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iv Dennis E. Murphy has a Ph. D. thesis on Glsslng's short stories in progress at Brown Unlvers-ity under the direction of Mark Spilka. 3. Pegasus at Home and Abroad: The imprint of the subsidiary of Western Publishing Co. which has produced the three ELT period anthologies we have been unashamedly advertising on the back cover has a new address in New York: 850 Third Ave., New York, N. Y.; the European representative is Trans-Atlantic Book Service, Norfolk House, 28 Norfolk St., London, W. C. 2, England. ********************************* 172 biographies following it, as constituting a measure of freedom which the biographer gained in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ....... "Edmund Gosse," Fortnightly Review, ns CXXXIX (1 June 1931), 766-73; rptd in The Moment and Other Essays (NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1942), pp. 84-92. Ostensibly a rev of Charterls' Life of Gosse, but actually a portrait. Attacks the usual thesis that EG was kindly to young writers, citing his coolness to Robert Ross, friend of Oscar Wilde at the time of his trial; EG, because of latent Puritanism (which made him timid with data), fell short of Boswell as critic of the contemporary great; Judges Father as only a light classic. EG's main method of criticism is Illumination. Young, Arthur C. "Edmund Gosse Visits Robert Louis Stevenson," Journal of the Rutgers University Library, XX (June 1957). 33-41. Ed of eight letters (Mss are in Rutgers Library) from EG to his wife which tell of a visit with Stevenson in Scotland from Aug 26 to Sept 5, 1881. Letters are essentially domestic, revealing EG as husband and father, but occasional phrases show his skill at illuminating character with only a few words. Young, Stark. "Sir Edmund Gosse," New Republic. LV (June 1928), 70-72. Obit contains important information about EG between I9II and 1925: an account of Young's introduction to EG in I9II; EG was rather small, healthy-looking, talkative, and shy; a 1913 picture of him; a visit with EG and Lady Gosse in 1919 in which the critic told of his activity with the British government during World War I; and a letter from EG to Young in I925 thanking him for a novel. ...