In March, 1925, Lincoln Lore, the magazine of the Lincoln High School, in competition with magazines from all over the United States, won first prize as the best magazine of its class, setting a new standard for high school magazines. In this volume Mr. Mearns tells how these results have been achieved... more than a hundred of the actual poems are reprinted.

This book traces the development of "creative" writing as (1) a classroom subject, the teaching of fiction- and verse-writing; and (2) a national system for the employment of fiction writers and poets to teach the subject. It answers the questions, "Why has fiction and verse writing come to be called TcreativeU?" and "When and why was this term first used?" It surveys the study and teaching of language and literature, from the beginnings of philology early in the 19th century to the split of its province and the ending of its use, when science made its entry into life and education.