New books (1940)

A Bibliography of Speech Pathology. By Robert West and Mildred Gottbank. Madison, Wisconsin: College Typing Co., 1940; pp. 41, mimeographed. Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XI. By George C. D. Odell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. $8.75. Broadcast Receivers and Phonographs for Classroom Use. New York: Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1939; pp. 95. Paper. Central Sound Systems for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 69. Paper. Sound Recording Equipment for Schools. New York : Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1940; pp. 52. Paper. The Enjoyment of Drama. By Milton Marx. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1940; pp. 242. $1.50 Essentials of Parliamentary Procedure. By J. Jeffery Auer. New York : F. S. Crofts & Co., 1940 ; pp. x + 35. $.40. A Handbook of Voice and Diction. By F. Lincoln D. Holmes. F. S. Crofts and Company, 1940; pp. 270. $2.00. The Logic of Language. By James MacKaye. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Publications, 1939; pp. 303. Plays of America's Growth. By Samuel S. Ullman. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. pp. 227. $2.00. The Effect of Varied Amounts of Phonetic Training on Primary Reading. By Donald C. Agnew. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. viii + 50. $1.00. Minor Mental Maladjustments in Normal People. By J. E. Wallace Wallin. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939 ; pp. IX + 296. $3.00. Science of Language: Vol. II, Word Study. By J. J. Callahan. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1939; pp. 272 + xi. Stage Fright And What To Do About It. By Dwight Everett Watkins and Harrison M. Karr, with illustrations by Zadie Harvey. Boston: Expression Company, 1940; pp. 110. $1.50. The Actor's Handbook, By Caroline Silverthorne. Boston: Expression Company, 1939 ; pp. xiii + 350. $2.50. Twenty Short Plays On A Royalty Holiday, Vol. II. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York : Samuel French, 1940 ; pp. viii + 486. $3.00. With Puppets Mimes And Shadows. By Margaret K. Soifer. Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Furrow Press, 1936; pp. 116. $1.50. Handbook of Parliamentary Law—Revised Edition. By F. M. Gregg. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1940; pp. xii + 112. $1.00. In a Word. By Margaret S. Ernst. Drawings by James Thurber. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939; pp. 251. $2.50. Art and Craft of Play Production. By Barnard Hewitt. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940; pp. xii + 388; illustrated. $2.90. How to Increase Reading Ability: A Guide to Diagnostic and Remedial Methods. By Albert J. Harris. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1940 ; pp. xix + 403. $3.00. The Mechanism of the Human Voice. By Robert Curry, with a foreword by Douglas Guthrie. New York—Toronto (printed in Great Britain): Longmans, Green & Co., 1940; pp. ix + 205. The Language of Gesture. By Macdonald Critchley. London: Edwin Arnold & Co., (New York: Longmans, Green) 1939; pp. 128. $1.75. The World's Greatest Debate. Edited by Glenn Clark. St. Paul, Minn. Macalester Park Publishing Co., 1940 ; pp. viii + 214. $2.75. Public Speaking for Technical Men. By S. Marion Tucker. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939; pp. xvi + 397. $3.00. Education on the Air. Tenth Yearbook of the Institute for Education by Radio. Edited by Josephine H. MacLatchy. Columbus : Ohio State University, 1939; pp. ix + 436. $3.00. Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy. By Gilbert Murray. New York : Oxford University Press, 1939; pp. 220. Your Speech, Sixth Grade I, II ; Seventh Grade I ; Eighth Grade I. By David Powers and Suzanne Martin. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1940; pp. 192, 202, 168, 168. $.75 each. Interpretation of the Printed Page. By S. H. Clark, revised by Maud May Babcock. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1940; pp. 402. $2.00. Effective Speaking for Every Occasion. By Willard Hayes Yeager. New York : Prentice‐Hall, 1940 ; pp. viii + 444. $2.60. Building Your Vocabulary. By John G. Gilmartin. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. v‐ix + 281. $1.12. Tested Public Speaking. By Elmer Wheeler. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1939; pp. vii‐x + 173. $2.00. How to Overcome Stammering. By Mabel F. Gifford. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1940; pp. XII + 169. $2.45. Sophocles, Poet and Dramatist. By William Nickerson Bates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940; pp. xiii + 291. $3.50. The Invasion from Mars. By Hadley Cantril, with the assistance of Hazel Gaudet and Herta Herzog. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1940; pp. xv + 228. $2.50. Filibustering in the Senate. By Franklin L. Burdette. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1940 ; pp. ix + 252. $2.50. Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy. By Fredson Thayer Bowers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940 ; pp. viii + 288. $3.00. Rhode Island Speaks, and Rhode Island High School Model Congress. Bristol, R.I. : Rhode Island Speech Association, Monographs No. 1 and 2, 1940. Make Yourself a Better Speaker. By E. C. Buehler. New York : The Ronald Press Company, 1940 ; pp. xii + 250. $2.50. Children and the Theater. By Caroline E. Fisher and Hazel Glaister Robertson. California: Stanford University Press, 1940. pp. XIII + 191. $3.00. A Speech Teacher's Manual By Florence Henderson. Honolulu, T.H.: University of Hawaii Book Store, 1940; pp. v + 111; mimeographed. Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends. By Donald Cross Bryant. St. Louis : Washington University Studies—New Series. Language and Literature— No. 9. 1939; pp. xii + 323. $2.75. Representative American Speeches: 1938–1939. Selected by A. Craig Baird. The Reference Shelf, vol. 13, no. 3. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 265; $1.25. Anthology of Public Speeches. Compiled by Mabel Platz. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 852; $3.75. The American Neutrality Problem. Compiled and edited by Charles F. Phillips and J. V. Garland. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 404. $2.00. The Student Congress Movement: with Discussion on American Neutrality. Edited by Lyman Spicer Judson. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1940; pp. 225. $1.25. The American Drama Since 1918. By Joseph Wood Krutch. New York: Random House, 1939; pp. 325. $2.50. American Playwrights: 1918–1938. By Eleanor Flexner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939; pp. 331. $2.50. How to Make Good Recordings. Audio Devices, 1600 Broadway, New York, 1940. pp. 128. $1.25. Yearbook of Drama Festivals and Contests. By Ernest Bavely. Cincinnati, Ohio: Educational Theatre Press, 1939; pp. 144. Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane. By Richard Hindry Barker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; pp. 278. $3.00. Today in American Drama. By Frank Hurburt O'Hara. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1939; pp. 277. $2.50.