"The bring fairy tales to a satisfactory conclusion. For any one who does not believe this tale, the documents are in convent so-and-so" is the formula in Portugal. "The knife with which he killed himself is still preserved in such-and-such a place," says the Japanese. "If it is not true, my grandfather is a fibber," says the Swede. In French they end up with: "The cock crew and it became day." In Rumania the commonest ending is : King went away and became a monk in the Convent of Lies on the other side of the stream of truth." Hungary adopts a quite irrefutable ending: "And if he has not died he is still living." Germany also is cautious: "If I am lying, then he also lied who told me the story." Holland introduces a species of deus ex machina: "Then came a huge hog with a long nose and blew the story out." New York Evening Post. LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS. [ Readers who send to the publishers of the periodicals indexed for copies of the periodicals containing the articles mentioned in the following reference list will confer a favor if they will mention THE WRITER.] LITERATURE AND BAD NERVES. Wilson Follett. Harper's Magazine for June. WORDS WE WOULD WILLINGLY LET DIE. Richard LeGallienne. The Lion's Mouth, in Harper's Magazine for June. THE MENACE OF INFANT GENIUS. Ben Ray Redman. The Lion's Mouth, in Harper's Magazine for June. JAMES HUNEKER. H. L. Mencken. Century for June. THE BOOK OF JACK LONDON. III. Jack London as a Boy. Charmian London. Century for June. THE POET'S RELIGION. Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Century for June. WHITMAN AND THE CULT OF CONFUSION. Norman Foerster. North American Review for June. RABINDRANATH TAGORE. With portraits. Mentor for May. AVANEL BOONE AND THE YOUNG AMERICAN POETS OF RUSSIAN BLOOD. Vachel Lindsay. Dial for May. THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS AS A LITERARY INSPIRATION. Robert Morss Lovett. Reprinted from Asia in Current Opinion for May. SHOULD MOVING PICTURES rent Opinion for May. BE CENSORED? Cur PRINT OR PUBLICATION. Etude for May. WHY I WRITE WESTERN STORIES. With portrait. Zane Grey. American News Trade Journal for May. SUCCESSFUL COMPOSING. Musical Courier for April 28. JOHN A. SLEICHER. With portrait. Fourth Estate for May 7. THE POET LAUREATE OF NEBRASKA (John G. Neihardt). With portrait. Literary Digest for May 14. THE BOOK OF 1920. Literary Digest for May 14. JOHN BURROUGHS. Nation for April 13. THE PROGRESS OF POETRY: GERMANY. Ludwig Lewisohn. Nation for April 13. THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELISTS. V. — Joseph Hergesheimer. Carl Van Doren. Nation for May 25. NEWS AND NOTES. President Harding has given three diplomatic appointments to literary men, sending George Harvey as American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Richard Washburn Child as ambassador to Italy, and Jacob Gould Schurman as minister to China. At a recent session of the legislature of Nebraska, the senate and house passed a joint resolution, declaring John G. Neihardt Poet Laureate of the state. The Nation (New York) has added 10 its staff of contributing editors Professor Robert Herrick, Henry L. Mencken, Anatole France, John A. Hobson, of London, and Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, of Zurich. America is to have a House of Poets to be a sort of shrine for living poets. It will be built in New York and the first dean to be nominated for the honor of making his home there is Edwin Markham, author of "The Man with the Hoe." The American Commission in Berlin reports a practical return to normal production in the book-publishing business. The peak of production of German books was in 1914, when 35,000 were published. The number decreased annually during the war, as follows: 1915, 28,000; 1916, 22,000; 1917, 14,824 ; and 1918, 14,513. Large increases in 1920 were noted in general bibliography and collected works, history, geography, belles-lettres, art, and juvenile books, while there was a decrease in the publication of works on military science. "Notes on Life and Letters," by Joseph Conrad (Doubleday, Page, & Co.), is a collection of reprinted essays on Henry James, de Maupassant, Daudet, Turgeney, Anatole France, and a variety of subjects. The Macmillan Company have published "The Intimate Life of Sir Walter Scott," by Archibald Stalker. "Kipling's Sussex," by Thurston Hopkins, will be published by D. Appleton & Co. The book is a record of the country which has served as a background for so many of Kipling's songs and stories. An "Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," by Ernest Weekley, will soon be published by E. P. Dutton & Co. "Shakspere's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592," by Arthur Acheson (New York: Brentano's), gives new light on the presonnet period, shows the inception of relations between Shakspere and the Earl of Southampton, and displays John Florio as Sir John Falstaff. A "Handbook for Newspaper Workers," by Grant M. Hyde, is published by D. Appleton & Co. Professor Charles Alphonso Smith has prepared a biographical sketch of O. Henry, with examples of his work as a short story writer, which has been published in pamphlet form by the Martin & Hoyt Company, of Atlanta. Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling is writing the life of her brother, William de Morgan. Georg Brandes has completed an extensive work, both critical and biographical, upon Goethe. According to the Americke Delnicke Listy (American Workingman's Daily), published at Cleveland, a series of American novels is being translated into Czechish for the benefit of the Czechs in this country. The first novel chosen for this purpose is Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter." A fund is being raised by the people of Dalton, Ga., the birthplace of Will N. Harben, to endow some form of memorial which will perpetuate the name of the popular southern novelist. An O. Henry Memorial Association has been formed in Pittsburgh for the purpose of erecting a memorial, either a monument or a bronze tablet, to the short story writer, who lived in that city during 1901. Some of O. Henry's best stories are supposed to have been written in Pittsburgh. As a tribute to the memory of Barrett Wendell, the University of Paris has decided to name one of its lecture rooms of the English language section of the faculty after this brilliant man of letters, the room to be known as "Salle Barrett-Wendell." Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet and author of the words of several well-known songs, is to have a monument in Chicago, to be erected by popular subscription. The Cape Cod Magazine has passed under a new management, having been acquired by ex-Senator Charles L. Gifford, who will manage the business end of the publication. L. C. Hall of Wareham, Mass., is editor. The executors of Walter Scott have decided to sell 5,200 letters addressed to Scott between 1796 and 1831 by many writers, including Wordsworth, Southey, Maria Edgeworth, Byron, and Lamb. John Burroughs left to Dr. Clara Barrus, his secretary, the entire royalties and income from his books and writings, and assigned her to be his biographer. The rest of his estate, which is valued at less than $20,000, is left to his relatives. Lady Gilbert ("Rosa Mulholland") died in England April 26. Professor Melville Madison Bigelow died in Brookline, Mass., May 4, aged seventyfour. Fannie E. Ostrander died in New Haven, Conn., May 4, aged sixty-two. John A. Sleicher died at Albany May 5, aged seventy-two. Dr. Titus Munson Coan died in New York May 8, aged eighty-four. 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 constantly 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 valuable matter. The third printing is now in progress. Before submitting manuscripts to any publication, it is advisable to secure a sample copy. (Continued from June WRITER.) Show Horse Chronicle ( W ), 137 East Main st.. Lexington, Kentucky. $5.00; single copies not sold. Herbert J. Krum, editor. Buys manuscripts and photographs relating to horses. Smart Set (M), 25 West 45th st., New York. $3.00; 25c. George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken. editors. Uses novelettes, short stories, essays, poetry, and epigrams anything that is well written and out of the general rut. Style is an impor tant element, as the magazine caters to persons who are educated, wordly-wise, and of good taste. Does not buy photographs, and pays immediately on acceptance. Smith's Magazine (M), Street & Smith, 79 Seventh ave., New York. $2.00; 20c. Charles Agnew MacLean, editor. An all-fiction magazine, using short stories. novelettes. serials, and poetry. Prefers vivid romance, through which stirs deep, thrilling usually love of stories, course. emotion Snappy Stories (S-M), New Fiction Publishing Mc sex Uses short stories and novelettes, with a appeal treated either in a light, deft manner or else with strong emotional appeal no vulgar or nasty stories; poetry and humorous verse; one-act plays; epigrams; and fillers. Buys no photographs or departmental matter. Sets length limits stories, from 1,500 to 5.000 words; novelettes, from 12,000 to 15,000 words. Pays on ceptance. ac Social Progress (M), Howard-Severance Co., 205 West Monroe st., Chicago, Ill. $1.50; 15c. Caroline Alden Huling, editor. "A Magazine for the New Day." Prints general articles of interest to members of a family; special articles on child culture from the standpoint of physical training and health, characterbuilding, education, parental responsibility and discipline, and co-operation of home and school. Uses one short story, of about 1.500 words. in each issue, and one serial running about four months. Has department for boys and girls, using stories. verse, puzzles, biographical articles, and general hints. Pays within thirty days. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES. 799 200. A new magazine for men, using short stories, novelettes, and serials, but no general articles. poetry, or juvenile matter. Stories must be of the sturdy, red-blooded type that appeals to men, and for this purpose sport, out-door, adventure, wanted. Sets detective, and western stories are length limits: short stories, from 3,000 to 6.000 words; novelettes, from 12.000 to 25.000 words: and serials, from 40,000 to 60,000. Buys 110 photographs, and pays on acceptance. All matter submitted to Ace High is also considered for Telling Tales. Action Stories (M), 366 Fifth ave., New York. $2.00; 20C. A new magazine, with stories complete in each issue. Stories should measure up to the title of the magazine, and be swift moving and well told. Adventure and detective stories particularly wanted. Canadian Countryman (W), 198 Richmond st., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Daniel McKee, editor. Uses short stories and serials, preferring stories of a "homey nature, with action and plot laid in the country when possible. Wants по sex stories, no poetry, and no juvenile matter. Pays after publication. Florida Magazine (M), Jacksonville, Florida. $2.50; 25c. Harry S. Ford, editor. ог A new magazine, desiring interviews with interesting people, with photographs, particularly with those living all or a part of their time in Florida. No press-agent matter, but good live stories of the ways in which these successful people have avoided the mistakes or improved upon the methods of others. Uses short stories; general articles; possible poetry humorous verse; jokes; and some juvenile matter. Sets no length limit; buys photographs; and pays for solicited matter upon acceptance, and for unsolicited matter upon publication. Fun Book (M), Dennis, Harvey, & Remington, Inc., 1432 Market st., Wheeling, W. Va. $2.50: 25C. Albert N. Dennis, editor: Alleen McKenzie. associate editor; Thos. O'B, Flynn, managing edi Uses short stories, serials, novelettes, general articles, poetry, humorous verse. jokes, plays, and juvenile matter. Has departments: "Odds & Ends," using descriptive stories of 100 words, with pictures of something of particular inter est ; Art & Artists: "The Progress of Science : Progressive People: "The Bestest Time of All" (children's department); "The Stage & Screen : and Literary, Depart ment; for all of which matter is purchased. Wants high-class strong fiction, but not highbrow, and with little dialect love stories, stories of adventure, good circus stories, sea stories, race-horse stories. animal adventure stories for grown-ups," in which children figure as the main characters; travel articles: articles on big issues of the day; articles showing trend of progress in any field; and articles and pictures of progressive people: juvenile stories; and poetry (free verse and metrical). Sets no length limit, buys photographs, and pays on fifth and twentieth of each month. Screenland (M). Markham Building, Hollywood, California. $2.00; 20c. Myron Zobel, editor. 66 Uses short stories, an occasional serial, general articles on the movies. and poetry and humorous verse about the movies. Sets length limit at 2,000 words, seldom buys photographs, and pays upon publication. 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 and with December, 1916 (price $7.50), will give the Directory complete, with additions changes bringing everything 110 to date. To be continued in August WRITER ) A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS Conceit is not in the word uttered but in the spirit of the utterance. I am so far from my personal goal that I keep modest easily. Yet I have been forced to do a large amount of production. This has ranged from song lyrics through light humor and serious verse to book production on social themes. I have sold material to almost sixty magazines. This is merely a prelude to the statement that I have had to work many times under pressure. I hold a half-dozen staff positions, and my material must come in by a certain monthly date. I do extensive lecturing, which interferes with my opportunities for literary work. No. 7. My answer to the frequent question, "How do you do it?" is invariably this: "I use artificial stimulants." I do, too. One of the very best is a literary journal right at my writing table. It often gives me an intense desire to write, when my mind has been far removed from a literary world. I get THE WRITER when I am out on the road and when I get into a comfortable hotel I have a very simple system of marking up its market notes. Notes that hold some small interest I mark with a single line; I double-line the items that should be given immediate attention. I go through the advertisements the same way. Because of this system I have lately established three new markets, any one of which I expect to be worth hundreds of dollars to me before the relationship ceases. THE WRITER and other literary periodicals always excite enthusiasm and enthusiasm really is the stuff that the lay members love to call inspiration. Not long ago I took some WRITERS and copies of another similar magazine to a poet friend of mine. In less than twenty-four hours he had work typed and sent off in six separate envelopes, and he sold work out of every one of the six. Yet I find dozens of would-be writers who never think of putting themselves in the position of receiving the outflowing enthusiasm. I try to read all the best verse appearing in periodicals. I rarely read a group of lyrics in a public library or in my home but that I find myself putting them down to go to my writing-table. I get the collections of the various "Best's " the best lyrics of the year, the best short fiction, and so on. Nobody can arbitrarily set himself up as the literary judge supreme; but I do not deny any anthologist his fling. I enjoy reading |