3 MARCH 1928, Page 19

SHORT STORIES

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We -should be greatly obliged if you could put us in touch with the short story writers in your Competition. Many of them are probably young and are endeavouring to get a foothold, and in this way we might help them. One or two of them have been sent to us in the ordinary cousse, and we are reading thins.—I am, Sir, &c.,

JOHN WATSON,

Kendal. The Northern Newspaper Syndicate.