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~~No~s 2~ essayon William Dean Howells and Quebec City which appeared in the Re\'iew (IX,2). News Notes Onceagain the masthead of the Canadian Review of American Studies flies a different pattern of flags. Evelyn Hinz has resigned her co-editorship to becomeeditor of MOSAIC, the University of Manitoba's journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, effective April l, 1979.She will, however, continue her valued support of the Reviev.' by joining its editorial board on thesame date. Our editorial board has also been strengthened by the addition ofWalterJ. Stein of the Department of History of the University of Winnipeg. THEFIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES will be held at Simon Fraser University,Vancouver, B.C., November 1-3, 1979, on the topic, "Westward Movements." For further information please write to Professor Peter Buitenhuis,Chairman, Program Committee, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A IS6. Since 1964WINTER THUR PORTFOLIO has been an annual publication oftheWinterthur Museum devoted to interpreting the American past through the work of artists and artisans. Beginning in Spring 1979 it will become a quarterlyjournal, and the University of Chicago Press assumes publication ofthis distinguished periodical. Subtitled "A Journal of American Material Culture,"WINTER THUR PORTFOLIO is an interdisciplinary forum publishingarticles integrating the humanities and the social sciences in the study of American art and artifacts. For further information write to Marcia Brontman, The University of Chicago Press, 5801 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois60637. THEFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY will hold its annual meeting in Santa Cruz,California on October 27-28, 1979. There will be a business meeting of the Board of Directors and members, election of officers, presentation of a\\ards, a session with historical papers, and a field trip. For further informationcontact Harold K. Steen, Forest History Society, 109Coral Street, Santa Cruz.CA 95060. Phone (408) 426-3770. A recent accession of the Society isan additional thirty-eight feet of files of the Society of American Foresters, including special subject files on multiple-use, wilderness, Monongahela (1960-75);records of meetings; records of committees, section and division (1966-75);files on associations, institutes, councils, societies and government agencies(1961-75). This accession brings the total volume of SAF records to 134feet. The Society is also serving as temporary repository for twenty-nine feetof Western Timber Association records, which include U.S. Forest Ser- 270 NewsNote 5 vice timber sales contract books (1963-75); timber sales: preliminarv announcements, correspondence, contracts, road features, administrations· I I federal policy, appeals (1957-75); forest economics: timber taxation stumpage appraisals (1957-74); and forest legislation: reports, correspond~ ence (1954-74). The twenty-third annual MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, March 6-8, 1980. Papers and sessionsrelate to the traditional topic and area studies as well as quantification, psychohistory , teaching methodology, research tools and techniques, and interdisciplinary studies. Panel, paper and commentator proposals should be submitted by November 1, 1979 to Professor Oliver B. Pollak, Department of History, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182. The Henry James Review, the first scholarly journal to be devoted to Henrv James, will begin triquarterly publication (issues in November, Februar~ and May) in November, 1979. The-.Henry James Reviev.· solicits submission·s of articles and notes contributing to James scholarship; notes on current research; essays on teaching James; letters; suggestions; and the like. It will include in its early numbers essays by Leon Edel, Richard Hocks, John Carlos Rowe, Sallie Sears, William Stafford, James Tuttleton, and J. A. Ward. The Henry James Review will feature informative, descriptive reviews of all ne\\ books on James; annual analytic reviews of James studies; and a seriesof centennial essays, marking the hundredth anniversaries of the first publications of James's major works ahd combining the essay writers' interpretive evaluations of the works at hand with reviews of the history of critical comment on them. To insure inclusion in the annual review of James studies for 1978, authors are nequested to send notice of their 1978 publications on James (with an off-prmt or copy if possible) to the reviewer, Richard A. Hocks, Department of Bnglish, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia. Missouri 65201. Subscriptions, which include...