should be written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic to develop character, chastity, and integrity in a young man. Manuscripts should be addressed to the editor, Father Ryan.

The Poet & Philosopher Magazine, which has removed from Tampa, Florida, to 32 Union Square, East, New York, would like to examine poems of all kinds, short plays in verse, short practical articles on the poet's craft, and short stories in which the poet surmounts all obstacles that block his path to

success.

The New Pen, a magazine for and by new writers, published by J. Moses, 216 East Fourteenth street, New York, is a new monthly magazine devoted to the publishing of new writers' work and constructive criticism. Every new writer is invited to contribute poetry, fiction, and drama of any nature and length. Manuscripts possessing any merit at all will be published and written on by fellowcontributors. In this manner, one writer will criticise another writer's work. Salable manuscripts are not wanted, and the New Pen is not a literary magazine, and will not publish literary market news nor technical articles. It aims to be the practice book for the new comer in the literary field, and to assist him to reach his goal through mutual co-operation.

The Measure (New York) will be published hereafter by the editors instead of by Frank Shay, and Louise Townsend Nicholl has been elected editor for the September, October, and November numbers.

Film Stories (New York), the People's Magazine (New York), and Motion Picture Life (New York) will all be published semimonthly, hereafter.

Judge Martin T. Manton has appointed John B. Johnston and Myles D. Walsh receivers in equity for McClure's Magazine. The complaint stated that the company's liabilities exceeded $250,000, that the assets were in excess of this amount, but that the company was short of funds for expenses, and that a re

ceivership was necessary for the protection of creditors. Mr. Walsh announced that the proceeding was a friendly one to enable the company to re-organize its finances, and that the publication of the magazine would be continued, at least temporarily.

The Army & Navy Journal (New York) has been sold by W. C. & F. P. Church to Colonel Henry J. Reilly, who will take charge of the publication at once.

Mail sent to Harry Ford, Florida Magazine, Jacksonville, Florida, is being returned by the postoffice.

The closing date for the contest for the best poem to be read at Birmingham's semi-centennial celebration, has been fixed at October

20.

The Lega Musicale Italiana, Inc., 128 West Forty-ninth street, New York, has extended the date for the presentation of manuscrips in its contest for the prizes offered for an opera in one act and a ballet from September 30 to October 31, 1921.

The Chicago North Shore Festival Association offers a prize of $1,000 for an orchestral composition, the term signifying a work

for orchestra alone, not a concerto for piano,

or violin, or a composition for a solo voice, or for voices with orchestra. The piano, however, may be used a purely orchestral instrument. No work may exceed fifteen minutes' duration in performance, and the five works considered best by the judges will be given a public rehearsal without the identity of the composers being known. Each score must bear a motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing the name and address of the contestant, and having the motto on the outside. All contestants must be of American birth or naturalized American citizens, and no work that has been previously performed or published may be submitted. The contest will close January 1, 1922, and the winning composition will be performed at the final concert of the 1922 Festival under the direction of the orchestral conductor or Festival Association. If in the opinion of the Festival orchestral

conductor the successful contestant is capable of directing his own work, he will be permitted to do so. Compositions should be sent by insured parcel post to Carl D. Kinsey, Business Manager, 624 South Michigan avenue, Chicago.

The Chicago Daily News announces a prize of $10,000 for the best scenario submitted, ten prizes of $1,000 each for the next ten scenarios in order of merit, and twenty prizes of $500 each for the next twenty. The Goldwyn Picture Corporation will film and produce the $10,000 prize-winning scenario.

The Etude (Philadelphia) offers prizes of $15, $10, and $5 for the best letters, of from 600 to 1,000 words, on "How I Earned My Musical Education." The letters must embody practical experience, offer some workable plan for a relatively novel character, and show how obstacles apparently insurmountable were overcome by ingenuity, initiative, vision, and

energy.

The Chicago Tribune offers a prize of $5,000 to mural painters for the most suitable designs for the embellishment of the news room in its new plant. The designs must portray some important phase or episode in the history of journalism. The contest will be held under the supervision of the Chicago Art Institute, which has offered ten free scholarships to painters wishing to work on the Tribune designs.

Contemporary Verse (Philadelphia) offers three sets of prizes five of $40, five of $20, and five of $10 to the poets whose work in the magazine during 1921 shall be. deemed best by three judges chosen outside the editorial staff. The judges will be Lizette Woodworth Reese, John Hall Wheelock, and Professor Felix E. Schelling.

The American Song Composers' festival was held at Greenwood, Indiana, June 1, 2, and 3, and the first prize of $100 for the best art song in the "Indiana Song Contest" was awarded to Harold Wansborough, of South Bend, for his song, "Spring," and the second prize of $50 was awarded to Merle Kirkman,

Prizes in Letters offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism: for the best American novel published this year, $1,000; for the best play performed in New York, $1,000; for the best book of the year on United States history, $1.000; for the best volume of verse by an American author, $1,000. Also, Prizes in Journalism, amounting to $3.000 and a $500 medal, and three traveling scholarships having a value of $1,500 each. All offered annually under the terms of the will of Joseph Pulitzer.

Prizes of $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, and $500, and twenty prizes of $250 each for the best twenty-four short stories published by the Photoplay Magazine during 1921. Particulars in August WRITER.

Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300, and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 21, 1922. Particulars in May

WRITER.

The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Lit erature, value to £100, offered annually by the British Academy. Particulars in May, 1920, WRITER.

Annual Hawthornden prize of £100 offered in England for the best work of imaginative literature in English prose or poetry by an author under forty years of age that is published during the previous twelve months.

Prize of $1,000 for the best essay on "Contributions of Jews to Hygiene," offered by the Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, competition to close November 1, 1922. Particulars in April WRITER.

Prize of $50 offered by Telling Tales for the best lyrical poem submitted by November 1. Particulars in March WRITER.

Ten prizes of $100 each offered by the True Story Magazine for the best true stories submitted during 1921. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of $500 for the best story, and prizes of $100 each for the five next best stories, offered by the New Success Magazine, contest closing December 31. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of 100 guineas offered by the Talbot Press, Dublin, for the best Irish novel submitted by June 1, 1922. Particulars in July WRITER.

year and next between the two best essays 011 "Toleration in Economics, Religion, and Politics." Contest for this year's prize to close September 1, and for next year's prize, not later than March 1, 1922. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prizes of $1,000, $500 and $500 offered by the Francis D. Pollak Foundation for Economic Research for the best essays submitted during 1921. Particulars in March WRITER.

Thomas A. Edison prize of $500 for the most meritorious research on "The Effects of Music," contest to close October 1. Manuscripts should be sent to W. V. Bingham, Director Division of Applied Psychology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Penn. Particulars in May WRITER.

American Music Optimists' prize of $500 for the best quintet (piano and strings) by an American composer. Competition will close November 1. Particulars in February WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 for a symphony, and a prize of $500 for a piece of chamber music, offered by the Paderewski Fund for American Composers, contest extended to close December 31. Particulars in June WRITER.

Berkshire Music Colony prize of $1,000 to the composer of the best string quartette, contest closing April 15, 1922. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of $50 offered by the Depauw University School of Music for the best composition for organ submitted by January I. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of $200 offered by the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia for a dramatic musical setting, or an operetta, based on Longfellow's poem, "The Masque of Pandora," contest closing November 1. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of $500 offered by the World M. P. Corporation for a second verse for the song, Empty Arms." Particulars in July WRITER.

Prize of $400 for the best full-length play and prize of $100 for the best one-act play submitted by October 15, offered by the Community Theatre, Hollywood, Calif. Particulars in August WRITER.

Prize of $200 in gold for the best pageant based upon the history of osteopathy, offered by the School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo., contest closing January 1, 1922. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prizes aggregating $300 offered by the American Humane Association, Albany, for the best essays dealing with the trapping evil, contest extended to end December 31. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $100 offered by Grenville Kleiser for the best list of fifty prose similes selected from standard authors. Contest closes November 1. Particulars in July WRITER.

Two prizes offered by Poetry for the best work printed in the magazine in the twelve numbers ending with that for September $200 for a poem or group of poems by a citizen of the United States, and $100 for a poem or group of poems by any author, without limitation. Particulars in April WRITER.

Monthly prize of five dollars for best criticism of the most distinctive story in Brief Stories (formerly Little Story Magazine), Philadelphia. Particulars in April WRITER.

Honorarium of $50 for the most meritorious piece of poetry published in the Granite Monthly during 1921. Particulars in January WRITER.

Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era (Boston) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition.

Prizes of two dollars and one dollar offered monthly by Everygirl's Magazine, formerly Wohelo, (New York) for stories, short poems, and essays, written by Camp Fire girls. Particulars in October WRITER.

Weekly prizes offered by the Boston Post for original short stories by women, published each day. Particulars in May WRITER.

WRITERS OF THE DAY.

Arthur Brewster Carter, who wrote the story, "A Less Than One-Way Ticket," which was published in the People's Magazine for August, was born and educated in Wilmington, Massachusetts. He is now secretary to the chief engineer of the Boston City Transit Department. Mr. Carter has had verse and short stories published in Adventure, Holland's Magazine, the New York Observer, Judge, and the Smart Set, the titles of some of his recent stories being, "Skinny While You Wait," "The Whirling Conqueror," and "A Defeat of Fate."

Frank Dorrance Hopley, who wrote the story, "He Loved and Lied," which was printed in the August number of Wayside Tales and Cartoons Magazine, is one of the newer writers. He is employed in a secretarial capacity and writes only in his spare time, but he has had thirty-five short stories published in the last four years in Munsey's Magazine, the Top-Notch Magazine, the People's Magazine, Snappy Stories, the Parisienne (now the Follies), the Chicago Ledger, Chicago News, Saucy Stories, the People's Popular Monthly, Power, the New York Times, the New York Herald, the New York Sun, the Christian Endeavor World, and various religious and technical publications. Besides fiction, Mr. Hopley has written considerable verse, a number of descriptive articles, the most recent one, "Famous Pavements," having been published in the Progress

Magazine for June, and more than fifty editorials of an inspirational character which have appeared during the past two years in the Dearborn Independent. During the past year Mr. Hopley has been Secretary of the New York Writers' Club.

Cornelia Meigs, whose story, The Black Sheep's Coat," was published in the July St. Nicholas, is a graduate of Bryn Mawr college, and for a time taught English at Saint Katharine's School, Davenport, Iowa. For the past five years Miss Meigs has devoted herself to the writing of books for children. Her published work includes "The Kingdom of the Winding Road," a book of short fanciful stories for children of from eight totwelve; "Master Simon's Garden," a historical tale of Colonial and Revolutionary times for children of from twelve to sixteen; "The Steadfast Princess," a play for young actors that won the Drama League prize; and “The Pool of Stars," a book for girls of from twelve to sixteen. These are all published by the Macmillan Company, who have in press two more of Miss Meigs' books, "The White Peacock," a play for children, and The Windy Hill," a book for girls.

PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT AUTHORS.

Mundy. Most of the many writers who were born in Maine, or who live there, make Maine a frequent theme of their work. Talbot Mundy is an exception. He has lived in Maine for many years, though a native of England, but his stories commonly have to do with things on the other side of the world.

"Why did I start writing? The price of pork and beans made it necessary. I just got hungry enough, which is always a good thing for beginners. I was in New York, and I knew Jeff Handley, a red-haired reporter on a paper there. I would pound out stuff on the typewriter, and Jeff woull come home, look my stuff over, say it was rotten, which it was, and make me go ahead doing more of it. Finally, under the stint of his irony I wrote a story and sold it to Frank Munsey. It was about British soldiers. They all told me nobody wanted to read about British soldiers,

but that was all I knew to write about, so I went on writing about British soldiers.

"My first book, Rung Ho.' was really a sort of glorified short story. That is, it began as a short story and turned into a book. I never began really to write, though, until I got in Maine. Everybody was so dashed independent in Maine so friendly natural. Why, I never knew what life was until I sat on a curbstone in Norway Norway, Me. and swapped yarns with a banker.

"I was a citizen of Great Britain until nine years ago, when I became an American. As you hear, I now talk a jargon mixture of Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, down-east Yankee, and Shakspere, but all the time I go on writing English. I consider America the most delightful and comfortable country in the world. The truth is, however, it really is much too comfortable. A man gets soft on his feet here and effeminate and I have to run away once in a while. . . go off to wild places where I can rough it and learn to sympathize with the other fellow.

"My ideal life? That's easy a yacht large enough to go around the world in with an allAmerican crew. I should like to make such a yacht a sort of floating headquarters, stopping off where I pleased for as long as I pleased and always drifting back to the yacht to write stories of the adventures I had along the way. I've lived in India, Africa, — I've chopped ice off a ship's rigging in the Arctic here and there wherever adventure country calls me I go. I live intensely in my experiences and, before I know it, a book gets itself written."

Tarkington. - Some one recently asked Booth Tarkington how he wrote his novels. "Do you start at the beginning and go straight through with them?" "No, I seldom start at the beginning," Tarkington explained. "For instance, in The Flirt I wrote the next to the last chapter first. I wanted to get that right before I did anything else. I wrote 'The Turmoil' in just sixty days. I locked myself in and worked on it day and night. Sometimes I would write until three o'clock in the morning and then get up again at six and write some more, then perhaps fall asleep in the middle of the day and wake up and start

writing again at night. I wrote any and al! times. At the end of sixty days the story was completed. By the way, in writing The Turmoil' I was fortunate in having a true critic of the manuscript in Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, a wonderful woman. She took my manuscript, read it, and made sarcastic little notes on the margins. She would write beside something, 'Oh, is that so?', then beside something else, 'Did she?' It was destructive but very effective. She did n't tell me what to do. She left that to me."-The Book Leaf.

BOOK REVIEWS.

AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH. By Ernest Weekley, M. A. 1,659 pp., small quarto, Cloth. New York E. P. Dutton & Company.

1921.

Charles A. Dana used to say that the best way to get a thorough knowledge of English was to study Greek and Latin. He was right, so far as he went, but he did n't go far enough. The best way to get a thorough knowledge of English is to study etymology, to get the true literal sense of words according to their derivation, and for such study there is no other work that can compare with this, justly described as the most complete Etymological Dictionary in the English language. Its cost is considerable fifteen dollars but it is well worth the price to writers interested in the exact use of words and the attainment of The a comprehensive vocabulary. word is used by Mr. Weekley in a "etymology wider sense than in previous etymological dictionaries. These usually limit themselves to answering the question Whence?" but Mr. Weekley says that " Whence?" is only part of the problem, the real solution of which involves also answering the questions "How?” "When?" "Why?" and even, occasionally,

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Who?" Mr. Weekley's standing as an authority on odd etymologies has been shown by his book," The Romance of Words," which every one interested in language study will find of fascinating interest. The present work was first conceived as a glossary of such etymologies, but its scope kept broadening as it progressed. Now the vocabulary dealt with is, roughly speaking, that of the "Concise Oxford Dictionary" (1911). collated, during the printing of the book, with that of Cassell's "New English Dictionary" (1919), but many words are found in this dictionary which are not recorded in either of the two compilations mentioned, and many slang words and expressions hitherto passed over by etymologists are here historically explained. "In the past,"