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Because of the deadlock between the employing printers, supported by the publishers, and the printers in New York, more than 200 periodicals, inciuding magazines and trade journals, have suspended publication until the labor troubles can be straightened out. For the same reason the publication of books has been delayed. Among the periodicals that have ceased publication temporarily are Collier's, the Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazar, House & Garden, McCall's, the Metropolitan, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Today's Housewife, the Woman's Worid, the Christian Herald, Good Housekeeping, Hearst's Magazine, the Independent, McClure's Magazine, the Outlook, the Theatre, the People's Home Journal, Vogue, the Delineator, Everybody's Magazine, the Home Sector, the Designer, and the many publications issued by the

Frank A. Munsey Company. Trade papers to the number of 119 have also suspended publication. The leading New York book publishers have decided to stand with the periodical publishers in the fight. One result of the trouble is that some of the periodical publishers will remove from New York to other cities. The November issue of McClure's is being printed in Cincinnati, and the announcement has been made that the Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Hearst's Magazine will hereafter be published in Chicago.

Brand Whitlock, instead of being made Ambassador to Italy to succeed Thomas Nelson Page, has been nominated to be Ambassador to Belgium.

The playwrights' protective association referred to in a note in the October WRITER has become a section of the Authors' League of America known as the Dramatists' Committee, with Channing Pollock, chairman, and including 112 dramatists and scenario writers, more than thirty-two of whom, all working dramatists, are new members of the League.

The International Editorial Association, a fraternal and beneficial organization to be composed of newspaper men of every state which was formed in Chicago last May, will hold its first convention in Kansas City December 12, 13, and 14. Among the features of the association are sick and death benefits, an employment exchange, a national home, a clipping bureau, a feature syndicate, a bureau of information, an official publication entitled Editor and Reporter, and an Americanization bureau. The secretary is Claude R. Diegle, managing editor of the Milwaukee Leader.

Frank L. Wilstach has presented to the New York Public Library a collection of scrapbooks entitled Curiosities of Journalism."

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"New Words Self-Defined," by Professor C. Alphonso Smith (Doubleday, Page, & Co.), is a collection of words that have come into use within the last few years, presented in sentences that show their meaning.

"A Guide to Russian Literature," by Moissaye J. Olgin (Harcourt, Brace, and Howe), covers more than a hundred Russian writers whose works appeared between 1825 and 1917.

"The New Poetry," by Mary Prescott Parsons (H. W. Wilson Company), is a study outline of American, English, and Irish poets whose work has appeared since 1900. "Books and Things," by Philip Littell (Harcourt, Brace, & Howe ), is a collection of essays reprinted from the New Republic. Books in General," by Solomon Eagle (Alfred A. Knopf), is made up of essays on bookish matters reprinted from the New Statesman.

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"The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson," by her sister, Mrs. Nellie van de Grift Sanchez, is published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

"The Youth of James Whitcomb Riley," by Marcus Dickey, intimate friend of the Hoosier poet and for many years his manager and secretary, is published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

"A Labrador Doctor," Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Houghton Mifflin Co.), is an autobiography.

"Why Authors Go Wrong," by Grant M. Overton, is made up of essays on writing and publishing, most of which have appeared in the Books and the Book World supplement of the New York Sun.

“Modern English Writers," by Harold Williams, is published in this country by Alfred A. Knopf.

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"Expository Writing," Mervin James Curl (Houghton Mifflin Company), is a handbook that accompanies direction with illustration.

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The Principles of Playmaking," by Brander Matthews (Charles Scribners' Sons), is a collection of essays on dramatic topics.

"The Theatre Through Its Stage Door," by David Belasco (Harper & Brothers), discusses aspects of the modern theatre and the art of acting.

A new and enlarged edition of "The Symbolist Movement in Literature," by Arthur Symons, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

"Scottish Literature," by Gregory Smith (The Macmillan Company ), is an historical survey and study of Scottish writers.

"Traditions and Change : Studies in Contemporary Literature," by Arthur Waugh, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

The American edition of Edmund Gosse's "Some Diversions of a Man of Letters" is announced by Charles Scribner's Sons.

"Distinguished Authors," by John W. Sanborn, Friendship, N. Y., is a small book published by the author.

Duffield & Company have removed to 211 East Nineteenth street, New York.

Hearst's International Library Company is now the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (New York).

Albert Whitman, formerly with Rand, McNally, & Co., has started a new publishing business, under the name of Albert Whitman & Co., 144 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago.

John A. Mitchell, principal owner and editor of Life, left an estate valued at $953,300. The figures show that the average net earnings of Life for three years were $164,400 a year.

Professor John F. Genung died at Sunderland, Mass., October 1, aged sixty-nine. Henry Mills Alden died in New York October 7, aged eighty-two.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox died at The Bungalow, Short Beach, Branford, Conn., October 30, aged sixty-four.

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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 ions and

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS.

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'Civvies," used to mean a soldier's civilian clothes, is British slang. In this country it is better to say "cits," the expression which has been used by the officers and the men of our regular army for many years.

Purists who declare that a preposition should not be used at the end of a sentence

according to the rule in the rhetoric, "Never use a preposition to end a sentence with " are answered thus by Ted Robinson in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Such an objection strikes us as being uncommonly pedantic. A preposition, says the humorously paradoxical old rule, is a poor word to end sentence with. a But not see what such a rule was made for. It is a poor one to go by. Hard and fast

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laws, unless they are those of actual grammar, cannot always be adhered to. Often, indeed, they are better departed from."

The correct use of breeding terms has been established by the Department of Agriculture, which has published a circular giving these definitions :

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A purebred animal is one of pure breeding representing a definite, recognized breed, both of whose parents were purebred animals of the breed. To be considered purebred, live stock must be either registered, eligible to registration, or (in the absence of public registry for that class) have such lineage that its pure breeding can be definitely proved. To be of good type and quality, the animal must be healthy, vigorous, and a creditable specimen of its breed.

Thoroughbred The term "thoroughbred" applies accurately only to the breed of running horses eligible to registration in the General Stud Book of England, the American Stud Book, or affiliated Stud Books for thoroughbred horses in other countries.

Standardbred Applied to horses, this term refers to a distinct breed of American light horses, which includes both trotters and pacers eligible to registration in the American Trotting Registry. Applied to poultry, the term includes all birds bred to conform to the standards of form, color, markings, weight, etc., for the various breeds under the standard of perfection of the American Poultry Association. Scrub A scrub is an animal of mixed or unknown breeding without definite type or markings. Such terms as native, mongrel, razorback, dunghill, piney woods, cayuse, broncho, and mustang are somewhat synonymous with "scrub," although many of the animals described by these terms have a certain

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