Bibliography, News, and Notes

19 BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AND NOTES Compiled and edited by H. E. Gerber, Janet Irvin, Bernard Quint, and Mary Ellen Quint, with abstracts by others, as noted. This listing includes unabstracted references to all pertinent articles we have published in Volume XVI, Nos 1-4 (1973)t as well as abstracts of items published elsewhere on the authors we have been listing regularly. We list only authors on whom we have published a selected bibliography, a bibliography in depth, or on whom a project is in progress either for publication in the Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series being published by Northern Illinois University Press or in ELT. In general, we shall not include abstracts of reviews of secondary works unless they contain significant comments on primary works. In general, we shall not abstract items already abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts, although we shall list such items. Persons who have assumed responsibility for abstracts on particular authors are appropriately credited in "a by-line. Contributors of scattered items are credited in brackets at the end of the relevant entry. Bibliographies wanted; Since relatively little current research appears on the following authors, we list their names here and await offers from our readers to prepare selected, in most cases, annotated bibliographies of items about them, or to prepare, in a few cases, bibliographies in depth. From time to time, as our backlog diminishes, we shall add other names. We are, of course, always ready to discuss projects on authors not now listed but who fall within the scope of ELT. The following list is revised as of January 1974. Max Beerbohm John Davys Beresford Walter Besant Gilbert Cannan Edward Carpenter Ella D'Arcy John Davidson William DeMorgan "George Egerton" Norman Gale W. L. George H. Rider Haggard Maurice Hewlett Jerome K. Jerome Henry Arthur Jones William McFee Compton Mackenzie W. B. Maxwell Arthur Morrison Oliver Onions Arthur Wing Pinero Edwin Pugh Isaac Rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon Yf êk 4? éfe 4 20 ARNOLD BENNETT By Anita Miller We published James G. Hepburn's annotated secondary bibliography on Bennett in EFT. 1:1 (1957). 7-12, and additional items in various numbers since then. Mrs. Miller will continue to abstract items appearing currently. Allen, Walter. "Introduction," THE ROARING QUEEN, by Wyndham Lewis (Lond: Seeker & Warburg, 1973). pp. 5-23. This novel, published now for the first time, was written in 1936 and accepted by the firm of Jonathan Capes, which then suppressed it for fear of the libel suits which it would undoubtedly have provoked. Many of the characters are thinly disguised literary figures of the late twenties. B is the most obvious of the characters, appearing as the unattractive literary critic "Samuel Shodbutt." When the book was written, B had been dead for five years, but Lewis places the time of action as 1930. The caricature of B is unfair, but one cannot expect fairness in satire; another justification for this unkind portrait lies in Lewis's own faith in it, since he really saw B as a commercial promoter for publishers. This hostile attitude to B was by no means confined to Lewis, but had surfaced as early as 1920 when B was caricatured as Mr. Nixon in Pound's HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY. B was aware of the criticism of him which grew throughout the twenties as younger writers came more and more to admire writers like Joyce and Lawrence. There was a personal basis for Lewis's attack; he felt himself to have been deliberately neglected in B's "Books and Persons" column in the EVENING STANDARD. [In the column for 28 April 1927, B mentioned Lewis's new periodical THE ENEMY, and commented that Lewis would be "less tiresome if he were more urbane," adding that he (B) mistrusted artists "who could not choose between two mediums." Lewis may well have preferred neglect to such a comment, which is unusually harsh for B.] Lewis dramatizes to some extent B's relationship with Virginia Woolf, who appears in the novel caricatured as Rhoda Hyman. [Allen discusses this relationship as it is reflected in B's letters and in Woolf s criticism and in her diary. For a thorough discussion of this same relationship see...