_Boston Evening Transcript_, the _New York Evening Post_, the _Detroit
News_, the _Milwaukee Journal_, the _Kansas City Star_, the _New York
Sun_, the _Providence Journal_, the _Ohio State Journal_, the _New York
World_, the _Saturday Evening Post_, the _Independent_, the _Country
Gentleman_, the _Outlook_, _McClure's Magazine_, _Everybody's Magazine_,
the _Delineator_, the _Pictorial Review_, _Munsey's Magazine_, the
_American Magazine_, _System_, _Farm and Fireside_, the _Woman's Home
Companion_, the _Designer_, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
The author is also under obligation to the many newspapers and magazines
from which excerpts, titles, and other material have been quoted.

At every stage in the preparation of this book the author has had the
advantage of the coöperation and assistance of his wife, Alice Haskell
Bleyer.

_University of Wisconsin
Madison, August, 1919_




CONTENTS


PART I

I. THE FIELD FOR SPECIAL ARTICLES 3

II. PREPARATION FOR SPECIAL FEATURE WRITING 14