Faculty Publications

Professor Herbert F. West '22 is the author of two small books recently published. Both are interesting and valuable, not only because of their contents but also because of their format. W. H. Hudson's Reading was privately printed in an edition of 300 copies by the E. F. Schmidt Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. No copies were for sale, but the volume was sent out as a gift book by Professor West and Mr. E. F. Schmidt, father of Frederick Schmidt 45. The volume is most beautifully printed, with an exceedingly handsome title-page in black and red.

In preparing this volume Professor West read carefully all the Hudson letters in print, and noted the different books that he was reading or had read. The Hudson admirer will find this small volume of great interest. We learn, for instance, that he read both Amy Lowell and Robert Frost, and in his letters commented on their work.

The other volume, A Stephen Crane Collection, published by Dartmouth College Library, a volume of 30 pages, has been very finely printed in an edition of 350 copies by the Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine, a press doing some of the best work in the East at the present time. In this volume Professor West describes the collection of Stephen Crane books and letters given by Mr. George Matthew Adams to the Dartmouth Library. 113 items are listed. As two pages of this volume are devoted to a long letter written by Stephen Crane to his brother it becomes a collector's item of interest to Stephen Crane collectors. Copies are for sale at the Library, $3.50.

Ascent of Taurus by Edward F. Little '41 and Prof. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy has been reprinted from the 1947 issue of The Canadian Alpine Journal.

Recent publications of Professor Vernon Hall Jr. are: Sherlock Holmes and the Wife ofBath, in the March issue of Baker StreetJournal, and The Scaliger Family Papers in the May issue of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.