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Scope and Contents "Jacob's Ladder" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"Max Jacob must have been one of the extraordinary converts to Catholicism that the twentieth century has seen. Next-door neighbour [sic] to Picasso in Montmartre in 1904, Max Jacob became the intimate friend of Apollinaire as well, and together these two were soon the leading figures in the esprit nouveau in literature, working closely with the young cubist painters...

Scope and Contents "More A Way Of Life" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"André Breton dead? It is the more difficult to believe because no one during the present century seemed more immune to the concept of mortality. Without Breton, surrealism could never have existed, let alone survived the hard knocks it administered and received in the fields of literature, art, politics and sociology during the forty-four years of its turbulent...

Scope and Contents "Perchance To Dream" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3) "The author of this, 'first full-length study of surrealism's impact on fiction' (blurb) chooses to preface each chapter with an irrelevant quotation from Lewis Carrol; a minor but tell-tale symptom of a casual approach limited apparently to addressing an audience equipped with the ' eager eye and willing ear, pleased a simple tale to hear' evoked in the envoi to...

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"Surrealism At Play" featured in Art and Artists, Vol. 2, No. 9. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"IT WILL BE to the eternal credit of the surrealists that, in their determination to free the imagination from the dictates of 'reason', [sic] they never hesitated to adapt to their purposes anything - any recipe or formula - that might provoke inspiration and release the mysterious forces of the collective unconscious..."

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"For and Against" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"This miscellany of essays, letters, polemics, prefaces and anathemas, written between 1936 and 1952, first published in 1953, is now reissued..."

Scope and Contents "Alfred Jarry The Magnificent Pataphysical Posture" by Simon Watson Taylor. Article from The Times Literary Supplement. Simon Watson Taylor's definitive article on Pataphysics. Collège de 'Pataphysique. Also includes a two page photocopy of the article signed by Simon Watson Taylor. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"THE MERCURE DE FRANCE seems to have preserved an honourable publishing tradition of mislaying authors manuscripts. It has been recounted recently...

Scope and Contents "Commentary" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)"There has always been an honourable tradition of erotic writing, under the cloak of varying degrees of anonymity and secrecy, among the writers and poets attached directly or peripherally to the French surrealist movement, following the example of their immediate predecessor Apollinaire, whose Onze Mille Verges, Cortège Priapique and other near-pornographic fantasies were...

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"The First Of The Mixed-Media Men" Essay on Apollinaire in The Observer Colour Magazine. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"This month Guillaume Apollinaire will have been dead for 50 years. Today, the most modest shelf of poetry - in almost any language of the world - is almost any language of the world - is sure to have its slim volume of Apollinaire; and in France every college student can recite by heart such famous ballads..."

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"Odium Surrealisticum" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"Maurice Nadeau's Histoire du suréalisme first appeared in 1945, followed three years later by the bulky Documents surréalistes: the two complementary works were reprinted in a single volume in 1964, with the addition..."

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"Child Heroics" featured in The Times Literary Supplement. (Bertram Rota Inventory, Surrealism Addenda Pg. 2-3)

"Most of Apollinaire's writings - the collected poems of Alcools as much as the critical essays of Les peintres cubistes - are amalgams of more or less disparate tests, the fruit of careful and continuous revision, addition and elimination..."