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After close to half a century of editing The Scriblerian, Roy S. Wolper has decided it is time to retire, a second retirement since he became an emeritus professor of English literature at Temple University in 2001, after a long and fulfilling teaching career. One of The Scriblerian's founding editors (with Peter A. Tasch and Arthur J. Weitzman), Roy saw the journal expand from its first issue of thirty-six pages to its most recent double issue in 2016 of 228 pages. As the profession evolved during the half century, so did The Scriblerian under his extraordinarily careful and conscientious direction. If the early issues contained primarily reviews of critical commentary on Dryden, Pope, and Swift, the dramatists, and the Kit-Cats, it is no accident that the latest issue contains almost an equal number of article reviews (from a dozen to twenty) on Dryden, Pope, Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, and Swift. The novelists' inclusion was the result of an editorial decision in the early years of the journal to expand its pages to reviews of their writings as well as those of Scriblerian authors; Behn's inclusion (thirty-one essays on her alone were reviewed in the...