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AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR: ‘TUDOR CHURCH MUSIC’, THE OUSTING OF RICHARD TERRY, AND A TRUST VINDICATED

A CHANCE CONVERSATION with the Howells scholar Paul Andrews led me to a hitherto undocumented and unresearched archive in the Scottish Record Office at Edinburgh. Forming part of the papers of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, it consists of 23 files of material relating to the famous series Tudor Church Music (TCM).' When I began to scrutinize the files I had little idea of what to expect. What emerged were not only the full details of the conception, progress and disintegration of TCM-the ten royal quarto volumes that came to be known as the 'library edition' published between 1922 and 1929, plus its associated series of single octavo numbers-but also, among the voluminous correspondence, an astonishing series of letters involving some of the early luminaries of the Tudor revival. The original editor of TCM was Richard Runciman Terry, whose very appointment provoked some barbed responses. Subsequently he was assisted by an editorial committee consisting of Percy Buck, E. H. Fellowes, Alick Ramsbotham and Sylvia Townsend Warner.2 Much has been written about how Terry came to be removed as editor as soon as TCM began to appear in print: such writings have tended to be sympathetic to Terry.3 However, correspondence preserved among the TCM files reveals the dramatic train of events that led to Terry's resignation as editor, and its aftermath. What the files do not reveal is the fact that the Carnegie Trust's original faith in the project was eventually vindicated, albeit after several decades. TCM was first formally mooted in a paper circulated to members of the Carnegie Trust's Music Sub-Committee4 for discussion at a meeting of the Trust's Executive Committee on 26 February 1916. This paper, 'Publication of Music Manuscripts in British Museum', was discussed by the Carnegie Executive, which in turn produced a report of the meeting entitled 'Publication of Tudor and Elizabethan Music in the

"The Peals of Her Terrific Language": The Control of Representation in Silvia Dubois, a Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom

In bumptious, mythologizing obituary that prefaces Schomburg Library edition of C. W. Larison's Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom (originally published in 1883), brilliantly Rabelaisian career of work's titular heroine is limned: She is said to have been 122 years old beyond doubt. She was for years slave of a man named Dubois. Then she was sold to a man who kept a hotel, where she became famed for her feats of strength and for prize fights in which she engaged. One day she got angry at her mistress and nearly killed her. She picked up her child and fled across Susquehana and tramped all way to Sour Land Mountain, where she lived rest of her life. Her fondness for fighting, for liquor, and her profanity soon made her notorious. All her children died but youngest; who remained with her mother, and is eighty years old. It is said that she inherits all her mother's pugilistic prowess, and has maimed many men.(1) In this folkloric resume of might and gigantism, Dubois spurns her culture's tyrannies of decorum, station, and femininity. Her transgender combat and independent maternity reject male prerogative and protection; her very public notoriety (her fighting, drinking, and vernacular outspokenness) overturns both expected obeisance of slave and genteel anonymity of true woman. As carnal centenarian, Dubois seems to defy temporality itself. Dubois's narrative, however, actually unfolds as a colloquy between herself and C. W. Larison, a New Jersey doctor, educator, and publisher who transcribes and fashions interview, and it is nature and problematics of this colloquy that I wish to consider here. In part, Silvia Dubois might be annexed to a larger tradition of American captivity writing that plays out analogous embroiling dialogues between custodial editors and textualized captives: Cotton Mather and Hannah Dustan, for example, or William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. This particular text, however, is unique for its specific negotiation and staging of great hegemonic divide between an unlettered black woman and a professional white man. While Dubois's equivocal yet startling self-empowerment occurs within authoritative male frame she disrupts, Larison's more predictable attempts at maintaining superintendence underline not only some inveterate masculine will to power, but also anxieties that are bedrock of his various professionalisms. These anxieties also typify larger Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction anxieties of race and class. Larison, a zealous advocate of spelling reform, printed Silvia Dubois in his own phonetic alphabet of some fifty letters with diacritical markings for use in classroom, and encounter between Larison and Dubois is best experienced through book's special orthography. Although Jared C. Lobdell, who edited Schomburg Silvia Dubois, does append a facsimile of original to volume, his own version of text translates rather than reproduces it. Lobdell chose to normalize Larison's spelling, to omit his preface, to abridge a few of his remarks, and to rearrange order of book's sections (3-4, 18-19). Although such editorial decisions enhance text's accessibility, Lobdell does not account for this methodology, and his Silvia Dubois both flattens and fractures colloquy and Larison's peculiar narrativization of it. Lobdell is not misguided in emphasizing the material for social that Silvia Dubois provides or in reminding that Dubois's reminiscences are good reading (19, 20), but in Larison's original text a very literary social history and machinations behind folklore and fun are much more clearly discernible. Contradiction coheres in Larison's very sympathies for Dubois. He admires and fears force that she epitomizes (3, 4).(2) At least nascently, Larison is able to articulate a relatively progressive theory of history, relational and materialist, that values specificity of a narrative such as Dubois's: no history of our country can be complete, nor of much value as a record of lives of a people that does not chronicle, at same time, doings of great and small, rich and poor, proud and humble, exalted and abject, virtuous and vicious (101). …

Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies: Recent Changes (1992-1994)

The following subject headings of interest to Judaica and Hebraica librarians were culled from Library of Congress Weekly Lists nos. 21–51 (1992) (May 20, 1992–December 16, 1992), 1–51 (1993) (December 30, 1992–December 15, 1993), and 1–5 (1994) (January 5, 1994–February 2, 1994).
 This list continues my earlier one, published in Judaica Librarianship, vol. 7, no. 1–2 (Spring 1992–Winter 1993), pp. 72–78. This list is also an update of my 4th edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies (New York: Association of Jewish Libraries, 1993).
 The term "Jewish Studies" is defined broadly and includes Old and New Testament studies, rabbinical literature , Hebrew and other Jewish languages, Hebrew and other Jewish literatures, Jewish history (including history of the Jews in the Diaspora), Israeli history (including current events in the Land of Israel), geography of the Land of Israel, history of the early Near East (Assyria, Babylonia, etc.), and more. The list also includes headings that may be subdivided with the Religious aspects-Judaism subdivision and with the Religious aspects subdivision that may not be subdivided further.

Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies: Recent Changes (1991–1992)

The following subject headings of interest to Judaica and Hebraica librarians were culled from Library of Congress Weekly Lists nos. 30–51 (1991) and 1–20 (1992). This list continues my earlier one, pub­lished in Judaica Librarianship, vol. 6, no 1–2 (Spring 1991–Winter 1992), pp. 81–93. The list is also an update of my 3rd enlarged and updated edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies (New York: Association of Jewish Libraries, 1992).

Oedipa and the <i>Cristeros</i>

[Credit where credit is due: I first heard about the <em>cristeros </em>from a French professor of English, whose name I neglected to write down, at a seminar on Pynchon in Paris in 1985. If he reads this note, I hope he will claim priority. I read about them a few years later in Ronald G. Walker's notes to his 1983 Penguin English Library edition of D. H. Lawrence's <em>Plumed Serpent. </em>Walker points out that Lawrence took the <em>cristeros </em>as the model for the fictional Knights of Cortéz in that novel.]

Graphics based PC analysis of alpha spectra

New personal computer (PC) software which performs interactive analysis of alpha spectra using enhanced graphics adapter graphics is described. Spectra are collected with a commercial MCA (multichannel pulse height analyzer) board and analyzed using the software described. The operator is required to approve each peak integration area before analysis proceeds. Sample analysis can use detector efficiencies or spike yields or both. Background corrections are made and upper limit values are calculated when specified. Nuclide identification uses a library of up to four nuclides with up to eight alpha lines for each nuclide. Any of 32 subset libraries can be used in an analysis. Analysis time is short and is limited by interaction with the operator, not only by calculation time. Utilities include nuclide library editing, library subset editing, energy calibration and background update. >

Sir Walter Scott, "Editor" of "Rasselas"

Sir Walter Scott's warm esteem for Samuel Johnson his works, including Rasselas, is a solidly established fact in literary history. One recalls, for instance, his highly laudatory Memoir of Johnson prefixed to the Novelists' Library edition of Rasselas (Printed by James Ballantyne Company, . . . Edinburgh, 1823)1 his remark that he more pleasure in reading London, The Vanity of Human Wishes than any other poetical composition he could mention.2 But, with a single, completely neglected exception recorded below, students have seemingly never linked Scott to the authorship of the anonymous, two-paragraph Advertisement preceding the illustrated edition of Rasselas which, appearing in 1805, was printed by James Ballantyne, published by William Miller, and sold by Manners Miller, Archibald Constable . . Edinburgh.3 Yet a moment's reflection suggests the marked plausibility of the attribution. For, quite apart from his lofty estimate ofJohnson's writings, Scott knew and, early in his career, began business dealings with all of the persons named on the title page of the 1805 edition of Rasselas. A schoolmate subsequent lifelong friend of James Ballantyne, he became in 1805 a partner of the Ballantyne Press, which had commenced with the production of a privately distributed pamphlet of Scott's poems (1800) which went on to publish, or print, most of Scott's later compositions as well as the host of his other

Domesday Book, a facsimile edition

Great Domesday Book, Library Edition: Facsimile, translations, maps, indices, A. Williams (Editor‐in‐Chief), R.W.H. Erskine (General Editor) Northamptonshire and Rutland, County Edition: Domesday Book Studies, Introduction and Translation, Folios and Maps Alecto Historical Editions

A case for Confucian sexuality: the eighteenth-century novel Yesou Puyan.

Vol. 9 No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1988 A CASE FOR CONFUCIAN SEXUALITY: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL Yesou Puyan R. Keith McMahon Introduction Some books are not necessarily good literature but are all the same unique in marking extremes of creative determination. Yesou puyan, or A Country Codger Puts His Words out to Sun, is just such a book, written by an eccentric polymath who never amounted to anything in what counted in China, official life. ' In his novel China is being threatened by demons, barbarians, and forces of Buddhist and Taoist perversion, which only a thorough Confucian revival can eradicate. The hero is a latter day Confucian superman who (like the author) never passes the official exams, but manages to rise to a position of advisor to the emperor, conquer the forces of evil and even to eradicate Buddhism from the earth. The novel combines a strict orthodox moral vision with extensive descriptions of bizarre, unorthodox behavior which often take sexual form. The author portrays scenes of bestiality, sexual vampirism, and genital acrobatics. Throughout pages of erotic danger and adventure, the hero displays superhuman sexual control and unswervingly preaches that sex is for procreation only: "... the two ways of yin and yang are only meant to proliferate Heaven and Earth and to continue the descent of the ancestors. They are in no way meant for lustful enjoyment." The genitals should be looked upon as "ordinary, tiring things—only then are they like treasures" (ch. 68, 8b). At one-hundred and fifty-four chapters2 Yesou puyan is one of the longest Chinese novels ever written. Twentieth-century specialists have placed it in a group of Qing works called novels of erudition or scholar-novels. 1 Two editions of the book are used in this essay: the 154-chapter Shijie shuju version (Taibei, 1975, fourth edition), which deletes sexually explicit passages, and the 152-chapter edition at Beijing University Library with a date of 1881, published by the Piling huizhen lou, which provides the erotic passages but has lacunae elsewhere. Page numbers refer to the Taiwan edition if in simple Arabic numerals, and to the Beijing University Library edition if like this: la, lab, etc. Chapter numbers, if given without page references, refer to the Taibei edition unless otherwise noted. 2 According to Hou Jian ( 1 974), the book is over one million characters long; see p. 1 1 . 32 A Case for Confucian Sexuality: The Eighteenth-Century Novel Yesou Puyan33 The author is Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), a zhusheng and native of Jiangyin in Jiangsu Province. Like other scholar-novelists, he has chosen the novel as a form into which he can pour his vast erudition: besides the usual core of Confucian learning in history, poetry and moral thought, he is fluent in mathematics, astronomy, military science, and medicine. But he is unlike the other erudite novelists in his imaginings and/or observations of sexual behavior. For this reason C. T. Hsia has dismissed the author: "Despite his Confucian orthodoxy, Hsia Ching-ch'ii ... has a licentious imagination and places his hero Wen Pai tzu Su-ch'en, a supreme genius in all civil and military arts, in every kind of improbable adventure."3 Using Freudian analysis, Hou Jian writes of the "abnormal psychology" exhibited in Yesou puyan and refers to the hero's "neurosis," "Oedipus complex," and "mother fixation."4 To be sure, Xia's penchant for describing peculiarities or aberrations of sexual and excretory body functions would cause many readers to wonder how "decent" or "normal" he was. But for now I prefer to take Xia at his word and to resolve the tension between "licentious" or "abnormal" imagination and strong, self-styled Confucian orthodoxy as a clean-cut division between "licentiousness" outside in the world and "correctness" inside the mind. I will view him not as a "subconsciously" perverted orthodox writer, but as an orthodox moralist who for once chooses not to repress the consideration, in unsparing terms, of the problems and fantasies of sexuality. In this view, Xia challenges readers to find one instant in which he is actually enjoying his lurid descriptions. He wants his "pornography" to be taken not as vicarious indulgence, but as...

PC based analysis of gamma-ray spectra

The transfer of sophisticated minicomputer gamma spectral analysis software to make a personal-computer-based gamma spectroscopy system more capable is described. The personal computer uses 512 kbytes of RAM and a 20-Mbyte hard disk. Spectral analysis uses algorithms adapted from a minicomputer version of the GAUSS V code and optimized for use on a personal computer. Particular care was taken to optimize the peak search and baseline determination functions. Correction for background peak contributions to the spectra is available. Detection limit values are calculated for specified nuclides that are not detected by the measurement. Utilities available include nuclide library editing, energy calibration, and efficiency calibration. >

The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker. Volume 4, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Attack and Response. Edited by John E. Booty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. 1 + 274 pp. $45.00.

The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker. Volume 4, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Attack and Response. Edited by John E. Booty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. 1 + 274 pp. $45.00. - Volume 55 Issue 1

The Shaping of Jacob's Room: Woolf's Manuscript Revisions

I think the main point is that it should be free. Yet what about form? Let us suppose that the Room will hold it together. Intensity of life compared with immobility. Experiences. To change style at will.' This preliminary note is now well known-Charles Hoffmann quoted it in his 1969 article on the drafts of Woolf's early novels-and it seems to indicate that the focus and the structuring principles were clear in her mind fiom the outset. Indeed, Hoffmann states, As evident in her preliminary notes for Room, Virginia Woolf intended from the beginning to use room as the central focus of the novel to 'hold it together' and give it form, and he devotes his attention to Woolf's handling of the stream of consciousness technique.2 But Woolf's intentions were not at all as certain as he suggests: she will perhaps call the book Jacob's Room; she supposes that the room will hold it together. Alex Zwerdling, in his perceptive study of technique and tone in the novel, disposes of the idea thatJJacob' Room was written for the sake of technical innovation-as David Daiches has suggested:and, citing Woolfs introduction to the Modern Library edition of Mrs. Dalloway, he asserts that it is evident she begins with a subject rather

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Abstract Fathers: Psychological perspectives editors beail, N and McGuire, J (Junction Books, London) £12.50 hardback, £5.95 paperback The Father Figure Editors McKee, L and O'Brien, M (Tavistock Publications, London) £4.95 paperback Maternal Bonding by Wladyslaw Sluckin, Martin Herbert and Alice Sluckin (Basil Blackwell, Oxford) £12.50 Library edition, £3.95 in paperback The Great Evolution Mystery by Gordon Rattray-Taylor (Secker & Warburg) £8.95 The Subversive Family by Ferdinand Mount (Unwin Paperbacks, £2.95) Forgotten Children by Linda A. Pollock (Cambridge UP, £9.50 paperback) Psychological Aspects of Preqnancy. Birthing and Bonding, Edited by Barbara L Bluni (Human Sciences Press, London and Ncw York) £40 Birth, Interaction and Attachment Edited by Marshall H Klaus and Martha Oschrin Robertson (Johnson and Johnson) The Meriapause Edited by Herbert J Buchsbaum (Springer, Berlin) DM98

Spirit-Baptism: A Pentecostal Alternative. By Harold D. Hunter. Lanham/New York/London, University Press of America, 1983. Pp. 310. $24.25 (Library edition), $13.50 (Paper).

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Improved Computerized Acquisition and Analysis of Gamma Ray Spectra

A new minicomputer based gamma spectroscopy system supports concurrent operation of up to four detectors, with 8k channels per detector. The minicomputer employs 896 kilobytes of RAM and a 25 megabyte hard disk, and runs under a multiuser operating system. Spectral analyses use algorithms adapted from the GAUSS V computer code and optimized for use on a minicomputer. Major improvements include peak location, baseline determination and background correction functions. Nuclide identification uses a library of up to 300 nuclides with up to 24 gamma lines for each nuclide. Upper limit values can be calculated for operator specified nuclides which are not detected by the measurement. Utilities available include nuclide library editing, energy calibration, efficiency calibration and graphic display of selected energy ranges from one or two spectra.

The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, Volume III (edited by P. G. Stanwood)

Journal Article The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, Volume III (edited by P. G. Stanwood) Get access Hooker’s Last BooksThe Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker. General Editor, W. Speed Hill. Volume Three: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books VI-VIII. Edited by P. G. Stanwood. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. lxxvii + 644. $65.00. Paul E. Forte Paul E. Forte 1PAUL E. FORTE, sometime Lecturer in English at Suffolk University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, has published in the Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies; he is currently working on a critical study of Richard Hooker's life and achievement. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autumn 1983, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2869914 Published: 01 October 1983

The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker. W. Speed Hill, General Editor. Volume 3, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books 6, 7, 8. Edited by P. G. Stanwood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. lxxvii + 644 pp. $65.00.

The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker. W. Speed Hill, General Editor. Volume 3, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Books 6, 7, 8. Edited by P. G. Stanwood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. lxxvii + 644 pp. $65.00. - Volume 52 Issue 2

:Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Books VI, VII and VII, Volume 3 in The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker

:<i>Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Books VI, VII and VII, Volume 3 in The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker</i>

Bartolommeo Eustachio'sDe Auditus Organisand the Unique Murder Plot in Shakespeare'sHamlet

Hamlet is probably one of the most performed, discussed, analyzed, and translated plays in the English language. In their preface to The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, the editors of the Folger Library edition write, "After reading Hamlet, apparently only the most determined souls can resist seizing a pen or racing for their typewriters to set down their explanations of the character of the Prince of Denmark...."1 We plead guilty to such a lack of determination and offer an otologic commentary on the murder of Hamlet's father. We suggest that Shakespeare learned of a startling new medical . . .

RECLASSIFICATION IN A PSYCHIATRIC LIBRARY COLLECTION

A unique classification scheme used in our psychiatric library had long been recognized as inadequate, and the coming of the new edition of the National Library of Medicine Classification provided an opportune occasion to make a change. This paper describes a simple method of reclassifying which was used to make our cataloguing procedures consistent with those of other medical libraries using NLM and MeSH, and which could be accomplished with a minimum of inconvenience and staff time in a small library.