The third session of the Press Congress of the World will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, September 14-18. Sixteen nationalities were represented at the session of the Congress in Honolulu in November, 1921. The president of the Congress is Walter Williams, Dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Missouri. The annual census taken by the Publishers' Circular shows that there were 9,977 new books and 3,225 new editions published in England during 1925. Fiction heads the list, with 2,769 new books and new editions; followed by juvenile literature, 1,124; religion, 981; and sociology, 932. "How to Build a Good Book from Your Manuscript," by Frederick H. Hitchcock, is a manual of printing suggestions, published by the Special Book Department of Braunworth & Company (New York). A technical error in the will of the late Andrew Carnegie has deprived the New York Authors' Club of its quarters in Carnegie Hall, but the Carnegie Corporation has appropriated $50,000 to provide new quarters. The club had occupied rooms in Carnegie Hall rent free for more than a quarter of a century through the generosity of Mr. Carnegie and will now build a club house of its own. The Authors' Club is custodian of the Carnegie Fund of $250,000 established for the relief of authors in distress. At the recent annual meeting of the Authors' Club, Don C. Seitz was elected president; Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, vice president; William Frederick Dix, treasurer; Arthur H. Nason, secretary, and James H. Bridge, chairman of the house committee. "Inside Secrets of Photoplay Writing," by Willard King Bradley, is published by the Funk & Wagnalls Company. D. Appleton & Co. publish a new edition of "A Handbook for Newspaper Workers, by Grant Milnor Hyde, Professor of Journalism in the University of Wisconsin. Professor Hyde has added to the book a new chapter, "Applied Ethics," in which he gives a complete guide to the ethics that should govern a reporter's conduct in all phases of his work. "Letters and Memoirs of Susan and Anna Bartlett Warner," by Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes, is published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. "Arthur Symons," by T. Earle Welby (New York: The Adelphi Company), is a critical and personal study of Mr. Symons's life and work, with illustrations and a biographical note. "Dostoevsky," by Andre Gide (A. A. Knopf), contains a study of Dostoevsky as a letter writer, and a group of addresses on his art as a novelist. The book has an introduction by Arnold Bennett. "One Man's Life," published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, is an autobiography of Herbert Quick. "Between the Old and the New," by M. P. Willcocks (The Frederick A. Stokes Company), consists of a series of studies in literary personality from Goethe and Balzac to Anatole France and Thomas Hardy. "Later Days," by W. H. Davies (The George H. Doran Company), is a sequel to "The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp," and consists of a wanderer's and a poet's appreciation of life, literature, and his contact with people. "The Theory of Poetry," by Lascelles Abercrombie, Professor of Literature in Leeds University, is published by Harcourt, Brace, & Co. "English Satire and Satirists," by Hugh Walker, is published by E. P. Dutton & Co. "A Century of the English Novel," by Cornelius Weygandt, is published by the Century Company. "The Comic and the Realistic in English Drama," by John B. Moore, is published by the University of Chicago Press. "The Pilgrim of Eternity — Byron: A Conflict,” by John Drinkwater, is published by the George H. Doran Company. "Shakspere's Influence on Sir Walter Scott," by Dr. William Brewer, is published by the Cornhill Publishing Company. "The Best Continental Short Stories of 1924-1925; and the Yearbook of the Continental Short Story," edited by Richard Eaton, is published by Small, Maynard, & Co. Francis W. Crooker, of Fitzwillian, N. H., has started a movement for ten-cent contributions to provide a memorial for Walter Kittredge, author of "Tenting Tonight." The Keene, N. H., savings bank has agreed to act as a depository for the fund. Rosamond C. Cook, of the New York Teachers' College, won the first prize of $1,000 for the best essay on "What Does a Woman Desire in Dress," offered by Bonwit, Teller, & Co., of New York. Beginning with the March issue, the Experimenter Publishing Company has combined the Experimenter and Science and Invention. William Morrow has resigned as secretary and director of the Frederick A. Stokes Company, and will start a publishing house of his own under the name William Morrow & Co. Mrs. Alice Harriman died at Hollywood, Calif., January 26, aged sixty-four. W. L. George died in London, January 30, aged forty-four. THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS (Continued) MYSTERY MAGAZINE (S-M), 168 West 23d st., New Publication suspended with the issue for MY STORY (Q), Dell Publishing Company, 461 A quarterly, made up from reprints from I NATION (W), 20 Vesey st., New York. $5.00; 15c. Prints general articles and an occasional poem, NATIONAL BUILDER (M), 542 Dearborn st., Chicago. Now Building Age and National Builder. Treats of geography in its broadest sense. Uses authoritative manuscripts describing the customs of people and places of interest throughout the world. All articles must be illustrated with unusual photographs-no drawings or paintings. Prints no fiction, and pays on acceptance. NATIONAL HUMANE REVIEW (M), 80 Howard st., Albany, N. Y. $1.00; 10c. Sydney H. Coleman, editor. Uses articles of humane character, particularly dealing with the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, and the reformation of wayward and delinquent children, whether in the shape of general articles or of short stories. Also uses some poetry, humorous verse, and juvenile matter. Sets length limit at 1,200 words, buys photographs dealing with children or animals, and pays on acceptance, at the rate of from one-half cent to one cent per word. NATIONAL MAGAZINE (M), 952 Dorchester ave., Boston. $2.00; 20c. Joe Mitchell Chapple, editor. Prints chiefly personality articles and biographies. Pays on publication. NATIONAL MARINE (M), 268 Pearl st., New York. Mail returned by the postoffice. Mail returned by the postoffice. ADDITIONS AND CHANGES AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL DIGEST (M), Lincoln, Uses general articles and poetry, but no fiction, humorous verse, jokes, or juvenile matter. Sets no length limit, but reserves the right to "cut" articles. Does not buy photographs, as a rule, but does buy educational matter for its departments. ART AND BEAUTY (M), Ramer Reviews, 104 West 42d st., New York, 25c. Frank Armer and John F. Edwards, editors. Uses short stories, of a sensational, melodramatic type, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 2,000 words, does not buy photographs, and pays on publication. ARTISTS AND MODELS (M), Ramer Reviews, 104 Uses short stories, of a sensational, melodramatic type, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 2,000 words, does not buy photographs, and pays on publication. BUILDING AGE AND NATIONAL BUILDER (M), 243 Uses practical, technical articles on building subjects-building, building methods, and interviews with practical builders. Sets no length limit, and wants articles with just enough words to tell the story. Uses no fiction, but buys photographs about building activities, building mechanics at work, and pictures and plans of churches, schools (of the smaller kind), community houses, and all the smaller kinds of residences and apartment buildings, with descriptions of the equipment and names of the purveyors or manufacturers, architects, and builders. Pays for accepted matter by special arrange ment. REVIEW (M), Care Y. M. & Y. W. H. A., Broad and Pine sts., Philadelphia. William R. Langfeld, editor. Publishes short stories, novelettes, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, and plays, setting length limit at 4,000 words; prefers stories of Jewish interest, but uses any of sufficient merit. Does not pay for contributions, but offers annually a series of prizes. 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, 1920, to February, 1926, 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 eight dollars. 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 March WRITER) NATIONAL PRINTER-JOURNALIST (M), 129 Michigan st., Milwaukee, Wis. $2.00; 25c. John L. Meyer, editor. Uses stories telling the experiences of executives in printing and newspaper publishing which are of practical value to their contemporaries; sets length limit at from 2,000 to 2,500 words; buys photographs of the men whose experiences are printed; and prints no fiction. NATIONAL REPUBLIC AND THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN (M), 425 Tenth st., N. W., Washington, D. C. George B. Lockwood, editor. A monthly review of American history, polity, politics, and public affairs. Material supplied by regular staff, and not in the market for manuscripts. NATIONAL RETAIL CLOTHIER (W), 223 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill. $5.00; 35c. Allen Sinsheimer, editor. Uses general articles on the retailing of men's and boys' wear, setting length limit at 3,000 words. Buys photographs, but uses no fiction, poetry, or jokes. Pays the tenth of the month following acceptance, at the rate of one cent a word. NATIONAL SCHOOL DIGEST (M), Minneapolis, Minn. Now the American Educational Digest. Now published in two parts - the Ohio Stockman & Farmer and the Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer. Does not buy manuscripts in general, but sometimes purchases a serial story of three chapters or more, and, occasionally, a story suited to such holidays as Christmas and Thanksgiving. NATION'S BUSINESS (M), U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D. C. $3.00; 35c. Merle Thorpe, editor; Warren Bishop, managing editor. The monthly publication of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, having for its foreword, "American Businessa New World Power." Uses general articles of business interest, poetry, and verse dealing with commerce and industry; buys photographs; prints business fiction; sets length limit at 2,500 words; and pays on acceptance. NATION'S GARDEN (M), Box 907, Wilmington, N. C. Publication discontinued. NATION'S HEALTH (M), 22 East Ontario st., Chi- NATURAL LIFE MAGAZINE (M), 1110 F st., N. W., NATURE MAGAZINE (M), 1214 Sixteenth st., Wash- Uses popular illustrated articles that are scientifically accurate on any phase of nature, but prints no fiction, no poetry, no juvenile matter, and no jokes. Sets length limit at from 100 to 2,500 words; buys photographs; and pays from $2 to $50 for material used, on acceptance. NAUTILUS MAGAZINE (M), Holyoke, Mass. $1.00; 10c. Mrs. Elizabeth Towne, editor. Uses articles treating of New Thought, Psychology, Efficiency, Sociology, and personal experiences in applying the same, Buys no department matter, and prints neither fiction nor photographs; uses ethical and humorous-ethical short poems from noted poets; sets length limit at 1,000 words, or less, or 1,000 words for each article in a series; and pays from one cent a word upward, on acceptance. NEEDLECRAFT (M), Augusta, Maine. 50c; 10c. A. C. Wholly devoted to practical needlework for personal and household use, printing original designs in knitting, crocheting, tatting, etc. NEW ENGLAND HOMESTEAD (W), Springfield, Mass. $1.00; 5c. Mrs. Mary R. Reynolds, household editor. Uses practical articles on home-making and interior decoration, and on child care; novelettes; serials; poetry; humorous verse; and verse and short stories for children. Sets length limit at from 100 to 2,000 words for articles, and from 50,000 to 60,000 words for serials and novelettes. Buys photographs of good interiors, landscape gardening, and attractive pictures of children, flowers, and scenery. Pays on publication. NEW EVE (M), 152 West 42d st., New York. $2.50; 25c. Vol. I., No. 1-December, 1925. Designed to appeal to women's varied tastes and interests, using short stories, beauty hints, health talks, and similar subjects. CONTINUED ON INSIDE BACK COVER |