Further Mention

The Imprint Society (Barre, Mass.) last spring issued in handsome two-volume format The Poetry of Robert Frost, reprinting the edition originally prepared in 1969 for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., by EDWARD CONNERY LATHEM '51, Librarian of Dartmouth College. Of particular interest is the frontispiece portrait of Frost done by Rudolph Ruzicka of Hanover in low relief, the first time this medium has been so employed. The Imprint Society has separately printed Mr. Lathem's foreword for the two-volume edition.

With the help of several experts and the full cooperation and counsel of the Robert Frost Estate, Mr. Lathem attempted to accomplish the established goal of bringing forth a volume with maximum accuracy and clarity sorely needed because of the substantial lack of careful textual scrutiny in past Frost editions.

In preparing this 1969 text serving both general readers and scholarly readers, Mr. Lathem's assignment was particularly difficult for several reasons: (1) the poet's first and last books were published nearly a half century apart. (2) Frost "was in many ways a very inconsistent person ... In some respects he cared a great deal about fine points of textual detail; in others, he was indifferent, if not perverse or cavalier, regarding them." (3) His punctuation was so arbitrary that meanings were obscured, if not lost. (4) British spelling had to be Americanized and diverse spellings normalized.

To honor the retirement last June of PROF. RICHMOND LATTIMORE '26, the Department of Greek at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Chicago Press have issued a 14-page bibliography of his publications 1924-1971. As scholar, poet, and translator, Mr. Lattimore in 1946 was a recipient of a Rockefeller Postwar Fellowship and in 1951 a Fulbright Research Fellowship for study in Greece. In 1956 he won the Poetry Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1958 Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary Litt.D. Other awards include a $10,000 prize from the American Council of Learned Societies for his scholarship in the humanities, the Bollingen Translation Prize from the Yale University Library for his translation of Aristophanes' Frogs, and a grant for creative work in literature by the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Two of his Greek translations, The TrojanWomen and Agamemnon, became successful off-Broadway productions in 1957.

JOSEPH B. LEHMANN '34 is co-author of the 1971 abbreviated report entitled FamilyService Agencies and Mental Health Clinics, a paperback of 72 pages, published by the Family Service Association of America, New York. Even though family service agencies and mental health clinics do not lend themselves readily to direct comparison, the project directors employing careful scientific observation believe themselves reasonably successful in developing a method for viewing the two fields on a parallel basis in order to determine how the delivery of services differs. The complete report is available in limited quantity upon request to the State of Illinois, Department of Mental Health, 401 South Spring St., Springfield, Ill. 62706.

ALDEN L. FIERTZ '52 whose title is Vizepräsident und Geschaftsführender Direktor für Nordeuropa, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Management Consultants, Diisseldorf, appears in "Sonderdruck aus Management-Enzyklopadie," Band 4, Verlag Moderne Industrie, with a special article written in German but bearing an English title, "Management by Objectives." This Management Encyclopedia, published in Munich, will run to six or eight volumes and is intended to provide a comprehensive reference to various management techniques and principles in both the United States and Germany.

In Volume III, Number III, Spring 1971, containing poems and illustrations (185 pages, $2) of Sumac: An Active Anthology (a national literary journal published by the Sumac Press of Freemont, Mich.) appear four contributions by DAVID WANG '55, translations from the Chinese. Entitled FourPoems of Separations, they are: I. "Wei City Song" by Wang Wei (701-761); II. "To Wang Ch'ang-ling" by Li Po (701-762), III. "Seeing Off at Bramble Gate," also by Li Po; IV. "Bitter Parting" by Shao Yeh (Late T'ang Dynasty).