Dartmouth Authors

Lawrence Treat, '24, ed. Mystery Writer's Handbook. Writer's Digest, 1976. 275 pp. $8.95. Whodunit? Treat done, it! Treat and about 25 other members of the Mystery Writers of America, including Eric Ambler, Rex Stout, Helen McCloy, Hillary Waugh and other notable masters of fictional mayhem, murder, and the macabre. It's a how-to book, definitely: Want to break into the gothic market? Want to know how to create suspense? effective dialogue? background? atmosphere? What's the most effective way to market your mystery story? to revise your own copy? to get into the softcover market? to avoid clichè? Does your Holmes really need a Watson?

Thomas Hale Ham '27. The Student asColleague: Medical Education Experience atCase Western Reserve. 2 vols. University Microfilms, 1976. Vol. 1, 164 pp., $12.50; vol. 2, microfiche supplement, $50.00. The record of a 30-year-long experiment in applying democratic principles to the teaching of medicine. The experiment was aimed primarily at getting medical students to accept more responsibility for educating themselves and at affording them earlier and more frequent opportunities for working directly with patients. Central to the program, begun in 1946 at Western Reserve, was Dr. Ham's premise that medical students "should be treated both as colleagues and clients." His achievements earned the 1975 Abraham Flexner Award of the Association of American Medical Colleges for distinguished service in medical education. Dr. Ham is presently a visiting professor at the Dartmouth Medical School.

Martin Anderson '57, ed. Conscription: ASelect and Annotated Bibliography. The Hoover Institution Press, 1976. 453 pp. $15.00. The first of a projected three-volume work "on the problems involved in raising an armed force in a free society." The book contains 1,385 entries, all copiously annotated and divided among 17 chapters, each devoted to a major subject area; two admirably exhaustive indexes, one to titles the other to authors; and a rational, useful classification of subject groupings within chapters. The author is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Joe C. Bartlett '74, George A. Fowler Jr., and Roggie Cale. Java: A Garden Continuum. Amerasian Ltd., 1974. 281 pp. A non- technical, non-specialized social history aimed at presenting "to the interested layman an overview of Javanese forms of cultural and social evolution [and] the outstanding Javanese forms of aesthetic expression." The authors make extensive use of oral interviews, a rich source which was open to them because of their fluency in the language of the area. Bartlett has already served a precocious apprenticeship, during an interruption of his college years, as one of a five-member American team which in 1972 produced Petamina, a history of the development of Indonesia's national oil company.