The Editor's Fence

IV TKE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. EFT Conference: Washington, J). £., 1962: The Conference subject will be English Aesthetici sm-Oecadence (I87O-I9OO). We have accepted a paper by Wendell Harris on the short fiction of the period. This will appear in EFT prior to the meeting. Room and time of the Conference meeting will be announced later. Application for admission should be addressed to Helmut E. Gerber and Edward S. Lauterbach, Department of English, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana. 2. MLA Meeting. 1963: Originally scheduled to meet in Denver, the MLA meeting for 1963 will again take place in Chicago, one of the few remaining cities with sufficient facilities to accommodate organizations of this size. 3. Future EFT: Help: We shall probably change the title of our publication to ENGLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION in order to legitimize what in fact we have already been doing and will do even more extensively in the future. The expanded list of authors we shall be dealing with necessitates a call for assistance from specialists willing to help us compile and annotate basic bibliographies of writings about a large number of poets, some critics and essayists, and a few dramatists recently added to our list. We welcome volunteers. h. EfT Authors of _the Year: John Meixner's FORD MADOX FORD'S NOVELS has been announced for Fall publication by University of Minnesota Press; Richard Cassell's book (Johns Hopkins) has recently appeared; David Harvey's forthcoming bibliography (Princeton) has been announced; and Graham Greene has edited two volumes of works by Ford for Bod ley Head. E. M. Forster also seems to be a man of the year. Books on him by J. B. Beer (Chatto S- Windus), Frederick C. Crews (Princeton), T. ". Grandsden (Oliver & Boyd, Evergreen), and J. J. Oliver (Melbourne, I960) have been published; Frederick P. W. McDowell is now engaged on a study of Forster, and many theses are in progress. Professor McDowell is also preparing a composit review for us of the books by Beer, Crews, Grandsden, and Oliver. George Gissing has also recently begun to emerge from beneath the academic bushell basket, with Royal A. Gettmann's edition of the Gissing-WelIs letters (Illinois), Arthur Young's Gissing-Bertz correspondence (Rutgers), Jacob Korg's edition of the Commonplacebook (New York Public Library), and Korg's forthcoming (Washington) book-length study. It almost begins to look like the beginning of a Butler year. So far we have seen Arnold Silver's edition of THE FAMILY LETTERS OF SAMUEL BUTLER (Stanford) and Daniel Howard's THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL BUTLER V/1 TH HIS SISTER MAY (CaIifornia). ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. New Journals: NYU is sponsoring ARTS AND SCIENCES, published twice a year, with contributions "by students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University." ...