Announcements

112 ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Studies in the ELT Period; The Critical Heritage Series published by ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN PAUL now includes many volumes on ELT authors; Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Georgian Poetry; I911-I922, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Pater, G. B. Shaw, R. L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, and Oscar Wilde. These generally excellent volumes make available selected reviews and critical articles, mainly those published during the authors' lifetimes, often not readily accessible in their original forms. The ASB Series published by NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS now has seven volumes in print; W. Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Walter Pater. In copy-editing stage is a volume on D. H. Lawrence and ready to go to the publisher are one of three volumes on Shaw, the Thomas Hardy Supplement, and the volume on H. G. Wells. In process and nearing completion are a supplementary volume on Conrad, the George Moore volume, and two more volumes on Shaw. These volumes list nearly everything in any language, mostly with abstracts, that has been written on the subject-author from the earliest reviews to critical articles and books published recently. GARLAND PUBLISHING is also to be commended for its continuing publication of reference works (bibliographies, indexes, concordances) of interest to late 19th- and early 20th-century English literature scholars. Garland has just announced plans to publish in five volumes Robert Lee Wolff's Nineteenth-Century Fiction; A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by Robert Lee Wolff, the first volume to appear in July, I98I. Also of interest to ELT readers are the following titles; Inman's Walter Pater's Reading; A Bibliography of His Library Borrowings and Literary References (June 1981); The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions; An Index (Nov 1981), edited by J. H. Murray and A. K. Clark, an author and subject index to the journal for I866-I9IO; J. C. Olmstead's A. Victorian Art of Fiction; Essays on the Novel in British Periodical a. 1830-I9OÖ (3 vols) ; S. Wright's A Bibliography .of the Writings ¡i£ Walter Pater; Robert Lee Wolff's Sensational Victorian; The Life and Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Linda C. Dowling's Aestheticism and Decaïïënce; A Selective Bibliography ; Michael Edmond"s Lvtton Strachey: A Bibliography (May 198I); J. R. Hammond's Herbert George Wells; An Annotated Bibliography of His Works: Anita Miller's Arnnld Bennett: An Annotated Bibliography, 1887-1932: a series of reprints in thirty-six volumes, edited by Ian Fletcher and John Stokes, that illustrate the "Decadent Consciousness," including many titles that have been rare or very scarce for years; and such concordances as C. R. Sabol and Todd Bender's on Ford's The Good Soldier and the tenvolume series on Conrad's novels. ARNO PRESS (Books for Libraries) in its massive reprinting activity has also been serving ELT scholars commendably. Among many of Arno's large-scale reprint series, this press has undertaken the production of The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett in ninety uniform volumes. While the individual volumes are too expensive for classroom use, libraries which began seriously assembling large collections within 113 the past mere hundred years or so have been able to purchase reprints of many titles no longer otherwise readily available. Arno has also usefully reprinted forty-four volumes in a Literature of Mystery and Detective Series, a large-scale collection of Books by and About Women , several series of ten books each of Gothic novels, sixty-two books in a Utopian literature series, and much else for which one once had to search in hundreds of antiquarian book catalogues. Also of outstanding service to reserach libraries and scholars in the ELT period are the microfilm series on the history of publishing and the book trade produced in England by CHADWYCK-HEALEY/SOMERSET HOUSE. Among the many microfilms, with printed indexes, are the archives of George Allen & Co., Richard Bentley & Son, Elkin Mathews, and Grant Richards; microfilms of many European art and literary periodicals; and so on. Two modest but unique publishers continue to enlarge their lists of titles that are...