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The author looks at programmed learning in foreign languages from outside the university, from outside formal education, and from outside foreign language instruction itself. He examines it as a corporation executive would, asking whether this means of instruction can develop the skills his employee needs in a foreign country and whether it can do it autonomously (without an instructor). The program examined is Mueller and Niedzielski's "Basic French." The author feels that this is "truly programmed to the extent that it can serve as instructor in French to isolated persons," but he does not intend "to imply that it seems to be as good as it can be made, even now." (DO)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert