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 NOTES AND QUERIES: 31 jSUMmn 0f FOR LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC. "When fonnd, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE. ["TWELFTH"! L SERIES. J JULY 24, 1920. PBICE SIXPENCE. Post free 7d. Registered as a Newspaper. THE POWER OF THE PEN HOW TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL WRITER. THERE is a great and growing demand for new writers to-day. If you can write a good short story or a telling article, your work is sure of ready acceptance. " We always welcome the work of new writers," writes the Editor of Pearson's Maga- zine, " and several times, by means of com- petitions and in other ways, we have made strenuous efforts to discover them on the whole with very satisfactory results." Why is it, then, that so much of the work of new writers is rejected ? One of the reasons is that many of these writers have not mastered the technique of their trade. Their ideas are often good and their prose style quite up to the average, but they have not acquired the knack of writing just the kind of stories and articles that sell. They want special training in the Art of Short Story and Article writing. If they only had that special training they could easily turn their work into readable and saleable productions. A College for Authors. It is in this direction that the London Correspondence College, which was founded in 1909 by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., is helping many men and women to become successful writers of short stories and articles. " My pleasure in seeing my article in the Daily Mail will be well understood," writes a student of the College. " I attri- bute such a pleasing and early success to the London Correspondence College's instruction and guidance, for, prior to commencing the Course, I should not have had the confidence in myself to attempt the same article, even had it been sufficiently polished." (B. 6099.) Many other letters of a similar character will be found in a little book entitled " Short- Story Writing and Journalism " (with a Foreword by George R. Sims), a copy of which will be sent you gratis and post free on applica- to the address printed below. Plenty of money can be earned nowadays even in one's spare time by writing articles and short stories for the papers. The London Correspondence College will help you, if you have any literary talent at all, to* put that talent to practical and profitable use. The College Courses are directed through the post by skilled and experienced tutors, each student's work is closely and individually criticised, and the writer is shown exactly where his or her work is weak or faulty, and just how these defects can be remedied. The aim of this training is to enable the writer to express his or her individuality in the most effective way. A copy of the book mentioned above, together with full particulars of the London Correspondence College Courses in Short- Story Writing, Journalism, English Composi- tion, Advancad Literary Training, Verse Writing, and Mental Culture, can be obtained gratis and post-free by sending a letter or postcard to the Secretary, The London Corres- pondence College, 78 Albion House, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.I.