The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-31
FOR WRITERS AND READERS

IS what Photoplay Magazine says about Horizon" Octavus Roy Co., hens story In that magazine for De- cember.
 This story is entirely different from what many people might expect to read from Mir. Cohen's pen. In fact Is perhaps that difference which MT. Cohen Is able to put in his stories which makes him popular with such great variety of readers.
 Many people have expressed sur rrise at the fact that the man who writes the negro stories for the Sat urcay Evening Post should be able 70 write such thrilling detective stories as The Crimson Alibi," Gray Dusk" Six Seconds of Darkness and Midnight" which recently ran as serial in Munseys Magazine.
 Horizon" will probably cause greater surprise, for 1t Is like neither of the two aforementioned classes of fiction.
 It Is story of man who faced the greatest problem of his life; 1t tells how he faced it. And 1t tells this as only Octsvus Roy Cohen could tell such a story.
 Wallace M. Sloan. Fort Payne writer who won the s15o prize of- fered by the Writers club of BIr- mingham for the best poem on Bir. mingham, is young man who Is be- ginning to taste success early. In Birmingham" he has some great lires and already he Is being pointed to by editorial writers throughout the country as a writer whose name Is destined to become as well known as Edwin Markham and others The Writers club received thou sands of poems In the contest, poems 1 submitted from Maine to California, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. And that Wallace NJ Sloan's poem should have been se- lected as the one most worthy of the prize is indeed a great tribute.
 Mir. Sloan is not only a writer of excellent verse. but his short stories are among the best now appearing in the popular magazines of the coun- try, and the day is not far off whea he will be regarded not as a com- ing writer, but as one who has ar rived.
 His Masters Vice" is the title of Eric Levison's latest story which was accepted by Short Stories Nigga zine during tho past week. MT Levi- son is now regular contributor to Short Stories. which is publishing some of the best fiction to be found In any magazine in this country. and in addition to His Masters Vice." that magazine only a day or 80 before accepted his story. The Scales of l Circumstance"
 To become a contributor to Short Stories is something of which any short story writer may be proud There Is no margarine In tho coun- try which requires more in the way of writing, story telling and plot than does that magazine. Before story is acceptable for it's pages 1t must contain something out of the ordinary--somethin new--life. And this is exactly what MT. Levison is putting in his work.
 Double Strategy" in Top Notch | Magazine out November 1. is by Ar temus Galloway of Birmingham. This Is one of MT. Calloway's stories of Honduras. which gives some interest l ing side lights on certain temporary residents in that land. as well as on some of tho native born.
 Double Strategy" contains touch of humor. considerable action and more than little surprise. There 1 is not character in 1t who is not drawn from life: there is not an im- probable incident.
 "Double Strategy" Is one of the reasons more people are every day learning to like Mir. Calloway's stories
 wayside Tales Is going to give It's readers another of Edgar valen- tine Smiths humorous stories in a short while. having during the past week accepted his story, "Unifawms Rank"
 This story Is only one of many good ones which wayside Tales will publish from Mir. Smiths pen during the next few months. and those fa- miliar with Mir Smiths work realize without being told that not dull one will be found in the lot.
 MT. Smith is a writer whose work Is eagerly looked forward to by mag azine readers from one end of the country to the other.
 There is something about his stories which makes them fascinat- ing, something which gives them charm, which makes them worth while fiction.
 And of course the week would not be complete without Henry c. Vance selling one of his humorous stories of the prize ring. Gloves Labor
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