Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: H all , R obert , A Short History of Italian Literature. Ithaca: Linguistica. 1951. pp. 429. Price, $5.00 The Pocket Oxford German Dictionary. German‐English , compiled by M. L. Barker and H. Homeyer; English‐German , compiled by C. T. Carr. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951, xvi, 440, ii, 222 pp. $2.50. C hateaubriand , F rançois R ené de , Atala and René: A New Translation by Irving Putter. MLA Translation Series. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1952. With Foreword, Introduction, Text, and Notes. Pp. 122. Paper. Price, $1.60. V oltaire , Choix de contes. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by F. C. Green. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1951, pp. xxxi+247. Price, $2.00. R acine , Andromaque , Edited by H. R. Roach and R. P. L. Ledésert. D. C. Heath and Company, Boston, 1951, pp. xlvii+111. Price, $1.28. S tarr , W. H., Pellegrino, A. G., Casavant, H. A., Functional French. New York: American Book Company, 1951, xviii+292 pp., $3.00. A veline , C laude , L'Exécution de Marinéche. Edited by F. J. Gemmell and R. J. Quinault. D. C. Heath and Company, Boston, n. d., pp. 108. Price, $1.28. A nton C hekhov . Selected Short Stories. Edited by G. A. Birkett and Gleb Struve. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1951. 235 pp. Price, $3.00. R atcliff , D illwyn F. Intermediate Spanish Grammar. Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1952, pp. x+288+liii. $2.60.