1. INTRODUCTION

2. CANDIDATE SELECTION
2.2. Input Databases and Search Area
2.3. Photometric Criteria
2.4. Kinematic Criteria
2.5. Final Selection

3. NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY

4. REDDENING-FREE CLASSIFICATION METHOD
4.1. Revisiting the AL13 Spectral Classification
4.2. Reddening-free Spectral Classification
4.3. Extinction Determination
4.4. Gravity Classification

5. RESULTS
5.1. Classifying Our Discoveries and Previously Known Objects
5.2. Performance Investigation of Our Classification Scheme
5.3. Field Contaminants Among Our Taurus Candidates
5.4. Magnitudes, Colors, and the HR Diagram: An Older Low-Mass Population in Taurus?
5.5. Spatial and Kinematic Distribution
5.6. New Per OB2 Members
5.7. Circumstellar Disks around Our New Members
5.8. Notes on Selected Objects

6. CONCLUSIONS