The second half of the book is made up of reprints of magazine articles showing different phases of newspaper and magazine writing, and the whole volume is full of interest. ANATOLE FRANCE. Carl Van Doren. Century for REMINISCENCES OF CONRAD. John Galsworthy. Scribner's for January. LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE, POET AND CRITIC. Llewellyn Jones. North American Review for Janu W. H. H. THE RHYMING DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANguage. ary. By J. Walker; revised and enlarged by Lawrence H. Dawson. 549 pp. Cloth. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. 1925. Born poets may scorn the use of a rhyming dictionary, but if they do they are very foolish, and to verse-makers who are not poets by birth a rhyming dictionary is at least a great convenience. Poems seldom, if ever, spring into life from the mind of the author perfect and complete. As a rule there are deficiencies in expression, imperfect lines, very likely missing rhymes. As in supplying synonyms where they are needed a thesaurus is helpful, so in supplying rhymes a rhyming dictionary is very useful, and not infrequently besides suggesting a rhyme it will suggest also an idea. Even those who think that they are born poets should welcome an idea. For one hundred and fifty years Walker's Rhyming Dictionary has been a standard work. In this new edition - which put all other editions completely out of date-it has been thoroughly revised, modernized and greatly enlarged, with the addition of more than 20,000 new words, bringing the total up to more than 54,000 words, all arranged according to their terminations in a "reverse-order" alphabetical list. To meet the only objection to this method there is an appendix which directs the searcher to all the accented rhymes in the English language, however different the spelling of their terminations may be. Other rhyming dictionaries do not define their words, but in Walker every word is defined, and in this edition the definitions have been amplified and rewritten throughout. Every verse maker should have a copy of this book. W. H. H. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. A play in three acts. By Edith Gittings Reid. 118 pp. Cloth. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1922. This is a play that portrays vividly the career and character of Florence Nightingale. It has been warmly commended by Dr. Henry van Dyke and Mary Anderson. LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS. [ Readers who send to the publishers of the periodicals indexed for copies of the periodicals containing the articles mentioned in the following reference list will confer a favor if they will mention THE WRITER.] ISABEL ANDERSON. With portrait. Bonnie Melbourne Busch. Fashionable Dress for February. ANATOLE FRANCE. Samuel C. Chew. North American Review for January. THE PHILOSOPHY IN THOMAS HARDY'S POETRY. Robert M. Smith. North American Review for January. FEWER AND BETTER BOOKS. "New York Publisher-Bookseller." Atlantic for January. VISITING AMERICAN AUTHORS. Michael Joseph. Bookman for January. CHICAGO-OUR LITERARY CRATER. Llewellyn Jones. Bookman for January. THE LITERARY CLINIC. Joseph Collins. Bookman for January. GETTING INTO SIX FIGURES. II-Joseph C. Lin- FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Hildegarde Haw THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF "LITTLE LORD FAUNT- VAN WYCK BROOKS: HIS SPHERE AND HIS EN- CROACHMENTS. January. SECRETS OF POPULAR SONG-WRITING. Current Opinion for January. CHARACTERS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. H. R. Patch. Modern Language Notes for January. INTRODUCTION TO COUNTERSOUND. John McClure. Double Dealer for November-December. NEWS AND NOTES. Ray Stannard Baker has been selected to be the authorized biographer of Woodrow Wilson. Frank L. Stanton has been named poet laureate of Georgia, in a proclamation by Governor Walker. Mr. Stanton will be sixtyeight years old February 22. The Linguistic Society of America has been formed in New York, with Dr. Herman Clolitz, of Johns Hopkins University, president; Dr. Carl Darling Buck, of the University of Chicago, vice-president; and Professor Roland G. Kent, of the University of Pennsylvania, secretary and treasurer. One of the objects of the Society is to make a scientific study of American English. The American Society of Newspaper Editors at its annual convention in Washington re-elected all its officers, as follows: Casper S. Yost, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, president; George E. Miller, Detroit News, first vicepresident; Edgar B. Piper, Portland Oregonian, second vice-president E. O. Hopwood, Cleveland Plain Dealer, secretary; H. S. Beck, Chicago Tribune, treasurer; Ralph E. Stout, Kansas City Star, Edgar B. Piper, Portland Oregonian, George E. Miller, Detroit News, and Willis J. Abbott, Christian Science Monitor, directors. A club for amateur writers, to be known as the Searchers, is being formed at Clarendon, Virginia. Elizabeth Manley is the secretary of the club. The Académie Française has just completed the first volume of the eighth edition of its official dictionary. It is forty-three years since an edition of this dictionary has been published. Edwin Carty Ranck ( The Hermitage Hotel, Louisville, Ky.) is at work on an authorized life of Madison Cawein, and will be glad to hear from any friends or correspondents of Mr. Cawein who can furnish anecdotes, stories, or material of any sort. "Authors of the Day," by Grant Overton, is published by the George H. Doran Com pany. "The Best Poems of 1924," edited by L. A. G. Strong, is published by Small, Maynard, & Co. "Editorial Writings: Ethics, Policy, Practice," by M. Lyle Spencer, director of the School of Journalism of the University of Washington, is published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. "A Study of the Modern Drama," by Barrett H. Clarke (D. Appleton & Co.), covers the plays of all the significant dramatists of Europe and America from Ibsen to the present day. "Noon," by Kathleen Norris (Doubleday, Page, & Co.), is a book of reminiscences of Mrs. Norris's early life, before the publication of "Mother" had made her famous. "The Women in Shakspere's Plays," by Agnes Mere Mackenzie, is published by Doubleday, Page, & Co. "John, Viscount Morley," an apppreciation, with some reminiscences, by Brigadier-General John H. Morgan, is published in London by John Murray. "Leonid Andreyev," by Alexander Kaun, is published by B. W. Huebsch. "An Outline History of French Literature," by H. Stanley Schwartz, is published by Alfred A. Knopf. "A Compact Rhyming Dictionary," by P. R. Bennett, is a new volume in the Miniature Reference Library, published by E. P. Dutton & Co. A new edition of " Byron," by Ethel Colburn Mayne, is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. "The Life of William Congreve," by Edmund Gosse, first published in 1888, is now brought out in a new and revised edition by Charles Scribner's Sons. Brentano's, New York, is to remove in March to a new building at 3 West Fortyseventh street, to be known as the Brentano building. The Macaulay Company has removed to 115 East Twenty-third street, New York. The Thomas Y. Crowell Company has removed to 393 Fourth avenue, New York. Professor William Herbert Carruth died at Mayfield, Calif., recently. Mrs. Margaret Hunt Brisbane died in New Orleans January 6. Harry Furniss died at Hastings, England, January 15, aged seventy years. Dr. Burt Green Wilder died at Newton, Mass., January 21, aged eighty-three. Ernest Harold Baynes died at Meriden, N. H., January 21, aged fifty-six. Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman died in Cannes, France, January 23. Dr. Joseph Clark Hoppin died in Boston, January 30, aged fifty-four. George W. Cable died at St. Petersburg, Florida, January 31, aged eighty years. 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. Before submitting manuscripts to any publication, it is advisable to secure a sample copy. (Continued from February WRITER.) Good Hardware (M), 912 Broadway, New York. $1.00 100. G. K. Hanchett, managing editor. A journal for hardware dealers, published by the Trade Division of the Butterick Publishing Company. Uses short, pithy articles, of from 100 to 1,500 words, illustrated by photographs, telling what progressive retail hardware dealers are doing to stimulate business; an occasional poem with a hardware flavor and jokes, both illustrated and unillustrated. Buys good photographs of window displays, store interiors, etc. Pays on acceptance at the rate of from one cent to two cents a word for manuscripts and from one dollar to three dollars each for photographs. Good Housekeeping (M), International Magazine Co., 119 West 40th st., New York. $3.00; 25c. W. F. Bigelow, editor. as Uses short stories, serials, general articles, poetry, novelettes sometimes, and some juve. nile matter, but no jokes or plays, Buys also recipes and household discoveries, as well photographs. Sets length limit at 6,000 words; prefers wholesome love stories and good humorous stories; pays on acceptance. Good Roads (M), Hibbard-Tree Publishing Co., 53 tor. Gospel Messenger (W), Elgin, Illinois. $2.00; 5c. Offers no inducement to general contributors. terial. Granite Monthly (M), Patriot Building, Concord, Uses general articles, short stories, poetry, and jokes, but no serials, novelettes, humorous verse, plays, or juvenile matter. Does not buy photographs. Green Book Magazine (M), 1012 N. American Publication suspended July, 1921. Uses short stories, of from 1,000 to 2,500 words; serials of from 80,000 to 120,000 words; general articles of from 200 to 5,000 words; and juvenile matter of from 200 to 500 words. Has departments for women, children, and the home and prefers fiction to be on home life close to the people. Buys news photographs, as well as all other subjects. Grit is an illustrated national family weekly, using illustrated material chroniching the progress of industry, agriculture, science, trade, and the arts, with particular emphasis on matters relating to the betterment of living conditions especially in rural communities; and presenting from all over the world unique, strange, and curious scenes, freaks of nature, odd devices, relics, monuments, heirlooms, historic buildings, and all things extraordinary admitting of illustration. Pays from $1 to $5 for photographs, and highest space rates for text accepted. Manuscripts and photographs should be submitted to the Managing Editor. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES. Everyboys' Magazine (M), 15 Woodhull Hollis, L. I., N. Y. $1.50; 15c. Ralph E. Daschke, editor. avenue, Uses short stories, serials, general articles, and jokes, all suited to juvenile readers. Wants no novelettes, plays, poetry, or humorous verse. Sets no length limits. Prefers sport stories with a touch of school life, adventure stories with an outdoor touch, and fishing or camping stories Buys a few photographs. Runs Everyboys' de partment, Radio department, and model en gineering department. Pays on publication. Movie Thrillers (M), 175 Duffield street, Brooklyn, N. Y. $1.50; 15c. W. Adolphe Roberts, editor. Started as Movie Adventurers with the issue for November, 1924; changed to Movie Thrillers with the January, 1925, issue. Prints fictioniza tions of current motion pictures, the work being assigned by the editor. Not an open market. On the Air (M), 738 Kimball Hall, Chicago, Ill. $2.50 250. Forbes W. Fairbairn, editor. Uses human interest radio articles, radio short stories, sketches of radio artists and announcers, and radio developments. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 2,000 words and buys radio photographs. Suniland Magazine (M), Box 2711, Tampa, Florida $1.00 100. R. S. Hanford, managing editor. Suniland Magazine is the Magazine of Florida and uses only special articles on Florida and fiction stories laid in Florida, ranging from 2,500 to 5,000 words. No stories are considered that do not possess strong Florida atmosphere and appeal. Special articles must be accompanied by from five to ten photographs. Payment is made promptly on publication, at the rate of one cent a word for articles and from one to two cents a word for fiction. CREATIVE CRITICISM OF MSS. By an Author Whose Work Has Appeared in More than Thirty Magazines, from the Atlantic, the Century, Scribner's, down. Author of "Talks on Practical Author ship," begun in the November WRITER. The third printing of this Directory was begun in THE WRITER for March, 1917. Back numbers can be supplied. A set of the numbers from January, 1918, to date, giving the Directory complete, with additions and changes bringing everything up to date, and much other valuable matter, will be sent for five dollars; with a year's subscription added, for $6.50. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS. VOL. XXXVII. CONTENTS: Richard Bowland Kimball Free Advertising BOSTON, MARCH, 1925. ENTERED AT THE BOSTON POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. PAGE EDITORIAL Novels of Today, 38 Self-Addressed En velopes for Return of Manuscripts 38 LITERARY SHOP TALK 39 VAGARIOUS SPANISH IN AMERICAN FICTION. Berta de Carret THE MANUSCRIPT MARKET 40 39 No. 3. do not care for evening work. The Authors League sometimes supplies manuscripts for careful preparation, and the three great foundations, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Sage, often have temporary work. Publishers, too, now call for an extra final reading, done outside of the inevitable clamor and rush of even the best printing plants. The great insurance companies Metropolitan, Prudential, Etna, Travelers with their reams of exacting work, where "riders" must fit a prescribed space, headings must show forth the sort of guarantee below (one misleading headline picked up hastily is a crime), type must be above 8-point, are constantly striving to obtain men of judgment, brains, good sense, and well trained to work "in harness" if not always to "stand hitched." There have been two calls for "statistical readers" - one position of this sort was filled by a very responsible woman. Along come the advertising agencies, and request especially "sharp" readers. A specimen proof here shows me a Philadelphia Yes, there are free-lance proofreaders in reader passed the "ad." of a certain type of New York. There has been for years an old-fashioned notion among printers that no man could serve two masters that if a man had taken proofcorrection for a while at the Universal Press he was utterly unfit to try his hand at the Wayside he must go, forsooth, to another city, fight anew his way over heaps of dead, mucky error, or be cast into outer darkness, whence issue sounds of weeping, wailing, et cetera. Since 1923.there has been a sort of guild of the unattached here in New York. They are kept busy every minute with fresh "first-aid" calls coming via tinkling telephone. An indexmaker is badly needed at times, as most of us automobile axle as 66 A few disadvantages of this occupation may be worth mentioning the between-seasons of |