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NOTES ON »THE LITTLE GUGU FROG«: AN AFTERWORD TO LOUIS ADAMIC'S LUCAS, KING OF THE BALUCAS
Henry A. Christian Rutgers University
Louis Adamic's story of the »King« of the Philippine Negrito tribe called The Balucas was first published under the title »Philippine Interlude« in the magazine Plain Talk for March, 1930.1 During the next two years, Modra ptica printed the story in a translation by Griša Koritnik; and L. Mattersburger's translation appeared in Der Wiener Tag.2 In March of 1935, Arthur Whipple also published Adamic's Philippine story as the small book Lucas, King of of the Balucas. Whipple's edition, bound in boards, quarter cloth, was approximately 6x7 inches (8 vo), printed on »Strathmore Wayside Text: USA« paper, and paginated [1—5] 6—22 [23—25], On p. [25] was the information that Whipple had made 350 copies of the work at Los Angales and that the »woodcuts,« which appeared on pages [5] and [23], had been executed by »Eizzil,« a name sounding like the word easel and created from the name of the artist, Elizabeth Whipple. The front inside fold of a dust wrapper for the book described Adamic's work as »The Story of a Curious Monarch« and gave the price of the volume as % 1.00. In 1986, a Slovene version of the Whipple edition, translated by Tine Kurent and illustrated by Marijan Amalietti, was published by Prešernova družba in Ljubljana under the title Lucas, Kralj Balukov.
Adamič had become associated with Arthur Whipple in 1933 when Whipple decided to begin a smalll press in California and sought texts from friends and others linked to the Los Angeles area.3 It was specifically for
Whipple's venture that Carey McWilliams wrote Louis Adamic and Shndow--America, and that arrangement led Adamic to send Whipple the material that became Struggle.4 Whether Adamic gave Whipple the Philippine story at the same time he sent Struggle or provided it later in exchange for Whipple's allowing Tomorrow Publishers in New York to reprint Struggle in
1	Vol. 6, 303—08.
2	»Kralj Lukas,« 3 (1931—32), 257—63, and »Philippinsches Zwischenspiel,« 17. June, 1932, resp.
3	Doctor Aurelius Vanderdonk by Wilbur Needham, foreword by Paul Jordan-Smith (both acquaintances of Adamic), which Whipple announced for 1935 publication is an example of material the search produced.
4	McWilliams (Los Angeles: Arthur Whipple, 1935). Henry A. Christian, »Adamic's Struggle: The International History of a ,Radical' Pamphlet« in Janez Stanonik, ed., Louis Adamič: Simpozij: Symposium (Ljubljana: Tiskala Univerzitetna tiskarna, 1981), pp. 323—44, gives details of the publication.
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