run from 50,000 to 125,000 words. Every

body's buys only first American serial rights, and pays on acceptance. Frank Quinn is now the editor of the magazine.

The Stonebraker Studios, Inc. (269 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y.) are in the market for sentiments for Easter cards and for their line of Every-day cards.

The chief need of McClure's Magazine (250 Park avenue, New York) is for clean, entertaining stories of any type, and articles that are of wide interest in the entire field of human endeavor. If the article can be illustrated with photographs, the more photographs that accompany it the better.

The Boston Line of Greeting Cards (178 Congress street, Boston) consists entirely of Christmas cards and booklets, with a few New Year, Easter, and Birthday cards. The cards manufactured by this Company are all steel engraved and steel-die stamped, and sketches should be drawn to exact size and in the proper colors. The approximate size is about 4x5 inches, and not less than two, nor more than five, combined colors and bronzes are desired. Gold and silver may also be used. Cards are such as are ordered by individuals in lots of a hundred of one particular design, so that the sentiment must be something that will be appropriate for any one of these hundred persons relatives, intimate friends or families, and acquaintances. The sentiment should be just such a cheery greeting as the writer himself would wish to send to a hundred different people. It should not be just a statement of fact or of preachment, and there should be no reference to pain, sorrow, death, sickness, misfortune, or condolence. The best sentiments are four-line, six-line, or even eight-line epigrammatic verses, or even a short piece oi prose. Payment is made on acceptance at the rate of twenty-five cents a line, and from $2.50 upward for sketches. The Company would also like a few cards exclusively for men, also "clever cards" that can be sent either to men or women and are designs taking some liberties and often somewhat humorous. Sentiments should be such as an individual or a married

The Company known as Merchandising Magazines, Inc. (243 West Thirty-ninth street, New York) is to publish a new magazine, Good Looks Merchandising, the magazine of the toilet trade, with Gaybert B. Little as managing editor. The editor will be glad to have manuscripts submitted which deal with the specific ideas, methods, and plans that are being used successfully by toilet-goods dealers throughout the United States and Canada. Material must be practical and must come from retailers who have actually applied the ideas, methods, or plans successfully. These articles should preferably be printed under the name of the dealer who is interviewed rather than that of the writer of the article. Experience stories relating to the merchandising of toilet goods in department stores, drug stores, and beauty parlors are also wanted. One cent a word will be paid on acceptance.

The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine needs 2,500-word features on travel and history preferably of the Pacific Southwest.

The manuscript wants of the Youth's Companion (8 Arlington street, Boston) will continue substantially without change under the new arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Company.

The Real Adventures Publishing Co., 461 Eighth avenue, New York, which publishes Action Stories and North-West Stories, announces the publication of a new magazine, the Lariat Story Magazine, of which the August number will be the first issue. In most cases the stories will be written by men who are, or were, working cowboys who know the ranges of the West.

Holland's Magazine (Dallas, Texas) is specially interested in illustrated features dealing with Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; also in strong arti

cles dealing with current problems, with specific reference to the Southwest. Mr. Stayton writes that the magazine pays on acceptance and not on publication, as stated in the "Directory of Periodicals" in the April WRITER.

Saucy Stories changed its title with the June issue to Heart-to-Heart Stories ( 45 West Forty-fifth street, New York). The magazine is not interested in sex stories or erotic fiction, but is interested in sex problems, and welcomes all good stories, whatever their type, having, however, a definite preference for stories presenting a dramatic moral problem and for stories presenting a vital heart problem. In both instances the stories must deal principally with the elemental, eternal problems of the average woman of today.

True Confessions (Robbinsdale, Minn.) is overstocked with manuscripts and will not be in the market again for about six weeks.

Farm Life (Spencer, Ind.) is practically out of the market for the present.

Telling Tales (80 East Eleventh street, New York) is to be published monthly, instead of twice a month, beginning with the June issue.

Brief Stories (Philadelphia) has temporarily suspended publication. The number for March is the last one published.

The Co-Ed Magazine (Chicago) has temporarily suspended publication.

Poetry (232 East Erie street, Chicago) announces that it will award as usual next November the Helen Haire Levinson prize of $200 for the best poem or group of poems by a citizen of the United States printed in Poetry during the current year; a prize of $100 for a poem printed in Poetry during the current year, without reference to the nationality of the author; the Young Poet's prize of $100; and the John Reed Memorial prize of $100.

The editorial offices of Ziffs are now at 608 South Dearborn street, Room 550, Chicago.

Ziffs is offering prizes of $50, $25, and $10 for ideas as to what one would wish to whom the Devil came as he did to Faust and offered to grant any wish in exchange for his immortal soul. Wishes are limited to 150 words, and the contest will close July 15. Ziffs is also in the market for cartoon ideas about dogs, ordinary cartoon ideas, jokes, epigrams, verse, new ideas for departments or features, and stories, not exceeding 1,000 words, that are humorous, droll, or have some emotion.

The Playcrafters of Los Angeles offer a prize of fifty dollars for the best one-act play submitted by August 1. Plays must not exceed thirty minutes playing time, must be signed with a pen name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name and address, and marked with the title of the play and the pen name. Postage for return should accompany each play, and each manuscript should be marked : Submitted in the 1925. Play Contest of the Playcrafters of Los Angeles." Manuscripts should be sent to Harry Gehring, President, 1923 Carman avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.

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The Circle (Baltimore) offers the Edward Coate Pinkney prizes of $50, $25, and five prizes of five dollars each, for the best poems in any form except the sonnet, rondeau, or rondel, contest closing October 31; the Marguerite E. Easter prize of $25 for the best sonnet submitted by September 30; and a prize of $10 for the best rondeau or rondel submitted by July 31. All poems must be submitted anonymously. Further particulars may be obtained from the editor, Mrs. Nancy Naylor Green-Leach, 1613 Bolton street, Baltimore, Maryland.

The Florida Society of America (Hollywood, Florida) is conducting a Florida Industrial Contest, offering prizes amounting to $20,000 in a competition designed to find what products are best suited for manufacture in the State of Florida. The contest is divided into periods, the last one ending January 1, 1926. Joseph W. Young, the president of the Society, will send further information upon application. The Society also issues an offi

cial organ, the Hollywood Magazine, which is in the market for Florida material and beautiful photographs. The magazine publishes no fiction.

The Swift & Company Male Chorus offers its fifth annual competition, with a prize of $100 for the best musical setting of Milton's "Blest Pair of Sirens." The competition will close July 15, and compositions should be sent to D. A. Clippinger, 617 Kimball Building, Chicago, Illinois, from whom further particulars may be obtained.

The Chicago Madrigal Club announces its twenty-third annual competition, offering a prize of $100 for the best musical setting of the poem, "In the Merry Month of May." The competition will close September 15, and manuscripts should be sent to D. A. Clippinger, 617 Kimball Building, Chicago, Illinois, from whom further information may be had.

Columbia University has announced the awards of the Pulitzer prizes in journalism and letters for 1924. For "the American novel published during the year which shall best represent the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standards, of American manners and manhood," $1,000, to Edna Ferber, for "So Big"; 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, to Sidney Howard, for “They Knew What They Wanted"; for the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, $2,000, to Frederick L. Paxson, for "A History of the American Frontier "; for the best American biography "teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example," $1,000, to M. A. DeWolfe Howe for "Barrett Wendell and His Letters"; for the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1,000, to Edwin Arlington Robinson, for "The Man Who Died Twice"; for the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in the right

direction," $500, to the Charleston News and Courier, for "The Plight of the South,” published November 5; for "the best example of a reporter's work during the year, the test being strict accuracy, terseness, and the accomplishment of some public good commanding public attention and respect," $1,000, awarded in duplicate to James M. Mulroy and Alvin H. Goldstein, for their services in solving the mystery of the murder of Robert Franks by Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb; for the best cartoon published in any American newspaper during the year, $500, to Rollin Kirby, of the New York World, for "News from the Outside World,” published October 5. Two annual scholarships in music, having a value of $1,500 each, were awarded to Douglas Moore and Leopold D. Mannes. The traveling scholarships to graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism were given to Daniel Robert Maue, William G. Worthington, and Richmond B. Williams.

The prize of $50, offered by Mrs. Charles H. Stout, through the Garden Magazine and Home Builder (Garden City, N. Y.), for the best brief lyric of joyous mood with the dahlia as its theme, has been awarded to Robert Hillyer. There were nearly a thousand entries for the prize.

The Walker prize of $100 offered annually by the Boston Society of Natural History for the best memoir on natural history has bee: awarded for 1925 to Edward F. Holden, of the University of Michigan, for his manuscript, "The Pigment of Amethyst."

The first prize of $350 in the National Social Work Play contest has been awarded to George S. Brooks, for his play, "No Cause for Complaint," and the second prize of $150 to Nancy Brosius, for her play, "The Last of the Family." Both plays will be presented at the National Conference of Social Work to be held at Denver June 16. One hundred and twenty-five plays were submitted.

The prize offered by the Poetry Review (New York) for the best poem about music has been divided between N. O. Lincoln, B.

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 services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, $1,000; for the best volume of verse pub. lished 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 $1,000 offered by Elizabeth Marbury for two or three acts to complete the one-act play by Sir James Barrie, entitled Shall We Join the Ladies?" contest closing July 1. Particulars in April WRITER.

Prize of $100 offered by the Bookshop for Boys and Girls, Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 270 Boylston street, Boston, for a good original play for children, contest closing September 1. Particulars in May WRITER.

Prize of $500 offered by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, New York, for the best religious play of social significance, contest closing July 1. Particulars in May WRITER.

Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prize of $5.000 for the best original treatise on the Theory of Wages, contest closing October 1. Particulars in May WRITER.

Monthly prizes totalling $50 offered by Triple-X Magazine for experiences of readers. Particulars in May WRITER.

Prize of $25 offered by Voices for the best poem published in Volume IV of the magazine, the last number of which will be October, 1925. Particulars in May WRITER.

Prize of $2,500, to be awarded in 1925 and every three years thereafter, and an annual prize of $300,

Prize of $50 offered by the Harvard School of Education at Harvard University for an official song. Particulars in February, 1924, WRITER.

Prize of $25 for the best poem published in the Mesa during 1925. Particulars in March WRITER. The Canadian Bookman (125 Simcoe street, Toronto, Canada) offers each month three prizes in a book review competition.

Annual poetry prize of $100 offered by the Nation, poems to be submitted between Thanksgiving Day and New Year's Day of each year. Particulars in February, 1923, WRITER.

Prizes of the Poetry Society of South Carolina; Blindman Prize of $250; Southern Prize of $100; Society's Prize of $25; Henry E. Harman Prize of $25 Sky Lark Prize of $10 all offered annually. Particulars in January, 1923, WRITER. Three prizes of $50 each for poems published in the Lyric West during 1925. Particulars in March WRITER.

Monthly prizes offered by the Photo-Era Magazine (Wolfeboro, N. H.) for photographs, in an advanced competition and a beginner's competition.

Walker prizes for the best memoirs on Natural History, offered annually by the Boston Society of Natural History, closing March 1 of each calendar year. Particulars in June WRITER.

Prize of $100 offered by the Drama League of America for the best play suited to children, contest closing August 1. Particulars in January WRITER.

Weekly prizes offered by the Boston Post for original short stories by women, published each day. Particulars in May WRIter.

WRITERS OF THE DAY.

Ruth Robinson Blodgett, whose story, "Mrs. Renwick Plays the Game," was published in Scribner's for May, is a graduate of Smith College, but she has also taken courses with Dallas Lore Sharp of Harvard Extension, and Blanche Colton Williams of Columbia Extension, which she says have helped her more than she can say. "Mrs. Renwick" was writ

ten while she was taking the course at Columbia. Miss Blodgett has been writing fiction for about two years and a half, and has had three stories published in Scribner's and two in the Munsey publications, while Scribner's has one awaiting publication, and McCall's Magazine has two. She says that stories germinate slowly with her, develop only by hard work, and that whatever is best in them is added only by rewriting. She adds that by this she does not mean an eternal

puttering over stories after they are once finished, but the maintaining of a spirit of dissatisfaction toward a story until she has done with it all that she is able to do.

Garreta Helen Busey, whose poem, “Riders of the Sky," came out in the April Forum, lives in New York city. After four years at Wellesley, she became engaged in all sorts of non-literary projects, from social service work to Red Cross work in France and Switzerland, in the hope of meeting with adventure, widening her knowledge of people, and deepening her own personal experience. Miss Busey had been writing verse ever since college days, but she did not make serious efforts in that direction until, on her return from France in 1920, she began graduate work at the University of Illinois under Stuart P. Sherman, where a very thriving Poetry Society succeeded in stimulating a creative atmosphere, and she became a contributor to "Illini Poetry," the book of verse published by the Poetry Society. She received the degree of Ph.D. in English in 1924, but it is only during the past year that she has offered her verse for publication. Besides the poem in the Forum, she has had poems published in the Bookman, and in Books, the new literary supplement of the New York Herald Tribune, for which she has also written some criticism.

Anne D. Kyle, who wrote the poem, “Because You Love Beauty," which appeared in Scribner's for May, was born in Philadelphia, and is a graduate of Smith College. She spent two years traveling abroad after graduation from college, and in the summer of 1921 she was at Cortina, in the valley of Ampezzo, which she thinks is the loveliest of all the haunts in the Dolomite Alps. One of the results of the weeks spent there was a fixed determination to return there as often as she could get back to Europe, and the other is the poem in Scribner's. Miss Kyle has been in New York for three years, where she has spent her time in writing, taking the courses in writing at Columbia University, and concentrating both on adult and on juvenile stories. Poetry she has tried her hand at ever since she was a little girl and was advised to

stop mooning and spend her time on something more profitable. There was something in her, however, she says, that made her put things into rhyme in spite of advisers, and still, although she is busy at other things, she finds she comes back to poetry sooner or later with undiminished delight, as one turns to a favorite form of recreation. Scraps of verse go through her head for weeks, she says, until finally she manages to pin them down to something definite. She works for three or four hours each morning on her other writing, finding that if she does more than that she usually has to do it over again.

Jane Pride, who wrote the story, "Salaď Days," which was printed in Good Housekeeping for March, was born in Canada, of Scotch and English parentage. She came to the United States and was graduated from the Waltham, Mass., high school, and, after a year at Boston University, worked as a general reporter on Boston newspapers. After marrying Ralph Frye, a newspaperman, she says she became an American, and never thought about writing more than her daily assignments until she found herself out of a place over night because of the consolidation of two newspapers. She then did publicity work for a year or so, and a year ago wrote a story and sent it to Robert H. Davis, of Munsey's. Mr. Davis accepted the story and advised her to keep on writing. Mrs. Frye says that newspaper work is an excellent preparation for writing fiction, but that what she values most is what she calls the un-self-consciousness that such work gives. If an editor wants a change in a story, it is quite simple to make that change without any hurt feelings or the idea that he is wrong. In other words, newspaper training eliminates false pride and teaches one not to be vain-glorious.

David Ross, whose story, "Beggar's Choice," appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal for May, was born in Evansville, Indiana, February 16, 1894, and is the son of a newspaper man. He removed to Kansas City when he was quite young, where he remained for nine years, going to school, and working as a jewelry designer. He now lives in Indianapolis,