POT SHOTS ON PARNASSUS. Keith Preston. The Sketch Book, in the Bookman for February. MAX BEERHOLM. Bohun Lynch. Dial for Feb

ruary.

NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISERS. Dr. Frank Crane. Current Opinion for February.

SARA TEASDALE'S POEMS. Marguerite Wilkinson. Forum for February.

CONFESSIONS OF A PLAYWRIGHT ON PLAYMAKING (St. John Ervine). Current Opinion for February. THE PICTURESQUE MOTIVE IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Edward R. Dickson. Photo-Era for February.

THE ART OF DEVELOPING PRINTS. Reprinted from the British Journal in the Photo-Era for February. How CAN I MAKE MY CAMERA PAY? Photo-Era for February.

PUBLISHING FOR AN INDUSTRIAL AGE. The story of McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. With portrait of J. H. McGraw. H. W. Dearing. American News Trade Journal for February.

Lo! THE POOR COMPOSER. Frank Patterson. Musical Courier for February 17.

THE PASSING OF JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER. With portrait. Musical Courier for February 17.

MAKING MISTAKES IN READING PROOF. Professor H. R. Crossland. Fourth Estate for January 29. JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER. With portrait. Fourth Estate for February 12.

THE LAW OF LIBEL AS APPLIED TO NEWSPAPERS. Extracts from the "History of the Law of Libel" in the Pacific Printer and Publisher. George D. Squires. Fourth Estate for February 19.

THE "GREAT " IN 1920's LITERATURE. Literary Digest for January 29.

A CONVICT CORRECTS A NOVELIST (Basil King). Literary Digest for January 29.

THE NEW "MOON-CALF" SCHOOL. Literary Digest for February 12.

WALT MASON REVEALS THE SEAMY SIDE OF OPTIMISM. Literary Digest for February 19.

CARL SPITTELER. With portrait. Literary Digest for February 26.

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Ohio State University will award a Journalism Honor medal at the commencement exercises next June, and the medal will be awarded annually hereafter. Robert F. Wolfe, of the Columbus Journal, gave $1,000 as a fund for the medal last year.

"The Passionate Spectator," by Jane Burr (Thomas Seltzer, Inc.) was rejected by nearly every publisher in New York on account of its unconventional attitude toward marriage. Miss Burr then went to England and sent the manuscript to Duckworth & Co., who accepted the novel and contracted for three more.

Establishment of a school of industrial journalism has been decided upon by the New York Business Publishers' Association, which will finance the project. Instruction will be given in all branches, including editorial, business and service, under a competent faculty. The association, which is composed of the publishers of the business papers of New York City, has adopted a tentative curriculum. A committee headed by Horace M. Swetland, president of the United Publishers' Corporation, is in charge.

Mrs. G. M. Trevelyan has undertaken to write a memoir of her mother, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and would be grateful if Mrs. Ward's old friends would entrust her with any letters of interest from her hand. They should be addressed to Mrs. Trevelyan, Pen Rose, Berkhamsted, England, and will be promptly acknowledged and returned soon as possible.

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The Houghton Mifflin Company publishes Scenario Writing Today," by Grace Lytton, the daughter of Florence Hull Winterburn, and herself a successful scenario writer.

"The American Novel," by Carl Van Doren, managing editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature, published by the Macmillan Company, is a history of the American novel from the colonial period to the present day.

E. P. Dutton & Co. are the American publishers of "The Diary of a Journalist," by Sir Henry Lucy, published in London by John Murray.

'Aspects of Literature," by J. Middleton Murry (Alfred A. Knopf ), consists of criticisms of the theory and practice of literature, with specific comment on the work of Thomas Hardy, Keats, Roussard, Anatole France, Coleridge, Rousseau, and Samuel Butler.

"Emerson How to Know Him," by Samuel McChord Crothers, and "Poe How to Know Him," by C. Alphonso Smith, are published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

"Cash from Your Camera," edited by Frank R. Fraprie (Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co.), tells how to make a camera profitable and where to sell photographs.

"Essays on Modern Dramatists," by Professor William Lyon Phelps, has just been published by the Macmillan Company.

"Life and Letters," by J. C. Squire (George H. Doran Co.), is a collection of essays on aspects and personalities in literature, with studies of John Keats, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, and other writers.

"How to Write an Essay," by W. T. Webb (E. P. Dutton & Co. ), is an exposition of the subject, with simple essays and subjects for essays.

"Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen, Their Work and Their Methods," a study of the art today, with technical suggestions, by Joseph Pennell, is published by the Macmillan Company.

"The Writer's Art," by those who have practised it, edited and arranged by Rollo Walter Brown (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), illustrates the art of writing by selections from the work of William Hazlitt, Frank Norris, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Arthur QuillerCouch, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert Spencer, and George Henry Lewes.

"Authors and I," by C. Lewis Hind (John Lane Co.), gives pen portraits of Gabriele d'Annunzio, J. M. Barrie, Gilbert Chesterton, John Galsworthy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad, W. J. Locke, "O. Henry," William Dean Howells, and others.

The Oxford University Press publishes "Modern Punctuation; Its Utilities and Conventions," by George Summey, Jr., associate professor of English in the North Carolina State College.

"The Art of Letters," by Robert Lynd, literary editor of the London Daily News (Charles Scribner's Sons ), is a collection of literary essays and criticisms on Horace Walpole, Pepys, Shelley, Coleridge, Meredith, Oscar Wilde, and other writers, with discussions on "The Labor of Authorship," "The Theory of Poetry," and "The Critic as Destroyer."

Henry Holt & Co. will soon publish a "Biography of Victor Hugo," by Marie Duclaux, and a study of "Women in the Life of Balzac," by Juanita H. Floyd.

"Books in Manuscript," by Falconer Madan (E. P. Dutton & Co.), is a second edition, revised, of a work first published in 1893, and contains a record of the early progress of book-writing, illuminating, cataloguing, and other phases. It is illustrated from old plates.

The Macmillan Company have just published "Poetic Origins and the Ballad," by Louise Pound, who is Professor of English in the University of Nebraska.

The new editor of the Bookman is John Chipman Farrar, a Yale graduate of the classof 1918, and a contributor to the New York Sunday World Magazine and the New York Evening Post. Mr. Farrar is author of "Forgotten Shrines," a book of cently published by the Yale University Press. The London Athenaeum has been absorbed. by the Nation (weekly), edited by H. W. Massingham.

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By the retirement of Will D. Howe, the firm of Harcourt, Brace, & Howe (New York) becomes Harcourt, Brace, & Co.

The Bodleian for January is dedicated to Anatole France and contains appreciations of that author by Robert Blatchford, Frances Rumsey, Lafcadio Hearn, W. J. Locke, Ed. Garnett, W. L. Courtney, and others. The Bodleian is published by John Lane, Vigo street, W., London, who will send a copy on request.

Barrett Wendell died in Boston February 3, aged sixty-five.

James Gibbons Huneker died in New York February 9, aged sixty-one.

Dr. Benjamin B. Warfield died at Princeton, N. J., February 16, aged sixty-nine. John Habberton died at Glen Ridge, N. J., February 25, aged seventy-nine.

Joseph M. Stoddart died at Elkins Park, Penn., February 25, aged seventy-five.

Sir Frederick Wedmore died at Seven Oaks, County of Kent, England, February 25, aged seventy-six.

The oft-repeated advice never to get discouraged and to send out in the noon mail the manuscript that has been returned in the morning's post is all very well in its place, but years of experience on an editorial desk, supplementing efforts to win favor with my own compositions, has taught me a very important thing, and that is to look for the flaws in the "home again" story.

Nine times out of ten, when a really good and well-got-together article or story is returned it is because of some glaring, oftentimes senseless, misstatement that if the manuscript were published would queer" the edi

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tor with his reading public: Most of these blunders are due to the carelessness of writers, who will not take the time necessary to verify the statements that they make, trusting to luck that even the eagle eye of the editor will not be quick enough to discern the fact that they are without real knowledge of the subject of which they write. Others carried away by their imagination and their plot forge ahead without any thought as to reality or the criticism of the reading public.

It goes without saying that you cannot write an accurate business story unless you are familiar with the business of which you speak, neither can you use scientific statements in a tale unless you know, or verify them by the accurate knowledge of an expert on the particular line of which you are treating. Descriptive travel stories must be written from actual observation, not from hearsay, and you cannot make in writing fiction erroneous statements about localities, nature subjects, laws, medicines, etc., and find a market of ready acceptance for your output. These are among the flaws that mar the most brilliant work.

So, when the manuscript you sent away with high hopes returns- the one you really believe is good-don't waste your breath and your time saying unkind things about the editorial judgment, for the editor already knows the opinions of those to whom he has extended the favor of a rejection slip, but get busy and look for the flaws in your story. Take your manuscript and go over it paragraph by paragraph, reading carefully and as much from the editor's point of view as you can. If you can find no fault with the subject, the plot, the construction, or the grammar, then look for the fatal flaws the flaws that so condemn your work that no self-respecting editor could possibly lay himself open to the