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JAMES K. POLK: JACKSONIAN, 1795–1843. By Charles Grier Sellers, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957; pp. xiv+526. $7.50.

SELECTIONS FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Edited by Stephen E. Whicher. (Riverside Editions A 13.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958; pp. xxvi+517. Paper $1.15.

HOKE SMITH AND THE POLITICS OF THE NEW SOUTH. By Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958; pp. 396. $5.00.

THEY GATHERED AT THE RIVER: THE STORY OF THE GREAT REVIVALISTS AND THEIR IMPACT UPON RELIGION IN AMERICA. By Bernard A. Weisberger. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958; pp. xiv+345. $5.00.

THE POETRY OF GREEK TRAGEDY. By Richmond Lattimore. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1958; pp. 157. $3.50.

THE MEDIEVAL THEATRE IN THE ROUND: A STUDY OF THE STAGING OF THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE AND RELATED MATTERS. By Richard Southern. London: Faber and Faber, 1957; New York: Theatre Ans Books, 1958; pp. xviii+240. $8.50.

A FOURTEENTH‐CENTURY PROMPT BOOK: PHILIPPE DE MÉZIÊRES’ FESTUM PRAESENTATIONIS BEATAE MARIAE. By Albert B. Weiner. New Haven: Andrew Kner, 1958; pp. 85. $3.50.

BEST AMERICAN PLAYS. FOURTH SERIES — 1951–1957. Edited with an Introduction by John Gassner. New York: Crown Publishers, 1958; pp. xxi+648. $5.75.

BROADWAY'S BEST: 1957. THE COMPLETE RECORD OF THE THEATRICAL YEAR. By John Chapman. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957; pp. 329. $4.50.

CREATIVE DRAMATICS: AN ART FOR CHILDREN. By Geraldine Brain Siks. New York: Harper, 1958; pp. xxiv+472. $4.50.

CONTEMPORARY LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP. Edited by Lewis Leary for The Committee on Literary Scholarship and the Teaching of English of the National Council of Teachers of English. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1958; pp. x+474. $5.00.

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

A COURSE IN MODERN LINGUISTICS. By Charles F. Hockett. New York: Macmillan, 1958; pp. xiv+621. $7.50.

THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. By W. Nelson Francis. With a chapter on American English Dialects by Raven I. McDavid, Jr. New York: Ronald Press, 1958; pp. viii+614. $6.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHONETICS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. By Charles Kenneth Thomas. (Second Edition.) New York: Ronald Press, 1958; pp. x+273. $4.50.

VOICE AND ARTICULATION. By Charles Van Riper and John V. Irwin. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1958; pp. xviii +566. $6.95.

TELEVISION EFFECTS: A SUMMARY OF THE LITERATURE AND PROPOSED GENERAL THEORY. By Lionel C. Barrow, Jr., and Bruce H. Westley. Madison: University o£ Wisconsin Television Laboratory, 1958; pp. 184. $1.00.

THE PERCEIVED APPEALS OF TELEVISION PROGRAM CONTENT. By Richard F. Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Television Laboratory, 1957; pp. vi+178. $1.00.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH. By Lew Sarett, William Trufant Foster, and Alma Johnson Sarett. (Third Edition.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958; pp. xii+601. $5.25.

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