Announcements

IV TKE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. EFT Conference: Washington, J). £., 1962: The Conference subject will be English Aesthetici sm-Decadence (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 6Boyd , 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 WITH 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." The first number appears to be that of Spring 1962. This issue contains, among various matters, William E. Buckler's "A Dual Quest" The Victorian Search for Identity and Authority."* The Conference on British Commonwealth Literature now sponsors the CBCL NEWSLETTER. No. 1 (Apr 1962) and No. 2 (Nov 1962) will be available gratis but an unannounced nominal subscription fee will be charged beginning with No. 3 (Apr 1963). Address: CBCL NEWSLETTER, English Building 118, University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas. Professor Joseph Jones is Editor. The current issue (No. 1) gives abstracts of two papers discussed at the 1961 meeting of the Conference: S. Ross Beharriell's "Canadian Fiction at the Turn of the Century" and Harry K. Girling's "The Current Outlook for Literature and Literary Studies in South Africa." In addition, several quarterlies dealing with Commonwealth literature are noticed: CONTRAST (South Africa), MEANJIN (Australia), CANADIAN LITERATURE, LANDFALL (New Zealand). APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF TWBNTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE, the Proceedings of the first session (2-k May 1961) of the Conference in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature, has recently been published yy Michigan State University. Included are the papers read at the several discussion groups by Professors Hoffman, Meriwether, Father Ong, Krieger, V/eisinger, and Gohdes, as well as comments on and general discussion of these papers. This record of the proceedings is lively, and, I think, an important step in recognizing the respectability of the academic study...