ered for myself some things that others have found valuable. But I have gone a step further than your writer: besides keeping an entrybook account for all the offered-for-publication children of my brain, I have kept on each page an entry of how long manuscripts have been retained before being returned; how much was paid for them if they were accepted; and other small items, of interest to no one but myself, the whole forming a condensed history of the article published. This affords me amusement, sometimes, when years have passed, and prevents me from sending the same article to a publisher twice.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

H. A. W.

I beg leave to "speak out in meetin'" on the subject of your third editorial in the November number of THE WRITER. There is one magazine writer who of no note, as yet, however has papered his sanctum with the returned-withthanks slips of the magazines that failed to recognize his burning genius at first acquaintance. He began the practice about two years ago, and though he has moved his quarters now to a more congenial vicinity, the walls of the old room still bear witness to the herculean efforts he made to get into the magazines then. Moreover, he found the habit a most efficient check to that disease known as the "swellhead," when, at rare intervals, a small check of another sort drifted in from some publisher, and was in imminent danger of increasing the author's hatband. Having used this preventive-cure, he feels qualified to recommend it, and as the medicine is neither patented nor difficult to procure, he thinks you would do well to suggest its use to the many readers of your magazine who feel, that however brilliant they may be, there are others twice as bright.

Everard T. Appleton.

SALT SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.

Why should an editor believe it to be just cause for irritation when an author, in all innocence of heart, informs him that another periodical has accepted the contribution which he declined? Suppose, for instance, a poor creature should do her very best to make a bonnet which she was sure would suit me, having me in mind with every stitch she put in it, and

then, with heart beating high with hope, should bring it to me, willing to take my price for it. Suppose that I am so well supplied with bonnets that suit me better in style and finish that I cannot possibly take hers; is that just cause for me to feel piqued when she comes with beaming eyes, expecting me to rejoice with her that some other woman, not so well supplied as I, has taken it? Should I not be glad that her toil has been rewarded, instead of suspecting her of the meanness of trying to retaliate by letting me know that there were people who knew a good article when they saw it, and, therefore, by implication, are not so obtuse as I? Should I not rejoice in her joy? I think so. WASHINGTON, D. C. Kate Kearney.

BOOK REVIEWS.

DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS. Compiled by M. A. Weston and A. L. Nay. 30 pp. Paper, 25 cents. West Peterboro, N. H. Josiah C. Nay. 1893.

All published lists of periodicals like this are of necessity more or less unsatisfactory, because suspensions, combinations, and changes of address are made so frequently that printed lists cannot be depended upon for any great length of time. This list, for instance, includes Wide Awake, the Weekly Review, the Home Maker, and some others which are no longer published, and there are numerous wrong addresses and other errors in the list. So far as it can be depended upon, the little book is useful, but it should not be trusted too implicitly.

OLD SHRINES AND IVY. By William Winter. 296 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892.

This dainty new edition of the works of William Winter will be welcome to the many admirers of that talented American critic, poet, and essayist. The well-made 18mo volumes are most attractive to the eye, and the edition is in every way a satisfactory one. In "Shakespeare's England" Mr. Winter writes with sympathy and charming grace of English life and scenery, - describing, as the preface says, not so much the England of fact as the England created and hallowed by the spirit of her poetry, of which Shakespeare is the soul." The portrait prefixed to "Wanderers" is an interesting one. The poems included in the

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W. H. H. 441 pp. Cloth, 1894.

RACHEL STANWOOD. Lucy Gibbons Morse. $1.25. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. "Rachel Stanwood" is, as the sub-title says, "a story of the middle of the nineteenth century" in other words, of the time just before the civil war, when the abolitionist excitement was at its height. The story is written from the abolitionist point of view, and among the characters in it the reader will find real persons like Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, Jacob Abbott, the Hutchinson family, Ole Bull, and Frederika Bremer. This use of well-known names, and the evident truthfulness of the book, so far as its descriptions of the abolitionists are concerned, give to it a peculiar vividness which cannot fail to impress the reader. Two interesting love stories run through the tale. Altogether it is an important addition to the too short list of American historical novels.

W. H. H.

A PRINCESS OF THULE. By William Black. Illustrated. 505 pp. Cloth, $2.00. Boston: Joseph Knight Company. 1894.

Black's "A Princess of Thule " may well be counted now among the standard novels, and so well deserves the handsome dress which the Joseph Knight Company has given it. The binding of the book is most attractive—a combination of sage green and gold, with an odd side cloth, which gives it a unique appearance.

THROUGH EVANGELINE'S COUNTRY. By Jeannette A. Grant. Illustrated. 100 pp. Cloth, in box, $2.00. Boston: Joseph Knight Company. 1894.

Now that the attractions of Nova Scotia are becoming more generally known, in consequence of the increase of tourist travel thither during recent years, information about "the country of Evangeline" is generally desired. In this beautiful little volume Jeannette A. Grant supplies the need in a most satisfactory way, combining history, and legend, and description of scenery with such a skilful art that her book has all the value of a guide book, with all the attractiveness of a well-written story. The publishers have enclosed the volume in a dainty cover of vellum cloth, beautified by an effective design in red and gold, and it is illustrated with thirty or forty artistic half-tone pictures of Acadian scenery. There is also a colored

frontispiece picture of Evangeline, from a painting by Edwin Douglass, and the book has a map of Evangeline's country, which the reader will find very useful.

W. H. H. RICHARD ESCOTT. By Edward H. Cooper. 251 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1893.

No

"Richard Escott," by the author of "Geoffrey Hamilton," is an interesting story. one who reads it will deny that the Honorable Richard Francis Milner Escott was, as the author says, a "phenomenally wicked person." The story of his misdoings is not a particularly edifying one, but, as his wickedness is duly punished, and his life ends with a wretched suicide, which helps to bring happiness to other people, the moral of the book is not irregular, and in the mean time the story entertains.

CATHARINE FURZE. By Mark Rutherford. Edited by his friend, Reuben Shapcott. 325 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1893.

Catharine Furze is the daughter of an English iron-monger, whose mother has aspirations toward a higher social position. The girl's father fails in business; the mother fails to attain the position she desires; an honest young fellow who loves Catharine fails to win her love in return; the girl who loves him dies after failing to arouse his interest; and Catharine herself dies at the end of the story, the one love of her life having been given hopelessly to a married minister, who loves her hopelessly in return. The novel is differentiated from the average French novel by the artifice of having both the girl and the minister control the unhappy passion, and, as the author says, even get good from it. The characters are generally well drawn, and the story is fairly well told throughout.

W. H. H. Two BITES AT A CHERRY. With other tales. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 269 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. 1894.

Mr. Aldrich's stories are always exquisite,

and this collection of the latest of them is a delightful one. The book includes "For Bravery on the Field of Battle,'" "The Chevalier de Resseguier,” “Goliath,” “ My Cousin, the Colonel," "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," and "Her Dying Words." It is a dainty volume, and it will be welcomed by all of Mr. Aldrich's admirers. Already the book has reached its fifth thousand.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

W. H. H.

respecting author would think of rolling even the roughest of his notes. What then? Why, tablet covers, to be sure! Your copy of all kinds should be of about the same size as your note paper. Hunt up a cover, or, better still, keep a supply ready, and lay therein your story. Place a rubber band over each end, and you may almost play football with your manuscript. It will keep for years, unsoiled. F. E. M. CHICAGO, Ill.

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A Literary" Incubator."- One of the pigeon holes above my desk I have named "The Incubator." Its use, as the name implies, is for the development of idea-germs. When one or "ideas seem promising, they are transferred, each in separate envelopes, to the "incubator," where notes or clippings are added to each as the subject develops in the mind or by one of the most study. I find the "incubator useful assistants in my work. F. E. M. CHICAGO, Ill.

Learning to Illustrate." C. B. M.," who inquires in the September WRITER how he can best learn to draw well enough to make simple illustrations for his stories, might derive some benefit from reading the Art Student for November, which contains the original of an illustration reproduced full size, and then the same illustration reproduced as it appeared in the magazine for which it was made. A visit to any of the large publishing houses and a view of the many originals of illustrations would be of great benefit to one who wished to illustrate his own articles. SING SING, N. Y.

L. E. W.

Saving Telegraph Tolls. - Telegraphing at press rates nowadays is comparatively cheap, but where messages are sent over long distances, as from Chicago to San Francisco, for example, the telegraph tolls are considerable and the saving of superfluous words is a matter of importance. In news despatches it is customary for correspondents to mark the filing time at the beginning of the message, thus: "Filed 8.30," or whatever hour the message is sent. These words are included in the telegraph company's count of words; signatures are not; accordingly, some regular correspondents indicate the hours of filing by using

different given names in their signatures. For instance, Charles Diehl is manager of the Pacific Associated Press, and he appears under many aliases during the night. At 7 o'clock he is "Paul" Diehl, at 7.30 "Peter," at 8 "John," and so on. The manager of the Associated Press at Chicago, who, of course, has a key, can tell the filing time of any despatch from Diehl by looking at the signature. A story is told, by the way, of a new telegraph editor on the Chicago Tribune, who wondered at the number of different Diehls sending despatches from San Francisco, and who swallowed whole the ingenious story that there were thirteen brothers who worked harmoniously together the most wonderful group of newspaper men in all the world.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.

R. T. S.

For the

Enlarging One's Vocabulary. purpose of enlarging my vocabulary, I keep a (sometime) blank-book, divided into twenty-six different parts, thus giving a proportionate amount of space to each letter of the alphabet. When, in my reading or in conversation, I am confronted by a word with which I am not wholly familiar, I immediately jot it down in my "private vocabulary," with list of synonyms, definitions, examples of use, etc. I find this practice very useful as an aid to memory.

SKANEATELES, N. Y.

E. N. B.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

[The publisher of THE WRITER will send to any address a copy of any magazine mentioned in the following reference list on receipt of the price given in parenthesis following the name. Readers who send to the publishers of the periodicals indexed for copies containing the articles mentioned in the list will confer a favor if they will mention THE WRITER when they write.

Helen

Charles Dudley

THE ENDING OF BARSTOW's NOVEL. A Story. Campbell. Harper's (35 c.) for January. ILLUSTRATORS AND ILLUSTRATION. Warner. Harper's (35 c.) for January. WHITTIER DESULTORIA. Charlotte F. Bates. Cosmopolitan (15 c.) for January.

HUMOR: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. Agnes Repplier. Cosmopolitan (15 c.) for January.

EDWIN LASSETER BYNNER. With portrait. Edward Everett Hale. New England Magazine (25 c.) for January. MATTHEW ARNOLD. With portrait. Joseph Henry Crooker. New England Magazine (25 c.) for January.

TEN LETTERS FROM COLERIDGE TO SOUTHEY. Atlantic (35 c.) for January.

LOWELL, BROOKS, AND GRAY IN THEIR LETTERS. Atlantic for January.

FOLLOWING DICKENS WITH A CAMERA. H. H. Ragan. Outing (25 c.) for January.

ELISÉE RECLUS AND HIS OPINIONS. With portrait. Helen ZIMMERN. Popular Science Monthly for January.

TENNYSON AS THE POET OF EVOLUTION. Theodore Watts. Reprinted from Nineteenth Century in Littell's Living Age (18 c.) for December 9.

HOW FAUNTLEROY REALLY OCCURRED. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Ladies' Home Journal ( 10 c. ) for December. MY LITERARY PASSIONS. - I. William Dean Howells Ladies' Home Journal ( 10 c.) for December.

THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THOMAS BRAGDON. A Story. John Kendrick Bangs. Harper's Weekly (10 c.) for December 16.

JOHN TYNDALL. With portrait. Professor N. S. Shaler. Harper's Weekly ( 10 c.) for December 23.

T. W. HIGGINSON. With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 2.

THE IDEAL LIBRARY: OF WHAT SHOULD IT BE CONSTITUTED? Sarah K. Bolton, John Habberton, Mary Lowe Dickinson. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 9.

AN ALASKA NEWSPAPER. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 9.

CELIA THAXTER. With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 9.

W. T. STEAD. With portrait. Charles F. French. Chicago Graphic ( 10 c.) for December 16.

ALPHONSE DAUDET. With portrait. Chicago Graphic for

December 16.

DONALD GRANT MITCHELL ("Ik Marvel "). With portrait. Chicago Graphic for December 23.

JOHN TYNDALL. With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 30.

VICTORIEN SARDOU. With portrait. Chicago Graphic (10 c.) for December 30.

THE FORUM AND ITS EDITOR (Walter H. Page). With portrait. MAIDA, THE REPORTER. A Story. Frank W. Bolande. A MIDNIGHT MISTAKE. A Newspaper Story. Thomas F. Anderson. THE SCIENCE OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM. Robert F. Walsh, etc., etc. Christmas Journalist (25 c.).

DEALING WITH EDITORS. Wilder Grahame. Journalist (10 c.) for December 30.

THE STORY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES. With portraits of E. L. Wilson, J. Traill Taylor, W. J. Stillman, Charles Ehrmann, W. I. Lincoln Adams, Walter F. Woodbury. Photographic Times Christmas number ( 25 c. ).

A CASE OF AUTHORSHIP.

A Story. Thomas R. Van Reed. Californian (25 c.) for December.

New

LITERARY COMMERCIALISM. William B. Chisholm. Peterson's Magazine (10 c. ) for December. JOURNALISM AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN. Emily Rawford. Reprinted from Contemporary Review in Eclectic ( 45 c.) for December.

CHURCH AND PRESS. J. Thackray Bunce. Reprinted from National Review in Eclectic (45 c. ) for December.

REALISM IN LITERATURE AND ART. Clarence S. Darrow. Arena (50 c.) for December.

GERALD MASSEY: PROPHET AND Reformer. B. O. Flower. Arena (50 c.) for December.

MR. HOWELLS AGAIN. Celia Parker Woolley. New England Magazine (25 c.) for December.

ered for myself some things that others have found valuable. But I have gone a step further than your writer: besides keeping an entrybook account for all the offered-for-publication children of my brain, I have kept on each page an entry of how long manuscripts have been retained before being returned; how much was paid for them if they were accepted; and other small items, of interest to no one but myself, the whole forming a condensed history of the article published. This affords me amusement, sometimes, when years have passed, and prevents me from sending the same article to a publisher twice.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

H. A. W.

I beg leave to "speak out in meetin'" on the subject of your third editorial in the November number of THE WRITER. There is one magazine writer of no note, as yet, however - who has papered his sanctum with the returned-withthanks slips of the magazines that failed to recognize his burning genius at first acquaintance. He began the practice about two years ago, and though he has moved his quarters now to a more congenial vicinity, the walls of the old room still bear witness to the herculean efforts he made to get into the magazines then. Moreover, he found the habit a most efficient check to that disease known as the "swellhead," when, at rare intervals, a small check of another sort drifted in from some publisher, and was in imminent danger of increasing the author's hatband. Having used this preventive-cure, he feels qualified to recommend it, and as the medicine is neither patented nor difficult to procure, he thinks you would do well to suggest its use to the many readers of your magazine who feel, that however brilliant they may be, there are others twice as bright.

Everard T. Appleton.

SALT SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.

Why should an editor believe it to be just cause for irritation when an author, in all innocence of heart, informs him that another periodical has accepted the contribution which he declined? Suppose, for instance, a poor creature should do her very best to make a bonnet which she was sure would suit me, having me in mind with every stitch she put in it, and

then, with heart beating high with hope, should bring it to me, willing to take my price for it. Suppose that I am so well supplied with bonnets that suit me better in style and finish that I cannot possibly take hers; is that just cause for me to feel piqued when she comes with beaming eyes, expecting me to rejoice with her that some other woman, not so well supplied as I, has taken it? Should I not be glad that her toil has been rewarded, instead of suspecting her of the meanness of trying to retaliate by letting me know that there were people who knew a good article when they saw it, and, therefore, by implication, are not so obtuse as I? Should I not rejoice in her joy? I think so. WASHINGTON, D. C. Kate Kearney.

BOOK REVIEWS.

DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS. Compiled by M. A. Weston and A. L. Nay. 30 pp. Paper, 25 cents. West Peterboro, N. H. Josiah C. Nay. 1893.

All published lists of periodicals like this are of necessity more or less unsatisfactory, because suspensions, combinations, and changes of address are made so frequently that printed lists cannot be depended upon for any great length of time. This list, for instance, includes Wide Awake, the Weekly Review, the Home Maker, and some others which are no longer published, and there are numerous wrong addresses and other errors in the list. So far as it can be depended upon, the little book is useful, but it should not be trusted too implicitly.

W. H. H.

SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND. By William Winter. 274 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892. WANDERERS. The poems of William Winter. With portrait. 268 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1893.

SHADOWS OF THE STAGE. By Winter Winter. 387 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892. OLD SHRINES AND IVY. By William Winter. 296 pp. Cloth, 75 cents. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892.

This dainty new edition of the works of William Winter will be welcome to the many admirers of that talented American critic, poet, and essayist. The well-made 18mo volumes are most attractive to the eye, and the edition is in every way a satisfactory one. In "Shakespeare's England" Mr. Winter writes with sympathy and charming grace of English life and scenery, - describing, as the preface says, "not so much the England of fact as the England created and hallowed by the spirit of her poetry, of which Shakespeare is the soul." The portrait prefixed to "Wanderers" is an interesting one. The poems included in the