an In the name of Inez Milholland, her mother; Mrs. Jeanne R. Milholland, nounces that a cottage at their country estate, Meadowmount, New York, in the Adirondacks, will be devoted to the vacation and rest period of press and magazine women writers of New York city. Applicants may communicate with Mrs. Zoe McClary, 305 West Forty-fifth street, New York. George Saintsbury, having completed his story of the French novel, has said good-by to the writing of literary history. A study of H. G. Wells by his fellow novelist Edwin Pugh, which in part at least has been running in the New Witness (London), is coming out this autumn in England under the title of "Big Little H. G. Wells." "Studies in the Elizabethan Drama," by Arthur Symons (E. P. Dutton & Co.), comprises a series of thirteen essays, most of them critiques on plays of Shakspere, collected from various magazines in which they were published some years ago. "The Literary Style of the Prophetic Books of the English Bible," by David Henry Kyes (Boston: Richard G. Badger ), is an analysis of the poetic beauty and vigor of the English translation of the Bible. "A Geographical Dictionary of Milton," by Allan H. Gilbert (Yale University Press), is a dictionary of the place-names in Milton's works, with explanations of their meanings for the poet. Poetry and Drama, the London quarterly edited by Harold Monro and issued from the Poetry Book Shop off Theobald's Road, is to appear in a new form. It is to be calledi the Chapbook, and will appear monthly, still devoting especial attention to poetry. Chatto & Windus, London, are to publish, for the British Drama League, a bi-monthly illustrated magazine called Drama. The officers of the new firm of book publishers, Harcourt, Brace, & Howe, just established in New York, with offices at 1 West Forty-seventh street are: President, Alfred' Harcourt; treasurer, Donald Brace; secretary, Will D. Howe. Mr. Harcourt and Mr. Brace have been associated with Henry Holt & Co. during the past fifteen years, and Mr. Howe has been for some time past head of of the department of English in Indiana University, being also engaged actively in the writing and editing of books for school use. Doubleday, Page, & Co. have sold 1,324,943 copies of Booth Tarkington's books. Andrew Carnegie's will gives $200,000 to the relief fund of the New York Authors Club, and an annuity of $5,000 to George W. Cable. Will N. Harben died in New York August 7, aged sixty-one. Ruggiero Leoncavallo died in Naples. August 9, aged sixty-three. Andrew Carnegie died at Lenox, Mass., August 12, aged eighty-three. The Writer's Directory of Periodicals. The information for this Directory, showing the manuscript market and the manuscript requirements of many publications, has been gathered directly from the editors of the periodicals, and is strictly up to date. The second printing of the Directory, which is constantly being revised and enlarged, began in THE WRITER for February, 1916, and a four-years' subscription beginning with August, 1916, will give the Directory complete, together with much other valuable matter. The third printing is now in progress, Before submitting manuscripts to any publication, it is advisable to secure a sample copy. (Continued from September WRITER.) Mother Nature's News (S-M), 61 Washington Road, Springfield, Mass. 400. Thornton W. Burgess, editor. Vol. 1, No. 1, May, 1917. Not now published. Motion Picture Classic (M), 175 Duffield st., Brooklyn, N. Y. $1.75; 150. Eugene V. Brewster, managing editor. The requirements of the Classic are the same as those of the Motion Picture Magazine, save that larger pictures are required. Motion Picture Magazine (M), 175 Duffield st., Brooklyn, N. Y. $2.00: 20c, Eugene V. Brewster, managing editor. Uses bright, newsy articles 'pertaining to motion pictures, with illustrations, as well as poetry and humorous verse dealing with motion pictures. Prints no fiction, sets length limit at 4,000 words, and pays on the fourth of the month following acceptance. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES. Canadian Boy (M), Boy Scouts Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. $1.50; 15C. Percy Gib son, editor. Official organ Dominion Council Boy Scouts Association of Canada. Uses short stories, serials, jokes, and juvenile matter for boys and boy scouts only. Buys departmental matter aiming at general scout and citizen training; prefers fiction appealing strongly to the boy's manly nature may treat of adventure, school, or scouting but not of the blood-and-thunder type will always consider photographs of type suitable for magazine; sets length limits at from 1,500 to 3,000 words; and pays $1.00 a column of about seventy-five lines. New Success (M), 1133 Broadway, New York. $2.00; 200. O. S. Marden, editor; Robert Mackay, managing editor. Prints short general ar Buys photomanuscripts ; treats of suc Vol. 1. No. 1 January, 1918. stories, two- and three-part serials, ticles, poetry, and jokes, but no humorous verse, plays, or juvenile matter. graphs; sets no length limit on prefers inspirational fiction that cess; and pays on acceptance. Pep (M), Lakeside & West Third st., Cleveland, Ohio. $1.00 10C. Emmet Finley, editor. Interested only in true stories and helpful articles relative to the newspaper business. Buys no department matter, no photographs, and no fiction. Sets length limits at from 100 to 600 words, and pays on publication. Shadowland (M), 177 Duffield st.. Brooklyn, N. Y. $3.50; 350. Eugene V. Brewster, editor; Frederick James Smith, managing editor. A new magazine devoted to the stage, screen. and kindred arts, issued by the publishers of the Motion Picture Classic and the Motion Picture Magazine. Uses articles pertaining to the various arts and matters of unusual interest; short stories touching upon either the theatre or the motion-picture studio; playlets; poetry: humorous verse; and short fillers. Sets length limit for stories and articles at from 1,700 to 2,000 words; and pays on the fourth of the month following acceptance. Southerner, A Magazine of the New South (M) 632 St. Peter st., New Orleans, La. $1.50 in the South, $2.00 elsewhere; 20c, John McClure, edi tor Henry McCullough, managing editor. Uses short stories, novelettes, serials, poetry, humorous verse, and general articles, but no jokes, plays, or juvenile matter, except a little good juvenile poetry. Has a department. "Homes in the South," for which short Also sketches of typical Southern homes, with photo- Woman's Review (M), Syracuse, N. Y. 50c.; 5c. Vol. I. No. 1. July, 1019. Uses short stories; serials; novelettes; poetry; humorous verse; jokes and general articles; but no plays or juvenile matter. Does not buy photographs: sets length limit at 2,000 words; and pays on publication, when proof of story goes to the writer. Because of unexpected pressure of advertising, including the call for manuscripts by the David C. Cook Publishing Company, the space devoted to **The Writer's Directory of Periodicals," has had to be curtailed. Publication in full will be resumed next month. WANTED: An Associate Editor and Publisher for "THE WRITER." Address, with particulars: WILLIAM H. HILLS, P. O. Box 1905, Boston, Mass First Aid to Authors You are a writer. You send your work to publishers and it is returned, to you. You don't know what is wrong with it and the publishers won't tell you. Often it goes unsold just for lack of expert advice. I am a publishers' reader. years I read for Macmillan, then for Doran, and then I became a consulting specialist to them and to Holt, Stokes, Lippincott, and others, most of whom still send to me for literary advice and expert editing. For Let me have your work. I will criticise it frankly from the publishers' point of view and advise you how best to market it. My fee is $10.00, whether the manuscript be of book length or less. If I think editing would improve it I will give you an estimate, based on the time required. The Sunwise Turn, a modern bookshop, at 51 East 44th Street, New York, will take in anything sent me and make appointments for any one who would like to consult me personally. Check or money order must accompany Mss. Mathilde Weil The third printing of this Directory - enlarged and revised was begun in THE WRITER for March, 1917. Back numbers can be supplied. A four-years' subscription beginning with August, 1916 ( price, $6.00 ), will give the Directory complete. with additions and. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS. I once had a neighbor who used to confide to me her difficulties in making financial ends connect. Privately I used to marvel how they ever came within hailing, let alone tying, distance. It was her methods of housekeeping that awakened my surprise. No made-over dish ever appeared upon her table, and she spoke, apparently with pride, of flinging away each day enough good food to feed a second family. When I recently read the statement of a writer that her manuscripts after six rejections were consigned to the waste basket as "dead ones" I was reminded of my former bill-besieged neighbor and her problems, and wondered if my fellow-worker upon the typewriter realized that literary left-overs may No. 10. be readily and profitably converted into appetizing dishes. More years ago than I am going to tell, a lonely, country-bred girl, struggling with the trials of a first plunge into city business life, used to sit on a park bench half an hour each evening as she returned from work and' write bit by bit a story suggested by her new surroundings. It was written for companionship and with little idea of publication. It was padded with crude, school-girl philosophy, and ran recklessly to some 25,000 words but of that she was unaware, for she had never heard of counting words. Finally she sent the manuscript to a publisher who sent it back, and to another who did the same, and then she decided that not stenography and literature was her forte, and buried the manuscript in the bottom of a drawer; but, mark you, she did not throw it away. Ten years later I dug that story up, laughed over it a bit (although it was not at all funny), had some trouble in not crying over it a bit (although it was not very pathetic), cut out all the school-girl philosophy (although I did, and do, like it best of all), gave a perkier twist to the tail of the tale, baptized it afresh, and sent it to Street & Smith, who paid me $125 for it and said they could use more of the same kind. They can't get it, alas, because the girl who wrote that romantic screed is dead long ago, and the woman risen from her ashes has other things to say, but one attribute of the girl still lives in the woman and that is an undying hostility toward waste of any sort. One of the first .bits of my work ever accepted was an article submitted to Good Housekeeping. It was 1,600 words, and to |