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A. F. MORRIS.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
Part I.-A Pilgrimage to Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
Chop.&lt;br /&gt;
1. To the Beaux Arte, Invalides, Mus&eacute;e de Garde Menbles.&lt;br /&gt;
VI.-Mus&eacute;e de Cluny, Gobelins, Palais de Luxembourg, Caf&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
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Pantheon, Sorbonne.&lt;br /&gt;
XI.-Ride round the Walls of Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
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Part III.&mdash;Plan of Exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;
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withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Socretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
: (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
W the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for &amp;amp; possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
porcentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays shuuld&lt;br /&gt;
be preserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licei ce to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that be runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the sabject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as &amp;amp; composition is treated by a coach. The Readers are&lt;br /&gt;
writers of competence and experience. The fee is one&lt;br /&gt;
guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
whether members of the Society or not, are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate to the Editor any points connected with their&lt;br /&gt;
work which it would be advisable in the general interest to&lt;br /&gt;
publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY,&lt;br /&gt;
1. LIVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
V advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
THE ANNUAL DINNER.&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici. NHE dinner of the Society of Authors was&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
held in ihe King&amp;#039;s Hall of the Holborn&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Restaurant on Wednesday, May 16, and&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member. passed off very successfully. Mr. Pinero made&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright an excellent chairman, and delighted those pre-&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the sent with an interesting and amusing speech&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins responded for the&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past Society. A full account of the evening will be&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The inserted in the July number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
As to the item of &pound;26 158., the following is the cost price :&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d. &pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinding ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 8 9&lt;br /&gt;
o 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Acts of Parliament ........ 0 1&lt;br /&gt;
W&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
..........&lt;br /&gt;
I.-RUBINSTEIN v. WATERLOW BROTHERS AND&lt;br /&gt;
LAYTON (LIMITED).&lt;br /&gt;
TN this case Mr. J. S. Rubinstein claimed an&lt;br /&gt;
account from the defendants. The questions&lt;br /&gt;
in dispute raised points of interest and im-&lt;br /&gt;
portance to authors and publisbers. The case was&lt;br /&gt;
tried before Mr. Hemming, Q.C., on the 15th May.&lt;br /&gt;
According to the plaintiff&amp;#039;s case, he had&lt;br /&gt;
written several law books and forms, which the&lt;br /&gt;
defendants had published with large profit to&lt;br /&gt;
themselves. In August, 1897, he saw them to&lt;br /&gt;
ascertain their lowest terms for bringing out at&lt;br /&gt;
his risk a book he then intended to write on the&lt;br /&gt;
Land Transfer Act, 1897. On the 9th August&lt;br /&gt;
they wrote :-&ldquo;We are willing to publish your&lt;br /&gt;
work on the following terms. We to debit you&lt;br /&gt;
with printing, binding, advertising, &amp;amp;c.; you to&lt;br /&gt;
allow us 33 per cent. on the publication price of&lt;br /&gt;
copies sold. As it is the practice now to allow&lt;br /&gt;
20 per cent. off the publication price to the&lt;br /&gt;
general public, and 25 per cent. or 33} per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
&dagger;&lt;br /&gt;
to the trade, you will see we have, in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
with your request, based our offer on the lowest&lt;br /&gt;
possible terms.&amp;quot; These terms were accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the delay in the issue of rules under the&lt;br /&gt;
Act, the book was not published till December,&lt;br /&gt;
1808. when it was brought out at 58. In April.&lt;br /&gt;
1899, the defendants, at the plaintiff&amp;#039;s request,&lt;br /&gt;
furnished accounts charging &pound;245 168. 4d. for&lt;br /&gt;
printing, &amp;amp;c., 1000 copies of the book, and&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;52 18s. 5d. for publishing the copies then sold.&lt;br /&gt;
The accounts included items of &pound;173 108. 6d. for&lt;br /&gt;
composition, reading, proving, imposing, &amp;amp;c., and&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;26 158. for binding. As the defendants refused&lt;br /&gt;
to give specific details, the action was brought.&lt;br /&gt;
In the course of the proceedings, the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
were requested to produce books and documents,&lt;br /&gt;
but they asserted that the time-sheets had been&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed. They delivered under an order the&lt;br /&gt;
following particulars, showing how the items of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;173 1os. and &pound;26 159. were made up :-&lt;br /&gt;
As to the item of &pound;173 108., the following is the cost price :&lt;br /&gt;
Land Transfer Act, 1897, *&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d. &pound; 8. d&lt;br /&gt;
Ex. R. Binding Electro... 0 6 4&lt;br /&gt;
Composing Demy 8vo. Book,&lt;br /&gt;
pp. &amp;amp; pp., Case ............ 82 0&lt;br /&gt;
0.T...............................&lt;br /&gt;
14/10/98, Alters, and pp. in&lt;br /&gt;
Sheet pfe.......... 2 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
2011 98, 1000 Copies demy&lt;br /&gt;
8vo., 316 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Press .. ......... 8 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
750 Bound in whole cloth,&lt;br /&gt;
Paper ........................ 1 2&lt;br /&gt;
Postage paid on Books ...... 2 3 4&lt;br /&gt;
20 15 3&lt;br /&gt;
Total charge against plaintiff ............... 26 15 3&lt;br /&gt;
On the hearing of the case the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
admitted they could not produce any book con.&lt;br /&gt;
taining copies of the time sheets that had been&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed. They gave the following figures as&lt;br /&gt;
representing how the item &pound;82 in their particulars&lt;br /&gt;
were made up, although they could not verify&lt;br /&gt;
them in detail:-&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
12494 hours at 8 d. ........................... 44 4 II&lt;br /&gt;
126 hours overtime at 18. old. ............ 6 119&lt;br /&gt;
50 16 8&lt;br /&gt;
Added to cover establishment oharges, &amp;amp;c. 31 3 4&lt;br /&gt;
82 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
The referee decided on the construction of the&lt;br /&gt;
contract that the defendants were entitled, in&lt;br /&gt;
addition to their publishing commission, to profit&lt;br /&gt;
on the printing, binding, &amp;amp;c., but he considered&lt;br /&gt;
the sums claimed extravagant. To avoid the&lt;br /&gt;
expense, of continuing the inquiry, the&lt;br /&gt;
expense of continuing the inquiry the plaintiff&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the figures given by the defendants as to&lt;br /&gt;
the cost, and the parties accepted a suggestion of&lt;br /&gt;
the referee to add 20 per cent. profit. On this&lt;br /&gt;
basis the amount claimed by the defendants was&lt;br /&gt;
reduced by &pound;47 148.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-MERIVALE v. HARVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
In the Queen&amp;#039;s Bench Division, May 21, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Justice Grantham and a special jury heard the&lt;br /&gt;
action, Merivale v. Harvey, which was brought to&lt;br /&gt;
recover damages for breach of contract. There&lt;br /&gt;
was a counter-claim for damages for libel. Sir&lt;br /&gt;
E. Clarke, Q.C., and Mr. C. Mathews appeared&lt;br /&gt;
for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hammond Chambers,&lt;br /&gt;
Q.C., and Mr. Spencer Bower for the defendant.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir E. Clarke, in opening the case for Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Herman Merivale, said it was arranged that the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant should send the plaintiff a Spanish&lt;br /&gt;
book dealing with the incidents connected with&lt;br /&gt;
the time of Don Juan, from which plaintiff was&lt;br /&gt;
to write a play. The play was completed on&lt;br /&gt;
June 11, and was much approved by the defen-&lt;br /&gt;
dant. A long correspondence then took place&lt;br /&gt;
between the parties regarding the cast, minor&lt;br /&gt;
alterations, and such like, in the course of which&lt;br /&gt;
difficulties arose. Eventually the plaintiff said&lt;br /&gt;
that nothing was left for the protection of himself&lt;br /&gt;
and work but to place himself in his lawyer&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sydney Grundy, dramatic author, was the&lt;br /&gt;
first witness called, and said he thought a fair&lt;br /&gt;
106 18&lt;br /&gt;
Total charge against plaintiff ............&lt;br /&gt;
173 100&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sum to pay the plaintiff for his work was 1000 the directors of theatres that the society intends&lt;br /&gt;
guineas. In cross-examination witness said he to continue to demand the dues as heretofore.&lt;br /&gt;
had not read the play, but he assumed a run of at The managements which refuse the payment will&lt;br /&gt;
least 100 nights, because Mr. Harvey accepted it, be placed under the ban of the society-that is to&lt;br /&gt;
and he respected his intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;
say, they will not receive permission to perform&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatic author, said any new plays.&lt;br /&gt;
he considered that Mr. Merivale had contributed The Recht der Feder justly remarks,&ldquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
most admirable work to the stage. He agreed shows what organisation and unity can effect.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
with Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s evidence. In cross-examina-&lt;br /&gt;
tion witness said he had not read the play, but&lt;br /&gt;
from his knowledge of Mr. Merivale and his IV. &mdash; CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GERMAN&lt;br /&gt;
work that he should have written an unsatis-&lt;br /&gt;
EMPIRE AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.&lt;br /&gt;
factory work was not the least probable.&lt;br /&gt;
A convention has been entered into between the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Chambers, on behalf of the defendant, above empires for the protection of literary,&lt;br /&gt;
commented upon the fact that the plaintiff was artistic, and photographic works. The most&lt;br /&gt;
not called, and proceeding said that so far from important articles of the convention are the&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant behaving badly to the plaintiff, the following :-&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff bad behaved to the defendant in a way All indigenous (einheimisch) works produced&lt;br /&gt;
entirely without reason or common sense. He in either empire are to enjoy the protection&lt;br /&gt;
had also written letters of a libellous character, accorded to such works in the other: but with&lt;br /&gt;
suggesting that the defendant had cheated him. the limitation that the protection accorded to&lt;br /&gt;
That was an untrue and malicious statement, and foreign works is not to exceed that accorded to the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff must have known that it was untrue at home productions.&lt;br /&gt;
the time.&lt;br /&gt;
A work is to be considered einheimisch which&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Martin Harvey was then called, and stated is protected by the interior legislation, either in&lt;br /&gt;
that he was the defendant, and at present was consequence of its place of production, or of the&lt;br /&gt;
manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre. He nationality of the author, or of his domicile.&lt;br /&gt;
ask. d the plaintiff to adapt for him, last year. In all relations between the German Empire&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Don Juan,&amp;quot; from a Spanish play. He and his and the kingdoms and countries represented by&lt;br /&gt;
wife made suggestions to the plaintiff, and they the Austrian Reichsrath, the protection accorded&lt;br /&gt;
were well taken until he suggested that the by the convention depends solely upon compliance&lt;br /&gt;
character of Inez should be made more human. with the conditions and formalities prescribed by&lt;br /&gt;
It was suggested by the plaintiff that this part the legislation of the country of origin.&lt;br /&gt;
should be entrusted to Mrs. Harvey. The cost of But in the case of the Hungarian Crown the&lt;br /&gt;
producing the play would be something between protection depends not only upon compliance with&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;2000 and &pound;3000. The time came when he the conditions and formalities of the country of&lt;br /&gt;
instructed Mrs. Cuninghame Graham to write a origin, but also upon compliance with those&lt;br /&gt;
play on the subject. The play written by her required by the legislation of the other country.&lt;br /&gt;
ran only for three weeks and a few days. In his The exclusive right of translation into a&lt;br /&gt;
judgment the plaintiff&amp;#039;s play would not have run language in which no authorised and complete&lt;br /&gt;
longer if produced. He paid Mrs. Graham &pound;100, translation has appeared has a duration of three&lt;br /&gt;
and was to have paid her another &pound;100 if the years only from the date of publication of the&lt;br /&gt;
piece ran 100 nights.&lt;br /&gt;
original.&lt;br /&gt;
Similar evidence was given by Mrs. Harvey, An authorised translation appearing within the&lt;br /&gt;
wife of the defendant.&lt;br /&gt;
prescribed limit is protected for five years.&lt;br /&gt;
The learned judge having summed up, the The years are to be calculated exclusively of the&lt;br /&gt;
jury found there was a contract and a breach by year of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant. They also found there was no The convention is retrospective; but an excep-&lt;br /&gt;
libel. In the result they gave a verdict for the tion is made for works already partly completed.&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff &mdash; damages &pound;500. Judgment accord. The convention is to remain in force for ten&lt;br /&gt;
ingly.&mdash;Daily Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
The French text of the whole convention will&lt;br /&gt;
be found in the Droit d&amp;#039;Auteur for April. Our&lt;br /&gt;
III.-ACTING RIGHTS IN DE Balzac.&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary, Das Recht der Feder, remarks&lt;br /&gt;
The powerful French &ldquo; Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens des respecting it:&lt;br /&gt;
Lettres,&rdquo; in consideration of the approaching &ldquo;The advantages which we gain in Austria are&lt;br /&gt;
expiration of the protection of the acting rights not very great. Certain German books cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
of De Balzac&amp;#039;s dramatic works, has announced to reproduced there in German. Articles in periodi-&lt;br /&gt;
years.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
cals will be protected only when the probibition&lt;br /&gt;
of reproduction is not neglected. Little security&lt;br /&gt;
against translation is afforded by the very short&lt;br /&gt;
period of protection. In Hungary the case is&lt;br /&gt;
even worse. It is true that German books can&lt;br /&gt;
be no longer there reproduced in German, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the German periodicals of Hungary cannot&lt;br /&gt;
reprint from the German periodicals, provided&lt;br /&gt;
that the reproduction of articles, feuilletons, &amp;amp;c.,&lt;br /&gt;
is duly interdicted, but translation can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
be prevented; and the works must be registered,&lt;br /&gt;
which costs 5 florins, besides stamps. These con-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions are consequences of the Hungarian law of&lt;br /&gt;
1844, and that law was simply a copy of our own&lt;br /&gt;
law of the date. So we, after all, can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
complain. It is thus that, in this world, castiga.&lt;br /&gt;
tion for shortcomings is always exacted.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
We may add that the terms of the convention&lt;br /&gt;
between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary (see&lt;br /&gt;
The Author for April, 1900, p. 233) seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly more liberal than the terms of the con-&lt;br /&gt;
vention between Austria-Hungary and Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
V.-THE PATRONAGE OF A PREFACE.&lt;br /&gt;
The readiness of certain publishers&mdash;even of&lt;br /&gt;
some of justly high repute--to ignore or over-&lt;br /&gt;
ride the wishes or feelings of authors has been&lt;br /&gt;
exemplified in a recent experience of my own. I&lt;br /&gt;
bring the matter before you and your readers,&lt;br /&gt;
and publicly record my protest, not by way of&lt;br /&gt;
airing a grievance or seeking support, but only&lt;br /&gt;
from a sense of esprit de corps&mdash;to call attention&lt;br /&gt;
to a certain infringement of an author&amp;#039;s inalien-&lt;br /&gt;
able rights, and to warn those who forget to safe-&lt;br /&gt;
guard them from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
A book of mine upon Mr. Ruskin was lately&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Cassell and Co., who&lt;br /&gt;
arranged with Messrs. Lippincott (more accu-&lt;br /&gt;
rately known as the J. B. Lippincott Company),&lt;br /&gt;
of Philadelphia, to issue it also in the United&lt;br /&gt;
States. This was done. Through an oversight&lt;br /&gt;
-following on a fire, I now learn-no copy of&lt;br /&gt;
the work was forwarded to me; but I ascertained&lt;br /&gt;
from a review notice sent to me by a New York&lt;br /&gt;
paper that the book was prefaced by an intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction written by an American gentlenian of&lt;br /&gt;
letters without my having been in any way con-&lt;br /&gt;
sulted as to the propriety or reasonableness of&lt;br /&gt;
such a proceeding. I wrote at once a letter of&lt;br /&gt;
remonstrance to Messrs. Cassell&mdash;who were in&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of what had been done and were, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, in no way responsible&mdash;and they forwarded&lt;br /&gt;
that communication to the Lippincott Company.&lt;br /&gt;
From this firm I have received the following&lt;br /&gt;
courteous explanation :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In regard to the small note by Mr. Morris&lt;br /&gt;
about which Messrs. Cassell have inquired in&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
your behalf, you will see that it occupies but&lt;br /&gt;
three pages and is of simply general character,&lt;br /&gt;
giving the date of Ruskin&amp;#039;s death and a few&lt;br /&gt;
remarks. We took such an interest in your work&lt;br /&gt;
and its success here that we desired to bring it as&lt;br /&gt;
closely as possible in touch with the American&lt;br /&gt;
public. Mr. Morris is well known as a poet,&lt;br /&gt;
writer on art, and director of one of our largest&lt;br /&gt;
institutions, and we felt that the connection of&lt;br /&gt;
his name with the book (but especially mentioned&lt;br /&gt;
separately from your work and over his own&lt;br /&gt;
signature) would be an advantage to it in placing&lt;br /&gt;
your book before those interested in Ruskin&lt;br /&gt;
here.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I replied as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In regard to the Introduction, I must&lt;br /&gt;
warmly protest, upon principle, against your&lt;br /&gt;
action in the matter. I very readily believe, from&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morris&amp;#039;s achievements and reputation, that&lt;br /&gt;
that Introduction (which I have not yet seen)&lt;br /&gt;
does honour to the book and, besides lending&lt;br /&gt;
distinction to it, may help the sale. Had it been&lt;br /&gt;
proposed to me that Mr. Morris should con-&lt;br /&gt;
tribute this preface, I migbt perhaps have&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the suggestion with pleasure ; if I had&lt;br /&gt;
taken a contrary course, it would have been that&lt;br /&gt;
I did not wish my work to receive any extraneous&lt;br /&gt;
assistance, helpful and charming as Mr. Morris&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
doubtless is.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;But that is not the point. What I complain&lt;br /&gt;
of is this&mdash;&mdash;that without any sort of reference to&lt;br /&gt;
me you have endowed me with a sponsor. This&lt;br /&gt;
act I consider to be wholly unjustifiable. You&lt;br /&gt;
say you felt it would be an advantage, but it&lt;br /&gt;
was necessary that I also should feel it to be so,&lt;br /&gt;
and say as much, before you proceeded in the&lt;br /&gt;
matter as you have. You have assumed a kind&lt;br /&gt;
of proprietorship not only in the book, but in&lt;br /&gt;
the author, which is altogether beyond the sphere&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher, and which must be resented by&lt;br /&gt;
every writer who is subjected to it.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I entirely appreciate the courtesy of your&lt;br /&gt;
letter and your desire to strengthen the book as&lt;br /&gt;
much as possible; but I feel it incumbent upon&lt;br /&gt;
me to put before you the real view of the case,&lt;br /&gt;
and to take such steps to draw public attention to&lt;br /&gt;
it as I think wise, in order to safeguard the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of those authors whom publishers regard&lt;br /&gt;
-perhaps rightly-as in need of strengthening.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;For it must be clear that when a publisher&lt;br /&gt;
agrees to issue a work, the understanding is that&lt;br /&gt;
that work, as it proceeded from the author&amp;#039;s pen&lt;br /&gt;
and from no other, will be published in its&lt;br /&gt;
entirety and in not more than its entirety-&lt;br /&gt;
which, in logic, is absurd; and it must be equally&lt;br /&gt;
manifest that any proposal for including a preface&lt;br /&gt;
by another writer should be openly made and&lt;br /&gt;
agreed to, and that the moment for raising any such&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
question is at the time of the publisher&amp;#039;s acqui. He seems, also, to have been a man of remark-&lt;br /&gt;
sition of the work.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
able endowments, philanthropical temperament,&lt;br /&gt;
The question is, whether an author cannot and elevated sentiments. After his death the&lt;br /&gt;
rest between his own covers without, so to say, fickle tide of public favour waned. Popular pre-&lt;br /&gt;
having a strange&mdash;though, I am willing to admit, judice blackened his name, and represented him as&lt;br /&gt;
a most exemplary and distinguished-bedfellow an alchemist and sorcerer who had obtained from&lt;br /&gt;
forced upon him by the publisher, unasked. The the Evil One the secret of the mysterious philo-&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the alien is ticketed with his own name, sopher&amp;#039;s stone. A few fragments of the House&lt;br /&gt;
does not alter the complexion of the proceeding with the big Gable&mdash;&ldquo; la Maison du grand&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, especially abroad, often seek the support pignon&rdquo;&mdash;which he built for himself in the rue&lt;br /&gt;
of a distinguished writer to lend them counten. de Montmorency in 1407, are reported to be still&lt;br /&gt;
ance in a preface. Alexandre Dumas, no doubt, in existence.&lt;br /&gt;
profited by Jules Janin&amp;#039;s preface to &ldquo; La Dame&lt;br /&gt;
aux Cam&eacute;lias.&amp;quot; Chaucer&amp;#039;s Urry, Dr. Johnson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Two ANCIENT NOTABILITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
Croker, Scott&amp;#039;s Mr. Lang, and Byron&amp;#039;s Mr. The name of Robert Estienne enjoys a less&lt;br /&gt;
Henley are, of course, among the pains and ambiguous reputation. Born in 1503, he was&lt;br /&gt;
pleasures of immortality. But to the mortal promoted to the office of royal publisher by&lt;br /&gt;
author, while he lives. the right of veto, and Francis I., who took pleasure in occasionally&lt;br /&gt;
assuredly of consultation, is sacred.&lt;br /&gt;
visiting his prot&eacute;g&eacute;&amp;#039;s workshops, and profiting by&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. SPIELMANN. his erudite conversation. For Robert Estienne&lt;br /&gt;
was one of the most learned men of his time. His&lt;br /&gt;
Latin Bible is a typographical masterpiece, and&lt;br /&gt;
the purity of his classical editions is notorious.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
The latter fact is partly accounted for by his prac-&lt;br /&gt;
tice of placing his corrected proof-sheets in the&lt;br /&gt;
5, rue Chomel, Paris. windows of his shop, in order that all scholars,&lt;br /&gt;
NHE Great Exhibition is slowly progressing&lt;br /&gt;
teachers, and savants who passed that way might&lt;br /&gt;
I towards completion. Most interesting is the peruse them, and point out any slips or errors&lt;br /&gt;
quaint collection of buildings entitled &ldquo;Le that they perceived therein. The perfection of&lt;br /&gt;
Vieux Paris,&amp;quot; situated on the right bank of the&lt;br /&gt;
the Estienne publications bears witness that the&lt;br /&gt;
Seine just below the Pont de l&amp;#039;Alma. The grim literati of the epoch were competent and obliging&lt;br /&gt;
old Porte Saint-Michel forms the entry to the critics.&lt;br /&gt;
Middle-age and Renaissance Quarter. To the left&lt;br /&gt;
Th&eacute;ophraste Renaudotis undoubtedly the&lt;br /&gt;
runs the ancient Vieilles-Ecoles-street, in which most amusing figure in this learned quartette.&lt;br /&gt;
stands the Maison aux Piliers, the first town-hall Having obtained a doctor&amp;#039;s degree at Montpellier,&lt;br /&gt;
of Paris, precursor of the present stately H&ocirc;tel de he came to Paris to exercise his art at the sign of&lt;br /&gt;
Ville. Here also are the houses of four person-&lt;br /&gt;
the Golden Cock. Patients were apparently rare ;&lt;br /&gt;
ages dear to the bibliophiles of all nations: to for in a comparatively short time he successively&lt;br /&gt;
wit_Moli&egrave;re. Nicolas Flamel. Robert Estienne. established an address bureau, a registry office&lt;br /&gt;
and Th&eacute;ophraste Renaudot. The first &mdash; the for persons seeking situations, a pawnshop, a&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare of French literature&mdash;was born in chemistry laboratory, a gratuitous consultation&lt;br /&gt;
1622 in an old house belonging to the public office; and finally, the famous Gazette, which&lt;br /&gt;
market-place, where his father, Master Poquelin, first appeared in manuscript in 1631, and was&lt;br /&gt;
busily pursued the trade of upholsterer or carpet soon after duly printed on four pages as behoved&lt;br /&gt;
weaver beneath the sign of the Apes&amp;#039; Pavilion.&lt;br /&gt;
the dignity of the first French periodical. The&lt;br /&gt;
Larousse asserts that no other writer can be com fourth page was exclusively reserved for adver.&lt;br /&gt;
pared with Moli&egrave;re as regards his fine portrayal tisements. Which detail proves that, despite his&lt;br /&gt;
of character, his high originality of conception, failure in the profession, Renaudot was an excel-&lt;br /&gt;
his sparkling verve, his humorous power, his lent feeler of the public pulse. This versatile&lt;br /&gt;
natural gifts, and the good sense and Gallic ancestor of the modern French newspaper (and&lt;br /&gt;
freshness of his style. &laquo; Every man who knows many other useful institutions) died in the year&lt;br /&gt;
how to read,&rdquo; said Sainte-Beuve, &ldquo;is one reader 1653.&lt;br /&gt;
more for Moli&egrave;re.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE GONCOURT ACADEMY.&lt;br /&gt;
Nicolas Flamel was a species of French Para. The Goncourt Academy is flourishing like a&lt;br /&gt;
celsus. He died in 1418, but the date of his green bay tree. Its tale of members has been&lt;br /&gt;
birth is unknown. He appears to have enjoyed completed by the election of MM. El&eacute;mir&lt;br /&gt;
no small celebrity as a writer, publisher, illumi. Bourges, Lucien Descaves, and L&eacute;on Daudet, the&lt;br /&gt;
nator, and miniature painter of the first order. two first being elected unanimously. It had been&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that M. J.-K. Huysmans&amp;#039; adoption into in dramatic circles, asserting that the public had&lt;br /&gt;
the Benedictine Order would necessitate this never expended so large a portion of its private&lt;br /&gt;
eccentric writer&amp;#039;s withdrawal from the ranks of income at the theatre as at the present moment.&lt;br /&gt;
the new society. But M. Huysmans speedily The above statistics (with the list of new members&lt;br /&gt;
negatived the idea by announcing his intention received) having been duly made known, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of accepting the emoluments and taking part in routine congratulatory compliments exchanged,&lt;br /&gt;
the agapes of the brotherhood. M. Emile Zola&amp;#039;s M. Pierre Decourcelle-one of the dramatists&lt;br /&gt;
irrevocable determination to persevere in his whose productions are most patronised abroad-&lt;br /&gt;
candidature for a French Academy fauteuil proposed the raising of i per cent. of the tax&lt;br /&gt;
prevented his accepting a seat at the fraternal levied on all French plays represented elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;
board. For immortals and poets are among the than on French soil, the surplus thus obtained&lt;br /&gt;
inadmissible items. The legal debates to deter- to be devoted to the Retired Pension Fund of the&lt;br /&gt;
mine whether the Goncourt institution was &ldquo;to society. The committee declared this generous&lt;br /&gt;
be or not to be &amp;quot; were most interesting. Accord. proposition to be antagonistic to the existing&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the adverse party, Edmond de Goncourt&amp;#039;s statutes of the society. Thereupon M. Decourcelle,&lt;br /&gt;
intention was to create a small &ldquo;c&eacute;nacle,&amp;quot; a little warmly seconded by an overwhelming majority,&lt;br /&gt;
literary chapel in front of the great cathedral demanded a general meeting extraordinary. The&lt;br /&gt;
whose radiant dome wounded and offended his too authorities declared the incident closed, and&lt;br /&gt;
susceptible sight.&lt;br /&gt;
ordered the opening of the ballot to decide the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;If the French Academy be-as its detractors election of the new members of the committee.&lt;br /&gt;
assert-merely the drawing-room of French litera- Forthwith ensued a general stampede of members&lt;br /&gt;
ture,&amp;quot; said Ma&icirc;tre Chenu, &ldquo;the Goncourt Insti- to draw up a petition for a general assembly.&lt;br /&gt;
tution&mdash;with its dinners at twenty francs per head Sixty-five signatures-in lieu of the twenty&lt;br /&gt;
- will never rank higher in the eyes of the world necessary to legalise the request-were appended&lt;br /&gt;
than a literary table d&amp;#039;h&ocirc;te.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to this document, which has recently been sub-&lt;br /&gt;
To which Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; replied, &ldquo; Our adver- mitted to the newly elected committee (presided&lt;br /&gt;
sary gives us the choice between a pious and a over by M. Victorien Sardou) and by them referred&lt;br /&gt;
gastronomic comparison. As a little chapel the to the judicial council of the society. The latter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Goncourt Academy will lead up to the great decision has not yet been made known.&lt;br /&gt;
cathedral. As a table d&amp;#039;h&ocirc;te it will not keep its&lt;br /&gt;
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.&lt;br /&gt;
guests long; when the dinner is finished each one&lt;br /&gt;
will pass into the drawing-room-of the French&lt;br /&gt;
The Dramatists and Musical Composers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Academy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Society occupies a more prominent position than&lt;br /&gt;
Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; won the day. Wherefore the&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of French Authors&mdash;the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
first dinner partaken in company by the members&lt;br /&gt;
Gens de Lettres. The relative importance and&lt;br /&gt;
of the new academy was given in honour of the&lt;br /&gt;
aim of the two institutions were clearly set forth,&lt;br /&gt;
celebrated advocate who had so ably pleaded their&lt;br /&gt;
a few months since, in.a speech delivered by M.&lt;br /&gt;
cause in court, and whose eloquence had pre-&lt;br /&gt;
Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, president of the French Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
vented the annulment of Edmond de Goncourt&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Society, at the latter&amp;#039;s annual banquet, at which the&lt;br /&gt;
darling project. Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; undertook the&lt;br /&gt;
chair was taken by M. Victorien Sardou, presi.&lt;br /&gt;
cause for love, not lucre. He pleaded none the&lt;br /&gt;
dent of the sister society. &ldquo;The two societies,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
worse on that account.&lt;br /&gt;
said M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost,&ldquo; are united by a fraternal&lt;br /&gt;
bond.&rdquo; &ldquo;The great family of men of letters have&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATISTS AND MUSICAL COMPOSERS. the right to be proud of these two sisters. They&lt;br /&gt;
The annual general assembly of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
have both turned out well. We can say so boldly&lt;br /&gt;
Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques was rather&lt;br /&gt;
to-day, since both have passed the critical age;&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; stormy affair. Its yearly report was drawn&lt;br /&gt;
since one of these respectable ladies is sixty, and&lt;br /&gt;
up by M. Paul Milliet, and contained the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
the other eighty years of age. Yes, we are the&lt;br /&gt;
ing satisfactory paragraph : &ldquo; In 1866-67, the&lt;br /&gt;
&ntilde; . &amp;quot; In 1866.67 the&lt;br /&gt;
younger;&lt;br /&gt;
younger. The elder is the richer, the more&lt;br /&gt;
annual theatrical receipts of Paris amounted to&lt;br /&gt;
powerful of the two sisters; but, all the same,&lt;br /&gt;
thirteen million francs : in 1876-77. to sixteen the younger is not to be pitied.&amp;quot; *&amp;quot; You, the&lt;br /&gt;
million francs; in 1886-87, to nineteen million&lt;br /&gt;
great ones of the theatre&mdash;the Sardous, Hal&eacute;vys,&lt;br /&gt;
francs ; in 1896-97, to twenty-two million francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
and Dumas&mdash;you have accomplished this deed of&lt;br /&gt;
and in 1899-1900, they have attained a total&lt;br /&gt;
a true and admirable socialism. You have said,&lt;br /&gt;
of exactly twenty-two million, one hundred and&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; The little writers, the new comers, shall be paid&lt;br /&gt;
fifty thousand, nine hundred and thirty-six&lt;br /&gt;
as we are the day their plays are acted on the&lt;br /&gt;
francs, eighteen centimes.&rdquo; M. Milliet protested&lt;br /&gt;
same stage. Their feebleness, their inexperience,&lt;br /&gt;
vigorously against the pessimistic spirit current * This speech was addressed to M. Victorien Sardou.&lt;br /&gt;
Domy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
shall no longer be exploited ; or else the great possesses his qualities. And it may be safely&lt;br /&gt;
writers will put their ban on the stage.&amp;#039; We&mdash;the said of any good writer that he is jealous of&lt;br /&gt;
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres-out of a mere himself and will always give his best at the&lt;br /&gt;
nothing ... have founded a solid and time, even though the best at the time is not his&lt;br /&gt;
flourishing institution. We have added a con- best at some other time. It is a simple contract.&lt;br /&gt;
siderable sum to the income of the writer as long The publisher or the editor says &ldquo;Give me your&lt;br /&gt;
as he works ; and when he can no longer work, book-your treatise-your novel&mdash;for such and&lt;br /&gt;
we have insured him a half security, at least, to such a consideration.&rdquo; And the author signs the&lt;br /&gt;
that dignified leisure in old age to which all those contract.&lt;br /&gt;
are entitled who in their measure have striven to This kind of contract is made in every branch&lt;br /&gt;
increase the patrimony of beauty which is their of literature. Where it is entered into by a&lt;br /&gt;
country&amp;#039;s heritage...Novelist and drama dramatist and a manager it must be as binding as&lt;br /&gt;
tist, what are they but two sides of the same between publisher and author. The manager&lt;br /&gt;
genius ?&rdquo; M. Pr&eacute;vost concluded by saying that secures a play written by a dramatist of reputa-&lt;br /&gt;
he drank to the good understanding of the two tion so well established that he is certain to get&lt;br /&gt;
societies which represented the two phases of good work. When the play arrives, if the&lt;br /&gt;
French genius ; to the fraternity of the book and manager finds that for some reason or other he&lt;br /&gt;
the play; and to M. Victorien Sardou,&ldquo; homme would like to be off his bargain-a play, for&lt;br /&gt;
de lettres&rdquo; and prince of the French stage. instance, requires actors capable of representing&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. it &mdash; he cannot do so unless the other party&lt;br /&gt;
consents.&lt;br /&gt;
-ou&lt;br /&gt;
One or two of the papers speak of the hard-&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
ship of having a play which a manager cannot put&lt;br /&gt;
on the stage, but he should have thought of that&lt;br /&gt;
THE case of Merivale v. Harvey (p. 3) is&lt;br /&gt;
possibility beforehand. Dramatists of repute do&lt;br /&gt;
one which affects most vitally the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
not write on the chance of being accepted: they take&lt;br /&gt;
literary property. For literary property,&lt;br /&gt;
commissions and enter into agreements. These&lt;br /&gt;
which must not be confounded with literature,&lt;br /&gt;
considerations seem elementary, but in the view of&lt;br /&gt;
must be subjected to the same laws as govern&lt;br /&gt;
such actions as Merivale v. Harvey being possible&lt;br /&gt;
other property. If, for instance, an author signs&lt;br /&gt;
it is surely necessary to point them out. In&lt;br /&gt;
an iniquitous or unjust agreement, even if he were&lt;br /&gt;
matters of principle the most elementary facts&lt;br /&gt;
to give his publishers the rights which their&lt;br /&gt;
must be continually repeated. We find that the&lt;br /&gt;
Association claims, he must abide the conse-&lt;br /&gt;
Ten Commandments are repeated every Sunday:&lt;br /&gt;
quences. No one is so loud in his assertion of&lt;br /&gt;
they are also put up for all the world to read.&lt;br /&gt;
this simple axiom as the publisher where the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Merivale deserves the thanks of the whole&lt;br /&gt;
enforcement of an agreement is in his favour.&lt;br /&gt;
literary community for taking his case into open&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, an agreement entered into by&lt;br /&gt;
court and establishing a precedent.&lt;br /&gt;
a publisher with an author is equally binding&lt;br /&gt;
even when it turns out not to be in his favour. The views of the American critic, quoted in&lt;br /&gt;
another page, on English literature do not greatly&lt;br /&gt;
differ from those most often expressed on this&lt;br /&gt;
It is customary&mdash;it is indeed the rule&mdash;when an side. I have omitted a small part of the paper&lt;br /&gt;
author has arrived at a certain stage of reputa- which speaks of living writers. Of Louis Steven.&lt;br /&gt;
tion for him to accept engagements to write for son he speaks with words of very faint praise :&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, journals, or for publishers. Agree-&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson has already taken his place as an entertaining&lt;br /&gt;
ments are entered into by which the author novelist of the second or third class, and his singularly&lt;br /&gt;
pledges himself to write a book on some subject, lovable personality is not now mistaken for literary genius&lt;br /&gt;
an article, a novel, by a certain time for a certain by any great number of persons.&lt;br /&gt;
consideration set forth in the agreement. The The time immediately after a writer&amp;#039;s death is&lt;br /&gt;
publisher makes the offer, with the full knowledge apt to be unwilling to concede his genius. It is&lt;br /&gt;
that the author&amp;#039;s reputation is such as to carry off like a reaction from admiration which in his&lt;br /&gt;
his book with a profit to himself; the author, on lifetime could not acknowledge shortcomings&lt;br /&gt;
the other hand, values his reputation too highly and unconsciously closed the eyes to defects.&lt;br /&gt;
to send in scamped and unworthy work. He may There are, very possibly, persons who will agree&lt;br /&gt;
be unequal&mdash;all writers are; the best work of a with this writer in his estimate of Stevenson. It&lt;br /&gt;
good writer is often above his average work- remains, however, to be seen what their attitude&lt;br /&gt;
still his average work bears his stamp and will be in ten years. Time, the only infallible&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
critic, weeds out the lesser and the inferior work announcement was made: &ldquo; Dues five dollars yearly,&lt;br /&gt;
and leaves a writer&amp;#039;s best, however small in quan-&lt;br /&gt;
strictly in advance, and must accompany all applications&lt;br /&gt;
for membership. Absolutely no exception will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
tity, for posterity. It certainly seems to many of&lt;br /&gt;
this rule.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson&amp;#039;s old readers as if the selection made The assurance was made that the &ldquo;membership fee&lt;br /&gt;
by Time from Stevenson&amp;#039;s works will be such as would be returned in full from any dissatisfied member.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to place him above the &ldquo; second or third class.&rdquo; Remittances, it was announced, must be made to no other&lt;br /&gt;
person than Courtney, who signed himself &ldquo; Seorutary of&lt;br /&gt;
the Association.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The annual dinner of the Society of the 16th Women by the dozen applied to Courtney for employ.&lt;br /&gt;
was a success in every way. The attendance was ment, and brought many manuscripts to him. He rejected&lt;br /&gt;
a great deal larger than at any previous dinner-&lt;br /&gt;
none of them if the applicants were prepared to pay the&lt;br /&gt;
membership fee of five dollars. The most inexperienced&lt;br /&gt;
there were nearly 350 present; the difficult task writers were assured that their work gave indications&lt;br /&gt;
of seating the people seems to have been accom of great genius, and that hundreds of newspapers in&lt;br /&gt;
plished without giving offence to any; there was the West were anxious to purchase the manuscripts at&lt;br /&gt;
a cheerful sound of talk; and the speeches by&lt;br /&gt;
high rates.&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman, Mr. Pinero, by Mr. Anthony Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney was so successful that women who applied to&lt;br /&gt;
him told their friends what an excellent business oppor.&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Lord Monkswell,&lt;br /&gt;
tunity they had discovered, and in that way caused&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Henry Norman were admirable. There Courtney&amp;#039;s roll of membership to be greatly increased. He&lt;br /&gt;
was not the least sign of fatigue among an made promises to many of them, which some of the women&lt;br /&gt;
audience always difficult to please during any of&lt;br /&gt;
now claim he has not kept. He arranged to meet them at&lt;br /&gt;
them.&lt;br /&gt;
his desk on Satarday last, but, although many waited until&lt;br /&gt;
late in the afternoon, he did not appear.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday they visited his office in crowds, but still&lt;br /&gt;
Given a collection of 350 literary men and there was no sign of the &amp;quot;secretary.&amp;quot; Yesterday the&lt;br /&gt;
women, including many of the best known, women descended upon his office again, and camped near&lt;br /&gt;
given a chairman who is the first English drama-&lt;br /&gt;
bis desk from early morning until nearly six o&amp;#039;clock in the&lt;br /&gt;
tist of the day, given such speakers as those&lt;br /&gt;
evening, but Courtney failed to make his appearance. The&lt;br /&gt;
members of the &ldquo; Association of New York Writers &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
named above-would not this gathering be con-&lt;br /&gt;
ove, would not this gathering be conlooked at one another mournfully all day, exchanging&lt;br /&gt;
sidered remarkable in any other country? Yet experiences.&lt;br /&gt;
was it considered in any way remarkable by the Persons from whom Courtney rented desk room told me&lt;br /&gt;
Press ?&lt;br /&gt;
that they knew nothing about the man, except that he had&lt;br /&gt;
paid them for one month&amp;#039;s rent. He gave thom no references,&lt;br /&gt;
The following slip has been sent to the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
nor did he say where he lived or where he had come from.&lt;br /&gt;
He is described as tall, dark, of athletic build, and when&lt;br /&gt;
as a warning to English writers :-&lt;br /&gt;
last seen wore a dark moustache.&lt;br /&gt;
More than fifty confiding young women with literary&lt;br /&gt;
-on&lt;br /&gt;
aspirations and trusting natures are anxiously looking for a&lt;br /&gt;
man who says he is J. Courtney, and who until Saturday In justice to our own country I must remind&lt;br /&gt;
last condacted what he styles &ldquo;The Association of New&lt;br /&gt;
our readers that Mr. Courtney has been antici.&lt;br /&gt;
York Writers,&amp;quot; in room 9 at No. 853, Broadway.&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney made his appearance at the place mentioned,&lt;br /&gt;
od pated by his brethren in the gentle art of&lt;br /&gt;
which is ocoupied as a printing office, about three weeks&lt;br /&gt;
wheedling on this side of the Atlantic. There&lt;br /&gt;
ago, and rented desk room. Then he inserted an adver was the gentleman who advertised for MSS.,&lt;br /&gt;
tisement in a number of newspapers stating that he had using the name of a well-known publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
exceptional facilities for disposing of original manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
He bolted with his booty and, it is believed,&lt;br /&gt;
to publications throaghont the West. To persons who&lt;br /&gt;
answered the advertisements he gave a printed circular,&lt;br /&gt;
carried his MSS. over to America, where&lt;br /&gt;
hundreds of which he also sent throngh the mails to persons he proposed to sell them for his own profit.&lt;br /&gt;
living out of town. This document stated that the &ldquo; asso. There was another practitioner who had a second&lt;br /&gt;
ciation had larger facilities for the sale of manuscript and pair back in a court off Holborn for an office and&lt;br /&gt;
placing of members in paying positions than any similar&lt;br /&gt;
concern in the United States. It is the only one enabled&lt;br /&gt;
also advertised for MSS., and, on the interven.&lt;br /&gt;
to furnish immediate and permanent work to its members.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the Society, disappeared, leaving a room&lt;br /&gt;
Membership is limited strictly to 100. New members full of papers. There was the gentleman-not&lt;br /&gt;
admitted only through vacancies occurring by reason of old yet suppressed&mdash;who advertised for MSS. and,&lt;br /&gt;
members accepting positions or otherwise retiring.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
invariably, on receiving one, replied that his&lt;br /&gt;
In setting forth the advantages of membership it was&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that an opportunity was presented of &amp;quot;procuring&lt;br /&gt;
reader&amp;#039;s report was so favourable that he was&lt;br /&gt;
desirable positions on high class publications through our&lt;br /&gt;
prepared to offer the following exceptional&lt;br /&gt;
efforts; also the revision and sale of your manuscripts on a terms&mdash;the author to pay &pound;60, &pound;70, &pound;80, or&lt;br /&gt;
Jo per cent. basis by as ; work at home is also furnished any other fancy offer, and to receive 99 per&lt;br /&gt;
members on request, paying from ten dollars to fifteen dollars cent. or 150 per cent. or anything else, of the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
weekly, at copying, revising, correcting, &amp;amp;c., and, if desired,&lt;br /&gt;
ceeds. Mr. Courtney, of New York, is no doubt&lt;br /&gt;
furnished at once on admission to membership.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney&amp;#039;s circular said nothing about the cost to a great man, but we have produced greater. The&lt;br /&gt;
prospective members until the end, when the following agreements published in last month&amp;#039;s Author&lt;br /&gt;
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1&Omicron;&lt;br /&gt;
TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
show a master hand. London is still ahead of said to be imposed by the present law upon authors and&lt;br /&gt;
New York in publishing enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers which requires gratuitous presentation, are&lt;br /&gt;
desirous of receiving evidence from the University of Oxford&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. as to the value of the right.&lt;br /&gt;
The Commissioners will also be glad to receive informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion as to the average number of works of which copies are&lt;br /&gt;
received annually, and whether such copies are as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
presented voluntarily by the author or apon demand made&lt;br /&gt;
THE COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE FIVE&lt;br /&gt;
by the University.&lt;br /&gt;
PRESENTATION COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
J. LEYBOURN GODDARD, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Similar Letters were sent to the Universities of&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge and Dublin, and to the Faculty of&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Copyright Commission by its report of Advocates.&lt;br /&gt;
1878 recommended the retention of the&lt;br /&gt;
The Oxford Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
- present privilege of the British Museum&lt;br /&gt;
Bodleian Library, July 4, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Library (dating from 1845) to have sent to it,&lt;br /&gt;
I have had the honour of bringing your communication&lt;br /&gt;
whether demanded or not (the right of acquiring, of the 20th (sic) alt. before the curators of this library, and&lt;br /&gt;
but on demand only, dating from 1814) a copy of am directed to inform you that it was resolved-&lt;br /&gt;
every copyright book, but the abolition of the&lt;br /&gt;
1. That the librarian be requested to answer in writing&lt;br /&gt;
the questions asked by the Commissioners, and to state on&lt;br /&gt;
privilege of four other libraries (dating in the&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of the curators that the University of Oxford desires&lt;br /&gt;
case of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh from to retain its ancient privilege, not merely in the interests&lt;br /&gt;
1709, and in the case of Dublin from 1801) to of the University, but for the sake of the public.&lt;br /&gt;
have sent to them within one month after demand 2. That the librarian be authorised to communicate with&lt;br /&gt;
in writing made within twelve months of publica-&lt;br /&gt;
the Commissioners farther as circumstances may require.&lt;br /&gt;
Roverting, therefore, to your communication as above, I&lt;br /&gt;
tion, a copy of every such book. &ldquo;In making&lt;br /&gt;
proceed to lay before you such answers as I may in reply to&lt;br /&gt;
this recommendation&amp;quot; (as to the abolition of the&lt;br /&gt;
the queries of the commissioners therein contained :-&lt;br /&gt;
privilege in the case of libraries other than that 1. Average number of works received annually.-Taking&lt;br /&gt;
of the British Museum), observe the Commis an average of the last three years, we have received 4775&lt;br /&gt;
sioners, &ldquo;we have taken into consideration the&lt;br /&gt;
works, comprised in 5301 volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Books very rarely come direct from the authors. They&lt;br /&gt;
facts that the bodies to whom the libraries&lt;br /&gt;
are delivered by the publishers, the price of them being&lt;br /&gt;
belong are possessed of considerable means, and&lt;br /&gt;
reckoned, I believe, as a part of the expenge of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
are well able to purchase any books which they 3. The greater part of the firms, and notably the most&lt;br /&gt;
may require; and also that the repeal of the important ones, send either to our London agent in Great&lt;br /&gt;
clause giving the privilege will not deprive the&lt;br /&gt;
Russell-street (Mr. Eccles) or to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, without&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for any demand. There are, however, a few firms&lt;br /&gt;
libraries of any property already acquired, but&lt;br /&gt;
from whom we have to demand everything, and even where&lt;br /&gt;
merely of a right to obtain property hereafter to our claim is disregarded.&lt;br /&gt;
be created.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
4. The books not sent are comparatively few, consisting&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bills of 1890 and of the chiefly of second editions without alterations, privately&lt;br /&gt;
present Session, the first of which was directly printed books not for sale, classes of works which are not&lt;br /&gt;
claimable under the Copyright Act.&lt;br /&gt;
promoted by the Authors&amp;#039; Society, disregarded&lt;br /&gt;
H. 0. Coxe, Librarian.&lt;br /&gt;
the recommendation of the Commissioners, and&lt;br /&gt;
retained the privilege of all five libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
The Cambridge Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
The controversy having been again reopened&lt;br /&gt;
by a letter of Mr. Murray to the Times and&lt;br /&gt;
University Library, Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Jane 29, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise, it becomes desirable, in the interest of&lt;br /&gt;
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your&lt;br /&gt;
all concerned, to go into the whole subject some letter of yesterday&amp;#039;s date.&lt;br /&gt;
what at length, and to begin with printing, from The long vacation has just commenced, and there will not&lt;br /&gt;
the appendix to the report of the Commissioners,&lt;br /&gt;
be a meeting of the Library Syndicate until the middle of&lt;br /&gt;
the correspondence between the Commissioners on&lt;br /&gt;
October, but I will take the earliest opportunity possible of&lt;br /&gt;
laying your letter before the syndicate, and I am certain that&lt;br /&gt;
the one hand, and the four library authorities of the University will be willing to supply the Commissioners&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin on with all the information which they may require.&lt;br /&gt;
the other :-&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY BRADSHAW.&lt;br /&gt;
THE QUESTIONS OF THE COMMISSIONERS.&lt;br /&gt;
October 26, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Commission, 13, Delahay-street.&lt;br /&gt;
With reference to your letter of June 28 last, which I&lt;br /&gt;
June 28, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledged at the time, will you kindly let me have one&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Commissioners on Copyright having had before line referring me to the date of the appointment of the Com.&lt;br /&gt;
them the subject of the present right of the University of mission, that I may find the terms in the Gazette ?&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, and the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin and I laid your letter before our authorities at the first meet-&lt;br /&gt;
the Faculty of Advocates, to receive upon demand a copying of the term, and they are now considering the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
of every book published in this country, and the hardship&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY BRADSHAW.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
The Dublin Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
Library, July 5, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Your letter was sent to the Queen&amp;#039;s University, Dablin&lt;br /&gt;
Castle, which accounts for my not having replied sooner. It&lt;br /&gt;
would be very difficult to state the pecuniary value of our&lt;br /&gt;
privilege under the Copyright Act. If I were to estimate it&lt;br /&gt;
by the selling price of books, I am sure that &pound;1500 annually&lt;br /&gt;
would not compensate for our loss. But other considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tions would make me regret very much a change in our&lt;br /&gt;
present system.&lt;br /&gt;
The namber of books received each year is at present&lt;br /&gt;
between 3000 and 4000, and this is on the increase. The&lt;br /&gt;
anthors seldom present a copy, bat the publishers are bound&lt;br /&gt;
to do so on demand, and as a rule they comply with this&lt;br /&gt;
very regularly. Any farther information I will be happy to&lt;br /&gt;
impart.&lt;br /&gt;
I may add that I laid your letters before the governing&lt;br /&gt;
body of this University.&lt;br /&gt;
J. A. MALET, D.D., Senior Fellow and Librarian.&lt;br /&gt;
II. &Eacute;tudier et comparer les lois qui r&eacute;gissent les biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;ques dans les divers pays.&lt;br /&gt;
III. &Eacute;changes internationaux.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Rapports des biblioth&egrave;ques aveo les administrations :&lt;br /&gt;
Etat, municipalit&eacute;s, corporations, &amp;amp;c. ; autonomie des&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&egrave;gnes.&lt;br /&gt;
V. De la meilleure organisation des biblioth&egrave;ques popu.&lt;br /&gt;
laires.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Recrutement da personnel des biblioth&egrave;ques ; con.&lt;br /&gt;
ditions exig&eacute;es ou &agrave; exiger des candidats aux fonctions de&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&eacute;caires ; situation faite &agrave; ces fonctionnaires.&lt;br /&gt;
DEUXI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
B&acirc;timents, mobilier, am&eacute;nagement des biblioth&egrave;ques.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. &Eacute;tudier l&amp;#039;am&eacute;nagement des biblioth&egrave;ques au moyen&lt;br /&gt;
&acirc;ge.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Exposer les meilleurs moyens &agrave; employer pour installer&lt;br /&gt;
les livres dans une biblioth&egrave;que nouvelle et pour am&eacute;liorer&lt;br /&gt;
l&amp;#039;installation d&amp;#039;une biblioth&egrave;que ancienne.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Indiqaer les perfectionnements r&eacute;alis&eacute;s ou projet&eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
dans les biblioth&egrave;ques les plus r&eacute;cemment install&eacute;es.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Indiquer particuli&egrave;rement les pr&eacute;cautions &agrave; prendre&lt;br /&gt;
pour mettre les biblioth&egrave;quos &agrave; l&amp;#039;abri de l&amp;#039;incendie.&lt;br /&gt;
The Edinburgh Reply&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 4, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
In reply to your letter of the 29th June, I am instructed&lt;br /&gt;
by the Faculty of Advocates to forward to you the&lt;br /&gt;
socompanying particulars as to value, &amp;amp;c., of works&lt;br /&gt;
received under the Copyright Act. The subject will be&lt;br /&gt;
further considered by the Faculty after the court resames&lt;br /&gt;
in October, and if necessary, further communication will&lt;br /&gt;
be made.&lt;br /&gt;
JAMES T. CLARK.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The annual money value of books, &amp;amp;c., received under&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Act, estimated at about &pound;1500.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The number of books, exclusive of pamphlets and&lt;br /&gt;
music, received annually, about 3500. The namber of&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlets received in 1874 was 1551, and of pieces of&lt;br /&gt;
music, 1337,&lt;br /&gt;
3. Nearly all the large publisbing firms in London send&lt;br /&gt;
their works for the Advocates&amp;#039; Library either to our London&lt;br /&gt;
agent or to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall without waiting for any demand.&lt;br /&gt;
u&lt;br /&gt;
The Scotch publishers send either direct to the library or&lt;br /&gt;
to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, in both cases, as a rule, without any&lt;br /&gt;
demand being made. The few books tbat are published in&lt;br /&gt;
the provincial towns are generally demanded, and the demand&lt;br /&gt;
invariably complied with, either by sending the work claimed&lt;br /&gt;
or by a letter intimating that the work has already been&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall for us.&lt;br /&gt;
TROISI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Traitement des manuscrits, livres imprim&eacute;s, cartes de&lt;br /&gt;
g&eacute;ographie, estampes, photographies, &amp;amp;c.-Acquisition de&lt;br /&gt;
volumes &mdash; Enregistrement &mdash; Estampillage-Inventaires,&lt;br /&gt;
catalogues et r&eacute;pertoires-Moyens de conservation-&lt;br /&gt;
Restauration-Reliure.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Indiquer les mesures qui ont &eacute;t&eacute; r&eacute;cemment reconnues&lt;br /&gt;
comme les plus propres &agrave; dresser le catalogue d&amp;#039;une biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;que nouvelle ou &agrave; am&eacute;liorer les catalogues d&amp;#039;une biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;que ancienne.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Application &agrave; la biblioth&eacute;conomie des divers syst&egrave;mes&lt;br /&gt;
de classification bibliographique.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Des catalogaes collectifs.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Utilisation des &eacute;l&eacute;ments de r&eacute;pertoire publi&eacute;s &agrave; l&amp;#039;&eacute;tat&lt;br /&gt;
de fiches ou des bulletins imprim&eacute;s joints par les &eacute;diteurs&lt;br /&gt;
aux volames.&lt;br /&gt;
V. Traitement &agrave; appliquer aux pi&egrave;ces volantes et aux&lt;br /&gt;
documents parlementaires et administratifs qu&amp;#039;il importo do&lt;br /&gt;
conserver, mais qui ne peuvent &ecirc;tre imm&eacute;diatement cata-&lt;br /&gt;
logu&eacute;s.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Avantages et inconv&eacute;nients de la constitution des&lt;br /&gt;
recueils factices, aussi bien de ceux qui ont &eacute;t&eacute; form&eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
anciennement que de ceux qui sont &agrave; constituer.&lt;br /&gt;
VII. De l&amp;#039;atilit&eacute; des r&eacute;colements et des meilleurs moyens&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;y proc&eacute;der.&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. De l&amp;#039;hygi&egrave;ne des livres. Par quels moyens peut-on&lt;br /&gt;
le mieux les pr&eacute;server des divers agents de destruction ?&lt;br /&gt;
IX. Mesures &agrave; prendre pour la conservation et la restaura-&lt;br /&gt;
tion des objets composant une biblioth&egrave;que : palimpsestes,&lt;br /&gt;
papyrus, manuscrits, manuscrits &agrave; peintures, livres imprim&eacute;s,&lt;br /&gt;
cartes de g&eacute;ographie, estampes, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
CONGRESS OF LIBRARIANS.&lt;br /&gt;
N International Congress of Librarians will&lt;br /&gt;
be held in Paris on Aug. 20-23 next. The&lt;br /&gt;
following is the official programme. The&lt;br /&gt;
address of the secretary is M. Henry Martin,&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; le Biblioth&egrave;que d&rsquo;Arsenal, Rue de Sully 1,&lt;br /&gt;
Paris :-&lt;br /&gt;
PREMI&Egrave;RE Division.&lt;br /&gt;
Histoire, l&eacute;gislation, organisation des biblioth&egrave;ques&lt;br /&gt;
publiques. D&eacute;p&ocirc;t l&eacute;gal, copyright, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. R&eacute;sumer les renseignements nouveaux qu&amp;#039;on peut avoir&lt;br /&gt;
sur l&amp;#039;histoire des biblioth&egrave;ques, depuis les origines jusqu&amp;#039;aux&lt;br /&gt;
temps modernes.&lt;br /&gt;
QUATRI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Usage des livres &agrave; l&amp;#039;int&eacute;rieur et &agrave; l&amp;#039;ext&eacute;rieur des&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&egrave;ques.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Sous quelles conditions le pr&ecirc;t des livres peut-il &ecirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
autoris&eacute; dans les diff&eacute;rentes cat&eacute;gories de biblioth&egrave;ques ?&lt;br /&gt;
I I. Comment doivent &ecirc;tre r&eacute;gl&eacute;es les communications des&lt;br /&gt;
volumes imprim&eacute;s et manuscrits d&amp;#039;une biblioth&egrave;que &agrave; une&lt;br /&gt;
autre ?&lt;br /&gt;
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1 2&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
D&lt;br /&gt;
G&lt;br /&gt;
III. De la responsabilit&eacute; des biblioth&eacute;caires pour la com great writers of prose, the contrast between the&lt;br /&gt;
munication et le pr&ecirc;t des livres confi&eacute;s &agrave; leur garde.&lt;br /&gt;
living and the dead is seen to be almost as&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Des dangers de transmission des maladies con-&lt;br /&gt;
tagieuses par les livres des biblioth&egrave;ques publiques et des&lt;br /&gt;
pronounced as in the case of the poets. Within&lt;br /&gt;
moyens d&amp;#039;y rem&eacute;dier.&lt;br /&gt;
twenty years Carlyle and Ruskin, by far the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest prosateurs of our time, have ceased to&lt;br /&gt;
appeal to us with the living voice. The per-&lt;br /&gt;
suasive eloquence of Newman and Martineau&lt;br /&gt;
AN AMERICAN CRITIC.&lt;br /&gt;
has been hushed, and the plea for culture, voiced&lt;br /&gt;
in such dulcet terms by Arnold and Pater,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Dial, Chicago, May 1, 1900.)&lt;br /&gt;
is no longer heard. All these men are now&lt;br /&gt;
DURNING now to English literature-our among&lt;br /&gt;
own literature upon the other side of the The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule&lt;br /&gt;
ocean&mdash;the capital fact confronts us that&lt;br /&gt;
Our spirits from their urns,&lt;br /&gt;
in 1880 there were six great English poets among but to whose counsel we may no longer turn when&lt;br /&gt;
the living, and that in 1900 there remains but one. new questions arise and call for new solutions.&lt;br /&gt;
During the twenty years Tennyson and Browning, Of the four great men of science who have caught&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti and Morris and Arnold, have all passed the ear of the general public during the past&lt;br /&gt;
away, leaving Mr. Swinburne in exalted isolation, twenty years, and whose teachings have wrought&lt;br /&gt;
the only great poet of the nineteenth century so complete a change in the attitude of all think-&lt;br /&gt;
whom we may hope will live to carry on into the ing men toward the claims of scientific culture,&lt;br /&gt;
twentieth its glorious literary tradition. Our and the place of science in education, Mr. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
age of gold has to all seeming reached an end. Spencer alone remains to us. Darwin, Huxley,&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Stedman, who a quarter of a century and Tyndall have died, but happily they lived&lt;br /&gt;
ago recognised in the years of the Victorian long enough to witness the general acceptance of&lt;br /&gt;
reign a distinct literary period, which even then the ideas for which they fought so good a fight,&lt;br /&gt;
showed signs of drawing to a close, must himself and to be assured that the evolutionary principle&lt;br /&gt;
be a little surprised at the completeness with had won for itself the suffrages of all whose judg-&lt;br /&gt;
which his prediction has been borne out by the ment was worth having. The older school of&lt;br /&gt;
event. In the place of our major poets we have historical writing, as represented by Green and&lt;br /&gt;
now only minor ones, and the fact that we Froude, has given place to the school repre-&lt;br /&gt;
have them in larger numbers than ever before sented by Dr. Gardiner and the Bishop of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
offers us no consolation for the loss of the great The scholarship of these men is, no doubt, deeper&lt;br /&gt;
departed. Aside from Mr. Swinburne, we are and more accurate than was that of their pre-&lt;br /&gt;
compelled to point, when questioned concerning decessors, but their &ldquo; literature &rdquo; is sadly to seek&lt;br /&gt;
onr living poets, to Mr. Aubrey De Vere, Mr. and their influence consequently restricted. The&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith, Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton, general reader, with a taste for this sort of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. William Watson, Mr. writing, does not turn to the &ldquo; Select Charter,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen Phillips, Mr. W. B. Yeats, and Mr. but rather takes down from the shelf his well-&lt;br /&gt;
Rudyard Kipling. We hold these men in worn &ldquo; Short History of the English People,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
esteem, it is true, but however we may admire is not particularly concerned with the fact that&lt;br /&gt;
the delicate art of Mr. Bridges, for example, or later research has invalidated some of its posi-&lt;br /&gt;
the resonant virility of Mr. Kipling, our sense of tions. . . .&lt;br /&gt;
proportion does not permit us to set these men When we contrast the period of the sixties and&lt;br /&gt;
upon anything like the plane occupied by the seventies with the period of the eighties and nine.&lt;br /&gt;
great poets who have died since 1880. And, with ties we may realise all the difference between a&lt;br /&gt;
but few exceptions, our living poets seem to be period in which the creative imagination is at full&lt;br /&gt;
no more than &amp;quot;little sonnet-men,&lt;br /&gt;
tide and a period in which the food of genius is&lt;br /&gt;
Who fashion in a shrewd, mechanic way,&lt;br /&gt;
fast ebbing away. In the later of the two periods&lt;br /&gt;
Songs without souls that flicker for a day,&lt;br /&gt;
English literature has rounded out the great work&lt;br /&gt;
To vanish in irrevocable night.&lt;br /&gt;
of the earlier; as the great writers bave died, only&lt;br /&gt;
Prose fiction of some sort or other we have lesser ones have appeared to take their places ;&lt;br /&gt;
always with us, and the names of Mr. Meredith and many of the younger men, recognising the&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Hardy would lend distinction to any futility of any attempt to carry on the old tradi.&lt;br /&gt;
period, but the great age of the Victorian nove- tion upon its old lines, have become mere experi.&lt;br /&gt;
lists ended with the death of &ldquo;George Eliot&rdquo; menters in new moods and forms, hoping to hit&lt;br /&gt;
in 1881. ... Since her death we have also upon some promising line of new literary endea-&lt;br /&gt;
lost Lord Beaconsfield, Trollope, Black, Black- vour, but not as yet indicating with any precision&lt;br /&gt;
more, and Stevenson. When we turn to the the direction which will be taken by the move-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
13&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the coming century. This restlessness,&lt;br /&gt;
this confusion of ideals, and this uncertainty of&lt;br /&gt;
aim, are the unmistakable marks of a transition&lt;br /&gt;
period in literature. A remarkable age has&lt;br /&gt;
rounded to its close, and it is impossible to deter-&lt;br /&gt;
mine with any assurance whether the age to come&lt;br /&gt;
will be merely critical and sterile, or whether it&lt;br /&gt;
will give birth to some new creative impulse.&lt;br /&gt;
When&ldquo; R. F. C.,&amp;quot; who is writing in the inte-&lt;br /&gt;
rests of education, goes un to say that &ldquo; books&lt;br /&gt;
about boys confuse a boy&amp;#039;s mind and cripple his&lt;br /&gt;
power of distinguishing true from false; books&lt;br /&gt;
written down to his level check the growth of his&lt;br /&gt;
mind altogether&amp;quot;-we are reminded of an observa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of Sir Walter Scott on this very issue. &ldquo;I&lt;br /&gt;
rather suspect,&rdquo; he says in a footnote appended&lt;br /&gt;
to the &ldquo;Autobiography&rdquo; in 1826, &ldquo; that children&lt;br /&gt;
derive impulses of a powerful kind in hearing&lt;br /&gt;
things which they cannot entirely comprehend ;&lt;br /&gt;
and therefore, that to write down to children&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
understanding is a mistake: set them on the&lt;br /&gt;
scent, and let them puzzle it out.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CONCERNING BOOKS FOR BOYS.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
A N article on this subject was published in&lt;br /&gt;
the Guardian of May 2, in which the&lt;br /&gt;
writer (&ldquo; R. F. C.&rdquo;) remarks that &ldquo;no one&lt;br /&gt;
who has made acquaintance with the literature&lt;br /&gt;
provided for boys- especially at Christmas-can&lt;br /&gt;
fail to be struck with the extraordinary badness&lt;br /&gt;
of it.&rdquo; Even childhood is not spareu in that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; general rush for amusement which is one of&lt;br /&gt;
the worst effects of material prosperity,&amp;quot; but it is&lt;br /&gt;
when the nursery is left behind that the mischief&lt;br /&gt;
really begins to work. To keep him quiet, we&lt;br /&gt;
pack the boy off with &ldquo; half-a-dozen gaily illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated wanton misrepresentations of facts of every&lt;br /&gt;
sort,&rdquo; and his purse is tempted by those who un&lt;br /&gt;
scrupulously trade upon his simplicity with cheap&lt;br /&gt;
waggeries and sham introductions to life. Then&lt;br /&gt;
we&ldquo; proceed to wonder at the fatuity of his views&lt;br /&gt;
of life&amp;quot;:-&lt;br /&gt;
The fact is that most books for boys-apart from the&lt;br /&gt;
humorous books, which are all hopeless--are worthless for&lt;br /&gt;
one or two reasons : they are either written &ldquo; down&amp;quot; to the&lt;br /&gt;
supposed level of a boy&amp;#039;s mind, or they are written about&lt;br /&gt;
imaginary boys. This second class is worthless, because&lt;br /&gt;
books of this kind can only be made entertaining by mere&lt;br /&gt;
extravagance. Real boys are infinitely entertaining to live&lt;br /&gt;
with, infinitely dull to read about, and school life can only be&lt;br /&gt;
made eventful enough for a story by stuffing it with&lt;br /&gt;
absurdities. The only successful story of school life ever&lt;br /&gt;
written, &amp;quot;Tom Brown,&rdquo; owes its success largely to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that it is not a story at all. Of the rest, some are written&lt;br /&gt;
by those who know nothing of schools, and the result is an&lt;br /&gt;
absolately fictitions and unreal picture ; others are written&lt;br /&gt;
by schoolmasters, who draw upon their experience, and&lt;br /&gt;
these are for some unknown reason far more fictitious and&lt;br /&gt;
anreal than the former. Boys know all this perfectly well,&lt;br /&gt;
of course, and read these books merely for the sake of the&lt;br /&gt;
chapter-sure to come sooner or later-in which some&lt;br /&gt;
unhappy pedagogue makes a fool of himself, if not accord.&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the author&amp;#039;s intention, yet surely according to the&lt;br /&gt;
reader&amp;#039;s understanding. Never give a boy books written&lt;br /&gt;
about boys, unless they were not intended for boys to read.&lt;br /&gt;
The knowledge of the combined demand of the boy who&lt;br /&gt;
wants to pass an idle hour, and the immoral elder who&lt;br /&gt;
wants to bribe him to do it, is too much for the average&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s sense of responsibility. Any trash will do, and he&lt;br /&gt;
writes any trash ; and if there is a football match and a&lt;br /&gt;
scholarship competition (with the hero accused of cheating)&lt;br /&gt;
add &amp;amp; score or two off &amp;amp; master or two, the book will be&lt;br /&gt;
praised and the author will-alas! the day--go home and&lt;br /&gt;
write another just like it.&lt;br /&gt;
[By an unfortunate accident the greater part of &ldquo; Book&lt;br /&gt;
and Play Talk&amp;quot; has been mislaid too late to allow of its&lt;br /&gt;
being rewritten.!&lt;br /&gt;
THE completion of the &ldquo; Dictionary of&lt;br /&gt;
National Biography&rdquo; will be celebrated at&lt;br /&gt;
- the Mansion House, London, on June 29,&lt;br /&gt;
when the proprietors, the editor, and a number of&lt;br /&gt;
the contributors to the great work will be the&lt;br /&gt;
guests of the Lord Mayor at luncheon.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Marsh&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Ada Vern-&lt;br /&gt;
ham, Actress,&amp;quot; on which he has been engaged&lt;br /&gt;
for over two years, will be ready for publication&lt;br /&gt;
on June 1. It will be published by Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
Long.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur W. &agrave; Beckett, who has already&lt;br /&gt;
filled the offices of Deputy-Chairman, Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary, and Chairman of the London District&lt;br /&gt;
of the Institute of Journalists, has been nomi-&lt;br /&gt;
nated by the council of that body President for&lt;br /&gt;
the year 1900-01. The institute holds its con-&lt;br /&gt;
gress in London in September next. Sir Hugh&lt;br /&gt;
Gilzean-Reid, Lord Glenesk, Sir Edward Law.&lt;br /&gt;
son, Sir John Willox, Sir Edward Russell, Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Wemyss Reid, and Sir James Henderson have&lt;br /&gt;
served as presidents of the Institute of Jour-&lt;br /&gt;
nalists since the date of its incorporation by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Ferrar Fenton has in the Press a new&lt;br /&gt;
version of his &ldquo; New Testament in Modern&lt;br /&gt;
English,&rdquo; which is an improved translation, with&lt;br /&gt;
critical notes, to supersede his former popular&lt;br /&gt;
issues of St. Paul&amp;#039;s Epistles and the Gospels in&lt;br /&gt;
current English. This new version will make,&lt;br /&gt;
with the American edition, 14,000 copies of the&lt;br /&gt;
New Testament and the 16.00oth of the Pauline&lt;br /&gt;
Epistles of his versions. The work has been&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted in both England and the United&lt;br /&gt;
States. Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son, of&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 14 (#30) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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14&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Temple House, Temple Avenue, London, will be I have written some successful books, I will&lt;br /&gt;
the British publishers, and Messrs. H. 0. not mention on what subjects, suffice to say they&lt;br /&gt;
Houghton and Co., Cambridge, Mass., Boston, were not novels. After the last one had run into&lt;br /&gt;
and New York, in America, for the translator. several editions my good friend and shepherd&lt;br /&gt;
Those interested in opera, especially in the asked me if I would suggest a subject that had&lt;br /&gt;
present season at Covent Garden, will read with not been written to death, and what my terms&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure a special issue of the London Musical would be for a similar book.&lt;br /&gt;
Courier, which contains photographs of all the&lt;br /&gt;
I did mention a subject and terms, and as&lt;br /&gt;
artists engaged. biographical sketches, stories of luckily I am not compelled by force of circum.&lt;br /&gt;
the operas, and many other interesting features.&lt;br /&gt;
stances to accept thankfully &ldquo;the crumbs that&lt;br /&gt;
fall from the rich man&amp;#039;s table,&rdquo; these terms were&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Coulson Kernahan&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
based on lines so long and so ably laid down&lt;br /&gt;
Avenging of Ruthanna,&rdquo; on which she has been&lt;br /&gt;
by The Author, and were distinctly fair as&lt;br /&gt;
engaged for the last year, was published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
between one business man and another. A few&lt;br /&gt;
John Long at the end of May.&lt;br /&gt;
days after I received a letter saying he could not&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bernard Shaw&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo; You Never Can possibly agree to the terms mentioned, and pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Tell,&rdquo; was so well received at the recent matin&eacute;e posing others, but as I could perceive through&lt;br /&gt;
performances that it may be produced again for them the &ldquo; cloven foot&rdquo; suggesting the possi.&lt;br /&gt;
a short run in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
bility of inflated cost of production, corrections,&lt;br /&gt;
advertising, cataloging, et h&aelig;c genus omnes, and&lt;br /&gt;
as a &ldquo;burnt child dreads the fire,&rdquo; I declined&lt;br /&gt;
them.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
About eighteen months after, I was surprised&lt;br /&gt;
to see a book advertised by this firm, on exactly&lt;br /&gt;
1.&mdash;THE READING BRANCH-A SUGGESTION.&lt;br /&gt;
the subject suggested by me, from the pen of that&lt;br /&gt;
well-known writer, Mr. L. Hack.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE remarks made by Mr. Pinero at the&lt;br /&gt;
Now, I do not blame Mr. Hack. who has bis&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s dinner the other night on the&lt;br /&gt;
living to get, and is often a rather clever fellow;&lt;br /&gt;
brotherly relations which should exist&lt;br /&gt;
but in this case it required a particular and special&lt;br /&gt;
between author and dramatist possessed a peculiar&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge to write an acceptable book that would&lt;br /&gt;
interest for many of us. It was significant that our&lt;br /&gt;
sell, and this knowledge the writer did not&lt;br /&gt;
leading playwright should have been asked and&lt;br /&gt;
possess.&lt;br /&gt;
should have consented to preside on that occasion,&lt;br /&gt;
On looking it over, I found it was chiefly a&lt;br /&gt;
and especially so when taken in conjunction with&lt;br /&gt;
r&eacute;chauff&eacute; of old material, extracts from journals,&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that a dramatists&amp;#039; committee has been&lt;br /&gt;
with a top-dressing of more or less original matter,&lt;br /&gt;
recently appointed by the Society. May I sug.&lt;br /&gt;
the whole being almost useless for the readers for&lt;br /&gt;
gest that a still further step be taken in this&lt;br /&gt;
whom it was intended.&lt;br /&gt;
direction? The reading of authors&amp;#039; MSS., which&lt;br /&gt;
The result was that when the book was pub-&lt;br /&gt;
is such a useful branch of the Society&amp;#039;s work,&lt;br /&gt;
lished, it fell with a &ldquo;sickening thud,&rdquo; and very&lt;br /&gt;
might be extended to include plays submitted by&lt;br /&gt;
few copies were sold. The publisher will doubtless&lt;br /&gt;
members, the fee charged to vary according to&lt;br /&gt;
suffer a loss in this case, but most people will&lt;br /&gt;
the number of acts.&lt;br /&gt;
agree, I think, that it served him right under the&lt;br /&gt;
At present, whilst the writers of books have&lt;br /&gt;
circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
many ways of testing the merits of their works,&lt;br /&gt;
In case some may think I tell this little tale&lt;br /&gt;
the would-be playwright has no one to whom he&lt;br /&gt;
out of pique, I can assure them it is not so, as my&lt;br /&gt;
can turn for advice. A competent opinion on the&lt;br /&gt;
literary vanity has been satiated long ago, and I&lt;br /&gt;
faults of one&amp;#039;s style and on one&amp;#039;s aptitude (or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise) for playwriting would be a great hoon&lt;br /&gt;
can readily get rid of all the work I have the time&lt;br /&gt;
to perpetrate.&lt;br /&gt;
to many who, whilst recognising fully the diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
Moral.&mdash;Never communicate your ideas unless&lt;br /&gt;
culties to which Mr. Pinero referred, are anxious&lt;br /&gt;
to learn by criticism as well as practice.&lt;br /&gt;
you are sure of your man. A. PENN-WYPER.&lt;br /&gt;
- H. A. SPURR.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;WELCOME.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-Hoist WITH HIS Own PETARD.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of us who read Mr. Robert H. Sherard&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
I cannot say I grieve very deeply when the mournful tribute to the memory of Ernest Dowson&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;sharp&rdquo; publisher is overtaken by a Nemesis of must have exclaimed : &ldquo;If I had only known.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
his own creating--but he occasionally is, as the The words certainly rose to my lips when I&lt;br /&gt;
following incident will illustrate.&lt;br /&gt;
learned that we must have been living within a&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 15 (#31) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
15&lt;br /&gt;
few streets of the dead man at a time when he&lt;br /&gt;
sorely needed help. To think that such help&lt;br /&gt;
was withheld is bitter. It is just those evils for&lt;br /&gt;
which no one in particular is responsible that&lt;br /&gt;
makes life unendurable. At the present moment&lt;br /&gt;
there may be other Ernest Dowsons living lonely&lt;br /&gt;
and unrecognised in London. I should like to&lt;br /&gt;
tell them that if they care to make acquaintance&lt;br /&gt;
with strangers who would like to be friends they&lt;br /&gt;
will always be welcome at our house. As I am a&lt;br /&gt;
journalist and novelist it goes without saying we&lt;br /&gt;
are not rich, but we love the things they love.&lt;br /&gt;
Though we cannot offer substantial material aid&lt;br /&gt;
we can at least extend a hearty and sympathetic&lt;br /&gt;
hospitality. If any genuine literary workers,&lt;br /&gt;
whether men or women, care to accept this very&lt;br /&gt;
informal invitation for themselves, or wish to&lt;br /&gt;
recommend others, I shall be glad to hear from&lt;br /&gt;
them. Enclosing my name and address, but not&lt;br /&gt;
for publication, and trusting you will be good&lt;br /&gt;
enough to forward letters,&lt;br /&gt;
Card Mille FailthE.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
rhyme and grammar observed in the &amp;#039;Canterbury Tales &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
wherewith to test the authorship of any doubtfal poem.&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is the new part of the book. For the rest it&lt;br /&gt;
is a clear and convenient sommary of investigations made&lt;br /&gt;
by the author and other Chancerian scholars, each as&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Lounsbury.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, by&lt;br /&gt;
the Right Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, the Lord Bishop&lt;br /&gt;
of England (Murray, 68.), is an &ldquo;admirable volame,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
tbe Daily Chronicle, and ought to have a very wide circu.&lt;br /&gt;
lation.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is a human touch throughout, for which&lt;br /&gt;
we commonly look in vain in ecclesiastical history. The&lt;br /&gt;
Bishop recognises that the Church of each age is largely the&lt;br /&gt;
child of the age.&rdquo; &ldquo;He has the true judicial spirit,&rdquo; says.&lt;br /&gt;
the Morning Post, and the book &ldquo; can do nothing but good&lt;br /&gt;
wherever it is read.&rdquo; &ldquo;One would almost call it a history&lt;br /&gt;
of Christianity in England.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
DOCTRINE AND DOCTRINAL DISRUPTION, by W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Mallock (Black, 78. 6d. net), is described in the sub-title as&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;an Examination of the Intellectual Position of the Church&lt;br /&gt;
of England.&rdquo; It is described by the Guardian as having&lt;br /&gt;
been written in the interests of the Church of Rome ; &amp;quot;Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mallock&amp;#039;s own position appears to us to be freely open to&lt;br /&gt;
criticism of just the same character as that which he delights&lt;br /&gt;
to pass on the position of Anglicans ; and when he comes&lt;br /&gt;
to demolish their several authorities we cannot help feeling&lt;br /&gt;
that sometimes his argument recoils on his own head.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Expository Times says it is possible that Mr. Mallook &ldquo;has.&lt;br /&gt;
written a book that will make the ears of all that hear it&lt;br /&gt;
tingle.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle pays a tribute to the author&lt;br /&gt;
as &ldquo; a brilliant controversialist.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCE SINCE 1814, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin&lt;br /&gt;
(Chapman, 68.), is &ldquo;interesting reading,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraph, &amp;quot;for anyone who can appreciate an unbiassed&lt;br /&gt;
and level-headed criticism of French political history daring&lt;br /&gt;
the past eighty-five years.&rdquo; &ldquo;To some of us,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &amp;quot; the solidarity of modern French political his-&lt;br /&gt;
tory, which M. de Coubertin makes the chief point of bie&lt;br /&gt;
book, seems so deeply hidden ander surface turmoil as to be&lt;br /&gt;
almost an unreal thing. He goes far towards convincing&lt;br /&gt;
us, however.&rdquo; He unfolds the kaleidoscopic tale, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;in a brief compass, and with a pen that&lt;br /&gt;
is always lucid and often brilliant.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND FROM THE ROMAN OCCUPA.&lt;br /&gt;
TION, by Andrew Lang (Blackwood, Vol. I. 158.) is pro-&lt;br /&gt;
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made of recent specialist research, the most complete.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Spectator, also, says that &ldquo;Mr. Lang has not written&lt;br /&gt;
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than this.&rdquo; While it &ldquo; does not compete with Hill Burton&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
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bear upon both the War of Independence and matters&lt;br /&gt;
ecclesiastical.&amp;#039;&rdquo; The period covered by the first volume&lt;br /&gt;
ends with the death of Cardinal Beaton; &amp;quot;and throngh-&lt;br /&gt;
out the period,&rdquo; says the Guardian, &ldquo;it will be emi.&lt;br /&gt;
nently gratifying to the Scot to find what will appear&lt;br /&gt;
to him a complete vindication of the anti-English atti-&lt;br /&gt;
tude.&rdquo; &ldquo;Politically, the historian&amp;#039;s sympathies are&lt;br /&gt;
manifestly and not unjustly on the side of Beaton and the&lt;br /&gt;
old Church.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
HERBERT SPENCER : His LIFE AND WORK, by Hector&lt;br /&gt;
Macpherson (Chapman, 58. net), &ldquo;interesting and sug-&lt;br /&gt;
gestive,&rdquo; according to the Daily Telegraph, &ldquo;is to be&lt;br /&gt;
commended,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot;alike to those who&lt;br /&gt;
know Mr. Spencer&amp;#039;s works and to those who know them not.&lt;br /&gt;
The one class will find refreshment to the memory in the&lt;br /&gt;
clear, coherent, and accurate abstract which it supplies;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR John CHARLES MOL-&lt;br /&gt;
TENO, by P. A. Molteno (Smith, Elder and Co., 208.), intro&lt;br /&gt;
duces the English reader to South Africa before the age of&lt;br /&gt;
gold, for Sir John Molteno&amp;#039;s political career ended in 1882.&lt;br /&gt;
He was the first Prime Minister at the Cape. The work is,&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo; &amp;amp; gallant and successfal effort to&lt;br /&gt;
preserve bis memory and vindicate his policy.&rdquo; It is &amp;quot;not&lt;br /&gt;
a memoir, but a history.&rdquo; &ldquo;Those parts of the book which&lt;br /&gt;
deal with the Confederation schemes are,&rdquo; says the Spectator,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; of permanent interest.&rdquo; &ldquo;On the whole, Mr. Molteno&lt;br /&gt;
writes with marked fairness.&rdquo; Literature states that the&lt;br /&gt;
work &ldquo; cannot be ignored by any careful student of South&lt;br /&gt;
African history-though it would sadly mislead a student&lt;br /&gt;
who studied nothing else.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON TO LADYSMITH, VIA PRETORIA, by Winston&lt;br /&gt;
Spencer Churchill (Longmans, 6s.), contains, says the Times,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;a very vivid and interesting diary of the war in Natal.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Churcbill&amp;#039;s style, says the Daily News, &amp;quot; is as lively as&lt;br /&gt;
bis experiences have been.&rdquo; &ldquo;In all the correspondence&lt;br /&gt;
that bas come from South Africa,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; there is nothing better than bis story of the wrecking of&lt;br /&gt;
the armoured train, the journey of its captured crew to the&lt;br /&gt;
Transvaal, the life of the prisoners at Pretoria, and the&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s escape.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHAUCER CANON, by the Rev. Professor W. Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat (Clarendon Press, 38. 6d. net), &amp;quot;distinguisbes clearly,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
gays Literature, &ldquo;between the genuine works of the poet&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
pioneer in the literature of Provence. &ldquo;And we can testify&lt;br /&gt;
from our examination of his work (As well as from the&lt;br /&gt;
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HURRAH FOR THE LIFE OF A SAILOR (Blackwood, 128. 6d.)&lt;br /&gt;
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THE DISENCHANTMENT OF NURSE DOROTHY (Skeffing-&lt;br /&gt;
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and possesses considerable literary ability.&rdquo; Her book is&lt;br /&gt;
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OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
the other class will find it an excellent introduction to the&lt;br /&gt;
dozen volumes in which the Doctrine of Evolution is&lt;br /&gt;
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if not exactly brilliant, specimen of the modern novel of&lt;br /&gt;
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It is a pleasant romance-running, it is true, on more or less&lt;br /&gt;
hackneyed lines&mdash;yet refreshingly unusual in its types and&lt;br /&gt;
conditions. The loveless mariage de convenance, ending,&lt;br /&gt;
not in disaster, bat, owing to the nobility of soul of the wife&lt;br /&gt;
and the uprightness of the husband, in real love : this is the&lt;br /&gt;
main theme of the book, but it is pleasantly diversified by&lt;br /&gt;
character-study and incident.&amp;quot; The figure of the American&lt;br /&gt;
heiress, says the Daily Telegraph,&amp;quot; is as convincing as it is&lt;br /&gt;
attraclive and pathetic. This particular cbaracter is, in&lt;br /&gt;
fact, as good in its way as anything that has appeared&lt;br /&gt;
recently in the realms of novel-writing.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The characters&lt;br /&gt;
are real,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;and the dialogue always&lt;br /&gt;
easy and natural.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE WEST END, by Percy Wbite (Sands, 68.), is a&lt;br /&gt;
novel dealing with the ways and works of &ldquo;smart&rdquo; men&lt;br /&gt;
and women. The principal obaracter is a millionaire&lt;br /&gt;
maker of jam, who determines upon the conquest of&lt;br /&gt;
society. The Daily Chronicle speaks of the book as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; in the main a criticism of society, wherein we have&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Percy White&amp;#039;s genuine gifts of observation, pene-&lt;br /&gt;
trating, but not entirely unsympathetic, and his satirical&lt;br /&gt;
reflection, trenchant, but not all unkindly.&rdquo; The Spectator&lt;br /&gt;
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a high rank when compared with the average novel of&lt;br /&gt;
the day.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
NELL GWYN, COMEDIAN, by F. Frankfort Moore&lt;br /&gt;
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entertaining, though superficial, sketch of life and manners&lt;br /&gt;
at the Court of the Restoration.&rdquo; &ldquo; The most attractive and&lt;br /&gt;
best-done portrait-sketoh in the volume,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, &ldquo;is that of the Duchess of Marlborough while yet&lt;br /&gt;
she was Miss Sarah Jennings.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BATH COMEDY, by Agnes and Egerton Castle (Mac.&lt;br /&gt;
millan, 6s.), is described by the Spectator as &ldquo;a very lively&lt;br /&gt;
and entertaining comedy.&amp;quot; Literature says it is as &ldquo; viva-&lt;br /&gt;
cions a story as anyone could wish to read.&rdquo; The scene is&lt;br /&gt;
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tator, &ldquo;oat of the stratagem resorted to by Mrs. Kitty&lt;br /&gt;
Bellairs, a sprightly widow, to effect a reconciliation between&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Jasper Standish and his too-adoring wife, a bride of&lt;br /&gt;
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taining comedy of the artificial yet artistic sort.&rdquo; &ldquo; It is a&lt;br /&gt;
sanny book,&amp;quot; says the Literary World, &ldquo; daintily written,&lt;br /&gt;
constructed with the artifice that the comedy of manners&lt;br /&gt;
requires.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
FROM VELDT CAMP FIREB, by H. A. Bryden (Horst and&lt;br /&gt;
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at the present moment when the interest of everyone is&lt;br /&gt;
centred upon tbat part of the world. Mr. Bryden knows&lt;br /&gt;
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the whole his opinion of the Transvaal Boer would not&lt;br /&gt;
appear to be an unfavourable one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE TROUBADOURS AT HOME, by Justin H. Smith&lt;br /&gt;
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