Incipitque Semper

We are grateful to Arnd Wedemeyer and William Scott for their labors at various points during the past year; in addition to their editorial dedication to the production of this issue, they brought a saving measure of good sense and good humor in times of crisis. Once again, we are indebted to Myrta Byrum at the Johns Hopkins University Press for helping to see this issue through production with fidelity, patience, and tact. We would also like to thank our perforce anonymous reviewers for their generosity and judgment in assessing contributions.

Benchmarks

MLN was the first journal to go on-line at the inception of Project MUSE, which was launched in 1995 as a joint venture by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Since then MUSE has grown exponential to a dominant position in the publication of scholarly on-line journals. It has recently initiated its own on-line quarterly, MUSE News.

Among the more than sixty new titles added this year should be of interest to our readers: Cultural Critique; Early American Literature; French Forum; Frontiers; Journal of American Folklore; Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History; Language; Libraries & Culture; Linguistic Inquiry; Nineteenth-Century French Studies; Shofar; and Transactions of the American Philological Association.

Information about the complete repertoire of journals, MUSE’s new search engine and capabilities, can be found on the Web at muse.jhu.edu/journals.