Editor's Note: Volume 100

W ITH this issue we begin publishing volume of Studies in Philology, a volume number that is misleading since we are not quite years old. Because of the irregular publication of early volumes, we are instead merely . That is nevertheless an age exceeded by few scholarly journals in the United States. The journal was founded in by the Philological Club of the University of North Carolina as a publication venue for faculty and graduate students at the University.The Philological Club continued to direct its publication until the second issue of vol. XIV (), after which it was published by the University and, beginning with vol. XX (), by the University of North Carolina Press. The early volumes consisted primarily of monographs that were to be issued ‘‘from time to time’’ rather than annually. Eleven volumes were published in its first eight years: I, II, and III in , , and ; IV,V, and VI in ; VII and VIII in ; IX in ; and X and XI in . No volume appeared in . Vol. XII in , under the editorship of Edwin Greenlaw, marked the beginning of Studies in Philology as a quarterly with one volume a year and also as a journal that published articles by scholars outside of the University of North Carolina. After these changes, the journal became known nationally and internationally as one of the leading scholarly journals, and today it can be found in over libraries around the world. Studies in Philology has had a long association with the Renaissance: beginning in , it often devoted entire issues to articles on sixteenthand seventeenth-century literature, and from until it published an annual bibliography of studies in the Renaissance, limited in its early years to works concerning English literature and supplemented between and by a bibliography of the Italian Renaissance. In the bibliography began to include studies of French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Neo-Latin literature. Although we no longer publish the special issues and the bibliography, still over half of the articles we receive annually involve sixteenthor seventeenth-century English literature. There have naturally been changes over the years, notably the decision of the Board of Editors in to restrict articles to English literature before or to English literature of that period in comparison with classical, Romance, or Germanic literature and to discontinue publication of articles focused on literature other than British. Although