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conjunctions, readers who learned grammar in little red schoolhouses may need to be informed, are conjunctions by which one thought or idea is inferred or proved from another. In the sentence, "He was found guilty and therefore hanged," "therefore" s illative.

The book is interesting as an example of the extent to which preciosity in the study of language may be carried.

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on Goethe's poem, "Nature and Art." Illustrated. Paul Carus. Open Court (13 c.) for June.

SICK ROOM LITERATURE. Medical Times (13 c.) for June.

MARK TWAIN. Illustrated. Archibald Henderson. tarper's Magazine (38 c.) for May. TWAIN AT STORMFIELD. Albert Bigelow Paine. Harper's Magazine (38 c.) for May. SHAKESPEARE'S KING HENRY V." Illustrated. F. Warre Cornish. Harper's Magazine (38 c.) for May. CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN MAN. Editor's Study, Harper's Magazine (38 c.) for May.

MARK But why confuse the pupil's understanding of the simple principles of English composition by an over-elaborate terminology? How will a knowledge of illative conjunctions help in the preparation of another Gettysburg address or a reply to Hayne?- New York World.

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THE HUNDRED WORST BOOKS. Samuel McChord Crothers. Atlantic (38 c.) for May.

NEWSPAPERS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES. James Ford Rhodes. Atlantic (38 c.) for May.

THE RHYTHMIC RELATION OF PROSE AND VERSE. Brian Hooker. Forum (28 c.) for May.

MARION CRAWFORD. Frederic Taber Cooper. Forum (28 c.) for May.

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MEMORIES OF AUTHORS. Illustrated. William Winter. Saturday Evening Post (8 c.) for May 8. THE ART MRS. ELINOR LANE. Marguerite Tracy. New York Times Saturday Review for May 15. FACTS ABOUT FRANCIS BACON AND SOME ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. Illustrated. William Leavitt Stod

dard. Collier's (13 c.) for May 15. ON POETIC DICTION. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for May 29.

GEORGE MEREDITH. With photographs. Lawrence Gilman. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for May 29.

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Andrew Melrose, the London publisher who lately gave a 250-guinea prize for the best first novel sent to him, offers a similar prize for the best novel sent to him, bar none. The judges of this new contest are Flora Steele, Mary Cholmondeley, and Mrs. de la Pasture.

The subjects suggested for prize essays on economic subjects to be offered by men and women who have not had a college training (class C) in the competition directed by Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, of the University of Chicago, the best essay to receive a $500 prize, are as follows: (1) The most practicable scheme for beginning a reduction of the tariff; (2) The value of government statistics of wages in the last ten or fifteen years; (3) Oppor-. tunities for expanding our trade with South America; (4) The organization of the statistical work of the United States; (5) Publicity and form of trust accounts. The subjects suggested for essays to be offered in the college-student division (classes A and B) of the competition are as follows: (1) The effect of labor unions on international trade; (2) The best means of raising the wages of the unskilled; (3) A comparison between the theory and the actual practice of protectionism in the United States; (4) A scheme for an ideal monetary system for the United States; (5) The true relation of the central government to trusts; (6) How much of J. S. Mills' economic system survives?; (7) A central bank as a factor in a financial crisis. The contestants in this division are divided into two classes. Class A includes any American without restriction. Class B includes only those who, at the time of competing, are undergraduates of any American college. A first prize of $600 and a second prize of $400 are offered for the best studies presented by class A; a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $200 are offered for the best studies presented by class B. Any member of class B, however, may compete for the prizes of class A. The winning essays will be published in book form at the discretion of the committee. The papers are to be handed in by June, 1910.

The Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, has announced that the final date for the reception of operas offered for the prize competition will be September 15, and that after that day no new works will be received. This is the work that is to receive the $10,000 award, and to win the prize must be of the species of opera called grand, and its production, with an allowance of ten minutes for every intermission included, must not last longer than three and one-quarter hours. Full particulars regarding the competition may be obtained from the Metropolitan Opera Company.

Joseph Fort Newton's somewhat belated biography, "David Swing, Poet-Preacher," is published by the Unity Publishing Company, Chicago.

In "Samuel Pepys, Administrator, Observer, Gossip," E. Hallam Moorhouse reminds us that the Diary only covers about nine years in a long and busy life, and that a great deal more than it contains can be said of a man who rose from poverty to be secretary of the navy, president of the Royal Society, and became a celebrated bibliophile.

"Walt Whitman," by George Rice Carpenter, is published by the Macmillan Company in the English Men of Letters Series. Almost the last work done by Professor Carpenter was the completion of this book. He disclaimed all intention of writing literary criticism; instead he set himself, with sympathy and impartiality, to state the main facts in Walt Whitman's life and to show what manner of man the poet was.

"The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley," collected and edited by Roger Ingpen, will be published by the Scribners. The collection embraces about 450 letters, many of which have never appeared in print, while others have only been printed privately. The two volumes will contain forty-two illus

trations.

E. P. Dutton & Co. announce a work on "The Romantic Movement in English Poetry," by Arthur Symonds - a series of careful individual appraisements of the personality and poetry of all the verse-writers born within the period from 1720 to 1800.

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Shakespeare,"

treats of

Swinburne's last book, "Three Plays of "King Lear," "Othello," and "King Richard II."

Moffat, Yard, & Co., New York, have pub"American lished a critical survey of

Verse," by William Bradley Otis. The subject is divided into Historical Verse, Religious Verse, Political and Satirical Verse, Imaginative Verse, and Translation, the book, which is not an anthology, containing much material that has never before been mentioned in any history or bibliography of American verse.

Professor Courthope has finished the sixth volume of his "History of English Poetry," and it will be published in the fall.

"An Introduction to Poetry," for students of English literature, by Raymond Macdonald, Ph.D., is published by Henry Holt & Co.

Dr. Eugen Kuehnemann, for two years German exchange professor at Harvard, has written a study of the life of President Eliot, which the Houghton Mifflin Company has published.

Appleton's Magazine is merged with Hampton's Magazine (New York), beginning with the June number.

Paul Elmer More has succeeded the late Hammond Lamont as editor of the Nation.

The Gentleman's Journal, “a man's magazine to deal with men in their social relations, their costumes, the appointments of their home, their participation in sports, and as private the conduct of their manners gentlemen," is a new monthly published by the Fairchild Publishing Company, New York.

Vagabondia is a new Chicago monthly "devoted exclusively to literary people."

The Golden West is a new magazine, published at Waterloo, Ia., "for the purpose of showing to the world the advancement and achievements of American civilization in the Great Interoceanic States that lie between the headwaters of the Ohio River and the Rocky Mountains." Its first issue was the number for April.

Ideal Homes is a new monthly published in Boston by the Smith Publishing Company, owners of Human Life. Hiram M. Green is editor.

Hygiene and Physical Education is a new magazine, published by the F. A. Bassette The comCompany, of Springfield, Mass.

pany also has a department for publishing books on the general subjects treated in the magazine.

London is to have a new magazine, devoted entirely to fiction, published by Eveleigh Nash, and known as Nash's Magazine. An 8,000-word story by Mr. Kipling in the first number, it is said, will cost Mr. Nash $4,500.

A sixteen-page serial supplement is to be added to Short Stories. Monthly prizes of money will be awarded for the cleverest, most original description or analysis of the Peyton next installment of the serial. Steger, of Doubleday, Page, & Co., has become editor and general manager of the He is still connected with the magazine. World's Work and Doubleday, Page, & Co. Short Stories is now published from 133 East Sixteenth street.

Albert Brandt, printer and publisher of the Arena, has gone into bankruptcy.

The Outlook has reduced its retail price to five cents a copy, with the exception of the fourth weekly issue in each month, which is illustrated and greatly enlarged, and the price of which has been raised to fifteen

cents.

The New England Magazine has reduced its price to fifteen cents a copy.

The old lady who nursed Walt Whitman through his last illness up to within a fortnight or so of his death in March, 1892, gives in Putnam's for June her recollections of her famous patient.

Hammond Lamont died in New York May 6, aged forty-five.

Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson died at Mobile, Ala., May 9, aged seventy-one.

George Meredith died at Surrey, Eng., May 18, aged eighty-one.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS.

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"Since I came to New York a greenhorn," said a woman writer, "I have found a good deal of interest and some innocent amusement in the study of the magazine editor. He was a new species of the human genus to me, and I have tried to understand him.

"In the first place, it is quite useless to say that an article goes entirely on its merits or the nature of the magazine. I once wrote an article on the cuisine of a distant corner of the world where I happened to have spent some time. It was peculiarly adapted to the literary departments of magazines published distinctively for the home woman.

No. 7.

"I sent it to the editor of one such magazine with a little note telling how I came to get the material. It came back with nothing but my own letter inside. I sent it to another. It was returned with merely the printed slip of regrets. I sent it to a third editor, and he figuratively fell on my neck with joy and asked for more of the same kind.

"Now these three magazines were of precisely the same class. My story was exactly as well suited to one as to another. It happened to hit the third editor and not the others, that's all.

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The lack of co-ordination, the sort of blind working at cross purposes in magazine offices, has sometimes impressed me. When I first came to New York I had a little onecolumn story in a certain Saturday evening paper about some people I knew who had photographed wild animals. It was just at the height of the wild-animal-story craze. Wildcats and blacktail deer were roaming through the pages of every magazine.

"The following Monday I received a note from the editor of the evening newspaper which enclosed a letter from the woman editor of a very well-known periodical. This woman editor asked him to give her the name and address of the writer of my little story, which, she was good enough to say, had impressed her very much. I went to see the woman editor with hopes rising high.

"She wanted a wild animal story, and was sure from some things in my story that I could write it for her. I wrote the story and sent it on, with a reminder to the woman

editor that it was the story she had spoken to me about. It came back speedily with a letter from a man editor, which ran something like this:

Dear Miss Blank: You have not handled your material in the right way. There are many very able and well-known writers writing animal stories today. But you have here two people who have done a very unusual and interesting thing in photographing wild animals as they have done. Your story should have been about them instead of about animals, which you can hardly know as much about as men who have spent years in studying them.

"So I re-wrote my story, making it about the two photographers instead of about the animals, and sent it on, together with a statement that my first story had been written in accordance with instructions. My second story came back with a letter from the woman editor.

She said:

Dear Miss Blank: I am very much disappointed in your story. I thought the understanding between us was that you should write us an animal story. Blank's Magazine is not in the least interested in these two photographers.

"I wrote her a civil note, enclosing the letter from her male colleague, and never received any reply to that communication. The names of these two people who played ball with me in this fashion are known to every reader of American magazine literature. There are not in the United States two magazine writers better known.

"In another instance I encountered a peculiar sort of vague blindness in an editor. I had sold the editor several stories, when an idea occurred to me which I thought would suit his publication; but it was not a subject on which a woman's name could carry any conviction. It was an article on saloons. So I wrote the article in the name of my brother, a business man who never sets pen to paper except to sign his name, if he can help it.

"Now this editor had bought my stories; he had discussed articles with me personally in his office; my brother's name was the same as mine, our address was the same. Nevertheless it apparently never dawned upon him that there was any connection between us.

"He greeted my brother as a new writer,

although no inexperienced writer could have written that article, and asked him to submit more material, which I obligingly did for him. Still more surprising, when the check came it was for exactly one-third more than the same editor had ever paid me for any stuff I had sold him under my own name. It is hardly to be supposed that I wrote so very differently in the course of a few months that one of my articles was worth a third more than another. It seemed more likely that the editor discriminated in favor of the abler sex. At any rate, it was a tip for me, and my succeeding correspondence with this editor was carried on under my brother's name.

"A certain attitude of superiority on the part of magazine editors is frequently apparent. A certain editor had bought one fiction story of mine and returned others. I did n't blame him for this. I knew they were n't like the first story, and for that reason I didn't get angry at the condescending tone in which he wrote of my poor efforts, the. great, the immeasurable height from which he handed me down criticism and instructions.

"Now we were taking his magazine in our house at the time, the subscription happening to have been made under my sister's name. An article appeared which was exquisitely distasteful to me as a woman. At just the same time came a printed announcement from the business office of the magazine informing my sister that her subscription had expired and inviting her to renew it.

"I sat down and wrote a letter to the business manager of the magazine. I enclosed his invitation to renew, and said I was glad it had come during the same month as the article which I named. I said that that article was offensive to every woman of sense and brains, and that never again should his magazine be brought into my house. I dipped my pen in gall and slung it with such skill as I had attained in the pursuit of my trade. My sister signed the letter and I sent it on.

"An answer came almost by return mail, and I was surprised to see at the end the old familiar signature of my editor. He

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