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47. BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AND NOTES By Helmut E. Gerber Nothing has come to my attention on the following authors: J.D. Beresford, Gilbert Cannan, Hubert Crackanthorpe, R.B. Cunninghame-Graham, VJi11iam De Morgan, W.L. George, Maurice Hewlett, Sheila Kaye-Smith, William McFee, W.B. Maxwell, Leonard Merrick, CE. Montague, A. Morrison, Oliver Onions, Edwin Pugh, Frank Swinnerton, Richard Whiteing, Israel ZangwiM. I shall be happy to hear of articles or comments in books on these authors. Charles Green has contributed the annotations followed by his name. ARNOLD BENNETT Foster, Jeannette H. SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE. NY: Vantage P, 1956. Pp. 263-64, 27I-72, 280, 329. Refs to possibly variant and lesbian material in THE PRETTY LADY and ELSIE AND THE CHILD. Karl, Frederick and Marvin Magalaner. A READER'S GUIDE TO GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS. NY: Noonday P, 1959. Pp. 8, 13, 15, 129, 144, 210, 222. In brief refs emphasizes the conventional view of B. as realist of exterior detail in contrast with, for example, Virginia Woolf. "Si Monumentum," LONDON TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 18 Apr 1958, p. 283. Relates the qualities of "saturation" and "possession" in recent biographies (Johnson's CHARLES DICKENS, Ray's THACKERAY) and editions of letters and journals to the novels of Bennett and Wells. SAMUEL BUTLER Camera Three (TV Channel 8) gave selections from Butler's THE WAY OF ALL FLESH from 11:30 to 12:00 on 28 Feb I960, with Kent Smith as the narrator and Judith Evelyn as Christina. Gall, Morris. "Introduction," THE VWY OF ALL FLESH (NY: VJashington Square P, 1959), pp. vii-xi. Notes cruelty of satire on family, education and religion in one place but later notes that there is a tolerance, a tongue-in-cheek quality, a sense of humor, which "rarely permit the author to become cynical." B. anticipated Shaw, S. Lewis, Philip WyMe, and Marquand. Comments on conventionality of technique and originality of ideas. Howard, Daniel. "The Critical Significance of Autobiography in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH." A paper given before English 10: Victorian Literature, MU, Chicago (28 Dec 1959). .......... Review of Joseph Jones' THE CRADLE OF EREWHON. See p. ixff in this issue of EFT. FORD MADOX FORD Foster, Richard. Working on a critical study of F., probably a long-term undertaking . Hafley, James. "The Moral Structure of THE GOOD SOLDIER," MODERN FICTION STUDIES, V (Summer 1959), 121-28. Counter to the opinions of most other critics, Hafley holds that this novel is "actually as 'Catholic' as any art-work can 48. be said to be, and one in which the narrator's initial ignorance changes not to real awareness but to darker blindness in the light of the moral nc as that is established by Nancy Rufford and Edward Ashburnham." At the center of the structure is the irony of the "insane" Nancy's "simple sanity, appearing in a mad world to be madness." Leonora, the center of evil, is counterpoised to Nancy, the center of virtue, while Dowel 1 becomes morally more ugly toward the end as his grey neutrality, symbolized by his refrain ("I don't know") becomes darker. Harvey, D.D. Has a Fult-ight (beginning Sept i960) to Birkbeck College, Ui i ν 3> of London, where he will be working on a Ford dissertation in Siblιοςιaphy. Isaacs, Neil D. "Ford Madox Ford and the Tietjens Fulfillment," LOCKHAVEN . ETIN, I (I959), 58-65. PARADE'S END is unified and superior to THE GOOD SO.. „n . Lid, R.W. "Tietjens in Disguise," KENYON REVIEW, XXII (Spring i960), 265-76. f, more influenced in his early work by James than by Conrad, had to learn to discard the attempted Jamesian approach to fiction as well as influences or the Aesthetic movement in order "to obtain maturity in his art." AN ¿MGi. >-» GIRL has a Jamesian veneer in the theme and heroine but a Fordian hero "filled with aesthetic idealism," who, however, is "a younger version" of F's later hero Tietjens, In the Tietjens books "the pseudo-Jamesian tone" has been removed and the hero has become believable. In THE GOOD SOLDIER it is the ironic tone in the narrator's voice and the time-shift which make...

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