Editor's Fence

EDITOR'S FENCE ELT HAS MOVED TO UniversityofNorthCarolina DepartmentofEnglish Greensboro,NC27412-5001 1.ELT'sNewHome:ThejournalandELTPressarenowlocatedatU.N.C.G. Membersofthedepartmentandtheadministrationhavegivenusawarmwelcome, andIlookforwardtoalong,cordialrelationship.Allcorrespondenceand submissionsshouldbedirectedtoournewaddress. 2. TheYearsatA.S.U.:IwanttoexpresssincerestthankstoBillFerrell, Marvin Fisher, and Nick Salerno, all helpful chairmen during ELT's stay at Arizona State University. I also wish to acknowledge the thoughtful support of several colleagues: Ian Fletcher, Alan Johnson, and Frank D'Angelo. I extend many thanks to Skip Brack and especially Helga Gerber, who helped see the journal through the transition after Hal's death. The years in Tempe were productive, and while I will miss seeing my friends on a daily basis, the personal and professional ties with the faculty are strong and will, I'm certain, continue to be so in the years ahead. 3. New Format: I appreciate hearing from readers, and for the most part comments on the Kiplmg numbers and the improved format have been quite positive. Besides being eminently more readaole, the new typeface actually offers more space; thus a greater number of books will be reviewed in the comingissues.Asyoucansee,thereviewsectionsin29:3and4arealready more substantial. I should add that the move to Greensboro will in no way affect the journal's appearance, since U.N.C.G. makes available to faculty and staff some of the latest laser printers on the market. 238 4. Subscription Rates 1987: I promised in 1984 that subscription rates would not change before 1988; this pledge need not be broken. I'm pleased to say prices remain the same for the coming year, $9.00 (U.S.) and $11.00 (Elsewhere). My view on this recurring question is simple but perhaps not commonplace in today's publishing environment: keep the journal as affordable as possible for subscribers. Indeed, I hope that we can negotiate 1988 without any increase. But the consistent reality: paper costs go up approximately 10% each year. The more unpleasant "surcharges" come in postage. Domestic and foreign mailing expenses have more than doubled since 1984. And there are persistent rumors that the mythical U.S. Postmaster, a modern-day Lord Vishnu, will authorize further taxation in late 1986. We can only bow to the powers that be and fantasize that hope will conquer experience, that Library and Book Rates may be rescued from the seemingly relentless move upward. 5. Primary Materials: There are occasions when scholars discover primary materials, such as the Symons short story in 29:4, that could probably never find their way into book-length studies. If you have access to a primary work from the 1880-1920 period and think it might be appropriate for ELT, please write us. 6. H. G. Wells Forthcoming: At the printing of this issue, I cannot offer many details on Volume 30:1 and 2. There have been submissions on Wells and we expect more as the summer comes to a close. Remember, the official deadline is 1 October. Among others, there will be book reviews of Aaron Fogel's Coercion to Speak: Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue; Dan H. Laurence's Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1911-1925, III; Alan Wilde's Critical Essays on E. M. Forster; Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Sex, Politics, and Science in the NineteenthCentury Novel; Gibson and Green's The Unknown Conan Doyle: Letters to the Press; Harold Orel's The Literary Achievement of Rebecca West; Paul John Eakin's Fictions in Autobiography; Cornellia Nixon's Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women; Eric Salmon's Granville Barker and His Correspondents; Dennis Kennedy's Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre; Glenn S. Burne's Richard F. Burton; Shrubsall and CoustiUas' Landscapes and Literati: Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson and George Gissing. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Conference at University of Kansas, Lawrence: The Department of English will hold an interdisciplinary conference (26 March to 28 March 1987) on the theme Victoria's Jubilees, 1887 and 1897: A Centennial Reconsideration. For more information, please contact the conference committee chair, Professor Harold Orel, Department of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 660452115 . 2. American Committee for Irish Studies: This organization is in its 24th year with over 1,000 members. The ACIS holds regional conferences every year and membership includes...