Announcements

topics concerned with the Victorian period. According to VICTORIAN STUDIES, V: 3 (March 1962), 280, "The aim of the synposium is to test the editors' notion that signiticant fresh approaches to the period are being developed by some of the 'younger' scholars." ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Peop1e: James G. Hepburn has an ACLS Grant-in-Aid which will take him to England this summer to continue his researches on Arnold Bennett. Charles McCann, who is compiling our D. H. Lawrence bibliography, will move from Canisius College to Central Washington State College at Ellensburg, Washington, effective 1 June 1962. Robert P. Weeks, who has been of help to us on several occasions on H. G. Wells, will be on leave (1962-63) from the University of Michigan as a Fullbright Fellow in Austria, Edward Lauterbach, the Associate Editor of EFT, has a Purdue Research Foundation Grant for this summer to enable him to investigate the literary piracies of John Camden Hotten. 2· Our Girl Monday through Friday. Jacqueline Eisen, our graduate assistant for the past one and a half years, receives her M. A. degree this June and is thus compelled to retire from our staff. This act of superannuation is especially saddening—on this note I can only add, as an epitaph: SHE ALWAYS HAD TIME. Her industry will continue to be reflected in most of the numbers we have planned for the next two years. 3. Introducing: Our graduate assistant beginning in September will be Miss Marie Tate, honors graduate from Loyola University, Chicago. We welcome her to the company of Efters. ...