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On the Cover are two illustrations from the Illustrated London News. On the front is a detail from "Opening of the Suez Canal: The Empress of the French, on Board the Aigle, Entering the Canal at Port Said," from 11 December 1869: 585, while a detail from "Opening of the Suez Canal: The Procession of Ships in the Canal," from 18 December 1869: 608, appears on the back.

Changes at VS: With this issue, VS welcomes Samantha Arvin and Michelle Keefe. Having majored in both English and religious studies, Samantha has brought a keen appreciation for the metaphysical musings of Victorian prose to our editorial debates. In addition, she is the world's foremost living expert on what VS has published in the last ten years, thanks to her efforts in updating our database. She was able to complete this assignment despite occasional bouts of vertigo, the legacy of an unfortunate childhood baton- twirling incident.

Michelle Keefe is a senior studying English and comparative literature. In the fall, she looks forward to delving into art history in Florence; any adventures that she has in Italy, however, will have to be pretty spectacular to compare to the sheer adrenaline rush of working at Borders during the "midnight madness" book-release party heralding the arrival of the sixth Harry Potter novel. At VS, in addition to editing book reviews and essays, she did excellent work on the Victorian bibliography, where she successfully withstood the efforts of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to establish worldwide bibliographic supremacy. With hopes for a career in writing or teaching, Michelle plans to attend graduate school in the future, though not necessarily at Hogwarts.

As always, Victorian Studies thanks the Indiana University Honors College, without whose generous support our internship program would not be possible.

The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces the Fifteenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies, which 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, which may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology, 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 Linda K. Hughes by mail, at English Department, TCU Box 297270, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129, or by email, at l.hughes@tcu.edu. The deadline for submission of applications is 1 February 2006; the recipient will be announced at the association's 2006 annual meeting, to be held in Detroit on 21–23 April. The association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not warrant it.