restricted to members of the Association. The Review reserves the right to publish without further compensation any manuscript submitted in these contests. Envelopes containing manuscripts should be marked "For Prize Contest." Poems should not contain more than eighty lines.

BRITH SHOLOM NEWS 807 Franklin Trust Building, Philadelphia, offers prizes of $100, $75, and $50 for the best short stories of Jewish interest submitted by March 1. Stories should contain not less than 2,500 words and not more than 3,000 words, must be typewritten on one side of the paper, signed with an assumed name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope on which is the assumed name, and containing the real name, address, and age.

THE PHYSICAL CULTURE MAGAZINE - 1926 Broadway, New York, offers $5,000 in prizes one of $1,000, four of $500 each, ten of $100 each, and twenty of $50 each for the most interesting, helpful, and inspiring true stories of men and women who have regained their health, attained success, and experiencd the thrill of romance through physical-culture methods. The contest will close May 1. WALTER CLARE MARTIN, Kansas poet and editor asks THE WRITER to announce that he offers a prize of $1,000 for a poetical genius. For the best script submitted, great or worthless, he offers a prize of $100; if the work appears to be truly great and immortal, $900 additional will be given. Each competitor may submit three scripts, none of them exceeding 1,000 words; only an excerpt should be sent of longer works. Nothing will be bought or sold, and authors will retain all rights, Mr. Martin reserving only the right to quote from scripts in writing articles about the progress of the search. The contest, or search, will close December 31, but if an obviously immortal masterpiece is found before that time the thousand dollars may be awarded earlier, especially if the discovered genius needs the money. Prose poems of the style of Mr. Martin's "A Baby is Born" or

his "Making of the Flag" will be especially interesting to him. Manuscripts should be sent to the Walter Clare Martin Award, Box 8, Vanderveer Park Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. THE CHARLESTON EVENING POST-Charleston, S. C., offers a prize of five dollars each week for the best line of approximately twenty words which reflects in a pointed way the growth, advantages, industrial supremacy, or any other outstanding fact about Charleston. Lines with punch are wanted and any one can compete.

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OURSELVES 1108 Capitol Building, Chicago, Ill., a bi-monthly magazine edited by Arthur William Scott, offers prizes of $25, $10, and $5 for the three best poems submitted by amateur poets before April 20. In addition, ten yearly subscriptions to the magazine will be given for the ten next best poems received. There are no restrictions as to theme. Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by return postage.

HART, SCHAFFNER, & MARX have awarded the prizes in the 1925 contest as follows: Class A: First prize of $1,000 to William J. Schultz for his study entitled "The Taxation of Inheritance"; second prize of $500 to Earl B. Schwulst, for his study entitled "Extending Bank Credit in Texas"; honorable mention to Arthur F. Lucas, for his study entitled "The Legal Minimum Wage in Massachusetts." Class B: First prize of $300 to Richard P. Cromwell, for his study entitled "The Theory of International Gold Movements"; second prize of $200 to Alexandre Chalufour, for his study entitled "Investment Banking in France"; honorable mention to William Earle Stilwell, Jr., for his study entitled "The Industrial Background of Modern China."

The Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry prize of $150, offered for 1925 through the Scholastic, has been awarded to Countee Cullen, of New York University. The prize for 1926 is offered under the auspices of Palms, of which Mr. Bynner is an associate editor. In addition to the prize, His Excellency Jose

G. Zuno, offers the winner a round-trip ticket between the American border and Guadalajara, Mexico, where Palms is published, and a term of free tuition in the University of Guadalajara. Only undergraduates in an American college or university may compete, and not more than two hundred lines will be considered, whether a single poem or a group of poems is offered. Manuscripts should be typewritten in triplicate, each sheet bearing the writer's name and address and the name of the college he is attending. All manuscripts must be mailed by March 31 to Witter Bynner, Box 1061, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The envelope should be marked "P. C." No manuscripts will be returned.

PRIZE OFFERS STILL OPEN

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 published 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.

Pasadena Prize Play contest for 1925-1926, with prizes of $300 for the best full evening play, and $100 for the best one-act play submitted by March 1. Particulars in October WRITER.

Hart, Schaffner, & Marx prizes of $1,000, $500, $300 and $200 for the four best studies in the economic field submitted by June 1, 1926. Particulars in November WRITER.

Prize of $2,500 offered by Edward J. Clode for the best novel submitted by March 1. Particulars in January WRITER.

Monthly prizes of $25, $15, and $10 offered by the Triple-X Magazine for exciting personal experiences, accompanied by contributor's photograph for the Reader's Rodeo department.

Eleven prizes amounting to $50,000 offered by the True Story Magazine for true stories told in the first person, contest closing May 31. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prize of $1,500 offered by the National Board of Fire Underwriters for a fire insurance scenario. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prizes of $26, $15, and $10 offered by the Rosicrucian Fellowship for the best articles submitted for Rays from the Rose Cross by April 1. Particulars in January WRITER.

Prizes aggregating $9,500 offered by the SesquiCentennial Association of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition for musical compositions contests ending March 1 and April 1. Particulars in November WRITER.

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

Bookman prize amounting to $125 for the best humorous poetry appearing in the Fun Shop for the period from December 26 to May 1, 1926. Particulars in August WRITER.

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 offered by the Harp (Larned, Kansas), for the best sonnet, or poem of no greater length than a sonnet, printed in the Harp before August, 1926.

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. Harmon Prize of $25; Sky Lark Prize of $10- all offered annually. Particulars in January, 1923, 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 $17,500 offered jointly by the Pictorial Review, Dodd, Mead, & Co., and the First National Pictures for a first novel by an American author, contest to close October 1. Particulars in January WRITER.

NEW GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS. By Isadore Gilbert Mudge, Reference Librarian, Columbia University. 278 pp. Cloth. Chicago: The American Library Association. 1923.

This "New Guide to Reference Books," based on the third edition of a similar Guide published in 1917, is itself a reference book of the greatest value and usefulness both to writers and to readers. Not only does it give information about the principal reference books available in libraries, but it tells how to use them to the best advantage. Following an opening section devoted to books and articles on reference books and reference work, is a section devoted to Periodicals, listing general indexes of periodicals, American and English, like Poole's Index and its Supplements, the Annual Literary Index, the Library Index, the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, the International Index to Periodicals, and other indexes with which every writer ought to be familiar. Another section gives information about encyclopedias, and another about dictionaries, English and foreign, including dictionaries devoted to synonyms, slang, dialects, and other subjects. Under the heading Special Subjects are lists of reference works on Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Science, Useful Arts, Fine Arts, Literature, Biography, Geography, and History. Then comes a section devoted to Government Documents, another devoted to Bibliography, a suggestive list of one hundred reference books and an Index including more than 2,100 titles.

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THE TRUE STEVENSON. A Study in Clarification. By George S. Hellman. 253 pp. Cloth. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1925. $3.50.

Stevenson expressed a wish that he should not be painted for posterity as a "damned angel." Certainly in this book Mr. Hellman, a collector of Stevenson material, does not err in that direction. He speaks of Stevenson, who for generations has been held up for the emulation of youth, as "an over-sexed man," whose dissipation in his youth "was really a by-word in the decorous society of Edinburgh"; he writes with considerable candor of Stevenson's pre-nuptial and marital affairs, "his recalcitrancy in religion, his flouting of accepted social standards, and his excesses in the realm of sex," telling how, at the age of twenty-three, he idolized Mrs. Sitwell, eight years his senior, then living apart from her clergyman husband, and how she took him in hand at the most critical period of his life, 'sensitive, curious, full of desire for the taste of all things sensuous, sensual, spiritual'; he describes Stevenson's depression when he learned that the lady cared less for him than for Sidney Colvin,

whom she afterward married; he tells of Stevenson's affair of the heart with Mrs. Osbourne, also living apart from her husband, with her children, whom he met at Grez after the conclusion of the canoeing trip of which he tells the story in "An Inland Voyage," and whom he followed to California in 1880, and married, contrary to the wishes of his father, who stopped contributing to his support all disclosures that are interesting to those who are entertained by gossip and scandal and that to some extent throw light on Stevenson's character (to the credit of his chivalry, if, as Mr. Hellman implies, his marriage was influenced by a sense of duty more than by inclination), but if they had not been made, to use a phrase of Mr. Hellman's, "what the loss would have been to literature, each critic must determine for himself." Throughout his book Mr. Hellman regards Stevenson as a victim of "misleading biography" — called "mealy-mouthed biography" in the title of an article he quotes. Balfour's Life of Stevenson he characterizes as "an interim biography"; Sidney Colvin in editing Stevenson's letters, "with Mrs. Stevenson somewhat in control of the situation," he says "committed acts of omission so opposed to a vital delineation of Stevenson's life and character that it would be hard to find a parallel"; Mr. Colvin, he says, "with vast knowledge of the circumstances of Stevenson's career, has not only allowed a myth to develop but has also allowed the finest qualities of Stevenson to remain unillustrated by their most significant examples"; Mrs. Stevenson, Mr. Hellman shows, suppressed her husband's early poems, so that even his step-son and collaborator, Lloyd Osbourne, had no knowledge of them, and she goaded Stevenson into throwing into the fire the manuscript of a novel, which might have been a masterpiece but the subject of which the life of a street-walker-might have caused comment, treated by the author of "A Child's Garden of Verses." This was the episode used by Henry James as the basis of his story, "The Author of Beltraffio."

Mr. Hellman admits that Mrs. Stevenson prolonged her husband's life and added to his happi

ness.

He speaks well of John A. Steuart's Biography of Stevenson, which, he says is written with candor, of Clayton Hamilton's "On the Trail of Stevenson," the first edition of which was suppressed because of its complete frankness, and other recent books about Stevenson, but he declares that not one of these books "gets to the heart of the matter, either as a document solving the mystery of antecedent suppression or as fully illuminative of Stevenson's philosophy, his emotions, his ideals," and he makes it plain that his book—which is not a

biography, although one of his chapters has the heading, "Stevenson's Life in Miniature" — is necessary for a complete understanding of the man. Speaking of Stevenson's health, Mr. Hellman declares that, contrary to the general idea, Stevenson never underwent much pain and his illness rather helped his career. Mr. Hellman discusses injustices that have been done in the development of what he calls "the Stevenson myth," particularly to Samuel Osbourne, from whom Fanny Osbourne was divorced, and to Stevenson himself. He devotes a chapter to "the Henley mystery," giving additional information about the cause of the break between Stevenson and Henley, and another chapter to Stevenson's life at Vailima, where he lived on a scale out of proportion to his income, although that income was at times more than twenty thousand dollars a year. Incidentally Mr. Hellman adduces evidence to show the autobiographical motivation of Stevenson's story, "The Bottle Imp." The book contains hitherto unpublished letters and poems of Stevenson, Henley, and others, and is illustrated with fac-similes of manuscripts, letters, and drawings.

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A MANUAL OF STYLE. By the Staff of the University of Chicago Press. Completely revised edition. 391 pp. Cloth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1925. $3.15.

This is the latest and best compilation of the rules of typographical style, followed, with minor variations, in the best printing-offices of the United States. It originated nearly thirty years ago in a single sheet of fundamentals jotted down by a proofreader of the University of Chicago Press for his own guidance. It has grown year by year since then in the practical experience of the printing-shop, with additions and changes as they have appeared to be necessary or advisable. The first edition of the rules in book form was published in 1906, and successive editions, each revised and enlarged, have been required, until now we have this eighth edition, in many respects a new book, a useful guide for writers, editors, stenographers, copy-readers, and advertising-men-all, in fact, interested in any way in writing- as well as for printers, proofreaders, and publishers. It is not too much to say that this codification of typographical principles is the most important and comprehensive manual of typographical style now published. An introductory chapter giving detailed typographical directions for the making of a book is followed by rules for composition, covering the use of capitals, spelling, abbreviations, punctuation, division of words, and so on; hints to authors, editors, and writers, about the preparation of manuscripts, copyrights, illustrations, estimating the space that manuscripts will fill in print, proofreading, and indexing; a glossary of

RULES FOR COMPOSITORS AND READERS AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD. By Horace Hart. Twenty-seventh edition. 135 pp. Stiff paper. New York: Oxford University Press. 1925. 2s.

The rules and examples given in this little book were intended especially for compositors and readers at the Oxford University Press, but they are of great value to authors, editors, typists, copy-readers, and writers generally. Showing the style of an English printing office of the highest grade, the rules vary in some respect from those of the best American printing offices, but in the main they are the rules observed on both sides of the Atlantic.

THE NEWSPAPER AND THE HISTORIAN. By Lucy Maynard Salmon. 566 pp. Cloth. New York: Oxford University Press. 1923. $7.50.

The object of this scholarly work is to show as far as possible the advantages and the limitations of the periodical press, especially the newspaper, considered as historical material, and to determine the extent of its usefulness to the historian in his efforts to reconstruct the past. The subject is treated exhaustively and scientifically by Miss Salmon in chapters, among others, headed The Development of the Newspaper, The Newspaper as a Personality, Guarantees of Probability, News-Collecting and News-Distributing Organizations, The Reporter, The Correspondent, The Interviewer, The Editor and The Editorial, Criticism and the Critic, The Advertisement, Authenticity of Newspapers, and The Authoritativeness of the Press. This volume considers the essential characteristics of the newspaper as they affect the historian, and as they are made known by the newspaper itself, unaffected by official control. A companion volume "The Newspaper and Authority," discusses the advantages and the limitations of the press considered with reference to external control — censorship, libel laws, and so

on.

THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S LITERATURE. By John Macy. Illustrated. Cloth. 613 pp. New York: Boni & Liveright. 1925. $5.

Any attempt to tell completely the story of the world's literature in a single volume would, of course, be ridiculous, but Mr. Macy has summarized the salient features of his vast subject in a satisfactory way. It is easy to believe that he spent more than four years in the composition of his book, after years of preparation in reading and study as a writer and a critic. Recognizing that a mere list of books, each one significant to a considerable number of readers, would make a catalog of much greater bulk than this portly volume. he