What Editors Want. By Max Rittenberg and Patricia Hoey. (Guilbert
Pitman. is. and is. 6d. net.)—The authors have been at the pains to collect from the editors of some seventy dailies, weeklies, and monthlies some hints as to what is likely to be welcome from the "free-lance,"—the writer, that is, who is not attached to any periodical, but is ready to place his work where he can. This kind of literary exchange may quite probably be useful. Really good things may easily be wasted if they are sent in the wrong direction. Nor is it enough for an editor to say, "Read my magazine or my paper," for there are obvious difficulties, not to speak of the possibility that something different might be welcome.—From the same publisher we have How to Wrtte for the Press, by E. P. Davies (same prices). Mr. Davies limits himself to one kind of contribution. He gives "comprehensive instructions for reporting all kinds of events." First he supplies general hints as to style, &c., and then descends to particulars, and instructs the reporter as to what he should describe,—the opening of a town hall or a railway, a Royal visit, a coming-of-age festivity, a ball, a trial in Court, a race meeting, a cricket match, &c. All the counsel seems to be sensible.
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