New books (1936)

The Awakening of the American Theatre. By Ben Blake. New York: Tomorrow, Publishers, 1935; pp. 63. $0.25. The Elements and Practice of Composition. By William Strunk, Jr. and Edward A. Tenney. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935 ; pp. iv + 60 + 47 detachable practice leaves. Parts of Speech and Accidence. By George O. Curme. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1935; pp. xiii + 370. $3.50. 25,000 Words Spelled, Divided, and Accented. By Louis A. Leslie and Charles Earle Funk. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1935; pp. 249. Get It Right. By John B. Opdycke. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1935; pp. 673. $3.50. Let Us Recite Together. By Marguerite E. DeWitt. Poughkeepsie: Vassar Cooperative Bookshop, 1935; pp. 26. $0.85. James G. Blaine: A Political Idol of Other Days. By David Saville Muzzey. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934; pp. 514. The New Book of English Verse. Edited by Charles Williams. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936; pp. 828. $3.00. Shakespeare's Macbeth. Edited by George Coffin Taylor and Reed Smith. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1936; pp. xlvii + 144. $0.52. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Edited by George Coffin Taylor and Reed Smith. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1936; pp. xli + 155. $0.52. Modern American Poetry. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936; pp. xxv + 654. Modern British Poetry. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936; pp. xxii + 549. A Check List of New England Election Sermons. By R. W. G. Vail. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1936; pp. 36. $1.00. American Variations. By H. W. Horwill. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936; pp. 26. $0.85. Names, Designations and Appellations. By R. W. Chapman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936; pp. 34. $0.85. Our Theatre Today. Edited by Herschel L. Bricker. New York: Samuel French, 1936; pp. xxvii + 427. $3.00. Three Pageants. By Josephine Wilhelm Wickser. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1936; pp. 48. $0.50. Moscow Rehearsals. By Norris Houghton. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936; pp. xv + 291. $2.75. So You're Writing a Play. By Clayton Hamilton. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1935; pp. 260. The History of Public Speaking. By Mabel Platz. New York: Noble and Noble, Inc., 1935; pp. 301. A Modern Reader. Edited by Walter Lippman and Allan Nevins. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1936; pp ix + 765. $2.50. Personality Maladjustments and Mental Hygiene. By J. E. Wallace Wallin. New York and London: The McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1935; pp. xii + 511. $3.00. Child Psychiatry. By Leo Kanner, M.D. Springfield, Illinois, and Baltimore, Maryland: Charles C. Thomas Co., 1935; pp. xviii + 527. $6.00. Behavior Development in Infants, A Survey of the Literature on Prenatal and Postnatal Activity, 1920–1934. By Evelyn Dewey. New York: Columbia University Press for Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, 1935; pp. 321. $3.50. Modern Debating. By Egbert Ray Nichols and Joseph H. Baccus. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1936; pp. 432. $2.25. Bernard Shaw's Phonetics. By Joseph Saxe. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936, pp. 86. 6 shillings. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America. By Harry R. Warfel. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936; pp. xiii + 460. $3.50. The American Language, Fourth Edition. By H. L. Mencken. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1936; pp. xi + 769 + xxix. $5.00. Basic Principles of Speech. By Lew Sarett and William Trufant Foster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936; pp. v + 566. $2.50. Seventy Years of It. By Edward Alsworth Ross. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Co., 1936; pp. 333. $3. Electric Utilities: The Tenth Annual Debate Handbook, 1936–1937. Edited by Bower Aly for the Committee on Debate Materials and Interstate Co‐operation, National University Extension Association. Columbia, Missouri: Lucas Brothers, 1936; Vol. I, pp. 220; Vol. II, pp. 220. University Debaters’ Annual (1935–1936.) Edited by Edith M. Phelps and Julia E. Johnsen. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1936; pp. 442. $2.25. Freedom of Speech. Compiled by Julia E. Johnson. The Reference Shelf, Vol. X, No. 8. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1936; pp. 317. $.90. Government Ownership of Electric Utilities. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. The Reference Shelf, Vol. 10, No. 9. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1936; pp. 329. $.90. The Elements of Speech. By J. M. O'Neill and A. T. Weaver. London: Longmans, 1933; pp. x + 534. 12s. 6d.