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Vol. I.–No. 4.]
:
AUGUST 15, 1890.
[Price, Sixpence.
The Author.
THE ORGAN OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
(INCORPORATED).
CONDUCTED BY
WALTER BESANT.
published for the Society be
ALEXANDER P. WATT, 2, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,
LONDON, E.C.
1890.
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(The Organ oj the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly?)
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.
Vol. I.—No. 4-]
AUGUST i5, 1890.
- - [Price Sixpence.
CONTENTS.
PAGE 1
PAGE
News and Notes
89 | The Annual Dinner
90
NEWS AND NOTES.
IT has always been our custom to publish the
proceedings at the annual dinner of the
Society as a pamphlet, and send it round to
our members, in order that those unable to be
present on the occasion may benefit, equally with
the guests, from the speeches, and may resolve not
to absent themselves on a future occasion.
There is a dearth of matter for Literary Notes
and News in the month of August. The Author
for this month has therefore been made to consist
wholly of the proceedings at the dinner. We have
received communications, which in the natural
course of events would have been inserted in The
Author this month, but have decided to delay their
appearance.
Several of these are so interesting, and so dis-
tinctly have reference to our aims and objects that
it would be the greatest pity to attempt to discuss
them now.
It is not fair upon any question of interest to
submit it to the public—especially to a public
largely made up of working litterateurs—at this
season of the year.
—*-—
Paying for Production.—Thefollowingcutting
from some unknown journal was sent to me :—
"According to Mr. Besant's thinking, authors
should not pay for the printing and publishing of
their own books.
"I am loth to mention names, but I can assure Mr.
Besant that a great many of our now most popular
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authors did pay for the printing and publishing of
their first books, including Mr. Besant and his
clever partner, the late Mr. James Rice."
This is one of the little paragraphs which contrive
to tell the truth and to suggest a falsehood.
It is perfectly false to say that my late partner
and myself ever were such fools as to "pay for
production."
It is perfectly true that with many of our novels
—certainly the first three—we chose to print and
bind the work ourselves, and placed it ready for
publication in the publisher's hands. He sold it on
commission, which, in honest hands, is a very good
way of publishing a book though it involves some
knowledge of practical publishing and a good deal
of trouble. The way to work it is—
(1) To arrange with a printer and bookbinder.
(2) Tofind a commission publisher and arrange
about terms.
(3) To make the time ofpayment to the printer
fall at the time of receiving the first
publisher's return.
The advance or prepayment of money is thus
avoided. What the author risks is the difference
between the sales and the printers' bills.
As in the case of those persons who insist on
publishing what all the respectable houses refuse,
it is perfectly easy to work in this way, I have
always been amazed to find that they still fall into
the trap of so much down towards "cost of pro-
duction."
The Committee wish to impress upon members
of the Society, who are kind enough to interest
themselves in obtaining new members, that only
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THE AUTHOR.
such persons are eligible for membership who have
at any time published work which may fairly entitle
them to be described as authors, or those who have
been or are at present engaged in journalistic work.
♦
In last month's issue of The Author by an over-
sight the names of Professor Max-Miiller and
Augustine Birrell, M.P., were unfortunately omitted
from those who have consented to join our Council.
A document called a Memorandum, in reply to a
certain pamphlet which is exercising the mind of
the Society for the Promotion of Christian Know-
ledge by sweating Christian authors, has been
received. It shall be published in the September
number with a few remarks; meantime, it is sufficient
to say here, that it does not answer a single point
raised in that pamphlet, that it gives no figures,
that it explains nothing, that it admits everything,
and that it ends by denying everything.
*
THE ANNUAL DINNER
OF THE
INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF
AUTHORS
WAS HELD AT "THE CRITERION"
ON
Tuesday, July 8th, 1890,
PROFESSOR JEBB, Litt.D., IN THE CHAIR. •
TH ERE were about two hundred members
and guests present at the dinner, amongst
whom were the following:—
T. Bailey Aldrich.
Dr. Allon.
J. P. Anderson.
Miss Anderson.
A. E. Armstrong.
Alfred Austin.
James Baker. F.R.G.S.
W. Balestier.
E. A. R. Ball.
A. Barczinsky.
Mrs. Batty.
Dr. Beattie-Crozier.
E. Bechmann.
A. W. a Beckett.
Mrs. Belloc.
Sir Henry Bergne, K.C.M.G
Oscar Berry.
Walter Besant.
Mrs. Walter Besant.
J. A.-Blaikie.
Herr Brand.
C. Brookfield.
Mrs. Brookfield.
Oscar Browning.
General Burton.
Mrs. Mona Caird.
A. C. Calmour.
Mrs. Lovett Cameron.
William Carey.
Miss Childar.
Professor Church, F.R.S.
P. W. Clayden.
Mrs. Clifford.
Miss Clodd.
Edward Clodd.
W. Morris Colles.
F. Howard Collins.
W. M. Conway.
Miss Roalfe Cox.
Mrs. Roalfe Cox.
Oswald Crawfurd, C.M.G.
Miss S. Creed.
Miss May Crommelin.
A. P. Crouch.
Miss Curtis.
Mrs-. Cuthell
Austin Dobson.
Mrs. Edmonds.
Charles Edwardes.
John Eric Erichsen, F.R.S.
Professor Michael Foster, F.R.S.
G. W. Forrest.
H. Gilzean-Reid, P.I.J.
Mrs. Gilzean-Reid.
Dr. Ginsburg.
Dr. Goodchild.
Edmund Gosse.
Mrs. Edmund Gosse.
Mrs. Egmont Hake.
Egmont Hake.
Professor Hales.
Captain Harding, R.N.
Henry Harland.
Isaac Henderson.
W. L. Hetherington.
Mrs. Cashel Hoey.
J. Hollingshead.
H. M. Holman.
Miss Eleanor Holmes.
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Mrs. Holmes.
Rev. J. Inches Hillocks.
Fergus Hume.
Rev. W. Hunt.
A. James.
Mrs. James. (" Florence Warden.")
C. T. C. James.
Jerome K. Jerome.
Rev. Prebendary Harry Jones.
Major Jones, R.E.
Mrs. Charles Jones.
Mr. Jones.
Miss Jones.
C. F. Keary.
H. G. Keene, CLE.
Rudyard Kipling.
R. B. S. Knowles.
James Stanley Little.
L£on Little.
Mrs. Long.
E. J. Martyn.
Campbell McKellar.
Dr. McKinney.
Mrs. Middleton-Wake.
Rev. C. H. Middleton-Wake, F.L.S.
Mme. Mijiatovich.
C. Mitchell.
B. Mitford.
J. Fitzgerald Molloy.
A. Montefiore.
H. J. Montgomery.
George Moore.
Mrs. Chandler Moulton.
H. Naidley.
Professor Nicholson.
Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D.
Mrs. Goddard Orpen.
J. R. Osgood.
Mrs. Louisa Parr.
Dr. Parker.
A. Paterson.
Mrs. J. Pennell.
Miss E. Pollock.
Mrs. Walter Pollock.
Walter Herries Pollock.
Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart.
H. Campbell Praed.
Mrs. Campbell Praed.
Geo. Haven Putnam.
Mrs. Rohlf. (" Anna K. Green.")
Mr. Rohlf.
A. Gait Ross.
R. B. Ross.
Mrs. Mary Rowsell.
Mrs. Sala.
T. Bailey Saunders.
W. Baptiste Scoones.
Sydney Scott.
Professor A. Sedgwick, F.R.S.
Mrs. William Sharp.
William Sharp.
Mrs. Olive Logan Sikes.
G. R. Sims.
Dr. Sisley.
Professor Skeat.
G. W. Smalley.
G. Smith.
Mr. Crafton Smith.
Mrs. Crafton Smith. (" Nomad.")
Rev. J. Smith.
Miss S. J. Smith.
S. S. Sprigge {Secretary).
Dr. Balmanno Squire.
Sir John Stainer, Mus. Doc.
Lady Stainer.
Captain Stannard.
Mrs. Stannard. ("John Strange Winter.")
James Sully.
Miss Moy Thomas.
W. Moy Thomas.
A. W. Tuer.
Mrs. Underdown.
E. M. Underdown, Q.C.
Edric Vredenburg.
Arthur Warren.
A. P. Watt.
Theodore Watts.
William Westall.
Percy White.
Rev. Henry White.
Oscar Wilde.
W. H. Wilkinson.
Dr. C. J. Wills.
T. Woolner, R.A.
At the conclusion of dinner :—The Chairman
(in proposing the toast of "The Queen") said:
Ladies and gentlemen, the toast which I have the
honour now to propose to you is ever the first
where British subjects are assembled, and is ever
received with sincere loyalty and reverential attach-
ment,—sentiments justly inspired by a reign which
has given to this Empire, in the fullest measure, the
blessings of constitutional freedom, and which, in
every sphere of thought and action, has been auspi-
cious for the fruitful rivalries of peace. (Cheers.)
I ask you to drink to the health of our most
gracious Sovereign, the Queen.
The toast having been duly honoured—
The Chairman said: Ladies and gentlemen, the
next toast which I have the honour to propose to you
is that of the "Incorporated Society of Authors,"
and I rejoice that I can commence by offering
congratulations. During the past year, as the
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THE AUTHOR.
Report shows, the prosperity of this Society has
not only been fully maintained, but has been
increased in a marked degree. There has been a
very large accession to the number of members;
in every sphere of work which the Society has
entered, it has received fresh encouragement to
persevere; and amongst the new forms of activity
which it has developed, there is one which is
especially deserving of mention. The Society now
possesses a monthly periodical of its own in a
journal entitled The Author, which was published
for the first time in the month of May, and the
second number of which we have had in June.
It is an organ for the record and discussion of
everything that concerns the profession of letters;
it is also designed to be the medium by which
the Committee of the Society of Authors may keep
the other members informed of their proceedings.
The inception and editing of this Journal is a new
benefit which the Society owes to a member of its
Council, to whom it has been indebted for so
much else—Mr. Walter Besant. (Cheers.) I
think one may say that the establishment of this
Journal is a formal expression of the fact that this
Society is now the recognised guardian of great
and constantly growing interests. (Hear, hear.)
It is well known to all of you that on the list of
this Society's members are found some of the
foremost names in every branch of literature,
science, and art; and therefore in its corporate
capacity the Society may claim that representative
character which the appearance of this Journal
indicates. (Hear, hear.)
Literary property is no inconsiderable element in
the wealth of the nation; and yet hitherto the
producers of this wealth have, for various reasons,
been too often careless of their rights, and some-
times unable to defend them. This Society was
formed for the purpose of diffusing clearer know-
ledge regarding the nature and the value of literary
property, and also for the purpose of adopting all
possible means which may render such property
more secure.
In pursuing these aims there are, broadly
speaking, two principal provinces of endeavour
which such a Society as this is called upon to
enter:—One is that of the relations which exist
between authors and publishers; the other is the
Law of Copyright. As regards the relations which
exist between authors and publishers, the desire of
this Society is simply to see those relations placed
on a thoroughly intelligible and equitable footing
(hear, hear), a footing equitable for both the
partners in the joint enterprise. The Society
w;-' :s to see literary business conducted on prin-
■ similar to those which regulate business in
Lther form. Simply to state this is to say
that this Society has no quarrel whatsoever with
any honourable publishing firm. (Hear, hear.) On
the contrary, the work which this Society is attempt-
ing must be not less welcome to such firms than
it is to the authors themselves, for that work tends
to eliminate from the publishing vocation any
persons who may be likely to discredit it. It also,
by securing the fruits of his labour to the labourer,
encourages the deserving, and so seeks to elevate
the standard of literary produce.
It is fully and cordially recognised by the mem-
bers of this Society—recognised with a pride natural
to Englishmen—that the general history of publishing
in this country has been marked by integrity, in
many cases by enterprise, and in very many cases
by generosity. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand
it is undeniable that many authors are incapable
of appreciating the merits of a bargain proposed to
them by a trained man of business who regards the
matter from a commercial point of view; and it is
also undeniable that the details of the publishing
trade have too often been surrounded with a
needless amount of technical obscurity. (Hear,
hear, and laughter.) We fully recognize that
publishing is a useful, it may be a fine art, but we
deny that it ought to be a mystery. (Hear, hear.)
Now what have been the principal causes of such
mystery as has existed? The first cause concerns
what is termed the cost of production, that is to say,
of printing a book and introducing it to the public.
The Society has contributed to the elucidation
of this subject, which is well within the range of the
capacity conventionally described as "mean," by
publishing a little work for the use of its members,
called "The Cost of Production."
The other great cause of the haziness to which
I have alluded is of a subtler character: it is in
fact the time-honoured doctrine of "risk," which
might be described as the fundamental dogma of
bibliopolic orthodoxy. The classical adage that
"books have their fates" has been extended into
the doctrine that the fate of most books is very
nearly a toss up, and that, if a publisher has the
intrepidity to take his chance of heads or tails, such
heroism deserves a golden reward. (Laughter.)
Well, we are very far from denying that, down at
least to the early part of the eighteenth century,
the business of the publisher was in fact very often
an extremely hazardous one. But why was it so?
Because the reading public for most books was
then comparatively small; because circulation was
not assisted by such agencies as Book Clubs or
Literary Institutes; and because, for both those
reasons, the publisher found it difficult to feel the
pulse of the book-market. But before the end of
the eighteenth century a considerable change had
already occurred in that respect; and at the present
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day it is affirmed by competent persons, who have
investigated the subject, that a publisher very
seldom indeed brings out a book with the danger of
losing much by it. A certain margin of uncertainty
must of course always exist; but the authors of these
original researches say that theamount of speculative
element in the publishing trade has been greatly
exaggerated. And yet how strange, how almost
pathetic it is to reflect on the large part which this
dreaded monster "risk" has played in literary
destinies! There was a time when the average
author, after receiving from the publisher that
modest recompense which was appropriate to those
who ventured nothing, beheld almost with awe the
publisher pass within the veil, bound for those
mysterious regions, "farin the unapparent," where,
like Hercules or Sir Calidore, he was to meet single-
handed that appalling bogey " risk," and to conquer
or to fall. It must be our best comfort to reflect
that by far the larger proportion of these daring
publishers have survived the ordeal. And surely in
their turn they will permit us to say that writers
desire a revelation of this monster "risk" which
shall be less in the manner of Milton and more in
the manner of Dante. It it not enough for us to
know that he floats many a rood. We should like to
have some more exact measure of his dimensions.
(Laughter.) Before leaving this topic of the relations
between author and publisher, I would onlyadd that,
when an author submits to the Committee of this
Society a proposed but still unsigned agreement with
a publisher, the Committee does him a service if it
points out a flaw, but it does him a service also if
it tells him that there is no flaw—that he has no
just grievance, and that he is getting as much as he
can fairly expect. (Hear, hear.)
Now I will touch very briefly on the question of
copyright. As you are aware, the International
Copyright Act of June, 1886, enables this country
to enter any International Copyright Union which
may be established. But before this country can
do so on equal terms it is desirable—it is even
necessary—that the various existing Acts affecting
Domestic Copyright should be amended and con-
solidated. (Hear, hear.) The draft of a Bill for
that purpose has been prepared by a Committee of
this Society, of which the chairman is Sir Frederick
Pollock. (Applause.) As regards International
Copyright, the case of course in which it most
directly affects British authors is that of protection
for their works in the United States. (Hear, hear.)
It was naturally with a certain feeling of dis-
appointment that we lately learned that the House
of Representatives in Congress had thrown out, by
a majority of 28—by 126 votes against 98—the Bill
which would have afforded such protection. But
under our disappointment it is no small alleviation
vol. 1.
to know that everything that is soundest in American
opinion deplores that result (hear, hear), and
anxiously desires a correction of a state of things
which is felt to be unworthy of a great country.
(Hear, hear.) The present situation has been
clearly described in the current number of the
Fortnightly Review, by Mr. Edmund Gosse. (Ap-
plause.)
Among our guests this evening, the educated
opinion of the United States on this subject is
represented by some gentlemen who have been
strenuous supporters of that much-needed measure
of justice. One among them I may be permitted
to mention—one who for a long series of years has
been an indefatigable worker in that just cause—
Mr. George Haven Putnam. (Applause.) We
greet him and them, not as the champions of a
defeated cause, but as the champions of a cause
which in our hope and belief is destined to no
uncertain and no distant victory. (Cheers.) The
true interests of literature in the largest sense
are always international; and it is a source of
peculiar gratification to us that our meeting this
evening should be graced by the presence of a
representative of the German Society of Letters, to
whom we offer a respectful and cordial welcome.
(Cheers.)
And now, ladies and gentlemen, before I sit
down, it is my privilege to give you a message,
which I know you will receive with deep interest
and gratification. It is from the venerable an'd
illustrious President of this Society (general cheer-
ing), whose recent restoration to health has caused
rejoicing, not only throughout the British Empire,
but wherever the English language js spoken.
Lord Tennyson desires to assure you with what
sincere pleasure he learns of the continued and
increasing prosperity of this Society, and how glad
he is to know of the excellent work which it is
doing, in trying to make literary property more
secure. (Hear, hear.)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the toast of
"The Incorporated Society of Authors." (Loud
and prolonged cheering.)
Sir Frederick Pollock, in acknowledging the
toast, called attention to the practical work of the
Society in matters of foreign and colonial copyright,
and pointed out that the best and most certain way
to make the Society still more useful to its members
and to the world of letters, was for the members to
exert themselves to procure recruits and diffuse
knowledge of the Society and its operations.
Mr. Alfred Austin (in proposing the toast of
"Literature, Science, and Art") said: Professor
Jebb, ladies and gentlemen, when somewhat to my
surprise, and certainly very much above my deserts,
I was invited by the brilliant and vigorous man of
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letters, who is the Chairman of this Society, to
propose this evening the toast of "Literature,
Science, and Art," my first impression was that it
would be difficult for any man, and for me well
nigh impossible, to rise to the height of so great a
task; but on further reflection it occurred to me
that perhaps I was taking the toast, and myself as
well, a little too seriously, and I remembered
that in days less decorous, but perhaps more
convivial than these, there invariably appeared in
the programme of a festive evening the toast
"Our noble selves." Well, sir, in an assembly
consisting for the most part of men of letters, of
men of science, and of artists, what after all is the
toast of "Literature, Science, and Art," but the
ancient toast "Our noble selves"? So far as
science and art are concerned, I almost think that
toast is superfluous. Science certainly has received
abundant homage in this way: it has been hailed,
justly no doubt as the master of the modern world,
and art too it seems to me, still enjoys the favour
of princes, and the deference and adulation of critics.
But I feel sure that literature stands in poorer
case. Whatever we men of letters may think of
ourselves, I fancy the present age thinks very little
of us, most pedple in the present generation it
seems to me, being of opinion that the writing of
great works is a thing no longer worth doing, or
that writing is a thing that anybody can do. In
the face of such an attitude towards letters, is it
not natural, nay indeed, is it not necessary to ask
ourselves the question—What is literature? But
the moment we propound that question we find
ourselves confronted by two principles, two opinions,
that are a little hard to reconcile. Is literature
whatever people may choose to write and publish,
or is it that finer breadth of knowledge, that finer
spirit of thought, that finer form of expression,
which, as we all know, is the secret of only a
minority of those who write? In a word, is
literature something refined, elevated, fastidious—
allow me the word exclusive—or is it on the other
hand something broad, comprehensive, familiar,
and in which anyone, if so he chooses, may share?
The man who in these days seeks to be the
champion tif exclusiveness, or indeed of superiority
in any form, sets himself a difficult, an invidious,
and certainly a most unpopular task. Yet in an
assembly like this—an assembly consisting of men
who are proud of literature, proud of being men of
letters, and to whom the only patent of nobility
that they would think of for a moment, is literary
distinction—perhaps I may be allowed to add, in
which, so far as I can observe, any belief in any
other form of aristocracy, is well nigh dead—it may
still be desirable to maintain an aristocracy; it may
be a natural, but withal a recognisable aristocracy
of letters. Of course, by "aristocracy," I mean
the influence and recognition of what is best, and
I think that in this age an aristocracy of letters
might well be maintained. But, sir, if it is to be
maintained, is it not the fact that it must be imbued
with a deep reverence for tradition. Whatever
position we men of letters may occupy in the
present age, we at least have had great ancestors,
and the greatness of those ancestors, it seems to
me, compels us in our turn, whether we succeed or
whether we fail, at any rate to try to be great, or
they will reproach us if we fail to do so. But what
was it that made the distinction of those ancestors?
Surely it was the manner in which they presented
their thoughts, the methods by which those great
writers contrived to insinuate their thoughts at
once, and to make them abide for ever in the minds
of men. In a word it was the style, style, which is
the most aristocratic of all things, because it implies
absolute self-respect on the part of the writer, and a
most perfect consideration and deference for those
whom he addresses; surely without style, before
these days, no one would have supposed that there
could have been such a thing as literature at all.
Nevertheless, I suppose we shall all be of opinion
that even the claims of style may be pressed too
far. Everything in this world most readily and
most rapidly tend to degeneration and to decay,
and it is conceivable that a select class of writers,
animated by a passionate attachment to style, may
end by caring for nothing else.
Now, substance without form is better than form
without substance; and is it not possible that in
our search for that harmony, that common ground,
of which I spoke, between the champions of easy
going comprehensiveness on the one side, and
fastidious exclusiveness on the other side, with
regard to literature, is it not possible that we may
now have come upon that very thing of which we
are in search? The barbarians destroyed the
Roman Empire, but in that very act they renovated
the world and sowed the seeds even on the fields
they devastated, of the love of literature in the
future. And may we not be seeing at this moment
something akin—something analogous? I think
the masters of style whom I see around me to-night
will concur in the observation that in this age there
has been a tremendous irruption of barbarians into
the domain of literature; but instead of reviling
them should you not receive them with open arms?
They bring with them I suppose the modern spirit.
Their baggage may be sometimes rude and
occasionally perhaps a trifle scanty ; but at any rate
it is new and it is their own. Nor do I think there
is any fear of their overwhelming you, the masters
of style. At any rale they will not overwhelm you
permanently nor for ever keep back from mankind
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that in you which deserves to be perpetuated and
when the fear of their onset, the onset of these
barbarians, has passed away, style, like Shelley's
cloud, will " silently laugh at its own cenotaph," and
changing, but never dying, will arise after a time
and re-assert its perpetual fascination.
Therefore I am sure I shall most faithfully carry
out your behests if in proposing the toast of
"Literature, Science, and Art," I regard literature
in no narrow spirit, but in the broadest possible
signification, heartily sympathising with all those,
whether they may be masters or apprentices, whether
poets or novelists, historians or artists, dramatists
or journalists, who aspire to be regarded as men
of letters.
Many of us are of opinion that the state of
English Society with its infinite variety and easy,
endless gradations, is the most satisfactory, as
assuredly it is the most natural that the world has
ever seen. And is not this infinite variety—are not
these easy, endless, elastic gradations represented
in literature? It is no question of high and low;
it is no question of superior and inferior; it is only
a heterogeneous but harmonious company, ani-
mated by a common animation, and marching on
to a common end under the banner of a generous
brotherhood.
And here, sir, I think I might cease to occupy
your attention, were it not that 1 find that in this
toast science and art are coupled with literature,
and I should gladly testify, however inadequately,
to the close kinship which subsists between litera-
ture and science, and between science and art.
Many persons in these days have expressed grave
anxiety lest science, with its hard-headed temper
and practical spirit, should prove to be the enemy
of literature. Surely, sir, there never was a more
idle or more unfounded fear. Astronomy, I sup-
pose, is the oldest of the sciences; but surely the
definite and helpful discoveries of Kepler and
Copernicus, or of Newton and Galileo, have in no
degree diminished the magic and" mystery of the
stars. But there is a still more helpful relation
between science and literature. It is more than
250 years since Harvey published his celebrated
treatise on the circulation of the blood, but I
suppose that neither lovers nor men of letters
discourse less effectively or less fervently about
the heart than they did in days of old when Helen
was killed, or Dido was abandoned.
With regard to the connection between literature
and art, I prefer that Professor Conway should
discourse upon that subject. Therefore, ladies and
gentlemen, I propose to you the toast of " Litera-
ture, Science, and Art," coupled with the names of
Professor Hales, Professor Erichsen, and Professor
Conway. (Cheers.)
Professor Hales: Professor Jebb, ladies and
gentlemen, at this late hour of the night I will
not waste your time. Though I am sorry that no
more worthy name than my own could be selected
to respond to this toast, I thank you sincerely for
the honour you have done me. One thing strikes
me forcibly, however. I can imagine the amaze-
ment with which the authors of the last century
would have contemplated such a sight as we are
witnessing here to-night, downright regular authors
dining in state as wre are dining this evening.
(Laughter.)
Projessor John Eric Erichsen: Mr. Chairman,
ladies and gentlemen, when the history of the
nineteenth century comes to be written, the future
Lecky of another generation will have the task
before him of endeavouring to show the great and
deep influence that science has exercised during
the Victorian age, and not in its academic, or so
to speak, its scientific relations alone, but in all
that concerns the improvement of the social con-
ditions and the well-being of man, and in much
thatconcerns the political and international relations
of the civilized communities of the world. Every
century is an epoch or presents an epoch peculiarly
characteristic of itself in which some dominant
method of thought has found expression and has
influenced the feelings and the work of mankind;
and one may truly say that science in the nineteenth
century governs that expression. If we compare the
position of science as it was in the first decade of this
century with that which it now occupies in the last
decade, we cannot but be struck with the enormous
progress that it has made and the enormous
influence that it is exercising upon all classes and
all conditions of the community. If we look back
to what natural and applied science was in the
earliest period of this century—in the first decade
of this century—and compare it with what it is
now, we shall be struck with this enormous
difference—we shall see that in the early period
of this century what is called Natural History or
Zoology was really nothing but a description of
animals, the collection of stuffed beasts, the
classification of plants, and the giving, as it was
somewhat cynically termed, of " barbaric names to
worthless weeds," we shall find that more than half
a century had to elapse before that great doctrine of
evolution which has exercised so deep an impres-
sion, not only upon the scientific, but on the
philosophic and religious thought of this generation
had been put forward by Darwin. If we look
at the other natural sciences, and I shall not
attempt to lead you through them—we shall
find the same remarkable fact—that chemistry,
which was only getting into the position of a
science under the guidance of Davy and Wollaslon,
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has now become not the handmaiden but the master
of every technical art, of every manufacture, and
has contributed largely to the comfort and happi-
ness of mankind. We shall find if we look back
to physical science, greatly advanced as it was,
that the professors of it had not the remotest
conception of the enormous strides it was destined
to take in days antecedent to railways and locomo-
tives—still more was it impossible, in the wildest
dreams of science, to think of locomotives not only
running along a level plane but ascending moun-
tain sides, tunnelling through Alpine chains for many
miles, carried aloft on gigantic structures many
hundred feet high above arms of the sea, and founded
upon bases that were buried a hundred feet below
the surface of the tide. If we look to the other
sciences, to electricity, for instance, which at that
period was simply a toy to amuse schoolboys, or
to instruct the audiences of mechanics' institutes,
we find now, beating gas as an illuminant, that other
great power which has been created almost within
our own time, that it has in the electric telegraph
connection in every part of the world, that by
telephone it conveys, not only the voice, but the
very tones of that voice, to a distance of hundreds
of miles, that by the phonograph it records on
almost indelible tablets the accents in which those
words were spoken. And if we go to other
departments of Science—to that with which I
am the most conversant—we shall find that by
those inestimable chemical agencies pain has been
rendered a thing of the past, that surgery has been
deprived of its terrors, that procedures which
appalled the stoutest, the most heroic breast, are
now submitted to by the most timid person with
complacency and without a murmur. These great
triumphs of science are enduring; they are perma-
nent, and can never be lost to mankind. There is
no such thing as retrogression in science; science
never moves in circles, but ever in advance; year
after year some fresh position is conquered, often
it is true, after a hot conflict, though happily not a
sanguinary one; and once having been obtained,
it is never lost. There is no finality in science.
Art may be final—it may be final, if not in its
conception, at all events in its perfection; but
science is illimitable alike in its conception and in
its execution. What oi)r ancestors knew we well
know, and we know much more than they did.
What they could'db we can accomplish, and more
—more than they ever dreamed of accomplishing.
The same will be the case with our successors
undoubtedly. They will stand in the same relation
to us that we now stand in in regard to our
predecessors.
Great as the triumphs of science have been, there
are yet, in all probability, greater triumphs still in
store for science. Any day may bring forth a
discovery that may revolutionize the world. We
are ever on the threshold, as it were, looking over
boundless plains of research, great fields of know-
ledge which may yield most fruitful results.
Whatever may happen in the future, if we may
judge from the past, we may be sure that nothing
but benefit from science will accrue to mankind—
that his social condition will be improved, that his
intellectual status will be raised, and that he will
have a wider horizon of knowledge constantly
spreading before him in the field of science.
(Cheers.)
Professor Conway: Ladies and gentlemen, I
will only detain you for one moment, and during
that moment I will express my astonishment at
"Art " having been included in this toast. I have
been debating in my own mind during the course
of dinner for what reason it has been done, and it
was not until I heard the words of the Chairman
with reference to the art of publishing that I under-
stood why art should be included in our toast list.
Unfortunately, I am no representative of that art.
The only art I know is the art of listening, and I
hoped that I should not have been called upon
for an after-dinner speech.
Professor Michael Foster (in the absence of Mr.
George Augustus Sala) then proposed the toast of
"The Guests." He said: Mr. President, ladies
and gentlemen, I am very sorry—it is not necessary
for me to say—that I am not George Augustus
Sala. Why George Augustus Sala is not here and
where he may be at the present moment I do not
know; but I am very sorry that he is not here—
sorry for those whose health he was about to pro-
pose, sorry for those who were about to listen to
him, and sorrowing still more for myself who have
to put my diminutive feet into his somewhat roomy
shoes. (Laughter.) Who I am does not, I think,
concern you to know; it is sufficient to say that I
belong to a large class, to those who cannot say
"no" when Walter Besant asks you to do a thing,
and I do it under circumstances of great difficulty.
Just before dinner in the room down below, when
we were expecting the time when the clock would
strike half-past seven precisely, I was talking to
one of our distinguished members, and he drew the
conversation towards speeches after dinner, and I
thought then that I had no speech before me. I
do not like to quote his exact words—in my scien-
tific memoirs I always quote the exact words of
authors—in this assembly I feel a diffidence in
doing so, but I will give you the effect, and it was
that instructive speeches after dinner are detestable.
Now I must unfortunately, be instructive, because
I have to propose to you "The Guests," and
although they are known to all the world they are
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97
not all of them known to all of you. In the first place,
there is Mr. Gilzean Reid, who is the President of
the Institute of Journalists, which is a kindred
Institution with similar aims and identical objects.
If that is so Mr. Gilzean Reid is not a guest but a
brother. Then there is the German Society of
Authors, represented by Herr Brand, who has
already been referred to by the Chairman, and on
the principle that bis dat qui cito dat and therefore
qui bis dat cito dat, the toast will get to him all
the earlier if I ask you to repeat what has been
said. Then we come to a whole group which,
in the instructions that Mr. Walter Besant has
kindly given me, is spoken of as our American
friends, and here again I must commit an act of
reduplication. The first name I have to mention
is that of Mr. Geo. Haven Putnam, the greatest
friend of American Copyright. I have further to
mention Mr. Harry Harvey, who is well known all
over America—and perhaps I might venture to
say in the obscure little island of England—as
Sydney Scott. Then there is Mr. Bailey Aldrich,
an American poet, whom an English poet dares
to welcome as his guest. Lastly there is Mrs.
Chandler Moulton, the American poetess, with
whose poems all of us are familiar. Then I come
to one of whom, perhaps, though she is last is not
least Arriving at King's Cross this afternoon I
had an opportunity of a hurried word with a lady
who is not distantly connected with your Chairman.
I spoke to her of the interest attaching to ladies
dining in public with gentlemen. She said she
always thought that ladie s were in the way; she
then rushed into a cab before I had time to say
that that way was in all cases a shining way. But
perhaps Walter Besant will allow me to say that
with all respect for the great deeds that you have
done of late, I am inclined to think that the great
work of this Society of Authors has been that
they have instituted the practice of ladies dining
in public with gentlemen. (Applause.) I do not
know how the ladies have stood the severe baptism
of smoke, as my friend near me calls it, to which
they have been subjected; but I trust that in spite
of that and in spite of the speeches to which they
have listened and to which they are listening, they
have passed a pleasant evening. (Hear, hear.)
Ladies and gentlemen, I propose to you "Our
Guests," mentioning particularly the names of Mr.
Gilzean Reid, the President of the Institute of
Journalists, Herr Brand, and Mr. George Haven
Putnam. (Cheering.)
Mr. Giltean Reid: Mr. Chairman, Professor
Foster, ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you that
I shall not occupy your attention very long. A
friend has reminded rae that this is only the three
hundred and thirty-ninth time that I have responded
to the toast of the Institute of Journalists, and you
may rest assured that I am as anxious to get rid of
it as you are to get rid of me. I must protest
against being classed as a guest. I may claim in
one respect to be an author, as I wrote a book
which had a circulation of 1,400, which was sold to
the public at 6s., and which brought me the hand-
some recompense of £2 \2S. 3d. I also wrote
another book which had a circulation of 100,000,
and which never brought me a farthing profit. And
therefore I think I can claim to be one of your-
selves. We have not present here to-night George
Augustus Sala, and I always feel that a meeting of
literary men is defective without his genial sparkling
picturesque personality, which has added lustre to a
great profession. (Hear, hear.) Let me say we,
the Institute of Journalists, are entirely in sympathy
with the Society of Authors, and you may rest
assured that we shall continue, as we have been
doing, to work together for common and bene--
ficial ends. There are many common ends to
which we can co-operate, and to which we
have co-operated with this Society of Authors in
seeking to promote an equitable distribution of the
property in literature, and we have agreed to co-
operate in trying to establish an equitable inter-
national scheme of copyright, and I hope we
journalists shall also co-operate in exposing those
publishers—for a few still remain—who, whether
they be artists or not, know something about being
artful dodgers. (Laughter.)
Let me say that our Institute has made consider-
able progress. A few years ago we had only a
handful of members; to-day we have between two
and three thousand; and I can fairly say that our
membership represents nearly all that is best and
certainly all that is thoroughly representative in
Journalism. A friend has hinted here that the times
have changed. In the days of Queen Anne Acts were
introduced to restrain and repress and tax news-
papers. The press of the country was even then
becoming too powerful for the powers that were.
But a great change has taken place since that time.
Within the last few months another monarch,
good Queen Victoria, has given the journalists of the
Empire a royal charter, which enables them to define
their position, to secure privileges, and to establish
a scheme of administration and education; and we
shall work on as we have worked with this Society
of Authors, and other kindred institutions, so that
we may establish that which will be in truth a real
and healthy brotherhood of the pencil and the pen.
(Cheers.)
Herr Brand: Ladies and gentlemen, I beg to
thank you for inviting me to this charming assembly
to-night. I shall not fail to report it in the proper
quarters, hoping that if any of you were ever to come
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THE AUTHOR.
to our assemblies, you would be made to feel welcome
in the veryheartiest manner as we have been made to
feel welcome amongst you here to-night. I am afraid
we could not offer you such a splendid banquet, but
we would try to make up for that in the extension
of our festivities. Our annual assembly actually
extends over three whole days and part of the night
as well. (Laughter.) It is chiefly devoted to the
transaction of the business of the Society, but still
there remains some time left, as there was last
summer in Frankfort-on-the-Maine, for a festival
performance at the Opera one night; for an
excursion to the Rhine; for an excursion to
Wiesbaden, and for a few other entertainments.
With those exceptions the time was strictly devoted
to business. This summer, next month, the gather-
ing will take place at Breslau, and if any of those
present here to-night should be there, we shall offer
them a hearty welcome. (Cheers.)
Mr. George Haven Putnam: If I remember my
Scriptures, directly Daniel was able to get safely out
of the Den of Lions he made a speech; but I do
not think he was asked to make a speech before he
got out. (Laughter.) I am conscious of being a
publisher; however, I am not come here to speak
these words to-night in the rdle of a publisher; but
only because my business happens to be associated
with international copyright. On behalf of the
associated trades of authors and publishers of the
United States, who have been doing very hard work
under circumstances of some little discouragement
and difficulty, I have to express to this Society
that it is their fixed intention to carry on that work
with the hope that in the future international
copyright will be put in a proper position of
solidarity, and that the relations of authors and
publishers will be put on a proper footing. I need
only say with regard to the work already done, and
in connection with the discouraging vote in the
House of Representatives a few weeks back, a great
deal has been done in the United States. As you
Englishmen know, we have used English books
very largely during the last century, and not paid
for them. A great many of the States have instructed
their representatives to vote in behalf of authors,
both English and American, and the middle States,
and the greater portion of the States of the North
West, voted solidly in support of that Bill. So that
we have won over communities, and the work of
winning over communities will still go on, and will
not be so long a task as people here dreaded. I
look forward to the day when all these difficulties
between authors and publishers will be settled on
a mutually remunerative basis. Publishers will
soon I expect have an association of their own, and
we shall hear of the grievances of publishers against
authors, and we shall then have our own organs on
the other side. But these are practically, as between
honest publishers and honest authors, matters of
detail. I look forward to the day when authors all
over the world will be receiving the highest
remuneration. Then authors will become princes
of finance, as well as princes of literature.
Mr. Oscar Wilde: Ladies and gentlemen, I
confess that I am of opinion that in the case of
authors while speech is silver, writing is gold, and
that on the whole those of us, who claim at all the
distinction of being men of letters, should not
get up after dinner and make serious speeches,
except for the purpose, so necessary in a great re-
ligious country like England, of conveying in a
certain popular manner the sense of the tediousness
of eternity. But on the other hand when I was
invited by the Committee of this Society to pro-
pose the health of our Chairman this evening, I
felt that no incorporated author could attempt to
draw back. This is, ladies and gentlemen, our
third banquet. We had first Mr. Bryce, and I
think it was a privilege to us to have as guest
on that occasion a man so loved and so honoured
amongst the people of the largest English-speaking
country in the world, as Mr. J. Russell Lowell.
Lord Pembroke, an author and a man of
culture, and one whose name being so intimately
connected with English literature, going back in-
deed to Elizabethan days, conferred distinction
upon our Society. And to-night we have to wel-
come as our Chairman Professor Richard Claver-
house Jebb, who is known, not merely in England,
but certainly in Germany, France and Holland, and
everywhere where Greek and Latin literature is
read, as a scholar and a man of letters. (Cheers.)
I must confess, sir, if you will allow me to address
you personally, that I think that you, in confining
yourself to the wide sphere of University life, have
chosen the better part. The man of letters, on
the whole, should live in a University and with
University surroundings. We have constantly be-
fore us the irresistible temptations of modern life,
and now and then a dreadful rumour appears in
the papers that many of our most popular writers
are tempted to abandon literature for other things.
I remember the pang that shot through many of
us when we read in the Times one morning that
Mr. Walter Besant was going to become a member
of the County Council. Subsequently there ap-
peared a statement that Mr. Rider Haggard, de-
siring to find a fuller scope for the mendacity of
Allan Quatermain, intended to seek distraction on
a political platform, and that charming and graceful
writer, the author of "Obiter Dicta," has lately
joined the minority in the House of Commons.
Yes, sir, you have chosen the better part. A
scholar—a man of letters—should not live in
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the turmoil of modern life. With us Ariel
comes too rarely and Caliban criticizes our books.
You have written, sir, upon Homer. Alas! in our
life there is nothing that is Homeric except the
uncouth Thersites. Sir, we look upon you as one
who has realized the ideal and as one who has
devoted himself to literature. When I was at
Oxford I was always consoled for the extraordinary
and, as it seemed to me at the time, the deliberate
dullness of my tutor, by the fact that one could
loiter in the grey cloisters at morning listening to
the voices singing, and lie in the garden on the
grass and see the sunlight reflected on the towers
and gilded panes, or wander up the staircase of
Christ Church beneath its vaulted ceilings, and
stroll across the College of St. John's and see the
house that Laud built for his pleasure. You, sir,
have surroundings no less lovely and beautiful;
and those are the surroundings that a man of
letters should have. Nor is it a question of sur-
roundings merely. The great eras in English
literature have been those when the Universities
have been in immediate touch with the literature
of the times; one imperishable thing we have in
our literature—the work of Milton, which shows
what I mean.
I remember, sir, having the pleasure some years
ago of reading a book of yours upon the Attic
orators, a book, I need hardly say, distinguished
by the highest scholarship j and in those days
it seemed that the literary man was also able
to make a speech. I am inclined to think that
now that is the one thing we should never do.
But as I have touched upon the definite work
that you have done, not merely for your own
University, but for all of us, allow me to remind
the company present of other things you have done
also. That great scholar, Richard Bentley, seems
to me to have left the mantle of his critical insight
to that scholar who now holds the position of Regius
Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge,
and who has written a monograph on his great
predecessor that is a little masterpiece of style and
method. It is said sometimes of those scholars who
deal critically with minute work that they deal merely
with words. Sometimes I think that words are
the only reality, and I wish that the English critics
whom we have now working amongst us would
expend upon the linguistic criticism of the English
language one-twentieth part of the care and trouble
that a scholar of Oxford or Cambridge gives to the
language of the Greek or the Roman. What is the
mission of criticism but to preserve language pure
and uncorrupted, to test every new intruder, to keep
the old words from getting old-fashioned, and to
always keep before the eyes of the writer that language
is precious material. Our ordinary books have passed
into uncouth realism or into what is not literature at
all, and when one remembers what the Universities
do for us in keeping alive the Greek and Latin lan-
guages and Greek and Latin modes of thought, and
then takes up some ordinary and possibly evening
newspaper, one is tempted to think that the only
dead language is the English language. (Laughter.)
And finally, sir, you will allow me to remind the
audience of authors who are present here to-night
that your work is not merely confined to perfect
scholarship, to the delicate traditions of the most
perfect literature of the world, but that by your quick
insight into modern culture you have been the link
between the life of our own time and the life of
the Greek; and that you yourself have also con-
tributed to modern literature a work that no one
would ever dream of parting with—that beautiful
translation of Sophocles that enables us to hear
the imaginative voice of music that once stirred
the people of Athens. There is an Italian proverb
"tradittori traduttori." I think the translation of
the work of the creator of CEdipus Tyrannos shows,
so far as we are concerned, that our withers are
unwrung. There have been beautiful translations
in verse of Greek and Latin things and one, a gentle
and most courteous man of letters, Lord Carnarvon,
whose death we all deplore, did recently into verse
a translation of the "Odyssey," but your transla-
tion, sir, is a classic. And so, sir, let me felicitate
you in that you have chosen the better part: let
me felicitate the University that has had so dis-
tinguished a son: let me felicitate the Society of
Authors in that we have as our Chairman one who
is not only a perfect scholar but also a brilliant man
of letters.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to drink to the
Chairman of the evening. (Loud cheers.)
The Chairman: Let me ask permission to
thank you most sincerely for the kind words
you have spoken, words which I felt to be most
deeply sympathetic, and to thank this distinguished
company for the very kind manner in which those
words have been received.
Allow me simply to say from my heart that it
has been felt by me as the greatest possible honour
and pleasure to be here this evening. I thank
you.
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