to cast aside no more, at worst, than half a letter-sheet, to make a clean new page.

If the story is not longer than may be typed on ten or twelve sheets of the size indicated they may be folded twice, and go readily into the usual "business" envelope, 35% by 61⁄2 inches. The sheets may be folded with the writing out, so that they may not jealously double over and hide the writing from the editor the writer aims to please. As each page is exposed it meets the eye of its judge frankly and fully.

When these sheets are before the foreman

of the composing room he notes that each may make a convenient "take," and that in any event there will be little need for using shears to cut the copy. Even proofreaders have liked this.

With the lines of typing about seven inches in length and three-fourths of an inch blank margin at each end of the lines, the sheets, if set on edge on type case or on typesetting machine, are more likely to stay upright than to bend over and hide the dark marks on their faces. Edward Perry. NEWARK, N. J.

In order to test my ability as a poet I am making a challenge to any publisher in the United States to submit a subject that I am unable to write a good lively poem about. By accepting this challenge publishers are not

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placing themselves under any obligations to accept any of my work. I expect to have these poems compiled and published in book form. Martha Abshire.

ROANN, INDIANA.

WEST-Garden City, N. Y., the first issue of which is dated January, a new bi-weekly magazine published by Doubleday, Page, & Co., is in the market for novelettes, of from 30,000 to 40,000 words, vigorous in plot and action, and for strong serials, with one central character, with the scenes laid in Western America, Western Canada, Alaska, or Mexico. THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS is conducting a competition, under the terms of which Yale Series of Younger Poets is open to writers of American citizenship, who are under thirty years old, and have not previously published a volume of verse. Manuscripts for this competition are due May 1 and November 1 in

each year. The best manuscript submitted will be recommended by the Editor, published at the expense of the Yale University Press, the author receiving the usual ten per cent. royalty on all copies sold in the United States. The format of this Series calls for a volume of from fifty to seventy-five pages, with but one sonnet or short poem to a page. A page of solid verse contains forty lines. Poems previously published may be included, if the consent of the journal originally printing them is given. An unsuccessful manuscript may be revised and resubmitted after one year has elapsed. The Yale University Press does not guarantee to issue a volume as the result

of each competition, if, in the opinion of the editor, no manuscript worthy of publication in this Series is submitted. Contestants should address manuscripts and correspondence to the Editor, Yale Series of Younger Poets, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.

THE GUILD- Pasadena, Calif., publishers and craftsmen, is in the market for book manuscripts on subjects of general interest, being particularly interested at present in translations of modern Spanish authors, either of Spain or of Mexico.

ZIFFS - Fifth avenue and St. Charles road, Maywood, Illinois, is very anxious for snappy cover ideas ideas involving only a single figure, or not more than two figures, either with action or without, but with a breezy, snappy catch-line with a point to it. Ten dollars will be paid for each cover design accepted. The magazine also wants a great deal more four-line and eight-line humorous verse, and quite a number of pithy, pertinent epigrams.

SNAPPY STORIES-627 West Forty-third street, New York, is in the market for gay, young-generation stories, with considerable sex interest. The editor also uses short prose sketches and epigrams. Stories should not exceed 5,000 words. Up to three cents a word is paid for short sketches, and the rate for fiction is one and one-half cents a word. Payment is made on the twenty-fifth of the month for all matter bought that month.

PARIS NIGHTS-584 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, wants clever, interesting, and satirical fiction, with cleverly plotted sex interest and a Parisian background. Material may be frisky, but not risqué, and a light, deft, somewhat humorous touch is preferred. Stories should contain from 1,500 to 2,500 words. The magazine prints articles of the semifiction type concerning Paris and Parisian characters, actresses, artists, models, the Montmartre, the Boulevards, and similar subjects. Such articles must be "light" in treatment, and where questions of fact are con

cerned they must be authentic and capable of confirmation. Poetry that is clever and humorous, with sex element, and jokes and epigrams for the "Boudoir Chatter Department" are also wanted. Payment is made from the first to the fifteenth of the month of acceptance, at the rate of two-thirds of a cent a word and upward for fiction and semi-fiction articles; fifteen cents a line for verse; fifty cents each for jokes; and thirty-five cents each for epigrams and paragraphs. LAUGHTER-584 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, is in the market for good humorous fiction, not exceeding 4,000 words. Material should be cleverly constructed and plotted, and carry a good laugh in it. Clever satire or burlesque, not exceeding 1,000 words, and jokes, verse, and epigrams, of a distinctly laugh-provoking nature, are also wanted. Payment is made from the first to the fifteenth of the month of acceptance, at the rate of two-thirds of a cent and upward for fiction, twenty-five cents a line for verse, fifty cents each for jokes, and thirty-five cents each for epigrams.

THE NEW YORKER-25 West Forty-fifth street, New York, no longer wants serious

verse.

NATIONAL THOUGHT-825 Fifteenth avenue, South, Minneapolis, Minn., a new magazine, is in the market for articles of a political, social, or economic nature, or articles pertaining to any of the practical sciences. Harlow Ross, the editor, is also desirous of reaching writers who can provide news items of national interest. He advises writers to communicate with him before sending manuscripts. VARIETY GOODS MAGAZINE 812 Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio, which circulates among dealers in popular-priced merchandise, needs practical, detailed articles covering all phases of buying, selling, display, and handling of such merchandise, as well as descriptions of methods whereby small-town, variety, and chain-store managers cut costs, give better service, and successfully meet the problems of competition. Names of stores should be

given, and wherever possible the name of the manager or other executive who supplies the data. The same publishers issue Store Operation, the magazine of store management, service, supplies, equipment, and maintenance, and will pay a cent a word for authoritative articles on these subjects. Harry E. Martin is the editor of both publications. THE PLUMBING AND HEATING SUPPLY SALESMAN -239 West Thirtieth street, New York, is looking for fast-moving fiction, not exceeding 3,000 words. The scene of the story must be placed in the United States and the main character must be a salesman of plumbing and heating supplies, and there may or may not be love interest, but such interest must be slight. One cent a word, or more, will be paid on acceptance.

ELECTRICASTER SERVICE, INC. - Baum Building, Thirteenth and Farnam streets, Omaha, Nebraska, a newspaper feature and advertising cut and copy service, wants small features and queries on matter suitable for weekly newspapers of the better class. Manuscripts should not exceed 500 words, and must be snappy and original - good, live humor; unique advertising ideas and plans; photographs which lend themselves to advertising use; comic-strip ideas or copy; short stickful comics; short piquant children's verse or stories; new puzzle ideas continuity material all are wanted and will be paid for on acceptance at from one-half cent to two cents a word, and from one dollar to three dollars for photographs. Decisions will be made within ten days.

MANAGEMENT-58 East Washington street, Chicago, is in the market for articles on business subjects"success stories" on the rise and growth of organizations and men, and articles dealing with executives' problems, such as organization, finance, labor, waste elimination, production, and similar subjects. H. P. Gould, the editor, wants to get in touch. with experienced business writers in the large industrial centers who can act as occasional correspondents by covering local organizations

and executives. Payment for contributions is made on acceptance, at the rate of two cents a word.

RESTAURANT News and Management — 30 East Ontario street, Chicago, Ill., a publication for the benefit of the restaurant industry, uses material with the "How" slant, having practical value in suggesting improvement, refinements, or savings in the restaurant business. Manuscripts should not exceed 1,500 words, and photographs are always acceptable. Payment is made on acceptance at the rate of one cent a word.

THE SOUTHERN FURNITURE JOURNAL 14 East Fourth street, Charlotte, N. C., would like to make connections with syndicate writers for articles and illustrations on the period designs of furniture, current furniture styles, retail conditions in various cities, or anything interesting to the furniture trade in the natures of the styles or sales reviews. THE ECHO 1837 Champa street, Denver, Colo., needs especially short articles or essays dealing intelligently with almost any subject in the American Mercury or Century manner. It uses also very short stories and judges them by what the author has to say, not by the plot. Some poems are used. Payment at present is a year's subscription. David Raffelock is the editor.

The editorial and subscription departments of OUTDOOR RECREATION have been removed to Mount Morris, Illinois. Mr. Starkey, the editor, says it is more and more becoming his practice to have articles written to order, so that he is practically out of the open market. Just now he is printing only hunting and fishing stories, and any manuscript to be acceptable would have to be accompanied by very unusual photographs.

HIGH SCHOOL SERVICE- Washington, D. C., is in need of good stories such as high school boys and girls like.

FRONTIER Doubleday, Page, & Company, Garden City, N. Y., is always open to short stories, particularly those containing from 5,000 to 7,000 words. Stories of the outdoors,

action, adventure, pioneering, homesteading, a genuine frontier atmosphere and a man appeal are all desirable. The editor says that at present the woods seem to be full of novelettes, and that he is really after the short stories.

JUDGE 627 West Forty-third street, New York, is in the market for short humorous articles, not exceeding 200 words, short jokes, and two-stanza verse.

THE ARGOSY-ALLSTORY-280 Broadway, New York, is over-supplied with almost every type of story at the present time. The magazine is known as one of the most difficult in the field to suit, and Mr. White, the editor, says he can only suggest that intending contributors read the publication carefully and then decide for themselves whether they are likely to succeed where thousands fail. Robert H. Davis, the editor-in-chief of all the Munsey publications, is on a trip around the world, so that no manuscripts should be addressed to him.

SUNSET-460 Fourth street, San Francisco, Calif., needs short stories, of from 4,000 to 7,000 words, preferably dealing with love, romance or adventure; serials not exceeding 40,000 words; and articles on Western people and topics. Sunset is also in the market for humor, and offers prizes of $5, $2.50, and $1.50 for the best jokes received, preferably Western in tone, and $1 each for all other jokes used in the contest. The magazine is running a Last Line Limerick contest, offering prizes of $20, $10, $5, $3, and $2 for the five best lines, and $1 each for the

aesthetic and will not permit the publishing of verse which is not poetry nor of prose which is merely informative. With regard to the kind of stories the Dial wishes to publish, Schofield Thayer said in Jean Wick's "Stories Editors Buy and Why": "In deciding whether or not we accept for publication a story submitted to us we are guided almost wholly by the intensity of the impression made upon us by that story. Of course, the means by which the author attains this intensity are very varied and each manner of attack presupposes its own technique. But, of course, all stories, whatever their character, depend in part for their intensity upon the delicacy of the writer's perception of verbal values as well as upon the delicacy of perception of character and environment. And, of course, prose rhythms are quite as important as those of verse." STAGE AND SCREEN 104 West Forty-second street, New York, is in need of stories concerning the stage or the screen.

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER-American Sunday-School Union, 1816 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, would like some good boys' stories.

HI-JINKS-1645 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn., wants jokes, humorous essays, and epigrams.

CUPID'S DIARY-461 Eighth avenue, New York, needs stories of the romantic phases of love against glamorous backgrounds. Stories of the love entanglements of married people are not wanted, excepting as they may be contributing factors in the love affairs of a young couple. Mr. Balch, the editor-in-chief of the Dell Publications, is especially anxious just now to get for Cupid's Diary stories, of from 5,000 to 8,000 words, with strong plots. As a general rule, the story should follow the girl's side of events rather than the man's, and the heroine should be a girl of only average looks and wealth rather than a "raving beauty" or an heiress to a million.

THE NATURE MAGAZINE - Nature Building, Washington, D. C., is the official organ of the

American Nature Association, and at present is very well stocked with a wide range of material on nature subjects, and is buying only outstanding feature articles, amply illustrated, and treating nature subjects from a popular point of view, yet accurately from the scientific point of view. All of the material that goes into the magazine and most of what is submitted is passed upon by scientists before final action is taken. Articles should contain from 1,000 to 2,500 words, and payment is made on acceptance at from five dollars to fifty dollars.

THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL-8 Arlington street, Boston, wants articles of a semi-technical nature on building or planning the construction of a house, furnishing it, or planting its grounds, or articles pleasantly written of experiences in any one of these fields, accompanied by illustrations. In addition, the magazine uses unillustrated articles, of from 300 to 400 words, of experiences for the "How I Did It" page.

THE CHAUFFEUR - -239 West Thirtieth street, New York, is overstocked with manuscripts at the present time, and will not require material for some months to come. AMERICAN COOKERY, formerly the Boston Cooking-School Magazine-221 Columbus avenue, Boston, is looking for short articles, of from 1,000 to 3,000 words, on household topics. The magazine also uses some fiction, of about the same length.

DIXIELAND-817 Provident Building, Chattanooga, Tenn., wants short stories, threepart serials, general articles, and jokes, preferably with a Southern setting.

H. E. MAULE, editor of SHORT STORIES Garden City, N. Y., says that every good story of strong appeal to men, no matter what its length, is welcome at his office. Short Stories is always in the market for outdooradventure fiction of the highest quality, ranging in length from 4,000 to 100,000 words. At the present time the magazine's special need is in the field of complete novels or long novelettes of from 40,000 to 60,000

words - stories of mystery, South Seas yarns, tales of the Northern Barrens, Western stories, and "completes" dealing with Oriental intrigue and high adventure.

THE GOBLIN-272 Bay street, Toronto, Canada, wants some short humorous matter, not exceeding fifty words and some two-line jokes.

THE CHARLES S. CLARK COMPANY - 218 West Fortieth street, New York, is always in the market for good sentiments for Christmas, New Year's, and everyday greeting cards. THE NATION'S D. C., is always in the market for articles on general business appealing to an audience of business men, with occasional fiction dealing with business. Articles should be illustrated, and should not exceed 2,500 words. HEARST'S

BUSINESS Washington,

INTERNATIONAL-COSMOPOLITAN119 West Fortieth street, New York, is in the market for short stories, of from 4,000 to 7,000 words, and for personal-experience articles, of from 3,000 to 5,000 words.

THE INDEPENDENT AGENT AND SALESMAN 22 East Twelfth street, Cincinnati, Ohio, is in the market for articles and semi-fiction stories, of from 1,000 to 3,000 words, making a distinct sales point connected with or applicable to direct-to-consumer selling. The editor also can use short column-fillers, of from 50 to 1,000 words, humor of interest to salesmen and saleswomen, and a few good poems. Full rights are purchased, and payment is made on the tenth of the month of publication, at the rate of one-half cent a word, with a minimum of five cents a line for poems.

ONWARD Box 1176, Richmond, Virginia, is in the market for short stories, serials, and general articles suitable for young people in the Presbyterian church.

THE MIDLAND-Iowa City, Iowa, which, however, does not pay for manuscripts, would like some short sketches.

THE YOUTH'S WORLD-American Baptist Publication Society, 1701 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, a paper for boys of from thirteen