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This article focuses on several books. Some of them are as follows: "The Voyages and Elizabethan Drama," by Robert Ralston Cawley. In scope this book greatly exceeds its title. Cawley has traveled well down into the seventeenth century, considering both dramatic and non-dramatic literature, prose and poetry; major works and minor, in his search for allusions to the newly expanded world, the world of the great voyages. "American Earth," by Carleton Beals. In his usual vigorous, biting language Carleton Beals throws his light on the abuses that have accompanied the westward thrust of the frontier, from the shameful oppression and deceit that blacken the whole story of the white man's struggle against the Indian to the confused jumble of present day farm policies.