John Galsworthy: An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him

7. JOHN GALSWORTHY: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM Edited by Helmut E. Gerber Compiled and annotated by Richard A.E, Brooks (Vassar), H.E. Gerber (Purdue), Charles Green (Purdue), Drew B. Pallette (Southern California), Earl -Sfcevens (North Carolina). I must give my special thanks to Professor Brooks, who despite new duties as department chairman, and other difficulties, somehow found time and energy to go far beyond the labors he had originally generously agreed to undertake on this checklist. I have been fortunate to have the collaboration of this meticulous and conscientious scholar. Similarly, I also owe many special debts to my colleague Charles Green for jumping into the breach when this Galsworthy checklist became a much more complex undertaking than I had anticipated—his patience with my constant demands on his time and energy to do the most tedious kind of checking has been little short of angelic. So, also, I can do little more than gratefully marvel how Earl Stevens, working on a dissertation and preparing to move to Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, N.C, and how Drew B. Pallette, despite his committments to speak at various professional meetings and his research activities, could contribute so much effort to this checklist. The list which follows is dated August, 1958. Once more, we have not included unpublished theses, which will be found in the first issue of EFT as well as under Galsworthy's name further on in the present number. Some reviews are listed in order to sample the rise and fall of Galsworthy's reputation, but we have made no methodical effort to search out reviews. We have also listed many very brief references to Galsworthy in the editor's belief that even a single statement may sometimes prove suggestive. Generally, we have emphasized writings about Galsworthy as novelist. Because of the inaccessibility of many foreign publications as well as more obscure English periodicals and newspapers, we have not annotated all items. In other instances, items for listing arrived as this issue was being stencilled and, thus, while listed, they are not annotated. Again, as in the Ford Madox Ford list in the second issue of EFT, annotators have had considerable leeway in the style of the annotation and in making value judgments. I have not thought mechanical consistency to be so important as the individual annotator's intelligent reaction to what he was annotating. Once again, we hope this checklist will prove useful to researchers insofar as it samples with reasonable thoroughness the great quantity and variety of writings about Galsworthy. We shall be happy to hear of any significant omissions as well as of works on Galsworthy now in progress. Alexander, Henry. "Galsworthy as Dramatist," QUEEN'S QUARTERLY (Kingston, Canada), XL (1933), 177-88. 8. Allen, Walter. THE ENGLISH NOVEL. Lond.: Phoenix House, 1954; N.Y.: Dutton, 1955, pp. 310-12. Of G's work only THE MAN OF PROPERTY remains any interest today. G's defense against the Forsytes is sentimentality, Anderson, Margaret. MY THIRTY YEARS' WAR. N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1930, pp, 45-47, 48. Prints a letter by G. and refers to Anderson's contributing an article on G's DARK FLOWER to the LITTLE REVIEW (about 1917). Archer, William. THE OLD DRAMA AND THE NEW: AN ESSAY IN REVALUATION. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1923, pp. 22-24, 127-29. 226, 340, 341, 364-65. 383. A partisan defense of the modern theatre against those who praise the old because it is old. G. in intellectual stature is above the lesser Elizabethans. THE SILVER BOX, STRIFE, JUSTICE, and LOYALTIES are among the finest plays of our time; others do not arouse the imagination or hold the memory. Arns, Leo. GALSWORTHY UND DIE KRISIS DES INDUSTRIALISAS. Duren:—, 1935. A Bonn Dissertation. Astor, Lenox. "Bibliographies of Younger Reputations: John Galsworthy," BOOKMAN (N.Y.), XXXV (1912), 203-204. Bibliography of G's works; short bibliography of criticism (included in this checklist). Austin, H.P, «John Galsworthy," DUBLIN REVIEW, CLXXXIX (1931), 95-106. G's greatness is shown particularly in the Forsyte chronicles, in which he mirrored upper-middle-class England with common sense. Baker, E.A. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL. 10 vols. Lond.: Witherby, 1924...