Dartmouth Authors

John Jacobus (Professor of Art and Urban Studies), Matisse, Henry N. Abrams, $22.50; section on architecture in American Art of the20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Prentice Hall and Abrams, $13.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.

Alexander Laing '25 (Professor of Belles Lettres. Emeritus), Seafaring America, American Heritage and McGraw-Hill, $25. To be reviewed in a later issue.

Henry A. Schroeder (Professor of Physiology, Emeritus), The Poisons Around Us: ToxicMetals in Food, Air, and Water, Indiana University Press, $6.95; The Trace Elementsand Man, Devin-Adair, $7.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.

Robert M. Rodman '34, MassachusettsProcedural Forms Annotated, three volumes, fourth edition, West Publishing Company, $105. The practical aids of the prior three editions have been improved and enlarged. Library references and cross references are given to other works in the Massachusetts Practice Series numbering over 30 volumes. An alphabetical subject-matter index is included. Rodman's services to lawyers, law courts, and law schools dates back to his first edition of 1941.

George K. Dreher '41 King Edward The First, Adams Press, $5.95. In a 38-page preface to his edited text of the George Peele (1558-1598) drama, Dreher discusses chronicle history plays; Peele's sources (John Stowe and Matthew Paris), Peele's motives to change the play which led to Dreher's retroform as an experiment and search for Peele's version before the redrafting; and Peele's theme, characterization, and diction. Was Edward a complex and energetic soldier and politician and did Peele's portrait fit the actor Ned Allen are two questions of interest to scholars.

Evan S. Connell '45, The Connoisseur, Knopf, $6.95. See review in this issue.

Wilcomb E. Washburn '48, The Indian inAmerica, Harper & Row, $10. See review in this issue.

Joe Mathewson '55, Up Against Daley, Open Court, $9.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.

Barry Mahoney '59 and Alan F. Westin, TheTrial of Martin Luther King, Crowell, $7.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.

C. Gregory Knight '63, Ecology and Change:Rural Modernization in an African Community, Academic Press, $16.50. The associate professor of geography at Pennsylvania State University discusses agricultural practices and changes in the Nyiha people of the Mbozi area in southwestern Tanzania. During the year of investigation, 50 miles from the nearest town and telephone, he conducted interviews in Swahili, which he speaks, and Shinyiha, which required an interpreter.

Lawrence Danson '64 Tragic Alphabet.Shakespeare's Drama of Language, Yale University Press, $11. See review in this issue.

Because of the growing volume of specializedworks produced by the Dartmouth constituency, faculty and alumni alike, the Magazinewill henceforth publish full reviews of onlythose books which, in our judgment, are ofgeneral interest to a readership as diverse asours. Works of a specialized nature, howeverworthy, will be listed here, with a brief indication of their scope and subject matter for theenlightenment of readers who share those particular interests.