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The Folklore of Capitalism. By Thurmak Wesley Arnold. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937; pp. vii 400. $3.00. Unicameralism in Practice. The Reference Shelf, Vol. II, No. 5. Compiled by Harrison Boyd Summers. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1937; pp. 294. $.90. The Unicameral Legislature. By Alvin W. Johnson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1938; pp. ix+198. $2.50. Arbitration and the National Labor Relations Board. The Reference Shelf, Vol. 11, No. 7. Compiled by Egbert Ray Nichols and James W. Logan. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1937; pp. 345. $.90. Excursions In English Drama. By Robert Withington. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Co., 1937; pp. 264. $1.50. Players At Work. By Morton Eustis. New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1937; pp. 127. $1.50. Representative One‐Act Plays By American Authors. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937; pp. 636. $3.50. Problem‐projects in Acting. By Katherine Kester. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. xii+217. $1.50. Intercollegiate After‐Dinner Speaking. Edited by Lyman Spicer Judson and Floyd W. Lambertson. New York: Noble and Noble, 1937; pp. xi+336. $2.50. The Speech Personality. By Elwood Murray. New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937; pp. vii‐xii‐269 (text)+ 246 appendices and index). The Psychology of Speech. By Jon Eisenson. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1938; pp. 300. $2.00. Henry Clay, Spokesman of the New West. By Bernard Mayo. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937; pp. xiii+570. $4.50. Essentials of Debate. By John R. Pelsma. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937; pp. 168. $1.00. The Crusading Commoner, A Close‐up of William Jennings Bryan and His Times. By Charles McDaniel Rosser. Introductory Foreword by Josephus Daniels. Mathis, Van Nort & Co., Dallas, Texas; pp. xix+355. $2.50. An A B C of English Usage. By H. A. Treble and G. H. Vallins. Preface by Henry Seidel Canby. American Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1937; pp. 195. $1.50. Scenes for Student Actors, Vol. III. Edited with notes by Frances Cosgrove. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. x + 132. $1.50. Practice in Dramatics. By Edwin Lyle Hardin. Boston: Walter H. Baker Co., 1936; pp. xvi + 192. Dramatic Scenes from Athens to Broadway. By James B. Lowther. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1937; pp. xiv + 314. $2.50. Experiences in Thought and Expression. By Howard Francis Seely. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1936; pp. xv + 512. $1.48. Lords of Speech. By Edgar DeWitt Jones. Chicago: Willet, Clark and Co., 1937; pp. xi‐256. $2.00. The Verb‐Finder. Compiled and edited by Kingbury M. Badger and J. I. Rodale. Emaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Publications, Inc., 1937; pp. xiv+512. $3.00. How to be a Convincing Talker and a Charming Conversationalist. By J. George Frederick. New York: Business Bourse, Publishers, 1937; two volumes, pp. 282.