Editor's Fence

EDITOR'S FENCE 1. Special Series Number _3 Dedicated to Hal Gerber: In the fall of this year, ELT will publish a collection of essays on a variety of Transtion authors, among whom are Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, George Moore, Walter Pater, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Morley Roberts. Skip Brack will also contribute a biographical reminiscence of Hal Gerber. This Special Series Number _3 publication is dedicated to ELT's founding editor and financed in part by contributions to the H. E. Gerber Memorial Fund. Our belated but sincere tribute to Hal is not included in the regular ELT run. Since only a limted number of copies of the Special Series issue will be printed, advance orders are now being accepted. Please send a check to make certain a copy is reserved for you: $10 (U.S.) and $12 (Foreign). 2. Kipling Issues: Papers for the Kipling issues (Spring 1986) are still being accepted. Scholars should address the original essay and one copy, with sufficient return postage, to ELT no later than 1 September 1985. We welcome a wide range of topics on Kipling's writing. 3. Forthcoming: Among other features, Volume 28:3 and 4 will include reviews of William J. Scheick's The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of_ H. G^ Wells (Earl Stevens), Ira Grushow's The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm (Carl Markgraf), Michael Harrison's A Study in Surmise: The Making of Sherlock Holmes (Edward Lauterbach), Norman Page's Thomas Hardy Annual No. 2^ (Keith Wilson), Parry Benita's Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers (H. Ray Stevens), Elliot Gilbert's ^O Beloved Kids": Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children (Norman Page), and D. H. Lawrence's Mr. Noon (Ronald Walker). ANNOUNCEMENT 1. Call for Essays: Contributors are sought to write signed articles (250-1500 words) for Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia , a one-volume reference work to be published by Garland . Send name, interests, and brief vita to editor-inchief : Sally Mitchell, English Dept., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. ...