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The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.

This book was begun after three of the present authors gave a series of in vited talks on the subject of the structure and properties of carbon filaments. This was at a conference on the subject of optical obscuration, for which submicrometer diameter filaments with high length-to-diameter ratios have potential applications. The audience response to these talks illustrated the need of just one scientific community for a broader knowledge of the struc ture and properties of these interesting materials. Following the conference it was decided to expand the material presented in the conference proceedings. The aim was to include in a single volume a description of the physical properties of carbon fibers and filaments. The research papers on this topic are spread widely in the literature and are found in a broad assortment of physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering and polymer science journals and conference proceedings (some of which are obscure). Accordingly, our goal was to produce a book on the subject which would enable students and other researchers working in the field to gain an overview of the subject up to about 1987.

Material relating to Benson's college years and her career as an author and journalist, including biographical and bibliographical articles, manuscripts and working plots of novels, copies of short stories that appeared in children's magazines, newspaper articles by Benson from the Toldeo newspapers, a memory book from her high school years in Ladora, Iowa and college years, and photographs of Benson.

A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.

Midge ventures into the great unknown of Washington, DC and beyond. She encounters wild bulls, outwits school rules and evades persistent suitors, drawing closer to a God that loves her, and her new husband who assists in her life-long dream of becoming a missionary. "Midge On Her Own" is the second book on the life of Mildred Thompson Olson.