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COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE IN ANCIENT INDIA AND CHINA. By Robert T. Oliver, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1971; pp. xii+312. $12.00.

CICERO. By D. R. Shackleton Bailey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971; pp. xii+ 290. $10.00.

CLASSICAL RHETORIC IN ENGLISH POETRY. By Brian Vickers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970; pp. 180. $9.75.

A TREATISE ON ANCIENT PAINTING: 1740. By George Turnbull. Introduction by Vincent M. Bevilacqua. Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1971; pp. xxi+xl+192. DM 78.

CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF RHETORIC: SELECTED READINGS. Edited by Richard L. Johannesen. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971; pp. 403. $8.00.

CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: A READER'S COURSEBOOK. Edited by Douglas Ehninger. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1972; pp. 340. $4.75.

STUDIE ZUR GESELLSCHAFTLICHEN FUNKTION FASCHISTISCHER SPRACHE. By Lutz Winckler. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970; pp. 148. Paper DM 4.00.

METHODS OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM: A TWENTIETH‐CENTURY PERSPECTIVE. By Robert L. Scott and Bernard L. Brock. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1972; pp. viii+430. $9.95.

CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SPEAKING. By L. Patrick Devlin. Belmont, Calif.: Wads‐worth Publishing Company, Inc., 1971; pp. vi+157. Paper $3.95.

CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1972; pp. ix+217. Paper $3.95.

THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITY: MODERN PAN‐INDIAN MOVEMENTS. By Hazel W. Hertzberg. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971; pp. ix+362. $12.00.

INDIAN MAN: A LIFE OF OLIVER LA FARGE. By D'Arcy McNickle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971; pp. xiii+242. $7.95.

I HAVE SPOKEN: AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE VOICES OF THE INDIANS. Compiled by Virginia Irving Armstrong. Introduction by Frederick W. Turner III. Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1971; pp. xxii+206. $6.00; paper $2.95.

THIS GREAT ARGUMENT: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. Edited and with introduction by Hamida Bosmajian and Haig Bosmajian. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Company, 1972; iv+299. Paper $3.95.

DOWN TO NOW: REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. By Pat Watters. New York: Pantheon Books, 1971; pp. vi+426. $8.95.

RUDY'S RED WAGON: COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. By Irving J. Rein. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1972; pp. 160. Paper $2.95.

THE NEW JOURNALISM: THE UNDERGROUND PRESS, THE ARTISTS OF NON‐FICTION, AND CHANGES IN THE ESTABLISHED MEDIA. By Michael L. Johnson. Lawrence, Manhattan, and Wichita: The University Press of Kansas, 1971; pp. xvi+171. $6.95; paper $2.95.

THE AGITATOR: A COLLECTION OF DIVERSE OPINIONS FROM AMERICA'S NOT‐SO‐POPULAR PRESS. Edited by Donald A. Rice. Chicago: American Library Association, 1972; pp. xxxi+430. Paper $3.95.

THE GENESIS OF THE FRONTIER THESIS: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL CREATIVITY. By Ray Allen Billington. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1971; pp. xii+315. $8.50.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1970–1971. Edited with preface and forenotes by Waldo W. Braden. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1971; pp. 153. $4.50.

THE VOICE OF BLACK RHETORIC: SELECTIONS. Edited with introduction and fore‐notes by Arthur L. Smith and Stephen Robb. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1971; pp. viii+ 318. Paper $3.95.

BRITISH PUBLIC ADDRESSES: 1828–1960. Edited by James H. McBath and Walter R. Fisher. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971; xii+577. $10.95.

JOURNEY TO HEARTBREAK: THE CRUCIBLE YEARS OF BERNARD SHAW, 1914–1918. By Stanley Weintraub. New York: Weybright and Talley, Inc., 1971; pp. ix+368. $8.95.

C. S. LEWIS: SPEAKER AND TEACHER. Edited by Carolyn Keefe. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971; pp. v+144. $3.95.

CHINA AS I SEE IT. By Pearl S. Buck. Edited by Theodore F. Harris. New York: The John Day Company, 1970; pp. xii+305. $7.95.

RHETORIC/RITUAL: A STUDY OF THE COMMUNICATIVE AND AESTHETIC DIMENSIONS OF LANGUAGE. By Paul Newell Campbell. Belmont, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Co., Inc., 1972; pp. xii+297. $7.95.

TANGLED HAIR: SELECTED TANKA FROM MIDAREGAMI BY AKIKO YOSANO. Translated from the Japanese and with introduction by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Studies, 1971; pp. 165. $5.95.

PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE. By Oscar G. Brockett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971; pp. vi+158. $6.50.

THE EXPLODING STAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAMA. By Norris Houghton. New York: Weybright and Talley, Inc., 1971; pp. vii+ 269. $6.95.

TWENTIETH CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS OF A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: A COLLECION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by Jordan Y. Miller. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1971; pp. v+ 119. $4.95; paper $1.45.

MODERN DRAMA AND SOCIAL CHANGE. Edited by Robert A. Raines. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1972; pp. vii+339. Paper $4.95.

THE NATURE OF THEATRE. By Vera Mowery Roberts. New York: Harper & Row, 1971; pp. x+500. $12.50.

BETWEEN ACTOR AND CRITIC: SELECTED LETTERS OF EDWIN BOOTH AND WILLIAM WINTER. Edited and with introduction by Daniel Watermeier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971; pp. ix+329. $10.00.

STRINDBERG: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited and with introduction by Otto Reinert. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1971; pp. 178. $5.95; paper $1.95.

THE ALMANAC OF AMERICAN POLITICS: THE SENATORS, THE REPRESENTATIVES, THEIR RECORDS, STATES, AND DISTRICTS. By Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, Douglas Matthews. Boston: Gambit, Inc., 1972; pp. xxv+1030. $12.95.

THE MEGASTATES OF AMERICA: PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND POWER IN THE TEN GREAT STATES. By Neal R. Peirce. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1972; pp. 745. $12.95.

THE TICKET‐SPLITTER: A NEW FORCE IN AMERICAN POLITICS. By Walter De‐Vries and V. Lance Tarrance. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1972; pp. 149. $4.95.

THE ETHNIC FACTOR: HOW AMERICA'S MINORITIES DECIDE ELECTIONS. By Mark R. Levy and Michael S. Kramer. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972; pp. 255. $7.95.

THE ELECTION GAME AND HOW TO WIN IT. By Joseph Napolitan. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1972; pp. 300. $6.95.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 1972–1973. By Editors of the Foreign Policy Association. New York: Collier Books, 1972; pp. 99. $1.25.

FALL 1972 CQ GUIDE TO CURRENT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. By Congressional Quarterly. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1972; pp. 150. $3.00.

CATCH THE FALLING FLAG: A REPUBLICAN'S CHALLENGE TO HIS PARTY. By Richard J. Whalen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972; pp. vii+308. $6.95.

THE PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER: PREDICTING PERFORMANCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. By James David Barber. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1972; pp. vii+479. $10.00.