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No. 1, November 1969
Report of founding meeting. Two pages.
No. 2, December 1969
Miracles. Business and discussion report. Essay: "The Incarnation
in the Works of C.S. Lewis" by Byron Lambert. Eight pages.
No. 3, January 1970
"Christianity and Culture: An Interpretation of C.S. Lewis,"
with essay by Dr. Robert Ives; C.S.L. Question Box and Quiz #1. Twelve
pages.
No 4, February 1970
Meeting on "Objections to Lewis"; Society business. Five pages.
No. 5, March 1970
"Chronological Snobbery." Four pages.
No. 6, April 1970
Till We Have Faces. Four pages.
No. 7, May 1970
"Impressions of Lewis as a Man," with Miss Jane Douglass and
Prof. Thomas Howard; essay, "An Enduring Friendship," by Miss
Douglass. Six pages.
No. 8, June 1970
"C.S. Lewis and Modern Theological Thought," with Dr. Ronald
Grimes. Three pages.
No. 9, July 1970
The Great Divorce. Essay: "C.S. Lewis as Amateur Philosopher"
by Paul Vincent. Eight pages.
No. 10, August 1970
"CSL and Politics." Question Box. Three pages.
No. 11, September 1970
The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle. Extracts from letters. Question
Box. Six pages.
No. 12, October 1970
Lyric poetry and the poetry of C. S. Lewis. Question Box. Letters. Seven
pages.
No. 13, November 1970
Reflections on the Psalms, with essay by Bryon Lambert. Question Box.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 14, December 1970
The Silver Chair and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Question Box. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 15, January 1971
The Abolition of Man, with "Notes" by Richard Hodgens. Articles:
"A Brief Study of Implied Disjunctive Syllogisms" by J. R. Christopher;
"Quid Est Veritas? Est Vir Adest" by Henry Noel; "The Greening
of America and The Abolition of Man" by Eugene McGovern. Book notes.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 16, February 1971
The Pilgrim's Regress, with "A Guide" by Henry Noel. Notes.
Letters. Twenty-four pages.
No. 17, March 1971
"C.S. Lewis: Literary Critic." Article by James Como: "The
Critical Principles of C.S. Lewis." Bibliography of articles and
books about Lewis. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 18, April 1971
Miracles. Articles: "The Reception of C.S. Lewis in Germany"
by Gisbert Kranz; "The Composition of The Chronicles of Narnia"
by Richard Shramko; "New Light on Narnia" by William Linden;
Excerpts from "The Chronicles of Narnia and the Adolescent Reader"
by John W. Montgomery. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 19, May 1971
"Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis," with excerpts from essay
by Prof. Jack Boies. Essays: "All Lies in a Passion of Patience"
by Eugene Warren; "What is the C.S. Lewis Society About?" by
Henry Noel. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 20, June 1971
"Does the evolution of human consciousness, notably in the Counter-Culture,
give grounds for optimism about the future of Mankind?," with Profs.
Peter Kreeft and William Marra. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 21, July 1971
The Four Loves. Reprinted from Time, "Don v. Devil" (Sept. 8,
1947), "Defender of the Faith" (Dec. 6, 1963). Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 22, August 1971
Mere Christianity. Two unpublished letters by Lewis. Essay: "On the
CSL Theory of the Composition of the Chronicles of Narnia" by J.R.
Christopher. Letters. Six pages.
No. 23, September 1971
A Grief Observed. Essay: "A Theological Triolet" by J.R. Christopher.
Letters. Six pages.
No. 24, October 1971
"CSL on Words." Essays: "Philology in Out of the Silent
Planet" ; by Karen Farley, and "CSL on Science" by Henry
Noel. Notes. Letters. Six pages.
No. 25, November 1971
The Screwtape Letters, with "A Personal View" and "Some
Accomplishments Claimed by the Lowerarchy" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Winning
essays in the Screwtape Competition by "Another Clerk" and Craig
Lawson. Essay: "Introduction to Lewis" by Charles A. Brady,
reprinted from America (May 27, 1944). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 26, December 1971
"Memories of Lewis" with Christopher Derrick as guest speaker.
Summary of the Question Box, QB I to QB 45, by Henry Noel. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis: II" by Charles A. Brady, reprinted from America (June 10,
1944). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 27, January 1972
The Problem of Pain. Essay: "Apologist versus Apologist: A Critique
of C.S. Lewis as 'Defender of the Faith'" by Norman Pittenger, reprinted
from The Christian Century (October 1, 1958). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 28, February 1972
Letters to Malcolm, with "An Appraisal" by Robert Merchant.
Essays: "Star-Begotten on the Silent Planet" by Richard Hodgens;
excerpts from "C.S. Lewis" by Walter Hooper, reprinted from
The Franciscan (September 1967). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 29, March 1972
The Discarded Image, with excerpts from "A Survey" by Evelyn
Herzog. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 30, April 1972
Poems. Notice by Walter Hooper of the death of Katherine Farrer. Essay:
"Finding God in Narnia" by Charles A. Brady, reprinted from
America (October 27, 1956). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 31, May 1972
"An Evening with Owen Barfield." Essay: "C.S. Lewis at
the Breakfast Table" by the Rev. Canon Adam Fox. Notes. Letters.
Ten pages. Supplement to No. 31: Reprint of "Philology and the Incarnation"
by Owen Barfield with a bibliography of Mr. Barfield's works. Five pages.
No. 32, June 1972
"Lewis's View of Animals," with paper by Helen Cooper. Essays:
"Narnia: The Journey and the Garden Symbols in The Magician's Nephew
and The Horse and His Boy," by "Another Clerk" ; "Arthurian
Torso: Lewis Among the Metaphysicals" by James Mark Purcell. Notes.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 33, July 1972
Out of the Silent Planet, with "The Planetology of C.S. Lewis: In
Summary" by Richard Hodgens. Essays: "J.B.S. Haldane, Jailer"
by Richard Hodgens; "Who was J.B.S. Haldane?" Question Box.
Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 34, August 1972
"Major Warren H. Lewis," with bibliography of Major Lewis. Essays:
"Identifications of Lewis's Dedicatees; "Joy Davidman's Letter
to a Comrade" by Jerome McGovern. Bibliography of Joy Davidman's
Works. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 35, September 1972
"Lewis and Education." Essays: "Some Preliminary Thoughts
on Lewis and Freud" by Hope Kirkpatrick; "'...And I Quote':
A Survey of Lewis's Citations of George MacDonald" by Muriel Hutton.
Summary of responses to the Society's questionnaire by Henry Noel. A note
on college courses dealing with Lewis. Financial report. Eighteen pages.
No. 36, October 1972
A Preface to Paradise Lost, with essay by Donald A. Roberts. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis in Milton Criticism" by James Como. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 37, November 1972
"Lewis and Rational Individualism." Essays: "Narrative
Poems" by James Mark Purcell; "C.S. Lewis vs. Restoration Comedy"
by J.R. Christopher; "Letter from Holland" by E.J. VanWaasdijk.
Notes. Question Box. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 38, December 1972
Perelandra, with essay, "Myth and Belief in Perelandra" by James
Como. Note on "Perelandra as Opera" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Eight
pages.
No. 39, January 1973
"Obstinacy in Belief," with essay by Eugene McGovern. Memoir,
"The Prophet Lewis" by Dr. Erik Routley. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 40, February 1973
"Lewis Contra Freud" with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Memoir,
"Meeting with C.S. Lewis..." by Charles Wrong. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis: Foe of Humanism" by George C. Anderson, reprinted from The
Christian Century (December 25, 1946). Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 41, March 1973
That Hideous Strength, with map of the University of Edgestow by Mary
Kirkpatrick. Essay: "Can Lewis and Freud be Reconciled?" by
Robert Plank. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 42, April 1973
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, with "An Introduction"
by Kay Stevenson. Essays: "C.S. Lewis and the Worship of the Church"
by Donald A. Roberts; "Lewis vs. Empson: Was Eden Plato's or OGPU's?"
by James Mark Purcell; "A Reply to Dr. Plank" by Hope Kirkpatrick;
"Lewis vs. Bultmann in L'Aigle" by Henry Noel; "A Production
at Magdalen" by Mary Legg. Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 43, May 1973
"Anthroposophy: The Teachings of Rudolf Steiner with Special Reference
to C.S. Lewis," with essay by Amos Franceschelli. Book notes by Richard
Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 44, June 1973
"Sehnsucht," with essay, "Sehnsucht and Joy" by Robert
C. Rice. Essay: "The Scholar's Tale," reprinted from Times Literary
Supplement (January 7, 1965). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 45, July 1973
The Four Loves: "Affection." Essays: "Miracles Rationalized,"
reprinted from Times Literary Supplement (June 14, 1947); "Lewis's
Revision of Miracles, Chapter 3" by Eugene McGovern. Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 46, August 1973
No meeting. Essay: "Dante in the Works of C.S. Lewis" by Dr.
Gisbert Kranz, translated by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters from Charles Wrong
concerning Lewis and suicide. Ten pages.
No. 47, September 1973
"Lewis, the Christian Rhetorician." Essay: "Myth in the
Apologetic Works" by John Fitzpatrick. Photocopy of a letter and
a sketch Lewis sent to Sr. Penelope, CSMV. Letters. Financial report.
Eight pages.
No. 48, October 1973
"The Rules of the Game," with Prof. Paul Holmer. Essay: "Joseph
Wood Krutch and C.S. Lewis: A Comparison and a Letter" by J.R. Christopher.
A Narnian crossword puzzle. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 49, November 1973
The Four Loves: "Friendship." Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Homosexuality"
by Margaret P. Hannay. A list of translations of Lewis's books; notes
on "The Lewis Collection at Wheaton College"; "BBC Productions
of Lewis's Works"; "A Memorial Service in Thankful Memory of
C.S. Lewis." Eight pages.
No. 50, December 1973
"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 51, January 1974
Reflections on the Psalms with essay by Robert Merchant. Memoir, "Recollections
of C.S. Lewis" by Luke Rigby, O.S.B. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 52, February 1974
No meeting because of a snowstorm. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Anthroposophy"
by A.C. Harwood, reprinted from Anthroposophical Quarterly (Winter 1973).
Photograph of Rudolf Steiner. Essay: "The Function of Criticism,"
reprinted from Times Literary Supplement (Nov. 3, 1961). Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 53, March 1974
"Lewis and MacDonald." Essay: "An Introduction to the Curdie
Books of George MacDonald, Including Parallels Between Them and the Narnian
Chronicles" by Mary Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 54, April 1974
The Four Loves: "Eros." Essays: "Eros in That Hideous Strength"
by Jack Haynes; "Warren Hamilton Lewis: An Appreciation" by
Walter Hooper. Eight pages.
No. 55, May 1974
"Books Which Influenced Lewis." Essays: "Lewis and MacDonald"
by Mary Kirkpatrick; "Tormance and C.S. Lewis" by William Linden;
"Some Notes on Chesterton" by Eugene McGovern. Eight pages.
No. 56, June 1974
"Metaphor in The Great Divorce." Essay (excerpts): "The
Great Divorce: Life After Death in Metaphor" by Lois Westerlund.
"C.S. Lewis: A Bibliographical Supplement," compiled and annotated
by J.R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 57, July 1974
The Four Loves: "Agape." Essays: "Some Little-Known Books
in Lewis's Background" by Henry Noel. "How Your Bulletin Gets
to You: A Mechanical Tale." Eight pages.
No. 58, August 1974
No meeting. Essays: "A Clear Thinker" by Hope Kirkpatrick; "The
Child motif in That Hideous Strength" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr.; "C.S.
Lewis and the Mind-Body Identity Thesis" by J.D. Memory; "Some
Children's Thoughts on The Horse and His Boy." Question Box. Notes.
Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 59, September 1974
"Lewis as Seen by Those Who Knew Him" with essay, "The
New Ingredient" by Eugene McGovern. Essays: "C.S. Lewis"
by John Wain, reprinted from Encounter (May 1964); "Body and Mind
in That Hideous Strength" by Laurie Lieb. Notes. Letters. Financial
report. Fourteen pages.
No. 60, October 1974
Surprised by Joy. Essays: "An Analysis of 'The Apologist's Evening
Prayer'" by J.R. Christopher; "The Inklings and the 20th Century:
Did They Back Away?" by Corbin Scott Carnell (reprinted from Catholic
Currents). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 61, November 1974
Fifth Anniversary Issue. Report of the meeting by Robert Merchant. Essays:
"A Clerke of Oxenforde" by James Como;" "Our First
Five Years" by Eugene McGovern; "The Story of Two Lives"
by Byron Lambert; "'From the Master's Lips'": "W.B. Yeats
as C.S. Lewis Saw Him" by J.R. Christopher. "The Old Grey Mare,"
"Awake, My Lute!" and (with Owen Barfield) "Abecedarium
Philosophicum." A Letter from Walter Hooper, A Letter to Clyde S.
Kilby. Photographs. Reviews. Notes. Letters. The Charter of the Society.
Twenty-four pages.
No. 62, December 1974
"The View of Woman in Lewis and in Charles Williams." Essay:
"The Rebirth of Christ" by Jeffrey Hart, reprinted from National
Review (Dec. 28, 1965). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 63, January 1975
The Green-Hooper biography of Lewis. Essays: "The People's New Clothes:
A Biography, Its Readers, and Its Subject" by James Como; Paul Elmer
More and C.S. Lewis" by Richard Doney and Byron C. Lambert. Eight
pages.
No. 64, February 1975
"'Membership,' With Special Emphasis on Lewis's Idea of Hierarchy."
Essay: "Hierarchy in C.S. Lewis" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 65, March 1975
"Echoes of St. Bonaventure in The Great Dance on Perelandra."
Essays: "The Ubiquitous Center in Bonaventure and in Lewis"
by Jaime Vidal; "Men and Morals in Space" by John M. Phelan,
reprinted from America (Oct. 9, 1965). Eight pages.
No. 66, April 1975
"Life After Death: Visions of Lewis and Williams," with essay
by Naomi Frost. Announcement of a Screwtape Competition, with sketch by
Geoff Jeanes. Notice of the founding of the C.S. Lewis Society of Princeton
University. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 67, May 1975
The use of Lewis's books in courses at Luther College, Teaneck, NJ. Excerpts
from students' essays. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 68, June 1975
The Narnian stories. Essays: "'Other Worlds' in Fiction" by
Geoff Jeanes; "The View from Malacandra" by Donald Watt. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 69, July 1975
"An Evening With Walter Hooper," which took the form of answers
to questions from the audience. Essay: "C.S. Lewis in Cambridge:
Some Personal Impressions" by R.W. Ladborough. Notes. Letters. Twelve
pages.
No. 70, August 1975
Special issue: "Opposition is True Friendship." Essays: "C.S.
Lewis and Historicism" by Owen Barfield; "The Barfield-Lewis
'Great War'" by Lionel Adey; "The Common Ground of Lewis and
Barfield" by James G. Colbert, Jr.; "Christianity and Progress"
by Charles Wrong. Twenty-four pages.
No. 71, September 1975
"The Case for Christianity," with essay, "What Christians
Believe" by Robert Merchant. "A Toast to the Memory of C.S.
Lewis" by A.C. Harwood, with photograph. Notes. Letters. Financial
report. Eight pages
No. 72, October 1975
"Belief: A Functional View," with essay by Beverly Arlton. Notes.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 73, November 1975
Till We Have Faces, with essay by James Como. Other essays: "Mystic
Experience in Till We Have Faces" by Carolyn Keefe; "The Labors
of Psyche: A Sorting of Events" by J.R. Christopher. Book Notes by
Richard Hodgens. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 74, December 1975
The Great Divorce, with essay, "The Beginning of the Real Story:
Images of Heaven in C.S. Lewis and Dante" by Lawrence Cobb. Short
essay: "Why Are We Members of the C.S. Lewis Society?" by Lawrence
Cobb. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 75, January 1976
The Allegory of Love, presented by Jim Tetreault and summarized for the
Bulletin by James Como. Essay: "The Nature and Function of Myth in
the Christian Thought of C.S. Lewis" by John T. Stahl. Book Notes
by Richard Hodgens. Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 76, February 1976
The Great Dance in Perelandra, with essay by John Kirkpatrick. Essay:
"C.S. Lewis's Problem with Petitionary Prayer" by Eric C. Meyer,
C.P. Letter. Twelve pages.
No. 77, March 1976
The Screwtape Letters, with essay, "Screwtape, Satan, and Sophistication"
by Susan Hall. Winning entries in the Screwtape Competition, by Larry
Walker and Jennifer Swift. Eight pages.
No. 78, April 1976
Narrative Poems, with essay by Richard Hodgens. Short essay: "The
Three Roads: A Comment on 'The Queen of Drum'" by Carol Ann Brown.
"MLA Seminars on Lewis" by James Como. Letters. Eighteen pages.
No. 79, May 1976
"Imagination and Reality" with Paul Holmer as speaker. Essay:
"Memories of a January Term Abroad" by Constance Danner. Notes.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 80, June 1976
The Personal Heresy, with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letter. Eight pages.
No. 81, July 1976
Till We Have Faces, with Doreen Anderson Wood as speaker. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis Ten Years Later" by Calvin D. Linton, reprinted from Christianity
Today (Nov. 9, 1973). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 82, August 1976
No meeting. Essay: "Lewis's View of Science" by Martha C. Sammons.
Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Financial Report. Eight pages.
No. 83, September 1976
"The Poison of Subjectivism," with essay, "On the Objectivity
of Moral Values" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "Transformed Nature:
'Where is it Now, the Glory and the Dream?'" by J.R. Christopher.
Twelve pages.
No. 84, October 1976
"Minitopics on Lewis," with essays, "The Land Where the
Shadows Fall: The Idea of Heaven in C.S. Lewis" by Carol Ann Brown,
and "Obedience and Surrender in Narnia" by John Morrison. Essay:
"A Visit to the Wade Collection at Wheaton College" by Sr. Ignatius
Miller, OSU. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 85, November 1976
Miracles, with essay by Robert Merchant. "A Prayer Written on the
13th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis's Death" by Corbin Scott Carnell.
The By-Laws of the Eldila of the Society. Eight pages.
No. 86, December 1976
"Lewis and Eliot," with essay by James Tetreault. Quotations
from Eliot, Lewis, and Lincoln. Reports of a conference on Lewis at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and on the Special Session on Lewis
at the MLA convention. Book Notes. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 87, January 1977
An Experiment in Criticism, with an essay by Linda Bridges. "Charles
Colson's Born Again." Eight pages.
No. 88, February 1977
Recording of The Screwtape Letters. Essays: "Masculine and Feminine:
The Shape of the Universe" by Lawrence W. Cobb;" "Fantasy
in a World of Monochrome: Where C.S. Lewis Continues to Help" by
W. Fred Graham, and a reply to Graham by Stuart D. Robertson, both reprinted
from The Christian Century. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 89, March 1977
"Narnia, The Magic Flute, and The Tempest," with Fr. William
Eddy as Chairman. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: The Man and What He Stood For"
by Lionel Adey. Eight pages.
No. 90, April 1977
Meeting devoted to "Minitopics." "A Lewis Evening in London"
by Mary Kirkpatrick; "A Conference on the Oxford Christian Writers
at Messiah College" by Susan F. Jonas; "Lewis, Sayers, and ?"
(a selection of quotations) by Carol Ann Brown; Letters. Eight pages.
No. 91, May 1977
Letters to An American Lady, with essay by Dr. Dora Chaplin. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis's Annotations to His Shakespeare Volumes" by Lionel Adey. Letters.
Sixteen pages.
No. 92, June 1977
Narnia, with essay, "Once Upon a Narnia" by Carol Ann Brown.
Essay: "The Angel of the Law in The Great Divorce" by Eugene
Warren. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 93, July 1977
"Lewis on Husbands and Wives," with excerpts from an essay by
Naomi Frost. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Formation of 'Mere Christianity'"
by Roland M. Kawano.. Eight pages.
No. 94, August 1977
No meeting. The issue was devoted to the Society's first "Lewis Weekend,"
held at Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT, August 12-14. Essays:
"Reflections of an Editor" by Walter Hooper;" "Orual's
Complaint Against the Gods." Sixteen pages.
No. 95, September 1977
"Lewis: The Believing Skeptic." Essays: "Some Notes on
C.S. Lewis's The Dark Tower and Other Stories" by Charles Brady;
"Preparing a College Library Exhibit on C.S. Lewis" by Bela
Kapotsy. A summary of the responses to the questionnaire that accompanied
the September 1976 issue. Notes. Financial Report. Sixteen pages.
No. 96, October 1977
Out of the Silent Planet, with essay, "It All Depends on the Point
of View" by Lois Westerlund. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Chinese"
by Paul Clasper, reprinted from Quarterly Notes on Christianity and Chinese
Religion and Culture. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 97, November 1977
"Jolly Decent, Jolly Profitable: C.S. Lewis and His American Publishers,"
with William Griffin, Senior Editor at Macmillan. Essays: "Logres
and Britain: The Dialectic of C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength"
by John H. Timmerman; "The Rhetorical End: 'Venus at St. Anne's'"
by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Notes.
Fourteen pages.
No. 98, December 1977
"Lewis and ... Management?!" Essay: "'The Man Born Blind':
Light in C.S. Lewis" by Martha C. Sammons. Eight pages.
No. 99, January 1978
"Chesterton and Lewis," with essay, "Chesterton and Lewis:
The Necessary Angels" by John Martin. Brief essay: "Lewis and
Charlotte Yonge" by Sr. Ignatius Miller, OSU. Fourteen pages.
No. 100, February 1978
"Words, and The Word," with essay by Amos Franceschelli. Notes.
Letters. Three photographs of Lewis. Twelve pages.
No. 101, March 1978
The Four Loves, with essay by Emilie Griffin. Letters. Note. Eight pages.
No. 102, April 1978
The Dark Tower, with essays: "Notes on Lewis's The Dark Tower"
by Richard Hodgens and "Touring The Dark Tower" by J.R. Christopher.
Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letter. Sixteen pages.
No. 103, May 1978
The Personal Heresy, with essay, "The Final Essays in The Personal
Heresy" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 104, June 1978
"Lewis and Purgatory," with essay, "In the Dentist's Chair,
or, Farther Up and Farther In?" by Burton Everist. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 105, July 1978
"Social Morality," with essay by Eugene McGovern. Eight pages.
No. 106, August 1978
No meeting. Essay: "The Ancients versus the Moderns: Thoughts on
The Abolition of Man" by G.B. Tennyson, reprinted from The Occasional
Review. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 107, September 1978
"Lewis on Death and Resurrection," with essay by Walter Ramshaw.
Notes. Financial Report. Eight pages.
No. 108, October 1978
"Two Authors Whom Lewis Recommended," with essays: "Notes
on a Lost Eulogy" (on Dorothy L. Sayers), by Carol Ann Brown; "One
Who Gave 'Ardour to Virtue and Confidence to Truth'" (on Samuel Johnson)
by Eugene McGovern. Twelve pages.
No. 109, November 1978
The Pilgrim's Regress. Essay: "The Talk of Christian Men" by
Walter Hooper (a review of Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings, reprinted
from Christian World). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 110, December 1978
"Lewis, the Apologist," with essay by Robert Merchant. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 111, January 1979
Selected Literary Essays, with essay by Linda Bridges. Letters. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 112, February 1979
"C.S. Lewis and the Foolish Things of the World," with essay
by John Martin. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Notes. Letters. Sixteen
pages.
No. 113, March 1979
Perelandra, with essay by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 114, April 1979
"Lewis on Prayer" with essay by Beverly Arlton. Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 115, May 1979
Meeting devoted to a showing of the first two parts of "Through Joy
and Beyond." Essays: "C.S. Lewis as medievalist" by Judith
Kollmann; "The Sound of Friendship" by Owen Barfield (a review
of They Stand Together, reprinted from Christian World). Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 116, June 1979
C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, with James Como. Essay: "Mirrors
of Ourselves" by Carol Ann Brown. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 117, July 1979
Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy and Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings,
with essay by Walter Ramshaw on A Severe Mercy. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 118, August 1979
No meeting. Essays: "Jane McNeill and C.S. Lewis" by Mary Rogers
(reprinted from The Chronicle of the Portland C.S. Lewis Society); "A
Note on The Abolition of Man" by James G. Colbert, Jr.; "Lewis's
Objective Room: Key to Aesthetics" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book
Notes by Richard Hodgens, Notes. Eight pages.
No. 119, September 1979
"Fresh Views of Humankind in Lewis's Poems," with essay by John
Kirkpatrick. Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 120, October 1979
"The Idea of Covenant in Narnia," with essay by John Morrison.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 121, November 1979
A celebration of the Society's Tenth Anniversary. Essays: "Equality"
by C.S. Lewis (reprinted from The Spectator, August 27, 1943); "A
Toast" by James Como; "The Society's First Ten Years" by
Richard Hodgens; "Members' Responses to the Society's Questionnaire"
by Hope Kirkpatrick. Two photographs of Lewis. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 122, December 1979
They Stand Together, with essay "Late Wine: The Letters to Arthur
Greeves" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "Was Lewis Consistent on
Punishment and Purgatory?" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 123, January 1980
Showing of the third part of "Through Joy and Beyond." Essays:
"The Heresy of Allegorizing Narnia: A Rejoinder" by Charles
A. Huttar; "On the Excesses of Appreciation" by Bruce Edwards,
Jr. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 124, February
"The Eldila in the Space Trilogy," with essay by John Willis,
S.J. Essay-review, by James Como of Walter Hooper's Past Watchful Dragons
and Peter J. Schakel's Reading with the Heart. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 125, March 1980
"C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams: Differences and Similarities in
the Shape of Their Thought" with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald.
Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 126, April 1980
"C.S. Lewis on Conversion" with essay by Emilie Griffin. Essay:
"Mother Hubberd's Tale and The Last Battle" by Russ A. Phelps.
Notes. Ten pages.
No. 127, May 1980
"C.S. Lewis on Scripture," with essay by Michael Christensen.
Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 128, June 1980
"'The Taste of the Pineapple': A Basis for Literary Criticism,"
with essay by Jerry Daniel. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 129, July 1980
Meeting devoted to minitopics on Lewis: "Inner Rings and C.S. Lewis"
by John Helfrich; "An Objection to Lewis's Treatment of Storge"
by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "That Hideous Strength: Antidote to Modernism"
by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book Notes. Letters. Eight pages
No. 130, August 1980
No meeting. Essays: "Die Engel" by Carol Ann Brown; "Sehnsucht
and the Platonic Eros in Dymer" by Michael D. Slack. Letters. Eight
pages.
No. 131, September 1980
Reflections on the Psalms, with essay by Walter Ramshaw. Essay: "Lewis
on Storge: A Rejoinder" by John J. Brugaletta. Financial report.
Ten pages.
No. 132, October 1980
"The Screwtape Letters: A Description of the Manuscript in the Berg
Collection of the New York Public Library" by James Como. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 133, November 1980
"Broadening the Lewisian Context: Some Suggestions" with essay
(published in the January 1981 issue) by James Como. Essay: "Letters
from C.S. Lewis in the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas
at Austin: A Checklist" by Joe R. Christopher. Eight pages.
No. 134, December 1980
"'A Day With a White Mark' - Ten Readings From the Works of C.S.
Lewis" by the CUNY Readers Theatre. Essays: "C.S. Lewis and
the Poetry of Owen Barfield" by Thomas Kranidas; "C.S. Lewis
in the Company of All the Saints" by Sr. Brenda Michael. Notes. Letters.
Ten pages.
No. 135, January 1981
"Themes of Joy and Substitution in the Works of C.S. Lewis and Charles
Williams," with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald, and "The
Coinherence of Charles Williams's Christian Symbols: An Outline"
by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Essay: "Broadening the Lewisian Context:
Some Suggestions" by James Como (presented at the November 1980 meeting).
Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 136, February 1981
The Great Divorce, with essay, "On Lizards and Stallions" by
Michael Christensen. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letter. Eight pages.
No. 137, March 1981
"The Conscience and Moral Reasoning," with essay by Robert Merchant.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 138, April 1981
An informal debate on "Resolved: Lewis's Writings offer More Comfort
to American Political Liberals Than They Do to American Political Conservatives."
Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Romantic Novel" by Don D. Elgin.
Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 139, May 1981
"Secondary Worlds: Lewis and Tolkien," with essay and two drawings
by Sr. Pauline, CSM. Eight pages.
No. 140, June 1981
"The Politics of C.S. Lewis." Essays: "Malvern in My Time"
by W.H. Lewis; "Lewis and Johnson on the Foundations of Morality."
Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Eight pages.
No. 141, July 1981
"C.S. Lewis's Contribution to a 'Missionary Theology': An Asian Perspective,"
with essay by Paul Clasper. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 142, August 1981
The issue was devoted to the Society's Second Lewis Weekend. Essay: "Observations
of a Trustee" by Walter Hooper. Letters. Financial report. Eight
pages.
No. 143, September 1981
"Lewis and Chesterton: The Smell of Dew and Thunder," with essay
by Jerry Daniel. Book Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 144, October 1981
"Lewis and Wagner," with essay by John Fitzpatrick. Book Notes
by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 145, November 1981
"C.S. Lewis as a Semanticist" with essay by Michael A. Covington.
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 146, December 1981
"C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald: A Comparison of Styles," with
essay by Gail Horsman. Essay: "Some Notes on Noel" by Carol
Ann Brown. Eight pages.
No. 147, January 1982
"God Means What He Says: C.S. Lewis on Forgiveness," with essay
by John Morrison. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 148, February 1982
"C.S. Lewis and the Visual Arts" a slide presentation and lecture
by William Swetcharnik. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 149, March 1982
"Lewis as Communicator," with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 150, April 1982
Till We Have Faces, with essay, "Who is Ungit?" by Carol Ann
Brown. Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 151, May 1982
"Voices of Fire: Eliot, Lewis, Sayers, Chesterton," with essay
by John Martin. Notes. Letters. Eighteen pages.
No. 152, June 1982
"C.S. Lewis Considered as a Surrealist," with essay by Richard
Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 153, July 1982
Minitopics. Essays: "Lewis, Roman Catholicism, and Christopher Derrick"
by Tim Corkery; "Reflections Provoked by On Stories" by Eugene
McGovern. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 154, August 1982
No meeting. Essay: "A Lewis Capriccio" by John Martin. Notes.
Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 155, September 1982
"Deconstruction and Rehabilitation: C.S. Lewis and Critical Theory,"
with essay by Bruce L. Edwards, Jr. Eight pages.
No. 156, October 1982
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, with essay by Austin and
Ruth Turney. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 157, November 'L982
"That Glorious Strength: Lewis on Male and Female," with essay
by Neil Ribe. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Twelve pages.
No. 158, December 1982
Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis, with
essay, "Routes of Regression: Brothers and Friends, Then and Always"
by James Como. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 159, January 1983
The use of Lewis's books in education. Letter in Screwtape style translated
from the French by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Book Notes. Poem: "On
C.S. Lewis" by David Berkeley. Eight pages.
No. 160, February 1983
No meeting because of snowstorm. Essay: "The Writings of Joy Davidman
Lewis (1915-1960)" (Part 1), by Paul Leopold. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 161, March 1983
"The Writings of Joy Davidman Lewis" (Part II) with essay by
Paul Leopold. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 162, April 1983
"The Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" with essay (Part
1) by John Fitzpatrick. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 163, May 1983
"Science and Technology in the World of C.S. Lewis" with essay
by Amedeo D'Adamo. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 164, June 1983
Playing of a tape of Lewis's "The Great Divide." Essay: "The
Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" (Part 2), by John Fitzpatrick.
Bibliographic Notes. Letters. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 165, July 1983
Discussion "From the Floor," with Jim Como as moderator. Essay:
"The Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" (Part 3), by John
Fitzpatrick. "Foreign Words in The Discarded Image" by George
Musacchio. Eight pages.
No. 166, August 1983
No meeting. Essay: "The Things That Are Caesars!" by Owen Barfield.
Notes. Bibliographic Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 167, September 1983
"C.S. Lewis's Images" with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald.
Note. Eight pages.
No. 168, October 1983
"The Search for Joy Davidman" with essay by Lyle Dorsett. Letters.
Eight pages.
No. 169, November 1983
"Knowing and Being in C.S. Lewis's 'Great War' with Owen Barfield,"
with essay by Stephen Thorson. Previously unpublished Lewis letter. Memorial
at Yale. "C.S. Lewis and Inklings Societies." Notes. Letters.
Book Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 170, December 1983
"C.S. Lewis's Debt to George MacDonald," with essay by Gregory
Wolfe. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 171, January 1984
No meeting because of snowstorm. Essay: "An Interview with C.S. Lewis
and Meister Eckhart" by Lawrence Cobb. Notes. Letters. Book Note.
Eight pages.
No. 172, February 1984
"C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism," with essay by M.D.
Aeschliman. Report on "Lewis in Germany" by Hope Kirkpatrick.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 173, March 1984
Playing of tape of the Ninth Annual Wade Lecture, delivered by Douglas
Gresham at Wheaton College. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and 'The Nameless
Isles': a Metaphor of a Major Change" by Roland M. Kawano. "The
'Great War' Revisited": Response to Dr. Thorson" by Lionel Adey,
and "A Reply" by Stephen Thorson. (Note Thorson's essay in the
November 1983 issue.) Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 174, April 1984
Minitopics: "The Characteristic Blindness of an Age" by Eugene
McGovern; "A Letter from Malcolm" by John Helfrich. Book Note.
Eight pages.
No. 175, May 1984
"A Look into Narnia" by James Como. Essay: "C.S. Lewis
and the Future of the World" by Peter Kreeft. Book Notes. Letters.
Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 176, June 1984
"Lewis as a Writer of Letters" with essay by Peter Hawkins.
"The Politics of C.S. Lewis Reconsidered" by Danny M. Adkison.
Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 177, July 1984
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay:
"A Look into Narnia" by James Como. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 178, August 1984
No meeting. Essay: "Unfinished Business: Reflections on One Aspect
of the Lewis Legacy" by Byron Lambert. CSL Weekend Report. Financial
report. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 179, September 1984
"Arthurian Torso: Lewis's Commentary on Williams's Arthurian"
with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Book Notes. "Lewis's Acceptance
of Paganism" by Robert Fisher. "The Need for Belief in the Narnian
Chronicles" by Helen Aveling. Letters. Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 180, October 1984
"A Lewis Pupil, Richard Selig, 1929-1957," with essay by John
Kirkpatrick. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 181, November 1984
"Through the Open Door" with essay by Dabney Hart. "Lewis
on the Nature of Politics: Reply to Danny Adkison" by Gregory Wolfe.
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 182, December 1984
"A Pleasure is Full Grown Only When It is Remembered: The First British
C.S. Lewis Conference" with essay by John Morrison. Report on the
Inklings Bicycle Tour, July 20 to August 10, 1984. Eight pages.
No. 183, January 1985
"Readings from Lewis" with Clara Sarrocco, Jack Haynes, Barbara
J. Zelenko, William Eddy and Loretta Brooks as readers. Essay: "The
Ritual Deaths and Rebirths of Elwin Ransom" by Myra Hinman. "Lewis
and Friendship" by Matthew Borden. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 184, February 1985
"Readings from A Grief Observed" by Beverly Arlton and Dorothy
Hobson Fitzgerald. Essay: "A Gift from the Sky: The Creative Process
in Lewis and Sayers" by Lawrence Cobb. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 185, March 1985
Panel discussion of "Lewis's Emancipation of Women" with Linda
Bridges, James Como, Jane Cullen, Maggie Goodman, Hope Kirkpatrick and
Greg Merchant as panelists, moderated by Robert Merchant. Essay: "On
the Obstetrical Interpretation of Perelandra" by E.L. Core. Book
Notes. Letter to Cynthia Donnelly. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 186, April 1985
"CSL and GKC: a Four Star Conversation" with essay by John Martin
and Jerry Daniel. Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 187, May 1985
"The Friendship of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams" with essay
by Corbin Carnell. "My First Encounter" by Neil Gussman. "A
Challenge" by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Book Notes. Notes. Sixteen
pages.
No. 188, June 1985
"Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: The Interplanetary Trilogy of
C.S. Lewis" with essay by Nancy-Lou Patterson. Book Notes. Eight
pages.
No. 189, July 1985
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay:
"On the Nature of Prohibition in Perelandra" (Part 1), by Richard
Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 190, August 1985
No meeting. Essay: "On the Nature of Prohibition in Perelandra,"
(Part 2), by Richard Hodgens. Book Notes. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 191, September 1985
"C.S. Lewis as a Reader of Edmund Spenser" with essay by Katherine
Gardiner. Byron Lambert's reply to Vic Reppert. Letters. Notes. Fourteen
pages.
No. 192, October 1985
Studies in Words with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Eight pages.
No. 193, November 1985
Lewis's poetry with James Como and Linda Bridges as readers and discussion
leaders. Essay. "Lewis's Influence on the New Inklings: The Chronicles
of Narnia and John White's Tower of Geburah and The Iron Sceptre"
by Martha C. Sammons. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 194, December 1985
"C.S. Lewis Between Classes," with essay by Maggie Goodman.
Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 195, January 1986
Joy Davidman's Weeping Bay with essay by Ruth Turney, and on "C.S.
Lewis and Spiritual Direction" with presentation by Tim Corkery.
Notes. Letters. Six pages.
No. 196, February 1986
No meeting due to snow. Essay: "Beer, Beowulf, and the English Literature
Syllabus, 1936" by Henry William Griffin. Notes. "C.S. Lewis
and the Emancipation of Women." "Who Said It?" (Quiz).
Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 197, March 1986
"Of Time and Eternity: C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams," with
essay by Doreen Anderson Wood. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 198, April 1986
Discussion of the format of future meetings of the Society. Photographic
reproduction of "The Detestable Picture" described in Surprised
by Joy. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 199, May 1986
"Abolition of Man, in Vitro" with presentation by Amedeo D'Adamo.
Essay: "A Note on the Brown Girl" by Richard Hodgens. "Two-Day
Lewis Pilgrimage" by Allen L. Borton. "From A-Roving to Zoo;
A Look at Lewis's Vocabulary in Poems, Narrative Poems, and Spirits in
Bondage" by Sara Park McLaughlin. Eight pages.
No. 200, June 1986
Lewis readings. Essay: "C.S. Lewis's Dymer: Once More with Hesitation"
by Patrick D. Murphy. Eight pages.
No. 201, July 1986
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Come as moderator. Essay:
"Lewis and Anscombe - Again" by Victor Reppert. Bibliographic
Notes. Book Note. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 202, August 1986
No meeting. Essay: "A Note on a Source in 'Screwtape Proposes a Toast'"
by David W. Landrum. Financial report. A Tribute to Clyde S. Kilby, 1902-1986.
"An 'Acknowledgement'" by Lex 0. McMillan. "Lewis and the
Future Tense" by Matthew Borden. Book Note. "Let Barbarous Things
Have Barbarous Names" by Victor Reppert. Bibliographic Notes. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 203, September 1986
"Roots and Shoots: C.S. Lewis and the Evangelicals" with essay
by Peter Rodgers. Eight pages.
No. 204, October 1986
"C.S. Lewis on Readers: A Resource for Writers" with essay by
Neil Gussman. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 205, November 1986
Letters to an American Lady: "More a wave of the hand than a letter,"
with essay by Robert Merchant.
"A Lewis Reading Plan for the New Year" by Martin R. Johnson.
"Lewis's Memory: A Further Note on a Source in "Screwtape Proposes
a Toast" by Charles A. Huttar and Paul Leopold. Letters. Notes. Book
Note. Bibliographic Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 206, December 1986
Panel discussion of Lewis's view of Christmas, with Beverly Arlton, James
Como and Lottie Lindberg as panelists. Essay: "Lewis and 'Xmas'"
by Lottie Lindberg. Notes on Shadowlands. "Conference at the Kilns"
by Bryan Shelley. Bibliographic Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 207, January 1987
Minitopics. Essay: "Large Aims and Modest Claims: The Inklings on
Art" by Corbin S. Carnell. "More on Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic
Life" by William Griffin. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 208, February 1987
"C.S. Lewis and the Latin Letters" with essay by Clara Sarrocco.
Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 209, March 1987
Till We Have Faces with James Como making the presentation. Essay: "Some
Notes on the Inklings" by Robert B. Ives. Bibliographic Notes. Letters.
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 210, April 1987
"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Skeptics: C.S. Lewis as a Christian
Prometheus" with essay by Lex McMillan. Letters. Book Notes. Notes.
Sixteen pages.
No. 211, May 1987
Poetry in The Pilgrim's Regress with John Kirkpatrick making the presentation.
Essay: "Paradox in Narnia: Unconscious but Inevitable" by Carla
Faust Jones. Where Our Readers Live. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 212, June 1987
Showing of Shadowlands. Essay: "Shadowlands: Moving, Beautiful ...
and True?" by John Fitzpatrick. A C.S. Lewis - Joy Davidman Chronology.
Shadowlands on PBS. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 213, July 1987
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay:
"An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles
of Narnia (Published Since 1973)" (Part 1), by Lisa Schildroth. Letters.
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 214, August 1987
No meeting. Essay: "An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism of C.S.
Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (Published Since 1973)" (Part 2), by
Lisa Schildroth. Letters. Artwork Contest. Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 215, September 1987
Dorothy L. Sayers with presentations by Loretta Brooks, Maggie Goodman
and John Martin. Essay: "Dorothy L. Sayers: A Discursive Ramble..."
by John Martin. "Report on the Dorothy L. Sayers Society Convention
- 1987" by Maggie Goodman. Notice and apologies. Eight pages.
No. 216, October 1987
"C.S. Lewis and the Ministry of Spiritual Direction," with essay
by Paul Clasper. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 217, November 1987
"Lewis's Images of the Plan of Creation" with essay by Lottie
Lindberg. Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 218, December 1987
Three essays in Present Concerns with presentations by Clara Sarrocco,
Mary Ellen Davey and Jerry Daniel ("The Empty Universe"). Essay:
"My First School" by Mary Ellen Davey. "Modern Man and
His Categories of Thought" by Clara Sarrocco. Notes. Six pages.
No. 219, January 1988
No meeting because of snow. Essay: "The Masks of Lilith: A Comparison
of C.S. Lewis's Reading of George MacDonald's Lilith and Till We Have
Faces" by Kath Filmer. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 220, February 1988
No meeting because of snow. Essay: "The Concept of Heroism in C.S.
Lewis's Space Trilogy" by Ronda Chervin. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 221, March 1988
"Lewis and Symonds on Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso" with essay
by Richard Hodgens. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 222, April 1988
"C.S. Lewis as a Book Reviewer" with essay by Jerry Daniel.
Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 223, May 1988
Lewis's views of the spiritual with essay, "Oops" by John Morrison.
Eight pages.
No. 224, June 1988
"Parallels between C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy and Francis Thompson's
The Hound Of Heaven," with essay by Leo H. Madden. Letters. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 225, July 1988
Discussion "From the Floor" with Robert Merchant as moderator.
Essay: "The Idea of Magnanimity in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy"
by Linda Vance Lusk. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Fourteen pages.
No. 226, August 1988
No meeting. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: The Oracle of Elfland" by John
Martin. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 227, September 1988
"C. S. Lewis and America's Inner Rings" with essay by Danny
M. Adkison. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 228, October 1988
"CSL and You: The Society's Questionnaire" with essay by James
Krueger. Book Notes. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 229, November 1988
Commemoration of Lewis on the anniversary of his death and of the Society,
founded nineteen years ago. Essay: "An Imaginary Interview"
by John Martin. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 230, December 1988
"The Centrality of Rhetoric to an Understanding of C.S. Lewis"
with James Como as presenter. Two short essays: "A Tolkienian Note
on Rhetoric" and "Take That Look Off Your Face: A Note on Lewis
and Joyce." Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 231, January 1989
Meeting devoted to "Readings from Lewis" with Walter Ramshaw,
Marilyn Driscoll, and Warner Davis as readers. Essay: "Screwtape
Thinks Again" by John B. Witchell. Book Reviews. Letters. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 232, February 1989
"Of Children and Magic Worlds: The Children's Stories of C.S. Lewis
and E. Nesbit (Part 1)" with essay by Mary Ruth Howes. Nesbit Bibliography.
Letters. Eight pages.
No. 233, March 1989
Reviews of Sayer's Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times. Essay: "Of Children
and Magic Worlds: The Children's Stories of C. S. Lewis and E. Nesbit"
(Part 2), by Mary Ruth Howes; "C.S. Lewis for the C.S. Lewis Fan:
Jack by George Sayer" by Barbara J. Zelenko. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 234, April 1989
Discussion of Douglas Gresham's talk given at the 1988 Lewis Weekend.
Essay: "To Whom is Lewis Writing?: Biographical Continuities in Letters
of C. S. Lewis" by Joe R. Christopher. "A Note on Literary Allusions"
by Paul Leopold. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 235, May 1989
"The Personal God of George MacDonald" with essay by Bill Bowen.
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 236, June 1989
"The Latin Letters, Recalled" with essay by Clara Sarrocco.
"Five Sonnets" by Matthew Borden. Eight pages.
No. 237, July 1989
Discussion "From the Floor" with Jim Como as moderator. Essay:
"C.S. Lewis and Contemporary Christian Philosophy" by Victor
Reppert. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 238, August 1989
No meeting. Essay: "Hierarchy and Nobility in Narnia" (Part
1) by Shirley Marney. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 239, September 1989
"Why Lewis is Special" led by Beverly Arlton. Essay: "Hierarchy
and Nobility in Narnia" (Part 2) by Shirley Marney. Letters. Notes.
Eight pages.
No. 240, October 1989
"Nourishment Scenes and Themes in Lewis" with essay by Ronald
Curtis Stamps. Eight pages.
No. 241, November 1989
"Sacramental Mysticism in Chesterton and Lewis," presented by
Ian Boyd, C.S.B. Essay: "Why Do They Come?" (Comments by long-time
Society members). "From Our First Issue." Letters. Notes. Eight
pages.
No. 242, December 1989
"Worthwhile Objections to Lewis," presented by Jim Como and
John Martin. Essay: "Narnia as Meditation on the Christian Year"
by Sr. Brenda Michael. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 243, January 1990
Objections to some things Lewis wrote, presented by Jim Como. Essay: "A
Contemplation of Cultural Literacy" by Michelle Harmon. "Keeping
Up with the Bulletin: A Report for Members." Letters. Eight pages.
No. 244, February 1990
James E. Higgins, author of Beyond Words: Mystical Fancy in Children In
Literature. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders"
by Michael Logsdon. "Don Calabria in English Speaking Countries"
by Don Luciano Squizzato. "In Memory of Richard Hodgens" by
Mary Gehringer. Book Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 245, March 1990
Honoring Hope Kirkpatrick. "A Tribute to Hope Kirkpatrick" by
Eugene McGovern. "A Clear Thinker" (reprinted from the August
1974 Bulletin) by Hope Kirkpatrick. Notes. Eight pages
No. 246, April 1990
Meeting canceled due to weather. Essay: "Truth, Myth, and Revelation
in Lewis" by Stephen Thorson. Book Notes. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 247, May 1990
"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" by Jack Haynes. Essay:
"C.S. Lewis as a Novelist" by Corbin Scott Carnell. Book Review.
Notes. Membership update. Letters. Eight pages.
Nos. 248, 249 June-July 1990
June: Wilson Biography; July: Discussion "From the Floor." Special
Issue on the Wilson Biography. "Who is this A.N. Wilson and Why is
He Saying These Terrible Things about C.S. Lewis?" by John Fitzpatrick;
"C.S. Lewis and Adultery" by George Sayer; "Wilson's 'New'
Lewis" by Eugene McGovern; "Further In or Farther Out? Whither
the 'Cultists'?" by John Fitzpatrick. Letter. Note. Sixteen pages.
No. 250, August 1990
No meeting in August. Essay: "Lewis's Schematic of History: A Conceptual
Landscape" by Jay D. Sloan. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 251, September 1990
"A Look Back at Seminal Secondary Sources on C. S. Lewis." Essay:
"The First of the Flood: Chad Walsh on Lewis" by Eugene McGovern.
Essay: "The Apologist Seen Through Baptist Eyes: An Early Look at
C.S. Lewis" by Robert Merchant. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 252, October 1990
Report by Margaret Goodman on conferences. Essay: "Escape from New
York ... in Search of Permanent Things." Letters. Eight pages.
No. 253, November 1990
"C.S. Lewis on Sacred and Secular Pantheism," led by Dr. William
Marra. Essay: "'But This Time It's True': C.S. Lewis and William
Law" by Dale J. Nelson. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 254, December 1990
"Christian Reunion" and Other Essays presented by James Como.
Essay: "Chesterton and Lewis on Romance and Joy" by William
J. Isley, Jr. Note. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 255, January 1991
No meeting due to weather. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Sadhu Sundar Singh"
by Kathryn Lindskoog. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 256, February 1991
"C.S. Lewis in the Secular Classroom," with essay by Holly Bigelow
Martin. Letters. Note. Eight pages.
No. 257, March 1991
Some thoughts on "Puddleglum," (from The Silver Chair) chaired
by Patty Pawlowski; Essay: "Secularism, the Academy, the Arts and
C. S. Lewis" by Reverend Mark G. McKim. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
Nos. 258-259, April-May 1991
April: Panel discussion of The Screwtape Letters; May: "C.S. Lewis
as a Critic 'At the Present Time.'" with essay by Linda V. Lusk.
Book Notes. Book Reviews. Coming Events. Letters and Excerpts. Sixteen
pages.
No. 260, June 1991
Review of All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S.Lewis,1922-1927 presented
by James Como. Letters and Excerpts. Eight pages.
No. 261, July 1991
Discussion "From the Floor" led by James Como. Essay: "Reality
Personified: How Aslan Embodies All That is Real" by Sara McLaughlin.
A Tribute. Contents of special Lewis issue by The Chesterton Review. Letters
and Excerpts. Eight pages.
No. 262, August 1991
No meeting. Essay: "Regaining Perception: The Ransom Trilogy as a
Re-embodiment of the Neoplatonic Model" by Rebecca Totaro. News of
Other Groups. Twelve pages.
No. 263, September 1991
Report of the Oxford '91 Conference presented by John Morrison. Essay:
"Muses Unbound: Transfiguring the Imagination" by John Morrison.
Correction. Letters and Excerpts. Eight pages.
No. 264, October 1991
Review of the revised version of Letters of C.S. Lewis, presented by Barbara
J. Zelenko. Essay: "Lewis's Letters Revisited" by Barbara J.
Zelenko. "What Kind of Book is A Grief Observed?" by Eugene
McGovern. Recent Mentions. Eight pages.
No. 265, November 1991
Panel: "Memoirs by Some Who Knew Lewis." A special tribute to
John Kirkpatrick, with essay: "John Kirkpatrick: a Personal Remembrance
of His Last Nine Years, 1983-1991" by Robert Young McMahon. "John
Kirkpatrick: In Memoriam." Excerpts from John Kirkpatrick's presentations
to the Society. Eight pages.
No. 266, December 1991
"Christmas Readings by Lewis and Friends." A special tribute
to Jerry Daniel, Bulletin Editor, 1981-1991. Words of appreciation and
a reprint of his essay, "The Taste of the Pineapple: A Basis for
Literary Criticism." Twelve pages.
No. 267, January 1992
"Reflections on the Past," with the recording of John Kirkpatrick's
reading of The Great Dance from Perelandra. Essay: "A C.S. Lewis
Miscellany" by Noel Perrin. John Fitzpatrick's review of Inventing
the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists
of the Twentieth Century by Norman P. Cantor. "Lewis and Winston
Churchill: A Note Necessarily Short" by Eugene McGovern. Excerpts
from Letters. Eight pages.
No. 268, February 1992
Discussion of "The Chesterton Review and CSL." Essay: "Looking
Back to Eden: The Poetry of C.S. Lewis" by Luci N. Shaw. Miscellaneous
Notes. Eight pages.
No. 269, March 1992
Minitopics, with essays: "Notes on The Pilgrim's Regress" by
Joseph Barbiero; "Lewis and Modern Christian Novels" by Eugene
McGovern. Essay: "C.S. Lewis on the Disappearance of the Individual"
by Mark G. McKim. Eight pages.
No. 270, April 1992
Panel discussion on The Great Divorce. Essay: "The City of God Revisited:
C. S .Lewis's Debt to Saint Augustine" by Sara McLaughlin. Book Notes.
Letter from the Kirkpatrick Family. Twelve pages.
No. 271, May 1992
"Hilaire Belloc and A.N. Wilson" presented by Dr. John McCarthy.
Essay: "Action and the Passionate Patient in That Hideous Strength"
by Lydia M. McGrew. "Whittaker Chambers on Christmas" by Clara
Sarrocco. Book Note. Letters & Excerpts. Eight pages.
No. 272, June 1992
"CSL and the Inner Ring" by Patty Pawlowski. Essay: "C.S.
Lewis and Apotheosis" by William L. Knecht. Book Notes. Notice of
Dom Bede Griffiths' death. Eight pages.
No. 273, July 1992
Discussion "From the Floor" led by Jim Como. Essay: "No
Fish for the Phoenix" by Joe R. Christopher. Bits & Pieces. Eight
pages.
Nos. 274-275, August-September 1992
No August meeting; September: "Lewis, Columbus, and the Discovery
of the New Worlds" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "Pope, Council,
Bible and/or Self: Lewis and the Question of Authority" by Robert
Merchant (presented at the October meeting). Key Word Concordance for
Till We Have Faces, Part 1, by Neil G. Gussman. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 276-277, October-November 1992
October: "Pope, Bible, and/or Self: Lewis and the Question of Authority"
by Robert Merchant. November: Panel on" Owen Barfield on Lewis."
Essay: "Lewis, Columbus, and the Discovery of the New Worlds"
by Eugene McGovern (presented at the September meeting). Key Word Concordance
for Till We Have Faces, Part 2, by Neil G. Gussman. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 278-279, December 1992 - January 1993
December meeting canceled due to weather; January: Mini-topics; Essay
reprint: "Jack the Giant Killer" by A.D. Nuttall. Letters. Bits
& Pieces. Sixteen pages.
No. 280, February 1993
Meeting canceled due to weather. Essay: "A Legacy of Truth: The Influence
of George MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons on C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity"
by Sara Park McLaughlin. Reviews. Bits & Pieces. CSL Word Puzzle.
September meeting Report. Letters. Editor's Notes. Twelve pages.
No. 281, March 1993
The Screwtape Letters led by Eugene McGovern. Excerpt from Critical Essays
on C.S. Lewis, edited by George Watson of St. John's College, Cambridge.
CSL Word Puzzle Solution (CSL #280). Eight pages.
No. 282, April 1993
No meeting, Good Friday. Essay: "Shadowlands IV" by James Como
(presented at the December 1993 meeting) . December meeting report. Eight
pages.
Nos. 283-284, May-June 1993
May: George MacDonald, by Joseph Barbiero and Lottie Lindberg; June: "A
Walk with Lewis." Essay reprint from The Lamp-Post: "Learning
Christian Behavior: The Path of Virtue in The Chronicles
of Narnia" by Msgr. Robert C. Trupia; "Do Angels Have Wings?"
by Amy N. Staufer; "Heavenly Adventure" by David Toronto. "The
Great Dance - Stanzas in Perelandra Typed Experimentally as Free Verse"
by John Kirkpatrick; "Echoes of George MacDonald's Lilith in the
Works of C.S. Lewis" by Corbin Scott Carnell. Letters. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 285-286 July-August 1993
July: Discussion "From the Floor" led by Jim Como; no meeting
August. Essay: "C. S. Lewis's John Milton: Influence, Presence, and
Beyond" by Prof. Frank S. Kastor. "Notes on a Few Misprints
and Such in Lewis's Works" by Eugene McGovern. "Connecting Lewis"
by Hal Weatherby. Letter. Sixteen pages.
No. 287, September 1993
Honoring Jerry Daniel, Bulletin Editor, 1981-1991. A reading of Jerry's
"Thoughts from the Hospital" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "C.
S. Lewis and Animals: The Road to Whipsnade" by John Martin (presented
at the January 1994 meeting). Eight pages.
No. 288, October 1993
"Four Favorite Essays" by Bill McClain. Essay: "Thoughts
From the Hospital" by Jerry Daniel. "Jerry Daniel Remembered"
(a series of remembrances). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 289, November 1993
Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Lewis's death. Essay: "The
Centrality of Rhetoric to an Understanding of C.S. Lewis" by James
Como. Eight pages.
No. 290, December 1993
Review of Shadowlands IV by James Como. "First Meeting with Lewis"
by Marilyn Driscoll. "Encountering Lewis" by Jack Haynes. "Lewis
via Screwtape" by Rich Sherry. "A Moment Frozen in Time"
by Clara Sarrocco. "How I Discovered C.S. Lewis" by William
McClain. Letters. Bits & Pieces. Eight pages.
Nos. 291- 292, January-February 1994
January: "C. S. Lewis and Animals: The Road to Whipsnade" by
John Martin; February meeting canceled due to weather. Essay: "Courtesy
and Self in the Thought of Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis" by Charles
Franklyn Beach (presented at the March 1994 meeting) . Book Note. Letter.
Twelve pages.
Nos. 293-294, March-April 1994
March: "Courtesy and Self in the Thought of Charles Williams and
C.S. Lewis" by Charles Franklyn Beach; April: "Belloc, Chesterton
and Lewis vs. Darwin" by George Johnson. "Lewis's Poetry: A
Preliminary Exploration" by James Prothero. "Homeliness, Strangeness
and Receptivity: Paths to Aslan's Country in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
by Tim Lambarski. C.S.L. Double Crostic by Paul Leopold. Twelve pages.
Nos. 295-296, May-June 1994
May: "C.S. Lewis's Letters to Arthur Greeves" by Eugene McGovern;
June: readings from The Great Divorce led by John Martin. Essay: "The
Framed Narrative in Perelandra" by James Washick. "Those Infinite
Lands of Uncertainty: George MacDonald and the Fantastic Imagination"
by Jonathan Alexander. "McGovern and Wrong: A Note" by Paul
Leopold. Book Notes. Bits and Pieces. Letter. Book Review. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 297-299 July-September 1994
25th Anniversary Celebration Issue. July: "From the Floor" led
by James Como; August: Lewis Weekend, 25th Anniversary Celebration; September:
"Discussion on The Future of the New York Society" by Eugene
McGovern. Essay: "A Seeing Eye" by James Como. Lewis Weekend
Program. "The Greeves Letters as Seen by Arthur Greeves" by
Eugene McGovern. Two New Letters of C.S. Lewis. Greeting from Walter Hooper.
"In Search of the Real C.S. Lewis" by William Griffin. Reflections
on the Weekend. Thirty-two pages.
No. 300, October 1994
"A Visit to the Wade Collection" by Bill McClain. "Translations
of Latin, Greek and French Phrases from Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Literature and from The Pilgrim's Regress," by Neil Gussman. Poem:
"For Eustace" by John Savoie. C.S.L. Double Crostic No. 2. Letters.
Eight pages.
Nos. 301-302, November-December 1994
November: A Celebration of the Society's 25th Anniversary; "How Lewis
Found Me and How I Found the New York C.S. Lewis Society" led by
James Como; December: "Christmas Readings, mostly CSL." First
CSL Bulletin reprint. "The Incarnation in the Works of C. S. Lewis
- Notes in Outline" by Byron Lambert. A Last Look at the 1994 Weekend.
Sixteen pages.
No.303, January 1995
"On Walking - By Lewis and Others" by Joseph Barbiero. Essay:
"Echoes of Epic in Lewis's The Great Divorce" by Clover Holly
Gatling, Ph.D. Eight pages.
Nos. 304-305, February-March 1995
February: "Natural Law and C.S. Lewis" by Fr. Joseph Koterski,
S.J.; March: "C.S. Lewis, Courtly Love, and Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde" with essay by Charles Franklyn Beach. Book Review. Twelve
pages.
No. 306, April 1995
No meeting, Good Friday. Essay presented at the February meeting: "C.S.
Lewis and the Natural Law" by Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. Letter.
Eight pages.
Nos. 307-308, May-June 1995
May: "Reminiscences of a Student of Lewis and Tolkien" by Prof.
Veronica Kennedy. June: a report on the Cambridge '94 Lewis Symposium
by John Morrison. Essay: "How to Go to Heaven, Not How the Heavens
Go" by John Morrison. Letter. Bits & Pieces. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 309-310, July-August 1995
July: "From the Floor" led by James Como; August, no meeting.
Essay: "Mere Lewis" (a reprint from The Wilson Quarterly) by
James Como. Remembrances of Walter Ramshaw. Twelve pages.
Nos. 331-312, September-October 1995
September: "Lewis & Dickens: Crime Writers" by Joe Barbiero.
October: "Posthumous Journeys: The Great Divorce and Other Travels
to Eternity" by Margaret Goodman; "Improbable Journeys: The
Space Trilogy" by John Martin. Essay: "The Poison That Brewed
in the West" by Rev. Dr. Mark G. McKim (presented at the November
1995 meeting). "Browsing Through Lewis's Letters to Children"
by Sondra Gordon Longford. Book Notes. Correction. Letter. Twelve pages.
Nos. 313-314, November-December 1995
November: "The Poison That Brewed in the West" by Rev. Dr. Mark
G. McKim; December: Christmas Readings. Essay: "Posthumous Journeys:
The Great Divorce and Other Travels to Eternity" by Margaret Goodman.
Reprint of "The Christian Spaceman - C. S. Lewis" by Edmund
Fuller (from Horizon). Sixteen pages.
No. 315, January 1996
January meeting canceled because of snow. A review: "A Singular Joy:
The Latin Letters Between Father G. Calabria and C.S. Lewis in a New Latin
Edition" by Luciano Squizzato (translated by Clara Sarrocco). The
Eagle and Child. The Father Christmas Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien reviewed
by Clara Sarrocco. "Some Reflections on the Spirituality of C. S.
Lewis" (synopsis of James Como's February presentation). Letters.
Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 316, February 1996
"Reflections on the Spirituality of C.S. Lewis" by James Como.
Essay: "Lewis and Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: Hearing the Call of
Sehnsucht" by Samuel Joeckel. Excerpt from "Mere Lewis: The
C.S. Lewis Mailing List, Vol. 171." Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
Nos. 317-318, March-April 1996
March meeting canceled because of snow. April: "C. S. Lewis on Man's
Free Will and God's Sovereignty: A Paradox" by William McClain. Essay:
"C. S. Lewis and Liberal Christianity" by Mineko Honda. Letters.
Book Note. "Source or Influence?" "The Donkey and the Lion's
Skin" from The Fables of Avianus, tr. by David R. Slavitt. Photograph
of Lewis. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 319-320, May-June 1996
May: "Lewis and the Patristic Interpretation of Literature"
by Dr. Thomas Swanzey; June: "Readings on English Walks" by
Joe Barbiero. Essay: "A Jesuit Pupil Sits in Judgment on Lewis"
by James Tetreault. Reprint from May 1986 CSL: "A Note on the Brown
Girl" by Richard Hodgens. A letter from Stan Mattson of the C. S.
Lewis Foundation. May 1996 meeting report. Twelve pages.
Nos. 321-322 July-August 1996
July: "From the Floor" led by James Como. August, no meeting.
Essay: "Seeing Clearly in The Silver Chair" by Devin G. Brown
and Wm. Lane M. Robson. Reprint from Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith: "C.S. Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth.Letters,
1944-1960" by Gary B. Ferngren and Ronald L. Numbers. Letter. Book
Note. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 323-324, September-October 1996
September: Review of Walter Hooper's C. S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide
by James Como; October: Miracles by Phyllida Link. A review of The Man
Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis (author, Michael Coren) by
Sondra Langford. "My Encounter with Joy" By Hilary Schlesinger.
An appeal from St. Mark's of Belfast, Ireland. Photograph of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Twelve pages
Nos. 325-326, November-December 1996
November: "Pilgrimage in the Writings of C.S. Lewis" by Charles
Beach; December: John Martin's Stargazer read by John Martin and Margaret
Goodman. "Ramifications" by Charlie Starr. Book Notes. Note.
Sixteen pages.
Nos. 327-328, January-February 1997
January: "Theology in That Hideous Strength" by Neil Gussman.
February: Skits on Screwtape by Robert C. Rhodes with various readers.
Reprint from Christian Scholar's Review: "C.S. Lewis on the Desolation
of De-valued Science" by Bruce R. Reichenbach. Book Notes. Bits &
Pieces. Letter. Sixteen pages.
No. 329 March 1997
"The Relationship of Lewis's Writing to Myth" by Lori Pieper.
Essay: "God's Sovereignty and Man's Free Will in the Thought of C.S.
Lewis" by Will Vaus. Eight pages.
Nos. 330-331 April-May 1997
April: "Desire and Duty: Metaphors Borrowed by Lewis from Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice" by Teddy and Marilyn Bader. May: "Twenty
Years Later: Reflections on a Second Reading (Non-Stop) of Mere Christianity"
by Juan Ryan. "More Bibliographic Notes: 1. Holographs; 2. Books
and Poems; 3. Essays, Diaries, etc.; 4. Letters, Parts A and B" by
Stephen Thorson and Jerry Daniel. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 332-333 June-July 1997
June: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer chaired by Bill McClain. July:
"From the Floor" led by James Como. Essay: "C.S. Lewis
on God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility" by William McClain
(presented at the April 1996 meeting). A list of C.S. Lewis Societies
and Organizations. Poem: "Escapism" by Charlie Starr. Sixteen
pages.
No. 334 August 1997
No meeting. An identification. Bits & Pieces. Book Notes. Reprint:
"The Conscience and Moral Reasoning" by Robert Merchant. Eight
pages.
Nos. 335-336 September-October 1997
September: Till We Have Faces chaired by James Como; October: The Discarded
Image by Neil Gussman. Lewis Weekend (August 1998) Announcement. Essay:
"Jane Austen's Influence on C.S. Lewis" by Ted Bader (presented
at the April 1997 meeting). Book Notes. Letters. Note. Reprint of Oxford
University's presentation of the C.S. Lewis Centenary Stone (erected along
Addison's walk). Mythopoeic Conference on Lewis. Twenty pages.
Nos. 337-338, November-December 1997
November: Charles Williams's The Place of the Lion presented by Charles
Beach. December: a group reading of Dorothy Sayers' play He That Shall
Come, directed by Maggie Goodman. Essay: "Tides of Timelessness"
by James Como. C.S. Lewis News (coming events) . Arthur Greeves. Letters.
Poem: "A Thanksgiving" by W.H. Auden. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 339-340-341, January-February-March 1998
January: "Christmas Readings" A continuation of December's Christmas
readings, chaired by Mary Gehringer; February: Boethius's The Consolation
of Philosophy by Neil Gussman (a work CSL regarded highly); March: Discussion
on essays in God in the Dock moderated by Bill McClain. Commemorative
issue for Owen Barfield. Reprints of essays and publications related to
Owen Barfield. New York Times Obituary. "An Evening with Owen Barfield"
: Report of the May 1972 Society meeting. Essays by Owen Barfield: "Philology
and the Incarnation," "The Sound of Friendship," "C.S.
Lewis and Historicism" and "The Things That are Caesar's."
"A Toast" by James Como. Twenty-four pages.
No. 342 April 1998
No April meeting, Good Friday. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Chinese"
by Paul Clasper. Bits & Pieces. Letters. Books. CSL Weekend Announcement.
Eight pages.
Nos. 343-344, May-June 1998
May: Selections from C.S. Lewis's Poetry by Patty Pawlowski; June: George
MacDonald's Phantastes presented by Charles Beach. Essay: "The Significance
of the East in C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Other
Narnia Stories: Topos or Cosmos?" by Dr. Salwa Khoddam. Notes on
Charles Beach's June Phantastes presentation. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 345-347, July-August-September 1998
July: "From the Floor" by James Como. August: Lewis Weekend,
Our Centenary Celebration; September: The Problem of Pain by Lori Pieper.
Gleanings from the Weekend: "Jack-100" by James Como. "C.
S. Lewis: Map-Maker for the Next Millennium" by Walter Hooper. "Screwtape
Proposes a New Toast" by Rabbi Mayer Schiller. Publication Announcements.
Weekend photographs. Twenty-four pages.
No. 348, October 1998
October: James Como introduced his new publication Branches from Heaven.
Essay "Rhetorica Religii" by James Como. Twelve pages.
Nos. 349-350 November-December 1998
November: "Kathy Keller and Her Childhood Correspondence with C.S.
Lewis." December: A group reading of Dorothy Sayers' play A Man Born
to Be King, directed by Maggie Goodman. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: Irish
Saint and Scholar" by Frank Sullivan Kastor (delivered at the August
Weekend). Book. Letters. Notes. Twelve pages.
Nos. 351-352, January-February 1999
January: No meeting because of snow. February: "Lewis and Friends
on Fairy Tales" chaired by Clara Sarrocco and Jim Como. Essay: "CSL
in the OED" by David Clarke. Chesterton essays: "Straws in the
Wind" and "Encore!" Sixteen pages.
Nos. 353-354, March-April 1999
March: Three MacDonald Fairy Tales with essays: "George MacDonald
and The Light Princess" by Robert Trexler; "MacDonald's The
Lost Princess" by James Carroll; "Thoughts on The Golden Key"
by Eric Wurthmann. April: "The Spiritual Writings of C. S. Lewis,"
with essay, "From Skeptic to Believer" by Linda Bridges. Bits
& Pieces. Book Notes. Twenty pages.
Nos. 355-356, May-June 1999
May: "The Virgin Mary and C. S. Lewis" by Barbara J. Zelenko,
and "The Virgin Mary in England" by John Martin. June: Oxbridge
'98 report by John Morrison. Essay: "The Pilgrim's Regress: A Way
of Detachment" by Setsko Nakao. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 357-358, July-August 1999
July: "From the Floor" with Jim Como. August: No Meeting. Essays:
"Oxbridge '98: A Call to be 'Loose in the Fire'" by John Morrison;
"C. S. Lewis and the Virgin Mary" by Barbara J. Zelenko; "The
Virgin Mary in England" by John Martin. Editor's Corner. Letters
Bits & Pieces. Twenty pages.
No. 359, September 1999
Discussion of The Screwtape Letters, moderated by Clara Sarrocco. Essay:
"Magic Rings in C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien" by James Edwards.
Letters. Bits & Pieces. Twelve pages.
Nos. 360-362, October-December 1999
"Disobedience and Self-Discovery: A Search for Meaning in Til We
Have Faces" by Jim Como; Letters & 30th Anniversary Photographs;
Lewis Weekends Remembered, by Lottie Frein; Tribute to Deceased Members,
by Jim Tetrealt; From the Editor; a group reading of Dorothy L. Sayers'
"the King's Herald," from The Man Born to be King, coordinated
by Maggie Goodman. Twenty-four Pages.
No. 363, January 2000
Charles Beach discussed Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve. Essay: "C.
S. Lewis and Dante" by James Tetreault. September, October, &
November 1999 meeting reports. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 364, February 2000
James Stephens' The Crock of Gold was discussed by Tim Corkory. Essay:
"Dorothy L. Sayers and God's 'Terrier'" by Dr. Rosamond Kent
Sprague. January meeting report. Notes: "All Hallows' Eve Characters
and Plot Summary" by Charles Beach. "C. S. Lewis in the Shorter
OED" by David Clarke. Sixteen pages.
No. 365, March 2000
Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J., discussed The Discarded Image. Essay: "The
Bible and the Word of God " by Joshua Pong. "C. S. Lewis Memories
of a Godfather." Letters. February meeting report. Bits & Pieces.
Twelve pages.
Nos. 366-367, April-May 2000
April meeting: "George MacDonald's Childlike Theology - A Historical
View" by Bob Trexler. May meeting on the friendship of C. S. Lewis
with Sister Penelope by Clara Sarrocco. Essay: "C. S. Lewis on Scripture"
by Will Vaus. Letters. March meeting report. Sixteen pages.
No. 368, June 2000
The meeting focused on members' favorite C. S. Lewis books. Essay: "The
Kingliness of Friendship: C. S. Lewis and Sister Penelope" by
Clara Sarrocco. Letters. May meeting report. Bits & Pieces. Book Review.
"C. S. Lewis's Godson Speaks in New York City." Sixteen pages.
No. 369, July 2000
A "From the Floor" discussion moderated by James Como. Essay:
"Out of the Silent Planet - and Beyond" by Dr. William C. Zehringer.
Bits & Pieces. Eight pages.
Nos. 370-371, August-September 2000
No meeting in August. September: Helen Smith made connections between
C. S. Lewis and George Orwell. Essays: "Ungit and Orual: Facts, Mysteries,
and Epiphanies" and "C. S. Lewis's Anti-anti-Semitism in The
Great Divorce" by Kathryn Lindskoog. Remarks on The Weight of Glory
by Maggie Goodman. Bits & Pieces. Sixteen pages.
Nos. 372-373, October-November 2000
October: "The T-shirt & the Psalm: C. S. Lewis and The Problem
of Pain," by Robert Merchant. November: Frank Drollinger on J.R.R.
Tolkien. Essay: "C. S. Lewis on Weird Fantasy" by Dale J. Nelson.
"Loving The Four Loves" by Clara Sarrocco. Sixteen pages.
No. 374, December 2000
A reading of "A Certain Nobleman" from The Man Born to be King
by Dorothy L. Sayers, coordinated by Maggie Goodman; "From Ogre to
Buffoon: Uncle Andrew in The Magician's Nephew as a Portrait of Robert
Capron," an essay by David C. Downing; Letters. Eight pages.
No. 375, January 2001
Discussion of Out of the Silent Planet, Moderated by Eric Wurthman. Essay:"The
T-shirt & the Psalm: C. S. Lewis and The Problem of Pain," by
Robert Merchant. Letters. October Meeting Report. Bits & Pieces. Twelve
pages.
No. 376, February 2001
Discussion of Perelandra, Moderated by Jim Como. Essay: "JRR Tolkien
& The Twentieth Century", by Frank Drollinger. G.E.M Ansolme,
RIP. Reports of the November and December and January Meetings. Bits &
Pieces. "The Quotable Lewis" by David Clarke. Sixteen pages.
No. 377, March 2001
"Thoughts on Some Characters in Malory" by Patty Pawlowski.
Essay: "A Grief Observed as Free Verse", by Don King. Bits and
Pieces. Book Reviews: CS Lewis and the Bright Shadow of Reality (by Gerard
Reed) and The Imaginative World of CS Lewis: A Way to Participate in Reality
(by Mineko Honda) reviewed by Charles F. Beach. Twelve pages.
No. 378, April 2001
No meeting due to Good Friday. Essay: The Oxford Manichee", by Kenneth
E. Dupuy. Letters. Harper-Collins Aquires Worldwide Rights to C.S. Lewis
Oeuvre (from Publisher's Weekly). Articles Referencing Out of the Silent
Planet from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database. Bits &
Pieces. Twelve pages.
No. 379-380, May-June 2001
May: "Warren Lewis", by Alejandra Como.
June: "Charles William's Talliessin Through Logres," by Charles
F. Beach.
Essay: "Present Concerns: New Narnia Stories and Lewis Documentaries,"
by Robert Trexler. Comments from Mere Lewis List-Serve. The Harper San
Francisco Memo. "A New Distinction" (a Guest Editorial) by Jim
Como. "Articles Referencing Perelandra." Reports of February,
March, and May Meetings. Sixteen pages.
No. 381-382, July-August 2001
July: "From The Floor," moderated by Jim Como. August: No meeting.
Essay: "More Bibliographic Notes - Update 2001," by Stephen
Thorson. Letter to the Editor. "Articles on That Hideous Strength."
"Foothills To Mountaintops" by Robert C. Stroud. "Eric
Bently on C.S. Lewis." (From NY Times article.) Sixteen pages.
No. 383-384, September-October 2001
September: Meeting canceled due to terrorist attack. October: "C.S.
Lewis & Ecumenism," by Kevin Offner. Essay: "Little-Known
Books In Lewis's Background: Part II," by Dale J. Nelson. Bits &
Pieces. Book Review of C.S. Lewis, Poet (Don King) reviewed by Dale J.
Nelson. Report of the October Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 385-386, November-December 2001
November: "A Layman's Approach to Miracles," by Bill McClain.
December: A reading of "The Heirs to the Kingdom," from The
Man Born to be King by Dorothy L. Sayers, coordinated by Maggie Goodman
Essay: "The Hegemony of the Tao," by Joshua Pong. Book Review:
C.S. Lewis: Collected Family Letters 1905-1931 (ed. Walter Hooper) reviewed
by Rev. Dr. Mark G. McKim. Book Reviews: JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century
(by Tom Shippley) and Tolkien: Man & Myth (by Joseph Pearce) reviewed
by Charles F. Beach. Report of the November Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 387, January-February 2002
January: Discussion of That Hideous Strength, moderated by Lottie Frein.
February: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers (Vol. 1): A Tasting Menu, by
Margaret Goodman.
Essay: "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wastebasket: Discarded Fragments
of the Narnia Chronicles," by David Downing. Oxbridge 2002 Announcement.
Narnia 2004 Movie Announcement. Letters. Bits & Pieces. Book Review:
The Inklings Handbook (Colin Duriez and David Porter) reviewed by Dale
J. Nelson. Report of the June Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 388, March-April 2002
March: "C.S. Lewis and Existentialism," by Tim Corkery.
April: "The Queen of Drum from Narrative Poems", by Patti Pawlowski.
Essay: "Hippolytus and the Queen of Drum," by Jan Stewart. Bits
& Pieces. Report of the July 2001 Meeting. Report of the December
2001 Meeting. Movie Review: The Magic Never Ends, reviewed by Jim Como.
"Lewis and The Angel in the House," by Dale J. Nelson. Sixteen
pages.
No. 389, May-June 2002
May: The Wind in the Willows (by Kenneth Graham) presentation and moderated
discussion by Jim Como.
June: War in Heaven (by Charles Williams) presentation and moderated discussion
by Charles F. Beach.
Essay: "The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol 1: A Tasting Menu",
by Margaret Goodman. Book Review: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Vols.
1-4 (edited by Barbara Reynolds) reviewed by Charles F. Beach. Report
of the May Meeting. Bits & Pieces. Twenty pages.
No. 390, July-August 2002
July: From the Floor, Moderated by Jim Como
August: No Meeting
Essay: "Island Imagery in the Ransom Trilogy", by Raymond P.
Tripp, Jr.. Letters. Book Review: The Most Reluctant Convert (David Downing)
Reviewed by Frank Drollinger. "Reading Letters to an American Lady
as Spiritual Direction" by Martha Patton. Report of the March meeting.
Report of the April Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 391, September-October 2002
September: C.S. Lewis Collected Letters Vol. 1 (edited by Walter Hooper)
by Linda Bridges.
October: C.S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer (Scott Burson and Jerry Walls)
by Bill McClain.
Essay: "Little-Known Works in Lewis's Background: A Third Selection,"
by Dale J. Nelson. Walden Media Press Releases. Book Review: The Question
of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning
of Life (Armand M. Nicoli, Jr.) Reviewed by Jim Como. Letters. Report
of the July Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 392, November-December 2002
November: "C.S. Lewis and Pacifism," by Robert Merchant.
December: A Reading of "The Bread From Heaven," from The Man
Born To Be King (Dorothy L. Sayers) Coordinated by Margaret Goodman.
Essay: "Harry Potter and the Inklings: The Christian Meaning of The
Chamber of Secrets," by John Granger. Bits & Pieces. Report of
the June Meeting. Report of the September Meeting.
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