issue should contain, prepared before, not left to chance.

3rd. Generally speaking, always remember the difference between a paper made for the million, for the masses, and a paper made for the classes. In using the word masses, I do not exclude anybody. I should make a paper that the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States would read with enjoyment, everybody, but I would not make a paper that only the judges of the Supreme Court and their class would read. I would make this paper without lowering the tone in the slightest degree. 4th. Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. Also terseness, intelligent, not stupid, condensation. No picture or illustration unless it is first class both in idea and execution.

Besides founding the school of journalism at Columbia University and providing for a series of annual prizes in the interest of letters, the drama, music, and good newspaper work, Mr. Pulitzer made many public bequests, including a fund of practically a million dollars for the New York Philharmonic Society and another million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He left about $20,000,000.

W. H. H. SOME CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS, The Personal Equation in Literature. By Percy H. Boynton. 289 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

1924.

In these papers, reprinted mostly from the English Journal and other periodicals, Professor Boynton, after discussing American Neglect of Literature, takes up the work of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, and James Branch Cabell, accompanying each chapter with a biographical note. Other chapters are headed The Drift of the Drama, Boston and Bohemia, The Younger Set and the Puritan Bogy, Biography and the Personal Equation, and Pessimism and the Critical Code.

1924.

New

THE ENIGMA OF RABELAIS. An essay in interpretation. By A. F. Chappell. 196 pp. Boards. York The Macmillan Company. An intimate and comprehensive knowledge of the writings of Rabelais is necessary for an appreciation of Mr. Chappell's book. He takes for granted such knowledge on the part of the reader, and with that understanding makes a running commentary on the great French author's work, with references rather than quotations, assuming that the references will be readily understood. Beginning with an introductory chapter and a chapter on the life of Rabelais, Mr. Chappell goes on with chapters headed Rabelais' Humor, Changes in Characterization, The Social Questions, The Authority of Ancient Literature, The Question of Religion, and The Philosophy. Conceding that Rabelais of whom it has been

said that he and Calvin were respectively the positive and negative poles of the Renaissance

so long as his work is considered as at organic whole, appears to be an enigma, Mr. Chappell points out that the work should be studied as an expression of a mind developing. under natural conditions at a time when most men were powerfully affected and disturbed. Showing how Rabelais altered his views on life, Mr. Chappell discusses the causes that led to the manifest change between the publication of "Gargantua" and the "Tiers Livre." His conclusion is that we should study Rabelais' work with a three-fold division in mind "Pantagruel" and "Gargantua," the work of his immaturity; the "Tiers Livre" and "Quart Livre," that of his maturity; and the "Quint Livre," which, composed at various times, appeared posthumously.

W. H. H. STYLE BOOK OF THE COURSES IN JOURNALISM, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA. Compiled by A. L. Higgin botham. 18 pp. Paper. Reno, Nevada: The University. 1924.

This little pamphlet, prepared primarily for the students of journalism at the University of Nevada, gives briefly general instructions and rules for the preparation of copy, followed by rules regarding capitalization, punctuation, quotation, abbreviation, compounds, spelling, numbers, titles, and headlines.

THE STYLE BOOK OF THE DETROIT NEWS. By A. L.

Weeks. 114 pp. Cloth. Detroit The Evening

News Association. 1924.

This is something more than an ordinary Style Book. Besides giving the rules of the Detroit News regarding punctuation, capitalization, spelling, compounds, abbreviations, numbers, and the use of titles, with instructions to copy readers and reporters, it has articles about preparing copy, headlines, and diction (with paragraphs, relating to the different parts of speech, telling what words and phrases to use and what to avoid), and advice given under the headings Do and Don't and The Cannery, together with information about Army and Navy organization and the law of libel. A special price is made to students of journalism.

BUSINESS WRITING. By S. Roland Hall. 222 pp. Cloth. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

1924.

Mr. Hall's book, written after an experience of more than twenty years in the business departments of newspapers, as an advertising manager, and as advertising agent and writer for business magazines, discusses the principles of successful business writing, explains practical methods, and gives many valuable "workshop" suggestions on the writing of businessmagazine articles, newspaper items, copy for house organs, reports, and copy for advertisements. A final chapter on "Improving Your English" contains many helpful suggestions. The book makes no attempt to instruct the reader in the art of fiction. It will

be especially useful to those who undertake to write for trade papers.

ON THE TECHNIQUE OF MANUSCRIPT WRITING. By
Marjorie Wise. 53 pp. Stiff paper.
New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1924.

"Manuscript Writing," in the title of this book, does not mean writing manuscript, but a kind of penmanship with perpendicular, disjoined letters, in contrast to the joined, slanting letters of cursive script. The great advantage of this style of writing is that it is very easily read. This instruction book is printed in fac-simile of the handwriting, and it is as legible as ordinary print. "Manuscript writing" has been taught for some time in England, and to some extent in New York and Boston. Its advocates say that it is as speedy as cursive script, and that it does not destroy the individuality essential in banking and business generally. It is certainly ideal for making manuscript for the printer.

442 pp.

W. H. H.

1924.

THE SPELL OF ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. By Francis Miltoun. With illustrations by Blanche McManus. Cloth. Boston L. C. Page & Co. In reissuing Francis Miltoun's "In the Land of Mosques and Minarets" in the well known Spell Series, under the title of "The Spell of Algeria and Tunisia," the publishers do not pretend that this depiction of a fascinating land and people during its most romantic era is a guidebook, or a photographic picture of today, but it shows the real Algeria and the real Tunisia, which are still there for those who know "lands of beautiful women and proud men ; of picturesque customs and picaresque adventures; and beauty and mystery, all the more intense because European civilization had not crept in with its physical comforts to dull the soul."

BOOKS RECEIVED:

[THE WRITER is pleased to receive for review any books about authors, authorship, language, or literary topics or any books that would be of real value in a writer's library, such as works of reference, history, biography, or travel. There is no space in the magazine for the review of fiction, poetry, etc. All books received will be acknowledged under this heading. Selections will be made for review in the interest of THE WRITER'S readers.) PERSONAL SHORTHAND. By Godfrey Dewey. 199 pp. Cloth. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y.: World Book Company. 1922.

THE WHITE GIANT AND THE BLACK GIANT. By
Annie W. Franchot. Two stories for children,
illustrated by James Gamble. 72 pp. Boards.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.

THE FUNERAL TRAIN. A poem in memory of Presi
dent Harding. By Harold Alexander Leon De
Aryan. 34 pp.
Stiff paper.
Cincinnati: The
Miami Press Company.

1924.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

[ Readers who send to the publishers of the period. icals indexed for copies of the periodicals containing

Charles Wharton Stork, who is now the president of the Poetry Society of America, makes this announcement - with a surprise at the end-in the current number of Contemporary Verse: "The success of Contemporary Verse has never been so pronounced as in the past few months. Liberal quotation and enthusiastic letters have come in from

all quarters. Subscriptions are equally on the increase. We have no doubt in the world that, with the garner of manuscripts. now in our files, 1925 will prove our banner year. We have therefore decided that it will be our last."

The Forum established in its March issue a "Poetry Section," which will be a regular feature of the magazine hereafter. Walter S. Hinchman is now the poetry editor. The Forum hopes in this way to give all forms of poetry a fair hearing in a conspicuous place, instead of printing poems as "fillers" at the bottom of a page.

Economic Geography is a new quarterly published by Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, president of the University, is the editor.

Mrs. Thyra Samter Winslow, who took a year's "furlough from married life" last March so that she could write without the cares of housekeeping, has returned to her home at Kew Gardens a month before the year was up. During the "vacation," Mrs. Winslow wrote the greater part of a novel, and her husband, John Seymour Winslow, became the editor of a new magazine called Modern Marriage.

Marguerite Wilkinson's "Way of the Makers" (The Macmillan Company) is a study of the way poems are made.

"The Kelmscott Press and William Morris," by H. H. Sparling, is published by the Macmillan Company.

Patrick Braybrooke's "J. M. Barrie" (J. B. Lippincott Company) is divided into three parts: "The Dramatist," "The Author," "The Man."

"The Pilgrimage of Henry James," by Van Wyck Brooks, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

"The Letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920," edited by S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner (Little, Brown, & Co.), is a companion volume to "The Life of Olive Schreiner," by her husband.

"Mrs. Meynell and Her Literary Generation," by Anne Kimball Tuell, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

"The Truth about My Father," by Count Leo L. Tolstoi, is published by D. Appleton & Co.

"Principles of Literary Criticism," by I. A. Richards, is published by Harcourt, Brace & Co.

"John Keats," by Amy Lowell, is published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

"Superlatives," by Grant C. Knight (A. A. Knopf), consists of ten essays on outstanding figures in literature, such as Jane Eyre, Catherine Earnshaw, Daisy Miller, Sam Weller, and others. Mr. Knight is assistant professor of English in the University of Kentucky.

D. Appleton & Co. are observing their centennial year, and the "Portrait of a Publisher," by Grant Overton, reviews the history of the firm since 1825, and contains biographical sketches of the founder and his successors.

Robert M. McBride & Co. announce a Modern American Writers Series, edited by Ernest A. Boyd, the first volumes of which will be "James Branch Cabell," by Carl Van Doren; "Edith Wharton," by Robert Morss Lovett; "Theodore Dreiser," by Burton Rascoe; and "Edwin Arlington Robinson," by Ben Ray Redman.

The Hawthornden prize of £100 for 1924 has been awarded to R. H. Mottram, for his novel, "The Spanish Farm." This prize is awarded each year for the best imaginative work by a writer under forty years.

The second John Long £500 prize for the best first novel has been awarded to Edward Charles Reed, for "A Wise Fool." The award in the first prize competition went to Emmeline Morrison, for "Good Grain."

The grave of Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, at Silverton, Oregon, is now marked with a monument on which is carved a reproduction of the original drawing of one of Mr. Davenport's best-known cartoons, "The Journey Across."

Martha Morton (Mrs. Hermann Conheim) died in New York February 18, aged fiftynine.

Robert A. Woods died in Boston February 18, aged fifty-nine.

A. Baldwin Sloane died at Red Bank, N. J., February 21, aged fifty-two.

Joseph I. C. Clarke died in New York February 27, aged seventy-eight.

Theodore Stanton died at New Brunswick, N. J., March 1, aged seventy-four.

Professor Frank M. Colby died in New York March 3, aged sixty years.

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Home and School Visitor (M, except June, July, and August), Greenfield, Ind. 75c.; samples free. James N. Goble, editor.

Prints stories suitable for school reading. Must be devoid of all slang. Limits length for fifthto eighth-grade pupils to 1,400 words; for thirdand fourth-grade, 1,000 words. Does not buy photographs, and pays in December and March after publication.

Home Department Magazine (Q), 161 Eighth ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 32c,; 8c. Hight C. Moore, editor.

A Baptist magazine, using literary as well as religious practical articles for home keepers, etc. Prints a few stories, a few general articles, and some poetry, but no novelettes, serials, humorous verse, jokes, plays, or juvenile matter. Sets length limit at from 600 to 2,000 words, does not buy photographs, and pays about the middle of the month after month of receipt. Home Department Quarterly (Q), Methodist Book Concern, 420 Plum st., Cincinnati, Ohio. SOC.; 10C. Henry H. Meyer, editor; Jonathan B. Hawk, associate editor.

A Sunday-school publication for adults. Subscribers are persons who, because of age, health, family duties, business or labor responsibilities, cannot attend Sunday school. Uses devotional articles, meditative articles, and articles that help both father and mother in solving all sorts of problems of the home and of life; short stories; and poetry. Wants bright, wholesome, positive material; nothing gloomy or negative. Sets length limit at from 500 to 1,500 words; buys photographs; and pays on acceptance.

Home Folks (M), W. D. Boyce Company, 500 North Dearborn st., Chicago, Ill. H. H. Herr, editor.

Uses short stories -clean love stories, stories of adventure, and "home" stories and special articles on home economics and engineering, illustrated if possible, but no recipes or fillers. Does not want novelettes, serials, general articles, poetry, or jokes. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 5,000 words. Pays on acceptance. Home Friend Magazine (M), 1411 Wyandotte st., Kansas City, Mo. 20c. ; sc. E. A. Weishaar, editor.

Prints only fiction, using short stories, of from 2,000 to 5,000 words, and novelettes, of about 15,000 words. The love element should always be present in fiction, which should treat of human nature and adventure. Does not buy photographs, and pays within two weeks after acceptance.

ADDITIONS AND CHANGES.

Arts (M), 19 East 59th st., New York. $5.00; 500. Forbes Watson, editor.

College Comics (M), 221 E. Cullerton st., Chicago, Ill. $4.00: 35c. W. Robert Jenkins, editor.

Uses short stories, essays, general articles, satires, plays, jokes, verse, skits, and pointed paragraphs, all humorous in content and humorously written. No pure fiction is desired unless it is humorous or satirical, and humor must not be trashy or vulgar. Stories about

young people and essays on topics of youth are wanted, but they must be wholesome. College subjects or college settings should be avoided. excepting where brought in incidentally. Sets length limit at from 2,500 to 3,000 words. Does not buy photographs. Pays on acceptance. Cross Word Puzzle Magazine (M), 37 West 57th st., New York, $2.50; 25c. L. Stanley Shuford, editor; Marie O'Shaughnessy, associate editor.

Vol. I., No. 1. March, 1925. Uses general articles, humorous verse, and jokes containing matter related in some way to cross-word puzzles. and Buys photographs original cross word puzzles, and pays on acceptance. Gypsy (Q), 4811 Section ave., Norwood, Ohio. $1.00 250. H. A. Conley Joslin, editor.

Vol. I., No. I March, 1925. A magazine to interest bibliophiles as well as poets and poetry lovers, the plan being to develop into a general literary magazine rather than an all-poetry jour nal. Uses poetry, articles on literary subjects, poetical plays, and satirical poems, but no humorous matter. Payment is made only in prizes, at present offering prizes of ten dollars each for the best lyric and the best sonnet.

Independent Agent and Salesman (M), 22 East 12th st., Cincinnati, Ohio. 250.; 150. W. E. Backus, editor.

Formerly the Independent Salesman. Devoted to direct-to-consumer selling. Uses one fiction story a month, which must apply to direct selling (contracted for at present), one or two poems a month, with a sales angle, and, rarely, a little humorous verse. Sets length limit at from 200 to 2,000 words, buys photographs if on some phase of direct selling or adapted to it, and pays on, publication.

Money Making Opportunities (M), 4132 West 21st st., Chicago, Ill. $1.00; 10. J. F. Crittenden,

editor.

Formerly This for That Magazine. Uses sales stories similar to those in How to Sell and the Specialty Salesman. Anything relating to selling plans, formulas, advertising advice suitable for mail-order exploitation, business opportunities for spare time or for full time, and true stories of business experiences. Sets length limit at from 500 to 1,500 words, does not buy photographs, and pays one-half cent a word on publication.

New Sensations (M), 799 S. Fifth st., Minneapolis, Minn. $2.50; 250. Addison Lewis, editor.

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Uses, short stories, novelettes, serials, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, all of a sensational nature, and movie material for My Stars department. Sets length limit for fiction stories at from 3,000 to 5,000 words; serials, from 15,000 to 25,000; and sensational articles, from 3,000 to 5,000 words. Buys photographs of beauties or of sensational news. fers fiction to have sensational, unusual situations. Pays within short time after acceptance. Public Affairs (M), 1336 New York ave., Washington, D. C. $1.50; 15c. Ira Nelson Morris, editor. Uses only general articles devoted to sideration of public questions social, economic, etc. Sets length limit at from 1,000 to words, and does not buy photographs. Radigram (W), 81 Nassau st., New York. Mary Adams Smith, editor.

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Vol. I, No. 1. - - April 4, 1925. Prints the broadcasting programs for the coming week pictures and stories about the broadcasters and artists; stories about women and the radio; humorous experiences; short witty epigrams, and jingles. Buys interesting original photographs; pays on acceptance.