BOOK REVIEWS

FIVE SEASONS: A BASEBALL COMPANION . By Roger Angell . JOCK CULTURE, U.S.A . By Neil D. Isaacs . SPORT AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS: A GUIDE TO THE ANALYSIS, PROBLEMS AND LITERATURE . By John W. Loy, Barry D. McPherson, and Gerald Kenyon . BOSTON RED SOX: 75TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORY, 1901‐1975 . By Ellery H. Clark, Jr . RED SOX FOREVER . by Ellery H. Clark, Jr . REMEMBERING THEIR GLORY: SPORTS HEROES OF THE 1940s . By James V. Young and Arthur F. McClure . GOLF BEGINS AT FORTY: HOW TO USE YOUR AGE ADVANTAGE . By Sam Snead with Dick Aultman . BASEBALL I GAVE YOU ALL THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE . Edited by Kevin Kerrane and Richard Grossinger . SPORTS, GAMES, AND PLAY . By Jeffrey H. Goldstein . Sports Books ReviewFROM RITUAL TO RECORD: THE NATURE OF MODERN SPORTS . By Allen Guttmann. THE BIG GAME: COLLEGE SPORTS AND AMERICAN LIFE . By Edwin Cady. THE DIME WESTERN NOVEL . By Daryl Jones . DEMOCRACY AND THE NOVEL: POPULAR RESISTENCE TO CLASSIC AMERICAN WRITERS . By Henry Nash Smith . THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN TASTE: THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN STYLE FROM 1607 TO THE PRESENT . By William Pierce Randel . THE BOOK OF INSULTS . By Nancy McPhee . “YOUR MEDICINE CHEST”–A CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO PRESCRIPTION AND NON‐PRESCRIPTION DRUGS . By Wayne O. Evans, Ph. D. and Jonathan O. Cole, M.D . SPOOKS, THE HAUNTING OF AMERICA–THE PRIVATE USE OF SECRET AGENTS . By Jim Hougan . A SEASON OF YOUTH . By Michael Kammen . AMUSING THE MILLION: CONEY ISLAND AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. By John F. Kasson . IF LIFE IS A BOWL OF CHERRIES–WHAT AM I DOING IN THE PITS?By Erma Bombeck . VANGUARDS AND FOLLOWERS: YOUTH IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION . By Louis Filler . THE CHEROKEE FREEDMEN: FROM EMANCIPATION TO AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP . By Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr . CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF EDWARD SHILS . Edited by Joseph Ben‐David and Terry Nichols Clark . THE CHILDREN OF PROSPFRITY: THIRTEEN MODERN AMERICAN COMMUNES . By Hugh Gardner . A VIEW OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE . By Geoffrey Tillotson . THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN LEXICON, IN WHICH IS GILDED THE PHILOSOPHIC PILL . By Harry Benford . CHARLES DICKENS, 1940‐1975, AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO PERIODICAL CRITICISM OF THE NOVELS AND CHRISTMAS BOOKS . By John J. Fenstermaker. MORE WOMEN IN LITERATURE: CRITICISM OF THE SEVENTIES . By Carol Fairbanks. THE THEATRICAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF NAPOLEON SARONY . By Ben L. Bassham.