* * * * * The Society's purpose is to publish rare Restoration and eighteenth-century works (usually as facsimile reproductions). All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing. Correspondence concerning memberships in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to the General Editors at the same address. Manuscripts of introductions should conform to the recommendations of the MLA _Style Sheet_. The membership fee is $5.00 a year in the United States and Canada and £.19.6 in Great Britain and Europe. British and European prospective members should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. Copies of back issues in print may be obtained from the Corresponding Secretary. Publications of the first fifteen years of the Society (numbers 1-90) are available in paperbound units of six issues at $16.00 per unit, from the Kraus Reprint Company, 16 East 46th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. * * * * * Make check or money order payable to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1970-1971 145-146. Thomas Shelton, _A Tutor to Tachygraphy, or, Short-writing_, 1642, and _Tachygraphy_, 1647. Introduction by William Matthews. 147-148. _Deformities of Dr. Samuel Johnson_, 1782. Introduction by Gwin J. Kolb and J. E. Congleton. 149. _POETA DE TRISTIBUS: or, the Poet's Complaint_, 1682. Introduction by Harold Love. 150. Gerard Langbaine, _Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage [A New Catalogue of English Plays]_, 1687. Introduction by David Rodes. * * * * * Members of the Society will receive copies of Clark Library seminar papers. SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1969-1970-1971 Gerard Langbaine, _An Account of the English Dramatick Poets_ (1691), Introduction by John Loftis. 2 Volumes. Approximately 600 pages. Price to members of the Society, $7.00 for the first copy (both volumes), and $8.50 for additional copies. Price to non-members, $10.00. * * * * * Already published in this series: 1. John Ogilby, _The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse_ (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner. 228 pages. 2. John Gay, _Fables_ (1727, 1738), with an Introduction by Vinton A. Dearing. 366 pages. 3. _The Empress of Morocco and Its Critics_ (Elkanah Settle, _The Empress of Morocco_ [1673] with five plates; _Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco_ [1674] by John Dryden, John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell; _Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco Revised_ [1674] by Elkanah Settle; and _The Empress of Morocco. A Farce_ [1674] by Thomas Duffett), with an Introduction by Maximillian E. Novak. 348 pages.