Produced by Bryan Ness, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE WRITER: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS. VOL. VI. BOSTON, APRIL, 1892. No. 4. Copyright, 1892, by WILLIAM H. HILLS. All rights reserved. ENTERED AT THE BOSTON POST-OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. CONTENTS: PAGE WALT WHITMAN IN EUROPE. _Roman I Zubof_ 63 SHALL WRITERS COMBINE? _John Braincraft_ 65 NEWSPAPER COOKERY. _Anna Borrows_ 67 DO THE BEST WRITERS WRITE? _Gertrude F. Lynch_ 70 FASHIONS IN LITERATURE. _Pamela McArthur Cole_ 71 SNEAK REPORTING. _Herbert Corey_ 72 A PLEA FOR THE NOM DE PLUME. _Persis E. Darrow_ 73 TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE. _Susan Andrews Rice_ 74 THE DELUGE OF VERSE. _Douglas Dane_ 75 CONCERNING SONNETS. _F. D. Stickney_ 76 EDITORIAL. 78 Dr. Hale's Rules for Writing. 78 THE SCRAP BASKET. 78 THE USE AND MISUSE OF WORDS. 78 "Cenotaph." 78 BOOK REVIEWS. 79 HELPFUL HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 81 Envelope Pigeon-holes. 81 LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS. 81 NEWS AND NOTES. 82 WALT WHITMAN IN EUROPE. With the death and burial of Walt Whitman passes away the most picturesque figure of contemporary literature. It is true that in England the name of the poet is more familiar than his poetry, and that students of literature are more conversant with the nature of his writings than are the mass of general readers; yet the character of the man and the spirit of his compositions were rapidly beginning to be appreciated by, and to sway an influence over, the whole higher intelligence of the country.