Announcements

214 THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. ELT Seminar; H. G. Wells (MLA. San Francisco, Dec 1975)ι Professor William J. Scheick (University of Texas) will be Discussion Leader at this nineteenth consecutive meeting of the ELT Seminar. The two papers, by Scheick and Richard Hauer Costa (Texas A & M University) which will be the basis for discussion are printed in full in this issue of ELT. These papers will not be read at the meeting but their authors will briefly present the highlights of their papers preparatory to general discussion. Those wishing to participate in the meeting must write in advance for admission to Professor Scheick. The meeting is scheduled as follows ·. Date : Saturday 27 Dec 1975 Time: 1:00-2:15 p.m. Place : Toyon Suite, Hilton Attendance is limited by MLA policy. 2. Annotated Secondary Bibliography Seminar: G. B. Shaw (MLA. San Francisco. Dec 1975): The third A.S.B. Seminar, with H. E. Gerber as Discussion Leader, will be concerned with the three-volume annotated secondary bibliography on Shaw now in progress for inclusion in the A.S.B. Series being published by Northern Illinois University Press. Brief progress reports will be presented by individual volume editors: John Pfeiffer (Central Michigan University), Elsie B. Adams (San Diego State College), and Donald C. Haberman (Arizona State University). Discussion will focus on methodology, resources, and substantive matters that have arisen during the first stage of research. Editors of and contributors to the A.S.B. Series, Shavians, and representatives of N.I.U. Press will be present to make their expertise available. Persons wishing to participate in the meeting must write in advance for admission to H. E. Gerber. The meeting is scheduled as follows: Date: Saturday, 27 Dec 1975 Time: 4:00-5:15 p.m. Place : Walnut A, Hilton Attendance is limited by MLA policy. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. The Eighteen Nineties Society: In I963 The Francis Thompson Society was formed and in 1972 its scope was expanded with the formation of The Eighteen Nineties Society. The expanded Society has already been responsible, in conjunction with the National Book League, for mounting an outstanding "The 1890's" Exhibition in 1973 and for producing a fine catalog for that Exhibition. The Society also produces a journal for members only. The Society recently has undertaken "to publish a series of mono- 215 graphs on neglected writers and book-illustrators of the 1890s," under the general editorship of G. Krishnamurti. The first volume in the series, published in June and limited to 500 copies, is Father Brocard Sewell's Olive Custance: Her life and Work. For membership (U.S. $7.00) application and other information, please write: The Hon. Secretary, The Eighteen Nineties Society, 3 Kemplay Road, Hampstead, N.W. 3, England. 2. John Addington Symonds' "Gabriel"; J.A. Symonds' hitherto unpublished poem "Gabriel," a narrative poem of some 410 lines, has been published, in a limited edition, by Michael de Hartington, London. Robert Peters, co-editor of a massive edition of Symonds' letters, and Timothy d'Arch Smith, indefatigable bookseller and writer on the English 'nineties, have co-edited the present edition . The poem dates from about 1868, according to evidence in a letter Symonds' wrote to his friend Henry Graham Dakyns. It is homosexual in inspiration, and bears the stamp of its author's desperate violence of emotion which overwhelmed him to the point of endangering his health. In the poem, Apollo returns to earth as a beautiful youth, converts an entire monastery (somewhere in the Alps) to male-love worship, and finally dies when an old hermit comes out of the mountains and reveals the true nature of the youth. As the monks carry him to a mountain-top, they pass a crucifix. The statue of the crucified Christ bows to the slain boy. "Gabriel" is exceptional as a moment in late-Victorian aestheticism and decadence. The edition is published in boards and in paper, in a printing of 140 copies, on hand-made paper and specially bound. Copies may be ordered from Timothy d'Arch Smith, Fuller-Smith Books, 60 Oxford St., London Wl, 4WD, England. Hardcover copies are £15, paper £4. 3. Literary Research Newsletter: This new quarterly which...