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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
FROM THE COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
Ta meeting of the Committee held on Monday,&lt;br /&gt;
| May 12th, it was decided to close the office&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society on Saturday, June 28th-&lt;br /&gt;
the Saturday following the Coronation holidays.&lt;br /&gt;
The sanction of the editors has been in many&lt;br /&gt;
cases obtained to the form and substance of the&lt;br /&gt;
insertion, and where this is the case a note to that&lt;br /&gt;
effect has been appended.&lt;br /&gt;
Three hundred copies of the revised edition&lt;br /&gt;
have been printed, and are now for sale at the&lt;br /&gt;
offices of the Society. The price is 6d. a cops.&lt;br /&gt;
As the pamphlet cannot fail to be of use to all&lt;br /&gt;
those who contribute to magazines, the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
trust there will be no difficulty in disposing of this&lt;br /&gt;
number.&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Committee consider that the time has now&lt;br /&gt;
arrived to make a full statement of their action&lt;br /&gt;
with regard to Canadian copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
They take this step as there appears to be mis-&lt;br /&gt;
understanding of their position by certain trade&lt;br /&gt;
associations in Canada which are not in sympathy&lt;br /&gt;
with certain aspects of the Imperial view of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright question.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the refusal of the Canadian Government to&lt;br /&gt;
collect the royalties under the Foreign Reprints&lt;br /&gt;
Act, and since the passing of the Canadian Act of&lt;br /&gt;
1900, an Act which gives to the Canadian pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher security of contract when trading with the&lt;br /&gt;
English author, the Committee have advocated no&lt;br /&gt;
alteration in the status quo.&lt;br /&gt;
It was in order to place before the Canadian&lt;br /&gt;
authorities the views of the Committee, and in&lt;br /&gt;
order to throw the weight of the Society&amp;#039;s in-&lt;br /&gt;
fluence on the side of a just and liberal policy,&lt;br /&gt;
as opposed to the narrow trade issue of a printing&lt;br /&gt;
clause, that the Committee sent Mr. Thring, the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society, to Canada in 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
His efforts were advantageously forwarded by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Gilbert Parker, a member of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Society Committee, and in 1900 an Act was&lt;br /&gt;
passed which effectually secured those points for&lt;br /&gt;
which the Committee had been struggling.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee desire a free and untrammelled&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, unbampered by trade restrictions of&lt;br /&gt;
printing, licensing, and Government-collected&lt;br /&gt;
royalties. Firstly, for the benefit of Canadians&lt;br /&gt;
and Canadian literature, and, secondly, for the&lt;br /&gt;
protection of the property of the authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
United Kingdom and the Empire at large.&lt;br /&gt;
To put forward anything else would be in the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of a system of copyright legislation&lt;br /&gt;
destructive to international agreement, and&lt;br /&gt;
analogous to the legislation of the 18th century,&lt;br /&gt;
prior to the existence of any international agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment with regard to copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
The Work of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the last issue of The Author, the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
has dealt with ten cases.&lt;br /&gt;
Of these, five referred to the return of MSS.,&lt;br /&gt;
two were claims for money, one for breach of&lt;br /&gt;
contract, and two for the rendering of accounts.&lt;br /&gt;
Of the cases taken up in previous months there are&lt;br /&gt;
still four unsettled. Of these, three claims are for&lt;br /&gt;
money due ; but as two are against a bankrupt&lt;br /&gt;
magazine, it is probable that the authors will&lt;br /&gt;
obtain nothing. The third case is in course of&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory settlement, and a substantial offer has&lt;br /&gt;
been obtained from the other side.&lt;br /&gt;
Three of the cases taken in hand during the&lt;br /&gt;
past month have already terminated in favour of&lt;br /&gt;
the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the beginning of the year, eighty-nine&lt;br /&gt;
members and associates have been elected to the&lt;br /&gt;
Society. The last election registered eleven&lt;br /&gt;
members and five associates.&lt;br /&gt;
Besant Memorial.&lt;br /&gt;
The Besant Memorial now stands as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
Up to the end of February subscrip-&lt;br /&gt;
tions were received, according to the&lt;br /&gt;
long list already issued, amounting to. &pound;293 4 0&lt;br /&gt;
During the months of March, April,&lt;br /&gt;
and May the subscriptions received&lt;br /&gt;
amounted to . . . . . 31 11 6&lt;br /&gt;
Total ... &pound;324 15 6&lt;br /&gt;
Subscriptions received during March and April.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous . . . . . &pound;1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Champneys, Basil .&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Colonia,&rdquo; Natal, S. Africa&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Fife Cookson, Lt.-Col. F. C.&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Gunter, Lt.-Col. E. A. .&lt;br /&gt;
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Harding, Capt. Claud, R.N.&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Hurry, A. . .&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 6&lt;br /&gt;
Keary, C. F. (amount not to be men-&lt;br /&gt;
tioned)&lt;br /&gt;
Kinns, The Rev. Samuel, D.D. . . . ā 0&lt;br /&gt;
Magazines and Contributors.&lt;br /&gt;
THE inset in the January number of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author, entitled &ldquo;Periodicals and their contri.&lt;br /&gt;
butors,&amp;quot; has been considerably enlarged and&lt;br /&gt;
republished by order of the Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
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&bull; 1 ( 0) expects to get it finished in preliminary form, and&lt;br /&gt;
Quiller Couch, Miss M.&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0 the first pripting done, sometime in June. It will&lt;br /&gt;
Sterry, J. Ashby .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0 then undergo two different revisions -one for each&lt;br /&gt;
Temple, Lieut.-Col. R. C.&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0 number as it comes out, and the other before it&lt;br /&gt;
Underdown, Miss E.&lt;br /&gt;
0 - 0 finally appears in book form.&lt;br /&gt;
Lockyer, Sir T. Norman&lt;br /&gt;
2 2 A translation of &amp;quot; Eleanor&rdquo; is appearing as the&lt;br /&gt;
Beale, Miss Mary .&lt;br /&gt;
0 2 feuilleton in the Giornale d&amp;#039;Italia. It is at&lt;br /&gt;
Bolam, Rev. C. E. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0 present uncertain when the dramatised version of&lt;br /&gt;
Egbert, Henry . .&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
* Eleanor&rdquo; will be produced.&lt;br /&gt;
16 Floone&amp;quot; willen&lt;br /&gt;
Eccles, Miss O&amp;#039;Connor&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur Morrison&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Hole in&lt;br /&gt;
Darwin, Francis .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
the Wall,&rdquo; is to be published in the autumn. by&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell-Montgomery, Miss F. F. 1. 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen &amp;amp; Co., and in America by&lt;br /&gt;
Medlecott, Cecil&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 6&lt;br /&gt;
Maclure, Phillips &amp;amp; Co. It is a story of London&lt;br /&gt;
Saxby, Mrs. .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
life. The scene is laid in Wapping and Ratcliff&lt;br /&gt;
Caine, T. H. Hall .&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Highway, with the docks and river, about thirty-&lt;br /&gt;
Marris, Miss Murrell&lt;br /&gt;
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five years ago, when that neighbourhood was one of&lt;br /&gt;
S. B.&lt;br /&gt;
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the most picturesque in the world, despite its squalor.&lt;br /&gt;
Bloomfield, J. H. .&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
F. 0. B. (Coventry).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fuel of&lt;br /&gt;
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Fire,&amp;quot; Miss Ellen Thorneycroft&lt;br /&gt;
Seton-Karr, H. W..&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler&amp;#039;s new novel, is to be published in book&lt;br /&gt;
Heriot, Cheyne&lt;br /&gt;
( 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
form at 6s. next October, by Messrs. Hodder and&lt;br /&gt;
Charley, Sir W. T.,&lt;br /&gt;
. 1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Louis Zangwill has been working at a long&lt;br /&gt;
novel entitled &ldquo;One&amp;#039;s Womenkind,&rdquo; which will&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK,&lt;br /&gt;
probably be published in the autuin.&lt;br /&gt;
There is a strong article in the May number of&lt;br /&gt;
The New Liberal Review by Mr. I, Zangwill under&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CYEVEN Years&amp;#039; Legislation &amp;quot; is the title given&lt;br /&gt;
the title &ldquo; Why Jews Succeed.&rdquo; He begins by&lt;br /&gt;
O by Mr. J. M. Lely to the just published&lt;br /&gt;
saying, &ldquo;I welcome the task of answering this&lt;br /&gt;
supplemental and fourteenth volume of the&lt;br /&gt;
question, Why Jews Succeed, if only for the&lt;br /&gt;
fifth edition of &ldquo; Chitty&amp;#039;s Statutes of Practical&lt;br /&gt;
opportunity of explaining that they do not.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Utility&rdquo; (Sweet &amp;amp; Maxwell, Limited ; Stevens &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Sons, Limited). It contains more than two hundred&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Huntly Skrine, Warden of Glenalmond,&lt;br /&gt;
and author of &amp;quot;A Memory of Edward Thring,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Acts, from 1895 to 1901, both inclusive.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Joan the Maid,&rdquo; etc., etc., has just published a&lt;br /&gt;
The Acts selected and annotated include the&lt;br /&gt;
volume entitled &ldquo;Pastor Agnorum : A School-&lt;br /&gt;
Friendly Societies Act, 1896 ; the Workmen&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
master&amp;#039;s Afterthoughts&rdquo; (Longmans, 58. net).&lt;br /&gt;
Compensation Acts of 1897 and 1900 ; the Bene-&lt;br /&gt;
fices Act, the Criminal Evidence Act, and the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Foster Fraser&amp;#039;s new work, &ldquo; The Real&lt;br /&gt;
Vaccination Act of 1898; the London Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
Siberia,&rdquo; has just been published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
ment Act of 1899; the Commonwealth of Australia&lt;br /&gt;
Cassell &amp;amp; Co. It contains eighty-seven illustra-&lt;br /&gt;
Constitution Act : the Companies Act, and the tions from photographs.&lt;br /&gt;
Agricultural Holdings Act of 1900 ; and the Civil The serial rights of Mr. G. S. Layard&amp;#039;s novel.&lt;br /&gt;
List Act of 1901. The work is a consolidation, &amp;quot;Rupert the Mummer,&amp;quot; have been purchased by&lt;br /&gt;
with additional notes up to date, of the seven Messrs. Pearson.&lt;br /&gt;
annual issues which followed the publication of the Miss Jetta S. Wolff, author of &ldquo;Les Fran&ccedil;ais&lt;br /&gt;
fiſth edition in 1894.&lt;br /&gt;
en M&eacute;nage,&rdquo; &ldquo;Les Fran&ccedil;ais en Voyage,&amp;quot; etc., etc.,&lt;br /&gt;
In the Preface attention is drawn to the curious and of the recently-published novel, &ldquo;No Place&lt;br /&gt;
facts that the Ballot Act and about 100 other Acts for Her,&amp;quot; has just brought out a third volume of&lt;br /&gt;
are still temporary only; and that our twice- the series illustrative of French life and language.&lt;br /&gt;
revised Statute Book still treats Calais as part of It gives a succession of scenes from child-life in&lt;br /&gt;
England, still consigns perjurers to the pillory (to France, under the title &ldquo;Fran&ccedil;ais pour les tous-&lt;br /&gt;
which they are to have both their ears pailed), and petits.&rdquo; Like the preceding volumes, it is&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday traders to the stocks; and is still in admirably illustrated by Mr. W. Foster (Edward&lt;br /&gt;
various other ways strangely in conflict with Arnold, is.).&lt;br /&gt;
modern legislative views.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey&amp;#039;s new novel is to be&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Humphry Ward is still at work on her new published in the autumn by Messrs. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
novel, &ldquo; Lady Rose&amp;#039;s Daughter,&rdquo; which has begun The same publishers have just issued a sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
to appear in Harper&amp;#039;s this month. Mrs. Ward edition of Miss Carey&amp;#039;s first novel, &ldquo; Nettie&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ixpenny seringillan, and added een purchased by&lt;br /&gt;
Memories.&rdquo; It has been abridged by Miss H. M. Queen,&rdquo; published by Mr. Edward Arnold, bas&lt;br /&gt;
Burnside, the poetess.&lt;br /&gt;
just been produced by Messrs. Appleton &amp;amp; Co. in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Other People&amp;#039;s Lives,&amp;quot; another of Miss Carey&amp;#039;s America. The New York Press have given it&lt;br /&gt;
novels, which was formerly in the hands of Messrs. good reviews.&lt;br /&gt;
Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton, has been p:irchased by In a recent interview (&amp;quot; The Young Man &amp;quot;) Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Macmillan, and added to the three-and- Garnett speaks hopefully of the literary future.&lt;br /&gt;
sixpenny series of Miss Carey&amp;#039;s works.&lt;br /&gt;
He does not think that there is any decline in the&lt;br /&gt;
In her new novel, &ldquo; The Blood Tax: A Military proportion of students of the best literature. The&lt;br /&gt;
Romance,&rdquo; Dorothea Gerard deals with the spread of culture is preparing the taste of the&lt;br /&gt;
question of conscription. The authoress, whose people for something better, and the demand for&lt;br /&gt;
real name is Madame Longard de Longgarde, is higher quality will produce those capable of satisfs-&lt;br /&gt;
the wife of an Austrian officer, and as such she ing the demand. The writers of to-day are paving&lt;br /&gt;
has had special opportunities of studying the&lt;br /&gt;
opportunities of studying the the way for the approach of a grander and more&lt;br /&gt;
various Continental military systems at close&lt;br /&gt;
brilliant literature than has hitherto been known.&lt;br /&gt;
quarters. Messrs. Hutchinson &amp;amp; Co. are the Miss Mary Cholmondeley has nearly completed&lt;br /&gt;
publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
a new novel. Miss Cholmondeley is a most pains-&lt;br /&gt;
- &ldquo; The Night Side of London,&amp;quot; by Mr. Robert taking writer, every sentence being carefully&lt;br /&gt;
Machray, consists of a series of sketches describing weighed, and if necessary rewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
London night life, and it is illustrated with about The first edition of Mr. Aylmer Maude&amp;#039;s book,&lt;br /&gt;
a hundred original pictures by Tom Browne, &ldquo;Tolstoy and His Problems,&amp;quot; has been out of print&lt;br /&gt;
R.I., R.B.A.&lt;br /&gt;
for some time. A second and cheaper edition will&lt;br /&gt;
This book has been in preparation for more shortly be issued by Mr. Grant Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
than a year, and is a faithful record by pen and Mr. Richard Whiteing has written an introduc-&lt;br /&gt;
pencil of things seen in London at night during tion for the new edition of &ldquo; No. 5, John Street,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1901&mdash;2. There is an &eacute;dition de lure at one which Mr. Grant Richards is issuing as the first&lt;br /&gt;
guinea. The price of the popular edition - the volume of a new three-and-sixpenny series of&lt;br /&gt;
first impression consists of 10,000 copies&mdash;is 6s. select novels. The volume has been re-set from&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Macqueen is the English publisher, and fresh type.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Lippincott are publishing it in America. We must not expect to see any drama from the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert Cromie has published, through pen of Mr. Sydney Grundy produced this season.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Digby, Long &amp;amp; Co., a romance called &ldquo;Pilkerton&amp;#039;s Peerage&rdquo; will be withdrawn at the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; A New Messiah.&rdquo; The story is crowded with Garrick on June 6th. Mr. Arthur Bourchier will&lt;br /&gt;
exciting incidents. Mr. Cromie is known as the produce a new comedy by Mrs. Craigie and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
author of &ldquo;The Crack of Doom,&rdquo;. &ldquo;Kitty&amp;#039;s Murray Carson, called &ldquo; The Bishop&amp;#039;s Move.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Victoria Cross,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Plunge into Space,&rdquo; etc., etc.&lt;br /&gt;
Early in October Messrs. Marlborough &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
will publish a companion or supplement to Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
guide-books, entitled, &ldquo;Hints for Travellers in the LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
Near East.&rdquo; It is written by Mr. E. A. Reynolds-&lt;br /&gt;
PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Ball, and it will contain all kinds of practical&lt;br /&gt;
advice, hints, maxims, wrinkles (exploring, sport-&lt;br /&gt;
Reduction of Postage on Authors&amp;#039; MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
ing, medical, etc.), likely to be of use to those&lt;br /&gt;
travelling in Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt,&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN, writing from the standpoint of&lt;br /&gt;
Palestine, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and the Levant.&lt;br /&gt;
a patriot and an Imperialist, brought forward&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Horrors at Holmlands,&amp;quot; by J. Harris Brig.&lt;br /&gt;
this question in The Author&mdash;the question&lt;br /&gt;
of reduced postage on MSS. From other motives&lt;br /&gt;
house, a member of our Society, is a short,&lt;br /&gt;
the American Authors&amp;#039; Society has prepared and&lt;br /&gt;
exciting tale in pamphlet form. The mysteries&lt;br /&gt;
brought forward a Bill before Congress. It has been&lt;br /&gt;
have, we understand, a scientific solution.&lt;br /&gt;
introduced by the Hon. Amos J. Cumming, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hamilton A&iuml;dė&amp;#039;s new volume is a collection referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post&lt;br /&gt;
of seven little plays, called &ldquo;We are Seven : Half Roads.&lt;br /&gt;
Hours on the Stage, Grave and Gay.&rdquo; One of The American Author says :&lt;br /&gt;
these little pieces has been acted by Madame &ldquo; Perhaps there is nothing in which writers are so uni-&lt;br /&gt;
Sarah Bernhardt; another has been played by versally interested as in this movement. The lengthening&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Kendal, and another by Madame Modjeska. of the duration of copyright appeals only to the few who&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Murray is the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
have been long in the field, and who tind the period of&lt;br /&gt;
forty-two years insufficient for the full realisation of profit&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Theodora Wilson - Wilson&amp;#039;s &ldquo; T&amp;#039;Bacca from their classic productions, and to those who hope their&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
217&lt;br /&gt;
efforts may live to be classic for the benefit of their the very essence of this case, that has been con-&lt;br /&gt;
descendants.&lt;br /&gt;
stantly brought before the members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; It is the young writer particularly who sees the fruit of :&lt;br /&gt;
his toil eaten up, often before it is earned, by the amount&lt;br /&gt;
in other forms and with a bearing on other matters.&lt;br /&gt;
which he must expend for the frequent trips to be made It is essential in the publication of a book, in the&lt;br /&gt;
by his manuscript before it reaches favourable consider. publication of an article in a magazine, in an&lt;br /&gt;
ation, and is returned accompanied by the printed arrangement between an author and agent, in all&lt;br /&gt;
reproduction.&lt;br /&gt;
in the arguments in favour of the Bill are many, and it matters of business, to have a precise contract&lt;br /&gt;
is difficult to think of any reasonable cause for opposition. clearly defined and clearly expressed. Fully half&lt;br /&gt;
The postal revenues are large, and but for extensively the disputes that arise are due to this lack of&lt;br /&gt;
subsidised star routes and many abuses of second-rate finality,&lt;br /&gt;
matter, which might easily be remedied, there would be a&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;M&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Heinemann, in the article he wrote for The&lt;br /&gt;
namonn in the in&lt;br /&gt;
considerable surplus revenue.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; The question has been asked, How could the privilege Author some months ago with regard to agents,&lt;br /&gt;
once granted be safeguarded ?&lt;br /&gt;
said that the work done by an agent could be&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; That a law may be violated is no reason why it should&lt;br /&gt;
settled as easily by a solicitor. This statement we&lt;br /&gt;
fail of enactment. The regulations of the Post Office&lt;br /&gt;
Department now provide for the examination of all mail&lt;br /&gt;
have grave reasons for doubting. Many contracts&lt;br /&gt;
matter not sealed, and it would be easy, if necessary, to have come to the office settled by the ordinary&lt;br /&gt;
formulate additional rules to prevent letter writers availing solicitor which were by no means final. There&lt;br /&gt;
themselves of manuscript privileges; then, too, a severe&lt;br /&gt;
were many omissions which might give rise to&lt;br /&gt;
penalty would act as a deterrent.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; When accompanied by proof manuscripts are now&lt;br /&gt;
difficulties and quarrels owing to the solicitor&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
carried at third-class rates&mdash;why not when alone ?&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of the technical side of copyright law&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;His manuscript is the author&amp;#039;s merchandise. Why and publishing contracts.&lt;br /&gt;
should he be discriminated against when all other mer Mr. Longman, at the same time, suggested that&lt;br /&gt;
chandise goes for third-class rates ? England has seen her&lt;br /&gt;
way clear to make this reduction, and many other foreign&lt;br /&gt;
agents were useful in that they took away the&lt;br /&gt;
countries have followed suit. They have been able to&lt;br /&gt;
business part of the contract from the author, and&lt;br /&gt;
prevent its abuse-why not the United States ?&lt;br /&gt;
thus enabled the author and the publisher to meet&lt;br /&gt;
. &ldquo;Manuscript can be sent to, or returned from, publishers together on more friendly grounds, to discuss&lt;br /&gt;
in foreign countries at third-class rates, why should it cost&lt;br /&gt;
other questions dealing with the publication of&lt;br /&gt;
more to send them from Dobbs Ferry to New York, or&lt;br /&gt;
from point to point in the city? To send ten ounces of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript to a publisher in England costs five cents. To We are inclined to agree with Mr. Longman.&lt;br /&gt;
send it to one in Twenty-third Street costs twenty cents. Many authors go to publishers because they&lt;br /&gt;
** An author must pay two postages on every manuscript&lt;br /&gt;
know them personally.&lt;br /&gt;
in&lt;br /&gt;
to carry it to a publisher and bring it back if rejected, and&lt;br /&gt;
this process is ordinarily repeated many times before the Some sort of contract is entered into either by&lt;br /&gt;
final resting place is reached. On the other hand, the dry word of mouth or contained in a series of letters.&lt;br /&gt;
goods stores deliver small packages of goods which are&lt;br /&gt;
The exact terms are obscure, misty, and indefinite.&lt;br /&gt;
The exact terms are obscure misty and&lt;br /&gt;
handled but once, and pay but once, one cent for every Thors or omissions about which the author&lt;br /&gt;
There are omissions about which the author&lt;br /&gt;
two ounces. In the interests of fair play and justice, the&lt;br /&gt;
change should be made, and now,&lt;br /&gt;
knows nothing. He does not take advice, he is&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; Every one interested should unite with the Society in dealing with a friend. Even on some points that&lt;br /&gt;
its effort for the benefit of the craft, and promptly impor- are clearly antagonistic to his interest he is silent.&lt;br /&gt;
tune his, or her, representative in Congress to carry the Why? fe is dealing with a friend.&lt;br /&gt;
measure through at this session.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The result is often disastrous. The author,&lt;br /&gt;
Whatever motive prompts those who are agitating perhaps, is dissatisfied on some minor question, and&lt;br /&gt;
in this cause, this point is clear, that the greater finds that the contract is ill expressed. He loses&lt;br /&gt;
facilities given to authors throughout the world faith in his friend&amp;#039;s honesty, when as a matter&lt;br /&gt;
for the transport of their MSS., the greater will be of fact with a little business precision at the&lt;br /&gt;
the benefit to those who live by their pen.&lt;br /&gt;
commencement everything might have been&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; His MS. is the author&amp;#039;s merchandise.&rdquo; Cheap clear.&lt;br /&gt;
transport of merchandise must benefit the producer. Something beyond mere honesty is desired on&lt;br /&gt;
both sides in order to avoid disputes, namely, that&lt;br /&gt;
everything should be settled on a business footing&lt;br /&gt;
by those who understand the business. The&lt;br /&gt;
Contracts.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, the editor, and the agent as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
THE case of Fitzgerald 2. Newnes was decided understand the business, when, probably, the&lt;br /&gt;
in the Courts at the end of April, and judgment author does not. The moral from the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
was given for the defendants.&lt;br /&gt;
point of view is clear-&lt;br /&gt;
There were many points in dispute bearing on (1). Have a thoroughly sound contract.&lt;br /&gt;
literary property and the work of literary pro- (2). Hare some one who is thoroughly versed in&lt;br /&gt;
ducers. These were fully set forth and discussed dealing with literary property to advise you on the&lt;br /&gt;
in the judgment. There is one point, however, contract.&lt;br /&gt;
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218&lt;br /&gt;
TJIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Nett Prices.&lt;br /&gt;
we do, where should we be, without the Society ?&lt;br /&gt;
An article from the pen of Mr. Maclehose, of&lt;br /&gt;
The chairman pointed out, with a passing gibe at&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow, on the above subject, was printed in&lt;br /&gt;
the Academy of Letters, that, with the exception&lt;br /&gt;
The Author of November, 1901. The American&lt;br /&gt;
of the body he represented that evening, literature&lt;br /&gt;
standpoint has been ably treated by Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
had no corporate existence. Time was when the&lt;br /&gt;
Scribner, President of the American Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
individual author stood absolutely alone&mdash;a shorn&lt;br /&gt;
Association.&lt;br /&gt;
lamb exposed to the untempered wind. After a&lt;br /&gt;
The American Author has had several interesting&lt;br /&gt;
rapid and comprehensive review of the work of&lt;br /&gt;
articles on the same subject, dealing with the&lt;br /&gt;
the Society (in which he hinted that the com-&lt;br /&gt;
methods employed in America for enforcing the&lt;br /&gt;
mittee were not infrequently expected to perform&lt;br /&gt;
system, and the success which has attended those&lt;br /&gt;
impossibilities), he laid some stress upon the&lt;br /&gt;
methods. To all authors, of whatever nationality,&lt;br /&gt;
improved position to which this much-abused&lt;br /&gt;
the welfare of the Booksellers&mdash;those who put their&lt;br /&gt;
body had now attained. Serene in conscious merit,&lt;br /&gt;
wares before the public is a matter of primary&lt;br /&gt;
it could now afford to disregard insulting para-&lt;br /&gt;
importance, and both in England and America&lt;br /&gt;
graphs. It continued to fight&mdash;so long as it&lt;br /&gt;
the nett system appears to have worked with&lt;br /&gt;
existed it would continue to fight; but it was&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory results.&lt;br /&gt;
noticeable that it could now afford to fight, so to&lt;br /&gt;
speak, with more urbanity than before. It had no&lt;br /&gt;
intention of relaxing its efforts in the cause of&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; rights, but certainly in the relations&lt;br /&gt;
between author and publisher matters were now&lt;br /&gt;
THE ANNUAL DINNER.&lt;br /&gt;
more harmonious than they used to be. We&lt;br /&gt;
understood Mr. Hawkins to say at this point that&lt;br /&gt;
COME two hundred members and guests of the when he died the words &ldquo;Canadian Copyright &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
D Society met together at the H&ocirc;tel Cecil on would be found engraved upon his heart.&lt;br /&gt;
April 30 for the double purpose of discussing an The Committee, he complained once more, did&lt;br /&gt;
excellent dinner, and of listening to some very their best, but could not always give satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;
admirably expressed after-dinner oratory. In fact, They were asked not only to shut the stable door&lt;br /&gt;
the speeches were distinctly above the average. after the horse had been stolen, but even to&lt;br /&gt;
Post-prandial eloquence is not commonly held to recover the steed and restore it to its careless&lt;br /&gt;
be an English characteristic, but the Society of owner. What the committee really liked, he&lt;br /&gt;
Authors is exceptionally fortunate in possessing explained, was a good, hard, dry point of law.&lt;br /&gt;
in Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins a master of On such they had always hitherto scored successes.&lt;br /&gt;
polished phrase who, whether he has anything of Mr. Hawkins concluded a very interesting speech&lt;br /&gt;
importance to say or not, always says it in the with an eloquent appeal on behalf of the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
best possible manner ; while it would be difficult Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
to find in any country speakers more agreeably The composite toast of &ldquo;Literature and the&lt;br /&gt;
fluent and incisive than Mr. W. L. Courtney, Mr. Drama&rdquo; was allotted to Mr. W. L. Courtney, who&lt;br /&gt;
Pett Ridge, and Captain Marshall.&lt;br /&gt;
opened by observing that cynics might say the&lt;br /&gt;
After the customary loyal toasts, Mr. Hawkins two were strangers. However pleasant they might&lt;br /&gt;
rose to explain his position in the chair and to sound in conjunction, it was rare to find them&lt;br /&gt;
propose the health of the Society. We gathered comfortably mated in real life. In favour of&lt;br /&gt;
that the committee of management, finding itself &ldquo;Pilkerton&amp;#039;s Peerage&rdquo; he made a gracious excep-&lt;br /&gt;
happy in the possession of an ideal chairman, had tion. Many flashes of epigram and paradox&lt;br /&gt;
skilfully contrived a jesolution that the director decorated the remarks of the eminent critic who&lt;br /&gt;
of its own councils for the time being should proposed this toast. Pessimism, par esemple, &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
preside also at the annual dinner. In former occasional solace of age and the perpetual privilege&lt;br /&gt;
years it had been the custom to pounce upon stray of youth.&rdquo; He turned out his Pandora&amp;#039;s Box of&lt;br /&gt;
men of eminence-a practice that naturally gave giſts literary and dramatic, and was gratified by&lt;br /&gt;
rise to envy and all uncharitableness. It was finding Anthony Hope at the bottom thereof. It&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps a good sign, he modestly explained, that might be a paradox, but he thought literature and&lt;br /&gt;
the Society felt itself able now to contemplate with the drama did meet, perhaps, in criticism : that is&lt;br /&gt;
equanimity the selection of so undistinguished a to say, they joined readily enough in abusing the&lt;br /&gt;
chairman as himself. By an easy transition he critic, as husband and wife, though apt to quarrel,&lt;br /&gt;
passed on to review the work of the Society, will combine to repel any meddlesome intruder.&lt;br /&gt;
founded twenty years ago by the eminent novelist Of critics in general he remarked that they&lt;br /&gt;
and man of letters whose death last year still cast generally agreed upon two things&mdash;the very good&lt;br /&gt;
a shadow over all who were present. What should and the very bad. An Eastern legend was quoted&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
219&lt;br /&gt;
in support of the proposition that criticism was while besides Mr. Hawkins (chairman) and the&lt;br /&gt;
one of the oldest of all professions. Adam&amp;#039;s first other speakers mentioned above, the list also com.&lt;br /&gt;
recorded remark (uttered presumably while naming prehended Mr. R. Garnett, Mr. A. Colquhoun, Sir&lt;br /&gt;
his subjects) is said to have been, &ldquo; This is an Joshua Fitch, Mr. S. S. Sprigge, Mr. A. P. Graves,&lt;br /&gt;
Ass.&rdquo; The Oriental fable was provocative of much Mr. E. H. Lacon Watson, and Mr. G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
laughter, as was also the story of a certain Thring, secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
American dramatic critic who proposed that a&lt;br /&gt;
performance of &ldquo;Hamlet&rdquo; which he had just&lt;br /&gt;
witnessed should be utilised to solve the Shake- PATCHWORK LEGISLATION AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
speare-Bacon controversy. &ldquo;Open the tombs of&lt;br /&gt;
PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
the two celebrated men,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;and see which&lt;br /&gt;
has turned in his grave.&rdquo; Mr. Courtney&amp;#039;s was per-&lt;br /&gt;
(Continued.)&lt;br /&gt;
haps the speech of the evening-excellently turned&lt;br /&gt;
and full of humorous touches. He coupled with TN striking contrast to the condition of English&lt;br /&gt;
his toast the names of Mr. Pett Ridge (literature) 1 copyright legislation, with its chaotic&lt;br /&gt;
and Captain Marshall (drama).&lt;br /&gt;
jumble of Acts, are the broad and simple&lt;br /&gt;
The genial humorist who rose in reply affected principles governing French legislation on the&lt;br /&gt;
to believe that the gentleman who arranged the same subject.&lt;br /&gt;
toast-list invariably looked round for the least So far back as 1791 the importance of conserving&lt;br /&gt;
eminent writer present to fill the position he now and protecting the performing right in that&lt;br /&gt;
occupied. Nevertheless, so great a respect had he country was recognised and comprehensively&lt;br /&gt;
for a self-confident manner and a sonorous voice dealt with by law, enabling the establishment&lt;br /&gt;
that he believed, if the toast-master had called of a Society for the collection of royalties and&lt;br /&gt;
upon him for a song and dance, he would have fees on dramatic works.&lt;br /&gt;
complied to the best of his ability. As a fact, he This Society was established for the protection&lt;br /&gt;
spoke at some length, fluently and with plenty of of the author&amp;#039;s rights of dramatic performance,&lt;br /&gt;
fun. Captain Marshall, who followed, delivered and the collection was limited to theatres only.&lt;br /&gt;
a carefully prepared harangue in delightfully Outside such dramatic performance all frag-&lt;br /&gt;
polished language. He had the air of reciting a ments of operas, symphonic music, light or classical&lt;br /&gt;
written speech, which perhaps rather marred the music, dance music, songs, and chansonnettes&lt;br /&gt;
effect of his deftly-turned periods ; but this was no could be freely sung in public without any&lt;br /&gt;
doubt an illusion due to his excellent delivery. restriccion.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. W. &agrave; Beckett next proposed the guests There was suitable provision in the law of&lt;br /&gt;
with extreme cheerfulness, taking occasion to France for their protection, but no effort had been&lt;br /&gt;
introduce a story of a Highlander, out of compli- made to systematically control the rights of&lt;br /&gt;
ment, no doubt, to Dr. Robert Farquharson, M.P., performance in musical compositions.&lt;br /&gt;
who responded. The doctor spoke rapidly and composer could not by himself protect his&lt;br /&gt;
vivaciously in reply, but so indistinctly that we performing rights, and in addition to that dis-&lt;br /&gt;
failed to catch any of his remarks except a re-issue ability there was the opposition of publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
of the time-honoured jest about Daniel in the lions contend against; so that before anything could be&lt;br /&gt;
den. The health of the chairman was proposed done as regards the formation of a Society, it was&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. W. W. Jacobs, who was understood to necessary to obtain some decision from the French&lt;br /&gt;
express a wish that Mr. A. H. Hawkins would in Tribunals to show that the law of 1791 applied to&lt;br /&gt;
future confine himself to after-dinner speaking, performing rights of all musical works, whether&lt;br /&gt;
and give less popular writers a chance. The dramatic or not.&lt;br /&gt;
chairman returned thanks in a few suitable In 1818 two chansonnette writers were passing&lt;br /&gt;
phrases, and the meeting slowly dissolved into the a caf&eacute; concert in the Champs Elys&eacute;es, and catch-&lt;br /&gt;
adjoining room.&lt;br /&gt;
ing a few notes of a chansonnette of which they&lt;br /&gt;
It was a successful evening, perhaps one of the were the authors, they decided to go in and hear it.&lt;br /&gt;
pleasantest of the annual reunions held under thc The proprietor of the establishment claimed an&lt;br /&gt;
auspices of the Society, and the speeches, as we admission payment of two francs from each of&lt;br /&gt;
have indicated, were decidedly above the average. them. &ldquo;But,&amp;quot; said they, &ldquo;it is our song and we&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hawkins is always an admirable chairman. want to hear it.&rdquo; &ldquo; That does not matter to me,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Among those present we noticed the names of replied the proprietor, &ldquo; you must either pay or&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, &ldquo;Helen Mathers,&rdquo; go.&rdquo; They paid, vowing that the disbursement of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Rita,&amp;quot; Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Mona Caird, their four francs should be an expensive affair for&lt;br /&gt;
Miss May Sinclair, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mrs. R. him in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;
Connor Leighton, representatives of the fair sex ; One of the song-writers in question, with the&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 220 (#632) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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220&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
help of his collaborateur, another composer, and a catalogues, to create agencies and draft out a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, discussed the subject from a practical policy of administration capable of enabling the&lt;br /&gt;
point of view, finally coming to an understanding work of the Society to be efficiently controlled in&lt;br /&gt;
not to allow their works to be performed in future all its branches, and to secure its extension and&lt;br /&gt;
at public places without their consent, which continued prosperity.&lt;br /&gt;
would only be given on payment of a reasonable fee. This control was to extend to every form of&lt;br /&gt;
The little committee of four obtained two other performing right which up to that time had been&lt;br /&gt;
adherents, and a campaign was opened by inter unprotected, and to every class of establishment&lt;br /&gt;
viewing the publishers in order to try and get that had hitherto compiled its programmes free of&lt;br /&gt;
them to co-operate in the new undertaking. Pro- all restrictions ; to all forms of concerts, music.&lt;br /&gt;
prietors of public places of entertainment were halls, public balls, musical societies, municipal&lt;br /&gt;
interviewed in order to feel the ground in that entertainments, circuses, fragments of dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
direction, and to find out the nature and strength works, and musical works in theatres, in which&lt;br /&gt;
of the opposition which might bave to be encoun latter establishments the Dramatic Society (up to&lt;br /&gt;
tered ; and opposition very speedily made itself that time) alone had collected fees.&lt;br /&gt;
manifest, bitter and uncompromising, both from It was not easy to make it clear to the minds of&lt;br /&gt;
entertainment managers and publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
all public caterers that the Society had right on its&lt;br /&gt;
Nothing daunted, however, the little band of side, and that it was fully justified in charging&lt;br /&gt;
reformers struggled on, and in the course of the fees for the performance of the works of its&lt;br /&gt;
years 1848, 1849, and 1850 actions were taken in members.&lt;br /&gt;
the names of authors and composers against concert Violent opposition continued to be met with on&lt;br /&gt;
and music hall entrepreneurs for unauthorised all sides, and during the first period of twenty&lt;br /&gt;
performances.&lt;br /&gt;
years actions at law were taken in every part of&lt;br /&gt;
The various Tribunalsin every instance recognised France against concert promoters, proprietors of&lt;br /&gt;
that the principle of the performing right con- caf&eacute; concerts, and of public balls. Each and all&lt;br /&gt;
tained in the law of 1791 extended to all works had to be dealt with in turn, but with the result&lt;br /&gt;
without distinction, whether dramatic or musical. that the Society, whose receipts for the year 1851-&lt;br /&gt;
Strengthened by these decisions, the little group no 52 amounted to the small sum of 14,000 francs,&lt;br /&gt;
longer hesitated, but it was not till 1851 that had increased in the year 1861-62 to 115,400&lt;br /&gt;
owing to numerous new adherents, they became francs for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently important to think of forming a Society. The opposition of the theatrical managers was&lt;br /&gt;
At that period, with the exception of one pub- very great, for although they had been in the habit&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, Colombier, the music trade was stubbornly of paying fees for the dramatic works since 1789,&lt;br /&gt;
hostile to the Society and the principle of the they could not understand why they should now&lt;br /&gt;
reservation of the performing right. But in spite be made to pay for the works which had been per-&lt;br /&gt;
of all opposition, the authors and composers held formed freely at their establishments before 1851.&lt;br /&gt;
their meetings, drew up rules and regulations, and Many actions had to be taken before this opposition&lt;br /&gt;
on the 31st of January, 1851, the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des was finally laid to rest.&lt;br /&gt;
Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique, of As a result of the collection of fees at theatres&lt;br /&gt;
France, was definitely established.&lt;br /&gt;
by the new Society, authors of dramatic works&lt;br /&gt;
The new Society had for its object the placing also hastened to become members.&lt;br /&gt;
in common of the rights of the members.&lt;br /&gt;
But all these results were not reached without&lt;br /&gt;
By their adhesion to the rules of the Society, grave difficulties, inside the Society as well as out-&lt;br /&gt;
the members made over their rights to it; this side of it, for the members had incessantly to&lt;br /&gt;
was the only possible way to successfully establish encounter and combat the opposition of their&lt;br /&gt;
a new form of property, and to appoint a Syn- publishers, and it required unceasing labour to&lt;br /&gt;
dicat (or Board of Directors) having full and bring them little by little to look more favourably&lt;br /&gt;
exclusive power in itself, or through its power of upon the subject of the reservation of the performing&lt;br /&gt;
attorney, an agent-general, to authorise or forbid right.&lt;br /&gt;
the public performance of the works of its mem. It was not till 1854 that the publishers at last&lt;br /&gt;
bers, and to collect fees in France and abroad. gave way, and seeing that the authors and com-&lt;br /&gt;
Since the 31st of January, 1851, the Society has posers were determined to control their performing&lt;br /&gt;
been working regularly. It had from the start to rights, they agreed to become members of the&lt;br /&gt;
provide for every contingency, to regulate every- Society,&lt;br /&gt;
thing, to establish catalogues for the formation of The founders of the Society had already foreseen&lt;br /&gt;
the repertoire, to distribute the fees among the and provided for this contingency, and the statutes&lt;br /&gt;
inembers, to establish a system for the declaration of the Society admitted the publisher to a share of&lt;br /&gt;
of works to the Society, to help to form the the revenues ; this explains how it came to be&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 221 (#633) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
221&lt;br /&gt;
named the Society of Authors, Composers and&lt;br /&gt;
Music Publishers.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
From year to year the receipts of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
have steadily increased. The war of 1870&ndash;71 only&lt;br /&gt;
produced a temporary break in the scale of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
gress, and as figures are more eloquent than words,&lt;br /&gt;
the best way to summarise the work of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
will be to give the amounts of its revenue year by&lt;br /&gt;
year from 1851 to 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
ANN&Eacute;ES SOCIALES&lt;br /&gt;
DE 1851&lt;br /&gt;
au 30 Septembre, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
TOTAUX&lt;br /&gt;
DES&lt;br /&gt;
Recettes brutes.&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
13&lt;br /&gt;
Tre Ann&eacute;e 1851-52&lt;br /&gt;
1852&ndash;53&lt;br /&gt;
1853&ndash;54&lt;br /&gt;
1854&ndash;55&lt;br /&gt;
1855&ndash;56&lt;br /&gt;
1856&ndash;57&lt;br /&gt;
1857-58&lt;br /&gt;
1858-59&lt;br /&gt;
1859&mdash;60&lt;br /&gt;
1860-61&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
1861--62&lt;br /&gt;
12&lt;br /&gt;
1862-63&lt;br /&gt;
1863-64&lt;br /&gt;
14&lt;br /&gt;
1864-65&lt;br /&gt;
15&lt;br /&gt;
1865-66&lt;br /&gt;
1866&ndash;67&lt;br /&gt;
1867-68&lt;br /&gt;
18&lt;br /&gt;
1868-69&lt;br /&gt;
1869&ndash;70&lt;br /&gt;
18704-71&lt;br /&gt;
1871-72&lt;br /&gt;
1872&ndash;73&lt;br /&gt;
23&lt;br /&gt;
1873-74&lt;br /&gt;
24&lt;br /&gt;
1874&ndash;75&lt;br /&gt;
1875&ndash;76&lt;br /&gt;
1876&ndash;77&lt;br /&gt;
1877&ndash;78&lt;br /&gt;
IIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;
14.408 50&lt;br /&gt;
24.689 75&lt;br /&gt;
28.818 30&lt;br /&gt;
40.789 85&lt;br /&gt;
51.800 55&lt;br /&gt;
64.953 45&lt;br /&gt;
71.991 44&lt;br /&gt;
96.678 72&lt;br /&gt;
107.448 31&lt;br /&gt;
115.434 67&lt;br /&gt;
129.455 42&lt;br /&gt;
148.830 12&lt;br /&gt;
170.903 88&lt;br /&gt;
200.776 19&lt;br /&gt;
246.209 51&lt;br /&gt;
294.775 49&lt;br /&gt;
384.408 13&lt;br /&gt;
360.110 12&lt;br /&gt;
376.820 60&lt;br /&gt;
203.717 64&lt;br /&gt;
325.023 28&lt;br /&gt;
412.191 41&lt;br /&gt;
462.552 17&lt;br /&gt;
505.534 45&lt;br /&gt;
531.258 75&lt;br /&gt;
562.656 37&lt;br /&gt;
600.237 21&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen from the above that it took the&lt;br /&gt;
Society thirty-five years, from 1851 to 1886, to&lt;br /&gt;
reach the total collection of 1,000,000 francs in&lt;br /&gt;
the year&mdash;i.e., &pound;40,000 per annum, The Berne&lt;br /&gt;
Convention coming into force in 1887, agencies&lt;br /&gt;
were founded in such of the European countries as&lt;br /&gt;
it was found possible to do so, and within the last&lt;br /&gt;
fifteen years the Society has more than doubled&lt;br /&gt;
that first million.&lt;br /&gt;
The revenue for 1901-2 exceeded 2,500,000&lt;br /&gt;
francs, or &pound;100,000 for the year, a truly stupendous&lt;br /&gt;
result when it is remembered that no capital has&lt;br /&gt;
been furnished to bring it about. The Society has&lt;br /&gt;
been from the first to the last self-supporting ; its&lt;br /&gt;
only capital has been drawn from the fees collected.&lt;br /&gt;
The enormous revenue of &pound;100,000 per annum&lt;br /&gt;
would represent the return on an invested capital&lt;br /&gt;
of &pound;2,000,000 sterling at five per cent. per annum.&lt;br /&gt;
This magnificent sum may fairly be said to repre-&lt;br /&gt;
sent at the very least the amount which English&lt;br /&gt;
authors and composers permit their publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
throw away annually in England, for there is no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt that had a similar Society been established&lt;br /&gt;
in England for the same period as in France, its&lt;br /&gt;
annual revenue to-day would be equal to if not&lt;br /&gt;
surpassing that of the French Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks to their powerful organisation, the&lt;br /&gt;
Society has been strongly represented at all the&lt;br /&gt;
International Congresses, and has been able to&lt;br /&gt;
voice its opinions and make its influence felt to&lt;br /&gt;
the benefit and the extension of international&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
Its immense revenue is regularly distributed&lt;br /&gt;
quarterly and pro rata among all its members&lt;br /&gt;
whose works have been performed in public during&lt;br /&gt;
that period. A small percentage of the funds is&lt;br /&gt;
put on one side annually as a pension fund. All&lt;br /&gt;
members of twenty-five years&amp;#039; standing over sixty&lt;br /&gt;
years of age are entitled to a pension, and there&lt;br /&gt;
are now 168 b&eacute;n&eacute;ficiaires.&lt;br /&gt;
There is also a fund for the relief of impecunious&lt;br /&gt;
members and for medical aid.&lt;br /&gt;
Since 1851 more than 40,000,000 francs, or over&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1,600,000, has been collected, and if the income&lt;br /&gt;
of this French Society continues to increase at its&lt;br /&gt;
present rate, it bids fair before very long to exceed&lt;br /&gt;
the entire revenue of the London publishing trade&lt;br /&gt;
-an income earned without capital !&lt;br /&gt;
ALFRED MOUL.&lt;br /&gt;
- - -&lt;br /&gt;
TAUCHNITZ EDITIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
16&lt;br /&gt;
17&lt;br /&gt;
19&lt;br /&gt;
20&lt;br /&gt;
21&lt;br /&gt;
22&lt;br /&gt;
1878-79&lt;br /&gt;
1879--80&lt;br /&gt;
- du 16/3 au 30/9 1880&lt;br /&gt;
701.028 74&lt;br /&gt;
682.306 89&lt;br /&gt;
376.023 46&lt;br /&gt;
31&lt;br /&gt;
35&lt;br /&gt;
|||||||||||||||!!&lt;br /&gt;
1880--81&lt;br /&gt;
1881-82&lt;br /&gt;
1882-83&lt;br /&gt;
1883-84&lt;br /&gt;
1884-85&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; 1885-86&lt;br /&gt;
1886-87&lt;br /&gt;
1887--88&lt;br /&gt;
1888-&lt;br /&gt;
1889 -90&lt;br /&gt;
1890-91&lt;br /&gt;
1891-92&lt;br /&gt;
1892-93&lt;br /&gt;
1893&ndash;94&lt;br /&gt;
1894&mdash;95&lt;br /&gt;
1895&ndash;96&lt;br /&gt;
1896&ndash;97&lt;br /&gt;
1897--98&lt;br /&gt;
1898&ndash;99&lt;br /&gt;
1899-1900&lt;br /&gt;
812.678 02&lt;br /&gt;
841.540 86&lt;br /&gt;
882.771 74&lt;br /&gt;
928.473 33&lt;br /&gt;
990.419 08&lt;br /&gt;
1.045.386 00&lt;br /&gt;
1.057.315 88&lt;br /&gt;
1.095.057 29&lt;br /&gt;
1.212.735 51&lt;br /&gt;
1.228.068 01&lt;br /&gt;
1.382.798 94&lt;br /&gt;
1.405.614 11&lt;br /&gt;
1.518.130 06&lt;br /&gt;
1.564.900 18&lt;br /&gt;
1.624.883 51&lt;br /&gt;
1.694.992 59&lt;br /&gt;
1.734.775 73&lt;br /&gt;
1.862.160 42&lt;br /&gt;
2.017.570 61&lt;br /&gt;
2. 234.347 81&lt;br /&gt;
N&lt;br /&gt;
HE prices that authors receive for their books&lt;br /&gt;
1 in England from royalties and other methods&lt;br /&gt;
of payment have, from time to time, been&lt;br /&gt;
quoted in The Author, and compared with the&lt;br /&gt;
profits obtained by the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 222 (#634) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
222&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
....&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
1450&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Walter Besant has several times tabulated taken as the price paid to the most successful&lt;br /&gt;
the profits of both parties, taking into account authors. The average price runs between &pound;10&lt;br /&gt;
large sales, small sales, large costs of production, and &pound;25. Let us take &pound;20 on which to base our&lt;br /&gt;
small costs of production.&lt;br /&gt;
calculations.&lt;br /&gt;
Though these matters have been exhaustively&lt;br /&gt;
Marks.&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with, the questions of authors&amp;#039; other rights in &pound;20 at 21 marks to the &pound; equals ... 420&lt;br /&gt;
America, in translations and in Tauchnitz editions Publisher&amp;#039;s profit on the sale of 3,000&lt;br /&gt;
have never been tabulated on the same principle. copies&lt;br /&gt;
The following statement, therefore, may afford Less average amount paid to author... 420&lt;br /&gt;
some information to those authors who are selling&lt;br /&gt;
their rights in the Tauchnitz editions of their&lt;br /&gt;
Profit to the publisher ... ... 1030&lt;br /&gt;
works.&lt;br /&gt;
Even supposing that a certain amount of this&lt;br /&gt;
Take the ordinary book of about 80,000 words. sum, say 10 per cent., be taken off for what is&lt;br /&gt;
This would be produced from the Leipsig house&lt;br /&gt;
commonly called &amp;quot;publisher&amp;#039;s expenses, sundries,&lt;br /&gt;
in one volume. At the lowest computation, 3,000&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c.,&amp;quot; there is still a profit to the publisher of over&lt;br /&gt;
copies would be printed. The numerous markets twice the amount received by the author.&lt;br /&gt;
covered by these books must be considered. They Authors should consider the position.&lt;br /&gt;
circulate in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Take again the same example, only substitute&lt;br /&gt;
Russia, from China to the North Sea, Egypt, &pound;50 as the amount paid to the author instead of&lt;br /&gt;
South America, and many other large book-buying &pound;20. The following result is obtained :-&lt;br /&gt;
countries. If we take, as a basis of calculation, an&lt;br /&gt;
Marks.&lt;br /&gt;
edition of 3,000 copies, the number may be safely&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;50 taking 21 marks to the &pound; ... 1050&lt;br /&gt;
reckoned as a small edition.&lt;br /&gt;
The cost of production of 3,000 copies, roughly Deducting this from the cost of production,&lt;br /&gt;
reckoned, amounts to 1,400 marks (the roughness 1,400 marks, the balance in favour of the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
is in the publisher&amp;#039;s favour), and these 3,000 copies lisher is 350 marks, no mean return for the capital&lt;br /&gt;
are sold to the trade (very few being sent out for invested.&lt;br /&gt;
review) at the following prices :-&lt;br /&gt;
It is not likely, however, that the book of an&lt;br /&gt;
author whose reputation is so large as to be able&lt;br /&gt;
Mark. Per Cent.&lt;br /&gt;
to obtain a price of &pound;50 for the Tauchnitz edition,&lt;br /&gt;
Single copies on credit ...&lt;br /&gt;
would only sell to the extent of 3,000 copies, or&lt;br /&gt;
For ready money ...&lt;br /&gt;
&bull;05&lt;br /&gt;
that only 3,000 copies would be printed.&lt;br /&gt;
For 7 vols, at a time&lt;br /&gt;
.95&lt;br /&gt;
The next case to be considered occurs when an&lt;br /&gt;
For 100 , &bdquo; ...&lt;br /&gt;
edition of 5,000 copies is printed.&lt;br /&gt;
For 500 , &bdquo; ..&lt;br /&gt;
.85&lt;br /&gt;
Roughly speaking the cost of production is 1,800&lt;br /&gt;
marks. This is an excessive calculation, but we&lt;br /&gt;
The same price rules when francs are paid, the&lt;br /&gt;
only difference being that between the value of the&lt;br /&gt;
gladly give the publisher the benefit of the&lt;br /&gt;
difference.&lt;br /&gt;
franc and the value of the mark.&lt;br /&gt;
For instance-&lt;br /&gt;
Taking the sale price of the book to be the&lt;br /&gt;
Franc. Per Cent. same as in the former case,&lt;br /&gt;
Marks.&lt;br /&gt;
Single copies on credit&lt;br /&gt;
&bull;50&lt;br /&gt;
5,000 copies will sell for... ... 4750&lt;br /&gt;
The same for cash..&lt;br /&gt;
.25&lt;br /&gt;
For 7 copies&lt;br /&gt;
&bull;20&lt;br /&gt;
Deducting the cost of production&lt;br /&gt;
For 100 ,&lt;br /&gt;
from the sales ... ... ... 1800&lt;br /&gt;
For 500 ,,&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
Profit&lt;br /&gt;
2950&lt;br /&gt;
The average price, however, can be taken at&lt;br /&gt;
Again reckoning the average price&lt;br /&gt;
.95 marks, or in francs, 1.20.&lt;br /&gt;
given to the author for the book 420&lt;br /&gt;
An edition of 3,000 copies would therefore&lt;br /&gt;
Profit to the Publisher ... ... 2530&lt;br /&gt;
bring in -&lt;br /&gt;
Reducing the same to &pound;&amp;#039;s, about &pound;120.&lt;br /&gt;
2850&lt;br /&gt;
If we take the author&amp;#039;s remuneration at &pound;50,&lt;br /&gt;
Less cost of production ... 1400 the sum will work out as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
Marks.&lt;br /&gt;
Profit ... ... ... 1450&lt;br /&gt;
Profit by sale&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
2950&lt;br /&gt;
To author of book&lt;br /&gt;
1050&lt;br /&gt;
The next point is the price that is given to&lt;br /&gt;
English authors for these rights. &pound;50 may be Profit to the publisher ...&lt;br /&gt;
1900&lt;br /&gt;
20&lt;br /&gt;
.90&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
Marks.&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 223 (#635) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
223&lt;br /&gt;
Reducing it again to &pound;&amp;#039;s, about &pound;90.&lt;br /&gt;
of figures, an author with a moderate reputation,&lt;br /&gt;
One inore example.&lt;br /&gt;
on the sale of 5,000 copies would obtain half of&lt;br /&gt;
The cost of production of 10,000 copies is 2,950 marks, or 1,475 marks. These marks turned&lt;br /&gt;
approximately 2,800 marks.&lt;br /&gt;
into &pound;&amp;#039;s would amount to &pound;70 58., or between 30.&lt;br /&gt;
The sale of the 10,000 copies at the average and 4d, a copy royalty on every copy sold ; 3d.&lt;br /&gt;
price as before, &middot;95 marks, would bring in 9,500 a copy amounting accurately to &pound;62 108., 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
marks.&lt;br /&gt;
a copy to &pound;83 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Deduct from this the sum of 1,050 marks paid to In the case of the successful author the profits&lt;br /&gt;
the author, a profit of 8,450 marks is left to the on the sale of an edition of 10,000 copies would&lt;br /&gt;
publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
amount, after the cost of production had been&lt;br /&gt;
It is necessary now to sum up the question from deducted, to 4,750 marks, or &pound;226&mdash;between 5d.&lt;br /&gt;
the facts displayed in this article. On an edition and 6d. a copy on every copy sold. The royalty of&lt;br /&gt;
of 3,000 copies, which may be reckoned when the 5d. a copy amounts to &pound;208 68., a royalty of 6d. a&lt;br /&gt;
huge extent of the Tauchnitz markets are taken copy to &pound;250.&lt;br /&gt;
into consideration, an average sale for an average As the figures in the cost of production and on the&lt;br /&gt;
author, the profit to the publisher is 980 marks, sales of the books have been taken slightly in favour&lt;br /&gt;
and the profit to the author is 420 marks.&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher, an author would not be asking by&lt;br /&gt;
If erery advantage in the figures is given to any means too high a figure if he demanded 3d.&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher, and every possible expenditure is a copy royalty on the sale of 3,000 copies, 4d. a&lt;br /&gt;
taken into consideration, the publisher&amp;#039;s profit is copy on the sale of 5,000, and 6d. a copy on the&lt;br /&gt;
twice as large as the author&amp;#039;s. Even in the case of sale of 10,000.&lt;br /&gt;
an exceedingly popular author, and a small edition, The reader should also bear in mind that these&lt;br /&gt;
the profit to the publisher is not at all unreasonable, figures are worked out on the understanding that&lt;br /&gt;
when the capital invested is considered.&lt;br /&gt;
the book is produced as one volume. When a&lt;br /&gt;
As the editions grow larger, the profits to the novel runs to more than 80,000 words it is usually&lt;br /&gt;
publisher also grow in proportion, for it is quite produced in two volumes, and the profit is propor-&lt;br /&gt;
the exception that a royalty is ever paid to an tionately increased. It follows, therefore, that the&lt;br /&gt;
author on this form of issue. At last, when an royalty should be paid on every volume. The fact&lt;br /&gt;
edition of 10,000 copies is published, the profit to that the firm of Tauchnitz act as their own printers&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is 8,450 marks against the sum paid no doubt enables them to put the books on the&lt;br /&gt;
to the author of 1,050 marks. It follows, there market at a cost smaller than that shown by the&lt;br /&gt;
fore, that the publisher&amp;#039;s profits are to the author&amp;#039;s figures printed above. This is a further advantage&lt;br /&gt;
remuneration in the proportion of 8 to 1.&lt;br /&gt;
that this firm obtains.&lt;br /&gt;
After a careful consideration of these figures, it English authors would do well to make a study&lt;br /&gt;
is clear that some effort should be made by authors of these figures, and to approach the head of the&lt;br /&gt;
in order that matters may be arranged on a more great firm with a view to obtaining, if possible,&lt;br /&gt;
equitable basis.&lt;br /&gt;
some equitable basis on which to found future con-&lt;br /&gt;
It will afford no small advantage to look at tracts. It is quite possible that Baron Tauchnitz&lt;br /&gt;
the position from an entirely different point of has never looked at the figures from this point of&lt;br /&gt;
view.&lt;br /&gt;
view, and has never had his attention drawn to&lt;br /&gt;
Take, for instance, the case of the ordinary a comparison between the profits of author and&lt;br /&gt;
author, who can obtain a sale of 3,000 copies. publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
According to the figures that have already been put The great reputation of the firm is well known.&lt;br /&gt;
forward, there would be a profit of 1,450 marks, No doubt if the case is clearly stated, authors will&lt;br /&gt;
after deducting the cost of production from the find their views favourably considered.&lt;br /&gt;
amount realised by sales. If the author takes a&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
half-share of these profits he would obtain 725&lt;br /&gt;
marks. (It must not be considered that half-&lt;br /&gt;
profits to the author is essentially a fair return,&lt;br /&gt;
but it is a good basis on which to build a calcula-&lt;br /&gt;
BRICKS AND MORTAR.&lt;br /&gt;
tion.) Seven hundred and twenty-five marks if&lt;br /&gt;
turned into English money at the rate given&lt;br /&gt;
above, of twenty-one marks to the &pound;, would W HEN an architect undertakes to work out a&lt;br /&gt;
work out to &pound;34 10s., or between 2 d. and 3d. a W design for a house it is not sufficient that&lt;br /&gt;
copy on every copy of the edition. 24d. a copy &amp;quot; he should bring into play his imagination&lt;br /&gt;
royalty works out to &pound;31 58., 3d. a copy to for the lines of beauty in the scheme of the out-&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;37 10s.&lt;br /&gt;
side structure or his technical skill in satisfying&lt;br /&gt;
If the same principle is applied to the next set the needs and comforts of men in the internal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 224 (#636) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
224&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
development. He needs more than this. He &ldquo; royal octavo.&rdquo; This portion of the book is no&lt;br /&gt;
needs full knowledge of the different materials doubt one of the most important parts to him who&lt;br /&gt;
out of which the house is built-of the wood, of would gain full knowledge of the &ldquo; bricks and&lt;br /&gt;
the bricks, of the slates and tiles, of the pipes, of mortar.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the mortar.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Methods of Illustration &rdquo; comes next. Nowa.&lt;br /&gt;
It is quite true that an author, unless he is days illustration in books is distinctly on the&lt;br /&gt;
publishing on commission, has no call for the increase. It follows then that the maker of books&lt;br /&gt;
same intricate knowledge of materials, and does should understand some of the methods by which&lt;br /&gt;
not need to handle the details of structure in the his work is rendered more fascinating to the&lt;br /&gt;
same intimate way; yet this knowledge, though general public. The days have gone by when the&lt;br /&gt;
not absolutely essential, may be exceedingly useful. addition of the simplest picture was looked upon&lt;br /&gt;
It is curious what a lack of information most as a serious and expensive item. Nowadays&lt;br /&gt;
authors have. They cannot tell what a book costs beautiful and artistic work can be reproduced at a&lt;br /&gt;
to print, or what kind of type should be used, very moderate rate. The different processes are&lt;br /&gt;
although in an indefinite kind of way they may here fully explained.&lt;br /&gt;
know what kind of type they prefer. The same Chapter V. deals with papers. If &ldquo; Types and&lt;br /&gt;
remark applies with equal force to the paper and Margins &rdquo; was one of the most important portions,&lt;br /&gt;
binding.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Papers&rdquo; is the most important. Upon the&lt;br /&gt;
An author&amp;#039;s answer may well be that the Society quality of the paper depends the longevity of the&lt;br /&gt;
has at its command all the information that is book. Paper is sold by weight. It sounds a&lt;br /&gt;
requisite. To a certain extent that answer is simple transaction, but in fact is complicated by&lt;br /&gt;
justifiable, but the man who can do a thing for technicalities. Paper is of many kinds, of which&lt;br /&gt;
himself has always more power than the man who the two main classes are machine made and hand&lt;br /&gt;
has to employ an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
made. The subdivisions are numerous; the most&lt;br /&gt;
Detailed information concerning the &ldquo;bricks important are dealt with.&lt;br /&gt;
and mortar&rdquo; that go toward book production has The chapters on &ldquo;The Sizes of Books&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
been collected by Mr. C. T. Jacobi.* He first &ldquo;Binding&amp;quot; cannot be passed orer. Knowledge of&lt;br /&gt;
deals with the manuscript, and puts forward some these points is essential.&lt;br /&gt;
useful suggestions. On this point it is possible that It is doubtful whether there was any need in a&lt;br /&gt;
the author may need but little assistance. He has book of this kind to deal with &ldquo;Publishing&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
most probably learnt his lesson by bitter experi- &ldquo; Copyright.&amp;quot; These subjects bear but little on&lt;br /&gt;
ence, but he may well take to heart the paragraph the questions of the &ldquo;bricks and mortar,&amp;quot; apper-&lt;br /&gt;
on page 8:-&lt;br /&gt;
taining to the solicitor&amp;#039;s rather than the architect&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The charges made for corrections are based on department. They are involved and highly&lt;br /&gt;
the time consumed in making them, and are very technical. To deal with them in these short&lt;br /&gt;
difficult to check even by an expert.&amp;quot; This sub- chapters is impossible, and a mere superficial state-&lt;br /&gt;
ject has been dealt with exhaustively in The ment is likely to do more harm than good.&lt;br /&gt;
Author, and with the exception of advertisements, To sum up, there is very little to be said against&lt;br /&gt;
is the most frequent cause of dispute between the method the author has employed in dealing&lt;br /&gt;
author and publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
with his subject. He shows full knowledge; he&lt;br /&gt;
The next chapter, &ldquo; The Index,&rdquo; is hardly has placed it clearly before the public. The cost&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory. To many books no index is neces- of many of the items has not been touched upon&lt;br /&gt;
sary. But the author who desires to compile an except in a few general statements. This, the only&lt;br /&gt;
index needs fuller instructions to make the result fault, is a serious one. It is not enough to know&lt;br /&gt;
reliable.&lt;br /&gt;
that one paper is good and another bad, or one&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Types and Margins.&rdquo; Those who are dwellers form of illustration more expensive than another.&lt;br /&gt;
in the printing chapel have a wondrous language The writer who goes so far in his study of&lt;br /&gt;
of their own. To the ordinary mortal it is as a &ldquo;bricks and mortar&amp;quot; will certainly demand inore&lt;br /&gt;
foreign tongue. Let him then, if he thinks of details of finance. This side ought to be dealt&lt;br /&gt;
turning author, carefully digest these pages. He with in some other issue.&lt;br /&gt;
will be able to stand the test of the severest The Glossary is instructive. Pages full of type&lt;br /&gt;
examination and puzzle himself and his hearers by&lt;br /&gt;
varying in shape and make, leaded and solid, and&lt;br /&gt;
discussing learnedly about &ldquo;founts,&amp;quot; &ldquo;ems,&rdquo; others made up of different samples of paper, com-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;ens,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;pica,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;double pica,&amp;quot; &ldquo;crown,&rdquo; and plete a treatise really useful and satisfactory to all&lt;br /&gt;
those&mdash;and there should be many&mdash;who are&lt;br /&gt;
interested in the details of the material side of&lt;br /&gt;
* &ldquo;Some Notes on Books and Printing,&amp;quot; by C, T. Jacobi.&lt;br /&gt;
Published by the Chiswick Press, Took&amp;#039;s Court, Chancery book production.&lt;br /&gt;
Lane.&lt;br /&gt;
A. C. B.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 225 (#637) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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&bull; THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
225&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
STERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property S&lt;br /&gt;
1. 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;
Secretary 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,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
III. The Royalty System.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Cost of Production.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
IY. A Commission Agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,&lt;br /&gt;
General.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld,&lt;br /&gt;
3. 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;
(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 a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage 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;
SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.c.,&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 should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&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 licence to perform. The legal distinction&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 exceed-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly 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 he 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 subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, THOSE AUTITORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA-&lt;br /&gt;
TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent 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;
1. DIVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor,&lt;br /&gt;
the member has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is&lt;br /&gt;
desirable, the Committee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. All this without any cost to the member,&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 226 (#638) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
226&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER&lt;br /&gt;
THAN THE 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;
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ARE INVITED BY THE&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on&lt;br /&gt;
no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
return articles which cannot be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The&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&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society&lt;br /&gt;
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you&lt;br /&gt;
are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the&lt;br /&gt;
independence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception&lt;br /&gt;
of members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-&lt;br /&gt;
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :&lt;br /&gt;
-(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give&lt;br /&gt;
advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements&lt;br /&gt;
an readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
7. No contract should be entered into with a literary&lt;br /&gt;
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration the contracts submitted to them by literary&lt;br /&gt;
agents, and are recommended to submit them for inter-&lt;br /&gt;
pretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This&lt;br /&gt;
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY begs to give notice&lt;br /&gt;
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,&lt;br /&gt;
and he requests members who do not receive an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to important communications within two days to&lt;br /&gt;
write to him without delay. All remittances should be&lt;br /&gt;
crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent&lt;br /&gt;
by registered letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do&lt;br /&gt;
some publishers. Members can make their own deductions&lt;br /&gt;
and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
U ITH the assistance of that valuable society,&lt;br /&gt;
the Association Litt&eacute;raire et Artistique&lt;br /&gt;
Internationale, the brass-workers of Paris&lt;br /&gt;
have been successful in their endeavours to put&lt;br /&gt;
their designs under the protection of the French&lt;br /&gt;
copyright law. The protection which this law will&lt;br /&gt;
now give them is of a very extensive character,&lt;br /&gt;
and will prevent piracy of designs of every kind.&lt;br /&gt;
France was and is always in the forefront when&lt;br /&gt;
it is necessary to protect works of literary or&lt;br /&gt;
artistic merit.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and&lt;br /&gt;
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY&lt;br /&gt;
AND DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The&lt;br /&gt;
leaders are writers of competence and experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
While mentioning the subject of artistic copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right, it is interesting to call to mind the case of&lt;br /&gt;
Brittain and Others v. Hanks Bros. &amp;amp; Co., which&lt;br /&gt;
has recently been decided in the Courts.&lt;br /&gt;
hos&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the plaintiff brought an action&lt;br /&gt;
against the defendants for copying the design of&lt;br /&gt;
a tin soldier which the plaintiff was selling as a&lt;br /&gt;
toy for children.&lt;br /&gt;
After hearing the case the Judge decided that&lt;br /&gt;
the model had artistic merit, and that therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
as the plaintiff had complied with the other&lt;br /&gt;
provisions of the Act, an injunction must be&lt;br /&gt;
granted.&lt;br /&gt;
The real position of these cases must depend&lt;br /&gt;
upon the fact how far the production is a work of&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of&lt;br /&gt;
T the Society that, although the paper is sent to them&lt;br /&gt;
free of charge, the cost of prodncing it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
very 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;
58. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 227 (#639) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
227&lt;br /&gt;
art. It is quite possible that a tin soldier might Hawkins say to a Society of Orators ? &amp;quot; Well,&lt;br /&gt;
be as high an artistic production as the statues what would he say? Where is the &ldquo;fundamental&lt;br /&gt;
that are set up in the prominent squares of absurdity&rdquo;? Are all trade and professional com-&lt;br /&gt;
London.&lt;br /&gt;
binations absurd ? Where is the analogy ? Oratory&lt;br /&gt;
is neither a trade nor a profession. And lastly,&lt;br /&gt;
where is the logic ?&lt;br /&gt;
A WRITER in the Pall Mall Gazette commented&lt;br /&gt;
a little bitterly on the statements of our Chairman&lt;br /&gt;
at the dinner of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The author,&rdquo; he says, scoffing at an assertion of&lt;br /&gt;
An intricate question came before a member of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hawkins&amp;#039;, &ldquo;was always as free as any other&lt;br /&gt;
the Society. How should it have been answered ?&lt;br /&gt;
citizen to consult and instruct a solicitor.&amp;quot; True,&lt;br /&gt;
The details of the case are as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
At the desire of a certain wealthy American, a&lt;br /&gt;
but the writer has not taken the trouble to&lt;br /&gt;
remember that the Copyright Acts are difficult&lt;br /&gt;
member of the Society was employed to compile a&lt;br /&gt;
and involved, and that the dealings with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
book. A limited number of copies of the book,&lt;br /&gt;
property are peculiar and technical&lt;br /&gt;
which was an expensive work, were printed, bound,&lt;br /&gt;
We have seen agreements for the publication of&lt;br /&gt;
and delivered in completed form in England. The&lt;br /&gt;
books and for the performance of plays prepared&lt;br /&gt;
book was not for publication, but for the private&lt;br /&gt;
by the family solicitor ; they were interesting&lt;br /&gt;
use of the American.&lt;br /&gt;
curiosities. Technical information on a highly&lt;br /&gt;
A number of copies, amounting in all to 500 or&lt;br /&gt;
technical subject is essential; this the Society&lt;br /&gt;
so, had to be forwarded to America, and, under&lt;br /&gt;
the American Tariff Act, it is necessary to state&lt;br /&gt;
affords. The number of its Members is a fair&lt;br /&gt;
proof that its work is appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;
the value of the book as merchandise. Ought the&lt;br /&gt;
Secondly, he states, &ldquo;as the case of Macdonald&lt;br /&gt;
books to have been valued at their actual cost of&lt;br /&gt;
v. the National Review showed, the Society had&lt;br /&gt;
production, or at the probable amount they would&lt;br /&gt;
bring in if offered for sale in the open market ?&lt;br /&gt;
been too ready to disturb men as honest as them-&lt;br /&gt;
The actual wording of the law is that dutiable&lt;br /&gt;
selves by vexatious litigation.&rdquo; A man may be&lt;br /&gt;
honest; he may also be unbusinesslike. The&lt;br /&gt;
articles &amp;quot; should be appraised at their fair market&lt;br /&gt;
value.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Society deals with the business side of literary and&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic effort, and in endeavouring to obtain&lt;br /&gt;
We believe it has been the custom for pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers to invoice books to America at the cost of&lt;br /&gt;
proper business methods between editor or publisher&lt;br /&gt;
and author, is doing good to all three parties.&lt;br /&gt;
manufacture. In this case, however, there was no&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the present Members may forget the&lt;br /&gt;
market value, as the books were for private&lt;br /&gt;
details of the case.&lt;br /&gt;
circulation.&lt;br /&gt;
An author sent an MS. to the National Review.&lt;br /&gt;
It was set up in type and returned for correction.&lt;br /&gt;
The author returned the MS. Subequently the A purposed notable feature in the coming St.&lt;br /&gt;
article was rejected.&lt;br /&gt;
Louis World&amp;#039;s Exposition is an exact reproduction&lt;br /&gt;
The Judge held that the setting up in type of the birth-homes of two or three of the greater&lt;br /&gt;
was such a dealing with the article as to constitute English and Scotch writers&mdash;litt&eacute;rateurs who are&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance, and the proprietor had to pay ; that is recognised as &ldquo;the world&amp;#039;s men of letters.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
the rough outline of the facts.&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion is that exact facsimiles of the buildings&lt;br /&gt;
This is distinctly not vexatious litigation. The and the chief historic relics they contain shall be&lt;br /&gt;
editor had merely to write a business letter pointing made. It is proposed that these shall be rebuilt&lt;br /&gt;
out that the article was not accepted. The author in permanent form, so that they may remain in&lt;br /&gt;
would then have had the option of withdrawing Forest Park, St. Louis, long after the less stable&lt;br /&gt;
the article or waiting the editor&amp;#039;s pleasure. What portions of the World&amp;#039;s Fair have done their&lt;br /&gt;
did the editor expect the author to conclude? Did duty and disappeared. Recent talk on these sub-&lt;br /&gt;
he expect him to wait calmly and indefinitely for jects has now become a fact. The Burns&amp;#039; Cottage&lt;br /&gt;
the editor&amp;#039;s decision?&lt;br /&gt;
Association has been organised in America, with&lt;br /&gt;
The editor&amp;#039;s side is &ldquo;vexatious litigation,&rdquo; the John V. Dick as President, and James Muir&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s &ldquo; vexatious delay&amp;quot;; and the Society&amp;#039;s Dixon, Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
point of view is finality in business as well as The &ldquo;Auld Clay Buggin,&amp;quot; the very humble&lt;br /&gt;
honesty. The Society&amp;#039;s standpoint is justifiable. cottage under the thatch of which Robert Burns&lt;br /&gt;
The third &ldquo;Occasional Note&rdquo; is amusing in its was born on the 25th of January, 1759, is of clay,&lt;br /&gt;
illogical deduction, &ldquo;Only let it be remarked that with a sanded front, whitewashed, and was built&lt;br /&gt;
there is something fundamentally absurd in the mainly by the hands of the poet&amp;#039;s father while&lt;br /&gt;
idea of a Society of Authors. What would Mr. he was working as a gardener for Ferguson of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 228 (#640) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
228&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PRODUCTION IN ENGLAND.&lt;br /&gt;
Doonholm. The house, as all pilgrims to Ayr know,&lt;br /&gt;
is one storey high, and consists of a kitchen in one&lt;br /&gt;
end and a best parlour in the other. In the latter&lt;br /&gt;
is a fireplace, and, in a niche by its side, is a bed.&lt;br /&gt;
As to Bobbie, it is the opinion of the old wives of&lt;br /&gt;
the town that,&lt;br /&gt;
66 The bed in which he first began&lt;br /&gt;
To be that various thing called man,&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
was in the tiny kitchen. Replicas of the bed and&lt;br /&gt;
of the other important items in the little white&lt;br /&gt;
house in Ayr are included in the St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;
scheme.&lt;br /&gt;
The co-operation of the leading Burns&amp;#039; Societies&lt;br /&gt;
and other Scottish associations, both here and in&lt;br /&gt;
America, has been promised. A suggestion has&lt;br /&gt;
been made that the replicas of the cottage and&lt;br /&gt;
relics shall be free gifts from the sons of Scotland&lt;br /&gt;
-Whether at home or abroad-to St. Louis.&lt;br /&gt;
Further, if permissible, it is proposed also to build&lt;br /&gt;
some other historic Scottish structure on the Fair&lt;br /&gt;
Grounds, as room will be needed for the accumula-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of Scottish relics that promises to pour in.&lt;br /&gt;
The Scotch element is strong and influential in&lt;br /&gt;
American life, and keeps itself in closer relations&lt;br /&gt;
with the old home than any other foreign strain&lt;br /&gt;
to be found there.&lt;br /&gt;
The address of Mr. George F. Parker, the Resi-&lt;br /&gt;
dent British Representative of the World&amp;#039;s Fair,&lt;br /&gt;
is Sanctuary House, Tothill Street, Westminster,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author has asked me to give&lt;br /&gt;
1 some statistics relating to the production of&lt;br /&gt;
books in this country. Books, of all things,&lt;br /&gt;
are essentially individual entities whose qualitative&lt;br /&gt;
worth interests more than a quantitative view of&lt;br /&gt;
them, but despite this obvious disadvantage, it is&lt;br /&gt;
possible that the following facts concerning books&lt;br /&gt;
in bulk may have some interest. Moreover, a not&lt;br /&gt;
inconsiderable proportion of the books may per-&lt;br /&gt;
haps be regarded more appropriately in bulk than&lt;br /&gt;
as separate existences.&lt;br /&gt;
Every year the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular contains an&lt;br /&gt;
analytical table of the new books published during&lt;br /&gt;
the preceding year. I have summarised these&lt;br /&gt;
tables for the last ten years, so as to get a broad&lt;br /&gt;
fact-base into which are merged the accidental&lt;br /&gt;
fluctuations of individual years. The following&lt;br /&gt;
statement contains the essence of these ten years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
facts, and it relates only to new books, not to new&lt;br /&gt;
editions of books.&lt;br /&gt;
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED KIxGDOM&lt;br /&gt;
DURING THE TEN YEARS 1892&ndash;1901.&lt;br /&gt;
Class of Book.&lt;br /&gt;
Number&lt;br /&gt;
published.&lt;br /&gt;
Percentage&lt;br /&gt;
of each Class,&lt;br /&gt;
upon the total&lt;br /&gt;
number&lt;br /&gt;
published.&lt;br /&gt;
per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
299&lt;br /&gt;
16,434&lt;br /&gt;
6,269&lt;br /&gt;
114&lt;br /&gt;
AFTER SUNSET.&lt;br /&gt;
9.5&lt;br /&gt;
5,206&lt;br /&gt;
4,540&lt;br /&gt;
8.2&lt;br /&gt;
3,572&lt;br /&gt;
5:1&lt;br /&gt;
1. Novels, tales, and juvenile&lt;br /&gt;
works. .&lt;br /&gt;
2. Educational, classical, and&lt;br /&gt;
philological . .&lt;br /&gt;
3. Theology, sermons, bib-&lt;br /&gt;
lical, etc. . . .&lt;br /&gt;
4. History, biography, etc. .&lt;br /&gt;
5. Year-books and serials in&lt;br /&gt;
volumes .&lt;br /&gt;
6. Political and social eco-&lt;br /&gt;
nomy, trade, etc. .&lt;br /&gt;
7. Poetry and the drama .&lt;br /&gt;
8. Belles - Lettres, essays,&lt;br /&gt;
monographs, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Arts, sciences, and illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated works . .&lt;br /&gt;
10. Voyages, travels, geo- i&lt;br /&gt;
graphical research .&lt;br /&gt;
11. Medicine, surgery, etc..!&lt;br /&gt;
12. Law, jurisprudence, etc..!&lt;br /&gt;
13. Miscellaneous, including&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlets, not sermons&lt;br /&gt;
2,822&lt;br /&gt;
2,460&lt;br /&gt;
2,38+&lt;br /&gt;
2,294&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
2,056&lt;br /&gt;
1,415&lt;br /&gt;
895&lt;br /&gt;
3.7&lt;br /&gt;
2.6&lt;br /&gt;
1.6&lt;br /&gt;
[Reprinted, by kind permission of the Author, from&lt;br /&gt;
* Sonnets of this Century,&rdquo; edited by William Sharp.]&lt;br /&gt;
V OCAL, yet voiceless, lingering, lambent,&lt;br /&gt;
white&lt;br /&gt;
With the wide wings of evening on the fell,&lt;br /&gt;
The tranquil vale, the enchanted citadel,-&lt;br /&gt;
Another day swoons to another night.&lt;br /&gt;
Speak low : from bare Blencathra&amp;#039;s purple height&lt;br /&gt;
The sound o&amp;#039; the gbyll falls furled ; and, loath&lt;br /&gt;
to go,&lt;br /&gt;
A continent of cloud its plaited snow&lt;br /&gt;
Wear&amp;#039;s far away athwart a lake of light.&lt;br /&gt;
Is it the craft of hell that while we lie&lt;br /&gt;
Enshaded, lulled, beneath Heaven&amp;#039;s breezeless&lt;br /&gt;
sky,&lt;br /&gt;
The garrulous clangours and assoiled shows&lt;br /&gt;
Of London&amp;#039;s burrowing mazes haunt us yet ?&lt;br /&gt;
City, forgive me : Mother of joys and woes,&lt;br /&gt;
Thy shadow is here, and lo ! our eyes are wet.&lt;br /&gt;
HALL CAINE.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
4,650&lt;br /&gt;
8:53&lt;br /&gt;
i&lt;br /&gt;
Total, new books published,&lt;br /&gt;
1892-1901 . . .&lt;br /&gt;
54,997&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
100.0&lt;br /&gt;
We see that during the last ten years 55,000&lt;br /&gt;
new books have been published in England.&lt;br /&gt;
An average of 5,500 per annum, or, taking 300&lt;br /&gt;
working days to the year, eighteen new books per&lt;br /&gt;
diem without cessation.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 229 (#641) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
229&lt;br /&gt;
the output of new books during the two five-yearly&lt;br /&gt;
periods was-&lt;br /&gt;
1892-1896 ... ... ... 26,059&lt;br /&gt;
1897&mdash;1901 ... ... ... 28,938&lt;br /&gt;
It is impossible to conceive that there has been&lt;br /&gt;
a demand for this vast supply of new books. I,&lt;br /&gt;
myself, am responsible for four of these 55,000&lt;br /&gt;
books, and only two of the four books have&lt;br /&gt;
justified their existence. It is not unlikely that&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; considerable proportion of them-in Class 1,&lt;br /&gt;
novels, etc., for example-have been published at&lt;br /&gt;
the authors&amp;#039; expense, without regard to adjusting&lt;br /&gt;
supply to demand.&lt;br /&gt;
But although we may not be able to regard this&lt;br /&gt;
supply of new books as balancing the demand for&lt;br /&gt;
them, it is not improbable that the foregoing&lt;br /&gt;
widely-based facts do give a fairly reliable indica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the relative degrees of demand for each&lt;br /&gt;
class of book. Looking at the facts in this light,&lt;br /&gt;
we see that novels, etc., make up 30 per cent. of&lt;br /&gt;
the total number, educational books coming second,&lt;br /&gt;
and books on theology, etc., third. These three&lt;br /&gt;
principal classes, merged into one group, supply&lt;br /&gt;
more than one-half of the total output of new&lt;br /&gt;
books&mdash;their combined share being 50-8 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
Of the ten other classes, books of history,&lt;br /&gt;
biography, etc., lead with 8 per 100 new books&lt;br /&gt;
published. Books on political and social economy,&lt;br /&gt;
etc., have a slight lead over poetry and the drama,&lt;br /&gt;
each of these two classes coming near to 5 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
of all new books. Medical books and law books&lt;br /&gt;
are, as might be expected, the last two classes on&lt;br /&gt;
the list.&lt;br /&gt;
Looking at the output of new books in each year&lt;br /&gt;
of the ten now under survey, without classification&lt;br /&gt;
of the books published, the facts are as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
Total... ... 54,997&lt;br /&gt;
This is an increase of nearly 3,000 books, i.e., of&lt;br /&gt;
11 per cent., during the later period as compared&lt;br /&gt;
with the earlier five years, and we may ascertain&lt;br /&gt;
how this rate of increase compares with the increase&lt;br /&gt;
in the number of persons who&mdash;to use an actuarial&lt;br /&gt;
term-have been &ldquo;at risk&rdquo; of reading the books&lt;br /&gt;
produced. The use of this technical term is per-&lt;br /&gt;
haps justified, for although the readers of the&lt;br /&gt;
books have not read them at the risk of death,&lt;br /&gt;
they have certainly read some of the new books at&lt;br /&gt;
the risk of injury to themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
Taking the population of the United Kingdom&lt;br /&gt;
as the number of persons at risk of reading the&lt;br /&gt;
books, the increase in this number from the earlier&lt;br /&gt;
to the later period was at the rate of under 5 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent., and this is a smaller rate of growth than the&lt;br /&gt;
rate of growth of the output of new books.&lt;br /&gt;
If during 1897&mdash;1901 the growth of new books&lt;br /&gt;
had coincided with the growth of the population&lt;br /&gt;
during the same period, the number of new books&lt;br /&gt;
published during 1897&mdash;1901 would have been&lt;br /&gt;
27,290. But the actual number of new books&lt;br /&gt;
published during 1897&mdash;1901 was 28,938, and&lt;br /&gt;
thus the actual output exceeded the &ldquo;expected&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
output by nearly 1,650 new books. This is not a&lt;br /&gt;
very large difference between theory and actuality,&lt;br /&gt;
in the matter of new books published; but it&lt;br /&gt;
suffices to show that, despite all disturbing causes,&lt;br /&gt;
the output of new books during the last five years&lt;br /&gt;
has exceeded the normal expectation.&lt;br /&gt;
This last point reminds me that the editor of&lt;br /&gt;
The Author has asked me to make a statement with&lt;br /&gt;
regard to the output of books at the beginning of&lt;br /&gt;
the nineteenth century as compared with the output&lt;br /&gt;
of to-day. I am not able to do this, for &amp;#039;lack of the&lt;br /&gt;
facts. But we can go back as far as seventy years&lt;br /&gt;
ago, thus including the whole of the Victorian era.&lt;br /&gt;
The following statement shows the average&lt;br /&gt;
yearly number of new books published in this&lt;br /&gt;
country during the periods named, and also the&lt;br /&gt;
average yearly number of new books per million&lt;br /&gt;
of the population.&lt;br /&gt;
Year of&lt;br /&gt;
Publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Number of new&lt;br /&gt;
books published.&lt;br /&gt;
1892&lt;br /&gt;
1893&lt;br /&gt;
189+&lt;br /&gt;
189.7&lt;br /&gt;
1896&lt;br /&gt;
1897&lt;br /&gt;
1898&lt;br /&gt;
1899&lt;br /&gt;
1900&lt;br /&gt;
1901&lt;br /&gt;
4,915&lt;br /&gt;
5.129&lt;br /&gt;
5.300&lt;br /&gt;
5,481&lt;br /&gt;
5,23+&lt;br /&gt;
6,24+&lt;br /&gt;
6,008&lt;br /&gt;
5,971&lt;br /&gt;
5,760&lt;br /&gt;
4,955&lt;br /&gt;
Total&lt;br /&gt;
1892&ndash;1901&lt;br /&gt;
54,997&lt;br /&gt;
After fluctuation during the period 1892-1896,&lt;br /&gt;
the maximum was reached in the year 1897, when&lt;br /&gt;
6,244 new books were published. From 1897 to&lt;br /&gt;
1901 there was a continuous decline in the output&lt;br /&gt;
of books, until in 1901 the number was only&lt;br /&gt;
slightly in excess of the output in 1892. Reviewers&lt;br /&gt;
may perhaps have thanked the war for mercies&lt;br /&gt;
other than the consolidation of the British Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
Ignoring the fluctuations in individual years,&lt;br /&gt;
Period.&lt;br /&gt;
Average Yearly&lt;br /&gt;
Number of New&lt;br /&gt;
Books published.&lt;br /&gt;
Average Yearly&lt;br /&gt;
Number of New Books&lt;br /&gt;
published, per million&lt;br /&gt;
of our population.&lt;br /&gt;
1828&ndash;1832&lt;br /&gt;
1866&mdash;1869&lt;br /&gt;
1892&ndash;1896&lt;br /&gt;
1897-1901&lt;br /&gt;
1,060&lt;br /&gt;
3,220&lt;br /&gt;
5,212&lt;br /&gt;
5,788&lt;br /&gt;
105&lt;br /&gt;
13+&lt;br /&gt;
143&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 230 (#642) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
230&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The growth of books bas, we see, largely ex- his death, sprang into fame so long ago as the year&lt;br /&gt;
ceeded the growth of population. Seventy years 1870, when &ldquo; The Heathen Chinee&amp;quot; first captured&lt;br /&gt;
ago, the yearly output was only 45 new books per the ear of the public, and a mighty peal of laughter&lt;br /&gt;
million of population. To-day, the yearly output ran rippling from one end of the English-speaking&lt;br /&gt;
is 143 new books per million of population&mdash;a world to the other. Bret Harte never, to our&lt;br /&gt;
more than three-fold growth in the output of knowledge, wrote a successful long book, but he&lt;br /&gt;
books per million of population. And this has was a master of the conte, and not until Kipling&lt;br /&gt;
occurred during the last seventy years.&lt;br /&gt;
appeared can his supremacy in this line be said to&lt;br /&gt;
I am tempted to suggest that the vast produc- have ever been seriously assailed. &ldquo;The Luck of&lt;br /&gt;
tion of new books which has now been stated Roaring Camp,&amp;quot; &ldquo; The Outcasts of Poker Flat,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
would not have occurred if the makers of the &ldquo; The Idyll of Red Gulch,&amp;quot; may be cited as in-&lt;br /&gt;
books had pondered the words of the popular stances of his supreme excellence in the difficult&lt;br /&gt;
Latin poet, written more than 1900 years ago, art of the short story. He combined, perfectly, a&lt;br /&gt;
whose admirable sense of propriety causes his wonderful pathos, fine descriptions of camp life&lt;br /&gt;
ancient thought to be a valuable working-maxim and western scenery, vivid and masterly delineation&lt;br /&gt;
for authors of to-day :-&lt;br /&gt;
of character, and a humour which was often irre-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ye authors, choose a subject suited to your sistible. &ldquo;The Heathen Chinee&rdquo; may be said to&lt;br /&gt;
abilities, and long ponder what your strength have been unknown and unappreciated by the&lt;br /&gt;
is equal to, what it is too weak to support. Anglo-Saxon race until Bret Harte discovered him&lt;br /&gt;
He who chooses a theme according to his in the rude mining camps of California, labelled&lt;br /&gt;
powers, will find neither command of language him, and introduced him to the American and&lt;br /&gt;
nor lucid arrangement fail him. And herein British world. Who that takes up that inimitable&lt;br /&gt;
lies, unless I deceive myself, the power and picture in verse, even after this long interval of&lt;br /&gt;
beauty of arrangement ; if a writer says at time from its first appearance in print, can resist&lt;br /&gt;
once only what ought to be said at once, its trenchant satire and abounding humour ?&lt;br /&gt;
reserving most points, and omitting them for For thirty years had Bret Harte continued to&lt;br /&gt;
the present.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
pour forth tales, poetry, and sketches. It was in-&lt;br /&gt;
J. HOLT SCHOOLING.. evitable that some of his later work should have&lt;br /&gt;
lost the freshness and force of his earlier writings;&lt;br /&gt;
yet the reader will find, even in his last book of&lt;br /&gt;
stories, published in the very month of his death,&lt;br /&gt;
TWO AMERICANS.&lt;br /&gt;
work which showed distinctly that his hand had by&lt;br /&gt;
no means lost its ancient cunning. He never could&lt;br /&gt;
forget the scenes and the characters of that strange,&lt;br /&gt;
EATH has, within these last few weeks,claimed wild Californian life which in his early and im-&lt;br /&gt;
two notable figures from the ranks of litera- pressive youth laid such a hold upon his imagina-&lt;br /&gt;
ture. Frank R. Stockton and Bret Harte, tion. In his last book he returns, and returns with&lt;br /&gt;
whose loss the whole reading public have to lament, success, to the old familiar ground, stakes out his&lt;br /&gt;
bad long since established their fame. Both claim, and quarries good ore. Bret Harte will&lt;br /&gt;
died elderly men ; yet neither had retired from live, if only for his &ldquo;Plain Language from Truthful&lt;br /&gt;
the great army of active workers ; nor can it be James,&rdquo; his inimitable &ldquo;Heathen Chinee,&amp;quot; his&lt;br /&gt;
said that either had outlived his reputation. &ldquo; Poker Flat,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Luck of Roaring Camp.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Frank Stockton, who died a week or two before We should like to see a good anthology of his&lt;br /&gt;
his fellow countryman, had never attained quite poems, and a couple of volumes of his best short&lt;br /&gt;
the world-wide popularity of Bret Harte; nor stories. Upon these his fame would stand assured&lt;br /&gt;
probably will his writings linger so long in the for many a long day.&lt;br /&gt;
public mind. Yet he had accomplished much good The death of Bret Harte only serves to accentuate&lt;br /&gt;
work, and the present generation will still cherish the extraordinary dearth of anything like real&lt;br /&gt;
in their minds pleasant recollections of &ldquo; Rudder humour in the literature of the present day. Is&lt;br /&gt;
Grange,&rdquo; and others of his books. That curious this quality to become extinct ? Are the con-&lt;br /&gt;
little study, &ldquo; The Lady or the Tiger,&rdquo; will, from ditions of life so onerous, so stern, or so re-&lt;br /&gt;
its very incompleteness, and the problem which it pellent, that humour, always a delicate plant, is&lt;br /&gt;
leaves to the reader, live, probably, longer than not now to be raised among us? It is a curious&lt;br /&gt;
any other of Stockton&amp;#039;s writings. An admirable problem. Upon the whole, we are inclined to&lt;br /&gt;
humorist of the quieter sort, Frank Stockton&amp;#039;s think that the next decade or two may see a&lt;br /&gt;
death is sincerely to be regretted.&lt;br /&gt;
marked revival of this lost art of amusing people,&lt;br /&gt;
Bret Harte, whose last volume of stories, &ldquo;On of creating hearty laughter. Just such a revival&lt;br /&gt;
the Old Trail,&amp;quot; was published about the time of took place after the Restoration. Purged, of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 231 (#643) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
231&lt;br /&gt;
course, of its grossness, we could welcome such an author had such a tribute paid to him as was&lt;br /&gt;
a rejuvenescence of an almost lost art. At present paid to Black by the artists who jointly illustrated&lt;br /&gt;
we can count our lumorists easily upon the his&ldquo;Macleod of Dare.&rdquo; Pettie, Graham, Boughton,&lt;br /&gt;
fingers of one hand. The sudden rise and success Orchardson, Colin Hunter, MacWhirter, C. E.&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. W. W. Jacobs indicates very clearly how Johnson, Aitken, and Thomas Faed, all contributed&lt;br /&gt;
eagerly the advent of any writer capable of stirring to translate into pictures Black&amp;#039;s written words,&lt;br /&gt;
genuine laughter is welcomed among the publishers. the greatest possible compliment to his descriptive&lt;br /&gt;
Yet Mr. Jacobs&amp;#039; example seems as yet to attract powers from those best able to judge.&lt;br /&gt;
few followers into the same field.&lt;br /&gt;
He also possessed what Sir Wemyss Reid well&lt;br /&gt;
describes as a &ldquo;sympathetic insight which enabled&lt;br /&gt;
him to depict the characters and temperaments&lt;br /&gt;
of pure and beautiful women in such a manner&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAM BLACK. A BIOGRAPHY.*&lt;br /&gt;
as to command universal assent and appreciation.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The artist&amp;#039;s eye and sympathetic insight are,&lt;br /&gt;
however, most commonly accompanied by a retiring,&lt;br /&gt;
TROM all those who enjoyed the privilege of almost secretive, disposition, and Black&amp;#039;s best&lt;br /&gt;
intimate friendship with William Black qualities must, therefore, be sought in his own&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Wemyss Reid&amp;#039;s Biography will receive books, and not in books about him ; consequently,&lt;br /&gt;
a welcome in which there will be no suggestion to say that one is conscious of some chose qui&lt;br /&gt;
of reserve. His straightforward account of a life&lt;br /&gt;
manque in Sir Wemyss Reid&amp;#039;s life of his friend is,&lt;br /&gt;
which, without being eventful, was still a full one, perhaps, tantamount to saying that one wishes the&lt;br /&gt;
will serve as a storehouse of memories for all who&lt;br /&gt;
book were other than it is. This particular reader&lt;br /&gt;
participated, however slightly, in it. I cannot help&lt;br /&gt;
would have preferred a biographical and critical&lt;br /&gt;
thinking, however, that thosc, like myself, who study to a biography pure and simple, but doubtless&lt;br /&gt;
never saw Black, but derived a rare pleasure from Sir Wemyss Reid preferred to let Black&amp;#039;s work be&lt;br /&gt;
his work, will be conscious of a certain sense of judged by all upon its merits, and confine himself&lt;br /&gt;
disappointment when they lay the volume down. to a mere record of his old friend&amp;#039;s daily life.&lt;br /&gt;
It has, it is true, the essential merit of being&lt;br /&gt;
Black was a member of the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
interesting, but somehow in Sir Wemyss Reid&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
from its very early days, and while he did not&lt;br /&gt;
work the touch of the great portrait painter is identify himself with it in the same way that Sir&lt;br /&gt;
missing, and the picture does not seem alive.&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Besant did, it is interesting to seek in this&lt;br /&gt;
This is not to suggest that it could have been &ldquo;life&rdquo; of the one some corroboration of what is to&lt;br /&gt;
done better by any other hand. I do not, indeed,&lt;br /&gt;
be found in the &ldquo;autobiography&rdquo; of the other, in&lt;br /&gt;
at all suppose it could, for Black&amp;#039;s principal&lt;br /&gt;
the shape of advice to those of us who are still at&lt;br /&gt;
characteristic seems to have been an unusual faculty&lt;br /&gt;
the bottom of the ladder.&lt;br /&gt;
of detaching himself from the world while he was The first lesson taught in practice by both men&lt;br /&gt;
at work, and an equally unusual faculty of detaching&lt;br /&gt;
is that no one should embark upon the struggle&lt;br /&gt;
himself from his work when that was done; add for life as a man of letters unless he has something&lt;br /&gt;
to this a reserve amounting almost to austerity, fixed and definite in the way of income to fall back&lt;br /&gt;
except where his most intimate friends were upon. In Besant&amp;#039;s case the something was com-&lt;br /&gt;
concerned, and it becomes sufficiently obvious that paratively easy to find because of his academic&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Wemyss Reid&amp;#039;s self-imposed task of showing qualifications ; in Black&amp;#039;s case it was less easy,&lt;br /&gt;
the real man would have been beyond the power of because he never had &ldquo;any systematised education&lt;br /&gt;
almost any one else to perform.&lt;br /&gt;
to speak of &amp;quot;&mdash;the words are his own&mdash;and his&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;artistic temperament&rdquo; is a phrase so youthful work for the Glasgow newspapers was not&lt;br /&gt;
commonly abused that one is loth to use it in sufficiently remarkable to gain him a journalistic&lt;br /&gt;
connection with any author for whose works one appointment in London at the outset. He took&lt;br /&gt;
has great admiration. Of Black it is better, the first post that offered--a clerkship in Birchin&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps, to say that he had the artist&amp;#039;s eye for&lt;br /&gt;
Lane--and there remained, devoting all his spare&lt;br /&gt;
nature, and a rarely developed power of reproducing time to the production of copy, until he got his&lt;br /&gt;
natural beauty through the medium of words. first journalistic appointment on the editorial staff&lt;br /&gt;
He appropriated the Hebrides as Hardy appro- of The Morning Star.&lt;br /&gt;
priated &ldquo;Wessex&rdquo; and Blackmoor Devonshire,&lt;br /&gt;
The second lesson taught by both, as it is taught&lt;br /&gt;
and his fine word-painting was inspired by love by all who succeed in any and every department&lt;br /&gt;
of the region he described. Seldom, if ever, has of life, is the necessity of work, of unflagging&lt;br /&gt;
industry and perseverance. Success is only won&lt;br /&gt;
* By Wemyss Reid (Cassell &amp;amp; Co., Limited, London,&lt;br /&gt;
that way, and, what is perhaps more important to&lt;br /&gt;
1902)&lt;br /&gt;
remember, it is only kept that way. Sir Wemyss&lt;br /&gt;
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232&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Reid makes it plain that although literary work when the publisher waited for the unknown author&lt;br /&gt;
was congenial to Black-was, indeed, his true to come to him with his manuscript. But of late&lt;br /&gt;
vocation--it was real and even hard work, during the unknown has so frequently developed under&lt;br /&gt;
the doing of which everything in the shape of exploitation, and by direct solicitation of the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
amusement was laid aside, and with which nothing lisher, into a &ldquo;money-making proposition&amp;quot; of such&lt;br /&gt;
was allowed to interfere. That is an interesting formidable proportions that there is hardly a pab-&lt;br /&gt;
part of Sir Wemyss Reid&amp;#039;s book in which he lishing house that does not now hunt him out with&lt;br /&gt;
describes Paston House, and Black&amp;#039;s mode of all the resources at its command. Certain fields&lt;br /&gt;
work&mdash;the pains he took over his descriptive pas- are worked with the thoroughness, almost, of a&lt;br /&gt;
sages, minutely sketched in note-books on the spot; political canvass, and if a given State-say, for&lt;br /&gt;
the care with wbich he thought out every detail instance, Indiana-has suddenly evolved into a&lt;br /&gt;
in a chapter before committing it to paper ; the region of great literary activity, it is open to&lt;br /&gt;
silent seclusion in which he passed the alternate suspicion that it is not because there is any&lt;br /&gt;
days devoted to the actual task of writing ; and the inherent literary quality in the people of the place&lt;br /&gt;
severely simple room in which he conjured up the greater than in other States, but that certain firms&lt;br /&gt;
visions that have charmed so many people since of publishers are &ldquo; working the ground.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
There are few writers to whom the existence of the&lt;br /&gt;
creatures of their brain has been more intensely&lt;br /&gt;
real than it was to William Black ; but men make&lt;br /&gt;
worlds for themselves only by infinite pains, and&lt;br /&gt;
Black was no exception to the rule.&lt;br /&gt;
A PAGE FROM A GERMAN PUBLISHER&amp;#039;S&lt;br /&gt;
For the rest, it is enough to say that this bio-&lt;br /&gt;
graphy is characterised by good taste and restraint.&lt;br /&gt;
ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
It shows the vigour and virility of Black&amp;#039;s nature,&lt;br /&gt;
his scorn of affectation and insincerity, and the&lt;br /&gt;
reticence and reserve which had been inculcated in&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Hints for the Wealthy and Cultivated.&lt;br /&gt;
him as a child. If it fails at all, it fails in reveal-&lt;br /&gt;
ing to those who did not know the man the lovable A GENTLEMAN does not give his daughter&lt;br /&gt;
qualities wbich evoked such a friendship as endured&lt;br /&gt;
a dowry of from five to fifty thousand&lt;br /&gt;
between Villiam Black and Sir Wemyss Reid&lt;br /&gt;
pounds and forget to provide her with a&lt;br /&gt;
himself.&lt;br /&gt;
book-case.&lt;br /&gt;
V. E. M.&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman does not have a full wine cellar&lt;br /&gt;
and empty book-shelves.&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman does not use eau-de-cologne and&lt;br /&gt;
THE OBLIGATIONS OF ART TO TRADE.&lt;br /&gt;
read greasy volumes from a circulating library.&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman does not borrow good works which&lt;br /&gt;
he is in a position to buy.&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman does not talk about the latest&lt;br /&gt;
[TAE following paragraph is taken from an article&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &amp;quot;Salt and Sincerity,&rdquo; by Frank Norris, published&lt;br /&gt;
literature when he is acquainted only with what&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
in the American Critic for May. We print it without has been said of it by the reviewers.&lt;br /&gt;
comment &agrave; propos of the article in the last issue of The A gentleman does not cut books with his fingers,&lt;br /&gt;
Author, entitled - The Obligations of Art to Trade.&amp;quot;- even after having washed his hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Ev.]&lt;br /&gt;
A gentleman does not possess a box of carpenter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
T present the stimulus to, and even the tools, but no paper-knife.&lt;br /&gt;
A manner of, production of very much of A gentleman does not receive books for review&lt;br /&gt;
American fiction is in the hands of the pub- and give them away or sell them without opening&lt;br /&gt;
lishers. No one not intimately associated with any them.&lt;br /&gt;
of the larger more important&ldquo;houses&rdquo; can have any A gentleman does not make presents only of&lt;br /&gt;
idea of the influence of the publisher upon latter-day things which are entirely without intellectual&lt;br /&gt;
fiction. More novels are written-practically-to value.&lt;br /&gt;
order than the public has any notion of. The pub. A gentleman does not send to his bookseller for&lt;br /&gt;
lisher again and again picks out the man(one speaks, a parcel of books on approval, and, after having&lt;br /&gt;
of course, of the younger generation), suggests the read them, return them saying that none of them&lt;br /&gt;
theme, and exercises in a sense all the functions of suit him.&lt;br /&gt;
instructor, during the period of composition. In A gentleman does not buy only sixpenny cheap&lt;br /&gt;
the matter of this &ldquo; picking out of the man &rdquo; it is editions.&lt;br /&gt;
rather curious to note a very radical change that A gentleman does not depend for his reading&lt;br /&gt;
has come about in the last five years. Time was upon the daily journals and illustrated weeklies.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
233&lt;br /&gt;
ROMANTIC GERMANY.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Romanticism in Germany was the result of a&lt;br /&gt;
definite movement, or rather, a definite conspiracy,&lt;br /&gt;
whereas in England the members of the Romantic&lt;br /&gt;
TROM the point of view of literature, the School worked independently. The Germans were&lt;br /&gt;
T Romantic movement in Germany may be intimate friends; they worked together, and had&lt;br /&gt;
summed up in the outworn phrase, &ldquo; Much their common art theories and programmes.&lt;br /&gt;
cry, but little wool.&rdquo; This, at any rate, is the Novalis and Wackenroder were edited by&lt;br /&gt;
impression given by the second volume of Dr. Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel ; Arnim married&lt;br /&gt;
Brandes&amp;#039; great work, and though, as he says in Brentano&amp;#039;s sister Bettina &mdash; Goethe&amp;#039;s Bettina ;&lt;br /&gt;
conclusion, the School possesses permanent literary Caroline B&ouml;hmer was the wife of A. W. Schlegel&lt;br /&gt;
interest, and compares favourably with equivalent and, later, of Schelling. And in Germany the&lt;br /&gt;
groups in other lands, he rather discounts this reaction, as a recent critic has shown, was not&lt;br /&gt;
judgment by observing in his introduction that merely literary: it concerned itself also with religion&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; of all that the German Romanticists produced,&lt;br /&gt;
in Romanticists produced and with the affairs of actual life. Schleiermacher,&lt;br /&gt;
little will endure-some masterly translations by Friedrich Schlegel, and many others, had decided&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. Schlegel, a few of Tieck&amp;#039;s productions, a theories on the marriage laws, and did not hesitate&lt;br /&gt;
handful of Hardenberg&amp;#039;s and another of Eichen- to reduce them to practice ; Tieck and Wacken-&lt;br /&gt;
dorff&amp;#039;s lyrics, some of Friedrich Schlegel&amp;#039;s essays, roder were the apostles of Roman Catholicism,&lt;br /&gt;
a few of Arnim&amp;#039;s and Brentano&amp;#039;s smaller works,&lt;br /&gt;
and Brentano passed six years in ecstatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
a select number of Hoffmann&amp;#039;s tales, and some&lt;br /&gt;
templation of the stigmata of the nun Catherina&lt;br /&gt;
very remarkable dramas and tales from the pen&lt;br /&gt;
Emmerich. One and all were the apostles of&lt;br /&gt;
of that eccentric but real genius, Heinrich von freedom, though to the majority the word seems&lt;br /&gt;
Kleist.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to have meant nothing but thraldom in the dungeon&lt;br /&gt;
It is not, perhaps, a very imposing group ; to of their own hallucinations and desires.&lt;br /&gt;
the present writer, at least, it seems to compare&lt;br /&gt;
To Lessing, the liberator of German thought,&lt;br /&gt;
unfavourably with the movement in France which the Romanticists really owed little; as Dr. Brandes&lt;br /&gt;
could boast such names as Chateaubriand, Hugo, says,&lt;br /&gt;
Gautier, de Musset, and Baudelaire. One is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Romanticists could not possibly claim a champion&lt;br /&gt;
tempted to think, too, that one &ldquo;St. Agnes&amp;#039; Eve&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
of reason, pure and simple, as their forerunner, hence they&lt;br /&gt;
is worth all the terrors that a host of Hoffmanns attempted to characterise the nutritive element in Lessing&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
could conjure up, and that the &ldquo;Undine&amp;quot; or the works as mere seasoning, as the salt which preserves from&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Sigurd &rdquo; of de la Motte Fouqu&eacute;, whose heroes, as&lt;br /&gt;
corruption. They owed far more to Herder.... In Herder&lt;br /&gt;
Heine wittily said, have the courage of a hundred&lt;br /&gt;
the new century germinated, as in Lessing the old had&lt;br /&gt;
come to its close. Herder sets genesis and growth above&lt;br /&gt;
lions and the sense of two asscs, cut a sorry figure thought and action. To him the true man is not only a&lt;br /&gt;
beside &amp;quot; Ivanhoe&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Talisman.&amp;quot; And thinking and moral being, but a portion of nature. ...&lt;br /&gt;
these impressions are strengthened rather than The man of intuitions is to him the most human.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
diminished by a study of Dr. Brandes&amp;#039; book. His&lt;br /&gt;
aim, as he avows, is &ldquo;to treat the history of&lt;br /&gt;
Herder excluded the idea of purpose ; he was&lt;br /&gt;
literature as humanly as possible, to seize upon&lt;br /&gt;
the foe of all i posteriori reasoning, and this&lt;br /&gt;
the remotest innermost psychological movements&lt;br /&gt;
attitude appealed most powerfully to the Romanti-&lt;br /&gt;
which prepared for and produced the various&lt;br /&gt;
cists. Their philosophy of aimlessness is only a&lt;br /&gt;
literary phenomena.&amp;quot; The defect of this method&lt;br /&gt;
caricature of his theory, but, wretched though it&lt;br /&gt;
lies in the fact that when it is applied to a&lt;br /&gt;
seens, it owed its origin to his wide intellectual&lt;br /&gt;
movement consisting of one or two great writers&lt;br /&gt;
powers and quick, clear-sighted genius. Indeed,&lt;br /&gt;
and a swarm of neurotic nonentities, it inevitably&lt;br /&gt;
from the philosophical standpoint, the history of&lt;br /&gt;
results in a mode of criticism that is pathological&lt;br /&gt;
German romanticism is the history of distorted&lt;br /&gt;
rather than literary. Dr. Brandes has shown us&lt;br /&gt;
ideas, and a lamentable example of how the&lt;br /&gt;
the brain-sickness, the neurosis, the feeble intellects&lt;br /&gt;
theories of genius may be reduced to absurdity&lt;br /&gt;
and morbidly excitable senses of a great number&lt;br /&gt;
by the stupid zeal of fanatics.&lt;br /&gt;
of interesting ladies and gentlemen with such&lt;br /&gt;
From Goethe the Romanticists derived their&lt;br /&gt;
wonderful skill that we are almost forced to regard&lt;br /&gt;
theory of the rights of the free personality. The&lt;br /&gt;
the literary aspect of these people as that which&lt;br /&gt;
early works of Goethe and Schiller had been&lt;br /&gt;
possesses the least iinportance.&lt;br /&gt;
inspired by the &ldquo; Freigeisterei,&amp;quot; the antinomian&lt;br /&gt;
demand for freedom ; both &ldquo;G&ouml;tz&rdquo; and &ldquo;Die&lt;br /&gt;
R&auml;uber&rdquo; are declarations of war against society.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; &amp;quot;Main Currents in 19th Century Literature: II. The&lt;br /&gt;
But the Romanticists&amp;#039; strife against convention&lt;br /&gt;
Romantic School in Germany,&amp;quot; by George Brandes&lt;br /&gt;
was not for the sake of the rights of humanity, but&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 1902).&lt;br /&gt;
for the rights of the heart; &ldquo;not against the&lt;br /&gt;
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234&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
wrongs of life, but against its prose.&rdquo; And here THE LITERARY SIDE OF PRESIDENT&lt;br /&gt;
we may discover the secret of that antinomian&lt;br /&gt;
ROOSEVELT.&lt;br /&gt;
attitude which the school adopted. They were&lt;br /&gt;
angry because actual life did not resemble the&lt;br /&gt;
finer, shadowy existence of their dreams ; they (Reprinted from the &ldquo;Bulletin of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
could not understand that the romantic glamour American Authors.&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
which they admired so greatly was a purely literary&lt;br /&gt;
CINCE the days of Thomas Jefferson, no literary man&lt;br /&gt;
product.&lt;br /&gt;
D has held the office of chief magistrate until the&lt;br /&gt;
Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and the philosophy of coming of Theodore Roosevelt, who for twenty years&lt;br /&gt;
Fichte, with its doctrine of the absolute authority has been a most prolific writer on out-door life and historical&lt;br /&gt;
of the Ego-these are the great fountain-heads&lt;br /&gt;
topics. The Times says that Mr. Roosevelt&amp;#039;s writing is at&lt;br /&gt;
its best when it approaches the most nearly to action :&lt;br /&gt;
from which flowed the so troubled stream of &ldquo;In his histories and biographies Roosevelt the writer is&lt;br /&gt;
German romanticism. From these it derived most successful when Roosevelt the man is most completely&lt;br /&gt;
(with how little real authority from the first two enlisted, and when his subject is of the sort to which his&lt;br /&gt;
sources !) its defiance of order, its exaltation of&lt;br /&gt;
multiform activities have been most closely related. They&lt;br /&gt;
are best, certainly they are most interesting, where they&lt;br /&gt;
selfish caprice, and its amusingly deliberate aim-&lt;br /&gt;
are the unconscious representation of the author&amp;#039;s mind&lt;br /&gt;
lessness. These qualities, and the enmity to and character. He misses, for instance, some of the most&lt;br /&gt;
Hellenism, that it learned froin H&ouml;lderlin (for significant phases of the curious and original nature of&lt;br /&gt;
whom Dr. Brandes, to us, at least, seems to&lt;br /&gt;
Gouverneur Morris, one of the strongest, most penetrating,&lt;br /&gt;
and most strangely limited minds in our early or later&lt;br /&gt;
possess a strangely exalted admiration), may be&lt;br /&gt;
history, but he grasps firmly and renders clearly the&lt;br /&gt;
traced in the critical work of A. W. Schlegel, the working of the essential forces that went to the &middot; Winning&lt;br /&gt;
dreary, ostentatiously naughty &ldquo;Lucinde &rdquo; of his of the West.&amp;#039; These he feels ; he has been in active alliance&lt;br /&gt;
brother. Tieck&amp;#039;s &ldquo; William Lovell.&amp;quot; Jean Paul&amp;#039;s and co-operation with them, and has had to wrestle with&lt;br /&gt;
them. He has known in personal intimacy the survivors&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Titan&rdquo;; indeed, in almost every work of the&lt;br /&gt;
and present representatives of the victors in that mighty&lt;br /&gt;
members of the School, and in most of their lives. struggle, and the men who are developing what their&lt;br /&gt;
Such qualities, of course, cannot harm a great ancestors or forerunners won. His sympathies are intense&lt;br /&gt;
artist; Fichte&amp;#039;s philosophy finds its most melodious and so is his imagination, but they are also somewhat&lt;br /&gt;
limited, and his estimate of men and events when his&lt;br /&gt;
echo in Shelley, and there are not a few who prefer&lt;br /&gt;
sympathies are not awakened or his imagination kindled&lt;br /&gt;
Swinburne the antinomian to Mr. Swinburne the is sometimes defective and even unjust.&lt;br /&gt;
serenader of infancy; but it was the misfortune of &ldquo; His essays are models of their kind, and their kind is&lt;br /&gt;
Germany that her romantic movement possessed&lt;br /&gt;
an extremely difficult and risky one. They are direct in&lt;br /&gt;
narrative, clear and succinct in description, well weighed&lt;br /&gt;
few men of real genius.&lt;br /&gt;
and convincing in their judgments, moderate in temper&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Brandes&amp;#039; second volume is especially remark and simply indispensable to the reader who wishes to study&lt;br /&gt;
able for the way in which he has attained minute the subjects with which they deal. They reveal directly,&lt;br /&gt;
historical detail without endangering his usual fine&lt;br /&gt;
as the histories and biographies reveal indirectly, the mind&lt;br /&gt;
and character of the writer. They are almost entirely free&lt;br /&gt;
critical standpoint. Especially interesting are his&lt;br /&gt;
from the extreme criticism and sweeping theorizing which&lt;br /&gt;
studies of Wackenroder and of Novalis, with the dis for this hater of mere critics and theorists seem to have a&lt;br /&gt;
tinction drawn between the instability of the latter fascination that he can resist only when his mind is engaged&lt;br /&gt;
strange, chaotic genius and Shelley&amp;#039;s championship&lt;br /&gt;
on facts with which he himself has dealt. Of his defects&lt;br /&gt;
and temptations there are also examples in the essays,&lt;br /&gt;
of truth. The account of the mysticism of the&lt;br /&gt;
especially in those that suggest lay sermons, in which the&lt;br /&gt;
romantic arama, with the &amp;quot; plays within plays O preaching is strikingly inferior to the author&amp;#039;s practice.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Werner and Kleist, is far more amusing than the His first publication, an historical work, appeared when&lt;br /&gt;
most fantastic collection of dreams, and the chapter he had been only a year out of Harvard, where he was&lt;br /&gt;
graduated, in 1880 ; * The Naval War of 1812 ; or, The&lt;br /&gt;
on Romantic Politicians contains a very interesting&lt;br /&gt;
mg History of the United States Navy during the Last War&lt;br /&gt;
criticism of Gentz. But though the book is a with Great Britain,&amp;quot; was published in 1882.&lt;br /&gt;
part of one of the classics of European literature, Mr. Roosevelt&amp;#039;s next work, published three years later,&lt;br /&gt;
one closes it with a sigh. The story of German&lt;br /&gt;
was entitled &ldquo;Hunting Trips of a Ranchman ; Sketches&lt;br /&gt;
of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains, together with&lt;br /&gt;
romance is infinitely more pathetic than their most&lt;br /&gt;
Personal Experiences of Life on a Cattle Ranch.&amp;quot; It was&lt;br /&gt;
tearful volume. One feels that it should have illustrated by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J. C. Beard,&lt;br /&gt;
been published by the Psychical Research Society. Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham.&lt;br /&gt;
Still, like all people who possess a deficient sense&lt;br /&gt;
In 1887 Mr. Roosevelt wrote the &amp;quot;Life of Thomas Hart&lt;br /&gt;
Benton,&amp;quot; and in the following year &ldquo; Gouverneur Morris,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
of humour, the German Romanticists are very&lt;br /&gt;
both duodecimo volumes published in the &ldquo; American&lt;br /&gt;
amusing.&lt;br /&gt;
Statesmen &amp;quot; series. In the same year another duodecimo&lt;br /&gt;
Sr. J. L. volume by him was published by the Putnams under the&lt;br /&gt;
title &ldquo;Essays on Practical Politics.&amp;quot; It was in the series,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Questions of the Day.&amp;quot; His most important work&lt;br /&gt;
appearing that year, 1888, however, was &ldquo;Ranch Life and&lt;br /&gt;
the Hunting Trail,&amp;quot; illustrated by Frederick Remington.&lt;br /&gt;
The first two volunes of the work which has been called&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
235&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps Mr. Roosevelt&amp;#039;s most substantial literary achieve.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, the-Winning of the West,&amp;quot; were issued by the Putnams.&lt;br /&gt;
The whole work is in five volumes, octavo, with maps.&lt;br /&gt;
The third volume came out in 1894. Its sub-title is &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths,&rdquo; and it&lt;br /&gt;
deals with the period from 1784 to 1790.&lt;br /&gt;
In the fourth volume, issued in 1996, he was still engaged&lt;br /&gt;
with this phase of American development. The volume is&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791 to 1807.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In 1891 Mr. Roosevelt published his &ldquo; New York&amp;quot; in the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Historic Towns,&amp;quot; a new edition with a postscript appearing&lt;br /&gt;
in 1895 ; 232 pages, duodecimo. .....&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Wilderness Hunter ; An Account of the Big Game&lt;br /&gt;
of the United States, and its Chase with Horse, Hound&lt;br /&gt;
and Rifle,&amp;quot; was published in 1893, illustrated by Frost,&lt;br /&gt;
Beard, Sandham and Remington. Many of the illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
are not ideal drawings, but studies of animals which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Roosevelt himself killed.&lt;br /&gt;
In the same year came &ldquo; American Big Game Hunting ;&lt;br /&gt;
the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club.&amp;quot; In this Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Roosevelt and G. B. Grinnell collaborated in the editing.&lt;br /&gt;
It is devoted to big game hunting in this country and to&lt;br /&gt;
questions of forest reservation, different papers having&lt;br /&gt;
been contributed by various members of the club. An&lt;br /&gt;
appendix gives a short account of the literature of American&lt;br /&gt;
big game hunting, a list of forest reservations, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
* Hunting in Many Lands.&amp;quot; also a part of the book of the&lt;br /&gt;
Boone and Crockett Club, in which Mr. Roosevelt again&lt;br /&gt;
collaborated with Mr. Grinnell, was published in 1895, and&lt;br /&gt;
in 1897 still another volume of this club book appeared,&lt;br /&gt;
from the same editorial hands, entitled &ldquo;Trail and Camp&lt;br /&gt;
Fire.&amp;quot; Also in 1897, Mr. Roosevelt published &ldquo; American&lt;br /&gt;
Ideals, and other Essays, Social and Political.&rdquo; Its con-&lt;br /&gt;
tents are : - American Ideals : True Americanism; The&lt;br /&gt;
Manly Virtues and Practical Politics : The College Graduate&lt;br /&gt;
and Public Life ; Phases of State Legislation ; Machine&lt;br /&gt;
Politics in New York City: Six Years of Civil Service&lt;br /&gt;
Reform ; Administering the New York Police Force; The&lt;br /&gt;
Vice-Presidency and the Campaign of 1896 ; How not to&lt;br /&gt;
Help our Poorer Brother; The Monroe Doctrine ; Wash-&lt;br /&gt;
ington&amp;#039;s Forgotten Maxim ; National Life and Character;&lt;br /&gt;
Social Evolutions ; Laws of Civilization and Decay.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Two years before this Mr. Roosevelt, in conjunction&lt;br /&gt;
with Serator Lodge, of Massachusetts, had prepared a&lt;br /&gt;
volume of &ldquo; Hero Tales from American History.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
In 1899 appeared &ldquo;The Rough Riders,&amp;quot; followed by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Oliver Cromwell&rdquo; and &ldquo; The Strenuous Life.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
There may be omissions in this list, which certainly is a&lt;br /&gt;
remarkable output from a man who has also been soldier&lt;br /&gt;
and statesman, and is only in his forty-fourth year.&lt;br /&gt;
It is my practice to write a polite letter of&lt;br /&gt;
inquiry as to MS. of mine which has been&lt;br /&gt;
retained by editors for more than six weeks, and,&lt;br /&gt;
if necessary, a week hence to write again; and they&lt;br /&gt;
are usually returned within a few days, but never&lt;br /&gt;
with one word of apology for their retention. Is&lt;br /&gt;
this politeness?&lt;br /&gt;
I do not think it fair or reasonable for any&lt;br /&gt;
editor to retain MS. for longer than a month&lt;br /&gt;
without first asking the permission of the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributor. In social life it would be bad manners.&lt;br /&gt;
to do otherwise. But editors are a law to&lt;br /&gt;
themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
Editors declare they are not responsible for lost&lt;br /&gt;
MS. I doubt if that would hold good at law. A&lt;br /&gt;
case should be tried in the county court; and the&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s books requisitioned to show if the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
was received, etc. Such books are, or should be,&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
kept. A jury would be more likely to decide&lt;br /&gt;
against the editor than for him. And certainly, if&lt;br /&gt;
anthors were to register their MS. and enclose&lt;br /&gt;
with it postace for return registration editors&lt;br /&gt;
would not have a leg to stand on. But so long as&lt;br /&gt;
authors are willing to be snubbed by editors, so&lt;br /&gt;
long do they deserve the scant courtesy and civility&lt;br /&gt;
they occasionally receive.&lt;br /&gt;
I have before me the MS. of an article recently&lt;br /&gt;
returned by the editor of a first-class magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
It is scored in places with blue pencil marks, and&lt;br /&gt;
my gra!nmar has been altered in two places, though,&lt;br /&gt;
in my humble opinion, without improvement. No&lt;br /&gt;
sort of apology was offered me for this act of&lt;br /&gt;
impertinence; and before I can submit the article&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere, I shall have to rewrite the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
(1,500 words). Is this the act of a gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
editor or of a common fellow?&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
SCRIBBLER.&lt;br /&gt;
Jay 8th, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, -I don&amp;#039;t doubt others better qualified than&lt;br /&gt;
me will reply to your correspondent, &ldquo; Another&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&rdquo; But if you can find space for a few&lt;br /&gt;
remarks of mine, I should be obliged.&lt;br /&gt;
I agree with him that editors are human, by&lt;br /&gt;
which I understand, amongst other things, that&lt;br /&gt;
they can put on their worst manners when it suits&lt;br /&gt;
them. As to polite letters from editors to polite&lt;br /&gt;
letters from contributors, it is not my invariable&lt;br /&gt;
experience.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, I imagine many of your readers must&lt;br /&gt;
share my amusement at the ingenuous letter of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Another Editor&rdquo; in your May issue. The descrip-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of this poor harassed creature, &ldquo;full of good&lt;br /&gt;
intentions,&amp;quot; and occupied in despatching&ldquo; prompt&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;polite&rdquo; notes to the unreasonable authors&lt;br /&gt;
who expect him to read and decide upon their&lt;br /&gt;
unsolicited contributions within a few days&mdash;&ldquo;per-&lt;br /&gt;
haps a week &amp;#039;&mdash;would be both impressive and&lt;br /&gt;
pathetic, did it not, alas ! compel an unbelieving&lt;br /&gt;
chuckle. Unfortunately &ldquo; Another Editor&rdquo; pro-&lt;br /&gt;
tests his promptitude and politeness a little too&lt;br /&gt;
much.&lt;br /&gt;
In the first place, the incident he quotes hardly&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
seems worthy of the importance be assigns to it. discussed and disputed authorship. It would be&lt;br /&gt;
No one but either the crudest amateur, whose interesting to know whether it has been declared&lt;br /&gt;
doings it were unprofitable to discuss, or a writer in any other way more likely to reach the general&lt;br /&gt;
of such eminence as to have a right to an imme- public, and if not, why any further attempt at&lt;br /&gt;
diate decision, would dream of expecting any editor concealment should be kept up. In Mudie&amp;#039;s new&lt;br /&gt;
to decide on a MS. within a week. The ordinary catalogue published this year neither of the two&lt;br /&gt;
contributor, conversant with the habits of the works referred to are inserted under the name of&lt;br /&gt;
ordinary editor, knows better than to expect any Housman, but both under that of the author of&lt;br /&gt;
such supernaturally prompt attention. If he the &ldquo; Love Letters.&rdquo; It is to be presumed that it&lt;br /&gt;
received it he would be sure that the editor was is only with Mr. Housman&amp;#039;s sanction and consent&lt;br /&gt;
too good for this world, and might reasonably feel that the authorship has been disclosed in the&lt;br /&gt;
anxious as to his state of health.&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Year Book, and one wonders why the&lt;br /&gt;
The real fact of the matter&mdash;which &ldquo; Another &ldquo;Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters&rdquo; was not also&lt;br /&gt;
Editor&amp;quot; ignores-is, that authors are subjected to included in the list of his works given there.&lt;br /&gt;
a great deal of annoying delay at the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
N. C.&lt;br /&gt;
editors which cannot possibly be necessary, at any&lt;br /&gt;
May 12th, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
rate in the case of a writer whose name is in any&lt;br /&gt;
way known. Personally, I do not ask for polite&lt;br /&gt;
notes and good intentions. What I do ask is, that&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORS&amp;#039; LETTERS.&lt;br /&gt;
an editor shall read a contribution submitted to SIR, &Agrave; propos of the complaint raised by a&lt;br /&gt;
him within a reasonable time, and either accept or&lt;br /&gt;
accept or member of the Society in your last issue, &ldquo;that a&lt;br /&gt;
reject it without further delay. If his hands are&lt;br /&gt;
communication received through his publisher had&lt;br /&gt;
so full of copy that he is unable to consider MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
been opened,&rdquo; an experience of my own may not be&lt;br /&gt;
until several months after receiving them, then he&lt;br /&gt;
without interest.&lt;br /&gt;
should notify that fact on the front page of his&lt;br /&gt;
A few years ago I contributed an article to one&lt;br /&gt;
magazine, and return all contributions unread.&lt;br /&gt;
of the leading magazines published by an &ldquo;old and&lt;br /&gt;
No one, I should think &mdash; except &amp;quot; Another responsible firm.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Editor&amp;#039;s&rdquo; important contributor-expects to receive Within a week or two I received a flattering&lt;br /&gt;
an editorial decision within a week of submitting letter from the head of 7&lt;br /&gt;
MSS., but on the other hand a delay of, say, two&lt;br /&gt;
lunch at his country house to discuss the writing of&lt;br /&gt;
Innch at his conn&lt;br /&gt;
months over the consideration of a few short stories&lt;br /&gt;
a book which he had long held to be a necessity,&lt;br /&gt;
is surely as ridiculous as it is uncalled for. Yet a&lt;br /&gt;
but for which he had not hitherto found a com-&lt;br /&gt;
case of this kind is at present engaging my own petent author. I was to have two years for the&lt;br /&gt;
attention, and, though I have already written twice&lt;br /&gt;
task, generous remuneration, and a fine advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
on the subject, I have received none of the polite&lt;br /&gt;
ment. Then the publisher died, the scheme fell&lt;br /&gt;
notes which &ldquo;Another Editor&amp;quot; is always despatching&lt;br /&gt;
through, and the book has not been written by&lt;br /&gt;
to his more fortunate contributors. Neither do I&lt;br /&gt;
me or any one else.&lt;br /&gt;
expect to do so. But, when the gentleman I refer&lt;br /&gt;
Two or three years later I contributed another&lt;br /&gt;
to receives my third letter--which he will do shortly &middot; article to another leading magazine. In sending&lt;br /&gt;
---requesting the immediate return of my MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
me a cheque for the contribution, the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
unless he wishes me to apply for the assistance of&lt;br /&gt;
incidentally asked me how it was I had never&lt;br /&gt;
your Society to recover them, I have not the slightest&lt;br /&gt;
answered a letter which he had addressed to me,&lt;br /&gt;
doubt that he will wonder aggrievedly why I am&lt;br /&gt;
care of the first-named publisher, on the occasion&lt;br /&gt;
in such an extraordinary hurry, and consider him-&lt;br /&gt;
of the publication of the first-named article, in&lt;br /&gt;
self as much an innocent and misunderstood martyr which he had asked me whether I was willing to&lt;br /&gt;
as &ldquo; Another Editor.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
undertake for him the writing of a book on the&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
very subject discussed by me with the first-named&lt;br /&gt;
publisher at his country house.&lt;br /&gt;
I replied that I had never received his letter,&lt;br /&gt;
and he then informed me that the envelope which&lt;br /&gt;
A MODERN ANT&AElig;US.&lt;br /&gt;
covered it had borne the device of his firm.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR.&mdash;May I draw attention to the fact that in The conclusion to be gathered was obvious, and&lt;br /&gt;
the Literary Year Book for 1902, &ldquo;A Modern I was thus deprived of a commission which I&lt;br /&gt;
Turray, 1901), is given in the list of could, at that time, ill afford to lose.&lt;br /&gt;
books by Mr. Laurence Housman ? Now as &amp;quot; A&lt;br /&gt;
Modern Ant&aelig;us&rdquo; is published by the author of an&lt;br /&gt;
I am, yours truly,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters,&rdquo; this is, of course, Malvern,&lt;br /&gt;
G. S. LAYARD.&lt;br /&gt;
equivalent to an announcement of the much May 2nd, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
USCRIPT.&lt;br /&gt;
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