Bibliograph, News, and Notes

33BIBLIOGRAPH , NEWS, AND NOTES By Helmut E. Gerber The listing and comments that follow are mine, unless otherwise noted. Again, nothing noteworthy on the following writers has come to my attention: Beresford, Cannan, Cunninghame-Graham, De Morgan, W.L. George, Hewlett, Hudson, Kaye-Smith, Macaulay, McFee, Mackenzie, Maxwell, Merrick, Montague, Morrison, Onions, Pugh, Sinclair, Swinnerton, Whiteing, Young. I have added the name of Rider Haggard, on whom Morton N. Cohen (City College) contributes a brief note and a selected annotated bibliography. Haggard will be regularly listed hereafter. ARNOLD BENNETT I have compiled the following list of items, and James G. Hepburn (Cornell) has provided the annotations, unless otherwise noted. While I am responsible for insisting on the inclusion of some quite trivial items, I agree with Hepburn that the most important items in the following list are those by Sanna, Tillyard, and Wain. The book by Sanna, which Mr. Swinnerton first called to my attention, should be especially noted, for it has not, as far as we know, been listed in any English or American bibliography. Church, Richard. THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL. Lond: Methuen, 1951, pp. 75, 103, 126, 199, 205-6. Calls OLD WIVES' TaLE a masterpiece but barely discusses B, Decker, Clarence R. THE VICTORIAN CONSCIENCE. N.Y.: Twayne, 1952, pp. 32-33, 80, 164-67. Points out B's theoretical rejection of realism, but does not examine the novels in detail. Ellis, G.U. TWILIGHT ON PaRNASSUS. A SURVEY OF POST-WAR FICTION AND PRE-WAR CRITICISM. Lond: Michael Joseph. 1^39, PP. 54, 247, and many other refs. to those who rejected B. /H.E.Q1J Ford, George H. DICKENS AND HIS READERS. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1955, pp. 31, 172, 173, 188, 211, 218, 219-21. 224, 245, 254. Sees B's characters as occasionally Dickensian. Hepburn, James G. "Arnold Bennett in Clerkenwell," NOTIiS & QUERIES, n.s. V (June 1958), 263-64. Argues against S.R.'s note (N & Q, n.s. Ill, 1956, pp. 310-11; sea EFT I, 1) to effect that bookshop in RICEYMAN STEPS is not the one in Red Lion Passage but rather T. Junes' of 34 Bernard St., Southhampton. /jd.E.Q^ Kettle, Arnold. aN INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH NOVEL. 2 vols. Lond: Hutchinson's University Library, 1953. Vol. II, pp. 85-89. Gives critical analysis of OLD WIVES' TALE: focus too narrow and treatment too superficial for greatness. MacCarthy, Desmond. "Bennett, Wells and Trollope," LIFE AND LETTERS (1930); reptd. in MEMORIES. N.Y.: Oxford U.P., 1953; Lond: MacGibbon & Kee, I953, PP, 21-30. Compares B. and Trollope on the honesty and disinterested sympathy of their art, and notes vagaries of their reputations. 34. Roberts, T.J. "Some Forms, A Meaning, Knowledge: Bennett's 'Matador,'" GRADUaTE STUDENT OF ENGLISH, I (Summer 1958), 7-15. Uses a close examination of 3's "most highly regarded short story" in order "to speculate on the relationships which obtain between 'story,' 'meaning,' and 'form,1 and in the hope that the results will show something more might be done to explain why...we feel wt¿ have 'learned' something." The reader is influenced "to use the meaning of this story in his interpretation of life" through "common urban and industrial scenes" being "hyper-dramatized" and "scenes that would normally interest the reader (e.g., death)" being "de-dramatized." This results in the "antithesis to the familiar thesis that twentieth century man is less alive, less in tune with the macrocosm, less worthy of respect than men of other times and other conditions." The structure (which is graphically represented by Roberts) has great "functional significance in the production of the meaning...." ^H.E.gJ7 ............... "B. and the Criticism of the Bloomsbury Group." A thesis in progress at the University of Minnesota, 1958. ffi.E.hJ Sanna, Vittoria. ARNOLD BENNETT E I ROMANZI DELLE CINQUE CITTA. Firenze: Marzocco, 1953· Miss Sanna sent the following description of her work to Mr. Hepburn: "The study is mainly limited to the Five Towns novels. The part dealing with Bennett's background, life ;ind aesthetics is followed by a survey of his Staffordshire novels, viewed both aesthetically and as the outcome of the writer's contemplation of life with its...