New books in review

COUNTERPOINT: KENNETH BURKE AND ARISTOTLE'S THEORIES OF RHETORIC. By L. Virginia Holland. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959; pp. xv+128. $3.75.

PERSUASION: HOW OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES ARE CHANGED. By Herbert I. Abelson. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1959; pp. x+118. $3.75.

WORDS AND THINGS. By Roger Brown. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1958; pp. xvi+398. $6.75.

THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF GROUPS. By John W. Thibaut and Harold H. Kelley. New York: John Wiley, 1959; pp. xiv+313. $7.00.

STRATEGIES OF LEADERSHIP: IN CONDUCTING ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS. By A. A. Liveright. New York: Harper, 1959; pp. xx+140. $3.50.

STUTTERING: A SYMPOSIUM. Edited by Jon Eisenson. New York: Harper, 1958; pp. xxiv +402. $6.00.

EARLY ENGLISH STAGES. VOLUME ONE 1300 TO 1576. By Glynne Wickham. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959; pp. xliv+428. $7.50.

THEATRE U.S.A.: 1668 TO 1957. By Barnard Hewitt. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1959; pp. xii+528. I7.50.

TEN TALENTS IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE. Edited, with an Introduction, by David H. Stevens. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957; pp. x+299. $4.00.

IRONY IN THE DRAMA. By Robert Boies Sharpe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959; pp. xv+222. $5.00.

JEAN GIRAUDOUX: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. By Laurent Le Sage. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1959; pp. 238. $5.00.

THE NATURE OF DRAMA. By Hubert Heffner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959; pp. 339–66a. Paper $2.00.

HOW DOES A POEM MEAN? By John Ciardi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959; pp. 663–1022. Paper $2.00.

FOREIGN DIALECTS: A MANUAL FOR ACTORS, DIRECTORS, AND WRITERS. By Lewis and Marguerite Shalett Herman. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1959; pp. 415. $8.50.

AMERICAN DIALECTS: A MANUAL FOR ACTORS, DIRECTORS, AND WRITERS. By Lewis and Marguerite Shalett Herman. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1959; pp. xv+328. $6.50.