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THE HAMLET OF EDWIN BOOTH. By Charles H. Shattuck. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969; pp. xxvii+321. $10.95.

CHARLES KEMBLE, MAN OF THE THEATRE. By Jane Williamson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970; pp. x+267. $7.95.

THE BLACK TEACHER AND THE DRAMATIC ARTS: A DIALOGUE, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND ANTHOLOGY. Edited by William R. Reardon and Thomas D. Pawley. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970; pp. xviii+487. $13.50.

A DICTIONARY OF AFRO‐AMERICAN SLANG. Edited by Clarence Major. New York: International Publishers, 1970; pp. 128. .$5.95; paper $1.95.

ADLAI STEVENSON: PATRICIAN AMONG THE POLITICIANS. By Bert Cochran. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969; pp. 424. $10.00.

THE POLITICIANS 1945–1960. By Booth Mooney. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1970; pp. 368. $7.95.

MOMENTS IN THE RHETORIC OF THE COLD WAR. By Wayne Brockriede and Robert L. Scott. New York: Random House, 1970; pp. 130. Paper $2.50.

THE PENTAGON PROPAGANDA MACHINE. By Sen. J. W. Fulbright. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 1970; pp. vii+166. $4.95.

MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND AMERICAN EMPIRE. By Herbert I. Schiller. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969; pp. x+170. $9.00.

MASS MEDIA IN THE SOVIET UNION. By Mark W. Hopkins. New York: Pegasus, 1970; pp. xviii+366. $8.95.

THE IMAGE EMPIRE: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume III, from 1953. Erik Barnouw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970; pp. 396. $9.75.

THE GLASS TEAT. By Harlan Ellison. New York: Ace Books, 1970; pp. 318. Paper $1.25.

CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS. By Marshall McLuhan. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1970; pp. 336. $10.00.

THE ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE: THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHO‐LINGUISTICS. By David McNeill. New York: Harper and Row, 1970; pp. viii+183. $6.95.

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: FORM AND FUNCTION IN EMERGING GRAMMARS. By Lois Bloom. Cambridge: M. I. T. Press, 1970; pp. xiv+270. $8.95.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM. By Gerald M. Phillips, Robert Dunham, Robert Brubaker, and David Butt. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1970; pp. xiii+204. $6.50.

CLINICAL SPEECH IN THE SCHOOLS: ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. Edited by Rolland J. Van Hattum: Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1969; pp. xiv+381. $12.50.

STUTTERING: LEARNED AND UNLEARNED. By Frank J. Falck. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1969; pp. 160. $7.75.

THE IDEA OF A PARTY SYSTEM: THE RISE OF LEGITIMATE OPPOSITION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1780–1840. By Richard Hofstadter. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969; pp. xiii+280. $7.50; paper $2.45.

THE PULPIT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: POLITICAL SERMONS OF THE PERIOD OF 1776. Edited by John Wingate Thornton. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; pp. 537. $19.50 [first published 1860].

THE ART OF THE AMERICAN FOLK PREACHER. By Bruce A. Rosenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970; pp. xii+ 265. $8.50.

THE YOUNGER PITT: THE YEARS OF ACCLAIM. By John Ehrman. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969; pp. xv+710. $14.95.

MYTH AND REALITY IN LATE‐EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY BRITISH POLITICS AND OTHER PAPERS. By Ian R. Christie. London: Macmillan, 1970; pp. 383. £5.

CICERO: EIN BIOGRAPHISCHER VERSUCH. By Matthias Gelzer. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1969; pp. x+426. DM 32.‐.

CICERO ON ORATORY AND ORATORS. Translated or Edited by J. S. Watson. Introduction by Ralph A. Micken. Foreword by David Potter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970; pp. li+379. $8.50.

OF ELOQUENCE. Studies in Ancient and Medieval Rhetoric. By Harry Caplan. Edited with an Introduction by Anne King and Helen North. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970; pp. 289. $8.50.

LANGUAGE IS SERMONIC: RICHARD M. WEAVER ON THE NATURE OF RHETORIC. Edited by Richard L. Johannesen, Rennard Strickland, and Ralph T. Eubanks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970; pp. vii+230. $6.95.

VON DEUTSCHER REDE (Of German Speech). By Walter Jens. Munich, Germany: E. Piper, 1969; pp. 217+bibliography. $3.50.

UNDERSTANDING DISCOURSE: THE SPEECH ACT AND RHETORICAL ACTION. By Karl R. Wallace. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970; pp. xi+150. $6.50.

STUDIES IN MACHIAVELLIANISM. By Richard Christie and Florence L. Geis. New York: Academic Press, 1970; pp. xii+415. $12.50.

THE WORLD'S BEST ORATIONS. Edited by David J. Brewer. (Reprint) Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press, 1970. 2 vols. $84.50.

AUSTRALIA SPEAKS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN SPEECHES. Edited by A. L. McLeod. Sydney: Wentworth Press, 1969; pp. 213. Paper $5.00.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1969–1970. Edited by Lester Thonssen. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1970; pp. 208. $4.50.

METHODS OF RESEARCH IN COMMUNICATION: Edited by Philip Emmert and William D. Brooks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970; pp. ix+517. $8.95.

OF HUMAN INTERACTION. By Joseph Luft. Palo Alto, Calif.: National Press Books, 1969; pp. 177. $4.95.

FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. By Kim Giffin and Bobby R. Patton. New York: Harper and Row, 1971; pp. xii+229. $6.50.

BASIC READINGS IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. Edited by Kim Giffin and Bobby R. Patton. New York: Harper and Row, 1971; pp. xi+441. Paper $4.95.

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: A CROSS‐DISCIPLINARY APPROACH. By Arthur Solomon. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1970; pp. vii+109. $8.50.

“SPEECH COMMUNICATION IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL,” The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Edited by Stanley M. Elam and Waldo W. Braden. Washington, D. C.: December, 1970; pp. iii+148. Paper $2.00.

MODERN DEBATE CASE TECHNIQUES. By Donald R. Terry, with James M. Copeland, Philip Emmert, Clark D. Kimball, Allan J. Lichtman, and Daniel M. Rohrer. Skokie, Ill.: National Textbook Company, 1970; pp. ix+ 107. Paper $3.00.