Prize of $2,000, in addition to the ordinary terms of royalty, offered by Harper & Brothers for the best novel submitted to them by March 1, 1923. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prizes amounting to $600 for boys' and girls' -stories offered by the Department of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Nashville, Tenn., contest closing January 10, 1923. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prizes of 50,000 kroner (about $10,000) offered by the Danish publishing firm of Gyldendalske Boghandel, for the best novel by a Dane or a Norwegian, submitted before March 1, 1923. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prize of $100 offered by the Forest Theater, Carmel, Calif., for an original play suitable for presentation on its outdoor stage during the summer of 1923. Contest closes February 1. Particulars in October WRITER.

Prizes of $500 each month for a period of ten months offered by Gloom (Los Angeles) for jokes and stories. Particulars in October WRITER.

The Laura Blackburn lyric poetry prizes of $50, $30, and $20 for the best three lyric poems submitted by Bookfellows before December 31. Particulars in -October WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 offered by Balaban & Katz, Chicago, for the best American symphonic composition submitted before January 1. Particulars in September WRITER.

Prizes of $100, $50, and $25 offered by the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, for poems by students of colleges, competition to close March 15. 1923. Particulars in September WRITER.

Prizes for photographs of the most important historical trees in the state of New York, offered by the New York State College of Forestry. Particulars in July WRITER.

Prizes of $25, $15, and $10 offered by the Popular Science Monthly (New York) monthly for ten months to the contributors of the three photographs considered by the editors to be the best and most interesting submitted to the magazine. Particulars in February WRITER.

Prize of $10 weekly offered by Judge (New York) for the best story received for its department, "Stories to Tell." Particulars in February WRITER.

Prize of $100 for the best long narrative poem or group of poems and $50 for the most distinctive short poem published in the Lyric West during 1922. Particulars in July WRITER. Three prizes of $100 each for the best group of poems; for the most distinctive fiction; and for the best group of essays offered by the Milwaukee Arts Monthly, to be awarded in September, 1923. Particulars in October WRITER.

Nine prizes amounting to $2,750 offered by the National Federation of Music Clubs, competition ending December 15. For particulars, address Mrs. Edwin B. Garrigues, 201 Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Penn.

Walker prizes for the best memoirs on Natural History, offered annually by the Boston Society of Natural History, closing March 1 of each calendar year. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prizes of $10 and $5 awarded each month by the

American News Trade Journal (New York) for the best cartoons accepted.

Prize of $1,000 for the best orchestral composition offered by the Chicago North Shore Festival Association, contest to close January 1, 1923. Particulars in August WRITER.

Gene Stratton Porter prize of $50, five first prizes of $40 each, five second prizes of $20 each, and the Galahad sonnet prize of $25 for the best work in Contemporary Verse (Logan P. O., Philadelphia ) during 1922. Particulars in May WRITER.

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

Annual Hawthornden prize of £100 offered in Eng. land 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.

Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era Magazine (Wolfeboro, N. H.) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition. Prizes of two dollars and one dollar offered monthly by Everygirl's Magazine (New York) for and essays, written by Camp stories, short poems, 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.

PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT AUTHORS.

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Churchill." I resigned as managing editor of the Cosmopolitan," says Winston Churchill, quoted by J. Breckenridge Ellis, in the Missouri Historical Review, "to make the plunge into literature in 1895 and after three years of hard work succeeded in getting published a short novel called 'The Celebrity,' which I wrote and rewrote and rewrote. All my books have been written with extraordinary care, labor, and fervor. Each, with the exception of 'Mr. Crewe's Career,' was as hard to write as the first. I would write quantities of pages for a year and a half, and then write or rewrite the books all over again at fever heat in six months."

Lincoln. I was interviewing Joseph C. Lincoln. How do you write a story?" I asked.

"First I plan it out," he said. "It takes time. I can usually plan it out quite completely if it's a short story. If it's a long one it's a different matter. Who was it who said that he found it necessary to write a story for seven or eight chapters before his characters came to life and took the story and de

veloped it for themselves? That's often the process with me, anyhow, I have come to know the characters better than I do when I start in. Gradually I see them clearly, and from that time on the story is likely to go. "So I write a lot of my stories from memories. They're always, in the spiritual sense. about people I've known- not necessarily a particular person, you know, but the type. I would n't dream of writing about any others unless I had embarked on a historical novel, grubbed through histories, memoirs, and what not, and then took a guess at what was nearest true to the time I was writing about. But that's not my style. The people I like to write about are the people I like, and have consorted with. Most of them are simple people. There is n't pretence or display to get through before you come to the real woman

or man.

"How did you come to write?" I asked. "Result of hard knocks," said Mr. Lincola, "when I had vainly tried to make my way in other directions. I was clerk in a furniture store. A rival establishment absorbed us, and I was sacked. I tried here and there, and in intervals made little poems. Some of these were accepted by Life, and other publications. Then I went into editorial work, got acquainted with a number of literary men who encouraged me, and fed my growing enthusiasm for literature, and I found myself started." Boston Post.

"When my husband was a magazine editor in 1910, a certain battered and travel-worn story, a novelette, came to his office, and was immediately rejected.

"Two years later, when he was on another magazine, the story reappeared. It was unchanged, the same little child story of optimism and hope. This second magazine paid a very small sum for it, and it was serialized. "That story, rejected for I don't know how many years, by I don't know how many magazines, was a success. It was put into book form, and more than half a million copies were sold. It was made into a play, into a

Rules for Writers. Here are a few little rules that would have helped me, twenty years ago, had I seen them, or believed them :

Write every day, and have confidence in your work. Kipling's and Stevenson's stories were being regularly declined only a few years ago.

Have a desk or table (mine used to be tucked in behind an upright piano), and between counting the wash, setting the lunch table, and answering the telephone put down a hundred two hundred words. And at night and, if possible, before breakfast, try for a clear half hour of work. Seven half hours a week, daily, are worth much more than a spasmodic stretch of nine hours, twice a year.

Pay no attention to what other persons do, or to time. Time will go on, anyway, and if you are to succeed, it will be just as wonderful in 1935 as in 1930. Give it, approximately, five years.

Study the stories in some special magazine, one of the smaller ones, to begin with. Then send your story in with a note: "I have been studying the sort of story you like," etc.

Write what you know, the simpler the better. Don't begin with the loves of a great opera singer or an earthquake in the Coliseum under Pompeii. A little argument between Girl Scouts, or a humble love affair in an East Side bakery, is more to the American taste.

Be humble. Blessings come to the meek now just as generously as they did two thousand years ago. Don't fall in love with your own stuff and resent criticism. Batter down all the walls that are shutting you in and say, Snubbed, crushed, humiliated, out-distanced by younger and stupider women, yet there is room for me, and I'm going to find it!" Kathleen Norris, in Boston Advertiser.

A Manifolding Aid to Typists. - Typewritten manifolds are frequently spoiled when the writing is carried down too close to the edge of the first sheet. By sticking a strip of

gummed-paper tape along the lower edge of the carbon paper, so that half is on the paper, then gumming a strip of cardboard to the projecting edge of the paper strip, the arrangement will pinch between the platen feed rolls of the machine and prevent the sheets from rising too far. Do not stick the tape to the carbon surface, and, in use, allow the cardboard to come below the edge of the sheets; just how much depends on the amount of margin desired at the bottom.-Warren Scholl, in Popular Mechanics.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

[Readers who send to the publishers of the period. icals 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.]

THE STEVENSON MYTH. George S. Heilman. Century for December.

THE UNREALITY OF MODERN REALISM. Mary Roberts Rinehart. Bookman for December.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSEPH CONRAD. Ernest Rhys. Bookman for December.

LYMAN Аввотт. With portrait. American Review of Reviews for December.

MEMORIES OF MADISON CAWEIN. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Bookman for November.

PHOTOPLAY WRITING AND THE PHOTOPLAY MARKET. Alexander Van Rensselaer. Bookman for November.

AN ENGLISH IMPRESSION OF AMERICAN LITERA-TURE. Edward Shanks. Bookman for November.

THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF WRITING. VIII. Con tracts, Royalties, Copyrights. Robert Cortes Holliday. Bookman for November.

AMERICAN STYLE. Stuart P. Sherman. Bookman for November.

The Dial's annual award of $2,000 has been given this year to T. S. Eliot, the American poet, now living in England.

The James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes, founded in remembrance of the Edinburgh publisher, have been awarded for the year 1921. For the best biography, Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" is chosen and Walter de la Mare's "Memoirs of a Midget " is chosen for the best novel.

The American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers has been formed, with Dr. Arthur Howard Noll as president. Membership is unlimited and is effected by sending name and address, with three prints of bookplate, a statement as to the designer, with the year produced, and one dollar for the annual dues to the secretary, Carlyle S. Baer, 1835 Vernon street, N.W., Washington, D. C.

"The Young Man in Journalism," by Chester S. Lord, for many years managing editor of the New York Sun is a new volume in the Vocational Series published by the Macmillan Company.

"Do's and Don'ts for the Playwright," by Fanny Cannon, is published by T. S. Denison & Co. (Chicago).

"John Esten Cooke, Virginian," by John O. Beaty, is published by the Columbia University Press.

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George Gissing," by May Yates, is published by Longmans, Green, & Co.

Douglas Goldring, the English novelist and critic, is the author of a study entitled "James Elroy Flecker: An Appreciation, with Some Biographical Notes," which has just been published in England by Chapman & Hall.

A "Bibliography of the Writings of W. H. Hudson," compiled by G. F. Wilson, will be published in this country by R. R. Bowker & Co.

Countess Leo Tolstoy's "Autobiography," which has been appearing in the Freeman, is now published in book form by B. W. Huebsch.

"Fundamentals of Business English," by Marion Stone Holzinger, is brought out by the World Book Company.

A "Twentieth Century Guide to Correct Pronunciation," by H. D. Vincent and T. E. Lockhart, giving a list of more than 1,000 common words frequently mispronounced, with brief definitions and diacritical markings, is published by Atkinson, Mentzer, & Co.

"A Course in Journalistic Writing," by Grant Milnor Hyde, Associate Professor of Journalism in the University of Wisconsin, is published by D. Appleton & Co.

"The Novel of Tomorrow," published by the Bobbs, Merrill Company, is a collection of essays contributed to the New Republic by a dozen leading American writers of fiction, and the royalties of the book are to go to the Authors' League fund for writers in distress.

"The Life of William Blake," by Alexander Gilchrist, is published by Dodd, Mead, & Co.

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The Glory of English Prose," by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge (G. P. Putnam's Sons ), is a discussion of literature, with papers on English writers from Sir Walter Raleigh to Hilaire Belloc.

"Brazilian Literature," by Dr. Isaac Goldberg, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Charles Hanson Towne is now fiction editor of the Metropolitan Magazine (New York ).

Rollo Ogden, formerly editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post, has succeeded the late Charles R. Miller as editor of the New York Times.

Howard H. Seward has become the publisher of the Reading Lamp (New York), a small magazine which prints impartial reviews of new books, and which will be sent free to any one who will ask for it at any one of many leading bookstores.

Thomas Nelson Page left an estate valued at $399,825.

Edward L. Burlingame died in New York November 15, aged seventy-four.

George Bronson Howard died in Los Angeles November 20, aged thirty-eight.

André Tridon died in New York November 22, aged forty-six.

William Lindsey died in Boston November 25, aged sixty-four.

Mrs. Alice Meynell died in London November 27, aged seventy-two.