elements of the arts of proof-reading and reporting well
enough to begin, by virtue of the skill thus acquired, to earn their
bread and butter.

For the chapters on advertising I am indebted to Mr. Karl Murchey, of
the Cass Technical High School of Detroit, Michigan. Mr. John V.
Brennan, Miss Grace Albert, and Miss Eva Kinney, of the Detroit
Northwestern High School, have rendered me invaluable help by
suggestions, by proof-reading, and by trying out the exercises in their
classes. Mr. C. C. Certain, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Mr. E. H. Kemper
McComb, of the Technical High School, Indianapolis, by hints based on
their own wide experience and ripe scholarship, have enabled me to avoid
numerous pitfalls. My thanks are due also to Mr. Francis W. Daire, of
the _Newark News_, and Mr. C. B. Nicolson, of the _Detroit Free Press_,
who have given me the benefit of their experience as practical newspaper
men. Above all, I am indebted to my friend, Mr. Henry P. Hetherington,
of the _Detroit Journal_, whose untimely death in June, 1914, deprived
me of a never-failing source of wisdom and a critic to whose ripe
judgment I owe more than I know how to describe.

E. L. M.

CONTENTS

I. THE NEWSPAPER 1
II. NEWS ITEMS 9
III. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 15
IV. REPORTING ACCIDENTS 19
V. CONSTRUCTIVE NEWSPAPER WRITING 23
VI. HUMOROUS ITEMS 29
VII. THE USE OF CONTRAST 33
VIII. THRILLERS 38
IX. BOOK REVIEWS 45
X. REPORTING GAMES 52
XI. REPORTING SPEECHES 63
XII. DRAMATIC NOTICES 71
XIII. INTERVIEWS 77
XIV. THE EXPOSITION OF MECHANICS 84
XV. THE EXPOSITION OF IDEAS 90
XVI. EDITORIALS--CONSTRUCTIVE 97
XVII. EDITORIALS--DESTRUCTIVE 102
XVIII. ADVERTISEMENTS