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NOTES AND COUNTERNOTES: WRITINGS ON THE THEATRE. By Eugène Ionesco. Translated by Donald Watson. New York: Grove Press, 1964; pp. 271. Paper $2.45.

EUGÈNE IONESCO. By Leonard C. Pronko. (Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, No. 7.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1965; pp. 47. $0.65.

LUIGI PIRANDELLO 1867–1936. By Walter F. Starkie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965; pp. xii+304. $5.00.

THE PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL. By John H. Raleigh. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965; pp. xvi+304. $4.50.

EUGENE O'NEILL. By John Gassner. (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No. 45.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965; pp. 48. $0.65.

PLAYWRIGHT'S PROGRESS: O'NEILL AND THE CRITICS. Edited by Jordan Y. Miller. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1965; pp. 184. $2.10.

ARTHUR MILLER: THE BURNING GLASS. By Sheila Huftel. New York: Citadel Press, 1965; pp. 256. $4.50.

ARTHUR MILLER. By Robert Hogan. (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No. 40.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964; pp. 48. $0.65.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLAYS OF EURIPEDES. By Günther Zuntz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965; pp. xx+295. $12.50.

SHAKESPEARE'S BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE: ITS HISTORY AND ITS DESIGN. By Irwin Smith. Foreword by James G. McManaway. New York: New York University Press, 1964; pp. xx+577. $15.00.

RESTORATION THEATRE. Edited by John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris. Vol. 6 of Stratford‐Upon‐Avon Studies. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965; pp. 237. $5.75.

HISTORY OF COSTUME: FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS TO THE 20TH CENTURY. By Blanche Payne. Drawings by Elizabeth Curtis. New York: Harper & Row, 1965; pp. xiii+607. $12.50.

CICERO'S LETTERS TO ATTICUS. Translated and edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965; 2 vols. pp. xii+422 and viii+248. $17.00.

CICERO. Edited by T. A. Dorey. Chapters by H. H. Scullard, T. A. Dorey, R. G. M. Nisbet, M. L. Clarke, G. B. Townsend, A. E. Douglas, J. P. V. D. Baldson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Basic Books, 1965; pp. xiv+218. $4.95.

RHETORIC: A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. By A. Craig Baird. New York: Ronald Press, 1965; pp. vii+246. $4.75.

LETTERS ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES. By Hugh Blair. Edited with a Critical Introduction by Harold F. Harding. Foreword by David Potter. Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965; 2 vols., pp. xl+viii+496 and 550+Index. $19.50.

A COURSE OF LECTURES ON ORATORY AND CRITICISM. By Joseph Priestley. Edited by Vincent M. Bevilacqua and Richard Murphy. Foreword by David Potter. Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965; pp. lviii+vi+313+lix+lxix. $7.00.

IN HONOR OF DANIEL JONES: PAPERS CONTRIBUTED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER, 1961. Edited by David Abercrombie, D. B. Fry, A. D. MacCarthy, V. C. Scott, and J. C. M. Trim. London: Longmans, Green, 1964; pp. xxi+474. 50s.

THE SYMBOLIC USES OF POLITICS. By Murray Edelman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964; pp. 201. $5.00.

THE COMMONS AND THEIR SPEAKERS IN ENGLISH PARLIAMENTS, 1376–1523. By John S. Roskell. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965; pp. ix+390. $9.50.

PIONEER PROPHETESS JEMIMA WILKINSON, THE PUBLICK UNIVERSAL FRIEND. By Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964; pp. ix+232. $4.95.

THE ANTISLAVERY VANGUARD: NEW ESSAYS ON THE ABOLITIONISTS. Edited by Martin Duberman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1965; pp. xi+508. $10.00.

THE CLIMAX OF POPULISM: THE ELECTION OF 1896. By Robert F. Durden. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965; pp. xii+190. $5.00.

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: THE LAST DECADE, 1915–1925. By Lawrence W. Levine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. ix+386. $7.50.

PLAYS WITHOUT PEOPLE: PUPPETRY AND SERIOUS DRAMA. By Peter D. Arnott. Introduction by Hubert C. Heffner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964; pp. 157. $4.50.

NEW DIRECTIONS IN STUTTERING: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Compiled and edited by Dominick A. Barbara. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1965; pp. ix+188. $7.25.

IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING BY TELEVISION. Edited by Barton L. Griffith and Donald W. MacLennan. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964; pp. x+238. $4.00.

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION. By Harold P. Zelko and Frank E. X. Dance. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965; pp. xi+244. $5.75.

PRINCIPLES OF ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE. By Glenn R. Capp and Thelma Robuck Capp. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1965; pp. ix+244. 55.95.

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY. By Russel R. Windes and Arthur Hastings. New York: Random House, 1965; pp. viii+246. Paper $1.95.

BUILDING THE CONTEST ORATION. By E. C. Buehler and Richard L. Johannesen. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1965; pp. 202. $4.50.