Announcements

ill I remind all those interested in attending that requests for admission to the Seminar will be honored in the order in which they are received to the limit prescribed by the MLA. Requests should be addressed to the Discussion Leader. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Modern British Literature I: 1880-191*+ at Geneseo: In the preceding number of ELT I called attention to ELT courses being offered at Ottawa. This time I am pleased to have Professor Donald J. Watt's report that the English Department of State University College, Geneseo, N. Y., offers a two-semester sequence in modern literature-, one course covering the period 1880-191*4and the other the period 191*4—1939. The course, according to Professor Watt, "is offered in alternate years at the undergraduate and graduate levels." Any other such reports? 2. Maugham In the ASB Series: Additional instrumentation is about to be added to the song I seem to be singing about the still-rising interest in the ELT period. The book-length annotated bibliography on W. Somerset Maugham, compiled and edited by Charles Sanders, is to be published in August. It is the first volume to appear in the ASB Series under my general editorship. It will be followed, hopefully in the Spring of 1971, by the Teets and Gerber volume on Joseph Conrad. 3. Galsworthy ASB - Contributors: Earl E. Stevens and Harold Ray Stevens, who are compiling and editing the Galsworthy volume in the N. I. U. Press ASB Series, would like to hear from persons interested in contributing to the project. Please write to Professor Earl E. Stevens Department of English Rhode Island College Providence, Rhode Island 02908 *4-, George Moore: A Definitive Bibliography: Edwin Gilcher's primary bibliography on George Moore, some twenty years in preparation, is scheduled for publication by the N. I. U. Press in the Fall of 1970. 5. More on Mooret Michael M. Riley has In progress a dissertation on "The Sculptor and the Statue: George Moore as Autobiographer." The dissertation is being directed by Professor Frederick L. MuIhauser of Claremont Graduate School. 6. Modern Fiction Studies - New Rates: Rising printing costs and expanded size have necessitated an increase in subscription rates for Modern Fiction Studies (Purdue). Individuals: annual domestic ($*4-.00), single issues for domestic subscribers ($1.25), annual foreign ($5.00), single issues for foreign subscribers ($1.50): Iv Librarles and Institutions: annual domestic and foreign ($5.00), single Issues for domestic and foreign subscribers ($1.50). The new rates are effective with Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1971). 7. English Institute: The English Institute will hold its twentyninth session at Columbia University Sept 8-11, 1970. The four conference topics are: The Personal Mode in American Literature Pastoral in the English Renaissance The Study of Narrative Techniques in Contemporary European and American Criticism Wordsworth Our subscribers may especially be interested in hearing the papers on narrative techniques: "The Function of Indeterminacy in Prose Fiction" (Wolfgang Iser), "The Irrelevant Detail and the Emergence of Form" (Martin Price), "Molestation and Authority in Narrative Fiction" (Edward W. Said), and "Historical and Narrative Time in Proust" (Gerard Genette). 8. More Conradlana: We are pleased to note the publication of Elmer A. Ordonez's The Early Joseph Conrad: Revisions and Style (Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 19o"9). The book will be distributed in the U.S. by Conradlana Bookshop, McHurry College, Abilene, Texas. CORRECTION A brief passage was inadvertently omitted from the last paragraph of George H. Thomson's review of Frederick P. W. McDowell's E. M. Förster (see ELT, XIII: 1 [1970], 8*4-). The underlined words, below, should be Inserted: In Britain the older tradition of the general reader still persists. If one Is to Judge by the latest offerings of Förster criticism from commercial British publishers this reader must be a peculiar and archaic specimen. ... Our apologies to Professors Thomson and McDowell. ...