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RHETORIC AND CRITICISM. By Marie Hochmuth Nichols. Introduction by Waldo W. Braden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963; pp. viii+151. $5.00.

THE IDEA OF JUSTICE AND THE PROBLEM OF ARGUMENT. By Ch. Perelman. Translated from the French by John Petrie. New York: Humanities Press, 1963; pp. xi+ 212. $5.50.

LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: ESSAYS IN EXISTENTIALISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY. By Maurice Natanson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962; pp. xii+220. 18 guilders.

BOUNDARIES OF DIONYSUS: ATHENIAN FOUNDATIONS FOR THE THEORY OF TRAGEDY. By Alfred Cary Schlesinger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963; pp. x+145. $3.50.

THE MASKS OF TRAGEDY: ESSAYS ON SIX GREEK DRAMAS. By Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963; pp. xiii+248. $5.00.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE LAW. By David Mellinkoff. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963; pp. xiv+526. $12.50.

CONTRARY MUSIC: THE PROSE STYLE OF JOHN DONNE. By Joan Webber. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963; pp. ix+227. $5.50.

THE LONDON STAGE, 1660–1800: A CALENDAR OF PLAYS, ENTERTAINMENTS & AFTERPIECES TOGETHER WITH CASTS, BOX‐RECEIPTS AND CONTEMPORARY COMMENT COMPILED FROM THE PLAYBILLS, NEWSPAPERS AND THEATRICAL DIARIES OF THE PERIOD. PART 4: 1747–1776. Edited with a Critical Introduction by George Winchester Stone, Jr. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962; Volume I, pp. cclxxviii+492; Volume II, pp. Ixvi+493–1266; Volume III, pp. Ixv+1267–1993. $75.00.

AMERICAN DRAMA: CONTEMPORARY ALLEGORY FROM EUGENE O'NEILL TO TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. By Louis Broussard. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962; pp. vii+145. $3.75.

THE THEATRE OF DON JUAN: A COLLECTION OF PLAYS AND VIEWS, 1630–1963. Edited with a Commentary by Oscar Mandel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963; pp. x+731. $10.00.

JOHN DONNE: PREACHER. By William R. Mueller. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1962; pp. xi+264. $6.00.

A LINGUISTIC INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH. By Morton W. Bloomfield and Leonard Newmark. New York: Knopf, 1963; pp. xvi+375+xx. $6.85.

SYMBOL FORMATION: AN ORGANISMIC‐DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE AND THE EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT. By Heinz Werner and Bernard Kaplan. New York: Wiley, 1963; pp. xiii+ 530. $11.95.

ARISTOTLE AND THE PROBLEM OF VALUE. By Whitney J. Oates. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1963; pp. x+387. $8.50.

ON COPIA OF WORDS AND IDEAS (De utraque Verborum ac Rerum Copia). By Erasmus. Translated with an Introduction by Donald B. King and H. David Rix. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 1963; pp. viii+112. Paper $3.00.

ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC. By Richard Whately. Edited with a critical Introduction by Douglas Ehninger. Foreword by David Potter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1963; pp. xxx+15+479. $7.00.

KENNETH BURKE AND THE DRAMA OF HUMAN RELATIONS. By William H. Rueckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963; pp. xvi+253. $6.00.

TECHNIQUES OF PERSUASION: FROM PROPAGANDA TO BRAINWASHING. By James A. C. Brown. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1963; pp. 325. Paper $1.25.

NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION: 1963. Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963; pp. x+202. $5.50; paper $2.50.

FRANCIS BACON: THE TEMPER OF A MAN. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963; pp. 245. $6.00.

THOMAS WENTWORTH, FIRST EARL OF STRAFFORD, 1593–1641. By C. V. Wedgwood. New York: Macmillan, 1962; pp. 415. $6.00.

THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICS IN THE AGE OF WILKES AND BURKE. “Studies in Political History.” By James T. Boulton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963; pp. xiii+282. 16.75.

BURKE, PAINE, AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN: A DIFFERENCE OF POLITICAL OPINION. By R. R. Fennessy. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963, pp. xiii+274. 37 guilders.

ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE: TECHNIQUES OF A FREE SOCIETY. By James H. McBurney and Glen E. Mills. (Second edition.) New York: Macmillan, 1964; pp. vi+474. $5.50.

REASON IN CONTROVERSY: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL ARGUMENTATION. By Glen E. Mills. With a chapter on reasoning processes by Arthur Hastings. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1964; pp. x+386. $6.50.

A GUIDE TO DEBATE. By Russel R. Windes and Robert M. O'Neil. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1964; pp. iii+270. $4.00; paper $3.00.

GROUP DISCUSSION: THEORY AND TECHNIQUE. By R. Victor Harnack and Thorrel B. Fest. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1964; pp. xiv+456. $5.00.

GROUP THINKING AND CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP. By William E. Utterback. (Revised edition.) New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963; pp. ix+244. $4.50.

THE SOUND, SENSE, AND PERFORMANCE OF LITERATURE. By Don Geiger. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1963; pp. 115. Paper $1.60.

THE ORAL INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE. By Chloe Armstrong and Paul D. Brandes. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1963; pp. viii+330. $5.95.

COMMUNICATIVE READING. By Otis J. Aggertt and Elbert R. Bowen. (Second edition.) New York: Macmillan, 1963; pp. xiii+ 482. $6.00.