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Speech in Personal and Public Affairs. By Virgil L. Baker and Ralph T. Eubanks. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965; pp. xii + 403; $5.00. Handbook of Group Discussion. By Russell H. Wagner and Carroll C. Arnold. Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965; pp. viii + 291; $4.75. The Lincoln‐Douglas Debates of 1858. Edited by Robert W. Johannsen, New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. vi + 330; Paperbound $1.95. Indianapolis in the “Gay Nineties”: High School Diaries of Claude G. Bowers. By Holman Hamilton and Gayle Thornbrough, Editors. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1964; pp. ix + 241; Paperbound $3.00. Speech in Action. By Karl F. Robinson and Charlotte Lee. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1965; pp. 506; $4.84. From the Printed Page: Interpretation Assignment Handbook. By Melvin R. White. New York: S and F Press, 1964; pp. 60; Paperbound $1.85. Children's Literature for Dramatization, An Anthology. By Geraldine Brain Siks. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964; pp. xviii + 331; $4.75. Alcestis. By Euripides. Translated by Alistair Elliot with Introduction by Robert B. Heilman. Chandler Editions in Drama, Robert W. Corrigan, Editor. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company, 1965; pp. xix + 33; Paperbound $0.60. Philoctetes. By Sophocles. Translated by Kenneth Cavander with Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Chandler Editions in Drama, Robert W. Corrigan, Editor. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company, 1965; pp. xix + 42; Paperbound $0.60. The Weavers. By Gerhart Hauptmann. Translated by Carl Richard Mueller with Introduction by William Melnitz. Chandler Editions in Drama, Robert W. Corrigan, Editor. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company, 1965; pp. xi + 77; Paperbound $0.75. Philip Barry. By Joseph Patrick Roppolo. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1965; pp. 158; $3.50. A Synthetic Approach to Lip Reading. By George S. Haspiel. Magnolia, Massachusetts: Expression Company, 1964; pp. x + 165; $3.00. Diagnosis and Appraisal of Communication Disorders. By Frederic L. Darley. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1964; pp. viii + 152; $4.95. Foreign Accent. By Fred M. Chreist. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1964; pp. xliv + 114; $4.95. Using American English. By Leonard Newmark, Jerome R. Mintz, and Jan Lawson Hinely. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964; pp. iv + 249; Paperbound $3.65.