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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. VIII.—No. 5.]<br />
OCTOBER i, 1897.<br />
[Price Sixpence.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAOB<br />
.. 109<br />
.. Ill<br />
General Memoranda<br />
From the Committee<br />
Literary Property—1. A Case. 2. Another Cafe. 3. A Copy-<br />
right Case. 4. Publishers'Obligations. 5. A Warning from<br />
America m<br />
"Authora and Publishers" 113<br />
Printing in the Victorian Era 117<br />
New York Letter. By Nornian Hapgood<br />
Bad Paper 119<br />
The American Autumn List 119<br />
Notes and News. By the Editor WO<br />
Public Library Theft* I*»<br />
Cheapness of Books 123<br />
A Bule for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood.<br />
Collins<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
The Autograph Fiend<br />
Sir Henry Cralk on Impressionism<br />
A Small Literary Problem. By H. Q. Keene ...<br />
Book Talk<br />
FAU<br />
By F. Howard<br />
lis<br />
IM<br />
IM<br />
1*5<br />
m<br />
126<br />
Correspondence—1. The Beturn of MSS. 2. Criticism in Conflict.<br />
8. "Dictionary of National Biography" Dinner. 4. An<br />
Inquiry. 5. An Unpaid Magazine Article 181<br />
Obituary 133<br />
Literature in the Periodicals 134<br />
The Books of the Month 133<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report. That for January 1897 can be had on application to the Secretary.<br />
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br />
Property. Issued to all Members, 6s. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the<br />
following prices: Vol. I., 10s. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 8*. 6d. each (Bound);<br />
Vol. V., 6s. 6d. (Unbound).<br />
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Colleb, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,<br />
95, Strand, W.C.) 3*.<br />
4. The History of the Societe des Q-ens de Lettres. By S. Squire Spriooe, late Secretary to<br />
the Society, is.<br />
5. The Cost Of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br />
size of page, &c, with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br />
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d.<br />
6. The Various Methods Of Publication. By S. Squire Spriooe. In this work, compiled from the<br />
papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.<br />
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3#.<br />
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill now before Parlia-<br />
ment. With Extracts from the Eeport of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix<br />
containing the Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lelt. Eyre<br />
and Spottiswoode. it. 6d.<br />
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Walter Besant<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888—1892). 1*.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst<br />
Lunge, J.U.D. 2s. 6d.<br />
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11<br />
AD VER TISEMENTS.<br />
^fye g>octefp of JluiJjors (§ncotpotafc5).<br />
8ib Edwin Arnold, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.<br />
J. M. Barrie.<br />
A. W. 1 Beckett.<br />
Robert Bateman.<br />
F. E. Beddard, F.R.S.<br />
Sib Henry Bebgne, K.C.M.Q.<br />
Sib Walteb Besant.<br />
AUGUSTINE BlBBBIiL, M.P.<br />
Rev. Prof. Bonnet, F.R.S.<br />
Right Hon. James Brtce, M.P.<br />
Right Hon. Lord Burghclerb, P.C<br />
Hall Caine.<br />
Eqebton Castle, F.S.A.<br />
P. W. Clatden.<br />
Edward Clodd.<br />
W. Morris Colles.<br />
Hon. John Collieb.<br />
Sib W. Martin Conwat.<br />
F. Marion Crawford.<br />
The Eabl or Desabt.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
Q-EO^a-E MEBEDITH.<br />
COUNCIL.<br />
Austin Dobson.<br />
A. CoNAN DOYLE, M.D.<br />
A. W. Dubourq.<br />
Prof. Michael Foster, F.R.S.<br />
D. W. FRE8HFIELD.<br />
Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D.<br />
Edmund Gosse.<br />
H. Rider Haggard.<br />
Thomas Hardy.<br />
Anthont Hope Hawkins.<br />
Jerome K. Jerome.<br />
Rudtard Kipling.<br />
Prof. E. Rat Lankester, F.R.S.<br />
W. E. H. Leckt, P.C.<br />
J. M. Lelt.<br />
Mrs. E. Ltnn Linton.<br />
Rev. W. J. Loftie, F.S.A.<br />
Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Mns.Doc.<br />
Prof. J. M. D. Meiklejohn.<br />
Herman C. Meritale.<br />
Bon. Counsel — E. M. Undebdown, Q.C.<br />
Rev. C. H. Middleton-Wake.<br />
Sir Lewis Morris.<br />
Henry Norman.<br />
Miss E. A. Ormerod.<br />
J. C. Parkinson.<br />
Right Hon. Lord Pirbrioht, P.C.,<br />
F.R.S.<br />
Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., LL.D.<br />
Walter Herries Pollock.<br />
W. Baptists Scoones.<br />
Miss Flora L. Shaw.<br />
G. R. Sims.<br />
S. Squire Sprigge.<br />
j. j. steven80n.<br />
franci8 storr.<br />
William Moy Thomas.<br />
H. D. Traill, D.C.L.<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward.<br />
Miss Charlotte M. Tonge.<br />
COMMITTEE<br />
Chairman-<br />
k. W. 1 Beckett.<br />
Sir Walter Besant.<br />
Egerton Castle, F.S.A.<br />
W. Mobbis Colles.<br />
Sir W. Mabtin Conway.<br />
D. W. Freshfield.<br />
Anthony Hope Hawkins.<br />
J. M. Lely.<br />
OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
-H. Rider Haggard.<br />
Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Mus.Doc.<br />
Henry Norman.<br />
Francis Storr.<br />
S U B- CO M M I TTE E S.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
C. Villiers Stanford, Mas.D. (Chairman)<br />
Jacques Blumenthal.<br />
j. l. molloy.<br />
_ ,. . ( Field, Roscoe, and Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields.<br />
Solicitors £ G Herbert Thring, B.A., 4, Portugal-Btreet. Secretary—G. Hebbebt Thring, B.A.<br />
4, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
ART.<br />
Hon. John Collier (Chairman)<br />
Sib W. Martin Conway.<br />
M. H. Spielmann<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Henry Arthur Jones (Chairman).<br />
A. W. a Beckett.<br />
Edward Rose.<br />
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^Tbe Hutbor*<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. Vin.—No. 5.]<br />
OCTOBER 1, 1897.<br />
[Price Sixpence.<br />
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the Authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the<br />
collective opinions of the Committee unless<br />
t/iey are officially signed by G. Herbert<br />
Thring, Sec.<br />
THE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br />
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and<br />
requests that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
important communications within two days will write to him<br />
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union<br />
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on<br />
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-<br />
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are<br />
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br />
GENERAL MEMORANDA.<br />
EOK some years it has been the practice to insert, in<br />
every number of The Author, certain " General Con-<br />
siderations," Warnings, Notices, Ac, for the guidance<br />
of the reader. It has been objected as regards these<br />
warnings that the tricks or frauds against which they are<br />
directed cannot all be guarded against, for obvious reasons.<br />
It is, however, well that they should be borne in mind, and<br />
if any publisher refuses a clause of precaution he simply<br />
reveals his true oharacter, and should be left to carry on<br />
his business in his own way.<br />
Let us, however, draw up a few of the rules to be<br />
observed in an agreement. There are three methods of<br />
dealing with literary property:—<br />
I. That of selling it outright.<br />
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper<br />
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be<br />
managed by a competent agent.<br />
II. A profit-sharing agreement.<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for<br />
VOL. VIII.<br />
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for " office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
(7.) To stamp the agreement.<br />
III. The royalty system.<br />
In this system, which has opened the door to a most<br />
amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the<br />
author's ignorance, it is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both "ides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately and very<br />
nearly the truth. From time to time the very important<br />
figures connected with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the<br />
"Cost of Production." Let no one, not even the youngest<br />
writer, sign a royalty agreement without finding out what<br />
it gives the publisher as well as himself.<br />
It has been objected that these precautions presuppose a<br />
great success for the book, and that very few books indeed<br />
attain to this great success. That is quite true: but there is<br />
always this uncertainty of literary property that, although<br />
the works of a great many authors carry with them no risk<br />
at all, and although of a great many it is known within a few<br />
copies what will be their minimum circulation, it is not<br />
known what will be their maximum. Therefore every<br />
author, for every book, should arrange on the ohanoe of a<br />
success which will not, probably, come at all; but which<br />
may come.<br />
The four points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:—<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) That there shall be no secret profits.<br />
(4.) That nothing shall be charged whioh has not been<br />
actually paid—for instance, that there shall be no charge for<br />
advertisements in the publisher's own organs and none for<br />
exchanged advertisements and that all discounts shall b«<br />
duly entered.<br />
If these points are carefully looked after, the author may<br />
rest pretty well assured that he is in right hands. At the<br />
same time he will do well to send his agreement to the<br />
secretary before he signs it.<br />
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no THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
I. "TTWERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
J_}J advice npon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. If the advioe<br />
roujht is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member<br />
has a right to an opinion from the Society's solicitors. If the<br />
case is such that Counsel's opinion is desirable, the Com-<br />
mittee will obtain for him Counsel's opinion. All this<br />
without any cost to the member.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publisher's agreements do not generally fall within the<br />
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple<br />
to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually<br />
engaged upon suoh questions for us.<br />
3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past<br />
accounts with the loan of the books represented. This is in<br />
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-<br />
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively<br />
so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any<br />
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-<br />
mation thus obtained may prove invaluable.<br />
4. If the examination of your previous business trans-<br />
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should<br />
take advice as to a change of publishers.<br />
5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-<br />
posed document to the Society for examination.<br />
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in<br />
the case of fraudulent nouses—the tricks of every publish-<br />
ing firm in the country.<br />
7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you<br />
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are<br />
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing<br />
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-<br />
dence of the writer.<br />
8. Send to the Editor of The Author notes of everything<br />
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.<br />
9. The committee have now arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fireproof<br />
safe. The agreements will, of oourse, be regarded as con-<br />
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who<br />
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:—(1)<br />
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To<br />
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action npon<br />
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments<br />
due according to agreements.<br />
THE AUTHORS' SYNDICATE.<br />
MEMBERS are informed:<br />
1. That the Authors' Syndicate takes charge of<br />
the business of members of the Society. That it<br />
submits MSS. to publishers and editors, concludes agree-<br />
ments, examines, passes, and collects accounts, and, gene-<br />
rally, relieves members of the trouble of managing business<br />
details.<br />
2. That the terms upon which its servioes can be secured<br />
will be forwarded upon detailed application.<br />
3. That the Authors' Syndicate works only for those<br />
members of the Society whose work possesses a market<br />
value.<br />
4. That the Syndicate can only undertake any negotiations<br />
whatever on the distinct understanding that those negotia-<br />
tions are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all<br />
communications relating thereto are referred to it.<br />
5. That clients can only be seen by the Director by<br />
appointment, and that, when possible, at least two days'<br />
notice should be given.<br />
6. That every attempt is made to deal with all communi-<br />
cations promptly. That stamps Bhould, in all cases, be sent<br />
to defray postage.<br />
7. That the Authors' Syndicate does not invite MSS.<br />
without previous correspondence; does not hold itself<br />
responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice; and that<br />
in all cases MSS. must be accompanied by stamps to defray<br />
postage.<br />
8. That the Syndioate undertakes arrangements for<br />
lectures by some of the leading members of the Society;<br />
that it has a "Transfer Department" for the sale and<br />
purchase of journals and periodicals; and that a " Register<br />
of Wants and Wanted" is open. Members arc invited to<br />
communicate their requirements to the Manager.<br />
There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose servioes<br />
will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It<br />
is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the<br />
Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in<br />
the Syndicate.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the<br />
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br />
of oharge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br />
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br />
6«. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and<br />
communications on all subjects connected with literature<br />
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to<br />
the Society than to make The Author complete, attractive,<br />
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this<br />
work send thoir names and the special subjects on which<br />
they are willing to write?<br />
Communications for The Author should reach the Editor<br />
not later than the 2ist of each month.<br />
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work which<br />
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
Members and others who wish their MSS. read are<br />
requested not to send them to the Office without previously<br />
communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable<br />
despatoh is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in<br />
which they are received. It must also be distinctly under-<br />
stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances,<br />
undertake the publication of MSS.<br />
. The Authors' Club is now open in its new premises, at<br />
3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary<br />
for information, rules of admission, &c.<br />
Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they<br />
have paid their subscriptions for the year P If they will do<br />
this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker's<br />
order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the<br />
trouble of sending out a reminder.<br />
Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the<br />
following warning. It is a most foolish and may be a<br />
most disastrous thing to enter into an agreement binding<br />
for a term of years. Let them ask themselves if they<br />
would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five<br />
years to come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest<br />
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or dishonest? Of course they would not. Why then<br />
hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign them-<br />
selves into literary bondage for three or five years?<br />
Those who possess the "Cost of Production" are<br />
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15<br />
per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble<br />
of "doing sums," the addition of three shillings in the<br />
pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding<br />
is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be<br />
added twenty-four shillings more, bo that it now stands<br />
at J89 48. The figures in our book are as near the exact<br />
truth as can be procured; but a printer's, or a binder's,<br />
bill is so elastic a thing that nothing more exact can be<br />
arrived at.<br />
Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged<br />
in the " Cost of Production" for advertising. Of course, we<br />
have not included any sums which may be charged for<br />
inserting advertisem mts in the publisher's own magazines,<br />
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too<br />
often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from<br />
sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket,<br />
ky inserting any number of advertisements in his own<br />
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are<br />
who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those<br />
who practise this method of swelling their own profits call it.<br />
FROM THE COMMITTEE.<br />
ri^HE sub-committee appointed to inquire into<br />
I the publishing of educational works com-<br />
pleted its labours and sent in its report in<br />
July last. It was adopted by the committee of<br />
management, and ordered to be circulated among<br />
lecturers and masters of colleges and schools after<br />
the summer holidays.<br />
The sub-committee appointed in July last for<br />
the purpose of inquiring into the proposed change<br />
in the discount system has commenced its work.<br />
By Order. G. H. Thring.<br />
LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
I.—A Case.<br />
AN author had a book, the publication of<br />
which he wanted to transfer, as his<br />
publisher was retiring from business. He<br />
went to one of the largest firms in London and<br />
offered them the publication of his work. The<br />
book was a technical work and had an established<br />
position and a firm and constant sale. After some<br />
discussion with one of the partners an offer was<br />
made to publish the book for the author on a<br />
certain financial basis, the details of which it is<br />
not necessary to mention. The author applied to<br />
the Secretary of the Society for advice, and was<br />
strongly advised by him to accept the offer, which<br />
was, in his opinion, fair to all parties. The<br />
author thereupon wrote to the publisher and<br />
asked for an agreement to be forwarded, embody-<br />
ing the terms arranged. The agreement came to<br />
hand in due course; but, on the author bringing<br />
it to the Secretary, the latter was astonished to<br />
see that one of the first clauses in the agreement<br />
was a clause for the transfer of all copyrights and<br />
all rights whatsoever and wheresoever in the said<br />
book to the publisher. Not the slightest mention<br />
had been made in the first interview between the<br />
author and publisher with regard to the transfer<br />
of the copyright, and no point had been brought<br />
forward with the exception of the point giving<br />
the publisher the right to publish, on a certain<br />
stated royalty. The Secretary pointed out the<br />
fatal disadvantage of transferring the copyright<br />
in an educational book of this kind, and stated at<br />
the same time that he was surprised that such a<br />
clause had been inserted when the point had<br />
never been mooted before. The author there-<br />
upon wrote a letter explaining his view of the<br />
matter, and the publisher at once withdrew the<br />
clause referred to, as no doubt he was anxious to<br />
obtain the publication of a book which had such<br />
a reputation and was such a good property. If<br />
the publisher at the time had desired to purchase<br />
the copyright it would have been only fair in the<br />
first instance to have stated so to the author, who<br />
could have accepted his proposition or not as he<br />
thought fit. If, in the present case, the writer of<br />
the book had not had the advice of the Society<br />
behind him he might have signed the agreement,<br />
thinking that it was properly drawn up on the<br />
basis of the previous conversation. This example<br />
shows how careful an author should be before<br />
signing the final contract.<br />
II.—Another Case.<br />
An author took a book to a well-known firm of<br />
publishers, and they, after perusal, stated that<br />
they would be willing to publish the work on a<br />
certain basis.* (The only point that it is neces-<br />
sary to mention is that the royalty was to be paid<br />
after the cost of production had been covered.)<br />
In the conversation that followed, the author<br />
mentioned that it would be necessary to have the<br />
right to see the books of the firm. To this the<br />
publishers demurred in a half-hearted sort of<br />
way, and nothing further was said on the subject<br />
at the time. In due course the agreement was<br />
forwarded to the author. In it was the usual<br />
clause for rendering accounts, but no clause was<br />
inserted giving the author the right to inspect<br />
the books if necessary. The author had read<br />
the little book published by the Society on the<br />
* They offered an exceedingly bad form of agreement, one<br />
not recommended by the Society. In this case, however, there<br />
was a special reason for the author acquiescing.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Methods of Publishing, and had gleaned from<br />
that the absolute necessity of being able, should<br />
occasion arise, to check the accounts from the<br />
books and vouchers of the publishers. He did<br />
not know that there existed a common law right<br />
to see these books, and accordingly he drafted a<br />
clause which should cover the point. As the<br />
right existed, of course, this clause was unneces-<br />
sary. As soon as the agreement was returned<br />
with the clause, the publishers refused to have<br />
anything further to do with the publication of<br />
the book. To the ordinary mind there can only<br />
be one deduction to be drawn from this refusal.<br />
These examples are not, as has often been<br />
stated by those who wish to minimise the value<br />
of them, drawn from the imagination of the<br />
writer. The Secretary of the Society will be<br />
pleased, as in all cases published in The Autlior,<br />
to give the name of the publishers referred to to<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
such information. _<br />
HI.—A Copyright Case.<br />
"I am a writer of poems for children,and some<br />
time since gave permission to a musical composer<br />
to set one of them to music. The composer, not<br />
knowing that the words were mine (they had been<br />
published anonymously in a collection I had<br />
made) spoilt one of the stanzas—to my thinking<br />
—by a material alteration, of which I knew<br />
nothing till after the song had been published.<br />
Meanwhile, the copyright of the music was sold to<br />
a well known musical publisher, whose name pro-<br />
mises a wide circulation both of the song and the<br />
travestied stanza. The composer, with whom I<br />
have remonstrated, is as sorry as I am for what<br />
has occurred; but what remedy have we? The<br />
publisher has, of course, no right in the words, of<br />
which the composer did not possess the copyright.<br />
Can he be required to withdraw or modify them,<br />
or at least to do so—if we are content to wait so<br />
long—as soon as the present edition is exhausted?<br />
I should be grateful for advice in the matter.<br />
Meanwhile, I trust other writers will take warning<br />
by my example, and protect both themselves and<br />
their musical coadjutors from mistakes as to copy-<br />
right by a proviso against alteration of words."<br />
A Membek of the Society.<br />
[The Secretary advised the writer of this letter<br />
as follows: That she could obtain an injunction<br />
against the musical publishers for infringement of<br />
copyright, and also could maintain an action for<br />
damages against the composer for user of her<br />
words and for consequent infringement, but that<br />
the best plan would be, if possible, to arrange for<br />
some satisfactory payment, as is usually the case<br />
with other song writers.]<br />
IV.—Publishers' Obligations.<br />
An interesting case has been recently decided<br />
in the French courts. It may be found in full in<br />
the Publishers' Circular of Sept. 11, from which<br />
we quote the decision of the court.<br />
Briefly, the case is as follows:<br />
A publisher bought of the compiler a work<br />
entitled " Vocabulaire des Vocabulaires," being a<br />
dictionary of terms used in the French language.<br />
The publisher was to give the compiler the sum<br />
of 12,500 francs, with a certain number of copies.<br />
In return, the property was to be his own abso-<br />
lutely, to alter if he pleased, and to publish in<br />
any manner that he pleased.<br />
This was in 1891.<br />
In 1892 there were troubles about charges.<br />
In 1893 the compiler consented to take 10,485<br />
francs, instead of 12,500.<br />
In 1894, as the book was not published, the<br />
compiler brought an action to compel the publisher<br />
to produce the book, or to restore the MS., with<br />
15,000 francs damages.<br />
On Jan. 10, 1897, the tribunal delivered its<br />
judgment.<br />
The arguments of the publisher, as quoted in<br />
the Publishers' Circular, stated that there were<br />
many errors which had to be corrected; that there<br />
was nothing in the agreement about time of pub-<br />
lication; that it would take two years to produce<br />
the book, &c. The tribunal concluded that, "con-<br />
sidering the documents and the examination ordered<br />
by this tribunal, it appears that in this case the<br />
compiler cannot be considered as a collaborator<br />
who has contributed with other writers to a work<br />
which the publisher had conceived, edited, and<br />
combined in one whole, but that it is he, on the<br />
contrary, who brought to the publisher the plan<br />
of the work at the same time as the collection of<br />
documents composing it; that the publisher<br />
cannot, therefore, deny him the title of author<br />
and allege that only an ordinary contract of hire<br />
of work has been made between him and the<br />
applicant; that if it is established that on the<br />
terms of the agreement the publisher has bought<br />
the entire and exclusive rights of the compiler's<br />
dictionary; that he has even reserved the right<br />
of adding to it such modification as he might<br />
judge fit, and to dispose of it as he pleased, it<br />
is no less true that the compiler has only ceded<br />
to him the right of printing on the tacit under-<br />
standing that he should exercise it; that the pub-<br />
lisher would not be justified in alleging that the<br />
appellant ought to have stated, with respect to<br />
the publication of his book, the rights which<br />
he intended to reserve; that it is, in fact,<br />
inadmissible that, unless stipulated to the con-<br />
trary, an author alienates his work in such an<br />
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absolute fashion, that from that moment there<br />
should enter into his calculations the possibility<br />
of seeing his work neutralised, his thoughts<br />
annihilated; that the use made by the purchaser<br />
of the work become his property ought not to<br />
injure the author's interests, which survive the<br />
cession; and that the publisher who has bought<br />
has not fulfilled all his obligations when he has<br />
paid the price, but that there remains the<br />
obligation to do what he has contracted to do,<br />
that is to say, to publish, from which only clear<br />
and precise agreements could dispense him. But<br />
such stipulations do not exist in this case."<br />
The verdict was that "within a period of<br />
eighteen months from the notice of this judgment<br />
the publisher shall be bound to publish the<br />
dictionary which has been ceded to him by the<br />
appellant, and to deliver to the latter twenty com-<br />
plete copies, and this under a penalty of 50 francs<br />
per day's delay during one month, after which<br />
date judgment shall be given as well with regard<br />
to the demand for cancelling the agreements<br />
entered into between the parties as with regard to<br />
damages and the restitution of the manuscript.<br />
Condemns, also, the publisher to pay all costs.<br />
This judgment was appealed against by the<br />
publisher. Miiitre Straus, plaintiff's counsel,<br />
replying, hoped the court would maintain the<br />
judgment. After hearing M. Van Cassel,<br />
Advocate-General, the Court annulled the appeal,<br />
ordering that "that which is appealed against<br />
shall have full and entire effect; says, neverthe-<br />
less, that the penalty of 50 francs for each day<br />
of delay shall only begin to run in default of the<br />
publisher having published the dictionary and<br />
delivered twenty copies to the compiler within<br />
a period of one year, to be calculated from this<br />
day; condemns the publisher in the fine and all<br />
costs of appeal."<br />
V.—A Warning from America.<br />
The following is a curious story, and suggests<br />
a few points:<br />
1. Did the Press Directory give no hint that<br />
the Revietc was an American organ?<br />
2. Does the editor habitually write without any<br />
address?<br />
3. Are all the papers submitted to the editor<br />
sent through the English publisher? In which<br />
case, who pays the postage r<br />
4. Where can one get American stamps for<br />
inclosure with a MS.?<br />
5. Readers will take notice that stamps must<br />
be sent with MSS. At the same time they will<br />
do well to keep a copy in case of accident.<br />
"On June 4 I sent a typewritten manuscript,<br />
which was originally a prize essay, to the Psycho-<br />
logical Review, care of Messrs. Macmillan and<br />
Co., Bedford-street, Strand, which was the address<br />
I found in the Newspaper Press Directory. On<br />
July 4 I wrote to the editor asking whether he<br />
intended to use the manuscript, and on the<br />
23rd of the same month received the following<br />
reply (no address given); but the post mark<br />
indicated that the post card was from Princeton,<br />
New Jersey. 'Dear Sir,—We cannot attempt<br />
to return MSS. sent us which, as in your case,<br />
had no available (American) stamps inclosed.<br />
Tour paper, which we did not find valuable, is<br />
not preserved.' I have written to the editor,<br />
pointing out that the manuscript was valuable to<br />
me, and requesting that he make some effort to<br />
recover it and return it to me."<br />
"AUTHORS AND PUBLISHEES.<br />
THIS book, by Messrs. G. H. and J. B. Put-<br />
nam, professes to be a manual of sugges-<br />
tions for beginners in literature containing<br />
all kinds of information for their use. It has<br />
arrived at a seventh edition, and is now re-written<br />
with additional material.<br />
Let us acknowledge at once that up to a certain<br />
point, and within certain limitations, the book is<br />
admirable—from the publishers' point of view.<br />
The style and the e xcellent Engbsh, the manner<br />
of conveying such information as it gives, are<br />
worthy of great commendation. Yet for prac-<br />
tical purposes—the great practical purpose—of<br />
guiding the beginner as to the nature of literary<br />
property, and the best way of having it adminis-<br />
tered, the book is silent. It says nothing of the<br />
dangers which lurk in the agreement: it points<br />
out none of the tricks which the author must<br />
expect: it does not warn him of the absolute<br />
certainty that if he trusts himself, helpless and<br />
ignorant, in the hands of one who wants to make<br />
money out of him, he will be "bested"—the<br />
reader may put what interpretation he pleases<br />
upon this word. In short, it does not, at the<br />
outset, as it should, admonish the young author<br />
that in publishing, as in everything else, if a man<br />
has absolute freedom to impose what terms he<br />
pleases, with secrecy, ignorance, and long success<br />
in the confidence trick, that man will abuse the<br />
position. This is a mere commonplace. And when<br />
a book is published, pretending to be a guide for<br />
the young author, which does not recognise this<br />
cardinal fact, it is necessary to warn the young<br />
author very seriously on this point.<br />
It is, indeed, as if a man should write a book<br />
on the buying of a horse—or the sale of a house—<br />
or the acquisition of a business—and should<br />
absolutely ignore the existence of sharpers and<br />
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rogues. Everybody understands that the thing<br />
would be too ridiculous. Yet the authors of the<br />
book before us blandly sail along the unruffled<br />
surface which they imagine, without so much as a<br />
hint that the author must expect in this business<br />
exactly what he is taught to expect in every<br />
other: viz., that advantage will be taken of<br />
ignorance, and that rogues will overreach him.<br />
The book gives many quotations from writers<br />
in favour of publishers: Howells, G. W. Curtis,<br />
Thomas Hughes, Washington Irving. But their<br />
testimonies are absolutely worthless unless the<br />
writers had been able to examine the books of the<br />
men they praise. We do not say, or hint, or suggest<br />
that their publishers were unworthy of the praise.<br />
It is only contended that the favourable opinion,<br />
any opinion, favourable or otherwise, as to the<br />
honesty of a publisher's treatment of authors is<br />
mere guess work unless the books could be<br />
examined. In other words, a publisher might<br />
cheat in his charges: cheat in his returns: cheat<br />
in the money he paid for royalties: cheat in his<br />
royalties: and yet, for all that these laudatory<br />
writers know, stand out as a most honourable<br />
and upright man<br />
Surely it is better to make agreements as in<br />
other kinds of business, those, namely, in which<br />
the facts of the case are admitted and known on<br />
both sides. And, since the author is probably<br />
ignorant, an honourable publisher cannot object<br />
to a Society which provides him with full light on<br />
every part of the commercial side of his work.<br />
On the question of publishers' risk, the book<br />
presents the usual claims made by publishers<br />
without any arguments to support them. Our<br />
position is absolutely impregnable. Any book,<br />
considered from the commercial point of view,<br />
must stand by itself. For example, it is ridicu-<br />
lous to suppose that Dickens's books should be<br />
loaded with the losses made by an incompetent<br />
publisher over his unsuccessful ventures. These<br />
writers draw an imaginary picture of a publisher<br />
losing all his capital by successive losses. Such a<br />
picture is misleading, for the simple reason that<br />
in every department of literature men are writing<br />
by the dozen whose name is a guarantee against<br />
loss: that the publishers who take risks are very<br />
few, and the books they issue that carry risk are<br />
also very few—excepting such great works as<br />
Encyclopaedias, National Biographies, Dictionaries,<br />
and such books, which the Messrs. Putnam<br />
would not mix up with general literature : and that<br />
publishers, with very few exceptions, do all<br />
prosper, while those who do the largest trade<br />
prosper the most—a thing natural in trade, but<br />
only in profitable trade.<br />
The chapter on "Publishing Arrangements"<br />
complains that authors have "paraded their<br />
grievances" before the public. Well, it was<br />
their only way to make them known, and. to warn<br />
others. He asks why Dean Farrar " appealed to<br />
the public for sympathy because his publishers<br />
had made more money than himself from the<br />
publication of a book that had been written ' to<br />
order' under their suggestion and contract, and<br />
for which, according to the statement of the<br />
Canon himself, he had been paid a good deal<br />
more than his contract price?"<br />
This is not the proper way to put it. Dean<br />
Farrar received a sum of money for a book. He<br />
did not complain of this, because he had accepted an<br />
offer. He complained of the offer made to him for<br />
the second book. Did the publishers explain to<br />
him the meaning of his first success?<br />
Then Messrs. Putnam ask, "Why should<br />
authors, presumably of adult age and sound<br />
mind, plead the 1 baby act' in regard to their<br />
contracts (or their failure to make contracts) any<br />
more than the clients of lawyers, architects, or<br />
stockbrokers?"<br />
By the use of the word "clients" they give<br />
away their case. Every man is safe if he is the<br />
"client," in any business, of a lawyer who knows<br />
the subject. He is only in danger when he acts<br />
for himself in ignorance of the conditions.<br />
The writers speak of "compensation." What<br />
do they mean? Compensation means payment in<br />
atonement of injuries. If authors were compen-<br />
sated for the injuries inflicted on them by the<br />
publishers of their books there would be a large<br />
crowd of the latter in Portugal-street. They have<br />
yet to recognise the fact that a MS. is a piece of<br />
property belonging to the writer, who may sell it<br />
or may let it out to a publisher to be administered,<br />
or may go into partnership with a publisher. We<br />
do not ask, however, for compensation, but for our<br />
own property.<br />
Then follow the pages on " publishing arrange-<br />
ments." And here there is no explanation, except<br />
one or two lame ones, of the reason why a pub-<br />
lisher should have this or that share, or what he<br />
does to earn his money.<br />
As for the lame explanations:<br />
I. The writers (p. 47) state that a royalty of<br />
10 per cent. "on the retail price was ca culated on<br />
the basis of securing for the author an average<br />
return of half the net profits."<br />
This may possibly be true in America. In this<br />
country nothing could be more untrue or more<br />
misleading.<br />
Take an average 6*. book—exactly such as that<br />
considered in the "Cost of Production"—one<br />
with a sale, not of 10,000 copies, to which the<br />
writers object, but of 4000, which is much more<br />
common. The cost of each volume, including<br />
advertising, is as near as possible a shilling; the<br />
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retail price is 3*. 6d., as near as possible. A<br />
royalty of 10 per cent, on the retail price means<br />
4}d. The profit of the publisher would be 2s. i±d.!<br />
And this is what the writers of a book which has<br />
gone through six editions seem to regard as a<br />
system of high profits!!<br />
II. On the "Cost of Production," issued by<br />
the Society, the Messrs. Putnam say:<br />
Authors who hare read in the mannal of the " Authors'<br />
Society" the cost of producing a i6mo. ori2mo. volume<br />
containing a certain number of pages, are likely to assume<br />
that the figures should be precisely the same for any other<br />
volume printed in the same size and containing the same<br />
number of pages. It is necessary, however, to remind them<br />
of various possible differences which will affect the com-<br />
parison, such as the number of words contained in the page,<br />
the width of the printed text, the leading of the lines (npon<br />
whioh items depend the number of thousand eme charged<br />
for in the printing-office), the printing of the edition from<br />
type or from plates, the quality of the paper used, the<br />
quality of the material put into the cover, the character of<br />
the cover stamp (involving an initial expense for designing<br />
and for cutting, and a later current expenditure in the<br />
stamping of the covers), and a number of other similar<br />
details.<br />
It is a great pity that the writers did not look<br />
at the "Cost of Production" before committing<br />
themselves to this statement. For in that book<br />
care has been taken to give the number of lines<br />
and the number of words in the page, in order<br />
to prevent this mistake. The quality of the paper<br />
is an average quality: the price of the binding<br />
shows that it is a plain average binding: the<br />
extras, such as a small stamp, extra gilding, finer<br />
binding, are surely matters of easy arrangement<br />
with the author. The "Cost of Production"<br />
gives figures which are good working figures in<br />
getting at an estimate.<br />
After so much fault-finding, it is pleasant to<br />
recognise to the utmost the spirit of fairness which<br />
elsewhere appears in the book. The writers have<br />
not been able to shake off the conventional talk<br />
about the importance of the publisher and the<br />
fearful risks he runs: but they do recognise to<br />
an extent previously unknown some of the points<br />
demanded by the Society. For instance, as to<br />
the cost of production in a half-profit system:<br />
A fourth objection to the half-profit system which is from<br />
time to time emphasised on the part of the authors, is that the<br />
author is not in a position to verify the accuracy of the<br />
charges made by the publisher against the book, and that<br />
these charges are frequently made to include items which<br />
do not properly belong in such an amonnt or amounts whioh<br />
have been unduly increased by manufacturing commissions<br />
or " secret profit," whioh is appropriated by the publisher.<br />
The remedy for such a difficulty is to be sought in one or<br />
two directions. The author should, in the first place, at the<br />
time the publication agreement is executed, secure from the<br />
publisher an estimate upon whioh this agreement will be<br />
based, showing the amonnt that the publisher proposes to<br />
debit against the book or against the joint acoonnt, for the<br />
various items comprising the cost of its publication and<br />
VOL. VIII.<br />
distribution. The estimate for the use of such joint<br />
account should, in fact, be as precise and as full as if the<br />
book were to be undertaken at the entire cost of the<br />
author. This estimate would remain available for future<br />
reference, and in so far as the conditions of the publication<br />
(that is to say, the amonnt of the material to be printed,<br />
the style of the printing, the amonnt of changes made in<br />
the text while it was going through the press, the outlay<br />
for advertising, the oost of circulars, Ac), have not been<br />
modified under the instructions of the author or under later<br />
agreement between the author and the publisher, the final<br />
charge against the joint account should, of course, be in<br />
exact accord with the amounts specified in the original<br />
estimate, and mnst, in any case, be in accord with the rates<br />
so specified.<br />
This advice is good but incomplete. In many<br />
cases the estimate has been made a means of<br />
fraud, by inserting exaggerated figures, which<br />
then form part of the signed agreement. The<br />
estimate must be submitted to the secretary.<br />
One chapter is devoted to the shortcomings of<br />
the author. These assume several forms:<br />
(1.) A writer has undertaken to contribute<br />
a volume to a series, the length and form and<br />
price of which have been carefully thought out<br />
and fixed beforehand. He presents, when the<br />
time comes, a MS. of double the length stipulated:<br />
It would also seem hardly probable that an author<br />
having been so regardless of the preliminary conditions<br />
laid down for his work, should, when this work was com-<br />
pleted, be so unreasonable as to insist that his volume must<br />
be accepted in the precise form in which he has written it;<br />
that, whatever the conditions or the limitations of the<br />
series, his own individual literary methods and literary<br />
execution must not be interfered with; and that (his own<br />
compensation being assured under some fixed payment<br />
arrangement) the question of possible profit or loss for the<br />
publisher is a matter concerning which he need give him-<br />
self no conoern. Improbable as such a state of mind or<br />
such a method of action appears to be, as thus sot forth, I<br />
can only say that the experience of nearly all publishers<br />
and editors who have had to do with the publication of<br />
series, will show not a few examples of just such literary<br />
perversities.<br />
(a.) The practice of rewriting or reshaping<br />
work after it has been set up in type.<br />
(3.) Breach of faith in delay of delivery.<br />
Several instances are quoted of this bad practice.<br />
(4.) The production of another work by the<br />
same writer on the same subject with another<br />
publisher.<br />
(5.) The acceptance of a salary and doing no<br />
work for it.<br />
The sympathy of every man of honour must<br />
be with the publisher who suffers in any of these<br />
ways. At the same time, one would poiut out the<br />
very simple fact that by introducing the ordinary<br />
methods of business into this part of the trans-<br />
action every one of these dangers can be met.<br />
Now publishers—for which one does not blame<br />
them—are adamant in the matter of the sum or<br />
the royalties for which they acquire control of<br />
M<br />
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the author's property. Why can they not be as<br />
careful in other matters?<br />
(i.) Take the first case.<br />
In such a series there is generally an editor.<br />
Some of us have written for such series : we have<br />
all understood the limitations as to length. I<br />
cannot understand any editor worth his salt who<br />
would find any difficulty in returning a MS.<br />
to be reduced to the proper length. The danger<br />
on this side of the Atlantic seems wholly<br />
imaginary.<br />
(2.) In the second case; that of excessive<br />
corrections.<br />
The agreement in almost all cases safeguards<br />
the publisher. Some honourable gentlemen make<br />
the corrections a source of profit. They insert a<br />
clause limiting the corrections to so many shillings<br />
a sheet. But they are very careful not to connect<br />
shillings with the number of words, so that the<br />
author is in no way helped, and goes on correcting<br />
in blind ignorance, which, when profit by over-<br />
charge is intended, is carefully left without<br />
warning. Nothing is easier or simpler than to<br />
give the author a type-written copy, and to tell<br />
him that this is a first proof which he may cut<br />
up as he pleases, but that he will be allowed no<br />
more corrections.<br />
(3.) Breach of faith in delivery.<br />
In every other business transaction this would<br />
mean an action for damages. One such action<br />
brought would prevent any more such cases.<br />
Nor would any jjublisher suffer who should bring<br />
an action of the kind.<br />
(4.) The production of another wrork on the<br />
same subject.<br />
This danger is met by some publishers by a<br />
clause to the effect that the author is not to<br />
produce another book on the same subject within<br />
a stated time. But, so far, I have never yet seen<br />
a clause binding the publisher not to produce<br />
another book on the same subject within a stated<br />
time.<br />
(5.) If a publisher calmly offers a man a<br />
salary without stipulating for work, one cannot<br />
really sympathise with him if he gets no work,<br />
whatever opinion one may have of a man who<br />
would take money and do nothing for it. But on<br />
this side of the Atlantic publishers do not act<br />
with such uncalculating prodigality.<br />
In a word, these complaints, which are very<br />
seldom heard from English publishers, go to<br />
show that a man of business who complains of<br />
them does not carry on his business on business<br />
principles.<br />
The above notes were already written when the<br />
following were placed in the writer's hands.<br />
They are added to show that the objections<br />
raised by him have occurred to more than one<br />
reader.<br />
Page 8. "The interests of authors and pub-<br />
lishers are practically identical.'' This may be<br />
the case after the agreement has been entered<br />
into, but they are certainly diametrically opposed<br />
as far as the agreement is concerned. If pub-<br />
lishers advance money to their subsequent destruc-<br />
tion, it only shows they are not business men, or<br />
that their business instincts are false. They do<br />
not do this with a view of generosity to the<br />
author, but with a view of retaining the author as<br />
one of their writers during the term—so long as<br />
he does not pay off the money—of his natural<br />
life. It is a good speculation.<br />
Page 37. "Why should authors plead the<br />
'baby act'?" Mr. Putnam compares the rela-<br />
tions between authors and publishers to ordinary<br />
business relations between stockbrokers, &c, but<br />
there is this vital difference, which he seems to<br />
have overlooked, that stockbrokers are competing<br />
keen business men with keen business men.<br />
Authors, in many instances entirely ignorant of<br />
business and incapable of transacting business,<br />
place themselves to a great extent in the hands<br />
of keen business men, who take advantage of<br />
their ignorance. Mr. Putnam is evidently writ-<br />
ing from the methods of his own firm of trans-<br />
acting business, and he appears to be entirely<br />
ignorant of the ways of those publishers who do<br />
not stand in the very first rank.<br />
Page 60. "Half-profit arrangements and<br />
charge of business expenses." The statements<br />
with regard to half-profit arrangements contained<br />
in the book certainly give the author an erroneous<br />
idea of this very disastrous method of pubUshing.<br />
Page 66. "Unless the author," &c. The whole<br />
chapter on publishing arrangements is written<br />
from the point of view of the publisher's agree-<br />
ment and the benefit likely to accrue to the<br />
publisher.<br />
There are some useful hints to authors on<br />
pp. 84 and following, on keeping books together.<br />
Also on p. 93, " Syndicating arrangements."<br />
Page 98. "Obligations under the pubUshing<br />
agreement." These entirely refer to the author's<br />
obligations. There is no mention whatever of the<br />
points an author should protect himself against<br />
with regard to publisher's obligations, which are<br />
many and varied, and often broken.<br />
He quotes instances of delinquent authors. How<br />
about delinquent publishers?<br />
Page 119. "Contract between authors and<br />
publishers," &c. He has subverted the whole<br />
paragraph.<br />
Page 149. The paragraph beginning "Here<br />
also, however." It may be possible to force a<br />
publisher to specific performance in America, but<br />
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the best legal authorities doubt its possibility in<br />
England. Even if you did enforce specific per-<br />
formance, a book published by an unwilling pub-<br />
lisher might as well not be published at all. It<br />
is very seldom that publishers enter into an<br />
agreement without the MS. being fully com-<br />
pleted, or, rather, out of 100 cases, in quite<br />
ninety the MS. is complete and to hand, so that<br />
there is no danger from the procrastination of the<br />
author.<br />
Page 160. "Boards of arbitration." These<br />
would be found practically useless.<br />
<br />
PRINTING- IN THE VICTORIAN ERA.<br />
"~]VT"0 good printing has been done since<br />
I X 1550," the late Mr, William Morris was<br />
wont to say. Mr. John Southward,<br />
who has just issued a work on the subject,*<br />
contends that better printing has been done during<br />
the last sixty years than was ever done before.<br />
The progress in book printing begun soon after<br />
1828, when Charles Whittingham became asso-<br />
ciated with the publisher and bibliophile, William<br />
Pickering. The late Henry Stevens, describing<br />
the co-operation of these men, says it was<br />
amusing as well as instructive to see each of them<br />
when they met pull from his bulging side-pocket<br />
well-worn title pages and sample leaves for dis-<br />
cussion and consideration. About 1840 Mr.<br />
Whittingham's office, the Chiswick Press, acquired<br />
an unrivalled collection of head and tail pieces,<br />
borders, and other typographical ornaments.<br />
Other printers were compelled to rival him; and<br />
the forward movement was begun which has gone<br />
on to the present day. As regards the inferiority<br />
of the printing of process blocks in England as<br />
compared with America, the author of this work<br />
is of opinion that the explanation is to be found<br />
in the weakness and insufficient inking and dis-<br />
tributing capacity of our presses, and the inepti-<br />
tude of many of our pressmen. "Already efforts<br />
are being made," he adds, " to remedy both of<br />
these shortcomings." Our general bookwork is<br />
not inferior to that of any other country in the<br />
world:<br />
This is more especially obvious in regard to cheap books,<br />
snch as reprints of non-copyright books, issued for a few<br />
pence each. They are, as a rule, in all respects, admirable<br />
specimens of typography. They are printed on thin, cheap<br />
paper, but it has generally received a fine, bnt not excessive,<br />
polish, by being rolled before printing. The printing is<br />
usually done without damping, and thus destroying the<br />
surface of the paper. The types make little or no indents-<br />
•" Progress in Printing and the Graphic Arts during<br />
the Victorian Era." By John Southward. London:<br />
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 28. 6d.<br />
VOL. VIII.<br />
tion; both sides of the paper are usually smooth and glossy.<br />
The ink is black and the colour full, but not smudgy. The<br />
type used has been fresh and clear.and the plate taken from it<br />
has been sharp and deep. It may have been printed direct<br />
from linotype bars, and it may be impossible to distinguish<br />
the type from the linotype. The register is always accurate.<br />
Process blocks are freely introduced, and, as a rule,<br />
they are well, if not quite perfectly, made ready and<br />
brought up.<br />
Sixty years ago there were cheap books, but they did not<br />
show these qualities. In every element of good workman-<br />
ship the book of to-day is as superior to that of 1837 as the<br />
locomotive of to-day is to that of the time of Robert<br />
Stephenson.<br />
Mr. Southward also sketches the progress in<br />
job and news printing. His book is fully illus-<br />
trated, and itself, of course, a model of excellent<br />
production. He is enthusiastic about the Lino-<br />
type machine, which, he says, has elevated the<br />
condition of the working printer, and also made<br />
possible even bigger papers and a larger number<br />
of cheap books than we get now.<br />
NEW YORE LETTER.<br />
New Tobk, Sept. 17.<br />
TI^HE Editor's remarks on "little notices," in<br />
I a recent number of this paper, apply with<br />
even greater force to American reviewing.<br />
In this country a really capable judgment is a<br />
secondary consideration, and timeliness is every-<br />
thing. The worst part of the situation is that<br />
this idea that books are news, to be treated with<br />
the same haste that the events of every day are<br />
treated with, is on the increase, which is perhaps<br />
one reason why the Evening Post with its late<br />
reviews is the only daily newspaper in the country<br />
worth serious consideration from a literary point<br />
of view. Any one interested in the fundamental<br />
motives which influence publication in the United<br />
States should read a convincing and rather de-<br />
pressing analysis of the whole newspaper question<br />
in the October number of Scribner's Magazine.<br />
J. Lincoln Steffens, who wrote the article, is one<br />
of the most intelligent and most successful young<br />
newspaper men in the city, and he has also written<br />
enough for the magazines to know that end of the<br />
publishing business. He speaks without fear, or<br />
without softening in any way the facts which he<br />
has found out. The substance of the article is<br />
that pubhshing is not an ideal occupation, but<br />
just as much a mercenary one as any commercial<br />
enterprise, and this general point of view is worked<br />
out in careful detail showing how everything that<br />
goes into a newspaper, from the events of the day<br />
to the literary notices, is determined by the field<br />
which seems most promising; that is, the class<br />
of readers who seem to be less well provided<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
with a newspaper fitting their taste than any<br />
other class.<br />
Whether the generalisation can be made with<br />
equal safety about the publishing houses is<br />
perhaps an open question, but the more one<br />
learns the inside of things here, the more sur-<br />
prised he is at the number of books where the<br />
author takes the risk while the publisher is pub-<br />
licly supposed to do so; at the number of books<br />
which are taken against the literary judgment of<br />
the publishers for purely business reasons ; at<br />
the number which are rejected for similar com-<br />
mercial reasons, although the publishers think<br />
highly of their literary quality; and at the num-<br />
ber of articles which leading magazines are paid<br />
for accepting.<br />
William Gillette, t'.ie dramatic author and<br />
editor, gave his idea of what criticism ought to<br />
be in a recent talk itpropos of some absurd tech-<br />
nical suggestions that had been made to him by<br />
less skilful playwrights while he was abroad.<br />
"The only criticism I care for," he said, " is the<br />
criticism of the simple man who goes to the<br />
theatre without a desire to judge what he sees.<br />
Emotions are raised in him—fear, suspense, hope,<br />
sympathy, anger—real emotions, which he does<br />
not put into intellectual terms. It is to the<br />
ingenuous man that dramatic art appeals, and if<br />
somebody could transcribe his feelings into words,<br />
and thus show whether the drama carried out<br />
the object for which it was written, that would be<br />
valuable criticism, and it would be a work of the<br />
highest intelligence."<br />
It is rather interesting to notice that the<br />
"Almanach Hachette," which published in<br />
France recently a long list of books forming a<br />
library for a young girl of eighteen years old,<br />
selected just two American books and oue about<br />
America. From England it took "Robinson<br />
Crusoe," " Gulliver's Travels," "Ivanhoe," " Bob<br />
Eoy," "Waverley," "David Copperfield "; and<br />
from America, "The Last of the Mohicans " and<br />
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." It is a pretty fair test of<br />
a book to ask whether it appeals to any other<br />
nation, and their are no two American novels<br />
which give more true and distinctive information<br />
about the history of the United States than these<br />
two, although one of them, at least, is not remark-<br />
able for its artistic form. An excellent choice<br />
was also made in the book about contempo-<br />
rary America, Mme. Blanc's "Les Americaines<br />
Chez Hies."<br />
The first fall announcements of the McClure<br />
and Doubleday Companies are watched with<br />
interest, especially because of the firm's success<br />
in other fields of publishing, which the leading<br />
men in the new venture have had. Their little<br />
sets of "Tales from McClure's" and "Little<br />
Masterpieces" at thirty cents each justify their<br />
attempt to show that cheap publishing is con-<br />
sistent with good taste. They will say very<br />
frankly in a future announcement, "We, like<br />
other men, wish to gain material success, but<br />
we want to gain it by those means which<br />
appeal to our intellectual as well as to our<br />
moral self-respect." Perhaps the book on their<br />
list which is most interesting from the point<br />
of view of originality is "Prince Uno," a<br />
fairy story written by a prominent New York<br />
business man, who wishes to remain anonymous;<br />
"Charles A. Dana's Reminiscences of the War,"<br />
which Miss Ida M. Tarbell is preparing, will<br />
begin in the November number of the magazine.<br />
The interview is an idea which this magazine is<br />
adopting freely from journalism. In the last<br />
number Mr. Steffens put a good deal of art into<br />
an interview on the Klondike, and in a few-<br />
months Mr. Robert Barr will have an interview<br />
with Mark Twain.<br />
Although nobody holds in some respects a-<br />
higher place in New England literature than<br />
James Russell Lowell, the attempt to get enough<br />
money by popular subscription to save his old<br />
homestead promises to be a miserable failure.<br />
Very few of the little sums which were expected<br />
came in, and there have thus far been no large<br />
gifts from rich men.<br />
On the Scribners' list of books for next season<br />
is "This Country of Ours," by Benjamin Harrison,<br />
ex-president of the United States. Mr. Harrison<br />
is not a remarkable writer, he is not a man of<br />
imagination or great culture, but he is a man of<br />
marked business intelligence and some indepen-<br />
dence of thought, and for anyone studying the<br />
political side of the United States his book is<br />
worth reading.<br />
A new publishing house is about to begin its<br />
career in Boston called Small, Maynard, and Co.<br />
The best known member of the firm is a silent<br />
partner, Mr. Bliss Carman, rather prominent as a<br />
lyric poet. The new firm begins its work with a<br />
new edition of Walt Whitman, which is worth<br />
while, since the publication of Whitman's writings<br />
has heretofore been extremely irregular, and<br />
since the interest in him seems to be on the<br />
increase.<br />
A reader for one of the prominent publishing<br />
houses told me the other day that 90 per cent, of<br />
the matter submitted to his house was fiction. It<br />
is not, as a rule, the echo of any successful book;<br />
the idea is original, but weak, and the execution<br />
bad. A great many of the writers live by them-<br />
selves in small places, and their novels represent<br />
the work of years.<br />
Mr. Stanley Waterloo, whose works seem to be<br />
popular in London, has written an introduction to<br />
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119<br />
the New England edition of his first novel—" A<br />
Man and a Woman." Whether any of it has yet<br />
been made public in England I do not know, but<br />
the general purport of it is that there is no school<br />
of writers in the region of which Chicago is the<br />
metropolis. He prefers " the Chicago group," on<br />
the ground that, although the treatment of life<br />
by these Western writers varies from that found<br />
elsewhere in the country, the writers are so diffe-<br />
rent among themselves that the term " school " is<br />
somewhat misleading.<br />
Another Chicago writer, now dead—Eugene<br />
Field—is to be honoured by two clubs this season.<br />
The Caxton Club of Chicago will bring out some-<br />
thing about him, not yet decided on; and the<br />
Duodecimo Club of the same city will bring out a<br />
bibliography of his works.<br />
NOBMAN HAPOOOD.<br />
BAD PAPER.<br />
IN an interview with Mr. J. T. W. MacAlister,<br />
a well-known librarian, which appeared in<br />
the June number of The Author, that gentle-<br />
man referred inter alia to the very perishable<br />
character of the paper employed for a large pro-<br />
portion of the books of the present day. We<br />
learn that the Society of Arts have appointed<br />
a representative committee of paper-makers,<br />
librarians, and chemists, to investigate the ques-<br />
tion of the deterioration of paper, and the whole<br />
subject of perishable paper when used for books<br />
of importance or reference. The committee asks<br />
to be supplied with any instances of books pub-<br />
lished within the last thirty years which already<br />
show signs of perishing, particularly where the<br />
books have been much used. Sir H. Trueman<br />
Wood, secretary of the committee, will also be<br />
glad to have any other information bearing on<br />
this matter, which may be sent to him at the<br />
Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, London.<br />
THE AMERICAN AUTUMN LIST.<br />
OTJR own Autumn List will not be complete<br />
before the end of October, owing to the<br />
custom with some publishers of sending in<br />
their lists up till November, for publication in the<br />
Athenteum. The American Autumn List, how-<br />
ever, has been fully announced in one number of<br />
the Chicago Dial. The list comprises over a<br />
thousand books. In the analysis, and in the<br />
remarks which follow, books educational, medical<br />
and surgical, of reference, new editions of stan-<br />
dard literature, and holiday gift-books, have been<br />
omitted:<br />
In Biography and Memoirs there are 60 entries.<br />
In History 43 ..<br />
In General Literature 90 „<br />
In Poetry 23<br />
In Fiction 184 „<br />
In Travels 28<br />
In Art and Archaeology 19 „<br />
In Music and the Drama 7 „<br />
In Science and Nature 27 ,,<br />
In Politics and Economics 23 „<br />
In Philosophy and Psychology 15 „<br />
In Theology and Religion 85 „<br />
In Sport 12 „<br />
The English reader naturally asks what pro-<br />
portion of these books belong to ourselves.<br />
Of English<br />
Origin.<br />
In Biography there are 32<br />
In History 7<br />
In General Literature 38<br />
In Poetry 5<br />
In Fiction 48<br />
In Travels 12<br />
In Art and Archaeology 12<br />
In Music and the Drama 3<br />
In Science and Nature 4<br />
In Politics and Economics 4<br />
In Philosophy and Psychology ... o<br />
In Theology and Religion 22<br />
In Sport 12<br />
Of<br />
28<br />
36<br />
5*<br />
18<br />
136<br />
16<br />
7<br />
4<br />
»3<br />
'9<br />
15<br />
63<br />
o<br />
199 417<br />
These figures may be incorrect to a trifling<br />
extent, but they are near enough for our pur-<br />
poses. They show that out of 616 books in the<br />
principal subjects of literature, 199 are of English<br />
origin, and 417 are of American origin. The last<br />
time that the present writer analysed an American<br />
autumn list, now some years ago, the numbers<br />
showed a much larger proportion of English<br />
origin. The reason was that while American<br />
editors could flood the market with pirated books<br />
at a wretchedly low price, the American author<br />
had no chance. The effect was to deprive<br />
the writers of fiction of the market altogether,<br />
and to make it very difficult to persuade the<br />
American public to buy any books except at a<br />
miserable price. This licence being abolished, the<br />
native author begins at once to take his place;<br />
so that we now see out of 184 new works of<br />
fiction 136 are of American writers: out of<br />
twenty-three new volumes of verse, eighteen<br />
belong to Americans: and so on.<br />
The proportion of English to American writers<br />
may be expected to become still less every year.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
This is what should be looked for: the bulk of<br />
popular fiction must be redolent of the soil: the<br />
great majority of writers cannot hope to provide<br />
the fiction of the more popular kind except for<br />
their own countrymen. There is springing up, as<br />
was foretold in these pages two or three years ago,<br />
a purely American literature in America: a purely<br />
British bterature here: and an Anglo-Saxon<br />
literature, containing what is precious and Catholic<br />
out of both literatures. To these will be joined<br />
before long the literature of the other great<br />
branches of our race. It will be a great thing<br />
for an American or an Englishman to delight his<br />
own countrymen: it will be a far greater thing<br />
for him to be included in the list of those writers<br />
who belong to all who speak our language over<br />
the whole world.<br />
s»«<-<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
IBEG to inform a great many people who<br />
addressed communications to me during the<br />
months of August and September that I<br />
only received their letters on Sept. 21, owing to the<br />
neglect of a clerk at the Society's oflices, to which<br />
the letters were addressed. I hope that they will<br />
receive this statement as an excuse or explanation<br />
for my silence as to their communications.<br />
Information has reached the secretary of several<br />
attempts recently made to entrap authors by the<br />
old trick, regularly denounced in these pages, into<br />
binding themselves down for future books with<br />
the same publisher. Would any medical man<br />
dare to propose that his patient should bind<br />
himself to call in no one else; or any solicitor?<br />
The worst feature about these cases—there are at<br />
least three publishers concerned — is that they<br />
occur with first books. The victim is offered<br />
low terms—perhaps to be excused in considera-<br />
tion of its being a first book—with the condition<br />
that the publisher is to have the second book, if<br />
he pleases, on the same terms. Take the case of<br />
Charles Dickens. His "Sketches by Boz" were<br />
sold, I believe, to Bentley for ,£150: what if he<br />
had bound himself down to let that publisher<br />
have " The Pickwick Papers" for the same sum?<br />
Experience shows that the same tricks—always<br />
the same tricks—are tried on time after time: and<br />
that the same vigilance must be kept up to<br />
expose them. The Secretary can furnish mem-<br />
bers with the names of the three publishers con-<br />
cerned. .<br />
The sub-committee to examine into the Dis-<br />
ount Question has begun its work. It will be a<br />
laborious work. Meantime I refer readers once<br />
more to the " Battle of Books," in The Autlior of<br />
February, 1897. And, without instructions from<br />
the sub-committee to this effect, I may also remind<br />
readers of The A uthor, who are probably members<br />
of the Society, that the matter under discussion<br />
is one of the very highest importance to themselves,<br />
and that they ought to consider for themselves<br />
what it means. The proposal of certain pub-<br />
lishers, which appears to be accepted by certain<br />
booksellers, is this: (1) To maintain the present<br />
arrangements and prices with the retail trade,<br />
provided the latter reduce their discount from.<br />
3<Z. to 2d. in the shilling: but (2) to issue books<br />
at a net price for which the bookseller will pay<br />
four-fifths of that price. We have to consider<br />
how such a change will affect our own interests,<br />
the interests of booksellers, the interests of<br />
publishers, and the interests of literature<br />
generally. nin<br />
The new literary journal, concerning which a<br />
good deal of whispering has gone round, will<br />
appear this month. As we all know now, it is to be<br />
called " Literature": it is to be published at the<br />
office of the Times: it is to be edited by Dr.<br />
Traill. It would seem that the journal could<br />
hardly appear at a more opportune moment:<br />
the British Review and the National Observer<br />
are extinct: so, after a brief existence, is the New<br />
Saturday; the Saturday has undergone changes;<br />
the Spectator has lost its principal pillar of<br />
support, and is practically on its trial for its<br />
future position. The Athetueum remains what it<br />
always has been, filling a place of its own from<br />
which it will not be easily dislodged. The Book-<br />
man still remains a monthly paper: the Literary<br />
Gazette has got, and will keep, its own place, and<br />
a very useful place it is. The Publishers' Circular<br />
and the Bookseller are organs of the publishing<br />
trade: The Author is the organ of the Authors'<br />
Society, and is not a review at all. None of<br />
these papers would stand in the way of the new<br />
weekly. There would seem to be plenty of<br />
room for another paper devoted entirely to<br />
Literature. There would seem to be a great<br />
future possible for such a paper.<br />
Those who remember—sorrowfully I confess<br />
that I remember — the early days of the Satur-<br />
day Review, will recall the pleasure with which<br />
one welcomed reviews of books which were<br />
obviously written by scholars who knew, and<br />
were guided by, canons of criticism. It was a<br />
time, I believe, and have been told, when criticism<br />
was at its very worst, with log-rolling—but the<br />
name had not yet been invented—and personal<br />
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121<br />
animosities of the most violent kind; the most<br />
blackguard abuse; and the most flagrant incom-<br />
petence. The Saturday Review came, and the<br />
•whole tone of criticism changed. Some of the<br />
earlier numbers of the new paper were violent,<br />
but no paper can be completely in advance of<br />
the time. The justice of the line taken by the<br />
writers: the ability with which the subject, as<br />
well as the book, was handled; the breadth of<br />
view: the fearlessness with which abuses were<br />
attacked: the separation of the journal from any<br />
considerations of advertisements, whether they<br />
would be attracted or repelled: the knowledge<br />
that the journal belonged to a rich man, who<br />
would not care much if it brought him but a<br />
small return—these points gave the paper, almost<br />
from the outset, a commanding position. Will<br />
the new paper be able to take up that position,<br />
and so dominate the literary world? The place is<br />
vacant: the door is open. No one, I think,<br />
understands the position better than Dr. Traill<br />
himself, as much distinguished for his journalism<br />
as for his books.<br />
On all sides we hear the same complaint.<br />
Reviews are of no use : they have lost their interest<br />
and their value. The world is no longer guided<br />
by them. A most remarkable illustration of the<br />
fact is before us all at this moment in the case of<br />
a certain book which appeared a month or six<br />
weeks ago. It was instantly seized upon by all<br />
the reviewers for all the papers. I hope that I am<br />
not understood as saying or suggesting anything<br />
against, or for, the merits of the book, when I use<br />
it as an illustration of my position. By one part<br />
of the reviewers the work was fiercely, savagely<br />
assailed; by the other part it was as cordially<br />
welcomed and praised. What is the result? A<br />
larger demand for the book than has greeted any<br />
other novel on its first appearance for many years.<br />
In three or four weeks, in the teeth of the most<br />
"damaging " assaults upon the book, the circula-<br />
tion has been 50,000, and a new edition of 20,000<br />
is announced. The hostility, therefore, of that part<br />
of the Press has not had the slightest effect upon<br />
the demand for the book. I am not, I repeat,<br />
finding fault with either section of the reviewers.<br />
I only point out that, as the " slating" has not<br />
affected the book, it is not too much to assume that<br />
the praise bestowed upon it has also been unable<br />
to affect it. In spite of praise or blame, the public<br />
have received the book on their own judgment. I<br />
have received twenty letters all asking the same<br />
question—I have printed one—p. 132. On all sides<br />
the same question is asked: "If critics—educated<br />
men — produce judgments so diametrically<br />
opposite, what is the use of criticism?" The<br />
answer is, that judgments diametrically opposite<br />
cannot proceed from critics who work on any<br />
canons of criticism.<br />
How, then, can a literary paper proceed? The<br />
only safe way is to follow the example of the<br />
Saturday Review iu 1859 or i860—namely, to<br />
admit on the staff none but scholars and proved<br />
writers ; and to take the greatest care not to suffer<br />
any book to fall into the hands of friend or<br />
enemy of the author. The Critic of New York<br />
observes this rule most strictly, and would never<br />
allow a man to write a second time who infringed<br />
the rule. Of course, one need not in this place<br />
dilate on log-rolling and animosities.<br />
There is anothar point on which the original<br />
practice of the Saturday might be followed. It<br />
is to give importance to literature as well as to<br />
the author by assigning to each review an<br />
adequate space. It was then, and should be now,<br />
a distinction to be reviewed—to be selected for<br />
review. A journal which would follow that<br />
custom, without "minor notices" at all, would<br />
immediately become distinguished above the rest.<br />
As to the "minor notices," the world cares<br />
nothing for them: they do not help or instruct<br />
the author: they do not advance the interests of<br />
the book; they damage the paper by destroying<br />
the value of so many columns; worse still—worst<br />
of all—it is impossible for a reviewer to read<br />
books for which he is allotted only an inch or<br />
two of space: no scale of pay ever invented<br />
would enable writers of short " notices" to read<br />
the books. One has been encouraged by the<br />
occasion to make these remarks; which are, after<br />
all, mere echoes of what is said everywhere. But<br />
no doubt Dr. Traill understands the situation far<br />
better than the writer of these lines.<br />
At this point I fell in with a paper by Mr.<br />
Cecil Mead Allen in the New Century Review,<br />
called "Novelist v. Reviewer," in which he takes<br />
the side of the reviewer. He assumes, however,<br />
that those who find fault with the present con-<br />
dition of criticism do so because they themselves<br />
have been severely treated; also that they are<br />
novelists only. Both these assumptions are<br />
baseless.<br />
He also says that, "No critic would wilfully<br />
defame a good book." The converse proposition<br />
therefore follows: "No critic would wilfully praise<br />
a bad book." Apply these propositions to the<br />
book whose case we are considering.<br />
I. If it is good, no writer would defame it.<br />
But critics have defamed it. Therefore it must<br />
be bad.<br />
II. If it is bad, no critic would praise it. But<br />
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critics have praised it. Therefore it must be<br />
good.<br />
Yet it cannot be both good and bad.<br />
Mr. Allen very justly points out that the signifi-<br />
cance of a criticism depends greatly on experience<br />
and education. Does this fact explain the reason<br />
why it is supposed that anybody can review books?<br />
So we come back to what was said at first—that the<br />
time is highly propitious for the formation of a<br />
literary organ whose staff shall be scholars, who<br />
will be free from personal motives, who will read<br />
the books they judge, and whose judgment shall<br />
carry weight.<br />
I am very pleased to publish the following<br />
letter, which speaks for itself. It will be, I<br />
believe, as new to the world as it is to me to hear<br />
that the late Charles Dickens was a contributor to<br />
the Press. That he was an excellent editor I<br />
know very well, for I wrote his Christmas story<br />
for him, either alone or with the late James Eice,<br />
for ten or eleven years—1876-1886, or 1887—<br />
with relations perfectly satisfactory. Of course,<br />
one cannot believe that his family would be hurt<br />
by the statement that he was a printer. Let us,<br />
however, correct these words, and say that the<br />
late Charles Dickens was not known to the world<br />
as a writer, save of guide-books; that he was an<br />
editor for many years; and that he was also a<br />
printer for many years.<br />
"When commenting upon the above in last<br />
month's Author, you remark that the 'late<br />
Charles Dickens, jun., was not a writer, except<br />
of one or two guide-books. He was a printer.'<br />
Will you kindly allow me to say that I think<br />
these remarks are calculated to give an entirely<br />
wrong impression of the late Mr. C. Dickens's<br />
position in the literary world. I fear also<br />
they are likrly to give pain to a large number<br />
< f your readers, and more especially to those who,<br />
like myself, knew him not merely as a personal<br />
friend or as a contributor of brilliant unsigned<br />
articles to the Press, but also as a most conscien-<br />
tious and genuinely artistic editor. As such no<br />
slovenly work ever passed muster with him, nor<br />
did any really good work ever suffer at his hands<br />
from rough and ready pruning. For ten years<br />
(dating from 1884) I was serial writer to his two<br />
magazines, All the Year Round and Household<br />
Words, and, looking back dispassionately upon<br />
the work which I placed in his hands during that<br />
time, I gratefully acknowledge how much it owes<br />
to his most thoughtful suggestions, which were<br />
invariably the outcome of genuine artistic feeling<br />
and wide literary knowledge."<br />
The following note is taken from the Daily<br />
News, with thanks to the editor for providing a<br />
piece of literary gossip so interesting:—" The<br />
oldest member of the Soeicte des Gens de Lettres<br />
is neither M. Eugene Veuillot, who is 89, nor<br />
M. Legouve.who is 90, but Mme. du Bosd'Elbbecq,<br />
who is 99. She is very sorry to have lived so<br />
long. Her experience of a very great age is given<br />
in one word—solitude. She has outlived hus-<br />
band, son, grandchildren, friends, and has, for a<br />
little quiet society, gone to live in a convent at<br />
Angers. Mme. du Bos d'Elbhecq was a prolific<br />
authoress. A list of her books would fill a<br />
column of a large newspaper. Some of them<br />
were highly successful. 'Le Pere Fargeau'<br />
still sells. It had an early sale of 36,000. She<br />
has to write every year to the secretary of the<br />
Socicte' des Gens de Lettres, to enclose a certificate<br />
that she lives. Her handwriting remains firm<br />
and legible. She works still as an authoress,<br />
chiefly writing for peasants and country folks.<br />
When she last applied for her pension, she was<br />
suffering from influenza, but has recovered. She<br />
began to work for the printers at the age of<br />
twenty, that is to say, seventy-nine years ago.<br />
She led a regular life, was never poor, never very<br />
well off, and had many kind friends. The last of<br />
her old friends, Admiral de Eibours, died two<br />
years ago. She was elected a member of the<br />
Societc fifty-three years ago."<br />
Walter Besant.<br />
—)» —<br />
PUBLIC LIBRARY THEFTS.<br />
IN the report of the Stoke Newington<br />
Public Library for 1896-7, it is stated that<br />
sixteen volumes were stolen during the<br />
year, fourteen of which wore taken from the<br />
shelves to which the readers had free access, only<br />
two being lost under the old system by which<br />
books were obtained through the library staff.<br />
Not long ago two city libraries, working also<br />
under the free access system, had to bewail the<br />
loss of some 200 volumes or more, one of the<br />
thieves being caught at a library using the old<br />
safe method, where, in trying to exercise his<br />
thievish ability, he was at once detected and<br />
handed over to the police. Libraries at Oxford,<br />
Liverpool, Cardiff, Nottingham, and other impor-<br />
tant places, which have more or less given up<br />
this risky method, have all suffered, and it is<br />
obvious that only where the authorities are pre-<br />
pared to lose many of their most valuable<br />
works, and are not particular as to the general<br />
disorder and misplacement of books on the<br />
shelves, can such a method be tolerated. One<br />
characteristic of this report is its unquestion-<br />
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able honesty, as it is not pleasant to have to<br />
report the failure of a system after once it is<br />
adopted.<br />
CHEAPNESS OF BOOKS.<br />
"T HAVE long felt that a great number of<br />
I books are much too cheap. Books are<br />
published now at 28. 6d. that twenty<br />
years ago would have easily commanded 6s.,<br />
and those that were once 2s. 6d. are now<br />
published at i*., which means qd. Having<br />
thoroughly debauched the British public by in-<br />
ducing them to believe and to practice the lie that<br />
nd. is only t)d., what are we to do? The British<br />
public will not repent in sackcloth and ashes, and<br />
thus retrace its steps. What is to be done? I think<br />
the only thing to be done is for the publishers to<br />
agree to revise their prices. Let them, among<br />
other things, give up the old conventions-. Haif-<br />
a-crown is a price, 5*. is a price, 6*., io*, and 15*.<br />
are prices. But you never hear of 3*. 6d., or of<br />
6s. 6d., or of 12s. 6d. Why not '< We have<br />
grown into routiue and custom. The publishers<br />
can, I fancy, easily break through this. Let them<br />
in future make a is. book is. 6d., a zs. 6d. book<br />
3*. 6d., a 5*. book 6s. 6d., and so on. The public<br />
will pay only is. i\d. for a is. 6d. book; they<br />
will be well pleased, and the publisher will have<br />
i^d. on the is. to the good.<br />
"The competition in the book market is quite<br />
different in character from the competition in<br />
fish, or bread, or beef. A book is a book, and on<br />
the other hand, a book is not a book. No man<br />
buys a book on history when he wants a novel,<br />
because the first is cheaper; he has in his head a<br />
quite fixed idea of the book he wants and will<br />
have; and the temptation of Qd. or is. cheaper<br />
does not make him waver (unless he is going to<br />
make a present to someone he does not care<br />
about). It appears to me that the publishers<br />
have not sufficiently regarded this side of the<br />
question. Every book has its own public."—<br />
(From a Letter.)<br />
A RULE FOB THE USE OF THE<br />
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.<br />
0| INCE the publication of my "suggested<br />
1^ rule" for the use of the subjunctive mood<br />
by beginners in literature, in the July<br />
number of The Author, I have been in corre-<br />
spondence with some who have an acknowledged<br />
literary style, and also with others who are<br />
authorities on English Grammar.<br />
The views of the former class are well repre-<br />
sented in a letter which I received from Professor<br />
Dowden—the writer of one of the ten books which<br />
formed the basis of this investigation. He writes:<br />
"Your rule seems a good one for regulating<br />
the use of the subjunctive after 'if.' But I<br />
am not sure that there are not shades of meaning<br />
brought out by its use with other verbs than<br />
'to be'; and, although the use is rare after<br />
'whether,' 'though,' and 'although,'the propor-<br />
tion of subjunctives is large enough to suggest<br />
that it has some use. I should accept your rule<br />
as sufficient for beginners, but, should a yearning<br />
for a subjunctive possess me, I should like to<br />
think the passion not wholly criminal. I am<br />
afraid I have written in what Milton would call<br />
the unfettered liberty of a Christian. Now I<br />
shall feel that the number of ' tongue sins,' which<br />
Baxter fixed at thirty, is at least thirty-one."<br />
The sentence, "the proportion of subjunctives<br />
is large enough to suggest that it has some use,"<br />
is interesting as bearing out the views of some<br />
other author*, who, while seeming to think that it<br />
has "some use," are apparently at a loss to say<br />
what that use is. In the words of others,<br />
"instinct" or their "ear " leads them to employ<br />
this moud without being able to understand or to<br />
explain to others why, in particular cases, it seems<br />
better than the indicative. Can it possibly be for<br />
the reason which leads to the use of synonyms,<br />
to avoid, that is, the too frequent repetition of<br />
the same word? It would certainly appear to be<br />
so in some instances that have come under my<br />
notice. Another reason may be traced to the<br />
schoolroom, for one author, distinguished for<br />
the purity of his style, admits that 'the use with<br />
me is simply that I was somehow taught that it<br />
was the proper thing to use 'be' after 'if.' I<br />
did not ask for any reason, but obeyed blindly."<br />
'J'his is not the only case where this same reason<br />
holds.<br />
Coming to the other class, the grammarians,<br />
as distinguished from authors pure and simple.<br />
Professor Skeat writes: "I can only say that<br />
you have taken very great pains — that your<br />
general rule seems to be quite reasonable—and<br />
that there is 110 compulsion or necessity for using<br />
the subjunctive mood in any case, unless one<br />
wishes to do so. Its use seems to be most<br />
agreeable when real contingency is to be ex-<br />
pressed by a sentence involving be or were.<br />
And certainly the conjunction if is the one which<br />
generally goes with it. The net result is clearly<br />
that the subjunctive is in a moribund state. Dr.<br />
Sweet says, I believe, truly that it is completely<br />
dead in the spoken language. I take this to<br />
include all but flights of oratory and speeches of<br />
an ambitious character. In common talk it<br />
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sounds terribly pedantic, and that is why we may<br />
disregard it if we please. This 'obsolescent'<br />
stage has lasted for a long time. Even in middle<br />
English the subjunctive is comparatively rare.<br />
'• I think it probable that the reason why the<br />
subjunctive of 'be' has survived other subjunc-<br />
tives is partly because that verb has peculiarities<br />
of its own. In Anglo-Saxon the future and the<br />
present of all verbs were alike with one sole<br />
exception BE. Thus ic ga, I go=(i) I am<br />
going; (2) I will go." But, ic com, I am,<br />
is present only; ic beo, I be, is both present<br />
and future, but commonly future. Later<br />
on 'I am,' and 'I be,' were both common;<br />
and the above distinction was often made.<br />
But (if I remember rightly) 'I be' died<br />
out in northern English at any rate in the<br />
indicative mood. There was great confusion.<br />
Moreover, the Anglo-Saxon for 'that I may<br />
be' was neither 'thaet ic eom,' nor yet, ' thaet<br />
ic beo,' but 4 thaet ic sy!' that is, there was yet<br />
a third form, used in the subjunctive only. This<br />
separated ' be' from all other verbs.<br />
"I think we ought all to be much obliged to<br />
you. To compile statistics is highly laborious,<br />
and is not always appreciated as it should be."<br />
Prof. Henry Sweet, the author of the exceed-<br />
ingly interesting " New English Grammar," writes:<br />
"My own practice, both in writing and speaking, is<br />
to use 'were' after ' if' to express rejected condi-<br />
tion 'if it were possible,' implying 'it is not<br />
possible.' Otherwise I do not think I use the<br />
subjunctive at all except in 'petrified phrases'—<br />
that is I say and write 'if it is possible' in all<br />
cases ... I should advise young authors to<br />
follow their own instincts about the subjunctive,<br />
that is, to write it only when they speak it; but<br />
if they must set up an artificial standard, I think<br />
they could not do better than follow your rules."<br />
It should be noted that we cannot use "was"<br />
everywhere after "if":—"I do not know whether<br />
he was there or not; if he teas, I did not see him."<br />
Here "were" would make nonsense.<br />
The author of a very well known grammar<br />
writes: "I feel inclined to put the results of<br />
inquiries into the following form: It is not now<br />
necessary to use the form of the subjunctive<br />
mood except in one single instance—in the past<br />
tense of the verb ' to be.'<br />
"You can now use the indicative of the present<br />
of 'to be' in place of the older subjunctive,<br />
without offence to the grammatical sense (of<br />
which only a minimum survives in the English<br />
nation) or to the ear. If anyone likes to say<br />
'If he be at home I will call on him,' we have a<br />
feeling that he is unnecessarily particular, and<br />
therefore a little pedantic. But you cannot get<br />
out of the necessity of saying ' If only he were<br />
here, we should,' &c. If 'was' were used, it<br />
would at once be felt to be 'bad grammar '—that<br />
is, against all ordinary usage.<br />
"I don't myself believe that the English<br />
people will ever get out of the habit of using the<br />
subjunctive mood in this single instance, ' If I<br />
were, he were,' &c, because it seems to me to<br />
mark a real need of thought. To substitute<br />
'was' would be to confuse two very different<br />
things, and would also be felt as a weakness—<br />
that is the feeling that it is impossible he could<br />
be here, when we say 'If he were here' would<br />
not be done adequate justice to.<br />
"Why not go in boldly for the one rule; use<br />
the subjunctive only in the past tense of the<br />
verb 'to be'—or use the subjunctive only in<br />
'were '?"<br />
While much may be said in favour of the brief<br />
"Use the subjunctive only in were," I should<br />
hardly be summing up fairly the results of the<br />
correspondence this investigation has brought<br />
me—larger, possibly, than the foregoing extracts<br />
would suggest—without giving the "suggested<br />
rule" in a form that has met with general<br />
assent, and which may easily be remembered.<br />
I am now justified in recommending the fol-<br />
lowing to those who feel the need of some<br />
guidance beyond their "ear" or "instinct":—<br />
The subjunctive mood should be used with<br />
no other verb than "to be," and then only<br />
after "if" in cases (i) where there is<br />
real contingency, e.g., "H it be thought<br />
advisable, such and such measures will be pro-<br />
ceeded With "; (2) OR WHERE DEFINITE ASSER-<br />
TION is withheld, e.g., "It is as indispensable<br />
as any other . . . if it be not more so."<br />
Where the style is familiar the subjunc-<br />
tive SHOULD NOT BE USED AT ALL, e.g., do not<br />
write, "If he be naughty, he shall go without<br />
desert." F. Howard Collins.<br />
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.<br />
IN a criticism of R. L. Stevenson's collected<br />
works, the Athenteum prints the following<br />
letter it received from Stevenson himself,<br />
after it had reviewed " Kidnapped":—<br />
I wish to thank yon for your notioe of "Kidnapped,"<br />
and that not because it was kind, though for that also I<br />
valued it, but in the same sense as I have thanked you<br />
before now for a hundred articles on a hundred different<br />
writers—you who fight the good fight, contending with<br />
stupidity, and I would fain hope not all in vain; in my own<br />
case, for instance, surely not in vain. What you say of the<br />
two parts in "Kidnapped " was felt by no one more pain-<br />
fully than by myself. I began it partly as a lark, partly as a<br />
pot-boiler; and suddenly it moved. David and Alan<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
stepped out from the canvas, and I found I was in another<br />
world. Bat there was the cursed beginning, and a cursed<br />
end must be appended, and an old friend, Byles the Batcher,<br />
was plainly audible, tapping at the back door. So it had to<br />
go into the world, one part (as it does seem to me) alive,<br />
one part merely galvanised: no work, only an essay. For a<br />
man of tentative method, and weak health, and a scarcity<br />
of private means, and not too much of that frugality which<br />
is the artist's proper virtue, the days of sinecures and<br />
patrons look very golden, the days of professional literature<br />
very hard. Yet I do not so far deceive myself as to think<br />
I should change any character by changing my epoch; the<br />
sum of virtue in our books is in a relation of equality to the<br />
sum of virtues in ourselves; and my "Kidnapped" was<br />
doomed while still in the womb, and while I was yet in the<br />
cradle, to be the thing it is.<br />
It may not be generally known that Stevenson<br />
at one time aspired to fill a professorial chair. The<br />
Critic recently printed an article describing this<br />
incident. The position he applied for was the<br />
Chair of History and Constitutional Law at Edin-<br />
burgh University. In the summer of 1881<br />
Stevenson's mother read in the Scotsman the<br />
announcement that the chair was vacant. She<br />
said to him: "I am sorry that that Chair has<br />
become vacant, as I have always thought it was<br />
the one position in Edinburgh which would suit<br />
you." He replied: "I have never thought of it,<br />
but you are quite right, and I don't see why I<br />
should not apply now." He at once wrote round<br />
to his influential friends soliciting their testi-<br />
monials as to his fitness for the post. Copies of<br />
these letters were bound in a pamphlet and dis-<br />
tributed among those who had the power of filling<br />
the vacancy. These pamphlets are now exceed-<br />
ingly rare. Stevenson received very eulogistic<br />
letters from Leslie Stephen, J. A. Symonds, and<br />
Andrew Lang, among others, but did not obtain<br />
the Chair.<br />
—>•<<br />
THE AUTOGRAPH FIEND-<br />
THE following is from a circular copied from<br />
an American paper, and used by the late<br />
Sir Isaac Pitman in reply to letters asking<br />
him for his autograph:—<br />
"One of the forces not duly rated in this world<br />
is the power involved in making oneself disagree-<br />
able.<br />
"The autograph hunter is the embodiment of<br />
it, and it is his crowning glory that few have<br />
attained the distinction of being cursed as he has<br />
been, for being an unmitigated nuisance; and<br />
aroused, even in the breasts of the pious, thoughts<br />
that lie too deep, not only for tears, but for words<br />
not fit for polite society. Yet it is in proportion<br />
to this supreme capacity for making oneself<br />
odious that the autograph hunter exhibits, like<br />
the Indian, the trophies of his hunt. Nor does it<br />
seem to require the brazen hardihood of age and<br />
experience. Owing to the fact that age puts by<br />
this sort of thing with other follies, it is the youth<br />
that most indulge and most exult in this lion-<br />
baiting pastime.<br />
"One of these young fiends in Brooklyn, having<br />
scarcely attained the age of eighteen, has whole<br />
folios full of autographic scalps. His waking<br />
hours are devoted to the task of plotting<br />
against the peace and comfort of the great.<br />
Having no scruples and no humanity, he smiles at<br />
the refusals of his victims, knowing well that he<br />
has settled down upon them never to depart<br />
until he shall carry with him in triumph the<br />
plunder he is seeking. To his credit, be it said,<br />
he is no respecter of persons. Bismarck and the<br />
German Emperor are made to stand and deliver<br />
as well as Mark Twain and the Sweet Singer of<br />
Michigan; Susan B. Anthony and Von Moltke as.<br />
well as Mother Goose and K. B. Hayes. He has<br />
drawn autographs from people who have regis-<br />
tered a solemu vow b3fore high heaven never to<br />
write another. Eminent lawyers have pleaded for<br />
mercy as they never pleaded for a verdict, but<br />
they have not always been let off even with a short<br />
sentence. Distinguished clergymen, at first<br />
excusing themselves on the ground that they were<br />
too engrossed in Holy Writ to furnish the secular<br />
sort, have yielded to the inevitable in order to<br />
escape eternal suffering in this world."<br />
SIR HENRY CRAIK ON IMPRESSIONISM.<br />
SIE HENRY CRAIK, K.C.B., Secretary of<br />
the Scotch Education Department, delivered<br />
an address to the boys of Glasgow High<br />
School on the 21st ult., on the occasion of the<br />
opening of a new wing of that establishment.<br />
His subject was the training for citizenship, and he<br />
advised the curbing of the emotions, and the<br />
development of the imagination. He suggested<br />
that in the nineteenth century we had specialised<br />
knowledge too much, and forgotten that balance<br />
of judgment which is the chief quality of wisdom;<br />
that in our poetry we had torn at our heart-<br />
strings too much, and carried our feelings too<br />
much upon our sleeves; that in our philosophy<br />
we had tried to solve the insoluble, pursuing<br />
perhaps some nebulous and misty produce of<br />
esoteric philosophy borrowed from Germany;<br />
and that in fiction we had neglected the early pic-<br />
turesof domestic life—which, after all, had so much<br />
of interest, so much of tragedy, so much of comedy<br />
—and rather pursued after exaggerated types of<br />
morbid ideas in which, to use a common phrase, each<br />
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man had striven to go one better than his neigh-<br />
bour. It was quite possible we might have to<br />
wait for a time before the pendulum swung back;<br />
we might have to carry further the exaggeration<br />
of emotionalism, of what was called impres-<br />
sionism. But sooner or later some reaction<br />
would come. What if we reverted somewhat to<br />
the tone of an older age; if we repeated some-<br />
thing of that much decried eighteenth century,<br />
which we thought was wanting in enthusiasm,<br />
and sacrificed too much to form? Suppose we<br />
attempted, after all our energy of effort, to<br />
garner a few of the fruits—to seek after lucidity,<br />
clearness, and simplicity in our speculations,<br />
calmness in our judgment of politics and of<br />
social questions, order and good form in our<br />
poetry, simplicity in our pictures of human<br />
life as represented in fiction?<br />
A SMALL LITERARY PROBLEM.<br />
AGENUINE, if not very important, mystery<br />
arises out of the strange twist in Sir<br />
Walter Scott's nature which led that just<br />
and honourable man to take a gratuitous delight<br />
in hoax and humbug. The endless population<br />
of Clutterbucks and Cleisbothams, indeed, could<br />
hardly deceive the most simple-minded readers;<br />
and the authorship of " Waverley," though abso-<br />
lutely denied, soon became of the sort known<br />
in France as "a secret of Punch." But Scott<br />
made a most determined effort to mislead the<br />
world in another direction. It was early in 1813,<br />
while engaged in "Rokeby" and making his<br />
new departure in "Waverley," that his fertile<br />
brain was inspired by the idea of competing<br />
with himself by an anonymous poem. In March<br />
of that year the Ballantynes brought out the<br />
"Bridal of Triermain," pains being taken to<br />
make it appear the work of a friend, William<br />
Erskine. The thing took; the critics hailed an<br />
imitation—however inferior—of the great Min-<br />
strel; and it was not until the appearance of a<br />
third edition that the true authorship became<br />
known. Had this, however, been the whole story<br />
it would have been nothing unusual. "Waverley<br />
came out about two years later, in a similar cloud<br />
of concealment and mystification; and in 1817<br />
another poem—" Harold the Dauntless "—was<br />
launched anonymously, and the critics were once<br />
more at fault, and hailed an inferior imitation.<br />
What makes " Triermain " a special case is that<br />
it was not a frank exercise in the manner of the<br />
"Lay" and "Marmion," but rather an attempt<br />
at a new style, resembling that of Byron's tales,<br />
and apparently modelled on "Christabel," which<br />
Coleridge asserted to be written in a new form<br />
invented by himself. But the darkness deepens<br />
when we remember that "Christabel" was not<br />
published until 1816, three years later than the<br />
poem of Scott, of which the first canto, in which<br />
the Coleridge manner is most apparent, had<br />
appeared still earlier.* And yet it is hard to<br />
resist the conclusion that Scott must have seen<br />
Coleridge's poem in MS. Although of this<br />
there seems no external evidence, yet there is the<br />
strange similarity of style and manner; above<br />
all there is the name of Geraldine's father—<br />
"Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine "—which, allow-<br />
ing for slight difference in spelling, gives the<br />
exact appellation of Scott's hero. "Christabel"<br />
was written in 1797, though not published, and<br />
Scott must have seen it in MS. before 1809.<br />
It is further remarkable that—whatever may<br />
have been the opinion of contemporary critics—a<br />
great improvement in workmanship made itself<br />
manifest in Scott's new venture. The poem is<br />
not, perhaps, as well known as it ought to be, by<br />
reason of its humour, descriptive skill, and<br />
delicate technique- Altogether the unsolved<br />
mystery remains full of literary interest.<br />
Its elucidation may be commended to those<br />
ingenious philosophers who teach that genius is<br />
but a form of epilepsy, and essentially morbid.<br />
Scott dictated his matchless " Lammermoor " in a<br />
state approaching to delirium a few years later;<br />
and the mattoid sect will perhaps attempt to<br />
account for the strange incidents above noticed<br />
by the theory of a disordered constitution. One<br />
thing, at least, they may be trusted to do : if they<br />
establish no other conclusion, they will certainly<br />
add to the already existing proofs that the<br />
disease of genius is not contagious.<br />
Note —In the atanzaa introductory to Canto First the<br />
author uaeB a distinct denial of identity with the Last<br />
Minstrel:—<br />
Nor "on—beat meed to minatrel true—<br />
One fav'ring smile from fair Buoclenoh.<br />
H. G. Keene.<br />
BOOK TALE.<br />
AWORK on Klondyke, by Mr. Harry de<br />
Windt, is to be published by Messrs.<br />
Chatto and Windus under the title<br />
"Through the Goldfields of Alaska to Behring<br />
Straits."<br />
The new work by Mr. Ruskin which Mr. George<br />
Allen has unearthed, consisting of the lectures on<br />
landscape delivered to Oxford undergraduates in<br />
* The fragment first saw the light in the Edinburgh.<br />
Annual Register for 1809, no leaa than seven years before<br />
"Christabel." It was an avowed imitation (see first preface).<br />
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127<br />
1871, will be published with illustrations repro-<br />
duced from the author's private collection which<br />
accompanied the addresses.<br />
A story called " Poppy," by Mrs. Isla Sitwell,<br />
will be brought out this autumn by Messrs.<br />
Nelson and Co.<br />
Mr. Romesh C. Dutt, I.C.S., CLE., the late<br />
officiating Commissioner of Orissa, and author of<br />
"Civilization in Ancient India," has produced a<br />
book called "England and India," a record of pro-<br />
gress during a hundred years, 1785-1885. The<br />
preface points out that since 1837 there has<br />
been a great famine every twenty years: that while<br />
the rule of the English has been honest, it has<br />
been found necessary to call for reforms in many<br />
directions, and that other reforms await the legis-<br />
lator. What these are the book attempts to point •<br />
out. The publishers are Chatto and Windus.<br />
A second and enlarged edition of Miss Roalfe<br />
Cox's "Introduction to Folk-Lore" is in the<br />
press. The special feature of the new issue is a<br />
classified list of books designed for the use of<br />
students of the science. The publisher is Mr.<br />
Nutt.<br />
Messrs. Moran and Co., Crown Press, Aberdeen,<br />
will issue early in October an important book,<br />
"My First Prisoner," from the pen of Mr. Bartle<br />
Teeling, who has an interesting career as governor<br />
of an Irish prison and as one of the Pontifical<br />
Zouaves. The picture of Ireland and Rome of<br />
more than a quarter of a century ago will be<br />
found interesting at this moment, viewed in the<br />
light of the present political state of Ireland and<br />
Italy. The work will be published in London by<br />
the Roxburghe Press Limited.<br />
"Richard de Lyrienne," the author of the skit<br />
on Mr. Le Gallienne's book, published recently by<br />
Mr. Lane, is Mr. David Hodge, a Glasgow<br />
journalist. This is his first book. Mr. Hodge is<br />
connected with the same journal as Mr. Neil<br />
Munro, whose volume of stories of life in the<br />
Highlands of Scotland Messrs. Blackwood<br />
published some time ago.<br />
Mr. Thomas Wright, Olney, Bucks, is writing<br />
a work on "Hind Head, and Its Literary and<br />
Historical Associations." This locality is noted<br />
for the number of literary and scientific gentlemen<br />
who reside in it.<br />
Dr. Wallis Budge is editing the text of the<br />
Coptic Psalter discovered about two years ago in<br />
Upper Egypt, and the work will be published by<br />
Messrs. Kegan Paul. The manuscript was found<br />
in the ruins of an ancient Coptic monastery,<br />
inclosed in a stone box, which had been firmly<br />
fastened into the ground. The manuscript is<br />
interesting also as containing the spurious cli.<br />
Psalm.<br />
Professor George Ebers's novel, "Barbara<br />
Blomberg: a Romance of the Days of Charles V,"<br />
is about to be published by Messrs. Sampson<br />
Low.<br />
Early this month Mr. Andrew Lang's book for<br />
the young, "The Pink Fairy Book," will be<br />
published by Messrs. Longmans, Green. Mr. H. J.<br />
Ford illustrates it.<br />
"Weeping Ferry, and Other Stories," is the<br />
title of a volume by Margaret L. Woods (author<br />
of "A Village Tragedy "), which Messrs. Long-<br />
mans, Green, and Co. have in the press.<br />
Golfers will get "Colonel Bogey's Sketch<br />
Book" added to their literature shortly. The<br />
author is Mr. R. Andre, of the West Herts Golf<br />
Club.<br />
Mr. F. H. S. Merewether, Reuter's special<br />
correspondent during the Indian Famine, who<br />
travelled in the stricken districts, has written<br />
an account of his experiences. This will be pub-<br />
lished by Messrs. A. D. Innes and Co., entitled<br />
"Through the Famine Districts of India."<br />
This firm also announces "The Coldstream<br />
Guards in the Crimea," by Lieutenant-Colonel<br />
Ross, C.B., of Bladensburg.<br />
Mr. Clark Russell has written a novel entitled<br />
"The Two Captains," which Messrs. Sampson<br />
Low are about to publish.<br />
Mr. James F. Sullivan has written and illus-<br />
trated a volume entitled "More Stories," which<br />
Messrs. Longmans will publish.<br />
The author of " The Devil Tree of El Dorado"<br />
has written another novel, entitled "A Studio<br />
Mystery," which Messrs. Jarrold will publish.<br />
Mr. Silas K. Hocking's serial "In Spite of<br />
Fate" is to be published shortly by Messrs.<br />
Warne.<br />
"Stories of Famous Songs" is a work by Mr.<br />
S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald shortly to appear from Mr.<br />
Nimmo's house in King William-street. The<br />
writer has spent fifteen years, he tells, upon the<br />
work, and has gathered the histories of all the<br />
world's most famous and popular songs and<br />
ballads from all sorts of sources.<br />
Mr. Beckles Willson is the author of "The<br />
Tenth Island: being some Account of Newfound-<br />
land, its People, its Politics, its Problems, and<br />
its Peculiarities." The work is the result of Mr.<br />
Willson's special correspondence from North-<br />
western America to the London Daily Mail. Sir<br />
William Whiteway and Lord Charles Beresford<br />
will write contributions to the work.<br />
Dr. Newman Hall is writing his Life. The<br />
book will be called "Sixty Years Ago, by an<br />
Octogenarian."<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. F. H. Le Queux is engaged upon a new<br />
story, to be called "The Eve of the Seventh<br />
Resurrection. It will be ready for publication<br />
early in December.<br />
"Steadfast and True" is a tale of the Hugue-<br />
nots, by L. C. Silke, author of "Margaret<br />
Somerset," <fec. Published by the Religious<br />
Tract Society. 2s. 6c?.<br />
"School Life at Bartram's" is another story<br />
by L. C. Silke, author of "A Hero in the Strife,"<br />
"Margaret Somerset," &c. Same publishers,<br />
i*. 6c?.<br />
The second edition of "Reflections on the Art<br />
of War," price ys. 6c?., and the fourth edition of<br />
"Sanitation and Health," cloth, is. 6c?., both<br />
books by Brigadier-General R. C. Hart, V.C.,<br />
C.B. (commanding a district in India), are about<br />
to be published.<br />
There will be three serial stories in the Monthly<br />
Packet during the course of 1898: "The Gospel<br />
Writ in Steel," by Arthur Paterson, a story of<br />
the American War; "The Main Chance," bv<br />
Christabel Coleridge; and " Off the High Road,'"'<br />
by Eleanor C. Price.<br />
A second edition of Mary L. Pendered's fairy<br />
tale, "To Suniland with a Moon Goblin," has<br />
been issued by Messrs. Marshall, Russell, and<br />
Co. It is a dainty little volume, being the story<br />
of one "Queer Eye," a boy of inquiring mind, who<br />
wanders it, to strange lands, where he is shown<br />
many marvellous things by a goblin guide, whose<br />
moralising on the way is quaint and amusing.<br />
The illustrations by a child of ten are remarkably<br />
clever.<br />
Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, "The<br />
Clash of Arms," will be published on the 15th<br />
by Methuen and Co., in London, and Appleton<br />
and Co., in New York, a colonial edition also<br />
appearing at the same time. The author has,<br />
during the holiday season, revisited the scene of<br />
the novel, viz., the heart of the Vosges moun-<br />
tains, and carefully verified his description of the<br />
locality. It was in this neighbourhood, many<br />
years ago, that Mr. Bloundelle-Burton was told<br />
by an old peasant the story which forms the<br />
groundwork of "The Clash of Arms," to wit, the<br />
abduction of an English girl by a French noble-<br />
man serving under Turenne, and the implac-<br />
able vengeance with which he was afterwards<br />
pursued and brought to bay by one of her<br />
countrymen.<br />
Among Messrs Harpers immediately forth-<br />
coming publications is Mr. J. M. Graham's<br />
historical novel, "The Son of the Czar." This<br />
work, first announced in March last, but held<br />
over for the autumn season, is fixed for issue on<br />
Oct. 15. The book deals, of course, from the point<br />
of view of the romance writer, with the relations<br />
between Peter the Great and the Russian Crown<br />
Prince Alexis. And the a.uthor, while not relieving<br />
the father from entire responsibility for the tragic<br />
fate of the son, seeks to remove some of the stains<br />
which have clung to the memory of the Czar in<br />
this connection, and, above all, is careful to point<br />
to the countless provocations received by Peter<br />
from the heir to his throne.<br />
"Verdi: Man and Musician" is the title of a<br />
monograph now in the press, from the pen of<br />
Frederic J. Crowest, author of "The Great Tone<br />
Poets," "The Story of British Music," and many<br />
other accepted musical writings. The name of the<br />
composer of " II Trovatore," " Otello," and "Fal-<br />
staff," is a household word, and it is matter for<br />
surprise that no English biographer has hitherto<br />
been found to give to lovers and students of his<br />
music the romantic story of his early struggles<br />
and their successful issue, or to attempt to assign<br />
to him a position, critically, among the great<br />
masters of music. The present volume, while being<br />
a complete biography, will contain the results of<br />
lengthened research into the hitherto neglected<br />
English experiences of the maestro, and will deal<br />
with the extraordinary and diverse criticisms which<br />
his successive operas evoked from the leading<br />
musical critics of the day. The vol ume will be<br />
issued on Oct. 5, in demy 8vo. form at js. 6c?.,<br />
and will contain several full-length family por-<br />
traits, including a photogravure frontispiece repro-<br />
duced from the latest portrait of the composer,<br />
with his dated autograph.<br />
"A Frisky Matron," by Percy Lysle, published<br />
by Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, has<br />
received some very favourable notices, and is going<br />
very well.<br />
Mr. James Baker, the author of "The Gleam-<br />
ing Dawn," &c, has been travelling in Scandi-<br />
navia and Finland, visiting the Lap district<br />
within the Arctic circle, and the interesting<br />
mining mountainous district round Gellivara,<br />
from whence he crossed over to Russia to be<br />
present at the Faure fetes in honour of the French<br />
President at St. Petersburg. He is writing for<br />
the Pall Mall Gazette, the Queen, Black and<br />
White, and some provincial papers.<br />
Messrs. Cassell and Company (Limited) will<br />
publish in October a volume of aphoristic poems,<br />
"Quiet Waters," by Frederick Langbridge.<br />
The book—which is intended as a sequel to the<br />
author's "Cluster of Quiet Thoughts"—will<br />
have twenty illustrations by Zillah Taylor. Miss<br />
Taylor has also designed a cover and a frontis-<br />
piece for Mr. Langbridge's "Sent Back by the<br />
Angels."<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. David Nutt will shortly publish Surgeon<br />
Lieutenant-Colonel John MacGregor's new volume<br />
of Gaelic Poems, entitled "Luinneagan Luaineach"<br />
(Random Lyrics). The volume will also contain<br />
several renderings of the original Gaelic into<br />
English verse by the author himself, as well as<br />
the Jubilee poems of "Victoria Maxima," lately<br />
accepted by Her Majesty the Queen.<br />
Messrs. W. Thacker and Co. will publish, on<br />
the 5th inst., a work entitled: "A Servant<br />
of John Company" (1825-1882), by H. G.<br />
Keene, C.I.E., author of "Sketches in Indian<br />
Ink," &c, and for many years a district judge<br />
in the North-West Provinces of India. Among<br />
other subjects the volume deals with: Posting<br />
Days in England, Fighting Fitzgerald, Daniel<br />
O'Connell, Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny,<br />
Duelling in the Army and the part the late<br />
Prince Consort took in the abolition of the<br />
same, Agra, Calcutta, &c, Bishop Wilson, the<br />
Right Hon. J. Wilson, Lord Canning, Sir Henry<br />
Lawrence, Lord Dalhousie, Sir H. M. Elliot,<br />
Anglo-Indian Society in the days of the East<br />
India Company; interspersed with original stories<br />
and anecdotes of the times. The book will be<br />
illustrated by Mr. W. Simpson, R.I., the well-<br />
known artist and correspondent of the Illustrated<br />
London Neics, from original sketches by the<br />
author.<br />
The Quiver has arranged with Mr. W. Edwards<br />
Tirebuck for a new serial story to begin next<br />
November. It is to be called "The White Woman:<br />
An Adventure."<br />
"I was visiting Stratford-upon-Avon," a<br />
gentleman writes to the Standard, "and, while<br />
looking at a shop window, a boy of about ten or<br />
eleven volunteered the information (pointing to a<br />
photograph) that that was ' Shakespeare's house.'<br />
I inquired, 'Who was Shakespeare'(' and with<br />
a merry twinkle in his eye, the boy said, 'He<br />
stole the deer.' I said, 'I had not seen anything of<br />
it in the papers—was it recently—this week or<br />
last?' He replied, ' It was three or four years<br />
ago.' I inquired if that was all that Shakespeare<br />
did, and why there were so many pictures about<br />
of his birthplace?' He said,' He was a rich man,<br />
and lived in a big house.'"<br />
Mr. Fisher Unwin would be greatly obliged if<br />
anyone possessing information about books and<br />
etchings of the late Charles Keene, not mentioned<br />
in Mr. Layard's "Life," would communicate the<br />
same to him for the purpose of a forthcoming<br />
bibliography.<br />
If a sufficient number of guinea subscriptions<br />
are obtained, the Clarendon Press propose to<br />
publish, by the collotype process, a facsimile of<br />
the original MS. of the Epistles to Timothy,<br />
Titus, and Philemon in Welsh, reproduced from<br />
the MS. of Bishop Richard Davies, and compared<br />
with the parallel versions of Salesbury (1567)<br />
and Morgan (1588). To this will be added an<br />
account of a draft petition for a translation into<br />
"the vulgar walsh tong," and a bond in connec-<br />
tion therewith, bound with the MS., and a disser-<br />
tation on some early Welsh versions of Holy<br />
Scripture by Archdeacon D. R. Thomas, Llan-<br />
drinio.<br />
A book of private letters, illustrating high life<br />
in the Elizabethan period, has been prepared by<br />
Lady Newdegate of Arbury, and will shortly be<br />
published by Mr. David Nutt. It is entitled<br />
"Gossip from a Muniment Room," and the<br />
correspondence is that of two Fitton sisters, one<br />
of whom married Sir John Newdigate of Arbury,<br />
and the other was maid of honour to Queen<br />
Elizabeth. Sir William Knollys, Sir Fulke<br />
Greville, Sir Richard Leveson, and Francis Beau-<br />
mont are among the correspondents introduced.<br />
The book will be illustrated from family portraits.<br />
The latest volume in Mr. Thomas J. Wise's<br />
library of privately-printed books is a collection<br />
of "Letters from Shelley to Hogg." These<br />
were written in 1810-11.<br />
Mr. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Cornhill<br />
Magazine, has succeeded to the post of joint-<br />
editor and joint-proprietor of the Spectator,<br />
on the death of Mr. Hutton.<br />
The Progressive Review is dead.—The Angli-<br />
can, an illustrated church review, makes its first<br />
appearance this month. It is a monthly, price<br />
i*., and is published from 37, Norfolk-street,<br />
Strand.— To-morrow has not been issued for the<br />
last two months, but begins again now under a<br />
new publisher, Mr. Grant Richards.<br />
Another series of biographies, this time of<br />
"Masters of Medicine" of Great Britain and<br />
Europe, has been projected, and will appear before<br />
long. Among early volumes to appear will be<br />
"John Hunter," by Dr. Stephen Paget; and<br />
"William Harvey," by Mr. D'Arcy Power.<br />
Miss Beatrice Whitby's " Sunset" and Mr. F.<br />
W. Robinson's "Little Nin," are among the<br />
new novels which Messrs. Hurst and Blackett<br />
will issue this month.<br />
"This Little World" is the title of Mr. D.<br />
Christie Murray's new novel which Messrs.<br />
Chatto and Windus are to publish immediately.<br />
Miss Alcock has introduced Armenian history<br />
in her novel, " By Far Euphrates," which Messrs.<br />
Hodder and Stoughton are about to issue.<br />
The Rev. E. Convbeare, whose antiquarian<br />
researches in Cambridgeshire are well known, is<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
engaged on a history of that county for Mr.<br />
Elliot Stock's Popular County History series.<br />
Particular attention has been bestowed on the<br />
part taken by Cambridgeshire in the baronial<br />
wars of the thirteenth century.<br />
A new work by Count Tolstoy is announced.<br />
The subject will be the tardy repentance of a<br />
man who is on a jury that condemns a young<br />
woman to Siberia for theft. This man recog-<br />
nises in the prisoner a girl whom he has wronged<br />
years before, and he eventually accompanies her<br />
into exile.<br />
"Manners, Institutions, and Ceremonies of the<br />
Hindus," by the Abbe J. A. Dubois, is shortly<br />
to be published by Mr. Henry Frowde. The work<br />
has been translated from the author's later French<br />
MS. in the Madras Government's records, with<br />
notes and corrections, and a biography of the<br />
author, by Mr. H. K. Beauchamp.<br />
Dean Farrar has written " The Herods" for a<br />
set of volumes called the Popular Biblical<br />
Library, an enterprise of Messrs. Service and<br />
Paton. This firm also announce "Our Churches,<br />
and "Why We Belong to Them," by Canon Knox-<br />
Little, Dr. Horton, and other preachers.<br />
A two-volume work by Mr. J. E. C. Bodley, on<br />
"France since the Revolution," is to be published<br />
by Messrs. Macmillan.<br />
The 6nal part of " Flora of British India," by<br />
Sir Joseph Hooker, will be issued this month by<br />
Messrs. L. Reeve and Co., who have also in hand<br />
the following:—By Mr. A. Fryer, an illustrated<br />
"Potamogetons of the British Isles "; by Miss<br />
E. M. Bowdler Sharpe, an illustrated monograph<br />
on the genus Teracolus.<br />
Dr. Jessopp has written a "Life of Donne " for<br />
•Messrs. Methuen's "Leaders of Religion" series.<br />
Mr. W. S. Gilbert is bringing his old "Bab<br />
Ballads" volume into line with his "more<br />
chastened sense of humour." The text has been<br />
revised, and a number of illustrations added.<br />
Messrs. Routledge will publish the book.<br />
A volume of poems by Mrs. Shorter (Miss Dora<br />
Sigerson) will be published by Mr. Lane this<br />
month.<br />
A monument is to be erected to the memory of<br />
Joanna Baillie at her birthplace, Bothwell, Lanark-<br />
shire. It is given by a friend of letters who wishes<br />
to remain anonymous.<br />
Mr. Owen Seaman succeeds the late Mr. E. J.<br />
Milliken on the staff of Punch.<br />
Mr. W. E. Henley's "English Lyrics" is<br />
announced by Messrs. Methuen for this month.<br />
Mr. F. G. Kitton, the well-known authority on<br />
Dickens, has discovered a number of stories,<br />
articles, and essays by the novelist. These will<br />
shortly be published by Mr. George Redway in<br />
a volume entitled " To be Read at Dusk." There<br />
will be an edition for England, and another for<br />
America, and each will contain matter that the<br />
other will not.<br />
Mr. Aylmer Gowing's new book "Merely<br />
Players" is now ready. The publishers are<br />
F. V. White and Co.<br />
Messrs. Barnicott and Pearce, of Taunton, have<br />
issued "Memorials of Wells and Glastonbury,"<br />
in the shape of two cards, each with collotype<br />
views of the cathedral and the abbey respectively,<br />
with sonnets by the Rev. Prebendary Godfrey<br />
Thring, well known for his hymn "Fierce raged<br />
the tempest o'er the deep," and others, in the<br />
collection of Ancient and Modern Hymns. Those<br />
who know these monuments may note that the<br />
cards can be had for a shilling each.<br />
Mr. H. A. Salmonc, the professor of Arabic at<br />
King's College, London, has devised and is editing<br />
a unique souvenir of the Jubilee. This is the<br />
third verse of the National Anthem metrically<br />
rendered into fifty of the principal languages<br />
spoken throught the British Empire. Sir W. B.<br />
Richmond has done an emblematic design, and<br />
each page will have a decorative border. The<br />
Queen has accepted the dedication of the volume,<br />
which will be published by Mr. Nutt at Christ-<br />
mas.<br />
The long legal and political career of the late<br />
Sir John Simon, serjeant-at-law, formerly M.P.<br />
for Dewsbury, is to be treated in a memoir now<br />
being prepared by his son, Mr. Oswald John<br />
Simon.<br />
The biography of Lord Tennyson will be pub-<br />
lished on the 6th inst. It will contain poems and<br />
letters that have not yet been made public.<br />
Mr. R. H. Sherard is engaged on a biography<br />
of Herr Andree for Messrs. McClure.<br />
Under the title "Tourgueneff and his French<br />
Circle," Miss Ethel Arnold will shortly publish,<br />
through Mr. Unwin, a translation of various<br />
letters addressed to Flaubert, George Sand, Zola,<br />
Maupassant, Gambetta, and others. The volume<br />
is edited by Mme. E. Halperine-Kaminsky. The<br />
letters have been appearing in monthly instal-<br />
ments in Cosmopolis.<br />
The posthumous volume of stories by Mr.<br />
Hubert Crackanthorpe is to be published by Mr.<br />
Heinemann.<br />
"The Canon," by a Symbolist, is a work on<br />
ancient symbolism and mysticism which Mr.<br />
Mathews is to publish. It will have a preface by<br />
Mr. R. B. Cunningham Grahame.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
A volume of Pitt's letters to Wilberforce is to<br />
be published on Monday by Mr. Unwin. Lord<br />
Rosebery, who has seen them, describes the letters<br />
as "among the most interesting we possess of<br />
Pitt."<br />
Mr. Archibald Forbes's "Life of Napoleon<br />
III." will be published shortly by Messrs. Chatto<br />
and Windus.<br />
The memoirs of the late Archbishop of Canter-<br />
bury are to be published by Macmillan.<br />
Mr. J. Cuthbert Hadden has written a memoir<br />
entitled " George Thomson, the Friend of Burns:<br />
His Life and Correspondence." Thomson's cor-<br />
respondence, which was placed by his descen-<br />
dants in Mr. Hadden's hands, includes letters<br />
from Scott, Hogg, Bjron, Moore, Campbell, and<br />
Joanna Baillie.<br />
New material concerning Mary Queen of Scots<br />
is promised in a forthcoming biography by Mr.<br />
Hay Fleming, to be published by Messrs.<br />
Hodder and Stoughton. The work is founded<br />
upon documents recently discovered by Mr.<br />
Maitland Thomson, the head of the historical<br />
department in the Register House, Edinburgh.<br />
Mr. Clement K. Shorter's book on Victorian<br />
Literature will be published from Mr. Bowden's<br />
house this month.<br />
Mr. B. T. Batsford has in the press the follow-<br />
ing architectural and decorative works :—" The<br />
Influence of Materials on Architecture," by Mr.<br />
Banister F. Fletcher j "Examples of Old Furniture,<br />
English and Foreign," drawn by Mr. A. E.<br />
Chancellor; "Windows: A Book about Stained<br />
and Painted Glass," by Mr. Lewis F. Day; and<br />
"Alphabets Old and New," selected by Mr. Lewis<br />
F. Day.<br />
An illuminated alphabet, and "An Almanac<br />
of Twelve Sports for 1898," both by Mr. William<br />
Nicholson, are being brought out by Mr. Heine-<br />
mann.<br />
A new volume of poems, by the Rev. S. J.<br />
Stone, author of "The Knight of Intercession,"<br />
will shortly be published by Messrs. Longman.<br />
The chief poem of the volume will be in seven<br />
cantos. The volume will be called "Lays of<br />
Iona."<br />
A new story by Miss Eliza F. Pollard, entitled<br />
"A Gentleman of England," is to be published by<br />
Mr. Addison.<br />
Mr. F. Anstey has placed with Messrs. Dent<br />
for publication his new work, entitled "Baboo<br />
Jabberjee, B.A."<br />
Stevenson's last novel, "St. Ives," which Mr.<br />
Quiller Couch is completing, will be published<br />
soon by Mr. Heinemann.<br />
The Free Quakers and the American War of<br />
Independence share the interest of a tale by Dr.<br />
Weir Mitchell, which Mr. Unwin will publish in a<br />
few days.<br />
Messrs. Methuen announce " Traits and Confi-<br />
dences," by Miss Emily Lawless; "A Creel of<br />
Irish Tales," by Miss Barlow; "Josiah's Wife,"<br />
by Miss Lorimer; "A Passionate Pilgram," bv<br />
Mr. Percy White; "Lochinvar," by Mr. S. R.<br />
Crockett; and "Secretary to Bivne, M.P.," by<br />
Mr. Pett Ridge.<br />
"The Tormentor'' is the title of Mr. Benjamin<br />
Swift's new novel, which Mr. Unwin will publish.<br />
The title of Mark Twain's book has been<br />
altered to " Following the Equator."<br />
Two new stories by Mr. Henty —" With<br />
Frederick the Great" and "With Moore at<br />
Corunna "—will be published shortly by Messrs.<br />
Black.<br />
Mrs. Alice M. Dale has written a novel called<br />
"Marcus Warwick, Atheist," which Messrs.<br />
Kegan Paul will publish. It is in some measure<br />
a study of the criminal laws.<br />
Mrs. Pinsent is the author of "Job Hildred,"<br />
a novel to be published by Mr. Arnold.<br />
"By the Rise of the River" is the title which<br />
"Austin Clare" has given to a volume of<br />
Northumberland tales and sketches which Messrs.<br />
Chatto are to publish.<br />
Mme. Sarah Grand's novel is to be called<br />
"Beth Book," and will probably appear at the end<br />
of this month. The publisher is Mr. Heinemann,<br />
who also announces novels by Mr. H. G. Wells,<br />
Mr. Harold Frederic, Mr. Stephen Crane, Mr.<br />
Robert Hichens, and Dr. Max Nordan.<br />
Mr. Justin MacCarthy's volume of stories,<br />
"The Three Disgraces," is due on the 28th.<br />
Mr. Lacon Watson has depicted the life of a<br />
small coterie, settled in one of the Inns of Court,<br />
in his new volume which Mr. Elkin Mathews is<br />
about to publish, entitled " An Attic in Bohemia."<br />
Miss Violet Hunt's new story, *' Unkist, Un-<br />
kind," which has been running in Chapman is<br />
Magazine of Fiction, will to-day be published<br />
in a volume by Messrs. Chapman and Hall.<br />
From the Atlanta Constitution (Georgia) :—<br />
Instead of wasting whole columns for or against authors,<br />
the critics would do well to pattern by the example of a<br />
certain Georgia literary society of which an exohange says:<br />
"There was a lively meeting of the literary club last night,<br />
at which the secretary and treasurer engaged in a wrestling<br />
match to decide which was the best poet—Tennyson or<br />
Kipling? The secretary was for Tennyson, the treasurer<br />
for Kipling. The latter threw the secretary three times, and<br />
Kipling won out."<br />
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132 THE AUTHOR.<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
I.—The Return of MSS.<br />
WILL you allow mo to point, out in The<br />
Author a very real grievance to which<br />
even experienced writers are subject. I<br />
allude to the practice of accepting MSS. for con-<br />
sideration, by editors of reviews and magazines,<br />
and retaining them for many months, after which<br />
period they are returned to their owners as no<br />
longer available. Often such papers depend<br />
entirely for their value on being immediately<br />
taken up, and are quite valueless after the lapse<br />
of three or four months. I contend that an<br />
editor of a large periodical should either pay for<br />
the privilege of keeping MSS. by him in case he<br />
uses it, or should at once return it for use or con-<br />
sideration elsewhere.<br />
A very real hardship is inflicted on many who<br />
are unable to bear the loss of income by this<br />
very common delay in returning unaccepted work.<br />
So many journalists have seen their usual weekly<br />
contributions crowded out during the last few<br />
weeks to make room for "Jubilee" matter,<br />
whereby the paper has made a rich harvest to the<br />
loss of the everyday journalist, that I represent<br />
the opinion of many when I say—editors' drawers<br />
need prompter overhauling.<br />
. Hard Worker.<br />
II.—Criticism in Conflict.<br />
The amazing divergence of opinion expressed<br />
of late as to the literary value of certain works<br />
of fiction sets one pondering over what the true<br />
standard of excellence may be, and whether<br />
those who profess to assay with fidelity the pro-<br />
ducts from Brainland submitted to them for<br />
analysis are qualified for so responsible a trust.<br />
A daily journal which provides much service-<br />
able book "chat" for its readers, recently<br />
remarked ..." one is tempted to ask one-<br />
self ... of what possible use such con-<br />
flicting criticism can be in moulding, or at least<br />
guiding, the taste of the public in literature?"<br />
Of what use, indeed? many will feel disposed<br />
to echo. The uncomfortable fact is forced upon<br />
us that there must be something rotten in the<br />
state of Denmark when such wide clefts in critical<br />
unanimity are possible. How to unite these<br />
chasms with some more stable platform as foot-<br />
hold for the intelligent reading public is the<br />
poser now propounded. I imagine the solution<br />
thereof should be best left to the appraisers<br />
themselves. Meanwhile that body must not be<br />
surprised if the already somewhat impaired con-<br />
fidence in their judgments becomes even further<br />
oosened. Cecil Clarke.<br />
Authors' Club, S.W. 21st Aug.<br />
111.—" Dictionary of National Biography"<br />
Dinner.<br />
In the last issue of this paper, under the head<br />
"Personal," occurs an account of Mr. George<br />
Smith's dinner " to his friends and the contribu-<br />
tors to the 'Dictionary of National Biography.'"<br />
I am surprised to find Tlie Author, like all the<br />
other papers, repeating this extremely inaccu-<br />
rate statement. As a matter of fact, the dinner<br />
was given only to one, the larger, section of the<br />
contributors. The women, some fifteen to twenty<br />
in number, who have worked upon the dictionary,<br />
many of them since the early volumes, were<br />
excluded from the invitation. And this not-<br />
withstanding a printed communication (the first<br />
in the annals of the magnum opus in which we<br />
have not been addressed as Dear Sir) received<br />
shortly before, stating that publisher and editor<br />
wished, to take an early opportunity of per-<br />
sonally thanking the workers who had assisted<br />
in bringing the conclusion so near in sight.<br />
That we have not yet mastered the man's art<br />
of dining I willingly concede (although our<br />
Jubilee dinner might seem to disprove this ancient<br />
legend, and to show we have an art of our own);<br />
but that our work should be thus publicly ignored<br />
and discounted on the score of sex seems alto-<br />
gether anomalous in this year of Jubilee, when<br />
all the nations of the world have agreed that a<br />
woman's rule over one of the greatest has been<br />
of unexampled success.<br />
From the one or two contributors who meekly<br />
repaired on July 8 to a gallery at the Hotel<br />
Mctropole, I gathered that some allusion to the<br />
absent workers was made by one or two of the<br />
"guests who were not contributors," but I did<br />
not learn that anyone proposed the toast of<br />
"Contributors who were not G-uests."<br />
More illogical productions than the cards<br />
issued to us, in common with numerous female<br />
relations of the staff, a few days before the enter-<br />
tainment, I have seldom seen. Headed by the<br />
magic words, "Dinner to the contributors, &c,<br />
&c„" they went on to request those contributors<br />
to honour their host by gliding in afterwards to<br />
"listen to the speeches."<br />
No one, I think, can have worked for years at<br />
this laborious task without feeling the most<br />
intense pride and interest in all the other far<br />
more distinguished workers, and the disappoint-<br />
ment at not sharing in the general felicitations<br />
was proportionately bitter.<br />
Charlotte Fell Smith.<br />
Great Saling, Essex.<br />
IV.—An Inquiry.<br />
Can you or any of your readers refer me to any<br />
bDok containing practical directions as to the<br />
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construction of plays, with a view to their pro-<br />
duction on the stage, a glossary of terms, a<br />
concise account of the technique of the play-<br />
wright and stage manager, &c.?<br />
I beg to take this opportunity to ask also:<br />
"Where is the best guide to correct punctuation?<br />
Last year reference was made in The Author to a<br />
work published for private circulation by some<br />
Oxford printer; and it was suggested that it<br />
might be a boon to many if the work could be<br />
obtained generally. Tyro.<br />
V.—An Unpaid Magazine Article.<br />
I wrote an article which appeared in the March<br />
number of a certain magazine. Two months<br />
afterwards I wrote to the editor to ask whether<br />
the publication of an article was, like virtue, its<br />
own reward. I was answered that it was not,<br />
and that the reward would come. Six months<br />
have now passed since the paper first appeared,<br />
and the reward has not arrived. Am I justified<br />
in writing again to demand it? Or ought I to<br />
sit down quietly and wait till I get it? M.<br />
OBITUARY.<br />
MR. SAMUEL LAING was a second<br />
Wrangler and second Smith's Prizeman<br />
in 1832, became a Fellow of St. John's,<br />
and was called to the Bar in 1837. He entered<br />
Parliament in 1852, after being for a time the<br />
private secretary to the President of the Board of<br />
Trade. In 1859 he became Financial Secretary to<br />
the Treasury, and as Finance Minister spent five<br />
years in India. On his return he resumed the<br />
chairmanship of the London, Brighton, and<br />
South Coast Railway Board. His career as an<br />
author dated from 1863, when he published<br />
"India and China"; then followed " Prehistoric<br />
Remains of Caithness" (1865): his best known<br />
work, "Modern Science and Thought" (1885);<br />
a novel called " A Modern Zoroastrian" (1887);<br />
"Problems of the Future" (1889) ; and " Human<br />
Origins" (1892). Mr. Laing died on Aug. 6,<br />
at the age of eighty-six.<br />
Bishop Bickersteth, of South Tokio, who died<br />
in England on the 5th Aug., at the age of forty-<br />
seven, was the author of "The Church in<br />
Japan," "The Anglican Union," and "A Basis<br />
of Christian Union."<br />
The late Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bart,<br />
M.P., was the author of several legal and political<br />
work*, and the translator of "Hexameters of the<br />
Eclogues of Virgil."<br />
Mr. Richard Holt Hutton, editor of the<br />
Spectator, died on the 9th ult., after a long<br />
and painful illness. He was born at Leeds<br />
seventy-one years ago. His father was a<br />
Unitarian minister; Hutton also qualified for<br />
this ministry, but never filled a pulpit regularly,<br />
and soon relinquished preaching. For a brief<br />
period he edited the Unitarian organ, the<br />
Inquirer, and he also held the Principalship<br />
of University Hall until his health demanded a<br />
trip to the West Indies. Then he edited the<br />
National Review, a short-lived but brilliant<br />
quarterly. From this publication his book of<br />
"Essays Theological and Literary" was reprinted.<br />
These two volumes are now included in Messrs.<br />
Macmillan's Eversley Series. His other pub-<br />
lished works are: "Modern Guides of Thought,"<br />
"Criticisms on Contemporary Thought," " Words-<br />
worth and his Genius," "Shelley's Poetical<br />
Mysticism," "Studies in Parliament," "Holiday<br />
Rambles" (jointly with his wife), "Scott"<br />
(English Men of Letters series), and a mono-<br />
graph, "Cardinal Newman." He also edited<br />
the works, of Bagehot. He was intellectu-<br />
ally influenced by F. D. Maurice, and at a<br />
later date was a strong admirer of Cardinal<br />
Newman. Mr. Gladstone called Richard Holt<br />
Hutton "the first critic of the nineteenth cen-<br />
tury." He "found" Mr. Swinburne, some of<br />
whose "Poems and Ballads" first appeared in the<br />
Spectator; and Arnold,Tennyson,and Mr. William<br />
Watson owed something to him as well. Mrs.<br />
Hutton (he was married twice) died two months<br />
ago.<br />
Mr. Colin Rie-Brown died on the nth ult.<br />
in his 76th year. His published works include<br />
"Glimpses of Scottish Life" and several volumes<br />
of verse. He founded London Burns Club,<br />
and was a friend of De Quincey.<br />
The late Rev. Edward Arthur Litton was<br />
Bampton Lecturer in 1866, the lectures being<br />
subsequently published under the title of<br />
"The Connection of the Church and the Old<br />
and New Testament." Among his other works<br />
was " Introduction to Dogmatic Theology on the<br />
Basis of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church<br />
of England."<br />
Miss Munro Ferguson, who died of influenza<br />
on the 13th ult., was a gifted lady, the author of<br />
several novels, and possessed a decided talent for<br />
verse-writing.<br />
The late Rev. Andrew Matthews, rector of<br />
Gumley, had written several works on natural<br />
history.<br />
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LITERATURE INJTHE PERIODICALS.<br />
Mb. Robert Barr and His Public. Letters in Daily<br />
Chronicle for Aug. 24, 28, and 31.<br />
A Warning to Novelists. A Novel-Reader. New<br />
Review for September.<br />
Maeterlinck as a Mystic. Arthur Symons. Contem-<br />
porary Review for September.<br />
Are our School Histories Anolophobe? Goldwin<br />
Smith. North American Review for September.<br />
Wanted: A Philanthropist for Research. The<br />
Academy for Sept. 18.<br />
A New Criticism of Poetry. Contemporary Review<br />
for September.<br />
Novelist v. Reviewer. Cecil M. Allen. New Century<br />
Review for September.<br />
Sir Waltee Scott's Letter Bao. G. le Grys Norgate.<br />
Temple Bar for September.<br />
Gboroes Darien. Onida. Fortnightly Review for<br />
September.<br />
Mrs. Oliphant as a Novelist. Blackwood's Magazine<br />
for September.<br />
Longfellow with his Children. Alice Longfellow.<br />
Strand Magazine for September.<br />
Jean Inoelow. Helen C. Black. Englishwoman for<br />
September.<br />
When a story which has appeared in a maga-<br />
zine under one title, is published in a volume<br />
under another title, who is answerable to the<br />
public for the inconvenience that may result?<br />
A story of Mr. Robert Barr's, when sold for<br />
serial publication, was called "At War with<br />
His Workers," and ran its course under that<br />
title, but the editor wished to call the book<br />
"The Mutable Many." Mr. Barr gave his per-<br />
mission to the change, as he says, " I think an<br />
editor, who knows his public better than an<br />
author can know it, should be at liberty to make<br />
such amendments as he deems necessary in the<br />
serial he buys." But he suggested that the<br />
editor of Tit Bits (in which the story appeared)<br />
should refund 6s. to each of his readers who<br />
bought the novel under a misapprehension. Sir<br />
George Newnes immediately telegraphed a reply,<br />
in which he declined—with much good humour—<br />
Mr. Barr's proposal. Of course such an altera-<br />
tion has occurred before, witness Mr. Hardy's<br />
"Hearts Insurgent" being resolved into "Jude<br />
the Obscure."<br />
The text of much banter by "A Novel-<br />
Reader " appears to be that writers of fiction are<br />
pandering to public demand, and ciring for the<br />
ethic foundation rather than the aesthetic. The<br />
Victorian Era, according to this critic of novelists<br />
in the lump, is the Golden Age of Fiction, and<br />
there was a vague feeling abroad last June that<br />
10,000 British novelists were sharing the Queen's<br />
triumph. On the other hand, there are not more<br />
than six novelists ("miserable usurpers") who<br />
have never congratulated America on her love of<br />
arbitration, and never advised Crete to take up<br />
arms against half the world. This little minority<br />
kes no thought of the public; for them " vast<br />
circulation" has no charm. But the faithful<br />
10,000—to be one of them is to be great indeed,<br />
but it is difficult. One—the " successful novelist"<br />
—" must have a perfect mastery of that brisk<br />
market whereon is quoted 'the price per<br />
thousand,' and whose jargon suggests the opera-<br />
tions of the Wool Exchange. American copyright<br />
must keep no secrets from him, and the Colonies<br />
must be taught to yield him homage and profit.<br />
Above all, he must discover a trusty ' agent' who<br />
for a trifling percentage shall act the watchdog<br />
upon the shifty publisher, and shall be quick to<br />
squeeze the welcome fiver from the pirate journals<br />
of Australasia." Nor is this all. He is only on<br />
the threshold thus far; for he has next to learn<br />
how most accurately to "feel the public pulse,"<br />
and it is in the triumphant performance of<br />
this delicate duty that be best displays his<br />
genius. Still, it seems he is 10,000 to six.<br />
Only six pretenders, who follow art to a<br />
great extent for art's sake; only six who are<br />
determined to drag from the English tongue all<br />
the music with which it is harmonious; only six<br />
who leap for joy at the proper snap of a phrase;<br />
to whose vision, as they write, the world of<br />
common statistics closes its windows; who think<br />
no more of literal fact than their readers, but<br />
present that which they have found in tli9 manner<br />
best suited to their artistic conscience.<br />
The "artistic conscience" is badly wanted,<br />
according to Professor Goldwin Smith, in<br />
American histories. An examination into the<br />
histories in use has convinced him that their<br />
special fault is not that they stimulate hatred of<br />
Great Britain, but that they are deficient in<br />
literary art. This is in reply to charges of<br />
Anglophobism from various quarters. Professor<br />
Goldwin Smith does not, however, among the<br />
accusers whom he combats, mention the indict-<br />
ment against American school histories which<br />
appeared in Blackwood's Magazine a year or two<br />
ago. But he makes the following statement<br />
regarding the construction of the books:—<br />
A large, and what appears a disproportionate, space is given,<br />
perhaps even in the later histories, to the Revolutionary<br />
War, and the details of that war, some of whioh, of course,<br />
are exasperating, since the royal armies unquestionably<br />
committed excesses, are narrated with disagreeable minute-<br />
ness. But it is not necessary to ascribe this to deliberate<br />
malice. The Revolutionary War does, in fact, fill rather a<br />
large space in the comparatively brief annals of the<br />
United States. Its chief actors are the national<br />
heroes and the national types of patriotic virtue. Its<br />
inoidents, or those of the war of 1812, are about the only<br />
matter by whioh an nngif ted American writer can hope to<br />
enliven his work and appeal to the imagination of young<br />
readers. It is not in American school histories alone that<br />
a disproportionate space is occupied by the annals of war.<br />
Thirst of martial glory ia nowhere extinot, and nothing is<br />
so picturesque as a battle. It is not easy to present in a<br />
form interesting to a child a Beries of political events and<br />
characters, the issues between Jefferson and Hamilton, the<br />
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struggles between Adams and Jackson, or even the political<br />
contest with slavery. Nor can an ordinary writer lend<br />
piotnresqnenesB to the progress of social improvement, of<br />
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