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Notes on Contributors

Jocelyn Harris, Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, New Zealand, edited the complete Sir Charles Grandison for the Oxford English Novels series (1972). Having invested so much time and energy in the most prolix user of the English language, she intends to stand by him a little longer.

Mason Tung, author of several articles on Milton in Studies in Philology, Texas Studies, Seventeenth-Century News, and the Milton Encyclopedia (in press), began the study of emblem literature in 1970. This essay on Whitney is but a point of departure to a more ambitious undertaking of examining the emblematic imagery in Spenser's minor poetry and of establishing a common principle governing the making of emblems and the creation of emblematic imagery. Ultimately, he would like to produce an iconographical edition of Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

S. W. Reid, Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and textual editor of its CEAA edition of C. B. Brown, is working on the textual transmission of Middleton's Game at Cheese and the texts of George Meredith, as well as Compositor B.

Scott Bennett is a librarian at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. He edits the Library's two publications, the annual Non Solus and the Robert B. Downs Publication Fund, and is preparing a guide to accompany the forthcoming microfilm publication of the archives of the nineteenth-century publisher Richard Bentley and Son.

G. Thomas Tanselle, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, is Bibliographical Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville and is preparing a descriptive bibliography of Melville.

Fredson Bowers, Emeritus Linden Kent Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is currently textual editor of the ACLS edition of The Works of William James.

Hoyt N. Duggan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and is currently studying unpublished medieval commentators on Ovid and Alain of Lille.

Gerald D. Johnson, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is studying the output of Augustine Matthewes' printshop.

G. L. Anderson, Professor of English at the University of Hawaii, has written articles on eighteenth-century English literature, and is now completing a study of the life and works of Charles Gildon, critic and miscellaneous writer.

Michael D. Bliss, Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie-Mellon University, has also published on Fielding. This article on Warburton is part of a comprehensive study of the many pre-Restoration dramatic manuscripts, most of them now lost, which passed through the hands of the seventeenth-century publisher Humphrey Moseley.

James M. Kuist, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, has written on Sterne, Malone, Gray, and Nichols, and for years has been gathering the materials to write a history of The Gentleman's Magazine.

Melvyn New, Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, is the general editor of the Florida Edition of the Works of Sterne, and served as the textual editor for the Edition's Tristram Shandy, which is now in press.

Norman Fry, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, is a medievalist and linguist, with a special interest in comparative literature.

Karen Mulhallen, Professor of English at Ryerson Institute, is editor of Descant (Toronto), and a review editor of the Canadian Forum. She is currently writing a book on Blake's illustration to Young's Night Thoughts. She has been interested for some time in Blake's thriftiness.

Leonidas M. Jones, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, serves on the editorial board of the Keats-Shelley Journal, has edited Letters and Selected Prose of J. H. Reynolds, and has contributed articles and reviews on the Keats Circle to various journals.

Robert H. Tener, Professor of English, University of Calgary, compiled the bibliography of the writings of Richard Holt Hutton in Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 17 (1972), and is currently writing the "Introduction" to Bagehot and Hutton's National Review for Vol. III of the Wellesley Index.

Rodger L. Tarr, Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, is compiler of A Bibliography of English Language Articles on Thomas Carlyle: 1900-1965, of "Thomas Carlyle's Libraries at Chelsea and Ecclefechan" (SB, 1974), and is co-editor of the forthcoming New Essays on Carlyle,

and is presently at work on various other projects concerning Carlylean bibliography.

Madeleine B. Stern, partner in Leona Rostenberg?Rare Books, New York City, is the author of numerous books and articles on nineteenth-century American publishing history, feminism, Americana. She has recently co-authored with Leona Rostenberg Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business and her most recent work was the ending of Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott.

James J. Barnes is an Associate Professor of History at Wabash College and author of various articles and books on the British and American book trade since 1800. Most recently (1974) he published an article in the Wiener Library Bulletin on the 1933 abridged English translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and a book, Authors, Publishers and Politicians, dealing with the quest for an Anglo-American copyright agreement in the nineteenth century.

Susan Geary has recently completed a dissertation entitled "Scribbling Women: Essays on Literary History and Popular Literature in the 1850's," and will receive a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in June. A condensed version of the first chapter, "The Domestic Novel as a Commercial Commodity: Book Advertising in the 1850's," has been accepted for publication in PBSA. As indicated by the title of the latter, she is interested in the history of literary publishing in the nineteenth century.

Joan St. C. Crane, Curator of American Literature Collections at the University of Virginia Library, is the compiler of Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, 1974.

Clinton Sisson, Research Librarian, University of Virginia Library, is currently at work on the index to printers, publishers and booksellers in the second edition of the Wing STC and a monograph on the construction of the earlier English common press.

Jeri S. Smith is Assistant Editor at the Wing Revision.