Bibliography, News and Notes

22. BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEViS ZJJD NOTES Besides the authors listed in the following pages , many others come within the present-scope of EFT. On the following authors we found nothing in recent publications , but we shall be pleased to hear of theses in- progress or articles published on them: J.D, Beresford, Hubert Crackanthorpe, R.B. Cunninghame-Graham, Viilliam De Morgan^ W,L. George,-Maurice Hewlett, Sheila Kaye-Smith, William McFee, Compton Mackenzie, W.B. Maxwell, CE. Montague, Ztrthur Morrison, Oliver Onions, Edwin'Pugh, May Sinclair, Trank Swinnerton, Hugh Walpole, Richard Whiteing, F.B. Young, Israel Zangwill. Although we are not yet regularly listing the following writers, we plan to include them; thus, we shall be pleased to hear of work in progress on them: John Buchan, Havelock Ellis, Edmund Gosse, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Handel Richardson, Dorothy Richardson, Olive Schreiner, R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey. Of most immediate interest to usis information about work in progress on Kipling, Lytton Strachey, Havelock Ellis, Henry Handel Richardson. At present Charles Green and Edward Lauterbach are compiling a bibliography of writings about Kipling which seems to be mounting to the proportions of the one on George Moore. We would be especially happy to hear from Kiplingites, ARNOLD BENNETT Brennan, Neil. "The Aesthetic Tradition in the English Comic Novel."' Ph D'Thesis. University of Illinois. June, 1959. See abstract in EFT, II, 2, Pt I, pp. •iV-Vo Hall, James. ZJiNOLD BENNETT: PRIMITIVISM ZJJD T-.STE. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1959» See review in EFT, II, 2, Pt I, pp. vi-vii. Klingopulos, G.D, "The Literary Scene," FROM DICKENS TO E-JiDY. Ed by Boris Ford. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1958. Pp. 99, 104. Bennett's best work represents more adequately than that of Moore the "naturalist phase" of the English novel inspired by Zola. Saveson, Mrs. Marilyn Buehrer. "The Influence of Emile Zola Upon the Theory and Practice of Some English Novelists of His Time." Ph D Thesis. University ' of Cambridge (Girtin College). February, 1956. See abstract in EFT, II, 2, Pt I, p„ v. SIR WALTER BESANT Souffrin, Eileen» "GRINGOIRE en Angleterre a l'Epoque Victorienne, avec une Lettre Inédite de Théodore de Banville," REVUE DE LITTERATURE COMPAREE, XXXIII (JanMar 1959), 26-93» Refs to Pollock's and Besant's trans of Banville's play and its production with Herbert Beerbohn Tree in the title role (1887). SZtMUEL BUTLER For Lee E. Holt's report of scholarship on Samuel Butler, presented informally at the meeting of the Conference on English Fiction in Transition held in New York, December, 1958, see this issue of EFT. Daniel Howard will review Joseph Jones' THE CRADLE OF EREWHON in the next issue of EFT. Black, Laurence.Norman, "Samuel Butler (1835-1902) as Satirist." Ph D Thesis. University of Texas. 1959. The following is Dr, Black's abstract in part: "...Λ nimble mind and a crippled soul...made it not merely possible but imperative that Butler criticize much, and that he season his criticism with wit, The painful sensitivity which was nearly fatal to his personality during 23. the "horrors of childhood and boyhood" made the adult writer peculiarly perceptive to all of the evils which had ever threatened him.... "Conventional rhetorical terms are of limited use in attempting to describe Butler's satire. In the absence of a universally acceptable definition of satire, Butler's satire is here defined arbitrarily as criticism'which seems both sincere and witty. Witty is intended to suggest cleverness, quickness, and often a caustic tongue. Most of his satire involves verbal irony, in which the author states the opposite of what he really means, or natural irony, in which the situation is perceived to be opposite to the expected, the'desired , or the ideal.... Besides employing the epigram, parody, analogy, and inversion, Butler used effectively two devices which may be called the juxtaposition of the incongruous, and an ostentatious display of fairness which frequently boomerangs to discomfit the victim. The fairness, however, is not always feigned; Butler, by softening his blows just enough'to convince the reader that he was motivated by sincerity, not malevolence, found a deadlier method than such patently one-sided attacks as that of Swift...