THE CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN is to be published in the autumn. VIRGINIA RICE is an American journalist who has spent much time in Europe. HENRY E. HARMAN was for many years publisher of a trade paper in the south. He lives part of the year in Atlanta, Georgia, and has a winter home in Florida. He is now practically retired from business and devotes his time to writing. His poems are well known, and he is to issue a new volume, "The History of Famous Songs and Poems". EDWARD LAROCQUE TINKER is an artist and author who divides his time between New York City and New Orleans. He is author of the recent biography on Lafcadio Hearn so much discussed by critics and public. GERALD HEWES CARSON, a young middle westerner residing in or about New York City, is rapidly gaining recognition as a critic of sound judgment. in MARION STROBEL, whose new volume of verse "Once in a Blue Moon" is reviewed in another part of this month's BOOKMAN, is a Chicago girl, associate of Miss Monroe on "Poetry". GRANT OVERTON, fiction editor of "Collier's", is a well known critic and novelist. MYLA JO CLOSSER is a journalist and publicity woman residing in New York City. BEATRICE E. HARMON lives Seattle, Washington. Her first volume of verse was one of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. LOUIS BROMFIELD has finished a new novel, and is engaged in putting the finishing touches on his dramatization of "The Green Bay Tree". He expects to spend some time in Europe next season. PERCY MACKAYE, well known poet, writer of plays and pageants, has made a study of American folk lore. His own "Tall Tales from the Kentucky Mountains" will be published this autumn. KATHLEEN NORRIS, the famous novelist, has just returned to California, where she and Charles Norris have a ranch. ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE, after a brief acquaintance with the motion picture world, has returned to literature, and is again writing his articles, reviews, and sketches with verve and charm. JOSEPH COLLINS is hard at work on several projected books, one of which will be "The Doctor Looks at Biography". JAMES MELVIN LEE, head of the Department of Journalism at New York University, is a well known editor and newspaperman. He has edited magazines as diverse as "Judge" and "Administration" (of which he is the present chief), and has written and edited many books. FLOYD DELL, the young American novelist, is in Europe this summer. His book, "This Mad Ideal", was considered by many critics his best, and a new story, "Runaway", .". said to be in an entirely different mood from his other novels, is on the autumn lists. ALICE ROHE, dramatic critic for the United Press, has made a long study of Italy and the Italians, and is an international newspaper woman of ability and reputation. MICHAEL JOSEPH, of Messrs. Curtis Brown in London, is a brilliant young man. His "Short Story Writing for Profit" and "Journalism for Profit", well known in England, will soon be followed by "The Commercial Side of Literature". MAXWELL BODENHEIM is novelist as well as poet. His latest prose work is "Replenishing Jessica". LA FRANCE CHEZ VOUS! Her Châteaux, Her Cathedrals, Her Great Men, Her THE BOOKMAN'S LITERARY CLUB SERVICE Believing that clubs will welcome an outline which combines range of subject with an authoritative understanding of the end to be achieved, the editors have brought together representative committees of authors, students, and critics to present for the use of women's clubs an outline which will contain both elements. The divisions of the series are: I. Contemporary American Fiction (see THE BOOKMAN for October, November, December, 1922, January, 1923); II. Contemporary American Poetry (see THE BOOKMAN for March, April, May, June, July, August, 1923); III. Contemporary American Drama (see THE BOOKMAN from November, 1923 through July, 1924); IV. The Short Story. After contemporary American literature has been covered, programs on the historical background of our literature will be given and these will be followed by a survey of the English field. The BOOKMAN programs are formed, not by the editors of this magazine but by a board of advice which has been organized to include names from various lines of literary thought in America, so that the result will represent no one group. The executive committee of advice is as follows: Mary Austin, the novelist; Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick, librarian of the St. Louis Public Library; Dr. Carl Van Doren, one of the editors of "The Century"; Mrs. L. A. Miller, chairman of literature, General Federation of Women's Clubs; May Lamberton Becker, of the "Reader's Guide" of "The Saturday Review"; Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, rector of the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City; Booth Tarkington, the novelist; and Rose V. S. Berry, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The editor of THE BOOKMAN and his advisers and associates will answer promptly and to the best of their ability any question confronting any literary club. Such questions should be addressed "THE BOOKMAN'S Literary Club Service". Representative American Short Stories. Alexander The Best Short Stories of 1924, etc. Edward J. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1924, Thrice Told Tales. Blanche Colton Williams. Short Stories by Present-Day Authors. Raymond The Stories Editors Buy and Why. Jean Wick. Modern Short Stories. Frederick Houk Law. Contemporary Short Stories. Kenneth Allan liams. DODD, MEAD. The Book of the Short Story. Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby. APPLETON. The Advance of the American Short Story. Ed- The Short Story in English. Henry Seidel Canby. Short Story Writing for Profit. M. Joseph. Short Story Writing. N. B. Fagin. SELTZER. Narrative Technique. T. H. Uzzell. HARCOURT, A Handbook on Story Writing. Blanche Colton A Manual of the Short Story Art. G. Clark. The Art and the Business of Story Writing. Wal- Fundamentals of Fiction Writing. Arthur Sulli- Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing. Arthur Short Stories in the Making. R. W. Neal. Writing the Short Story. J. B. Esenwein. HINDS, DORAN. THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER make money doing work you like~ If you're a Booklover and have a moderate amount of capital, we'll show you how to start your own Bookshop, and give you the benefit of the experience of others who under similar circumstances have been successful. Most of the new Bookstores opened in recent years and now operating successfully benefited by our advice and guidance in getting established. Let us tell you how we can help you. BOOK SALES PROMOTION BUREAU 55 Fifth Ave., New York. Room 308 "His richest book," says the Nation. ALDOUS "When skirts touched the ground, the toe of a protruding shoe was an allurement. . . . Nowdays, with young women going around as barebacked as wild horses, there's no excitement."-from "Those Barren Leaves." Such was the flavor of the talk that flowed so sparklingly at the inimitable Mrs. Aldwinkle's "literary" house-party. It is talk that will provoke profound thought as well as delicious mirth. Ruth Suckow is a young writer of much promise whose first novel, "Country People", was published last year. She was born in Hawarden, Iowa, in 1892. As the daughter of a Congregational minister she has had much experience in Iowa community life. Miss Suckow attended Grinnell College, and later went to a dramatic school in Boston. She is now living in Earlville, Iowa, writing short stories and keeping bees. Her stories are well known to the readers of "The Century" and "The American Mercury". REFERENCE: The Best Short Stories of 1923. HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER The Other Story, and Other Stories. BOBBSMERRILL. 1923. He Henry Kitchell Webster comes from practically the literary centre of the middle west, Evanston, Illinois, where he was born in 1875 and is still living. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and was at one time an instructor of rhetoric at Union College in Schenectady, New York. was married in 1901. Mr. Webster has collaborated with Samuel Merwin, is the author of "The Real Adventure", one of the first books on "this freedom", and is well known as the narrator of "big business" tales. His stories have recently been appearing almost exclusively in "Pictorial Review". REFERENCE: The Men Who Make Our Novels. Charles C. Baldwin. DODD, MEAD. EDITH WHARTON The Descent of Man. SCRIBNER. 1904. Edith Wharton, recognized as one of America's foremost writers, was born in New York City in 1862. At the age of 23 she married and went to Boston to live. She received the education open to girls of wealth and social position in the late nineteenth century, and in addition to this influence she had the friendship and criticism of Henry James. Mrs. Wharton has spent much time abroad as well as in New York and in New England. Her most famous short story, "Ethan Frome", falls under the heading of "Stories of Local Color", to be discussed later. Her work is familiar to readers of "Harper's", "The Century", "Scribner's", "The Ladies' Home Journal", and "Pictorial Review". Mrs. Wharton now spends practically all of her time in France, where she was made an officer of the Legion of Honor for her work during the war. Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Strategems and Spoils; Stories of Love and Politics' God's Puppets. MACMILLAN. 1916. Completely of Kansas is William Allen White. He was born at Emporia. He was educated at the University of Kansas. He married a Kansas City woman. And since 1895 he has been proprietor and editor of the Emporia "Daily and Weekly Gazette". Mr. White was a member of the Progressive Party, an ardent follower of Roosevelt, high in his official councils. He loves dogs and animals as did Roosevelt. Like Roosevelt also, he understands the mind and manners, the whimsies and dialects, of America. He is another of those figures, including Mrs. Wharton, who add both humanity and distinction to the American literary scene, and who add wholesomeness mixed with a sense of humor to the American Credo. Mr. White was sent to France as an observer by the American Red Cross in August, 1917. He has recently written a biography of Woodrow Wilson. His short stories have appeared in "McClure's", "Scribner's", and "The Saturday Evening Post". REFERENCES: The Men Who Make Our Novels. Charles C. Baldwin. DODD, MEAD. Contemporary American Novelists. Carl Van Doren. MACMILLAN. THE BOOKMAN'S Literary Club Service, December, 1923. BEN AMES WILLIAMS Thrifty Stock. DUTTON. 1923. Mr. Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, March 7, 1889. His early years were spent in Jackson, Ohio. The home of his father, an editor of a country weekly, is reputed always to have been overflowing with books. At fifteen he was sent east to school, but he was soon removed to Cardiff, Wales, where his father became Consul. In 1906 he entered Dartmouth College. Out of college, he worked on the Boston "American" for six years as reporter. In 1912 he married the daughter of a long line of sea captains. He started to write short stories in 1910, and his eighty second story was the first to be accepted, in 1914. Mr. Williams makes his home, with his two growing boys and his wife, in Newtonville, Massachusetts. He spends his time working, fishing, and shooting. His_stories appear in "Collier's", "The Saturday Evening Post", and "The Ladies' Home Journal". Several of them have been successfully filmed. REFERENCES: O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919. (Continued on Literary Agents' page) The LIFE of Sir WILLIAM By HARVEY CUSHING Two Volumes, Profusely Illustrated THE publication of the Life of Osler by his friend and disciple, Harvey Cushing, is an event. Osler's profound influence pervaded the whole of the Englishspeaking world. His name was a talisman wherever medicine was taught, studied, or practised. The variety of his interests, and his enormous powers of work, made his life a kaleidoscope of public activity. It is impossible to read fifty pages of this book without realizing that Osler was indeed a very great man. 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