Forster Bibliography

30:3, Reviews writings, representative samples of his best critical studies. The first two parts of the book contain essays he wrote from 1873 to 1899 on Matthew Arnold, Sainte-Beuve, George Eliot, Honoré de Balzac, Turgenieff, Guy de Maupassant, as well as the famous theoretical analyses The Art of Fiction, The Future of the Novel, and Criticism. Part Three includes the remarkable Prefaces to nine novels: Roderick Hudson, The American, The Portrait of a Lady, The Awkward Age, What Maisie Knew, The Aspern Papers, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. The concluding section has James's criticism of Emile Zola and Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book as a novel. Each essay is followed by an editorial commentary and relevant biographical, bibliographical, textual, and critical notes. The anthology also contains a bibliography of James's criticism of fiction and a helpful index. Even a cursory reading of this expertly edited volume will reveal why Leon Edel is justified in judging James to be "America's greatest critic-novelist." Alice R. Kaminsky ____________________________________SUNY, Cortland___________________ FÖRSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY B. J. Kirkpatrick. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster, Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, The Soho Bibliographies, XIX, 1985. $59.00 B. J. Kirkpatrick's A Bibliography of E. M. Forster has enjoyed, since the publication of the first edition in 1965 (revised impression, 1968), the high esteem of students of Forster, Bloomsbury, and the modem novel. It has become a standard reference work and an indispensable tool for further research, and it is gratifying, therefore, to have had it brought up to date to 1983. The second edition confirms the stature already achieved by the Bibliography since 1965. For those who have the early edition of 1965 or its revised impression, there is the convenience of Kirkpatrick's having retained the numberings in the earlier lists, signifying additions to the original listings by adding decimal points to an original number, followed by an Arabic number. So if between two entries (A8 and A9, for example, in the original list of "Books and Pamphlets") there would be two additions, these new entries would be indicated by A8.1 and A8.2. For the convenience of scholars, Kirkpatrick has also added volume numbers for periodicals in the various entries in this new edition. The updating in the first three divisions of the Bibliography, "Books and Pamphlets," "Contributions to Books and Pamphlets," and "Contributions to Periodicals and Newspapers," are informative but not excessive in number, a fact which bespeaks the thoroughness of Kirkpatrick's research for the first edition. In "Books and Pamphlets," descriptions of the Abinger Edition volumes (all published since th first edition of the Bibliography) now appear under the appropriate text titles. The 1983 cutoff date was somewhat unfortunate because the Abinger Edition of The Longest Journey, the trade editions of Commonplace Book, Volume II of Selected Letters, and Mary Lago's A Calendar of the Letters 353 30:3, Reviews of E. M. Forster could not be described and are mentioned only glancingly in the editor's Preface. Any further edition or impression of this bibliography would have to add such entries as well as include a category in the new "AudioVisual " division for film to feature the widely acclaimed (if controversial) production of A Passage to India (1984) and the no less widely acclaimed production of A Room with a View (1986). Under "Contributions to Books and Pamphlets" I noted seven new items, and under "Contributions to Periodicals and Newspapers" I counted twenty-eight new items. A number of the new periodical listings represent the unearthing of additional essays from obscure sources such as the Egyptian Mail and the Daily Herald. The listings under these rubrics confirm the impression made by the first edition that much distinguished occasional nonfiction after 1915 remains uncollected . A gathering of the best of these pieces is a desideratum in Forster studies, especially since there are no apparent plans for such a volume or volumes in the Abinger Edition. "Translations into Foreign Languages" updates the information for the languages present in the first edition and adds several others. This division documents the widespread interest in Forster in Europe...