Announcements

Vl I Several other previously unpublished works are also in preparation, but, If we are to continue this series and make it really useful, we must have much help from our reader-collaborators. We would be pleased to hear of unpublished material that might be made available for publication in the ELT Special Series. Such material might be poems, journals or diaries, notebooks, short stories, even short novels, or novels left unfinished, a group of related letters, and so on. 7· Photo-offset? We are investigating the possibility of producing ELT by means of the photo-offset process on a good paper with a wrap-around cover and saddle stitching. The cost is, of course, much greater than the cost of mimeographing. The product, however, will be far more durable and attractive, much easier to use, and less bulky. If we decide to make the change to photo-offset, we shall have to raise domestic rates to two or two and a half dollars and foreign rates to three or three and a half dollars. While all this is still very much in the mulling-over stage, we would nevertheless like to have our readers' reactions. A postcard or a note wi11 do. 8. Reprints of Out-of-Prints: V/e have just signed a contract with the Kraus Reprint Corporation of New York for the reprinting of Volumes I-IV (1957-58 through 1961) of what was then ENGLISH FICTION IN TRANSITION. When these volumes have been reprinted, we shall announce the fact. Orders for these reprints must, in any event, be placed directly with Kraus Reprint Corporation. 9. Graduate Assistants: We shall soon be scanning applications for assistantships for the purpose of selecting a new editorial assistant for next year. We would be pleased to hear from our readers of any outstanding student interested in such an appointment. The applicant may be either a prospective M. A. or Ph.D. candidate. The essential information about graduate assistantships in the Department of English is given on p. ii. We regret the loss of Carol Porter, who will complete her work toward the M. A. this summer and who will then be claimed by another institution—marriage. 10. Editors Must Go Home Again: After a Summer and one term oT research and writing gluttony, this still unsatiated editor has come home again: to an impressive, feast of manuscripts, to a two-month stock of correspondence, to a tasty graduate course in the ELT period, to somewhat salty committee assignments, to the threatening indigestion resulting from the enrollment explosion, and to another gritty book that must be written. I am very grateful to Edward Lauterbach, W. Eugene Davis, and Carol Porter, and, above all, my wife for having done so much to make the past six months a gourmet's delight. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Books in the Making: Edward S. Lauterbach and W. Eugene Davis of our editorial staff are now preparing a guide and handbook to British literature of the 18801920 period intended primarily for students. It will contain (a) a section of introductory essays on the background of the period and the development of the major literary genres and movements of the ELT period and (b) a section of selective bibliographies of major and minor writers of the period, including concise references to standard editions and recent scholarship. Probably over 150 authors will be represented. J. Benjamin Townsend and Ralph Maud, both of the State University of New York at Buffalo, are preparing an anthology tentatively entitled ENGLISH POEMS AND DOCUMENTS I88O-I92O. The "documents" section will include such peripheral material as early versions of a poem, excerpts from letters and journals, contemporary reviews, etc. This section will include some previously unpublished material. The poetry section will include work by ϕ ?.ts representing the Establishment (eg, Wi 11 iam Watson, Alfred Austin); the poets of the Genteel Tradition (eg, Dobson, Lang, Gosse); the critHigh Priests of God and Beauty (eg, Patmorej Meynel 1, Bridges); poets peering ically below the surface of the life of their time (eg, Meredith, Hardy, Hopkins, Thompson, Housman); the work of agitators for reform (eg, Morris, Carpenter, Grant Allen); aesthetes, decadents, impressionists, symbolists (eg, Swinburne, Moore, Wilde...