Announcements

Ill Entries (including, for example, entry numbers for all items in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Folish, Russian, Yugoslavian [Slovene and Serbocroat]). We shall include Ph. D. dissertations with references to existing abstracts whenever they exist, but we shall exclude M. A. theses and honors papers. Foreign dissertations if they exist in published form and are available, will be abstracted insofar as time and circumstances allow. We include reviews of primary works from most major periodicals and newspapers and at least a sampling from somewhat more obscure publications of this kind. [We do not attempt to include everything that has appeared in countless provincial newspapers, especially in England and America.] We also include at least a reasonable sampling of introductions to various editions, items in casebooks, explications in a sampling of "manuals for teachers," and the like. We believe the annotated bibliography will provide a quite thorough record of response to Conrad's work from the beginning through 1966. [We are already compiling a supplement which will begin with 1967 publications and add significant items not included in the basic listing through I966.] Despite a number of unexpected difficulties, we plan to have a final typescript ready for the Press before December . Charles Sanders reports that the Kaugham volume will be ready for the Press by the end of September. The Maugham and the Conrad volumes should therefore be in print during the Summer of 1970. The Hardy bibliography is progressing remarkably well. We have been particularly fortunate in our contributors to this massive project, and Gene Davis has done a most thorough job of keeping the growing file of entry cards and typescripts moving ahead during Serber's year of transition from Purdue to Northern Illinois. Now that Davis is PuI brighting for a year, Gerber will do his best to maintain Davis' tempo. At best guess, about 60$ or a little more of the Hardy project now appears to be completed. We hope to have as much of the material in by end of Summer, 1970, as possible, to edit the rough draft, and to complete the inevitable last-minute problem entries. We hope we shall have from three to six months for final editing and preparation of a clean typescript. The MS should then be ready for publication by the Press during the Summer of I97I. Volumes on E. M. Forster (F.P.W.McDowell, ed.) and John Galsworthy (H. Ray Stevens and Earl E. Stevens, eds.) have also been contracted. We expect in the near future to add volumes on Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G.Wells to the list of prospective bibliographies. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Professor Ivo Vidan, University of Zagreb, taught two courses in the University of Massachusetts from July 22 through August 29. His dozen or more articles on Conrad have been largely responsible for making Conrad known in Yugoslavia. iv 2. Edmund Bojarski, editor and founder of Conradlana, has moved himself and his Journal to McMurry College, Abilene, Texas (79605). The Summer, I969, issue of Conradlana should be in the mails in September. Delays when an editor moves, as we know, should be generously excused. Conradlana is also considering the possibility of publishing a Conrad-connected book (e.g., a translation of, say, Jozef UJejski's £ Konradzie Korzeniowski) in place of a fourth number of the Journal. — 3. Charles Burkhart (Temple University) spent part of this Summer in Europe. He will be Visiting Professor at Santa Babbara for the academic year I969-I97O. 4. W. Eugene Davis (Purdue University) has been appointed a FuIbright Lecturer at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, for the academic year I969-I97O. Besides carrying on research on Thomas Hardy, Gene Davis will also offer several ELT-related courses: The English Novel in Transition: 1880-1920, including novels by Hardy, Moore, Conrad and Lawrence; a seminar on Thomas Hardy, Poet and Novelist; and perhaps a seminar on Joseph Conrad. 5. H. E. Gerber has been conned into serving one more year as Director of Graduate Studies in English at N. I. U. in order to see into effect a totally revised Ph. D. program during what promises to be an exciting year in one of the liveliest English...