x+294. $6.00.

THE ORIGINS AND PREHISTORY OF LANGUAGE. By G. Révész. Translated from the German by J. Butler. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956; pp. viii+240. $7.50.

MEANING AND NECESSITY. By Rudolf Carnap. Second Edition, Enlarged. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1956; pp. x+258. $5.00.

HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER: MAN OF THE THEATRE, DRAMATIST AND SCHOLAR. By C. R. Purdom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; pp. xiv+322. $6.00.

LA FOLLETTE AND THE RISE OF THE PROGRESSIVES IN WISCONSIN. By Robert S. Maxwell. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1956; pp. xii+271. $4.50.

DAVID CROCKETT: THE MAN AND THE LEGEND. By James Atkins Shackford. Edited by John B. Shackford. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956; pp. xiv+338. $6.00.

THE LEGACY OF HOLMES AND BRANDEIS: A STUDY IN THE INFLUENCE OF IDEAS. By Samuel J. Konefsky. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956; pp. 316. $6.00.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PETER CARTWRIGHT. Introduction, Bibliography, and Index by Charles L. Wallis. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1956; pp. 349. $3.75.

THE ART OF GREEK COMEDY. By Katherine Lever. London: Methuen and Company, 1956; pp. x+212. 21s.

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 9. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956; pp. viii+168. $3.75.

THE LIVING STAGE. By Kenneth Macgowan and William Melnitz. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955; pp. xiii+543. $8.00.

MILTON AND SCIENCE. By KesteT Svendsen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. x+304. $5.50.

A STUDY OF THINKING. By Jerome S. Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, and George A. Austin. With an appendix on Inaguage by Roger W. Brown. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1956; pp. xi+330. $5.50.

LEADERSHIP AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE GROUP. By Donald T. Campbell. Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Business Research, Ohio State University, 1956; pp. 92. $1.00.

EVERYMAN'S ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY. By Daniel Jones. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1956; pp. xiv+538. $5.00.

WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY, Concise Edition. David B. Guralnik, General Editor. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956; pp. xiv+882. $3.00.

THE VOCABULARY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CLASSROOM SPEECHES. By John W. Black and Marian Ausherman. Columbus, Ohio: The Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1955; pp. 68.

THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE TO DEAF CHILDREN. By Agnes Lack. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955; pp. xv+380. $2.90.

TELEVISION IN THE MAKING. Edited by Paul Rotha. New York: Hastings House, 1956; pp. 215. $5.75.

MASS COMMUNICATION: TELEVISION, RADIO, FILM, PRESS. ... By Erik Barnouw. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956; pp. iii+272. College Edition, $3.50.

THE EGGHEAD AND THE OTHERS. By Donley Feddersen. Chicago: Coach House Press, 1955; pp. 64. $2.75.

WHAT IS VITAL IN RELIGION. SERMONS ON CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS. By Harry Emerson Fosdick. New York: HarpeT and Brothers, 1955; pp. 238. $3.00.

STORYTELLING. By Claudia Royal. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1955; pp. 132. $2.00.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE FOR THE TEN YEARS 1945–1954. Edited by Austin Wright. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956; pp. 310. $5.00.

SIR KENELM DIGBY: THE ORNAMENT OF ENGLAND. By R. T. Petersson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. 366. $6.00.

NORTH CAROLINA DRAMA. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Walser. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1956; pp. 229. $4.00.

THEATRICAL COMPANION TO MAUGHAM. By Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956; pp. vii+303. $8.50.

COSTUMES AND STYLES. By Henry Harald Hansen. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1956; pp. 160. $5.95.

THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PUPPET THEATRE. By George Speaight. New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1955; pp. 343. $5.50.

ORAL COMMUNICATION. By Paul Dickerson Brandes. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1956; pp. 211. $2.75.

AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH PHONETICS. By Daniel Jones. Eighth Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, and Company, Inc., 1956; pp. xx+378. $4.50.

GUIDES TO STRAIGHT THINKING. By Stuart Chase. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956; pp. 212. $3.50.

ARISTOTLE: RHETORIC, AN ABSTRACT OF PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Pat M. Ryan, Jr. Golden, Colorado: Colorado School of Mines, n.d.; pp. 17. $1.00.

A MANUAL FOR BEGINNING DEBATING. By Douglas R. Sherman. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1956; pp. 16. $.50.

FACE YOUR AUDIENCE. By William Hodapp. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1956; pp. 130. $3.95.

HUMAN RELATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. By Seymour W. Beardsley and Alvin G. Edgell. Washington, D. C.: Public Affairs Press, 1956; pp. 40. $1.00.

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE PLAYHOUSE. By Irwin Smith. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956; pp. xxiii+240; 31 plates; 12 line drawings; 15 scale drawings. $7.00.

PRACTICAL SPEECH. By H. Keith Slothower. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1956; pp. 90. $1.60.