Paper, 25 cents. New York: J. S. Ogilvie. 1892.
CLASSICAL POEMS. By William Entriken Bailey. 108 pp. Cloth.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Company. 1892.
THE PARSON. A Satire. By Charles J. Bayne. Twelfth Edition. 19 pp.
Paper. Augusta, Ga.: Chronicle Office. 1892.
HELPFUL HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
=Envelope Pigeon-holes.=--One of the most useful appliances that I use in
daily work is the row of envelopes in the front compartment of the upper
left-hand drawer of my desk. The envelopes are made of stout manila
paper, almost as high as the drawer is deep, and eight and one-half
inches long. They are arranged in the drawer at right angles with the
front, so that as I sit at the desk the face of each envelope is toward
me. The flaps are turned inside, and each envelope has an inscription on
the upper left-hand corner. They are used for filing material wanted for
early reference, and they keep such material classified, within
immediate reach, and in much smaller space than if pigeon-holes were
used. The first twenty-six envelopes are inscribed with the letters of
the alphabet, and are used for filing material alphabetically. Those
beyond are labelled with subjects, also arranged alphabetically, the
subjects being those in which I have an immediate special interest. For
instance, if I am preparing an article on "Misprints," any examples
noted are filed away in an envelope so marked, and when I get ready to
write the article the material is ready at hand. "Bills Unpaid,"
"Receipted Bills," "Ideas and Suggestions," "Postage Stamps,"
"Addresses," "Cards and Circulars," may be marked on other envelopes. If
a drawer is not available, the envelopes may be kept in a box within
easy reach, but the drawer is best. The scheme is easily adapted to any
special needs. In the case of a writer collecting material, when an
envelope bulges too much, it suggests profitable action.
W. H. H.
SOMERVILLE, Mass.
LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.
[Readers who send to the publishers of the periodicals indexed for
copies containing the articles mentioned in the following list,
will confer a favor if they will mention THE WRITER when they
write.]
* * * * *
WRITINGS OF W. H. H. MURRAY. George Stewart, Jr. _Belford's
Magazine_ for March.
REPORTERS AND THEIR TRIALS. _Inland Printer_ for March.
THEORY OF THE COMMA. _American Bookmaker_ for March.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MAGIC IN EASTERN AND WESTERN LITERATURE. Talcott
Williams. _Poet-Lore_ for March 15.
WHAT A BIBLIOGRAPHY SHOULD BE. Victor Chauvin. _Library Journal_
for March.
SOME NEWSPAPER BAD HABITS. With Portrait of E. W. Howe. E. W. Howe.
_Newspaperdom_ for March.
THE DANBURY NEWS MAN. George Watson Hallock. _Newspaperdom_ for
March.
A COMPLETE REFERENCE SYSTEM. I. D. Marshall. _Newspaperdom_ for
March.
THE COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF A NEWS DESPATCH. Samuel
Merrill. _Engraver and Printer_ (Boston) for March.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN. _Critic_ for March 26.
COUNT LEON TOLSTOI. Madame Dovidoff. _Cosmopolitan_ for April.
GOODRIDGE BLISS ROBERTS. With Portrait. Charles G. Abbott.
_Dominion Illustrated Monthly_ (Montreal) for April.
LITERATURE AND THE MINISTRY. Leverett W. Spring. _Atlantic Monthly_
for April.
GEORGE ELIOT AND MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. Charles T. Copeland. _North
American Review_ for April.
CHARLES KEENE, OF PUNCH. George Somes Layard. _Scribner's Magazine_
for April.
ISAAC JUDSON POTTER, PUBLISHER OF THE YANKEE BLADE. With Portrait.
_Weekly Journalist_ (Boston) for March 24.
FICTION IN THE COURT ROOM. George Stewart. _Toronto Week_ for March
11.
T. W. HIGGINSON. With Portrait. _Weekly Journalist_ (Boston) for
March 31.
WHY BOOKS SUCCEED. Duffield Osborne. _American Bookseller_ for
April 1.
EUGENE FIELD. _Inland Printer_ for April.
WHAT IS POETRY. Edmund Clarence Stedman. _Century_ for April.
WOLCOTT BALESTIER. Edmund Gosse. _Century_ for April.
THE WIFE OF EUGENE FIELD. John Ballantyne. _Ladies' Home Journal_
for April.
MISTAKEN LITERARY SUCCESS. Wolstan Dixey. _Ladies' Home Journal_
for April.
POETRY AND ELOQUENCE. John Burroughs. _Chautauquan_ for April.
NEWS AND NOTES.
D. Appleton & Co. announce a Holland Fiction Series, introducing to
American readers the best literature of modern Holland. They have been
led to do this by the interest shown in Maarten Maartens' "Joost
Avelingh," which they published some time ago. A new novel by Maarten
Maartens will be included in the series.
Mrs. James T. Field is abroad with Miss Sarah Orne Jewett.
Daniel Lothrop, head of the D. Lothrop Company, of Boston, died February
18. He was born August 11, 1831.
Edward Augustus Freeman, the English historian, died of smallpox
February 16, at Alicante, Spain, aged sixty-nine years.
With the issue of March 11 the _Epoch_ ceased to exist as a separate
publication, having been merged with _Munsey's Magazine_.
Edward Everett Hale will be seventy years old April 3.
Rev. George Thomas Dowling, D. D., who has been pastor of the
Madison-avenue Reformed Church in Albany for nearly three years, has
offered his resignation, to take effect July 1. It is his intention, he
says, to devote himself for a few years to rest and literary pursuits,
probably in Boston. Dr. Dowling's salary is $6,500.
In the _New York Herald_ for March 13 were printed the opening lines of
a story, entitled "The Way Out," which American writers have been
invited to complete. The opening lines are by John Habberton. The entire
tale, inclusive of the opening, should not exceed eight thousand words,
nor contain less than seven thousand words. No limitations are imposed
as to scenes, characters, or incidents. The decision will be left to Mr.
Charles Ledyard Norton. For the best story offered the _Herald_ will pay
$100, the story to become the property of the _Herald_, and be published
in full Sunday, May 1. Manuscripts must be typewritten, and must reach
the _Herald_ office not later than Saturday, April 16.
The frontispiece of the _Magazine of Art_ (New York) for April is an
etching by Chauvel from Troyon's "The Watering-place."
The _Chautauquan_ (Meadville, Penn.) for April contains an excellent
portrait of John Vance Cheney, the popular poet and critic.
Charles Keene, the famous caricaturist of _Punch_, who died about a year
ago, is the subject of an article in _Scribner's_ for April, illustrated
with many pictures from his original drawings.
A portrait of Walt Whitman, from the painting by J. W. Alexander, forms
the frontispiece to _Harper's Magazine_ for April. Guido Biagi writes of
"The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley."
A society of American authors, on lines similar to the British and
French societies of the same name, is proposed by Charles Burr Todd, who
has set forth the grievances of American authors in a paper in the March
_Forum_. The first meeting is to be held privately in New York on or
before May 1, and when one hundred members are enrolled the society will
be organized at once. Its objects are extension of copyright, abolition
of letter-rate postage on manuscripts, amendment of international
copyright law, and the adoption in America of the French statutes in
regard to literary property. All persons who have written a book, or are
engaged in writing for the press, are eligible to membership.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892., by Various