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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.

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.

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, di-
vided between Herman Erdlen, for "Passa-
caglia," 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 Even-
ing 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 cap-
pella suites were submitted in the competition. June WRITER.

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 $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

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.

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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.

News and Notes

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.

Arthur Bingham Walkley died at Brightlingsea, Essex, England, October 8, aged seventy-one.

George Sterling died in San Francisco November 17, aged fifty-six.

Allan Upward died at Verwood, near Wimborn, England, November 17, aged sixty-three.

Clement King Shorter died in London, England, November 19, aged sixty-nine.

Charles Belmont Davis died at Biltmore-Asheville, N. C., December 9, aged sixty years.

Jean Richepin died at Paris, France, December 13, aged seventy-seven.

Literary Articles in Periodicals

THE MIND OF H. G. WELLS. Wilbur Cross. Yale Review for January.

POETRY AND THE SECRET IMPULSE. Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Yale Review for January.

AMERICAN MAGAZINES. Agnes Repplier. Yale Review for January.

EMERSON AND THE REFORMERS. Van Wyck Brooks. Harper's Magazine for December.

A GIRL'S FRIENDSHIP WITH RUSKIN. Edited by Leonard Huxley. Atlantic Monthly for December. THIS BOOK-COLLECTING GAME. A. Edward Newton. Atlantic Monthly for December.

THE MAN BEHIND THE "TIMES" - ADOLPH S. ОCHS. Benjamin Stolberg. Atlantic Monthly for December.

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HEADLINE WORDS. Harold E. Rockwell. American Speech for December.

THE CATHOLIC PRESS. William C. Murphy, Jr. American Mercury for December.

VARIETY, THE THEATRICAL WEEKLY. Hugh Kent. American Mercury for December.

THE CINEMA. Thomas Craven. Dial for December. THE POPULAR SONG THAT NEVER BECOMES POPULAR. Frederick C. Russell. Melody for November.

ENGLISH ENGLISH. Claude de Crespigny. American Speech for November.

LIBRARY LANGUAGE. Nellie Jane Compton. American Speech for November.

SCIENTIFIC TERMS IN AMERICAN SPEECH. P. B. McDonald. American Speech for November.

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THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHER

The old-time publisher is passing, and the author is largely to blame. I have seen the close association-in many cases the profound friendship between author and publisher broken by the commercialism fostered by some literary agents and completed by competitive bids made by one publishing house to beguile a popular author away from another. There was a time when a writer was proud to be classified as a "Macmillan," or a "Harper" author. He felt himself a part of the publisher's organization, and had no hesitation in taking his literary problems to the editorial advisor of the house whose imprint appeared upon the title pages of his volumes. A celebrated Boston authoress once found herself absolutely at a standstill on a partially completed novel. She confided her dilemma to her publisher, who immediately

sent one of his editorial staff to the rescue. They spent two weeks working together over the manuscript, solved the problems, and the novel, when published, was the most successful of the season.

Several publishers have acknowledged to me that in offering unusually high royalties to authors they have no expectation of breaking even, but that to have a popular title upon their list increases the sales of their entire line. The publisher from whom the popular writer is filched has usually done his share in helping him attain his popularity. The royalty he pays is a fair division of the profits. He cannot, in justice to his other authors, pay him a further premium.

Ethics, perhaps, has no place in business, but the relation between author and publisher seems to me to be beyond a business covenant. A publisher may deliberately add an author to his list at a loss in order to accomplish a specific purpose, but this practice cannot be continued indefinitely. A far-sighted author will consider the matter seriously before he becomes an opportunist.

William Dana Orcutt. IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK. (Little, Brown, & Company)

JOSEPH CONRAD'S POWER OF DISSECTION

No writer of our time, perhaps, is gifted with power of moral and mental dissection superior to that displayed by Joseph Conrad. None succeeds better in hiding the mechanism and revealing only the effect. His psychological capacity is intense, but it finds expression only in results. He spares the reader the

cumbersome and vain analytical apparatus that is senselessly exhibited by so many would-be psychologists. He does not say of his characters: "This is what they think and feel." We know their thoughts and emotions because they live before us, in full relief. "All art, therefore," says Joseph Conrad,

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