Editor's Note

Editor's Note A chastening part of going on leave is the discovery that things don't go smash in your absence. This issue of the Review is the third in a row to have come about without the regular editor's interference (I'm back just in time to help read galleys), and a word of thanks is in order to several people who made me feel comfortably dispensable for nine months. First, to Rosemary Beless, who has handled the lion's share of the operations in any case from the start, and who took over the job of editor last spring with an adroitness and an efficiency to make one blush. Secondly, to two of my colleagues, Edward Lueders and Milton Voigt, who worked with Rosemary during those three quarters in an advisory capacity and provided invaluable help in reading, assessing , and finding referees for the papers. To have taken this on at the most joyless time of the year—that is, spring, when the convention issue had to be clubbed into shape—could not have been pleasant. My thanks to all three for a sabbatical free of decisions, correspondence, deadlines, copy, proofs, cover drawings, trimming, and binding, and especially to Rosemary, who, as always, made it run. Results of the ballotting are now in, and we extend congratulations to William W. Moseley (Spanish, Colorado State University) and Carol Mullaney (English, Boise State University), who were elected Vice-President and Delegate-at-large respectively. Plans for the 1977 convention in Las Vegas, the last, incidentally, to be held under the present secretariat alone (see following note), proceed apace. The local arrangements committee is being chaired by Arlen Collier, Department of English, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and a colorful convention is anticipated. F.F. ...