New books in review (1949)

DAYS WITH BERNARD SHAW. By S. Winsten. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1948; pp. 214. (Also New York: Vanguard Press, 1949; pp. 327. $3.75.) SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES. By Bernard Shaw. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949; pp. 207. $3.50. CYBERNETICS. By Norbert Wiener. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1948; pp. 194. $3.00. The Rethorica Nova ATTRIBUTED TO JACOBUS IZELGRINUS. Edited from MS. 441 of the Public Library at Bruges, with Excerpts from the Tractatus de Coloribus Rethoricis Preserved in the Same Manuscript. By sister Mary Frances Laughlin. Washington, D. C: The Catholic University of America Press, 1947; p. xxxiv+43. $1.00. RHETORIC AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF INQUIRY. A Study of Invention. by Elbert W. Harrington. University of Colorado Studies. Series in Language and Literature, No. 1. Boulder, Colorado, 1948; pp. 64. $1.00. THE LANGUAGE OF WISDOM AND FOLLY. Background Readings in Semantics. Edited by Irving J, Lee. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xxii+361. $3.00. BURKE'S POLITICS. Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke on Reform, Revolution, and War. Edited by Ross J. S. Hoffman and Paul Levack. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949; pp. xxxvii+536+x. $4.75. PERSONALITY. By Gardner Murphy. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1947; pp. xii+999. $500. HANDBOOK OF RADIO PRODUCTION. An Outline of Studio Techniques and Procedures in the United States. by Erik Barnouw. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1949; pp. xii+324. $3.25. NEWS BY RADIO. By Mitchell V. Charnley. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948; pp. ix+403. $4.00. LANGUAGE AND THE LAW. The Semantics of Forensic English. By Frederick A. Phil‐brick. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949: pp. ix+254. $3.75. WEBSTER'S NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY. Springfield: G. and C. Merriam Company, 1949: pp. xxii+1209. $6.00. PLAY PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION. By C. Lowell Lees. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1948; pp. xiii+311. $5.00. Chronicles of the American Dance. Edited by Paul Magriel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948; pp. xii+268. $4.50. A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. By John Q. Tilson. New Haven: Privately published, 1948; pp. xxii+149. $2.00. SPEECH HANDICAPPED SCHOOL CHILDREN. By Wendell Johnson, Spencer F. Brown, James F. Curtis, Clarence W. Edney, Jacqueline Keaster. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948; pp. 464. $3.00. SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Lorna Shogren Werner. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1917; pp. 222. $2.00. ESSENTIALS OF COMMUNICATIVE SPEECH. By Robert T. Oliver, Dallas C. Dickey, and Harold P. Zelko. New York: The Dryden Press, 1949; pp. vii+338. $2.6 SPEAKING IN PUBLIC. By Arleigh B. Williamson, Charles A. Fritz and Harold Raymond Ross. (Second edition). New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1948; pp. xii+400. $4.65. FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH. By Roy C. McCall. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949; pp. xii+240. $2.50. PRINCIPLES AND TYPES OF SPEECH. By Alan H. Monroe. (Third edition). Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1949; pp. xiv+658. $3.00. HOW TO MAKE A SPEECH AND LIKE IT. By Lawrence H. Mouat. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 1949; pp. 94. $2.00. Limp paper binding $1.25. SPEAKING FOR ALL OCCASIONS. By Mortimer Becker. New York: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1949; pp. x+169. $2.75. LIVING LITERATURE FOR ORAL INTERPRETATION. By Moiree Compere. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1949; pp. xii+451. $3.00. A CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GROUP DISCUSSION. By Winston L. Brembeck and Teddy J. McLaughlin. Madison, Wisconsin: Privately published, 1948; pp. 70. $1.00. MANUAL OF CORRECTIVE SPEECH EXERCISES. By Yale S. Nathanson and Juliet E. Nathanson. Privately Printed. Copyright 1947 by Jo Nathanson, 2048 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pp. 36. $.50. MARIONETTES, A HOBBY FOR EVERYONE. By Mabel and Les Beaton. New York: Thomas H. Crowell Company, 1948; pp. 182,. $3.75.