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

1. The Newspaper 1
2. News Items 9
3. Biographical Notices 15
4. Reporting Accidents 19
5. Constructive Newspaper Writing 23
6. Humorous Items 29
7. The Use of Contrast 33
8. Thrillers 38
9. Book Reviews 45
10. Reporting Games 52
11. Reporting Speeches 63
12. Dramatic Notices 71
13. Interviews 77
14. The Exposition of Mechanics 84
15. The Exposition of Ideas 90
16. Editorials—Constructive 97
17. Editorials—Destructive 102
18. Advertisements 108
19. Advertisements (continued) 114
20. Advertisements (concluded) 118

 “Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”

Samuel Johnson. Life of Addison.