Book Reviews

CLOTELLE: OR, THE COLORED HEROINE. A TALE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. By William Wells Brown. BLACK VOICES FROM PRISON. By Etheridge Knight et al. BLACK MUSIC: FOUR LIVES. By A. B. Spellman. THE NEGRO IN AMERICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Compiled by Elizabeth W. Miller; second edition compiled by Mary L. Fisher. THE EVANGELICAL HAMBURGER: ESSAYS ON COMMON-PLACE ASPECTS OF AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY, by Arthur A. Berger. LI'L ABNER: A STUDY IN AMERICAN SATIRE, by Arthur A. Berger. THE PURSUIT OF LONELINESS: AMERICAN CULTURE AT THE BREAKING POINT. By Philip E. Slater. MARK TWAIN AND JOHN BULL: THE BRITISH CONNECTION. By Howard G. Baetzhold. A YARD OF SUN, A summer Comedy, by Christopher Fry. THE MOVIE STARS. By Richard Griffith. THE GREAT MOVIE STARS: THE GOLDEN YEARS. By David Shipman. A NEW PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE TALKIES. By Daniel Blum. THE FILMGOER'S COMPANION. By Leslie Halliwell. THE HAUNTED SCREEN: EXPRESSIONISM IN THE GERMAN CINEMA AND THE INFLUENCE OF MAX REINHARDT. By Lotte H. Eisner. FILM IN THE THIRD REICH: A STUDY OF THE GERMAN CINEMA 1933–1945. By David Stewart Hull.     

Book Reviews

ETHER AND ME OR JUST RELAX. By Will Rogers. LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS. By Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Stephen Izenour. COLLECTING NOSTALGIA: THE FIRST GUIDE TO THE ANTIQUES OF THE 30s AND 40s. By John Mebane. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS: AN AMERICAN LIFE. By Kenneth S. Lynn. COMICS: ANATOMY OF A MASS MEDIUM. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. POPULAR CULTURE. By Asa Berger. HENRY JAMES AND THE OCCULT: THE GREAT EXTENSION. By Martha Banta. THE BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN: TALL TALES OF AMERICAN ANIMALS. Robert B. Downs, ed. MOTHER WIT FROM THE LAUGHING BARREL: READINGS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKLORE. Alan Dundes, ed. A RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. By Sydney E. Ahlstrom. CULTURE AND COMMITMENT, 1929–1945. Edited with an introduction by Warren Susman. CHICAGO: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S MOST AMERICAN CITY. By Finis Farr. THE CRAZY APE. By Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. THE BLACK MUSLIMS IN AMERICA. By C. Eric Lincoln. THE CELLULOID WEAPON: SOCIAL COMMENT IN THE AMERICAN FILM. By David Manning White and Richard Averson. THE AMERICAN IDEA OF SUCCESS. By Richard M. Huber.     

Book Reviews

THE MEDIUM IS THE REAR VIEW MIRROR: UNDERSTANDING MCLUHAN. By Donald F. Theall. CURIOSITIES OF THE AMERICAN STAGE. By Laurence Hutton. BROADWAY. By Brooks Atkinson. RELIGION IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS. By John Charles Cooper. THE CONJURE-MAN DIES. By Rudolph Fisher. VARNEY THE VAMPIRE, OR, THE FEAST OF BLOOD. By Thomas Preskett Prest. THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1638-1870. By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. THE IMAGE OF MAN IN AMERICA. By Don M. Wolfe. THE DALLAS COWBOYS AND THE NFL. By Chipman et alia. CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN AMERICA: A Documentary History. Vol. I: 1600-1865. By Robert H. Bremner CENTENNIAL: American Life in 1876. By William P. Randel. FOLLIES AND FANTASIES: Summer 1971 Exhibit at the Art Gallery in Brighton, England. Dolphin Press Group, Brighton. FESTIVALS, U.S.A. AND CANADA. By Robert Meyer, Jr. TRAVELERS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER. Edited by John Francis McDermott. THE ALLEGHENY FRONTIER: WEST VIRGINIA BEGINNINGS, 1730-1830. By Otis K. Rice. MARK TWAIN'S PUDD'NHEAD WILSON: THE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN. By Robert Rowlette. BOSSES IN LUSTY CHICAGO: THE STORY OF BATHHOUSE JOHN AND HINKY DINK. By Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan. A HOUSE FOR ALL PEOPLES: ETHNIC POLITICS IN CHICAGO, 1890-1936. By John M. Allswang. ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINING CAMPS: THE URBAN FRONTIER. By Duane A. Smith. THE LETTERS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT. Ed. by Lewis M. Knapp. SCOTLAND UNDER MARY STUART: AN ACCOUNT OF EVERYDAY LIFE. By Madeleine Bingham.     

Black Letters in History and Literature: Nationalism and Colonization

CHRISTOPHE: KING OF HAITI. By Hubert Cole. BLAKE; OR, THE HUTS OF AMERICA. By Martin R. Delany. SEARCH FOR A PLACE: BLACK SEPARATISM AND AFRICA, 1860. By M. R. Delany and Robert Campbell. POSITIVELY BLACK. By Roger D. Abrahams. THE UNEMBARRASSED MUSE: THE POPULAR ARTS IN AMERICA. By Russel B. Nye. THE GREENING OF AMERICA. By Charles A. Reich. RAYMOND CHANDLER: A CHECKLIST. By Matthew J. Bruccoli. ERLE STANLEY GARDNER: A CHECKLIST. By E. H. Mundell. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL: A CHECKLIST. By Gordon Stein. TOLKIEN CRITICISM: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST. By Richard C. West. A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL APPEARANCES OF DASHIELL HAMMETT'S MAGAZINE WORK. By E. H. Mundell. GRAHAM GREENE: A CHECKLIST OF CRITICISM. By J. Don Vann.     

Book Reviews

DECIDING WHAT'S NEWS: A STUDY OF CBS EVENING NEWS, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, NEWSWEEK AND TIME . By Herbert J. Gans. THE JOHN WAYNE STORY . By Geroge Carpozi, Jr. HANK WILLIAMS: COUNTRY MUSIC'S TRAGIC KING . By Jay Caress. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SPORT . By Eldon E. Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer. THE SEVENTIES: COUNTERFEIT DECADE . By Herbert London. THE CARTOON CONNECTION: THE ART OF PICTORIAL HUMOUR AS SEEN BY WILLIAM HEWISON . THE BLACK TOWNS . By Normal L. Crockett. IN THE LIFE OF A ROMANY GYPSY . By Manfri Frederick Wood. FANTASTIC WORLDS: MYTHS, TALES, AND STORIES . Edited by Eric S. Rabkin. COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME TIME NETWORK TV SHOWS: 1946 TO PRESENT . By Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. AUTOMOBILE AGE ATLANTA: THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN METROPOLIS . By Harward L. Preston. BUFFO: THE GENIUS OF VULGAR HUMOR . By Anthony Capulti. THE VICTORIAN THEATRE: 1792–1914 . By Geroge Rowell. RADIO COMEDY . By Arthur Frank Wertheim. SNAKES & LADDERS . By Dirk Bogarde. THE MOVIE BRATS–HOW THE FILM GENERATION TOOK OVER HOLLYWOOD . By Michael Pye and Lynda Myles. TV: FRIEND OR FOE: A PARENT'S HANDBOOK . By Paul Borgman. FEMALE COMPLAINTS: LYDIA PINKHAM AND THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE . By Sarah Stage. THE RISE OF THE VICTORIAN ACTOR . By Michael Baker. A NEW MYTHOS: THE NOVEL OF THE ARTIST AS HEROINE 1877–1977 . By Grace Stewart.     

Book Reviews

PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL DEVIANCE. By Michael J. Goldstein and Harold Sanford Kant, with John J. Hartman. ANALYTICAL SURVEY OF ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADITIONAL EROTICA. By Frank Hoffman. LITERATURE FOR THE MASSES: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF POPULAR PAMPHLETEERING IN NIGERIA. By Emmanuel Obiechina. HOLLYWOOD'S GREAT LOVE TEAMS. By James R. Parish. THE PUBLIC NOTICE, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Maurice Rickards. PASSAGES ABOUT EARTH: AN EXPLORATION OF THE NEW PLANETARY CULTURE. By William I. Thompson. WHITE CHURCHES OF THE PLAINS. By Robert H. Adams. OH! DEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS. By Charles E. Welch. SAUL BELLOW'S ENIGMATIC LAUGHTER. By Sarah Blacher Cohen. HOLLY WOULD! By John Milton Hagen. THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION. By Victor Ferkiss. THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND POETRY. Edited by John Conron. THE IDEA OF FRATERNITY IN AMERICA. By Wilson Carey McWilliams. SONG AND DANCE MAN: THE ART OF BOB DYLAN. By Michael Gray. ROGER MOORE'S JAMES BOND DIARY. KIDNAPPING: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Hank Messick & Burt Goldblatt. TURQUOISE PLEASURES. By Richard Schaeffer. FITTING IN: CROSSWISE AT GENERATION GAP. By Herbert London. LANDSCAPES. By Burk Uzzle.     

Book Reviews

HERE AT THE NEW YORKER. By Brendan Gill. WITCHCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Jeffrey Burton Russell. AMERICAN PAINTING: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION SOURCES. Edited by Sydney Starr Keaveney. RUGS AND WALL HANGINGS: PERIOD DESIGNS AND CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES. By Joan Scobey. THE END OF INTELLIGENT WRITING. By Richard Kostelanetz. THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN THE RENAISSANCE, A STUDY IN INTELLECTUAL PATTERNS. By Wayne Shumaker. ONCE UPON A PEDESTAL. By Emily Hahn. WILLIAM STYRON. By Melvin J. Friedman. TV: THE MOST POPULAR ART. By Horace Newcomb. INNOCENTS AT HOME: AMERICA IN THE 1970s. By Tad Szulc. THE WAR OF IDEAS. By Georgi Arbatov. NEOCOLONIALISM: METHODS AND MANOEUVRES. By Vasily Vakhrushev. THE GREAT COVERUP: NIXON AND THE SCANDAL OF WATERGATE. By Barry Sussman. THE WAR OF IDEAS: AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CRISIS. By George N. Gordon and Irving A. Falk. THROUGH “POVERTY'S VALE”—A HARDSCRABBLE BOYHOOD IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, 1832-1862. By Henry Conklin. JOHN STEINBECK AND EDWARD F. RICKETTS: THE SHAPING OF A NOVELIST. By Richard Astro. WILL ROGERS. By E. Paul Alworth. JACK LONDON. By Earle Labor. DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND THIRTIES AMERICA. By William Stott. AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM, 1830-1860: AN INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY. By Paul F. Boller, Jr. LONGTIME CALIFORN': A DOCUMENTARY STUDY OF AN AMERICAN CHINATOWN. By Victor and Brett De Bary Nee. THE NEW WEST: LANDSCAPE ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE. By Robert Adams. BEYOND THE WASTE LAND. By Raymond Olderman. THE MALE MACHINE. By Marc Feigen Fasteau. PASSAGES ABOUT EARTH: AN EXPLORATION OF THE NEW PLANETARY CULTURE. By William Irwin Thompson. THE AMERICAN DREAM OF SUCCESS: THE SEARCH FOR THE SELF IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Lawrence Chenoweth. THE HUMANE IMPERATIVE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE YEAR 2000. By Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. WOMEN AND THEIR SEXUALITY IN THE NEW FILM. By Joan Mellen. DIVES AND PAUPER. A Facsimile Reproduction of the Pynsen Edition of 1493, with an Introduction and Index by Francis J. Sheeran. THE LONG DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: THE AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL LEFT AND THE VIETNAM WAR. By Sandy Vogelgesang. FREDERICK'S OF HOLLYWOOD: TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF MAIL ORDER SEDUCTION. By Laura and Jan Gottwald. SAINT WITH A GUN: THE UNLAWFUL AMERICAN PRIVATE EYE. By William Ruehlmann. MAKING TRACKS. By Charlie Gillett. NOTES ON THE OLD SYSTEM. By Marcus Raskin. WONDERFUL WIZARD, MARVELOUS LAND. By Raylyn Moore.     

REVIEW ESSAY

POPULAR LITERATURE: A HISTORY AND GUIDE FROM THE BEGINNING OF PRINTING TO THE YEAR 1897 . By Victor E. Neuburg TOWARD EDUCATION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND . By Victor E. Neuburg. CHAPBOOKS: A GUIDE TO REFERENCE MATERIAL ON ENGLISH, SCOTTISH AND AMERICAN CHAPBOOK LITERATURE OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES . By Victor E. Neuburg. POPULAR CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE . By Peter Burke. THE SHOWS OF LONDON: A PANORAMIC HISTORY OF EXHIBITIONS, 1600-1862 . By Richard D. Altick.     

Book Reviews

THE GODS OF ANTENNA. By Bruce Herschensohn. THE RESPONSIVE CHORD - By Tony Schwartz FACT AND FICTION. THE NEW JOURNALISM AND THE NONFICTION NOVEL. By John Hollowell. THE NEW LANGUAGES: A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO THE MASS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE. By Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lynn M. Berk. MEDIA, POLITICS, AND DEMOCRACY. By Bernard Rubin. TV SEASON 1975–76. Compiled and Edited by Nina David. TELEVISION. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS. By Jeff Greenfield. THE SHOW AND TELL MACHINE: HOW TELEVISION WORKS AND WORKS YOU OVER. By Rose K. Goldsen. HOW TO READ A FILM: THE ART, TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND THEORY OF FILM AND MEDIA. By James Monaco. DARK DREAMS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN HORROR FILM. By Charles Derry DOCUMENTARY: A HISTORY OF THE NON—FICTION FILM. By Erik Barnouw. THE TALKIES–ARTICLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A GREAT FAN MAGAZINE 1928–1940. By Richard Griffith. WESTERNS: ASPECTS OF A MOVIE GENRE. By Philip French. ON WITH THE SHOW: THE FIRST CENTURY OF SHOW BUSINESS IN AMERICA. By Robert C. Toll. THE BEST MUSICALS FROM SHOW BOAT TO A CHORUS LINE. By Arthur Jackson. PAUL ROBESON: ALL-AMERICAN. By Dorothy Butler Gilliam. VICTORIAN MAGIC, By Geoffrey Lamb. ENGLISH POPULAR LITERATURE 1819–1851. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Louis James. THE VICTORIAN POPULAR BALLAD. By J.S. Bratton. VICTORIAN MELODRAMAS. By James L. Smith. THEATRE IN THE AGE OF KEAN. By Joseph Donohue. POST—WAR BRITISH THEATRE. By John Elsom.     

Book Reviews

THE HORRORS OF THE HALF—KNOWN LIFE: MALE ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA . By G.J. Barker-Benfield. THE NEW RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS . Edited by Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah. TURNING EAST: THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF THE NEW ORIENTALISM . By Harvey Cox THE MIGHTY MARVEL COMICS STRENGTH AND FITNESS BOOK . Presented by Stan Lee, written by Agile Ann Picardo, Illustrated by Jumpin' Joe Giella. KATHE KOLLWITZ: WOMAN AND ARTIST . By Martha Kearns. THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT: THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF FAIRY TALES . By Bruno Bettelheim. THE TOUGH GUYS . By James Robert Parish. AGATHA CHRISTIE: FIRST LADY OF CRIME . Edited by H.R.F. Keating. CONAN DOYLE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SOLUTION . By Ronald Pearsall. THE HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE . Edited by Herbert Ruhm. TUNE IN YESTERDAY: THE ULTIMATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD-TIME RADIO 1925–1976 . By John Dunning. NEWS FOR EVERYMAN: RADIO AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THIRTIES AMERICA . By David Holbrook Culbert. THE PLEASURES OF THE GAME : The Theory Free Guide to Golf. By Colman McCarthy.     

Review Essay

Communes And Families THE ALTERNATIVE: COMMUNAL LIFE IN NEW AMERICA. By William 5Hedgepeth and Dennis Stock. New York WHAT THE TREES SAID: LIFE ON A NEW AGE FARM. By Stephen Diamond. COMMUNES IN THE COUNTER CULTURE: ORIGINS, THEORIES, STYLES OF LIFE. By Keith Melville. THE NEW COMMUNES: COMING TOGETHER IN AMERICA. By Ron E. Roberts. COMMUNES USA: A PERSONAL TOUR. By Richard Fairfield. GETTING BACK TOGETHER. By Robert Houriet. THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST. By Tom Wolfe. FAMOUS LONG AGO: MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES WITH LIBERATIONNEWS SERVICE. By Raymond Mungo. TOTAL LOSS FARM: A YEAR IN THE LIFE. By Raymond Mungo. CANYON: THE STORY OF THE LAST RUSTIC COMMUNITY IN METRO-POLITAN AMERICA. By John van der Zee.     

Book Reviews

NOBODY SPEAKS FOR ME: SELF-PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WORKING CLASS WOMEN. By Nancy Seifert. ART, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. By Roger L. Taylor. THE DEMOCRATS: FROM JEFFERSON TO CARTER. By Robert A. Rutland. A PLACE ON THE CORNER. By Elijah Anderson. STATION IDENTIFICATION: CONFESSIONS OF A VIDEO KID. By Donald Bowie. STUDIES IN THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: 1979. Edited by Joel Myerson. ENTER, MYSTERIOUS STRANGER—AMERICAN CLOISTRAL FICTION. By Roy R. Male. KALAMAZOO: THE PLACE BEHIND THE PRODUCTS. By Larry B. Massie and Peter J. Schmitt. TOUCHING BASE: PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA. By Steven A. Riess. PECKINPAH: THE WESTERN FILMS. By Paul Seydor. FRANK CAPRA. By Charles J. Maland. MEDIA POWER POLITICS. David L. Paletz and Robert M. Entman. THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACY: PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE 1980s. By Marilyn Ferguson.     

Book Reviews

WHITE BOY SINGIN' THE BLUES: THE BLACK ROOTS OF WHITE ROCK . By Michael Bane AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: A REFERENCE GUIDE . By Mark W. Booth. SOUND EFFECTS: YOUTH, LEISURE, AND THE POLITICS OF ROCK AND ROLL . By Simon Frith.     

Book Reviews

ALONE TOGETHER: SOCIAL ORDER ON A PUBLIC BEACH . By Robert B. Edgerton. LITERATURE DE LA IMAGEN [PICTORIAL LITERATURE] . By Roman Gubern. WE'RE BEING MORE THAN ENTERTAINED . By Robert Cirino. ETHICAL SURVEY OF COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA . By Dale R. Wicklander. THE READER, THE TEXT, AND THE POEM: THE TRANSACTIONAL THEORY OF THE LITERARY WORK . By Lois M. Rosenblatt. BLACK FILM AS GENRE . By Thomas Cripps. HOLLYWOOD CHARACTER ACTORS . By James Robert Parish. COCKTAILS FOR TWO . By Sam. Coslow. THE LAST LAUGH: FORM AND AFFIRMATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMIC NOVEL . By Ronald Wallace. THE FUNSTERS . By James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard HIGH COMEDY AND LOW. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPERIENCE OF COMEDY . By Maurice Charney. COMIC RELIEF: HUMOR IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE . Edited by Sarah Blacher Cohen. AMERICAN HUMOR IN FRANCE: TWO CENTURIES OF FRENCH CRITICISM OF THE COMIC SPIRIT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE . By James C. Austin, with a concluding chapter by Daniel Royot. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS . By Scott Compton Osborn and Robert L. Phillips.     

Review

POPULATION DECLINE IN EUROPE By Eugene Grebenik (ed.) Edward Arnold, 1978, x+254 pp., £14.95.
CHANGE IN BRITISH SOCIETY By A. H. Halsey. Oxford University Press, 1978, 191 pp., £4.50.
THE YEAR BOOK OF SOCIAL POLICY IN BRITAIN, 1977 by Muriel Brown and Sally Baldwin. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, 247 pp., £13.50.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE By Lowdon Wingo and Alan Evans John Hopkins, 1978, 325 pp., £12.50.
SOCIAL CARE RESEARCH By Jack Barnes and Naomi Connelly, Bedford Square Press, 1978, 163 pp., £3.50.
PRIVACY By J. B. Young (ed.) John Wiley and Sons, 1978, 350 pp., £12.00.
THE BRITISH PHILOSOPHY OF ADMINISTRATION By Rosamund Thomas Longman, 1978, xix +280 pp., £8.50.
THE POLITICS OF BUREAUCRACY By B. Guy Peters. Longman, 1978, 246 pp., £4.95.
THE BRITISH MP: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS By Colin Mellors. Saxon House, 1978, 146 pp., £7.50.
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE AND THE UNEMPLOYED By Julian Fulbrook. Mansell, 1978, 338 pp., £11.00.
THE COMMISSION FOR LOCAL ADMINISTRATION: A PRELIMINARY APPRAISAL By Norman Lewis and Bernard Gateshill. Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1978, 68 pp., £2.20.
CLASS STRUGGLE, THE STATE AND MEDICINE By Vincente Navarro. Martin Robertson, 1978, 156 pp., £7.95.
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: THE FIRST PHASE By Brian Watkin. Allen and Unwin 1978, 170 pp., £3.50.
HEALTH SERVICES By Elliott Jaques (ed.). Heinemann, 1978, 346 pp., £9.95.
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE By Paul Brearly, Jane Gibbons, Agnes Miles, Eda Topliss and Graham Woods. Martin Robertson, 1978, 202 pp., £8.95.
THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY By Howard Jones Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, 145 pp., £6.50.
LOCKING UP CHILDREN By Spencer Millham, Roger Bullock and Kenneth Hosie Saxon House, 1978, 196 pp., £7.50.     

Review Essay

JEWISH FOLKLORE: A NEW IMAGE THE FOLKLORE OF THE JEWS. By Angelo S. Rappoport. IN PRAISE OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV [SHIVHEI HA-BESHT] . Translated and edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz.     

Book Reviews

TELEVISION AND THE RED MENACE: THE VIDEO ROAD TO VIETNAM, by J. Fred MacDonald. THE TV ARAB. By Jack G. Shaheen. TY COBB. By Charles Alexander. SAD CLOWNS AND PALE PIERROTS: LITERATURE AND THE POPULAR COMIC ARTS IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE. By Louisa E. Jones. ARTHUR SULLIVAN: A VICTORIAN MUSICIAN. By Arthur Jacobs. CLASS, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A NEW VIEW OF THE 1930s. Edited by Frank Gloversmith. ADOLF HITLER: THE UNKNOWN ARTIST. By Billy F. Price. SPORT, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY. By Jennzjer Hargreaves. HOME REMEDIES. By Martin Pops. THE AMAZING ARMADILLO: GEOGRAPHY OF A FOLK CRITTER. By Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty.     

Book Reviews

WHAT WAS LITERATURE? CLASS CULTURE AND MASS SOCIETY. By Leslie Fiedler. THE WEST AS ROMANTIC HORIZON. By William H. Goetzmann & Joseph C. Porter. HE WAS SINGIN' THIS SONG: A COLLECTION OF FORTYEIGHT TRADITIONAL SONGS OF THE AMERICAN COWBOY, WITH WORDS, MUSIC, PICTURES AND STORIES. By Jim Bob Tinsley GOSPEL MUSIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. By Robert Anderson and Gail North. GHOSTS AND GOOSEBUMPS: GHOST STORIES, TALL TALES, AND SUPERSTITIONS FROM ALABAMA. Compiled and Edited by Jack and Olivia Solomon. LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERWORLD. By Alan W. Futtrell and Charles B. Wordell (editors). TOM SWIFT & COMPANY–“BOYS' BOOKS” BY STRATEMEYER AND OTHERS. John T. Dizer, Jr. STEPPING OUT: NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE 1890–1930. By Lewis A. Erenberg. TARZAN AND TRADITION: CLASSICAL MYTH IN POPULAR LITERATURE. By Erling B. Holtsmark. SEXUAL FICTION. By Maurice Charney. FASHION POWER: THE MEANING OF FASHION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Jeanette C. Lauer and Robert H. Lauer. FAITH IN FICTION. By David S. Reynolds. THE SOUTH AND FILM. By Warren French, Ed.     

Book Reviews

DEATH, HEAVEN AND THE VICTORIANS. By John Morley. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL CATALOG COLLECTION. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: THE PYNE PRESS, 1971. ELVIS: A BIOGRAPHY. By Jerry Hopkins. TEACH-IN: VIABILITY OF CHANGE. Edited by B. D. Owens and Ray B. Browne. APPLEHOOD AND MOTHER PIE: NOTES ON “AMERICAN” VALUES. By Andrew R. Sisson.     

Review

HEALTH SERVICES: THE LOCAL PERSPECTIVE By Arthur Levin Praeger, 1977, 262 pp., £12.20.
RATIONING SOCIAL SERVICES By Ken Judge Heinemann, 1978, 212 pp., £7.00.
EDUCATION WELFARE: STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE By Keith Macmillan Longman, 1977, 165 pp., £2.50.
IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL: THE R.O.S.L.A. COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT By Roger White and David Brockington Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, 200 pp., £4.50.
THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS By W. A. L. Blyth and R. Derricott Batsford, 1977, 246 pp., £6.95.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON HEALTH O.E.C.D., 1977, 137 pp., £4.90.
SOME MAJOR ISSUES IN HEALTH POLICY By A. J. Culyer and A. K. Maynard Stationery Office, Dublin, 1977, 94 pp., 45p.
RESTRUCTURING THE HEALTH SERVICE By Tom Heller Croom Helm, London, 1978, 114 pp., £5.95.
BRIDGES TO WORK: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF TRANSITION SERVICES By Beatrice J. Reubens Martin Robertson, 1977, 275 pp., £10.50.
CRITICAL ISSUES IN ORGANISATIONS By Stewart Clegg & David Dunkerley Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, 109 pp., £3.25.
THE PERSONNEL MANAGERS⁻A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT By Tony J. Watson Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, 246 pp., £5.95.
IN EQUALITY OF PAY By Henry Phelps Brown Oxford University Press, 1977, 360pp., £7.95.
FINANCING STRIKERS By John Gennard Macmillan, 1978, 184 pp., £8.95.