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(For Combination Offer No. 1 print my name and address on labels as follows) THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS (Continued) GIRLS' FRIEND (W), 1716 Choteau ave., St. Louis, A paper for girls of from ten to fifteen. Uses general articles, short stories, and serials, but no poetry, jokes, or plays. Sets length limit for articles at 1,500 words, and for stories or chapters of serials at 2,500 words. Buys photographs only when submitted as illustrations for manuscripts, and pays, at a minimum rate of twenty cents a hundred words, on acceptance. GRAIL (M), St. Meinrad, Indiana. $3.00; 25c. Rev. Benedict Brown, editor. A Roman Catholic monthly, using general articles, short stories, an occasional serial, poetry, and juvenile matter. Stories need not be of religious nature, but the underlying principles should be morally correct. Sets length limit at from 2,500 to 3,000 words; sometimes buys photographs, and pays, at a minimum rate of three dollars a thousand words, on acceptance. JEWISH HUMORIST (W), 32 Union Square, New Uses all kinds of humorous material of Jewish life stories, verse, limericks, jokes, anecdotes, skits, short burlesques in prose and verse, "wise cracks," material in the Jewish jargon, comic cartoons for the cover and inside, and cartoons of prominent Jewish people. Material should have literary merit, be cleverly humorous, and full of human interest. Sets length limit at 600 words, and pays on publication. JUNIOR WORLD (W), Christian Board of Publication, 2704-2714 Pine st., St. Louis, Mo. 60c. Hazel A. Lewis, editor. A Sunday-school publication for boys and girls from nine to twelve. Uses short stories, serials, general articles, poetry, jokes, and handcraft material. Sets length limit for short stories at from 800 to 3,000 words; for serials, eight or ten chapters of 2,500 words each. Prefers fiction treating of adventure and travel, with good ethics, but not "preachy," and with suspense, but containing nothing gruesome. Sometimes buys photographs, and pays in the month following acceptance. POETS' SCROLL (M), Howe, Oklahoma. $3.00; 25c. Publishes only rhythmic poetry, chiefly by subscribers. Does not pay for manuscripts. The Poets' Parchment, a smaller magazine, will begin publication in May or June. PRISM (B-M), Box 700, Kansas City, Mo. $2.00; 35c. David Boston, editor. Uses very short verse and prose, preferring quatrains and epigrams. Sets length limit at sixteen lines, and does not pay for manuscripts. PUBLISHING (M), 17 East 42d st., New York. Ralph R. Shehyn, editor. Uses only articles on ideas and methods that have been tried and found successful, pertaining to periodical, book, and house-magazine publishing, setting length limit at 1,500 words. Payment, at varying rates, on publication. RADIO MAN'S MAGAZINE (Q), 249 West 53d st., New York. $1.00; 25c. Leo Fenway, editor. Uses general articles on radio, short stories concerning radio with women occupying a prominent part, radio poetry, and juvenile matter pertaining to radio. Sets length limit for articles at 1,500 words, and for stories at from 1,000 to 1,500 words, buys radio photographs, and pays, at a minimum rate of onequarter cent a word, on acceptance. ROUNDABOUT (M), 401 Seventh ave., New York. $1.50; 15c. Malcolm Ross, editor. Uses short stories, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, but no novelettes, serials, plays, or juvenile matter. Fiction should consist of terse, action stories, or Americana, with the appeal direct rather than satirical. Sets length limit at 1,500 words, does not buy photographs, and pays from two and one-half cents to three cents a word. SPORTSMAN (M), 10 Arlington st., Boston, Mass. $6.00; 50c. Richard E. Danielson, editor; Frank A. Eaton, managing editor. Vol. I., No. 1—January, 1927. 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