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Plain English: A book for those who seek a more intimate acquaintance with their own language. By William Freeman. Edited for American readers by Blanche Colton Williams. New York: Appleton‐Century, 1939; pp. xiv + 189. $1.50. The Reading Chorus. By Helen Gertrude Hicks. New York: Noble and Noble, 1939; pp. 184. $1.95. Verbal Influences on Children's Behavior. By Marguerite Wilker Johnson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1939; pp. ix +191. $1.50. Edmund Burke and His Kinsmen. A study of the statesman's financial integrity and private relationships. By Dixon Wecter. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Studies. Series B. Studies in the Humanities. Vol. I, No. 1, 1939. pp. 113. $1.00. Phonetic Readings in American Speech. By James F. Bender and Victor A. Fields. New York: Pitman Publishing Corp.; pp. 69. $.85. Western European Dress. By Iris Brooke. New York: Macmillan Company, (London: George G. Harrap & Co.), 1939; pp. 151; illustrated. $5.00. Compounding in the English Language. By Alice Morton Ball. New York: H. W. Wilson Co.; 1939; pp. 226. $2.50. The Oral Study of Literature. By Algernon Tassin. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1939, Fifth Edition; 497 pp. $2.25. The Mercury Shakespeare. Edited for Reading and Arranged for Staging by Orson Welles and Roger Hill. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Tested One‐Act Plays. Selected and Edited by Oscar E. Sams, Jr., with Introductory Chapters by William G. B. Carson. New York: Noble and Noble, 1939; pp. 341. $2.50. One‐Act Plays for Stage and Study, Ninth Series. With a preface by Garrett H. Leverton. New York: Samuel French, 1939; pp. 497. $3.00. Radio Roads to Reading. Edited by Julia L. Sauer. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1939; pp. 236. $2.25. Examiner's Reading Diagnostic Record for High School and College Students. By Ruth Strang. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University; 1939. Seth A. Fessenden, Eastern Illinois State Teachers College. Modern Speeches on Basic Issues. Compiled and edited by Lew Sarett and William Trufant Foster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939; pp. xv, 445. $1.50. Speech Education. By Sara M. Barber. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939; pp. 485. $1.50. Wege einer neuen Sprechkultur in England. By Stanley Godman. Aus der Sprechkundlichen Abteilung des Germanischen Seminars der Ernst Moritz Arndt.—Universität Gr eiswald. Greiswald (Germany) 1938–46 pages. Permanence and Change. By Kenneth Burke. New York: New Republic, Inc., 1935; pp. 351. $1.00.