This most recent volume of Professor Yang\’s well-known series, English Roundup, is like its companion volumer-easy to use, time-saving, highly informative and interesting. Like the others, it offers intelligent dialogues, followed by substitution drills to reinforce newly acquired vocabulary. With pithy quotes sprinkled throughout, and catoons and illustrations, the book will show students that language learning can even be fun. But most important, this book provides a mini-course in the Humanities, with its many chapters on Chinese and Western Painting, Sculpture, Poetry, History, Theater, Dance Music, Philosophy, Psychology, ect. It is worth reading for its intellectual content alone-not to mention its usefulness as a textbook of English. It provides information indispensable to anyone who considers himself/herself to be well educated.