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THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS (Continued)

GIRLS' FRIEND (W), 1716 Choteau ave., St. Louis,
Mo. 75c. Miss Leota Diesel, editor.

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
York. $3.50; 10c. Herbert Forbush, editor.

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.
E. A. Townsend, editor.

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. Deals with sports as the recreation of the amateur, and will cover all the major and minor sports in their season. Uses authoritative articles of the highest quality dealing with amateur sport, buying departmental material for such sports as yachting; polo; riding; hunting; motor boats; horse-shows; dogs, bench and field; and, in a lesser degree, football; rowing; winter sports; skating; swimming, etc. Prints no fiction as yet, but uses poetry and humorous verse, to a degree, satirical or pertaining to amateur sport. Sets length limit at from 2,000 to 3,000 words, buys photographs, and pays, at the rate of two and one-half cents a word, on acceptance.

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THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS

THE fourth printing of this Directory which is constantly being revised and enlarged began in THE WRITER for July, 1922. The information for it, showing the manuscript market and the manuscript requirements of the various publications listed, is gathered directly from the editors of the periodicals. Great pains are taken to make the information accurate and the Directory complete.

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(Continued from March WRITER)

SURVEY (S-M), 112 East 19th st., New York. $5.00; 30c. Paul U. Kellogg, editor.

The Survey is a venture in co-operative journalism, and covers the field of civics, industry, health, education, social work, etc. Prints poetry, but no fiction. Buys photographs, and sets length limit at from 1,000 to 5,000 words. In very large part, manuscripts are contributed without pay, the journal being a pooling place for experience and information, but a modest payment is occasionally made for news or other articles based on first-hand investigation. SURVEY-GRAPHIC (M), 112 East 19th st., New York. $3.00; 30c. Paul U. Kellogg, editor.

Devoted to social progress, covering the field of civics, industry, health, education, etc. Pays, at the rate of ten dollars a page, on publication. SWEETHEART STORIES (S-M), Dell Publishing Company, 461 Eighth ave., New York. $3.00; 15c. Wanda von Kettler, editor.

Desires clean, wholesome love stories, containing melodrama, adventure, and occasional mystery. Uses short stories, novelettes, serials, and poetry, but no humorous verse, and no jokes. Sets length limits for short stories at from 3,000 to 10,000 words, for novelettes at 20,000 words, and for serials at from 30,000 to 50,000 words, does not buy photographs, and pays, at a minimum rate of one cent a word, on acceptance. SYSTEM (M), 660 Cass st., Chicago, Ill. $4.00; 35c. A. W. Shaw, editor; Norman C. Firth, executive editor.

Uses articles which tell of developments, policies, or methods of interest and value to business men generally. In general, each article offers some information, plan, or idea which will be of value to the business man, directly or indirectly, in the carrying on of his business activities. Many of the articles come from business men themselves. Also uses short items about significant new methods which can be used in many lines of business, and business fiction, with little or no love interest, either short stories or serials. The length of material is limited only by the concise handling of the information; many articles contain from 2.000 to 3.000 words. Buys photographs illustrating short items, and others showing anything of unusual interest to

business men. Pays, at a minimum rate of two cents a word, on acceptance.

TALES OF TEMPTATION (M), 584 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Penn. $2.50; 25c. C. M. Stuart, associate editor.

Publication suspended.

TALKING MACHINE JOURNAL (M), 5941 Grand Central Terminal, New York. $3.00; 35c. Glad. Henderson, editor.

Uses articles that would be of help to talking machine dealers, paying about one-half cent a word.

TALKING MACHINE WORLD (M), 383 Madison ave., New York. $2.00; 25c. Charles R. Tighe, managing editor.

Uses fact articles, giving name and address of dealers, descriptive of the methods of talking machine dealers in selling talking machines, records, radio, and small musical instruments, giving a new solution to merchandising and incidental problems, including selling, advertising, direct mail, collecting, canvassing, stock control, cost finding, and business management. Sets length limit at from 1,000 to 1,500 words, and pays at the rate of twenty-one cents an inch. TANAGER (B-M), Box 66, Grinnell, Iowa, $1.50; 30c. Wayne Gard, managing editor.

Published by the English department of Grinnell college. Not restricted as to contributors, but especially interested in the work of midwestern writers. Uses short stories, poems, essays, character sketches, and articles on contemporary authors, and on topics of current interest. Uses woodcuts and linoleum-cuts, but not photographs. Does not pay for manuscripts. TARGET (W), Methodist Book Concern, 420 Plum st., Cincinnati, Ohio. 70c. Henry H. Meyer, editor; E. Leigh Mudge, associate editor; Alfred D. Moore, managing editor.

A paper for boys of from nine to fifteen. Uses short stories, of from 2,000 to 3,000 words; serials, of from six to twelve chapters; and illustrated general articles, of from 1.000 to 1,500 words. Pays from one-half cent to one cent a word, on acceptance.

TEN STORY Book (M), 1532 W. Harrison st., Chicago, Ill. $3.00; 25c. Harry Stephen Keeler, editor.

Prints realistic stories, sensational, daring, and sex. Sets length limit at from 1.000 to 8,000 words, and pays on publication.

TEXASLAND (M), San Antonio, Texas. $1.50; 20c. James Bennett Wooding, editor.

Name changed to the Pioneer.

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