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580 J A M E S [ 1926-1929 ]Sykes, 'pulling all the teeth and legs he can' in Ostend. Another unexpectedencounter was with Pat Hoey, a friend of his father's, whom hehad not seen for twenty-five years. 'Hoey and Joyce are the same name,'he assured Sylvia Beach. 11Joyce spent four days more professionally withGeorg Goyert, who had won a contest conducted by the Rhein-Verlag,Joyce's Swiss (German) publisher, to choose a translator for Ulysses. Goyertbrought the whole typescript from Munich, and Joyce helped him torevise eighty-eight pages. 12There were still many changes to be made,and they arranged for another meeting in Paris later. On August 26,James Lyons, a relative of Joyce on his mother's side, flewto Ostend,spent a few hours with Joyce, and flewout again. Joyce was appalled byhis daring, and said he would have to be chloroformed before he wouldventure into a plane. 13While Joyce was on his holiday he received the disturbing news thatUlysses was being pirated by Samuel Roth. Roth had firstwritten him in1922 to regret that Ulysses was not available in America, and he had nowset himself to repair the lack without authorization. Though Joyce hadnot met him, they had established a kind of relationship in September1925, when Roth began reprinting in a magazine called Two Worlds thefragments of Work in Progress that were then available in Europe. Toappease their author, Roth sent him $200 on account and promised more,which never came. Five fragments were published, the last in September1926. This venture emboldened Roth to go on to Ulysses, and in a second(simultaneously issued) review, Two Worlds Monthly, he publishedin July 1927, the whole of the Telemachiad (the firstthree episodes) inslightly expurgated form.* He took advantage of the fact that the UnitedStates was not a signatory of the Bern copyright convention. Joyce askedQuinn's law partner to institute proceedings against Roth, but he declinedto take the case. Pound, who knew Roth, was appealed to, andasked his father to start suit, but the elder Pound found it would be tooexpensive. Joyce had to defer any new defensive action until his returnto Paris.He went on with his family to Antwerp, which he renamed Gnantwerp14because of the mosquitoes, to Ghent and Brussels, and made aside-trip to Waterloot to secure details for the description of the battlefieldand the Napoleon-Wellington struggle in the firstchapter of his* In Finnegans Wake (422), Joyce has Shaun say of his brother Shem, 'Obnoximost posthumust!With his unique hornbook [Ulysses] and his prince of the apauper's pride, blunderingall over the two worlds!'t Thomas Wolfe was a fellow-passenger on the bus to Waterloo. Though he did notventure to speak to Joyce, he observed him carefully, and wrote Aline Bernstein on September22, 1926: 'He was with a woman about forty, and a young man, and a girl. . . .He was wearing a blind over one eye. He was very simply—even shabbily—dressed..... The young man [George], who wore horn-rim spectacles, and a light sporty lookingovercoat, looked very much like an American college boy. . . . The woman [Nora]