News and Notes The John Newbery medal for "the most distinguished contribution to children's literature during 1926" has been awarded by the American Library Association to Will James for his book, "Smoky." John Newbery an eighteenth century publisher and bookseller, was one of the first publishers to devote attention to children's books. This medal, named in his honor, is the gift of Frederic G. Melcher, of New York. Only citizens or residents of the United States are eligible to receive it. Vincent Huidobro, a young Spaniard living in Paris, has been awarded the international prize of $10,000 offered by the League for Better Pictures for his scenario, "Cagliostro." The Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff prize of twenty-five dollars in the romantic lyric contest, offered through the Poetry Society of America, has been awarded to Isabel Fiske Conant for her poem, "Body of Life." The first award of the William Herbert Carruth prize for poetry at the University of Kansas has been made to Ralph Wallace for a poem in sonnet sequence, entitled "Song of Youth." About thirty poems were submitted. The John Billings Fiske prize in poetry, awarded annually at the University of Chicago, has this year been given to Stanley Stewart Newman, for his group of related poems, "Songs for a Windy Day." Ellen Key left her home, Strande, for a vacation colony for working women in the summer without cost to them, and for women authors and students in the spring and autumn for a moderate fee. The house contains one of the largest and most complete libraries in Sweden, which will be open to the public. Victoria Sackville-West (Mrs. Harold Nicholson) is announced as the winner of the 1927 Hawthornden prize of £100, for her poem, "The Land." The prize was founded in 1919 by Alice Warrender, and is awarded each year for the best work of imaginative literature by an author under forty-one. It has been awarded four times to verse and four times to prose, twice going to women. The earliest age at which it has been won is twenty-seven, and the average age is about thirty-two. Nathalia Crane's father has reported to the Surrogate's Court in Brooklyn that his daughter has received $2,224.48 for her writings, which include "The Janitor's Boy" and "Lava Lane." Her earnings from royalties up to March 3 this year were $1,041.58, according to the report, while she received $50 additional for a newspaper essay, and $12 for a magazine poem. Anne Parrish says that her idea of success in writing is "to see life as a whole, to glimpse its absurdity, but to remember its tragedyto avoid the blight of solemnity on one hand and the curse of cynicism on the other." The Youth's Companion, after being published weekly for more than one hundred years, becomes a monthly with the September issue. Literary Articles in Periodicals THE SHORT BALLOT IN LITERATURE. Morton Robinson. Century for August. Henry THE PLAYFUL STEVENSON. Edward W. Bok. Scribner's Magazine for August. ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF R. L. S. James B. Carrington. Scribner's Magazine for August. THE HISTORIANS CUT LOOSE. C. Hartley Grattan. American Mercury for August. AIN'T. Wallace Rice. American Mercury for August. MR. YEAT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. John Eglinton. Dial for August. BIOGRAPHY. Charles K. Trueblood. Dial for August. HUMBERT WOLFE. With portrait. Herbert Gorman. Bookman for August. MEMORIES OF A FATHER. (William Robertson Nicoll). Marjory Royce. Bookman for August. "TOM SAWYER'S" FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. A. H. Espenshade. St. Nicholas for August. DOROTHY CANFIELD THE LITTLE VERMONTER. Dorothea Lawrance Mann. Bookman for August. JOHN ERSKINE-A MODERN ACTEON. Henry Morton Robinson. 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