Book reviews

Abstract ANTISLAVERY AND DISUNION, 1858–1861: STUDIES IN THE RHETORIC OF COMPROMISE AND CONFLICT. Edited by J. Jeffery Auer. New York: Harper and Row, 1963; pp. xiv+427. $6.00. FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH. By George W. Hibbitt. Garden City, New York: Double‐day and Company, Inc., 1962; pp. 188. $1.45. BUILDING BETTER SPEECH. By Paul D. Brandes and William S. Smith. New York: Noble and Noble, Inc., 1962; pp. 544. $4.80. WORLD TALES FOR CREATIVE DRAMATICS AND STORYTELLING. By Burdette S. Fitzgerald. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1962; pp. xiv+332. $5.25. SCENE DESIGN AND STAGE LIGHTING. By W. Oren Parker and Harvey K. Smith. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963; pp. vii+376. $6.75. ORIENTATION TO THE THEATER. By Theodore W. Hatlen. New…