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RHETORIC, ROMANCE, AND TECHNOLOGY: STUDIES IN THE INTERACTION OF EXPRESSION AND CULTURE. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. Ithaca, N.Y.: The Cornell University Press, 1972; pp. x+348. $8.95.

ARISTOTLE AND INFORMATION THEORY: A COMPARISON OF THE INFLUENCE OF CAUSAL ASSUMPTIONS ON TWO THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION. By Lawrence W. Rosenfield. The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton and Company, Publishers, 1971; pp. 149. $11.75.

APPLIED MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS. By John E. Overall and C. James Klett. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1972; pp. xxii+500. $14.95.

PRELIMINARIES TO LINGUISTIC PHONETICS. By Peter Ladefoged. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971; pp. ix+122. $0.25.

SPEECH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE CHILD. By A. R. Luria and F. Ia. Yudovich. Edited by Joan Simon, with Introduction by James Britton. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, Inc., 1972; pp. 110. Paper $1.45.

LANGUAGE AND SPEECH: INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES. By Frederick Williams. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1972; pp. viii+139. Paper $3.95.

GROUP DYNAMICS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SMALL GROUP BEHAVIOR. By Marvin E. Shaw. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1971; pp. xviii+414. $10.95.

THE PROCESS AND EFFECTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION. Edited by Wilbur Schramm and Donald F. Roberts. (Revised edition.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971; pp. ix+997. $15.00.

COMMUNICATION OF INNOVATIONS, A CROSS‐CULTURAL APPROACH. By Everett M. Rogers with F. Floyd Shoemaker. New York: The Free Press, 1971; pp. xix+476. $9.95.

THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE: READINGS IN PERSUASION. Edited by Thomas D. Beisecker and Donn W. Parson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1972; pp. ix+499. $10.95; paper $6.50.

READINGS IN MASS COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES IN THE MASS MEDIA. Edited by Michael C. Emery and Ted Curtis Smythe. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, Publishers, 1972; xi+502. Paper $6.50.

DESIGNING THE COMMUNICATION EXPERIMENT. By John Waite Bowers. New York: Random House, 1970; pp. v+145. Paper $2.50.

TELEVISION: THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE BOX. By Les Brown. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971; pp. x+374. $8.95.

MEYERHOLD'S THEATRE OF THE GROTESQUE: THE POST‐REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCTIONS, 1920–1932. By James M. Symons. Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1972; pp. xxx+201. $7.95.

MASKS OF LOVE AND DEATH: YEATS AS DRAMATIST. By John Rees Moore. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971; pp. xiv+ 361. $9.75.

THE THEATRICAL MANAGER IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: PLAYER OF A PERILOUS GAME. Edited by Joseph W. Donohue, Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971, pp. xii+216. $8.50.

BERNARD SHAW, DIRECTOR. By Bernard F. Dukore. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971; pp. 199. $7.95.

THE PRODUCTION OF MEDIEVAL CHURCH MUSIC‐DRAMA. By Fletcher Collins, Jr. Charlotteville: University Press of Virginia, 1972; pp. xiii+356. $17.50.

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1851–1880. By John Rothman. New York: Arno Press, 1971; pp. ix+96. $8.00.

THE DRAMA OF ATTACK: DIDACTIC PLAYS OF THE AMERICAN DEPRESSION. By Sam Smiley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972; pp. xii+236. $9.50.

THE NEW POLITICIANS OF FIFTH‐CENTURY ATHENS. By W. Robert Connor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971; pp. xii+218. $8.50.

MARGINS OF PRECISION; ESSAYS IN LOGIC AND LANGUAGE. By Max Black. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970; pp. vii +277. $7.50.

COMMUNICATION CRISIS AT KENT STATE: A CASE STUDY. By Philip K. Tompkins and Elaine Vanden Bout Anderson. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1971; pp. xvi+153. $9.95; paper $3.50.

PASSION AND POLITICS: STUDENT ACTIVISM IN AMERICA. By Seymour Martin Lipset and Gerald M. Schaflander. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971; pp. xxiii +440. $8.95.

GREAT DAY COMING: FOLK MUSIC AND THE AMERICAN LEFT. By R. Serge Denisoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971; pp. 219. $7.50.