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The Globe Playhouse. By John C. Adams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942; pp. 419. $5.00. Voice Science. By Lyman Spicer Judson and Andrew Thomas Weaver. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co. 1942; pp. 377 + xvii. $3.75. The Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne. A Translation, with an Introduction, the Latin Text, and Notes. By Wilbur Samuel Howell. (Princeton Studies in English, Vol. 23) Princeton: the Princeton University Press, 1941; pp. xii + 175. $3.50. The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech. By Joseph S. Hall. New York: King's Crown Press, 1942; pp. vi + 110. $2.00. Shakespeare Without Tears. By Margaret Webster. New York: Whittlesey House, 1942; xii + 319. $2.75. Semantics: The Nature of Words and Their Meanings. By Hugh R. Walpole. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1941; pp. 264. $2.50. Selected Readings in Rhetoric and Public Speaking. With Introductory Comments by Lester Thonssen. New York: the H. W. Wilson Company, 1942, pp. 324. $3.00 The Subject Fields in General Education, edited by John J. DeBoeur (Report of the Commission on Cooperative Curriculum Planning). New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1941; pp. 236. $1.50. Radio in the Classroom. By A. S. Barr, H. L. Ewbank and T. C. McCormick. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1942; pp. 203. $2.00. Radio Programs Intended for Classroom Use. By Carroll Atkinson. Boston: Meador Press, 1942; pp. 128, $1.50. Broadcasting to the Classroom by Universities and Colleges. By Carroll Atkinson. Boston: Meador Press, 1942; pp. 128, $1.50. Public School Broadcasting to the Classroom. By Carroll Atkinson. Boston: Meador Press, 1942; pp. 144, 51.50. Speech Preparation and Delivery. By Lester Thonssen and Ross Scanlan. New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942; pp. 165. $2.50. The Psychology of Conversation. By T. H. Pear. Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1940; pp. ,171. $.75. Airlanes to English. By Holland DeWit Roberts, H. F. Rachford, Elizabeth Goudy. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1942 pp. 501. $1.72. As Others Hear You. By Marie Ball and Elizabeth L. Wright. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1942; pp. 336. $1.56. The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest. By Herbert V. Prochnow. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942; pp. 413. $3.50. Oral Interpretation of Literature in American Colleges and Universities. By Mary Margaret Robb. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1941; pp. 242. $2.75. An Introduction to Public Opinion. By Harwood L. Childs. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1940; pp. vi + 151. $1.75. Of the People. By Harry R. Warfel and Elizabeth W. Manwaring. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942; pp. xi + 699. $2.30. The Play's the Thing. By Joseph Mersand. New York: The Modern Chapbooks, 1941; pp. 101. $2.00.