From now on the Nobel Prize for Literature is to be given to that writer who has created the most helpful and ideal work within the preceding year, regardless of his record as a whole. The Patterson Cup, offered by the University of North Carolina for the year's best volume of essays, has been awarded to Winifred Kirkland, for "The View Vertical" (Houghton Mifflin Company). The second series of "Chief Contemporary Dramatists," by Thomas H. Dickinson (Houghton Mifflin Co.) represents the later tendencies in the drama of Europe and America. Among the authors included are Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, W. Somerset Maugham, John Drinkwater, St. John Ervine, Lord Dunsany, Josephine Preston Peabody, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Eugene Walter, George C. Hazelton, Jr., Edmond Rostand, Georges de Porto-Riche, Sacha Guitry, Ludwig Thoma, Hermann Bahr, Schnitzler, Jacinto Benavente, and Maxim Gorky. Allen's Harper & Bros. have brought out Synonyms and Antonyms," by F. Sturgis Allen, the late editor of Webster's International Dictionary. George H. Doran announces an authoritative biography of Herman Melville, the literary discoverer of the South seas, by Professor Raymond M. Weaver, of the depart ment of English, Columbia University. Professor Weaver has examined the unpublished documents, letters, journals, and other material in the hands of Melville's heirs, who have lent him the heartiest support and cooperation. "Modern Business Writing," a study of the principles underlying effective advertisements and business letters, by Charles Harvey Raymond, is published by the Century Company. Duffield & Co. publish "The Kinds of Poetry," by Professor John Erskine. "Ruskin the Prophet, and Other Centenary Studies," by John Masefield, Dean Ing, Charles F. G. Masterman, and others, edited by J. Howard Whitehouse, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co. as a memorial tribute The "Biography of Paul Verlaine," by Harold Nicolson, is published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. "Reminiscences of Tolstoy," by Maxim Gorky (B. W. Huebsch), is made up largely of notes taken by Gorky during his residence adjoining the Tolstoy estate. "A Survey of English Literature," by Oliver Elton, has just been brought out in four volumes by the Macmillan Company. A textbook on "English Literature," by John L. Haney, Ph.D., has been published by Harcourt, Brace, & Howe. Bibliophily, or Booklove," by James F. Willis, is published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, has sold the American Journal of Psychology to Cornell University. The publication was established by Dr. Hall in 1887. The plates and publishing rights of the books, booklets, folders, motto cards, calendars, and novelties which have been issued by W. A. Wilde & Co., have been taken over by Henry T. Fitz Simmons and the business will be continued under the name of the Canterbury Company, Chicago. The Journal of Geography, the official organ of the National Council of Geography Teachers, edited by Professor Geo. J. Miller, of the Minnesota State Normal School, is now published by A. J. Nystrom & Co., Chicago. Mrs. Charles D. Warner, known as the heroine Polly of the famous papers "My Summer in a Garden," first published by her husband in the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, of which he was editorial writer, died last week in Hartford, Mrs. Margaret Cable Brewster died at Modesto, Calif., in December, aged fortythree. John Beattie Crozier died in London January 8, aged seventy-three. Rev. Edgar Page Stites, the author of "Beulah Land," died at Cape May, N. J., January 9, aged eighty-five. Mrs. Emma Huntington Nason died at Gardiner. Me., January 11, aged seventy-six. A DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS, SHOWING THE MANUSCRIPT MARKET. "LITERARY MATERIAL IN WHAT YOU HEAR" "COLOR WORDS" 44 . H. D. Ranns Jane Littell Edward B. Hughes COMMON ERRORS IN WRITING CORRECTED" All Newsdealers Supplied Through the American News Co. and Its Branches The Writer's Directory of Periodicals, Discontinued with the number for August, 1917. Liberty st.. New York. Raw Material (M), 114 $3.00; 35C. William Crawford Hirsch, editor. as screw ma A trade magazine, using descriptive articles on the production of raw material, such as iron, copper, zinc, aluminum, rubber, fiber, timbers, and especially of finished parts, such chine products. stampings, spinnings, drop forgarticles ings, etc. Buys photographs, and all must be illustrated. Sets length limit at 5,000 words, and pays on publication. Recreation (M), 2-16 West 33d st., New York. $1.50; 15c. Edward Cave, editor. Merged with Outer's Book (Chicago), December, 1917. Red Book Magazine (M), 36 South State st., Chicago. $3.00; 25c. Karl Edwin Harriman, editor. A general fiction magazine, printing serial novels and short stories, chiefly by well-known occasional poem. writers, with an Red Cross Magazine (M), 124 East 28th st., New Publication death of Mr. discontinued at Reedy, July 28, 1920. Reformed Church Messenger (W). Room 201, Reformed Church Building, Philadelphia. $2.50; 5c. Rev. Paul S. Leinbach, D. D., editor. Uses short stories, preferring them to treat of religious and patriotic themes, stories of adventure, and nature stories; juvenile matter; huand jokes ; very occasionally buys photographs, and pays promptly. Not in the market at present. morous verse: Reliable Poultry Journal (M), Quincy, 75c. Grant Curtis, editor. Not in the market. Illinois. Religious Education (B-M), 1440 East 57th st., ChiHenry F. Cope, editor. cago. $4.00; 75c. Does not pay for manuscripts. Religious Telescope (W). Otterbein Press Build ing, Dayton, Ohio. $2.00; 5c. J. M. Phillippi, editor. Uses general articles; short stories; an OCcasional serial; a limited amount of juvenile matter very little poetry or humorous verse; and rarely buys jokes or photographs. Sets length limits at from 1,200 to 2.500 words. Fiction must be altogether free from profanity. gambling, dancing, impurity, and tobacco, with general characters on a high moral plane. Pays on acceptance. Retail Druggist (M). 250 West Lafayette st.. Detroit, Michigan. $1.00; 15c. Herbert G. Stana land, editor. Uses general articles, and serials based on business; and successful ideas and methods em ployed by druggists. giving the real facts and figures, setting length limit at 4.000 words. Buys photographs; but does not print poetry, humorous verse, or jokes. Retail Public Ledger (S-M), Public Ledger Company, Room 218, Philadelphia. $1.00; 10c. William Nelson Taft, editor. verse. Uses short stories; articles on retail business ; poetry; humorous verse; jokes; and depart mental matter anything dealing with retail business news, feature articles, fiction, or Has only two requirements which are iron-clad Matter must be interesting and must be written from the retailer's point of view. Both fiction and verse should have a retail "slant." and fiction must be short, not more than 3.000 words; articles should be limited to 1,000 words. Photographs are particularly desired. Pays from $6 a column to a cent a word, and $3 for photographs. Review (W), 140 Nassau st., New York. $5.00; 15C. Fabian Franklin and Harold de Wolf Fuller, edi tors. A weekly journal started in May. 1919. Treats of politics, literature, science, and art, especially in their larger aspects. Rice Journal & Southern Farmer (M), Beaumont, Texas. $2.00; 25C. Ben L. Brooks, managing editor. Official organ of the Southern Rice Growers' Association, and of the Rice Millers' Association. Devoted to the rice industry in all its branches rice growing, rice irrigation, rice brokerage, rice milling, rice machinery, rice marketing, etc. Rider and Driver (B-W), 511 Fifth ave., New York. $5.00; 25c. S. W. Taylor, editor. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES. Double Dealer (M), 204 Baronne st., New Orleans, Weis La. $2.50; 25c. Julius Friend and Basil Thompson, editors. Vol. I.. No. 1, January, 1921. The editors announce that their plan for the present "is to print one short story each month, essays, reviews, sketches, epigrams, and sundry observations on the human animal as celestial aspirant and strap-hanger. In verse our concern will not be with the skeleton, the form, but the marrow within. Consequently we shall tilt no crazy lance for free verse, or vers libre, as its excited champions prefer to term it. We shall print it, if it be well written, together with the rhymed sonnet, rondeau, ballade, and villanelle." Personalist (Q) University of Southern California, 35th & University ave., Los Angeles, Calif. $2.00; 50c. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, editor. Vol. I, No. 1, April, 1920. Devoted to philosophy, theology, and literature, its main purpose being to expound the principles and extend the influence of personalism. PROMPT TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE Particularly convenient for authors of Middle West. 50 cents per thousand words, with carbon copy. Cash with order. Esther Waite, 1841 Rock Road, Cleveland, O. Mention THE WRITER. 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 October, 1916 (price $7.50), will give the Directory complete, with addition and A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS. 34 36 MAGA A veteran in the business of writing told me once that my work needed color, that where a "live" adjective or a colorful adverb could be used it would help the reader to visualize the story. For instance, the word "wonderful" should be omitted from the writer's vocabulary, as it is overworked and hence without strength of value. The next time that word came to my mind when writing I dug into a dictionary and found that the thought I was trying to express was fitted much better by the word "vivid," which is defined as meaning life-like and realistic. "In describing rooms, scenes, gowns, people," said this writer, "give the story the benefit of all the colors and movement the originals show to you but remember, colors reflect a psychological condition of temperament. A blonde who selects reds, No. 3. orange, and vivid browns is reflecting an inner fire, restlessness, and easily aroused irritation. Remember, too, that blondes are impulsive and given to snap judgments, and these colors fit the blonde temperament." : The conversation led me to make a study of colors and their meaning, and I found such useful things that I should like to passon a hint of them. In "Interior Decorat-ing Its Principles and Practice," by Frank Alvah Parsons (an authority on this subject), I found color schemes explained so clearly and convincingly that I no longer dread the necessity of describing a room, or supplying the necessary background and atmosphere for a story. The same color tendencies found in a character's home will hold good in his or her clothes, and this information, combined with an understanding of the temperamental differences of the blonde and brunette types will help a writer make his story true to life. Some of the important facts about colors on a much-thumbed page in my notebook are these : Yellow brings light into a dark room. The natural and artificial lights will be supplemented by it, and the qualities which light itself has will be forced into the room. Never let a freckled girl wear yellow, except to accentuate the freckles. Dress in yellow the girl with vivid red hair, blue eyes, and the very white skin which belongs to this. type. It will make her coloring even more startling. A brunette of the Irish type, with blue-black hair and blue eyes, may wear yellow. Any other type looks sallow in it.. The complement of yellow is purple. Red creates ideas of warmth and irritation.. It makes one think and act more quickly. |