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1958; Routledge; Volume: 44; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00335635809382327

1479-5779

Robert G. Gunderson, J. Jeffery Auer, Barnet Baskerville, Gregg Phifer, Paul H. Boase, William G. McCollom, Pat M. Ryan, Eugene K. Bristow, Robert Chambers, Don Geiger, Irving Deer, H. F. Harding, Lee S. Hultzén, C. M. Wise, Richard A. Hoops, James E. Lynch, Goodwin F. Berquist,

JAMES K. POLK: JACKSONIAN, 1795–1843. By Charles Grier Sellers, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957; pp. xiv+526. $7.50. SELECTIONS FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Edited by Stephen E. Whicher. (Riverside Editions A 13.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958; pp. xxvi+517. Paper $1.15. HOKE SMITH AND THE POLITICS OF THE NEW SOUTH. By Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958; pp. 396. $5.00. THEY GATHERED AT THE RIVER: THE STORY OF THE GREAT REVIVALISTS AND THEIR IMPACT UPON RELIGION IN AMERICA. By Bernard A. Weisberger. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958; pp. xiv+345. $5.00. THE POETRY OF GREEK TRAGEDY. By Richmond Lattimore. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1958; pp. 157. $3.50. THE MEDIEVAL THEATRE IN THE ROUND: A STUDY OF THE STAGING OF THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE AND RELATED MATTERS. By Richard Southern. London: Faber and Faber, 1957; New York: Theatre Ans Books, 1958; pp. xviii+240. $8.50. A FOURTEENTH‐CENTURY PROMPT BOOK: PHILIPPE DE MÉZIÊRES’ FESTUM PRAESENTATIONIS BEATAE MARIAE. By Albert B. Weiner. New Haven: Andrew Kner, 1958; pp. 85. $3.50. BEST AMERICAN PLAYS. FOURTH SERIES — 1951–1957. Edited with an Introduction by John Gassner. New York: Crown Publishers, 1958; pp. xxi+648. $5.75. BROADWAY'S BEST: 1957. THE COMPLETE RECORD OF THE THEATRICAL YEAR. By John Chapman. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957; pp. 329. $4.50. CREATIVE DRAMATICS: AN ART FOR CHILDREN. By Geraldine Brain Siks. New York: Harper, 1958; pp. xxiv+472. $4.50. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP. Edited by Lewis Leary for The Committee on Literary Scholarship and the Teaching of English of the National Council of Teachers of English. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1958; pp. x+474. $5.00. CONTEXTS OF CRITICISM. By Harry Levin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. xvi+294. $5.00. A COURSE IN MODERN LINGUISTICS. By Charles F. Hockett. New York: Macmillan, 1958; pp. xiv+621. $7.50. THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. By W. Nelson Francis. With a chapter on American English Dialects by Raven I. McDavid, Jr. New York: Ronald Press, 1958; pp. viii+614. $6.50. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHONETICS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. By Charles Kenneth Thomas. (Second Edition.) New York: Ronald Press, 1958; pp. x+273. $4.50. VOICE AND ARTICULATION. By Charles Van Riper and John V. Irwin. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1958; pp. xviii +566. $6.95. TELEVISION EFFECTS: A SUMMARY OF THE LITERATURE AND PROPOSED GENERAL THEORY. By Lionel C. Barrow, Jr., and Bruce H. Westley. Madison: University o£ Wisconsin Television Laboratory, 1958; pp. 184. $1.00. THE PERCEIVED APPEALS OF TELEVISION PROGRAM CONTENT. By Richard F. Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Television Laboratory, 1957; pp. vi+178. $1.00. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH. By Lew Sarett, William Trufant Foster, and Alma Johnson Sarett. (Third Edition.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958; pp. xii+601. $5.25.