Commonwealth: General

Readers Guide to the Commonwealth: An Annotated List, 2 13 pp. National Book League & Commonwealth Institute, £0.50; revision of the list compiled in 1970. 'Imaginative Literature' is again used under areas, but section of British novels has been replaced by selection of British poetry since 1960 made by R. Arnold.

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, VI, 2; contains on pp. 1-119 'Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature I970'.

A Handbook of Library Holdings of Commonwealth Literature in the United Kingdom , ed. G. Wilson , xvii + 41 pp. Commonwealth Institute, £I.00; issued under auspices of Commonwealth Institute Working Party on Library Holdings of Commonwealth Literature and based on questionnaire sent to more than 700 British libraries from which 4I with significant collections have been selected; includes indexes of libraries and subjects.

The Penguin Companion to Literature: Britain and the Commonwealth, ed. D. Daiches. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, £3.00.

Antbologie littéraire de l'Amérique francopbone. See CANADA, Anthologies.

Commonwealth Short Stories, ed. A. Rutherford and D. Hannah , x + 845 pp. Arnold, £I.20; includes work of I2 authors each with a 2 or 3 page introduction by editors.

English Poems of the Twentieth Century, ed. E. Mandel and D. Maxwell , 221 pp. Macmillan, Toronto, $2.95; includes Australian, Canadian, and South African poets among their English and American contemporaries.

Four Hemispheres: An Anthology of English Short Stories from Around the World , ed. W. H. New , x + 438 pp. Copp Clarke, Toronto, $4.95; short stories from the Commonwealth and South Africa placed in a thematic context.

Négritude: Black Poetry from Africa and the Caribbean, ed. N. R. Shapiro , 247 pp. October House, New York, 1970.

'UNESCO Meeting on "The Influence of Colonialism on the Artist, His Milieu and His Public in Developing Countries", Dar-es-Salaam , Tanzania, July 1971: Final Report', Cultural Events in Africa, 76, pp. 5-8 (see AFRICA: GENERAL, Journals); full text of report and recommendations.

'A.C.L.A.L.S. Conference on Commonwealth Literature: Kingston, Jamaica, 3-9 January I97I', C.D. Narasimhaiah , JCL, VI, 2, pp. 120-26; also in The Literary Criterion, X, I (see INDIA, Journals).

'A Manifold Voice', C. Simmons , Ariel, II, I, pp. 105-106 (see Journals); brief review of A Manifold Voice (W. Walsh).

'Afro-Asian Writers' Conference: New Delhi, 17-20 November 1970', R.K. Kaushik , JCL, VI, 2, pp. 129-32.

'The Common Experience, The Common Response', K. Smithyman , JCL, VI, I, pp. 6-18; on similarities and contrasts in origins of colonial literatures in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada.

'Commonwealth Literature', Y. Gooneratne , New Ceylon Writing 1971, pp. 96-8 (see CEYLON, Journals); review of Commonwealth Short Stories (ed. A. Rutherford and D. Hannah ), Caribbean Voices , Vols. I and II (ed. J. Figueroa ), New Ships (ed. D. G. Wilson ), Thirty Poems ( B. Amma ).

'Commonwealth Literature: An Open Perspective', P. Quartermaine , Bulletin of A.C.L.A.L.S., from Uganda, [8], pp. 22-33 (see Journals).

'Commonwealth of Stories', D. Helwig , Books in Canada, I, 2, pp. 15-16 (see CANADA, Journals); review of Four Hemispheres, ed. W. H. New.

'Conference on Commonwealth Literature: Aarhus, Denmark, 26-30 April I97I' , A. Ravenscroft , JCL, VI, 2, pp. 126-9; also in The Literary Criterion, X, I (see INDIA, Journals).

'Distractions and Definitions: Studying Commonwealth Literature', I. Reid , Southern Review, IV, 4, pp. 316-26 (see AUSTRALIA, Journals); extensive review of A Manifold Voice (W. Walsh) and National Identity (ed. K. L. Goodwin) which raises many questions about study of Commonwealth literature.

'English Departments and the World-View of English', J. Jones , Bulletin of A.C.L.A.L.S ., from Uganda, [8], pp. 39-49.

'How I didn't attend most of a Commonwealth Conference in Jamaica', I. Wedde , Landfall, XXV, 2, pp. 171-5 (see NEW ZEALAND, Journals).

'The Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Jamaica I97I', J. Goonawardena , New Ceylon Writing 1971, pp. 73-5 (see CEYLON, Journals).

'The Function of the Scholar [in Commonwealth Literature]', R. Robertson , Bulletin of A.C.L.A.L.S., from Uganda, [8], pp. 8-21.

Ariel: A Review of International Ertglish Literature, II, I-4, ed. A. N. Jeffares , 41 Park Lane, Leeds LS8 2EH. Published by U. of Calgary, Canada. Annual sub., to editor's address, £2.00; quarterly.

Bulletin of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, from Uganda, [No. 8] 'No. I from Kampala', ed. R. Serumaga and D. Rubadiri. A.C.L.A.L.S., Dept. of Literature, Makerere University , Kampala, Uganda. Membership annual sub., U. Sh I8.55.

Commomvealth Newsletter, I, ed. A. Rutherford. English Dept., U. of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; twice annually.

W.L. W.E. Newsletter, 19-20, ed. R. E. McDowell , English Dept., U. of Texas, Arlington, Texas 760I0.

Books, Autumn, 'Commonwealth Literature' issue, National Book League, 7 Albemarle St., London, WIX 4BB, £0.I5.