The Horn Collection (MS Gen. 1824) comprises a fifteen-box, un-indexed collection of papers, drafts, notes, and miscellaneous items of David Baynes former Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. This wideranging collection contains numerous items that will be of interest to historians of rhetoric, logic, philosophy, and education. At the time of his death in October 1969, D. B. Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh, was engaged in writing a full-length history of his university. The University Court (Senate) had given Horn two years leave of absence to write a full-scale History of the University of according to his letter to the Edinburgh Town Clerk, dated 4 March 1968. Horn had earlier completedA Short History of the University of Edinburgh, 1556-1889, which was published by the Edinburgh University Press in 1967. his letter to the Town Clerk, Horn described the parameters of his plan: In the first instance, I would limit myself to the period when the Town Council acted as patrons of the University, that is down to 1858. Horn had made significant progress in the last twenty months of his life toward his goal of publishing a full history of his beloved University. Judging from the draft materials, Horn appears nearly to have completed the project. His papers and miscellaneous items will be of particular interest to those tracing the history of the teaching of rhetoric and belles lettres in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. The broader purpose of this bibliographical essay is to highlight those materials in the Horn collection that may be of value to the interested in the general academic context of enlightenment rhetoric in the Scottish universities. The collection (MS Gen. 1824) was deposited in the University of Edinburgh Library by way of the good graces of D. B. Horn's daughter, Dr. Hazel Horn. It appears that Dr. Horn provided an initial deposit of her father's papers after his death in October, 1969, and in 1977 passed along a further large instalment of [her] father's notes and papers for his history of the University. . .[which] will clearly be of value and benefit to many scholars (Letter from Mr. Charles Finlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts, to Dr. Hazel Horn, 7 October 1977). D.B.

Defining the New Rhetorics, edited by Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993; pp. 243 + Introduction, Index Nineteenth‐Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection by Winifred Bryan Horner. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. 211 Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama by Jody Enders. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992;xiv; 281. Rhetoric and Society Series, ed. Wayne A. Rebhorn. Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones. Ed. James J. Murphy.Trans. Carole Newlands. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1992. Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art by Ruben Quintero. Newark: U of Delaware Press, 1992; 187. Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development by Bryan C. Short. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

George A. Kennedy, trans. Aristotle: On Rhetoric (subtitled A Theory of Civic Discourse). Oxford University Press, 1991. 335 + xiii pages. The Importance of George A. Kennedy's Aristotle: On Rhetoric Kennedy's Aristotle: On Rhetoric as a Pedagogical Tool Kennedy's Rhetoric as a Contribution to Rhetorical Theory Kennedy's Aristotle: on Rhetoric as a Work of Translation∗ James J. Murphy, ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Twentieth‐Century America. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1990. 241 + v pages. Teaching the History of Writing Instruction Thomas Miller. The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. 318 + viii pages. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in the Postmodern Age. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991. iv + 242 pages. Sandra Stotsky, ed. Connecting Civic Education and Language Education: The Contemporary Challenge. New York: Teachers College Press of Columbia University, 1991. Janis Forman, ed. New Visions of Collaborative Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1992. 200 pages. $23.50.

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