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WRITING FOR THE PRESS:

=A Manual for Editors, Reporters, Correspondents, and
Printers.= By ROBERT LUCE. Fourth edition (seventh
thousand); revised and greatly enlarged. 96 pp. Cloth,
$1.00.

"Writing for the Press" is a practical handbook of the art of newspaper
writing, written by a practical newspaper man. There is no "padding" in
it; almost every line contains a useful hint or suggestion about the
proper preparation of newspaper "copy," and a wonderful amount of
information of use to writers is crowded into its carefully-written
pages. The work is the result of the practical experience of the author
as desk editor on the _Boston Globe_, and was written in the main from
notes made while handling MS. there and elsewhere.

Four editions of "Writing for the Press" have been required. For each
edition the work has been revised and enlarged, so that it has grown
from forty-two to ninety-six pages,--yet, it is believed, without the
addition of a useless sentence. New matter has been added partly to make
the book more useful to newspaper writers, and partly to bring within
its scope all other writers. Therefore, those who bought copies of
earlier editions will find it desirable to buy copies of the fourth
edition as well.

That literary workers of every class will find "Writing for the Press"
exceedingly helpful, both for study and for reference, is shown by these
subject-headings: The Preparation of Copy; How to Write Clearly;
Grammar, Good and Bad; Use and Misuse of Common Words and Phrases (with
several hundred examples); Mixed Metaphors; Slang; The Use of Titles;
Puzzling Plurals; Condensation; Points on Proof-reading; Addressing
Editors; Getting into Print, etc. The book is one that every writer
should keep upon his desk for constant reference and study.

Newspaper editors, who are naturally the best judges of the value of
such a work, all commend Mr. Luce's book. For instance, the _Boston
Advertiser_ says of it: "It is a remarkably