ading_.

(3.) For correction and revision of manuscripts, at the rate of one
dollar an hour.

(4.) For one typewriter copy of manuscript, at the rate of six cents a
hundred words; for each other copy, two cents a hundred words. For
dialect, or poetry, or other work of unusual difficulty, ten cents a
hundred words. No manuscript copied for less than fifty cents.

--> For reading a book manuscript containing more than 40,000
words, and less than 100,000 words, and giving a list of publishers and
a general letter of advice, the fee is ten dollars, in advance.

The payment for service (1) is essential _in the case of every
manuscript sent_, but the selection of services (2), (3), and (4) is
optional with the sender. _In other words, no manuscript sent to the
Bureau for any purpose whatever will be examined unless the manuscript
is accompanied by the fee for reading._ Services (2) and (4) will not be
performed without the fees in hand.

In addition, postage should be enclosed for return of the manuscript to
the author. If the author so directs, _and encloses double postage_, the
Bureau will send the manuscript to the publisher most likely to buy it,
with directions if the manuscript is declined to return it to the
author. In either case, a list of periodicals to which it is best suited
will be sent to the author direct.

TO PUBLISHERS:

The Bureau offers a great variety of manuscripts, especially in the line
of fiction. The Bureau not only has very many manuscripts constantly
going through its hands, but is in connection with skilled writers in
all lines, and can secure manuscripts of any sort at short notice.

MSS. SOLD ON COMMISSION.

In consequence of many urgent requests, the Bureau has opened a
commission department, and will undertake the sale of manuscripts, when
desired, on the following terms: Every manuscript must be submitted in
the regular way, and accompanied by the fees for reading. If the author
wishes the Bureau to act as selling agent, and the manuscript is found
to be worth work in that line, the author will be required to make a
postage deposit of an amount sufficient to pay the cost of mailing the
manuscript to and from six or seven publishers, with an additional
charge of ten cents for each time that the manuscript is sent out, to
cover expense of registration, stationery, etc. When the manuscript is
sold, any unexpended balance of the postage deposit will be returned to
the author, together w