Editor's Comment

Editor's Comment The six articles published in this issue of Studies in American Fiction were originally presented as papers before the sixth Pennsylvania State University Conference on Bibliograph). They appear here through the courtesy of the authors and of Professor Harrison T. Meserole, Chairman of the conference and Association Bibliographer for the Modern Language Association. I am also indebted to Professor Meserole for inviting me to chair a session of the conference on American fiction. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support of the Pennsylvania State University, especially the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, the University Libraries, and the University Press, in establishing and continuing the conference, and to the cooperative assistance of Northeastern University in making this special issue possible. ß · O The Autumn 1973 number of SAF carried an essay by Lucy M. Buntain entitled "A Note on the Editions of Tender is the Night." In response to the essay, we have received a letter from Charles Scribner, Jr., who comments that Ms. Buntain "states that Scribners recently decided to reprint only the Cowley révision of Fitzgerald's novel, rather than the original 1934 edition. . . . Actually we made no such decision. Quite contrary to our previous decision to keep only the 1934 edition in print, one reprinting of the revised text was made, as the result of an error in our manufacturing department. The wrong plates were used! Immediately upon discovering that error, steps were taken to prevent its happening again. . . . Possibly the foregoing explanation will be of interest to your readers." We are grateful to Mr. Scribner for his letter clarifying this issue. O O · We would like to call the attention of our readers to the Third Annual Conference on Modern American Literature from Friday, June 28 to Sunday, June 30, 1974, at CaI Poly's Kellogg West Center for Continuing Education. The program title is "The American Dream: Fantasy or Reality?" Among those scheduled to lecture or lead discussions are novelists George P. Elliott (Syracuse) and Peter S. Beagle (Santa Cruz), film editor and chronicler William Fadiman (Hollywood), poet Leonard Nathan (Berkeley) and critics Blanche Gelfant (Dartmouth), Melvin Goldstein (Hartford), and William T. Stafford (Purdue). O O O Our readers may be interested in the origination of Lost Generation Journal, published three times each year by Literary Enterprises, Inc. It is devoted to the study of Americans in Europe between 1919 and 1939, especially those who developed a reputation during this period, such as Pound, Stein, and Hemingway. Subscription rates are $5.00 per year. For more information contact Dr. Tom Wood, Editor, School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901. • « ß It is with pleasure that I acknowledge the assistance of two Northeastern University graduate students in English in various aspects of the production of SAF. Dean Walton, SAF Graduate Fellow, has helped us in nearly every aspect of the journal in recent months, and Judith Lee has volunteered her services on several occasions to help us read proof and distribute the journal. To both of them we express our sincere gratitude. J.N. ...