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must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the pen-name and real name, college and permanent address, and postage for return of manuscript. No mark of identification may be placed on the envelopes. The short stories will be judged by Ellis Parker Butler, Irving N. Brant, and Professor Samuel Dirieux; and the poems will be judged by Witter Bynner, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Forrest Spaulding. nouncements of the prize awards will be made, if possible, before the college commencement season in June, 1919. All manuscripts must be mailed to the president of the club, Mrs. Alice C. Weitz, 403 Forty-second street, Des Moines, Iowa, on or before April 15, 1919.

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The Committee which is to consider the letters submitted in response to the offer made by A. Stone through the Robert J. Shores Corporation (New York) of two prizes of twenty-five dollars each, for the best letter in favor of submitting manuscripts everywhere at one time and the best letter against the practice, has decided to extend the time of closing the competition to May 1, 1919. Stone says: "We have some interesting letters and strong arguments, written mostly for the general good of writers who have not arrived at the stage where they have a greater demand for their work than they can supply. We wish that more could be interested, so that a fuller expression may be had, and especially from those who have progressed beyond the formative stage. So far, the publishers appear to be sitting tight, apparently secure in the position they have enjoyed from time immemorial, but it may be they have not heard of the contest. We shall be pleased to hear from them."

Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond is the winner in the contest to supply a musical setting to William Mill Butler's poem, "Democracy."

Prize offers still open :

Prize of $20,000 offered by the National Institute for Moral Instruction (Washington, D. C.) for the best method of character education in the public schools. Contest closes February 22, 1919. Particulars in May WRITER.

Prize of $5,000 offered by the National Federation of Music Clubs, for the best oratorio submitted be

tween February 1 and March 1, 1919. Particulars in August WRITER.

Prizes amounting to $280 offered by the American School Peace League for essays submitted before March 1, 1919, by normal and high school seniors, discussing the principles of a League of Nations. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prizes of $100, $50, $25, and $25 offered by the League for Permanent Peace for essays on the subject, A Law-Governed World," submitted before April 1, 1919, by students of women's colleges in Massachusetts. Particulars in October WRITER.

Three prizes of $500 each offered by the Lyric Society (New York) for the best books of poetry submitted before April 1, 1919. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prize of $100 offered by the Engineering Company of America (New York) for the best story containing all the different words used by President Wilson, as given in the "Victory White House Vocabulary." Particulars in January WRITER. Prizes offered by Poetry (Chicago) for the best work printed in the magazine during the year Oc. tober, 1918 September, 1919. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prizes offered by American Ambition (Philadel phia) in comedy-drama, short story, song, and other

contests.

Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era (Boston) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition.

Weekly prizes offered by the Boston Post for original short stories by women, published each day. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prizes of two dollars and one dollar offered monthly by Wohelo (New York) for stories, short poems, and essays on subjects suggested by the editor, written by Camp Fire girls. Particulars in November WRITER.

WRITERS OF THE DAY.

Louise Kennedy Mabie, whose story, "Miss Gilsey Head Waitress," appeared in the January number of the American Magazine, and who has a story, The Jumping-Off Place," with the same heroine, in Munsey's for February, was born in Cleveland, but has lived all her life in and about New York. She comes of a literary family, her father, James H. Kennedy, being an editor and the author of several historical books and present-day fiction. Mrs. Mabie has written two novels, "The Wings of Pride," published by Harper & Brothers in 1913, and "The Lights Are Bright," brought out by the same publishers the following year. She has had short stories in Harper's Magazine, the Ladies' Home Journal, and the American Magazine, and several in Munsey's Magazine. Her

present intention is to keep on writing short stories for five years, and then to try another book.

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Dorothy Mills, or Dorothy Culver Mills, to be exact, whose story, Something Different," was published in the January Delineator, also has a story, Getting Acquainted,” in Everybody's Magazine for February. Miss Mills is a graduate of Wellesley College, and spent several years on the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home Journal, where she read manuscripts, wrote a number of editorials and special fiction articles, and conducted a department for girls, called "As We Go Marching On." Since then, with the exception of a few brief and profitable excursions into other fields of work, she has been at her home in Philadelphia, doing some publicity work, and slowly bringing her first efforts at short stories to a technical point where they will sell. Her first fiction sketch was sold to Every Week last spring. It was called "Wristers," and was, in a sense, a preface to the story, "Getting Acquainted," in Everybody's for February. "Something Different," in the January Delineator, was her first sale of a full-length short story, but she has also sold stories to Smith's Magazine and Today's Housewife. "My Day in Court," in the February Ladies' Home Journal, is a fiction article, based on the handling of women in the typical criminal court.

Edith Ballinger Price, whose serial, "Blue Magic," is now running in St. Nicholas, is a granddaughter of the late William T. Richards, the noted marine painter, and lives in Newport, R. I. Miss Price is by inclination and training an illustrator and portrait-painter, and she illustrates her own stories. studied art in Boston and New York, and has only recently taken up writing professionally. She has had stories and verse published in the Century, St. Nicholas, the Touchstone, and Contemporary Verse.

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parents came from literary Indiana. He has had poems in Scribner's Magazine, the Smart Set, Lippincott's (defunct), the American Magazine, the Youth's Companion, the Woman's Home Companion, the Delineator, the Independent, Poetry, Collier's Weekly, and other magazines. Mr. Starbuck, who is a lawyer, says that about the inns of court in Florida they tell the story of an old-time practitioner who, when asked his occupation, used to reply that he practised law for fua, but that he made his living by hunting. Mr. Starbuck says he makes his living by practising law, and writes for amusement. He has been writing for fifteen or sixteen years, and during the last eight years has had many poems accepted and printed. He hopes some day to have a book published.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

[ Readers who send to the publishers of the periodicals indexed for copies of the periodicals containing the articles mentioned in the following reference list will confer a favor if they will mention THE WRITER.]

American Re

EDMOND ROSTAND. With portrait. view of Reviews for February. GOOD AND BAD NEWSPAPER METHODS. Fred Ayres. Nebraska Printer for December.

THE PROBLEM OF MODERN POETRY. Ludwig Lewisohm. Bookman for January.

THE CASE OF MODERN POETRY AGAINST PROFESSOR LEWISOHм. Amy Lowell. Bookman for January. JOHN MASEFIELD IN YONKERS. Louise Townsend Nicholl. Bookman for January.

THE AMAZING STORY OF THE GOVERNMENT PRINTII. ING OFFICE. Henry Litchfield West. Bookman for January.

FRENCH WAR SLANG. J. F. McClure. Bookman for January.

THE CHILD IN THE WORLD. National Interpretations of Juvenile Literature. II. Italy, Alfonso Arbib-Costa; Ireland, Padriac Colum. Bookman for January.

YOUR NEWSPAPERS AND OURS. Bookman for January.

Maria Moravsky.

PITFALLS AND PERILS OF THE LITERARY PRODIGY (Dora Marsden's Discussion of Rebecca West ). Current Opinion for January.

MULTIPLE MYSTERIES OF ALLITERATION. Opinion for January.

Current

FREMONT OLDER'S EXPOSÉ OF NEWSPAPER ETHICS. With portrait. Current Opinion for January.

THE MORE OR LESS FACTITIOUS FAME OF EDMOND ROSTAND. Current Opinion for January.

LITERARY PROGENITORS OF BOLSHEVIST RUSSIA. With portrait of Leo Tolstoy. Current Opinion for January.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Bookseller, and Stationer for January 15.

Newsdealer,

SIR JAMES BARRIE'S "DEAR BRUTUS." Illustrated. Montrose J. Moses. Bellman for January 4.

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN POET (Lady Speyer). With portrait. Dorothea Lawrence Mann. Bellman for January 4.

"MODERN AMERICAN WRITERS." Bellman for January 18.

BAIRNSFATHER'S "THE BETTER 'OLE." Illustrated. Montrose J. Moses. Bellman for January 18.

MR. ROOSEVELT AS A LETTER WRITER. Joseph B. Gilder. Bellman for January 25.

WHAT LAFCADIO HEARN'S JAPANESE WIFE THOUGHT OF HER HUSBAND. Literary Digest for January 11. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Literary Digest for Jan

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NEWS AND NOTES.

A four-days' celebration in New York, from February 19 to February 22, inclusive, of the -one-hundredth anniversary, February 22, of the birth of James Russell Lowell has been arranged by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Invitations have been sent to leading men of letters in the United States and Canada, and also to Viscount Bryce, Robert Bridges, Rudyard Kipling, Augustine Birrell, Sir James M. Barrie, Sir Conan Doyle, Gilbert Chesterton, Dr. Gilbert Murray, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Galsworthy, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Edmund Gosse, Alfred Noyes, and other English authors. The literary exercises at the Ritz-Carlton Saturday morning, February 22, will be open to the public.

Edward J. O'Brien, whose fourth shortstory year-book, "The Best Short Stories of 1918," has just been published by Small, Maynard, & Co., has sailed for England, and expects to live for the next year at Oxford.

Professor Wilbur L. Cross's monumental biography of Henry Fielding is published by the Yale University Press in three volumes under the title, "The Story of Henry Fielding."

Theodore Roosevelt, nearly a year ago, made Joseph Bucklin Bishop his literary executor and assigned to him the exclusive use of all his personal and official correspondence for editing and publication and for use in preparing an authorized history of his life and public services. Charles Scribner's Sons will be the publishers.

Lawrence F. Abbott, of the Outlook, is writing "Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt," to be published by Doubleday, Page, & Co.

The autobiography of Ella Wheeler Wilcox is published by the George H. Doran Company under the title, "The World and I."

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'The Letters of Washington Irving and Henry Brevoort," edited by George S. Heilman, are published in two volumes by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

"Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin," by Vincent Starrett, is the title of a small volume published by Walter M. Hill, Chicago.

"The Novels of Ferdinand Fabre," by Ray T. Bowen (Richard G. Badger ), is a critical review of the work of the French realist, whose biography is given in an introduction.

"Robert Burns," by Edward Winslow Gilliam, is published by the Cornhill Company, Boston.

Moffat, Yard, & Company are now at 31 Union Square, West, New York.

The will of Robert J. Collier, head of P. F. Collier & Sons, publishers of Collier's Weekly and of other publications, made no provision for his wife, on the ground that her father had provided for her amply, and left property valued at more than $5,000,000 to Payne Whitney, Finley Peter Dunne, and Francis P. Garland, who have had charge of Mr. Collier's business since 1914, as residuary legatees. These three, together with George G. Kennedy and Frank H. Rice, who have been associated in the business for many years, and to whom bequests were made, have now renounced their right to act as executors and take the property, leaving Mrs. Collier to apply for administration papers, which she has done. In notifying Mrs. Collier of their action, the three friends of Mr. Collier say: "We believe that we understand and appreciate Mr. Collier's motives in making this will. He was intensely interested in perpetuating the paper which he had built and the publishing business which he had inherited from his father. We all remember the serious illness in 1914 which culminated in the stroke which he suffered in September of that year, and his great anxiety that his business should be carried on without reference to his personal affairs or his personal participation, and it was this that led him to entrust the business to a committee of his friends in order to enable it to be carried on for him. This trust is still in existence. We have no doubt that in making the will in the form in which we find it he intended to create a similar trust for those properties, bur if conditions existed at the time which made such a will advisable, we think they no longer exist."

The indictments against Max Eastman and his associates on the Masses, charged with violation of the espionage act, have been dismissed. The other persons thus rendered immune from prosecution on the indictments are Floyd Dell, C. Merrill Rogers, Jr., John Reed, a magazine writer, and Arthur Young, cartoonist. Henry J. Glintenkamp, another Masses defendant, who fled, supposedly to Mexico, is not relieved from prosecution.

Mrs. L. M. Montgomery Macdonald, of Leaksdale, Ontario, author of Anne of Green Gables," has brought a bill in equity against the Page Company of Boston, asking for an accounting of royalties. April 22,. 1907, Mrs. Macdonald, who was then Miss. Montgomery, sold her book to the L. C. Page: Company, Incorporated, and was to receive a royalty of ten per cent. on the wholesale price of each book sold. In 1914 the company conveyed all its assets to the Page Copany, which she alleges was without consideration and in fraud of her rights. The plaintiff also says that the Page Company sold a right to Grosset & Dunlap to get out a 50cent edition of the book, and that on the 150,000 copies thus sold she has received only two cents a volume. She says that the Page Company has rendered a rough accounting, but never an accurate one.

Herman Scheffauer, who was born in San Francisco, of German parents, and is now in Berlin, has been indicted in New York on a charge of treason.

Dr. Rossiter Worthington Raymond died in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 31, aged seventyeight.

David Lubin died in Rome January 1, aged sixty-nine.

Mrs. Eliza Osborn Putnam Heaton died in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 2, aged sixty years.

Theodore Roosevelt died at Oyster Bay, Long Island, January 6, aged sixty years.

Etienne Victor Lamy, permanent secretary of the French Academy, died in Paris January 8, aged seventy-three.

Roswell Martin Field died at Morristown, N. J., January 10, aged sixty-seven.

Dr. Horace Fletcher died in Copenhagen January 13, aged sixty-nine.

Benjamin Paul Blood died at Amsterdam, N. Y., January 15, aged eighty-six.

Herman Whitaker died in New York January 20, aged fifty-two.

Frederick A. Duneka, general manager of Harper & Brothers, who is credited with having recognized the merit of many manuscripts by new writers, died at Summit, N. J., January 24, aged sixty years.

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