Editors' Note

Since this is our last issue as editors of The Lion and the Unicorn, we would like to take the opportunity to thank some of the people who have helped us over the years. Thanks first to Jack Zipes for having guest-edited several fine issues that have reflected his extensive knowledge of fairy tales and his astonishing energy. We also thank Suzanne Rahn who has guest-edited for us and who has written numerous eloquent and thoughtful essays on various topics. Our deepest appreciation and thanks to Leonard Marcus for his long collaboration with us. He edited the Booklog section of the journal almost from the beginning and has guest-edited several whole issues. He continually pursued interesting writers and has written for the journal on many occasions with unfailing perspicacity and grace.

We thank Steven Jervis for his financial support of the journal over a four-year period. Without that support the journal might well have ceased publication.

Thanks to Sandy Hoffman, Wendy Sachs, and Paul Zelinsky for their fine cover artwork.

Thanks to our editorial board: Michael Patrick Hearn, Herbert Kohl, Milton Meltzer, Lynne Rosenthal, and Ellen Tremper.

We also thank the staff of the journals division of the Johns Hopkins University Press. Carol Hamblen, the present production coordinator, and her predecessors, Denise Plowman and Debbie Sinek-Smith, have worked with us with continuing intelligence, clarity, good humor, and patience. We thank Marie Hansen, the director of the journals division, for her faith in the journal and her willingness to make it a part of Johns Hopkins University Press. Thanks also to her assistant, Barbara Karvounis.

Finally, we thank our contributors who have trusted the journal enough to offer us their work, and our subscribers for their continued interest and support.

When we started the journal in 1976, the field was still in its infancy. It has grown up in the last 20 years and it has been a pleasure for us to be a part of that growth. We are happy and grateful that Louisa Smith and Jack Zipes are willing to assume the responsibility of editing the journal from this point on. Both Louisa and Jack are scholars with long-standing interests and accomplishments in the field and we are sure that the journal will grow and thrive under their editorship. We will, of course, remain on the editorial board and look forward to working in that capacity.