Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prizes of $2,000 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted

before June 1, 1920. Particulars in July WRITER. Prize of $2,000 for the best essay on "The Control of the Foreign Relations of the United States : the Relative Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities of the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in Theory and in Practice," of fered by the American Philosophical Society. Com. petition to close December 31, 1920. Particulars in July WRITER.

O. Henry Memorial Prize of $500, offered by the Society of Arts & Sciences, for the best short story published in America in 1919. Particulars in THE WRITER for April and May.

The Poetry Society of America prize of $500, offered through Columbia University, for the best book of poetry by an American published in 1919. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $500 for the best overture, offered by Hugo Riesenfeld, scores to be submitted to Edward Falck, Care of the Rialto Theatre, New York. Competition to close March 21, 1920. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prizes of five dollars, and two dollars for the best physique photographs published in Physical Culture each month, and in addition a prize of $100 for the best physique photograph submitted in the next six months beginning with November. Particulars in November WRITER.

Walker Trust open prize of £200 and eight limited prizes of £25 each for essays on Spiritual Regeneration," offered by the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, submitted before March 1, 1920. Particulars in June WRITER.

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, written by Camp Fire girls. Particulars in October WRITER.

The Boston Evening Record is paying one dollar each week day for a poem written by a Record

reader.

BOOK REVIEWS.

279 pp.

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THE AMERICAN LITERARY YEARBOOK. Vol. I. 1919. Edited by Hamilton Traub. Henning, Minn. Paul Traub. 1919. This is the initial volume of what is planned to be an annual series of books giving information about American authors, a record of their activities, and suggestions useful to literary workers. First come full-page portraits of Amy Lowell, Winston Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, and Harold Bell Wright. Next is an outline of a literary calendar for 1919, the intention being in future volumes to enter one or more important literary events for each day in the year. Section II is an in

complete record of books published in 1918, and Section III the main feature of the book includes 150 pages of brief biog raphies of American writers, with a list of pseudonyms. The Authors' Manual section of the book comprises about twenty pages, giving technical information and incomplete lists of American periodicals and publishers, with some information about their manuscript requirements.

THE STREET OF ADVENTURE. By Philip Gibbs. 437 pp. Cloth. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1919.

The fame won by Philip Gibbs as a war correspondent has awakened interest in this novel of London journalistic life, which he published ten years ago and which is now brought out in a new American edition, with an Introduction by the author. The book is well worth while, both as an interesting story and as a picture of newspaper work in Fleet street. Some of its characterization is remarkably good, and it tells incidentally a very pretty love story, not of the ordinary style. London journalists, it appears from Mr. Gibbs's book, take their newspaper life more seriously than American newspaper men are wont to do. To what extent the author has mingled facts with fiction is indicated in his Introduction, where he says: "In this novel there is a true picture of Fleet Street before the war. Many of the characters have been recognized as real people and have forgiven me for my portraits of themselves, not unkindly in intention, even when touched with caricature, as in one or two cases. It is no secret now that the newspaper was the Tribune, which lived and died before the war, as one of the most unhappy adventures of Fleet Street. Many of the incidents were pure inventions on my part, typical of journalistic life in London, but not associated with actual happenings in the Tribune office, and some of the minor characters and their actions have no reference to the history of that newspaper. What is more real, I think, than the incidental episodes of the narrative is the atmosphere and psychology of the journalistic picture, which ought to be true because it is part of my own life."

THE DECAMERON, OR TEN DAYS' ENTERTAINMENT, OF BOCCACCIO. India paper edition. 555 pp. Cloth. Cincinnati Stewart & Kidd Company. 1920.

book upon European literature has been wide and profound. Apart from the narrative interest and beauty of conception which mark its finest stories, the salient feature of the Decameron is the contrast between the subjects and the style. The matter is mediaval, while the form is classical. The two great tendencies which run through European literature, the classical and the romantic, are seen working together in the Decameron as they are hardly to be seen elsewhere. spite the indelicacy of the novels, the impression left by the book as a whole is neither one of frivolity nor of grossness.' This new edition of the book is beautifully printed, with a portrait of Boccaccio and artistic lining papers. It is a very handy vol

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NEWS AND NOTES.

A monument to Eugene Field, "the children's poet," is to be erected near the children's playground in Lincoln Park, Chicago, with the $9,000 collected for the Field Memorial Fund, which was started by Chicagoans after the poet's death, November 4, 1895. In Denver there is to be erected a statue representing "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," three of Field's immortals.

The Society of American Dramatists and Composers is now installed in new quarters at 148 West Forty-fifth street, New York City, which were furnished and equipped for the society by its president, George M. Cohan. At the annual meeting Percival Wilde was elected secretary of the society, and Henry Erskine Smith, treasurer.

A national association of editors of business papers published throughout the United States has been formed, and these officers have been elected: President, A. I. Findley, editor Iron Age, New York; vice-president, Clay Cooper, editor Mill Supplies, Chicago; secretary-treasurer, R. Dawson Hall, managing editor Coal Age, New York. The executive committee will consist of two New York men, Julian Chase, Glass Journal Company; B. O. Hough, American Exporter ; two Chicago men, A. McQuilkin, National Builder; E. T. Howson, Railway Age; and two committeemen at large, Charles J. Stark, Iron Trade Review, Cleveland, and Harvey Whipple, Concrete, Detroit.

Otto A. Rothert, 1321 Starks Building, Louisville, Ky., asks persons possessing letters from the late Madison Cawein to lend them to him for possible use in his projected biography of the poet.

"The Art of the Novelist," by Henry Burrowes Lathrop (Dodd, Mead, & Co.), discusses the art and structure of the modern novel.

"Marse Henry," by Colonel Henry Watterson (George H. Doran Company), gives in two volumes the memoirs of the famous Kentucky editor.

"Four Americans," by Henry A. Beers (Yale University Press), comprises studies of Roosevelt (as a man of letters), Hawthorne, Emerson, and Whitman.

"The Country Life Press," published by Doubleday, Page, & Co., is an illustrated book describing the plant of the publishers on Long Island and including sketches of Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Joseph Conrad, Booth Tarkington, Stewart Edward White, Gene Stratton-Porter, Selma Lagerlöf, and Kathleen Norris, with Kipling's own account of "My First Book," and a Kipling Index and an O. Henry Index. The book will be sent on request to librarians, teachers of literature, or others especially interested in literary matters.

In addition to the biography of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by her sister, Mrs. Sanchez, Charles Scribner's Sons announce for publication "A Book of R. L. S.," a compilation by George E. Brown of information about Stevenson his "works, travels, friends, and commentators," all alphabetically arranged under the names of works, persons, places, etc., that it forms a Stevenson encyclopædia.

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"Douglas Jerrold, Dramatist and Wit," by Walter Jerrold (George H. Doran Company), is a two-volume biography by the grandson of the novelist, journalist, and dramatist.

"A History of English Literature," by Robert Huntington Fletcher (Boston: Richard G. Badger), is a revised edition of a work first published in 1916, which differs from the old edition only in slight textual changes and in having more than one hundred illustrations.

"A Subject-Index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser," compiled by Charles Huntington Whitman, professor of English at Rutgers College (Yale University Press), is a minute index of the names of persons, places, animals, and things in all of Spenser's poems, and so a Spenser concordance.

“Dunsany, the Dramatist," by Edward Hale Bierstadt (Little, Brown, & Co.), is a revised edition of a book published two

years ago.

"Ibsen in England," by Miriam Alice Franc (Boston: The Four Seas Company ), is a study of the introduction of Ibsen's plays into England and their influence on English drama, particularly on the work of Shaw, Pinero, and Jones.

E. P. Dutton & Co. have published an American edition of J. W. T. Ley's "The Dickens Circle."

The demand for American books in all lines in China is so large that it has led the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, of Rochester, N. Y., which entered the book field in China a few years ago under the name of the Chinese American Publishing Company for the sale of law books and the publications of D. Appleton & Co., to open an up-to-date American book store in Shanghai, with arrangements for exclusive representation in the Far East of many American publishers.

W. S. Braithwaite's annual review of the best poetry of the year was printed in the Boston Transcript for October 25, and Edward J. O'Brien's annual review of the best short stories of the year was printed in the Transcript for November 28.

Gustav Pollak died at Cambridge, Mass., November 1, aged seventy years.

Professor Calvin Thomas died in New York November 4, aged sixty-five.

Walter Edward Weyl died in New York November 9, aged forty-nine.

Edgar Stanton Maclay died in Washington November 9, aged fifty-six.

Dr. Franklin Carter died at Williamstown, Mass., November 22, aged eighty-two.

Francis Whiting Halsey died in New York November 24, aged sixty-eight.