Announcements

4. ELT Rates for 1979: As all our subscribers know, we have stubbornly resisted increasing our subscription rates despite the steadily rising costs of postage and paper. In I968 we upgraded the physical appearance of ELT from our large mimeographed format to the reduced offset format and heavier cover stock, but we retained the same subscription rates: $2.50 for U. S. and $3.00 for foreign (overseas and Canadian) subscribers. Since 1968 our offset format has remained the same - we have continued to use the same quality cover stock and the same quality of paper for the text; in the interest of keeping costs as low as possible, we have continued to use unjustified right margins. Because of increased costs of production we raised rates in 1973 to $3.00 and $4.00 and once more in 1975 to $4.00 and $5.00 for U. S. and foreign subscribers, respectively. Between 1970 and 1977 we have printed from 250 to 336 pages in each volume, an average of about 290 pages per volume. When, periodically, we suggested that we might have to reduce the number of pages, many of our readers generously wrote to say they would rather pay higher subscription rates than to have the number of pages reduced. As a compromise measure we began in 1974 to mail two numbers together twice a year, thus reducing mailing costs by half. This year, once more, we face a moment of truth. Postage continues to increase not only for the mailing of ELT but also for billing and a huge editorial correspondence. For Volume 21 (1978) rates will continue to be $4.00 and $5.00 to U. S. and foreign subscribers, respectively. HOWEVER We regretfully announce that our rates for Volume 22 (1979) will be increased to meet still rising costs: U. S. $5.00; single copies $2.00 Foreign $6.00; single copies $2.50 We have been tested and have been found wanting; our subscribers are being tested and we hope will not be found wanting. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Gissingiana: The indefatiguable Pierre Coustillas writes that W. W. Norton is reprinting The Odd Women, with an introduction by Marcia Rose Fox. Harvester Press continues its yeoman labor of producing well edited Gissing titles - The Whirlpool, The Emancipated, and The Crown of Life are forthcoming . In addition Harvester has commissTïïned Pierre Coustillas to edit Gissing's short stories, probably in five volumes. On a ' related matter Coustillas writes as follows: In my bibliography of Gissing's short stories (ELT, VII: 2 [1964], 59-72), I mentioned three short stories which I had been unable to trace in the British press: "A Freak of Nature" (written on 7 and 8 March 1895)» "Joseph" (written on 9 March I896), and a third piece, the title of which was unknown and for which the author received f.4.2. I have recently succeeded in locating "Joseph" in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, 17 May I896, p. 8. It relates an episode in the life of a young man-servant. The third piece, which I discovered in the same newspaper (15 Sept I895, p. 6), proved to be a story I included in George Gissing: Essays and Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins P, 1970), thinking at the time it was unpublished. It is entitled "Their Pretty Way" on the manuscript held by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, but "Their Pretty Ways" in Lloyd's. Whatever variants occur between the two versions certainly result from alterations Gissing made on the proofs as no typescript of this story is referred to in his papers and correspondence. "A Freak of Nature," which is mentioned several times in Gissing's diary and letters to W. M. Colles in March and April 1895 as having appeared in the London Magazine, still remains unlocated, for the simple reason that no journal of that name is on record for I895. Doubtless the persistent obstacle in the way of identification lies in this title being an abbreviation and not the full title. [Pierre Coustillas - University of Lille.J 2. A. E. Housman Bibliography; B. F. Fisher IV < "resident bibliographer " for the Housman Society, is now preparing an annotated bibliography of secondary materials concerning AEH's life and writing. Please forward relevant materials for inclusion articles , notes, books, theses, dissertations, or abstracts of these - to him at 302 East Market Street, Orwigsburg, Pa. (I796I). The deadline for submitting items to be noticed is 1 Sept 1978. 3. Four Decades, a New Address: Four Decades of Poe-trv 1890I93O . formerly produced in England, will in the future be published and printed in Toronto. For further information please contact The Editor, 23I Lonsmount Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M5P 2Y9, Canada. ...