EDITORIAL NOTE: CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED
THE Editor of THE CENTURY invites the offer of contributions to the departments of “Open Letters” and “Lighter Vein.”
In “Open Letters” the aim should be a light and lively treatment of social, political, domestic, artistic, or other topics in an easy, natural, epistolary style, having the give-and-take of correspondence, and witty or humorous treatment, mellow, without didacticism; articles should have a novel and piquant motive; and, in order to save them from dilettantism, they should have useful and substantial suggestions. A convenient length is fifteen hundred words.
For the “Lighter Vein” Department contributions are invited of brief narratives from real life, of a humorous character, and of such entertaining interest as will entitle them to rank as good “after-dinner stories.” What is desired is not so much a short anecdote as a narrative of about a thousand words, having a certain natural plot. It is desired to avoid stock stories which, told in past generations, are located in the present. While in general the stories should be humorous, once in a while that quality might be varied by something unusually dramatic, quaint, or curious. The Editor must be assured that the articles have not before been in print.
All contributions found available will be paid for at the magazine’s customary rates.
