<table><tr><th>Omeka ID</th><th>Omeka URL</th><th>Title</th><th>Subject</th><th>Description</th><th>Creator</th><th>Source</th><th>Publisher</th><th>Date</th><th>Contributor</th><th>Rights</th><th>Relation</th><th>Format</th><th>Language</th><th>Type</th><th>Identifier</th><th>Coverage</th><th>Publisher(s)</th><th>Original Format</th><th>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry</th><th>Pages</th><th>Participants</th><th>Pen Name</th><th>Physical Dimensions</th><th>Position End Date</th><th>Position Start Date</th><th>Position(s)</th><th>Publication Frequency</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Sex</th><th>Society Membership End Date</th><th>Society Membership Start Date</th><th>Start Date</th><th>Sub-Committee End Date</th><th>Sub-Committee Start Date</th><th>Text</th><th>To</th><th>URL</th><th>Volume</th><th>Death</th><th>Biography</th><th>Birth</th><th>Committee End Date</th><th>Committee of Management End Date</th><th>Committee of Management Start Date</th><th>Committee Start Date</th><th>Committee(s)</th><th>Council End Date</th><th>Council Start Date</th><th>Date</th><th>Bibliography</th><th>End Date</th><th>Event Type</th><th>From</th><th>Image Source</th><th>Interactive Timeline</th><th>Issue</th><th>Location</th><th>Members</th><th>Ngram Date</th><th>Ngram Text</th><th>Files</th><th>Tags</th></tr><tr><td>306</td><td>https://historysoa.com/items/show/306</td><td>The Author, Vol. 08 Issue 03 (August 1897)</td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+08+Issue+03+%28August+1897%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Author&lt;/em&gt;, Vol. 08 Issue 03 (August 1897)&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049239455&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049239455&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication&quot;&gt;Publication&lt;/a&gt;</td><td>1897-08-02-The-Author-8-3</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>57&ndash;88</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=8&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1897-08-02&quot;&gt;1897-08-02&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td><td></td><td>18970802</td><td>XL he Hutbor*&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Aidhors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. VIII.&mdash;No. 3.] AUGUST 2, 1897. [Price Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
CONT&lt;br /&gt;
FAQ I&lt;br /&gt;
General Memoranda 87&lt;br /&gt;
From the Committee 59&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Properly&mdash;1. The Home of Lords Committee. 2. The&lt;br /&gt;
New Copyright Bill. 3. The Eight of CriiioiBm. 4. University&lt;br /&gt;
of Cambridge r. Blackie and Sons 59&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright (Amendment) Bill (H. of L.) 63&lt;br /&gt;
Civil List Pensions 67&lt;br /&gt;
Notes and News. By the Editor 67&lt;br /&gt;
The Proposed Net System &amp;quot;1&lt;br /&gt;
A Warning to Authors and Others 72&lt;br /&gt;
A Case in Pofnt 74&lt;br /&gt;
ENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
PAOI&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;International Library Conference 75&lt;br /&gt;
Book Talk 78&lt;br /&gt;
Fashions in Language. By H. O. K ... 81&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence.&mdash;1. Corruptions of the Language. 2. Editor&lt;br /&gt;
and Contributor. 8. English Novels In Germany. 4. A Query.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Transliteration. 6. Subjunctive Mood: its Present Day use.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Cost of Production. S. How Long; 82&lt;br /&gt;
Literature in the Periodicals 85&lt;br /&gt;
Personal 86&lt;br /&gt;
Obituary 87&lt;br /&gt;
The Books of the Month 87&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Annual Report, That for January 1897 can be had on application to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Property. Issued to all Members, 6*. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the&lt;br /&gt;
following prices: Vol. I., 10*. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 8&laquo;. 6d. each (Bound);&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. V., 6s. 6J. (Unbound).&lt;br /&gt;
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Colles, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,&lt;br /&gt;
95, Strand, W.C.) 3$.&lt;br /&gt;
4. The History of the Societe des Gens de Lettres. By S. Squire Spriooe, late Secretary to&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, is.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,&lt;br /&gt;
size of page, &amp;lt;fec, with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of&lt;br /&gt;
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2*. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squire Sprigoe. In this work, compiled from the&lt;br /&gt;
papers in the Society&amp;#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various&lt;br /&gt;
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3*.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill now before Parlia-&lt;br /&gt;
ment. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix&lt;br /&gt;
containing the Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lely. Eyre&lt;br /&gt;
and Spottiswoode. is. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Walter Besant&lt;br /&gt;
(Chairman of Committee, 1888&mdash;1892). is.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst&lt;br /&gt;
Lunge, J.U.D. 2*. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
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J. M. Barbie.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sir Henry Bkrgne, K.C.M.G.&lt;br /&gt;
Sib Walter Besant.&lt;br /&gt;
ATjOUBTINE BlRRELL, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. Prop. Bonnet, F.R.S.&lt;br /&gt;
Right Hon. James Brtce, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
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be Hutbor*&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. VIII.&mdash;No. 3.] AUGUST 2, 1897. [Price Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are. officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
FOB some years it has been the praotioe to insert, in&lt;br /&gt;
every number of The Author, certain &amp;quot; General Con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderations,&amp;quot; Warnings, Notices, &amp;amp;c, for the guidance&lt;br /&gt;
of the reader. It has been objeoted as regards these&lt;br /&gt;
warnings that the tricks or frauds against which they are&lt;br /&gt;
directed cannot all be guarded against, for obvious reasons.&lt;br /&gt;
It is, however, well that they should be borne in mind, and&lt;br /&gt;
if any publisher refuses a clause of precaution he simply&lt;br /&gt;
reveals his true character, and should be left to carry on&lt;br /&gt;
his business in his own way.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us, however, draw up a few of the rules to be&lt;br /&gt;
observed in an agreement. There are three methods of&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with literary property:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
I. That of Belling it outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A pro&amp;amp;t-sharing agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to &amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
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in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments.&lt;br /&gt;
_ (3.) Not to allow a special charge for &amp;quot; offioe expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
(7.) To stamp the agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
III. The royalty system.&lt;br /&gt;
In this system, which has opened the door to a most&lt;br /&gt;
amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s ignorance, it is above all things necessary to know&lt;br /&gt;
what the proposed royalty means to both &deg;ides. It is now&lt;br /&gt;
possible for an author to ascertain approximately and very&lt;br /&gt;
nearly the truth. Prom time to time the very important&lt;br /&gt;
figures conneoted with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Cost of Production.&amp;quot; Let no one, not even the youngest&lt;br /&gt;
writer, sign a royalty agreement without finding out what&lt;br /&gt;
it gives the publisher as well as himself.&lt;br /&gt;
It has been objeoted. that these precautions presuppose a&lt;br /&gt;
great success for the book, and that very few books indeed&lt;br /&gt;
attain to this great success. That is quite true: but there is&lt;br /&gt;
always this uncertainty of literary property that, although&lt;br /&gt;
the works of a groat many authors carry with them no risk&lt;br /&gt;
at all, and although of a great many it is known within a few&lt;br /&gt;
copies what will be their minimum circulation, it is not&lt;br /&gt;
known what will be their maximum. Therefore every&lt;br /&gt;
author, for every book, should arrange on the chance of a&lt;br /&gt;
success whioh will not, probably, come at all; but which&lt;br /&gt;
may come.&lt;br /&gt;
The four points whioh the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) That there shall be no secret profits.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) That nothing shall be charged whioh has not been&lt;br /&gt;
actually paid&mdash;for instance, that there shall be no charge for&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements in the publisher&amp;#039;s own organs and none for&lt;br /&gt;
exchanged advertisements and that all dissounta shall b&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
duly entered.&lt;br /&gt;
If these points are carefully looked after, the author may&lt;br /&gt;
rest pretty well assured that he is in right hands. At the&lt;br /&gt;
same time he will do well to send his agreement to the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary before he signs it.&lt;br /&gt;
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58 THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USB THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
I. &amp;quot;TTWERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
I* J advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the advice&lt;br /&gt;
sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member&lt;br /&gt;
has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the&lt;br /&gt;
case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is desirable, the Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this&lt;br /&gt;
without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Eemember that questions connected with oopyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreements do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society first&mdash;our solicitors are continually&lt;br /&gt;
engaged upon such questions for us.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. This is in&lt;br /&gt;
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively&lt;br /&gt;
so far. The Seoretary will always be glad to have any&lt;br /&gt;
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-&lt;br /&gt;
mation thns obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. If the examination of your previous business trans-&lt;br /&gt;
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should&lt;br /&gt;
take advice as to a change of publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed dooument to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and&mdash;in&lt;br /&gt;
the cose of fraudulent houses&mdash;the tricks of every publish-&lt;br /&gt;
ing firm in the country.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Send to the Editor of The Author notes of everything&lt;br /&gt;
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&mdash;(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; SYNDICATE.&lt;br /&gt;
MEMBERS are informed:&lt;br /&gt;
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stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances,&lt;br /&gt;
undertake the publication of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
The Authors&amp;#039; Club is now open in its new premises, at&lt;br /&gt;
3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
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order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the&lt;br /&gt;
trouble of sending out a reminder.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the&lt;br /&gt;
following warning. It is a most foolish and may be a&lt;br /&gt;
most disastrous thing to enter into an agreement binding&lt;br /&gt;
for a term of years. Let them ask themselves if they&lt;br /&gt;
would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five&lt;br /&gt;
years to come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest&lt;br /&gt;
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or dishonest? Of coarse they would not. Why then&lt;br /&gt;
hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves into literary bondage for three or five years?&lt;br /&gt;
Those who possess the &amp;quot;Cost of Production&amp;quot; are&lt;br /&gt;
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot;doing sums,&amp;quot; the addition of three shillings in the&lt;br /&gt;
pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding&lt;br /&gt;
is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be&lt;br /&gt;
added twenty-four shillings more, bo that it now stands&lt;br /&gt;
at &pound;g 48. The figures in our book are as near the exact&lt;br /&gt;
truth as can be procured; but a printer&amp;#039;s, or a binder&amp;#039;s,&lt;br /&gt;
bill is so elastic a thing that nothing more exact can be&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at.&lt;br /&gt;
Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged&lt;br /&gt;
in the &amp;quot; Cost of Production &amp;quot; for advertising. Of course, we&lt;br /&gt;
have not included any sums which may be charged for&lt;br /&gt;
inserting advertisements in the publisher&amp;#039;s own magazines,&lt;br /&gt;
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too&lt;br /&gt;
often go, there is nothing to prevent the publishor from&lt;br /&gt;
sweeping the whole profits o a book into his own pocket,&lt;br /&gt;
by inserting any number of advertisements in his own&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are&lt;br /&gt;
who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those&lt;br /&gt;
who practise this method of swelling their own profits call it.&lt;br /&gt;
FROM THE COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
ON Thursday, July 26, a meeting of the Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee was held at the Medical Association&lt;br /&gt;
Rooms, Hanover-square. It was Resolved:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;That in view of the proposed action of the&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association towards the booksellers,&lt;br /&gt;
a committee be appointed to consider the whole&lt;br /&gt;
questiou, and to arrive at the opinions and inte-&lt;br /&gt;
rests of the persons most concerned. That the&lt;br /&gt;
committee should consist of five, who should have&lt;br /&gt;
power to extend their number to twelve, but not&lt;br /&gt;
more.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
It is expected that the committee will begin&lt;br /&gt;
their work in September.&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the great pressure upon our space&lt;br /&gt;
this month, Mr. Hapgood&amp;#039;s New York Letter, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sherard&amp;#039;s Notes from Elsewhere, have been&lt;br /&gt;
unavoidably held over.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;The House of Loeds Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Select Committee of the House of Lords&lt;br /&gt;
which has been appointed to deal with the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright law promoted by the Society, and&lt;br /&gt;
drafted for the Society by Mr. J. Rolt, of 4, New-&lt;br /&gt;
square, sat for the first time on Thursday, July 1.&lt;br /&gt;
As previously stated in The Author, the Bill is&lt;br /&gt;
being brought forward on behalf of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
by Lord Monkswell, who acted as chairman of&lt;br /&gt;
the Lords&amp;#039; Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Daldy, who was a member of the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission of 1878, and who is secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Association, was the first witness&lt;br /&gt;
called.&lt;br /&gt;
He gave evidence on the various points of the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill, and answered the numerous questions put to&lt;br /&gt;
him by their Lordships as to the effect of the Bill&lt;br /&gt;
and its bearing with regard to change in the exist-&lt;br /&gt;
ing law.&lt;br /&gt;
The witness, in answer to their Lordships,&lt;br /&gt;
touched on the point of the inclusion of transla-&lt;br /&gt;
tion rights in a definition of copyright and its&lt;br /&gt;
effect on the International law; on the question&lt;br /&gt;
of the definition of &amp;quot; book&amp;quot; shall include &amp;quot; news-&lt;br /&gt;
paper&amp;quot;; on the existing law with respect to&lt;br /&gt;
lectures ; on the proposed amendment of that law;&lt;br /&gt;
and generally on all the other points dealt with&lt;br /&gt;
in the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
After the witness had given his evidence on&lt;br /&gt;
the point relating to the definition &amp;quot;book shall&lt;br /&gt;
include newspaper,&amp;quot; the room was cleared, and on&lt;br /&gt;
the re-admission of the public the chairman said&lt;br /&gt;
that the committee had come to the conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
that they would not include any alteration in the&lt;br /&gt;
law with regard to the copyright in newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
in the present Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Daldy was taken through various objec-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, and suggested amendments, which objec-&lt;br /&gt;
tions and amendments he had furnished to the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary of the Society, who in turn had forwarded&lt;br /&gt;
them to the chairman of the committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Their Lordships listened with attention to his&lt;br /&gt;
statements, and reserved the points for their con-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration.&lt;br /&gt;
At the conclusion of Mr. Daldy&amp;#039;s evidence,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. C. J. Longman, representing the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Association, was called. His evidence was given&lt;br /&gt;
in support of the Bill in all its important essen-&lt;br /&gt;
tials. He did not touch on the points that had&lt;br /&gt;
already been covered by the former witness except&lt;br /&gt;
when it appeared to him that errors of law or&lt;br /&gt;
fact had been put before their Lordships. His&lt;br /&gt;
evidence was very strongly in favour of the fullest&lt;br /&gt;
protection for the performance of dramatic works,&lt;br /&gt;
whether such performance took place in a place&lt;br /&gt;
of dramatic entertainment or in a private house.&lt;br /&gt;
Although not supporting the suggestion in the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill for registration at the British Museum, he&lt;br /&gt;
stated that he looked forward to a time when&lt;br /&gt;
registration should be made compulsory.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. H. Thring, the secretary of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
as representing the promoters of the Bill, was&lt;br /&gt;
called last so as, if necessary, to supplement or&lt;br /&gt;
correct the evidence already given, and to put&lt;br /&gt;
before the Committee, should they desire, the views&lt;br /&gt;
of the promoters of the Bill on any of the sepa-&lt;br /&gt;
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rate clauses. As most of the difficulties had&lt;br /&gt;
already been explained (both of the former wit-&lt;br /&gt;
nesses being mainly in favour of the Bill), there&lt;br /&gt;
was very little to add, but the secretary pressed&lt;br /&gt;
those points which appeared to be of the greatest&lt;br /&gt;
benefit to authors, namely, the repeal of the 18th&lt;br /&gt;
section of the existing Act and the adoption of&lt;br /&gt;
the present clauses; the retention in the author&lt;br /&gt;
of rights of dramaiisation of his novels, and the&lt;br /&gt;
necessity for complete registration.&lt;br /&gt;
The committee then adjourned to Thursday,&lt;br /&gt;
July 8.&lt;br /&gt;
On Thursday, July 8th, their Lordships&amp;#039; Special&lt;br /&gt;
Committee again sat, Mr. Bram Stoker, Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Irving&amp;#039;s manager, was called as being&lt;br /&gt;
able to answer for the theatrical managers on the&lt;br /&gt;
points relating to the drama and dramatic rights.&lt;br /&gt;
He stated that the practice of dramatising novels&lt;br /&gt;
was on the increase, and he thought it was&lt;br /&gt;
absolutely essential both that the author of a&lt;br /&gt;
book should be protected from dramatisation,&lt;br /&gt;
and the author of a drama from novelisation.&lt;br /&gt;
He submitted that dramatic authors should be&lt;br /&gt;
able to prohibit performances in public or private.&lt;br /&gt;
He desired to see a simplification if possible of&lt;br /&gt;
the method of obtaining an injunction against the&lt;br /&gt;
infringing parties, and stated that managers&lt;br /&gt;
would prefer such simplified legal remedy rather&lt;br /&gt;
than merely the power of obtaining penalties.&lt;br /&gt;
He also touched on the subject of copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
At the close of his evidence the room was&lt;br /&gt;
■cleared for the consideration of the Bill by their&lt;br /&gt;
Lordships.&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill has now been revised by the Special&lt;br /&gt;
Committee, Lord Thring undertaking the redraft-&lt;br /&gt;
ing of it on behalf of their Lordships&amp;#039; Special&lt;br /&gt;
Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday, July 19, Lord Monkswell on the&lt;br /&gt;
motion to go into committee on the Bill made the&lt;br /&gt;
following speech. The House then went into&lt;br /&gt;
committee, and the amendments proposed by the&lt;br /&gt;
Special Committee were agreed to.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell asked to be allowed to say&lt;br /&gt;
a few words as to the proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
Select Committee to which the Bill was referred.&lt;br /&gt;
The benches opposite were represented by Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Knutsford, Lord Pirbright, Lord Hatherton,&lt;br /&gt;
and Lord Tennyson; while Lord Farrer, Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, and Lord Wei by represented that side.&lt;br /&gt;
The committee sat several days, and went into&lt;br /&gt;
the subject carefully. The first point which&lt;br /&gt;
they devoted a great deal of attention to was that&lt;br /&gt;
of translation. It was absolutely necessary to&lt;br /&gt;
amend the law with regard to translations. It&lt;br /&gt;
was now in a sad state of confusion. Trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lation into foreign tongues were dealt with&lt;br /&gt;
under the Berne Convention and under the&lt;br /&gt;
International Copyright Act. But as to trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lations into Hindustani, Welsh, Gaelic, and other&lt;br /&gt;
tongues current within the British Dominions the&lt;br /&gt;
law was in a doubtful state indeed. With regard&lt;br /&gt;
to this he could not do better than quote from&lt;br /&gt;
the evidence of Mr. Daldy, one of the Commis-&lt;br /&gt;
sioners of 1878, and who was now, and had been&lt;br /&gt;
for many years, honorary secretary of the Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right Association.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell then read the portion of the&lt;br /&gt;
evidence bearing on this point, and then pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ceeded :&mdash;It was certain, therefore, that the matter&lt;br /&gt;
of translation ought to be dealt with as soon as&lt;br /&gt;
possible, and the promoters of the Bill proposed&lt;br /&gt;
to deal with it by giving, as was proposed in the&lt;br /&gt;
original Bill, the absolute right during the whole&lt;br /&gt;
period of the copyright to prevent unauthorised&lt;br /&gt;
translations. An endeavour had been made to&lt;br /&gt;
lighten the Bill so that it might be got through&lt;br /&gt;
their Lordships&amp;#039; House this Session, and it dealt&lt;br /&gt;
only with those subjects which were most press-&lt;br /&gt;
ing and least contentious. All reference to news-&lt;br /&gt;
paper copyright had been struck out. With&lt;br /&gt;
regard to magazine copyright, it was proposed to&lt;br /&gt;
make it retrospective, but as there was a diffe-&lt;br /&gt;
rence of opinion as to that, the clause in the Bill&lt;br /&gt;
making the copyright retrospective had been&lt;br /&gt;
omitted. With regard to lectures the Bill&lt;br /&gt;
had also been considerably lightened. The&lt;br /&gt;
great point on which the committee wished&lt;br /&gt;
to insist was that eojiyright should be given not&lt;br /&gt;
only in lectures when published in a book, but&lt;br /&gt;
when delivered, and that they had tried to effect&lt;br /&gt;
by the Bill. It was further suggested in the&lt;br /&gt;
original Bill that the law should be altered so as&lt;br /&gt;
to give copyright, which did not now exist, to&lt;br /&gt;
lectures delivered in endowed buildings. The&lt;br /&gt;
Select Committee were on the whole favourable to&lt;br /&gt;
that proposition, but, at the same time, they re-&lt;br /&gt;
cognised that any alteration of the law to effect&lt;br /&gt;
that must seriously affect very considerable inte-&lt;br /&gt;
rests; and they thought it was not desirable,&lt;br /&gt;
without taking a great deal of evidence and going&lt;br /&gt;
into the matter very thoroughly, to recommend&lt;br /&gt;
such an alteration in the law, consequently they&lt;br /&gt;
had inserted in the amended Bill a proviso set-&lt;br /&gt;
ting up again the provision that now existed&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
not allowing copyright to lectures in endowed&lt;br /&gt;
buildings. For the present it had been decided&lt;br /&gt;
not to propose any change in the law with&lt;br /&gt;
regard to the difficult and thorny question of&lt;br /&gt;
registration. Another alteration had been made&lt;br /&gt;
which he thought would commend itself to their&lt;br /&gt;
lordships. The principil Act of 1842 now&lt;br /&gt;
applied to all British possessions, unless by Order&lt;br /&gt;
in Council they should bo exempted either from&lt;br /&gt;
the whole Act or part of it. It was proposed&lt;br /&gt;
in the amended Bill to give the British posses-&lt;br /&gt;
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sion8 much greater freedom of action by declar-&lt;br /&gt;
ing that the Act, if it passed, should not run in&lt;br /&gt;
any of the British possessions unless they them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves asked either for the whole or part of it.&lt;br /&gt;
The net result, therefore, of the labours of the&lt;br /&gt;
Select Committee had been to greatly lighten&lt;br /&gt;
the Bill, and to clear it of almost every subject&lt;br /&gt;
of controversy, whilst at the same time it intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced a great many alterations of the law which&lt;br /&gt;
were of considerable value. He might, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
be allowed to say that the best thanks of the&lt;br /&gt;
committee were due to Lord Thring for the great&lt;br /&gt;
care and attention he had bestowed on the draft-&lt;br /&gt;
ing of this measure. (Hear.) He found that&lt;br /&gt;
two or three amendments would have to be made,&lt;br /&gt;
which, however, did not touch the Bill in this&lt;br /&gt;
respect. In order that noble lords might have&lt;br /&gt;
an opportunity of considering the amendments&lt;br /&gt;
he had put down, he proposed to take the&lt;br /&gt;
report stage to-morrow, and the amendments&lt;br /&gt;
on Thursday or Friday, when he hoped the&lt;br /&gt;
House would give a third reading to the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
(Hear, hear.) He begged to move that the&lt;br /&gt;
House now resolve itself into Committee on the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
On Friday, July 23, the Bill was read a third&lt;br /&gt;
time.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell stated that at the wish of the&lt;br /&gt;
Colonial Office he desired to move that Clause 12&lt;br /&gt;
be omitted.&lt;br /&gt;
The omission was agreed to.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;The New Copyright Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
I. FBOM THE &amp;quot;TIMES.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman engaged in a publishing business&lt;br /&gt;
recently wrote to Lord Monkswell suggesting that&lt;br /&gt;
it was desirable to take steps to protect the titles&lt;br /&gt;
of series of books, and so to prevent the foisting&lt;br /&gt;
upon the public of hasty imitations of deservedly&lt;br /&gt;
popular volumes. &amp;quot;I have been,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;in&lt;br /&gt;
correspondence both with the Stationers&amp;#039; Hall&lt;br /&gt;
authorities and the Trade Mark Office of the&lt;br /&gt;
Board of Trade; and recently I took occasion to&lt;br /&gt;
have an interview with the respective chiefs of&lt;br /&gt;
these offices. The Eegistrar of Trade Marks told&lt;br /&gt;
me that, unquestionably, such titles fall outside&lt;br /&gt;
the scope of the present Trade Mark Acts; but&lt;br /&gt;
he seemed to see no objection whatever to the re-&lt;br /&gt;
gistration of such titles, only he thought that&lt;br /&gt;
such a matter would fall more fittingly within the&lt;br /&gt;
province of Stationers&amp;#039; Hall. The chief man at&lt;br /&gt;
Stationers&amp;#039; Hall said: (1) That my application&lt;br /&gt;
was by no means the first of the sort, that, on the&lt;br /&gt;
contrary, more people came to his office with&lt;br /&gt;
similar requests than with any other; (2) that he&lt;br /&gt;
thought that means for registering novel titles of&lt;br /&gt;
businesses and series of books should be given to&lt;br /&gt;
the public; (3) that he had noted with surprise&lt;br /&gt;
that the new Copyright Bill which your lordship&lt;br /&gt;
was introducing into the House of Lords contained&lt;br /&gt;
no provision for this purpose; (4) that he thought&lt;br /&gt;
it very possible that, if the matter were brought&lt;br /&gt;
before your lordship, your lordship would see the&lt;br /&gt;
desirability of making such an addition.&amp;quot; Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell&amp;#039;s reply was as follows: &amp;quot;I will lay&lt;br /&gt;
your statement before the Copyright Committee&lt;br /&gt;
at its next meeting; but, as the amendments you&lt;br /&gt;
suggest would enlarge the scope of the Bill, I do&lt;br /&gt;
not think they will consider themselves justified&lt;br /&gt;
in recommending them to the House.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
II. FBOM THE &amp;quot; DAILY NEWS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill has been&lt;br /&gt;
printed and circulated with the amendments made&lt;br /&gt;
by the Select Committee of the House of Lords.&lt;br /&gt;
These were accepted in committee of the whole&lt;br /&gt;
House yesterday afternoon, and the Bill now&lt;br /&gt;
stands for third reading. As it has not yet passed&lt;br /&gt;
through the House of Commons, the chances of&lt;br /&gt;
its becoming law this session must be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
remote. But it has now been brought into the&lt;br /&gt;
best shape which legal minds can give it, and&lt;br /&gt;
there may be some hope for it in 1898. Even&lt;br /&gt;
this year, if some general agreement could be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained, a judicious attempt to deal with a&lt;br /&gt;
difficult subject might be crowned with success.&lt;br /&gt;
Social reform is not achieved in England with&lt;br /&gt;
reckless or thoughtless haste. The essence of this&lt;br /&gt;
measure formed the subject of a Bill which the&lt;br /&gt;
present Duke of Rutland, then Lord John&lt;br /&gt;
Manners and Postmaster-General, introduced&lt;br /&gt;
into the House of Commons in 1879. That&lt;br /&gt;
was, if we are not mistaken, the year in&lt;br /&gt;
which the late Sir John Holker moved the&lt;br /&gt;
second reading of the Criminal Code Bill, which&lt;br /&gt;
has never got beyond a second reading since.&lt;br /&gt;
There are presentable, we do not say conclusive,&lt;br /&gt;
arguments against the codification of the criminal&lt;br /&gt;
law. But the law of copyright has been osten-&lt;br /&gt;
sibly codified for more than half a century, and&lt;br /&gt;
all that is now required may be accomplished by&lt;br /&gt;
a short amending Bill. In 1878 there was a&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Commission on Copyright, to which Lord&lt;br /&gt;
John Manners&amp;#039; Bill was due, and thirteen years&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards, in 1891, Lord Monkswell again&lt;br /&gt;
endeavoured to legislate upon the Commission&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Report. But there is none of &amp;quot;that slippery&lt;br /&gt;
stuff,&amp;quot; as Mr. Morley calls party capital, to be&lt;br /&gt;
made out of copyright, and so copyright, like the&lt;br /&gt;
Corporation of London, remains unreformed. In&lt;br /&gt;
1891 Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill was read a second&lt;br /&gt;
time. This year it has advanced a step further,&lt;br /&gt;
and has gone through Committee. The first&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
clause makes translation an infringement of copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right. This is obviously just, if there is to be&lt;br /&gt;
any copyright at all, whether the right has or has&lt;br /&gt;
not been expressly reserved. A very important&lt;br /&gt;
change is made in the copyright of magazines.&lt;br /&gt;
In 1842, when the principal Copyright Act was&lt;br /&gt;
passed, there were very few magazines, except the&lt;br /&gt;
old quarterlies, with Blachicood&amp;#039;s and the Gentle-&lt;br /&gt;
man&amp;#039;s. Now there are almost as many magazines&lt;br /&gt;
in a month as there are days in a year, and a large&lt;br /&gt;
number of the articles contributed to them have a&lt;br /&gt;
really permanent value. At present the author of&lt;br /&gt;
an article has a right of separate publication for&lt;br /&gt;
eight-and-twenty years. Macaulay, for instance,&lt;br /&gt;
could not without permission from the editor of&lt;br /&gt;
the Edinburgh Review&mdash;which was, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
given, but which might have been refused&mdash;have&lt;br /&gt;
republished during his lifetime any of his essays&lt;br /&gt;
except those on Milton, Machiavelb, and, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
one or two more.&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill provides that while the proprietor of&lt;br /&gt;
the magazine shall have the sole right of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing the magazine itself, and the articles as&lt;br /&gt;
part of it, the author of an article may publish&lt;br /&gt;
it separately after three years. This is a great&lt;br /&gt;
change, but a change wholly, in our opinion,&lt;br /&gt;
for the better. Copyright is essentially the asser-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of property. But whei-e a special kind of&lt;br /&gt;
property, which did not exist at common law, is&lt;br /&gt;
created by statute, Parliament should be careful&lt;br /&gt;
to regulate it in the public interest. The interest&lt;br /&gt;
of the public lies in the rapid diffusion of readable&lt;br /&gt;
matter, and cannot be served by locking up&lt;br /&gt;
interesting essays for a generation. Seven years&lt;br /&gt;
before the Copyright Act of 1842 there was passed&lt;br /&gt;
the Lectures Copyright Act of 1835. This Act&lt;br /&gt;
gives a lecturer the exclusive right of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
But it requires a preliminary notice to Justices of&lt;br /&gt;
the Peace, which savours of the terror inspired by&lt;br /&gt;
the French Revolution, when lectures were&lt;br /&gt;
regarded much as dynamite w-as regarded a hun-&lt;br /&gt;
dred years later. It is doubtful whether the Act&lt;br /&gt;
applies to sermons, and there must, we should&lt;br /&gt;
imagine, be very few magistrates who have been&lt;br /&gt;
formally notified that a new volume of sermons&lt;br /&gt;
was about to dazzle the world. The Bill abolishes&lt;br /&gt;
this rather ridiculous formality, and gives the&lt;br /&gt;
lecturer, as well as the preacher, an absolute&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. But it allows a lecture to be reported&lt;br /&gt;
in a newspaper unless the lecturer expressly&lt;br /&gt;
states that he does not wish to be reported.&lt;br /&gt;
There are not many lectures which would suffi-&lt;br /&gt;
ciently attract the general reader to be reported&lt;br /&gt;
at any great length, nor would many newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
have space for them. But a paid lecturer, who&lt;br /&gt;
delivers the same lecture, which may have cost&lt;br /&gt;
him much labour and research, at several places,&lt;br /&gt;
is entitled to protection against a form of&lt;br /&gt;
publicity which would destroy his market. Suchr&lt;br /&gt;
at least, is the view popular in the literary class,&lt;br /&gt;
and the view to which Carlyle gave such forcible&lt;br /&gt;
emphasis in his famous petition to the House of&lt;br /&gt;
Commons. There is, of course, the theory,&lt;br /&gt;
understood to find favour with at least one&lt;br /&gt;
eminent statesman, that copyright is an infringe-&lt;br /&gt;
of public right, and that authors should be com-&lt;br /&gt;
pensated by a royalty. But that is not within&lt;br /&gt;
the range of practical politics. One of Johnson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
biographers narrates an argument upon a Scottish&lt;br /&gt;
case, which went from the Court of Session to&lt;br /&gt;
the House of Lords, and which raised the point&lt;br /&gt;
of copyright at common law in lectures or&lt;br /&gt;
sermons. Dr. Johnson declared that it was&lt;br /&gt;
unjust to stereotype a man&amp;#039;s doctrines and ideas,&lt;br /&gt;
which he might afterwards see cause to alter.&lt;br /&gt;
That motive had not previously restrained the&lt;br /&gt;
sage from reporting Parliamentary debates in&lt;br /&gt;
what he was pleased to call the &amp;quot;Senate of&lt;br /&gt;
Liliput.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Wot the least important clauses in the Bill are&lt;br /&gt;
those which deal with abridgments. As Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell says in the useful memorandum pre-&lt;br /&gt;
fixed to the Bill: &amp;quot;It is now easy without any&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of copyright, in a few weeks, by&lt;br /&gt;
skilful abridgment, to appropriate the fruit of&lt;br /&gt;
the labours of many years, and to compete with&lt;br /&gt;
the original copyright bought and published at a&lt;br /&gt;
very great expense.&amp;quot; The art of judicious&lt;br /&gt;
abridgment is not perhaps quite so common as&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell supposes. But a farrago of&lt;br /&gt;
extracts any fool can turn out, and they may&lt;br /&gt;
be so copious or so vital as to prevent many&lt;br /&gt;
readers from approaching the original work.&lt;br /&gt;
Under this Bill copyright carries with it the right&lt;br /&gt;
of abridgment as well as the right of transla-&lt;br /&gt;
lation, and the author would be empowered to&lt;br /&gt;
insist upon a disclaimer of his authorship being&lt;br /&gt;
printed upon the title-page. There is no copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right in ideas. That is to say, that an illegitimate&lt;br /&gt;
reproduction of another man&amp;#039;s work must be a.&lt;br /&gt;
verbal one, or there is no remedy. Any one,&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, is at liberty to make a play out of&lt;br /&gt;
somebody else&amp;#039;s novel, or a novel out of somebody&lt;br /&gt;
else&amp;#039;s play. The whole plot may in either case be&lt;br /&gt;
stolen. But no penalty is imposed upon the thief.&lt;br /&gt;
It is for this reason that novelists who intend&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards to dramatise their own novels arrange&lt;br /&gt;
for one colourable performance on the stage so-&lt;br /&gt;
soon as the story appears, so as to bring them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves under the protection of the Dramatic Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right Act. It is proposed to make a statutory&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in ideas, and to make the unauthorised&lt;br /&gt;
dramatisation of a novel an infringement of it.&lt;br /&gt;
Such are the chief features of this excellent Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
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63&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;The Eight of Criticism.&lt;br /&gt;
In the action brought by Sir John Carr in&lt;br /&gt;
1808 against Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, the&lt;br /&gt;
exact words of Lord Ellenborough were as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the&lt;br /&gt;
judgment of the public, and anyone may comment upon his&lt;br /&gt;
performance. Ridicule is often the fittest weapon that can&lt;br /&gt;
be employed for such a purpose. Reflection on personal&lt;br /&gt;
character is another thing. Show me an attack on the&lt;br /&gt;
moral character of this plaintiff, or any attack upon his&lt;br /&gt;
character unconnected with his authorship, and I shall be&lt;br /&gt;
as ready as any judge who ever sat here to protect him;&lt;br /&gt;
but I cannot hear of malice on acconnt of turning his works&lt;br /&gt;
into ridicule.&lt;br /&gt;
In the more recent case of Merivale v. Carson&lt;br /&gt;
(20 Q. B. Div. at pp. 280-1), Lord Esher, M.E.,&lt;br /&gt;
said, carrying the doctrine, if possible, even&lt;br /&gt;
further:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Every latitude must be given to opinion and to prejudice,&lt;br /&gt;
and then an ordinary set of men with ordinary judgment&lt;br /&gt;
must say whether any fair man would have made such a&lt;br /&gt;
comment. . . . Mere exaggeration, or even gross exag-&lt;br /&gt;
geration, would not make the comment unfair. However&lt;br /&gt;
wrong the opinion expressed may be in point of truth, or&lt;br /&gt;
however prejudiced the writer, it may still be within the&lt;br /&gt;
prescribed limit. The question which the jury must con-&lt;br /&gt;
sider is this. Would any fair man, however prejudiced he&lt;br /&gt;
may be, however exaggerated or obstinate his views, have&lt;br /&gt;
said that which this criticism has said of the work which is&lt;br /&gt;
criticised?&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;University op Cam bridge v. Blacxie&lt;br /&gt;
and Sons.&lt;br /&gt;
(Before Mr. Justice Kekewich.)&lt;br /&gt;
In this ease the plaintiffs as proprietors of the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Pitt Press&amp;quot; brought this action and now moved&lt;br /&gt;
the court for an injunction in respect of an alleged&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of their copyright in annotated&lt;br /&gt;
editions of Pope&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Essay on Criticism&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
Milton&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Lycidas,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Allegro,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;II Pense-&lt;br /&gt;
roso.&amp;quot; Copyright was, of course, claimed solely&lt;br /&gt;
in respect of the annotations.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Millar, Q.C., and Mr. Ingpen appeared&lt;br /&gt;
for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Stokes for the defen-&lt;br /&gt;
dants.&lt;br /&gt;
It was now arranged that on the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
undertaking to keep an account of all books sold&lt;br /&gt;
by them, and to file affidavits and deliver copies of&lt;br /&gt;
exhibits within the first seven days of October, the&lt;br /&gt;
motion should stand over until the second motion&lt;br /&gt;
day in Michaelmas sittings; and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Justice Kekewich made an order to that&lt;br /&gt;
effect.&mdash; Times, July 23.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. Till.&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) BILL. [H. L]&lt;br /&gt;
[As Amended by the Select Committee.]&lt;br /&gt;
MEMORANDUM.&lt;br /&gt;
THIS Bill is intended to amend some of the&lt;br /&gt;
most serious defects in the present law of&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. Its provisions do not mate-&lt;br /&gt;
rially differ from the provisions on the same&lt;br /&gt;
points contained in the Bill introduced by Lord&lt;br /&gt;
John Manners (on behalf of the then Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
ment) in the House of Commons in 1879, and in&lt;br /&gt;
the Bill introduced by Lord Monkswell in the&lt;br /&gt;
House of Lords in 1891. Both these Bills were&lt;br /&gt;
mainly founded on the report of the Royal Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission on Copyright of 1878. Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Bill passed a second reading in the House of&lt;br /&gt;
Lords.&lt;br /&gt;
The amendments are directed to the following&lt;br /&gt;
points :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;Translations.&lt;br /&gt;
Translation is made an infringement of copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;Magazine Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the passing of the Copyright Act, 1842,&lt;br /&gt;
this kind of copyright property has probably&lt;br /&gt;
increased a hundredfold in value and importance,&lt;br /&gt;
both to authors and publishers, much literature&lt;br /&gt;
of high merit being constantly published in the&lt;br /&gt;
first instance in magazine form. The 18th section&lt;br /&gt;
of the Act of 1842, which deals with the subject,&lt;br /&gt;
is expressed in language so obscure as to be&lt;br /&gt;
almost unintelligible, and defers the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
right of separate publication to the end of a&lt;br /&gt;
period of twenty-eight years. It is proposed that&lt;br /&gt;
that section should be repealed, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright should be vested in the author, subject&lt;br /&gt;
to the following qualifications :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) The proprietor of the magazine to have&lt;br /&gt;
the sole right of publishing as part of the&lt;br /&gt;
magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The author not to publish separately until&lt;br /&gt;
after the expiration of three years from&lt;br /&gt;
publication.&lt;br /&gt;
The entire copyright in encyclopaedias is vested&lt;br /&gt;
in the publisher as before, but in a separate&lt;br /&gt;
section.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;Lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
The Lectures Copyright Act, 1835, gives to the&lt;br /&gt;
lecturer the exclusive right of publication, but&lt;br /&gt;
requires a preliminary notice to justices of the&lt;br /&gt;
peace, and probably does not apply to sermons.&lt;br /&gt;
It is proposed to repeal this Act, and to give the&lt;br /&gt;
lecturer (including the preacher) copyright with-&lt;br /&gt;
out any useless formalities, but permitting a&lt;br /&gt;
newspaper report unless expressly prohibited by&lt;br /&gt;
the lecturer. It will be observed that a proviso&lt;br /&gt;
has been inserted maintaining the present law as&lt;br /&gt;
G&lt;br /&gt;
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to lectures in endowed buildings, &amp;amp;c. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee have taken this course because they did&lt;br /&gt;
not think it desirable to alter the law without&lt;br /&gt;
taking more evidence than time permitted.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;Abridgments.&lt;br /&gt;
It is now easy, without any infringement of&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, in a few weeks, by skilful abridgment,&lt;br /&gt;
to appropriate the fruit of the labours of many&lt;br /&gt;
years, and to compete with the original copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
bought and published at very great expense. This&lt;br /&gt;
will be prevented by the&amp;quot; simple enactment that&lt;br /&gt;
copyright shall carry with it the right to abridge.&lt;br /&gt;
The reputation of the author is also safeguarded&lt;br /&gt;
by a provision that a disclaimer of his author-&lt;br /&gt;
ship of the abridgment shall, if required by the&lt;br /&gt;
author, be printed on the title page ; and that the&lt;br /&gt;
abridgment shall not be issued without the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s consent in eases where the author retains&lt;br /&gt;
an interest in the sale (by royalties or otherwise)&lt;br /&gt;
though not in the copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;Dramatisation of Novels.&lt;br /&gt;
As there is no copyright in ideas, it is easy for&lt;br /&gt;
any person to take the whole plot of a novel and&lt;br /&gt;
practically reproduce the novel itself in dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
form without any legal infringement of copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
and a similar injury can be inflicted by the&lt;br /&gt;
novelisation of dramas. It is proposed to convert&lt;br /&gt;
these moral into legal infringements of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
Owners of dramatic copyright are also given a&lt;br /&gt;
summary remedy against infringement which is&lt;br /&gt;
much needed, as pirates are often difficult to&lt;br /&gt;
detect, or are not worth the expense of an action&lt;br /&gt;
in the High Court when detected ; and the remedy&lt;br /&gt;
is to be available against those who &bull;■ permit&amp;quot; as&lt;br /&gt;
well as those who &amp;quot; cause &amp;quot; the representation.&lt;br /&gt;
AEEANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.&lt;br /&gt;
Translations.&lt;br /&gt;
Clause.&lt;br /&gt;
1. Translations and infringement of copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right. Copyright in translations.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright in Periodical Works.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Copyright in articles in periodical works.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Registration of article by author.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Registration by owner of periodical work.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Articles in encyclopaedias.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright in Lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
Abridgments.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Abridgments without consent prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright owner not to abridge without&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s consent in certain cases. Notice&lt;br /&gt;
on title page that abridgment is not by&lt;br /&gt;
author.&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatisation.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Dramatisation of novels prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Conversion or adaptation of dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
Summary Remedy for Infringement of Dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
10. Liability to fine of person representing&lt;br /&gt;
drama without consent of owner of per-&lt;br /&gt;
forming right.&lt;br /&gt;
Repeal.&lt;br /&gt;
11. Repeal.&lt;br /&gt;
12. Application of Act.&lt;br /&gt;
13. Short title.&lt;br /&gt;
14. Commencement of Act.&lt;br /&gt;
Schedules.&lt;br /&gt;
A Bill (as amended by the Select &bull; Committee)&lt;br /&gt;
intituled an Act to amend the Law relating to&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright in Periodical Works, Lectures,&lt;br /&gt;
Abridgments, and otherwise. &mdash; [The Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell.]&lt;br /&gt;
Be it enacted by the Queen&amp;#039;s most Excellent&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of&lt;br /&gt;
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,&lt;br /&gt;
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the&lt;br /&gt;
authority of the same, as follows:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Translations.&lt;br /&gt;
1. &mdash;(1.) In the case of a book, it shall be an&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of the copyright therein if any&lt;br /&gt;
person shall, without the consent of the owner&lt;br /&gt;
of the copyright, translate the book:&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The author of an authorised translation&lt;br /&gt;
of a book shall be entitled to copyright therein&lt;br /&gt;
in the same manner as if it was an original&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright in Periodical Works.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Where any article, essay, poem, or other&lt;br /&gt;
work is first published in and forms part of a&lt;br /&gt;
review, magazine, or other periodical, the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right in such article, essay, poem, or other work&lt;br /&gt;
shall, in the absence of any agreement in writing&lt;br /&gt;
to the contrary, be the property of the author&lt;br /&gt;
thereof. Provided that where the author is paid&lt;br /&gt;
for the writing of such work as aforesaid by or&lt;br /&gt;
on behalf of the owner of the review, magazine,&lt;br /&gt;
or other periodical, then&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(i.) the owner of the review, magazine, or&lt;br /&gt;
periodical shall, during the subsistence of&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in such article, essay, poem, or&lt;br /&gt;
other work, have the sole right of publishing&lt;br /&gt;
the same as part of the review, magazine,&lt;br /&gt;
or periodical, but not otherwise;&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) neither the author nor his assigns shall,&lt;br /&gt;
without the consent of the owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
review, magazine, or periodical, print or&lt;br /&gt;
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publish such article, essay, poem, or other&lt;br /&gt;
work in any form until after the expiration&lt;br /&gt;
of three years from its first publication in&lt;br /&gt;
the review, magazine, or periodical, and any&lt;br /&gt;
printing or publication contrary to this pro-&lt;br /&gt;
vision shall be an infringement of the rights&lt;br /&gt;
of the owner of the review, magazine, or&lt;br /&gt;
periodical.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The author of any such article, essay, poem,&lt;br /&gt;
or other work as aforesaid, or his assigns, may&lt;br /&gt;
either before or after the expiration of the said&lt;br /&gt;
term of three years register the same at Stationers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Hall as a separate work, and shall thereupon be&lt;br /&gt;
entitled to restrain and obtain damages for any&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of the copyright therein as a separate&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
4. &mdash;(i.) The owner of a review, magazine, or&lt;br /&gt;
other periodical may register the same at&lt;br /&gt;
Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, and shall thereupon be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
to restrain and obtain damages for any infringe-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of his rights in the same or any part&lt;br /&gt;
thereof.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) Registration of a review, magazine, or&lt;br /&gt;
other periodical shall be in the form set forth in&lt;br /&gt;
the First Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as&lt;br /&gt;
circumstances will permit.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) It shall be necessary to register only the&lt;br /&gt;
first number, volume, or part of a review, magazine,&lt;br /&gt;
or other periodical published in numbers, volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
or parts.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Where any article, essay, poem, or other&lt;br /&gt;
work is first published in and forms part of an&lt;br /&gt;
encyclopaedia or similar collective work, and the&lt;br /&gt;
author is paid for the writing thereof by or on&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of the owner of the encyclopaedia or similar&lt;br /&gt;
collective work, the copyright in such article,&lt;br /&gt;
essay, poem, or other work shall, in the absence of&lt;br /&gt;
any agreement in writing to the contrary, belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the owner of the encyclopaedia or similar collec-&lt;br /&gt;
tive work.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright in Lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The author of any lecture shall be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
to copyright therein as if the same were a&lt;br /&gt;
book, subject to the following modifications and&lt;br /&gt;
additions:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(i.) The first delivery of a lecture shall be&lt;br /&gt;
deemed to be the first publication thereof.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) So long as a lecture has not been published&lt;br /&gt;
as a book by or with the consent of the&lt;br /&gt;
author, the copyright therein shall include&lt;br /&gt;
the exclusive right of delivering the same in&lt;br /&gt;
public, but when so published the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
in the book shall date from the first delivery&lt;br /&gt;
of the lecture.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) It shall not be necessary to register the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in a lecture which has not been&lt;br /&gt;
published as a book by or with the consent of&lt;br /&gt;
the author.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. Till.&lt;br /&gt;
(iv.) A report of a lecture delivered in public,&lt;br /&gt;
in the ordinary current edition of a newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
after the delivery of such lecture, shall not&lt;br /&gt;
be deemed an infringement of the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right unless the author before delivering the&lt;br /&gt;
same gives public notice that he prohibits&lt;br /&gt;
the same being reported, but no such report&lt;br /&gt;
shall be deemed to be a publication of the&lt;br /&gt;
lecture within the meaning of sub-sect, (ii.)&lt;br /&gt;
(v.) The notice referred to in the last preceding&lt;br /&gt;
clause may be given either by affixing the&lt;br /&gt;
same to the door of the place where the&lt;br /&gt;
lecture is delivered, or by advertisement in&lt;br /&gt;
one or more newspapers published and circu-&lt;br /&gt;
lating in the district, or by a declaration&lt;br /&gt;
made by the lecturer before the delivery of&lt;br /&gt;
his lecture at the place where he delivers the&lt;br /&gt;
same.&lt;br /&gt;
(vi.) The term &amp;quot;lecture&amp;quot; shall include a piece&lt;br /&gt;
for recitation, address, or sermon.&lt;br /&gt;
(vii.) Provided that this enactment shall not&lt;br /&gt;
extend to any lectures delivered in any uni-.&lt;br /&gt;
versity or public school or college or on any&lt;br /&gt;
public foundation, or by any individual in&lt;br /&gt;
virtue of or according to any gift, endowment&lt;br /&gt;
or foundation [5 &amp;amp; 6 Will 4, c. 65, s. 5.]&lt;br /&gt;
Abridgments.&lt;br /&gt;
7.&mdash;(i.) It shall be an infringement of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in a book if any person shall, without&lt;br /&gt;
the consent of the owner of the copyright, print or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise multiply, or cause to ba printed or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise multiplied, any abridgment of such&lt;br /&gt;
book, or shall export or import any abridgment&lt;br /&gt;
so unlawfully produced, or shall sell, publish, or&lt;br /&gt;
expose for sale or hire, or cause to be sold, pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished, or exposed for sale or hire, any abridg-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, knowing, or having reasonable grounds to&lt;br /&gt;
suspect, that the same has been so unlawfully&lt;br /&gt;
produced or imported.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) Where the author of a book has sold the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright thereof in consideration (whether wholly&lt;br /&gt;
or in part) of a royalty or a share of the profits to&lt;br /&gt;
be derived from the publication thereof, or is&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise, notwithstanding such sale, possessed of&lt;br /&gt;
a pecuniary interest therein, such book shall not,&lt;br /&gt;
during the continuance of the copyright therein,&lt;br /&gt;
and so long as the author shall be entitled to such&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, share of profits, or shall be so interested&lt;br /&gt;
as aforesaid, be abridged by the purchaser of such&lt;br /&gt;
copyright without the consent in writing of tht&lt;br /&gt;
author or his assigns.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) Where the author has sold the exclusive&lt;br /&gt;
right of publication of a book without assigning&lt;br /&gt;
the copyright, he shall not be at liberty to publish&lt;br /&gt;
an abridgment of the work without the consent&lt;br /&gt;
of the owner of the exclusive right of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
(iv.) If the owner of the copyright in a book&lt;br /&gt;
o 2&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
to the abridgment whereof the author&amp;#039;s consent&lt;br /&gt;
is not required under the preceding proviso&lt;br /&gt;
intends to publish an abridgment thereof made&lt;br /&gt;
by some person other than the author of the&lt;br /&gt;
original book, he shall give notice of such inten-&lt;br /&gt;
tion to the author, if living, by registered letter,&lt;br /&gt;
directed to his last known address, and shall, if so&lt;br /&gt;
required by such author, either state or cause to&lt;br /&gt;
be stated on the title page of each part or volume&lt;br /&gt;
of the abridgment that the abridgment is not by&lt;br /&gt;
the author of the original book, or shall in like&lt;br /&gt;
manner state or cause to be stated the name of the&lt;br /&gt;
maker of the abridgment.&lt;br /&gt;
(v.) The author of a book shall be entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
restrain and obtain damages for any abridgment&lt;br /&gt;
published in contravention of the above provisions&lt;br /&gt;
of the section.&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatisation.&lt;br /&gt;
8. In the case of a book which is a work of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction in prose or in verse, it shall be an infringe-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the copyright therein if any person shall&lt;br /&gt;
without the consent of the owner of the copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
take or colourably imitate the title of such book,&lt;br /&gt;
or take from such book any material or substan-&lt;br /&gt;
tial part thereof, and use or convert it into or&lt;br /&gt;
adapt it for a dramatic work, or knowing or&lt;br /&gt;
having reasonable grounds to suspect such&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic work to have been so made shall&lt;br /&gt;
perform or permit or cause the same to be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
9. In the case of a dramatic work it shall be an&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of the copyright therein if any&lt;br /&gt;
person shall, without the consent of the owner of&lt;br /&gt;
the copyright, take or colourably imitate the title&lt;br /&gt;
of such book, or take from such book any material&lt;br /&gt;
or substantial part thereof and convert or adapt&lt;br /&gt;
such part into any other form of work, whether&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic or otherwise, or knowing or having&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable grounds to suspect any work to have&lt;br /&gt;
been so made shall print or otherwise multiply, or&lt;br /&gt;
cause to be printed or otherwise multiplied, copies&lt;br /&gt;
thereof for sale or exportation, or shall export or&lt;br /&gt;
import, or sell, publish, or expose for sale or hire,&lt;br /&gt;
or cause to be sold, published, or exposed for sale&lt;br /&gt;
or hire, any copies thereof, or shall perform such&lt;br /&gt;
work, or permit or cause the same to be per-&lt;br /&gt;
formed.&lt;br /&gt;
Summary Remedy for Infringement of Dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
10. If any person shall represent or cause or&lt;br /&gt;
permit any dramatic work to be represented&lt;br /&gt;
without the consent in writing of the owner of&lt;br /&gt;
the performing right in such work, it shall be&lt;br /&gt;
lawful for the owner of the performing right&lt;br /&gt;
(without prejudice to any action for damages or&lt;br /&gt;
other remedy he may be entitled to) to apply&lt;br /&gt;
within two months after the commission of the&lt;br /&gt;
offence to a court of summary jurisdiction having&lt;br /&gt;
jurisdiction in the place where the representation&lt;br /&gt;
has taken place, or where the offender dwells, and&lt;br /&gt;
such court shall, on production of the certificate&lt;br /&gt;
of registration, order the offender to pay as a civil&lt;br /&gt;
debt a sum not exceeding fifty pounds and costs,&lt;br /&gt;
and such sum shall go to the owner of the per-&lt;br /&gt;
forming right by way of compensation. Provided&lt;br /&gt;
that not more than one penalty shall be recovered&lt;br /&gt;
in respect of each representation.&lt;br /&gt;
Repeal.&lt;br /&gt;
11. The Acts or parts of Acts specified in the&lt;br /&gt;
Second Schedule hereto are hereby repealed as&lt;br /&gt;
from the passing of this Act, but except as&lt;br /&gt;
hereinbefore expressly provided, such repeal&lt;br /&gt;
shall not prejudice or affect any rights acquired&lt;br /&gt;
previously to such repeal, and such rights may be&lt;br /&gt;
enforced and enjoyed as if such repeal had not&lt;br /&gt;
been made.&lt;br /&gt;
Extent of Act.&lt;br /&gt;
12. &mdash;(i.) This Act shall extend only to the&lt;br /&gt;
British Islands, but if Her Majesty the Queen&lt;br /&gt;
is satisfied that the Legislature of any&lt;br /&gt;
British possession has by resolution declared&lt;br /&gt;
its assent to this Act or any part thereof&lt;br /&gt;
being extended to such possession, Her Majesty&lt;br /&gt;
may direct by Order in Council that this Act&lt;br /&gt;
or such part thereof shall apply to such&lt;br /&gt;
possession, and this Act or such part shall apply&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) Any such Order in Council may, with such&lt;br /&gt;
assent as aforesaid, from time to time, be revoked&lt;br /&gt;
or altered by any further Order in Council.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) Every such Order in Council shall, as&lt;br /&gt;
soon as may be after the making thereof, be&lt;br /&gt;
published in the London Gazette.&lt;br /&gt;
(iv.) A copy of every such Order in Council&lt;br /&gt;
shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
within six weeks after the issuing thereof if&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then&lt;br /&gt;
within six weeks after the commencement of the&lt;br /&gt;
next session of Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;
(v.) No such Order in Council shall affect&lt;br /&gt;
prejudicially any right acquired at the date of&lt;br /&gt;
its coming into operation.&lt;br /&gt;
13. This Act may be cited as the Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
(Amendment) Act, 1897, and shall, except so&lt;br /&gt;
far as is inconsistent with this Act, be read and&lt;br /&gt;
construed with the Copyright Acts.&lt;br /&gt;
14. This Act shall come into operation on the&lt;br /&gt;
first day of January, one thousand eight hundred&lt;br /&gt;
and ninety-eight.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
67&lt;br /&gt;
SCHEDULES.&lt;br /&gt;
First Schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
Form of Entry of a Periodical Work.&lt;br /&gt;
Date of Publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of first&lt;br /&gt;
Volume, Part, or&lt;br /&gt;
Number.&lt;br /&gt;
Name and&lt;br /&gt;
Address&lt;br /&gt;
of Owner.&lt;br /&gt;
Name and&lt;br /&gt;
Address&lt;br /&gt;
of Publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
Title of Work.&lt;br /&gt;
Second Schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
Ads Repealed.&lt;br /&gt;
Session and Chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
Short Title.&lt;br /&gt;
Extent of Repeal.&lt;br /&gt;
5 &amp;amp; 6 Will. 4 0. 65.&lt;br /&gt;
5 4 6 Vict. c. 45.&lt;br /&gt;
Lectures Copyright The whole Act.&lt;br /&gt;
Act, 1835.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act, 1842 Sections eighteeen&lt;br /&gt;
and nineteen.&lt;br /&gt;
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
APAELIAMENTARY return which has just&lt;br /&gt;
been issued gives the following list of all&lt;br /&gt;
pensions granted during the year ended&lt;br /&gt;
June 20, 1897, and charged upon the Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Mary Anne, Lady Broome, &amp;lt;&pound;ioo, in considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the public services of ber late husband, Sir&lt;br /&gt;
F. N. Broome, K.C.M.G., especially as Governor&lt;br /&gt;
of Western Australia, and of her own literary&lt;br /&gt;
merits.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Alexander Hunter, &pound;200, in con-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration of his labours in connection with&lt;br /&gt;
Roman law and scientific jurisprudence.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. John Thomas Arlidge, .&pound;150, in considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of his valuable labours in the cause of&lt;br /&gt;
public health, and especially his investigation into&lt;br /&gt;
the hygienic results of particular industries and&lt;br /&gt;
occupations.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Beatrice Hatch, .&pound;30, Miss Ethel Hatch,&lt;br /&gt;
JB30, Miss Evelyn Hatch, ,&pound;30, in consideration&lt;br /&gt;
of the services of their father, the late Rev. Edwin&lt;br /&gt;
Hatch, in connection with ecclesiastical history.&lt;br /&gt;
Amelia, Lady Thurston, &pound;150, in recognition of&lt;br /&gt;
the distinguished services of her husband, the&lt;br /&gt;
late Sir John Bates Thurston, as Governor of&lt;br /&gt;
Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western&lt;br /&gt;
Pacific.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Elizabeth Dickens, &pound;100, in consideration&lt;br /&gt;
of the literary eminence of the late Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens, and of the straitened circumstances in&lt;br /&gt;
which she has been left by the death of her&lt;br /&gt;
husband, Mr. Charles Dickens, jun.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Rose Trollope, &pound;100, in consideration of&lt;br /&gt;
the distinguished literary merits of her husband,&lt;br /&gt;
the late Mr. Anthony Trollope, and of her&lt;br /&gt;
straitened circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss May Martha Mason, &pound;30.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Mary Caroline Florence Wood, &pound;30, in&lt;br /&gt;
recognition of the originality and merit of the&lt;br /&gt;
work of their father, the late Mr. George Mason,&lt;br /&gt;
in painting.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Augustus Henry Keane, F.R.G.S., &pound;50, in&lt;br /&gt;
consideration of his labours in the field of&lt;br /&gt;
ethnology.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Francis Steingass, &pound;50, in consideration&lt;br /&gt;
of his services to Oriental scholarship in England.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Maria Garrett, &pound;50, in recognition of the&lt;br /&gt;
merits of her husband, the late Dr. George&lt;br /&gt;
Garrett, as a composer of church music.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Jane Wallace, &pound;50, in recognition of the&lt;br /&gt;
philosophical labours of her husband, the late&lt;br /&gt;
Whyte&amp;#039;s professor of moral philosophy in the&lt;br /&gt;
University of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Archibald Hamilton Bryce, D.C.L., &pound;50, in&lt;br /&gt;
recognition of his services in the cause of secon-&lt;br /&gt;
dary education in Scotland.&lt;br /&gt;
The total is &pound; 1200.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
TINHERE is an article in the current number&lt;br /&gt;
I of the Quarterly Review entitled &amp;quot;Ou&lt;br /&gt;
Commencing Author,&amp;quot; which purports to&lt;br /&gt;
be based on this journal and its contents for the&lt;br /&gt;
last seven years. The paper is in many respects,&lt;br /&gt;
as I shall show immediately, quite satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
and even sympathetic. The writer begins with&lt;br /&gt;
recognising the right of the author to a full&lt;br /&gt;
understanding at least of what is meant by the&lt;br /&gt;
estate which his publisher administers: therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
of course, his further right to understand what&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher makes by his administration. As&lt;br /&gt;
to the sympathetic side, we will return to that&lt;br /&gt;
immediately. Let us first take the points to&lt;br /&gt;
which I must take exception.&lt;br /&gt;
It has been our contention in this paper, over&lt;br /&gt;
and over again, that the literary and the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercial side of literature are totally distinct.&lt;br /&gt;
The poet at work, if he allows any other con-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration to enter his brain &mdash; any touch of&lt;br /&gt;
commercialism&mdash;must infallibly mar that work.&lt;br /&gt;
In every art, the artist must be absorbed while&lt;br /&gt;
he is at work. The work done, he may be as&lt;br /&gt;
commercial as he pleases. That is the just&lt;br /&gt;
and obvious deduction. But this writer cannot&lt;br /&gt;
understand such a distinction. His view is that&lt;br /&gt;
an artist, when his work is finished, must not,&lt;br /&gt;
without detriment to that work, pay any atten-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
tion to its commercial value. He says, &amp;quot;To&lt;br /&gt;
such men&amp;quot;&mdash;i.e., men who, when their work is&lt;br /&gt;
finished, do consider its literary value&mdash;&amp;quot; there&lt;br /&gt;
comes a literary half and a commercial half.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Just so. Why not ?&amp;quot; Where the commercial half&lt;br /&gt;
arrives at being real, there is some danger that it&lt;br /&gt;
will drive out the literary half.&amp;quot; No : because the&lt;br /&gt;
two have nothing to do with each other. If the&lt;br /&gt;
writer means that there is danger that the artist&lt;br /&gt;
may have his brain filled with commercialism&lt;br /&gt;
while he is at work, one can only reply that he&lt;br /&gt;
must be a very mean and miserable artist. Apply&lt;br /&gt;
the same kind of conventional talk to painting.&lt;br /&gt;
All great painters receive large sums of money for&lt;br /&gt;
their work. No one in his senses has ever re-&lt;br /&gt;
proached them with doing so: no one has ever&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that they have ruined their art as their&lt;br /&gt;
price went up. In the name of common sense,&lt;br /&gt;
then, why cannot literary men be treated as on&lt;br /&gt;
the same footing as painters?&lt;br /&gt;
There is, again, another distinction between&lt;br /&gt;
the literary and the commercial side of literature&lt;br /&gt;
which must not be forgotten. It by no means&lt;br /&gt;
follows that a writer of the highest kind will&lt;br /&gt;
become popular, while a person of tenth-rate&lt;br /&gt;
merit may command the shillings of millions.&lt;br /&gt;
This consideration alone should show the futility&lt;br /&gt;
of the common talk about commercialism. My&lt;br /&gt;
position is this: If an author chooses to give his&lt;br /&gt;
property to a publisher, let him. If he chooses to&lt;br /&gt;
keep his property for himself, or to administrate&lt;br /&gt;
it for himself, or to let its administration out at a&lt;br /&gt;
rent or royalty, or to sell it, there is no danger&lt;br /&gt;
whatever that the same care of his commercial&lt;br /&gt;
interests will damage that completed tcork&lt;br /&gt;
any more than the same care icill damage a&lt;br /&gt;
painting. There is, perhaps, the danger that he&lt;br /&gt;
may scamp the next poem, and that commercialism&lt;br /&gt;
may &amp;quot;infect it.&amp;quot; Surely, however, something&lt;br /&gt;
must be allowed to the artistic sense which&lt;br /&gt;
governs and controls artistic production.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the writer says: &amp;quot;In some of our lesser&lt;br /&gt;
men, it is conceivable that a journeyman&amp;#039;s credit-&lt;br /&gt;
able faculty of going straight on, and of produc-&lt;br /&gt;
ing yet another book, and yet another book, will&lt;br /&gt;
survive.&amp;quot; Here we seem to discern the bogey of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;inspiration.&amp;quot; The writer plainly understands, I&lt;br /&gt;
have no doubt, that the painter must go on paint-&lt;br /&gt;
ing because he is a painter; yet he cannot see that&lt;br /&gt;
the poet, the story-teller, the dramatist&mdash;where&lt;br /&gt;
are we to stop ?&mdash;the critic, the essayist&mdash;everyone&lt;br /&gt;
who writes because he is to the manner born,&lt;br /&gt;
must go on&mdash;must go on writing till he dies.&lt;br /&gt;
Lo boa Diea me dit, &amp;quot; Chante,&lt;br /&gt;
Chante, paavre petit.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The writer quote3 these lines&mdash;full of tears as&lt;br /&gt;
well as of consolation&mdash;yet cannot understand that&lt;br /&gt;
they contradict flatly what he has just advanced&lt;br /&gt;
about the dangers of &amp;quot; going on.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
He finds fault with The Author for hoping-&lt;br /&gt;
that copyright may be so enlarged as to enable a&lt;br /&gt;
successful and popular writer to found a family.&lt;br /&gt;
Says that it is an ignoble wish. Why does he&lt;br /&gt;
think so? Because he confuses the literary&lt;br /&gt;
and the artistic value of a book. He says, he who&lt;br /&gt;
could act &amp;quot; on a pill-vendor&amp;#039;s conditions, namely,&lt;br /&gt;
that he keep his private property for ever, must&lt;br /&gt;
receive only as a pill-vendor.&amp;#039;&amp;#039; This is nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;
One might as well say that the Marquis of&lt;br /&gt;
Salisbury if he receives his rents and keeps-&lt;br /&gt;
his property does so as a pill vendor. But&lt;br /&gt;
this kind of rubbish will continue to be talked&lt;br /&gt;
so long as literary value and literary property are&lt;br /&gt;
mixed.&lt;br /&gt;
The Reviewer speaks of a certain writer who&lt;br /&gt;
would abolish criticism. I wonder who that&lt;br /&gt;
writer is. The position taken up by The Author&lt;br /&gt;
has always been (i) that criticism should be a&lt;br /&gt;
distinction&mdash;that is to say, that a paper should,&lt;br /&gt;
as some papers do, select books for careful criti-&lt;br /&gt;
cism by competent persons; (2) that the system of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;reviewing&amp;quot; books in a batch is injurious to&lt;br /&gt;
literature because it does not give importance to&lt;br /&gt;
important books, because &amp;quot; notice &amp;quot; is not criticism,&lt;br /&gt;
and because it is impossible for the writer, with the&lt;br /&gt;
best intentions, to read the books he notices, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the system is injurious to the paper because it&lt;br /&gt;
ruins the literary character of that paper; (3)&lt;br /&gt;
that to notice harmless weak productions is useless,&lt;br /&gt;
because such a notice does not educate the writer&lt;br /&gt;
nor does it help the pubbc, which, whatever its&lt;br /&gt;
faults, does not buy or read we.ak books; (4)&lt;br /&gt;
that the space in the paper taken up by little&lt;br /&gt;
notices written without reading the books would&lt;br /&gt;
be much better bestowed upon an important&lt;br /&gt;
notice; (5) that the present depressed condition&lt;br /&gt;
of criticism is due mainly to the system of the little&lt;br /&gt;
notices, which simply will not allow their writers&lt;br /&gt;
to read the books; and, lastly, that the public&lt;br /&gt;
never read, and pay no heed, to these little notices.&lt;br /&gt;
This is the position taken up in these columns on&lt;br /&gt;
the subject of reviewing. It will be seen that this&lt;br /&gt;
is very, very far from wishing to abolish criticism.&lt;br /&gt;
The Reviewer is also very angry with some&lt;br /&gt;
uuknown persons who, it seems, object to literary&lt;br /&gt;
men advising publishers. Who, again, are these&lt;br /&gt;
people? The position of adviser to publishers is&lt;br /&gt;
one of the greatest responsibility and importance.&lt;br /&gt;
Most men of letters have at various times done&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
69&lt;br /&gt;
such work: some, occasionally: some by engage-&lt;br /&gt;
ment and on salary. It seems to me quite&lt;br /&gt;
unnecessary to defend the work, and I do not&lt;br /&gt;
know who has attacked it. Personally, I have&lt;br /&gt;
myself done such work, and I see no reason at all&lt;br /&gt;
to be ashamed of it.&lt;br /&gt;
Nor do I think it necessary in these columns to&lt;br /&gt;
do more than enter a protest against the implied&lt;br /&gt;
accusation that The Author, the only publication&lt;br /&gt;
standing at the head of the article, finds any fault&lt;br /&gt;
with any literary man or woman who advises for&lt;br /&gt;
pay a publishing house.&lt;br /&gt;
He says that in demanding inspection of docu-&lt;br /&gt;
ments I myself have done a &amp;quot; grea,t service&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
have been right, &amp;quot;however injudiciously&amp;quot; I may&lt;br /&gt;
be held to have done it. My methods&mdash;or rather the&lt;br /&gt;
methods of the Committee&mdash;have always been&lt;br /&gt;
perfectly simple. There has been throughout a&lt;br /&gt;
steady determination to get at the facts and the&lt;br /&gt;
figures and to publish them; to pour a flood of&lt;br /&gt;
light on facts strenuously concealed. There has&lt;br /&gt;
been no other method, and that method will be&lt;br /&gt;
continued. _&lt;br /&gt;
In many points: on the necessity for main-&lt;br /&gt;
taining the responsibility and the honour of&lt;br /&gt;
authorship: on the differences which mark men&lt;br /&gt;
of genius: on the writer as teacher: and so forth,&lt;br /&gt;
one has nothing but gratitude to this Reviewer,&lt;br /&gt;
because it is good that such things should be said.&lt;br /&gt;
But the whole paper is tainted and spoiled by&lt;br /&gt;
this inability to distinguish literary value from&lt;br /&gt;
commercial value: so that the writer, while he is&lt;br /&gt;
fain to acknowledge the genius of Scott and&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens, must needs try to explain away or to lament&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that they were good at business. Nearly&lt;br /&gt;
all popular writers have thought very much of the&lt;br /&gt;
separate commercial side: Scott: Dickens: Trol-&lt;br /&gt;
lope: George Eliot: Macaulay: Byron: every-&lt;br /&gt;
body.&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time one must certainly not obtrude&lt;br /&gt;
the subject. As our writer says: &amp;quot;If the public&lt;br /&gt;
once hears too much about profits&mdash;it has not&lt;br /&gt;
bothered itself yet about the matter&mdash;but if it&lt;br /&gt;
should?&amp;quot; In The Author the question of profits&lt;br /&gt;
is a question of principle: there is no mention&lt;br /&gt;
of any single writer&amp;#039;s returns: or of what he&lt;br /&gt;
obtained from any book: and there never will be&lt;br /&gt;
any. It is the trade organ of literary men and&lt;br /&gt;
women generally: its object is to give such facts&lt;br /&gt;
and figures as illustrate principles. But the&lt;br /&gt;
writer is quite wrong about the matter. The public&lt;br /&gt;
has heard about these profits: it hears often : not&lt;br /&gt;
from us, but from other papers, what this and&lt;br /&gt;
that writer is receiving.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the Beviewer protests against the use of&lt;br /&gt;
the phrase &amp;quot; thousand words,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; so many thousand&lt;br /&gt;
words:&amp;quot; &amp;quot;so much for so many thousand words.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Now this is not the phrase of the author, but of&lt;br /&gt;
the editor. He wants an article of a certain&lt;br /&gt;
length, and no longer: it is to fill a definite space&lt;br /&gt;
in his magazine: he may say, if he likes, so&lt;br /&gt;
many pages: or he may say so many thousand&lt;br /&gt;
words. What on earth does it matter? Or the&lt;br /&gt;
author, in that commercial spirit which the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer confuses with the artistic spirit, may&lt;br /&gt;
say, &amp;quot;Here is my work. It occupies so many&lt;br /&gt;
pages,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Here is my work. It occupies so&lt;br /&gt;
many thousand words.&amp;quot; Will anybody in his&lt;br /&gt;
senses contend that there is any difference? It&lt;br /&gt;
is a fctfon de parler. I am myself, for instance,&lt;br /&gt;
under agreement to hand in, by a certain time,&lt;br /&gt;
a certain story to a certain editor. My editor tells&lt;br /&gt;
me, &amp;quot; I want a story of 8o,coo words.&amp;quot; He means&lt;br /&gt;
that it is to occupy a certain number of months&lt;br /&gt;
in his serial. Whether it is 70,000 words, or&lt;br /&gt;
80,000 words, or 90,000 words he will not mind,&lt;br /&gt;
nor will he count. But he means that I am not&lt;br /&gt;
to take lip the old space, and that he will not fill&lt;br /&gt;
up his pages with the old-fashioned three-volume&lt;br /&gt;
novel. He must assign a limit: he must say how&lt;br /&gt;
much space he can give. Whether he says words&lt;br /&gt;
or pages, I repea&amp;quot;, what does it matter?&lt;br /&gt;
In a word, this Reviewer means well: he sees&lt;br /&gt;
that we are absolutely in the right, and he says so:&lt;br /&gt;
but because he confuses literary and commercial&lt;br /&gt;
value he has got hopelessly muddled ; while in such&lt;br /&gt;
little matters, as one or two which I have quoted,&lt;br /&gt;
he is wrong simply because he does not know the&lt;br /&gt;
practice.&lt;br /&gt;
There are one or two remarks which I should&lt;br /&gt;
like to quote:&lt;br /&gt;
There is this special feature in the writing business, that&lt;br /&gt;
it is entirely volunteered.&lt;br /&gt;
Some few years ago writers awoke to the belief that they&lt;br /&gt;
had not received a fair share in the net profit of their&lt;br /&gt;
wares. More particularly they desired to make a declara-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of their right to know the amount of expense incurred&lt;br /&gt;
in the publication of their volumes. In this they have&lt;br /&gt;
nothing bnt our sympathies, and part of their work is yet&lt;br /&gt;
to do.&lt;br /&gt;
What are the more prevalent motives which set genuine&lt;br /&gt;
men of letters to work? We fear that the first motive we&lt;br /&gt;
assign will appear to many most honourable men of the day&lt;br /&gt;
l; perilously near to cant.&amp;quot; Yet, upon omviction, we&lt;br /&gt;
cannot but put it in the forefront of the battle. We speak&lt;br /&gt;
of a mission, a vocation, a priestly office; a priestly office&lt;br /&gt;
assuredly in a wider natural church. And this office no&lt;br /&gt;
man lightly takes upon himself. The real men are never&lt;br /&gt;
likely to take it upon themselves lightly, for they slide&lt;br /&gt;
into it involuntarily and unconsciously. And they slide&lt;br /&gt;
into it too with a good deal of that suffering, whioh, in the&lt;br /&gt;
genuine man of letters, seems inevitable.&lt;br /&gt;
Business men who have selected as their path to fortune&lt;br /&gt;
the financial side of books, are, from one commercial point&lt;br /&gt;
of view at least, exceptionally lucky. They are hardehells&lt;br /&gt;
who have to deal with softshelU. It is not to be wondered&lt;br /&gt;
at that the softshells have not been conspicuous for getting&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 70 (#484) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7&deg;&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the best of it. Many a publisher might say perhaps, as&lt;br /&gt;
Robert Clive said in the gold vaults of the Indian city, &amp;quot; By&lt;br /&gt;
heaven ! I am surprised at my own moderation!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A man oan only be an author in so far as he is a man who&lt;br /&gt;
has perceived, or known, or done real things, and possesses&lt;br /&gt;
the gift and feels the duty of speaking about them.&lt;br /&gt;
A woman and an author must be either something above&lt;br /&gt;
the average robust male or something below him.&lt;br /&gt;
The following information is here published as&lt;br /&gt;
a warning to typewriters:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Some time ago a friend lent me a small but&lt;br /&gt;
interesting pamphlet, and as it is out of print I&lt;br /&gt;
was allowed to have a typewritten copy made&lt;br /&gt;
of it. The friend recommended as type-&lt;br /&gt;
writer a young lady, orphan daughter of a clergy-&lt;br /&gt;
man, recently deceased, who courageously sup-&lt;br /&gt;
ported herself by typewriting, She copied the&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlet for me very nicely, and when I paid&lt;br /&gt;
her bill she said she wished to get regular work&lt;br /&gt;
from authors, so I advised her to advertise in&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, which she has done every month since&lt;br /&gt;
January, 1897. She now writes to say that some&lt;br /&gt;
one, whose name she does not mention, has&lt;br /&gt;
written to ask her terms, but says his MS. is so&lt;br /&gt;
precious that she must pay him a guinea as&lt;br /&gt;
caution money before he sends her the MS. She&lt;br /&gt;
naturally declines to have anything to do with a&lt;br /&gt;
person of this sort.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I would only add to the above that the object of&lt;br /&gt;
the demand is made obvious by the fact that when&lt;br /&gt;
a manuscript, which is very rare, is precious, it is&lt;br /&gt;
probably worth many hundred guineas. Asking&lt;br /&gt;
a guinea as caution money for a manuscript which&lt;br /&gt;
the writer declares to be &amp;quot;precious,&amp;quot; is too thin&lt;br /&gt;
to deceive anybody. I shall be much obliged if&lt;br /&gt;
papers generally will be so good as to copy this&lt;br /&gt;
warning in the interests of typewriters, who have&lt;br /&gt;
not, probably, too much experience of the world.&lt;br /&gt;
The Civil List, which is published in another&lt;br /&gt;
column, is the very best list that has ever ap-&lt;br /&gt;
peared since its commencement. There are sixteen&lt;br /&gt;
recipients of pensions. Among them, eleven are&lt;br /&gt;
widows and daughters. One observes that these&lt;br /&gt;
pensions are granted more and more to widows&lt;br /&gt;
and daughters instead of the workers themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
The change will be accepted by everybody with&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction. One observes, also, that it is not yet&lt;br /&gt;
possible to obtain a list completely in accord with&lt;br /&gt;
the famous resolution of 1837. That resolution&lt;br /&gt;
undoubtedly gave power to place in this list&lt;br /&gt;
persons who had claims upon the Sovereign. Thus,&lt;br /&gt;
the Queen&amp;#039;s tutors and teachers were placed upon&lt;br /&gt;
the list by authority of that clause. Yet the list&lt;br /&gt;
was then, and has always been, intended for persons&lt;br /&gt;
distinguished or connected with literature, science,&lt;br /&gt;
and art. There are two ladies in this list who&lt;br /&gt;
are widows of Colonial Governors. One of these,&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Broome, better known as Lady Jackson, is&lt;br /&gt;
herself a writer of some distinction; the other,&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Thurston, is simply the widow of a Colonial&lt;br /&gt;
Governor. As such, her pension has no place on&lt;br /&gt;
this list. The power of foisting all kinds of&lt;br /&gt;
people into this meagre provision for literature,&lt;br /&gt;
science, and art could be removed by passing&lt;br /&gt;
another resolution omitting the clause referred to.&lt;br /&gt;
I observed in a certain paper a question meant&lt;br /&gt;
to be &amp;quot; smart.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Is it,&amp;quot; the writer asked, &amp;quot; the&lt;br /&gt;
wickedness of the publisher which causes the&lt;br /&gt;
names of Dickens and Trollope to appear in this&lt;br /&gt;
list?&amp;quot; It is not in these pages that private affairs&lt;br /&gt;
will be discussed. The late Charles Dickens, jun.,&lt;br /&gt;
however, was not a writer, except of one or two guide&lt;br /&gt;
books. He was a printer. Perhaps publishers&lt;br /&gt;
showed their &amp;quot;wickedness&amp;quot; by not paying his&lt;br /&gt;
accounts. As for the name of Trollope, it was&lt;br /&gt;
stated at the time of Anthony Trollope&amp;#039;s death&lt;br /&gt;
that he was possessed of a large sum saved from&lt;br /&gt;
the proceeds of his novels. Publishers have&lt;br /&gt;
hardly been so &amp;quot;wicked &amp;quot; as to take that money&lt;br /&gt;
from his family. But what silly nonsense it is to&lt;br /&gt;
ask such a question!&lt;br /&gt;
I have received from a correspondent a collec-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of extracts from letters received from various&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, which inform him that they cannot&lt;br /&gt;
undertake the responsibility of publishing his&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
The letters are very curious and instructive.&lt;br /&gt;
Various reasons were assigned, all of which were&lt;br /&gt;
different, but all contained one cardinal fact in&lt;br /&gt;
which they were agreed: that the work was too&lt;br /&gt;
long.&lt;br /&gt;
One firm frankly admitted that what they&lt;br /&gt;
wanted was a manuscript of about 60,000&lt;br /&gt;
words.&lt;br /&gt;
What may be gathered from all these letters&lt;br /&gt;
is, in fact, that some publishers are becoming&lt;br /&gt;
increasingly anxious to bring out books at 6*.&lt;br /&gt;
which contain the minimum leugth for which the&lt;br /&gt;
long suffering public will pay 4s. 6d. In these&lt;br /&gt;
columns mention has already been made of a&lt;br /&gt;
little book, containing about 24,000 words, and&lt;br /&gt;
taking very little more than an hour to read, and&lt;br /&gt;
costing 4.S&amp;#039;. 6d. cash.&lt;br /&gt;
To what lengths is this practice going to be&lt;br /&gt;
carried?&lt;br /&gt;
A certain result will be that before long the&lt;br /&gt;
advertised price of 6*. and the real price of&lt;br /&gt;
4&laquo;. 6d. will fall into contempt, and the public&lt;br /&gt;
will refuse to pay more than a shilling for a little&lt;br /&gt;
book which can be read in one hour.&lt;br /&gt;
It is true there may be cases in which the&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 71 (#485) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s name is great enough to carry off a high&lt;br /&gt;
price for a short story, but these cases must&lt;br /&gt;
always be very rare.&lt;br /&gt;
It seems that it should always be the duty of&lt;br /&gt;
novelists to provide the public with work which,&lt;br /&gt;
in length, at least, will give them some fair return&lt;br /&gt;
for the cost of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us turn to lighter themes. The following&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in the Times, July 24, in the form of a&lt;br /&gt;
letter from Mr. Walter Wren. He kindly&lt;br /&gt;
gives me permission to reproduce it here. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Wren is well known as a profound student of&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens. The origin of Do-the-boys Hall seems&lt;br /&gt;
settled by this discovery beyond the reach of&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable doubt. One pities the unfortunate&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Simpson, of Easby, near Richmond, York-&lt;br /&gt;
shire:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;In your article of June 12, on the coronation&lt;br /&gt;
number of the Times, telling your readers that&lt;br /&gt;
they would be presented gratis with a reproduc-&lt;br /&gt;
tion in facsimile of the Times of Friday, June 29,&lt;br /&gt;
1838, you call attention to these two advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments as containing a hint of some of the abuses&lt;br /&gt;
which Dickens (whose &amp;#039;Oliver Twist&amp;#039; is here an-&lt;br /&gt;
nounced as appearing in Bentley&amp;#039;s Miscellany)&lt;br /&gt;
was already setting himself to scourge. &amp;#039;These&lt;br /&gt;
are of schools&mdash;one in Yorkshire&mdash;at which&lt;br /&gt;
youths are boarded and instructed according to&lt;br /&gt;
age, including clothes, books, and other neces-&lt;br /&gt;
saries. No extras and no vacations.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I respectfully submit that you might have put&lt;br /&gt;
this more strongly, and that these must be the&lt;br /&gt;
originals from which Dickens made up Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Squeers&amp;#039;s card. &amp;#039;Nicholas Nickleby&amp;#039; was published&lt;br /&gt;
in 1839. It seems to me clear that Mr. Squeers&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
card was based on them. It will be found on&lt;br /&gt;
page 20 of the original edition. Please print all&lt;br /&gt;
three.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Education.&mdash;At Winton Hall, near Kirby&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen, in Westmoreland, young gentlemen are&lt;br /&gt;
boarded, clothed, provided with books, and edu-&lt;br /&gt;
cated, by Mr. Twycross, in whatever their future&lt;br /&gt;
prospects may require, at &pound;20 per annum. There&lt;br /&gt;
are no extras nor vacations. Prospectuses and&lt;br /&gt;
references may be had at Peele&amp;#039;s Coffee-house,&lt;br /&gt;
Fleet-street, where Mr. T. attends daily, between&lt;br /&gt;
12 and 2 o&amp;#039;clock.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&amp;#039; Education.&mdash;At Mr. Simpson&amp;#039;s Academy,&lt;br /&gt;
Easby, near Richmond, Yorkshire, youth are&lt;br /&gt;
boarded, and instructed by Mr. S. and proper&lt;br /&gt;
assistants in whatever their future prospects may&lt;br /&gt;
require, at twenty and twenty-three guineas a&lt;br /&gt;
year, according to age, including clothes, books,&lt;br /&gt;
and other necessaries. No extras and no vaca-&lt;br /&gt;
tions. Cards with references to be had from Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
S., who attends from 12 to 2 o&amp;#039;clock daily at&lt;br /&gt;
VOL VIII.&lt;br /&gt;
the Saracen&amp;#039;s Head, Snow-hill. Conveyance by&lt;br /&gt;
steam vessel weekly.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Education.&mdash;At Mr. Wackford Squeers&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Academy, Dotheboys-hall, at the delightful village&lt;br /&gt;
of Dotheboys, near Greta-bridge, in Yorkshire,&lt;br /&gt;
youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished&lt;br /&gt;
with pocket money, provided with all necessaries,&lt;br /&gt;
instructed in all languages living and dead,&lt;br /&gt;
mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy,&lt;br /&gt;
trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra,&lt;br /&gt;
single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic,&lt;br /&gt;
fortification, and every branch of classical litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No&lt;br /&gt;
extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Squeers is in town, and attends daily, from one&lt;br /&gt;
to four, at the Saracen&amp;#039;s Head, Snow-hill.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Dickons added to the advertisements in your&lt;br /&gt;
issue of 1838. But the leading principles are in&lt;br /&gt;
all three&mdash;viz., ,&pound;20 a year for clothes, books, and&lt;br /&gt;
education; no extras, no vacations; and both Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Simpson and Mr. Squeers, the two Yorkshire&lt;br /&gt;
schoolmasters, &amp;#039;attended daily at the Saracen&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Head.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Howard Collins projxises to take up and&lt;br /&gt;
continue the subject of the subjunctive mood in&lt;br /&gt;
the October number of The Author if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
He is consulting.as many men of letters as he can&lt;br /&gt;
reach as to their opinion of his j&amp;gt;osition.&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Besant.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PROPOSED NET SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
ACOMMITTEE has been appointed by the&lt;br /&gt;
Society for the investigation of the whole&lt;br /&gt;
subject. It would be injudicious therefore&lt;br /&gt;
to express any opinion until that committee has&lt;br /&gt;
given in its report. There has already appeared&lt;br /&gt;
a sheaf of papers and articles dealing with the&lt;br /&gt;
proposal. It is well known that among the book-&lt;br /&gt;
sellers&mdash;the persons most concerned&mdash;there is con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderable difference of opinion. Perhaps it would&lt;br /&gt;
be well, before their views are ascertained, and&lt;br /&gt;
before the committee completes its labours, that&lt;br /&gt;
there should be a general silence. On the produc-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the report, no doubt, the floods will be&lt;br /&gt;
let loose. The bare facts of the case seem fairly&lt;br /&gt;
stated in a brief article which appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
Pall Mall Gazette of July 13. There is one word,&lt;br /&gt;
however, which should be altered. It is there said&lt;br /&gt;
that the publishers &amp;quot;intend to boycott discount&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers.&amp;quot; They do not intend: they propose&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;a very different thing.&lt;br /&gt;
One Book, One Price.&lt;br /&gt;
Shall we buy a book at gd. or is.? The outside&lt;br /&gt;
public say, unhesitatingly, gd.; the booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
H&lt;br /&gt;
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72&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
say, unhesitatingly, i&laquo;. Both natural enough,&lt;br /&gt;
when you come to look at it. The advantages of&lt;br /&gt;
selling at is. and buying at gd. are so obvious&lt;br /&gt;
that there is no need to go further into them.&lt;br /&gt;
But the most casual observer who remarks the&lt;br /&gt;
prices on the bookstalls and compares them with&lt;br /&gt;
the rumours that reach us from the traHe cannot&lt;br /&gt;
help seeing that a Battle of the Books is only a&lt;br /&gt;
question of time. Here and there we find six-&lt;br /&gt;
penny magazines sold at 4.|&laquo;?., and books pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished at 6*. going at 4*. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
The thing seems simple enough. Can a retail&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller sell at what price he likes r He gets&lt;br /&gt;
his books at a discount of 25 per cent., or some-&lt;br /&gt;
thing more than that; has he a free hand after&lt;br /&gt;
that? With the vague idea we all have of the&lt;br /&gt;
principles of law, we declare offhand that any-&lt;br /&gt;
thing else would be interfering with the liberty&lt;br /&gt;
of the subject. The question is nothing new. It&lt;br /&gt;
has been gone into years ago. The only novelty&lt;br /&gt;
now is that the booksellers have got an associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and have the powers of a trade union.&lt;br /&gt;
They are the only people who object to the&lt;br /&gt;
discount. The publishers do not. The authors&lt;br /&gt;
do not. If an author is getting a royalty on the&lt;br /&gt;
published price it is nothing to him how the book&lt;br /&gt;
is sold. In any case the lower rate is probably to&lt;br /&gt;
his advantage, for it increases the sale of his work.&lt;br /&gt;
The same thing would apply to the publisher. In&lt;br /&gt;
fact, the opinions of all the great writers of the&lt;br /&gt;
day were taken on the subject, and were published&lt;br /&gt;
in Sir W. Besant&amp;#039;s paper, The Author. Speaking&lt;br /&gt;
from memory, we recollect they were practically&lt;br /&gt;
unanimous and decided in saying the retail&lt;br /&gt;
price was the bookseller&amp;#039;s affair. The price at&lt;br /&gt;
which the wholesale bookseller buys from the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is quite another matter. It is allowed&lt;br /&gt;
that to break this is to ruin the book for regular&lt;br /&gt;
trade.&lt;br /&gt;
Against all this the fact remains that most of&lt;br /&gt;
the big publishers intend to boycott the discount&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers. Taking it logically, the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
are really the employes, and are going on strike.&lt;br /&gt;
To the average onlooker it would seem to lje just&lt;br /&gt;
a case in which a strike would not succeed. The&lt;br /&gt;
discount man can get his books indirectly if he&lt;br /&gt;
likes; and he can appeal to the public to support&lt;br /&gt;
him. The reduction of yl. in the shilling is an&lt;br /&gt;
argument which touches the British public in its&lt;br /&gt;
tenderest point. It is the argument which he&lt;br /&gt;
has always made till now whenever the difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
has come up; and in these days of libraries the&lt;br /&gt;
British public wants every possible encourage-&lt;br /&gt;
ment in buying books.&lt;br /&gt;
However, publishers are not ignorant of the&lt;br /&gt;
world, nor are they, by any means, incapable&lt;br /&gt;
men of business. Obviously, the new Book-&lt;br /&gt;
sellers&amp;#039; Association have found their power, and&lt;br /&gt;
can put pressure on the publisher which he is-&lt;br /&gt;
unable to resist. But the fight has hardly yet&lt;br /&gt;
begun.&lt;br /&gt;
The publication of a book appears a simple&lt;br /&gt;
thing at first sight. When you come to look&lt;br /&gt;
into it, or, worse still, have anything to do with&lt;br /&gt;
it, it is a problem which runs close South African&lt;br /&gt;
politics or the Irish question itself.&mdash;Pall Mall&lt;br /&gt;
Gazette, July 13.&lt;br /&gt;
A WARNING- TO AUTHORS-AND OTHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
ITHINK the following story may interest&lt;br /&gt;
some readers of The Author, if only as a&lt;br /&gt;
curious instance of human effrontery. It&lt;br /&gt;
may, however, act as a warning against a certain&lt;br /&gt;
class of &amp;quot;literary agents.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
About a year ago Madame X., a French lady,&lt;br /&gt;
wished to have some short articles and stories,&lt;br /&gt;
which she had written in English, corrected for&lt;br /&gt;
the press, and inserted an advertisement in a local&lt;br /&gt;
London paper. It brought several replies, and&lt;br /&gt;
among them one from a gentleman whom I will&lt;br /&gt;
call Mr. A. He stated that he was &amp;quot;late editor&lt;br /&gt;
of the Readers&amp;#039; Gazette&amp;quot; (I give a fictitious&lt;br /&gt;
title), and named several persons as his referees;&lt;br /&gt;
among them, a well-known publishing firm, &amp;quot;for&lt;br /&gt;
literary publications &amp;quot;; and for &amp;quot; scholastic pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lications &amp;quot; a certain &amp;quot;Jones, Manchester.&amp;quot; in a&lt;br /&gt;
foot-note he also named a gentleman, very well&lt;br /&gt;
known in the scholastic world, as able to speak&lt;br /&gt;
to his literary qualifications. I will call him&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mr. N.&amp;quot; Mine. X. was delighted. She&lt;br /&gt;
fancied that fortune had directed her to a literary&lt;br /&gt;
man, and she hastened to communicate with A.&lt;br /&gt;
He called upon her, and in conversation told&lt;br /&gt;
her he held an official post in the Civil Service.&lt;br /&gt;
It was agreed that he should undertake the&lt;br /&gt;
corrections, the only thing contemplated up to&lt;br /&gt;
now. But, in the course of the interview, he&lt;br /&gt;
intimated that he was prepared to undertake the&lt;br /&gt;
duties of literary agent, and to place the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
as well as to correct them.&lt;br /&gt;
Mine. X. said that she could not afford&amp;#039; to&lt;br /&gt;
pay for this, but Mr. A. replied that she had told&lt;br /&gt;
him she was acquainted with many French&lt;br /&gt;
journalists. Now, it was the wish &amp;quot;of his heart&lt;br /&gt;
to become a correspondent of the Continental&lt;br /&gt;
Press, and if she would give him an introduction&lt;br /&gt;
he would consider himself paid. On this Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
X. confided to him a number of MSS., and gave&lt;br /&gt;
him an introduction to the editor of one of the&lt;br /&gt;
most widely known of continental journals.&lt;br /&gt;
Months passed, during which Mr. A. wrote&lt;br /&gt;
from time to time, speaking vaguely of his efforts&lt;br /&gt;
on Mine. X.&amp;#039;s behalf&mdash;they had been uusuccess-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 73 (#487) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
73&lt;br /&gt;
ful, but he expressed himself as by no means&lt;br /&gt;
discouraged. During this time he corrected the&lt;br /&gt;
longest of the articles&mdash;it was a short story. I&lt;br /&gt;
saw the copy he had made&mdash;the MS. was entirely&lt;br /&gt;
in his handwriting, and so far his assertion that&lt;br /&gt;
he had &amp;quot;re-written&amp;quot; it was true. But his&lt;br /&gt;
corrections were a farce. As I myself had to&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;re-write&amp;quot; it, I speak from knowledge, and a&lt;br /&gt;
gentleman, who is himself a writer, said of it that&lt;br /&gt;
it was not worth having, even if done for nothing,&lt;br /&gt;
that no one with the least literary ear could&lt;br /&gt;
possibly have passed the foreign turns of expres-&lt;br /&gt;
sion. Even obvious omissions of parts of sen-&lt;br /&gt;
tences were not supplied, and the general&lt;br /&gt;
incompetence displayed in this specimen of A.&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
powers confirmed our suspicions that he was not&lt;br /&gt;
what he had represented himself to be. We&lt;br /&gt;
were not at all surprised to find that the foreign&lt;br /&gt;
editor had been puzzled by his letter, had evi-&lt;br /&gt;
dently conceived an unfavourable opinion of A.,&lt;br /&gt;
and declined to have anything to do with him. I&lt;br /&gt;
should say that A. asked and received 5*. for&lt;br /&gt;
correcting this short story.&lt;br /&gt;
On my return to England after an absence,&lt;br /&gt;
Mme. X. had confided her doubts to me. I&lt;br /&gt;
advised her to get her MSS. back as soon as&lt;br /&gt;
possible&mdash;especially as she had a chance of dispos-&lt;br /&gt;
ing of them herself. She wrote explaining this.&lt;br /&gt;
A. replied in a manner which struck us as evasive,&lt;br /&gt;
but at last, after many weeks and many letters&lt;br /&gt;
from Mme. X., he returned all but one. .In the&lt;br /&gt;
accompanying letter, lie said that he had sent all,&lt;br /&gt;
and also said that he had &amp;quot;re-written&amp;quot; two&lt;br /&gt;
others of the MSS.; but the parcel, on being&lt;br /&gt;
opened, did not contain these copies, nor were&lt;br /&gt;
the returned MSS. &amp;quot;corrected.&amp;quot; Mme. X. felt&lt;br /&gt;
that she had simply wasted six months&mdash;A. had&lt;br /&gt;
done absolutely nothing&mdash;his corrections were&lt;br /&gt;
worthless in the instance in which he made them,&lt;br /&gt;
and, in the majority of instances, he had done no&lt;br /&gt;
work at all. Of course he could not be held&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for failing to dispose of the MSS.,&lt;br /&gt;
supposing lie ever tried, which the sequel makes&lt;br /&gt;
us gravely doubt. Mme. X. wrote in vain, asking&lt;br /&gt;
for the missing MS. and the two &amp;quot;copies.&amp;quot; A.&lt;br /&gt;
replied that he had sent the MS., and he ignored&lt;br /&gt;
the question of the copies. And in a few days he&lt;br /&gt;
sent in a bill for ,&pound;3 3*. for &amp;quot;professional ser-&lt;br /&gt;
vices.&amp;quot; Mme. X. was in despair, she was utterly&lt;br /&gt;
unable to pay &pound;3 38., and A. had known this&lt;br /&gt;
from the first. She wrote reminding him that&lt;br /&gt;
he had himself offered those services in return for&lt;br /&gt;
an introduction which she had given; and added&lt;br /&gt;
that she was ready to pay on the same scale as&lt;br /&gt;
before for the &amp;quot;corrections&amp;quot; of the MSS. which&lt;br /&gt;
he had said he had&amp;quot; re-written,&amp;quot; when she received&lt;br /&gt;
the rc-tcritten copies. The reply was a threat of&lt;br /&gt;
the County Court. Neither then, nor afterwards,&lt;br /&gt;
did A. ever allude to the (verbal) agreement, or&lt;br /&gt;
to the missing copies. He simply repeated his&lt;br /&gt;
threats of the County Court if a remittance was&lt;br /&gt;
not sent &amp;quot; to-morrow,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot; next Tuesday,&amp;quot; as the&lt;br /&gt;
case might be. It was almost amusingly evident&lt;br /&gt;
that he was trying to strike terror into a helpless&lt;br /&gt;
foreigner. He numbered his letters &amp;quot;second and&lt;br /&gt;
third &amp;quot; application.&amp;quot; His first threat of the County&lt;br /&gt;
Court came barely a fortnight after the &amp;quot;first&lt;br /&gt;
application,&amp;quot; and in reply to a civil request for the&lt;br /&gt;
work he was demanding payment for. Mme. X.&lt;br /&gt;
was in very bad health, and was much distressed&lt;br /&gt;
at the prospect of appeariug in Court, and&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps being made to say what she did not mean.&lt;br /&gt;
Under these circumstances a friend began to&lt;br /&gt;
make inquiries of the persons given by A. as&lt;br /&gt;
referees.&lt;br /&gt;
The first person applied to was the present&lt;br /&gt;
editor of the Readers Gazette. He replied&lt;br /&gt;
that there must be some mistake&mdash;he himself&lt;br /&gt;
had been editor many years&mdash;and he suggested&lt;br /&gt;
imposture. Next, the Civil Service List was&lt;br /&gt;
tried, with the result that nothing whatever&lt;br /&gt;
was known of Mr. A. A slight clue, however,&lt;br /&gt;
was followed up, and at last Mr. A. was dis-&lt;br /&gt;
covered&mdash;not as a Civil servant, but as under-&lt;br /&gt;
master in a primary school in an adjacent&lt;br /&gt;
parish. Meantime, the firm of publishers was&lt;br /&gt;
written to. They at length remembered&mdash;not&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A.&amp;#039;s name, but a now, de plume which he&lt;br /&gt;
had mentioned as the name he wrote under.&lt;br /&gt;
A MS. by a writer with this nom de plume had&lt;br /&gt;
been submitted to the firm, and declined. The&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;scholastic&amp;quot; side of Mr. A. was next probed;&lt;br /&gt;
and here, strange to say, we came upon the first&lt;br /&gt;
piece of bond fides we had yet discovered.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Jones, Manchester,&amp;quot; whose name had sounded&lt;br /&gt;
to us so apocryphal that we had not thought it&lt;br /&gt;
worth while to waste a letter upon him, turned&lt;br /&gt;
out to be a most respectable firm of publishers&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;almost entirely, it seemed, of school books for&lt;br /&gt;
primary schools. They knew Mr. A., and thought&lt;br /&gt;
well of him. He had published an &amp;quot; elementary&lt;br /&gt;
book &amp;quot; and a leaflet or two for children to learn.&lt;br /&gt;
It was not precisely a testimony to &amp;quot;scholastic&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
qualification, but at least he was known. More-&lt;br /&gt;
over, Mr. N, whom A. had mentioned as able to&lt;br /&gt;
speak to his literary qualifications, replied favour-&lt;br /&gt;
ably, and said that A. had held &amp;quot; high positions,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and was &amp;quot;an educated gentleman,&amp;quot; but added&lt;br /&gt;
that he knew nothing of his literary qualifications.&lt;br /&gt;
Thinking there was a mistake in identity, and that&lt;br /&gt;
A. was trading on a similarity of name, we asked&lt;br /&gt;
for further particulars, and learned that Mr. N.&lt;br /&gt;
had obviously no personal knowledge of A., but&lt;br /&gt;
that A. really had been inspector of some diocesan&lt;br /&gt;
schools in the provinces, and afterward* head-&lt;br /&gt;
master of a &amp;quot; high school.&amp;quot; All this while, A.&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 74 (#488) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE A UTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
threats were becoming more urgent, and he repre-&lt;br /&gt;
sented himself as on the eve of placing the&lt;br /&gt;
matter in the hands of his solicitor. The friend&lt;br /&gt;
who made the inquiries thought it was time to do&lt;br /&gt;
something, and wrote a letter to A., repeating the&lt;br /&gt;
facts as stated by Mine. X., and informing A.&lt;br /&gt;
of the result of the inquiries. The letter con-&lt;br /&gt;
cluded with a renewed offer to pay him 58. each&lt;br /&gt;
for the corrected stories, on receiving the correc-&lt;br /&gt;
tions. A reply came by return of post. It&lt;br /&gt;
appeared to be written by A.&amp;#039;s wife at. his dicta-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and stated that Mr. A. could not answer the&lt;br /&gt;
letter now, as the matter had passed out of his&lt;br /&gt;
hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Before this, at first, in order to learn whether&lt;br /&gt;
A. was already known to our Society, 1 had con-&lt;br /&gt;
sulted Mr, Thring, who with the greatest kind-&lt;br /&gt;
ness gave me counsel. He now reiterated his&lt;br /&gt;
opinion that wc ought to get a &amp;quot; friendly solicitor&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to write A. a letter. A legal friend of my own&lt;br /&gt;
most kindly consented to do this, and wrote deny-&lt;br /&gt;
ing any indebtedness for &amp;quot;professional services,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
but again renewing the offer to pay for the cor-&lt;br /&gt;
rections. It brought the following answer again&lt;br /&gt;
by return:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sib,&mdash;-I have received yours of the , and&lt;br /&gt;
it has been duly filed.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This extraordinary reply, and the effrontery of&lt;br /&gt;
A.&amp;#039;s whole attitude, astonished the solicitor, and is&lt;br /&gt;
still a puzzle to us all. We are, however, consoled&lt;br /&gt;
by seeing that A. is really not so clever. For six&lt;br /&gt;
weeks after this, when we all thought the matter&lt;br /&gt;
was ended, he suddenly wrote once more to Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
X., threatening to put the matter into a&lt;br /&gt;
lawyer&amp;#039;s hands if the money was not sent within&lt;br /&gt;
three days. By this time the threat had lost its&lt;br /&gt;
terrors&mdash;even Mme. X. was able to laugh at it,&lt;br /&gt;
and so I trust all was well that ended well. But&lt;br /&gt;
it is a singular story, for there can be no doubt&lt;br /&gt;
that A. was at no distant period in an excellent&lt;br /&gt;
position, and yet his calm effrontery would seem&lt;br /&gt;
to show a practised hand. It is my deliberate&lt;br /&gt;
conviction, basrd on several small indications,&lt;br /&gt;
that he never showed the MSS. to a single editor.&lt;br /&gt;
This, of course, we cannot prove, but if he had&lt;br /&gt;
ventured to force us into court he would have&lt;br /&gt;
heen required to mention names. I should say&lt;br /&gt;
that in this last letter he repeated that he had&lt;br /&gt;
been editor of the Readers&amp;#039; Gazette &mdash; it was&lt;br /&gt;
the only allusion he ever made to the unmasking&lt;br /&gt;
of his pretensions. Finally, I would entreat, not&lt;br /&gt;
only authors, but everybody, to &amp;quot;look up their&lt;br /&gt;
references&amp;quot;&mdash;though, as a gentleman I consulted&lt;br /&gt;
over this business said very frankly, &amp;quot; When does&lt;br /&gt;
one look them up, if they are good ones?&amp;quot; And&lt;br /&gt;
I confess that I should have thought it impossible&lt;br /&gt;
that a man would venture falsely to call himself&lt;br /&gt;
ex-editor of a paper&mdash;it is a statement so easily&lt;br /&gt;
verified. But perhaps A. is a student of human&lt;br /&gt;
nature, and reckoned on our reasoning thus!&lt;br /&gt;
And candour compels me to admit, that had&lt;br /&gt;
inquiries been made at first, and had we happened&lt;br /&gt;
to begin with Mr. N. and &amp;quot;Jones, Manchester,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
we might have- been perfectly satisfied, and have&lt;br /&gt;
gone no farther. Wherefore, when references are&lt;br /&gt;
given you, write to them all. Y.&lt;br /&gt;
A CASE IN POINT.&lt;br /&gt;
IOUGHT to have joined the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors long ago; but I suppose it is a&lt;br /&gt;
case of stinginess over the wrong thing, and&lt;br /&gt;
that even the demands of a large family upon a&lt;br /&gt;
slender income should not have hindered my&lt;br /&gt;
finding that guinea subscription. Every author&lt;br /&gt;
wants more or less protection under the present&lt;br /&gt;
conditions of things: certainly the unwary one.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is a case in point.&lt;br /&gt;
A well-known publisher asked me to prepare a&lt;br /&gt;
book for the present season. It was to be ready&lt;br /&gt;
at the New Tear, and I was to receive =&pound;50 in&lt;br /&gt;
advance, on account of royalties, upon delivery of&lt;br /&gt;
the MS. I sent in the complete work in the last&lt;br /&gt;
days of December. I waited, and at length hud&lt;br /&gt;
to remind the publisher that three weeks had&lt;br /&gt;
elapsed, and I was expecting to hear from hiin.&lt;br /&gt;
To my surprise his reply, and several subsequent&lt;br /&gt;
communications, showed me that he was &amp;quot; off the&lt;br /&gt;
job,&amp;quot; if possible, having doubts of its probable&lt;br /&gt;
success. But I stuck to him. He suggested&lt;br /&gt;
additions and improvements, which I loyally&lt;br /&gt;
worked up with great benefit to the book. At&lt;br /&gt;
length, early in April, I had the first proofs and a&lt;br /&gt;
cheque for .-&pound;25.&lt;br /&gt;
The last sheets were returned, and I was look-&lt;br /&gt;
ing for the completion of the payment. But,&lt;br /&gt;
guess my astonishment on being informed by&lt;br /&gt;
letter that many faults in composition, cant&lt;br /&gt;
phrases, and so forth, had been discovered, and it&lt;br /&gt;
had been necessary to take the thing to pieces&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;also &amp;quot; whether the thing will ever pay is becom-&lt;br /&gt;
ing more than ever a matter of doubt with me.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
With the best possible grace I accepted the&lt;br /&gt;
possibility that my style was open to criticism,&lt;br /&gt;
but I asserted that for acquiescence in his&lt;br /&gt;
improvements I must first have the opportunity&lt;br /&gt;
of weighing their value. Now that the book is&lt;br /&gt;
published I find that, far from &amp;quot; improvement,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the book has been utterly damaged by interpola-&lt;br /&gt;
tions and omissions, and many alterations of very&lt;br /&gt;
slight importance but destructive to that coherent&lt;br /&gt;
unity of style which should throughout reveal an&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s personality. There are six verbal altera-&lt;br /&gt;
tions which I should consent to. The remainder&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 75 (#489) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
75&lt;br /&gt;
are of a piece with the specimens I have marked&lt;br /&gt;
in the copy of the work inclosed for your inspec-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, which amount to nothing more nor less than&lt;br /&gt;
interpolated blunders.&lt;br /&gt;
The book has been brought out, price 7&laquo;. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
As it looks more like a 4*. or 58. volume, the&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers won&amp;#039;t touch it, and it has fallen still-&lt;br /&gt;
born upon a season especially favourable for the&lt;br /&gt;
sale of such a work. Our publisher tells me it is&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;complete failure,&amp;quot; and ascribes the failure to&lt;br /&gt;
the numerous alterations rendered necessary after&lt;br /&gt;
the thing was in type, and which added heavily to&lt;br /&gt;
the printer&amp;#039;s bill. What this has to do with the&lt;br /&gt;
shyness of the retail booksellers passes me, but I&lt;br /&gt;
have been so worked upon by the sad story of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;150 or more thrown away upon my &amp;quot; diabolical&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(tie) book as to give a renunciation of all further&lt;br /&gt;
right or claim upon payment of ,&pound;5 5*. There is&lt;br /&gt;
nothing now to hinder Mr. X. T. from reforming&lt;br /&gt;
his mode of publication, and making a small&lt;br /&gt;
income out of it.&lt;br /&gt;
Simpleton, you will say! I deserve it.&lt;br /&gt;
S.&lt;br /&gt;
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CONFERENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
President&mdash;Sir John Lubbock. Chairman of&lt;br /&gt;
Committee&mdash;Kichard Garnett, LL.D. Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
Treasurer&mdash;H. K. Tedder. Hon. Secretary&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
J. Y. W. MacAlister. Secretary&mdash;J. D. Brown.&lt;br /&gt;
f I ^HE Conference was opened on Tuesday, July&lt;br /&gt;
I 14, by the Lord Mayor, in the Council&lt;br /&gt;
Chamber of the Guildhall. The following&lt;br /&gt;
notes of the principal proceedings are taken from&lt;br /&gt;
the Times:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
The President (Sir J. Lubbock) then gave his&lt;br /&gt;
inaugural address. He said that the existence of&lt;br /&gt;
this congress was an indirect result of an Act&lt;br /&gt;
passed by a private member of Parliament (Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Ewart) in the year 1850. The Act was a striking&lt;br /&gt;
example of beneficent legislation passed by a&lt;br /&gt;
private member. It had been adopted by some&lt;br /&gt;
350 places, containing nearly half our people.&lt;br /&gt;
From 1857 to 1866 it was adopted by fifteen&lt;br /&gt;
localities, from 1867 to 1876 by forty-five, from&lt;br /&gt;
1877 to 1886 by sixty-two, from 1887 to 1896 by&lt;br /&gt;
no fewer than 190. In London the recent pro-&lt;br /&gt;
gress had been even more remarkable. From&lt;br /&gt;
1850-66 only one public library was established,&lt;br /&gt;
and Westminster had the honour of taking the&lt;br /&gt;
lead; from 1867 to 1876 not one, from 1876 to&lt;br /&gt;
1886 only two, from 1887 to 1896 no fewer than&lt;br /&gt;
thirty-two. These libraries now contained over&lt;br /&gt;
5,000,000 volumes, the annual issues amounted to&lt;br /&gt;
27,000,000, and the attendances to 60,000,000.&lt;br /&gt;
Australia had 844 public libraries with 1,400,000&lt;br /&gt;
volumes, New Zealand 298 with 330,000, South&lt;br /&gt;
Africa about 100 with 300,000. In Canada the&lt;br /&gt;
public libraries contained over 1,500,000 of&lt;br /&gt;
volumes. The United States possessed in 1890&lt;br /&gt;
1686 public libraries, containing 13,800,000&lt;br /&gt;
volumes. These numbers, however, were hardly&lt;br /&gt;
comparable with ours, as they included in some&lt;br /&gt;
cases college and law libraries. Moreover, we had&lt;br /&gt;
many public libraries which were not included in&lt;br /&gt;
the above numbers. The British Museum alone&lt;br /&gt;
contained 2,000,000 volumes. Those who doubted&lt;br /&gt;
the advantage of public libraries generally based&lt;br /&gt;
their argument on the assertion that an immense&lt;br /&gt;
preponderance of the books read were novels.&lt;br /&gt;
But it must be remembered that a book of poems,&lt;br /&gt;
and even more a work of science, would take much&lt;br /&gt;
longer to read than a novel. Moreover, many&lt;br /&gt;
novels were not only amusing and refreshing, but&lt;br /&gt;
also instructive. No doubt the wise choice of books&lt;br /&gt;
was becoming more and more difficult. The&lt;br /&gt;
National Home Reading Union had done, and was&lt;br /&gt;
doing, excellent service in assisting our country-&lt;br /&gt;
men and countrywomen to what to read, and how&lt;br /&gt;
to read. A recent writer had referred to the&lt;br /&gt;
treasures of ancient lore in Egyptian papyri,&lt;br /&gt;
which were now scattered in large numbers&lt;br /&gt;
through the museums of Europe, where, for want&lt;br /&gt;
of catalogues and descriptions, they lay well nigh&lt;br /&gt;
as profoundly buried as if they were in their&lt;br /&gt;
original tombs. Many authors buried their own&lt;br /&gt;
creations by misleading titles, or by bringing&lt;br /&gt;
together incongruous subjects, which led to un-&lt;br /&gt;
fortuuate results, like other ill-assorted marriages.&lt;br /&gt;
A friend of his had recently mentioned a remark-&lt;br /&gt;
able case in point. In the year 1850, Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mitchell, the Director of the Observatory of&lt;br /&gt;
Cincinnati, which was then the only astro-&lt;br /&gt;
nomical observatory in the United States,&lt;br /&gt;
brought out a perfectly beautiful book, and&lt;br /&gt;
it came over here for sale in the ordi-&lt;br /&gt;
narv way. It was called &amp;quot;The Planetary and&lt;br /&gt;
Stellar Worlds.&amp;quot; The publisher of the book&lt;br /&gt;
complained bitterly about it, and said that he had&lt;br /&gt;
not sold a single copy. His friend said, &amp;quot;Well,&lt;br /&gt;
you have killed the book by its title. Why not&lt;br /&gt;
call it &amp;#039; The Orbs of Heaven&amp;#039;?&amp;quot; That was acted&lt;br /&gt;
upon, and 6000 copies were sold in a month.&lt;br /&gt;
(Cheers and laughter.) As regarded Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, our own had set a very good example. An&lt;br /&gt;
American writer (E. H. Walworth), in an article&lt;br /&gt;
on &amp;quot; The Value of National Archives,&amp;quot; had paid&lt;br /&gt;
us the compliment of stating that &amp;quot;perhaps no&lt;br /&gt;
nation had been more careful than England in&lt;br /&gt;
the preservation of her archives; and perhaps no&lt;br /&gt;
nation has been more careless in this direction&lt;br /&gt;
than the United States.&amp;quot; (Cheers.) This was,&lt;br /&gt;
however, no longer true of the United States&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Government, which now issued excellent monthly-&lt;br /&gt;
catalogues. India also had for some time taken&lt;br /&gt;
much pains to make her publications as available&lt;br /&gt;
as possible. The Eoyal Colonial Institute had&lt;br /&gt;
recently taken an important step in adopting and&lt;br /&gt;
forwarding to every colonial Government a reso-&lt;br /&gt;
lution, &amp;quot;That the colonial Governments be&lt;br /&gt;
respectfully invited to issue&mdash;through the medium&lt;br /&gt;
of their Government gazettes or otherwise&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
registers containing entries of all publications&lt;br /&gt;
within given periods, and also all other locally&lt;br /&gt;
published works, with their full titles, so as to&lt;br /&gt;
furnish for general information complete records&lt;br /&gt;
of the literature of each colony.&amp;quot; To turn to the&lt;br /&gt;
scientific societies, our own Eoyal Society had&lt;br /&gt;
accomplished a great and most useful work in its&lt;br /&gt;
catalogue of scientific papers, contained in nine&lt;br /&gt;
thick quarto volumes. These had been extremely&lt;br /&gt;
useful. The society was moreover organising a&lt;br /&gt;
catalogue which aimed at completeness, and was&lt;br /&gt;
intended to contain the titles of scientific publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, whether appearing in periodicals or inde-&lt;br /&gt;
pendently. In such a catalogue the titles of&lt;br /&gt;
scientific publications would be arranged, not only&lt;br /&gt;
according to authors&amp;#039; names, but also according to&lt;br /&gt;
subject-matter, the text of each paper and not the&lt;br /&gt;
title only being consulted for the latter purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
The preparation and publication of such a com-&lt;br /&gt;
plete catalogue was far beyond the power and&lt;br /&gt;
means of any single society. Led by the above&lt;br /&gt;
considerations, the president and council of the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Society had appointed a committee to&lt;br /&gt;
inquire into and report upon the feasibility of&lt;br /&gt;
such a catalogue being compiled through inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national co-operation. (Hear, hear.) There was&lt;br /&gt;
one other catalogue to which he should like to&lt;br /&gt;
refer, namely, the classified index of the London&lt;br /&gt;
Library in which were given the names of the&lt;br /&gt;
principal authors who had written on each sub-&lt;br /&gt;
ject; and the assistance there given to the student&lt;br /&gt;
was invaluable. To every true lover of books it&lt;br /&gt;
was sad to see our countrymen and countrywomen&lt;br /&gt;
neglecting the great masterpieces of science and&lt;br /&gt;
literature, and wasting their time over &amp;quot; books&lt;br /&gt;
that were no books,&amp;quot; merely because they were&lt;br /&gt;
new&mdash;in many cases, to use Buskin&amp;#039;s words,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;fresh from the fount of folly.&amp;quot; (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
EVOLUTION OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Tedder read a paper on &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Evolution of the Public Library.&amp;quot; Mr. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Spencer had, he said, traced the origin of all our&lt;br /&gt;
professions. The processes of development and&lt;br /&gt;
differentiation had been as clearly shown in the&lt;br /&gt;
case of public libraries as in other departments.&lt;br /&gt;
The earliest librarians were priests, and the&lt;br /&gt;
earliest libraries ienples. The earliest civilisa-&lt;br /&gt;
tions&mdash;those, e.g., of Assyria and Egypt&mdash;had&lt;br /&gt;
their public libraries, which, however, were purely&lt;br /&gt;
of an ecclesiastical character. Aulus Gellus said&lt;br /&gt;
that Pisistratus in the sixth century b.c. was the&lt;br /&gt;
first founder of a real public library, whilst others&lt;br /&gt;
ascribed their origin to Aristotle. One of&lt;br /&gt;
Caesar&amp;#039;s projects was the establishment of a great&lt;br /&gt;
public library, and Varro had written a treatise&lt;br /&gt;
on the subject; and at Herculaneum a beauti-&lt;br /&gt;
fully arranged small room was found with 1756&lt;br /&gt;
manuscripts, which gave an insight into the&lt;br /&gt;
arrangements of libraries of that time. Christian&lt;br /&gt;
libraries, of course, dated from Constantine; and&lt;br /&gt;
his successors, especially Theodosius, busied&lt;br /&gt;
themselves with their establishment, and St.&lt;br /&gt;
Augustine gave his library to the church at&lt;br /&gt;
Hippo. The early church was, however, more or&lt;br /&gt;
less hostile to the ancient literature of Greece and&lt;br /&gt;
Rome. But the Benedictines early in the sixth,&lt;br /&gt;
century were the first of the Christian bodies to&lt;br /&gt;
establish libraries, and their example was followed&lt;br /&gt;
by the Carthusians, Cistercians, Prasmonstraten-&lt;br /&gt;
sians, and others; and the Cistercians were the&lt;br /&gt;
first to allow persons outside their orders to&lt;br /&gt;
borrow books. In the thirteenth century a&lt;br /&gt;
library was formed at St. Germain des Pres.&lt;br /&gt;
Paris, where, in 1513, a noble library was&lt;br /&gt;
founded. For much which was in his paper he&lt;br /&gt;
wished to acknowledge his obligations to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
J. Willis Clarke, who had clearly traced the con-&lt;br /&gt;
nection between collegiate and monastic libraries&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;a connection specially manifest at Merton&lt;br /&gt;
College, Oxford. Mr. Tedder also gave interest-&lt;br /&gt;
ing accounts of the construction and arrangements&lt;br /&gt;
of college libraries; and particularly of the&lt;br /&gt;
Escurial Library founded in 1584. He also&lt;br /&gt;
described cathedral libraries, of which he took&lt;br /&gt;
Westminster as a type. The old type was mainly&lt;br /&gt;
for the benefit of the professional scholar; and it&lt;br /&gt;
was not until the middle of the eighteenth&lt;br /&gt;
century t hat the needs of the people at large were&lt;br /&gt;
considered, and the Bodleian and Mazarin&lt;br /&gt;
libraries were splendid instances of private&lt;br /&gt;
munificence. The free library movement started&lt;br /&gt;
by E wart&amp;#039;s Act was mainly educational, and the&lt;br /&gt;
rapid growth of rate-supported libraries&mdash;which&lt;br /&gt;
were peculiar to this country&mdash;had been described&lt;br /&gt;
by Sir John Lubbock. In the United States a&lt;br /&gt;
similar movement had been going on, and France&lt;br /&gt;
afforded numerous examples of public libraries on&lt;br /&gt;
every scale of magnitude. Belgium, Austria-&lt;br /&gt;
Hungary, and Scandinavia were also well&lt;br /&gt;
equipped, and in recent years a vast number of&lt;br /&gt;
library associations had grown up both here and&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States. In conclusion, Mr. Tedder&lt;br /&gt;
described public libraries as the real universities&lt;br /&gt;
of the unattached, and said that the librarian&lt;br /&gt;
should remeinbir that he was a priest of litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
77&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHORITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Herbert Jones read a paper on &amp;quot;Public&lt;br /&gt;
Library Authorities, their Constitution and&lt;br /&gt;
Powers, as they are and as they should be.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Our present system, he observed, was due to&lt;br /&gt;
the happy-go-lucky methods which were so&lt;br /&gt;
characteristic of the British people. The results&lt;br /&gt;
had, no doubt, on the whole been good, but the&lt;br /&gt;
time had come for a reconstruction on a more&lt;br /&gt;
logical and consistent basis. Library committees&lt;br /&gt;
were variously constituted in different centres,&lt;br /&gt;
and the numbers were fluctuating and sometimes&lt;br /&gt;
too great for useful action, and their relations to&lt;br /&gt;
other local bodies vague and ill-defined. But&lt;br /&gt;
when commissioners were appointed a better&lt;br /&gt;
system prevailed. Our free library legislation&lt;br /&gt;
needed amendment, and it was not desirable tliat&lt;br /&gt;
a possibly hostile vestry should be able to super-&lt;br /&gt;
sede the regular library authority. A small body&lt;br /&gt;
appointed or elected ad hoc was surely better than&lt;br /&gt;
a large body constituted for a variety of purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
He was in favour of the appointment in each&lt;br /&gt;
district of a distinct library authority&mdash;not&lt;br /&gt;
constituted of too many persons, but varying&lt;br /&gt;
according to population&mdash;whose sole work would&lt;br /&gt;
be the supervision of libraries. In this way&lt;br /&gt;
a uniformity of action and a security which&lt;br /&gt;
was greatly to be desired would be effected.&lt;br /&gt;
(Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Alderman Rawson, of Manchester, said&lt;br /&gt;
that his city was the first to adopt Mr. Ewart&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Act. A like movement had almost simultaneously&lt;br /&gt;
started in the United States. Since the estab-&lt;br /&gt;
lishment of the libraries the numbers of books&lt;br /&gt;
and readers in Manchester had increased tenfold.&lt;br /&gt;
Notwithstanding the enormous circulation of&lt;br /&gt;
books, the loss by missing or injured books was a&lt;br /&gt;
mere trifle. The employment of women in the&lt;br /&gt;
libraries had produced most beneficial effects in&lt;br /&gt;
the maintenance of silence and order. The cor-&lt;br /&gt;
poration, though entitled to elect outsiders on the&lt;br /&gt;
library committees, had not done so, and had, with&lt;br /&gt;
pardonable vanity, thought themselves competent&lt;br /&gt;
to manage their libraries. The Manchester&lt;br /&gt;
libraries were peculiar in one respect, that they&lt;br /&gt;
never levied fines, and their confidence in the public&lt;br /&gt;
had never been abused. (Cheers.) The Inland&lt;br /&gt;
Revenue had tried to exact income-tax, and the&lt;br /&gt;
case had been carried to the House of Lords,&lt;br /&gt;
where in the end the library authority of Man-&lt;br /&gt;
chester achieved a notable victory for themselves&lt;br /&gt;
and all the public libraries of the country.&lt;br /&gt;
THE TRAINING OF LIBRARIANS.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Welch, Guildhall Librarian, read a&lt;br /&gt;
paper on &amp;quot;The Training of Librarians.&amp;quot; He&lt;br /&gt;
insisted on the primary importance of a wide and&lt;br /&gt;
liberal education.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND TEXT-BOOKS.&lt;br /&gt;
A paper on &amp;quot;Books and Text-Books: The&lt;br /&gt;
Function of the Library in Education,&amp;quot; was&lt;br /&gt;
read by Mr. F. M. Crunder, librarian, Public&lt;br /&gt;
Library, St. Louis, U.SA., who said that the&lt;br /&gt;
problem was to provide the best education for the&lt;br /&gt;
masses. Could text-books furnish that educa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion P He remembered his surreptitious enjoy-&lt;br /&gt;
ment as a schoolboy of a book of extracts&mdash;chiefly&lt;br /&gt;
poetry and oratory&mdash;and those poems and speeches&lt;br /&gt;
were to him worth all the arithmetic and text-&lt;br /&gt;
book learning which he was compelled to learn.&lt;br /&gt;
To use Sir John Lubbock&amp;#039;s words, &amp;quot;the main &bull;&lt;br /&gt;
thing is not so much that every child should be&lt;br /&gt;
taught as that every child should wish to learn.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Franklin&amp;#039;s was the ideal education&mdash;that no child&lt;br /&gt;
should be taught until he desired to learn.&lt;br /&gt;
Books were the true university, and the true edu-&lt;br /&gt;
cation was to stimulate the love of good literature,&lt;br /&gt;
and to enable the child to discriminate between&lt;br /&gt;
what is good and bad in books. Education&lt;br /&gt;
should seek to make not lawyers, engineers,&lt;br /&gt;
farmers, &amp;amp;c., but men; and the larger aim would&lt;br /&gt;
be found also invariably to have included the&lt;br /&gt;
narrower. The text-book should only be employed&lt;br /&gt;
as the guide to what was of permanent value and&lt;br /&gt;
interest in literature.&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sidney Lee, editor of the Dictionary of&lt;br /&gt;
National Biography, read the next paper on&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;National Biography and National Biblio-&lt;br /&gt;
graphy.&amp;quot; He said he should make his immediate&lt;br /&gt;
purpose plainer if he said a few words about the&lt;br /&gt;
aims and scope of the Dictionary of National&lt;br /&gt;
Biography, which might be defined as a bio-&lt;br /&gt;
graphical census of all dwellers in the British&lt;br /&gt;
dominions who had achieved anything worthy of&lt;br /&gt;
commemoration. The most notable feature in&lt;br /&gt;
their methods of execution was the effort to give&lt;br /&gt;
authority for every fact recorded. The life of&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare, for instance, would be practically&lt;br /&gt;
useless were not the authenticity of each of the&lt;br /&gt;
traditions which had accumulated about his name&lt;br /&gt;
carefuly determined. He had himself attempted&lt;br /&gt;
on a modest scale a bibliography of Shakesperiana&lt;br /&gt;
arranged in the order in which the student of&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespearian biography was likely to find it&lt;br /&gt;
convenient to approach the books. His biblio-&lt;br /&gt;
graphy was far from complete; the catalogues&lt;br /&gt;
of the British Museum Library, with its 3680&lt;br /&gt;
entries; the Barton collection in the Boston&lt;br /&gt;
Public Library, with its 2500 entries; and the&lt;br /&gt;
Birmingham Public Library, with 9640 volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
supplied far longer lists of Shakesperiana. But he&lt;br /&gt;
had endeavoured to observe some logical principle&lt;br /&gt;
of classification which the larger library cata-&lt;br /&gt;
logues did not attempt. After a reference to the&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
bibliography respecting Milton, Sir Walter Scott,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir W. Raleigh, Dryden, and others, he said that&lt;br /&gt;
all that was possible was to mention, as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
in chronological sequence, the chief articles or&lt;br /&gt;
memoirs previously published. The Dictionary&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
list of authorities contained much that was&lt;br /&gt;
material for the preparation of a subject&lt;br /&gt;
catalogue of literature, and a subject catalogue&lt;br /&gt;
was obviously of high importance in developing&lt;br /&gt;
the utility of public libraries. The making&lt;br /&gt;
of subject catalogues was a subsidiary branch&lt;br /&gt;
of the science of bibliography. In its essence&lt;br /&gt;
bibliography was the science of describing&lt;br /&gt;
books as books, in contradistinction to books as&lt;br /&gt;
literature. For the literature of Great Britain&lt;br /&gt;
and Ireland there existed at present four notable&lt;br /&gt;
experiments in national bibliography. At the&lt;br /&gt;
beginning of the century Eobert Watt, a poor&lt;br /&gt;
surgeon of Paisley, sacrificed twenty years of&lt;br /&gt;
arduous labour in compiling his &amp;quot;Bibliotheca&lt;br /&gt;
Britannica,&amp;quot; an elaborate catalogue mainly of&lt;br /&gt;
British literature, though a few foreign works&lt;br /&gt;
were included, arranged in two indices&mdash;one of&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; names, the other of the titles of books.&lt;br /&gt;
The next effort in national bibliography was made&lt;br /&gt;
by William Thomas Lowndes, who in his&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Bibliographers&amp;#039; Manual,&amp;quot; first published in&lt;br /&gt;
1834, endeavoured to arrange the titles of books&lt;br /&gt;
(under authors&amp;#039; names) with some regard to their&lt;br /&gt;
intrinsic interest. Lowndes, after many years of&lt;br /&gt;
abject poverty, lost his reason and died in 1843.&lt;br /&gt;
The third great attempt at a bibliography of&lt;br /&gt;
English literature was made in America, and it was&lt;br /&gt;
to the credit of that great country that its history&lt;br /&gt;
involved no distressing incidents like those which&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied the efforts of Watts and Lowndes.&lt;br /&gt;
Allibone&amp;#039;s ample &amp;quot; Dictionary of English Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture&amp;quot; was projected in 1850, and the last proof&lt;br /&gt;
sheets were read by the author on the last day of&lt;br /&gt;
1870. The work was published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Lippincottof Philadelphia, in three large volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
and a supplement in two volumes, almost equally&lt;br /&gt;
large, appeared in 1891. Living authors were&lt;br /&gt;
included as well as the dead, and to all books&lt;br /&gt;
of importance there were appended illustrative&lt;br /&gt;
quotations from critical reviews. Although&lt;br /&gt;
Allibone&amp;#039;s book was open to criticism and con-&lt;br /&gt;
tained many blunders, jet the work was an&lt;br /&gt;
invaluable book of reference, as every librarian&lt;br /&gt;
would acknowledge. The fourth great experi-&lt;br /&gt;
ment in national bibliography was the printed&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum catalogue, which is a permanent&lt;br /&gt;
memorial of the skill, knowledge, and industry&lt;br /&gt;
of Dr. Garnett, the Keeper of Printed Books, and&lt;br /&gt;
his staff.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOE TALE.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Earl of Desart&amp;#039;s new novel will be&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &amp;quot; The Raid of the Detrimental.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In it he has made a new departure. The&lt;br /&gt;
tale deals with the true history of the Great&lt;br /&gt;
Disappearance of 1862, and is related by several&lt;br /&gt;
of those implicated, and others. The book will&lt;br /&gt;
be published early in September by Messrs. C.&lt;br /&gt;
Arthur Pearson Limited.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Laughton is engaged upon &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Life and Letters of Henry Reeve.&amp;quot; The book&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. Longmans, Green,&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. Among other forthcoming publications&lt;br /&gt;
by this firm are &amp;quot;The Validity of the Papal&lt;br /&gt;
Claims,&amp;quot; by Dr. Nutcombe Oxenham, with a&lt;br /&gt;
preface by the Archbishop of &amp;quot;Xork; and a&lt;br /&gt;
biography of Dr. Maples, Bishop of Likoma, in&lt;br /&gt;
Central Africa, by his sister.&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel H. M. Vibart has written a work on&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Siege of Delhi, in the Indian Mutiny,&amp;quot; in&lt;br /&gt;
which he gives to Colonel Bard Smith&amp;#039;s services a&lt;br /&gt;
more adequate recognition than he believes they&lt;br /&gt;
have hitherto been granted. The book will be&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. A. Constable and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bret Harte&amp;#039;s new novel is called &amp;quot;Three&lt;br /&gt;
Partners,&amp;quot; and treats of a strike in a mining&lt;br /&gt;
camp. It will be published next month by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Chatto and Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Meredith&amp;#039;s volume of selected poems will&lt;br /&gt;
appear shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Clark Russell&amp;#039;s articles on the life of&lt;br /&gt;
Nelson, which are running in one of the maga-&lt;br /&gt;
zines, will be issued in book form in the autumn&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. James Bowden.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sidney G. Murray is the author of &amp;quot;A&lt;br /&gt;
Popular Manual of Finance,&amp;quot; which will be issued&lt;br /&gt;
immediately by Messrs. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
The late Mr. Du Maurier&amp;#039;s novel, &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Martian,&amp;quot; will be published by Messrs. Harper&lt;br /&gt;
on Sept. 17.&lt;br /&gt;
Mine. Sarah Grand&amp;#039;s new novel is to be published&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Herbert Warren, the president of Magdalen&lt;br /&gt;
College, is having his poems published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Murray, under the title &amp;quot; By Severn Sea.&amp;quot; Some&lt;br /&gt;
time ago they were printed by Mr. Daniel, of&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, but only circulated privately. They are&lt;br /&gt;
now to be available to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Geo. Haven Putnam has a scheme for the&lt;br /&gt;
institution of literary courts or boards of arbitra-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, to settle disputes arising between the writing&lt;br /&gt;
and publishing professions. Details of it are to&lt;br /&gt;
be given in the revised edition of his work,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
79&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Authors and Publishers,&amp;quot; which is to appear&lt;br /&gt;
shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., has written&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The War in Thessaly, with Personal Experiences&lt;br /&gt;
in Turkey and Greece.&amp;quot; It will be remembered&lt;br /&gt;
that one of the &amp;quot;personal experiences&amp;quot; of the&lt;br /&gt;
author was to be captured by a Greek torpedo&lt;br /&gt;
boat and carried to Athens.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Fitzgerald Molloy has aimed at presenting&lt;br /&gt;
a complete picture of Irish society in the last&lt;br /&gt;
century, in his forthcoming work entitled &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Romance of the Irish Stage.&amp;quot; Messrs. Downey&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., who will publish the book, are also about&lt;br /&gt;
to issue a uniform edition of Mr. Molloy&amp;#039;s social&lt;br /&gt;
and historical studies at a popular price.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. D. J. O&amp;#039;Donoghue, the biographer of&lt;br /&gt;
Carleton, will shortly conclude &amp;quot; The Life and&lt;br /&gt;
Writings of James Clarence Mangan,&amp;quot; a work he&lt;br /&gt;
has been engaged at for some time. It will tell&lt;br /&gt;
for the first time the story of the young poet&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
tragic career in the Young Ireland days; and&lt;br /&gt;
there will also be reminiscences of Mangan by Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Frederick Burton, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
J. K. Ingram, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
A biography of the engineer who laid the first&lt;br /&gt;
Atlantic cable&mdash;Sir Charles Tilston Bright&mdash;is&lt;br /&gt;
being prepared for publication (by subscription)&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Constable and Co. A brother and a&lt;br /&gt;
son of the distinguished pioneer have compiled&lt;br /&gt;
the work from the diaries which Sir Charles kept;&lt;br /&gt;
therefore it will be largely autobiographical in&lt;br /&gt;
character.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Eibblesdale, who was Master of the&lt;br /&gt;
Buckhounds under the last administration, is&lt;br /&gt;
writing his recollections of &amp;quot; The Queen&amp;#039;s Hounds&lt;br /&gt;
and Stag Hunting,&amp;quot; to which will be contributed&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations by prints and drawings from Her&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty&amp;#039;s collections at Windsor Castle and at&lt;br /&gt;
Cumberland Lodge. The book will be published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Theodore A. Cook will write a book about&lt;br /&gt;
Rouen, and Miss Margaret Symonds (daughter of&lt;br /&gt;
the late John Addington Symonds) one about&lt;br /&gt;
Perugia, for a series of volumes dealings with&lt;br /&gt;
mediaeval towns which Messrs. J. M. Dent and&lt;br /&gt;
Co. are to publish. The late Mrs. Oliphant was&lt;br /&gt;
writing &amp;quot;Sienna,&amp;quot; but had only completed three&lt;br /&gt;
chapters of it.&lt;br /&gt;
The biography of Professor Huxley is not&lt;br /&gt;
likely to be ready before the autumn of 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Ranjitsinhji&amp;#039;s book on cricket is to be&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Blackwood, and will be&lt;br /&gt;
dedicated to the Queen. There will be an ddition&lt;br /&gt;
de luxe in crown quarto, with the author&amp;#039;s auto-&lt;br /&gt;
graph, twenty photogravures, and eighty full-&lt;br /&gt;
page plates; a fine-paper edition in royal octavo,&lt;br /&gt;
with a photogravure frontispiece and ninety-nine&lt;br /&gt;
plates; and a popular edition in large crown&lt;br /&gt;
octavo, with eighty page illustrations and twenty&lt;br /&gt;
in the text.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Bernard Shaw is revising his plays&lt;br /&gt;
for their coming publication in book form under&lt;br /&gt;
the title &amp;quot; Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.&amp;quot; They&lt;br /&gt;
will be in two volumes, to be published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Grant Richards in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
The several stories contained in Mr. Coulson&lt;br /&gt;
Kernahan&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Book of Strange Sins,&amp;quot; are being&lt;br /&gt;
published in separate numbers by Messrs. Ward,&lt;br /&gt;
Lock and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Fraser Rae is at work upon a new edition&lt;br /&gt;
of Sheridan, in which he will correct the accepted&lt;br /&gt;
text to a considerable extent.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Le Queux&amp;#039;s new Tuscan novel, now&lt;br /&gt;
in the press, is to be called &amp;quot;A Madonna of the&lt;br /&gt;
Music Halls.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. E. Robinson, M.A., the latest recruit to&lt;br /&gt;
the ranks of London publishers, announces that&lt;br /&gt;
he has nearly completed arrangements for a series&lt;br /&gt;
of Oxford and Cambridge College Histories,&lt;br /&gt;
which will be written by dons and other well-&lt;br /&gt;
known graduates.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frank A. Munsey&mdash;whose enterprise has&lt;br /&gt;
lately been spoken of by Mr. Hapgood in the&lt;br /&gt;
New York Letter of The Author&mdash;has been in&lt;br /&gt;
London making preliminary arrangements for an&lt;br /&gt;
English edition of Mungey&amp;#039;s Magazine. He will&lt;br /&gt;
probably send a manager from New York, and&lt;br /&gt;
open a branch establishment here. Mr. Munsey&lt;br /&gt;
has secured a story by Mr. Max Pemberton for&lt;br /&gt;
the magazine, to succeed Mr. Hall Caine&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Christian.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Alfred Kingston is engaged upon a work&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &amp;quot; East Anglia and the Great Civil War,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in which he tells the story of the rising of Crom-&lt;br /&gt;
well&amp;#039;s Ironsides in the counties of Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Huntingdon, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,&lt;br /&gt;
and Hertford.&lt;br /&gt;
The &amp;quot;Victorian Era&amp;quot; series of books, to be&lt;br /&gt;
issued by Messrs. Blackie, is intended as an&lt;br /&gt;
authoritative record of the great movements of&lt;br /&gt;
the century. Mr. J. H. Rose, M.A., late Scholar&lt;br /&gt;
of Christ&amp;#039;s College, Cambridge, will edit the&lt;br /&gt;
series, and contribute a volume on &amp;quot; The Rise of&lt;br /&gt;
the Democracy.&amp;quot; Canon J. H. Overton will write&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Anglican Revival ;&amp;quot; Dean Stubbs, a&lt;br /&gt;
biography of Charles Kingsley; Mr. George&lt;br /&gt;
Gissing, a biography of Charles Dickens; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
H. Holman, &amp;quot;National Education;&amp;quot; Mr. G.&lt;br /&gt;
Aimitage Smith, &amp;quot; Free Trade and Its Results;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lawrence Gomme,&amp;quot; Modern London;&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. Anstey&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Baboo Jabberjee&amp;quot; will be&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Dent this autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Barry Pain&amp;#039;s new novel, which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Harper will publish immediately, is entitled &amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Octave of Claudius.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel L. J. Trotter has written the &amp;quot; Life of&lt;br /&gt;
John Nicholson, Soldier and Administrator,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which Mr. Murray will publish.&lt;br /&gt;
A series of stories by Mr. Barry Pain, dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with the career of Eobin Hood; a series by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Max Pemberton, dealing with the French&lt;br /&gt;
Revolution; and a series of detective stories by&lt;br /&gt;
Major Arthur Griffith, are among the forth-&lt;br /&gt;
coming projects of the English Illustrated&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Andrew Lang has edited a volume of selec-&lt;br /&gt;
tions from Wordsworth, which is in the press, and&lt;br /&gt;
which will be the first of a new series of &amp;quot;Selec-&lt;br /&gt;
tions from the Poets,&amp;quot; to be published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Harbutt Dawson has written a&lt;br /&gt;
comprehensive account of the present day social&lt;br /&gt;
movement in Switzerland in its various branches.&lt;br /&gt;
The volume, entitled &amp;quot;Social Switzerland,&amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall at&lt;br /&gt;
once.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Typewriter Girl&amp;quot; is the title of a story&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with an aspect of London life untouched&lt;br /&gt;
hitherto, which Messrs. Pearson are about to&lt;br /&gt;
publish. &amp;quot;Olive Pratt Rayner&amp;quot; is the name&lt;br /&gt;
assumed by the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
A work on English monastic history, by the&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. Ethelred L. Taunton, will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John C. Nimnio in the autumn. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
called, &amp;quot;The English Black Monks of St. Bene-&lt;br /&gt;
dict: A Sketch of their History from the Coming&lt;br /&gt;
of St. Augustine to the Present Day.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The third volume of the series entitled &amp;quot; Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
tures of the World,&amp;quot; which Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
publishes, will be &amp;quot;Italian Literature,&amp;quot; by Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Richard Garnett. It will appear early in the&lt;br /&gt;
autumn. Three months later &amp;quot;English Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture,&amp;quot; by Mr. Edmund Gosse, the editor of&lt;br /&gt;
the series, will be ready.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. Forrest, Director of Records, Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of Tndia, is to write &amp;quot;A History of&lt;br /&gt;
British India&amp;quot; for the important project, the&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge Historical Series.&lt;br /&gt;
The Historical Society of Trinity College,&lt;br /&gt;
Dublin, is co-operating with the National Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Dublin to celebrate the centenary&lt;br /&gt;
of Burke&amp;#039;s death. It is proposed to hold a&lt;br /&gt;
public meeting in November, and to erect a&lt;br /&gt;
tablet on the house in which Burke was born.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Phoebe Allen, whose work in interesting&lt;br /&gt;
children and spreading their love for Nature is&lt;br /&gt;
well known, is the editor of a small botanical&lt;br /&gt;
quarterly called the Sunchildren&amp;#039;s Budget, which&lt;br /&gt;
is the organ of two botany clubs, the second of&lt;br /&gt;
which is for children. Readers of this paper who&lt;br /&gt;
are interested in the subjects are invited to make&lt;br /&gt;
the acquaintance of the magazine for their&lt;br /&gt;
children.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Butcher, wife of Dean Butcher of Cairo,&lt;br /&gt;
will publish in October a book on Egypt, where&lt;br /&gt;
she has lived for nearly twenty years. It gives&lt;br /&gt;
an outline of the history of Egypt from the time&lt;br /&gt;
of the Roman occupation in the year 30 b.c. to the&lt;br /&gt;
English occupation in the year 1882 a.d., and so&lt;br /&gt;
will fill a blank in our knowledge of that ancient&lt;br /&gt;
country. As the Christianity of Egypt is the&lt;br /&gt;
connecting thread for all the various epochs com-&lt;br /&gt;
prehended in these twenty centuries, the book&lt;br /&gt;
will be called &amp;quot;The Story of the Church of&lt;br /&gt;
Egypt.&amp;quot; Messrs. Smith and Elder are the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, and it will appear in two volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
A story of public school life, entitled &amp;quot; The Gift&lt;br /&gt;
of God,&amp;quot; is about to be brought out in volume&lt;br /&gt;
form. It is by Mrs. Laffan, the wife of the Prin-&lt;br /&gt;
cipal of Cheltenham College; better known to the&lt;br /&gt;
reading public by her former name&mdash;&amp;quot; Mrs. Leith&lt;br /&gt;
Adams.&amp;quot; Mrs. Laffan gave a lecture at the&lt;br /&gt;
Ladies&amp;#039; College, Cheltenham, last month, on the&lt;br /&gt;
subject of &amp;quot;Fictional Literature as a Profession&lt;br /&gt;
for Women.&amp;quot; It has created great interest, and&lt;br /&gt;
will be repeated. New editions of &amp;quot;Madelon&lt;br /&gt;
Lemoine,&amp;quot; and&amp;quot; The Old Pastures,&amp;quot; by this&lt;br /&gt;
writer, are in the press.&lt;br /&gt;
Volume 2 of Mr. Edwin 0. Sachs&amp;#039; monumental&lt;br /&gt;
work, &amp;quot;Modern Opera Houses and Theatres,&amp;quot; has&lt;br /&gt;
now been issued, and with it, perhaps, that part&lt;br /&gt;
of the undertaking which appeals most to the&lt;br /&gt;
general public has seen its completion, for the&lt;br /&gt;
third volume, due in December, will mainly deal&lt;br /&gt;
with the historical and practical details of theatre&lt;br /&gt;
construction, finance, and management, and have&lt;br /&gt;
an essentially technical character. Mr. Sachs has&lt;br /&gt;
been able to extend materially the scope of the&lt;br /&gt;
second volume beyond what was originally in-&lt;br /&gt;
tended, so that the part now completed contains&lt;br /&gt;
descriptions of over fifty playhouses in Europe,&lt;br /&gt;
with no less than 450 illustrations. Most of the&lt;br /&gt;
latter are on plates. Every country is represented,&lt;br /&gt;
including Russia with three theatres, Roumania&lt;br /&gt;
and Greece with one each. Garnier&amp;#039;s charming&lt;br /&gt;
theatre at Monte Carlo even stands to do credit&lt;br /&gt;
for the principality of Monaco. The playhouse&lt;br /&gt;
most elaborately illustrated in vol. 2 is the Paris&lt;br /&gt;
Opera House, and the French capital is further&lt;br /&gt;
represented by the new Opera Comique in course&lt;br /&gt;
of construction, and the Eden Varietv Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
81&lt;br /&gt;
The great Vienna Opera House heads the Austrian&lt;br /&gt;
examples in vol. 2, whilst Her Majesty&amp;#039;s takes&lt;br /&gt;
a similar position among our metropolitan houses.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sachs has received great assistance from&lt;br /&gt;
many foreign Governments whilst preparing the&lt;br /&gt;
work, and many of the names prominently asso-&lt;br /&gt;
ciated with drama on the one hand, and with&lt;br /&gt;
architecture on the other, will also be found on&lt;br /&gt;
his list of subscribers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur Lee Knight has a new book for&lt;br /&gt;
boys in the press, entitled &amp;quot;Under the White&lt;br /&gt;
Ensign; or, for Queen and Empire.&amp;quot; Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Jarrold are the publishers, and the volume will&lt;br /&gt;
be profusely illustrated by Mr. J. B. Greene, who&lt;br /&gt;
makes a special study of naval subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The King&amp;#039;s Oak&amp;quot; will be the title of a volume&lt;br /&gt;
of stories by Robert Cromie, which Messrs. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Aickin and Co., Limited, of Belfast, have in the&lt;br /&gt;
press. Mr. Cromie is best known as the author&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot; The Crack of Doom,&amp;quot; which had an extraordi-&lt;br /&gt;
nary circulation in Sir GeorgeNewnes&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Famous&lt;br /&gt;
Books &amp;quot; series.&lt;br /&gt;
The author of &amp;quot; The Song-Book of Bethia Hard-&lt;br /&gt;
acre&amp;quot; (Chapman and Hall) is Mrs. (not Miss)&lt;br /&gt;
Fuller Maitland.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Demon of Santa Fc,&amp;quot; by Mr. Farquhar&lt;br /&gt;
Palliser (Heber K. Daniels), commences in the&lt;br /&gt;
current number of Eureka: The Playgoers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine, conjointly with &amp;quot;A Romance of Nor-&lt;br /&gt;
way,&amp;quot; from the same pen, in No. 4 of the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Favourite Illustrated Stories.&amp;quot; A sequel to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Palliser&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Me and Jim,&amp;quot; entitled &amp;quot; Our Tenants,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
will also be published by the same publishers&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
the Favourite Publishing Company, Pentonville-&lt;br /&gt;
road.&lt;br /&gt;
The Navy and Army Illustrated (edited by&lt;br /&gt;
Commander C. N. Robinson, R.N.) is devoting a&lt;br /&gt;
series of special numbers to the Yeomanry and&lt;br /&gt;
Volunteers. The title of the work is &amp;quot;Our&lt;br /&gt;
Citizen Army,&amp;quot; and the entire letterpress is by&lt;br /&gt;
Callum Beg, author of &amp;quot; The Life of a Soldier,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. The second number of the series was lately&lt;br /&gt;
published and contains some fifty or sixty&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations descriptive of the duties falling&lt;br /&gt;
to the lot of our citizen soldiers in camp and&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Cruelties of Civilisation.&amp;quot;&mdash;Early in August&lt;br /&gt;
the Humanitarian League will issue the third&lt;br /&gt;
volume of its publications. It will contain the&lt;br /&gt;
following essays: &amp;quot;Literce Humaniores: An&lt;br /&gt;
Appeal to Teachers,&amp;quot; by Henry S. Salt; &amp;quot;Public&lt;br /&gt;
Control of Hospitals,&amp;quot; by Harry Roberts; &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Shadow of the Sword,&amp;quot; by G. W. Foote; &amp;quot;What&lt;br /&gt;
it Costs to be Vaccinated,&amp;quot; by Joseph Collinson;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Gallows and the Lash,&amp;quot; by Hypatia Brad-&lt;br /&gt;
laugh Bonner; &amp;quot;The Sweating System,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Maurice Adams; &amp;quot;The Humanities of Diet,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
H. S. Salt. One of the League&amp;#039;s new pamphlets&lt;br /&gt;
will deal with the English Game Laws.&lt;br /&gt;
FASHIONS IN LANGUAGE.&lt;br /&gt;
VERT great men may almost be said to be&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;of no time.&amp;quot; The English of Shakspeare&lt;br /&gt;
is still modern, and one reads it with more&lt;br /&gt;
ease and pleasure than that of much more recent&lt;br /&gt;
writers; the reason being that he writes sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
and is but little swayed by the thoughtless&lt;br /&gt;
fashions of his day. This is not the case with a&lt;br /&gt;
vast majority of even good authors; most of whom&lt;br /&gt;
are content to swim with the tide, and to gain a&lt;br /&gt;
temporary success at the cost of all chance&lt;br /&gt;
of immortality. Addison, Gray, Coleridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Macaulay, Tennyson, are all instances of men who&lt;br /&gt;
have stedfastly resisted such temptations, and of&lt;br /&gt;
whom, therefore, we may feel sure that their&lt;br /&gt;
works will endure and will become classics.&lt;br /&gt;
It is when one turns to the colloquial idiom&lt;br /&gt;
recorded by writers of various times that one&lt;br /&gt;
observes how fashions affect our language, and&lt;br /&gt;
realises what changes are in store for it among&lt;br /&gt;
the multitudes of so-called &amp;quot;English-speaking&lt;br /&gt;
people&amp;quot; that are growing up in America and the&lt;br /&gt;
Colonies. Yet precisely similar changes have been&lt;br /&gt;
always going on, even in the comparatively small&lt;br /&gt;
and well-trained circle of London society, without&lt;br /&gt;
seriously affecting the purity of written English.&lt;br /&gt;
Time and space would not suffice for a com-&lt;br /&gt;
plete exemplification of these remarks; we may&lt;br /&gt;
however, find enough to justify them in con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidering one class of words&mdash;the adjectives and&lt;br /&gt;
adverbs by which indolent and ill-trained men and&lt;br /&gt;
women have been wont to express intenseness and&lt;br /&gt;
superlative quality. Thus, in the London of the&lt;br /&gt;
Revolution, when institutions began to be fixed&lt;br /&gt;
and West-end society to become organised, we&lt;br /&gt;
find colloquialism of this sort recorded by Con-&lt;br /&gt;
preve and the Spectator; and the fine ladies and&lt;br /&gt;
their beaux at once began to coin current epithets&lt;br /&gt;
which circulated with but little regard to their&lt;br /&gt;
intrinsic value. Mrs. Fainall hates her husband&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;transcendentally&amp;quot;; Mirabell is a &amp;quot;pretty&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
fellow; Cleantha has been &amp;quot;hugely&amp;quot; diverted.&lt;br /&gt;
Then comes the Hanoverian age, beginning with&lt;br /&gt;
George II. and ending with George IV., when&lt;br /&gt;
convention was lord of all, and &amp;quot; enthusiasm&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
was regarded as a form of insanity. Here we&lt;br /&gt;
come upon yet more artificial epithets, the paper-&lt;br /&gt;
money of social intercourse. Not only are words&lt;br /&gt;
used without any pretence of their proper signifi-&lt;br /&gt;
cation, but the lords and ladies who set the&lt;br /&gt;
fashion do not even deign to employ the neces-&lt;br /&gt;
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82&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sary termination to indicate an adverbial meaning&lt;br /&gt;
The characters in Miss Burney&amp;#039;s novels talk of a&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;monstrous handsome woman,&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;prodi-&lt;br /&gt;
gious pretty place;&amp;quot; like the mediaeval emperor,&lt;br /&gt;
they are above grammar, though they can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
be said to have mastered that humble science.&lt;br /&gt;
Many other instances will occur to readers of&lt;br /&gt;
eighteenth century books, and will be even found&lt;br /&gt;
in sermons and works intended to be dignified.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Respectable &amp;quot; is used as a high form of praise;&lt;br /&gt;
few words, indeed, can have more changed their&lt;br /&gt;
value.&lt;br /&gt;
Boswell writes of &amp;quot;Chief Baron Smith of&lt;br /&gt;
respectable and pious memory,&amp;quot; where he evidently&lt;br /&gt;
means to exhaust eulogy. Two other favourite&lt;br /&gt;
epithets of the period have fallen from their high&lt;br /&gt;
estate&mdash;&amp;quot;elegant&amp;quot;and &amp;quot;genteel,&amp;quot; the former used&lt;br /&gt;
to mean much what we mean when we say that a&lt;br /&gt;
lady is refined, or that her hospitality is gracious;&lt;br /&gt;
the latter meant well bred or polite.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Chesterfield, about the middle of the&lt;br /&gt;
period, touched the subject with his habitual&lt;br /&gt;
plesantry:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not content,&amp;quot; writes the witty peer, &amp;quot;with&lt;br /&gt;
enriching our language with words absolutely&lt;br /&gt;
new, my fair countrywomen have gone still&lt;br /&gt;
farther and improved it by the application and&lt;br /&gt;
extension of old ones to various and very different&lt;br /&gt;
significations. They take a word and change it,&lt;br /&gt;
like a guinea into shillings for pocket-money, to&lt;br /&gt;
be employed in the several occasional purposes of&lt;br /&gt;
the day. For instance, adjective vast, and its&lt;br /&gt;
adverb vastly, mean anything. . . . Large&lt;br /&gt;
objects are vastly great, small ones are vastly&lt;br /&gt;
little; and I had lately the pleasure to hear a&lt;br /&gt;
fine woman pronounce a very small gold snuff-&lt;br /&gt;
box that was produced in company to be vastly&lt;br /&gt;
pretty because it was vastly little.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
On this Walpole noted: &amp;quot;Humming is a cant&lt;br /&gt;
word for vast. A person meaning to describe a&lt;br /&gt;
very large bird, said &amp;#039;It was a humming bird.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Surely we seem to be on familiar ground here.&lt;br /&gt;
Is it not the fact that for the last thirty years we&lt;br /&gt;
have had &amp;quot;cant words,&amp;quot; or intensive expletives,&lt;br /&gt;
of at least equal absurdity?&lt;br /&gt;
What is the meaning of a lady who is awfully&lt;br /&gt;
ugly, but has an airfu/ly jolly house?&amp;quot; Or of&lt;br /&gt;
the young officer who comes down to breakfast in&lt;br /&gt;
a strange house declaring that he has had &amp;quot;a&lt;br /&gt;
rippin&amp;#039; night&amp;#039;s rest?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
H. G. K.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;Corruptions of the Language,&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR&amp;quot; is fulfilling several useful&lt;br /&gt;
functions, and its usefulness seems to&lt;br /&gt;
grow with every month.&lt;br /&gt;
The suggestion of &amp;quot; E. W. H.&amp;quot; appears to me&lt;br /&gt;
to be an excellent one; and I shall be glad to&lt;br /&gt;
support it.&lt;br /&gt;
But I am hunting smaller game just now; and&lt;br /&gt;
I ask for only a few lines of your journal to call&lt;br /&gt;
attention to a minor nuisance. The English&lt;br /&gt;
language is in daily danger of being corrupted&lt;br /&gt;
by slovenly phrases introduced by journalists&lt;br /&gt;
and reporters in a hurry; and it might be one of&lt;br /&gt;
the duties, and one of the privileges, of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author to guard the purity of the language, in&lt;br /&gt;
so far as this is possible and practicable for any&lt;br /&gt;
one journal. But, as The Author is read by&lt;br /&gt;
hundreds of men and women who write, and who&lt;br /&gt;
have an honest respect for the language they&lt;br /&gt;
write in, it is, probably, a task that becomes it&lt;br /&gt;
well, to exclude from the language words and&lt;br /&gt;
phrases that are &amp;quot;bad English&amp;quot; or ungram-&lt;br /&gt;
matical, or ill-sounding.&lt;br /&gt;
An obituary notice of Mrs. Oliphant in the&lt;br /&gt;
July number of The Author, concludes with&lt;br /&gt;
the words: &amp;quot;Mrs. Oliphant was predeceased by&lt;br /&gt;
her husband and two sons.&amp;quot; Now, I did not&lt;br /&gt;
expect to find that in The Author. Let me talk&lt;br /&gt;
grammar for a minute; I will try not to bore you.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Predeceased by &amp;quot; is clearly a verb in the passive&lt;br /&gt;
voice. If one can &amp;quot;be predeceased,&amp;quot; it follows&lt;br /&gt;
that one can &amp;quot;decease&amp;quot; and even &amp;quot;predecease.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Then &amp;quot; decease&amp;quot; is an active verb. What is to&lt;br /&gt;
decease/ There is no such verb in the English&lt;br /&gt;
language. Still less is there the verb to pre-&lt;br /&gt;
decease. The writer might have given the sad&lt;br /&gt;
facts in a truer way if he had not gone after&lt;br /&gt;
Latin words, but kept within the bounds of his&lt;br /&gt;
mother tongue: &amp;quot;Mrs. Oliphant was a widow;&lt;br /&gt;
and all her children had died before her.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
There is another Latin word that is hauled in&lt;br /&gt;
by every penny-a-liner with fatal facility and&lt;br /&gt;
unpleasant results. I saw this heading in a&lt;br /&gt;
country newspaper the other day: &amp;quot;Demise of a&lt;br /&gt;
Dundee Baker in Canada.&amp;quot; What is a demise*&lt;br /&gt;
It is a demissio&mdash;a handing down (of the crown&lt;br /&gt;
or of some title). Shakespeare has the verb to&lt;br /&gt;
demise in the sense of to bequeath. Mr. Greville,&lt;br /&gt;
in his Memoirs (quoted in the Century Dictionary),&lt;br /&gt;
writes: &amp;quot;Now arose anew difficulty&mdash;whether the&lt;br /&gt;
property of the late king demised to the king or&lt;br /&gt;
to the Crown.&amp;quot; Here the word demise is rightly&lt;br /&gt;
used. An act of demise is a handing down of&lt;br /&gt;
something to somebody. But the small journalist&lt;br /&gt;
saw the word, liked the sound of it and the look&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
83&lt;br /&gt;
of it, didn&amp;#039;t know what it meant, took the ignotum&lt;br /&gt;
pro magnifico, and applied it to the death of the&lt;br /&gt;
first person he had to mention the departure of.&lt;br /&gt;
As I am on the prowl for a few minutes, I will&lt;br /&gt;
mention another piece of bad English that seems&lt;br /&gt;
likely to gain and to keep a place in our language.&lt;br /&gt;
It is the American vulgarism &amp;quot; at that.&amp;quot; Anyone&lt;br /&gt;
whose ear has been trained by the reading of the&lt;br /&gt;
best English prose, must be shocked by the use of&lt;br /&gt;
a phrase so unrhythmical.&lt;br /&gt;
I should like to suggest to you the usefulness&lt;br /&gt;
of setting apart a column as a sort of Index&lt;br /&gt;
Expurgatorius, in which all kinds of bad English&lt;br /&gt;
and slovenly grammar would be gibbeted, as the&lt;br /&gt;
gamekeeper nails stoats and other vermin to the&lt;br /&gt;
barn door. J. M. D. Meiklejohn.&lt;br /&gt;
St. Andrew&amp;#039;s, July 6.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;Editor and Contributor.&lt;br /&gt;
What is the law in the following supposed&lt;br /&gt;
case? I write an article, more or less ephemeral,&lt;br /&gt;
and send it to a daily paper. I receive a proof;&lt;br /&gt;
on it is a notice that such proof is no guarantee&lt;br /&gt;
that the article will be accepted or published.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, therefore, no contract.&lt;br /&gt;
I send a copy of the same article to another&lt;br /&gt;
daily paper, which at once prints and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishes it.&lt;br /&gt;
It happens that on the first of the Greek&lt;br /&gt;
Kalends my article appears in both papers.&lt;br /&gt;
Has either paper any remedy against me, or&lt;br /&gt;
are they both equally in my debt?&lt;br /&gt;
Delay spells ruin to an ephemeral article; how&lt;br /&gt;
am I to view the notice printed on the proof&lt;br /&gt;
slip? Dubious.&lt;br /&gt;
[My opinion is that, if the author of the article&lt;br /&gt;
in question was not able, or willing, to take his&lt;br /&gt;
chance, he should have kept the proof and&lt;br /&gt;
informed the editor of his intention to offer it&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere, unless he received a note of acceptance&lt;br /&gt;
or contract to publish. I do not think that he&lt;br /&gt;
was justified in sending it to the second paper&lt;br /&gt;
without such warning or notification to the first&lt;br /&gt;
paper. Clearly, the editor of the first paper&lt;br /&gt;
was entitled to believe that the article was offered&lt;br /&gt;
to him alone. By the decision of the Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
County Court in the case of &amp;quot;Macdonald v.&lt;br /&gt;
National Revieic,&amp;quot; the forwarding of a proof is&lt;br /&gt;
in itself an acceptance of the article, or a contract&lt;br /&gt;
to pay for it, if not to publish it. The notice&lt;br /&gt;
that the proof is not a guarantee of acceptance&lt;br /&gt;
is probably sent with the proof in consequence of&lt;br /&gt;
that decision.&mdash;Ed.]&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;English Novels in Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
I have read with considerable surprise the&lt;br /&gt;
statement of your contributor, &amp;quot; E. W. H.,&amp;quot; to the&lt;br /&gt;
effect that &amp;quot; Germans have found it necessary to-&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
forbid the perusal by young girls of English&lt;br /&gt;
novels.&amp;quot; The italics are his.&lt;br /&gt;
After a comprehensive study of the works of&lt;br /&gt;
prominent German writers of to-day, I confess it&lt;br /&gt;
would seem to me quite unnecessary to banish&lt;br /&gt;
even some very advanced English novels from the&lt;br /&gt;
library unless, at the s:ime time, an enormous per-&lt;br /&gt;
centage of the romances read, with or without&lt;br /&gt;
permission of the parents, by girls of seventeen or&lt;br /&gt;
younger, were forbidden at the same time. Per-&lt;br /&gt;
sonally, I have the greatest admiration for the&lt;br /&gt;
style and literary merits of works I could men-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, written by leading Teuton (men and women)&lt;br /&gt;
authors; but it is impossible to deny that few&lt;br /&gt;
books which attain general popularity in the&lt;br /&gt;
Fatherland would escape the verdict in England&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot;highly pernicious,&amp;quot; or that they would&lt;br /&gt;
instantly be locked away on the shelf with the&lt;br /&gt;
glass windows, of which only &amp;quot; papa&amp;quot; is supposed&lt;br /&gt;
to have the key.&lt;br /&gt;
As the assertion in question is not&amp;quot; E. W. H.&amp;#039;s&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
own, I trust he will forgive me for taking up the&lt;br /&gt;
cudgels in defence of English literature.&lt;br /&gt;
Gwendoline Ashworth-Edwards.&lt;br /&gt;
Germany. ii&amp;lt;ri&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;A Query.&lt;br /&gt;
I should feel much obliged if any reader of &amp;#039;The&lt;br /&gt;
Author could give a definite rule, or refer to a&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory authority, in the following cases:&lt;br /&gt;
(a) The correct form of the predicate verb,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;when two or more pronouns of different persons,&lt;br /&gt;
are connected by alternative conjunctions.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
According to Professor Bain, there is a diver-&lt;br /&gt;
gence of use among classical writers.&lt;br /&gt;
(/?) The correct auxiliary to be used with&lt;br /&gt;
verbs of motion.&lt;br /&gt;
(y) The present day use of, and distinction&lt;br /&gt;
between, the prepositions &amp;quot; by &amp;quot; and &amp;quot; with.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A. E. Aldington.&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;Transliteration.&lt;br /&gt;
With reference to the note by &amp;quot;H. G. K.&amp;quot; on&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Transliteration&amp;quot; in The Author for this month,&lt;br /&gt;
I beg to point out that the congress he wishes for&lt;br /&gt;
has sat, and to a great extent settled the question.&lt;br /&gt;
At the Tenth Oriental Congress, held at Geneva&lt;br /&gt;
in 1894, on the motion of Lord Reay, President&lt;br /&gt;
of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, a&lt;br /&gt;
commission was appointed to consider this&lt;br /&gt;
subject. The scheme adopted by the commission&lt;br /&gt;
was printed in the Proceedings of the Congress,&lt;br /&gt;
and a translation of it was published in the&lt;br /&gt;
Asiatic Society&amp;#039;s Journal for October, 1895.&lt;br /&gt;
This system has, with a few alterations, been&lt;br /&gt;
adopted by the society, and earnestly recom-&lt;br /&gt;
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84&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
mended for adoption by all writers on Oriental&lt;br /&gt;
subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
As one who has written and published a good&lt;br /&gt;
deal on Indian languages, I am deeply impressed&lt;br /&gt;
with the necessity of uniformity on this point&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
not for the sake of Oriental scholars, to whom,&lt;br /&gt;
knowing as they do the words in their Oriental&lt;br /&gt;
alphabets, transliteration is of little moment, but&lt;br /&gt;
for the general public, who are apt to be bewil-&lt;br /&gt;
dered by diversity of spelling. The system&lt;br /&gt;
adopted by the Geneva Congress does not com-&lt;br /&gt;
mend itself to me in every particular, and in such&lt;br /&gt;
of my writings as are intended for students of&lt;br /&gt;
Oriental languages only I could not conscien-&lt;br /&gt;
tiously adopt some of the Roman equivalents&lt;br /&gt;
proposed, as I consider them misleading. But in&lt;br /&gt;
writing for the general public this objection&lt;br /&gt;
would not arise, and the Geneva system might&lt;br /&gt;
be used. I think, however, for general use&lt;br /&gt;
the employment of dots and diacritical signs&lt;br /&gt;
would have to be dispensed with, as the public&lt;br /&gt;
would not understand them without previous&lt;br /&gt;
study&mdash;and the public has no time to study such&lt;br /&gt;
matters.&lt;br /&gt;
In the Arabic language there are four letters,&lt;br /&gt;
all of which in India are pronounced as z, three&lt;br /&gt;
which are pronounced s, and two pronounced t.&lt;br /&gt;
It would suffice to write all these letters as they&lt;br /&gt;
are pronounced without putting dots under them.&lt;br /&gt;
But then the four letters pronounced as z in India&lt;br /&gt;
are pronounced differently in other Mahomedan&lt;br /&gt;
countries. For instance, the name of the month&lt;br /&gt;
during which all good Muslims fast is pronounced&lt;br /&gt;
in India and Persia Ramzan, while in Arabia and&lt;br /&gt;
Turkey it is pronounced Ramadhan (i.e., like the&lt;br /&gt;
two English words &amp;quot;rummer &amp;quot; and &amp;quot;darn,&amp;quot; not&lt;br /&gt;
like &amp;quot;rammer&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dan&amp;quot;). I do not think&lt;br /&gt;
any system, except one which hideously distorted&lt;br /&gt;
them, would enable the Englishman who is unac-&lt;br /&gt;
quainted with Arabic to pronounce these words&lt;br /&gt;
properly at sight&mdash;one would not like to see the&lt;br /&gt;
word written &amp;quot; rummer darn!&amp;quot; The short indis-&lt;br /&gt;
tinct vowel which is so very frequent in Oriental&lt;br /&gt;
languages creates a great difficulty. The sound&lt;br /&gt;
of it is exactly the same as the u in English&lt;br /&gt;
bun, sun, run. It is also the same as the unac-&lt;br /&gt;
cented e in the French le, jc, me; and the half&lt;br /&gt;
audible c at the end of German eine, meine, gate.&lt;br /&gt;
But it is also the same as the final unaccented a in&lt;br /&gt;
America, woman. Consequently the Geneva&lt;br /&gt;
Congress, following an already established rule,&lt;br /&gt;
has adopted a to express this sound, and this&lt;br /&gt;
course is now followed by all Oriental scholars.&lt;br /&gt;
French writers (not scholars), however, use e.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus the general whose name we should pro-&lt;br /&gt;
nounce in India as Uzzum Pasha, appears in&lt;br /&gt;
Thessaly as Edhem, and Muhammad is written&lt;br /&gt;
Mehemet.&lt;br /&gt;
While, therefore, absolute uniformity is,per haps,&lt;br /&gt;
not likely to be attained soon, it might be an&lt;br /&gt;
advantage if the alphabet adopted by the Geneva&lt;br /&gt;
Congress were made more geuerally known, and&lt;br /&gt;
used by English writers at least. Foreign writers&lt;br /&gt;
may perhaps in time consent to use it also.&lt;br /&gt;
John Beames.&lt;br /&gt;
Netherclay House, Bishop&amp;#039;s Hull,&lt;br /&gt;
Taunton, July 6.&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&mdash;Subjunctive Mood: Its Present Day&lt;br /&gt;
Use.&lt;br /&gt;
Your correspondent might have ascertained&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lang&amp;#039;s views on this subject by a shorter&lt;br /&gt;
process than the study of 68,000 words.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I,&amp;quot; says Prince Prigio, &amp;quot;unworthy as I am,&lt;br /&gt;
represent the sole hope of the Royal Family.&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore to send me after the Fired rake were*&lt;br /&gt;
both dangerous and unnecessary.&amp;quot; To which the&lt;br /&gt;
author appends a note: *&amp;quot; Subjunctive mood!&lt;br /&gt;
He was a great grammarian!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Apparently a suspicion of priggishness attaches&lt;br /&gt;
at the present day even to the use of &amp;quot;the sub-&lt;br /&gt;
junctive of to be after if.&amp;quot; E. C. S.&lt;br /&gt;
VII.&mdash;Cost of Production.&lt;br /&gt;
In re the letter of &amp;quot;S. R.,&amp;quot; published on page&lt;br /&gt;
38 of the current issue of The Author, I think he&lt;br /&gt;
is quite wrong in his deduction that because a&lt;br /&gt;
decent publisher declines to accept a book that&lt;br /&gt;
therefore it is not worth publishing! Not so,&lt;br /&gt;
friend &amp;quot; S. R.&amp;quot;! However meritorious a book is,&lt;br /&gt;
many publishers will not accept it unless the&lt;br /&gt;
author has already a well-known name in the&lt;br /&gt;
literary world, as they think that without this the&lt;br /&gt;
work will not &amp;quot;catch on.&amp;quot; The commercial side&lt;br /&gt;
comes in, you see, and publishers will not take&lt;br /&gt;
the first plunge.&lt;br /&gt;
The refusal of a book by a decent publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
no sign that it is not worth publishing, for it is&lt;br /&gt;
not its literary merit so much as the status of&lt;br /&gt;
the author that the publisher considers. Many&lt;br /&gt;
historic cases&mdash;&amp;quot; Vanity Fair,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Jane Eyre,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. &mdash; prove this. My own book, &amp;quot;Fisherman&lt;br /&gt;
Fancies,&amp;quot; Elliot Stock declined to bring out at&lt;br /&gt;
his own risk, and yet it was much praised by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
R. D. Blackmore, and had capital reviews from&lt;br /&gt;
good London and provincial journals.&lt;br /&gt;
F. B. Doveton.&lt;br /&gt;
VIII&mdash;How Long?&lt;br /&gt;
Here is another choice experience of the&lt;br /&gt;
courtesy of editors. Last December I submitted&lt;br /&gt;
a contribution to a weekly paper circulating in&lt;br /&gt;
the parish where I reside. No acknowledgment&lt;br /&gt;
was vouchsafed. After a couple of reminders, it&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
85&lt;br /&gt;
has to-day been sent back, declined with thanks.&lt;br /&gt;
Seven months to consider a short story! It is&lt;br /&gt;
difficult to believe that a small suburban news-&lt;br /&gt;
paper can find any valid excuse for so long a&lt;br /&gt;
detention of manuscript. C. C.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Club, July 15.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;■&raquo;&bull;&laquo;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
LITERATURE IN THE PERIODICALS.&lt;br /&gt;
On Commencing Author. Quarterly Review for July.&lt;br /&gt;
On the Complaints op Authors. A. T. Q. C&lt;br /&gt;
Speaker for July 3.&lt;br /&gt;
The Proposed School op Fiction. A. T. Quiller&lt;br /&gt;
Coach. Pall Hall Magazine for Jaly.&lt;br /&gt;
John Sterling, and a Correspondence between&lt;br /&gt;
Sterling and Emerson. Edward Waldo Emerson.&lt;br /&gt;
Atlantic Monthly for July.&lt;br /&gt;
Some Reminiscences op English Journalism Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Wemysa Reid. Nineteenth Century for July.&lt;br /&gt;
Pascal. Leslie Stephen. Fortnightly Review for July.&lt;br /&gt;
A Woman Poet [Mme. Marceline Valmore]. Fort-&lt;br /&gt;
nightly Review for July.&lt;br /&gt;
The paper in the Quarterly Review has been&lt;br /&gt;
treated elsewhere (see Notes and News).&lt;br /&gt;
A practical suggestion the Quarterly Review&lt;br /&gt;
makes has regard to the work of agents. At the&lt;br /&gt;
present time, many agents only look at the work&lt;br /&gt;
of well-known people; but the writer seems to&lt;br /&gt;
foresee considerable remuneration to a firm who&lt;br /&gt;
will announce themselves as the depositaries of&lt;br /&gt;
everything&mdash;sonnets, epics, turnovers for a paper,&lt;br /&gt;
or anything else, by servant girls, duchesses, or&lt;br /&gt;
eminent men. For these they would have to give&lt;br /&gt;
an immediate receipt. They would be free to send&lt;br /&gt;
back at once anything considered unmarketable.&lt;br /&gt;
They would be at liberty to charge (say) ten per&lt;br /&gt;
cent, on whatever they obtained for the item, and to&lt;br /&gt;
pay themselves. There would be no temptation to&lt;br /&gt;
dishonesty, because the action of the percentage&lt;br /&gt;
and the immediate receipt for the document would&lt;br /&gt;
be so self-working. It will be noticed that the&lt;br /&gt;
idea is substantially that which Mr. Isidore G.&lt;br /&gt;
Ascher put forward in the July number of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Just before the latest Quarterly appeared,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Quiller Couch had been writing his view that&lt;br /&gt;
the commercial side of the literary calling has&lt;br /&gt;
been too prominent of late. He believes &amp;quot; that&lt;br /&gt;
writing has aims and rewards of its own which&lt;br /&gt;
must and always will escape what I may call a&lt;br /&gt;
bagman&amp;#039;s estimate, and that if a man can only&lt;br /&gt;
bring a bagman&amp;#039;s estimate to this calling, a bag-&lt;br /&gt;
man he had better be.&amp;quot; The author and the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, is a case of the workman and the&lt;br /&gt;
capitalist; and &amp;quot;give and take&amp;quot; is the best&lt;br /&gt;
motto for each. There is a class of authors,&lt;br /&gt;
one would point out to Mr. Couch, who take&lt;br /&gt;
their money, as much as they can get, and then&lt;br /&gt;
pretend not to care how much it is. There is, as&lt;br /&gt;
a rule, no one more anxious for money than the&lt;br /&gt;
writer who talks big about bagmen. Those who&lt;br /&gt;
know how to separate literary from commercial&lt;br /&gt;
value do not talk about the sordidness of keeping&lt;br /&gt;
watch over property.&lt;br /&gt;
An interesting friendship between Emerson and&lt;br /&gt;
Sterling is revealed by Mr. E. Waldo Emerson.&lt;br /&gt;
The correspondence (they never met) that passed&lt;br /&gt;
between the American poet and the British man&lt;br /&gt;
of letters, here published for the first time, shows&lt;br /&gt;
their relations to have originated by Emerson&lt;br /&gt;
sending a presentation copy of his &amp;quot;Essays.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Sterling acknowledges this in a letter from&lt;br /&gt;
Clifton, dated Sept. 30,1839. &amp;quot;I have read very,&lt;br /&gt;
very little modern English writing that has&lt;br /&gt;
pleased, me so much,&amp;quot; he says; &amp;quot;among recent&lt;br /&gt;
productions almost only those of our friend&lt;br /&gt;
Carlyle, whose shaggy-browed and deep-eyed&lt;br /&gt;
thoughts have often a likeDess to yours which is&lt;br /&gt;
very attractive and impressive, neither evidently&lt;br /&gt;
being the double of the other.&amp;quot; Emerson, in re-&lt;br /&gt;
plying, criticises Sterling&amp;#039;s volume of poems,&lt;br /&gt;
saying, &amp;quot;I must count him happy who has this&lt;br /&gt;
delirious music in his brain;&amp;quot; and &amp;quot; I am natu-&lt;br /&gt;
rally keenly susceptible of the pleasures of rhythm,&lt;br /&gt;
and cannot believe but that one day&mdash;I ask not&lt;br /&gt;
where or when&mdash;I shall attain to the speech of&lt;br /&gt;
this splendid dialect.&amp;quot; There are twenty letters&lt;br /&gt;
altogether, eight of them Emerson&amp;#039;s. They are&lt;br /&gt;
made up of criticisms of literature, and passages&lt;br /&gt;
of tender personal sympathy with trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Ill-health, many petty concerns, much loco-&lt;br /&gt;
motion, and infinite laziness,&amp;quot; are Sterling&amp;#039;s first&lt;br /&gt;
excuse for delay; and the Eame reason of ill-&lt;br /&gt;
health continues until in June, 1844, when he is&lt;br /&gt;
dying, he writes from Ventnor that his condition&lt;br /&gt;
is one of &amp;quot; expecting to be dead in five minutes,&lt;br /&gt;
and noticing the pattern of the room paper&lt;br /&gt;
and of the doctor&amp;#039;s waistcoat as composedly&lt;br /&gt;
as if the whole had been a dream.&amp;quot; We find&lt;br /&gt;
Sterling saying, in 1840, that &amp;quot;Hartley Cole-&lt;br /&gt;
ridge, Alfred Tennyson, and Henry Taylor are&lt;br /&gt;
the only younger men I now think of who have&lt;br /&gt;
shown anything like genius, and the last&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps the most remarkable&mdash;has more of voli-&lt;br /&gt;
tion and understanding than imagination.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In 1842 Sterling thought of visiting New Eng-&lt;br /&gt;
land. &amp;quot;Come and bring your scroll in hand,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
promptly writes the American sage. &amp;quot;Come to&lt;br /&gt;
Boston and Concord, and I will go to Niagara&lt;br /&gt;
with you. I have never been there.&amp;quot; Again he&lt;br /&gt;
writes, introducing his countryman Bronson Alcott&lt;br /&gt;
as &amp;quot; a man who cannot write, but whose conver-&lt;br /&gt;
sation is unrivalled in its way&mdash;such insight, such&lt;br /&gt;
discernment of spirits, such pure intellectual play,&lt;br /&gt;
such revolutionary impulses of thought.&amp;quot; Another&lt;br /&gt;
friend Emerson introduces is Henry James, of New&lt;br /&gt;
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86&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
York, &amp;quot;a man of ingenuous and liberal spirit, and&lt;br /&gt;
a chief consolation to me when I visit his city.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Here is one paragraph from a letter of Emerson&amp;#039;s,&lt;br /&gt;
dated January 31, 1844.&lt;br /&gt;
I learned by your last letter that you had builded a&lt;br /&gt;
house, and I glean from Russell all I can of your health and&lt;br /&gt;
aspect; and as James is gone to your island, I think to come&lt;br /&gt;
still nearer to you through his friendly and intelligent eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
Send me a good gossiping letter, and prevent all my proxies.&lt;br /&gt;
What can I tell you to invite such retaliation? I dwell&lt;br /&gt;
with my mother, my wife, and two little girl -. the eldest five&lt;br /&gt;
years old, in the midst of flowery fields. I wasted much&lt;br /&gt;
time from graver work in the last two months in reading&lt;br /&gt;
lectures to Lyceums far and near; for there is now a&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;lyceum,&amp;quot; so oalled, in almost every town in New Eogland,&lt;br /&gt;
and, if I would accept every invitation, I might read a&lt;br /&gt;
lecture every night. My neighbours in this village of&lt;br /&gt;
Concord are Ellery Cbanning, who sent his poems to you, a&lt;br /&gt;
yontb of genius; Thoreau, whose name you may have Been&lt;br /&gt;
in the Dial ; and Hawthorne, a writer of tales and historiettes,&lt;br /&gt;
whose name you may not have Been, though he, too,&lt;br /&gt;
prints books. All these three persons are superior to their&lt;br /&gt;
writings, and, therefore, not obnoxious to Kant&amp;#039;s observa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, &amp;quot; Detestable is the company of literary men.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Emerson was trying to arrange for the printing&lt;br /&gt;
of Sterling&amp;#039;s poems in America, but the project&lt;br /&gt;
hung fire. The reasons are given by Emerson in&lt;br /&gt;
his letter of June 30, 1843, which shows the un-&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory state of the book law at that time:&lt;br /&gt;
Oar whole foreign book market has suffered a revolution&lt;br /&gt;
within eighteen months, by the new practice of printing&lt;br /&gt;
whatever good books or vendible books you send ns, in the&lt;br /&gt;
cheapest newspaper form, and hawking them in the streets&lt;br /&gt;
at twelve, eighteen, and twenty-five cents the whole work;&lt;br /&gt;
and I suppose that fears, if his book should prove&lt;br /&gt;
popular, that it would be pirated at once. I printed Carlyle&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&bull;&amp;#039; Past and Present&amp;quot; two months ago, with a preface beseech-&lt;br /&gt;
ing all honest men to spare our book; but already a wretched&lt;br /&gt;
reprint has appeared, published, to be sure, by a man&lt;br /&gt;
unknown to the trade, whose wretchedness of type and&lt;br /&gt;
paper, I have hope, will still give my edition the market for&lt;br /&gt;
all persons who have eyes and wish to keep them. But,&lt;br /&gt;
beside the risk of piracy, this cheap system hurts the sale&lt;br /&gt;
of dear books, or such whose price contains any profit to&lt;br /&gt;
an author. Add one more unfavonrable incident whioh&lt;br /&gt;
damped the design, that a Philadelphia edition of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sterling&amp;#039;s Poems &amp;quot; was published a year ago, though bo ill&lt;br /&gt;
got up that it did not succeed well, our booksellers think.&lt;br /&gt;
To judge from this year&amp;#039;s issue of Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Kiirschner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Deutsche Litteratur Kalender,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which has been fully described in this journal&lt;br /&gt;
before, the guild of writers must be on the&lt;br /&gt;
increase in Germany. It numbers sixty pages&lt;br /&gt;
more than last year&amp;#039;s issue, and contains much&lt;br /&gt;
new and valuable information. The portraits&lt;br /&gt;
inserted in the present volume are of special&lt;br /&gt;
interest. The one facing the title-page represents&lt;br /&gt;
the popular and prolific romancer Mas Ring, who,&lt;br /&gt;
as we learn from Kiirschner, is a doctor of&lt;br /&gt;
medicine, and will celebrate on the 4th of next&lt;br /&gt;
month his eightieth birthday. Among his&lt;br /&gt;
various successful novels the one entitled &amp;quot;John&lt;br /&gt;
Milton und seine Zeit&amp;quot; has attracted in Germany&lt;br /&gt;
particular attention. The second portrait is that&lt;br /&gt;
of the well-known poet . Detlev von Liliencron.&lt;br /&gt;
As for the rest, the useful literary and biographical&lt;br /&gt;
annual fully maintains its standard, and we&lt;br /&gt;
may cordially recommend it to all who take an&lt;br /&gt;
interest in current German literature.&lt;br /&gt;
PERSONAL.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;|V TE- GEORGE SMITH gave a dinner at&lt;br /&gt;
IVI the Hotel Mctropole, on July 8, to his&lt;br /&gt;
friends and the contributors to the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Dictionary of National Biography.&amp;quot; In pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posing the health of Mr. Sidney Lee, Mr. Smith&lt;br /&gt;
said that twenty-one volumes of the &amp;quot;Dic-&lt;br /&gt;
tionary&amp;quot; had appeared under the editorship of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leslie Stephen, with the assistance of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Sidney Lee; five were edited jointly by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen and Mr. Lee; and twenty-five had been&lt;br /&gt;
produced under the editorship of Mr. Lee. The&lt;br /&gt;
number of contributors was 634; and each volume&lt;br /&gt;
contained between 400 and 500 separate biogra-&lt;br /&gt;
phies. Mr. Lee, in replying to the toast, said&lt;br /&gt;
that when ill-health unhappily compelled Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen to retire from the editorship, it was the&lt;br /&gt;
force of his example that had enabled him to&lt;br /&gt;
carry the work forward to the stage it had&lt;br /&gt;
reached. Mr. Stephen also acknowledged the&lt;br /&gt;
toast. Mr. Lee gave &amp;quot; The Health of the Con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributors,&amp;quot; and Canon Ainger replied. &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Guests who were not Contributors&amp;quot; was proposed&lt;br /&gt;
by the Chairman, who coupled with it the names&lt;br /&gt;
of Viscount Peel and Mr. Lecky. One of the&lt;br /&gt;
most remarkable features of the time, said Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Lecky, was the manner in which individual exer-&lt;br /&gt;
tion had been replaced by corporate work, by&lt;br /&gt;
syndicates and companies. It was old fashioned&lt;br /&gt;
now to think that a history could only be written&lt;br /&gt;
by one hand in a uniform style.&lt;br /&gt;
The Tennyson Memorial in the Isle of Wight&lt;br /&gt;
will be unveiled by Lady Tennyson, and dedicated&lt;br /&gt;
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Friday, the&lt;br /&gt;
6th inst., at 3 p.m. It is placed in Freshwater&lt;br /&gt;
Down, the favourite walk of the late Laureate.&lt;br /&gt;
Mark Twain has declined the fund which was&lt;br /&gt;
set on foot for him by the New York Herald, and&lt;br /&gt;
supported in London by the Westminster Gazette.&lt;br /&gt;
A man who is able to work, he says, should not&lt;br /&gt;
accept charity. The appeal was meeting with&lt;br /&gt;
ready response.&lt;br /&gt;
A successful Dickens fete was held at Broad-&lt;br /&gt;
stairs in the first week of July. The principal&lt;br /&gt;
feature was a fancy dress bazaar, in which the&lt;br /&gt;
stall-holders impersonated characters in the&lt;br /&gt;
novelist&amp;#039;s books. The proceeds will be devoted to&lt;br /&gt;
erecting a club-house and other buildings in&lt;br /&gt;
memory of Charles Dickens.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
87&lt;br /&gt;
OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
MISS JEAN INGELOW died at Kensing-&lt;br /&gt;
ton on July 20, at the age of seventy-&lt;br /&gt;
seven. She came, like Tennyson, of a&lt;br /&gt;
Lincolnshire family (her mother was a Scotch,&lt;br /&gt;
woman of literary inclinations), and was one of a&lt;br /&gt;
banker&amp;#039;s eleven children. Her first volume which&lt;br /&gt;
attained fame was &amp;quot;Poems&amp;quot; (1863), which has&lt;br /&gt;
been popular through the half century that has&lt;br /&gt;
elapsed since. This was her second work, the&lt;br /&gt;
first, &amp;quot;A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and&lt;br /&gt;
Feelings,&amp;quot; having been published anonymously in&lt;br /&gt;
1850. &amp;quot;The Brothers,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; Divided,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot; Songs&lt;br /&gt;
of Seven&amp;quot; were likewise well received; and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Swinburne, for one, paid very high praise&lt;br /&gt;
to &amp;quot;Requiescat in Pace.&amp;quot; Both in this country&lt;br /&gt;
and in the United States her works com-&lt;br /&gt;
manded large sale in the sixties and seventies.&lt;br /&gt;
Her stories in blank verse included &amp;quot; Lawrance&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and &amp;quot;Gladys and Her Island &amp;quot;; &amp;quot;Supper at&lt;br /&gt;
the Mill&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Afternoon at a Parsonage&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
were dainty sketches. The poem by which&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Ingelow is best known is &amp;quot;High Tide&lt;br /&gt;
on the Coast of Lincolnshire,&amp;quot; which is a&lt;br /&gt;
favourite piece with public reciters. She also&lt;br /&gt;
wrote fairy stories for children and novels for the&lt;br /&gt;
young. &amp;quot;Off the Skelligs&amp;quot; was perhaps her&lt;br /&gt;
best prose work. Miss Ingelow seldom revised&lt;br /&gt;
her poems after she had once committed them to&lt;br /&gt;
paper. She shunned publicity, and was a generous&lt;br /&gt;
friend of the poor.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir John Skelton, K.C.B., LL.D., Advocate,&lt;br /&gt;
late Vice-President of the Local Government&lt;br /&gt;
Board for Scotland, died in his native city, Edin-&lt;br /&gt;
burgh, on the 20th ult., aged sixty-six. He was&lt;br /&gt;
the author of several books on public health and&lt;br /&gt;
the poor law; of &amp;quot;Nugse Criticse,&amp;quot; a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
essays published in 1862; and of historical and&lt;br /&gt;
other works, including &amp;quot; A Campaigner at Home,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Impeachment of Mary Stuart,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; Maitland&lt;br /&gt;
of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary Stuart,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Essays in Romance,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
one novel, &amp;quot;Crookit Meg.&amp;quot; It was Disraeli&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
admiration for &amp;quot;Crookit Meg&amp;quot; that removed&lt;br /&gt;
the young barrister from Parliament House at&lt;br /&gt;
Edinburgh to be Secretary of the old Board&lt;br /&gt;
of Supervision. His latest work was &amp;quot;Table&lt;br /&gt;
Talk of Shirley&amp;quot; (1895), of which a second&lt;br /&gt;
series appeared last winter. This work contains&lt;br /&gt;
reminiscences of some of the foremost writers of&lt;br /&gt;
the present reign. Dr. Skelton was a consistent&lt;br /&gt;
admirer of the unfortunate Queen of Scots, but&lt;br /&gt;
this did not interfere with his close friendship&lt;br /&gt;
with Froude. Under the pseudonym of &amp;quot; Shirley&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
lie was a frequent contributor to Frasers and&lt;br /&gt;
Blackwood&amp;#039;s. He was the original of Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Glenalmond in Stevenson&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; Weir of Hermiston.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&amp;#039; Shirley&amp;#039; is the last of them,&amp;quot; the late Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Isabella Blackwood used to say in speaking&lt;br /&gt;
of the former but departed glories of literary&lt;br /&gt;
Edinburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.C.P.,&lt;br /&gt;
F.R.S., who died at Bournemouth on the 19th&lt;br /&gt;
ult., aged seventy-nine, originated, in 1853, the&lt;br /&gt;
Journal of Mental Science&mdash;which for nine years&lt;br /&gt;
he edited, was one of the original editors&mdash;and&lt;br /&gt;
Brain; and wrote numerous psychological works.&lt;br /&gt;
The most important of these are: &amp;quot;Unsound-&lt;br /&gt;
ness of Mind in Relation to Criminal Acts,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Mad Folk of Shakespeare,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Notes on&lt;br /&gt;
American Asylums,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Habitual Drunkards and&lt;br /&gt;
Insane Drunkards,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot; Care of the Insane and&lt;br /&gt;
their Legal Control.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BOOKS OP THE MONTH.&lt;br /&gt;
[June 24 to July 23.&mdash;154 Books.]&lt;br /&gt;
About, Edmond. The King of the Mountains, [trans, by Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Davey.] 3/6. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen, Grant. An African Millionaire. 6&amp;#039;- Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
Allingham, Francis. Crooked Paths. 6/- Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Aloysius, Slater Mary. Memories of the Crimea. Burns and Oates.&lt;br /&gt;
Anglican, An. Some Thoughts on the Third Order of St. Francis.&lt;br /&gt;
I/- Skeffington.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in tho Posses-&lt;br /&gt;
sion of F. G. Hilton Price. Quaritch.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous [*&amp;#039;E.&amp;quot;]. Peggy&amp;#039;s Decision. 1/- Simpkin.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. Notes on tho Painted Glass in Canterbury Cathedral.&lt;br /&gt;
Canterbury: E. Crow.&lt;br /&gt;
AnonymouB. The Oxford Debate on tho Textual Criticisms of the New&lt;br /&gt;
Testament. Bell.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous [&bull;&amp;#039;One of H. M.&amp;#039;s servants.&amp;quot;] The Private Life of tho&lt;br /&gt;
Queen. 2/6. Pearson.&lt;br /&gt;
Armitage, E. S. A Key to English Antiquities, with special reference&lt;br /&gt;
to the Sheffield and Roiherham District. 7, - Sheffield:&lt;br /&gt;
W, Townsend.&lt;br /&gt;
ABtlns, G. S. Wayside Echoes. 2/- King, Sell, and Railton.&lt;br /&gt;
Austin, Alfred. Victoria: June 20, 1S37&mdash;June 20, 1897. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
Bailey, James. Sunday School Teaching. 1/6. R. Cully.&lt;br /&gt;
Barnes, W. E. An Apparatus Criticus to Chronicles in the Pesbitta&lt;br /&gt;
Version. 5/- Clay.&lt;br /&gt;
Harnett. P. A. (ed.) Teaching and Organisation. 6/6. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Barr, Robert. Tho Mutable Many, (i - Methueu.&lt;br /&gt;
Bathurst, J. K. The Royal Houses of Great Britain. Genealogical&lt;br /&gt;
Chart, with notes. Comparative Synoptical Chart Company.&lt;br /&gt;
Be a van, A. A. Popular Royalty. 10 6. Low.&lt;br /&gt;
Bell, R. S. Warren. The Cub in Love and Other Stories. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
Bellamy, Edward. Equality 0 - Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir W. The Queen&amp;#039;s Reign and its Commemoration.&lt;br /&gt;
The Werner Company.&lt;br /&gt;
Bingham, Clive. With the Turkish Army in Thessaly. C tj net.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
Blrrel), Augustine. Four Lectures on the Law of Employers&amp;#039; Liability&lt;br /&gt;
at Home and Abroad. 2/6. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
Boae. W. P. Du. The Ecumenical Councils. 6 - Edinburgh: Clark.&lt;br /&gt;
Bower, Marfan. The Story of Molly. 3;(J. Andrews.&lt;br /&gt;
Brown, J. D., and Stratton, S. S. British Musical Biography. 10,6&lt;br /&gt;
net. Birmingham: S. S. Stratton.&lt;br /&gt;
Browning, Oscar (ed.) The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral&lt;br /&gt;
of the Fleet. Navy Records Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Bryant, Sophie. The Teaching of Morality in the Family and the&lt;br /&gt;
School. 8/- Sonnenschein.&lt;br /&gt;
Bryden, H. A. The Victorian Era in South Africa. Offices of&lt;br /&gt;
African Criiic.&lt;br /&gt;
Caine, Caisar (editor). AnaVcta Eboracensia: Some Hemaynesof the&lt;br /&gt;
Ancient City of York. 42 - Phillimore.&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron, MrB. Lovott. A Man&amp;#039;s Undoing. White.&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell, C. T. British South Africa: A History of the Colony of&lt;br /&gt;
the Cape of Good Hope. 7 C. Haddon&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell, F. Index-Catalogue of Bibliographical Works (chiefly&lt;br /&gt;
in the English language) relating to India. Library Bureau.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cavalry Officer, A. Cavalry Titetics. 4 - Stanford.&lt;br /&gt;
Clarke, L. W. Tlie Miracle Play in England. 3/6. Andrews.&lt;br /&gt;
Cocking. B. D. A Primer of French Etymology. 1/6. Innes.&lt;br /&gt;
Cotton, John. Thoughts and Fancies. Simpkin.&lt;br /&gt;
Cowell, E. B. (ed.) The Jataka. Vol. III. 12/6. Clay.&lt;br /&gt;
Crawford, J. W. Wild Flowers of Scotland. 6/- net. Hacqueen.&lt;br /&gt;
Davenport, Cyril. The English Regalia. 21 - net. Kegan Paul.&lt;br /&gt;
Donaldson, T. Walt Whitman, The Man. 6/- (lay and Bird.&lt;br /&gt;
Druery, O. T. The New Gulliver, or Travels in Athomia. 3/6.&lt;br /&gt;
Roxburghe.&lt;br /&gt;
Earlo, Mrs. C. W. Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Oarden. 7/6. Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
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London: Hobace Cox&lt;br /&gt;
r GEO. G. GRAY, Esq.,&lt;br /&gt;
Ind.), J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Ac., Author of &amp;quot;A Manual of&lt;br /&gt;
_ &mdash;. ptcy,&amp;quot; a Treatise on 11 The Right to Support from Land and&lt;br /&gt;
^\ J J I Jj ^Si&amp;quot; &amp;amp;C., Speaker of the Hastings Local House of Commons.&lt;br /&gt;
: Horace Cox, Windsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.C&lt;br /&gt;
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