The Editor's Fence

l?o THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. We Have Caught Up - for the Moment: After having had an embarrasing backlog of papers accepted and under consideration for several years, we have at last caught up. For several years we were forced to return some papers without comment because it would have been an injustice to their authors and to our critical readers to process such submissions with little hope of publication in less than two years. We have tried to avoid the long delays that are now quite common among scholarly journals and book publishers. At present we can publish essays within one year of acceptance. Our refereeing time is still usually about two months. Occasional delays will still occur, particularly for papers more than twenty-five typed pages in length, although we continue to provide space for longer works. 2. The Broader View: We remind our readers that ELT considers articles on diverse subjects relevant to the period from 1880 to 1920. Our scope is not limited to essays on novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics. Essays on historical matters, philosophers, painters, sculptors, book designers, publishers, periodicals and reviews will also be considered. For example, we recently published T. E. M. Boll's essay on the Authors' Club of London and we are publishing Maureen Corrigan's essay on Eric Gill in the third number of this year. We also would like to see more work on minor writers, for it has always been the policy of ELT to provide space for essays on writers for which other major journals do not have or are unwilling to provide space. Again, we have in the past published work on John Buchan, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Walter Besant, Hubert Crackanthorpe , Gilbert Carman, Marie Correlli, and many others. Anyone for Ella D'Arcy, "George Egerton," "John Oliver Hobbes," Austin Dobson, Owen Seaman, and Richard LeGallienne? ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Thomas Hardy Society of America: The Society has announced that it plans to publish an annual journal of Hardy studies starting in fall, 1981. Essays up to twenty typed pages in length, submitted by about early March, will be considered for each forthcoming annual. For further information write to Thomas Hardy Society of America, New York University, Department of English, 19 University Place, New York, NY (10003). 2. PROSE STUDIES - Pater Issue: The editors of Prose Studies have announced that Volume 4, Number 1 (May I98I) will be entirely devoted to Pater. It will contain a wide range of articles by Gerald Monsman, Billie Andrew Inman, Ian Small, Laurel Brake, Sharon Basset , R. M. Seiler, and Hayden Ward and a forum on a new edition of Pater's collected works. For subscriptions to the journal or orders for single copies, address Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsborough Road, London Ell 1RS, England. ...