Timothy Raylor is associate professor of English at Carleton College. He is co-editor of Culture and Cultivation in Early-Modern England (1992), of Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation (1994), and was guest-editor of a special issue of The Seventeenth Century entitled The Cavendish Circle (1994). His Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith and the Order of Fancy (1994) was one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1995.