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<br />
The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
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Vou. IV.—No. 12.] MAY 1, 1804. [Prick SIXPENCE.<br />
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CONTENTS.<br />
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PAGE : PAGE<br />
Warnings and Notices ait aoe eee cs ae oe wee 423 Notes and News. By the Editor... ve ase es ee wee 435<br />
Literary Property.—1. Secret Profits. ‘‘Some Points.” ‘‘ From English Rabelaisians. By G. L. Apperson... an cee ... 438<br />
a Publisher.” ‘ From the Editor.”—2. Thirteen as Twelve.— Correspondence.—l. Herbert Spencer and Literature.—2. The<br />
3. The Transference of a Title.—4. Cox v. Bayles.—5. British Casual Contributor.—3. Industrial England.—4. An Adver-<br />
Copyright in Canada.—é. Curious Clauses.—7. Music Copy- tising Firm.—5. The Experience of a Failure.—t. Printing<br />
rights.—8. Right of Appearance -.- acs Bee se5 eos 425 Abroad.—7. A Handbook for Authors.—8. A Recent Experi-<br />
‘* Esther Waters.” A Review ..- = ee ae A ..- 430 ence.—9. The Right of Appearance... me Sh oc a. 439<br />
Book Talk. ByJ. W.S. ... ie eee tee a aes wee 432 ‘* At the Sign of the Author’s Head” ... aos ate ie wee 444<br />
So-so Sociology Se ew aes a es eee wee 484 Obituary ae on as = on = ae ie wes 446<br />
San Francisco Literary Congress aes oe Soe on wee 435 New Books and New Editions... vee ae en se woe 447<br />
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
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1. The Annual Report. That for January 1893 can be had on application to the Secretary.<br />
<br />
9. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br />
Property. Issued to all Members. Back numbers are offered at the following prices :<br />
Vol. I., 108. 6d. (Bound) ; Vols. II. and IIL., 8s. 6d. each (Bound).<br />
<br />
3. The Grievances of Authors. (The Leadenhall Press.) 1s. The Report of three Meetings on<br />
the general subject of Literature and its defence, held at Willis’s Rooms, March, 1887.<br />
<br />
4. Literature and the Pension List, By W.Morgris Cotes, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,<br />
95, Strand, W.C.) 3s.<br />
<br />
6, The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. Squrre Spriaex, late Secretary to<br />
the Society. Is.<br />
<br />
6. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br />
size of page, &c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br />
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
7. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squire Sprices. In this work, compiled from the<br />
papers in the Society’s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
‘Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.<br />
<br />
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3s.<br />
<br />
8. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell’s Copyright Bill now before Parlia-<br />
ment. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix<br />
containing the Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill, By J. M. Lexy. Eyre<br />
and Spottiswoode. 1s. 6d.<br />
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9. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WautEer Besant<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888—1892). Is.<br />
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422<br />
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ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
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Che Sociely of Authors (Bncorporated).<br />
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<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
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<br />
GHRORGH MEREDITE,.<br />
<br />
Sir Epwin ARNOLD, K.C.1.E., C.8.1.<br />
ALFRED AUSTIN.<br />
<br />
J. M. Barriz.<br />
<br />
A. W. A Beoxert.<br />
<br />
RoBERT BATEMAN.<br />
<br />
Sim Henry Brerene, K.C.M.G.<br />
WALTER BESANT.<br />
<br />
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, M.P.<br />
<br />
Rev. Pror. Bonney, F.B.S.<br />
Riautr Hon. James Brycx, M.P.<br />
Hat Carine.<br />
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Earrtron Casruz, F.S.A.<br />
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P. W. CLAYDEN.<br />
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Epwakrp CLopp.<br />
<br />
W. Morris Couuzs.<br />
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Hon. JoHn Conuier.<br />
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W. Martin Conway.<br />
<br />
F. Marion CRAwForp.<br />
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OswaLp CRAWFURD, C.M.G.<br />
<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
<br />
Chairman—St1rz FREDERICK PoLLock, Bart, LL.D.<br />
<br />
A. W.A Becxert.<br />
WALTER BESANT.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE.<br />
W. Morris Cones.<br />
<br />
Solicitors—Messrs. FIELD, Roscoz, and Co., Lincoln’s Inn Fields.<br />
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COUNCIL.<br />
THE EARL oF Dusart.<br />
Austin Dosson.<br />
A. Conan Doyxz, M.D.<br />
A. W. Duzsovura.<br />
J. Eric Ericusen, F.R.S.<br />
Pror. Micuarn Foster, F.R.S.<br />
Ricut Hon. HERBERT GARDNER, M.P.<br />
RicHarp Garnett, LL.D.<br />
Epmunp Gossz.<br />
H. Riper Haaearp.<br />
THomas Harpy.<br />
Jerome K. JzERomn.<br />
Rupyarp Kipuina.<br />
Pror. E. Ray Lanxestsr, F.R.S.<br />
J. M. Ley.<br />
Rev. W. J. Lorin, F.S.A.<br />
A. C. Macxenzin, Mus.D.<br />
Pror. Max-MUuer.<br />
Pror. J. M. D. Merxnrgoun.<br />
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Hon. Counsel — E. M. UNpERDOwN, Q.<br />
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<br />
Hon. JoHN CoLurer,<br />
W. Martin Conway.<br />
H. Riper Haaearp.<br />
J. M. Leny.<br />
<br />
Secretary—G. Hersert THRING, B.A.<br />
<br />
Herman ©. MeRivaue.<br />
<br />
Rev. C. H. MippLEeton-WAKE.<br />
<br />
Lewis Morris.<br />
<br />
J. C. PARKINSON.<br />
<br />
Ear. or PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY<br />
Sim FrepErick Pouiock, Bart., LL.D.<br />
WALTER Herrizs Pouuock.<br />
<br />
A. G. Ross.<br />
<br />
GEorGE AuGusTus SALA.<br />
<br />
W. Baptiste Scoonzs.<br />
<br />
G. R. Sums.<br />
<br />
S. Squire Spriaaer.<br />
<br />
J. J. StEVENSON.<br />
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Jas. SULLY.<br />
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Witi1am Moy Tuomas.<br />
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H. D. Trait, D.C.L.<br />
<br />
EK. M. UnpEeRpown, Q.C.<br />
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Baron Henry pz Worms, M.P.,F.R.S.<br />
Epmunp YATEs.<br />
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C.<br />
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A.C. Macxernzin, Mus.D.<br />
A. G. Ross.<br />
S. SqurrE Spriaas.<br />
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OFFICES: 4, Portuaan Street, Lincoun’s INN Fieips, W.C.<br />
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Windsor House<br />
<br />
PRINTING WORKS,<br />
BREAM’S BUILDINGS, E.C.<br />
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<br />
OFFICES OF “‘THE FIELD,” ‘‘ THE QUEEN,” “THE LAW TIMES,” &c.<br />
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<br />
<br />
Mr. HORACE COX, Printer to the Authors’ Society, takes the<br />
opportunity of informing Authors that, having a very large office, and<br />
<br />
an extensive plant of type of every description, he is in a position to<br />
EXECUTE any PRINTING they may entrust to his care.<br />
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ESTIMATES FORWARDED, AND REASONABLE CHARGES WILL BE FOUND.<br />
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The HMutbor,<br />
<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
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CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
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Vou. IV.—No. 12.]<br />
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MAY 1, 1894.<br />
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[Prick SIXPENCE.<br />
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<br />
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the Authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or pard-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the<br />
collective opinions of the committee unless<br />
they are officially signed by G. Herbert<br />
Thring, Sec.<br />
<br />
ae Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br />
<br />
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and<br />
<br />
requests that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
important communications within two days will write to him<br />
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union<br />
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on<br />
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-<br />
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are<br />
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br />
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WARNINGS AND ADVICE.<br />
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<br />
T is not generally understood that the author, as the<br />
vendor, has the absolute right of drafting the agree-<br />
ment upon whatever terms the transaction is to be<br />
<br />
carried out. Authors are strongly advised to exercise that<br />
right. Inevery other form of business, the right of drawing<br />
the agreement rests with him who sells, leases, or has the<br />
control of the property.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
i . of the Author and members of the Society<br />
are earnestly desired to make the following warnings<br />
as widely known as possible. They are based on the<br />
<br />
experience of nine years’ work by which the dangers<br />
<br />
to which literary property is especially exposed have been<br />
discovered :—<br />
<br />
1. Sprr1at Ricurs.—In selling Serial Rights stipulate<br />
that you are selling the Serial Right for one paper at a<br />
certain time only, otherwise you may find your work serialized<br />
for years, to the detriment of your volume form.<br />
<br />
2. Stamp your AGREEMENTS. — Readers are most<br />
URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their agreements<br />
immediately after signature. If this precaution is neglected<br />
for two weeks, a fine of £10 must be paid before the agree-<br />
ment can be used as a legal document. In almost every<br />
case brought to the secretary the agreement, or the letter<br />
which serves for one, is forwarded without the stamp. The<br />
author may be assured that the other party to the agree-<br />
ment never neglects this simple precaution. The Society,<br />
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VOL. IV.<br />
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to save trouble, undertakes to get all the agreements of<br />
members stamped for them at no expense to themselves<br />
except the cost of the stamp.<br />
<br />
3. ASCERTAIN WHAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT GIVES TO<br />
BOTH SIDES BEFORE SIGNING 1r.—Remember that an<br />
arrangement as to a joint venture in any other kind of busi-<br />
ness whatever would be instantly refused should either party<br />
refuse to show the books or to let it be known what share he<br />
reserved for himself.<br />
<br />
4. Lirerary AGENTS.—Be very careful. You cannot be<br />
too careful as to the person whom you appowmt as your<br />
agent. Remember that you place your property almost un-<br />
reservedly in his hands. Your only safety is in consulting<br />
the Society, or some friend who has had personal experience<br />
of the agent. Do not trust advertisements alone.<br />
<br />
5. Cost OF Propuction.-_Never sign any agreement of<br />
which the alleged cost of production forms an integtal part,<br />
until you have proved the figures.<br />
<br />
6. Cuorce oF PuBLISHERS.—Never enter into any cor-<br />
respondence with publishers, especially with those who ad-<br />
vertise for MSS., who are not recommended by experienced<br />
friends or by this Society.<br />
<br />
7. FUTURE Worx.—Never, on any account whatever,<br />
bind yourself down for future work to anyone.<br />
<br />
8. Royaury.—Never accept any proposal of royalty until<br />
you have ascertained what the agreement, worked out on<br />
poth a small and a large sale, will give to the author and<br />
what to the publisher.<br />
<br />
g. PERSONAL Risx.—Never accept any pecuniary risk or<br />
responsibility whatever without advice.<br />
<br />
10. Reszectep MSS.—Never, when a MS. has been re-<br />
fused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises<br />
they may put forward, for the production of the work.<br />
<br />
11. American RicHTs.—Never sign away American<br />
rights. Keep them by special clause. Refuse to sign any<br />
agreement containing a clause which reserves them for the<br />
publisher, unless for a substantial consideration. If the<br />
publisher insists, take away the MS. and offer it to<br />
another.<br />
<br />
12. Cusston of CopyricHt.—Never sign any paper,<br />
either agreement or receipt, which gives away copyright,<br />
without advice.<br />
<br />
13. ADVERTISEMENTS.—Keep control over the advertise-<br />
ments, if they affect your returns, by a clause in the agree-<br />
ment. Reserve a veto. If you are yourself ignorant of the<br />
subject, make the Society your adviser.<br />
<br />
14. Never forget that publishing is a business, like any<br />
other business, totally unconnected with philanthropy,<br />
charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with<br />
business men. Be yourself a business man.<br />
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Society's Offices :—<br />
4, PorTUGAL STREET, Lincoun’s INN FIELDS.<br />
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424 THE AUTHOR.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
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<br />
I. VERY member has a right to advice upon his<br />
agreements, his choice of a publisher, or any<br />
dispute arising in the conduct of his business or<br />
<br />
the administration of his property. If the advice sought<br />
<br />
is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member has<br />
<br />
a right to an opinion from the Society’s solicitors. If the<br />
<br />
case is such that Counsel’s opinion is desirable, the Com-<br />
<br />
mittee will obtain for him Counsel’s opinion. All this<br />
without any cost to the member.<br />
<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publisher’s agreements do not generally fall within the<br />
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple<br />
to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually<br />
engaged upon such questions for us.<br />
<br />
3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past<br />
accounts with the loan of the books represented. This isin<br />
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-<br />
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively<br />
sofar. The Secretary will always be glad to have any<br />
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-<br />
mation thus obtained may prove invaluable.<br />
<br />
4. If the examination of your previous business trans-<br />
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should<br />
take advice as to a change of publishers.<br />
<br />
5- Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-<br />
posed document to the Society for examination.<br />
<br />
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in<br />
the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks of every publish-<br />
ing firm in the country. Remember that there are certain<br />
houses which live entirely by trickery.<br />
<br />
7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you<br />
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are<br />
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing<br />
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-<br />
dence of the writer.<br />
<br />
8. Send to the Editor of the Author notes of everything<br />
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
De<br />
<br />
THE AUTHORS’ SYNDICATE.<br />
<br />
EMBERS are informed :<br />
1. That the Authors’ Syndicate takes charge of<br />
the business of members of the Society. With, when<br />
necessary, the assistance of the legal advisers of the Syndi-<br />
cate, it concludes agreements, collects royalties, examines<br />
and passes accounts, and generally relieves members of the<br />
trouble of managing business details.<br />
<br />
2. That the expenses of the Authors’ Syndicate are<br />
defrayed solely out of the commission charged on rights<br />
placed through its intervention. Notice is, however, hereby<br />
given that in all cases where there is no current account, a<br />
booking fee is charged to cover postage and porterage.<br />
<br />
3. That the Authors’ Syndicate works for none but those<br />
members of the Society whose work possesses a market<br />
value.<br />
<br />
4. That the Syndicate can only undertake any negotiation<br />
whatever on the distinct understanding that those negotia-<br />
tions are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all<br />
communications relating thereto are referred to it.<br />
<br />
5- That clients can only be seen by the Editor by appoint-<br />
ment, and that, when possible, at least four days’ notice<br />
should be given. The work of the Syndicate is now so<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
heavy, that only a limited number of interviews can be<br />
arranged.<br />
<br />
6. That every attempt is made to deal with the corre-<br />
spondence promptly, but that owing to the enormous number<br />
of letters received, some delay is inevitable. That stamps<br />
should, in all cases, be sent to defray postage.<br />
<br />
7. That the Authors’ Syndicate does not invite MSS.<br />
without previous correspondence, and does not hold itself<br />
responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice.<br />
<br />
It is announced that, by way of a new departure, the<br />
Syndicate has undertaken arrangements for lectures by<br />
some of the leading members of the Society; that a<br />
“Transfer Department,” for the sale and purchase of<br />
journals and periodicals, has been opened; and that a<br />
“Register of Wants and Wanted” has been opened.<br />
Members anxious to obtain literary or artistic work are<br />
invited to communicate with the Manager.<br />
<br />
There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose services<br />
will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It<br />
is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the<br />
Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in<br />
the Syndicate.<br />
<br />
spec<br />
<br />
NOTICES.<br />
<br />
HE Editor of the Author begs to remind members of the<br />
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br />
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br />
<br />
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modes¢<br />
6s. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
<br />
The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and<br />
communications on all subjects connected with literature<br />
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to<br />
the Society than to make the Author complete, attractive,<br />
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this<br />
work send their names and the special subjects on which<br />
they are willing to write ? ’<br />
<br />
Communications for the Author should reach the Edito<br />
not later than the 21st of each month.<br />
<br />
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work which<br />
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
<br />
Members and others who wish their MSS. read are<br />
requested not to send them to the Office without previously<br />
communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable<br />
despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in<br />
which they are received. It must also be distinctly under-<br />
stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances,<br />
undertake the publication of MSS.<br />
<br />
The Authors’ Club is now open in its new premises, at<br />
3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary<br />
for information, rules of admission, &c.<br />
<br />
Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they<br />
have paid their subscriptions for the year? If they will do<br />
this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker’s<br />
order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the<br />
trouble of sending out a reminder. :<br />
<br />
Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the<br />
warning numbered (7). It is a most foolish and a most<br />
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 />
Of course they would not. Why then hesitate for a moment<br />
when they are asked to sign themselves into literary bondage<br />
for three or five years ?<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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Those who possess the “Cost of Production” are<br />
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15<br />
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 />
£9 4s. The figures in our book are as near the exact truth<br />
as canbe procured; but a printer’s, or a binder’s, bill is sO<br />
elastic a thing that nothing more exact can be arrived at.<br />
<br />
Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged<br />
in the “ Cost of Production” for advertising.. Of course, we<br />
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 call it.<br />
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LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
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I.—Srcret PrRorits.<br />
I.—SOME POINTS IN THE CASE.<br />
<br />
ITH reference to “Secret Profits,’ and<br />
<br />
the case stated in your last number, I<br />
<br />
should like to call your attention to one<br />
<br />
or two points on which counsels’ opinion is not<br />
quite decisive.<br />
<br />
Question 5. “ Discounts which a publisher gets<br />
allowed him from the printers, &c.’’—Answer com-<br />
mences : “This question is one of some difficulty.”<br />
Now it appears to me quite clear that the author<br />
enters into an arrangement with the publisher<br />
which secures him the full co-operation of all the<br />
resources at the publisher’s command. One of<br />
these is most decidedly the publisher’s capital, or<br />
that portion of it necessary to the production of<br />
the book. In accepting a discount the publisher<br />
is only utilising a resource which he has already<br />
hypothecated, and which no longer belongs to<br />
him exclusively.<br />
<br />
It can be put in another way. Presuming that<br />
the printer’s terms are three months net or 5 per<br />
cent. off forcash, the 5 percent. is nothing more nor<br />
less than interest on a loan at the rate of 20 per<br />
cent. perannum. This loanismade by the publisher<br />
and author, who are undoubtedly partners, to the<br />
printer, whose eyes are open, and who pays the<br />
20 per cent. willingly. If, however, the loan is<br />
made to the author without his knowledge, the<br />
publisher is not only taking an advantage which<br />
appears fraudulent, but is lending the author<br />
money at a usurious rate of interest which the<br />
law would not allow him, even if he could esta-<br />
blish a right to a legal rate of, say, 5 per cent.<br />
per annum.<br />
<br />
425<br />
<br />
I do not think that question 5 ought to be<br />
treated by counsel as doubtful, as the practice of<br />
allowing all the discount to the publisher opens<br />
an easy channel to fraud, which it is difficult to<br />
check, and which might go much higher than<br />
20 per cent. per annum by private arrangement.<br />
<br />
Question 6. “ Right to charge for advertise-<br />
ments not actually paid for; (a) in his own<br />
magazines or trade list.”—May I suggest that<br />
these should not be classed together? A maga-<br />
zine is a particular venture of the publisher in<br />
which the author can scarcely claim the right to<br />
a free advertisement, though he certainly ought<br />
not to pay more than the actual cost of printing<br />
and paper. A trade list seems to me an entirely<br />
different thing and is part of the publisher’s<br />
resources, and therefore belongs equally to the<br />
author as far as notices of the special book in<br />
question are concerned.<br />
<br />
Question 8. “Right to deduct a charge for<br />
incidental expenses.”—A publisher must know<br />
what expenses are from experience, and I cannot<br />
see why such a clause should be inserted.<br />
<br />
Ay 8B:<br />
II.— FROM A PUBLISHER.<br />
<br />
In last month’s Author, under this heading,<br />
there were some important and pertinent ques-<br />
tions put respecting the relations between authors<br />
and publishers, and they were answered by two<br />
learned gentlemen who are recognised as eminent<br />
authorities on the law of literary property.<br />
Perhaps you will allow me, as a publisher of many<br />
years’ experience, to answer the same questions<br />
from the trade point of view, doing so with all<br />
due deference to the legal opinions.<br />
<br />
Question 1. Regarding the relationship be-<br />
tween author and publisher, when a book is<br />
undertaken on the share system, is, I believe,<br />
correctly replied to by counsel—that it is .a joint<br />
adventure with a fiduciary obligation on the<br />
publisher. There is, however, an important con-<br />
dition attached to this relationship that requires<br />
clearing up. To whom does the copyright<br />
belong? Does it wholly remain with the author,<br />
or does it become the joint property of the two<br />
adventurers? As far as I know, this point has<br />
not yet been decided in a court of justice. My<br />
own opinion is that, failing any special contract or<br />
time arrangement—and these are recommended—<br />
the copyright becomes vested in the publisher to<br />
the extent of his share in the venture; but this<br />
view has been disputed.<br />
<br />
Question 2 relates to the submission of accounts<br />
and vouchers by the publisher. Counsel’s answer<br />
is obviously the correct one, that, when asked for,<br />
every facility should be given to the author to<br />
make himself fully acquainted with the balance-<br />
sheet of his own (joint) property.<br />
426<br />
<br />
Question 3, as to the justification of a pub-<br />
lisher’s charge for extraneous expenditure beyond<br />
the ordinary costs of production and sale is also<br />
rightly answered by counsel in the negative.<br />
<br />
Question 4 is a corollary of No. 3. If the<br />
author after settling his publisher’s account finds<br />
that it contains extraneous charges, added with-<br />
out his knowledge and consent, he is undoubtedly<br />
entitled to have the account reopened and<br />
amended.<br />
<br />
Question 5 raises a matter of dispute which<br />
probably is more for the lawyers than for laymen<br />
to decide, viz., whether a publisher, in settling<br />
his bills, is bound to pay the printer, the paper<br />
maker, &c., in cash, should he have ready money<br />
at command. For example, if the account of the<br />
printer comes to £100, and he is prepared either<br />
to grant a twelve months’ bill for the amount, or<br />
to allow the usual discount of 5 per cent. if paid<br />
in cash, the publisher may surely accept the bill<br />
and charge the book with the £100. So far there<br />
can be no doubt; but, on the other hand, if the<br />
publisher, using his money (not the author’s),<br />
which may be lying in the bank or placed in<br />
some investment, elect to pay the printer in cash,<br />
can the author claim a share of the discount<br />
which the publisher has thus earned by the use<br />
of his financial resources? I should say not,<br />
Otherwise, in the case of a half profit book, a<br />
publisher who employed money bringing him, say,<br />
4 per cent. to pay an acccount in cash under a<br />
discount of 5 per cent. would be an actual loser<br />
by 1} per cent., while the author would gain 24<br />
per cent. of a discount which had been earned<br />
entirely by the publisher’s money. Of course<br />
the discount referred to in this question is the<br />
recognised 5 per cent. for cash. Anything<br />
beyond that should clearly be shared by both<br />
parties.<br />
<br />
Question 6 refers to the publisher's charge for<br />
advertisements in (a) his own magazine, (0) his<br />
trade list, and (c) exchange magazines. I respect-<br />
fully venture to differ from the learned counsel in<br />
their answer to this question. They hold that<br />
these advertisements should be charged at the<br />
price of paper and print; an opitiion that seems<br />
to overlook the facts that magazine advertise-<br />
ments have a regular market value, and that they<br />
form no part of the undertaking jointly engaged<br />
in. To my mind it appears somewhat one-sided<br />
in the author to expect advertisements to be<br />
charged at less than the ordinary rate when they<br />
happen to be inserted in a magazine bearing his<br />
publisher’s name. This remark, however, does<br />
not apply to trade lists, for which, I think, no<br />
charge should be made. To provide against<br />
the possible abuse of excessive advertising in<br />
mediums which the publisher may have a<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
pecuniary interest in, the author’s contract should<br />
be furnished with a restricting clause.<br />
<br />
Question 7 needs little consideration. It would<br />
be quite wltra vires in the publisher to charge for<br />
unused stereotype plates, made without the<br />
author’s approval.<br />
<br />
Question 8. The opinion of counsel defining<br />
“incidental expenses” is a sound one. These<br />
items should be strictly confined to petty dis-<br />
bursements specially incurred in the sale of the<br />
particular book, quite exclusive of establishment<br />
charges, and, when amounting to a considerable<br />
amount, details ought to be furnished when asked<br />
for. '<br />
<br />
The general advice I beg to offer to authors in<br />
adopting the share system of publishing—and,<br />
when honourably carried out, I believe it to be<br />
the best—is to make all contracts in writing, care-<br />
fully specifying the more important details, and<br />
limiting the contract to a period or edition. Such<br />
is the friendly recommendation of an<br />
<br />
London, April 14, 1894. Ex-PousLisHER,<br />
<br />
III.—FROM THE EDITOR.<br />
There is one point which ‘“‘ Ex-Publisher” does<br />
not, it seems to me, sufficiently consider in his<br />
remarks upon magazine advertising. It is quite<br />
possible that it has a regular market value,<br />
as he says, but he omits to notice that a publisher<br />
with a free hand to insert advertisements as he<br />
chooses, as often and as long, of a profit sharing<br />
book in his own magazine, can at his own sweet<br />
will absolutely divert into his own pockets as<br />
much of the profits as he chooses. The same<br />
remark apples with still greater force to<br />
exchanges. In every profit sharing agreement<br />
the author must guard against this danger by a<br />
special clause. Experience shows that this is a<br />
very real danger. ‘The letter of ‘‘ Ex-Publisher ”<br />
demands serious consideration on every point<br />
raised. If this spirit and temper were observed<br />
by all writers on the subject, our difficulties would<br />
soon be ended.<br />
<br />
IJ.—TuHirtEen as TWELVE.<br />
<br />
An attempt is constantly made to insert the<br />
words, in a royalty agreement, “Thirteen copies<br />
to count as twelve,’ or ‘“ Twenty-five copies to<br />
count as twenty-four.”<br />
<br />
The excuse is that if the publisher sells thirteen<br />
as twelve he really sells only twelve, and ought<br />
not in justice to account for more than twelve.<br />
<br />
This answer satisfies some; and is, indeed,<br />
reasonable, until one comes to examine into it.<br />
<br />
Does the publisher sell thirteen as twelve, or<br />
twenty-five as twenty-four? He certainly does<br />
in those cases, and in those cases only, where<br />
books are ordered by the dozen or by the<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. 427<br />
<br />
score. But what are these cases? The circu-<br />
lating libraries for some writers may give orders<br />
on this lordly scale; the great distributors may<br />
also do so for some writers. The rest of the trade<br />
buy books by the half dozen, by ones and twos.<br />
You may see a pile of copies at one or two leading<br />
booksellers in the City or the Strand. They are<br />
books of the day, é.e., of a popularity certain,<br />
though perhaps ephemeral. As for what is called<br />
serious literature, or those books which are in<br />
steady, though not in eager, demand, the trade<br />
takes them by two or three or even one at a time.<br />
<br />
Let us illustrate by example—we take a six-<br />
shilling book.<br />
<br />
Suppose that out of an edition of 2000, 50<br />
go for press copies, 500 are taken by orders of<br />
twelve and over, the remaining 1450 being sold<br />
by ones, twos, and threes. If the agreement<br />
gives the author a 20 per cent. royalty on all<br />
copies sold, the result is as follows:<br />
<br />
Author.—20 per cent. on 6s. for 1950 copies=<br />
S17:<br />
<br />
Publisher.—The account stands as follows: The<br />
book is what we generally take for an illustra-<br />
tion—a six-shilling volume, of 17 sheets or<br />
272 pp. at 253 words a page—70,000 words in<br />
all, in small pica and plainly bound.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Cost of production (see<br />
Society’s volume),<br />
nearly ...--.... 3... £1000 ©<br />
PAMUNOY 66. oc 622... 117 0 O<br />
Publisher. -..2:..5.. 117 10 0<br />
£334 10. ©<br />
Sales :<br />
<br />
1450 at 3s. 6d....... £253 15. 0<br />
500 at 3s. 6d. (and<br />
<br />
13.a0 12) 3... S015. 0<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
334 10 0<br />
<br />
If the author receives a royalty calculated on<br />
thirteen copies being sold as twelve, his share<br />
will be £108 instead of £117, and the publisher’s<br />
account :<br />
<br />
Cost of production ... £100 0 Oo<br />
<br />
thor 20. 108 © ©<br />
<br />
Publisher .........:..... 126 10 O<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
334 10, ©<br />
Sales as above.<br />
<br />
Of course, in the case of a larger sale—say a<br />
first edition of 1000, followed by a -second of<br />
3000, the two accounts would be materially<br />
altered. For instance, the cost of a second<br />
edition of 3000 copies is about £125. The<br />
author would receive on this edition £180. The<br />
publisher, allowing 1000 copies for thirteen as<br />
twelve, would receive £206. If the author is to<br />
be allowed only thirteen as twelve, he receives<br />
<br />
£166 and the publisher £232. And this on a<br />
royalty which, before the Society exposed the<br />
figures, would never have been given to any<br />
author however successful.<br />
<br />
We now understand what is meant by the<br />
clause in the agreement that copies are to be<br />
counted as thirteen for twelve. If the clause in<br />
the agreement is simply for a royalty of so much<br />
for every copy sold, the discount, if claimed, must<br />
not be allowed when the accounts are rendered,<br />
except for those large orders where it was allowed<br />
to the trade.<br />
<br />
—— > —-<br />
<br />
TII.—THe TRANSFERENCE OF A TITLE.<br />
<br />
1. Some twenty years ago the Rev. D. Rice-<br />
Jones, then engaged in London work, wrote<br />
a dozen chapters from his own experience on<br />
the poor and the way they live. He offered<br />
these sketches and stories to the Society for<br />
the Promotion of Christian Knowledge by<br />
Christian methods, i.e., of course by methods<br />
just, equitable, and beyond the shadow of sus-<br />
picion or reproach. This august body bought<br />
these sketches for the sum of twenty-four guineas<br />
—actually two guineas a chapter! They bought<br />
them thus separately because they intended<br />
to bring them out in pamphlet form, twelve<br />
short stories of the London slums. This<br />
they did, and then, without any further pay-<br />
ment, they issued them as a book. The book,<br />
called “From Cellar to Garret,” made its mark,<br />
and continued to sell, edition after edition, for a<br />
great many years. Remark, that the society in this<br />
way managed to secure the copyright of a valuable<br />
book for twenty-four guineas! Remark, further,<br />
that they have never thought it just or equit-<br />
able to recognise the disproportion of their own<br />
gains to the author’s remuneration. Now note,<br />
on the other hand, what is done by a purely<br />
lay, secular, money-making firm. It happened<br />
only the other day that this firm, on finding<br />
that a book, published by them on certain terms,<br />
was turning out a success beyond their expecta-<br />
tion, tore up the first agreement, and voluntarily<br />
gave the author a new one based upon the<br />
success of the work. To be sure, this is not a<br />
religious society, but one which carries on its<br />
business avowedly for profit.<br />
<br />
Two years ago the author entered the office<br />
and asked for copies of his book. He was told<br />
that it was out of print. He saw the secretary.<br />
He was informed that they would not, probably,<br />
reprint the book, but that they might want to wse<br />
his title for another book! The secretary also<br />
told the author that he could not expect a book<br />
to last for ever. The question arises—has a<br />
publisher who buys the copyright of a book the<br />
right to use the title for another book ?<br />
428<br />
<br />
2. Another case was that quoted from the<br />
Atheneum in our last number.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IV.—Cox v. Baytzs.<br />
(High Court of Justice ——Chancery Division, —<br />
Before Mr. Justice Currry).<br />
<br />
This was a motion by the plaintiff, the pro-<br />
prietor of the Field newspaper, for an interlocu-<br />
tory injunction restraining the defendant Bayles,<br />
the proprietor and editor of a newspaper called<br />
the Meld Register, from publishing and selling<br />
such newspaper, or any other newspaper being a<br />
colourable imitation of the plaintifi’s newspaper,<br />
or calculated to lead the public to believe the<br />
same to be issued from the office of the plaintiff’s<br />
newspaper or to be a publication in any way con-<br />
nected with the plaintiff’s newspaper. The defen-<br />
dant’s newspaper was a weekly newspaper, and<br />
had recently been issued. It was published on<br />
Monday or Tuesday, and its contents for the<br />
most part consisted of information and articles<br />
on horseracing. It also, however, contained<br />
items relating to yachting and angling, and other<br />
sporting or country pursuits. Its price was 3d.<br />
The plaintiff’s case was based on the colourable<br />
use of the word “ Field,” being the principal part<br />
of the name of his newspaper, and the name<br />
under which it was solely known and widely<br />
known to the public. The defendant stated that<br />
there was no intention on his part to copy or<br />
imitate the plaintiff’s newspaper, and pointed out<br />
dissimilarities between his newspaper and the<br />
plaintifi’s.<br />
tion to mislead.<br />
<br />
Mr. S. Hall, Q.C., and Mr. Percy Gye appeared<br />
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Kenyon Parker for the<br />
defendant Bayles, and Mr. Ashworth James<br />
appeared for printers added as defendants.<br />
<br />
Mr. Justice Currry said that it was plain that<br />
the word “ Field” was placed in the most promi-<br />
nent position and as a leading word in the title of<br />
the defendant’s newspaper in order to attract<br />
some of the reputation belonging to the plain-<br />
tiff’s newspaper. Both newspapers were intended<br />
for the same class of readers, and the defendant’s<br />
newspaper was calculated to damage the plain-<br />
tiff, even if, as it had only recently been started,<br />
actual damage as yet was not shown. That being<br />
so, the plaintiff was entitled to an interlocutory<br />
injurction. His Lordship added that all cases<br />
like the present proceeded on the same basis—<br />
namely, that the title of a newspaper was a trade<br />
name, being similar in this respect to the name<br />
of a brewery (Montgomery v. Thompson, L. R.<br />
(1891) A. ©. 217) or of an insurance office<br />
(Hendriks v. Montagu, L. R. 17 Ch. Div. 638),<br />
and what was at the bottom of such questions<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
He also stated that he had no inten- :<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
was whether the defendant was endeavouring to<br />
sell his goods as those of the plaintiff.<br />
Injunction granted accordingly.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
V.—Britiso Copyricut rn Canapa.<br />
Ottawa, April 10.<br />
<br />
The Government have forwarded an important<br />
despatch to the British Colonial Office, informing<br />
the Imperial authorities that after the next<br />
Session of the Dominion Parliament the collec-<br />
tion by the Dominion Customs of a royalty of<br />
124 per cent. on foreign reprints of British copy-<br />
right works for the benefit of copyright-holders<br />
will cease. The colonial authorities have been<br />
induced to take this action in view of the expected<br />
changes in the Imperial copyright laws as applic-<br />
able to Canada.— Reuter.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
VI—Cvriovus Cuauses.<br />
<br />
1. Account Clauses :—<br />
<br />
Accounts shall be made up annually as soon after June 30<br />
as practicable, and payment will be due in the January<br />
following.<br />
<br />
If a book is published early in the autumn the<br />
chief sales occur before Christmas, and, if the<br />
account is paid within six months after, the pub-<br />
lisher may hold a large part of the unfortunate<br />
author’s share in his own hands for nearly twelve<br />
months,<br />
<br />
Bankruptcy may also occur in so long an<br />
interval.<br />
<br />
Another account clause :<br />
<br />
Account of sales of the work to be made annually to<br />
June 30, rendered and payable before the end of the year.<br />
<br />
This is subject to almost the same remarks as<br />
the previous clause. .<br />
<br />
The following seems to be a fair account clause :<br />
<br />
The publishers shall furnish their accounts half yearly,<br />
on June 30 and Dec. 31, paying to the author all royalties<br />
due at the time of furnishing the accounts.<br />
<br />
2. Royalty Clauses—So much for account<br />
clauses. The following is a curious clause re-<br />
ferring to the payment of royalties:<br />
<br />
The publisher shall pay to the author on all such copies<br />
sold at above half their published price a royalty of 15<br />
per cent. of their published price, and on all such copies sold<br />
at or below half their published price a royalty of 7} per<br />
cent. of the net receipts of such sales.<br />
<br />
It is always advisable, if possible, that the<br />
interests of the author and publisher should be<br />
the same—that the sale of the book at proper<br />
rates should be as_ beneficial to the author as to<br />
the publisher; but on working out the arrange-<br />
ment in the above clause it is clearly to the<br />
advantage of the publisher under certain circum-<br />
stances to sell below half the published price.<br />
<br />
This question has been fully discussed in -a<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
previous number of the Author. There is scarcely<br />
need, therefore, to do more than bring it again<br />
before the notice of authors. It is a clause to be<br />
refused instantly.<br />
<br />
3. Agency Charges in Publishers’ Agreements.<br />
— Considerable stir has been made lately by<br />
discussion as to the work and charges of literary<br />
agents. The charge of 15 per cent. is denounced<br />
as preposterous, and ro per cent. as little less<br />
heinous. It will be interesting, therefore, to look<br />
at the agency clauses taken from various pub-<br />
lishers’ agreements, and it will be found that the<br />
charge is generally considerably in advance of to<br />
per cent. or even 15 per cent.<br />
<br />
Except as in clause hereof, the copyright, whether<br />
English or foreign, in the said work, including the rights of<br />
translation, dramatisation, and publication of any dramatic<br />
yersion thereof, shall not be sold, assigned, or transferred by<br />
the author, either as a whole, or for a limited time, or over<br />
a, limited space, without the consent of the publisher.<br />
<br />
That the proceeds of the sale or transfer of copyright, as<br />
defined in the above clause, shall be divided in the propor-<br />
tion of one-half to the author and one-half to the publisher.<br />
<br />
In the same agreement there is a clause for the<br />
sale of American rights on the same terms, so<br />
that the publisher who objects to the agent’s 10<br />
per cent. actually claims 50 per cent.<br />
<br />
These clauses are, perhaps, as strong in favour<br />
of the publisher, and to the detriment of the<br />
author—not only in the magnitude of the powers<br />
conveyed, but also in the price to be charged—as<br />
it is possible to conceive.<br />
<br />
Here, should the author act as his own agent<br />
with regard to translation or foreign production,<br />
should he make arrangements absolutely without<br />
the assistance of the publisher, he must still pay<br />
50 per cent. ;<br />
<br />
Further, should he dramatise and produce his<br />
own work in dramatic form, 50 per cent. must be<br />
handed over.<br />
<br />
Here is another clause :<br />
<br />
And the said publisher shall be entitled to dispose of any<br />
other rights (rights of translation, American rights, or such<br />
like) in the said work ; the said publisher to have one-third<br />
of all profits arising out of the sale, lease, or conveyance of<br />
such rights, and the said author to receive the remaining<br />
two-thirds thereof.<br />
<br />
- Here the change is 33} per cent., but the<br />
dramatic rights are not included; on the other<br />
hand, the author has no powers to act as his own<br />
agent.<br />
<br />
Again: -<br />
<br />
The publishers may effect the sale of Continental rights<br />
only with the author’s consent.<br />
<br />
The proceeds of such sale, if effected by the publishers,<br />
shall be divided in the proportion of three-quarters to the<br />
author and one-quarter to the publisher.<br />
<br />
This clause only effects Continental rights, and<br />
the sale must be made only with the author's con-<br />
sent. The author can, if he likes, act as his own<br />
<br />
VOL. IV.<br />
<br />
429<br />
<br />
agent, and make all the profit; but if the pub-<br />
lisher does act as agent the charge is 25 per cent.<br />
<br />
The rights are more limited and the charge is<br />
less, but still enormous compared with the agent’s<br />
modest 10 per cent.<br />
<br />
Another :<br />
<br />
Should the work be issuedin America or any other foreign<br />
country, the profits arising from such transactions shall<br />
be divided equally between the said author and the said<br />
publishers.<br />
<br />
The charge is again 50 per cent. It would be<br />
easy to quote clauses without end bearing on the<br />
same point. In none of the many agreements is<br />
the charge below 25 per cent.<br />
<br />
How does the author’s agent live when the<br />
publisher can only stand at 25 per cent.?<br />
<br />
On these clauses it can only be added that, where<br />
the author transfers the copyright, the publisher<br />
usually deals with all subsidiary rights without<br />
reference to the author. He sometimes shares the<br />
returns with the author, and sometimes does not.<br />
<br />
A case has been known, however, in which a<br />
publisher bought the copyright from an author,<br />
and, on the book being published in England,<br />
the author neglected to secure the American rights.<br />
There were no rights therefore in America, and<br />
the book could have been pirated by anyone.<br />
<br />
An American publisher, wishing to republish<br />
the work, wrote to the English publisher, inferring<br />
that he was acting for the author, and stated that<br />
he was desirous of publishing the book and of<br />
paying an honorarium for leave to do so. The<br />
publisher this side, in virtue of his non-existent<br />
American rights, took the honorarium to himself.<br />
<br />
4. Remainder Sales.—The clauses referring to<br />
remainder sales are very often of an arbitrary<br />
character, for example :<br />
<br />
The publishers shall have the power to sell the residue of<br />
any edition at a reduced price or as a remainder.<br />
<br />
This clause occurs almost word for word in<br />
two separate agreements. It does not give the<br />
author any option of purchase, and it gives the<br />
publisher the opportunity of clearing his shelves<br />
before the bond fide sales are at an end.<br />
<br />
Sometimes there is no. clause relating to<br />
remainder sales, but this subject is governed by<br />
a clause leaving all rights as to the methods of<br />
publication and sale of the work with the pub-<br />
lisher ; then the same result occurs.<br />
<br />
An agreement regarding remainder sales is<br />
certainly necessary, and the following may be<br />
cited as a good clause :<br />
<br />
In case of the publication proving unsuccessful the pub-<br />
lishers reserve the right to dispose of the stock after a<br />
period of not less than two years in the way they may<br />
think best, the author having previously been communicated<br />
with regarding such copies as he may wish to retain.<br />
<br />
The above is clumsily worded, and has this<br />
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serious fault that there is no price named at<br />
which the author may purchase.<br />
<br />
The following is a still more reasonable clause<br />
touching the same point:<br />
<br />
That should the publishers at any time after two years<br />
from the date of publication of the said work desire to sell<br />
the stock as a remainder, notice of such intended sale must<br />
be given to the author, who shall have the option of pur-<br />
chase of the remainder stock at a valuation.<br />
<br />
5. Incidental Expenses. —'The phrase “and<br />
other incidental expenses”? is altogether too<br />
vague to have a place in any legal document,<br />
and should certainly be more clearly defined.<br />
<br />
6. To meet Demands.—The phrase “to meet<br />
the demand up toso many copies ” is also unsatis-<br />
factory. It generally occurs in agreements where<br />
the author pays a portion of the supposed cost of<br />
production of the number of books up to which<br />
the publisher will meet the demand. Of course,<br />
the publisher knows very well that the demand is<br />
most unlikely to reach the number, and he prints<br />
an edition of no greater number than the payment<br />
of the author amply covers.<br />
<br />
7. Buying Copyright.—If there is anything to<br />
set the interests of the author and the publisher<br />
at variance it is the following clause :<br />
<br />
It is agreed that if and when any edition of the said work<br />
is issued at any lower price than 6s., the publishers shall<br />
have the right and option of buying the copyright free from<br />
all royalty for the sum of £50, to be paid to the author<br />
within a month from the date of publication of such edition,<br />
failing which payment this option shall be no longer in<br />
force.<br />
<br />
The greater part of the agreement is an elabo-<br />
rate statement of the royalty to be paid under<br />
certain conditions, from which one would naturally<br />
infer that the MS. would be as a matter of course<br />
published at 6s. or over. But, although the<br />
author has assigned the right to publish, there<br />
is no reciprocity on the part of the publisher, he<br />
does not undertake to publish the book at all,<br />
and there is nothing to prevent him from pub-<br />
lishing at 5s. 6d., paying the £50, and securing<br />
the whole copyright for that small sum.<br />
<br />
8. Contradictory Clauses.—Here are two con-<br />
tradictory clauses in agreements from the same<br />
publisher referring to books of similar sizes. The<br />
question is the payment of royalty which is to be<br />
paid on every copy sold,<br />
<br />
Except one copy in seven, according to the usual trade<br />
custom.<br />
<br />
The next agreement contains:<br />
<br />
Except one copy in thirteen, according to the usual trade<br />
custom.<br />
<br />
It is evident that there cannot be two separate<br />
customs as above for the sale of similar articles.<br />
The one custom excludes the other. Yet, out of<br />
a dozen agreements from this same publisher,<br />
four had one clause and eight the other.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
VII.—Music Coprricuts.<br />
<br />
At a sale of music copyrights, recently con-<br />
cluded at Messrs. Puttick and Simpson’s rooms,<br />
some remarkable prices were realised. The song<br />
“ Anchored,” by the late Michael Watson, realised<br />
£1,212 15s.,the highest price, it is believed, that.<br />
has ever been obtained for a song. Tito Mattei’s<br />
“First Waltz” brought £386 8s.; “ Yorkshire<br />
Bells,” by J. Pridham, £715 1os.; ‘‘ The Bugler,”<br />
by Pinsuti, £189 3s.; ‘‘The Valley of Shadows,”<br />
by O. Barri, £109 7s. 6d.; a march by W. Small-<br />
wood, £184 16s.; operatic solos, by W. Small-<br />
wood, £338 6s.; John Hiles’s “ Catechism of<br />
Music,” £550. The total of the two days’ sale,<br />
which comprised some 320 lots, was over £10,000.<br />
These facts and figures should start the ques-<br />
tion, how far this property, which undoubtedly<br />
has been created by musical composers, and is<br />
originally their property, has been shared with<br />
them by the acquirers ? Would it be possible, for<br />
instance, for any of the composers concerned in<br />
the above sale to publish the terms and con-<br />
siderations for which they parted with their<br />
property P<br />
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VIII.—Ricut or APPEARANCE.<br />
<br />
On page 444 of this number of the Author will<br />
be found a letter with this title.<br />
<br />
The subject is more important than would at<br />
first appear. Many valid reasons may exist why<br />
an editor, even though he has accepted a paper,<br />
may not find himself able to publish it.<br />
<br />
But, by not publishing it he kills it. Not only<br />
does he kill it for the time, but for ever. Thus<br />
an editor accepts and produces a paper. If<br />
nothing is said to the contrary in the agreement<br />
he has bought the serial right only for a term of<br />
years beginning after publication. On the<br />
expiration of that term the author can republish.<br />
But if the editor does not publish, the time<br />
between production and the right to reprint<br />
never even begins. How is this difficulty to be<br />
got over ?<br />
<br />
sme<br />
<br />
ESTHER WATERS: AN EXACT TREATISE.*<br />
<br />
ET us get the worst that can be said of<br />
“Esther Waters” over at once. The book<br />
is all about low people, and, consistently<br />
<br />
enough, they do low things. The central figure<br />
isa servant girl, who, during her career as a<br />
servant, is emphatically a “slavey,” in contradis-<br />
tinction to a young lady in service. Her lovers<br />
are a footinan, who aspires to be, and becomes, a<br />
<br />
By George Moore. Walter<br />
1894.<br />
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* Esther Waters: A Novel.<br />
Scott and Co. Limited, London.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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sporting publican, and a stationer’s assistant of<br />
aggravated sanctimoniousness, who had been in<br />
business in the west end, “ until an uncontrollable<br />
desire to ask every customer who entered into<br />
conversation with him, if he were sure that he<br />
believed in the second coming,” obtained for him<br />
his dismissal. A pious and over-procreative<br />
mother, a drunken step-father, an illegitimate<br />
child, and the woman who minds him con-<br />
stitute her private domestic circle. The scene is<br />
laid, firstly, in a big country racing establishment ;<br />
and, secondly, in a Soho public-house, a cleanly<br />
oasis in their sordidity being furnished by the<br />
West Kensington maisonette of a literary lady.<br />
There is no doubt about one thing. This book is<br />
not by Mrs. Gore, or the authoress of “ Lords<br />
and Liveries”; it is no sequel to “ Dukes and<br />
Déjeuners.”<br />
<br />
And this brings us straight to a side of Mr.<br />
George Moore’s work upon which we must touch.<br />
It would be idle to ignore that its episodes and<br />
its out-speaking may give offence. It would be<br />
idle to pretend that we consider it an apt object<br />
of presentation to a god-child, or a suitable<br />
holiday book for the young person. The moment<br />
that we admit so much we are in the very lists of<br />
controversy; but with the discretion of Orpheus<br />
C. Kerr’s brigadier-general, “ we resign our com-<br />
mission and go home.’”’ Nothing is to be gained<br />
by remaining to controvert. Nothing good has<br />
ever come out of these discussions. No issue has<br />
been made clearer. Whether this or that subject<br />
can be made a fit subject for artistic treatment<br />
is, we humbly think, of no practical consequence.<br />
Art has no limits, says one—a jeune feroce this.<br />
Tf art comes in the form of a novel which may<br />
lie about on the drawing-room table, it should<br />
have the strictest limits, says another—a pater-<br />
familias this. With half an eye it will be seen that<br />
a mutual understanding as to the exact meaning<br />
of the word art might reconcile the combatants,<br />
and with half a thought it will be compre-<br />
hended that no mutual understanding on the<br />
definition could ever be arrived at. So we desire<br />
to speak of “Esther Waters” only, which is a<br />
book well worth speaking of, and not of the<br />
abstract principles that should regulate the pen of<br />
the right-minded author—for is not this rather<br />
a large question, although the recent reviews of<br />
several novels have glibly proposed to answer it<br />
in a sentence or two? The author «f “ Esther<br />
Waters” has treated the many difficult episodes<br />
logically arising in the course of his, narrative<br />
with almost invariable restraint. f here and<br />
there he has introduced a touch which he believed<br />
necessary to accentuate the truth of his picture,<br />
and which we, on perusal, believe would have<br />
been better omitted, it isa small thing; and we<br />
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are entirely happy to credit the constructor of an<br />
excellent piece of work with knowing his busi-<br />
ness. For remember the episodes are logically<br />
necessary to the theme of the book. They are<br />
truly illustrative of the author’s design, and not<br />
dragged in. Quarrel with the theme by all<br />
means (that is a matter of pure private taste)<br />
but do not carp at the episodes, whose setting-<br />
forth constitutes the only possible manner of<br />
writing a book upon the theme.<br />
<br />
“There are some very exact treatises on astro-<br />
nomy, the use of the globes, agriculture, and the<br />
art of making paper flowers. Upon the less<br />
apparent provinces of life I fear you will find<br />
nothing truthful.’ Thus the inimitable and<br />
senteutious Prince Florizel, who may now add to<br />
his comical list of subjects that have undergone<br />
exact literary treatment, horse-racing, its fasci-<br />
nations, its disappointments, and its surroundings,<br />
with their intimate blending of the sad with the<br />
hilarious, and the reckless with the calculating.<br />
“ Aisther Waters” is a tract against the evils of<br />
the turf. But it is free from the usual sin of the<br />
novel with a purpose—exaggeration. As a rule<br />
the protest of the novelist against an ill habit<br />
loses its accuracy in its picturesqueness, and sup-<br />
porters of the abuse, resenting the attack upon<br />
them, are able to convict the author of perversion<br />
of the facts. Mr. George Moore has painted a<br />
truthful picture that will be recognised as truth-<br />
ful by two sets of readers—those who know and<br />
those who do not. Those to whem the daily<br />
market odds in our papers are so much Runic will<br />
see at once that a great deal of what is described in<br />
“ Esther Waters ”’ must be going on around them.<br />
Those whose daily profession or pleasure it is to<br />
study these figures will be compelled to admit<br />
that the book has been written with the authority<br />
that is only born of knowledge. There has been<br />
no attempt to make a popular goody-goody suc-<br />
cess by an overstatement of evils. We have here<br />
no story of high-born, open-handed youths of<br />
promise starting in the flush of juvenile enthu-<br />
siasm to end bankrupt of fame and fortune.<br />
Every bookmaker is not a welsher or a scheming<br />
diplomatist. There is no chronicling of enormous<br />
wagers, of startling coups, or of roping and<br />
coping schemes. These things may occur on the<br />
turf, but a description of them—much less a<br />
description of them alone—forms no truthful<br />
presentment of the turf. The design of the author<br />
of “ Esther Walters ” has been to point out the<br />
extent to which the craze for betting has deeply<br />
infected a large section of the community, and<br />
incidentally to write an artistic story. And he<br />
has succeeded. The description of the great racing<br />
establishment at Woodview is perfectly life-like.<br />
The master is no victim of blue-blooded heedless-<br />
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ness. He is, on the contrary, of not particularly<br />
select extraction, and races on strictly business<br />
principles, backing his horses according as they are<br />
“meant.” He finally fails because his son, the<br />
gentleman rider, proves unable to pull a horse<br />
without being observed. ‘“ He couldn’t sit down<br />
and saw his blooming ’ead off right in th’ middle<br />
of the course, with the ’andicapper’s field glasses<br />
on him. He'd have been warned off the blooming<br />
’eath, and he couldn’t afford that, even to save<br />
his own father,” is the way the bookmaker puts<br />
it. Surely this situation is much more impres-<br />
sive as well as much more truthful than the<br />
ordinary story of a turf failure. If a man whose<br />
extravagance is in his blood fail on the turf it is<br />
not fair to blame the turf. Such men can ruin<br />
themselves playing cat’s cradle for kisses. But<br />
the picture of a man, who, racing for business—<br />
and that go strictly that he is willing to lose his<br />
own and his son’s honour in his attention to<br />
business—can yet only encompass ruin, forms a<br />
real argument against turf speculation.<br />
<br />
The fidelity to life which characterises the<br />
pourtrayal of the master of Woodview and his<br />
entourage is equally manifest in the description<br />
of Esther’s betrayer and husband, the ex-foot-<br />
man, the sporting publican, the ready-money<br />
bookmaker. He deserts the mother of his<br />
illegitimate child, and is clearly dissolute, low-<br />
lived, and unscrupulous. But he is very human.<br />
He is kind-hearted. He is honest according to<br />
the code of a ready-money bookmaker, and his<br />
wrath at the mere use of the word welsher in<br />
his presence is as natural as it is justifiable. He<br />
is a good husband in a way. He is a good<br />
fellow in a way. He isa mean scamp in most<br />
ways. And a most convincing picture. No less<br />
faithful to life are the votaries of the turf who<br />
assemble at the bar of the ‘‘Spread Hagle.”<br />
Their superstitious credulity, their belief in<br />
omens and in strange tips, combined with<br />
their real knowledge of their subject, are admir-<br />
ably hit off. The wide-spread evils of betting—<br />
its inducements to pilfering and general laxity—<br />
are exemplified without being insisted upon. Mr.<br />
Leopold is, in particular, a wonderful study made<br />
in true Balzac vein. The little sallow, mysterious,<br />
unmoved man, the incarnation of racing lore and<br />
the genius of cold calculation, whose nickname<br />
testifies to the popular belief that his turf know-<br />
ledge has made him a millionaire, is all his life on<br />
the edge of bitter penury, an unsuccessful, ever-<br />
trusting plunger. ‘Chis one man is an exhaustive<br />
homily against the national sport.<br />
<br />
Of Esther herself, the modest but unchaste,<br />
dowdy but noble little figure around whom this<br />
mean crowd revolves, we do not intend to say<br />
much. Mr. George Moore has told the story of<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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her life without padding (which is equivalent to<br />
admitting that any attempt to make an abstract<br />
of it would be useless), and we commend the<br />
reader to his pages. Esther struck us as natural<br />
in her contradictions. She is consistent to her<br />
character, which is eminently malleable. A<br />
puritan in her religious home, in the lax sur-<br />
roundings of the racing establishment and under<br />
the influence of a first love she falls. Asa mother<br />
she rises splendidly to the emergencies of a cruel<br />
situation, and is displayed as a brave self-<br />
sacrificing woman. As the wife of a sporting<br />
publican she learns to look leniently upon a very<br />
seamy side of life. Into the grossness of it she<br />
never falls, but it belongs to her character that<br />
she should assimilate herself to her environment<br />
to some extent. She starts in Mr. George<br />
Moore’s romance asa good girl; she sees life (life<br />
with a vengeance, as Mrs. Quickly would have said)<br />
for twenty years; and she endsas a good woman.<br />
And throughout her moral and material fluctua-<br />
tions she is constant to one predominating<br />
design—the design to bring up her boy ‘to<br />
earn good money,’ that is, to be a self-<br />
respecting citizen in some reputable walk<br />
of life. And in this she sueceeds. She<br />
makes no fine speeches and is unconscious of<br />
her bravery, but not of her frailty. Yet of this<br />
latter she has a word to say. She claims, or<br />
rather appeals, to be considered a good woman in<br />
spite of her youthful lapse. We have no doubt<br />
whatever of our own answer or of the author's to<br />
Esther’s appeal.<br />
<br />
Mr. George Moore is to be thoroughly con-<br />
gratulated upon his novel. It is an eloquent<br />
exhortation on behalf of charity and against<br />
greed.<br />
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BOOK-TALK.<br />
<br />
oh AN-HUNTING IN THE DESERT” is<br />
<br />
the title which Captain Haynes, R.E.,<br />
<br />
has given to his account of the search<br />
expedition undertaken in 1882-83 by Sir Charles<br />
Warren to clear up all doubt as to the fate of<br />
Professor Palmer, Captain Gill, and Lieutenant<br />
Charrington. With what result is well known ;<br />
the committal service in St. Paul’s and the<br />
erection of the memorial tablet will be within<br />
everyone’s recollection. The tablet is figured in<br />
this book, but it is not the only memorial. A<br />
cairn of stones surrounding a wooden cross was<br />
built in the: desert by Sir Charles Warren close to<br />
the scene.of the murder, on a spot chosen by Miss<br />
Charrington. -The cross bears the names of the<br />
murdered men, and states also that they were<br />
killed while on a special mission from the British<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Government, To these must be added the<br />
window in Rochester Cathedral, erected to the<br />
memory of Captain Gill by his brother officers.<br />
Should time and circumstance take away these<br />
memorials, there is still the actual gravestone in<br />
Saint Paul’s Cathedral, which is lettered thus :<br />
<br />
EB. H. P.<br />
AGED. XLII.<br />
<br />
W. J. @.<br />
XXXIX,<br />
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H. C.<br />
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It had been arranged at first that Sir Charles<br />
Warren should write the account of the search<br />
expedition, but, pressure of public work prevent-<br />
ing this, Captain Haynes undertook it. There<br />
are, however, three appendices written by Colonel<br />
Warren :—(A) On his connection with the expedi-<br />
tion; (B) an abbreviated account of Professor<br />
Palmer’s expedition ; (c) notes on Arabia Petreea<br />
and the country lying between Egypt and<br />
Palestine.<br />
<br />
Painful as the account is which Captain Haynes<br />
has to tell, he has made it readable by keeping<br />
carefully to the narrative style, and does not<br />
dwell unnecessarily on any of the harrowing<br />
details. It is sufficient to say that he relates<br />
how the murderers were discovered with infinite<br />
difficulty, the different witnesses on sO many<br />
occasions having prearranged the story they<br />
should tell, and how justice was at last done.<br />
Sir Charles Warren, to the satisfaction of all<br />
associated with him, insisted upon putting in such<br />
evidence as would have obtained a conviction<br />
according to the procedure of an English court,<br />
which is more exacting than the mixed tribunal at<br />
Tanta and Alexandria before whom the prisoners<br />
were tried. Five were sentenced to death, and<br />
seven others received from three to fifteen years<br />
imprisonment.<br />
<br />
There are some points still open to conjecture<br />
with respect to the cause of the murder. Whether<br />
the three men were murdered for the money they<br />
had with them, or whether the crime was part of<br />
the Holy War set on foot by Arabi, which im-<br />
plied the massacre of the Christians, is still an<br />
unsettled question. It would seem that Colonel<br />
Warren inclined to the former view and Captain<br />
Haynes to the latter. Then, also, there is the<br />
part played by Ali Effendi, the Governor of<br />
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Nakhl—the place where Palmer was going, and<br />
where he had arranged a meeting of the Sheikhs.<br />
This proposed meeting itself presents a difficulty,<br />
because it is not clear whether Palmer knew that<br />
Ali Effendi favoured the cause of Arabi. It was<br />
from a letter written by the Governor of Nakhl<br />
to a colleague the Governor of Akabah, instructing<br />
him how to defend the latter fort, that the<br />
search party first learnt that the missing men<br />
were dead. This letter was given up to the<br />
search party by the Governor of Akabah, and<br />
does not show Ali Effendi in a bad light.<br />
Captain Haynes prints it in his fourth chapter ;<br />
and, since it contained orders not to kill, but<br />
only to take prisoners, considers it under the cir-<br />
cumstances a very proper instruction. When,<br />
however, the search party got to Nakhl, after<br />
the site of the murder had been visited and the<br />
remains recovered, the Governor’s evidence was<br />
taken, Then it came out that at time of the<br />
murder he had left Nakhl, and was hovering<br />
about close to the spot where the crime was<br />
committed. He explained his action by saying<br />
“it was in the hope of conducting the English<br />
gentlemen to their destination.” The reader will<br />
not be surprised to learn that it was part of the<br />
plan of the search party to instal a new governor<br />
at Nakhl. Ali was afterwards discharged the<br />
service, and suffered a year’s imprisonment with<br />
hard labour. There seems to be little doubt<br />
but that he knew the crime would be committed,<br />
and that if he did not order it, at least he did<br />
nothing to prevent it. The rest of the narrative<br />
deals with the discovery of the tribe to which<br />
the murderers belonged, which appears to have<br />
been almost as difficult a task as to pick out the<br />
actual culprits. The search party also succeeded<br />
in recovering some of the money Palmer had<br />
taken with him. Captain Haynes manages to<br />
bring forward each point of interest with telling<br />
effect, which is greatly enhanced by his uphold-<br />
ing the opinion that the Professor’s mission was<br />
a success, and that, without the journey from<br />
Jaffa and Gaza to Suez, our difficulties in retain-<br />
ing command of the Canal must have been much<br />
more serious, and that up to a certain point<br />
Palmer’s influence was felt among tribes of the<br />
desert. It is, perhaps, anatural mistake to think<br />
that, because a man meets with treachery and is<br />
killed, that therefore his work must be considered a<br />
failure as well as a misfortune. It is made clear<br />
in these pages how partial and wrong such a view<br />
would be.<br />
<br />
It is chiefly in the last chapter that the author<br />
allows us to see what he himself thinks of the<br />
whole affair — the Palmer expedition, and the<br />
search expedition. His reflections are of such a<br />
nature that they deserve the closest attention.<br />
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434<br />
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<br />
<br />
He does not fail to show us how contemptible the<br />
House of Commons can be on occasion, and<br />
though he hazards the remark that it is perhaps<br />
idle to refer to some of the statements made in<br />
the House, yet the references he does make are<br />
by no means the most pleasant reading. With<br />
regard to the members who did not hesitate to<br />
challenge Colonel Warren’s integrity in the<br />
conduct of the investigation, instancing also the<br />
case of Captain Lugard, the author writes :<br />
<br />
The eagerness with which people at home adoptand make<br />
public the gravest and most discreditable charges against<br />
their countrymen beyond the seas, when they are unable<br />
effectually to defend their own conduct, occasions some of<br />
<br />
the saddest moments in the lives of those whose duty it is<br />
to serve their country in foreign lands.<br />
<br />
In fairness, this may be said to refer as much<br />
to outside opinion as to an attack in the House;<br />
and it is difficult to believe that members would<br />
care so little whether they accused an absent<br />
individual falsely or not, so long as they could<br />
discredit the Government. It ma y be worth<br />
while to notice that in each of these cases the<br />
action of the parties in question was defended<br />
not in the Commons but in the Lords.<br />
<br />
One other reflection which especially deserves<br />
attention is as follows: “The circumstances which<br />
surrounded Palmer’s untimely death seems to<br />
suggest some error of judgment in his selection<br />
for the work to be done in the desert.” Captain<br />
Haynes then quotes from the “ Life of Palmer”<br />
a passage in which his biographer says :<br />
<br />
Yet Palmer ought not to have been allowedto go. On this<br />
point there seems no doubt or dispute whatever. So long as<br />
there was a single soldier in Her Majesty's dominion who<br />
<br />
could be intrusted with the work this scholar should have<br />
been spared.<br />
<br />
Since those words were penned we had to send<br />
a soldier to do a soldier’s work, and the result was<br />
the same—treachery and death.<br />
<br />
It seems impossible now when reconsidering<br />
the murder of Palmer and the work done to<br />
insure our supremacy in Egypt, not to look<br />
further forward to the murder of Gordon and the<br />
attempt to evacuate the Soudan. They are<br />
succeeding chapters in the same history which tell<br />
how even British lives are not rendered any safer<br />
by party politicians, with their conflicting views<br />
of our duty in Egypt and our interest in India,<br />
Of these two men, Gordon and Palmer, we dare<br />
not ask which was the better man, but we may<br />
ask which stands the higher in the national mind.<br />
Undoubtedly Gordon. His simplicity of character,<br />
his charity, his personal piety, have all tended to<br />
make him a popular hero. But lest it should be<br />
thought there can be no heroism outside the<br />
soldier’s life, it seems perfectly excusable for once<br />
to be an advocate for another’s claims, and say<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
that the persevering scholar, the student of many<br />
tongues and many men, has as great a claim on<br />
the national memory.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ote.<br />
<br />
80-SO SOCIOLOGY.<br />
<br />
(Continued from p. 411.)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
141. Were there no insanity, there would be no<br />
misery.<br />
<br />
142. Beauty is a blend compounded of appre-<br />
hension and of appreciation.<br />
<br />
143. Too many souls never seem to rise above<br />
the grub-stage.<br />
<br />
144. Reason is a mean between instinct and<br />
insight.<br />
<br />
145. The weak wish time, while they merely<br />
want talent.<br />
<br />
146. While the far prophet gains kudos, the<br />
near loses caste.<br />
<br />
147. Holiness harmonises the infinite worlds<br />
without and within.<br />
<br />
148. Charity begins within, and never ends<br />
without.<br />
<br />
149. Who jests with lying plays practical<br />
jokes on his own soul.<br />
<br />
150. Forgiveness is worthless, without a fruit-<br />
ful future.<br />
<br />
151. Many reformations<br />
pointed, but none ever failed.<br />
<br />
152. Successful selfishness<br />
spiritual suicide.<br />
<br />
153. Man may raise money, but no mere money<br />
ever raised Man.<br />
<br />
154. Majority may most lead, but only minority<br />
can best leaven. :<br />
<br />
155. Beauty attracts, goodness assists, truth<br />
attests.<br />
<br />
156. When the whole brain wholly sleeps, we<br />
call this ‘‘ death.”<br />
<br />
157. Had birth begun personal life, death<br />
might come to end it.<br />
<br />
158. Huthusiasm may often seem extreme, but<br />
can never be mean,<br />
<br />
159. Pain is a precept as well often as a<br />
penalty.<br />
<br />
160. Absence of logic does not prove presence<br />
of love.<br />
<br />
161. None but the fair soul deserves the brave<br />
heart.<br />
<br />
162. Humanity is the twin sister of humility.<br />
<br />
163. Physical energy is often mistaken for<br />
mental supremacy.<br />
<br />
164. Capacity makes the criminal: opportunity,<br />
the crime.<br />
<br />
may have disap-<br />
<br />
simply suggests<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
165. Were there less ungraciou-ness, there<br />
would be less ingratitude.<br />
<br />
166. Some minority has most might; other<br />
minority has best right. © PHINLAY GLENELG.<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO'S LITERARY CONGRESS.<br />
Tr plans for the Literary Congress, to be<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
held in San Francisco during the month of<br />
<br />
May, are not yet wholly matured, but the<br />
committee in charge has outlined a programme<br />
which promises much in the way of interest and<br />
practical benefit to participants.<br />
<br />
According to the present plans the congress<br />
will occupy five days, and will be made up of<br />
afternoon and evening sessions. The day<br />
sessions will be chiefly devoted to the discussion<br />
of practical and ethical questions, while the<br />
evening sessions will, as far as possible, be con-<br />
ducted by American men of letters, and distin-<br />
guished foreign guests, and will consist of<br />
readings by authors of note, and of discussions<br />
of topics of world-wide interest.<br />
<br />
The first meeting will be an evening session,<br />
which will take the form of an informal recep-<br />
tion, with an address on “The Influence of<br />
Literature on National Character.” This will be<br />
followed by a Pacific Coast day, an American<br />
day, an English day, and a day which will be an<br />
olla podrida of subjects of interest to writers,<br />
including a discussion of International Copy-<br />
right, talks about French and Russian literature,<br />
a debate upon the salutary influence of periodical<br />
literature, and an inquiry into the mission of<br />
literature and the coming type.<br />
<br />
The general purpose of the congress is declared<br />
to be to discuss the present conditions and the<br />
tendencies of literature, and some startling sub-<br />
jects will be considered. One of these is “The<br />
Novel as a Factor in English Civilisation.”<br />
Another is “ Poetry as the Religion of the<br />
Future.” The Functions and Titerature of<br />
Criticism will be seriously discussed, and “ The<br />
Novel or the Newspaper — the Pulpit of the<br />
Day?” is suggestive of some bright speeches<br />
aud audacious expressions of opinion.<br />
<br />
The men who are framing the plan of this<br />
congress seem to be so prolific in bright ideas<br />
that their greatest difficulty is going to be to<br />
decide what not to include in the programme.<br />
Already they are embarrassed by the wealth of<br />
subjects suggested for discussion; not hack-<br />
neyed topics, but fresh, original, thought-<br />
inspiring questions. F. oH. L.<br />
<br />
re<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
ESS novel of the month arrived very early<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
in the month. There was so much said<br />
<br />
about it everywhere on its appearance that<br />
it seems like old history to mention it here. That<br />
“Marcella ’’ has been received with greater favour<br />
than either of her predecessors is quite certain;<br />
it remains to be seen which of the three will retain<br />
the greatest popularity. Meantime the extra-<br />
ordinary increase of successful and admirable<br />
women novelists is undoubtedly most remark-<br />
ably characteristic of literature in this decade.<br />
Vividness of imagination; the power of present-<br />
ing their characters clearly ; the power of telling<br />
a story; many women have shown these qualities<br />
during the last half century. What they now<br />
show is dramatic force, style, wit, epigram,<br />
independence, and freedom of thought.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
es<br />
<br />
I have been reading “Esther Waters,” by<br />
Mr. George Moore. I venture to express my<br />
humble opinion upon the book, viz., that it is,<br />
from the artistic point of view, a fine piece of<br />
work. In another column will be found the<br />
opinion of another man, much to the same effect.<br />
The artistic excellence of the book seems indeed<br />
to me so great as to place its author in the first<br />
rank. It is a real study of life, real and true<br />
and courageous. The writer shirks nothing ; gives<br />
undue importance to nothing ; does not dwell un-<br />
necessarily on subjects unpleasant, yet accepts<br />
things repulsive as belonging to life. But, I hear,<br />
the story is, in some quarters, considered immoral.<br />
This means, I take it, hurtful in some way to<br />
morals; encouraging, for instance, one kind of<br />
immorality. Does it? For my own part, I<br />
cannot find that it does, but perhaps it is a<br />
matter of opinion. As men and women of letters,<br />
we must own that we may drape, but we must<br />
draw from the nude; that is to say, whatever<br />
the poet, dramatist, novelist, preacher, essayist,<br />
historian writes or speaks, if he would move<br />
the world he must have, to work upon, his<br />
solid foundations of actual truth, reality, and<br />
fact. Things that are, not things that may<br />
be, underlie all true literature. Things that<br />
are form the real strength and power of this<br />
book. But the treatment of things that are—there<br />
is the point! Very well. I repeat that I cannot<br />
find in the whole book anything at all likely to<br />
shake the moral principles of the most weak-kneed<br />
moralist. Mr. Feeblemind and Mr, Faintheart may<br />
read it without fear, while Christian himself may<br />
beguile his pilgrimage with its pages, which will<br />
presently cause him to break out into hymns.<br />
Should it be given to the Young Lady? We<br />
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<br />
may quite safely leave the question to the Young<br />
Lady herself, who is no longer dependent<br />
upon Man’s choice of books for her. But I<br />
would say to this independent thinker, “ Young<br />
Lady, here is a book that treats of things as<br />
they are. You have read at school a good<br />
deal of literature which deals with human nature<br />
and the things of nature; you are not at all an<br />
ignorant young person; you have read Ovid, and<br />
Virgil, and Horace ; you have read Shakespeare,<br />
Molitre, Goethe; you have been told that good<br />
literature must be true. Very good. This book<br />
is, Lassure you, quite true. It may not make you<br />
happier to know the truth about humanity; but<br />
it may make you wiser. If there are sinners in<br />
the world, you will not be tempted by this writer<br />
to go and do likewise. But please yourself.” She<br />
holds out her hand. ‘“ Give me the book,” says<br />
the Young Lady. Should the book be given to<br />
the School Girl? The question may be left to the<br />
ladies who have the School Girl under their care.<br />
I believe that there are many things in life which<br />
are not taught to the School Girl. Perhaps<br />
betting is one. Perhaps this or that is another.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
We have had a great many letters on the<br />
subject of editor and contributor. The complaints<br />
of the latter have in almost all cases been<br />
directed against the editors of low-class organs,<br />
poverty-stricken and struggling. One corre-<br />
spondent, “‘ Experto Crede,” gives (p. 440) excel.<br />
lent advice, that I would beg young readers to<br />
consider, and which I here repeat: “ Offer your<br />
contributions only to the best magazines, the best<br />
weeklies, the best papers. If you cannot get on,<br />
after working your hardest and your best, give it<br />
up. Don’t try any more. Recognise that lite-<br />
rary distinction is not for you. If you persist,<br />
remember that on the low levels for which you will<br />
write there is no distinction attainable, and a<br />
wage which is more miserable than you can get<br />
by almost any other kind of work.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In the correspondence of this month (p. 442)<br />
there is a letter on “ Printing Abroad.” Let<br />
everyone have a hearing. Our correspondent<br />
argues that it does not matter how many men<br />
are thrown out of work if we can only get things<br />
cheap. Now to apply our correspondent’s<br />
reasoning to an extreme case. Suppose all the<br />
printing, paper, and binding sent abroad for<br />
cheapness. Suppose, further, that a book can<br />
thus be issued at 20 per cent. under the present<br />
price. How is the country enriched thereby?<br />
First, it gains 20 per cent on its book bill.<br />
Against this set the loss of the wages, rent,<br />
<br />
profit, interest on capital of the whole printing -<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
trade, together with the maintenance of the<br />
printers and their families until they can be<br />
emigrated. When they are gone we must reckon<br />
the loss of so many thousands of productive<br />
hands to the country. Again, let us suppose the<br />
entire transfer of the cotton trade to Belgium.<br />
Cotton becomes cheaper by 10 per cent. perhaps.<br />
What will become of the millions who now live<br />
by cotton? I, for one, do not believe in the<br />
doctrine of cheapness.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ETAts-UNIs.<br />
New York, le 23 avril.<br />
<br />
Un projet tendant a créer une institution, analogue a<br />
celle de l’Académie francaise vient d’étre soumis au<br />
Congrés.<br />
<br />
I cut the above from the Débats of April 23.<br />
As the London papers were not accessible to me<br />
on that day, I do not know whether this intel-<br />
ligence has appeared in them. Perhaps it is not<br />
true. If it is, however, we may hope to get the<br />
question of our English Academy properly dis-<br />
cussed. Four years ago there was some desul-<br />
tory talk upon the subject in the Daily Graphic<br />
continued for three weeks or so. But in that<br />
correspondence the real points, the points of<br />
importance, were hardly more than touched.<br />
Most of the objectors assumed that an English<br />
Academy must necessarily be an exact copy of<br />
the French, with its very limited number and its<br />
very objectionable practice of canvassing. For<br />
my own part, I should like above all things to<br />
see an English Academy, but of a wider kind.<br />
This opinion is advanced as purely personal. There<br />
are many members of this Society whose views, I<br />
know, are exactly the opposite. There should be<br />
very important differences between our Academy<br />
and the French. In number, for instance. The<br />
number forty was chosen when French writers<br />
addressed a nation of ten millions with about<br />
one million who could read. If the proportions<br />
were preserved that forty would now be fifteen<br />
hundred at least—too large a body to allow of<br />
the election keing a distinction. Since, in our<br />
own speech, a writer now addresses a possible<br />
audience of a hundred and twenty millions,<br />
who can all read; since, if he is successful, he<br />
becomes actually known to a fourth at least of<br />
that number, would it be too much to give the<br />
English Academy, representing all branches of<br />
literature, one hundred members? And would it<br />
be too much to expect these members to find out<br />
for themselves the men and women most worthy<br />
of honour? Whether the Academy should have<br />
any functions or duties to perform, or whether<br />
membership would be a distinction only, is a<br />
question that may be reserved.<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
The Secretary has placed in my hands a letter,<br />
which contains the following passage :<br />
<br />
I believe in the Society of Authors, but so far, while you<br />
have most kindly helped me to an abundance of advice, the<br />
Society does not seem able to point out publishers who will<br />
take MSS. by approved authors and deal fairly with them.<br />
<br />
If we could do this in every case, all our diffi-<br />
culties would be removed. We cannot say of any<br />
publisher that he will take MSS. by approved<br />
authors ; one can no more persuade a publisher to<br />
take a MS. than one can persuade a man to put<br />
money in any kind of enterprise ; he has to satisfy<br />
his own mind first, and many an author would be<br />
surprised to learn the publisher's opinion of his<br />
commercial value. As for the fair dealing, we<br />
can tell every author beforehand the kind of<br />
treatment he will receive at any house; whether<br />
he will be bled by secret profits for instance ;<br />
whether he will be lured into confidence by an<br />
engaging frankness, and then stripped of this<br />
right or that right; whether the agreement<br />
offered may be considered fair or unfair; whether<br />
the publisher will keep that agreement ; whether<br />
the estimate of the cost of production is fraudu-<br />
lent or not—all these things we can do for our<br />
members, and it really seems a good deal.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Figaro has been throwing a little light on<br />
the cost of production in Paris. The writer signs<br />
himself “ Un Indiscret,’’ which very clearly indi-<br />
cates that the same mystery has been thrown over<br />
the cost of production in France that we have<br />
encountered—and dispersed—here. He takes a<br />
French novel of 300 pages, at 30 lines to a page,<br />
in the ordinary large type used for such books.<br />
T have before me such a volume of Guy de Mau-<br />
passant’s, only with 34 lives to a page. A first<br />
edition of 1200 copies costs to produce, he says,<br />
1100 francs, a good deal less than such a volume<br />
would cost here. If it isa first novel the publisher<br />
gives the author 350 francs for it. The average<br />
price to the trade is 2°25 francs. If the whole<br />
edition goes off the publisher makes a profit of<br />
800 francs. But the whole edition of an unknown<br />
novelist may not go off. Thus he may lose by<br />
his venture. In this country he would make the<br />
author guarantee him against any Icss. It is not<br />
stated whether the first novel is bought right<br />
out for 350 francs, but that would appear to<br />
be the custom. The writer—‘ Un Indiscret”<br />
—goes on to tell us that poetry is always<br />
paid for by the poet—Alas! poor poet !—and<br />
that in many cases where a poet has actually<br />
made what appears, outside, to be a considerable<br />
name, it must be confined to a very small<br />
circle, because nobody buys the new poetry. He<br />
then gives figures showing the order of popularity<br />
of French novelists. His figures have been dis-<br />
<br />
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<br />
puted, so that one need not reproduce them here.<br />
The first five, however, are said to be Zola,<br />
Daudet, Octave Feuillet, Loti, and Ohnet.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Twenty years ago, when there was no copyright<br />
with America, anyone in tbis country might pro-<br />
duce any American book without paying the<br />
author anything. This was done in a great many<br />
instances. Prof. Brander Matthews pointed out in<br />
a paper published, three or four years ago, in New<br />
York, that piracy by publishers was carried on as<br />
vigorously in this country as in America. It is<br />
therefore pleasant to publish such a letter as the<br />
following, addressed to Messrs. Ward, Lock,<br />
Bowden, and Co., by the American writer, Max<br />
Adeler :<br />
<br />
It is just twenty years, I think, since my business rela-<br />
tions with you were begun. At the end of this long period<br />
I regard it as an obligation, as assuredly it is a very great<br />
pleasure, to bear testimony to the fact that your treatment<br />
of me has been of the most honourable character, and to<br />
thank you very cordially for the uniform kindness that I<br />
have received at your hands. You could have done<br />
nothing for me, in justice to yourselves, that you have not<br />
done.<br />
<br />
The only note that jars is the use of the word<br />
“kindness ” instead of “justice.” Not that one<br />
doubts either, but between two parties to a<br />
business transaction it is justice and not kind-<br />
ness that is wanted.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The annual meeting of the Authors’ Club, held<br />
on the 4th inst., disclosed a very satisfactory condi-<br />
tion. The club numbers 300 members ; its rooms<br />
are always well filled; the coffee-room charges<br />
are extremely moderate, and the members seem<br />
quite satisfied with the actual position and_pro-<br />
spects of their club. The chairman pointed out<br />
that if the numbers were increased by another<br />
hundred, a great deal more could be done for the<br />
club. A library of reference is in course of forma-<br />
tion. Various sub-committees were elected by the<br />
members present. The purpose of the founders,<br />
to create a club of literary men which shall be at<br />
once well appointed and strictly moderate in its<br />
charges, promises to be successfully carried out.<br />
Every member is a shareholder in the club ; each<br />
share is £5, but only £2 are called up; the annual<br />
subscription is 4 guineas; once a month there is<br />
a house dinner; the situation of the club in<br />
Whitehall-court is absolutely central. Perhaps<br />
the statement of these facts may recommend the<br />
club to those readers of this paper who want such<br />
a club.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Se<br />
<br />
The council of the San Francisco Exhibition is<br />
about to imitate its Chicago predecessor in holding<br />
congresses. ‘There are to be congresses on Mines<br />
and Mining, on Economics, on Medicine, on Edu-<br />
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<br />
cation, on Astronomy, on Music, on Temperance,<br />
on the Condition of Women, and on Literature.<br />
I fear that not many English men or women of<br />
letters will appear at the last-named conference,<br />
but there may be some. Those to whom a fort-<br />
night’s journey does not seem too great a fatigue<br />
—those who can spare two months—may find it<br />
pleasant and profitable to visit California and<br />
take part in the congress. And perhaps there<br />
may be among our members one or two who would<br />
represent the Society as the delegates. One is<br />
quite sure from our experience of Chicago that<br />
the reception they would meet would be cordial.<br />
<br />
—<br />
<br />
In London for April 19 there appeared an ex-<br />
cellent analysis of the reading and the authors<br />
read inthe Free Libraries of this City. Our space<br />
does not allow us to extract anything from this<br />
interesting and valuable paper, but we hope to<br />
return to the subject next month.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The question of publishing the list of members<br />
has awakened very little interest. Since there<br />
have been so few replies to the question, and since<br />
the balance of opinion, so far, is distinctly against<br />
publishing the list, it is not probable that the<br />
recent decision of the committee against publish-<br />
ing will be immediately reconsidered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Prof. A. C. Mackenzie, Mus.D., Principal of the<br />
Royal Academy of Music, has joined the Council<br />
and the Executive Committee.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Up to the end of April 110 new members since<br />
the beginning of the year had either been elected<br />
or had sent in their applications for membership.<br />
<br />
oo<br />
<br />
At the last moment I have received from the<br />
shorthand reporter certain speeches made at a<br />
dinner of the Booksellers’ Provident Institution<br />
by Mr. John Murray and Mr. Frederick Mac-<br />
millan. The remarks which they suggest must<br />
wait till our next number,<br />
<br />
Water BEsant.<br />
<br />
ect<br />
<br />
Mopern Literature In Oxrorp.<br />
<br />
During Hilary Term, 1894, several public<br />
lectures were held. Mr. Palgrave read a paper<br />
on “The Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama.”<br />
Dr. Lentzner gave two lectures on ‘“ Henrik<br />
Ibsen,” and began an exposition of “ Goethe’s<br />
Faust” by delivering three lectures on the<br />
subject. Mr. Morfill delivered a lecture on<br />
“Servian Ballad Poetry.”<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
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ENGLISH RABELAISIANS.<br />
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HE influence of Rabelais on English litera-<br />
ture has been great and continuous. His<br />
satirical work has been pillaged and<br />
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imitated by very many English writers, and often<br />
without the slightest acknowledgment. Rabelais<br />
is essentially a literary man’s author. He is<br />
“heathen Greek,” or worse, to most general<br />
readers, but to a large number of men of letters<br />
of the last three centuries he has been a cherished<br />
companion; and his influence on the style of<br />
many writers has been considerable.<br />
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A knowledge of Rabelais seems to have spread<br />
in England with remarkable rapidity, for in less<br />
than half a century after the creator of Pan-<br />
tagruel died with a jest upon his lips, reference<br />
to his heroes—especially Gargantua—are found<br />
thickly scattered over the pages of English<br />
writers. There are several in Shakespeare, as,<br />
for instance, in “ As You Like It,” when Rosalind<br />
overwhelms her cousin with questions, ending<br />
with the demand, ‘‘ Answer me in one word.”<br />
Celia replies, ‘ You must borrow me Gargantua’s<br />
mouth first—’tis a word too great for any mouth<br />
of this age’s size.” Similar allusions are common<br />
all through Elizabethan literature. Ben Jonson<br />
speaks of ‘‘ Gargantuan breeches’; and, indeed,<br />
in those days when men’s trunk-hose were worn<br />
of the most preposterous size, padded and swelled<br />
out to a ridiculous extent, the Rabelaisian adjec-<br />
tive was highly appropriate. Nashe, in one of his<br />
truculently satirical tracts, calls a pamphleteering<br />
antagonist a ‘“‘Gargantuan bag-pudding” ; and,<br />
again, euphoniously styles the stately galleons of<br />
the Spanish Armada ‘“ Gargantuan boysterous<br />
culliguts.” Similar examples might be given from<br />
most writers of the Elizabethan period. The<br />
name of the gigantic Gargantua was prominent<br />
in the oral folk-lore of Brittany, Normandy, and<br />
other parts of France, long b:fore Rabelais made<br />
him the hero of his chronicle, but the name<br />
was almost unknown in literature, and there<br />
can be no doubt that our Elizabethan writers<br />
were indebted to Rabelais for their knowledge<br />
of the ancient giant who derived his name<br />
from his appetite. In Spain garganta means<br />
the gorge or gullet, and the Spanish for glutton<br />
is garganton.<br />
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Three English writers, two of whom are better<br />
known than the third—Swift, Sterne, and Thomas<br />
Amory—have all been dubbed in turn “The<br />
English Rabelais.” The title was conferred on<br />
Swift by Voltaire, and is not inappropriate, for<br />
the Dean of St. Patrick’s, in his display of fierce<br />
satire and brilliant wit, mingled with much gross-<br />
ness of thought and speech, is certainly of the<br />
family of Rabelais. Not only does he often<br />
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resemble the great Frenchman in matter and style,<br />
but some of the incidents in “Gulliver” are<br />
boldly imitated—one might almost say “ con-<br />
veyed ”—from the history of Pantagruel.<br />
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Sterne may perhaps be regarded as the most<br />
thoroughly Rabelaisian of English writers, if we<br />
leave out of sight the moral purpose and the deep<br />
thought that informed and justified the satire of<br />
the curé of Meudon. Sterne has abundance of<br />
wit and satire, but very little moral purpose. Mr.<br />
Percy Fitzgerald says that, “the cast of the whole<br />
Shandean history, its tone and manner and<br />
thought, is such as would come from one<br />
saturated, as it were, with Rabelais, and the<br />
school that imitated Rabelais.” This is rather<br />
strongly put, for, after all, the resemblances<br />
between Sterne and the great Frenchman are<br />
mostly on the surface. There can be no doubt<br />
that Sterne took Rabelais as his model—his<br />
chapter on noses is a direct imitation of his great<br />
original—but tricks of style and modes of thought<br />
are not very difficult to catch, and imitation, to a<br />
writer of Sterne’s style and temperament, is an<br />
easy and congenial task.<br />
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Sterne gives us Rabelaisian wit and humour<br />
and pathos, with a mixture of Rabelaisian gross-<br />
ness, al] in a style modelled upon that of his<br />
master; but there the resemblance ends. It is<br />
only in comparatively recent years that the true<br />
worth and aims and position of Rabelais have<br />
been properly appreciated. The popular view of<br />
the satirist is expressed in Pope’s lines to Swift,<br />
in the “ Dunciad :”—<br />
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Whether thou choose Cervantes’ serious air,<br />
Or laugh and shake in Rab’lais’ easy chair.<br />
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And this “ easy-chair”’ view, which recognises<br />
the great Frenchman only as a humorist of a<br />
rather gross type, takes no note of his wonderful<br />
satirical powers, of his attacks upon the corrup-<br />
tions of his age in morals and in religion, his<br />
condemnation of the miserable modes of educa-<br />
tion then in vogue, and his exhortations to<br />
higher ideals in life and labour, which culminate<br />
in his description of the abbey of Theleme. All<br />
these high aims and large views could have been<br />
plainly preached in those days only at the cost of<br />
the preacher's life, and for this reason the<br />
satirist put on the fool’s cap and disguised his<br />
real intentions and meaning amid a mass of jest:<br />
and fun of the most boisterous sort, giving the<br />
cap and bells an extra shake whenever the<br />
disguise had become for a moment too thin. It<br />
is easy, nowadays, for the careful student to<br />
read between the lines, to separate the chaff<br />
from the genuine wheat of the book; and there<br />
ran be little doubt but that many of his con-<br />
temporaries similarly penetrated the disguise,<br />
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and recognised the reformer and preacher behind<br />
the antic mask and habit of the clown.<br />
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The third “ English Rabelais” was Thomas<br />
Amory, the author of the “Life of John<br />
Buncle.” This extraordinary book, which<br />
was published about a hundred and _ thirty<br />
years ago, is in the Shandean style —ex-<br />
tremely discursive, with discourses on every<br />
imaginable subject, mixed up with the discussion<br />
of the author’s notions on theology. The laugh-<br />
ing spirit of Rabelais pervades the whole. The<br />
book was a favourite with Lamb. He recom-<br />
mended it to Coleridge’s notice as ‘a most<br />
curious romance-like work . . very inte-<br />
resting, and an extraordinary compound of all<br />
manner of subjects, from the depths of the<br />
ludicrous to the heights of sublime religious<br />
truth,’ Hazlitt says that the soul of Francis<br />
Rabelais passed into Amory—‘ both were phy-<br />
sicians, and enemies of too much gravity. Their<br />
great business was to enjoy life.” This, again,<br />
hardly does justice to the Frenchman. The<br />
“easy-chair” view of his work was still pre-<br />
dominant.<br />
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A clearer view of his life and aims was set<br />
forth by Coleridge. In his “Table Talk” he<br />
exclaims :—‘I think with some interest upon the<br />
fact that Rabelais and Luther were born in the<br />
same year, Glorious spirits! Glorious spirits!”<br />
Coleridge recognised that however diverse were<br />
the characters and methods of these two great<br />
men--and no two men could have been more<br />
unlike one another—yet, essentially, their aims<br />
were the same. In another passage, the author<br />
of the “ Ancient Mariner” says:—‘ Beyond<br />
doubt, Rabelais was among the deepest, as well<br />
as boldest thinkers of his age. His buffoonery<br />
was not merely Brutus’s rough stick which con-<br />
tained a rod of gold; it was necessary as an<br />
amulet against the monks andlegates. . . . I<br />
could write a treatise in praise of the moral<br />
elevation of Rabelais’ work which would make<br />
the Church stare and the conventicle groan, and<br />
yet would be truth, and nothing but the truth.”<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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I.—HeErsert SPENCER AND LITERATURE.<br />
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N the notice of Miss Gingell’s “ Aphorisms<br />
from the Works of Herbert Spencer” im<br />
last month’s Author (p. 401), the writer<br />
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dealing with Mr. Spencer’s views upon education<br />
and literature, says that ‘we must not blink the<br />
fact that, except in the sense of scientific litera-<br />
ture, it (literature) plays no part at all,”<br />
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developing this a few lines later on by the<br />
remark “as long as the knowledge of crtain<br />
subjects—let us say especially history—has even<br />
a conventional value in social life, surely parents<br />
are justified in giving some of it to their children.<br />
The wish that these latter should not feel<br />
ignorant and awkward in such society as they<br />
will probably get does not appear to be entirely<br />
an unreasonable one.”<br />
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The inferences intended to be drawn being that<br />
Mr. Spencer thinks pure literature of no educa-<br />
tional value; that such subjects as history are<br />
valueless; and that it matters not if children<br />
feel ignorant and awkward in the society they<br />
move in. ‘To anyone who is acquainted with Mr.<br />
Spencer’s works it will be quite unnecessary to<br />
say how entirely incorrect these statements are.<br />
To others it may be of interest to know what<br />
our great philosopher has himself said upon<br />
these very points. In “ Education” is written,<br />
“We yield to none in the value we attach to<br />
esthetic culture and its pleasures. Without<br />
painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and _ the<br />
emotions produced by natural beauty of every<br />
kind, life would lose half its charm. So far from<br />
regarding the training and gratification of the<br />
tastes as unimportant, we believe that in time to<br />
come they will occupy a much larger share of<br />
human life than now’”’ (Lib. ed., p. 38). In the<br />
“Principles of Ethics’”—‘ Literary culture has<br />
a high claim, and we may also admit that, as<br />
conducing to wealth and force of expression<br />
by furnishing materials for metaphor and<br />
allusion, it increases mental power and<br />
social effectiveness. In the absence of it con-<br />
versation is bald” (Vol. I, p.520). That Mr.<br />
Spencer values very highly the instruction to<br />
be gained from history follows not only from his<br />
compilations of ‘‘ Descriptive Sociology,” but also<br />
from the somewhat detailed way in which he has<br />
defined the kind of history which is alone of use<br />
to the citizen for the regulation of his conduct.<br />
Summing up, he says: The facts of history<br />
“given with as much brevity as consists with<br />
clearness and accuracy should be so grouped and<br />
arranged that they may be comprehended in<br />
their ensemble, and contemplated as mutually<br />
dependent parts of one great whole. The aim<br />
should be so to present them that men may<br />
readily trace the consensus subsisting among<br />
them ; with a view of learning what social pheno-<br />
mena co-exist with what others”? (‘‘ Education,”<br />
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The ill-adaptation of children to their society<br />
may be easily met by the truth enunciated<br />
throughout,the “ Principles of Biology ’”—indeed,<br />
this work cannot be truly comprehended until<br />
this truth is thoroughly mastered, and one can<br />
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as it were think in terms of it. That life 7s the<br />
correspondence between internal and external<br />
relations; that the degree of life varies as the<br />
degree of this correspondence; that perfect<br />
correspondence would be perfect life.<br />
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II.—Tuer MisrortuNnes oF THE CASUAL<br />
ConTRIBUTOR.<br />
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With reference to your recent correspondence<br />
dealing with the relations between editor and<br />
casual contributor, when will the latter recognise<br />
thaf, as Mr. Barrie puts it, ‘‘ there are only about<br />
a dozen papers in London worth writing for’’?<br />
When will they see that what is not good enough<br />
for a first-class paper or magazine really had<br />
better remain unpublished ?<br />
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Over and over again have you laid down the<br />
sound rule that if good publishers decline MSS.,<br />
to send them to the lower grade houses is worse<br />
than useless. The same rule applies to journalism.<br />
Send your articles to the best dailies, the leading<br />
reviews, the most well-known magazines. If these<br />
decline them, set to work on something else ; if<br />
this too fails, take to palmistry or any other<br />
hobby, but recognise that distmction in the<br />
literary field is not for you.<br />
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Let me give my own experience. Ihave written<br />
for a period between four and five years. In that<br />
time (I am not speaking of the regular work I<br />
have had, but only of casual contributions) I have<br />
had contributions accepted by some ten or twelve<br />
of the most well-known papers and magazines,<br />
the names of some of which I inclose for your<br />
private inspection, Mr. Editor, that you may be<br />
able to see my authority for so calling them. I<br />
have sent nothing to any second-rate paper.<br />
The result has been that never once have I had<br />
any difficulty about payment, my only scruples<br />
have been sometimes in ‘accepting what seemed<br />
ludicrously high prices for the amount of work<br />
done. And so let me advise ‘ Lunette,” and<br />
those in like case, to fly at higher game, and if<br />
they fail therein, to give up writing entirely.<br />
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ExprertTo CREDE.<br />
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IlI.—“ Inpustrian Enauanp.”<br />
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The following facts may be of interest to<br />
Authors who have been invited to contribute<br />
to a series of volumes which, under the general<br />
title of “Industrial England,” are announced<br />
as being in preparation under the editorship<br />
of James Burnley, who writes from 83, Queen-<br />
street, Cheapside, E.C., and who says that<br />
he has already made arrangements with, among<br />
others, Mr. W. M. Ackworth, Sir Robert Rawlin-<br />
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son, Mr. H. Fox Bourne, Sir Douglas Galton,<br />
Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Joseph Hatton, Sir<br />
Douglas Fox, Mr. G. Barnett Smith, Mr. Grant<br />
Allen, the Rev. H. R. Haweis, Mr. Walter Crane,<br />
Mr. Morley Roberts, Dr. F. H. Bowman, Mr.<br />
Edward Walford, Mr. Archibald Forbes, Mr.<br />
Charles G. Leland, and Mr. J. F. Rowbotham, to<br />
contribute to his work.<br />
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1. On Nov. 11, 1893, Mr. James Burnley,<br />
unsolicited and without any introduction, wrote<br />
to inform me that the work in question “is now<br />
being carried out under my editorship for Messrs.<br />
Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.,” and to ask me<br />
to contribute on a specified technical subject. To<br />
this I replied expressing my willingness to con-<br />
tribute.<br />
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[Editor's note.—Messrs. Sampson Low and Co.<br />
have written to state that they had incurred no<br />
responsibility in the project. ]<br />
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2. On Nov. 17, 1893, Mr. James Burnley wrote<br />
to thank me, and to request me to contribute two<br />
chapters of about five thousand words each, giving<br />
an outline history of the subject up to the<br />
beginning of the present century, and subse-<br />
quently to continue the history of it, on a more<br />
elaborate scale, down to the present moment.<br />
After specifying terms, Mr. Burnley concluded<br />
by declaring that “ payment would, of course, be<br />
made on receipt of same” (viz., of copy). I<br />
replied suggesting a written programme, and<br />
offering to write ten chapters which should cover<br />
the whole subject.<br />
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3. On Nov. 20, 1893, Mr. James Burnley<br />
wrote, returning my written programme or<br />
synopsis, and accepting my offer, adding: “I<br />
note that you say that you could let me have the<br />
whole of the chapters by April, but it might facili-<br />
tate matters if you let me have a couple of<br />
chapters in January.” I promised to let him have<br />
a couple of chapters in January, and on Jan. 17 I<br />
sent him them.<br />
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4. On Jan. 18, 1894, Mr. James Burnley acknow-<br />
ledged the receipt of these chapters, adding : “I<br />
shall soon be able to place them in the hands of<br />
the printers, and will forward you proofs in due<br />
course.” Some days having elapsed, and Mr.<br />
Burnley being a total stranger to me, Iseut him a<br />
request for payment for these chapters.<br />
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5. On Feb. 5, 1894, Mr. James Burnley wrote :<br />
“ Referring to your letter of the other day, I shall<br />
have pleasure in placing the matter of your remu-<br />
neration before the proprietors at their meeting<br />
next week, and will get the account passed.”<br />
This wholly unexpectel introduction of “the<br />
proprietors” was not quite satisfactory to me;<br />
yet I waited patiently until Feb. 13, when I called<br />
upon Mr. James Burnley at his office, and saw him<br />
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in presence of a young lady who appeared to be his<br />
type-writing assistant. He expressed himself as<br />
being extremely pleased with what I had done<br />
for him, and promised to let me hear from him<br />
‘in the course of two or three days ;” but, as he<br />
omitted to keep his promise, I wrote on Feb. 21<br />
again requesting payment.<br />
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6. On Feb. 22, Mr. Burnley replied, objecting<br />
to the tone of my letter, disclaiming any desire<br />
to avoid his obligations; pleading that, as he was<br />
working with others, “these things had to go<br />
through a regular routine;” professing to be<br />
“unaware that it is usual to pay for articles on<br />
delivery, unless there has been an express stipula-<br />
tion to that effect” (see 2); but magnanimously<br />
deprecating “ any intention on his part of appeal-<br />
ing to the supposed custom”’ ; and hoping “in the<br />
course of next week to be able to do what is<br />
necessary.” I answered on Feb. 23, insisting<br />
that payment was due to meas a right and not<br />
as a favour, and saying that unless I received it<br />
on or before Feb. 27 I should take further<br />
advice.<br />
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7. Mr. James Burnley appears to have shown<br />
this letter of mine to a friend of his, who wrote<br />
on the 26th, asking me to go and see him on the<br />
subject in the City. I replied to this gentleman<br />
that I could not undertake to do this, as, so far<br />
as I knew, no facts were in dispute.<br />
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8. Mr. James Burnley wrote to me on Feb. 27,<br />
as follows, not on “ Industrial England” paper,<br />
but on paper which declared Mr. James Burnley<br />
to be a representative of the Gentlewoman, the<br />
Bradford Observer, the Nottingham Express, the<br />
Leeds Daily News, andthe Yorkshireman, and to<br />
be the author of numerous books. The letter<br />
was, like a'l the previous ones, type-written ; but<br />
on this occasion only, Mr. Burnley forgot to sign<br />
his name. “Since,” he said, “ you are so im-<br />
patient and unreasonable, I have no alternative<br />
but to retura you your MS. It is against all<br />
custom to pay for articles before they are used,<br />
as you must know. You have allowed no time<br />
for the reading or consideration of the articles ;<br />
all you have done is simply to deliver them and<br />
demand payment—a most unusual course, and one<br />
which the proprietors resent. I shall defend any<br />
action you may think proper to bring.”<br />
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g. I acknowledged the return of the articles,<br />
explaining that I did so without prejudice. Iam<br />
not at present satisfied that an action against<br />
Mr. Burnley would greatly benefit my position ;<br />
but Iam persuaded that it is desirable that the<br />
facts, as set forth above, should be known to<br />
authors and to “ the proprietors.” W. 1. C.<br />
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IV.—An Apvertising Firm.<br />
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1. My attention is directed by an innocent<br />
young neighbour, who desires to add to her<br />
income by her pen, to an attractive notice to<br />
authors in a newspaper, to the effect that a firm<br />
of publishers want MSS. of sorts, and my advice<br />
asked. TUreply “ Wait a little.”<br />
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2. I select a MS. story of my own for which I<br />
have no immediate use, and send it to the said<br />
firm. Itis a story of about 18,000 words, and<br />
might, by the exhibition of lead in copious<br />
doses, be unhealthily distended to a volume of<br />
about seven sheets of pica, I should think.<br />
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3. “ After compliments,” the firm propose that<br />
Ishould pay them £46, and that they should pro-<br />
duce the workin attractive paper covers at Is.,in<br />
a first edition of 2000; assure me that I should<br />
have two-thirds of the proceeds of sales; add<br />
that advertising, reviewing, and the other techni-<br />
calities of publishing should have their especial<br />
care, and are mine faithfully.<br />
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4. I acknowledge compliments, and _ present<br />
these gentlemen with mine, adding the following<br />
brief calculation: Suppose the whole edition<br />
of 2000 (less fifty for the “technicality” of<br />
reviewing) to be sold out at the price of 64d.,<br />
not taking thirteen as twelve, or other reduc-<br />
tions into consideration; and suppose me_ to<br />
take my two-thirds, I should issue trium-<br />
phantly forth £10 15s. 10d. to the bad. There-<br />
fore I decline.<br />
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I further say that during the whole time I have<br />
been writing anything which has been published,<br />
I have had books brought out at various houses,<br />
but never been asked before to pay sixpence ; that,<br />
on the contrary, I have usually been paid.<br />
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Finally I propose a very small royalty or sale<br />
outright at a price named.<br />
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5. I receive a much briefer letter, with less<br />
compliments, inviting me to pay £36 and receive<br />
half the proceeds of an edition of 3000.<br />
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6. I treat the house to a fresh calculation,<br />
based on their improved proposal, and proceed-<br />
-ing on the same assumptions as the last, of which<br />
the result is that under the most favourable<br />
circumstances possible I shall receive about £3,<br />
and they will receive about £75, less cost of<br />
production of a paper-covered book of about<br />
seven sheets of pica. I then repeat my previous<br />
very moderate proposal.<br />
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7. These worthy publishers send back my MS.<br />
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8. I present the whole ‘“ object lesson”’ to my<br />
innocent young neighbour, and to all authors to<br />
whom it may be of use. A. B.<br />
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V.—THE EXPERIENCE OF A FAILURE.<br />
<br />
I was still in my teens when I first sent a<br />
paper to a children’s magazine, and I got £3 for<br />
it. I next sent a children’s story to a publisher,<br />
and received an offer of £5 for the copyright,<br />
which I accepted, but stipulated for another £5<br />
if the work went into a second edition. This<br />
was some years ago, and the book is still selling.<br />
A year afterwards the same publisher offered me<br />
£10 for my second book. Irefused, and took the<br />
book elsewhere. After some difference about the<br />
title, I accepted £36 for the copyright, nothing<br />
being said about future editions. Then a fire<br />
occurred at this office, and my MS. was burnt. I<br />
re-wrote it, half from rough copy, and half from<br />
memory. After this I sold another story to the<br />
same publisher for £30; it was put into type, but<br />
kept unpublished for eight years. During these<br />
eight years L wrote a story for girls and two novels.<br />
Of the latter, one was refused by fourteen pub-<br />
lishers, The other I sent to yet another publisher<br />
—he gave ine £50 for the copyright, and the<br />
book appeared in 3 vols., receiving long notices<br />
both in the Saturday Review and the Spectator.<br />
I also received, in addition, £10 which had been<br />
sent from America. That was the high-water<br />
mark of my literary career. JI then wrote a<br />
children’s story, which was offered to a society<br />
for £20. They sent me £16, and I had to write<br />
and demand the other four. I next wrote a story<br />
of Eastern life, and sent it to the same society,<br />
with the same instructions. They put the book<br />
in type, and then sent it me back, with the excuse<br />
that they had expected another children’s story.<br />
About this time I became a member of the<br />
“ Society of Authors.” I now brought out<br />
through a magazine my previously despised<br />
novel. Isold the serial rights for £20, and at<br />
the end of the year I accepted £25 for the copy-<br />
right. It was published at once in book form.<br />
Iwas then advised to try short stories for the<br />
magazines. I got one accepted, and was well paid.<br />
I sent a second—it was returned because the maga-<br />
zine had stopped. I sent the story to another new<br />
magazine, and was offered £2. I objected, and<br />
the story was returned with an increase in the<br />
offer to £10. I accepted it. This is about two<br />
years ago, and since then my record has been one<br />
of unbroken failure. As I honestly believe that<br />
my last two years’ work is not inferior, I do not<br />
know where the fault lies. FLevr-pE-Lys.<br />
<br />
A Se<br />
<br />
VI.—Printine ABROAD.<br />
<br />
In “Notes and News” last month it is stated<br />
that “more than any other class, writers should<br />
be interested in helping all those who work to<br />
obtain fair wages, because the circulation of their<br />
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THE<br />
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work depends on the general prosperity, not the<br />
enrichment of a few;’’ and, further, that “ we<br />
must remember that sending work out of the<br />
country means so much lowering of the general<br />
prosperity.”<br />
<br />
The general prosperity is best obtained by<br />
having things at the lowest possible cost, putting<br />
them within the reach of the greatest number,<br />
and that can be done only by making the cost of<br />
production as low as possible, so as to enable the<br />
means of the poorest to buy the greatest number<br />
of things. This is enriching the many.<br />
<br />
Tf, to bring this about, certain work has to be<br />
sent out of the country to be done, the prosperity<br />
of the country is advanced thereby, for then the<br />
article in question is placed within the reach of<br />
a still poorer class than if it had been produced<br />
in the home country at an artificial, because<br />
unnaturally high, rate of wage.<br />
<br />
The workers in the home country who are<br />
thrown out of employment thereby, and thus<br />
become a burden on the community, cause but an<br />
indirect and temporary lowering of the general<br />
prosperity. They, and if not they, their descen-<br />
dants, find other means of livelihood; meantime<br />
the general benefit of the nation is enhanced by<br />
the price of goods being lowered ; the more they<br />
are lowered, the greater the general benefit, for<br />
this lowering usually rouses activity in many<br />
new and hitherto unseen directions.<br />
<br />
Had the interests only of those who were<br />
thrown out of work by an alteration in the means<br />
of production being always considered, no im-<br />
provements would ever have taken place. The<br />
interest of the many would always have been<br />
sacrificed to that of the few, and no gain in<br />
general prosperity could have been made.<br />
<br />
HH. He<br />
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VII.—A Hanpsooxk ror AUTHORS.<br />
<br />
Tam very glad that somebody has dreamed of<br />
a “ Handbook for Authors.”’ It is all very well to<br />
write or type a MS., but the great question is—<br />
where is the market for it?<br />
<br />
It is true all editors are not alike—some are<br />
exceedingly considerate, and seem to remember<br />
the time when they themselves were contributors.<br />
I desire to mention the editor of the People’s<br />
Friend (Dundee) and the editor of the Young<br />
Man as especially considerate to those who send<br />
them MSS.<br />
<br />
In the new “handbook” let the author tell<br />
exactly what “rate”? each editor is willing to<br />
give for accepted papers; how long each editor<br />
usually keeps MSS.; what each paper or maga-<br />
zine wayts and what it does not want. And,<br />
<br />
above all, let clear notice be made if the payment<br />
is monthly, quarterly, or yearly.. I think most<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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sensible editors will weleome such a handbook<br />
<br />
quite asmuchas «8 Stormy.<br />
<br />
VIIIL—A Recent ExpPerreNce OF THE GENUS<br />
Eprror.<br />
<br />
The editorial chair of a certain periodical,<br />
which your humble servant has for some years<br />
fed with the poor munitions of his literary<br />
armoury, is now filled bya stranger. ‘This gentle-<br />
man, in the usual course of business, was pro-<br />
vided with a specimen of the writer’s poor abilities<br />
in the shape of a printed (not type-written)<br />
original article on a military topic, in which the<br />
genius of the French language lends itself most<br />
admirably to the technique of composition. Now<br />
your correspondent is well aware that any tirade<br />
which bristles with foreign terms and idioms<br />
suggests, ipso facto, a scant acquaintance with<br />
the mother tongue; but this position is hardly<br />
tenable in the case of an essay of some 8000<br />
words or more, which contains but from seven or<br />
eight borrowings from foreign idioms. This, how-<br />
ever, is one of the “rocks of offence,” which, in<br />
the face of the fact that the article is submittec<br />
for prompt use by reason of its being a “ subject<br />
of the hour,’ the editor quotes as a reason for<br />
delay in publishing.<br />
<br />
A further ground of objection is suggested in<br />
the use of participial subordinate sentences, which<br />
as most of your readers will allow, obviates<br />
verbiage in the form of relative clauses, and con-<br />
stitutes a marked feature in most of the Latin<br />
tongues.<br />
<br />
The third objection to the immediate use of an’<br />
article — originally submitted on conditional<br />
terms—is that it is too plain spoken as to certain<br />
acknowledged and existent errors in the military<br />
autonomy. As no single ungraceful or dis-<br />
courteous term is used, one is at a loss to under-<br />
stand why innuendoes are to be substituted for the<br />
open criticism of that abstraction called a<br />
“system.” Meanwhile the “ modifications” pro-<br />
posed are awaited by your correspondent with<br />
some curiosity, not unmixed with disquietude.<br />
<br />
The last, but by no means the least, lapsus<br />
calami (as this candid if captious critic will have<br />
it to be) is the alternative uses of “I” and “we fs<br />
within the limits of the same article. Now, on<br />
this, as on other points, the writer appeals to the<br />
Author for an opinion as to the accepted laws<br />
and regulations on this disputed (?) question. Is<br />
it or is it not the case that many writers of prose<br />
consistently perpetrate this asserted error on the<br />
following grounds? When an assertion is pre-<br />
sumed to carry with it the general assent of the<br />
reading world or public, for which the essay is<br />
written, it is considered permissible to use the<br />
pronoun plural “ we,” whereas whensoever the<br />
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writer will hazard his own opinions the more<br />
dogmatic “I” is used to back his theory and<br />
to differentiate between personal opinion and<br />
accepted facts.<br />
<br />
It remains only to add that it is, to say the<br />
least of it, a curious anomaly that in face of so<br />
much adverse criticism the said editor asks for<br />
more in the shape of “copy” from his poor con-<br />
tributor, who now begs some member of your<br />
society to “ break a lance” in his favour, or at<br />
least to guide him into right paths.<br />
<br />
F.C. 0. J.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IX.—Tue Rieut or APPEARANCE.<br />
<br />
A practice exists which seems to me to call for<br />
the consideration of the Society of Authors as the<br />
protectors of literary property.<br />
<br />
It has been often said that a writer is paid<br />
in two ways, by money and by reputation.<br />
Now, there is a large and increasing number<br />
of periodicals which accept, and in some few<br />
cases even pay for, a very much larger number<br />
of contributions than they can possibly use.<br />
These are generally stored in the offices until<br />
a periodical clearance is made of them. In<br />
some cases they find their way back to the<br />
authors, but as often as not are sent to the<br />
paper mills.<br />
<br />
It seems to me that this is a wrong that calls<br />
for a remedy, and I submit that an opportunity<br />
should be taken to raise and to decide the point<br />
whether the author of a signed contribution is not<br />
entitled to call for publication within a reasonable<br />
limit, or to place his MS. elsewhere. It is an<br />
outrage to argue that a money payment dis-<br />
charges the obligation. x<br />
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specs<br />
<br />
“AT THE SIGN OF THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.”<br />
<br />
Sa<br />
<br />
R. T. F. UTTLEY has written a duodecimo<br />
volume entitled “How to become a<br />
Solicitor; or, Hints to Articled Clerks.”<br />
<br />
In addition to other information, the book has an<br />
appendix of examination questions set duing<br />
1893.<br />
<br />
In last number of the Author (p. 413) Major<br />
Seton Churchill’s name appeared as Major Seton<br />
Carr, The announcement was of a book on<br />
Betting and Gambling.<br />
<br />
“The Law anl Lawyers of Pickwick,’ being<br />
the (revised) Jecture on the subject recently<br />
delivered by Mr. Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P.,<br />
is in preparation, and will shortly be issued by<br />
the Roxburghe Press, 3, Victoria-street, West-<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
minster, and 32, Charing-cross, S.W. Mr.<br />
Lockwood has sketched an original “ Buzfuz”<br />
for the frontispiece.<br />
<br />
Mr. Stephenson, the author of ‘ Mrs. Severn,”<br />
a successful temperance story, has written a<br />
second story, “Helena Hadley,” which is to be<br />
published in the autumn.<br />
<br />
A new edition of Mr. Mackenzie Bell’s mono-<br />
graph on Charles Whitehead, with extracts from<br />
his work, is about to appear. Prefixed to it is an<br />
appreciation of Whitehead by Mr. Hall Caine.<br />
<br />
The Rev. J. J. Halcombe has reprinted from<br />
the Guardian his letter on ‘The Gospel<br />
Problem: Fourfold not Synoptic.”<br />
<br />
“The Dead Hand,” a tale of old Manchester,<br />
by Mrs. G. Linneus Banks, is continued in the<br />
Manchester Monthly.<br />
<br />
A new work by Mr. J. E. Gore, F.R.AS.,<br />
entitled “The Worlds of Space,” a series of<br />
popular articles on astronomical subjects, has<br />
just been published by Messrs. A. D. Innes and<br />
Co., Bedford-street, Strand.<br />
<br />
Miss Eleanor Holmes’s last novel, ‘‘ The Price<br />
of a Pearl,” has been issued in a popular edition<br />
in America by Messrs. Harper, and forms the<br />
March number of what is known as the Franklin-<br />
square Library.<br />
<br />
Mr. Arthur Paterson has written a story called<br />
“The Daughter of the Nez Pere¢s.” It is strictly<br />
founded on fact. The chief incidents are taken<br />
from records by officers in the American army,<br />
who were engaged in active service against the<br />
Nez Percés Indians in 1879. The heroine has<br />
been brought up in the east. She rejoins her<br />
people to reclaim them from barbarism; but at<br />
an unfortunate moment, the nation being at war<br />
with the American Government, The interest<br />
of the story lies in the troubles of the Indians<br />
and the position of the girl among them, with<br />
the addition of her own romance. Attention is<br />
also drawn to the character of her father, Chief<br />
Joseph—well known to all students of Indian<br />
history—and his brother chiefs, who, with all<br />
the faults of their race and training, were made<br />
of stuff any nation might be proud to call its<br />
own. The publishers are Messrs. Bentley and<br />
Sons.<br />
<br />
The latest volume in “ The Independent Novel<br />
Series” is called “Theories: Studies from a<br />
Modern Woman,” by “A.N.T.A.P.” Some<br />
writers split their stories up into books, and the<br />
books into chapters, as, for example, “A Tale of<br />
Two Cities, in three books,” each book having<br />
its chapters numbered afresh. As this would be<br />
unnecessary in. shorter works, the author. of<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
“Theories” splits the work up into studies, with<br />
the titles—(1) “Courtship and Marriage ;” (2)<br />
“ Socialism and Society ;” (3) “The Theories<br />
Falter ;” and (4) ‘In Ruins.”<br />
<br />
Mrs. Leith Adams’s new novel, “ Colour-Serjeant<br />
No. 1 Company,” will be published immediately<br />
by Messrs. Jarrold and Sons. The work has<br />
already appeared in AJl the Year Round. The<br />
Scotsman has described it as ‘‘ 2 masterpiece of<br />
human pathos and clever portraiture.”<br />
<br />
Mr. W. P. James’s “ Romantic Professions ”’ is<br />
a collection of essays republished from magazines.<br />
Besides the first essay, which gives the title to the<br />
work, there are seven others: (2) “‘ The Nemesis<br />
of Sentimentalism,” (3) ‘‘ Romance and Youth,”<br />
(4) “On the Naming of Novels,” (5) ‘‘ Names in<br />
Novels,” (6) “Fhe Historical Novel,” (7) *‘ The<br />
Poet as Historian,” (8) “The Great Work.” The<br />
third paper, “Romance and Youth,” has been<br />
made the subject of wide comment with refer-<br />
ence to the child-marriages brought to light<br />
by Dr. Furnival in his researches into the<br />
marriage register of the time of Queen Eliza-<br />
beth. Readers of fiction will recall that the child<br />
marriage, for political reasons in the time of<br />
James IT., has been used with great success by<br />
John and Katharine Saunders in their novel,<br />
“ The Lion in the Path.”<br />
<br />
“Dave’s Sweetheart,” by Mary Gaunt, is<br />
the author’s first novel, though she has fre-<br />
quently contributed to periodical literature.<br />
The scene of the story is laid in Australia,<br />
not in the cities, but in the country of northern<br />
Victoria, and the chief characters are miners,<br />
police, and the family who kept the “ Lucky<br />
Digger Hotel.’ There are references to the<br />
existence of Chinamen and natives; in fact, a<br />
whole crowd of men, among whom for miles around<br />
there are but two women, the wife of the keeper<br />
of the “ Lucky Digger” and his daughter by a<br />
previous marriage, who is grown up, and is the<br />
heroine of the story. The author is at least at<br />
home in describing the peculiarities of the rough<br />
life of the miners, their relation with the police,<br />
and with one another. We hope that the author<br />
next time will give us something of the brighter<br />
side of life. It is published in 2 vols. by Edward<br />
Arnold.<br />
<br />
Mr. J. BE. Muddock has written a story called<br />
“The Star of Fortune,’ which will shortly be<br />
issued. The scenes are principally laid in India<br />
during the great Mutiny. The author was in<br />
India during the Mutiny years, and had many<br />
exciting experiences, which he has utilised to<br />
advantage in the present work. The publishers<br />
are Messrs. Chapman and Hall. The same<br />
<br />
author’s successful story, “For God and the<br />
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<br />
Czar,” published by George Newnes Linited,<br />
has been translated into Hebrew, and is now<br />
appearing serially in a Jewish paper called<br />
Hazophe which is printed in London by Meczyk,<br />
Latner, and Co.<br />
<br />
Dick Donovan, the well-known writer of detec-<br />
tive stories, commences a new serial in the<br />
Million this month. The title is ‘ Eugéne<br />
Vidocq,” and it deals with the thrilling career of<br />
the celebrated French adventurer who subse-<br />
quently distinguished himself as a detective.<br />
<br />
The Rev. Dr. Lansdell has brought out in two<br />
volumes an account of his journeys in Chinese<br />
Central Asia as a pioneer for missionary work.<br />
Dr. Lansdell was away two years and seven<br />
months, and seems to be well satisfied with the<br />
result of his travels. His work shows that he is<br />
able to point out in what places in Central Asia<br />
Church of England missionaries are wanted, and<br />
where they may hope for real conversions. In<br />
addition to acquiring this knowledge, as he was<br />
visiting countries unknown to science, he made an<br />
extensive collection of the different fauna.<br />
<br />
The author of “ Mark Tillotson” is at present<br />
in Bohemia, where he is travelling with an artist,<br />
Mr. Henry Whateley, in connection with his<br />
forthcoming volume on Bohemia, to be published<br />
in “The Pen and Pencil Series” of the Religious<br />
Tract Society. He has also penetrated to the<br />
mountain prison of “the great forgotten English-<br />
man” at Gutstein, a description of which will<br />
appear in his volume upon that fifteenth century<br />
hero.<br />
<br />
The poem entitled ‘Woman the Messiah,”<br />
now running in the Modern Review, is by Ellis<br />
Ethelmar, the author of ‘“‘ Woman Free.”<br />
<br />
It is pleasant to congratulate Mr. Percy White<br />
on his novel, “ Mr. Bailey-Martin” (Hememann).<br />
The pen of the satirist is here at work, and the<br />
pictures of late nineteenth century snobbism are<br />
as amusing as they are clever.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s book, “A Winter Jaunt to<br />
Norway” (Bliss, Sands, and Foster), which<br />
appeared in February last, is now in a second<br />
edition, It contains personal accounts of Ibsen,<br />
Bjérnson, Nansen, and Brandes. News may be<br />
heard in May or June of Dr. Nansen and his<br />
expedition, if he left letters at the New Siberian<br />
Islands last autumn, as he at one time contem-<br />
plated doing. Mrs. Tweedie’s book is very fully<br />
illustrated, and contairs a portrait of the<br />
authoress.<br />
<br />
The following notes are taken from the Dial of<br />
Chicago:<br />
<br />
The hundredth anniversary of Bryant’s birth-<br />
day will be celebrated Nov. 3, at Great Bar-<br />
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rington, Mass., where the poet was married, and<br />
lived for several years.<br />
<br />
The following Southey autograph, recently<br />
sold in London, is contributed to “ Poet-lore”<br />
by Mr. W. G. Kingsland : ;<br />
<br />
Mr. Southey, writer of autographs, in consequence of the<br />
great and unsolicited employment which he has obtained in<br />
that line of business, begs leave to lay before his friends and<br />
the public the following scale of charges :—<br />
<br />
Le ed.<br />
<br />
A Signature... 0-3 4<br />
Ditto in extra penmanship, ‘with date and<br />
<br />
time of place Ke o0 6 8<br />
<br />
Ditto with a motto or text of ‘Scripture a SO 19 aw<br />
Ditto with an extract from the writer’s<br />
<br />
poetry . ei oe ee<br />
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Ditto with the poetry unpublished | I 11 6<br />
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Ditto with the poetry composed for the<br />
<br />
occasion... 3 3.0<br />
Ditto being sentimental, ‘and ‘nob ‘exceeding<br />
<br />
six lines : We ee B50<br />
Ditto being humorous ane Nase aa eee<br />
Ditto being complimentary ... . 1010 0<br />
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N.B.—All warranted original.<br />
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Spec<br />
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OBITUARY.<br />
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I—Dr. Poout, THE LIBRARIAN.<br />
<br />
HE Dial, of Chicago, gives an account of the<br />
life and work of the late Dr. Poole, the<br />
librarian, who was a constant contributor<br />
<br />
to that journal. The first number contained a<br />
review from his pen. He was best known in this<br />
country as the compiler of the ‘“ Index of Perio-<br />
dical Literature.” Dr. Poole had been assistant<br />
librarian in Boston from 1850 to 1869, and chief<br />
librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library till<br />
1893, when he undertook the librarianship of<br />
the Chicago Public Library. Since 1887 he<br />
had been engaged in organising the Newbery<br />
Reference Library of Chicago. Of his aims,<br />
so far as his profession was concerned, the Dial<br />
writes :<br />
<br />
Librarianship, in this country, has during the past twenty<br />
years become one of the learned professions; that it has<br />
become so is due in very great measure to the efforts of Dr.<br />
Poole. To secure for his fellow workers the recognition<br />
accorded to the clergyman, the lawyer, and the physician ;<br />
to substitute the trained bibliographer for the mere custodian<br />
of books; to establish professional schools of librarianship ;<br />
to make the public familiar with the principles of rational<br />
library architecture ; to facilitate access tc collections of<br />
books, and to enlarge their usefulness by library helps<br />
prepared by the co-operation of bibliographers—these were,<br />
briefly stated, the aims towards whose accomplishment he<br />
devoted, for a full half-century, an exceptionally active and<br />
industrious life.<br />
<br />
In which connection it is interesting to note<br />
that he represented America at the first Inter-<br />
national Conference of Librarians, held in London<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
in 1877. Of his methods as a librarian we read<br />
that they<br />
<br />
were characterised by sagacious practicality and clear<br />
common sense. He mistrusted the elaborate scientific<br />
systems now in vogue with our younger bibliographers;<br />
systems which are excellent for the uses of the librarian, but<br />
sadly perplexing to most of the people for whom libraries<br />
are collected. His methods of classification and catalogue<br />
making were to a certain extent empirical, and not a little<br />
is to be said on behalf of empiricism in such matters. He<br />
never lost sight of the fundamental principle that books are<br />
meant to be used ; that their chief end is not attained when<br />
they are catalogued and shelved. He wanted the public to<br />
use the books under his charge, and encouraged such use<br />
in many ways.<br />
<br />
Dr. Poole’s historical work was chiefly con-<br />
nected with the early settlement of the Puritans,<br />
and, being himself one of their descendants, he<br />
stoutly defended his ancestors against the mis-<br />
representations under which they have suffered.<br />
Only last month he had an article in the Dial<br />
in their defence. The following is the account of<br />
“ Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature,” which<br />
is a worthy monument to the memory of the<br />
distinguished man of letters.<br />
<br />
The author began this important work as a student, when<br />
he was acting as librarian of a college society. Its first<br />
edition was printed in 1848, making an octavo of 154 pages.<br />
In 1853 it reappeared in an octavo of more than three<br />
times the thickness of the earlier volume. In 1882 (the<br />
author having meanwhile secured the co-operation of a<br />
number of his fellow librarians) it made its third and final<br />
appearance, again multiplied threefold as to the number of<br />
pages, and much more than that as to the quantity of<br />
matter. Two supplements have since been published, with<br />
the co-operation of Mr. W. I. Fletcher, bringing it down to<br />
1892.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IIT.—Mr. Wittiam Torrens M’CuLiace<br />
TORRENS.<br />
<br />
The death occurred yesterday, at his residence<br />
in Bryanston-square, of Mr. Wiliam Torrens<br />
M’Cullagh Torrens, who was the victim of a<br />
street accident on Tuesday last, from the effects<br />
of which he died. Mr. Torrens was the eldest<br />
son of Mr. James M’Cullagh, of Delville, county<br />
Dublin. He was born in October, 1813, and was<br />
educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he<br />
graduated B.A. in 1834 and LL.B. in840. He<br />
became a member of Lincoln’s-inn, and practised<br />
at the Common Law Bar. He was appointed a<br />
Commissioner of the Poor Law Inquiry in<br />
Ireland in 1835, private secretary to Lord<br />
Taunton (then Mr. Labouchere) in 1846, and<br />
represented Dundalk from 1847 till July, 1852,<br />
when he was an unsuccessful candidate for<br />
Yarmouth, for which he was returned at the<br />
general election in March, 1857. He was returned<br />
for the old borough of Finsbury i in July, 1865,<br />
and sat for the borough in ‘four successive<br />
Parliaments. In 1863 he assumed, for family<br />
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reasons, the name of Torrens, which was<br />
his mother’s name before her marriage. He<br />
was a prominent member of the independent<br />
Liberal party, who secured by their support Mr.<br />
Disraeli’s proposal of household suffrage for<br />
towns, and in committee on the Bill he proposed<br />
and carried the lodger franchise. In the following<br />
year he brought in the Artisans’ Dwellings Bill,<br />
which passed both houses. In 1869 he obtained<br />
the adoption for London of the system of board-<br />
ing out children by Poor Law guardians ; and<br />
in 1870 an Act to amend the laws regarding<br />
extradition was passed in accordance with the<br />
recommendation of a committee for which Mr.<br />
Torrens had moved two years before. The<br />
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