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CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
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Vou. IV.—No. 5.] OCTOBER 2, 1893. [Price SIxPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
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Warnings and Notices was Be ase tee eae hes see LOL Correspondence (continued)—<br />
Literary Property— 3.—Rash Conclusions ... ae es ace 5 ane So d0<br />
. —Transfer of Contracts ee . 153 4.—Publishers’ Work ... ‘ ae nee is seca:<br />
—Advances on Royalties ee ec Loe 5.—The Extension of our Language ace oer ae ae ded<br />
a Tribute Gee . . +. 153 6.—The Novelist as Topogrs apher os wee ee eee ces tL<br />
4.—Their Charges me ee : .. 154 7.—Editorial Ethics .. 172<br />
5.—The Lady and its Contributors sat : - 154 | 8.—‘ Free Lance” and Nature - 172<br />
6.—The Law and the Press : : se LDA) 9.—Géorge Eliot and Respectability 173<br />
7.—The Law of Libel ... : + 156 10.—James Defoe.. ae one ae ca wee te<br />
8.—Norwegian Copyright L: aw ‘ -. 156 11.—Retention of MSS... oss oa oe ee ioe ee hie<br />
Zola on Anonymous Journalism . es + 156 oo Poetry 175<br />
Thackeray’s Women.. : «. 158 —Publishers’ Readers 175<br />
So-So Sociology ae we 15S 5 Books of 1892... eee 176<br />
Contributor versus Editor. “By a Contributor . 159 | What the Papers say—_<br />
Notes and News. By the Editor. : «« 161-4 1.—The Book that Failed (Punch) ... ae eee eee pe LEE<br />
Feuilleton— | 2.—A Literary Beginner (The Globe) ee avs Bee Seek:<br />
1.—The Very Best Advice... ae. tee ve ae soe 168 2} 3.—On the Literary Life (The Asclepiad) ... bas a Lee.<br />
2.—The Poet’s Choice .., eee ane ae ae ME obs 4 4.—Reading in the Workhouse (Westminster Gaz 12) 05 soe dee<br />
Correspondence— 5.—* Flavia” (Manchester G uardian) aes Ree ae oto.<br />
1.—Delicate ana Subtle tos ae De en a wee 170 ‘* At the Sign of the Author’s Head”... a Sh Sas setae<br />
2.—Reviewed Books .,. ei See oe saa vee tee gD Books Published ae ie se ae — vee 182<br />
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[PRicr SIXPENCE.<br />
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EADERS of the Author and members of the Society<br />
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experience of nine years’ work by which the dangers<br />
to which literary property is especially exposed have been<br />
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I. SERIAL RicutTs.—In selling Serial Rights stipulate<br />
that you are selling the Serial Right for one paper at a<br />
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responsibility whatever without advice.<br />
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disastrous thing to bind yourself to anyone for a term of<br />
years. Let them ask themselves if they would give a<br />
solicitor the collection of their rents for five years to come,<br />
whatever his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest?<br />
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when they are asked to sign themselves into literary bondage<br />
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per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble<br />
of “doing sums,” the addition of three shillings in the<br />
pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding<br />
is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be<br />
added twenty-four shillings more, so that it now stands at<br />
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have not included any sums which may be charged for<br />
inserting advertisements in the publisher’s own magazines,<br />
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too<br />
often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from<br />
sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket,<br />
by inserting any number of advertisements in his own<br />
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are<br />
who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those<br />
who practise this method of swelling their own profits<br />
call it.<br />
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<br />
Deo<br />
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LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
I.<br />
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PUBLISHING<br />
ContTRACTS.<br />
<br />
AM glad to learn from the communication of<br />
“J. ON.” in the Author for August, p. 30,<br />
that a French court has unconsciously<br />
followed the good example set by the English<br />
Court of Chancery many years ago in a well-known<br />
case of Stevens v. Benning. Ever since that<br />
decision English authors have been safe enough<br />
on the point which “J. O’N.” appears to think<br />
unsettled. F. Pontocx.<br />
[The Secretary of the Society will prepare a<br />
resumé of this case for the next number of the<br />
Author.—Ep. |<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II.<br />
ADVANCES ON ROYALTIES.<br />
<br />
There is, perhaps, no point of detail which<br />
gives rise to so much disagreement between author<br />
and publisher as the amount of advance which the<br />
former is entitled to on royalties. It is now<br />
universally conceded that every author who has<br />
“ captured his public” is entitled to an advance<br />
which varies in amount directly with his popu-<br />
larity. Equally universally, however—or, to avoid<br />
being accused of exaggeration, as a general rule—<br />
author and publisher hold very different views as<br />
to the degree of popularity the former possesses.<br />
Hence sundry asperities on a question of commer-<br />
cial detail. I suggest as a meaus of obviating so<br />
invidious a difficulty, that royalties should be pay-<br />
able in cash on a day to be named on the number<br />
of “subscribed copies.” This is readily ascer-<br />
tained. It includes no ‘ returns.” It represents,<br />
I understand, cash to the publisher. Obviously,<br />
a considerable period must elapse before a pub-<br />
lisher can furnish an account of sales. Obviously,<br />
too, few authors are in a position to wait for the<br />
conclusion of that period before they can touch<br />
their money. W. Morris Coes.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ITI.<br />
A TRIBUTE.<br />
<br />
The Society of Authors deserves credit for one<br />
very valuable quality, which has not, I think,<br />
received adequate recognition. Jt is eminently<br />
businesslike. I have had occasion to resort to its<br />
good offices once or twice this year, and nothing<br />
could exceed the promptitude and precision with<br />
which it has acted. For instance, after having<br />
been long trifled with by the editor, or rather the<br />
proprietor, of a certain journal to which I had<br />
been a contributor, I requested the Society to<br />
154 THE<br />
<br />
apply for payment. I wrote, I think, on a<br />
Monday; the same evening I received a repl<br />
from the Secretary intimating that he had<br />
communicated with the delinquent; and the<br />
next evening (Tuesday) I received a cheque for<br />
the amount in default. With all due respect to<br />
the numerous legal establishments in the neigh-<br />
bourhood of Portugal-street, I very much doubt<br />
whether they would have achieved a similar<br />
result. An APPRECIATIVE MEMBER,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IV.<br />
“THEIR CHARGES.”<br />
<br />
The following extract from a printed circular<br />
has been forwarded to a member of the Society<br />
by the Publishers whose names stand at the head<br />
of it:<br />
<br />
Messrs. A. and B.’s charges for printing, paper, stereo-<br />
typing, binding, advertising, insurance, and all expenses<br />
connected with the publication of the work are due and must<br />
be paid by the author on completion of the work and before<br />
publication.<br />
<br />
It will be observed that the publishers—<br />
whether they mean it or not—appear to claim<br />
the right of charging whatever they please<br />
for the “printing, paper, stereotyping, binding,<br />
advertising, insurance, and all expenses connected<br />
with the publication of the work.” ‘Their<br />
charges” have to be paid before the book is taken<br />
in hand. What are “their charges”? Are they the<br />
simple charges of printer, paper maker, binder,<br />
&e.? If so, why not say so? Or are they some<br />
other charges? And, if so, what other charges ?<br />
We are by no means imputing the intention of<br />
anything at all dishonourable against this Firm.<br />
It must, however, be pointed out that the clause<br />
as it stands is one that leaves the door open to<br />
secret profits to any extent. Readers are there-<br />
fore advised either not to sign such an agreement,<br />
or, at least, to have an estimate for printing, &c.<br />
—“their charges ’’—placed in their own hands<br />
and to get it properly examined before signing.<br />
<br />
Let us see what might be the effect of such a<br />
clause in dishonest hands:<br />
<br />
I.<br />
(As it should be.)<br />
<br />
True cost of a book : & ad.<br />
Printing and binding, paper, advertising,<br />
<br />
80055 BBV es ios ie ls peut cee gen a Cees 100 OO<br />
Publishers’ per centage, 15 per cent. on<br />
<br />
BalGe oases 19 139<br />
<br />
Author's profit (Gs eae Il 113<br />
<br />
£131 50<br />
<br />
£ sd.<br />
<br />
By sales, say, 750 copies at 3s. Od. ......... 131 50<br />
<br />
£131<br />
<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
IL.<br />
(As it should not be.)<br />
<br />
£4. da.<br />
Actual cost of book ............:ccccccssececosses 100 00<br />
<br />
Publishers’ charges (25 per cent. on the<br />
true Price) 2s acs ce ae 125 00<br />
Publishers’ commission ............:0ccseeeeees 19 13 9<br />
£144 13 9<br />
& ad:<br />
Bales 665 sldccsiie us bee a ee 131 50<br />
Alleged loss on boOK............ceecec cee cee eeu ees 13 89<br />
£144 13 9<br />
<br />
Messrs. A. and B. will probably say that they<br />
do not intend to add 25 per cent., or anything at<br />
all per cent., to the cost. But the point is, that<br />
the clause in the agreement allows them to charge<br />
whatever they please.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Vv.<br />
Tur “Lapy” AnD 1ts CONTRIBUTORS.<br />
<br />
[Copy of Agreement offered to contributors. |<br />
Address in full.<br />
Date 18<br />
<br />
Srr,—In reply to your letter relating to my manuscript<br />
entitled<br />
I request that you will retain that manuscript and will<br />
publish it in the Lady at any time and in any manner you<br />
deem fit. I undertake not to require any payment what-<br />
ever for this manuscript unless it is so published; I<br />
acknowledge that I neither have nor shall have any claim<br />
in respect thereof on the proprietor of the Lady until after<br />
it has been so published; and, in the event of its publica-<br />
tion, I accept payment for it at the rate usually paid by the<br />
proprietor of the Lady for similar matter.<br />
<br />
I fully understand that you may find it necessary<br />
to postpone the publication of this manuscript for a long<br />
period, and that you may even find it impossible to publish<br />
it at all; and it is on this understanding that I agree to<br />
leave the manuscript in your hands, without holding you to<br />
have assumed any responsibility whatever, either for its<br />
publication or for its safe custody.—Your obedient servant,<br />
<br />
(Signature)<br />
<br />
To the Editor of the Lady newspaper, London, W.C.<br />
<br />
The editor or proprietor is quite within his<br />
rights in making what stipulations he pleases.<br />
We are within our rights in advising our readers<br />
not to accept these stipulations. The agreemen<br />
is a printed form.<br />
<br />
VI.<br />
Tue Law anp THE PREss.<br />
<br />
At the late meeting of the British Association,<br />
Mr. J. A. Strahan, M.A., LL.B, barrister-<br />
at-law, read a paper on the Progress of the<br />
Newspaper Press, and the need of a consoli-<br />
dation and reform of the laws affecting news-<br />
papers. He said that, on the principle of calling<br />
an age by its most salient feature, the present<br />
times might be called the newspaper age. Not<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
only is the dominance of the newspaper their<br />
most notable characteristic, but to that domi-<br />
nance all the other characteristic phenomena of<br />
the age have not merely contributed, but are<br />
necessary. The advances in mechanical skill, in<br />
scientific discovery, in popular education, and in<br />
popular government have all worked together to<br />
put the newspaper of to-day in its present posi-<br />
tion. Statistics might be given to show the<br />
enormous progress of the Press within recent<br />
times. In 1695—the year of the lapse of the<br />
censorship of the Press---the first daily paper in<br />
England—the Postboy—was started. In 1712—<br />
the year when the stamp tax on newspapers was<br />
first imposed—the yearly circulation of news-<br />
papers in England was about 2,000,000. In 1755<br />
it was about 7,400,000 in 1767 about 11,300,000<br />
in 1801 about 16,000,000, in 1811 about 25,500,000,<br />
in 1820 about 29,500,000, in 1831 about 37,700,000,<br />
in 1836 about 39,400,000. In 1837 the stamp<br />
tax was reduced from 3}d. net to a penny, and<br />
the circulation that year rose to nearly 54,000,000.<br />
In 1841 it had increased to about 60,000,000.<br />
In 1854—the last year of the stamp tax—it stood<br />
at 122,000,000. Since 1854 estimates of circula-<br />
tion must be largely conjectural and approximate;<br />
but the great increase in the number of news-<br />
papers, from 493 in 1840 to 1817 in 1882, and to<br />
2200 in 1893, and the even more marked increase<br />
in the number of persons connected with<br />
journalism, as shown by the census—for example,<br />
of “authors, editors, and writers,’ from 1528 in<br />
1861 to 3434 in 1881, and of reporters from 636<br />
in 1861 to 2677 in 1881—show that newspaper<br />
production must have increased enormously.<br />
Other figures point the same way. There are<br />
now 29 daily papers—morning and evening—in<br />
London. Taking the average daily circulation<br />
of each as about 100,000 copies, the annual circu-<br />
lation of the London dailies alone must approach<br />
1,000,000,000. The 170 provincial dailies must<br />
have at least an equal circulation. The yearly<br />
circulation of daily papers alone then must reach<br />
2,000,000,000. It wasimpossible to form even a<br />
rough estimate of the circulation of the 2000<br />
weeklies. Some of these have circulations<br />
approaching a quarter of a million a week.<br />
Legislation affecting newspapers had _ been<br />
neglected. For 150 years after the first daily<br />
<br />
paper was started in London practically<br />
there was no special legislation for news-<br />
papers. During the last fifty years numerous<br />
<br />
statutes have been passed affecting them, some<br />
statutes specially applying to them. But the<br />
legislation had beeu largely haphazard and piece-<br />
meal and ill-considered. The time had come<br />
when it should be thoroughly recast and reformed<br />
and made a consistent system of law. The<br />
<br />
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<br />
advantages which would result from codifying the<br />
law affecting newspapers are the following :—(a)<br />
The law would be made more intelligible. At<br />
present it is extraordinarily confused. The<br />
common law, and no less than thirty-one statutes<br />
altering and muddling it, now applies to news-<br />
papers. This the author considered a disgraceful<br />
thing, especially when it was remembered that<br />
newspaper law, as a rule, had to be applied by<br />
the editor commonly without time or opportunity<br />
of getting legal advice. (6) The law would be<br />
made more effective. At present the law fre-<br />
quently fails to carry out the intentions of the<br />
Legislature. For example, the Newspaper Libel<br />
and Registration Act, 1881, fails altogether to<br />
secure reliable registration of newspaper owners.<br />
It fails to secure journalists against vexatious and<br />
frivolous indictments for libel where the magis-<br />
trate has dismissed the charge against the jour-<br />
nalist. (c) It would preserve the liberty of the<br />
Press. Recently the Court of Chancery has<br />
begun to grant interim injunctions to restrain the<br />
publication of libels or what it holds to be libels.<br />
This is a very dangerous jurisdiction. If it is to<br />
be permitted to exist at all it should surely be<br />
limited and fixed by express statutory enactment.<br />
Consolidation of the law of the Press would pro-<br />
bably lead to reform of it too. The reforms most<br />
necessary at this moment were two. The first was<br />
with respect to vexatious actions for what are only<br />
technically libels, or for what are not libels at all,<br />
by persons who, when defeated, are unable to<br />
pay costs. Itis suggested that in these cases a<br />
judge in chambers should, on summons, decide<br />
whether the libel is serious or not, and if he<br />
believed it to be trivial he should have power to<br />
stay the action until the plaintiff gave security<br />
for costs. The second point on which reform is<br />
necessary is with regard to newspaper owners’<br />
sole liability for defamation appearing in accu-<br />
rate reports of speeches publicly delivered. It is<br />
suggested that where a speaker knew that re-<br />
porters were present to report his speech he<br />
should in any action for defamation contained in<br />
the report of the speech be joined with the news-<br />
paper proprietor as co-defendant, and the jury<br />
should have power to apportion the damages<br />
between them. Possibly, another result of con-<br />
solidating the Jaw would be to establish a legal<br />
profession of journalists, with a standard of pro-<br />
fessional culture and of professional honour. To<br />
do this it would only be necessary to enact that no<br />
newspaper could be published save under the<br />
editorship of a legally qualified journalist. The<br />
privilege of making rules of admission to the pro-<br />
fession might be conferred on the Institute of<br />
Journalists or some similar body, and a person<br />
once admitted to the profession should only be<br />
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expelled from it by order of the Queen’s Bench on<br />
proof of conduct unbecoming his position.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
VII.<br />
Tue Law or Lipset.<br />
<br />
In a paper read before the Conference of the<br />
Institute of Journalists, Mr. Fisher found four<br />
special grievances. He objected to the distinction<br />
between oral and written libel, which enables the<br />
speaker of the slander to get off scot-free, while<br />
the newspaper which innocently publishes his<br />
remarks may be mulcted in a heavy penalty.<br />
Secondly, he complained that in matters con-<br />
cerning privilege of Parliament and contempt of<br />
court, the journalist is tried and condemned by<br />
the parties aggrieved. Thirdly, he was strongly<br />
against the recent practice of the Chancery<br />
Division in granting injunctions against the<br />
publication of libels alleged to be injurious to<br />
property, so that a society like the Liberator<br />
might altogether escape criticism. Lastly, he<br />
thought that the power of the Post-office officials<br />
to decide what is or is not “ news””—with a view<br />
to transmission under newspaper rates—‘‘a pre-<br />
posterous anachronism.”—Manchester Guardian.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
VIII.<br />
<br />
Norwecian Copyricut Law.<br />
[Translated by JULIAN CORBETT.]<br />
LAW OF JULY 4 CONCERNING LITERARY AND<br />
ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT.<br />
<br />
This law supersedes the laws of June 8, 1876,<br />
and May 12, 1877.<br />
<br />
An author has the sole right of publishing his<br />
writings, nor may any person read them in public<br />
provided the same is expressed to be forbidden<br />
upon the title-page or in the preface of the work.<br />
In the same manner an author has the sole right<br />
of publishing an oral lecture, &c.<br />
<br />
With regard to translations, the law provides<br />
that without the author’s consent they may not<br />
be made from the original language into any of<br />
its dialects—Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish<br />
being considered in this behalf dialects of the<br />
same language—or from one foreign language<br />
into another, where an authorised translation is<br />
issued in the course of a year. On the expira-<br />
tion of ten years without any such lawful trans-<br />
lation appearing in the course of a year, the right<br />
of translation is free.<br />
<br />
Infringements of authors’ rights are punish-<br />
able by fines to the amount of 2000 kroner, and<br />
in certain cases damages and confiscation may be<br />
demanded. The law enumerates a class of cases<br />
which are not to be deemed infringement of<br />
copyright, and amongst these may be noted<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
the copying or translation in newspapers or<br />
periodicals of single articles or communications<br />
from other newspapers or periodicals, unless<br />
express reservation against piracy has been made.<br />
In every case the source from which the matter<br />
is taken must be duly given.<br />
<br />
Copyright runs for the author’s lifetime and<br />
fifty years after his death—in the case of anony-<br />
mous and pseudonymous works for fifty years<br />
from the date of publication. Public reading of<br />
a work—where the right has been reserved—is<br />
permitted after three years.<br />
<br />
The law comes into operation Jan. 1, 1894, and<br />
applies to all works of Norwegian subjects as<br />
well as to works of foreigners published through<br />
a Norwegian house. Upon the principle of<br />
reciprocity this law may be extended wholly or in<br />
part by Royal proclamation to the works of<br />
foreign subjects, even when they have not been<br />
published through a Norwegian house.<br />
<br />
An author has thus full proprietary rights<br />
(ejendomsret) in his labour. So long as it exists<br />
only in manuscript it cannot be published by the<br />
creditors either of himself or of his heirs. On<br />
the other hand, if the author has published it,<br />
it falls like any other piece of property into his<br />
assets, and at his death it becomes subject to the<br />
general rules of the law of succession. It should,<br />
however, be noted that the creditors upon the<br />
author’s death have priority in authorising a new<br />
edition of an already published work.<br />
<br />
When an author has assigned his right of pub-<br />
lication, the assignee, in the absence of any<br />
agreement to the contrary, is not entitled to pub-<br />
lish more than one edition, and that must not<br />
exceed 1000 copies, except in the case of news-<br />
papers. So long as an edition is not sold out, the<br />
author is not entitled to authorise the issue of a<br />
new edition.<br />
<br />
ec<br />
<br />
ZOLA ON ANONYMOUS JOURNALISM.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
g WISH to speak of anonymity in jour-<br />
nalism. This is a question by which I<br />
have been much struck: and if you con-<br />
<br />
sider an English newspaper, in which not a single<br />
<br />
article is signed, and a French newspaper, in<br />
which everything is signed—down to the miscel-<br />
laneous paragraph sometimes,—you will find<br />
yourself, I believe, confronted by the two races,<br />
with all that the national temperament, the<br />
manners, and the history of the last hundred<br />
years have made them. It is very certain that.<br />
the British Press owes to anonymity its power,<br />
<br />
its unquestionable authority. For the moment I<br />
<br />
will confine myself to the political articles, the<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. 157<br />
<br />
portion of the journal embodying its policy.<br />
Thus viewed, a political newspaper in which the<br />
individual disappears, is nothing more than the<br />
expression of a party, the daily bread of a crowd.<br />
It gains in power what it loses in personality,<br />
for it has no object but to satisfy an opinion, to<br />
be the exact representation of that opinion. It<br />
follows that for such a newspaper to meet a<br />
social want it must have behind it a devoted<br />
public, reading it alone, and perfectly contented<br />
so long as it sees reproduced in print every morn-<br />
ing its own ideas, ideas which it expected to see.<br />
Observe that it is just this public which, in your<br />
country, has made the Press what it is—a public<br />
that has not been broken up into fragments by<br />
revolutions, that is still divided into only two<br />
great parties very nearly equal in importance, a<br />
public that has no feverish desire when it gets<br />
up in the morning to go through ten or a dozen<br />
newspapers, but of whom every reader sticks to<br />
his own paper, which he reads from beginning to<br />
end, asking nothing more than that it shall<br />
think as he himself thinks. Under such condi-<br />
tions anonymity is necessary. It is no longer<br />
this or that leader writer that matters; it is the<br />
opinion of the newspaper as a whole. It may<br />
even be said that the unequal value of the<br />
writers, their personality, if they signed their<br />
articles, would destroy the unity of the whole.<br />
In France, as you are aware, a different state of<br />
things prevails. We have had anonymity in the<br />
case of political articles, and certain of our<br />
journals, like the Débats and the Temps, still<br />
appear without any signature on their front page.<br />
But these are the old-fashioned habits of<br />
venerable sheets which, in spite of themselves,<br />
are constrained to make some small sacrifice<br />
every day to the new requirements of our public;<br />
they grow young again, publish signed articles on<br />
current topics, and sacrifice to the lighter forms<br />
of humour. The truth is that we are a turbulent<br />
nation, and that the ancient soil of our monarchy<br />
has been in one century broken and turned up<br />
incessantly by revolutions. If anonymity is<br />
disappearing from our political press, it is because<br />
our nation will have nothing more to do with it,<br />
because new wants are springing up. After so<br />
many shocks, parties, naturally, have crumbled<br />
away—we have now no great parties, distinct and<br />
definite ; this explains why our newspapers have<br />
a smaller circulation than yours, and why in our<br />
country new journals swarm, ephemeral, born in<br />
the morning to expire ere night. As soon as<br />
individuality overflows, triumphs to such a point<br />
as this, it is evident that anonymity in journalism<br />
isatanend. Signing secures success, so articles<br />
are signed. It may be that you see the whole<br />
race here, in this craving to fight in the front<br />
VOL. Iv.<br />
<br />
rank, the face uncovered, and in the glory that its<br />
therefore to be won by hurling one’s name into<br />
the midst of the conflict. I am well aware of all<br />
that may be said against the political press that<br />
signed articles have given us. It has lost its<br />
authority; it has completed the destruction of<br />
parties; it is as often as not a mere brawl, in<br />
which the great interests of the community are lost<br />
sight of amid abominable personal squabbles. The<br />
spectacle, truly, is at times heartrending ; it must<br />
convey a frightful impression on us abroad; and<br />
you would not have to press me hard to force me to<br />
the conclusion that anonymity alone would restore<br />
honesty and disinterestedness to our political<br />
newspapers. Anonymity constitutes the power<br />
and authority of the British Press, and the<br />
British Press will be extremely wise to preserve<br />
it. I do not think, moreover, that it is depen-<br />
dent upon the will of individuals; the Press is<br />
only what the nation desires it to be. At the<br />
same time, I confess that if I recognise the neces-<br />
sity for anonymity in political matters, I am none<br />
the less surprised that it can exist in literary<br />
matters. Here I entirely fail to grasp the situa-<br />
tion. I refer especially to articles of criticism,<br />
judgments pronounced upon the play, the book,<br />
the work of art. Can there be such a thing as<br />
the literature, the art of a party? That disci-<br />
pline, average opinion, should prevail in politics<br />
is certainly wise. But that a literary or artistic<br />
production should be adapted to suit the views of<br />
a whole party, that a scythe should be used to cut<br />
down everybody to the same level, that all should<br />
be mixed up ina common herd, in order to politely<br />
please your public, this Iconsider to be dangerous<br />
to the intellectual vitality of a nation. This sort of<br />
regimental criticism, speaking in the name of a<br />
majority, can only end in producing a mediocre,<br />
colourless literature. Moreover, if the critic does<br />
not sign his articles does he not renounce all his<br />
personality, as well as all his responsibity? He<br />
is the voice crying out in the crowd when no face<br />
can be distinguished. He chronicles and sum-<br />
marises. He loses all boldness, all passion, all<br />
power even. In the field of letters and arts you<br />
must admit that talent is individual and free,<br />
and I cannot imagine an impersonal, anonymous<br />
critic sitting in judgment upon original and<br />
living productions. What adds to my surprise<br />
in considering this anonymity in your news-<br />
paper criticism is that there is certainly not in<br />
the wide world a literature that has been more<br />
proudly free, that has displayed more dashing<br />
and unbridled originality, than English litera-<br />
ture. Your history comprises an admirable<br />
series of superb works, in which the genius of<br />
your writers has asserted itself in a superlative<br />
manner. I know of hardly any finer fruition of<br />
QO<br />
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<br />
free human personality. How comes it, then,<br />
that you still adhere to this anonymous news-<br />
paper criticism, which, to me, is one of the symp-<br />
toms of the regimental system in letters, indi-<br />
cating the want of a middle literature, yood for<br />
the masses—* for the million”—very honourable,<br />
no doubt, but intolerant of bold and out-of-the-<br />
way productions? There is evidently here a<br />
social point which I cannot discuss now. I con-<br />
fine myself to the subject before me, and, natu-<br />
rally, if I am astonished at your anonymity in<br />
matters of criticism, I am still more surprised<br />
when I come across in your newspapers a descrip-<br />
tive sketch or a study of manners or history<br />
without a signature.”—From the report in the<br />
Manchester Guardian.<br />
<br />
re<br />
<br />
THACKERAY’S WOMEN.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ET me make one thing plain at the outset.<br />
7 Thackeray is to me the great master in<br />
fiction. He can interpret, as no other,<br />
the tenderest and profoundest experiences of our<br />
human nature. Were I condemned, by some<br />
despot, to read only one novelist for the rest of<br />
my life, Thackeray would be my choice. Yet,<br />
loving this great author as I do, I am going to<br />
quarrel with him.<br />
<br />
Tamawoman. Thackeray has said the most<br />
chivalrous things of us women. But he has not<br />
understood us. Was it the fault of his day,<br />
with its restrictions and conventionalisms; or<br />
was he unfortunate in his experience of women?<br />
Anyhow, his women are narrow, unreasonable<br />
beings; very different, I hope, from the living<br />
article. Justice and generosity are always denied<br />
them. They are angels of kindness, affection,<br />
constancy (except when they ‘are quite the<br />
reverse); but to think calmly and dispas-<br />
sionately on a subject seems beyond them.<br />
Take for instance, Amelia Sedley’s attachment to<br />
George. In its commencement this is admirable,<br />
and we love her for it. She is young, and blind<br />
faith in her idol seems only natural at her years.<br />
But surely time, to say nothing of the slights of<br />
the honeymoon, would have roused her far sooner<br />
from that worship of a shadow than Thackeray<br />
permits? In real life I have known women who,<br />
like Amelia, gave their hearts away unworthily.<br />
They were loving, faithful, but not blind.<br />
<br />
Lady Castlewood is, I suppose, the most care-<br />
fully worked-out of the good heroines. But<br />
with all her grace and charm she is, to me at<br />
least, not lovable. Her jealousy of both her<br />
daughters is unnatural and repellent. She is<br />
<br />
hard to her blundering husband; unjust for<br />
years to Esmond, As to her dislike to have<br />
pretty faces near her, I should like to quote a<br />
truer saying from a modern novel, “ Comin’ thro’<br />
the Rye:” “ One really beautiful woman is never<br />
jealous of another.”<br />
<br />
Why does Thackeray lavish all the talent on<br />
his bad heroines—the Beckey Sharps and Blanche<br />
Amorys? Clever women are as often sweet and<br />
lovable as not. Why could he not give us a<br />
feminine counterpart of Major Dobbin, tender,<br />
true, and just and sensible? But perhaps no<br />
one else will be found to agree with my sentiments<br />
towards these dear, familiar friends of ours. I<br />
should like very much to hear some one else’s<br />
opinion on the subject. NINGUNA.<br />
<br />
EE ———<br />
<br />
$0-SO0 SOCIOLOGY.<br />
<br />
(Continued from p. 137.)<br />
<br />
62. LATTERY easily passes for sympathy.<br />
K 63. Patience is virtue or vice, ac-<br />
cording to manner and motive.<br />
<br />
64. Uncertainty is as characteristic of hope as<br />
of anxiety.<br />
<br />
65. Chivalry, like duty or necessity, can show<br />
no cruelty.<br />
<br />
66. Wit may be due to wantonness, wickedness,<br />
wisdom, or wine.<br />
<br />
67. Recklessness of manner often passes for<br />
robustness of mind.<br />
<br />
68. Personal venom sometimes poses as public<br />
virtue.<br />
<br />
69. Humourlessness may become a personal<br />
power, as well as be a mental want.<br />
<br />
70. Unsteadiness of eye is oftener due to weak-<br />
ness than to wickedness.<br />
<br />
71. Baldness popularly passes for brain-power<br />
and. benevolence.<br />
<br />
72. Mere memory is no sure measure of men-<br />
tality.<br />
<br />
73. Loudness of tone is oftener due to weakness<br />
than to wantonness.<br />
<br />
74. Feminine mannishness is too often con-<br />
founded with strong-mindedness.<br />
<br />
75. The petty soul frets when its pet fads are<br />
not welcomed as divine decrees.<br />
<br />
76, Selfless sorrow is an educative luxury to<br />
the insanely miserable.<br />
<br />
77. Pluck, not luck, rules the whole world.<br />
<br />
78. Suicide is oftener due to defeat of control<br />
than to defect of courage.<br />
<br />
79. The philosopher comes to realise his own<br />
ignorance, which the hopeless fool uever does.<br />
<br />
80. Youth is oftener an explanation than an<br />
excuse.<br />
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81. The present is the focus of all the tenses.<br />
<br />
82. Ancestry is the time for sowing, imma-<br />
turity for growing.<br />
<br />
83. Self-denial may strengthen, but only self-<br />
sacrifice can ennoble.<br />
<br />
84. Forbearance is easily mistaken for weak-<br />
ness.<br />
<br />
85. Will is in bondage to antecedent and to<br />
nerve-quality.<br />
<br />
86. Only the wise can know how best to bide<br />
their due time.<br />
<br />
87. Self-interest is less akin to selfishnsss than<br />
to self-sacrifice.<br />
<br />
88. Fidelity is only virtuous on behalf of<br />
virtue.<br />
<br />
89. Virtue always personally pays, whether it<br />
popularly pleases or not.<br />
<br />
go. Absolute truth existed before Man ; rela-<br />
tive truth persists through him.<br />
<br />
gi. There is always more novelty in ideas than<br />
variety in ideals.<br />
<br />
g2. Misanthropy is always an affliction, and<br />
often an affectation.<br />
<br />
93. Love is the feminine of genius.<br />
<br />
94. The people’s heart is generally far sounder<br />
than its head.<br />
<br />
95. Conceit of class too often poses as reverence<br />
for race.<br />
<br />
96. The highest function of the educator is to<br />
duly teach true self-education.<br />
<br />
97. The true reward of virtue lies in the due<br />
growth of soul.<br />
<br />
98. Death is a re-focussing of life.<br />
<br />
99. The virtue of bigotry lies in its veracity,<br />
its vice in its vanity.<br />
<br />
100. Sensitiveness differs from sentimentality<br />
as sympathy from selfishness.<br />
<br />
101. Exception proves the imperfection, or<br />
human origin, of a rule.<br />
<br />
102. The wise man’s lamb is shorn to suit the<br />
tempered wind.<br />
<br />
103. Better a philanthropic pessimism than a<br />
selfish optimism.<br />
<br />
104. Love is the best, and sorrow the com-<br />
monest, of the various cures for the common curse<br />
of selfishness.<br />
<br />
105. Wit is a force of head; humour, a grace<br />
of heart.<br />
<br />
106. The art that disgusts may be didactic,<br />
but must be inartistic.<br />
<br />
107. The fool searches for happiness in<br />
selfishness, and grasps only the empty shadow.<br />
<br />
108. Begrudged praise is one main mark of a<br />
mean soul,<br />
<br />
109. Optimism is too often only a popular<br />
name for ostrich-ism.<br />
<br />
PHINLAY GLENELG.<br />
<br />
(To be continued.)<br />
VOL. IV.<br />
<br />
CONTRIBUTOR VERSUS EDITOR.<br />
<br />
(From a ConTrisutor’s Point or Virw.)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
CAREFUL perusal of an article which<br />
recently appeared in the Bookman upon<br />
the subject of existing grievances between<br />
<br />
editor and contributor—* From an Editor’s Point<br />
of View ”—has made it clear to me that the real<br />
(or chiefest) grievances of contributors have<br />
either inadvertently or purposely been overlooked<br />
or avoided. To none of the statements made in<br />
the article in question can I, a contributor to a<br />
large number of papers and magazines, take<br />
exception. The “ case” for the editor, so far<br />
as it goes, is stated with praiseworthy fairness<br />
and moderation, but it does not go far enough.<br />
<br />
The trials of an editor are not altogether un.<br />
familiar to me, numbering as I do several editors<br />
and ex-editors amongst my most considerate and<br />
valued friends. But these “trials of the flesh ”<br />
are, in part, the penalties attaching to greatness<br />
and omnipotence in literary matters. They exist<br />
but to be borne.<br />
<br />
Following, then, somewhat similar lines to<br />
those adopted by the contributor-editor [ shall<br />
endeavour to state the “case” for contributors<br />
with equal fairness and clearness. By the “con-<br />
tributors ” I mean those who have entered upon<br />
the literary eareer as a means of obtaining a<br />
livelihood, and who will have taken some little<br />
care at least to have mastered the initial require-<br />
ments which go towards ultimate success. The<br />
weakness of the other writer’s “case” seems to<br />
me to exist in the selection of the “evidence ”<br />
brought to support it. Many of the so-called<br />
*contributors”’ cited can, indeed, scarcely be<br />
classed as such. They are persons who have<br />
clearly mistaken their calling, and have to suffer<br />
the penalty. Their “grievances” are of small<br />
importance or weight; their opinions little more<br />
so, unless we are prepared to accept the dictum<br />
“that the best critics are those who have failed.”<br />
<br />
What we as contributors have, I contend, a<br />
right to expect is :<br />
<br />
1. That all papers and magazines should<br />
clearly state that they will or will not undertake<br />
to return MSS. sent unsolicited.<br />
<br />
Most editors are glad to consider outside con-<br />
tributors’ MSS. in the hope of now and again<br />
discovering a nugget amid the quartz. But is it<br />
reasonable to expect that an author will send in<br />
an article or story, which has cost him either<br />
time or money in the mere copying, on the “ off-<br />
chance ” of acceptance, if he is uncertain of ever<br />
seeing it again either in printorin MS.? I think<br />
surely not. Let it be distinctly stated that<br />
“ MSS. will in no case be returned whether stamps<br />
<br />
02<br />
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are enclosed for that purpose or not,” and the<br />
author at once sends at his own risk, and should<br />
the contribution be put into the editorial<br />
waste-paper basket he can have no grievance.<br />
This intimation is not to be found in several of.<br />
the better class periodicals which do not return<br />
rejected contributions. A very well-known<br />
monthly magazine contains no “notice” to this<br />
effect, and the only hint | received that such was<br />
the rule with the publication in question was a<br />
stereotyped letter (in answer to my inquiry as to<br />
the fate of the MS. sent five months before) stating<br />
that “all rejected MSS. are destroyed. And to<br />
this rule no exception can be made whether stamps<br />
for return are enclosed or not.” The result of<br />
the omission to state this in the magazine itself<br />
being, in my case, the absolute loss of no less<br />
than ten days’ hard work. Surely I had reason<br />
1o feel aggrieved.<br />
<br />
2, That even unsolicited MSS. should be dealt<br />
with as speedily as may be, and should be<br />
returned, when rejected, promptly.<br />
<br />
Is it unfair to expect this? In other walks of<br />
life a man offering to sell a chattel would not be<br />
expected to keep it on offer for an indefinite<br />
period. A practised “reader” will be able to<br />
judge a MS.—almost at a glance—sufficiently to<br />
place it in one of three classes forthwith. That,<br />
namely, of impossible, possible, or certain. The<br />
MSS. in the first of these classes should be re-<br />
turned (subject to the terms of the “ notice to<br />
intending contributors”) without delay ; there can<br />
be no reason for retaining them. The second class<br />
MSS. present more difficulty. But even here the<br />
“test” reading should be undertaken at the<br />
earliest possible opportunity. This is mere<br />
justice and right dealing, and should not be<br />
taken as “an act of grace” upon the part of the<br />
publisher or editor.<br />
<br />
3. (a) That accepted MSS. should be given as<br />
early an insertion as possible. (6) More especially<br />
when dealing with a “‘ topic” liable to get out of<br />
date.<br />
<br />
There are two excellent reasons for this conten-<br />
tion: (a) A writer is not fully remunerated even<br />
when payment for a contribution has been made.<br />
Publication is necessary to all of us to ensure<br />
success. The mere appearance of a story or<br />
other contribution in a magazine of standing<br />
is in itself of very considerable value. Indeed,<br />
editors have been known to urge this as an<br />
excuse for non-payment. I have a note from<br />
the editor of a leading monthly now in my<br />
possession, which runs in part as follows: “I<br />
regret, however, that I cannot see my way clear<br />
to offer you payment for‘. .’ We seldom<br />
<br />
remunerate any save the leading writers. The<br />
appearance of an article in our columns being in<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
itself a valuable advertisement, which partakes of<br />
the nature of remuneration. . . . We not<br />
infrequently have MSS. offered us by able writers<br />
gratuitously for this reason.” The policy of the<br />
magazine in question may have altered now. The<br />
letter from which I quote bears a date five years<br />
back. (6) With reference to the second clause<br />
of contention (3), no man likes to “ appear a day<br />
after the fair.” And for this reason articles upon<br />
current topics should have early insertion, and<br />
precedence of other matter. _ This is good policy<br />
from both points of view, and will obviate the too<br />
frequent non-publication of MSS. which from<br />
delay in insertion have become “ out of date.”<br />
<br />
4. That MSS. should be returned fully<br />
stamped where sufficient stamps were forwarded<br />
for this purpose, and that in such cases they<br />
should be returned in the manner sent.<br />
<br />
These may seem “ points” of small importance,<br />
but the non-observance of them may be the<br />
cause of great and unnecessary annoyance. I<br />
have frequently hai to pay double postage on<br />
under-paid letters, although sufficient stamps<br />
were enclosed with the MSS. for their return.<br />
The practice is, strange as it may appear, by no<br />
means confined to publications of the lower class<br />
and impecunious publishers.<br />
<br />
With reference to the other point. On my<br />
table at the present moment is a MS. returned to<br />
me in a halfpenny wrapper, although 23d. in<br />
stamps was inclosed for its return. The result<br />
is that, owing to insufficient protection, the MS.<br />
has been so damaged (by dirt and tearing) in<br />
transit, thatit must be re-copied. At least three<br />
and a half hours’ hard work.<br />
<br />
5. (a) That payment should be made for pub-<br />
lished MSS. within a reasonable time. (6) That,<br />
where it is found inexpedient to state in the pub-<br />
lication itself the rate of remuneration offered,<br />
upon the acceptance of a contribution the writer<br />
of it should be informed of the amount which will<br />
be paid for it.<br />
<br />
A case taken into court some three years ago<br />
has settled that some payment must be made for<br />
published MSS. in default of an understanding<br />
to the contrary. This disposes of the absolutely<br />
non-paying editor. If he has any money, you<br />
can get it. (qa) It is in literature alone that pay-<br />
ment for “ goods bought and delivered’’ is inde-<br />
finitely postponed. What is the cause of this ?<br />
Why should this be? And yet this is often the<br />
case. Half the agreed sum to settle being the<br />
policy (I am speaking from personal experience)<br />
of more than one magazine of good outside<br />
repute. Cannot some rule be adopted by at least<br />
all respectable publications, by which payment<br />
will and can be made, either on publication or at<br />
three months from the date of the acceptance of<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
MSS.? Contributors would be saved many an<br />
anxious hour, and la lutte pour la vie made less<br />
hard if this could be so. (6) Tn no other calling<br />
is it expected of the worker that he or she labour<br />
“for what you please.” But this is so in the<br />
“noble profession of letters. ’<br />
<br />
Years ago I wrote an article, and sent it to a<br />
certain paper. It was accepted. I was asked to<br />
write more. I was not “up to things” then, and<br />
did so without asking the amount of remuneration<br />
offered. After writing articles for thirteen weeks,<br />
LTasked for payment. It was made me promptly,<br />
at the rate of 3s. 6d. a column of 1200 words, and<br />
of original matter, too. The paper boasts of a<br />
circulation of 60,000-80,000 copies. It was as<br />
much then. A stereotyped letter, telling the<br />
writer the amount offered for the contribution<br />
accepted would bea boon, and would cause a very<br />
small amount of trouble to the editor.<br />
<br />
In conclusion, 1 haye endeavoured to state<br />
“the other side,” and to do it fairly. I have also<br />
suggested remedial measures which would, if<br />
carried out, lead, I am firmly persuaded, to an<br />
entente cordiale between editors and contributors<br />
beneficial to both. C. H.<br />
<br />
Do<br />
<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
N another column will be found a report of<br />
<br />
M. Zola’s paper on Anonymous Journalism,<br />
<br />
read before the Conference of Journalists.<br />
That anonymity in political matters largely con-<br />
tributes towards the power and the authority of<br />
our own Press is a point in which one is pleased<br />
to find M. Zola in agreement with most of us.<br />
Yet it is not anonymity alone which gives<br />
authority in such matters to the Press. The<br />
political articles—generally snappy paragraphs<br />
—in the American papers are anonymous, and<br />
yet the American Press asa rule possesses nothing<br />
like the authority of our own. But why, asks<br />
M. Zola, preserve anonymity in criticism? ‘Can<br />
there be such a thing as party in literature and<br />
art?” There is very little, I suppose, to be said<br />
in defence of anonymous criticism. But there is<br />
something. The old Quarterlies, itis argued, have<br />
furnished the world with a good deal of admirable<br />
anonymous criticism, together with some that has<br />
not been quite so admirable. But, whenever a<br />
good paper appears in one of them, a paragraph<br />
runs round the “ literary columns” of the Press,<br />
stating the name of the author. And even in the<br />
early days of Macaulay’s brilliant papers, every-<br />
body interested in the matter knew perfectly well<br />
who was the author. Again, there are papers<br />
like the Atheneum, the Saturday Review, the<br />
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Spectator, the Guardian, whose criticism in<br />
literature and art will surely be allowed to carry<br />
the greatest weight. Yet they are not only<br />
anonymous, but the authorship of the articles<br />
is not known except to the Inner Ring, and is<br />
never announced by the newspapers. Speaking<br />
as a general rule, it is quite impossible for an<br />
outsider to find out who wrote any given article<br />
in one of these papers. Would their criticisms,<br />
their judgment, gain in authority if they were<br />
signed? [think not. Again, the articles in the<br />
Academy are signed. Are they, therefore, more<br />
weighty than those in the other four papers? I<br />
think not. Sometimes papers in the Academy<br />
are written and signed by the same writers who<br />
also contribute to the other papers. Trained and<br />
scholarly criticism, you see, is not too plentiful.<br />
As regards the daily papers, there are some whose<br />
critical columns will, as a rule, stand comparison<br />
with the articles of these four or five weeklies.<br />
But I should rejoice to see the custom of signing<br />
criticisms in literature and art become general,<br />
for several reasons. First, because it would<br />
instantly, I believe, demolish the flippant smart-<br />
ness and insolence with which some papers allow<br />
their columns to be disfigured—smartness which<br />
disguises the fact that the critic knows nothing<br />
of his subject: it would force the writer at least<br />
to read the book: it would put an end to the<br />
“reviewing”’ (?) of books in the batch: it would<br />
make the young critic anxious to advance his own<br />
name as a writer who can deliver carefully-con-<br />
sidered judgment in the courteous language of<br />
a gentleman: this language he would study to<br />
preserve in his work, or to learn if he had never<br />
learned it ; and it would enormously raise the<br />
position and status of a critic in the eyes of the<br />
editor, as well as those of the reading public.<br />
That it would also rapidly advance the capable<br />
critic in his own profession may be taken for<br />
granted.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My own theory on the general subject of<br />
reviewing—a theory which I do not expect to be<br />
universally accepted as yet—is this: ‘The work<br />
of a critic never ought to be entrusted to the<br />
first novice that is recommended to the editor. If<br />
an aspiring critic is as yet unproved by published<br />
work, he should furnish some proof to the editor<br />
of culture, reading, knowledge of standards,<br />
knowledge of the works of writers, living as well<br />
as dead, and of special qualifications and special<br />
knowledge, if he has any. For instance, Art<br />
criticism should not be entrusted to those persons<br />
who can neither paint nor draw, nor have madea<br />
<br />
special study of painting, sculpture, and drawing.<br />
<br />
I would go so far as to lay down the rule that<br />
study alone, without actual experience in Art, is<br />
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not enough ; but we should be thankful if we can<br />
get Art critics who know even the history of Art.<br />
Take another branch of literature—that of science<br />
—would one confide the review of a book on the<br />
Integral Calculus to a man because he had<br />
taken honours, however high, in classics? Why,<br />
then, expect a man who knows nothing of practi-<br />
cal work in the studio to criticise a picture’?<br />
Next, I believe that the highest interests of<br />
literature would be best advanced by serious<br />
reviews—not short notices—of only those books<br />
which are worth serious notice, and by suffering<br />
the worthless and the feeble to languish and<br />
die in contempt. This would not prevent the<br />
chastisement of actively mischievous books,<br />
either singly or as a class. It should be, for<br />
instance, a great distinction for a book to receive<br />
a review in a great paper. But then, what about<br />
the others? For there are many books which<br />
deserve some kind of notice. There might be<br />
columns such as those already published in some<br />
papers, of Comptes Rendus—not criticisms or<br />
judgments, because the writers of these para-<br />
graphs have no time to read the books carefully—<br />
but just an announcement of the books and a plain<br />
statement of their contents. Let us by all means<br />
give mention, even honourable mention, to as many<br />
respectably good books as we can. But let us<br />
abandon once for all the pretence of reviewing all<br />
the books—good or bad—that are issued ; let us<br />
abandon the practice of giving a judgment, ora<br />
criticism, in half a dozen lines to as many books<br />
in abatch. I can never forget the confessions of<br />
a reviewer, who told me that he had for some<br />
time reviewed, for a certain paper, a dozen novels<br />
in abatch every week. The whole lot were to be<br />
summed up in a column for which he got a guinea<br />
How much, do you think, could such a reviewer<br />
read of those books in the time? How much<br />
time could he afford to give to each? And what<br />
cruel injustice could be every week perpetrated<br />
by such a sham review of books, uncut, unopened<br />
even! Nor can I forget the fact that not so long<br />
ago, in a leading literary paper, a genealogical<br />
work was solemnly reviewed, and contemptuously<br />
dismissed, in half a dozen lines, as a novel, among<br />
the other novels of the week. Were these notices<br />
signed, so flagrant a crime could never be com-<br />
mitted without that critical impostor’s name being<br />
ruined for the short remainder of his miserable<br />
days.<br />
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The Conference of Journalists, a full report of<br />
which will, it is hoped, be speedily published,<br />
has had its meetings, its discussions, and its<br />
festivities. It has received and entertained M.<br />
Zola; it has been the guest of the Lord Mayor;<br />
it has had a supper at Drury Lane; it has had a<br />
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ball at the Guildhall. In fact, the Conference<br />
has been a great success in every way. When<br />
the report appears we shall ask the practical<br />
question—W hat useful purpose this annual Con-<br />
ference serves for Journalism? The question is<br />
important as concerns ourselves, for many are<br />
asking whether we should not also have a Con-<br />
ference. Therefore, the question is not advanced<br />
in any harping spirit. Indeed, some of us are as<br />
anxious to hold a Conference as any of the<br />
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The tragic death of the late Francis Adams,<br />
which startled and thrilled the world a few weeks<br />
ago, brought his name before many of us for the<br />
first time. He was quite young, under thirty ;<br />
he had acircle of devoted friends who knew and<br />
recognised his powers ; and he had already written<br />
successful stories, essays, and poems. Among<br />
his works are “ Leicester, an Autobiography ”—a<br />
novel; a volume of poems called “Songs of the<br />
Army of the Night,” and, I believe, magazine<br />
articles—much more than could be expected of one<br />
so young. Awriter of the highest promise has<br />
been taken from us; aman deeply loved by all his<br />
friends has been taken from them. Let us who<br />
were not privileged to call him friend sit still<br />
while they tell us what manner of man he was. I<br />
hope that someone, among his many friends,<br />
may be found to write a memoir of him.<br />
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There has been a lively correspondence in the<br />
Globe—a paper to which we are much indebted for<br />
a succession of gratis advertisements of the Author<br />
and the Authors’ Society—on Literary Beginnings.<br />
Nothing, indeed, interests a vast number of<br />
young men and women more than a Pisgah view<br />
of the Land of Letters. How to get there? and<br />
How to live there? One or two of the writers<br />
are satirical. One of them speaks, for instance,<br />
of my “rollicking invitation to young authors to<br />
walk up and live in detached villas on the pro-<br />
ceeds of their pens.” It is hardly worth while to<br />
notice anonymous little pleasantries such as the<br />
above, but one asks in sheer wonder how such a<br />
notion got into this person’s head; that, the<br />
notion once there, he should have accepted it<br />
as a fact, scorning the slow process of verifying<br />
his quotation, need not surprise us. The corre-<br />
spondence was started by a certain person who<br />
wrote to the Globe, giving his experience as a<br />
literary beginner. He was successful ; he showed<br />
what his success had been, exactly ; how many -<br />
papers had been accepted ; what pecuniary con-<br />
sideration he received; and so on. He now<br />
explains, further, that he is not a very young<br />
man ; that he has special knowledge, and “some”<br />
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—apparently a good deal—of miscellaneous<br />
knowledge; that he has been for some years<br />
an inventor, 7.e., that he possesses considerable<br />
intellectual activity; that he does not entirely<br />
depend upon his pen; and that he gives his<br />
best—his honest best—to all his work. Quite<br />
so. This is a man who is certain to succeed,<br />
if, as is now proved, he possesses, in addition<br />
to these qualities, the literary faculty. Unfor-<br />
tunately, the aspirants to literary success are too<br />
often young men and maidens who have no<br />
special knowledge and no miscellaneous informa-<br />
tion; who have no literary capacity, proved so<br />
far ; who are quite inexperienced; who know the<br />
world only from a provincial town or a London<br />
suburb; who are also penniless. To those one<br />
would say: “Do anything; try anything; but<br />
do not try literature until you have acquired<br />
knowledge and experience, and have proved your<br />
powers.”<br />
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In last number of the Author I said that<br />
Godey’s Magazine, the oldest of all the American<br />
monthlies, does not cross the Atlantic. It<br />
appears that I was wrong. It has an agency<br />
in this country and a circulation. The editor<br />
of the English edition of Godey, Mr. Charles<br />
Rideal, wishes me to state that he is the<br />
English editor, and that the Record Press,<br />
376, Strand, is the office of the London maga-<br />
zine. Another American magazine, then, in<br />
competition with our own! Yet, as I have<br />
stated elsewhere, I never found on American<br />
bookstalls or in American bookstores any of our<br />
English magazines in competition with the<br />
American.<br />
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As to the question of uninvited contributions,<br />
concerning which certain editors have been<br />
writing with some irritation, it appears to me<br />
that nothing can be moresimple. The editor has<br />
only to follow the practice of those papers which<br />
state every week in plain terms what is their<br />
rule. The editor of the Saturday Review, for<br />
instance, neither asks for, nor refuses, commu-<br />
nications from outsiders or beginners; he only<br />
advertises that he will not return papers sent to<br />
him, and that he will not enter into correspon-<br />
dence with writers of rejected MSS. That is<br />
perfectly straightforward. No one, after such a<br />
notice, has any right to complain when his offering<br />
is not accepted or returned. One London editor,<br />
however, says that if editors are to be “ badgered ”<br />
they will give up receiving MSS. from beginners,<br />
I am quite sure they will do nothing of the kind.<br />
Itis a most tedious work, doubtless, to read MSS.,<br />
mostly worthless; but here and there a new man<br />
may come along who is far above the average.<br />
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Then there is not only a good article secured but a<br />
good and fresh writer retained for the paper.<br />
Cannot editors perceive that all that is wanted is,<br />
first, a clear understanding between themselves<br />
and outsiders whether MSS. are invited or not;<br />
and then the ordinary courtesies which are<br />
observed in every other kind of business? As<br />
for the actual points in dispute, they belong either<br />
to common courtesy or to common honesty. As<br />
the editors of the leading journals are presumably<br />
gentlemen, what have these points to do with<br />
them? There are, however, editors or proprietors<br />
who make it their rule never to treat their unfor-<br />
tunate contributors with any courtesy at all;<br />
never to pay him until he sends a lawyer’s letter ;<br />
to pay him a miserable dole on compulsion ; and,<br />
in general, to treat him with the utmost con-<br />
tumely. Cannot editors of respectable papers<br />
make common cause with us in exposing these<br />
persons and interfering with their practices? I<br />
invite editors to read the “ Contributor’s”’ views<br />
on the subject.<br />
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From time to time we have tried various<br />
methods of finding the number and the names of<br />
the popular living novelists. The following con-<br />
clusions are arrived at by examining and analy-<br />
sing the lists of a circulating library in a well-<br />
known watering-place—one visited chiefly by<br />
invalids, and only by persons of the rank and<br />
station, generally called “The Better Class.” The<br />
list contains the names of 174 novelists who have<br />
published, or are represented in this list by more<br />
than one work. ‘There are also about 150 more<br />
who are represented in this list by one work only,<br />
though one remembers that some of them have<br />
written more. Of the 174, twenty-one are dead ;<br />
of the remaining 153, eighty-four are women and<br />
sixty-nine are men. Of the second class, forty-<br />
eight can be pointed out at once as having<br />
written more than one book, some are dubious;<br />
single successes are eleven in number; most of<br />
the names are those of writers who have attained<br />
a certain amount of success: many of them are<br />
American, French, and German writers. These<br />
figures lead, in fact, to very nearly the same con-<br />
conclusions as were arrived at before; viz., that<br />
about 150 novelists are popular, more or less, and<br />
that another 100 are so far popular that their<br />
books carry no risk, command a certain sale and<br />
bring to their writers a certain return, These<br />
figures, of course, do not include the immense<br />
number of stories published by the religious<br />
societies, and those houses which purvey stories<br />
for schoolchildren and school girls and the like ;<br />
nor do they include the penny dreadfuls which<br />
are issued in such enormous quantities every<br />
week.<br />
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How many readers of the Author—who are all<br />
reading folk, literary folk, writing folk, and pub-<br />
lishers, whose chief interes’ is the world of<br />
letters—know the names of wr. Maurice Thomp-<br />
son and Mr. Hamlen Garland? How many can<br />
answer this question, “Which are the chief<br />
works of Mr. Maurice Thompson and Mr. Hamlen<br />
Garland?” We have, I believe, on the roll of<br />
membership about 1100. Are there a hundred<br />
among all these readers who know these names ?<br />
In putting these questions it is not at all intended<br />
to insinuate that these gentlemen are not excellent<br />
writers. The reason for putting it is that a writer<br />
inacertain daily paper has been professing indigna-<br />
tion at my ignorance—which he calmly assumes<br />
on no ground—concerning these two writers.<br />
As regards the former, it happens that I have<br />
known Mr. Maurice Thompson’s work for many<br />
years, because he formerly contributed to a Chicago<br />
paper called America, which was regularly sent<br />
to me. The latter I did not know—either by<br />
name or by any books belonging to the name—<br />
until I had the honour of meeting him personally<br />
about two months ago. What I said, however,<br />
had nothing whatever to do with my own per-<br />
sonal ignorance or my own personal knowledge.<br />
I said that the new writers of the West are prac-<br />
tically unknown to our people. There was a<br />
printer’s error in the name of a third writer<br />
which gave this journalist a chance to assume<br />
that he too, was unknown to me. Not that it<br />
matters, except that it is bad for journalism that<br />
these hasty assumptions and personal attacks<br />
should be permitted. But, as a matter of fact, I<br />
have known this poet, and his work as well, for<br />
some time. Very well; let me repeat the assertion.<br />
It is always the best answer when it is possible.<br />
I say, then, that most of the new writers of the<br />
West are unknown to English readers. And to<br />
this point I stick.<br />
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But, this writer goes on, a “ professed critic ”<br />
ought to know when English editions of an<br />
American appear. (It-seems that a book by one<br />
of these two writers has been published here.)<br />
Ought he? This opens up another question<br />
altogether—two questions, in fact—(1) What is<br />
a “professed critic?” and (2) How far should<br />
he be expected to know what is published? I<br />
suppose that a “professed critic” is a critic by<br />
profession. Has this writer, I wonder, ever read.<br />
a very important essay by Mr. Saintsbury, called<br />
“Certain Kinds of Criticism”? I think not,<br />
because, if so, he would not, I think, be quite so<br />
ready to talk about the ‘professed critic.” In<br />
full agreement with Mr. Saintsbury, I cannot<br />
pretend that I am a “professed critic.” I dis-<br />
claim the title. It is true that I have on many<br />
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occasions written “ Studies”’ or “ Appreciations ”<br />
of writers whose works I admire, and that I hope<br />
to go on doing so whenever I have something to<br />
say. But Iam certainly nota critic by profession.<br />
Criticism is not my profession, nor my occupa-<br />
tion, nor my means of livelihood, nor even my<br />
recreation. I am, like a great many others a<br />
simple man of letters. But I do not therefore claim<br />
any special power or faculty of criticism. Indeed,<br />
to be a true critic is to be born with a certain noble<br />
gift which must be cultivated : a gift of the gods<br />
which should be received with grateful humility<br />
and developed by mcst serious study. Nor do I<br />
claim, as so many men of letters still, unhappily,<br />
claim, the right to “slate,” sneer at, slander, and<br />
depreciate the work of other men of letters, simply<br />
because I also am a writer, good or bad. Not a<br />
“« professed critic” at all, if you please.<br />
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But if one were a professed critic, how about<br />
the limits of his reading? Must he know every-<br />
thing that is published? Alas! poor shepherd!<br />
To him, as to all of us, the day has but twenty-<br />
four hours. As a professed critic, he must also<br />
write his judgments and give his reasons. He<br />
must keep abreast with the work of the greater<br />
writers—but these are not too many. Of the<br />
lesser—of the new men—how many in the<br />
year can be read? Suppose he reads 200 new<br />
books in the year out of the 5000 annually pub-<br />
lished, each taking him a single day to read, and<br />
only half a day to write about—which is a very<br />
moderate allowance both for reading and writing.<br />
That takes up his whole year, allowing for<br />
Sundays and holidays and a little time for old<br />
books. Of course, I do not cail the man a critic<br />
who “reviews ’’ a dozen books in a column for a<br />
guinea in a single afternoon. Considering these<br />
points, I think we should all be very shy of call-<br />
ing ourselves professed critics, and I think that<br />
we ought not to expect even the professed critic<br />
to know all the books that come out. The<br />
“reviewer” of the batch for a guinea—eighteen-<br />
pence each—will know, of course, but not the<br />
professed critic.<br />
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In another column will be found a letter from<br />
“Ingénue” on the subject of Authors as Pub-<br />
lishers’ Readers. It is useful to have the venti-<br />
lation of all possible views on every subject<br />
connected with the craft, though one may not<br />
agree with them. For instance, I cannot, for my<br />
own part, agree with our correspondent at all.<br />
His view is that authors—does he not mean<br />
novelists only ?—would be better employed in<br />
production than in giving opinions on MSS. But a<br />
novelist cannot be always producing. Perhaps<br />
half a day, and that not all the year round, is as<br />
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much as any novelist can give, as an average, to<br />
his creative work. Why, then, should he not<br />
read for a publisker in his leisure hours? Because<br />
he is malignant and cannot bear the thought of<br />
a newrival? Well; there have been—there are<br />
still—spiteful and jealous persons in the ranks<br />
of literature. Writing—alas !—does not always<br />
ennoble; but surely one would not prohibit this<br />
kind of work altogether, because here and there<br />
may be found an envious and malignant reader.<br />
It is true that a reader has the power of causing<br />
a MS. to be rejected; but then some one must<br />
have this power. We cannot abolish this necessary<br />
exercise of power. Somebody must say—and it<br />
must be the publisher, on the advice of his<br />
reader, unless he reads for himself—whether a<br />
MS. is to be accepted or rejected. In practice<br />
there are many novelists, within my own know-<br />
ledge, who do read, or have read MSS. of novels<br />
for publishers; some of them are distinguished<br />
novelists; some are not; some may. make mis-<br />
takes; itis certain that many mistakes have been<br />
made. All those whom I know act, I am<br />
convinced, honestly, though perhaps not always<br />
with judgment, by the publishers for whom they<br />
work, and by the writers whose MSS. they read.<br />
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Is there not here, as has been noticed elsewhere,<br />
a confusion of thought between the Art of Litera-<br />
ture and the commercial value of Literature? Our<br />
correspondent asks if Carlyle would read MSS. ?<br />
Well—but we know beforehand so much of Car-<br />
lyle’s temperament as to make it clear that he<br />
could not undertake such work. Otherwise, what<br />
is there in Carlyle that should enable us to<br />
acknowledge that he could not possibly read<br />
MSS. and give sound and trustworthy opinions<br />
on them? Absolutely nothing; nor does there<br />
seem any reason whatever why a writer in any<br />
branch should not be a critic, a good reader of<br />
MSS., and capable of forming a perfectly sound<br />
opinion, not only on the literary value, but also<br />
on the commercial value of a MS.—the two things<br />
not being commensurable Again, whether as<br />
critics or as publishers’ readers, one must engage<br />
the services of those who know the subject treated.<br />
Only a geologist can review a book upon geology,<br />
or advise upon a MS. on geology. Historians<br />
must pass historical works in review ; mathema-<br />
ticians, mathematical works; and so on. Why<br />
not novelists with novels? Butother qualities in<br />
addition to knowledge of the subject are de-<br />
manded. It is not every poet who can criticise<br />
poetry ; nor every novelist who should be trusted<br />
with novels; nor every geologist who can decide<br />
whether a geological MS. should be published as<br />
a matter of business. As regards general litera-<br />
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ture, fiction, poetry, and bedles lettres, I would<br />
prefer that criticism should be in the hands of<br />
critics. But, alas! there are not enough critics<br />
by a long way to go round. The true critic is<br />
even rarer than the poet.<br />
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What is publication? It is still a common<br />
article of belief that a book “published” in<br />
London is published for the whole world. I<br />
mean that the mere fact of a book being produced<br />
here—though it circulates to the extent of, say,<br />
three or four hundred copies only—is taken by<br />
the author as a public and world-wide utterance.<br />
It is not subscribed—except by the half dozen<br />
—in the cireulating libraries; it is not sub-<br />
scribed, except by the half dozen, by the trade;<br />
it is not taken at all by the free libraries<br />
which now form so large a factor in the dis-<br />
semination of knowledge and the circulation of<br />
books; nobody talks about it at dinner tables<br />
and places were people resort ; it is just bought<br />
and put away on the shelves ‘by a few people—<br />
three or four hundred people—not of a hundred<br />
millions. This is not publication; it is mere<br />
production on the chance of publication; such a<br />
book is as if it had never been produced; such a<br />
view of publicationis purely parochial. Of course<br />
the author may claim to represent, and to appeal<br />
to, only the very cream of culture. The very<br />
few very foremost men, he says, read his book.<br />
This view satisfies his vanity, but it is also a<br />
parochial view. What, then, is real publica-<br />
tion? It is when a book is placed upon all<br />
the shelves of all the free libraries and all the<br />
circulating libraries here and in America and<br />
in the colonies; it is when, in addition, people<br />
ask for it at the libraries, and buy it at the<br />
shops, and talk about it among each other—such a<br />
book, and only such a book is truly made public,<br />
or published. And here, you see, the author comes<br />
in, for no publisher can create such a demand or<br />
cause any book, by any machinery of his own,<br />
not even by procuring the roll of the judicious Log<br />
—to be so placed and so demanded. The pub-<br />
lisher gives the author his chance; it is the real<br />
service, apart from the machinery—the true<br />
service — which the publisher renders to the<br />
author; but the “publication” of the book in<br />
the only true sense depends entirely upon the<br />
author himself. Are we, then, to take popu-<br />
larity, or a place in all the libraries as the only<br />
test and proof of literary success—of literary<br />
worth? Yes, we are, after a certain time. The<br />
successes of the day quickly vanish; the books<br />
which are good remain and win their way and<br />
keep it. Some time ago it was shown in these<br />
pages that the popular demand for the really best<br />
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books in our literature is steady and constant, and<br />
goes on increasing after a certain time. How<br />
long a time? I am not prepared to say. But<br />
this, I take it is the only true and infallible test<br />
of literary worth. Water Besant.<br />
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Tue Very Best Apvice Arrer ALL.<br />
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“ 4&7 OU have called—Yes ”—the Senior Partner<br />
took a letter from a heap before him,<br />
and glanced through it—“ Yes—oh!<br />
<br />
yes—about a MS. called ‘ Rachel’s Revulsion ’—<br />
<br />
Yes—oh! yes.” He had a way of saying—“ Oh!<br />
<br />
yes’”’—while he considered what to say next—<br />
<br />
“« Well, my dear Sir, I am very glad to be able to<br />
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announce to you that we have decided to take it.”<br />
<br />
“You have decided to take it?” The latter<br />
was a visitor, and rather nervous. He was not a<br />
new man, and he had already enjoyed a certain<br />
success, but into this work he had poured all he<br />
had of mind or soul, of poetry or fancy, of know-<br />
ledge or observation ; and he was anxious that the<br />
work should make a greater mark than anything<br />
he had done before.<br />
<br />
“ We have decided—my dear Sir, on the recom-<br />
mendation—after serious doubts—I own—oh ! yes<br />
—very serious doubts—of our most esteemed<br />
reader—to take it.’ He took a pile of MSS. from<br />
a chair and laid it onthe table. “ We find that it<br />
will make a good-sized one-volume work—we<br />
shall publish it, probably, at Easter, which is a<br />
very good time, as a six-shilling book. The MS.<br />
shall be sent to the printer at once, and the proofs<br />
shall be forwarded to you. I need not ask you,<br />
dear Sir, as no longer a novice, to be reasonable<br />
in your corrections.”<br />
<br />
‘©Oh!” said the visitor, with a natural flush of<br />
satisfaction, ‘I am pleased —and—and —<br />
honoured by this decision. I hope the book will<br />
do well, and justify your reader’s good opinion.”<br />
<br />
“ Of that we cannot be certain. Still, we may<br />
hope—as you say. Oh! yes. But most books<br />
fail. Here and there, perhaps, a slight success.<br />
Do not form exaggerated hopes. Be modest.<br />
Still—you may hope. And now, dear Sir, as<br />
everything is settled, I need not take up your<br />
time any longer.” He half rose, and looked like<br />
holding out his hand.<br />
<br />
“ But nothing is settled,” objected the visitor,<br />
remaining seated.<br />
<br />
“Why, my dear Sir, what else is there to settle?<br />
I have told you that we take the book.”<br />
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“* We have not yet settled the terms.”<br />
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“Oh! the terms—the terms. The agreement<br />
shall be sent to you, my dear Sir, in due course.<br />
Before the final revise. Oh! yes. Before the<br />
book appears.”<br />
<br />
“Not so fast, Sir. I am perhaps an unreason-<br />
able person, but I am not accustomed to suffer<br />
my property to go out of my hands quite so<br />
readily. There are forms even in the sale of a<br />
house. This book may be worth many houses.<br />
We will agree upon the terms, if you please,<br />
before the MS. is sent to the printer.”’<br />
<br />
The Senior Partner leaned back in his chair,<br />
pressing together his finger-points. ‘‘ Very well.<br />
Oh! yes. But I naturally supposed that you<br />
would trust to the Honour of the House,” he<br />
said, with pain in his countenance.<br />
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“T must have an agreement,’ the visitor<br />
persisted.<br />
<br />
“My dear Sir, you shall have an agreement.<br />
It only hurts me to find that you want your<br />
agreement first. Oh! there is a deplorable spirit<br />
abroad—most deplorable. Oh! yes. I hope, my<br />
dear Sir, that you are not infected with it.<br />
However, let us see. You want a sum of money<br />
down? You would probably prefer to capitalise<br />
your interest in the book.”<br />
<br />
“‘ Make an offer, if you please.”<br />
<br />
“JT will. That is indeed the proper way to<br />
speak. You have read Mr. Andrew Lang’s<br />
advice to authors, no doubt—in Longman’s<br />
Magazine for July. Excellent advice—beautiful<br />
advice, I call it—if only everyone would follow it!<br />
He says that all the author has to do is to say—<br />
just ‘too much’ or ‘too little.’ So true! and<br />
so beautifully simple!”<br />
<br />
“ How am I to know what is too much or too<br />
little P”’<br />
<br />
“You feel it, my dear Sir. Any man of delicacy<br />
feels it. Coarse, common persons who buy and<br />
sell must have facts and figures before them.<br />
Your highly-strung nervous organizations feel<br />
things. That is the great advantage of being<br />
a genius. You will feed it in a moment, when<br />
I offer you too much. Oh! yes. Take Mr.<br />
Andrew Lang’s advice. Now, then, you are<br />
not, as yet, a well-known writer. Your name is,<br />
so to speak, half-finished; it is a most dreadful<br />
risk that we are running—hundreds of pounds—<br />
an outlay of hundreds. For my own part I do<br />
not see my way to get back the outlay. But in<br />
order to oblige our reader — and to keep up<br />
our name as ever disinterested patrons of litera-<br />
ture—come, my dear Sir, I don’t mind if I offer<br />
you twenty pounds down—twenty pounds — I<br />
will draw the cheque at once.” He opened his<br />
cheque-book, and took up a pen, and looked his<br />
visitor hard in the face. “Twenty pounds, dear<br />
<br />
Sir. Your book is not really worth half as much,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
but we have always had the credit of generosity<br />
towards our authors.”<br />
<br />
“ Damn your generosity, Sir! ’’ cried the author,<br />
hotly. “ Do you think I want your charity? ”<br />
<br />
‘“Twenty pounds,’ repeated the publisher<br />
firmly, and ignoring the interruption, “ for the<br />
sole copyright of the work, including all rights.<br />
That is my offer.”<br />
<br />
“Stop there.” replied the author doggedly.<br />
“How much will it cost to produce ?<br />
<br />
“Hundreds — hundreds. I told<br />
hundreds.”<br />
<br />
“Give me the exact figures, and I will take<br />
advice upon them.” *<br />
<br />
“T cannot do that. There are the advertise-<br />
ments. You forget the advertisements. How<br />
are we to know beforehand what they will cost?”’<br />
<br />
“You must give me the figures for everything.<br />
What do you expect to get for your fist subscrip-<br />
tion? How many will the libraries take? What<br />
do you receive for each volume ?”<br />
<br />
The Senior Partner sat upright with an injured<br />
air. “Do not, if you please, inquire into my<br />
private affairs, Sir.”<br />
<br />
“Pardon me. These are my affairs, since my<br />
book is concerned.”<br />
<br />
““May I ask, Sir, whether you consider your-<br />
self so good a writer as Mr. Andrew Lang, that<br />
you venture to set up your judgment against<br />
his?”<br />
<br />
“No, I do not, I am not such a fool.”<br />
<br />
“Tam glad to hear it. Now, he most clearly<br />
lays cown the principle that all you have got to<br />
say is ‘too much’ or ‘too little.’ I confess I am<br />
hurt. Jam pained. I expected you to cry outat<br />
once—‘ too much—much too much.’ Only this<br />
morning a most promising poet -<br />
<br />
«“T will do so, perhaps,” the visitor interrupted,<br />
“when I have ‘got the figures before me. Are<br />
you going to give me those figures ?”<br />
<br />
- No, Sir. I am not. My private affairs, I<br />
repeat, shall not be made the subject of the<br />
questions of any author.”<br />
<br />
The visitor pushed back his chair and put on<br />
his hat.<br />
<br />
“Then you may send me back the MS.—or<br />
stop—you have it there—I will take it.”<br />
<br />
Now the Senior Partner had on the table a note<br />
from the esteemed reader; it concluded with the<br />
words “Secure this man at any reasonable price.<br />
The book will fly.’ “Stop, my dear Sir.” he<br />
cried, “ Do not be so impetuous, pray. Genius<br />
is always rash—rash and unbusinesslike. Oh!<br />
Yes, Can you not understand that the private<br />
affairs of the firm. . . Pray sit down again<br />
—pray sit down. Did you see the beautiful<br />
remarks of Mr. Robert Buchanan—ah! there<br />
is an ornament to Literature! such wisdom,<br />
<br />
you —<br />
<br />
167<br />
<br />
such good feeling! there, mdeed, is a man !—<br />
in a letter to a daily paper some time ago. They<br />
were on Literature and Lucre. I always have<br />
thought that the degradation of the authors in<br />
these unfortunate negotiations is so deplorable.<br />
I feel for you most deeply. Let me try to meet<br />
you another way. We will not buy the book.<br />
You shall preserve your copyright; you shall<br />
have a royalty—a royalty. Oh! Yes, “Will that<br />
content you?”<br />
<br />
“Tt depends upon what the royalty means.’<br />
<br />
“There! There! Again, why not trust to the<br />
Honour of the House? What do you think ?”’<br />
The senior partner laughed and rubbed his<br />
hands, but his eyes were very near together.<br />
“What do you say to a ro per cent. royalty—<br />
a Io per cent. royalty—r1o per cent. on the<br />
retail price—say 10 per cent. on 3s. 6d.—that<br />
is over 4d. a copy—4d. a copy—three copies will<br />
bring you in tIs., more than 30s. for every<br />
hundred—think what that will come to when<br />
the numbers have gone up to 1000 !—the royalty<br />
to begin after the first g50 are sold. There,<br />
Sir! Mind, if it were not for our reader’s<br />
favourable opinion, I would not dream of making<br />
such an offer. Get such an offer as this—else-<br />
where—if you can!”<br />
<br />
“ After g50. Humph!<br />
make on the first 950.”<br />
<br />
“Nothing. Positively nothing.<br />
heavy losers. Very heavy losers.”<br />
<br />
“Indeed? I am not so informed in a certain<br />
book called the ‘ Cost of Production.’ ”<br />
<br />
“Oh!” The Senior Partner turned very red.<br />
“Tf you go by that mischievous, lying, and mis-<br />
leading work, I have nothing at all to say.<br />
<br />
“Ts it wrong in its figures } ro<br />
<br />
“ All wrong. Quite wrong.”’<br />
<br />
“ Yet I was told that a publisher who had the<br />
temerity to say so in public received an offer to<br />
carry on all his printing on those terms. How-<br />
ever—I repeat—give me your figures. Show me<br />
what, on those terms, you propose to make for<br />
yourself by the administration of my property<br />
compared with what you propose to give me.”<br />
<br />
“ The—the—administration of your —your—<br />
your property?” he cried. ‘It is,’ the Senior<br />
Partner gasped, “ my property—mine—and as for<br />
my private affairs— ”<br />
<br />
“Your property is it? Then I shall carry<br />
away your property with me.” He reached out<br />
his hand and took it.<br />
<br />
“Oh! It is—it is too much,” he stammered.<br />
“ After Mr. Andrew Lany’s advice and all—<br />
after Mr. Buchanan’s beautiful observations<br />
about filthy Lucre—Oh! It is a deplorable spirit<br />
indeed! What will become of literature if this<br />
should spread ?”<br />
<br />
Tell me what you will<br />
<br />
We shall be<br />
168<br />
<br />
But the author was gone. He went to a certain<br />
office where they advised him. And when he did<br />
place that MS. it was neither for £20 nor for a<br />
10 per cent. royalty on the retail price after 950<br />
copies should be sold.<br />
<br />
“TJ have now read Mr. Andrew Lang’s advice,”<br />
he said afterwards. “It is what the Senior<br />
Partner described it —admirable. All one<br />
has to say is ‘Too much,’ or ‘Too little.’<br />
That is all. The root of the whole matter<br />
is there. I never knew or guessed before that<br />
he was so practical and so keen on the business<br />
side of letters. Only, you see, he forgot to<br />
remind us that we must first—which, of course,<br />
he has himself done long ago—before we can say<br />
either ‘Too much’ or ‘Too little,’ know exactly<br />
the preliminary facts in the case; for instance,<br />
what a book actually costs to produce; what it<br />
actually costs to advertise it, 7.e., what any parti-<br />
cular firm means to spend upon it ; and what it<br />
is sold for. With these figures one can make the<br />
necessary calculations, and then it is perfectly<br />
easy, without further argument, just to say ‘ Too<br />
much’ or ‘ Too little.’ And see how simple it is.<br />
T hear that some absurd persons have taken the<br />
advice to mean that you must say ‘Too much’<br />
or ‘Too little’ without any knowledge of the<br />
figures.. That, of course, is ridiculous.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IT.<br />
Tue Porr’s CHorce.<br />
<br />
A poet sat with bowed head and folded arms,<br />
alone in a garret. He had been writing with<br />
his heart’s blood, and that is exhausting. More-<br />
over he was not happy, and that was the fault of<br />
certain evil Jinns who had hovered round his<br />
cradle when he was an infant and bestowed gifts<br />
upon him.<br />
<br />
“He is born a poet,” they said; ‘‘ we can’t<br />
help that ; but let us have as much sport out of<br />
him as possible. He-is born a poet. Therefore,<br />
his future should contain fame, love, and success.<br />
We will turn it into ignominy and failure.” Then<br />
they rubbed their hands with glee, and each<br />
prepared his gift.<br />
<br />
“T,” said the first Jinn, ‘ will endow him with<br />
<br />
poetical aspiration: to write shall be a necessity ;<br />
<br />
to him, and success the aim of his life: but I<br />
will leave out the element by which success could<br />
alone be attained,” and he laughed, for he knew<br />
the bitterness which his gift would bring with it.<br />
<br />
“* And I,” said the next, “ will endow him with a<br />
sensitive soul, with a man’s power todo and dare ;<br />
but without a woman’s power to suffer with<br />
patience,”<br />
<br />
“And I,” said a third, “‘ will give him a capa-<br />
city for love, which shall have only itself to feed<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
upon, for I shall give him also a reserve and<br />
shyness which will conceal his own heart, and<br />
keep other hearts away from it.”<br />
<br />
“ And I,” added another witha chuckle, for he<br />
knew that his gift added to the others would<br />
cause pain and torture unspeakable, “TI will give<br />
him so much pride that he will never stoop to<br />
ask a favour, and to receive one will be agony.”<br />
<br />
Then they laughed, for they foresaw a time of<br />
merry sport. They laughed, all except one who<br />
had not yet spoken, and who was moved to pity<br />
at the fate in store for the babe sleeping so<br />
peacefully in its cradle.<br />
<br />
e “T have not much to offer,” he said, sadly,<br />
“but what I have I will give. Let the child<br />
have a sense of humour.”<br />
<br />
But the others frowned angrily at the sugges-<br />
tion, and hurried their companion out of the<br />
room before he could bestow his gift, and so the<br />
child grew up without it. This was a pity, for it<br />
might often have helped him, but had it done so<br />
the Jinns would have been deprived of some of<br />
their sport.<br />
<br />
The Poet was aroused from his reverie by the<br />
arrival of the Cynical Observer, and in it, as he<br />
saw at a glance, was the review on which rested<br />
all his hope for his new poems. Now, had the<br />
last of the Jinns been allowed to bestow his gift,<br />
the Poet could hardly have read the article with-<br />
out amusement. It was so bright, so full of<br />
well turned phrases; it picked out and magnified<br />
little weaknesses of the poems with so ready a<br />
wit; it so played with isolated verses as a cat<br />
might do with a mouse, perverting their true<br />
sense; it was so determined to find nothing<br />
good in them: that a man with any sense of<br />
humour could not have read the article without<br />
shouts of laughter. But the Poet did not<br />
even smile. He read the article ~~<br />
through, and as he did so his brow con-<br />
tracted, and his hands were clutched, and his<br />
breath came short and quick, as if drawn with<br />
pain, nay, even his lips trembled. Had not the<br />
Jinns given him a soul as sensitive as a woman’s?<br />
At last the paper dropped from his nerveless<br />
hands, and a cry of despair rang through the<br />
garret. The Jinns heard it and hurried to see<br />
the sport, but the Poet sat with outstretched<br />
arms and buried face and was silent. And so<br />
long did he remain thus that at last they grew a<br />
little frightened.<br />
<br />
“Surely,” they said to one another, ‘‘ he is<br />
breaking his heart, and if he were to die our<br />
game would be at an end,”<br />
<br />
“We must save him,’-said one of them<br />
shortly; it was he whose gift had not been<br />
bestowed.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a2<br />
fi<br />
moe<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. 169<br />
<br />
“We will,” said the others hurriedly. ‘He<br />
shall have that which he most desires. That<br />
will surely restore him.”<br />
<br />
A messenger sent by the Jinns stood before<br />
the Poet, who gazed at him with weary bloodshot<br />
eyes,<br />
<br />
“T have been sent to help you,” said the<br />
messenger.<br />
<br />
The Poet still gazed at him with a look of dull<br />
despairing pain.<br />
<br />
“You cannot,’ he said. ‘I want but one<br />
thing on earth, and that is denied me.”<br />
<br />
“T have come,” said the messenger, “to give<br />
you that very thing. Name it.”<br />
<br />
The Poet whispered one word. It was Success.<br />
<br />
“You must define your meaning more<br />
precisely,” said the messenger. ‘‘ Will the success<br />
of having done your best satisfy you ?”<br />
<br />
“No,” said the poet, “that I have already<br />
experienced.”<br />
<br />
“You wish then,” said the<br />
“simply for popularity.”<br />
<br />
The poet winced. The fourth gift conferred<br />
by the Jinns began to hurt him a little, but he<br />
bowed in acquiescence.<br />
<br />
“You may take your choice,’ said the<br />
messenger, and held two cups before him, the<br />
one containing a dull liquid of a deep dark red;<br />
the other one clear and sparkling and frothing to<br />
the brim, “ This,’ he said, pointing to the first,<br />
“is but a deeper draught of what you have<br />
already tasted. It is heart’s blood mixed with<br />
poetic fire. ‘he other is fame and popularity.<br />
Which will you drink ?”<br />
<br />
“ Both,” murmured the poet, with outstretched<br />
hands; but his eyes were fixed on the one that<br />
sparkled.<br />
<br />
“Tt is impossible,” said the messenger, and<br />
handed him the one of fame and popularity. The<br />
poet quaffed it eagerly, then seized his pen once<br />
more and wrote.<br />
<br />
The draught produced its effects. Success<br />
shone on the Poet. His next volume of poems,<br />
issued soon after the visit of the messenger, was<br />
applauded by the Cynical Observer, and ran to a<br />
hundredth edition. His miserable garret was<br />
exchanged for comfortable apartments. He<br />
became the lion of the season. Fashionable<br />
ladies vied with each other to secure his presence<br />
at their receptions; interviewers besieged his<br />
doors ; his portrait was painted by a royal prin-<br />
cess and had a railing round it at the Academy ;<br />
young ladies went on their knees before him in<br />
public; his autograph was put up to auction; and<br />
a lock of his hair in a glass case was sold by a<br />
titled lady for fifty pounds at a bazaar. One<br />
would have thought that no mortal man could<br />
have wished for more, yet, strange to say, the<br />
<br />
messenger,<br />
<br />
nature of this poet was so unreasonable that even<br />
now he was far from happy. Applause palled on<br />
him; his soul was satiated, yet unsatisfied; the<br />
future held out no prospect, for what more in the<br />
way of success can be hoped for when a man has<br />
reached the zenith of popularity, represented by<br />
being the lion of a London season? Moreover,<br />
he missed the old fierce fire which had glowed in<br />
his veins, and beaten at his heart and brain, the<br />
wild delicious pain fraught with joy, and joy<br />
fraught with pain, which had filled his soul in the<br />
old garret days, when fame and success were far<br />
off, but when to have completed a poem which his<br />
own heart told him to be good, gave him more joy<br />
than the flattery of all the world now that he had<br />
become famous.<br />
<br />
So it chanced that one evening, having returned<br />
from one of the assemblies where he was so<br />
much in request, he flung himself on his bed, and<br />
uttered a prayer that the messenger who had<br />
brought him the cup of success should return,<br />
and let him change his choice. And the Jinns<br />
heard it, and resolved to grant his request.<br />
<br />
“The pain,” they said, “ will be greater than<br />
ever now that he has been without it so long. It<br />
will be spoit to see what follows.”<br />
<br />
But the sport was not what they had antici-<br />
pated, for the Poet quaffed the cup with an<br />
eagerness which was fatal. The old fire was<br />
in his veins, the old pain at his heart. For<br />
a moment he was conscious of a sharp, swift<br />
rapture, a pain which was exquisite joy, then he<br />
sank back with a faint smile on his lips, and the<br />
emp'y cup fell from his hand.<br />
<br />
On the morrow, the Poet, who was travelling<br />
quite alone on a long road far away from earth,<br />
passed another wayfarer who, while on earth, had<br />
been a woman. And—which was very strange—<br />
when they looked into each other’s eyes they<br />
recognised each other at once, though they had<br />
never met before.<br />
<br />
“Oh!” said the poet, with a smile, “It is you<br />
—you at last! Why, it was for you—for you<br />
alone, that I wrote my best poems.”<br />
<br />
«Yes, yes,” she replied. ‘They were for me.<br />
I took them for myself. And they thrilled my<br />
soul into life. But that was before you became<br />
famous.”<br />
<br />
“Tt was,” said the Poet. ‘Since I have met<br />
you, I am glad I came here.”<br />
<br />
“So am IJ,” she said, “for I was beginning<br />
to be a little tired of waiting for you.”<br />
<br />
Then, hand in hand, they moved on towards a<br />
Sphere where dwells the Fountain of all Art and<br />
of Love.<br />
<br />
But the Jinns, who could see what was hap-<br />
pening, though they had no power to interfere,<br />
168 THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
But the author was gone. He went to a certain<br />
office where they advised him. And when he did<br />
place that MS. it was neither for £20 nor for a<br />
10 per cent. royalty on the retail price after 950<br />
copies should be sold.<br />
<br />
“ T have now read Mr. Andrew Lang’s advice,”<br />
he said afterwards. ‘It is what the Senior<br />
Partner described it — admirable. All ‘one<br />
has to say is ‘Too much,’ or ‘Too little.’<br />
That is all. The root of the whole matter<br />
is there. I never knew or guessed before that<br />
he was so practical and so keen on the business<br />
side of letters. Only, you see, he forgot to<br />
remind us that we must first—which, of course,<br />
he has himself done long ago—before we can say<br />
either ‘Too much’ or ‘Too little,’ know exactly<br />
the preliminary facts in the case; for instance,<br />
what a book actually costs to produce; what it<br />
actually costs to advertise it, ¢.e., what any parti-<br />
cular firm means to spend upon it ; and what it<br />
is sold for. With these figures one can make the<br />
necessary calculations, and then it is perfectly<br />
easy, without further argument, just to say ‘Too<br />
much’ or ‘ Too little.’ And see how simple it is.<br />
I hear that some absurd persons have taken the<br />
advice to mean that you must say ‘Too much’<br />
or ‘Too little’ without any knowledge of the<br />
figures.. That, of course, is ridiculous.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II.<br />
Tuer Portr’s CHoIce.<br />
<br />
A poet sat with bowed head and folded arms,<br />
alone in a garret. He had been writing with<br />
his heart’s blood, and that is exhausting. More-<br />
over he was not happy, and that was the fault of<br />
certain evil Jinns who had hovered round his<br />
cradle when he was an infant and bestowed gifts<br />
upon him.<br />
<br />
“He is born a poet,” they said; “we can’t<br />
help that ; but let us have as much sport out of<br />
him as possible. He is born a poet. Therefore,<br />
his future should contain fame, love, and success.<br />
We will turn it into ignominy and failure.” Then<br />
they rubbed their hands with glee, and each<br />
prepared his gift.<br />
<br />
“J,” said the first Jinn, ‘ will endow him with<br />
<br />
poetical aspiration: to write shall be a necessity<br />
<br />
to him, and success the aim of his life: but I<br />
will leave out the element by which success could<br />
alone be attained,” and he laughed, for he knew<br />
the bitterness which his gift would bring with it.<br />
<br />
“« And I,” said the next, “ will endow him with a<br />
sensitive soul, with a man’s power todo and dare;<br />
but without a woman’s power to suffer with<br />
patience.”<br />
<br />
“And I,” said a third, ‘will give him a capa-<br />
city for love, which shall have only itself to feed<br />
<br />
upon, for I shall give him also a reserve and<br />
shyness which will conceal his own heart, and<br />
keep other hearts away from it.”<br />
<br />
“ And I,” added another witha chuckle, for he<br />
knew that his gift added to the others would<br />
cause pain and torture unspeakable, “I will give<br />
him so much pride that he will never stoop to<br />
ask a favour, and to receive one will be agony.”<br />
<br />
Then they laughed, for they foresaw a time of<br />
merry sport. They laughed, all except one who<br />
had not yet spoken, and who was moved to pity<br />
at the fate in store for the babe sleeping so<br />
peacefully in its cradle.<br />
<br />
® “T have not much to offer,’ he said, sadly,<br />
“but what I have I will give. Let the child<br />
have a sense of humour.”<br />
<br />
But the others frowned angrily at the sugges-<br />
tion, and hurried their companion out of the<br />
room before he could bestow his gift, and so the<br />
child grew up without it. This was a pity, for it<br />
might often have helped him, but had it done so<br />
the Jinns would have been deprived of some of<br />
their sport.<br />
<br />
The Poet was aroused from his reverie by the<br />
arrival of the Cynical Observer, and in it, as he<br />
saw at a glance, was the review on which rested<br />
all his hope for his new poems. Now, had the<br />
last of the Jinns been allowed to bestow his gift,<br />
the Poet could hardly have read the article with-<br />
out amusement. It was so bright, so full of<br />
well turned phrases; it picked out and magnified<br />
little weaknesses of the poems with so ready a<br />
wit; it so played with isolated verses as a cat<br />
might do with a mouse, perverting their true<br />
sense; it was so determined to find nothing<br />
good in them: that a man with any sense of<br />
humour could not have read the article without<br />
shouts of laughter. But the Poet did not<br />
even smile. He read the article straight<br />
through, and as he did so his brow coh-<br />
tracted, and his hands were clutched, and his<br />
breath came short and quick, as if drawn with<br />
pain, nay, even his lips trembled. Had not the<br />
Jinns given him a soul as sensitive as a woman’s?<br />
At last the paper dropped from his nerveless<br />
hands, and a cry of despair rang through the<br />
garret. The Jinns heard it and hurried to see<br />
the sport, but the Poet sat with outstretched<br />
arms and buried face and was silent. And so<br />
long did he remain thus that at last they grew a<br />
little frightened.<br />
<br />
“Surely,” they said to one another, ‘he is<br />
<br />
breaking his heart, and if he were to die our<br />
game would be at an end.”<br />
<br />
“We must save him,’’-said one of them<br />
shortly; it was he whose gift had not been<br />
bestowed. ;<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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“cc He<br />
That<br />
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“We will,” said the others hurriedly.<br />
shall have that which he most desires.<br />
will surely restore him.”<br />
<br />
A messenger sent by the Jinns stood before<br />
the Poet, who gazed at him with weary bloodshot<br />
eyes.<br />
<br />
“T have been sent to help you,” said the<br />
messenger.<br />
<br />
The Poet still gazed at him with a look of dull<br />
despairing pain.<br />
<br />
“You cannot,’ he said. “I want but one<br />
thing on earth, and that is denied me.”<br />
<br />
“T have come,” said the messenger, “to give<br />
you that very thing. Name it.”<br />
<br />
The Poet whispered one word. It was Success.<br />
<br />
“You must define your meaning more<br />
precisely,” said the messenger. ‘‘ Will the success<br />
of having done your best satisfy you ?”<br />
<br />
“No,” said the poet, “that I have already<br />
experienced.”<br />
<br />
“You wish then,”<br />
“simply for popularity.”<br />
<br />
The poet winced. The fourth gift conferred<br />
by the Jinns began to hurt him a little, but he<br />
bowed in acquiescence.<br />
<br />
“You may take your choice,” said the<br />
messenger, and held two cups before him, the<br />
one containing a dull liquid of a deep dark red;<br />
the other one clear and sparkling and frothing to<br />
the brim, “This,” he said, pointing to the first,<br />
“is but a deeper draught of what you have<br />
already tasted. It is heart’s blood mixed with<br />
poetic fire. ‘he other is fame and popularity.<br />
Which will you drink ?”<br />
<br />
“ Both,” murmured the poet, with outstretched<br />
hands; but his eyes were fixed on the one that<br />
sparkled.<br />
<br />
“It is impossible,” said the messenger, and<br />
handed him the one of fame and popularity. The<br />
poet quaffed it eagerly, then seized his pen once<br />
more and wrote.<br />
<br />
The draught produced its effects. Success<br />
shone on the Poet. His next volume of poems,<br />
issued soon after the visit of the messenger, was<br />
applauded by the Cynical Observer, and ran to a<br />
hundredth edition. His miserable garret was<br />
exchanged for comfortable apartments. He<br />
became the lion of the season. Fashionable<br />
ladies vied with each other to secure his presence<br />
at their receptions; interviewers besieged his<br />
doors ; his portrait was painted by a royal prin-<br />
cess and had a railing round it at the Academy ;<br />
young ladies went on their knees before him in<br />
public ; his autograph was put up to auction; and<br />
a lock of his hair in a glass case was sold by a<br />
titled lady for fifty pounds at a bazaar. One<br />
would have thought that no mortal man could<br />
have wished for more, yet, strange to say, the<br />
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said the messenger,<br />
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nature of this poet was so unreasonable that even<br />
now he was far from happy. Applause palled on<br />
him; his soul was satiated, yet unsatisfied; the<br />
future held out no prospect, for what more in the<br />
way of success can be hoped for when a man has<br />
reached the zenith of popularity, represented by<br />
being the lion of a London season? Moreover,<br />
he missed the old fierce fire which had glowed in<br />
his veins, and beaten at his heart and brain, the<br />
wild delicious pain fraught with joy, and joy<br />
fraught with pain, which had filled his soul in the<br />
old garret days, when fame and success were far<br />
off, but when to have completed a poem which his<br />
own heart told him to be good, gave him more joy<br />
than the flattery of all the world now that he had<br />
become famous.<br />
<br />
So it chanced that one evening, having returned<br />
from one of the assemblies where he was so<br />
much in request, he flung himself on his bed, and<br />
uttered a prayer that the messenger who had<br />
brought him the cup of success should return,<br />
and let him change his choice. And the Jinns<br />
heard it, and resolved to grant his request.<br />
<br />
“The pain,” they said, “ will be greater than<br />
<br />
ever now that he has been without it so long. It<br />
will be spoit to see what follows.”<br />
_ But the sport was not what they had antici-<br />
pated, for the Poet quaffed the cup with an<br />
eagerness which was fatal. The old fire was<br />
in his veins, the old pain at his heart. For<br />
a moment he was conscious of a sharp, swift<br />
rapture, a pain which was exquisite joy, then he<br />
sank back with a faint smile on his lips, and the<br />
emp'y cup fell from his hand.<br />
<br />
On the morrow, the Poet, who was travelling<br />
quite alone on a long road far away from earth,<br />
passed another wayfarer who, while on earth, had<br />
been a woman, And—which was very strange—<br />
when they looked into each other’s eyes they<br />
recognised each other at once, though they had<br />
never met before.<br />
<br />
“Oh!” said the poet, with a smile, “It is you<br />
—you at last! Why, it was for you—for you<br />
alone, that I wrote my best poems.”<br />
<br />
“Yes, yes,” she replied. ‘They were for me.<br />
I took them for myself. And they thrilled my<br />
soul into life. But that was before you became<br />
famous.”<br />
<br />
“Tt was,” said the Poet.<br />
you, I am glad I came here.”<br />
<br />
“So am I,” she said, “for I was beginning<br />
to be a little tired of waiting for you.”<br />
<br />
Then, hand in hand, they moved on towards a<br />
Sphere where dwells the Fountain of all Art and<br />
of Love.<br />
<br />
But the Jinns, who could see what was hap-<br />
pening, though they had no power to interfere,<br />
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“Since I have met<br />
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did not laugh any more, except one, It was he<br />
<br />
who had proposed the gift of humour, and it<br />
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amused him to see the discomfiture of the rest.<br />
Noruey CHESTER,<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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I.<br />
“DELICATE AND SUBTLE.”<br />
<br />
T present there appears to be no market for<br />
<br />
A work that may be called “delicate and<br />
subtle.” That, at least, has been my<br />
experience. In May, 1890, the late Mr. G. T.<br />
Bettany, then English editor of Lippincott’s<br />
Magazine (to whose kindness and courtesy—<br />
although a stranger—I herewith bear grateful<br />
testimony), accepted from me a short sketch,<br />
called “A Mother and her Boy,’ in which<br />
I had endeavoured to show the all-consuming<br />
power of a true mother’s love, It was one of<br />
those tender little outpourings of thought which<br />
sometimes well up in the most unpoetical heart in<br />
quiet moments, and serve to water the arid<br />
deserts of the commonplace. Whether the<br />
American editor—to whom the sketch was subse-<br />
quently forwarded for insertion in the two edi-<br />
tions of Lippincott’s—deemed it too “delicate<br />
and subtle,” I cannot-say ; but so far as I know<br />
(not having seen the magazine recently) my<br />
sketch is still in the editorial pigeonhole. And<br />
no one knows how I have longed for the publica-<br />
tion of that “ delicate and subtle” trifle during<br />
these three years. In justice to the publishers of<br />
the English edition «of Lippincott’s (Messrs.<br />
Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co.) I must say that<br />
the sketch was handsomely paid for in June, 1891.<br />
Of course ‘‘ the filthy lucre’’ (which Mr. Buchanan<br />
affects to so much despise) was very acceptable to<br />
me, as it must be to all young writers who live by<br />
their pens ; but to the author who loves his work,<br />
complete satisfaction only lies in the publication<br />
of it, whether it be “delicate and subtle” or not.<br />
<br />
Guorcre Morury.<br />
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IL.<br />
ReEviEwED Books.<br />
<br />
Your constant remarks in the Axthor on the<br />
subject of “reviews” are extremely interesting<br />
reading to me, and I feel rather a savage delight<br />
(having at times been both reviewer and reviewed)<br />
in relating the following incident :—-As secretary<br />
of this institute (Sydney Mechanics’ School<br />
of Arts), I often have books submitted to<br />
me for purchase, and some few months ago a<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
young gentleman called on me and stated that he<br />
had lately arrived from London, and was tired of<br />
carrying so many books about in his luggage.<br />
He offered them to me all round at ninepence<br />
per volume, ‘and said he would submit them<br />
for inspection. About 100 volumes arrived next<br />
day, and, to my surprise, all were popular novels,<br />
among them being several three-volume sets and<br />
single volumes by such authors as Walter Besant,<br />
Edna Lyall,and Rosa N.Carey. Of course I secured<br />
them, but on further examination found that they<br />
were not only uncut (those with folded edges),<br />
but were stamped on the title-page with the words<br />
“ With the publisher's compliments.” Evidently<br />
all these books were review copies, and equally<br />
evident was the fact that they had never been<br />
read by the reviewer. 1 may also add that in<br />
several second-hand shops in Sydney at the<br />
present time there are copies of uncut novels<br />
(both three-vols. and single vols.) with the same<br />
wording stamped on title-page, and these can be<br />
had for from ts. to 2s. a volume.<br />
Cyrrin Havinanp.<br />
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Ill.<br />
Re Rasu Conciusions 1N CRITICISMS.<br />
<br />
I am the writer of “Mrs. Elphinstone of<br />
Druoss,” published last May by Messrs. Bentley.<br />
It was favourably noticedin the leading reviews,<br />
of which, however, one of the best fell into<br />
serious error. Its reviewer says, “ The influence of<br />
Mr. G. Meredith’s individuality is making itself<br />
felt in the usualfashion. He is no longer a, soli-<br />
tary master; he is the head of a rapidly increasing<br />
school, and Mrs. Stevenson is one of his disciples.”<br />
This idea being carried out through half the<br />
review, until it seems that Mr. Meredith is the<br />
writer reviewed. The fact is I had read one only of<br />
Mr. Meredith’s books—“ Diana of the Crossways ”<br />
—when I wrote my book, and that was read four<br />
years ago. I alluded to “The Kgoist,” but had<br />
not read it. I have just finished “ One of Our<br />
Conquerors.” My admiration of Mr. Meredith is<br />
very great, He seems to me the Carlyle of fiction<br />
colossal in his art. But I have not dared to<br />
attempt imitation, and I am no disciple of his.<br />
Ina humble way I also prefer originality, and<br />
feel it due both to Mr. Meredith and myself to<br />
say that the “cleverness” and ‘ qualities more<br />
valuable than cleverness” ascribed to me by this<br />
same critic are my own, and not, as an imitation,<br />
a false development.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Mary Exiz. STEVENSON.<br />
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Dingley, Sept. 4.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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IV.<br />
PusiisHers’ Work.<br />
<br />
I do not recollect to have seen in the Author<br />
any detail description of what a publisher has to<br />
do to put a book before the public which he<br />
desires in his own interest to push. TI assume<br />
the following matters comprise some of the<br />
things to be done, but what else :—<br />
<br />
1. Gives MS. to his reader to report upon and<br />
pays his fee, how much ?<br />
<br />
2. Having accepted MS., takes printer’s con-<br />
tract to produce at per sixteen pages, having<br />
settled size of book, size of type, form of binding,<br />
and design for cover.<br />
<br />
3. Sends and provides for the sending of proofs<br />
to author for correction.<br />
<br />
4. The book having been produced, receives a<br />
supply bound up for stock to sell.<br />
<br />
5. Draws up form of advertisement, negotiates<br />
cost, selects where to send same, and includes book<br />
in his general catalogue of books on sale.<br />
<br />
6. Selects newspapers and periodicals and<br />
special persons to whom copies are to be sent for<br />
review.<br />
<br />
7. Sends round<br />
libraries for sale.<br />
<br />
8. Sends copies to proprietors of railway book-<br />
stalls on sale or return.<br />
<br />
g. Sits down contented and waits for buyers to<br />
call, and what else ? KE. BL.<br />
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copies by a traveller to<br />
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NV<br />
Tue Extension or ourR Lanauace.<br />
<br />
The Editor of the Author has recently shown<br />
how much larger is the English speaking and<br />
reading population of this day than in the time<br />
of Dickens. It is worth while thinking of this,<br />
for, though we enumerate 110 millions of<br />
English-speaking population, that is nothing, he<br />
says, “ compared with the audience which he (the<br />
author) will command in a future by no means<br />
distant.”<br />
<br />
A question for the author, the statesman, and<br />
for patriots to consider is, whether anything can<br />
be done to promote this result. Part of this<br />
result is due to the efforts of some, with whom<br />
Mr. Besant has taken part, in promoting the use<br />
of the English language; but to a great extent<br />
no care is shown for the extension of the<br />
English language. For the French language,<br />
and for its active propaganda against English in<br />
the East, in Canada, and the North-Western<br />
Territories, a great French society exists, with<br />
large funds obtained from subscriptions of five<br />
francs.<br />
<br />
In India for some time our officials resisted<br />
the desire of the native population to learn<br />
<br />
ryt<br />
<br />
English, and even now it is not effectually pro-<br />
moted. Sanskrit, which is not a spoken language,<br />
not a language of modern science, and Persian,<br />
which is a language foreign to India, have re-<br />
ceived greater favour from the Government than<br />
English. How many people in India speak<br />
English the Census of 1891 does not tell us. It<br />
is in the vast population of India, however, that<br />
a great expansion of our language can take place,<br />
and ought for the promotion of culture to take<br />
place, and it is to this efforts should be directed,<br />
as well as to Canada, the Cape, and many other<br />
regions.<br />
<br />
In such efforts authors are more particularly<br />
interested, and the cost need not be heavy.<br />
Organisation is, however, wanting. The Alliance<br />
Francaise has organisation, and its labours are<br />
patronised by Lord Mayors at the Mansion-house.<br />
The St. George’s Societies afford the elements<br />
of such organisation, particularly in the United<br />
States and in Canada. In London we have only<br />
one Society of St. George, which Mr. Besant has<br />
supported as a member, and of which the hon.<br />
secretary is Mr. W. H. Christmas, 414, Blooms-<br />
bury-square, who is now engaged in an active<br />
campaign for its extension. The society has<br />
already done much work of an unobtrusive<br />
character, but chiefly in. propagandism on the<br />
other side of the Atlantic<br />
<br />
It was through the action of the society that<br />
the conception of the confederation of the 110<br />
millions of the English-speaking races, and the<br />
450 millions under their government, has acquired<br />
acceptance. Mr, Andrew Carnegie has now<br />
devoted himself to the promotion of this public<br />
labour, but few can yet appreciate its im-<br />
portance. Hype Ciarke.<br />
<br />
32, St. George’s-square, S.W.<br />
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VI.<br />
Tue Noverist as TopogRaPHEr.<br />
<br />
A writer of good books is more skilful than the<br />
painter, more talented than the orator, and more<br />
useful than the legislator, because without the aid<br />
of colour he can attract, without the splendid gift<br />
of articulation he can enthral, and without the<br />
reforming powers of the legislator he can do good<br />
to multitudes.<br />
<br />
I do not think that the duty of the novel-<br />
writer is only to amuse, but to leave some good<br />
firmly engrafted upon the mind of his reader,<br />
and this contention is capable of ample proof, for<br />
if an appeal is made to many writers of this and<br />
past ages—writers whose works are for all time<br />
the imperishable monuments of their fame—it<br />
will invariably be found that their purpose was<br />
instruction, not amusement.<br />
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172 THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Life for one half of the world—the half that<br />
takes its literature with the regularity of its<br />
church going—is simply made up of amusements<br />
of one kind or another; there is therefore no<br />
reason why these people should pick up a book<br />
and expect to find it a continuation of their<br />
frivolity.<br />
<br />
If I, who as yet am no’ novelist, might pre-<br />
sume to lay down a dogma pertaining to the first<br />
duty of a novelist, it would be to suggest to him<br />
that a description of his own neighbourhood is<br />
sometimes as essential to his work as the inven-<br />
tion of a plot, which is sometimes very unreal,<br />
unhealthy, and morally unsound.<br />
<br />
What does Thackeray say on this point?<br />
<br />
“ Out of the fictitious book I got the expression<br />
of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of<br />
the dress, of the pleasures, the laughter, the ridi-<br />
cules of society; the old times live again, and I<br />
travel in the old country of England. Can the<br />
heaviest historian do more for me?”<br />
<br />
A citizen should closely describe the scenery<br />
and life as they appear to him in the city; a<br />
townsman as they appear in his town ; a country-<br />
man as they appear in his village—so that in the<br />
perusal of novels the reader may gain a view of<br />
his native land far more entertaining, and some-<br />
times far more correct, than can be found in the<br />
best guide-book ever written.<br />
<br />
Some writers—notably Mr. Blackmore and Mr.<br />
Thomas Hardy—do combine the arts of novelist<br />
and topographer; and what charming books<br />
theirs are in consequence! Both have performed<br />
excellent service to their county and their county’s<br />
literature. They have done for their neighbour-<br />
hoods—Exmoor and Wessex—that which George<br />
Eliot did for Warwickshire; and this is what<br />
should be the inexorable duty of a novel writer.<br />
In their works are to be found all the elements<br />
requisite and necessary for the novel and the<br />
country history; and, tf only on account of the<br />
latter qualification, these Exmoor and Wessex<br />
books are far in advance of the ordinary novel of<br />
the time. Grorer Morey.<br />
<br />
Leamington.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Vil.<br />
Kprroriat Eruics.<br />
<br />
Editors are naturally and very properly<br />
“arbitrary gents” as touching the publications<br />
which they control, nevertheless it is a ques-<br />
tion whether and to what extent they have a<br />
right to sophisticate, either by addition or sub-<br />
traction, signed contributions which are neither<br />
libellous nor offensive. Here is a case in point,<br />
as to which I should be pleased to have your<br />
opinion, A short time ago I sent toa London<br />
evening paper an article which contained the<br />
<br />
following passage :—“ The success of the feuilleton<br />
in the country is in curious contrast with its<br />
comparative failure in London ‘papers of the<br />
same class. The cause, however, is obvious.<br />
London editors have not given to the wants of<br />
their readers and the choice of their stories the<br />
same care as their country colleagues. They<br />
have thought it enough to buy a novel from a<br />
distinguished novelist, forgetting that the popu-<br />
larity of an author with magazine readers or<br />
Mudie’s subscribers is no guarantee that he will<br />
succeed with newspaper readers.’ The presump-<br />
tion is rather the other way.”<br />
<br />
That part of the passage which I have quoted<br />
was deleted when the article appeared.<br />
<br />
Witiiam WESTALL.<br />
High Beach, Sept. 20.<br />
<br />
[If the paper was unsigned, surely the editor<br />
has a perfect right to alter the article as he<br />
pleases. An unsigned article has always been<br />
recognised as carrying with it the editor’s responsi-<br />
bility. If it were signed, then the question<br />
arises whether the editor has any right at all to<br />
omit or to change anything without permission<br />
of the author.—Eb. |<br />
<br />
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<br />
VIII.<br />
‘A Pree Lance” agarnst “ Nature.”<br />
<br />
A member of the Society, who writes under<br />
the name of “A Free Lance,” has sent me a<br />
printed circular, containing a complaint against<br />
Nature.<br />
<br />
The facts of the case, taken from the circulars,<br />
are these:<br />
<br />
In May, 1892, “Free Lance” published a<br />
thirty-page pamphlet called “The Organisation<br />
of Science.” This was sent out for review, and<br />
was actually reviewed in certain scientific papers,<br />
but not in Nature.<br />
<br />
On June 29, 1893, a letter appeared in Nature<br />
from Mr. Swinburne (not the poet) raising inde-<br />
pendently many of the points discussed in this<br />
pamphlet The author“ Free Lance ”__wrote<br />
to Nature, pointing out that, while he did not<br />
impute plagiarism to Mr. Swinburne, many of<br />
the points in the letter had been already<br />
advanced by himself in that pamp!let. The<br />
editor of Nature refused to publish the letter with-<br />
out the writer’s name, The editor had previously<br />
printed a letter without his name. Another<br />
scientific paper published the letter, and there<br />
was an editorial in Nature containing ‘ similari-<br />
ties’? which “Free Lance” acknowledges may<br />
very well be due to the simple coincidence<br />
between the thoughts of two writers treating<br />
the same subject.<br />
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“Free Lance” complains, also, of no notice<br />
being taken of his pamphlet.<br />
<br />
These are the plain facts as stated by the<br />
circular, which we produce in deference to “ Free<br />
Lance’s”” request as a member.<br />
<br />
It is doubless very hard to have one’s work<br />
neglected and one’s proposals advanced by other<br />
and later writers. But we cannot see that there<br />
is the smallest ground for complaint against the<br />
editor of Nature. It is a rule in every respect-<br />
able paper that the writer of a letter should give<br />
his name. That a previous letter by “Free<br />
Lance” appeared without sending the name may<br />
very well have happened by an accident. ‘“ Free<br />
Lance’’ does not impute plagiarism, but he does<br />
seem to impute a wilful ignoring of his pamphlet.<br />
But why wilful? Every pamphlet sent to a<br />
paper cannot be noticed. But then, is it proved<br />
that the author of the leading article had read<br />
it? ‘Similarities,’ are observed; but then<br />
“Free Lance” allows that these may arise from<br />
the treatment of the same subject by two minds.<br />
Here, however, are the facts. I have only to add<br />
that I refused to admit this statement in the<br />
Author without the writer’s name, and have<br />
perhaps incurred the same displeasure on the<br />
same grounds.<br />
<br />
The following is what the editor of Nature<br />
says himself:<br />
<br />
““We have received a printed circular signed<br />
‘Free Lance,’ condemning a recent action of.<br />
ours in refusing to print a letter from the author<br />
on the subject of the ‘ Publication of Physical<br />
Papers’ unless, in accordance with the rule to<br />
which attention is drawn in every number of<br />
Nature, he divulged his name. We fail to see<br />
any adequate reason for violating our rule in the<br />
favour of ‘Free Lance’ more than in the case of<br />
any other of our correspondents.” (Ep.)<br />
<br />
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<br />
IX.<br />
GzrorGEe Exiort anp RESPECTABILITY.<br />
<br />
This is a delicate question, as well as a some-<br />
what subtle one ; and it is perhaps better to leave<br />
it severely alone, lest one be misinterpreted and<br />
misjudged in consequence.<br />
<br />
However; I should like to say a few words upon<br />
it, as it involves much more than the reputation<br />
of the eminent woman concerned.<br />
<br />
I hold that human differences arise as often<br />
from diversity in interpretation of words as from<br />
variety in opinion of deeds; in effect that, in<br />
many such questions, as Cardinal Newman said<br />
of certain religious discussions, when we come to<br />
agree as to.the meanings of words, we generally<br />
find that “argument is either superfluous or<br />
hopeless.’ Similarly, in the present case, the<br />
<br />
controversy really lies more between diverse inter-<br />
pretations of the word “respectability” than in<br />
any differences of opinion as to the ethics of the<br />
question—great though these are likely to con-<br />
tinue to be.<br />
<br />
So many problems of ethology, psychology,<br />
sociology, or theology are involved that only the<br />
superficial would venture to pronounce final judg-<br />
ment without duly considering how the peculiar<br />
course of conduct affected the character of the<br />
chief actors, the spiritual culture of their inti-<br />
mates, and the quality of society in general, as<br />
well as the welfare of posterity in particular—as<br />
indefinitely influenced by them.<br />
<br />
In other words, did or did not George Eliot<br />
remain the same pure-souled woman after as<br />
before her breach of ‘ conventionality” ? Did<br />
she or did she not harm as well as hurt certain<br />
members of the community more immediately<br />
involved? Did she or did she not lessen her vast<br />
power for good by thus defying ‘“‘ Mrs. Grundy ” ?<br />
<br />
While nothing is easier than to judge, nothing<br />
is harder than to judge justly. Realising this,<br />
it behoves us to be humble in judging our fellows<br />
individually ; recognising that reputation is at<br />
best merely a social conception, just as conceit is<br />
a personal opinion, of a certain character only<br />
partially known—even to its possessor.<br />
<br />
As to the social influence, there is room for<br />
limitless speculation, according to our individual<br />
share of racial ignorance. We may question the<br />
expedience of a gifted and noble woman’s atti-<br />
tude, even while concluding that it more than<br />
neutralised its own possibilities for evil, by fos-<br />
tering a reaction in favour of ethical conserva-<br />
tism; but, none the less, our philosophy pro or<br />
con. will probably resolve itself mainly into a<br />
mere matter of popular phraseology, in spite of<br />
ourselves. In effect, when we think we have<br />
established primary principles, we may have<br />
merely endorsed popular phrases.<br />
<br />
The danger of a doctrine is no proof of its<br />
iniquity, but is only an index of its potentiality.<br />
Until marriage is duly recognised as a fine art,<br />
and properly understood as the most sacred<br />
institution of social science, there will continue to<br />
be considerable diversity of opinion as to how far<br />
its divinity consists in its ceremony or in its<br />
harmony ; and how far ceremony is a matter of<br />
legality or of morality; as well as how far<br />
morality is a matter of individual duty or of<br />
social utility.<br />
<br />
Meantime, it would be well were conventionality<br />
more clearly differentiated from morality, and<br />
reputability from respectability ; but this might<br />
necessitate a reform in the art of language, as<br />
well as a revolution in the science of soul.<br />
<br />
PHINLAY GLENELG.<br />
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X.<br />
James DEFOE.<br />
<br />
The following communication speaks for itself.<br />
Will anyone among our members take the lead in<br />
this matter ?<br />
<br />
“Saturday's Daily Chronicle contained a<br />
pathetic letter from James W. Defoe, an out-<br />
door pauper of Chelmsford Union. It would<br />
appear from investigations made by Mr. Thomas<br />
Wright that this unfortunate man_is the father<br />
of the last lineal descendant of Daniel Defoe.<br />
One would desire, of course, that everything that<br />
can be done should be done for the father; but<br />
T would suggest that since the son has been<br />
educated attention should be directed to him.<br />
We cannot force this young man to marry, but<br />
we can impress upon him, if perchance he should<br />
fail to appreciate the fact, that in representing<br />
Daniel Defoe his position is far more distin-<br />
guished than it would be were he the repre-<br />
sentative of Defoe’s great contemporary John<br />
Churchill. To let the name of Defoe die would<br />
be a national loss; it should be continued. Who<br />
knows what potentialities may yet remain in the<br />
family which has given us the author of “ Robin-<br />
son Crusoe.” John Churchill and his descen-<br />
dants were well provided for by Parliament ;<br />
Defoe, a greater benefactor to his country than<br />
Churchill, for, leaving the esthetic and literary<br />
question untouched, he has been the real father<br />
of much of the colonising and exploring activity<br />
of our race, got nothing for himself or for his<br />
descendants. I would suggest that we try to<br />
remedy this injustice. A letter signed by the<br />
leading novelists making an appeal to the public<br />
might be sent to the journals, and I venture to<br />
think a substantial capital sum might be raised.<br />
This sum, held by trustees, should be invested<br />
for the benefit of James W. Defoe and his heirs<br />
<br />
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male in the usual manner. “e5, Se. lee<br />
“Sept. 18, 1893.”<br />
XI.<br />
Rerention oF MSS. sy Eprrors.<br />
I<br />
<br />
The following case of a story of my own will<br />
serve to illustrate the question. In June, 1892, I<br />
sent a story of about 14,000 words, which I had<br />
been to the expense of having typed, to the<br />
editors of a well-known magazine for their Christ-<br />
mas number. ‘Time went on, and I heard.<br />
nothing, and at last, when I saw the Christmas<br />
number advertised, I wrote to the editors to in-<br />
quire whether my story were to be inserted.<br />
After some little delay, I heard that it had<br />
never been received by them. I then made<br />
inquiries of the publishers to whose care it<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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had been sent, but without result, and, needless<br />
to say, I could obtain neither compensation nor<br />
redress.<br />
<br />
This, though of course very annoying, is one of<br />
the accidents of an author’s life, which, whether<br />
due to the carelessness of post-office officials or of<br />
publishers’ clerks, can only be endured with the<br />
best grace possible, though I think some plan of<br />
acknowledgment might be established, and<br />
authors thus enabled to institute inquiries for<br />
missing MSS. at a time when they might be of<br />
use, instead of, as in my case, several months<br />
after.<br />
<br />
But, now to the next chapter in the history of<br />
my story. I set to work and rewrote it from my<br />
rough copy with slight alterations, as it was<br />
written to illustrate a given motto in the first in-<br />
stance, and, this accomplished, I sent it to another<br />
popular monthly. Seven months elapsed, and<br />
then, on the advice of the Secretary of the Authors’<br />
Society, I wrote to the editor reminding him of<br />
my story, and asking him to be so kind as to tell<br />
me whether it was accepted. This produced a<br />
return of the MS. with a polite note from the<br />
sub-editor expressing “pain” that he “ did not<br />
think it quite suitable” for the magazine, and<br />
laying out a hint that, should I send another<br />
contribution, it might—it would be accepted. In<br />
acknowledging the MS., I ventured to suggest<br />
that, before sending another, I should like some<br />
guarantee that so much time would not be wasted<br />
again.<br />
<br />
T do not wish to dispute the editor’s refusal of<br />
my story ; it may have been too long, or not sen-<br />
sational enough, or unsuitable in many ways, but<br />
where I do complain is that an author's MS.<br />
should be retained so long and then rejected.<br />
My case is, I expect, by no means exceptional, and<br />
surely there must be some want of organisation<br />
or some inadequacy of staff in editorial offices for<br />
such things to occur.<br />
<br />
II.<br />
<br />
One of the unfortunate beings who has to live<br />
by his pen sends a story to the editor of a<br />
magazine or journal, and hears nothing about it<br />
for three, four, or six months. He is loth to<br />
write and inquire, for if he does ten to one back<br />
comes the MS. (provided stamps were inclosed)<br />
by the next post ; the personage having doubtless<br />
expressed himself much in this way—‘ Hang the<br />
fellow; why does he keep bothering me about his<br />
wretched stuff? Let him have the confounded<br />
rubbish back.” Now, the point I want informa-<br />
tion on is this—How long after submitting @<br />
MS. should one wait before sending another copy<br />
elsewhere? Does the fact of an article being<br />
submitted to an editor give that mighty indivi-<br />
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dual an exclusive right to the use of that article<br />
for as long a time as he in his irresponsible great-<br />
ness may choose to keep it in suspense? I sup-<br />
pose itis considered an incorrect proceeding to<br />
send the same story or paper to more than one<br />
publishing source at a time? I amvery ignorant<br />
in these matters, and should be greatly obliged if<br />
any reader of the Author would enlighten me.<br />
H. RB. G.<br />
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XII.<br />
Mopern Poetry.<br />
<br />
Modern poetry is now becoming so difficult that<br />
it is almost cruel, if not terrible and truculent.<br />
As for example take me, a beginner who sits<br />
down and studies it. What becomes of me? I<br />
have an ink-dream, and find this that follows on<br />
my bed-side table in the morning. It is a<br />
horrible failure: but where, and with, or by<br />
whom, or when, is a commencing poet to start ?<br />
<br />
Here is my nightmare. But I must say a few<br />
more prefatory words. It seems to poor students<br />
of poetry that all you have to do is to get a<br />
certain swing into your ear, distrust everybody<br />
else, see that you’re not copying anybody, and<br />
disconsult the rhyming dictionary. Then go to<br />
sleep, and do as I did:<br />
<br />
Older and older sinks the Dust into the bottoms of our<br />
fathers’ graves.<br />
<br />
Where that is laid we know we shall and must—down to<br />
the level of old Wisdom’s knaves.<br />
<br />
The piles of pillory are all in rust; but fetters polish on the<br />
noble slaves !<br />
<br />
Old Death is lone and in the must; his hoops are shrunken<br />
round these staves.<br />
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You see the jokes? No. Then you are not<br />
<br />
JEB SLINTER.<br />
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XIII.<br />
PUBLISHERS’ READERS.<br />
<br />
Mr. James Payn, in his “ Notes” of this week,<br />
falls to upon me (among, I think, all your other<br />
correspondents), for expressing the particular<br />
opinion that if, as Mr. Sherard said, authors<br />
should not be critics, they should still more not<br />
be readers for publishers. This he summarises<br />
(with your other correspondents’ ideas) as<br />
rubbish.<br />
<br />
Now the position of the hebdomadal sum-<br />
mariser may be, while perhaps envious, rather<br />
demoralising, for he is so like the parson who<br />
cannot be contradicted. _ Whereas the ordinary<br />
correspondent only obtains leave to ventilate an<br />
idea, the hebdomadal summariser is under an<br />
obligation to fill several columns with ideas, and<br />
must find matter—but will you allow me to add<br />
a few words to those printed in last month’s<br />
Author, apropos of Mr. Payn’s objections ?<br />
<br />
lf authors should not be critics then they are<br />
more out of place as readers, is surely sensible.<br />
The critic passes judgment on the production<br />
when produced, the “reader” passes judgment<br />
thereon when it is only proposed to be produced ;<br />
it is evident, therefore, that whereas the first can<br />
only, if he think proper, injure its reputation on<br />
publication, the other can use a still more power-<br />
ful agency against it—he can nip it off altogether<br />
so far as his “firm” is concerned.<br />
<br />
As the number of publishing firms is not very<br />
large, these author-readers must be as proportion-<br />
ally more powerful to hinder publication of a par-<br />
ticular style of work than the author-critic is to<br />
merely injureit, as is the difference between the<br />
number of “firms” and of critical organs. So<br />
that a writer sending his work to a firm who have<br />
an author-reader who dislikes his “ form” and<br />
rejects it, is more fatally injured hereby, than<br />
when he is only “slated” by an author-critic,<br />
among the very numerous critical organs. This<br />
rejected writer has then to go afield among the<br />
limited number of tasters for someone more<br />
sympathetic, but it is obvious that in this he is<br />
more justly handled, if he is in the power of, and<br />
affected by, only absolutely impartial judges of<br />
his wares.<br />
<br />
As the Author deals with the machinery of<br />
authorship—what Mr. Payn calls the “ways and<br />
methods ’—I venture to submit these observa-<br />
tions to it; and upon the question of the suit-<br />
ability of the author as “ reader,” I will hope in<br />
a few lines to strengthen my argument.<br />
<br />
An author must be strongly prejudiced the<br />
better one he is. Icould not conceive a good painter,<br />
occupying the position of “buyer” to picture-<br />
dealers, flooding the market with oleographic<br />
pictures of gaudy attractiveness—or even in<br />
manners strongly opposed to his own—without a<br />
peculiar catholicity essentially foreign to the best<br />
workers. Would Carlyle have been a reader suited<br />
to “run” the concerns of an enterprising firm ?<br />
<br />
Of course, the wnsuitability I have here<br />
advanced, of authors being good commercial<br />
“tasters” for publishers, always becomes less as<br />
the status, genius, and deep earnestness of that<br />
author are less, and if Mr. Payn believes a<br />
reader is quite properly employed when he is<br />
passing all work that will bring grist to the<br />
mill, then surely that points to quite another<br />
person than the author of any importance. One<br />
would think the public would esteem the great<br />
author better employed producing his own work<br />
for their delight than placing (though perhaps<br />
but temporarily) bars before someone else. I<br />
am convinced Johnson would have ‘“ returned<br />
with thanks” “Tristram Shandy.”<br />
<br />
INGENUE.<br />
BOOKS OF 1892.<br />
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TYNE following lists have been compiled from the books announced day by day in the Times Jan. 1—Dee. 31, 1892. It includes<br />
reprints, new editions, and all the publications, good or bad, of the year:<br />
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Theology. Educa- | Novels. Law. Political. | Arts. Voyages. | History. |Biography.| Poetry. |) ature,<br />
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tional.<br />
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January et 31 8 56 6 8 28 II 21 14 27 50<br />
Webruary ...:.6:------- 25 18 68 6 19 26 6 25 22 17 53<br />
March |b 29 17 go 13 24 24 4 33 18 17 42<br />
RTE coi cccsc seers sees 19 18 76 9 II 25 12 21 22 II 51<br />
MAY f2. oes so sss tence eee aenes> 39 20 75 it 20 45 6 28 32 23 64<br />
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PUNS ec cei ces esse eenuve ees 17 20 61 9 32 31 5 37 22 28 89<br />
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Te oe ee 18 II 59 6 17 20 3 25 II II 55<br />
JUN ee 9 14 43 7 12 19 — 20 9 12 38<br />
September ..............6045 20 32 123 5 7 29 4 32 23 19 45<br />
October 6.6. ec 29 27 1g! 8 12 32 6 29 31 25 103<br />
November .............. ae 25 13 178 12 II 43 18 53 39 41 112<br />
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December .......ccs0..- 068 29 19 98 7 13 33 3 23 27 23 104<br />
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: Wotel: 5 oe 288 217 1118 99 186 355 78 347 272 254 806<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.<br />
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“THe Book Hat FAarLep.”<br />
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[A publisher writes to the Author to say that, for the<br />
first time in his experience, the writer of a book which was<br />
not a success has sent him an unsolicited cheque to com-<br />
pensate him for the loss he has sustained by producing it.]<br />
<br />
AS THINGS ARE TO-DAY.<br />
<br />
Publisher (nastily): I tell you that it’s no<br />
earthly use your asking about profits, because<br />
there are none.<br />
<br />
Author (amazed): No profits! And you<br />
really mean to tell me that the public has not<br />
thought fit to purchase my shilling work of<br />
genius—‘ The Maiming of Mendoza?” By our<br />
agreement only a paltry 6000 copies of the work<br />
had to be bought before my royalty of a penny a<br />
volume began.<br />
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Publisher: Iam quite aware of it. The sale<br />
of the 6000 copies would just about have repaid<br />
us for cost of production. As a matter of fact,<br />
only 3000 have been sold. We've lost heavily,<br />
and very much regret we were ever induced to<br />
accept the work.<br />
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Author: Aud you really ask me to believe that<br />
after such a sale as that a loss on your part is<br />
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possible? Why, if you take price of printing<br />
at- | Goes elaborately into cost of produc-<br />
tion. |<br />
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Publisher: Yes, but you see the price of every-<br />
thing has gone up in our trade. Binding is now<br />
ten per cent. dearer, composing is [Also<br />
goes into precise and prolonged details. |<br />
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Author (turning desperate at last): Oh, let us<br />
end this chatter! You really say that no cheque<br />
whatever is due to me for all my labours?<br />
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Publisher: Nota single penny. It’s the other<br />
way about.<br />
<br />
Author (leaving): And you call this “the<br />
beneficial system of royalties,’ do you? Good<br />
day! And if I don’t set the Society of Authors<br />
‘at you before I am a day older, then my name’s<br />
not Butwer Maxerreace Deroz SmitH! [Lait<br />
tempestuously. |<br />
<br />
AS THEY MAY BE TO-MORROW.<br />
<br />
Utterly Unknown Novelist : Then I am afraid<br />
that my last three-volumed work of fiction, in<br />
‘Spite of the cordial way in which it was reviewed<br />
by my brother-in-law in the Weekly Dotard, my<br />
maternal uncle in the Literary Spy, and afew<br />
other relatives on the daily press, has not upon<br />
the whole been a decided success ?<br />
<br />
Publisher: Well, it’s useless. to conceal the<br />
fact, that from a mere base material point of view,<br />
the publication of “The Boiling of Benjamin”<br />
has not quite answered our expectations. In<br />
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fact, we have lost a couple of thousand pounds<br />
over it. But (more cheerfully) what of that ?<br />
It is a pleasure to lose money over introducing<br />
good work to the public; a positive privilege to<br />
be sacrificed on such an altar as “ The Boiling of<br />
Benjamin.”” So say no more on that head!<br />
<br />
U. U. Novelist (enthusiastically) : Good and<br />
generous man! But I will say more! You<br />
recollect that the terms you made with me were<br />
a thousand pounds down, and a hundred pounds<br />
a month for life or until the copyright expired ?<br />
<br />
Publisher (groaning slightly): Oh, yes! I<br />
remember it very well.<br />
<br />
U. U. Novelist: And that I have already<br />
received cheques for one thousand and five hun-<br />
dred pounds, without your mentioning a word<br />
about the loss you have been nobly and silently<br />
enduring ?<br />
<br />
Publisher: An agreement’s an agreement, and<br />
you are only experiencing one result of the bene-<br />
ficial system of royalties.<br />
<br />
U. U. Novelist: Quite so! But if there is to<br />
be a division of profits, there should be division<br />
of losses as well. So (¢aking out cheque-book,<br />
and hurriedly writing in it) there! Not a word<br />
of thanks! It’s merely repaying you the fifteen<br />
hundred I’ve received, with another thousand to<br />
compensate you for the loss on production.<br />
<br />
Publisher (melted into tears): Oh, thanks,<br />
thanks! You have averted ruin from my starving<br />
little ones! And if you should wish to bring<br />
out any other work of He is gone, to<br />
escape my gratitude! (Takes up cheque). By<br />
far the best thing he ever wrote! (Curtain.)<br />
—Punch, Sept. 22.<br />
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Ef,<br />
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EXPERIENCES OF A LITERARY BEGINNER.<br />
<br />
The following facts have been extracted from<br />
two memorandum books, one of which contains<br />
a numbered list of every article or story written,<br />
with particulars of where sent, when sent,<br />
when returned, when accepted, prices paid,<br />
&c. The other book has its pages headed with<br />
the names of the various journals to which a<br />
manuscript or manuscripts have been sent—one<br />
page for each journal. The former book is<br />
indexed by the titles of the articles or stories, the<br />
latter according to the names of the journals.<br />
During this period of five months, sixty-seven<br />
articles, &c., have been written and offered to<br />
twenty-five journals. Up to the date of writing,<br />
twenty-seven articles or stories have been accepted,<br />
fifteen are ‘ out’ to meet their fate, and twenty-<br />
five are in the drawer set apart for rejected MSS.<br />
—some of these will be sent off again ; others are<br />
obviously faulty.<br />
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As regards the twenty-seven acceptances, sixteen<br />
were accepted at the first offer, five at the second<br />
trial, two at the third time of asking, one at the<br />
seventh, and three were “ ordered ” by an editor<br />
on the strength of a lucky article which pleased<br />
him. The payments for these twenty-seven<br />
accepted MSS. amounted to £96 7s. Concerning<br />
the fifteen MSS. which are “ out,” and whose fate<br />
is thus not yet decided, five are “ maidens,” six<br />
are on their second trip, one is at the fourth trial,<br />
two at the fifth venture, one at the sixth. The<br />
twenty-five MSS. which are in the drawer for<br />
rejected articles have been treated thus :—Four<br />
have been returned once, three have come back<br />
twice, eight have been coldly received by their<br />
author at their third rejection, six have been<br />
glared at upon their fourth return to home, and<br />
four have shamefacedly crept back no fewer than<br />
five times. So much for the three groups of<br />
MSS. Now about the journals to which they<br />
were sent. The twenty-four journals have been<br />
classed in three groups :—I. Those which accepted<br />
some or all of the MSS. offered; II. Those which<br />
refused all MSS. offered; and III. Those whose<br />
decision is not yet known.<br />
<br />
Group I. contains seven journals: One London<br />
newspaper (morning), four weeklies, and two<br />
monthlies. Group II. relates to twelve journals<br />
of various kinds. Group III. comprises five<br />
publications whose respective editors have not<br />
yet arrived at a decision upon the MSS. offered.<br />
<br />
A point which may be usefully examined by a<br />
writer is the number of separate times he offered<br />
his MSS. Here are the tabulated facts relating<br />
to the sixty-seven MSS. now mentioned :—the<br />
twenty-seven accepted were, in the aggregate,<br />
sent out forty-two times; the fifteen which are<br />
“out” have been offered, in the aggregate,<br />
thirty-seven times ; and the twenty-five which are<br />
inthe “rejected” drawer have received among them<br />
no fewer than seventy-eight refusals. Thus, the<br />
whole sixty-seven MSS. have a total of 157<br />
separate trials. This means 314-27==287<br />
journeys through the post, and up to the<br />
present time not a single MS. has been lost.<br />
This fact speaks well for both editors and post-<br />
men. The cost of postage, both ways, of those<br />
157 offers of MSS. has amounted to £2 5s. 2d.<br />
—say £3 if paper be included—thus the net<br />
profit in respect of the twenty-seven accepted<br />
MSS. is £96 7s. less £3, or £93 78. The fore-<br />
going are actual facts, and the result is by no<br />
means discouraging; moreover some of the<br />
fifteen MSS. which are awaiting their fate are<br />
“ig fish,” one is a 20-pounder, and two others,<br />
if accepted, will considerably increase the above<br />
figure ; again, a few out of the twenty-five MSS.<br />
which are now “resting” will probably find their<br />
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way into print when touched up a little. But<br />
even if these 15 +2540 manuscripts should none<br />
of them be accepted, the net amount of £93 7s.<br />
in five months represents £225 per annum.<br />
Finally, all the journals referred to are London<br />
journals, the writer of the manuscripts sent to<br />
them started as an entire “ outsider,’ and beyond<br />
the fact of taking great pains with his work, he<br />
cannot be said to possess any exceptional ability ;<br />
so, perhaps, there may be more room at even the<br />
bottom of the ladder of literature than some of<br />
us are disposed to think.—The Globe.<br />
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Tus Heattuy CuLture or THE Literary Lire.<br />
<br />
Before concluding this address, one other<br />
point seems to me to deserve particular atten-<br />
tion in connection with the literary life. It<br />
relates to jealousy as the bane of competi-<br />
tion, under which the best men are sometimes<br />
doomed to fall. I am speaking literally and<br />
medically when I affirm from experience and<br />
observation that jealousy may turn into actual<br />
disease, and may so affect the physical life as to<br />
lay the foundation of fatal disease. There is<br />
nothing in all callings so opposed to success as<br />
jealousy, but in literature it is the danger of<br />
dangers. It destroys the quietude of the reason-<br />
ing soul; it keeps up a fever of the animal<br />
organization ; it leads to passions that are as<br />
wearing as pain, to competitions as exhausting<br />
as the strife of the gaming table, to failures as<br />
certain as those which are produced by strong<br />
drink. I pray you all who intend to labour in<br />
the literary field, do your best to kill all jealousy<br />
lurking in your bosoms. It is seated in the<br />
centres of the passions, and no doubt in many<br />
persons it is strong as life, keen as death. It has<br />
often heredity as its root, and so much the more<br />
is it hard to conquer; but it can, by force of will<br />
and exercise of reason, be subdued and even<br />
utilised for the purpose of honourable ambition,<br />
if it be from the first kept in subjection. It is<br />
best kept in subjection by the exercise of a reso-<br />
lute determination on the part of the writer to<br />
apply the same fair criticisms to his own work as<br />
he ought to apply to the works of others, on the<br />
grand principle of doing unto others what he<br />
would they should do unto him. To this effort<br />
should be added the desire to discover in the<br />
successful the secret of success. Insuccess there<br />
is always a secret, though it be an open one; and<br />
in every case there is some opening, which, fol-<br />
lowed up, leads to success, under which jealousy<br />
vanishes, with all its evil train. My advice,<br />
therefore, is, go on working and improving your<br />
own work; think no evil, feel no contempt, of<br />
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fellow-workers ; find what path in the wide field<br />
of literature suits best your powers; and be sure<br />
that in the end you will win if you live and make<br />
the best of life—Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson<br />
in The Asclepiad.<br />
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EV.<br />
READING FOR THE WORKHOUSE.<br />
<br />
The books which the Free Literature Society<br />
seem to think suitable for workhouses appear<br />
to belong exclusively to the class of ‘books<br />
which are no books— biblia abiblia.”’ The<br />
Kettering Union, who subscribe to the society,<br />
report that the last parcel sent tothem included<br />
“The Manufacture of Bleaching Powder,” an<br />
1862 “Guide to London,’ ‘“ A Chronology of<br />
the Soap Trade,” ‘The Oil and Colourman,”<br />
“Improvements in Acid Manufacture,” ‘“ Con-<br />
densation of Noxious Vapours,” and a batch of<br />
German almanacs. This list will fairly vie<br />
with Charles Lamb’s of ‘Court calendars,<br />
directories, draught-boards bound and lettered<br />
on the back, almanacs, and Paley’s ‘Moral<br />
Philosophy.’’”’ One recalls, too, Macaulay’s<br />
story of the Italian prisoner who was suffered to<br />
make his choice between Guicciardini and the<br />
galleys. He chose the history. But the war of<br />
Pisa was too much for him. He changed his<br />
mind, and went to the oar. The inmates of the<br />
Kettering Union will, no doubt, try the German<br />
almanacs—and go back to the stone-yard.— West-<br />
minster Gazette.<br />
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Vv.<br />
“ Fuavia.”<br />
<br />
“Flavia,” by Adair Welcker, a little book<br />
printed at Berkeley, California, is somewhat<br />
of a curiosity. It is a drama, and owes very<br />
much to the influence of Shakespeare. Although<br />
it is printed, the ‘ publisher’s announcement ”<br />
states that “copies of this work cannot be<br />
obtained in any other than manuscript form.”<br />
The author offers to make and sell autograph<br />
manuscript copies for 1000 dollars a copy.<br />
“People not caring to pay that sum,” Mr,<br />
Welcker informs us, “ can either make manuscript<br />
copies themselves or hire other people to make<br />
them,” or, he might have added, do without. Of<br />
a previous play Mr. Welcker has made fifty-four<br />
manuscript copies. Ina manuscript note to the<br />
printed edition of “ Flavia,” Mr. Welcker states<br />
that up to the time when he “ began the publica-<br />
tion himself of his play ‘‘ Louis XVI.” with pen<br />
and ink (for want of a more extensive publishing<br />
plant) he was of the opinion that it would not be-<br />
come widely known during his lifetime. But since<br />
he began making manuscript copies, giving to<br />
<br />
anyone the right to employ others to make manu-<br />
script copies from copies wherever they find them,<br />
and since he has put on that ring which was worn<br />
by Aladdin (it will be useless to ask him what is<br />
that ring, for his answer, if he made one, could<br />
not inform you) he has seen that during his life-<br />
time it is destined to achieve a success such as has<br />
never been achieved by those having at their com-<br />
mand giant presses and unlimited publishing<br />
facilities.” After this it is not surprising to know,<br />
also on the authority of Mr. Welcker’s autograph<br />
note, that “ Flavia,” “ properly read or acted by<br />
persons who have not a fetish worship for the<br />
present condition of the stage, will hold an<br />
audience spellbound.— Manchester Guardian.<br />
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pecs<br />
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“AT THE SIGN OF THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.”<br />
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——>e> -—-<br />
<br />
ILL be published very shortly, by Mr. W.<br />
Herbert Hill, a work entitled “ The<br />
<br />
Political Economy of Jesus, being an<br />
introduction tothe Study of Christian Sociology.”<br />
(Andrews, Hull. Price to subscribers, 35. 6d.)<br />
<br />
Mr. H. G. Keene, C.I.E., has in preparation a<br />
History of India from the earliest times to the<br />
present day, for the use of students. It will be<br />
in two vols., each 6s. The publishers are Messrs,<br />
W. H. Allen and Co. Limited.<br />
<br />
Mr. Charles E. Hall has in the press a new<br />
novel called “An Ancient Ancestor.” It will be<br />
published early in October by Messrs. Skeffing-<br />
ton and Sons.<br />
<br />
“Rambles in Shakespeare’s Land,” by George<br />
Morley, is published by the Record Press,<br />
276, Strand. It is a cheap and very handy little<br />
volume, adapted for use as a guide-book, as well<br />
as a pleasant and readable little work.<br />
<br />
The Rev. Frederick Langbridge’s poems of<br />
home and homely life, ‘‘ Sent Back by the Angels,<br />
&e.,” of which the first thousand at 4s. 6d. was<br />
quickly exhausted, and of which a cheap edition has<br />
since been sold, is to appear again this season at<br />
2s. 6d. Messrs. Cassell are the publishers.<br />
<br />
Miss Katherine Tynam has written a volume<br />
of poems, entitled ‘A Cluster of Nuts,” with a<br />
title-page and cover design by Laurence Housman,<br />
which will shortly be published by Messrs. Elkin<br />
Mathews and Lane.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Graham Tomson is engaged upon a volume<br />
of poems to be entitled “ After Sunset,” for<br />
which Mr. A. Bell has designed the cover.<br />
Messrs. Elkin Mathews and Lane are the pub-<br />
lishers.<br />
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Lady Wolverton has adopted the Spinning<br />
Wheel as the official organ of her Needlework<br />
Guild, now numbering many thousands of<br />
members throughout the country, and presided<br />
over by the Duchess of Teck. The paper, which<br />
willretain all its usual features and characteristics,<br />
will in future devote a corner in its pages to the<br />
guild news.<br />
<br />
A new novel, by Fitzgerald Molloy, entitled<br />
« An Excellent Knave,” will be published early<br />
this month (October), in three vols., by Messrs.<br />
Hutchinson and Co. This story, which ran<br />
serially in England, has been already published in<br />
volume form in America and Germany.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. will publish in the<br />
spring a cheap edition of the same author’s novel,<br />
“His Wife’s Soul.”<br />
<br />
“The Religion of a Literary Man” is the title<br />
of Mr. Le Gallienne’s new volume of essays, which<br />
will shortly be published by Messrs. Mathews<br />
and Lane. A special edition on hand-made<br />
paper, limited to 250 copies, will accompany the<br />
cheap edition, The same writer’s ‘‘ Prose<br />
Fancies,” issued by the firm above mentioned,<br />
will also appear in the autumn.<br />
<br />
Mr. G. H. Greene, of the Rhymers Club, has<br />
been at work upon translations of the “ Ttalian<br />
Lyrists of To-day,” which will shortly be pub-<br />
lished by Elkin Mathews.<br />
<br />
«“ Orchard Songs ”’ is the attractive title chosen<br />
by Mr. Norman Gale for his new volume of<br />
poems. The dainty volume, with a title-page<br />
and cover design by Mr. Rothenstein, will<br />
shortly be issued from the famous “ Bodley<br />
Head ” in Vigo-street.<br />
<br />
Mr. Grant Allen’s new novel, “The Tents of<br />
Shem,” has been published by Chatto and<br />
Windus in regulation three-volume form.<br />
<br />
Mr. Walter Besant’s new novel, “The Rebel<br />
Queen” (three vols.), has also been produced by<br />
the same publishers, who have issued a cheap<br />
edition of the “ Ivory Gate” and his “ Katherine’s<br />
by the Tower.”<br />
<br />
A collection edition of Mr. Davidson’s plays,<br />
“An Unhistorical Pastoral,” “A Romantic<br />
Farce,” “ Bruce, a Chronicle Play,” and “ Scara-<br />
mouch in Naxos, a Pantomime,” will be published<br />
in the autumn by Messrs. Elkin Mathews and<br />
Lane. Mr. Aubrey Beardsley will design the<br />
cover and a frontispiece, the latter containing<br />
portraits of living celebrities. Mr. John David-<br />
son’s “A Random Itinerary ” will also be pub-<br />
lished about the same time. It isa record of<br />
short journeys chiefly in and about London, the<br />
illustrations being provided by Mr. Rothenstein.<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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“ Keynotes,” a new volume of stories by a new<br />
writer, George Egerton, will appear very shortl<br />
from the firm of Elkin Mathews and Lane. x<br />
merciless dissection of woman and her idiosyn-<br />
cracies characterises the book. :<br />
<br />
Mr. G. C. L. Sparkes, Principal of the National<br />
Art Training School, and Mr. F. W. Burbidge<br />
have (says the Westminster Gazette) written a<br />
new and beautifully illustrated work called<br />
« Wild Flowers in Art and Nature.” It will be<br />
published in six parts by Mr. Edward Arnold,<br />
and each part will contain three or four coloured<br />
plates of flowers painted from life by Mr. H. 8.<br />
Moon.<br />
<br />
A volume of short stories by M. E. Francis,<br />
whose first novel ‘‘ Whither ?’’ appeared last year,<br />
will shortly be published by Messrs. Osgood,<br />
McIlvaine, and Co.. who will also bring out early<br />
in January an Irish novel by the same author.<br />
<br />
Cream (of the World’s Fact, Fun, and Fancy)<br />
is the title of a new weekly penny paper, which,<br />
under the editorship of Mr. Francis George<br />
Heath, will shortly appear.<br />
<br />
Mr. Robert Bird, the author of “Jesus, the<br />
Carpenter of Nazareth,” has in the press a new<br />
book, entitled “A Child’s Religion,” which will<br />
form a sequel to his popular Life of Christ, now in<br />
a seventh edition. It is intended to set forth<br />
simple Christianity for the young, and will be<br />
published early in October. The publishers are<br />
Kegan Paul and Co.<br />
<br />
Mr. Walter Besant’s new book on London is<br />
not an abridgment of his previous work. It is<br />
a totally different book. The first book is<br />
an attempt to portray the condition, manners,<br />
and customs of the London people from age<br />
to age; the new book is a_ history of the<br />
City and its institutions, designed for the<br />
use of schools in the first place. It is published<br />
by Messrs. Longman, with a great number of<br />
illustrations.<br />
<br />
New editions have been produced by the same<br />
publishers of James Payn’s “ A Trying Patient,”<br />
Mrs. Croker’s “Family Likeness,” Christie<br />
Murray’s “ 'Time’s Revenges,” Francillon’s “ Ropes<br />
of Sand,” “ Dick Donovan’s “ Suspicion Aroused,”<br />
Grant Allen’s “Ivan Greet’s Masterpiece,’ and<br />
Ernest Glanville’s “ Fossicker.”<br />
<br />
We spoke last month of the West Indies as a<br />
fine field for a new writer. We are reminded<br />
that this field has already been successfully occu-<br />
pied—not, of course, wholly—by Mr. Eden Phill-<br />
potts. His stories of West Indian life have been<br />
for some time running through the pages of the<br />
Graphic, Black and White, &c., and a West —<br />
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tbe 2,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Indian book by him, called “Fun from Afar,” is<br />
now in the press.<br />
<br />
Mr. Grant Allen is to make his first appear-<br />
ance as a poet. Messrs. Elkin Mathews, and<br />
Lane will be his publishers. Science, Fiction,<br />
and Poetry. May his success be as great in the<br />
third branch as in the other two !<br />
<br />
A new and fifth edition of Mrs. Brightwen’s<br />
“Wild Nature Won by Kindness” is announced<br />
by the publisher, Mr. Fisher Unwin.<br />
<br />
“Lays of the Scottish Highlands” is the title<br />
of a collection of verses by Ryder £. N. Breeze,<br />
published by Ward and Downey. It is apparently<br />
designed as a popular work, being attired ina<br />
gaudy paper cover, with a picture, outside, of one<br />
against a multitude. There are, besides the<br />
Scottish lays, Oriental tales, prison rhymes, and<br />
patriotic poems.<br />
<br />
“Songs in Springtime,’ by John Cameron<br />
Grant. These verses have reached a second<br />
edition, which speaks better for the author than<br />
all the press notices together. These are collected<br />
and form a kind of introduction. The book may<br />
be taken as one among many signs of the<br />
approaching revival of verse.<br />
<br />
“Some Country Sights and Sounds”’ is the<br />
title of Mr. Phil RKobinson’s new book.<br />
<br />
On Sept. 19, 1471, the first book ever printed<br />
in the English language, the “ Recuyell of the<br />
History of Troy,” was issued at Cologne by<br />
William Caxton. On the same day, 1806, the end<br />
came to that great Greek scholar, Richard Porson,<br />
librarian of the London Institution, in a fit of<br />
apoplexy. The City Press has supplied us with<br />
these two reminders.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Skey is bringing out a new novel in one<br />
volume called “That Mrs. Grundy!” It is pub-<br />
lished by the Arundel Publishing Company,<br />
Granville House, Arundel-street, Strand.<br />
<br />
The following novels will be published by<br />
Messrs. Bliss, Sands, and Foster during the<br />
autumn season: Percival Pickering’s “ Life<br />
Awry;” Mrs. G. 8. Reaney’s “Dr. Grey’s<br />
Patient;” Mrs. Murray Hickson’s “A Latter<br />
Day Romance;” Clara Savile Clarke’s “The<br />
World’s Sharon.” They will also bring out a<br />
new edition of Scriblerius Redivivus on the<br />
“Art of Pluck;” and a book on Somersetshire,<br />
with illustrations by C. R. B. Barrett.<br />
<br />
Miss Eleanor Stredder’s new story for boys,<br />
“Doing and Daring,” will be published shortly<br />
by Messrs. Nelson and Sons. This lady has re-<br />
ceived a perhaps unique expression of approval<br />
concerning her last book, “ Alatch,’ from the<br />
Chinese Ambassador, Ta-jan-Sieh.<br />
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Thomas Cobb (author of “On Trust,” “The<br />
Westlakes,”’ &c.) has written the new serial,<br />
entitled “Ronald’s Wife,” for Household Words.<br />
<br />
Mr. Reynolds Ball is about to publish in The<br />
Hotel a series of technical and descriptive<br />
papers on the hotels of Europe from the English<br />
traveller's standpoint. These articles will pro-<br />
bably be ultimately reprinted in book form, and<br />
should prove a useful handbook to English tourists<br />
travelling in the main lines of European travel,<br />
<br />
“Lord Tennyson and his Friends” is the title<br />
of a book containing four portraits of Tennyson,<br />
including that by G. F. Watts, and portraits of<br />
Arthur Hallam, Longfellow, Henry Irving, and<br />
other friends of the Laureate. It is a limited<br />
edition of 400 only—all copies numbered—and<br />
will cost six guineas. An essay by Mrs. Thackeray<br />
Ritchie and an introduction by H. H. Hay<br />
Cameron are contained in the work. The pub-<br />
lisher is Mr. Fisher Unwin.<br />
<br />
Messrs Conway and Coolidge’s Climber’s Guides<br />
(Fisher Unwin), will sh ortly receive two additions,<br />
(1) The Adula Alps; (2) The Mountains of Corfu<br />
(Fisher Unwin).<br />
<br />
The Adventure Series (Fisher Unwin) will also<br />
be enlarged by the “ Life of James P. Beckworth,”<br />
and the “Memoirs of Mauritius, Count de<br />
Benijowski.”’<br />
<br />
Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell are going<br />
to take us into “ Gipsyland” (Fisher Unwin) with<br />
pen and pencil.<br />
<br />
Five more volumes of the Pseudonym Series are<br />
also announced by the same publisher.<br />
<br />
Mr. J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S., has in the press “ An<br />
Astronomical Glossary,” which will be published<br />
in October by Messrs. Crosby, Lockwood, and<br />
Sons. Besides a dictionary of terms used in astro-<br />
nomy the book will contain tables of data and<br />
lists of remarkable and interesting celestial<br />
objects.<br />
<br />
Dr. Waldstein, the archeologist, has written a<br />
volume, which will shortly be published by<br />
Messrs. Harper, entitled “The Work of John<br />
Ruskin: Its Influence on Modern Thought and<br />
Life.”<br />
<br />
Mr. David Christie Murray is reported to be<br />
writing an autobiography, portions of which have<br />
appeared from time to time in the pages of the<br />
St. James’s Gazette. It will be published by<br />
Messrs. Chatto and Windus.<br />
<br />
Mr. Cranage, of King’s College, Cambridge,<br />
has written an architectural account of “The<br />
Churches of Shropshire,” many of which are<br />
very beautiful and quaint. The book will be fully<br />
illustrated.<br />
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Mr. Mackenzie Bell’s new volume of Poems<br />
will be published by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and<br />
Bowden Limited.<br />
<br />
Rev. Stopford Brooke has wnitten a little<br />
book called “The Development of Theology<br />
as Illustrated in English Poetry from 1780 to<br />
1830.”<br />
<br />
Mr. John Robert Robinson is busy at work on<br />
a curious biography, which will be entitled ‘‘ The<br />
Last Earl of Barrymore.” He was the most<br />
“pronounced” of that singular coterie that<br />
claimed George IV., when Prince of Wales,<br />
as its head. Thackeray, when writing his “ Barry<br />
Lyndon,” exploited the character of Richard<br />
the seventh earl for recklessness in monetary<br />
matters to add to the singular proclivities of his<br />
hero. He is called by him in one place “Sir<br />
Richard Wargrave,” a surname that brings to<br />
our memory what Mr. Robinson’s work will deal<br />
with, besides fashionable life of the period<br />
embraced (1769-1824), the drama, racing, hunt-<br />
ing, &c. Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and<br />
Co. will be the publishers.<br />
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Epyz, Mason L. The Historical Records of the Royal<br />
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