New books in review

FILM LANGUAGE: A SEMIOTICS OF THE CINEMA. By Christian Metz. Translated from the French by Michael Taylor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974; pp. x:v+268. $10.95.

MEDIA AND SYMBOLS: THE FORMS OF EXPRESSION, COMMUNICATION, AND EDUCATION. Edited by David R. Olson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974; pp. xvii+508. $10.00.

THE WAR OF IDEAS: AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CRISIS. By George N. Gordon and Irving A. Falk. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1973; pp. xii+362. $7.95.

WORLD COMMUNICATION: POPULATION COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION IN THE FUTURE. Edited by Jim Richstad and L. S. Harms. Honolulu: East‐West Center, 1973; available from SCA; pp. x+96. Paper $2.75.

JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE. Edited by David Crystal. Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 1974). Published semiannually by Cambridge University Press. $19.50 per year.

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. By Lynda Lee Raid, Keith R. Sanders, and Robert O. Hirsch. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1974; pp. v+206. $6.50.

WHAT WASHINGTON SAID: ADMINIS TRATION RHETORIC AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1949–1969. By F. M. Kail, with Foreword by Harold D. Lasswell. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974; pp. xv+248. $16.50; paper $3.95.

THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: JANUARY, 1791 TO MARCH, 1791; VOLUME NINETEEN. Edited by Julian P. Boyd and Ruth W. Lester. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1974; pp. xxxvi+646. $22.50.

SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN AMERICA, 1830–1860. By Russell Blaine Nye. Editors’ Introduction by Henry Steele Commager and Richard Brandon Morris. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974; pp. xiv+432. $10.00.

AMERICA AT 1750: A SOCIAL PORTRAIT. By Richard Hofstadter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971; pp. 306. $6.95.

A RHETORIC OF IRONY. By Wayne C. Booth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974; pp. xviii+292. $12.50.