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The Writer's Directory of Periodicals.

The information for this Directory, showing the manuscript market and the manuscript requirements of many publications, has been gathered directly from the editors of the periodicals, and is strictly up to date.

The second printing of the Directory, which is Coastantly being revised and enlarged, began in THE WRITER for February, 1916, and a five-years' subscription beginning with December, 1916, will give the Directory complete, together with much other printing valuable matter. The third is now ju

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$1.25; 15C. Mrs. C. M. Parker, editor.

An educational monthly journal superintendents, teachers, school ents, and pupils.

Illinois.

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Science and Invention (formerly Electrical Experimenter) (M), 233 Fulton st., New York. $3.00: 25c. H. Gernsback, editor.

Uses general and popular articles of scientific . nature, with photographs. Particularly desires electrical, mechanical, and medical articles, Prints scientific stories, and poetry on radio an electrical subjects. scientific humorous verse, and runs a monthly prize contest for scientifi: How humor. Has many departments, such as to Make It," as well as a radio section monthly Sets prize laboratory contest. length limit words. Buys photographs.

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from 3.000 Pays on publication. Scientific American (W), Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York. $6.00; 15c. Austin C. Lescarboura, managing editor.

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Prints general articles, long and
science and industrial subjects, but no fiction or
poetry. Buys department matter relating to in-
ventions, as well as photographs. Pays on ac-
ceptance.

Scientific American Monthly (Successor to Scien-
Woolworth
tific American Supplement) (M),
Building, New York. $7.00; 60c. A Russell
Bond, editor, Austin C. Lescarboura, managing
editor.

Uses articles of a scientific and technical na-
ture, setting length limit at 5,000 words. Buys
photographs, and pays on acceptance.
Scientific Monthly (formerly the Popular Science
Monthly) (M), Science Press, Sub-Station 84.
New York. $3.00; 30c. J. McKeen Cattell, editor.

. Prints articles appealing especially to educated readers, as opposed to purely popular matter intended for the public generally. Does not pay for manuscripts.

Scout News and Guard Journal (M), 13-21 Park
Row, New York. $1.00; IOC. V. C. Kylberg,
editor.

Mail returned by the postoffice.
Scribner's Magazine (M), Charles Scribner's Sons,
597-599 Fifth ave., New York. $4.00; 35c. Robert
Bridges, editor.

A general magazine of the highest class.
Constantly on the alert for new authors in every
line of general interest, and almost any
script of high quality, except of very technical
character, is interesting to the editor.

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Sea Power (M), 528 Seventeenth st., N. W., Washington, D. C. $3.00 (included in membership in the Navy League of the United States); 25c. William M. Galvin, editor.

The organ of the Navy League of the United States. Uses fact articles relating to the navy. nautical and merchant marne, foreign trade, naval history, universal military training, patriotic, economic, and kindred subjects, or excep tional stories of general interest. Prints short stories relating to the sea, as well as poetry and humorous verse of the sea, and jokes. Buys photographs of interesting and artistic marine

views, short scenes, landscapes, etc. Sets
within
length limit at 4,000
and pays

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thirty days after publication. Semper Fidelis (M), Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S. C. Corporal C. Hundertmark, editor. Publication discontinued.

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Seven Arts
$2.50; 25c. James Oppenheif, editor.

Publication discontinued, November, 1917. Sewanee Review (Q), Sewanee, Tennessee. $2.00; 50c. John M. McBryde, Jr., editor.

Prints essays and book reviews, Limits articles at from 3,000 to 4,000

words; does not fiction: does not

buy photographs; prints no pay for contributions. Shadowland (M), 177 Duffield st., Brooklyn, N. Y. $3.50; 35c. Eugene. V. Brewster, editor; Frederick James Smith, managing editor.

A new magazine devoted to the stage, screen,
and kindred arts, issued by the publishers of
the Motion Picture Classic and the Motion Pic
ture Magazine. Uses articles pertaining to the
various arts and matters of unusual interest:
short stories touching upon either the theatre
or the motion-picture studio; playlets; poetry;
humorous verse; and short fillers. Sets length
limit for stories and articles at from 1,700 to
2,000 words; and pays on the fourth
month following acceptance.

Short Stories' (M), Doubleday, Page, &
Garden City, L. I., N. Y. $2.50; 25c.
Maule, editor.

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one complete novel, serials, novelettes, and from twelve to fifteen short stories in each the issue. Length limits for complete nove!, from 55,000 to 60,000 words; for short stories, from 4,000 to 7,000 words, running sometimes up Fiction must and be brisk clean, primarily of action and plot for American magazine readers seeking amusement. Especially interested in adventure stories of the West, the North, and the Northwest. May treat of adventure, humor, mystery, or the outdoors; must avoid the abnormal, psychological or sex-prob Prints no lem story. poetry, humorous or jokes. Does not buy photographs, and pays on acceptance.

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Uses poetry, humorous verse, jokes, and fillers, with a motion-picture slant. Prints no fiction. buys no photographs, and pays on acceptance. Furniture Age (M), 4828 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Ill. $2.00; 25c. E. M. Wakefield, editor.

Prints articles of general trade interest concerning the actual business practice of successful furniture merchants - stories concerning "the other man's way." Few manuscripts purchased unless accompanied by photographs of window and floor displays, etc. Buys many photographs, but prints no fiction, no verse, and no jokes, Sets length limits at from 500 to 1,200 words, and pays one cent a word on acceptance.

National Pictorial Magazine (M), Hydro Building,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada. $1.50;
Antony Kennedy, editor.

15c. William

Uses short stories, novelettes, serials, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, juvenile matter, and jokes. Articles should be of from 500 to 1,800 words. and should have world interest, preferably with a Canadian setting or subject mat ter, or with a British setting, either in England or her colonies. Stories should contain from 2,000 to 4,000 words, and should be of a bright. cheerful outlook; clean and well told, and may treat of young love, clean adventure, success, of the triumph of right over wrong the chief requirement being that they must be real stories have a point and be distinctive. No depart mental matter is purchased, but photographs bought, and payment is made after publication.

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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 five-years' subscription beginning with December, 1916 (price $7.50), will give the Directory complete, with additions and

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS

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Has any one ever read a pamphlet of the United States statutes bearing the title "An act to amend an act . . and to codify, revise, and amend the Penal Laws of the United States (Act of March 4, 1909, 35 Stats. 1088)"? No one but the initiated knows the meaning of as much as the title ; and the subject matter, being exceedingly complicated and wearisome, is not apt to make popular reading. However, the pamphlet evidently means something to those concerned, even if unwittingly concerned, and being among the latter class I found myself obliged to read it.

After repeated efforts I found that it has to do with the awarding of prizes in lotteries, gift enterprises, and schemes, and more par

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ticularly the transmission through the mails of matter pertaining to such lotteries, gift enterprises, and schemes. And this is how I was unwittingly concerned, and how many others may be also.

A large and prominent musical club, with which I am affiliated, offers every year a money prize for a musical composition. This contest is open to all American composers, there is no entrance fee required, the compositions are submitted under an assumed name, and a board of judges (who are not connected with the club) are invited to pass judgment on the compositions. As the club desires to maintain a high standard of composition, the proviso is included in the announcements that "the club reserves the right to withhold the prize if no worthy material is submitted." Surely that is an honest announcement.

The postmaster, however, informs us that according to the laws prescribed and printed in the United States statutes (an act to amend an act, etc, 35 Stats, 1088, etc.) concerning lotteries, gift enterprises, schemes, etc, we are not permitted to include the proviso of withholding the prize in any case whatever, as we are using the mails to announce the contest to the unsuspecting public, and we are obliged to award the prize, regardless of the musical value of the submitted material.

Thinking the case was misunderstood or misrepresented, I wrote to the postmaster, who in turn wrote to the solicitor of the postoffice department in Washington, and again I received the same reply.

How can the standard of American composition be placed and maintained on a high level, if the awarding of a prize to inferior material is legally binding, and where is the lottery or chance in an honest competition

where musicianship and art are the requirements and chance has nothing to do with it? Prize contests, literary, scientific, or artistic, are a recognized stimulus to creative work, but there must be absolute confidence on the part of all concerned that the awards

will be made on the basis of merit, and not because the penal laws, which were framed with other intentions, compel the prize-giving.

PHILADELPHIA, Penn.

Elizabeth A. Gest.

PUBLICITY WORK FOR SCHOOLS.

Writing stories about the students in a state normal school for their home papers would not seem, on the face of the thing, to be remunerative work, much less a means of earning one's way through college, but it is the way I have met the high cost of going to school. I began writing stories about students when I took the freshman course in newspaper English. I did the work wholly for credit and soon found that I could not write a story of the achievements and triumphs of the boys and girls from the old home town so poorly that their home papers would not publish it with flaunting headlines. To all would-be writers who would receive the inspiration and encouragement that comes from seeing their copy in print my advice is - write somebody up for his home paper. As for material there is no more fertile field than the college campus, or rather the people who frequent it. Every one has a story if you but have the nose for news that can scent it out and then can write your story in plain, straightforward English. For example, the readers of the Caney Daily Chronicle want to know that "Miss Sarah Martin, a former Caney girl who will receive her degree from the Kansas State Normal School in June, topped the teacher market for women last week when she accepted a position in the Elmdale Rural High School at a salary of $1,750." Likewise the Wilson County Citizen is glad to publish the fact that "Leonard Bowman, a native of Wilson county, is a member of the Gilson Players, a dramatic organization in the Kansas Normal School, and is playing the leading part in Charles Rann

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Kennedy's play The Servant in the House' this winter."

But there are stories with a more general appeal. The leading daily paper of the state published a story with the photograph of a penniless young English girl who came to America for adventure and ended by working her way through the Kansas State Normal School grading papers for overworked professors. The story of the boy who caries full school work, despite the fact that a bullet has been lodged in his brain for eight years, was used widely in the Associated Press.

Then there is the brave little widow who with her three children is struggling to finish her education in order that she may go again into the teaching profession and support her family, and there is the seventeen-year-old boy who is the youngest man who has ever represented the Kansas Normal on a debate team; there is the girl who has been elected to the honorary scholastic fraternity, and the precocious sophomore boy who still wears knee breeches-any and all of whom would make good stories literally to be had for the writing.

But where does my pay come in? Surely not from the "home papers." No. from the school publicity department. The department has come to believe that the school can put out no better brand of publicity than the story of how Hal Davis tore through the Aggie line for thirty-five yards in three successive downs, or how Miss Ima Adams threw away her notes when her opponents launched an argument which she had not anticipated and spoke extemporaneously in a rebuttal that

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would be an exhaustive answer that would cover the whole subject. Of course, if the question is taken literally, to apply only to the publishing of poetry, its scope is limited, for very little real poetry is written nowadays. In all probability, however, the questioner is thinking of more than that poetry, nearpoetry, verse, rhyme, free verse, maybe even doggerel, rhythmic varieties of all of which, with the exception of real poetry as noted, we see a great deal in print. How, then, about its publishing?"

In the first place, it may be said that poetry to be used hereafter as a generic term is published in three ways in newspapers, in magazines, and in books. The newspapers, as

a rule, do not pay for poetry. There are some exceptions, like the New York Herald, the New York Sun and the New York Times, but they only serve to prove the rule. Some sarcastic newspaper editors even go so far as to offer to print poetry if the poets will pay them so much a line-sometimes more than advertising rates. At the same time, newspaper verse is not to be despised. Some of it is little more than doggerel, but most of it at least means something, and much of it expresses human sentiment in an effective if not always in a wholly poetic way. A poet eager to get his productions before the world do well to send them to good newspapers, without expectation of payment for them. In doing this, if they are accepted, he will get them before a large audience, and he may get as much money for them as he would by offering them to magazines, for the poetry market in the magazines is limited. A few of the high-grade magazines and weekly periodicals pay good prices for poetry or what the editors regard as poetry, much of it, some severe critics say, rhythmic word puzzles, with more sound than sense. A considerable number of the lesser magazines buy poetry, but they do not pay for it much more than the newspapers do

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two or three dollars for a poem, although some of them may pay five dollars and a few even ten dollars or fifteen dollars for something that the editor likes. To make a living

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