The Editor's Fence

11 THE EDITOR·S"FENCE 1. The Seminar on English Literature In Transition (1880-1920): Joseph Conrad's Later Fiction, 1913-1924-, MLA, Denver, Coloraïïô: The thirteenth meeting of the ELT Seminar has been approved for the I969 KLA meetings In Denver. Date, hour, and room will be announced In the KLA program and In the next number of ELT, Professor Bruce E, Teets (Central Washington State Collee-e), Discussion Leader, will admit applicants up to the limit set by MLA rules. Professor Teets has assembled a panel for the purpose of focusing discussion. To date the following persons have agreed to take part In the panel discussion: Avrom Fleishman, Edmund Bojarski, and George Thomson. In ELT, Volume 12, No. k (I969), which Is scheduled to be mailed, during the first week of December, we shall publish articles on Conrad and position statements relevant to the topic of discussion. 2. The Seminar on Secondary Annotated Bibliographies. KLA. Denver. Colorado: The second meeting of this Seminar has been approved for the 1969 MLA meetings In Denver. With H. E. Gerber as Discussion Leader, the Seminar will discuss the present status of and future plans for the Secondary Annotated Elbllography Series being published, under Gerber's general editorship, by Northern Illinois University. Discussion will focus on various practical problems that have been encountered In the course of completing the Conrad bibliography (Teets and Gerber, eds.), the Maugham bibliography (Charles Sanders, ed.), and the rapidly progressing Hardy bibliography (Gerber and Davis, eds.). We hope, also, to be able to organize committees of contributors to future volumes In the series and to plan systematically the research procedures best suited to the production of one or two volumes a year of the type for which the Conrad, Maugham, and Hardy volumes will serve as the Initial models. 3. The Secondary Bibliographies: A Progress Report: The Conrad project Is now In the final stages of being edited, although some Items very recently returned undone must still be abstracted. The organization of this and other bibliographies In the series will be chronological, books being listed first under each year alphabetically by author or title and periodical Items next In the same way. The five Indexes planned for this volume will, we believe, serve most researchers' purposes and also resolve some of the problems that arise from many Items being reprinted In sometimes unbelievably complex ways. Present plans call for the following Indexes: (1) Author Index (Including editors, co-editors, co-authors, translators), (2) Title Index (Including book and article titles, original foreign language titles and translated titles), (3) Periodical and Newspaper Index (Including a listing of entry numbers for each periodical and newspaper In which something on Conrad appeared), (4) Index of Conrad Titles In Abstracts (Including Conrad titles mentioned In titles of articles and books), and (5) Index of Foreign Language Ill Entries (including, for example, entry numbers for all items in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Folish, Russian, Yugoslavian [Slovene and Serbocroat]). We shall include Ph. D. dissertations with references to existing abstracts whenever they exist, but we shall exclude M. A. theses and honors papers. Foreign dissertations if they exist in published form and are available, will be abstracted insofar as time and circumstances allow. We include reviews of primary works from most major periodicals and newspapers and at least a sampling from somewhat more obscure publications of this kind. [We do not attempt to include everything that has appeared in countless provincial newspapers, especially in England and America.] We also include at least a reasonable sampling of introductions to various editions, items in casebooks, explications in a sampling of "manuals for teachers," and the like. We believe the annotated bibliography will provide a quite thorough record of response to Conrad's work from the beginning through 1966. [We are already compiling a supplement which will begin with 1967 publications and add significant items not included in the basic listing through 1966.] Despite a number of unexpected difficulties, we plan to have a final typescript ready for the Press before December . Charles Sanders reports that the Kaugham volume will be ready for the Press by the end of September. The Maugham and the Conrad volumes...