Announcements

vi ι information. We believe in the objective approach informed by subjective insights and in the subjective approach intelligently guided by objectively derived data. We insist that critics get dates right and correctly identify and evalute their texts; w insist that historians attend to the meaning and quality of the work as a work of literary art. 4. We Shall Publish; a descriptive bibliography of the fiction of W. H. Mal lock, an annotated bibliography of writings about Hubert Crackanthorpe, an article on Crackanthorpe, and a short article on Kipling and Forster. We have contributors at work on material dealing with Henry Handel Richardson, Olive Schreiner, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Israel Zangwel1, a thematic aspect of the period, Gissing, Ernest Dowson, Ford Madox Ford, and other authors and special subjects. We would especially like to see more work on the poets, dramatists, and critics now added to our expanded list. This list contains the names of about 100 authors, 40 of whom are currently listed in EFT; of the remaining 60, six now have basic bibliographies about them in progress. This expanded list will be mailed early in 1963. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Midwest Modern Language Association: The MMLA NEWSLETTER #3 (4 June 1962) briefly describes the successful meeting held at Lincoln, Nebraska, in the Spring of 1962. The next meeting will be held 18, 19, 20 April 1963 at the University of Missouri. The University of Nebraska will again publish a paperback volume of selected papers under the title "Literature and Society." In 1964 the meeting will be hosted by the University of Minnesota. The NEWSLETTER closes with a list of section officers for the 1963 meeting. 2. CBCL TEST SURVEY: The Conference on British Commonwealth Literature has published the results of a preliminary test-survey: BRITISH COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES, by Joseph Jones (University of Texas). The results show that South African writers, especially Campbell, Plomer, Mi Πin, and Schreiner, are most heavily represented in American libraries. On the whole, evidence shows, Commonwealth literature is not adequately represented on the shelves of American libraries. Commonwealth periodicals such as CANADIAN LITERATURE, MEANJIN, LANDFALL, SOUTHERLY, and ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA are faring very well, while the Sydney BULLETIN, BIM, and CONTRAST are not yet widely stocked. The CBCL NEWSLETTER, under the editorship of Joseph Jones, may well do much to stimulate interest in Commonwealth authors and periodicals. 3. QUARTET : This "magazine of the creative arts," edited by Donald M. Winkelman, has moved, with its editor, from Indiana University to Purdue University. This quarterly publishes poetry, short stories, short criticism, articles on all the arts, and illustrations. Domestic rates are one dollar per year or two dollars and fifty cents for three years. Address: Donald M. Winkelman, Editor, QUARTET Magazin , English Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 4. POET £■CRITIC; We regret that this interesting enterprise, issued at Purdue University, has been suspended. Under the editorship of V.'illiam Tillson, POET & CRITIC gave young poets belonging to no particular cult an opportunity to expose their work to the critical eye and to exchange salvos with other poets and critics. 5. A Thesis: The Boer War in Fiction: Donald J. Weinstock (English, UCLA) is planning to write a dissertation on "The Causes, Prosecution and Results of the Boer War as Portrayed by Fiction Writers of the Time." He would appreciate hearing from anyone knowing of fiction (novels, primarily, but also short fiction, poetry, drama, juvenile literature, etc) which in any way deals with or alludes to the Boer War or South Africa during the period of the Boer liar. ...