Studies, with — as might be expected — particular reference to
German-American relationships. We congratulate Dr.Fischer and
his colleagues, and look forward to an exchange of views and pub-
lications. Future issues of the BAAS Bulletin will no doubt "x

contain a fuller account of the Jahrbuch.

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OTHER NEWS

D-£. Myron L. Koenig, whom many of us had the pleasure of knowing
when he was cultural attache at the American Embassy in L-.ndon,
is now back at his post as professor of history at George Washington
University. He retains, however, a keen interest in our doings,
which he has summarized in the April, 1957, issue of American
Studies (the newsletter of the American Studies Association).

In his place, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Carl Bode, of the
University of Maryland. Those who attended the Nottingham con-
ference were able to meet Dr. Bode. We hope to see a lot of him
during his tour of duty? for apart from being professor of English
at Maryland, and a well-known scholar in the field of American lit-
erature (the editor of Collected Poems of Henry David Thoreau and
co-editor of American Heritage, a two-volume anthology) ," he was
the founder and first president of the American Studies Association.
His enthusiasms therefore lie very close to ours; and, speaking
from a selfish point of view, his is a most happy appointment for
the BAAS. Dr. Bode's most recent book is The American Lyceum; T^wn
Meeting of the Mind (New York, Oxford U.P., 1956), a fascinating
history of this important lecture-movement, written with a nice
edge of humour.

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BOOKS RECEIVED

We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following:

- James Woodress (comp,), Dissertations in American Literature,
1891-1955 (Durham, N.C., Duke U.P., 1957, pp. x,100, §2.00,
paper covers). This is,.a most useful bibliography. Using
more than 2500 theses picduced at about 100 universities in
the U.S. and Europe. Titles have been arranged alphabetically
by subject, first by individual authors, then by general
topics. The writers of the theses are indexed separately.

-Allan Houston Macdonald, Richard Hoyey: Man and Craftsman (Duke
U.P., 1957, pp. xiii,265, #5.00); a critical biography of
an American man of letters and bohemian of the 1890's, who
like his contemporaries Frank Norris and Stephen Crane died
young — in 1900, at the age of 35. His personality is more
interesting than his work.

- Hans Galinsky, Amerikanisches und Britisches Englisch (Studien
und Texte zur Englischen Philologie, Band k-', Max Hueber
Verlag, Munich 13, 1957, pp. viii,96, DM. 7.90, paper covers).
Two intelligent, competent and entertaining essays, of which
the first is in German and the second in English, by an
observer who visited America in 1955. He considers the extent
to which "American" and "English" have diverged, and gives
examples of American English "as an index to American culture"
and as "a linguistic exchange partner"(as revealed in recent

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