New books in review

THE OPEN STAGE: AND THE MODERN THEATRE IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. By Richard Southern. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1959; pp. 125. $3.00.

SHAKESPEARE'S WOODEN O. By Leslie Hotson. New York: Macmillan, 1960; pp. 335. $6.50.

SHAKESPEARE'S STAGE. By A. M. Nagler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958; pp. 117. §2.00.

STUDIES IN THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Edited by Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 1959; pp. xxviii+368. $6.00.

ADOLPHE APPIA'S “THE WORK OF LIVING ART”;: A THEORY OF THE THEATRE. Translated by H. D. Albright. And “MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS.”; Translated by Barnard Hewitt. Edited by Barnard Hewitt. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1960; pp. xxiv+131. $6.50.

THE EARLY PUBLIC THEATRE IN FRANCE. By W. L. Wiley. Harvard University Press, 1960; xiv+326. $6.75.

MOLIÈRE: THE COMIC MASK. By D. B. Wyndham Lewis. New York: Coward‐McCann, 1959; pp. 215. $4.00.

PIRANDELLO AND THE FRENCH THEATRE. By Thomas Bishop. New York: New York University Press, 1960; pp. xxii+170. $4.50.

REVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE: CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING THE MUNICH ARTISTS’ THEATRE. By Georg Fuchs. Condensed and adapted from the German by Constance Connor Kuhn. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959; pp. xxxii+ 220. $4.75.

KINO: A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN AND SOVIET FILM. By Jay Leyda. New York: Macmillan, 1960; pp. 493+32 plates. $9.50.

DOCTRINE AND POETRY: AUGUSTINE'S INFLUENCE ON OLD ENGLISH POETRY. By Bernard F. Huppé. New York: University Publishers, 1959; pp. viii+248. $6.00.

THE POLITICAL REASON OF EDMUND BURKE. By Francis Canavan, S.J. Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics. Durham, N. C: Duke University Press, 1960; pp. xvi+222. $5.00.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDMUND BURKE: A SELECTION FROM HIS SPEECHES AND WRITINGS. Edited by Louis I. Bredvold and Ralph G. Ross. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960; pp. vi+276. Text, paper $3.50.

SELECTED WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE. Edited by W. J. Bate. Modern Library No. 289. New York: Random House, 1960; pp. viii+536. $1.95.

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF EDMUND BURKE, VOLUME II, JULY 1768—JUNE 1774. Edited by Lucy S. Sutherland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960; pp. xxiii+567. $12.00.

ARISTOTLE. By John Herman Randall, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960; pp. xviii+309. $5.00.

HARRIET MARTINEAU: A RADICAL VICTORIAN. By R. K. Webb. New York: Columbia University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1960; pp. xiii+385. $5.00.

LINCOLN'S MANAGER, DAVID DAVIS. By Willard L. King. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960; pp. xiv+383. $6.75.

THE JOURNALS AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTEBOOKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. VOLUME I, 1819–1822. Edited by William H. Gilman, el al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960; pp. 1+430. $10.00.

THE EVOLUTION OF WALT WHITMAN: THE CREATION OF A PERSONALITY. By Roger Asselineau. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; pp. xiv+376. $7.50.

MARK TWAIN ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT. By Paul Fatout. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960; pp. 321. $6.00.

FREEDOM AND EQUALITY: ADDRESSES BY HARRY S. TRUMAN. Edited by David S. Horton. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1960; pp. xxx+85. $2.95.

HENRY A. WALLACE: QUIXOTIC CRUSADE 1948. By Karl M. Schmidt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1960; pp. xvi+362. $5.50.

U.S. SENATORS AND THEIR WORLD. By Donald R. Matthews. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960; pp. xvi+303. $6.00.

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DECLINE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION. By Earl J. McGrath. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959; pp. xii+65. Paper $1.50.

GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By Bernard Berelson. The Carnegie Series in American Education. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1960; pp. vi+346. $6.95.

AUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY: AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY. By Ralph K. White and Ronald Lippitt. New York: Harper, 1960; pp. xii+330. $6.00.

STRATEGIC PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. By Robert T. Holt and Robert W. van de Velde. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960; pp. x+244. $5.00.

LANGUAGE AND LIFE IN THE U.SA.: AMERICAN ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS. By Gladys G. Doty and Janet Ross. Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, 1960; pp. xii+621. $6.20.

ORIGINS: A SHORT ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH. By Eric Partridge. New York: Macmillan, 1958; pp. xx+970. $16.00.

SPEECH SCIENCE: ACOUSTICS IN SPEECH. By Richard A. Hoops. Springfield, 111.: Charles C Thomas, 1960; pp. xii+137. $4.75.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF SPEECH AND HEARING. Edited by Dominick A. Barbara. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1960; pp. xii+756. $19.50.

CEREBRAL PALSY AND RELATED DISORDERS: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO DYSFUNCTION. By Eric Denhoff, M.D., and Isabel Robinault, Ph.D. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1960; pp. x+421. $12.00.