time helper to take the physical work ofrnfulfilling orders off his shoulders. Then,rntoo, when Arkham’s inventory ran out ofrnspace in his basement and attic, he borrowedrnfrom the bank to build a climatecontrolledrnwarehouse.rnIn addition to extracting a physical tollrnon his health, the demands of runningrnArkham House affected Derleth’s writingrncareer during the last 20 years of hisrnlife. Instead of devoting time to his creativernwriting and his Sac Prairie Saga, hernground out a lot of commercial work forrnhis New York publishers—histories, contractrnbiographies, historical novels herncared little about writing, junior mysteries.rnTo gain some measure of creativernsatisfaction he self-published books ofrnpoetry and spent odd hours writing mysteryrnstories and working on such monumentalrnworks as Walden West and Returnrnto Walden West, the latter published onlyrna year before his death in 1971.rnAnother little-known fact is that Derlethrnsponsored the books of many youngrnwriters like Ramsey Campbell, amongrnothers, who have mined Lovecraft’srnCthulhu Mythos and expanded it intornnew and interesting dimensions. He believedrnLovecraft would have approved,rnLU/ENGLISHrnNEWSLETTERrnAll the latest news fromrnLagado UniversityrnAnnual Subscription $5.00rnFour issues per year.rnLU/English Newsletterrn11 Llewellyn PlacernNew Brunswick, NJ 08901rnNamernAddress.rnCityrnState. Ziprnbecause during the decade that the twornmen corresponded, Lovecraft encouragedrnthe younger writer to experimentrnwith the mythos, as he did with others inrnhis inner circle. And when Derleth andrnDonald Wandrei began collecting asrnmany of Lovecraft’s letters as they couldrnin the late I930’s, they set in motion arnwhole cottage industry of scholars whorntoday continue to analyze and writernabout Lovecraft as minutely as a forensicrnscientist.rnToday, Arkham House has a numberrnof rivals who are determined to carve outrna share of the market that Derleth spentrna lifetime cultivating. That was to be expected.rnBut it is harder now to make a gornof it because of the distribution dynamicsrnwithin the publishing industry. Derlethrnsaw that happening long before hisrndeath, and he fully expected ArkhamrnHouse to perish soon after him. Herndidn’t realize how much momentum hernhad created with his unique editorialrnpolicy, or that Arkham House had developedrna life of its own. Even legal and editorialrnbungling in later years could notrnderail the enterprise. In the past year, hisrndaughter April has taken over the editorialrnas well as the business responsibilitiesrnof Arkham House with a fresh viewpointrnand enthusiasm that I expect will movernthe publishing house into the next century.rnWhile Derleth’s regional writing hasrnbeen plowed under the avalanche ofrntime, it too is on the verge of a renaissancernthrough a serious publishing effortrnthat is reprinting his major books andrnbringing out many recently discoveredrnmanuscripts including many novels,rnshort stories, poetry, journals, literaryrncriticism, and miscellaneous nonfiction.rnIn this group will be new collections ofrnfantasy and mystery stories, some featuringrnhis detective Solar Pons, a pasticheseriesrnof Sherlock Holmes that ran tornmore than 70 stories.rnWhatever history doles out for AugustrnDerleth, most historians and critics ofrnthe science fiction and fantasy genre willrnno doubt recognize his enormous contributionrnin legitimizing and preservingrnsome of the best stories and writers of hisrntime. Few writers have had such a strongrnsense of loyalty to their mentors and to arnliterary genre.rnPeter Ruber was one of August Derleth’srnlast publishers and will be editing the tworndozen manuscripts recently discovered atrnDerleth’s home in Sauk City, Wisconsin.rnCRIMErnThe Politics of HaternCrime Statisticsrnby Joseph E. FallonrnThe FBI’s “Hate Crime Statistics”—rnpreliminary figures for 1995 were releasedrnin November—are highly suspectrnbecause of the agency’s flawed methodology.rnThe problem is that, in recordingrnand identifying the perpetrators of haterncrimes, there are no strictly defined categoriesrnfor thugs of “European-American,”rn”Hispanic,” or “Middle Eastern”rndescent. The term “Hispanic” has alreadyrnbeen officially defined by PublicrnLaw 94-311 and Directive Number 15 ofrnthe Office of Management and Budgetrnas “a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican,rnCuban, Central or South American orrnother Spanish culture or origin, regardlessrnof race.” Employing the categoryrn”Middle Eastern” would probably bernmore convenient and less confusing thanrnthe heading currently used—”NorthrnAfrica and Southwest Asia”—to identifyrnanyone from that region of the world.rnAnd regarding the term “European-rnAmerican,” it has not been officially recognizedrnby the federal government. It isrnessential that this last category be implementedrnand defined as “a person havingrnorigins in any of the original peoples ofrnEurope—i.e., the British Isles, Iceland,rnand the European continent as borderedrnby the Pyrenees, the Caucasus, and thernUral mountains.” This definition conformsrnto the standard already establishedrnby the federal government for definingrnAmericans with origins in the MiddlernEast and Asia, while avoiding the possibilityrnof mistakenly including Hispanicsrnin this category.rnThe FBI’s current methodology forrndetermining hate crimes is based onrnPublic Law 101-275, the “Hate CrimernStatistics Act” of 1990, which was enactedrnby Congress on April 23, 1990. Thisrnlegislation mandated that the U.S. AttorneyrnGeneral establish guidelines and collectrndata “about crimes that manifest evidencernof prejudice based on race,rnreligion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity,rnincluding where appropriate the crimesrn38/CHRONICLESrnrnrn