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study dyed through and through with its author's passion for the intelligence and good faith that she saw Henry James himself as affirming in his novels.—DMF From the Editor Last December, during the MLA convention in Washington, we had a very productive joint meeting of members of the HJR editorial board and the Henry James Society Board of Directors. Present were Carol Holly (1989 Society president ), William MacNaughton (1990 president), Julie Rivkin (1991 president), James Society Board members Anthony Mazella, Cheryl Torsney, and William Veeder (so that, with the HJR editor, an ex officio member of the James Society Board, all of the current Directors were present), and editorial board members Jean Frantz Blackall, Charles Caramello, Alfred Habegger, Richard Hocks, Carren Kaston, Bonney MacDonald, and James Tuttleton. There were six items on our agenda and very little time—the usual 75 minute MLA meeting slot—in which to discuss them. Nevertheless, the entire agenda was addressed. First, Alfred Bendixen kindly attended the first portion of the meeting and answered our questions about an invitation he had addressed to the Society to join the newly formed American Literature Association, which will hold its first annual meeting next June in San Diego. The members of both boards were unanimous in their agreement that the Society should affiliate. Affiliation entails no payment from the James Society, but only, so far as Professor Bendixen gave us to understand, readiness to sponsor sessions (normally two) at the annual meeting. Indeed, having seen no harm and much potential good in providing another forum for presentation of new work on Henry James, Carol Holly and I had agreed last fall, in advance of formal action by the Society, to say yes to Professor Bendixen's invitation to sponsor James sessions at the inaugural meeting in June, 1990. Accordingly, I sounded out James Society members on the West Coast, and Stuart Culver (at the University of California, Irvine) agreed to put together two James Society sessions for the occasion. Second, the Board appointed a nominating committee (Fogel, MacDonald, MacNaughton) for this year's James Society elections. (Ballots should have reached individual subscribers in advance of the present issue of the HJR). Third, there was brief discussion of the two-year old anonymous submissions policy of the HJR. Support for the policy was unanimous. I explained some of the clerical problems we had faced in the HJR office in trying (sometimes unsuccessfully ) to preserve the anonymity of authors whose manuscripts were not prepared in line with the policy. Since anonymous submission is by now a well established policy, we have determined to make it work right by returning unread manuscripts that violate it by revealing the identity of the author. Fourth, there was brief discussion of the special issue published last year of papers from recent James meetings (volume 10, number 2). Members of both boards said they very much liked the occasional publication of papers. So have a number of correspondents with the journal office. We are planning a second issue devoted to papers from various meetings for volume 12 (1991). continued on p. 152 152 The Henry James Review (Continued from p. iv) Fifth, I proposed that the Society organize a major international symposium on Henry James for spring, 1993, his 150th birthday. The meeting would involve not only academics but also poets and novelists for whom James has been of special importance, and television, film and stage directors, playwrights, actors , composers, librettists and others who have been involved in adaptations of James's work to other media. Everyone present greeted this idea warmly, and a lively discussion of possible sites and activities ensued. Finally, the sixth agenda item pressing, and time running short, an exploratory committee was recruited (Blackall, Fogel, Kaston, Mazella, Rivkin, and Tuttleton). As concrete plans begin to emerge, we will call on other members of the Society for help in putting the occasion together. Sixth, I sought and received the endorsement of members of both boards for exploration of two possible publishing projects. The first would be the publication under the James Society imprint of monographs too specialized in their potential audience to appeal to regular scholarly book publishers—for example...

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