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Small Press Book Review Spring 1996 - Part III Literature Women Editing Modernism - Little Magazines and Literary History by Jane E. Marek. University of Kentucky Press, 663 S. Limestone St., Lexington, KY 40508-4008. 1995. 262 pp. $34.95 hardcover (0-8131-1937-5). $14.95 trade paper (0-8131-0854-3). b+w photographs; illustrations; notes; bibliography; index. (periodicals; history)    Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Hilda Dolittle (h. D.), Winifred Ellerman (Bryher), and Marianne Moore are the eight women whose unquestioned influence on modern literature is explored. Editors at periodicals such as Poetry, The Little Review, The Dial, and Close Up, these editors were important in the early stages of the careers of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway, among lesser-known writers. As Marek relates, the women were not only significant in that they recognized the timeliness and quality of the writings of such authors, but they also played a role in their development and in shaping literary history. For readers interested not only in women's studies, but also publishing history and modern literature. A Thoughtful Soul - Reflections from Swedenborg edited and translated by George F. Dole. Swedenborg Foundation, 320 N. Church St., West Chester, PA 19380. 1996. 184 pp. $11.95 trade paper (0-87785-148-4). index. (spirituality)    Originally published in 1985 with the _title_ View from Within. Dole introduces selections of Swedenborg's writings grouped into topics such as Holistic Reality, The Good Life, Revelation, and The Divine. The editor's introductions and the selections emphasize the relationship of Swedenborg's thoughts to Christianity and the _meta_physical strains running through his writings. Sade's Wife