mystery. Stories for the magazine should, therefore, carry these elements in them and have plenty of action.

LIFE 598 Madison avenue, New York, wants scenarios, or ideas for scenarios, for the Life Cartoon Comedies, which are being released through the Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. Full instructions and a sample scenario will be sent on request, which should be sent on a coupon cut from an issue of Life.

SCIENCE AND INVENTION 53 Park place, New York, especially needs some popularly illustrated articles covering general science and invention.

JOHN MARTIN'S BOOK-33 West Forty

ninth street, New York, will extend its age appeal, "both up and down," beginning with the January issue. For the older readers, from nine to twelve, the magazine will use serials, of about six chapters, of 2,500 words each, with both boy and girl appeal — adventurous, but avoiding sentimentality and the fear element, stories of romance and fact, things to do and to make, games, and stunts for both boys and girls. Stories should not exceed 2,000 words; craft and game articles, not more than 1,000 words. For the little tot section, the magazine wants timely stories and articles, games, and things to make and to do. The magazine is well supplied with verse. WESTERN FLYING-701 Bryson Building, Los Angeles, Calif., is particularly interested in stories dealing with the adventures of the barnstorming flyer- that is, the gypsy aviator who flies from town to town. Mr. Pritchard, the editor of Western Flying, says that there is a mine of romance and adventure in this theme which has not been touched by writers of fiction, and he is very anxious. to obtain short fiction, of from 2,000 to 3,000 words, dealing with aviation. Stories should be written in the first person, so as to be the narrative of the barnstormer himself, and should include the slang of the air and the

to aviators.

THE NEW SOUTH-604 Provident Building, Chattanooga, Tenn., wants high-grade short stories, preferably with a Southern setting, and success stories or articles on lives of outstanding Southern men and women.

NORTH-WEST STORIES-461 Eighth avenue, New York, needs at once two Western and two Northern novelettes, containing from 20,000 to 30,000 words, each. Stories for the magazine should be swift-moving and have a fair share of drama and suspense, and must contain some form of sentimental interest.

THE BUDDY-BOOK 93 Massachusetts aveGardner, Mass., particularly needs some good nue, Boston, Mass., formerly published in

short stories for children of nine and ten. Verse of merit, and novel ideas for puzzles and hand work will also be considered. D. E. Bushnell is now the editor of the magazine. MCCLURE'S-119 West Fortieth street, New York, is now an all-fiction magazine, with romantic fiction predominating, the only limitations set being interest and appeal. Romance is, of course, the first essential, but a story endowed with distinction, yet lacking the love element, will not be rejected. Stories that are modern and have American characters are preferred, but varity and picturesqueness of setting are also desirable. Sex is not barred, but it must never be handled selfconsciously nor with any attempt at vulgarity or cheap facetiousness. McClure's regards sex as a subject to be treated simply, genuinely, and in its proportionate relationship to life. Stories with a war background are acceptable only from authentic writers. The editors are as much interested in the author who writes with fine sentiment as in the one who has cleverness and smartness of style. Romance, adventure, mystery, humor-all are necessary to give the fully rounded magazine which they want. They are especially interested in the new writer. Long short stories and serials

awarded its annual prize of $100 to Samuel Richard Gaines, the Boston composer, for his setting of the poem, "Constancy." THE W. W. KIMBALL prize of $100, offered by the Chicago Madrigal Club, for the best setting in madrigal form of Clinton Scollard's poem, "An Invitation," has been awarded to Louis Victor Saar.

THE SESQUI-CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION has awarded the following prizes: $3,000 for the best opera, to Karl Siebeck, for his opera, "Toni"; $2,000 for the best symphony, divided between Herman Erdlen, for "Passacaglia," and Gustav Strube, for "Symphonic Fantasie"; $2,000 for the best choral work, divided between Henry Hadley, for "Mirtil in Arcadia," and Jacob Weinberg, for "An Evening in Palestine"; and $500 for a capella, to T. Frederick H. Candlyn, for his “Historical Suite." The judges found no work submitted worthy of the prize of $2,000 for a ballet. Thirty-four operas, fifty-eight symphonies, eleven choral compositions, thirteen ballets, four pageants, one masque, and eighteen cappella suites were submitted in the competition.

PRIZE OFFERS STILL OPEN:

Prizes in Letters offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism: For the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood, $1,000; for the original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standard of good morals, good taste, and good manners, $1,000; for the best book of the year on the history of the United States, $2,000; for the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, $1,000; for the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1,000. Also, Prizes in Journalism, amounting to $3,000 and a $500 medal, and three traveling scholarships having a value of $1,500 each. All offered annually under the terms of the will of Joseph Pulitzer. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing on or before February 1 of each year, addressed to the Secretary of Columbia University, New York, on forms that may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the University.

Prize of $7,500 offered by the Frederick A. Stokes Company and the Forum for the best American biographical novel, contest closing March 1, 1927. Particulars in May WRITER.

Prize of $10,000 offered by College Humor and the First National Pictures, Inc., for the first American serial and world motion-picture rights for the story or novel best adapted for production, competition closing February 1, 1927. Particulars in September WRITER.

Two prizes of $25,000 each offered by the Woman's Home Companion and the John Day Company, Inc., for the two most interesting novels best adapted to serial and book publication, one by a man and one by a woman, competition closing July 1, 1927. Particulars in September WRITER, or from the John Day Company, Inc., 25 West Forty-fifth street, New York.

Prize of $2,000 offered by Harper & Bros. for the best novel by a citizen who has not published a novel in book form prior to January 1, 1919, contest closing February 1, 1927. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $10,000 offered by the Atlantic Monthly for the most interesting novel submitted before February 15, 1927. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $2,000 offered by Little, Brown, & Co., for the best book for boys and girls of ten years old or more, manuscript to contain at least 40,000 words, contest closing March 1, 1927. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $25,000 offered by McClure's, the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, and the Cosmopolitan Productions, for serial rights, book rights, and motion-picture rights for a novel, containing from 80,000 to 110,000 words, contest closing March 31, 1927. Open to any writer who has not had more than three novels published in book form. Particulars in June WRITER.

Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300, and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 1, 1927. Particulars in October WRITER.

Prizes of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, and three prizes of $50 each, offered by the Penn Publishing Company, for original play manuscripts suitable for amateurs, contest closing March 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Four national contests in play-writing conducted by the Drama League of America and Longmans, Green, & Company, contest closing May 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 offered by the World's Work for the best article based on theories advanced by William T. Foster and Waddill Catchings in the series of economic articles now running in the magazine, contest closing March 31. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prizes of $300 and $100 offered by the Pasadena Center of the Drama League of America for a full evening play and a one-act play, contest closing March 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prizes of $100, $50, and $25 offered by the Atlantic Monthly to students using the Atlantic Monthly in courses during the 1926-1927 terms, contest closing March 31. Particulars in December WRITER.

Annual prizes offered by the Scholastic to students in junior and senior high schools for the best work in poetry, essays, short stories, drama, and art, contest closing March 20. Particulars in December WRITER.

Prize of $25 offered by the Tanager for the best poem submitted by April 1. Particulars in December WRITER.

Monthly definition contests conducted by the Forum, payment being made at the rate of five dollars each for all printed. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 offered by the Commonweal for the best outline sketch of Maryland, competition closing February 1, 1927. Particulars in August WRITER.

Prizes of $10 each for the best sonnet and the best short story, and a prize of $5 for the next best short story published in the Oracle during the next ten months. Particulars in the August WRITER.

Prize of $1,000, offered by the Chamber of Commerce, Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the best scenario

for a historical pageant depicting the history of Hot Springs. Particulars in October WRITER.

Prizes amounting to $1,000 offered by the Club Corner of Scribner's Magazine, open to clubs and members of clubs affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, for the best lists of books, music, and art to furnish a hypothetical American country home, contest closing February 1, 1927. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prize of $1,000 offered by C. C. Birchard through the Chautauqua Institution for a choral work a religious cantata - contest closing April 1, 1927. Particulars in November WRITER.

Witter Bynner Undergraduate poetry prize of $150 for the best poems printed in Palms during 1927, open to undergraduates in any American university or college. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prizes of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: Southern prize of $100; Caroline Sinkler prize of $50; Society's prize of $25; Harmon prize of $25; Skylark prize of $10; and the Ellen M. Carroll prize of $15 all offered annually. Particulars from the Poetry Society of South Carolina, 62 Broad street, Charleston, S. C., or in July Writer.

Annual prizes awarded by Poetry (232 East Erie street, Chicago, Ill.) in November of each year: Helen Haire Levinson prize of $200, John Reed Memorial prize of $100, and the Young Poets' prize of $100, for poems published in the magazine during the current year.

A new publication, promised for January by Houghton Mifflin Company, is "The Truth About Publishing," by Stanley Unwin, Managing Director of George Allen & Unwin Ltd., and Chairman of the Society of Book Men of Great Britain. The book is based upon Mr. Unwin's career as a publisher and covers such subjects as publicity, advertising, the booksellers, copyrights, accounting and censorship.

Wilbur Cross has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Edith Wharton and Margaret Deland have been elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Arthur W. Page has resigned as vice president of Doubleday, Page, & Co., and as editor of the World's Work.

Judge Henry A. Shute, author of "The Real Diary of a Real Boy," has retired from the bench.

Ernest McCullough is now the editor of the American Architect.

Owen Davis, who was recently elected president of the Authors' League of America, is now under contract to write two films a year for the next five years for the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, for which he will receive $100,000 a year and a percentage of the profits from the films.

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 56 West Forty-fifth street, New York, has issued a pamphlet, entitled "Performing Rights in Copyrighted Music."

"Horace Greeley: Founder of the New York Tribune," by Don C. Seitz, is published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

Corning White, formerly of the Dartmouth faculty, and author of "Training for Play Writing" in the December WRITER, will conduct a course in play writing, in New York City, beginning January 11th, 1927, at 36 East 40th Street.

"Guy de Maupassant," by Ernest Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), is a biographical study.

"Pierre Loti: The Romance of a Great Writer," by Edmund B. d'Auvergne, is published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.

"Memoirs of Léon Daudet," edited and translated by Arthur Kingsland Griggs, is published by Lincoln MacVeagh, the Dial Press.

"Israfel, the Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe," by Hervey Allen, is published by the George H. Doran Company.

"Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth, and The Trembling of the Veil," by William Butler Yeats (The Macmillan Company), is the sixth volume of the collected works of the Irish poet.

"Fanny Burney and the Burneys," edited by R. Brimley Johnson (Frederick A. Stokes Company), is a new biographical chronicle, containing additions from Mme. d'Arblay's diary, taken from her unpublished "Journals in France."

"Joseph Conrad in the Congo," by G. Jean-Aubry, is published by Little, Brown, & Co.

The Houghton Mifflin Company publishes "The Letters of William Roscoe Thayer," edited by Charles Downer Hazen.

"Fielding the Novelist: A Study in Historical Criticism," by Frederic T. Blanchard, is published by the Yale University Press.

"I Have This to Say," by Violet Hunt (Boni & Liveright), is an autobiography, with many sketches of present-day English writers.

"The Letters of George Eliot," selected from J. W. Cross's life of his wife, by R. Brimley Johnson, is published by Lincoln MacVeagh, the Dial Press.

"Some New Light on Chaucer," by John Matthews Manly (Henry Holt & Co.), is a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in February, 1924.

The Macmillan Company has published a new edition of George Brandes's critical study of Shakspere.

"The Frontier in American Literature," by Lucy Lockwood Hazard, is published by the T. Y. Crowell Company.

"The Colyum," by Hallam Walker Davis (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), is one of the Borzoi series of Handbooks of Journalism, edited by Nelson Antrim Crawford.

"European Dramatists," by Archibald Henderson (D. Appleton & Co.), is a revised edition of critical studies of August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Granville Barker, Arthur Schnitzler, and John Galsworthy.

"Some Great English Novels: Studies in the Art of Fiction," by Orlo Williams (The Macmillan Company), discusses Fielding's "Tom Jones," Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit," Thackeray's "Pendennis," Meredith's "Egoist," DeFoe's "Roxana," Jane Austen's "Emma," George Enet's "Adam Bede," and Butler's "Way of All Flesh," with final chapters devoted to the novels of De Morgan, Somerville, and Ross.

"American Criticism, 1926," edited by William A. Drake (Harcourt, Brace, & Co.), is the first of what is intended to be an annual series of critical studies of contemporary books and authors.

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"Well-Bred English," by Lillian Eichler (Doubleday, Page, & Co.), is a handbook or correct language, giving full directions for cultivating pleasant-speaking voice, correcting pronunciation, enlarging the vocabulary, speaking and writing English correctly, after-dinner speaking, business English, and similar subjects.

"The Colby Essays," by Frank Moore Colby, edited by Clarence Day, Jr. (Harper & Brothers), contains, among other papers, "The Pursuit of Humor," "Bad English," "The Phrasemaker," and "The Critical Temperament."

G. P. Putnam's Sons have published a third enlarged and revised edition of "A Literary History of the English People," by J. J. Jusserand, dealing especially with the poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the Elizabethan age.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company has brought out new editions of "The Four Kinds of Poetry" and "The Literary Discipline," by John Erskine.

"The Best Plays of 1925-1926," edited by Burns Mantle, is published by Dodd, Mead, & Co.

"The Best British Short Stories of 1926," edited by Edward J. O'Brien (Dodd, Mead, & Co.), contains twenty-two stories, with information about the short-story writers in British periodicals during the past year.

The "Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926," edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (B. J. Brimmer Company), contains, in addition, essays on poetry by Jessie B. Rittenhouse, William Rose Benét, E. Merrill Root, Glenn Hughes, James Southall Wilson, Dawson Powell, Willard Johnson, George Sterling, Mary Austin, Thomas Walsh, Henry Harrison, Alan Locke, Josef Washington Hall, Marianne Moore, and Joseph Auslander.

The Pictorial Review's annual award of $5,000 for distinguished achievement has been won by Sara Graham-Mulhall for her book, "Opium: the Demon Flower," published by the Inspiration Library, Bible House, New York.