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News Notes 131 News Notes Anewedition of the Directory of American Scholars will be published in Decemberof 1978. It will again be arranged in four companion volumes: I-History,II-English, Speech and Drama, III-Foreign Language, Linguistics andPhilology, IV-Philosophy, Religion and Law. Former biographees will besentcopy proofs of their entries during the spring and summer of this year, andthey are asked to notify the editors of changes of address incurred since thelast edition. Nomination of qualified scholars who are not currently profiledin the directory is requested. Acceptance for inclusion is based on thefollowing criteria, and involves no obligation other than submission of information: I) Achievement, by reason of experience and training, of a statureof scholarly work equivalent to that associated with the doctoral degree,coupled with current activity in such work; or 2) achievement as evidenced by publication of scholarly works; or 3) attainment of a position of substantialresponsibility by reason of achievement as outlined above. All addresschanges and nominations should be sent to The Editors, Directory ofAmerican Scholars, P.O. Box 25001, Tempe, Arizona 85282. The Jaques CattellPress of Tempe, Arizona will continue to edit the directory which will bepublished by the R. R. Bowker Company of New York under the Bowker/ Cattellimprint. TheDepartment of History, United States Air Force Academy, announces itsEighth Military History Symposium, to be held 18-20 October 1978. The topic,AIR POWER AND WARFARE, was chosen to commemorate the 75th anniversary year of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk. Coverage will be international in scope, ranging over the full spectrum of twentiethcentury aeria'l warfare. Included on the program, along with leading scholars from the U.S. and abroad, will be a number of distinguished military aviators whohelped shape the course of history. For further information about the symposium,write Majors John F. Shiner or Russell W. Mank, Department ofHistory, USAF Academy, CO 80840. TheSociety for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States announces MELUS, a new journal in the field of American literature, published at the University of Southern California. MELUS will be ajournal unlikeany other in the field, since it is based on the concept that American literatureis the literary expression of all Americans, regardless of language andethnic content. In its pages will be discussed literature that is unknown or toolittle known outside of the group which nurtured it. These works will be relatedto the accepted canon, showing influences, interaction, interfaces. Theeditors welcome articles about new discoveries in forgotten literatures, explicationde texte, aesthetic theory, comparative studies, the impact of diversity throughout American literature, etc. They will include interviews, notes, letters and notices of conferences. A section on Reviews and Reconsiderations and another on Professional Activities of the members will beregularfeatures. Articles should be 10-20 pp., double spaced, and should 132 NewsNotes conform to the M LA Style Sheet. Send two copies, with return postage,but with your name on the title page only, as all articles will be refereed anonymously by three M ELUS members. Manuscripts should be sentto M ELUS, Department of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Editor: Katharine Newman. Associate Editors: Beth Miller (University of Southern California) and Joseph Skerrett, Jr., (University of Massachusetts/ Amherst). A comprehensive bibliography of Maine political and cultural history isno\i available to researchers and history buffs. The volume, Maine: A Bibliographv o_fits History, was recently published by G. K. Hall and Co., Boston, andfs the first bibliography of the state's historical resources compiled since1896 The new 279-page work is the second in a series being produced bythe Committee for a New England Bibliography, Inc. To facilitate use, entriesare arranged both geographically and alphabetically by author, compiler and subject. Funded chieflly through support from the National Endowmentfor the Humanities, the committee, a non-profit organization, was establishedin 1970 to publish a multi-volume bibliography of New England history. Various libraries and historical societies have also contributed fundsf~r the series. Before this recent publication, the committee produced a similar bibliography of Massachusetts history. Boston University historians John B. Armstrong and David D. Hall serve on the committee, with Armstrong serving as committee chairman. The purpose, according to editor John D. Haskell, is...