If you are not a subscriber at present and wish to enter one of the prize competitions, send two dollars and your address for a subscription when you send in your material which is to go in the competition. Four hundred and seventy-five dollars is offered in prizes of three classes to subscribers only. These three competitions are in short-story writing, in amateur photography, and in puzzle solutions. HARPER'S ROUND TABLE offers one hundred and fifty dollars divided into three parts, of seventy-five dollars, first prize; fifty dollars, second prize; twenty-five dollars, third prize, for the best stories written by actual subscribers. The Photographic competition is in five classes, with prizes amounting to one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The Puzzle competition includes five long puzzles, with prizes amounting to two hundred dollars. These puzzles will be published through the winter months. Send at once for prize-contest circulars, or look in the October 27, 1896, issue for all the offers which we have made to subscribers in competitions.
SHORT STORIES BY FAMOUS AUTHORS
A GOLF ADVENTURE
By G. H. Boughton, R.A.
A SCOTCH ADVENTURE
By S. R. Crockett
AN ISLAND ADVENTURE
By H. B. Marriot Watson
A PARISIAN CHARACTER
By François Coppée