Donovan J. Ochs

Rhetorical detailing in Cicero's Verrine orations

This article offers answers to three questions: Why, after his courtroom victory in the Verrine case, did Cicero publish his speech? What changes in his rhetorical theory are reflected in the speech? What principles of narrative suasion is Cicero using in the many stories he incorporates within the speech? The concept of rhetorical detailing is proposed as a key element in the probable answer to each question.

New book in review

THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+335.

Aristotle's concept of formal topics

5.95. THE MENNONITE CHURCH IN AMERICA, SOMETIMES CALLED OLD MENNONITES. By John C. Wenger. Introduction by Harold S. Bender. (Mennonite History, Vol. II.) Scottdale, Pa.: Herald, 1966; pp. 384.

Videotape in teaching advanced public speaking

7.95. MENNONITES IN THE CONFEDERACY: A STUDY IN CIVIL WAR PACIFISM. By Samuel Horst. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald, 1967; pp. 148.

Cicero and Philosophic Inventio

3.00. ROBERT E. LEE: THE COMPLETE MAN, 1861–1870. By Margaret Sanborn. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967; pp. xiv+430.

Audience analysis: An exordium for the basic course

8.95. THE PAPERS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT: VOLUME I, 1837–1861. Edited by John Y. Simon. Foreword by Ralph G. Newman. Prefaces by Bruce Catton and Allan Nevins. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967; pp. xxxix+458.

An ethical perspective for selecting textbooks

15.00. THE PURITAN ETHIC AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE. By Alan P. Grimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+159.

Teaching to write and speak: Diverging and converging paths

4.75. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES: POLITICS AND REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1905–1910. By Robert R....