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Full text search for all issues, and other additional search functionality, will be added in 2022. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890–1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The-Author-Issues Publication Date The date of an event (in YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD format) 1891-11-01 Volume 2 Issue 6 Pages Page range in volume 161–192 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18911101 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin Uhc Mutbor* [The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vol. II.—No. 6.] NOVEMBER i, 1891. [Price Sixpence. Warnings Notices "65 On Royalties iM The Form and Cost of a Stamp 166 Copyright in America 167 An Old Dream 16S A Plea for the Popular iOS Assorted Aphorisms '7° "Slating" '1' Notes and News 17' The Bookman OS The Harvest of the Year I7S The Independent Theatre 77 CONTENTS. PAGB 1 .. 165 PAGE To England "7s A Bureau of Literary Revision >78 The Writers'Club '79 Correspondence— I.—All for Nothing '79 II.—Good Work, Sure Pay 's° III. —" Good Work, Sure Pay" '80 IV. -More Light "8' V.—An Honourable Action 183 VI.—Authors and Illustrations l8' A Case for the Society for Psychical Research 83 "At the Author's Head" l8« New Books and New Editions '85 EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE. STATE TRIALS, Reports of. New Series. Vol. 1831—40. Published under the direction of the State III., Trials Committee. Edited by John Macdoxell. M.A. 10*. INVESTMENTS. 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Send Postal Card for Free Illustrated List (containing interesting Testimonials from the Best People, who have used them for years) to— MABIE, TODD, & BARD, 83, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. * ## p. 165 (#569) ############################################ XI b e Hutbor* (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly,) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vol. II.—No. 6.] NOVEMBER i, 1891. [Price Sixpence. For the Opinions expressed in papers that arc signed the Authors alone arc responsible. — »■»■♦ WARNINGS. Readers of the Author are earnestly desired to make the following warnings as widely known as possible. They are based on the experience of six years' work upon the dangers to which literary property is exposed :— (1.) Never sign any agreement of which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part, unless an opportunity of proving the correctness of the figures is given them. (2.) Never enter into any correspondence with publishers, especially with advertising publishers, who are not recommended by experiencetl friends or by this Society. (3.) Never, on any account whatever, bind yourself down for future work to any one firm of publishers. (4.) Never accept any projKisal of royalty without ascertaining exactly what the agreement gives to the author and what to the publisher. (5.) Never accept any pecuniary risk or respon- sibility whatever without advice. (6.) Never, when a MS. has l>oon refused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises they may put forward, for the production of the work. (7.) Never sign away American rights. Keep them. Refuse to sign an agreement con- taining a clause which reserves them for the publisher. If the publisher insists, take away the MS. and offer it to another. (8.) Never forget that publishing is a business, like any other business, totally unconneeU-d with philanthropy, charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with business men. Society's Offices:— 4, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. NOTICES. THE friends of the late James Runciman, a member of this Society, will learn with pain that he has left a widow and children totally unprovided for. His literary success came too late to enable him to put by anything, and he was cut off at the early age of 3g. Contributions are received by Mr. W. E. Henley, National Observer, Edinburgh, or will be sent to him if forwarded to the Secretary at this office. Members and others who wish their MSS. read are requested not to send them to the Office without previously communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in which they are received. It must also be distinctly understood that the Society does not, under any circumstances, under- take the publication of MSS. The official directions for the secviring of American copyright by English authors were given in the Author for June 1891. Members are earnestly entreated to take the trouble of rending those directions. ## p. 166 (#570) ############################################ i66 THE AUTHOR. Members are earnestly requested to forward agreements to the Society for inspection before they sign them. Once signed, the mischief is generally irreparable. II.—On the sale of the next 3,ooo. ON ROYALTIES, fT^HE invention of what is called the royalty I system was one of the neatest and prettiest strokes eyer invented for the. pillage of the luckless author. For, before that disaster, no publisher ever ventured to ask for more than half profits. To be sure he took more, in fact, he frequently took all, and left the poor author none. But there was the principle. He said, " I take all the risk; that is my contribution to the joint enterprise. Therefore I am entitled to take half the profits." This agreed upon, the fraudulent publisher took them all, and refused to show his books. Then somebody invented royalties. The author, as the silly trout le«ps to the fly, leaped to the bait of " something." He had been so long accustomed to get nothing on the "half profit" system that he thought any change would be a change for the better, and, as has always been the curse and bane of all dealings between author and publisher, he never looked at the other side at all. The publisher offered him 10 per cent., even 5 per cent. Even now there are writers who think themselves nobly treated at 10 per cent. Of late, since the 10 per cent, royalty has become a little fly-blown, he has been offering a penny in the shilling or twopence in the shilling. Let every writer understand exactly what he is giving away when he signs a royalty agree- ment. The following table, taken from "Methods of Publishing," will give him the necessary infor- mation. It is calculated for a 6s. novel. In proportion it will do for anything else, the cost of production of the first edition being roughly about one-fourth of the advertised price. The " conclu- sions" are also taken from the same book, which ought to be in the hands of every one who writes books of any kind. I.—On the side of the first l.ooo. £175—£100 to divide. Per cent. S 10 ■5 30 30 Publisher - £ £ £ £ £ € 60 45 jo Author • 30 45 Co 55 90 £52S-£iSO to divide. Pit eent. 5 15 20 25 30 35 £ £ 385 £ £ .£ £ £ 60 Publisher ■ 330 240 195 ISO 10S Author - 4S 90 '35 1S0 "5 370 3>5 III.—On the sale of an edition of 10,000. Per cent. £1,750—.C400 to divide. 5 20 30 3S £ £ £ £ £ Publisher - I.2C0 1,050 900 750 600 45o 300 Author - I50 300 450 600 750 400 1,050 Conclusions:— (1.) No author should sign an agreement whereby he binds himself to receive a low royalty for an indefinite number of editions. This is equivalent to saying that he should retaiu his copyright, and so give himself the opportunity of reaping the rewards of any big success, by securing for himself a higher percentage of the results. (2.) No author should sign an agreement whereby he is not to receive a royalty until a certain number of copies have been sold, unless the agreement provides facilities for the verification of the publisher's account. (3.) No author should sign an agreement whereby he is not to receive a royalty until the cost of production is covered, unless he has every oppor- tunity of satisfying himself that no more than the actual cost is charged. To these conclusions may be added the corollary that no oik; should sign any royalty agreement without learning what the publisher who proposes it reserves for himself. THE FORM AND COST OF A STAMP. IT has been for a long time, as the papers in our office show, and still is, as our daily work informs us, a very usual custom in many of the large publishing houses to affix to their forms of agreement a sixpenny adhesive stamp, and formally cancel it by writing the date or their initials over it. This proceeding has been supposed to be a compliance with the law, and to obviate any ## p. 167 (#571) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. risk of future penalties, should it Iwconie necessary to produce the contract or agreement in a court of law. Upon this subject a few words of explanation and of caution have become necessary, for this use of a sixpenny adhesive stamp does not necessarily constitute the safeguard against penalties that seems to be expected from it. The second clause of the Stamp Act of 1891 is as follows:—" All stamp duties for the time being chargeable by law upon any instruments are to bo paid and denoted according to the regulations in this Act contained, and, except where express pro- vision is made to the contrary, are to be denoted by impressed stamps only." Under certain circumstances this express provi- sion is made for the use of adhesive stamps,—but only, it may be added, up to a small sum—so that upon occasion this method of stamping the contracts between author and publisher is effective. But, certainly adhesive stamps of a lower value cannot be used so as to evade the ad valorem duties chargeable at Somerset Ilouse upon all conveyances. Where the agreement consists of a transfer or assignment of literary property from one person to another these ad valorem duties have to be paid, and to use a sixpenny adhesive stamp upon such contracts would not be held to satisfy the Act. Even if stamps of the correct value were affixed, it is doubtful whether the penalty would not have to be paid before the document in question could be admitted in evidence in a court of justice, as the Act demands an impressed stamp; but it is certain that to affix an adhesive stamp of a lower value is a futile proceeding. Yet this is constantly done. During the past twelvemonth many agreements stamped in this way have come through our office. Some have been royalty agreements on the printed forms of a publisher's office, ami such agreements are very clearly liable to ad valorem duties. Some have been merely letters containing the terms of the assignment. This fixing of a sixpenny adhesive stamp at the bottom is not sufficient. The duty of 6d. upon an agreement may l>e denoted by a sixpenny stamp, to be cancelled in the usual way, but a sixpenny stamp is not available for the conveyance of literary property, and authors cannot too soon understand this. In all question of doubt application should be made to Somerset House for light on the matter. If an agreement should be insufficiently stamped at Somerset House, the deficit has to be made up l)cfore the document can be produced as evidence, but no penalty lies against the producer. On page 32 8 of the Author, Vol. I., will be found complete instructions on the procedure necessary to get an agreement properly stamped. Briefly, the agreement must be taken to Somerset House, and the officer whose duty it is must be asked to stamp it with the amount of duty charge- able upon it. This amount is probably correct according to the Act. If there is anv doubt the Commissioners may be requested to assess it. If any appeal is made from the decision of the Com- missioners, it comes before the High Court of Justice, or even, ultimately, before the House of Lortls. COPYRIGHT IN AMERICA. ATRANSATLANTIC "boom" was the inevitable sequel of the Printer's Protection Act. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole writing tribe is making a rush to secure a place in the new market. But if 60,000,000 readers, now that they have to pay for their residing, represent a public worth capturing, it may be just as well to bear in mind that the value of American Copyright is and must long be, in every case, an unknown quantity. In the case of unknown writers, or of writers who, if they have a decent circulation here, are unknown to the American public, the necessity for securing American Copy- right adds a new difficulty to their already suffi- ciently complicated business transactions. The immediate effect of the Act has been to restrict the output pending the completion of arrange- ments for printing and publishing on the other side of the Atlantic. In this connexion, moreover, American newspaper rights have acquired an altogether exceptional importance. There is, it appears, no doubt whatever that publication in the columns of a newspaper from type set within the limits of the United States satisfies the statute and affords a valid protection of the American Copyright, leaving the author or his assigns free to publish in book form if and when this is desired. The difficulty of retaining American Copyright in the case of matter published serially in England only, will, perhaps, be got over by sending out advance sheets and reprinting in America in time to issue in l>ook form before the completion of the English serial form. In many cases, however, new writers will find it much easier to secure American publication in serial than in book form. It is, therefore, of some importance that it should 1k» known that American Copyright can be secured in this way. A word of warning, however, seems to be necessary. The value of American rights is, as we have said, still in all but a very few cases (probably 3o at most) absolutely unascertainable. They can only be secured at the expense of considerable ## p. 168 (#572) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. trouble, and there is a danger that authors, in their anxiety to secure tliein, may accept any offer, however inadequate. Nor is that by any means all. A clause is coming to be inserted by common form in agreements for the purchase of either serial or book rights which covers all American rights, although it may be questioned whether in many cases this is understood by the author. It should be borne in mind, therefore, that in all contracts for the sale of the American serial right the American Copyright should be expressly reserved. Authors will have only themselves to blame if by carelessness or through ignorance they contract themselves out of the benefits of the statute or assign them to others otherwise than for good consideration. Mr. Herbert Spencer has written to a Phila- delphia correspondent as follows :—" I want to say through you that I shall not take advantage of the new American Copyright Law. I shall continue to do as I have done heretofore. I shall send over to America the stereotype plates of my books and have them printed there, without seeking for any protection from the American Government. This new law is really prejudicial to the interests of grave literature. . . . With this copyright law, it will pay the American publisher less than before to take up books of a kind which are of doubtful sale. The fatal defect in the law is that it puts the author or publisher to the expense of a double manufacture in supplying two communities. . . . Instead of encouraging the unknown author, and the author of serious books, this law makes it harder for him to gain due recognition than it was before. Under this American law the publisher will seek out the man who has made his name; he will buy the popular author's works and dis- tribute them very widely, and meantime the rising man will be left to his own devices. The general effect will be to multiply the reproduction of books which have no serious influence on the world, and to discourage those who write books of instruction." AN OLD DREAM. Und als die Wahrheit ward geboren, Da Kroch sie in ein Jagerhorn: Der Jiiger bliets sie in der Wind, Dahor man koine Trcu mchr find't. German Proverb. This verse I learned in German tongue, And heard it by a harper sung, That "when on Earth the Truth was born, She crept into a hunting horn; The hunter came—the horn was blown But where Truth went was never known." And yet sweet Truth is living still, And sometimes on a lonely hill In whispering leaves or reeds at choice, I oft at evening hear her voice. Or else it seems to softly ring Where nightingales in woodlands sing, Or where the lark at early morn Kings chorals over hill and bourn. And yet again whene'er I pass, In dew drops over sprinkled grass, Or violet stars in summer skies, I see her softly shining eyes. When in the forest shade I lay Beside a brook one autumn day, And breathed the fresh leaf scented air I joyed to feel that Truth was there. And in the mountains wild and lone Where the wind sings its monotone; And every thought has liberty, There is the Truth, where man is free. In valleys still in ocean foam I feel sweet Truth where'er I roam, Ho for the greenwood—rock and forn! Alone I'll go—alone return! Cu.w.es Godfrey Leland. — A PLEA FOR THE POPULAR, MY name k placarded on every railway stall; my books are piled in heaps behind the placards. You may watch these heaps diminishing rapidly as the people buy them up; you may see them reading my books in the first class as much as in the third. I get a royalty of twopence in the shilling, an arrangement which gives the publishers a good deal more than it gives me. But I am content. The side of sixty, eighty, a hundred thousand, two or three times a year, yields, as you can easily calculate for yourselves, a tidy little income. In fact, I cleared, last year, close upon £2,000. Which is really not bad. In any walk of life it would be a solid success. In literature it is phenomenal. But there is one drop of bitterness which poisons all the cup. It is that whenever the reviews mention my name—every week, that happens—they all with one consent hold me up to contempt as the ## p. 169 (#573) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. kind of monstrous creature whom the coarse and uneducated public delights to honour. They gird at my fun, they deride my pathos, they ridicule my philosophy. Cheap, Brummagen, sham, melo- dramatic, commonplace, vulgar, are a few of the adjectives which they habitually heap upon me. This kind of criticism, observe, does not hurt my income a bit, and therefore 1 ought not to mind it. But it makes my publisher mad, because he wants to Ik; considered as a pat ron and producer of nothing but high-class literature.—the very highest—and he can- not bring himself to forego the profit of bringing out Me. As for me, I can very well afford to laugh and let the critics rail. Yet the adjectives prick a bit sometimes. They sting and prick and make one wince. At such times I feel inclined to turn. Although I cannot hit back I can turn and I can explain my position. I am turning now. "Messieurs the critics," I say, "gentlemen, all you who write for the high-class reviews and the 'thoughtful' monthlies, are for the most part, I believe, classical scholars. You have had the very great advantage of the finest education that the world can offer; you have been trained in the very best models; you learned quite early in life what is meant by style and taste; you sniff vulgarity a mile off. Further, you have assumed the office of censor; you stand up officially and for payment as the professional defenders and advocates and pro- tectors of literature; you demand for literature a lofty standard of taste and style ; you insist upon measuring all who write—that is to say, all from you read—bv this standard, which may be, for aught I know, an everlasting canon, handed down whom ancient times, or a little yard measure of your own. "Very good. But, I pray you, consider a little. "You, and your fathers before you, have been for a hundred years continually advocating the education of the whole people. You have succeeded so far that you have given them the tools by which education is achieved or imparted. You thought when you taught them to read, that you were actually educating them. You commonly talk as if you think so still. It is not so, I assure you. The people are as far from being educated now as they were a hundred years ago. But they have learned to read, which is the first step. When you open free public libraries, you talk as if you were creating students in science and literature. You do not, I assure you. There are no more students after the libraries are opened than there, were before. Readers, however, there are in plenty You have given, in fact, to all the people, what was formerly the property of a few, a new ne- cessity of life. You have taught them to read. They must read. They will read. Heading is their favourite occupation when they are neither VOL. II. working npr playing. They read when they are in train or omnibus; they read when they are alone; they read in the evenings; they read on Sundays. All the world reads. They read the newspaper first; the novelette next; and Me, and those like me, they read next. Last of all, gentle- men, and least of all, they read those modern and living authors whom you praise, those who have style, taste, refinement, breeding, scholarship, and poetry. "When you have imparted to the moss of the people that craving for taste and style which is an instinct with yourselves, they will read your favourite authors. But not till then. And I see no signs of your even attempting this colossal task. "You arc perfectly right, however, in your efforts to keep up the standard of literature. You are, I think, wrong in not recognizing the fact that in modern literature there are many mansions— many standards—and that the highest is as im- possible for the general mass as the lowest is for you. "Again, in your public schools, gentlemen, and at your universities, all the youths have the same education. Yet those who travel first-class read Me, and the like of me, as much as those who travel third. Why? Because with all jour educa- tion it is but a few—you yourselves, gentlemen, and your friends—who achieve any real knowledge or understanding of style and taste. The many cannot arrive at this knowledge; they do not even try; they are content with Me and with my like. "Since this is so, would it not be well not to demand of Me—and such as me—those qualities, which, if I possessed them, would ruin me and do no good to mv readers, because they would instantly cease to read me? I am what the people want me to be. I write what I know will please the people. I found out what they wanted, because I know what pleased me. I write for myself; therefore, I write for the world. I was educated at a great middle class school to go into the City like my father. I did. Then I felt prickings. I always read as much as I could lay hands upon. When the pi'ickings became sharp goads I began to write. Comic things I wrote first, pathetic things next, stories of tears and laughter next. At first, stories about the people. But they like, 1 find, something rather above their own level. So now I give them a baronet, or even an earl sometimes. The language is a little above them. The way of life as much above their own as I can make it. The manners also as much above theirs as I can go. That is not, I acknowledge, very much. So 1 succeeded, and 1 am in the City no more. Again, take my essays. It is wonderful to think of the really savage way in which my essays have been received by you gentlemen. Yet they are written on exactly the same principle as my stories. M ## p. 170 (#574) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. They are as commonplace, as gaudy, as cheap, as trite as you plea.se. But, gentlemen, they are not so to these people. They are only just a little above their way of looking at things. My readers understand me by an effort of the mind—not a fatiguing effort—yet an effort. I teach them; I educate them. To them 1 reveal things previously unknown. Do you call a l>ook of arithmetic commonplace? It is not so to the school boy; it is to him new and difficult. So with mv essays. I teach the j)cople. Well, then, you will say next that I ought to teach better, to teach more, to teach a higher philosophy. Forgive me; I can only teach what the peoples want to learn. Should 1 preach a philosophical Atheism of the more abstruse kind; should I bid them rise to higher works; should I tell them that successful shopkeeping is not the highest ambition of man; should 1 teach the girls that to marry a man with si good business is not the highest lot of woman- kind; should I denounce money-getting; should I preach a scrupulous honesty; no one would buy me; no one would read me. Where would Ik- my income? And some other chap would find out the trick. As it is with me, so it is with the preachers who please the people. Go into a chapel filled with them. Are the preachers exhorting them to a higher life? Not a bit. Do they persuade their flock to honesty? Not so. They go hammering away at an old conventional religion which leads them to heaven by faith, and leaves their works dubious, and their ways crooked. But I am getting angry, and indignation is out of place in one who looks for sales. "In a word—gentlemen—my l)ooks represent, though you are unwilling to confess the fact, the average taste and the average demand. Take a pyramid of half-a-dozen layers to stand for the world of humanity. The lowest layer hardly reads at all. The second, the third, and the fourth, especially the last, read Me—and such as me. They read none but such as me. They read whatever I give • hem—balhuls— not the thing with the e at the end of it— stories, essays, anything. On the fifth level I am also read, but not so widely. The sixth 1 leave to you. It is a very, very small ]>art of the whole, but it contains, my critics, pretty nearly the whole of those who read the literature that you approve. "You think that the pyramid will become a pillar by the contracting of the lower levels, and the broadening of the upper. Perhaps. But not in my time. Therefore I am not greatly concerned about it. I have to do with the pyramid, so have you if you will only recognize it. "The broadening anil the contracting will be an affair of many centuries. Remember that the education of man has only just commenced. We cannot all—to repeat—read the Differential Calculus; I cannot for my own part. Most of u.s have to lie satisfied with arithmetic, and not very far in that. What I should like to ask you, if I may, is that you should take Me—or such as me— and put yourselves, if you can, in the position of one who has few ideas, very little knowledge, and no literary cx[>erience or judgment. This done, ask how far this book of mine is good or bad, for such a person a.s you have conjured up, and whether a better liook—a deeper philosophy—would not be thrown away upon them. "Take Me—and such as me—for what we are, a product of the times; a necessity for the time; representative of the time. You might, if you had the time, ask through my books what are the things which- the people want and will have. Believe me, you will find something—a good ileal more than you expect—of true dramatic force, of genuine situation, and of realistic fidelity. Mean- while, I must return to my new volume, nearlv ready. It will 1m» very funny—quite the cheapest kind of fun. Yes. Vulgar too. Oh! Yes—Yes. And flashy. Yes—Yes—Yes. And commonplace —Yes! "Yes! Yes! But the book, will it be bought? It would surprise yon to see how it will be bought. And it will really teach the people something—not much. And as far as the trade . . • but you are, of course, far above these conside- rations." Solomon Stallabras, Novelist, Essayist, and Poet. . ASSORTED APHORISMS. 1. Inability to perceive a joke is no proof of moral superiority. 2. To the greatest minds, nothing is insigni- ficant. 3. Love for the creature is the highest honour payable to the creator. 4. It is better to stimulate thought than to bestow knowledge. 5. Only the future has never deceived. 6. The ugly are the children of the other woman. 7. Imperial women lead: imperious women drive—or try. 8. The age of an idea is no gauge of its untruth, g. Poverty is not always essential to happiness. 10. Every sect is somewhat uncharitable but our own. 11. Superstition is the religion of the other man. ## p. 171 (#575) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 12. An ever-young heart is better than an ever- green memory. 13. The highest life, like the lowest, suffers in silence. 14. Revolution at top is safer—for the top. 15. Petty troubles worry: big misfortunes educate. 16. The weak war with epithets, and only the weak fear them. 17. Man is a clubbable animal—as a sage, or by a savage. 18. Whole truths are apt. to spoil popular digestions. ig. It is too often easier to be loyal to friends than to facts. 20. Humility often apes infallibility. 21. Theology demands a creed: religion com- mands a character. 22. Some friendships are like e^gs: they dete- riorate with age. 23. Knaves misuse science: fools abuse it. 24. Reiteration solves no problems. 25. The always polite must often deceive. 26. Inconsistency is unpardonable—by the other inconsistent. 27. Tears, like diamonds, avail most when rarest. 28. Economy is the twin-sister of generosity. 29. Any fool may discourage: only the angels hearten. 30. Lying natures imitate candour, by a veneer of insolence. 31. Poison is the beneficent in excess. 32. New truths are often received as old lies. 33. Compromise, the life of society, is the death of science. 34. One must pay dearly for the rare privilege of helping man. Phislay Gi.enkt.g. "SLATING." MAY I be permitted to say that I do not admit the correctness of the very inadequate and far-fetched explanation which assumes that this word was "clearly originally slat?" I have all the materials for proving that it was originally slate, a distinct word, just as there is a difference between hat and hate, rat and rate, pat and pate. The old unscientific notion that vowel- length does not matter has long ago been knocked on the head. What amuses me is the appe.d to Webster's dictionary, because that work recognises this very distinction, and only so much was quoted as happened to be convenient. Even the old edition of Webster gives " slate, to set loose, at a dog, at anything." The new edition adds " to bait, to slat." Anil by the Inst entry it is merely meant to refer, not to" slat (2), to slap," but to "slat (3), to set on, to incite," in which I believe the form really meant is slaat, a northern form, distinct from slat, with a as in hat. In my edition of Hay's "Northern Words" (1691). the spelling is s/ete, a correct variant with long e. The form in Hotten is slate, also with a long vowel. I believe it will be found that, as has happened before, I am right, despite contradiction. Of course my difficulty is that 1 cannot here produce all my evidence at length. Bui I think the students of phonology will understand me. W.Ai.Tun W. Skeat, NOTES AND NEWS. fl^HE Secretary is urgent with me to give as I much publicity as the Author will allow to what is, perhaps, the greatest of the many diffi- culties with which this Society has to contend. It is this. A large number of those who send up their names for election do so only when they are in trouble with their publishers. They have known all along that the Society exists, and that it is always at work for the protection of authors. Put thev do not feel any call to support the Society until they actually need its advice. They do not, as yet, un- derstand that the very fact of joining the great com- pany of book-writers (not necessarily autho:s by pro fession) lavs upon them the duty of supporting the only institution which exists for the protection of their literary property. They do not, further, under- stand as yet the importance of getting advice from the only office which can give it on the subject of agreements. But, after they have signed a one- sided agreement, by which they have given awav three-fourths of their property, and rendered them- selves liable to be cheated out of the rest, thev come to us for help. We give them what help can be given. We procure for them for nothing the best legal advice possible, as to how they should proceed, we place at their disposal the experience of our office and our six years of work j we give them all this. Frequently it happens that a writer in trouble comes to us and costs the Society ten guineas, or more, in getting legal counsel. The questions involved are intricate, and there are few precedents on which to go. In return this member M 2 ## p. 172 (#576) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. pays one guinea. Now it is obvious that but for a large support of those who join for the sake of the general good, nothing could be done at all. There is a case on our records—there may he more than one—in which a writer engaged the Society to see her out of a mess. We did so; we extri- cated her from the clutches of a great thief; we spent about fifteen guineas upon her ease without taking from her even the single subscriptions for the year. She then said that she was very much obliged to us indeed—as she ought to have been— that she had had a lesson, and should not try any more writing, and, therefore, she would not ask to be made a member. This was real gratitude. There are other cases in which the applicant ex- pected that the Society would fight his or her case, at the costs and charges of the Society—probably some case depending on the interpretation of a clause in the agreement designed to deceive the writer—a clause which would never be allowed at this office. Again, some applicants have complained that they could get legal advice just as well from their own solicitors. As a matter of fact, they cannot. It is no discourtesy to the average solicitor to say that he knows nothing whatever about literary property or its management. And if they consult their own solicitor they will certainly have to pay, while, if they come to us they will get an opinion for nothing. It comes to this. The Society has by this time done enough to earn and to deserve the confidence of all who belong, directly and indirectly, to the calling of letters. It should be supported by every- one who has written a book—only one book even —in any branch whatever, and especially by those who write books as part of their profession, whether scientific, medical, legal, educational, or literary. We do not complain because people come to us— the more the better—there cannot be too many members. But we ask them to come at once, before they get into trouble, even if they are never to get into trouble, for the sake of their less fortunate brethren. Not the least reason why an author should be careful to whom he entrusts his books is the con- sideration of the inconvenience and loss caused by having books published by different houses. For instance, a great many people desire to possess complete works of Jefferies. These are in any case difficult to procure, but the difficulty is multiplied tenfold by the other difficulty of knowing exactly what he wrote and where everything was published. Of course the wise author would reserve the copy- right, unless he sells it outright. But very, very few are so wise. One of the papers—the Sunday Sun—heads a notice of the life of Laman Blanchard (by Clement Scott and Cecil Howard) with the title " The Dog's Trade of Literature." Truly, under certain con- ditions, it is a veritable dog's trade. But then, con- ditions are changing. The trade is no longer quite so canine for those who are fit to follow it. Blanchard wrote for the stage at the time when a dramatic author received the magnificent sum of las. an Act for the whole copyright in his play. He wrote for publishers at a time when for editing maga- zines, writing novels, essays, and successful plays, an author thought himself lucky indeed if he made £3oo in a single year. Things have improved, thanks to the enormous increase of readers first; to tilt; competition of publishers next; and to the light thrown upon the business side of literature' during the last two or three years by this Society. It is a dog's trade still to the unhappy writer who tries to live by bookmaking, that is to say, by finding out a subject which will, perhaps, tempt a publisher to give him twenty or thirty pounds for a book upon it, ami then, with scissors and paste, to make up a volume upon that subject. The lwokmaking tribe has of late suffered grievous minishing, but it still exists, and it goes on plundering and blundering. Also it goes on—poor unhappy tribe !—starving and writing letters for money to successful men, and making applications to the Royal Literary Fund. There seems, however, some reason to hope that with the end of the century the race will have vanished altogether. It is a dog's trade, too, to the unhappy folk who aim at imaginative work, and just fail of success. They win, perhaps, a certain literary success, they command a certain sale, but they just fall short of popularity, and that for reasons which they cannot discover for themselves. If they are compelled to live by letters, a dog's lot, truly, is theirs. Again, it is a dog's trade to those who try to make money — being, to put it mildly, imperfectly equipped—by writing for the magazines. In a word, literature is a dog's trade—and should be no man's trade—without natural aptitude—one is not allowed to say genius —without a good education, without the charm of style, and without the gift—the unknown—the indefinable gift—of winning the ear of the people. Then, if a man can be kept from sharks, he may presently thank the Lord that he has taken up the profession of letters. He will not grow as rich as Vanderbilt or Astor, but he will thrive, he will live in comfort, he will even — Oh! dream of the bourgeois!—he will, perhaps, " put by "! ## p. 173 (#577) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. In an early number of the Author it was suggested that among the immense number of dead and forgotten books there must be some worthy of revival. The past is common property; in the vast heaps of dead literature all may delve and search about for treasures. There is no law to prevent anyone from carrying away and repro- ducing whatever he pleases. Is then' anything worth republishing? Is not the contemporary verdict sufficient? Is not the verdict of the next generation sufficient? In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Sometimes, however, there is a book which for some reason or other attracts, on its first appearance, no attention; the reviewers neglect it; the publisher docs not advertise it; readers do not hear of it; the book falls still- born. Yet there is something in it which should give it life. Can we find such a book in the dtisthcap? Again, there is the man who has produced, among a mass of stuff all deservedly dead, one volume in which he says all that he has to say —delivers the one message that was in him; proclaims the one live thing which his eyes could see. There was once a writer named Charles Maturin. How many could answer any questions about. Charles Maturin? Yet he made some little figure in his day, which was between 1782 and 1824. He wrote half a dozen novels, produced three or four tragedies, taught a school, wrote two or three poems, preached man)' sermons. Out of all his works one alone deserves to live; in fact, it does live with those who read their native literature; this is a novel called "Melmoth the Wanderer." A reprint has been issued of this once famous book by Richard Bentley and Son. It will be very curious to learn whether it proves a success. The case, by the way, is one of the few in the production of which there must be a certain risk. Given an author once popular, but before the memory of living man; given a book highly praised by Walter Scott in the old days of the llegency; will that author, appearing again almost a stranger, l>e able to repeat his former success? It is an ex|x'riuient of great interest, and I hope that we may be permitted to learn the secret of the result. We who have so often proclaimed the self-evident fact, so stupidly denied, that publishers very seldom take any risks at all, that is, very seldom produce at their own cost any lx>oks of which there is not an assured minimum sale enough to cover the cost—ought to be the first to recognize an exception to this rule when we find it, and, when the exception is prompted by pure love of literature, we ought to wish it every success. The Spectator has just made the third—one hopes not the last—of a series of brilliant dis- coveries. In the first, a most sapient member of its staff announced to an astonished world that poets and novelists come into the world completely equipped with a full knowledge of their art. All other workers have to learn their trade. The poet and the novelist alone — happy mortals !— have nothing to learn. They sing; they tell tales by instinct: as tin; skylark sings ; as the pig grunts; as the laughing hyena laughs, so sing they, so they tell their tales. There is no art at all; it is pure instinct. Was not that a noble discovery for the Spectator to make? We have already done our best to give a world-wide publicity to this dis- covery. After a week or two, being on the l ight scent, they make a second discovery. Literary men, for their own good, must be excluded from any national recognition of their services to the State. No honours or distinctions must be bestowed upon them. "They arc far better with- out," says the Oracle, leaving it in doubt whether she refers to their insides or to their poetry. Again a week or two, and another brilliant discovery. This time the same Sage. The article liears every sign of being by the same writer—may one guess the honoured name of Angelina Gushington? She has discovered that men of science must be debarred, not only from national recognition by way of the ordinary distinctions, but even from the applause of their friends. What saith the Sybil? "Up till now the men who have devoted themselves to abstract science have generally done so from pure love of the pursuit of knowledge ... In a great measure, men of science have been persons who have proved their indifference to worldly considerations and their love of knowledge for its own sake." As the Scotch minister said on a certain well-known occasion, "Ah! Loard! It's just too reedecklus!" On what facts, from what knowledge of scientific men, or scientific society, is this confident statement so confidently advanced? What scientific society has this dear lady known? Now everyone who has had the privilege of knowing men of science—there are no men more delightful, more truly sincere, more companion- able—who has enjoyed their friendship; who has sat at their tables; will lx>ldly declare that this is the greatest rubbish—the most unreal, the most conventional stuff—ever placed before intelligent readers. It is perfectly true that the man of science is passionately possessed, filled, and seized with the love of knowledge, and a rage for extending know- ledge. But to say that he is indifferent to applause or to recognition is sheer midsummer madness. First of all, he always ardently desires that recog- nition of his work which is conveyed by a Professorship or a Fellowship; next, he desires to ## p. 174 (#578) ############################################ i/4 THE AUTHOR. be spoken of, ami to lie considered us an authority —a leader in his own line; then he is never happy until the distinction of F.R.S. is awarded him— one little fact which blows the Spectator's article into smithereens. In other words, like all men, the follower of science eagerly desires recognition of his work: he is jealous of his work; he claims and tights for every discovery that he may have made; he wishes, above all things, for the applause of his fellows. This I say without the least blame or reproach. It is a human desire, an intelligible desire, a laudable desire, an honourable desire, a desirable desire. The idea that men could possibly work without such a desire could only be enter- tained by persons wholly ignorant of human nature. Jiut there may be eases where such a feeling is not apparent to the vulgar. The sagacious writer of this article adduces the case of a great mathematician. Now a mathematician, because he is an abstruse writer whose methods and conclusions are absolutely unintelligible to the ignorant and the vulgar, cannot look for the applause of the world. Nevertheless, he does look for, and he does obtain, the re- cognition of the few who can understand hint. The Spectator also introduces, in the middle of the article, the subject of money making. Scientific men, we are next told, never want to make money. Oh! Really! Indeed! Wonderful! Is that so? Let us see. Well, there are certain branches of science in which money cannot possibly be made. In these branches the professors wisely agree not to attempt the impossible. But in those branches where money can be made I do not see that scientific •men object to make it. For instance, medical science may make medical men very rich indeed; engineering, which is one of the greatest of modern sciences, may make for its followers vast fortunes; electricity, in the hands of its most earnest students, is producing large incomes; by some applications of chemistry great incomes are made. In fact, though it is perfectly true that scientific men, or literary men, or artists, should not, and do not, make dollars the chief reason of their existence, they are never indifferent to dollars, and there is no reason why they should be. This imaginary indifference is the consolation of the unsuccessful and the creed of school girls. But surely the conventional school girl creed ought not to be produced in a paper like the Spectator. Personally, it grieves and even humiliates me to see such stuff in its columns. I have read the Spectator for live-and-twenty years. No paper has taught me more; none has suggested more. I have for all these years regarded the paper as n private and personal friend—one may sometime differ with a personal friend. So that it saddens one to find it apparently preparing to step down and to become the organ of the school girl. Could the old friends of the paper entreat the editor in a Round Robin to give Angelina a letter of introduction, with a view to employment on the staff, to the Editor of that sweet journal, the Girts' Delight? Nearly every year there stands out a head and shoulders above its companions one work which promises to make the year memorable. The pro- mise is not always kept, but it is something to Ik.' so good as to seem to hold forth that promise. Everybody remembers the first appearance of "Vice Versa," "She," "Treasure Island," Rud- vard Kipling's stories, to speak only of later works. This year a promise of lasting vitality is distinctly made by Mr. Hall Caine's " Scapegoat." It is a great book, great in conception and in execution; a strong book, strong in situation and in character; and a human book, human in its pathos, its terror, and its passion. Like the authors of the other books named, Mr. Hall Caine will henceforth have the "Scapegoat" always behind him. Can he produce even finer work? Perhaps. The following circular has been sent to every member of the Society. It is hoped that a response, unanimous and immediate, will l>c made to this appeal. It will be observed that we not desire large sums; let everyone who feels that he ought to be grateful to Mr. R. I'. Johnson send some- thing, not more than a guinea. It is not so much the value of the gift as the manner of it that will be appreciated:— "It was resolved at a Meeting of the Committee held before the Vacation that we should prepare and engross on vellum the thiinks of this Society to the Secretary of the American International Copyright Association, Mr. Robert Underwood JOHNSON, of New York, for the very considerable part played by him in the successful agitation for, and the passing of, the International Copyright Act. "Since this resolution was passed the French Government have presented Mr. Johnson with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, in recognition of his services to the interests of Literature. "We have looked in vain for any such recogni- tion on the part of our own Government, although the interests of British Authors involved in the Act. are ten-fold or a hundred-fold greater than those of French Authors. "It has been therefore determined by this Society to express in a more concrete form their gratitude. It is proposed to invite subscriptions ## p. 175 (#579) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. ■with which to purchase a piece of plate for pre- sentation to Mr. Johnson. "The subscription will be limited to one guinea as u maximum and 5*. as a minimum. ".Should you feel disposed to join in this move- ment I shall be glad to receive your name and the amount. "S. Squibb Spbigoe." THE BOOKMAN. THE new literary journal, the Bookman, made its first appearance on October 1st, too late for notice in our own columns. We are always eager to welcome anything calculated to he helpful in the interests of literature and of book- men. And we therefore wish every success to the Bookman. As a society of bookmen and IkkjIc- women we would earnestly invite our new friend to consider that literature has many sides, that there are many readers and many levels and standards and many ideals of excellence and of style. It is, however, unfortunate that the very first number should contain a paper intended to be practical, and endorsed by the editor, which contains about as many misleading statements ns could well be crammed into the space. It takes the form of a letter written by a lady—and by one who is most sincerely anxious for fairplay and justice. Unfortunately she illustrates the danger of writing loosely, and without considering the figures which this society has provided. She says, taking the end of her letter first, " I am quite content that my publishers should get as much as I do by my books, only I do not like them to get more." Very well. She then gws on to say that a penny in the shilling—meaning, of course, on the advertised or published price—is "the ordinary rate." And further, she says, that it is a "fair rate," or, as explained by her own words later on, that it gives as much to herself as to the publisher. Now, let us see. An ordinary one volume 6s. novel, containing 17 sheets of 258 words to a page, printed in small pica and plainly bound, can l>e produced as follows:— One thousand copies, with stereotyping and advertising, less than £100—for simplicity's sake say £100. If they are all sold the gross return is very nearly £166. The profit on the edition is £66. At one penny in the shilling the author gets £25 and the publisher over £41. If the l»ook is a success, so that another edit.'on of 3,ooo is called for—which is unusual—the cost of producing it would be under £120. The sale of the whole would produce £5oo. The profit would be £38o, the author would make £75, anil the publisher would make £3o5. And this is the fair and equal royalty advocated by the Bookman! Next, the lady says that "the publisher has often to sell thousands lief ore he recoups himself the cost of production and advertising." Thousands! Now, see the mischief of loose talk. In the case before us, the publisher provides an outlay of £100. Mind, he does not even pay the money down; he waits for returns. But never mind. Here, then, is the problem. Given a l>ook which costs £ico to produce, saddled with a royalty of 6rf. a copy to the author, how many has the publisher to sell, at 3s. 4r/. a copy—it is more often 3s. 6d. a copy— Ix'fore he recoups himself? Answer—by a little algebraical equation—a little over 700. Now, these figures of ours are beyond any doubt; they are furnished by different printers, and acknow- ledged by other printers; they have also been acknowledged by several publishers; they have never been seriously challenged. But it may be said that the book referred to by the lady was a dearer book to produce in pro- portion to its price. Boughly speaking, a first edition of a l>ook may be taken to cost about one- fourth of the published price. The first cost of a book advertised at 3s. 6d. is recouped when laden with a royalty of a penny in the shilling by some- thing less than the first edition of 1,000—in fact, a little over 900 copies. The lady adds certain remarks, all out of the goodness of her heart, about good books paying for had ones—amiable rubbish which we had thought long since exploded. The ordinary royalty now proposed to writers of fair circulation by the more honourable houses is, of course, exactly double that advocated by this lady, and approved by the Bookman, and even this gives the publisher on a large scale a very great advantage. «~«~» < THE HARVEST OP THE YEAE. TN the last number of the Author we gave a I brief and necessarily incomplete notice of some of the announcements of the season. We have now, by taking the advertisements of the leading |>apers and reviews for two or three consecutive weeks, arrived at a clearer idea of the season's harvest. We may omit all books of medicine, physics, chemistry, geology, and science ## p. 176 (#580) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. generally; all books on theology; all technical and educational books, children's books, military and naval lx>oks, and books on social and political economy—though of these last there is a consider- able number advertised. It is, indeed, a sign of the times that a subject once thought so hopelessly dismal in its conclusions and so uncertain in its data, should Ik! attracting, year after year, more and more of those, who read, and more of those who make it their professional pursuit. Our analysis, however, considers only those books which belong to the general reader, not to the expert or the specialist. The names of the writers and the subjects treated —to those who know anything of the subject—will be found to bear out our contention—which is, of course, a mere commonplace, of common sense— that publishers very, very seldom issue anything at their own risk which has any risk. Biography, the most popular form of history, is represented by lives of Bishop Wordsworth, Boswell, Cobden, Thomas Payne, Charles West Cope, Frederick the Great, Mrs. Carlvle, Darwin, Caldeeott, Cervantes, Rodney, Lady Mary Wort ley Montague, Gustavus Adolphus, Pericles, Theodoric the Goth, Sir Philip Sidney, Nelson, Collingwood, Watts Phillips, and E. L. Blunt-hard. History is represented by the new work of Froude. Travel by works on Thibet, California, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Himalayas, the Corea, the Holy Land, Manipur, Canada, the Black Forest, New Guinea, Kieff, Afghanistan, and the Caspian. Essays by the names of Lady Martin, Lady Wilde, Augustine Birrell, W. W. .Story, Davenport Adams, and Edmund Scherer (in translation). There are two collections of verse, edited by Andrew Lang and W. E. Henley. Very little new poetry is announced—it is, indeed, astonishing to observe how, with all this enormous extension of readers, the love of poetry either advances not at all, or continues steadily to di- minish. A new volume by one of the few accepted poets is welcomed by a small circle—how small that circle is can only be judged by the numbers of editions, and these are indeed limited. The poets themselves keep silence on the subject, a fact to be regretted, because the decay of the national love of poetry is a distinct factor in any examination into the intellectual position and advance—or retreat—of the generation. On the other hand, the recent examples of Mr. William Watson and the author of "Iouica" ought to encourage young poets. There are, next, anti- quarian books, such as " Schlieman's Excavations," and Hubert Hall's •' Curiosities of the Exchequer," with a county history or two. There are letters, such as those of Marie Bashkirtseff; artists' books, such as Walter Crane's "Queen's Summer"; books which can hardly be classified, as Knight's "Cruise of the Falcon "; a history of Mahdisin; Miss Chapman's companion to " In Memoriam "; certain American books; certain reprints, as Maturin's "Melmoth," and Washington Irviug's "Alhambra "; books of country life, as "On Surrey Hills"; books on anthropology, which may be counted as scientific books; a treatise on Heraldry; Sycd Ameer Ali on the Teachings of Mohammed; Gordon's "Events in the Taiping Rebellion; Sir George Birdwood's "Records of the India Office; Clement Scott's "Thirty Years at the Play," and many others. Lastly, there come the novels. Here we have an astonishing list. We have selected only those— about three-fourths—by writers already and favour- ably known, novelists with whose work no one could for a moment pretend that any risk was connected. Making an attempt at alphabetical order, we find novels announced as ready, or nearly ready, by Grant Allen, Frederick Anstey, Duke of Argyll, Rolf Boldrewood, Frank Barrett, E. M. Bnrrie, Rev. A. J. Church, Hall Caine, M'Laren Cobban, Marion Crawford, Alice Dield, Conan Doyle, Kick Donovan, Miss Doudney, Archdeacon Farrar, G. M. Fenn, Lanoe Falconer, B. I/. Farjeon, Percy Fitzgerald, .Jessie Fothergill, George (iissing, Hating Gould, Henry Hermann, Joseph Hatton, Rudyard Kipling, Katberine Lee, Marquess of Lome, Florence Marryatt, T. L. Meade. Mrs. Marshall, Maarten Maartens, George Meredith, Mrs. Molesworth, Lucas Malet, W. E. Norris, Ouida, James Payn, Mrs. Phillips, Richard Pryce, Amelia Rivers, Mabel Robinson, Clark Russell, Frank Stockton, T. W. Speight, J. W. Shorthouse, Alex. Shand, L. D. Walford, E. Werner, Beatrice Whitby, Florence Warden and Stanley Weyman. Here are fifty-one in all, popular and weli-known writers, who will be widely read; some of them have a special clientele, others are simply favourite authors at the circulating libraries; one docs not go so far as to say that they are immortal, or that they will even enjoy the limited immortality which awaits many popular authors; but they are in demand. Fifty novels by as many novelists all in demand! But there is more. For there are at least fifty more in the advertisements before us whose names we have not set. down because they were to the writer of the present lines unknown. Again, among the second fifty are included a good many novels paid for by the authors. These should form a separate list by themselves, but it would be cruel to the unfortunate people who have been persuaded to pay. Again, then; are publishing houses not represented in these papers. The Religious Societies, the Society lor the Pro- motion of Christian Knowledge, the Religious Tract Society, and the National Society, are not ## p. 177 (#581) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 177 represented here at all. But their lists include a gretit quantity of fiction, chiefly by writers who are unknown. And it will be further ob- served, that the lists do not include many of the well known names. For instance, setting down only the, names that occur at the first moment among these writers, one does not find among the advertisements the names of Mrs. Alexander, Miss Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Edwin Lester Arnold, William Black, R. D. Black- more, Walter Besant, Rol>ert Buchanan, Mrs. Lovett Cameron, Miss Betham Edwards, Mrs. Edwardes, Justin McCarthy, Justin H. McCarthy, Henry Harland, Bret Hartc, George Henty, Thomas Hardy, Howells, Henry James, Edna Lyall, Mrs. Lynn Linton, George Maedonald, George Moore, Christie Murray, Henry Murray, Florence; Montgomery, Mrs. Oliphant, E. C. Philips, Mrs. Campltell Praed, F. W. Robinson, Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie, Mrs. Riddell, Rider Haggard, George Sims, Louis Stevenson, Moy Thomas, Sarah Tytler, Mark Twain, William Westall, W. (i. Wills, Charlotte Yonge,—as many omissions, in fact,as apj>earances. There are also many others whose names have been for the moment passed over. Theif* "re, In taet,anout l5o living writers of fiction —without counting tint young journalist who sends to the papers the paragraphs on the Society of Authors—who have a sure and certain grasp on our public—some of them American, but by far the larger number English, Scotch, and Irish. Outside this body there are always fifty or sixty hangers on—writers who are on the borderland, lwtween popularity and failure. They can persuade respectable publishers to produce their wares. They are even so far successful that the number of copies taken by the circulating libraries does justify their production, but they never arrive at a cheap edition; nor—surest test of all—are they ever invited by editors to contribute to their magazines. They are read because they are offered at the libraries. They are never asked for, never missed, never wanted. Nobody knows their names or inquires for their former works. They may write a dozen books, but they never impress the mind of the public in the least. Certainly, if the circulating library system were to break down -— which will not suddenly happen — or the three-volume system were to be changed— which is not likely—these dingers to the fringe would swiftly vanish and be no more seen. It will be seen that in quantity, in bulk of output, the literature of October 1891 is enormous. To repeat what has been said before: For whom is this mass of literature published? For a people which docs not buy books? That, is the common opinion. Only for the circulating libraries? That is often asserted. In order that publishers may get rid of their money? That, too, is a doctrine widely circulated by conventional writers, interested writers, and unpractical persons. In order to gratify authors with the disinterested satisfaction of producing good work? Another doctrine per- sistently and widely taught. Not so; they are written mainly, and published solely, for the sake of profit and gain. And most of them—all the novels —are written with the same spirit, the same 1iojh>, the same intention as actuates the cabinet- maker when he makes a cabinet; namely, that he mav produce good work, and that he may receive, and enjoy in peace, that share of the proceeds of his labour which is justly his. So long as the Society of Authors exists it will endeavour to secure for him that share. ♦•»•♦ THE INDEPENDENT THEATRE. EVERYTHING attempted in this day must be ticketed anil labelled with the name of one man. Formerly it was enough that a thing vwas designed and proposed, perhaps, by a company. The object sought was the subject discussed. The subject is now the man who has attempted it. Therefore the Theatre Libre, or the Independent Theatre of London, will certainly become Mr. George Moore's theatre. He expounded the ralson d'etre of the new theatre in a letter to the Times of October i3th— a letter in many ways remarkable and in many ways calculated to make people angry. Setting aside the latter part of the letter, we find an eloquent and earnest ap|>eal to the world to secure the freedom of the stage from the trammels of convention and prejudice. "Dramatic art is the art that to-day pre-eminently demands to l>c pro- tected against the disease of popularity and its concomitant commercialism. The people have had their way with the theatre; they have made it their recreation ground." The Independent Theatre is founded in order to place More audiences as refined and as highly cultured as those which read Tennyson, Swinburne, George Meredith, dramatic pieces which belong to literature. If, its pro- moters argue, the dramatic art is not to perish utterly, we must have an uncommercial theatre, one which does not aim at making money; one which will not play for either stalls or gallery; one which shall create a public capable of de- manding and of understanding good work. Well, the demand for good work will undoubtedly create the supply, up to a certain point, but no further. In no age and by no imaginable demand, coupled either with honour or with dollars, can more than a certain amount of good work be produced A ## p. 178 (#582) ############################################ 178 THE AUTHOR. by a single generation. For instance, tliere is at the present moment an enormous demand for good fiction, good essays, good writing—attractive and pleasant writing—in all branches. How many are there who can furnish what is wanted? Mr. George Moore's arguments lead irresistibly to the conclusion that the Independent Theatre ought to be well supported. It may not achieve all that its founders ho[>e for it. That, indeed, may be confidently predicted. On the other hand, it will certainly do something, and even the per- formance of a new piece running on lines quite different from the old conventional grooves should stimulate departure from those grooves and new experiments. They ask for £i,5oo a year. That is not much. Each subscription is at present £2 10s. a year. That means only 600 subscribers. The very smallness of the sum will militate against the success of the promoters. It would be better to ask at once for £10,000 a year in £10 subscriptions. There are lovers of the drama in plenty who would give a £10 subscrip- tion. And then we could have fifty performances instead of six. Of course there is an evident danger, though it is not contemplated by the founders, that the Independent Theatre might become the Theatre of Crotchets and Hobbies, of Cranks and Enthusiasts. Even then it would, to some extent, serve its purpose, and so be well worth all the money spent upon it. Nothing is more wholesome for the Body Politic than to let Cranks and Zealots have their say. Nothing more surely reduces them to insignificance. Again, if a piece succeeds at the Independent, it is sure to 1*' presented at an open theatre. And, which is worth considering, even if it is true that the people have had the theatre to themselves, it is also true that they have in many cases shown themselves willing to learn, and ready to like a piece which they arc told they ought to like. The people do not want to prefer bad things to good; they would rather like what better taught people like, if only in order to be a little superior to their neighbours. A hopeful sign, perhaps. TO ENGLAND. A new-raised voice from 'yond thy westward sea Would sing unto thine ear the songs it sung In its own land in the same Saxon tongue Our fathers learned at thy loved mother-knee— They, who their very life-blood drew from thee. Ami though, in thought and speech we've somewhat swung, From our old moorings, yet to much have clung That thou once heldst in full fidelity. But I—what light have I my songs to bring E'en to a kindred nation's judgment seat? All! none, except the right of all to sing, E'en though their songs be neither strong nor sweet, And with the hope, perchance one may be found With voice to sing itself the world around. New York. W. S. Bate. A BUREAU OF LITERARY REVISION. WE were as yet in comparative ignorance when we proposed as a branch of the Society's work likely to prove useful to aspirants, the reading and criticism of young writers' work. The two objects of such a branch then (and still) in view were (1) that it might do a great deal to the repression of bad work, anil the persuading of those who could never succeed to abandon the attempt, and (2) that in the rarer cases of young writers who show the unmistakeable signs of. promise and natural aptitude we might prevent many mistakes and much dis- appointment by a little judicious advice—such as that which a coach would give to his pupil—as to style, arrangement, and other points with what is very frequently wanted, instruction in quite the elementary points of technique. In other words, we laid the foundations for a school of novelists. Our readers do not read, that is to say, as the pub- lisher's reader must, with one eye always on the commercial value of a book, but solely having regard to its literary and artistic worth. We are cettins on very well with this branch. Something like a hundred and fifty MSS. will have passed through our hands this year—not like those sent to pub- lishers for acceptation or the reverse, but sent for an opinion which may be a guidance and a help. Those who send their works have the first quality of an artist—diffidence—pity that they have not ail the rest. We have learned, however, that the Americans have been before us with such a Bureau. It is now nine years since the New York Bureau of Literary Revision and Criticism has lieen estab- lished. It professes to give " unbiassed and com- petent criticism " both for publishers and authors. It offers to revise MSS. for the press and to "edit'' them, which must mean, in many cases, to re-write them. And it offers to give advice to those in search of a publisher. Its fees are elastic, as in such kind of work would be necessary. To give an opinion or to give advice woidd l>e easy. But al>out revising MSS., editing them, passing them through the press; what fee would be asked? When the work was done, whose name would appear on the title-page? Anybody could ## p. 179 (#583) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 179 suggest a subject, ami perhaps set down certain facts; but it requires a literarv hand to draw them up and set them forth to effect. And when that wan done, who would be the author? Doubtless there an' plenty of people who would pay well for such work, provided their own names' appeared upon the title; but the real hand—the hack—the Ghost—how would he like it? Again, it. seems as if there must be a delicate line where revision ends and authorship begins. One can quite understand a man rendering such little assistance to a young writer as would make all the difference between success and failure, ami yet leave him the actual author of the thing. But with a slovenly, ill-constructed, badly put together lump of writing, which has to be pulled to pieces and then re-arranged and re-written, where is your author? Not the first hand on it, certainly. To put his name as the author might, by purists, be taken us a fraud. Perhaps, so as to avoid any chance of the question arising here, we may leave that branch of the work entirely to our cousins. _ —- - THE WRITERS' CLUB. AFEW weeks ago a little body of women, mostly journalists, were bold enough to express a wish that it were possible to start some sort of club for literary women, which would not only serve the ordinary purposes of a club where its members could (line, write, and meet their friends, but would also bye-and-bye develop into a Sisterhood of Letters, and be a means of bringing literary women—successful and unsuc- cessful—into eloserand more friendly relations than have hitherto been found possible. No sooner had the wish found expression than a host of critics sprang up to throw cold water on the idea. Such a club, they said, was not wanted, and if it were wanted it ought not to l>c, ending up, as a rule, with various unkind comments on the habits and ways of the unhappy lady journalist. The unkindest cuts of all came from the one or two highly suc- cessful women journalists, who, for some reason or other, took it into their heads to he jealous of their less successful confreres—if I may use this expres- sion—and who have steadily misrepresented the views and hopes of the promoters. It is, however, satisfactory to learn that, in spite of criticism and opposition, the "Writers' Club" has sprung into being during the last month, and has already nearly 60 members, all bond fide literary women. It is intended to start the Club on a modest scale, and at first our chief efforts will be directed to make the place useful and comfortable to women journalists. There are a large number of journalists with feet upon the lowest steps of the ladder, who are lighting a hard and uphill battle in the attempt to make a respectable living by legitimate work. Many who are solitary and reserved, and keep the struggles anil disappointments of their lives locked in their own breasts, might find their lives made sweeter and easier if some older and more fortunately placed woman would hold out to them the right hand of fellowship. It is this spirit of camaraderie which it is hoped the Club will promote, and, judging from the way that the well-known writers have come forward and offered their co-operation, there is every reason to l>e sanguine. A few more ladies who will come forward and help us financially at the start are still wanted, and will no doubt lie forthcoming. Amongst the Vice-Presidents are :— Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, Lady .Icune, Lady Paget, Countess of Minister, Miss Edith Simcox, Mrs. John Richard Green, Edna Lyall, and many others. The President of the Club is Mrs. Stannard ; the Honorary Secretary, Miss Low, 21, Queen Square, Bloomsbury; ami the Treasurer, Miss Honor Morton, Ivy Hall, Richmond, Surrey. Any lady who is interested in promoting the Club is invited to attend the meeting to be held on Wednesday, November 4th, at 4. o'clock, at the Society of Authors, 4, Portugal Street, Strand, when definite steps as to premises will be taken. A Women Journalists' Club is not a new thing any more than an Authors' Club. Everything begins in America, and most things in New York. We are indebted to Woman (October 14, 1891) for a note on the New York Women's Press Club. It is unfortunately too much of a note. One would have liked information as to the subscription, the management, the number of members, and the way in which the club is worked. The note, says only that it is a " model of organisation, tact, and good comradeship." It also gives pictures of three leading members. CORRESPONDENCE. I. Am. for Nothing. APROPOS of our recent remarks on magazine contributories, a correspondent writes: "A literary magazine was recently offered for side, and 11 point was made of the fact that I lie editor had arranged with 'one of the foremost writers of the day' to contribute gratuitously. ## p. 180 (#584) ############################################ i8o THE AUTHOR. The editor's services were to lie retained at a salary of £200." He would be dirt cheap at four times that sum. All the proprietors of all the magazines will now be advertising for that editor. A man who can engage the foremost writers of the day to write for nothing is indeed invaluable. II. Goon Work, Suhe Pat. In your comments on the clever article in the last number of the Author under the above heading, you draw a distinction between good work and saleable work. For the latter adjective allow ine to substitute the word profitable. There are, I consider, two kinds of profitable books (I am dealing with fiction): I. Those written by authors who have an established reputation; II. Those written, in the penny novelette style, by scribblers who are willing to pay all the costs of production so long as their vanity is satisfied by appearing in print, and for whose writings, nevertheless, there is a large demand. Go into any circulating library, and the books which are most in request are trashy novels, which might have been written by ladies' maids, professing to describe the inner life of the aristocracy. These are devoured bv that lanre section of the reading public—the young women of the lower middle- class, who are the best customers of the circulating library. The better, though smaller, section of the reading public confine themselves to the works of known authors, who are in a position to dictate terms to publishers; but how can a writer of good average merit get his works published unless he is pre- pared to pay the cost, so long as he is systematically boycotted by publishers, whose interest it is to keep down the number of authors who expect fair remuneration for their work? The early histories of literary men and women, as far as I have read them, are all very much alike: heart-breaking struggles against the current of adversity, which are soon forgotten when the tide turns, and they are borne along with the stream. A man with grit, who believes in himself, is not satisfied to be extinguished by that obscure indi- vidual, the publisher's reader, but is desirous of appealing to a higher tribunal; how is he to reach it? For those who can afford to do so, I see no objection to their paying the cost of producing their books, so long as they are dealt with honestly, and have a fair share of the profits of a successful work; if, though given a good chance, their book still proves a failure, they have purchased a valu- able experience. The difficulty seems to be how to obtain honest treatment. The Society of Authors has done much to raise the status of literary men; but it deserves most credit for throwing some honest rays of light on that insufferable bugl>ear, the publisher, and his mysteries. Claud Harding. [Our contributor wishes to use the word profitable instead of saleable. Very well, though it does not seem to make any difference. He makes, however, a great mistake when he .says that there is a great demand for the rubbish for whose publication bad writers have to pay. Does he not understand that if there were such a demand the writers would no longer have to pay? Is it. the ca.se that it is publishers' interest to keep down authors who must be remunerated? It might be so if bad authors were profitable. But they are not profitable. Therefore, our corre- spondent's view seems untenable. Why do the circulating libraries everywhere in every town contain such rubbish? Because they buy up at next to nothing a ropy, the remainder stock. That is the whole mystery. A bad writer pays a hundred pounds and is published. Sales— perhaps not one, perhaps a dozen or twenty. The rest sold off as remainder stock. At this office we do not speak from guess, but from knowledge of the facts. Some time ago a creature who published in this way brought out several hundreds of such volumes. Not one single book had any side to speak of; not one writer got anything. Others there are still carrying on the same game; holding out false and lying hopes of immense sale; charging double the cost of pro- duction, and making their profits by the theft first and the sale of the remainder stock next. Literally, one young fellow who was fooled into [laying for publication, received a return for his book of no sales at all—not one single copy sold. Perhaps Mr. Harding is quite right in this con- tention: That if an author really believes that ;he has the stuff in him, and that he has produced good work, he might do well to produce his book at his own expense if he can only find a man ivho will do it honestly. But he would generally do far better to send his MS. to one of the firms whom we should advise, and first see what they say.— Editob.] III. "Good Work, Sure Pay." Mr. (J. Davenport Jones, in his plea that the rejection of a work by publishers and editors must not be accepted as proof of literary worthlessuess, ## p. 181 (#585) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 181 might have gone farther; lie might have added that it is no proof of commercial worthlessness. Of publishers, speaking generally, and acknowledging exceptions, it is true to say that no body of trades- men know less about their own business. I will not pause to give the reasons for this assertion; they will be sufficiently obvious to those who rcniemlier that evil communications corrupt good manners; the laxity of authors cannot but have a demoralizing effect upon publishers. I assert, without fear of contradiction, that out of every I,ooo novels—for the purposes of this argument I will confine myself to one branch of literature— passing through the hands of any publisher, those which are just above mediocrity are those which find readiest acceptance. Out of 1,000 MSS., about o,5o will be "impossible;" these, as in the case of g5 in 100 pictures rejected by the Royal Academy Selecting Committees, will be virtuously rejected by the publisher. As touching the re- maining 5o, about 3o MSS. will contain much that is good, but defects of workmanship will place them outside the pale of the " practicable;" the authors of tHese books have yet to learn their business. Twemty works remain. Fifteen of these will be just sufficiently above the dead level of mediocrity to insure readv acceptance by the rank and file of the reading public, and pari passu by the publisher. There remain five works which will \w distinctly good; it may even so happen that among these there mav be one absolutely original work, in other words, a creation of genius. These five are the only books which from a literary, from an artistic, and, in the true meaning of the word, from an economic point of view, should be published at all; but ofthe.se, none will stand much chance of accept- ance, unless it have a sponsor—a friend at court — or unless the writer, whose name it bears, has already secured a reading clientele. If these five l>ooks are by authors unknown, or only slightly known—other things being equal—their very merits will cause them to l>e looked at askance. Publishers' readers are human, very human; very fallible. What right has an unwreathed A, B, C, I), or E to give token of individuality? Indi- viduality? No, it is not individuality; it is mannerism, perhaps even worse, affectation. As for the unknown author of the really original book, he is in the worst plight of all. That his work should find favour almost presupposes that the publisher or his reader should be a person of genius, in that the discovery and acknowledgment of nnproclaimed genius is alone possible to genius. Again, having discovered a work of genius, the reader must have, in a very high degree, the courage of his opinion. The publisher's reader knows, none better than he, that 99 in 100 readers of books are fools, who, moreover, like their books cast in the moulds of old conventions: fools do not appreciate off-hand a new prophet. It is, indeed, because he knows this, that he recommends for acceptance to the firm he represents, those mediocre works which require no literary or intellectual acumen for their appreciation. This lack of knowledge, or of courage on the part of publishers or of their readers, has caused many a publisher secret heart- burnings at the loss of a fortune once within his reach. The writer of real power and originality knows by an unerring instinct who and what he is. Being able to produce books of the stoutest literary fibre, he is the soundest critic of his work; its most severe critic; he knows therefore that no self-vanity deludes him. He has given months, perhaps years, to the consideration of the work to which a publisher's reader may have only devoted a few hours. His sufferings before full recognition is his will be of the keenest; these no one can save him; but he rememliers that if he be given sufficient physical strength to hold out to the end, his triumph will be all the better worth having for being delayed. Indeed, the obstacles to the progress of the strongly individual man are of the greatest benefit to him; they strengthen and deepen that individuality, which is the very essence of his genius. The historic cases mentioned by Mr. Davenport Jones are not the only cases of the refusal of epoch-making books. I might almost go so far as to say that no work of genius of an unknown and unaided author finds ready accept- ance. Anyone who is familiar with the early struggles of novelists of distinction, from Defoe to Short house, will bear me out in this contention. Bekskrkkr. IV. More Light. To the Editor of the Author. Sin, Will you allow me a short statement of a case which has long battled my powers of compre- hension. It may be simple enough to a disinte- rested reader; but, not being disinterested, I don't quite understand it. In 1878 Messrs. Allen & Co. published my "Warren Hastings; a Biography," on the half profits system. The book was intended as a counterblast to Mill and Macaulay. Some people arc prone to complain of their critics, but I have no cause to complain of mine. By the press in general, both at home and abroad, my book was received with warm approval, both as a " readable" work and as a timely "corrective" of the popular notions imbibed from Macaulay's well-known ## p. 182 (#586) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. essay. My reading of Impey's conduct in the Nuncoinar affair anil on some other occasions was amply justified, a few years later, by Sir James Stephen's "Nuncomar and Impey." My general estimate of Hasting'* character and policy has now been finally confirmed by Mr. G. Forrest's volumes of Selections from the Bengal State Papers. All this may seem very satisfactory from a certain point of view. But il faut vivre, and even authors must sometimes think of money, especially if they have families. Has this book brought me any substantial profit? Xot one halfpenny, so far. My publishers inform me that they have sold about 35o copies of my book. Assuming the correctness of their statement, I may be excused for wondering at so poor a return for labours which many competent judges had'deemed so fruitful. It is a puzzle which fairly floors me. Out of a population of 35 millions or so in these islands, only 3oo persons have bought copies of a work which, in 383 post-octavo pages of largish type, deals with the foremost figure in one of the stormiest periods of our Indian history. Did the publishers charge too high a price—ten shillings—- for such a volume? It was double what I would have charged, but they ought to know their own business best. Was it a dull book on a dull subject? The critics all assured me to the con- trary, and so have many private readers, who had no special interest in Indian subjects. Was the book insufficiently advertised? Such a question might be unjust to the publishers. Other questions occur to me, but why go on quessing in the dark? With dying Goethe I ask for "more light." Can you, Sir, or any other expert help me to a single ray? Yours obediently, L. J. Trotter. v. An HoxoniiAiir.E Action. Having seen the notice of the "Honourable Action," signed llossignol, in your last issue, I should like to say that an almost exactly similar circumstance occurred with me, but the publishers were, in my case, the Committee of a Religious Society. Like Rossignol, I received a letter offer- ing me about two-thirds of what I expected, and, thinking I must have been mistaken in thinking my story as long as it was, I accepted the offer, and signed the agreement of copyright. Six months after, the Editor wrote asking me to kindly correct a few mistakes in the type-writing of the story before it went to press, and sent it. to me for that purpose; and then, to my surprise, I found it really was a third longer than they had evidently calculated it to be. In fact, on the back of the MS. were the figures made by some clerk in adding up the words, and he had made a mistake in the last line which made it appear 20,000 words shorter than it really was. I sent my representa- tion of the facts to the Editor, and at the next meeting of the Committee they at once ordered a cheque to be made out for me for the additional amount, and expressed their regret that the mistake had occurred. I may add that I have had between 20 and 3o story books for the young published, and, with one exception, the Religious Societies have paid iue better than the publishers with whom I have had dealings. [A very satisfactory letter. It would, however, have been better had the writer given the name of the Society, ■ and still better had she given the following particulars: (1) the cost of producing the book; (2) the price of the book; (3) the number of copies the Society was certain of selling; (4) the sum paid to her. We should then have been in a position to state the profit received by the Society, and to acknowledge, if possible, that it was a just, and fair, and Christian proportion of profit.—Editor.] VI. Authors and Illustrators. To the Editor of the Author. Sir, The following, which appeared in Truth of October loth, and since in other papers, has been responded to by several members of the Press. 1 A few weeks back I mentioned that Mr. Henry Blackburn proposed to undertake the task of educating the critics of illustrated books—a work for which I can readily believe that there is plenty of room. In pursuit of this end, Mr. Blackburn asks me to state that he now invites his brethren of the Press to spend an hour at his studio, 123, Victoria Street, there to familiarize themselves with the various mechanical processes employed in the art of illustrating books and news- papers. Mr. Blackburn writes :— "At this particular time of year, when piles of illustrated books lie waiting for 4 review,' it may not be inopportune to ask that those upon whom the reputations of so many artists, engravers, and makers of ' process ' blocks depend, should know something more than they have hitherto done of the mcdus opcr<indi of book and newspaper illustration, and especially of the reasons for the failures which they see before them. "In England it is, unfortunately, not considered 'good form ' to know much of workshops, and our best artists, as a rule, take little interest in the ## p. 183 (#587) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. methods by which their works are reproduced. Hence the ignorance of writers—art critics learned in schools and styles—of what is common knowledge in France."' As the matter is really an important one to authors, perhaps you will allow me to extend the invitation through your columns, beyond the domain of the "live" journalist to that of the more isolated literary man. The main object is to bring the author more " en rapport" with the illustrator; to do this in the easiest way and with the least restraint. Ac- knowledge which an author can thus gain, quietly, in an hour's visit, will, if I may say so, be useful to him sometime or other; and amongst the uses, not the least will be the knowledge of how he can best aiil his illustrator. As to "educating critics" and the general statement that illustrations in books are continually criticised without sufficient knowledge, I feel bound, in a plain-speaking journal like the Author, to give "chapter and verse." My contention is that our leading art critics are not, from force of circumstances, well informed on matters of technique, e.g., that the writers in the Athcna-urn, the Saturday Review, and the Times speak erroneously of the photo - mechanically- produced blocks used in the type-press, as "inferior and rubbishing processes" (sic), which in jure the artist's work and degrade modern illustration; that, they ignore the fact that it is generally the misuse of the processes, and not the processes themselves which are at fault. The beautiful methods of photo-engraving now available do actually improve the illustrator's work, if he will learn to draw aright. This can be proved beyond question, and the younger generation of illustrators are giving daily demonstration of the fact. For the misuse of the processes, of course both publishers and the makers of blocks are mainly responsible, the latter especially for under- taking work for which the "processes" are unfitted, such, for instance, as attempting to turn a wash drawing into a relief block when it should have been handed to a wood engraver. In the Athcnteum illustrations produced mechani- cally are constantly referred to as "cuts" (as if wood-engraved), a most misleading expression for an author to read in his weekly organ. But not to go further into details, if you think the subject of sufficient importance, the Author may do good service in ventilating it and inviting discussion. Yours faithfully, Henry Blackburn. 123, Victoria Street, Westminster, 19th October, 1891. ■ A CASE FOR THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. ABATHER puzzling experience has just been related to me. A man who was going abroad last mouth met in Broadway, the day before he sailed, an Englishman whom he believed to be in London, and whom he expected to see when he reached that city. As soon as he saw him, he said to himself, "Hello, there's Vaulter !"—or words to that effect, the real name bring immaterial to the story. The two men—not old friends, but acquaintances on very friendly terms—seemed glad to see each other, and stopped anil shook hands. The American had a moment's misgiving as to the identity of his vis-a-vis, but it disappeared under the reassuring influence of the replies his questions drew forth. "When did you get here?" he asked. "Last. Wednesday," was the answer— Wednesday being one of the days on which the fast steamers arrive from England. "Is your wife with you?" "Yes." "When do you return?" "Next Saturday." "I shall be sorry not to see you upon the other side: I sail on the 'Majestic' to-morrow" (it was then Tuesday) "and had counted on seeing you and your wife in London." "I shall be very sorry to iniss you," was the polite response. "By the way," exclaimed the American, "where is Mrs. . She was to be in London now, and I had expected to learn her address front you." The name mentioned was that of a well- known American writer, whose cousin the English- man had married. "She is down in the country visiting some of her relations." After exchanging a few more words, the two men shook hands again, smiled, touched their hats, and parted. On arriving at his office, five minutes later, the American dropped a line to the son of the lady whose exact whereabouts he had neglected to ascer- tain from his English friend: and by return of post received an address in Clarges Street. "What you say about Vaulter," added the young man, " is [Hire abracadabra to me: the last I heard of him lie was with my people in England. Quare: Is this a ease for the Society for Psychical Research?" The puzzled American sailed from New York the next day, and on his arrival at Liverpool posted to the London address of the lady in the ease a note reporting the contradictory statements as to her place of sojourn. When he reached London two days thereafter, an answer to his letter awaited him at his hotel in Jermyn Street. It contained an invitation to dinner; and the next evening over a spotless cloth around which a typical English butler ## p. 184 (#588) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. moved with noiseless dignity, the tale of tlie inter- view of ten days ago in Broadway was told at length. "I have been visiting relations in the country," said the hostess, "but not for several weeks; and Mr. Vaulter hasn't been out of England for many months." Needless to say, the mystified American made a point of calling upon the Vaulters at their pleasant apartment overlooking Hyde Park. Of' course they were out. "Out of town?" "No, sir, in town, but not at 'omc," A letter with a London postmark and an English stamp brings excellent evidence that they were in town a very few days after this fruitless call; but it does not account for the striking resemblance to Vaulter of the gentle- man in Broadway, nor for his appropriate replies to the questions of his puzzled interlocutor, who is now strongly inclined to think this is "a case for the Society for Psychical Research." From the New York Critic. •»..-♦ "AT THE AUTHOR'S HEAD." ARCHDEACON Farrar, in his new book "Darkness and Dawn, or Scenes in the Days of Nero," returns to his old field, the beginnings of Christianity, but not to his old publishers. Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co. produce his new book. There is a perennial charm in anything written about Cervantes and Don Quixote, always provided that the writer is competent in his subject. Mr. H. E. Watts is well known as the latest and best translator of the immortal work. He has now contributed a life of the great Spaniard to the series known as "Great Writers," which, if names could make a serial succeed, should l>e a very great success indeed, containing, as it does, such writers as Hall Caine, Augustine Birrell, Rossetti, Sharp Hannay, Austin Dobson, Garnett, Edmund Gosse, Sime, Oscar Browning, and last, not least, H. E. Watts. It has a stirring eventful story to tell, set in a stirring time. The life illustrates the great book. The book illustrates the life. Let no one read the life who does not know the book, let no one hence- forth read the book again until he has read the life. A most valuable bibliography is appended to the work. Mrs. Goddard Orpen has just completed a series of papers entitled "Chronicles of the Sid," which will begin in the November number of the Leisure Hour, and will run through- out the year. The "Chronicles" are mainly concerned with the journey of a lady through the Algerian Sahara and Upper Egypt. Miss Augusta A. Varty-Smith (Sa'imath), author of " The Fawcette and Garods," is about to issue a novel in three volumes, entitled " Matthew Tindale." The story, which has already appeared in serial form, will be published by Messrs. R. Bentley and Sons. On November 2nd will appear Mrs. F. Marsh's new novel, "The Junior Dean." (Chatto and Windus.) 3 vols. "The Railway Foundling," by "Nomad," has been issued in a cheap edition, 2s. 6cl. It has been highly spoken of as a work of vivacity and adven- ture with a clever story. A fourth edition of Mr. M. Powis Bale's "Handbook for Steam Users" will he published immediately by Messrs. Longmans. Mr. Ernest M. Bowden's " Imitation of Buddha," enriched by a preface from Sir Edwin Arnold, will l>e issued immediately by Messrs. Methuen & Co. It will contain quotations from Buddhist literature for every day in the year. The price will be 3s. 6d. Mrs. (Emma) Marshall will publish early in November, through Messrs. Seeley and Co., "Winifrede's Journal," in the days of Joseph Hale, D.D., sometime Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, author of "Under Salisbury Spire and Winchester Meads." The same author will shortly issue— "Little Queenie," a story of child-life 60 years ago. Messrs. John Shaw and Co. "These Three," a story for girls. "Born in the Purple." "My Lady Bountiful." All through Messrs. Nisbet and Co. "Bear Hunting in the White Mountains" (Chapman and Hall) is the title of the new work by Mr. Hey wood W. Seton-Karr. It should have been announced in the October number. •ft- ## p. 185 (#589) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. Note a charming little book for children, " Bub," by Ismay Thorn (Blackie & Son). Among the new books of the season must be mentioned " United States Pictures." Drawn with pen and pencil by Richard Lovett, M.A. It has u map and 100 engravings. It is published by the Religious Tract Society. appeals to everybody alike. It is Mr. Athol Maudslay'snew book on Nature's Weather Warnings and Natural Phenomena, published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. It is a book of rules for fore- casting the weather, with a number of old world rustic and seagoing prognostications, as useful as they are interesting. We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Price, a novelist who was rapidly rising to distinction. Several of her tales are still coming out or are arranged for. A serial from her pen is about to run through a Glasgow paper. She has left a one- volume story completed, and an unfinished two- volume story. Mr. C. H. Cope produces "Reminiscences" of his father, Charles West Cope, R.A. (Bentley and Son). He has also brought out a short memoir (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge), entitled " Strength Made Perfect in Weakness." On Thursday was published "Mr. and Mrs. Herries," by Miss May Crommelin, author of "Goblin Gold," "Queenie," "Midge," "Violet. Vyvian," <fcc. Another work, by the same author, is running in Woman, called " For the Sake of the Family." Mr. Hume Nisbet's new Romance, entitled " The Jolly Roger," a Tale of Sea Heroes and Pirates, will appear immediately. The work is illustrated by the author. Miss Mary C. Rowsell, author of " Love Loyal," "Miss Vanbrugh," &c, is producing (Skeifington and Co.), a volume of stories called "Petronella," of which the title story is the novel form of the drama produced some months ago. Those who spoke well of that play will be glad to hear that it will be probably produced again before long and with considerable alterations. Among the multitude of new books all crying out to be heard and all belonging to this or "that school, calling, or persuasion, here is one which NEW LOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Theology. Axo.v, W. K. A. The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D.D., i63i-i65<). Edited by the late J. K. Bailey, F.S.A. Completed by. x vols. Unwin Brothers. Berry, T. .S. Christianity and Kuddhism. zs. 6J. Balk, R. L., LL.D. Fellowship with Christ and other discourses delivered on special occasions. Hodder and Stoughton. 6.v. Diggi.e, Rev. Canon'. Sermons for Daily Life. 5s. Kx-ei.t., Rev. J. S. The Biblical Illustrator—St. John, Vol. III. Nisbet, Berners Street. 7s. 6d. Foster, Rev. J. K. Pain, its Mystery and Meaning, and other Sermons. 3.s. 6J. Frif.di.ander, M. The Jewish Religion. Kcgan Paul. Harrison, Rev. Alex. Problems of Christianity and Scepticism. Longmans, ys. 6(1. Macduff, J. R., D.D. St. Paul's Song of Songs: A prac- tical exposition of the Eighth Chapter of Romans. 3s. 6d. Maurice, F. I). 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