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KING RICHARD II. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Peter Ure. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. lxxxiii+207. $3.85.

KING HENRY VI, PART 2. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Andrew S. Cairncross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. liv+197. $4.50.

KING HENRY VIII. By William Shakespeare. Edited by R. A. Foakes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. lxv+215. $3.85.

LITERARY CRITICISM: A SHORT HISTORY. By William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957; pp. xviii+755+xxii. $8.95 trade; $6.75 text.

ANATOMY OF CRITICISM: FOUR ESSAYS. By Northrop Frye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957; pp. x+383. $6.oo.

COUNTER‐STATEMENT. By Kenneth Burke. Phoenix Books; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957; pp. xiii+219. $1.25.

THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM. By Yvor Winters. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1957; pp. 500. $3.00.

CONTEXTS OF CRITICISM. By Harry Levin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. xi+294. $5.00.

FORM AND MEANING IN DRAMA: A STUDY OF SIX GREEK PLAYS AND OF HAMLET. By H. D. F. Kitto. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1957; pp. vii+341. $6.00.

COMEDY IN THE SOVIET THEATRE. By Peter Yershov. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956; pp. 280. $5.00.

THEATRE WORLD, SEASON 1955–56. Edited by Daniel Blum. New York: Greenberg, 1956; pp. 256; 773 plates. $5.00.

THEATRE ‘56. Edited by John Chapman. New York: Random House, 1956; pp. 501; 12 plates. $5.00.

THEATRE WORLD ANNUAL (LONDON), No. 7, 1955–56. Edited by Frances Stephens. New York: Macmillan, 1956; pp. 176; 302 plates. $4.50.

CONTEMPORARY THEATRE, 1953–1956. By Audrey Williamson. New York: Macmillan, 1956; pp. xi+195; 46 plates. $5.00.

THE THEATRE ANNUAL, 1956 (XIV). Edited by Blanche A. Corin. New York: Theatre Annual, 1956; pp. 65; 8 plates. $1.50.

FORM AND IDEA IN MODERN THEATRE. By John Gassner. New York: Dryden Press; pp. xiv+290. $4.50.

THE TECHNIQUE OF ACTING. By F. Cowles Strickland. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1956; pp. xviii+306. $5.95.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON: SELECTIONS REPRESENTING HIS LIFE, HIS THOUGHT, AND HIS STYLE. Edited, with an Introduction, by Bower Aly. American Heritage Series, No. 20. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957; pp. xxvi+261. Cloth $3.50; paper $1.25.

HENRY CLAY AND THE ART OF AMERICAN POLITICS. By Clement Eaton. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1957; pp. 209. $3.50.

LINCOLN AND THE BLUEGRASS. By William H. Townsend. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955; pp. 392. $6.50.

BEN BUTLER. THE SOUTH CALLED HIM BEAST1 By Hans L. Trefousse. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1957; pp. 365. $5.00.

WILSON: THE NEW FREEDOM. By Arthur S. Link. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1956; pp. xiii+504. $7.50.

CRISIS IN COMMUNICATION: A CHRISTIAN EXAMINATION OF THE MASS MEDIA. By Malcolm Boyd. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1957; pp. 128. $2.95.

MASS CULTURE: THE POPULAR ARTS IN AMERICA. Edited by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1957; pp. x+561. $6.50.

PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY. Edited by Reynolds C. Seitz. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1956; pp. 166. Apply.

THE LIBERTIES OF AN AMERICAN. By Lee Pfeffer. Boston: Beacon Press, 1956; pp. 309. $5.00.

THE ONE‐EYED GUNNER AND OTHER PORTRAITS. By Robert Beloof. London: Villiers Publications, 1956; pp. 68. $2.00.

FOR SOME STRINGED INSTRUMENT. By Peter Kane Dufault. New York: Macmillan, 1957; pp. 52. $2.75.

THE OPULENT CITIZEN. By LeRoy Smith, Jr. New York: Macmillan, 1957; pp. 91. $3.50.

THE SINAI SORT. By Norman MacCaig. New York: Macmillan, 1957; pp. 62. $2.25.

READINGS IN LINGUISTICS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS IN AMERICA SINCE 1925. Edited by Martin Joos. Washington: American Council of Learned Societies, 1957; pp. viii+481.

STUTTERING: SIGNIFICANT THEORIES AND THERAPIES. By Eugene F. Hahn. (Second edition prepared by Elise S. Hahn.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1956; pp. xii+180. $4.00.

THE RIDDLE OF STUTTERING. By C. S. Bluemel. Danville, Illinois: Interstate Publishing, 1957; pp. 142. $3.50.

THE FUNDAMENTALS AND FORMS OF SPEECH. By Andrew Thomas Weaver and Ordean Gerhard Ness. New York: Odyssey Press, 1957; pp. ix+470. $4.25.

SPEECH: IDEA AND DELIVERY. By Charles W. Lomas and Ralph Richardson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956; pp. 281. $3.25.

SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE AND DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES. By Harold P. Zelko. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1957; pp. ix+264. $5.00.

ON BEING RETIRED. By T. V. Smith. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1956; pp. 41. $0.50.

ECONOMIC NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE. By John J. Corson and John W. McConnell. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1956; pp. xi+533. $4.50.