CURRENT PROSE: A COLLEGE READER
by Thomas H. Bledsoe '35, with R. J. Geist.New York: Rinehart & Co. 1953. 366 pp. $2.90.
Most of these pieces by such diverse writers as James Thurber, Thor Heyerdahl, Alan Devoe, E. B. White, Milton Gross and others, have been written since the end of World War II.
The exceptions by Samuel L. Clemens, Thomas B. Macaulay, and Henry L. Mencken, have some contemporary relevance.
The editors have tried to choose essays which can lead in a college composition course to the kind of writing, in formal exposition, which the student is likely to do.
The type is clear and readable, and altogether the teacher and student in college English should find this an exceptionally helpful and good anthology.
