DAS DEUTSSCHE DRAMA IM AMERI KANISCHEN COLLEGE-U. UNIVERSITAETS—THEATER

by Prof. Stephan Schlossmacher. Verlag H. u. J. Lechte, Emsdetten, 1938. R.M.9.

In this dissertation, presented to the University of Cologne in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Schlossmacher has made a thorough study of the performances of German plays given in American colleges and universities during the last generation After a general chapter on German theaters in the United States he presents a comprehensive account of the plays given in the German language by student actors throughout the country. Material for this survey was derived from some six hundred questionnaires sent to the Departments of German at colleges and universities with an enrolment of over four hundred students. At the end of the book are numerous photographs of productions of German plays in American colleges, with some unusually good ones of the plays produced by the student society Germania at Dartmouth.

Professor Schlossmacher deserves high praise for his diligence in collecting this material and for his care in presenting it. The book is clear evidence of America's interest and enthusiasm for finding out about the cultures of other countries and as such is an important sociological document. It is, of course, also important as throwing light on an important phase of American education.

Professor Kenneth N. Ogle, of the Research Division of The Dartmouth Eye Institute, is the author of a paper Diemathematische Analyse des Langshoropters which appeared in Pflugers Archivfur die gesamte Physiologie in February. This paper deals with a mathematical study of the longitudinal horopter curve from the point of view of experimental facts, rather than from theoretical retinal distance.

A report of a symposium on teaching methods in plant physiology, conducted by New England teachers of the subject and signed by Professor Charles J. Lyon as Chairman, was printed in the October number of Plant Physiology under the title A Teachers' Forum. In a similar symposium at the Indianapolis meeting of the Anierican Society of Plant Physiologists on December 30th, Professor Lyon also presented a paper entitled Plant Physiologyin a Liberal College.

Dr. Francis E. Merrill '26 is the author of The Stock Exchange and Social Control which appears in the January issue of the American Journal of Sociology.

Professor Carl L. Wilson is the author of The Phylogeny of the Stamen which has been reprinted from the American Journal of Botany for December.

The Ski Bulletin for January 28 contains an article A Method for Scoring SkiJumping Competitions While in Progress by Professor Charles A. Proctor,