probably in Boston. Dr. Dowling's salary is $6,500.

In the _New York Herald_ for March 13 were printed the opening lines of
a story, entitled "The Way Out," which American writers have been
invited to complete. The opening lines are by John Habberton. The entire
tale, inclusive of the opening, should not exceed eight thousand words,
nor contain less than seven thousand words. No limitations are imposed
as to scenes, characters, or incidents. The decision will be left to Mr.
Charles Ledyard Norton. For the best story offered the _Herald_ will pay
$100, the story to become the property of the _Herald_, and be published
in full Sunday, May 1. Manuscripts must be typewritten, and must reach
the _Herald_ office not later than Saturday, April 16.

The frontispiece of the _Magazine of Art_ (New York) for April is an
etching by Chauvel from Troyon's "The Watering-place."

The _Chautauquan_ (Meadville, Penn.) for April contains an excellent
portrait of John Vance Cheney, the popular poet and critic.

Charles Keene, the famous caricaturist of _Punch_, who died about a year
ago, is the subject of an article in _Scribner's_ for April, illustrated
with many pictures from his original drawings.

A portrait of Walt Whitman, from the painting by J. W. Alexander, forms
the frontispiece to _Harper's Magazine_ for April. Guido Biagi writes of
"The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley."

A society of American authors, on lines similar to the British and
French societies of the same name, is proposed by Charles Burr Todd, who
has set forth the grievances of American authors in a paper in the March
_Forum_. The first meeting is to be held privately in New York on or
before May 1, and when one hundred members are enrolled the society will
be organized at once. Its objects are extension of copyright, abolition
of letter-rate postage on manuscripts, amendment of international
copyright law, and the adoption in America of the French statutes in
regard to literary property. All persons who have written a book, or are
engaged in writing for the press, are eligible to membership.

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