Shorter Notices.

The article presents information on several books. "New Writing. Spring 1938," edited by John Lehmann, is given over to the work of writers who show the rise of social consciousness, and this particular collection varies from the earlier ones chiefly in its more international representation. "Contemporary One-Act Plays," edited and selected by William Kozlenko, the inevitable monotony of most play collections is somewhat lightened in this volume of ten one-actors by the inclusion of dramatic experiments by three men better known in other fields. "Singing for Power. The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona," by Ruth Murry Underhill, gives in as accurate a free rendering as the structure of English permits, a group of songs which the Papago sing for power-to make themselves, so they think, better able to cope with the difficult environment in which they live.