The Editor's Fence

THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. Charles H. Green: who has worked very hard with me on EFT for the past two and a half years, has become a citizen of the country called Texas. He will be Associate Professor of English at Arlington College. His facility for speaking in Spenserian meters which often enlivened our research quests will be missed. His capacity for producing annotations at a demonic rate in times of crisis will be missed. Above all, we shall miss him. We wish him happiness and much success deep in the heart of Texas. 2. Welcome ESL: These initials have occasionally appeared in EFT this past year, and the name for which they stand has been on our masthead and signed to articles in VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER and NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION. Edward S. Lauterbach, with this issue becomes Associate Editor of EFT. His experience is as nearly ideal for work on EFT as I could hope for, He has had extensive training in bibliography at the University of California, he worked for a number of years in the Huntington Library, and his doctoral work, with a dissertation on FUN, the humor magazine, was largely concentrated on 19th century English fiction under the guidance of Royal A. Gettmann of the University of Illinois. This past summer he gained additional experience as editor of the Purdue University SUMMER TIMES. Welcome ESL to EFT. 3. Subscriptions, Back Orders, and the Wherewithal: For 1961 I shall send out three renewal notices. The first such notice is included with this number; the second notice will be included with the number planned for late November; and the third notice will be enclosed with the first number of Volume IV (1961). As usual, the first number of Volume IV will be sent to all subscribers to Volume III; further numbers will be sent only to those who have renewed their subscriptions. Subscriptions to the current volume will continue to be one dollar. A volume is current through the publication date of the last number of each volume. Thereafter the individual numbers in it are only sold at fifty cents each. Thus, subscribers to the current Volume III (I960) will receive four numbers for their one dollar subscription; those ordering this volume after November, I960, at fifty cents an item, will pay two dollars for the complete volume. 4. The Number of Numbers: Periodically, I must dispell the confusion our flexible publication schedule and the equally flexible number of numbers in each volume seem to create. I am committed to the publication at unstated intervals of two numbers in each volume at the subscription rate of one dollar a year. However, whenever available material warrants and whenever my energies allow, I shall publish additional numbers at no additional cost to regular subscribers,, Each volume so far has, in fact, been made up of more than the guaranteed minimum of two items. The first three volumes will be complete as follows: Volume I, Nos. 1-3 (1957-58) Volume II, Nos. 1, 2 (Parts I & II) (1959) Volume III, Nos. 1-4 (I960) ...