A Handbook for Newspaper Workers, by G. M. Hyde (Appleton,
$2), is written for American journalists, but it is worthy of the attention of our own writers. A present-, ation of news in the following way (technically known as a " snapper lead ")--" The night wind was chilly. So were Miss Bobby Savage's fingers. She warmed them in Bernard Bogy's pocket—$20 worth "—is not to be recommended, and the author, incidentally, does not recommend it. We agree with him that matters of real importance will tell themselves in a simple, direct and generally conventional way. The chapter on applied ethics is very good. " Have a reader in mind—an average decent intelligent citizen— and write to him as you would talk to him. Write nothing as a journalist that you would not write as a gentleman." Why don't more people who write study the elements of their craft ?
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