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71 BULLETIN OF BIBLIOGRAPHY Why spend valuable research time searching through scores of bibliographies and indexes when the complete bibliography is available in one place? The Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes is an indispensable tool for professors and students whose teaching and research demand the most current, comprehensive , and accurate bibliographies available. Since 1897, the Bulletin has included bibliographies of almost every major author of English and American literature. Volume 31, 1974 will include bibliographies of Aldous Huxley, Lionel Trilling, Edith Sitwell, R. P. Blackmur, and Sir Harold Nicolson, among many others. All bibliographies (annotated and unannotated, primary and secondary) include an overview of the bibliographic research previously completed on the subject, as well as full references to that research. If you enjoy, write, or teach about literature, you need the Bulletin of Bibliography for both personal and classroom use. Do your department and your library subscribe? The Bulletin is published quarterly in February, May, August,and November and sold on a calendar-year basis at $14.00 a year. Order from the: PUBLICATIONS DIVISION F. W. FAXON COMPANY, INC. 15 SOUTHWEST PARK WESTWOOD, MASS. 02090 WHAT DID THEY SAYABOUTMAUGHAM , CONRAD AND HARDY? Get the inside information from The Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series on English Literature in Tcinsition, 1880-1920 Helmut E. Gerber, Genera/ Editor W SOMERSET MAUGHAM An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him Compiled and edited by Charles Sanders "This is a model bibliography ... an indispensable work of the greatest value to those studying Maugham ... the series should be in every research library." — LJ, March 1971 x/436 pages. 2.355 entries, 5 indexes LC 79-111628/ (1970) ISBN 0-87580-015-7 $15.00 JOSEPH CONRAD An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him Compiled and edited by Bruce E. Teets and Helmut E. Gerber "This bibliography will be indispensable to serious (and occasional) Conrad students; it is especially valuable because it includes numerous descriptions of works otherwise unavailable except in French, Polish, or Serbo-Croatian." — CHOICE, September J 97 2 xii/ 672 pages. 1.977 entries. 5 indexes LC 70-146639/ (1971) CIP ISBN 0-87580-020-3 $20.00 THOMAS HARDY An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him Compiled and edited by Helmut E. Gerber and W. Eugene Davis [We don't have any rave reviews about this magnificent volume yet because the book was published in July and copy for this ad was written in August—but drop by our booth and examine the mighty tome —the publisher] x/841 pages, 3,153 entries, 5 indexes LC 72-7514 CIP ISBN 0-87580-039-4 $25.00 Forthcoming E M FÖRSTER, Frederick P. W. McDowell JOHN GALSWORTHY Earl E. and H. Ray Stevens Subsequent volumes on Lawrence, Shaw, Wells, Pater, and others. Ru NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS/DeKalb, III. 60115 AND WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT (gasp!) EEQRSE EISSINE? "> What is the truth about the reception of Gissing's novels in France?2 All is revealed in the latest addition to the Annotated Secondary Bibliographv Series: ï' ι GEORGE GISSING f An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him Compiled and edited by Joseph Wolff George Orwell was right—he was all of that. But he was also a novelist dedicated to his profession and to his principles, showing no small talent for his art. As can be seen from the articles annotated in this volume, the subject matter of George Gissing's novels (poverty, socialism, women, writers, the lower classes) and his own unfortunate life are inextricably intermingled. It is difficult to criticize one without knowledge of the other. Though never gaining popularity among either the populous or the pompous because of the realistic nature of his subject matter and his pessimistic presentation of it, Gissing did enjoy a certain degree of fame in the literary circles of his day, and even now remains a transitional Victorian writer of considerable merit. The primary purpose of this bibliography is to offer scholars interested in the future assessment of George Gissing a representative body of criticism of his works from 1880-1970. The volume contains 1200 entries including abstracts of writings in 7 languages and publications of all types. Many of the entries annotated here have not...