THE AMERICAN MERCURY GIFT $10,000 in prizes for Short Stories to be given by HARPER'S MAGAZINE Four Competitions: 1st Competition: From January 1, 1924, to 2nd Competition: April 1 to June 30. For the best stories submitted in The Judges The three judges will be: MEREDITH NICHOLSON, novelist, essayist, and philosopher.] ZONA GALE, author of "Miss Lulu Bett" and "Faint Perfume." BLISS PERRY, professor of English Literature at Harvard University and former editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Synopsis of the Conditions (Which may be found in full in Harper's Magazine for February, or obtained from the publishers on request.) to all American 1. The contests are open 3. No limits are set as to length, but sto- HARPER'S welcomes the new. 4. No particular type of story will be given preference. 5. A contestant may submit as many sto ries as he desires. Each story should be mailed to Harper's Magazine, accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with sufficient stamps for return. Each story should have on the manuscript the name and address of the author and the words "Short Story Contest." 6. The prize-winning stories will be published in Harper's Magazine, but all rights in such stories other than first serial rights will remain the property of the authors. The editors will be glad to negotiate for the purchase of stories not included among the prize-winners but deemed worthy of publication. THE editors hope and expect that the 1924 Short Story Competitions will bring out new fiction writers of preeminent ability and launch them successfully on their careers. Among those whose reputations the magazine has assisted in making during recent years have been Wilbur Daniel Steele, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, Sherwood Anderson, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Edwin Stanton Babcock, Rose Wilder Lane, Fleta Campbell Springer, and Mary Heaton Vorse. In its pages appeared the first stories of such widely different writers as Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson. This competition is open both to writers of established reputation and to those who have never had work published before. HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers of HARPER'S MAGAZINE 49 East 33rd Street :: New York City HIS beautiful volume gives faithful reproductions of the finest examples of pre-Ming and Ming pottery and porcelain to be found in English collections. of and a short account is given of the general development of the potter's art in China from about B.C. 200 to A.D. 1644. There are 53 plates reproduced in as many as seven colors and 100 in half-tone. Every plate is accompanied by a full and accurate description. R. L. Hobson is the Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum, and author of several authoritative works on Chinese Pottery; A. L. Hetherington is the author of The Early Ceramic Wares of China, etc. Large 4to., elaborately bound and boxed. The edition for the United ALFRED A. KNOPF Publisher 220 West 42 St., NEW YORK "The Mencken-Nathan outlook is aesthetic, aristocratic, anarchic. They are seekers after beauty, whatever its guise, and look upon the whirling globe as a vastly entertaining spectacle, to be applauded when well done and hissed when it could be better. They are independent and say what they mean of whom they mean. Their aristocracy is the rule of the best, their anarchy bombs ideas. These are men to know, especially for the rising generation." IN CANADA FROM THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD., ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE, TORONTO A Refreshing Bath Aid for Keen Out-of-Door Fellows When you are sticky, hot and tired shift a little AMMO in the AMMO gives water an added virtue and Then too, AMMO in the water gives tired Enjoy this man's bath aid-unper- If your dealer cannot supply you, write us: Ammo AMMONIA IN POWDERED FORM |