At Both Ends of the Line, Halifax, 117

Author, Unknown, Cowing, 81

Author's Confession, Darrow, 10, 44

Authors in Ancient Times, Putnam (r), 74; Breakfast, 95;

Credit to, 54; Methods, 12, 187 (r); Pay, 79, 127; Rights,

Alden, 19

Authorship, First Qualification, White, 25

Baby's Kingdom, Cox (r), 30

Bacon's Cipher Story, Owen (r), 29, 92, 139

Ballads, Old English, Gummere (r), 139

Bartol, C. A., on Holmes, 162

Bates, Arlo, on Holmes, 166

Beautiful Joe, Saunders (r), 59

Because I Love You, Mack (r), 171.

Bell, M. B., Correctness, Snap, and Success, 69

Benton, Joel, on Holmes, 165

Berkshire, Picturesque (r), 121

Birthday, 44

Book-covers as Note-books, West, 140

Book-publishing, Business Side of, 104

Books for Writers, 89

Boyesen, H. H., on Holmes, 161

Brooks, Elbridge S., on Holmes, 164

Brooks, Noah, on Holmes, 163

Brother Against Brother, Optic (r), 157

Brotherton, Alice Williams, Cardwill, 84

Bryant's Word-list, 154

Burke, M. S., Home of M. A. Denison, 3

Burton, Richard, on Holmes, 166

Cable, G. W., on Holmes, 162

Caffyn, M, 80

Calif. or Cal., 43

Camp-fire Musings, Gray (r), 59

Cardwill, M. E., on A. W. Brotherton, 84

Catalogue, A. L. A (r), 58

Catharine Furze, Rutherford (r), 14

Characters in novels, 106; Names of, Hoke, 177

Chase of St. Castin, Catherwood (r), 171

Child, M. E., Short Story, 129

Childhood, First Three Years of, Perez (r), 75

Childocracy in Literature, Cole, 39.

Chisholm, W. B., Affectation in Literature, 4; The Dialect

Nuisance, 49

Chopin, Kate Schuyler, 115

Christ, Unknown Life of (r), 109

Clipping with a pin, 189

Clippings, Filing, Western, 145

Closson, O. T., contribution, 186

Cole, Pamela M., Childocracy in Literature, 39

Coles, Stephen L.. on R. Ottolengui, 97

Color-printer, Earhart (r), 56

Comma, Use of, Kellogg, 103, 135

Conversation in Novels, Vansant, 9

Correctness, Snap, and Success, Bell, 69

Cowing, E. K., Playwriting, 113; Unknown Author, 81

Cox, H. C, Illustration, 98, 119; Rejection Slips, 71

Critic, Steinle, 148

Cuts, Filing, 60

Dall Caroline H., on Holmes, 165

Darrow, Persis E., Author's Confession, 10

Day, Beth, Aggregations of Units, 52; Manuscript Market, 132

Delectable Duchy (r), 58

Denison. Mary A., Dialect, 2, 55; Editors and Publishers, 55;

Home of, Burke, 3

Dennis, A. W., Editorial I, 88

Dennison, W. G., Illustrator, Defence of, 119

Dialect, Chisholm, 49; Denison, 2, 55; Jackson, 27

Dictators, School for, Rhys, I

Dorr, Julia C. R., on Holmes, 163

Drama, Early, Palmer, 51

Dramatic Composition, Helps to, 28

Dyspepsia, Mental, Herrick, 114

Editors, Are They to Blame? White, 41; Irritated, Kearney,

12 and Publishers, Denison, 55

Fiction, Heredity af, Sheffey-Peters, 147; Introduction to,
Simonds (r), 187

Fisher, Sidney G., on Owen Wister, 130

Florida Sketch Book, Torrey (r), 171

Flower of Forgiveness, Steel (r), 158

Flower of France, Ryan (r), 110

Flowers, Wild, Hardinge (r), 122

Foote and Hook, Bon-Mots of, Jerrold (r), 121

Foreign Phrases, 168, 169

Foss, Sam Walter, Poems (r), 170

Francis, M. E., 160

French Grammar, Grandgent (r), 58

Friendship of Nature. Wright (r), 109

Furness, W. H., on Holmes, 162

Garland, Hamlin, on Holmes, 167

German for Americans, Mayer (r), 74; First Course, Heller

(r), 139

Ghosts, Literary, Morley, 7!

Gibson, A. H., Known to Unknown, 102

Gilman, N. P., on Holmes, 164

Good Style, Holt (r), 109

Graham, A. R., on Holmes, 187

Grant, A. Y., Stories, Why End Happily, 6

Groups, Names for. 52

Haire, E. C., Living by the Pen, 182

Hale, Edward Everett, on Holmes, 169.

Hale, A. M., on M. L. Pool, 180

Halifax, Jean, At Both Ends of the Line, 17

Harraden, Beatrice, 78; Books (r), 58, 92

Hawkins, A. H., 128

Hoke, H. M., Character Names in Fiction, 177; Literature for
Art's Sake, 23

Holmes, O. W., Death, 78; Jerrold (r), 57; Tribute to, 161-
168, 183, 187

Howard, F. M, Keeping Track of MSS., 178

Hygiene, Currier (r), 170

I Am Well, Post (r), 172

I, Editorial, Dennis, 88

Ice Water, Ice Cream, 11

Ideas, Huddle Your, Scarboro, 9

Illustrate, Learning to, 14

Illustration, Inconsistencies of, 118, 170; Cox, 98, 119; War-

Literary Beginner's Experience, Loes, 24

Literary Swindler's Confession, 152, 153

Literature for Art's Sake, Hoke, 23

Little Miss Faith, Le Baron (r), 157

Living by the Pen, Haire, 182

Loes, J. M., Literary Beginner's Experience, 24

Lourdes, Zola (r), 171

Love in Idleness, Crawford (r),. 170

Lover's Lexicon, Greenwood, (r ), '45

Lyon-Irons, A. L., contributions, 59, 60

Mabie, Hamilton W., on Holmes, 167

Magazine Articles, Preserving, 123

Magazine File, Wady, 140

Magdalena, 72, 120

Manning, J. W., Why Stories End Happily, 7

Manuscripts, Five Hundred Places to Sell, Reeve (r), 121;

Keeping Track of, Howard, 178; Market for, Day, 132;

Paper, Saving, 31; Placing, Shore, 150; Rejected, 12, 17,

10, 29; Returning, 169; Rolled, 92; Sending to several

points, 11

Marcella, Ward (r), 137

Meaningless, Cult of the, Morgan, 99

Merriman, Henry Seton, 80

Miller, Joaquin, on Holmes, 183

Mitchell, Donald G., on Holmes, 164

Mollie Miller, Merriman (r), 172

Morgan, Forrest, Cult of the Meaningless, 99

Morley, M. M., Literary Ghosts, 71

Mother, Will, and I, Coit (r), 139

Moulton, Louise Chandler, on Holmes, 183

Mucilage, Isham, 158

My Summer in a Mormon Village, Merriman (r), 157

Names in Fiction, Hoke, 177

Necrology, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160, 176, 192

Nervous Exhaustion, Beard (r), 171

New York, King's Handbook (r), 29

Newspaper Annual (r), 156; Directory (r), 107

Newspaper English, Scott, 18; Edited, 107, 120, 135, 154, 156,

187

Nom de Plume, 90

None, with plural verb, 135; for no other, 187

Note book, Chatelaine, 46

Note-heads for Authors, 46

Novel, Crawford (r), 136; Zola (r), 73

Obliged to have asked, 90

Ottolengui, Rodrigues, Coles, 97

Our Village, Mitford (r), 59

Page, Thomas Nelson, on Holmes, 183

Palmer, C. S., Early Drama, 51

Paper, Big Sheet of, 42; for MSS., Saving, 60, 73

Parables, Three Literary, Wilkie, 50

Paragraphs in MS., 43

Paris Note-book, Vandam (r), 109

Romance of a Schoolboy, Denison (r), 13

Romantic Professions, James (r), 108

Round the Red Lamp, Doyle (r), 188

Rouse, A.. Literary Scrap-book, 5

Sabbath Homes, Adler (r), 30

Sanborn, Frank B., on Holmes, 161

Sarpi, Fra Paoli, Robertson (r), 137

Scarboro, Jed, Huddle Your Ideas, 9

Schuler, H. A, Recent Words, 21

Schuyler, W., Chopin, 115

Scott, W., Newspaper English, 18

Scrap-book, Literary, Rouse, 5

Search for Andrew Field, Tomlinson (r), 138

Sheffey-Peters, M., Heredity of Fiction, 147

Shelley and Vegetarianism, West, 35

Sherlock Holmes, Doyle (r), 108

Ships That Pass in the Night, Harraden (r), 58

Shore, Robert, Placing MSS., 150

Siberian Exiles, Nieritz (r), 75

Sidney, Margaret, on Holmes, 163

Sirs, Only Seventeen, Townsend (r), 172

Slav and Moslem, Brodhead (r), 156

Smith, S. F., on Holmes, 163

Soul from Pudge's Corner, O'Donnell (r), 13

Stage, Studies. Matthews (r), 57

Stanton, Frank L., on Holmes, 163

Steinle, M. A., Critic, 148

Stories, Other, Johnston, 33; Why End Happily, 6

Story of a Bad Boy, Aldrich (r), 188

Story of Margrédel, Meldrum (r), 158

Story, Short, Child, 129

Switzerland, McCracken (r), 139

Synonyms, Bechtel (r), 75; Crabb (r), 57

Tablet Covers for MSS., 14, 59

Telegraph Tolls, Saving, 14

Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds, 155

Tennyson, Brooke (r), 138

Thompson, Francis, 79

Three Boys on Electrical Boat, Trowbridge (r), 188

Timely articles, 185

Title. changing, 185,

To-morrow is, or will be, 72

Torn pages mended, 76

Translations, 55, 169

Trilby, DuMaurier (r), 149, 171

Trowbridge, J. T., on Holmes, 167

True, E. C., on Trilby, 149

Two Bites at a Cherry, Aldrich (r), 14

Two-Legged Wolf, Karazin (r), 157

Typewriter Backing Sheet, 93

Typewriter Letters and Signatures, 70

Typewriting MSS., Rules for, Hills, 82

Umbrella Mender, Harraden (r), 109

U. S. History, Thomas (r), 170

Vansant, W. M., Conversation in Novels, 9

Vincent, W. D., Birth of the Etching, 53

Vocabulary, Enlarging, 15

Wady, C. S., Magazine File, 140; Shall Writers Advertise, 106

War of Independence, Fiske (r), 109

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, on Holmes, 183

Warman, E. D., Illustration, 146

Warner, Charles Dudley, on Holmes, 161

We, editorial, 186

Webb, E. S., MS. Reader, 20

Wee Lucy-May (r), 172

West, Kenyon, 32; Book-covers as note-books, 140; Shelley

and Vegetarianism, 35

Western, W. H., Filing Clippings, 145

White, E. L., Authorship, 25; Are Editors to Blame, 41

White Crown, Ward (r), 157

Widow, Leaves a, 134

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, on Holmes, 167

Wilkie, H. C., Three Literary Parables, 50

Winter, William, Shakespeare's England, etc. (r), 12

Wister, Owen, Fisher on, 130

Wolff, J., Writer's Cramp, 65, 71

Woman Suffrage, Jacobi (r), 122

Woodward, B. W., contribution, 28

Words, Bryant List, 154; Récent, Schuler, 21; Wellesley

List, 119

Writer, New, Chance for, 132

Writer's Correspondence, Isham, 151

Writer's Cramp, Wolf, 65, 71

Writer's Handbook (r), 107

Writer's Signature, 155

You-Uns, Jenwyl, 27

VOL. VII.

Why won't some one start a school for dic-

tators not political dictators, of course, but

the commercial article; the men who employ

stenographers?

Such a school would fill a real, long-felt want,

and there might then be less contrast between

the confused, disjointed production that many a

capable stenographer "takes down" and the

smooth, correct business document that he "tran-

scribes" from his notes. The idea is hereby

presented to any business college in the country

that will adopt it, and a few hints for the pro-

spectus are thrown in, as follows:-

"At this school persons intending to employ

No. 1.

stenographers are given a thorough training in

commercial dictation. All the instructors are

expert amanuenses, and will rigidly correct the

errors of students.

"In practising dictation no pupil will be

allowed to speak in a whisper. All words must
be spoken loud enough to be heard three feet
away, since few stenographers are smart enough
to take down what they do not hear. On the
other hand, the habit of bawling is discouraged.
To dictate in a loud, didactic style may impress
a casual visitor with your importance, but, as a
rule, dictating to the gallery is held to be bad

taste.

"Smoking is allowed while dictating, but the
cigar must be removed from the lips when the
dictator is actually speaking.

"Special attention is given to correcting the
er-er habit in dictators. No dictator will be
graduated from this school who uses er more
than once in every five words. It is expected
that some will do better than this.

"Speed in dictation is carefully cultivated,

and no person dictating less than twenty-five

words a minute will receive the certificate of

the school. The more speed, the less haste is

necessary to get through with a large mail; and

the danger of putting the stenographer to sleep

by too-slow dictation is a point that should not

be overlooked.

"For practice, actual business letters are

given to pupils to answer. It is expected that
these letters shall be read before answers to
them are dictated. The habit of dictating a
reply to a letter while reading it is discouraged,
as not being conducive to a polished style and
a methodical arrangement of the matter.

"Courses in elementary grammar and the
rudiments of the English language are given,