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 November WRITER) MACCABEAN MAGAZINE, New York. Title changed to the NEW JERUSALEM in 1921. MCCALL'S MAGAZINE (M), 236 West 37th st., New York. $1.00; 10c. Harry Payne Burton, editor. A woman's magazine, using short stories, novelettes, serials, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, jokes, and juvenile matter. Sets length limits at from 2,000 to 4,000 words; for serials from 60,000 to 70,000 words. Buys photographs, and pays on acceptance. MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE (M), The S. S. McClure Uses short stories, serials, general articles, and poetry, but no novelettes, humorous verse, jokes, plays, or juvenile matter. Sets length limit for stories at from 3,000 to 5,000 words; for articles, as long as interest holds, but preferable up to 5,000 words. Buys photographs. Wants good, clean short stories of any type, and articles of human interest and endeavor covering any field, preferably with photographs. Pays at present on publication; later, on acceptance. MCCLURE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE, 373 Fourth ave., New York. Includes the Wheeler Syndicate. Runs a daily short story service, a news service, and other material in form of a series. MACFADDEN FICTION LOVERS' MAGAZINE, 1926 Broadway, New York. Lyon Mearson, editor. Formerly the METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. Publication discontinued with the August, 1925. issue. MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE (S-M), 143-153 University ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, $3.00; 15c. J. Vernon McKenzie, editor. Uses novelettes, serials, short stories, and Canadian articles. Does not print jokes, plays, or juvenile matter. Buys no photographs. Sets length limit at from 2,500 to 10,000 words. Pays on acceptance. MCNALLY'S BULLETIN (Twice a year), 81 East 125th st., New York. $1.00. William McNally, editor. A book of comedy for vaudeville and dramatic performers, using one-act comedies, farces, burlesques, monologues, sketches, parodies, minstrel first parts, afterpieces, and other stage material. Pays on acceptance, at from one dollar a hundred words to one dollar a thousand words. MCNAUGHT'S MONTHLY (M), Times Building, New Vol. I, No. 1-January, 1924. Devoted to all Devoted to financial matters, using articles on such subjects as financial conditions, securities of leading corporations, conditions of trade and industry, money and banking, and foreign trade. Buys photographs, and pays after publication. MAGAZINE WORLD (M), Atlantic Monthly Company, 8 Arlington St., Boston. Vol. I., No. 1-October, 1925. Designed for English instructors and students, and uses only reprinted material. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES AMERICAN SPEECH (M), Williams & Wilkins Company, Mt. Royal and Guilford aves., Baltimore, Md. $4.00; 35c. Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, editors. Manuscripts should be sent to Dr. Louise Pound, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Vol. I., No. 1-October, 1925. A journal of linguistic usage the United States and Canada. The official medium for the American branch of the Society for Pure English. Uses articles emphasizing the study of living language, recording the ebb and flow of speech as it is actually taking place in America, and indicating how this speech can best be utilized. Sets no length limit, prints no fiction, and does not pay for manuscripts. BEST STORIES (M), 2242 Grove ave., Chicago, Ill. $3.00; 25c. R. Louis Towne, editor. Started in June, 1925, as Clever Truths; changed to Best Stories in September, to avoid confusion with periodicals of the "confessional" type. Uses only original translations from the Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, and so on. Sets length limit at 6,000 words. COLLEGIATE WIT AND FRATERNITY FUN (M), 17 Park Row, New York. $2.50; 25c. Freeman H. Hubbard, editor. Vol. I., No. 1-March, 1925. Mr. Hubbard says: "Most of our material is reprinted from undergraduate college publications. Occasionally we buy stories, jokes, light verse, and short humorous articles, but not often and we pay CONTINUED ON INSIDE BACK COVER · AN AUTHORS' MONTHLY FORUM · Volume 37 BOSTON, December, 1925 Number 12 "B Cases in Craftsmanship, No. 3 "SPARE PARTS" A Story by FRANK R. ADAMS, analyzed IN the October number appeared the first of a series of BY PERMISSION OF MR. ADAMS AND THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE UT, my dear Sally, as your friend, as your almost guardian, as your sureenough, bona-fide suitor, I beg of you not to buy a Vindix car!" Carson Kerry was perhaps not so vehement as he was pretending to be, but he was very much in earnest at that. 18 "But I want a Vindix," Sally insisted. "My daddy had one, and he said it is the 3 10 best car made." 29 4 11 5 12 6 13 7 14 "Yes; but the Vindix is a foreign car, and your father lived in New York, where there was an importing agency for the Vindix — and not in southern California. If he broke any of the parts he could replace 1561 essential particulars. The lines of the body them within a reasonable time." "I don't see why it should be any harder to get repair parts for a Vindix than it is for any other first-class car." 16 62 were more modern, but from gear shift to 17 63 gizzard they were mechanical twins. 18 64 19 65 "It is harder, though, and there is a 20 66 perfectly good reason. They don't use 21 67 any standardized parts parts that are 22 68 interchangeable with other cars of the 23 69 same size. For heaven's sake, Sally, give 24 70 up this fool notion of a Vindix, and let me fix you up with a good American car!" "Such as a Kamco Six, I suppose?" "That is the best automobile made, I'll admit." "You'd have to say so, you're vice president of the company." 25 71 26 72 27 73 28 74 29 75 30 76 "I would not. It's the truth, and I say it because I'm a reasonable man." 31 77 32 78 33 79 34 80 35 81 "Well, I'm a reasonable woman!" "A reasonable - Why, you're not even a woman yet! I'm darned if I think you ever will grow up. One thing is certain: you have n't cut your automobile wisdom teeth yet." As may be inferred by any married man, and also by most men who are not married to say nothing of all women the upshot of the discussion was the purchase, on the following day, of the only Vindix at that moment available on the west coast. Carson Kerry had gone too far, anyway. The mere fact that her dead father had recommended that she rely on Carson's business judgment did not constitute him her "almost guardian" in everything else! Sally did n't want him for a husband. She could think of seven hundred and forty-four reasons why, one of them being the best in the world. Love may not always last, but it's wonderful as a scaffolding while the building is being put up. Sally broke in her new car herself. She had often driven her father's Vindix, and the new machine was exactly like it in all 36 82 37 83 38 84 85 39 85 40 86 41 So she spent a lot of time piling up the first thousand miles slowly circling the city boulevards. Unconsciously—well, almost unconsciously - she drew a lot of attention from other motorists. Part of it was tribute to the glistening perfection of her perfectly turned out torpedo boat destroyer. No one could see that long, supercilious black snout sneaking up over the crest of a hill, trailing a low-hung, high-sided cockpit, without looking a second time. The rest of the admiration she attracted was due to her dressmaker, her hairdresser, her milliner, and incidentally to herself. Sally affected vivid orange shades when she was going for a drive, and they looked perfectly miserable against the black leather and enamel, as any Princeton man can tell you. She was one of those violently beautiful persons who make men mad enough to want to kill somebody, just for relief. She never flirted. She just looked at 87 people to see if she recognized them, then turned away, leaving them her slaves for life, or, at any rate, for the balance of the day until they could sleep it off. 42 88 43 89 44 90 45 91 46 92 47 93 48 94 49 95 50 96 So the young man driving down Cahuenga Pass was not aware that he was especially honored when she gave him a smile with two dimples couchant, and waved a friendly greeting. He was just arriving in Los Angeles 51 97 from the North and East, and he did n't know yet but that every woman on the southern Pacific coast was like that. 52 98 53 99 54 100 He drove on; not quite the same man 55 101 he had been before, but still he drove on. 56 102 Being human, and masculine, he wanted 57 103 to stop. But he did n't. He proceeded 58 104 thoughtfully on his way. 59 105 To proceed thoughtfully was one of the 60 106 things Monte English did most successfully. "Oh, if you would!" Apparently she never doubted his ability for an instant. He not only would but he could. "A Vindix is a little complicated for the average American driver, is n't it?" she Eventually Monte hoped to be Western 110 157 representative of some flourishing Detroit 111 158 manufacturer. For the present, he planned 112 159 offered shyly. to get a job as lowly mechanic in a repair 113 160 shop until he could accumulate enough entries in a savings bank passbook to warrant 115 him in branching out for himself. "Not really, after you get used to 'em." 114 161 He gazed admiringly at the sheer beauty 162 of the new car. "Gee, but this outfit is a 116 163 peach!" The next time he met Sally, not know- 117 164 ing yet, of course, that her name was Sally, he was towing a broken-down Kamco 119 Six which had turned its right ankle against 120 a too, too solid cement curb. "Would you like to drive it for a mile 118 165 or so, just to feel it out? No one has driven 166 it except myself, but I know the owner of 167 another Vindix would understand just how 168 to handle it." 121 122 169 But she recognized him, even in his She was right. Her car had never been overalls; and she smiled again, that same 123 170 manipulated with such skill. They went warm, friendly smile as of shipmates who 124 171 twenty miles, not because Monte premeet in a far country. 125 172 sumed on her original invitation, but beThis time he guessed why. It was be- 126 173 cause she insisted that she was learning cause his own car, which he had leased 127 174 such a lot just from watching the way he into bondage along with his mechanical 128 175 drove. services, was an antique Vindix, a distant 129 176 cousin of her own resplendent roadster. 130 177 He had not seen any others since he had 131 178 been in Los Angeles. 132 179 So he waved back and grinned. And 133 180 Monte had a pretty nice grin himself. 134 181 136 183 It was strange that he should run across 135 182 her again the next week. Well, not so very strange at that, if you take into account 137 that he had been a distinct menace to 138 185 184 He thanked his lucky stars that this time he had on his street clothes. When they finally pulled up alongside of his own neglected chariot, Sally examined the antique with deep interest. "Just where did you get your car?" she demanded. Monte flushed a little. "I got it from a second-hand dealer in New York." "And how did that scratch get on the traffic every time he went out, because he 139 186 panel of the front door?" was always watching for a long black clip- 140 187 "I have n't had the bus painted since I per flying a yellow flag. 188 bought it. I don't know how it got 189 there." 141 142 143 190 "Well, I do! I put it there myself. A 191 suit I wore several years ago had cut-metal buttons on it, and She was pulled up on the other side of the street and had raised the hood, just as if she knew what to do with the hub- 144 cap wrench which she held in her hand. 145 Monte thought that he was justified in 146 helping. Was n't it all in the line of busi- 147 ness? He might get her as a customer for 148 his boss, might n't he? 149 192 "My father did. I thought it looked 195 familiar; and when you said you bought it 196 in New York I wondered if it might be our 150 197 car. That scratch practically proves it." 151 198 Monte said something she did n't quite 199 catch. "What did you say?" 153 200 "Nothing." "Perhaps I can fix it," he suggested. She turned around and recognized him even before she looked across the street 152 and identified his car. |