By way-of encouraging an impor:- fant form of fiction now almost tirely neglected, Seribner's Maga zine in its April issue announces a prize of G.$5,000 for the best story between 15,000 and 35,000 word: submitted by an American autho: before September 20, 1930. The long short story, a distinct genre which includes many of the masterpieces of every literature, is now practically excluded from' publi tion by commercial considerations to the detriment of many of the best, writers, the announcement states, Included in this field are such famous stories as Edith Wharton's than Frame," Mark Twain's "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg," Joseph Conrad's "Youth," Gais-
"Daisy Miller, the Steppes, ie." Henry James' Chekov's "A Lear of de Maupassant's Katherine, Man: scripts judged suitable will be purchased for immediate publication and may appear in the magazine before the close of the contest. They will be purchased outright, subject to adjustment if the story is awarded the prize. The prize story will be offered book publication Charles Seribner's Sons. The of Scribner's state: "The ix not merely for te sake of producing a prize story. We hope to inspire and purchase many stories of this type.
Because the long short Gerhardi" (Harper), a smart satire on free love and' Bohemianism; the Woman of Andres," 'Thornton Wilder (A. & C. Boni), for those who like Thornton Wilder; "Bitter Waters," by Heine rich Hauser (Liveright), love story of a German and a Mexican' gir) told in and powerful prose; and "Coronet," by Manuel Komroff' (Coward Me-Cann), the adventures of the crown of "Atistocracy from Renaissance Florence to modern Chicago, The war novels are still Jloing exceptionally well, The best of these gre "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway (Sribnev), a love story surrounded by the war—fand modern writing at its bests "All Our Yesterdays," by Tomlinson (Harper), the story the birth of the war, splendidly told by a fine journalistic mind; "The [Good Soldier: Schweik," by Jaroslav Hasek (Doubleday, 'Doran), the adventures of an' idiot in the Austrian army, and a comic master= piece; and "Retreat," by C, Ry Benstead (Century), the dark spring 1918, told from the point of view of the British soldier.
For those whose thirst for knows ledge remains unslaked by this lighter sort of entertainment, there fare sev less by Jean Martet (Longmans, Green), is the account of a great man's words and deeds, recorded by his secretary; "Emily Dickenson," Josephine Pollitt (Harper), is the em pathetic story of New England's poet, with many new facts about ber life; "William Pitt, the younger,"
P. W. Wilton (Doubleday, Doran}, snot only a good biography of Pitt, but a spletdjd picture of eighteenth-century "Europe; "An American Jezebel: the Life of Anne Hutchinson,"—by Helen Augur (Brentano), reveals the Mighty doings of a lady Messiah in the early Massachusetts colony; fand "The Diary of Tolstoy's Wife, translated by Alexander Worth (Payson & Clarke), is the plaintive Jou al of the wife of a genius, igor! Tiger!" by Honore Willsie Morrow (Morrow) is an entertain ing biography of John B, Gough, lone of the few prohibitioniste who ever had delirium tre: mens, and "Escape," by Francesco (Putnam), is' the story of his 6 a polities! prisoner by a of the Fascisti—exciting, nat don't let the Duce catch yea reiting
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