The three books under review show what flux the English language has undergone and continues to undergo, and how stable grammatical theory has been until recent times. (Author)

Purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between a subject's understanding of conjunctions and his reading comprehension; the difference in the difficulty of various conjunctions, and the relationship between understanding conjunctions and the demographic variables of socio-economic level, sex and intelligence. (RB)

If we can change unconscious imitation of models into conscious decision-making of preferred speech, we will have made a sizeable advance in the whole matter of speech usage. (Author/MB)

A Five-Point Program for teaching English in the inner city... based on the real needs of the Black ghetto student. (Author)

Revised version of a paper presented at Conference on Comparative Literature (4th, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1970). (Editor/RD)

Describes several effective techniques for teaching students about the phonetic alphabet and about such aspects of speech as slang, jargon, colloquialisms, and regional dialects. (DD)

Special issue devoted to works and criticisms of Benito Perez Galdos on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Spanish author's death. First time that Hispania" has dedicated an entire issue to one author. (DS)