David Baily Harned is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and an avid tennis player who is, however, willing to write whenever he cannot find a tennis match. Because he is also rather a poor tennis player, he is a more or less prolific author. Ever since his article in the Virginia Quarterly on playing fair, "The Image of the Player," in the Winter, 1971, issue, he has felt an obligation to write another on playing foul, not for athletic reasons, but because of a conviction of the ambiguity of all things human, at least before God. He has carried out his obligation by writing "The Deviant Self: Everyman as Vandal."

Aside from some general articles on various foreign policy topics, Arthur N. Gilbert has been working on some studies of military recruitment and military justice in eighteenth-century England. Several of these studies are on the treatment of homosexual offences in military courts and this aroused his interest in attitudes toward sexuality in general during this period. "Philosophical Pessimism and the Study of War" grew out of reading that he has done in preparation for a course that the "historians" in the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver are introducing on the causes of war.

"Some Buddhist Poems" were translated by Graeme Wilson from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean poems ranging in time of composition from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries. He has published several hundreds of translations of Far Eastern poetry. After six years of war service Mr. Wilson joined the British Civil Service in 1945 and has since served in a wide variety of aviation posts. Seconded to the Foreign Office in 1964 as the British Civil Aviation Representative in the Far East, he now lives in Hong Kong and is accredited as a Counsellor at some dozen diplomatic posts lying within the triangle formed by Burma, Japan, and Indonesia.