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ON THE FRONT COVER is "Temple Bar from the Strand," from Thomas Shotter Boys, Original Views of London as It Is. 1842. London: Architectural P, 1926. On the back is "St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street," from the same volume.

THE MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION announces the Seventeenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies. It awards $1500 for dissertation research in British Victorian Studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a U.S. or Canadian university. Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology; however, proposals should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will render them of interest to scholars studying Victorian Britain across a range of disciplines, approaches, and subfields. Forms may be requested from Thomas Prasch at tom.prasch@washburn.edu or by mail: Department of History, Washburn University, 1700 SW College, Topeka, KS 66621. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2008; the award will be announced at the Association's 2008 annual meeting, to be held in Chicago April 18-20. The Association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not justify it.

CFP: Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies. Special Issue of Victorian Studies.

2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on "Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies," for which it is now soliciting essays.

The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2008. Essays of not more than 8,000 words (including endnotes) should be prepared in MLA style. For a complete description of the issues and topics that will be considered or for further information, please direct inquiries to the issue's guest editor:

Jonathan Smith
Humanities Department
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128
jonsmith@umich.edu