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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS OR PUPILS.
For the best story of three thousand words, more or
less, the OVERLAND MONTHLY offers a prize of One
Hundred Dollars Cash. A second prize of Fifty Dollars Cash will be given for the second best story.
The conditions are that the contestant must be a
scholar or teacher in a public school, or in a school
receiving State aid, in California, Nevada, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, or Arizona.
Stories may be mailed until August 31st, when the
contest will close, and the successful story will be published in the October number.
Stories should be written on one side only of sheets
of note or letter sizes.
The name and address of the writer and statement
as to connection with a school, should be placed in a
sealed envelope, and the envelope pasted on the final
page of the manuscript.
Address all manuscript:
Prize Editor, OVERLAND MONTHLY,
San Francisco.
WE REPEAT the offer of prizes for the best story by
a writer connected in any regular way with the public
schools. Not many stories have yet come in, but that
is natural, as the authors will of course take as much
time as the contest allows to perfect their work.
Many stories have been promised, however, and the
many inquiries about the contest show that the competition will be lively. To all inquiries as to the terms,
we refer to the printed conditions as given above, that
there may be no advantage given anybody, even in
trifles. The judges of the competition have not yet
been selected, but they will be persons whose character
and literary attainments will satisfy all as to their decision.
CUBAN matters have moved pretty swiftly under the
new administration, looking at the matter from the
outside standpoint; but to the reconcentrados perishing in Cuban towns, not allowed to grow crops nor do
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anything but starve, it no doubt seems slow enough.
The petition circulated by the OVERLAND has been
largely signed, and will have its due weight, it is believed, with the administration, added as it is to other
large petitions to the same effect.
THE Macmillan Company announces a new edition,
with new stories, of Mrs. Ella Higginson's, 7ze Flower
that Grew iet the Satnd, recently reviewed in these
pages, as issued by a Seattle house. The new title
will be From the Land lf tfthe Sznow Pearls, Tales of
Pu get Souiodi.
The book is another of those collections of studies of
life and character which are of great value in helping
one to a comprehension of the special atmosphere of a
given locality. What R. M. Johnston's stories do for
middle Georgia, Mrs. Higginson's do for the far Northwest. as "Q's" stories have done for Cornwall. Many
of the reviewers of the first edition of these stories
likened them to Miss Wilkins's work, which is easily'understood when one recalls how many of the settlers of
that region are from New England and cherish the
memory of New England homes
IT IS said that the first edition of The A.pe, the
Idtiot, and Other People, studies in the unfit, by W. C.
Morrow, was disposed of in a fortnight after its publication, and a new edition has just been issued by the
J. B. Lippincott Company, its publishers. The demand
for the volume is lively, but this seemed a foregone
conclusion to thoughtful readers, and it foreshadows
a standing reputation for this brilliant San Francisco
journalist.
THE June issue of the,AIaitres tie I' Affiche, which
is certainly one of its best, is full of interest with
"Loie Fuller "by Cheret, in green and red, the Salon de
la Rose + Croix, by Carlos Schwabe, the Afoulin de
la Galette, by Roedel, and an American poster by Miss
Stowell, for the Humphrey Library. Besides these
there is a charming plate by Willette, who has once
more surpassed himself.