"Thomas Hardy: A Study of the Wessex Novels," by H. D. Duffin (Longmans, Green, & Co.), is a second edition, with an appendix on the poems and "The Dynasts."

"Anatole France," by Lewis Piaget Shanks, is published by the Open Court Publishing Company (Chicago).

"Rabindranath Tagore," by E. J. Thompson, published in this country by the American Branch of the Oxford University Press, deals in four chapters with Tagore's first literary period, his many-sided activity, the poet and creative artist, and the reformer and the

-seer.

The Houghton Mifflin Company publishes the "Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson," covering the years 1846 to 1906, and edited by Mary Thacher Higginson.

Chaucer and the Rival Poet in Shakspere's Sonnets," by Hubert Ord, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

"Writers of Three Centuries," by Claude Williamson (George W. Jacobs & Co.) includes the writers of Germany, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Norway, and the United States during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Among the authors considered in "Letters on Contemporary American Authors," by Martin MacCollough (Boston: The Four Seas Company), are Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell, Joseph C. Lincoln, George Jean Nathan, Frank Harris, and Willa Sibert Cather.

"The Poets of the Future," edited by Henry T. Schnittkind (Boston: The Stratford Company), is the fifth volume of a series of college anthologies.

"The Critic and the Drama," by George Jean Nathan, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.

"What's What in the Labor Movement," compiled by Waldo R. Browne (B. W. Huebsch), is a dictionary of labor affairs and labor terminology, with the terms and subjects arranged and defined alphabetically.

"Drawing for Art Students and Illustrators," by Allen W. Seaby (Charles Scribner's Sons), is a handbook of technical information and suggestion.

The Arkansas Writer Publishing Co., Little Rock, Arkansas, publishes "Little Adventures in Newspaperdom," by Fred W. Allsopp.

"Cobblestones," a book of poems by David P. Sentner, an undergraduate at Columbia College, is published by Alfred A. Knopf. For this book Mr. Sentner was awarded the Alfred A. Knopf Publication prize for 1921, which is given each year by Mr. Knopf, an alumnus of the class of 1912, for the best literary work by an undergraduate.

Robert H. Davis has returned to Munsey's Magazine as editor.

Rev. William E. Gilroy, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, has been elected editor-in-chief of the Congregationalist.

Willis J. Abbot is the new editor of the Christian Science Monitor, succeeding Frederick Dixon, who will edit a new weekly paper in New York.

Burr McIntosh announces that he is preparing to republish his magazine, the BurrMcIntosh Monthly, in which theatrical and social life was depicted years ago. Mr. McIntosh has 17,000 negatives, and many of the pictures will be printed in the magazine.

The Jewish Publication, Society has removed to 110 West Fortieth street, New York.

The Scribners have in preparation a volume of James Huneker's letters, and would be glad to have friends and correspondents of Mr. Huneker submit letters to the Editorial Department, Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth avenue, New York.

Little, Brown, & Company have published a revised biographical sketch of A. S. M. Hutchinson, in booklet form, which will be sent to any one upon request.

Mrs. George Foster Peabody ("Katrina Trask") died at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., January 7, aged sixty-five.

John Kendrick Bangs died at Atlantic City, N. J., January 22, aged fifty-nine.

Viscount James Bryce, died at Sidmouth, England, January 22, aged eighty-three.

Alonzo Barton Hepburn died in New York January 25, aged seventy-five.

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Seaman ("Nellie Bly") died in New York January 27, aged fifty-five.

(Continued from February WRITER.)

Wild West Weekly (W), Frank Tousey, Publisher, 168 West 23d st., New York. $2.50; 5c. Lu Senarens, editor.

All material furnished by the staff. Wireless Age (M). 326 Broadway, New $2.00; 20c. J. Andrew White, editor.

York.

Uses articles descriptive of land wireless stations, and authentic anecdotes or experiences of Fiction professional and amateur wireless men. must be optimistic in spirit, and have wireless 3,000 words. Buys theme. Length limit about photographs, and pays on publication. Wohelo (M), 31 East 17th st., New York. $1.00; 10C. Rowe Wright, editor.

The magazine of the Camp Fire Girls, using short stories: serials; poetry; jokes: juvenile matter; and plays for children. Fiction must be of interest to girls between the ages of twelve and twenty, preferably for older girls between fourteen and eighteen. Buys photographs; sets length limit at 2,000 words; and pays after publication. Now Everygirl's Magazine. Woman Citizen (W), 171 Madison ave., New York. $1.00; 10C. Virginia Roderick, editor.

A continuation of the Woman's Journal, the Woman Voter, and the National Suffrage News. Uses specialized material dealing with women's civic interests and achievements, and personality sketches; with a little poetry, if specialized. Prints no fiction, humorous verse. plavs. jokes, or juvenile matter. Sets length limit at words, and very occasionally buys photographs. Woman's Home Companion (M), Crowell Publishing Co., 381 Fourth ave., New York. $2.00; 20c. Gertrude B. Lane, editor.

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Uses chiefly fiction and material for the vari. ous departments, with few general articles, printing short stories and serials, but no novelettes a very little poetry; no humorous verse or jokes no plays, and no juvenile matter. Buys material for garden, handicraft, and miscellaneous household departments. Sets length limits at from 2,500 to 5.000 words; rarely buys photographs; prefers fiction to deal mainly with love stories; and pays on acceptance. Woman's Magazine (M), New Idea Publishing Company, 3 Macdougal st., New York. 75c.; 10c. Marie Mattingly Meloney, editor.

Combined with the Designer, April, 1920. Woman's Patriot (W), 1621 K st., N. W., Washington, D. C. $1.50; 2c. Minnie Bronson, editor. Vol I. No. 1, 27 April, 1918.

Woman's Review (M), Syracuse, N. Y. 50c.; 5c. Mrs. Grace King, editor.

No longer published.

ADDITIONS AND CHANGES.

I Confess (B-W), Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1515 Masonic Temple. 46 West 24th st., New York. $2.50; 10C. Elizabeth Sharp, editor.

Vol. I., No. 1, February 10, 1922. A magazine of personal experiences, using short stories of from 3.500 to 4.000 words, and serials of from 20,000 to 30,000 words, printing about 5,000 words per part. Stories should read as if they were personal experiences, be told in words of one or two syllables, and built up by incidents that have strong emotional appeal. They should be told in the first person, and must be clean in tone. Uses no poetry, buys no photographs, and pays at a minimum of one-half cent a word. Detonator (M), 225 Owl Drug Building, San Diego, Calif. $3.50; 30c. Albert Robert, editor.

Vol. I., No. 1, May, 1921. A magazine of the sea, owned, financed, and edited by the enlisted man. Uses stories, articles, essays, poems, ballads, jokes, and sailors' chanteys. Prefers stories of the sea, but accepts exceptional stories on any subject. Lutheran Young Folks (Consolidation of Young Folks and Lutheran Young People) (W), Sheridan Building, Ninth & Sansom sts., Philadelphia. $1.00; samples free on request. Rev. W. L. Hunton, D. D., editor.

Uses short stories, serials, and general articles, and juvenile matter that is not too juvenile. Does not purchase poetry, humorous verse, or jokes, and does not print plays. Sets length limit at 3,000 words per article or chapter. Serials should not exceed sixteen chapters. Buys photographs occasionally with articles. Fiction should carry with it inspiration to achievement, or be instructive from an historical, industrial, or religious point of view. Pays on acceptance.

Wave (M), Hinrichsen & Lunoe, 2103 N. Halsted st., Chicago. $1.00 for four issues; 25c. Vincent Starrett, editor. Manuscripts should be addressed to the editor, 641 N. Mayfield ave., Chicago.

Vol. I., No. 1. January, 1922. A magazine of letters. The Wave has no policy. It will print whatever is worth printing. Excellence of form and adequacy of treatment are the only tests.

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VOL. XXXIV.

Fact, either real or imaginary, is the raw material used by writers. This material is gathered from many sources; newspapers, magazines, books, conversation, observation, and thought all contribute to the store of information. The writer's problem is to preserve this material in such a way that it will be readily available when wanted. This article describes a system that I have found to be workable and satisfactory. No claim to originality is made, as the system is a combination of ideas picked up here and there, with some original details, making a system best adapted to my special requirements.

While a useful, and for a time satisfactory, file may be started with a shoe box as a card

No. 3.

file and a soap box of suitable dimensions as an information file cabinet, a desk with a file drawer is a great improvement. A standard vertical-file cabinet, of steel or wood, will take care of a large amount of material. These cabinets can be made up with three large drawers and two small drawers at the top, each of the small ones containing two files for 3x5-inch cards. Heavy pressboard guides, with metal label holders, furnish support for the folders and stand out plainly in the file. Plain white gummed strips 3x1⁄2 inches, and some others 3 inches square will be found useful, as will appear later.

As any one who has had any filing experience knows, the essentials of a good system are speed in filing and finding. My scheme to accomplish these ends is essentially a combination of an arbitrary numerically-designated system of classification with an alphabetical subject-index as an aid to finding. There are three classes of divisions: primary, secondary, and tertiary, which will hereafter be called groups, divisions, and sections, respectively. The numbers designating each degree of division are separated by dashes as illustrated by the first part of my accession record.

1 Science.

1-1 Mathematics.
1-2 Astronomy.
1-3 Physics.

1-3-1 Mechanics.
1-3-2 Heat.
1-3-3 Light.

2 Philosophy.

2-1 Greek Philosophy.

2-1-1 Aristotle.

etc.

This system possesses the advantage that it may be added to at any point without affecting

the general scheme. It is not necessary to try to force every item of human knowledge into a definite number of predetermined groups, but the general plan should be wellconsidered in advance and the too prodigal addition of new divisions, of whatever degree, should be avoided.

In the application of this scheme each section has a folder assigned to it. If more than one folder becomes necessary for any section, additional ones may be designated as, 1-3-1A, 1-3-1B, etc. As the file grows each group and division should have a pressboard guide, the two classes being distinguished by different colored labels. The white-strip labels are pasted to the projecting tabs of the folders, and should bear the name and number of the section. The square labels may be pasted to the front cover of the folder in the upper left-hand corner as the folder rests in the file. These should bear the name of the owner of the file and the names and numbers of the group, division, and section to which the folder belongs. The use of gummed labels allows the use of the typewriter and a neat-looking file is the result.

Each paper should be numbered prominently in blue pencil before it is put into the file. This ensures proper replacement of the paper after use. At the time the paper is first filed, make out an index card bearing the subject, file number, and a concise abstract of the paper. If important subjects other than the main one are treated, make out index cards for each of these subjects. As a further aid to the location of the material make cross-index cards bearing other subject headings under which the paper might be sought. The details of indexing must be worked out by each user of the general system, but certain guiding principles must be kept in mind. Each card should be complete before it is placed in the file; that is, it should never be necessary to add anything to any card because of expansion of the system or addition of new material on the same subject. The form of your cards should be consistent, and as an aid to consistency a manual of standard practice should be made up at the beginning covering all points allowing varied treatment, such as abbreviaton, order

of Christian name and surname, whether a card headed "McAdams, J. R.", is to be filed as the letters indicate, or separately with the "Mc's," as is sometimes done, and so on. I think it best to file cards in strict dictionary order according to subject-heading.

The manual of standard practice may well be placed at the front of the loose-leaf accession record. This record is a list of all groups, divisions, and sections in numerical order and so arranged that as additions are made to the system the sequence may be maintained by inserting new sheets. The record serves as an explanation of the scheme and also furnishes the next unused number for assignment to new groups, divisions, or sections.

Each division of the system, of whatever degree, should be indexed on a card as soon as made. The advantage of this in locating any division when the system becomes extensive will be at once apparent.

The general filing plan here outlined can be adapted to take any kind of information whatever and make it available at a moment's notice. Clippings may be pasted on sheets of good-quality paper for better preservation, and pamphlets may be filed in special pressboard folders scored for expansion at the bottom. I use the subject-index cards for recording all sorts of notes; short sketches of the lives of persons mentioned in books read, definitions of unfamiliar words and phrases, striking statements of fact, or if the statements are too long to be transcribed a reference to them under the proper heading, short critical estimates of books read, and other similar items. When searching the literature on any given topic preparatory to writing an article I use index cards for recording pertinent facts, putting them in such a form, under a suitable heading, that they may be put into the file later without alteration.

Index cards should be dated. This locates the entry in point of time and serves as a guide when referring to a card from a crossreference. For instance, a card bearing a dated entry discussing the distinction between intellect and knowledge may be headed "Intellect" and filed under that head, but a cross