<table><tr><th>Omeka ID</th><th>Omeka URL</th><th>Title</th><th>Subject</th><th>Description</th><th>Creator</th><th>Source</th><th>Publisher</th><th>Date</th><th>Contributor</th><th>Rights</th><th>Relation</th><th>Format</th><th>Language</th><th>Type</th><th>Identifier</th><th>Coverage</th><th>Publisher(s)</th><th>Original Format</th><th>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry</th><th>Pages</th><th>Participants</th><th>Pen Name</th><th>Physical Dimensions</th><th>Position End Date</th><th>Position Start Date</th><th>Position(s)</th><th>Publication Frequency</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Sex</th><th>Society Membership End Date</th><th>Society Membership Start Date</th><th>Start Date</th><th>Sub-Committee End Date</th><th>Sub-Committee Start Date</th><th>Text</th><th>To</th><th>URL</th><th>Volume</th><th>Death</th><th>Biography</th><th>Birth</th><th>Committee End Date</th><th>Committee of Management End Date</th><th>Committee of Management Start Date</th><th>Committee Start Date</th><th>Committee(s)</th><th>Council End Date</th><th>Council Start Date</th><th>Date</th><th>Bibliography</th><th>End Date</th><th>Event Type</th><th>From</th><th>Image Source</th><th>Interactive Timeline</th><th>Issue</th><th>Location</th><th>Members</th><th>Ngram Date</th><th>Ngram Text</th><th>Files</th><th>Tags</th></tr><tr><td>311</td><td>https://historysoa.com/items/show/311</td><td>The Author, Vol. 08 Issue 08 (January 1898)</td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+08+Issue+08+%28January+1898%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Author&lt;/em&gt;, Vol. 08 Issue 08 (January 1898)&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049239455&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049239455&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication&quot;&gt;Publication&lt;/a&gt;</td><td>1898-01-01-The-Author-8-8</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>201&ndash;228</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=8&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1898-01-01&quot;&gt;1898-01-01&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>8</td><td></td><td></td><td>18980101</td><td>XI b e Huthot.&lt;br /&gt;
{The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. Vin.&mdash;No. 8.]&lt;br /&gt;
JANUARY i, 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
[Price Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
Oeneral Memoranda.&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Discount (Question&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Law of Author and Publisher&lt;br /&gt;
3. The CoBt of Binding&lt;br /&gt;
4. The Copyright Association&lt;br /&gt;
5. Haddock v. Blackwood&lt;br /&gt;
6. Shelley&amp;#039;s Publisher&lt;br /&gt;
Russian Copyright. By Henry Cresswell&lt;br /&gt;
New York Letter. By Norman Hapgood&lt;br /&gt;
PAOK&lt;br /&gt;
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Notes and News. By the Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
A Chapter of the Past&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Balfour on the Novel&lt;br /&gt;
International Relations of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
Personal&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence&mdash;1. A Young Author&amp;#039;s Grievance&lt;br /&gt;
lished Price&lt;br /&gt;
Book Talk&lt;br /&gt;
Literature in the Periodicals&lt;br /&gt;
The Books of the Month&lt;br /&gt;
The&lt;br /&gt;
p.* cik&lt;br /&gt;
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PUBLICATIONS OP THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Annual Report. That for January 1897 can be had on application to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Property. Issued to all Members, 6*. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the&lt;br /&gt;
following prices: Vol. I., 10*. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 8s. 6d. each (Bound);&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. V., 6s. 6d. (Unbound).&lt;br /&gt;
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Colles, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,&lt;br /&gt;
95, Strand, W.C.) 3s.&lt;br /&gt;
I. The History of the Societe des Gens de Lettres, By s. Squire Sprigqe, late Secretary to&lt;br /&gt;
the Society. 1*.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,&lt;br /&gt;
size of page, &amp;lt;fcc, with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of&lt;br /&gt;
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squire Sprioge. In this work, compiled from the&lt;br /&gt;
papers in the Society&amp;#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various&lt;br /&gt;
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3*.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill of 1890. With&lt;br /&gt;
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix containing the&lt;br /&gt;
Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lely. Eyre and Spottis-&lt;br /&gt;
woode. i&laquo;. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
8. The Society Of Authors, A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Walter Besant&lt;br /&gt;
(Chairman of Committee, 1888&mdash;1892). i&laquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst&lt;br /&gt;
Lunge, J.U.D. 2*. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
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AD VER TISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
&sect;t)e g&amp;gt;ociete of Jtuffrors (gncotporateb).&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENT.&lt;br /&gt;
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COUNCIL.&lt;br /&gt;
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Austin Dobson.&lt;br /&gt;
A. Conan Doyle, M.D.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. Duboubo.&lt;br /&gt;
Pbof. Michael Foster, P.E.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kichabd Garnett, C.B., LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
Edmund Gosse.&lt;br /&gt;
H. Rider Haggard.&lt;br /&gt;
Thomas Hardy.&lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Hope Hawkins.&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome K. Jerome.&lt;br /&gt;
Eudyard Kipling.&lt;br /&gt;
Prof. E. Eat Lankester, F.E.S.&lt;br /&gt;
W. E. H. Lecky, P.C., M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Lely.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. E. Lynn Linton.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hall Caine.&lt;br /&gt;
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P. W. Clayden.&lt;br /&gt;
Edwabd Clodd.&lt;br /&gt;
w. mobbis colleb.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. John Colliee.&lt;br /&gt;
Sib W. Martin Conway.&lt;br /&gt;
F. Marion Crawford.&lt;br /&gt;
Eight Hon. G. N. Cdbzon, P.C, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
Herman C. Meritale.&lt;br /&gt;
Eev. C. H. Middleton-Wake.&lt;br /&gt;
Sib Lewis Mobbis.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Norman.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss E. A. Obmebod.&lt;br /&gt;
J. C. Parkinson.&lt;br /&gt;
Eight Hon. Lobd Pibbbight, P.C,&lt;br /&gt;
F.E.S.&lt;br /&gt;
SibFbedebick Pollock, Babt., LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
Walteb Hebbies Pollock.&lt;br /&gt;
W. Baptists Scoones.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Flora L. Shaw.&lt;br /&gt;
G. E. Sims.&lt;br /&gt;
S. Squire Sprigge.&lt;br /&gt;
J. J. Stevenson.&lt;br /&gt;
Francis Storr.&lt;br /&gt;
William Moy Thomas.&lt;br /&gt;
H. D. Traill, D.CL.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Humphry Wabd.&lt;br /&gt;
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Q.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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Egeeton Castle, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
W. Mobbis Colles.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman-&lt;br /&gt;
OF MANAGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
-H. Eider Haggard.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir W. Mabtin Conway.&lt;br /&gt;
D. W. Freshfield.&lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Hope Hawkins.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Lely.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Mus.Doc.&lt;br /&gt;
Henby Norman.&lt;br /&gt;
Fjiancis Storr.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEES.&lt;br /&gt;
MUSIC.&lt;br /&gt;
C. Villibrs Stanford, Mas.D. (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
Jacques Blumenthal.&lt;br /&gt;
SUB&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. John Collier (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
Sib W. Martin Conway.&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. Spielmann.&lt;br /&gt;
f Field, Eoscoe, and Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
\, G. Hebbebt Thbino, B.A., 4, Portugal-street. Secretary&mdash;G. Herbert Tubing, B.A. OFFICES: 4, Pobtuoal Stbeet, Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields, W.C&lt;br /&gt;
DEAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Arthur Jones (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. X Beckett.&lt;br /&gt;
Edward Eose.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors&lt;br /&gt;
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TLhe Hutbor,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. VIII.&mdash;No. 8.] JANUARY i, 1898. [Pbick Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Secretary of the Society begs to give notioe that all&lt;br /&gt;
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be Bent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects conneoted with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
IT^OR some years it has been the praotice to insert, in&lt;br /&gt;
J every number of The Author, certain &amp;quot; General Con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderations,&amp;quot; Warnings, Notices, &amp;amp;o., for the guidance&lt;br /&gt;
of the reader. It has been objected as regards these&lt;br /&gt;
warnings that the tricks or frauds against which they are&lt;br /&gt;
directed cannot all be guarded against, for obvious reasons.&lt;br /&gt;
It is, however, well that they should be borne in mind, and&lt;br /&gt;
if any publisher refuses a clause of precaution he simply&lt;br /&gt;
reveals his true character, and should be left to carry on&lt;br /&gt;
his business in his own way.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us, however, draw up a few of the rules to be&lt;br /&gt;
observed in an agreement. There are three methods of&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with literary property:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
I. That of selling it outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A profit-sharing agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to:&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pooket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. Till.&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &amp;quot; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
(7.) To stamp the agreement,&lt;br /&gt;
ni. The royalty system.&lt;br /&gt;
In this system, which has opened the door to a most&lt;br /&gt;
amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s ignorance, it is above all things neoessary to know&lt;br /&gt;
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now&lt;br /&gt;
possible for an author to ascertain approximately and very&lt;br /&gt;
nearly the truth. From time to time the very important&lt;br /&gt;
figures connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Cost of Production.&amp;quot; Let no one, not even the youngest&lt;br /&gt;
writer, sign a royalty agreement without finding out what&lt;br /&gt;
it gives the publisher as well as himself.&lt;br /&gt;
It has been objected that these precautions presuppose a&lt;br /&gt;
great success for the book, and that very few books indeed&lt;br /&gt;
attain to this great success. That is quite true: but there is&lt;br /&gt;
always this uncertainty of literary property that, although&lt;br /&gt;
the works of a great many authors carry with them no risk&lt;br /&gt;
at all, and although of a great many it is known within a few&lt;br /&gt;
oopies what will be their minimum circulation, it is not&lt;br /&gt;
known what will be their maximum. Therefore every&lt;br /&gt;
author, for every book, should arrange on the ohanoe of a&lt;br /&gt;
success which will not, probably, come at all; but which&lt;br /&gt;
may come.&lt;br /&gt;
The four points whioh the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) That there shall be no secret profits.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) That nothing shall be charged whioh has not been&lt;br /&gt;
actually paid&mdash;for instance, that there shall be no oharge for&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements in the publisher&amp;#039;s own organs and none for&lt;br /&gt;
exchanged advertisements and that all discounts shall be&lt;br /&gt;
duly entered.&lt;br /&gt;
If these points are carefully looked after, the author may&lt;br /&gt;
rest pretty well assured that he is in right hands. At the&lt;br /&gt;
same time he will do well to send his agreement to the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary before he signs it.&lt;br /&gt;
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202 THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
I. &amp;quot;T7WERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
Fj advioe upon his agreements, his ohoioe of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the advice&lt;br /&gt;
sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member&lt;br /&gt;
has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the&lt;br /&gt;
case ia such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is desirable, the Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this&lt;br /&gt;
without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Eemember that questions connected with oopyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreements do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not soruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Sooiety first&mdash;our solicitors are continually&lt;br /&gt;
engaged upon suoh questions for us.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the office oopies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the bookB represented. This is in&lt;br /&gt;
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively&lt;br /&gt;
so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any&lt;br /&gt;
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-&lt;br /&gt;
mation thus obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. If the examination of your previous business trans-&lt;br /&gt;
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should&lt;br /&gt;
take advice as to a ohange of publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and&mdash;in&lt;br /&gt;
the case of fraudulent houses&mdash;the tricks of every publish-&lt;br /&gt;
ing firm in the country.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Remember always that in belonging to the Sooiety you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Send to the Editor of The Author notes of everything&lt;br /&gt;
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&mdash;(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; SYNDICATE.&lt;br /&gt;
MEMBERS are informed:&lt;br /&gt;
1. That the Authors&amp;#039; Syndicate takes charge of&lt;br /&gt;
the business of members of the Society. That it&lt;br /&gt;
submits MSS. to publishers and editors, concludes agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments, examines, passes, and collects accounts, and, gene-&lt;br /&gt;
rally, relieves members of the trouble of managing business&lt;br /&gt;
details.&lt;br /&gt;
2. That the terms upon which its services oan be secured&lt;br /&gt;
will be forwarded upon detailed application.&lt;br /&gt;
3. That the Authors&amp;#039; Syndicate works only for those&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society whose work possesses a market&lt;br /&gt;
value.&lt;br /&gt;
4. That the Syndicate can only undertake any negotiations&lt;br /&gt;
whatever on the distinct understanding that those negotia-&lt;br /&gt;
tions are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all&lt;br /&gt;
communications relating thereto are referred to it.&lt;br /&gt;
5. That clients can only be seen by the Director by&lt;br /&gt;
appointment, and that, when possible, at least two days&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
notice should be given.&lt;br /&gt;
6. That every attempt is made to deal with all communi-&lt;br /&gt;
cations promptly. That Btamps should, in all cases, be sent&lt;br /&gt;
to defray postage.&lt;br /&gt;
7. That the Authors&amp;#039; Syndicate does not invite MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
without previous correspondence; does not hold itself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice; and that&lt;br /&gt;
in all cases MSS. must be accompanied by stamps to defray&lt;br /&gt;
postage.&lt;br /&gt;
8. That the Syndicate undertakes arrangements for&lt;br /&gt;
lectures by some of the leading members of the Society;&lt;br /&gt;
that it has a &amp;quot;Transfer Department&amp;quot; for the sale and&lt;br /&gt;
purchase of journals and periodicals; and that a &amp;quot; Register&lt;br /&gt;
of Wants and Wanted&amp;quot; is open. Members are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate their requirements to the Manager.&lt;br /&gt;
There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose services&lt;br /&gt;
will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It&lt;br /&gt;
is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in&lt;br /&gt;
the Syndicate.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Seoretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
6s. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor ia always glad to receive short papers and&lt;br /&gt;
communications on all subjects oonnected with literature&lt;br /&gt;
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to&lt;br /&gt;
the Society than to make The Author complete, attractive,&lt;br /&gt;
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this&lt;br /&gt;
work send their names and the special subjects on which&lt;br /&gt;
they are willing to write P&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should reach the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
not later than the 21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to oommunioate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Members and others who wish their MSS. read are&lt;br /&gt;
requested not to send them to the Office without previously&lt;br /&gt;
communicating with the Seoretary. The utmost practicable&lt;br /&gt;
despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in&lt;br /&gt;
which they are received. It must also be distinctly under-&lt;br /&gt;
stood that the Sooiety does not, under any circumstances,&lt;br /&gt;
undertake the publication of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
The Authors&amp;#039; Club is now open in its new premises, at&lt;br /&gt;
3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
for information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;o.&lt;br /&gt;
Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they&lt;br /&gt;
have paid their subscriptions for the year P If they will do&lt;br /&gt;
this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the&lt;br /&gt;
trouble of sending out a reminder.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the&lt;br /&gt;
following warning. It is a most foolish and may be a&lt;br /&gt;
most disastrous thing to enter into an agreement binding&lt;br /&gt;
for a term of years. Let them ask themselves if they&lt;br /&gt;
would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five&lt;br /&gt;
years to oome, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
203&lt;br /&gt;
or dishonest f Of course they would not. Why then&lt;br /&gt;
hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves into literary bondage for throe or five years P&lt;br /&gt;
Those who possess the &amp;quot;Cost of Production&amp;quot; are&lt;br /&gt;
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot;doing sums,&amp;quot; the addition of three shillings in the&lt;br /&gt;
pound on this head. In other words, if the oost of binding&lt;br /&gt;
is set down in onr book at eight pounds, to this must now be&lt;br /&gt;
added twenty-four shillings more, so that it now stands&lt;br /&gt;
at JE9 48. The figures in our book are as near the exact&lt;br /&gt;
truth as can be procured; but a printer&amp;#039;s, or a binder&amp;#039;s,&lt;br /&gt;
bill is so elaatio a thing that nothing more exact can be&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at.&lt;br /&gt;
Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged&lt;br /&gt;
in the &amp;quot; Cost of Production&amp;quot; for advertising. Of course, we&lt;br /&gt;
have not included any Hums whioh may be charged for&lt;br /&gt;
inserting advertisements in the publisher&amp;#039;s own magazines,&lt;br /&gt;
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too&lt;br /&gt;
often go, there iB nothing to prevent the publisher from&lt;br /&gt;
sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket,&lt;br /&gt;
by inserting any number of advertisements in his own&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are&lt;br /&gt;
who call this a form of frand; it is not known what those&lt;br /&gt;
who practise this method of swelling their own profits call it.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;The Discount Question.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Publishers&amp;#039; Association having con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidered the report of the Sub-Committee of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of Authors, published in The&lt;br /&gt;
Author last month, has forwarded the following&lt;br /&gt;
letters, which explain themselves :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;H. Eider Haggard, Esq., Society of Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Dec. 9, 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;My dear Haggard,&mdash;I laid the report of your&lt;br /&gt;
Society on the discount question before our&lt;br /&gt;
council to-day, and the following resolution was&lt;br /&gt;
passed: &amp;#039;That in view of the report of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors, the council feel that it is not&lt;br /&gt;
possible for them to proceed with the proposed&lt;br /&gt;
scheme in its present form, but they are not&lt;br /&gt;
without hope that some other means of meeting&lt;br /&gt;
the difficulty may be suggested.&amp;#039; I was requested&lt;br /&gt;
to forward a copy of this resolution to you, and&lt;br /&gt;
also to the Associated Booksellers.&mdash;I am, yours&lt;br /&gt;
faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;(Signed) Chables James Longman,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;President.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
11.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;T. Burleigh, Esq., Hon. Sec. Associated&lt;br /&gt;
Booksellers, 370, Oxford-street, W.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Dec. 9, 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Dear Mr. Burleigh,&mdash;Tou have no doubt seen&lt;br /&gt;
the report of the Society of Authors on the&lt;br /&gt;
discount question. It was considered by the&lt;br /&gt;
council of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association to-day,&lt;br /&gt;
and I need hardly inform you that they greatly&lt;br /&gt;
regret the authors&amp;#039; decision, for though the&lt;br /&gt;
council were conscious of many difficulties in the&lt;br /&gt;
way of carrying out the scheme, they were pre-&lt;br /&gt;
pared to give it a fair and loyal trial if the co-&lt;br /&gt;
operation of the Authors&amp;#039; Society had been&lt;br /&gt;
secured. Although the present effort must be&lt;br /&gt;
considered to have failed, the council hope that&lt;br /&gt;
all who are interested in the circulation of books&lt;br /&gt;
will continue to give the matter full and careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration in the endeavour to discover some&lt;br /&gt;
practicable scheme. The following resolution was&lt;br /&gt;
carried unanimously at to-day&amp;#039;s meeting: &amp;#039;That&lt;br /&gt;
in view of the report of the Society of Authors,&lt;br /&gt;
the council feel that it is not possible for them to&lt;br /&gt;
proceed with the proposed scheme in its present&lt;br /&gt;
form, but they are not without hope that some&lt;br /&gt;
other means of meeting the difficulty may be&lt;br /&gt;
suggested.&amp;#039;&mdash;I am, yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wm. Poulten, Secretary.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Burleigh, hon. secretary of the Associated&lt;br /&gt;
Booksellers, has addressed the following letter to&lt;br /&gt;
the secretary of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
370, Oxford-street, London, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 13,1897.&lt;br /&gt;
Dear Mr. Poulten,&mdash;I beg to acknowledge the&lt;br /&gt;
receipt of your letter of the 9th inst., with the&lt;br /&gt;
copy of resolution of the Publishers&amp;#039; Council.&lt;br /&gt;
The disappointing condition of affairs will be&lt;br /&gt;
considered at our next council meeting early in&lt;br /&gt;
January.&lt;br /&gt;
I trust the council and booksellers generally&lt;br /&gt;
will support me in the determination to continue&lt;br /&gt;
the struggle, until literature of a higher class can&lt;br /&gt;
be profitably placed upon our shelves, and many&lt;br /&gt;
authors, now smothered, obtain a better chance&lt;br /&gt;
with the public.&mdash;Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
Thomas Burleigh.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. Sec. Associated Booksellers.&lt;br /&gt;
W. Poulten, Esq., Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
The Pubhshers&amp;#039; Association.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&lt;br /&gt;
The following letters also explain themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
The first is addressed to the secretary:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 5, 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
Deab Sib,&mdash;I have belonged to the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors for some years, and I am much indebted&lt;br /&gt;
to it for valuable advice given me on one occasion&lt;br /&gt;
when I was in a position of great difficulty. But&lt;br /&gt;
I so entirely disagree with the Report of the Sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee on the Discount Question, and am so&lt;br /&gt;
anxious to dissociate myself from it, that I am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 204 (#638) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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204&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
forced to resign my membership of the Society, as&lt;br /&gt;
I now do.&lt;br /&gt;
There is hardly any kind of business in which&lt;br /&gt;
the evils of reckless competition have not been&lt;br /&gt;
felt during the la&amp;gt;t half century, and remedies of&lt;br /&gt;
various kinds have been sought after and adopted&lt;br /&gt;
with success in many trades. To take their stand,&lt;br /&gt;
as the Committee do, on the formulae which were&lt;br /&gt;
current in 1852 about the &amp;quot; freedom which ought&lt;br /&gt;
to prevail in commercial transactions,&amp;quot; seems to&lt;br /&gt;
me an absurd anachronism.&lt;br /&gt;
Had it been clear that the Committee had&lt;br /&gt;
accepted Mr. Longman&amp;#039;s offer, and had met with&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers&amp;#039; sub-committee in conference on the&lt;br /&gt;
subject, I should attach more importance to their&lt;br /&gt;
contention that the proposed organisation could&lt;br /&gt;
not be carried out.&lt;br /&gt;
I am sending a copy of this letter to the presi-&lt;br /&gt;
dent of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association.&mdash;I remain,&lt;br /&gt;
yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
(Signed) Wm. Cunningham.&lt;br /&gt;
v.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 6, 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. W. Cunningham.&mdash;Dear Sir,&mdash;I am&lt;br /&gt;
in receipt of your letter, and have removed your&lt;br /&gt;
name from the books of the Society for the reason&lt;br /&gt;
that you disapprove of the Report of the Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee on the Discount Question. The Committee&lt;br /&gt;
did not take their stand &amp;quot;on the formute which&lt;br /&gt;
were current in 1852.&amp;quot; They have had a great&lt;br /&gt;
amount of evidence before them, and it is on this&lt;br /&gt;
evidence that they have come to draw their present&lt;br /&gt;
conclusions. We did not meet the sub-committee&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishers, because we had already the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers&amp;#039; views in the fullest manner before us&lt;br /&gt;
from the documents we had collected. We did,&lt;br /&gt;
however, as you will see by the Report, have the&lt;br /&gt;
views of booksellers of all classes, who surely are&lt;br /&gt;
more concerned in the affair than the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
I must apologise, however, for going into these&lt;br /&gt;
details now.&mdash;Tours truly,&lt;br /&gt;
G. Herbert Thring.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;The Law of Author and Publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
An order was made last week by the Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Chief Justice of considerable interest to authors&lt;br /&gt;
and the publishing trade. It related to the deal-&lt;br /&gt;
ing with copies of books remaining unsold upon&lt;br /&gt;
the bankruptcy of a publisher. The decision&lt;br /&gt;
come to was in the nature of a compromise, and&lt;br /&gt;
lacks the authority of a judgment; but it is&lt;br /&gt;
probable that the case may become a precedent,&lt;br /&gt;
and the facts have therefore a special interest to&lt;br /&gt;
those connected with literature. The plaintiff&lt;br /&gt;
was Mr. Frederick Wicks, and the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
Remington and Co. (Limited), Mr. Sidney Cronk,&lt;br /&gt;
the liquidator of the company, and Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
Grant Macqueen, the purchaser of Remington&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
business. The company and its predecessors,&lt;br /&gt;
Eden, Remington, and Co., had published and&lt;br /&gt;
sold three editions of &amp;quot;The Veiled Hand,&amp;quot; of&lt;br /&gt;
which Mr. Wicks is the author, and had printed&lt;br /&gt;
a fourth edition of 5000 copies. Between 2000&lt;br /&gt;
and 3000 of these remained unsold when the&lt;br /&gt;
company went into liquidation. The company&lt;br /&gt;
had also printed 5000 of &amp;quot;The Broadmoor&lt;br /&gt;
Patient&amp;quot; and 5000 of &amp;quot; The Infant,&amp;quot; by the same&lt;br /&gt;
author, and had sold about 2000 of each. The&lt;br /&gt;
defendant Macqueen therefore acquired posses-&lt;br /&gt;
sion of some 8000 copies of the three works. The&lt;br /&gt;
agreements made by Mr. Wicks with Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Remington were agreements to print and publish&lt;br /&gt;
only, and in each case the author retained the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. It is part of the established law that&lt;br /&gt;
agreements of this kind are not assignable with-&lt;br /&gt;
out the consent of the owner of the copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
and that they do not pass to an assignee in bank-&lt;br /&gt;
ruptcy nor to a liquidator of a company. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Cronk, however, assigned the agreements, and&lt;br /&gt;
sold the stock to Mr. Macqueen, who gave him an&lt;br /&gt;
indemnity for all the consequences of this act. The&lt;br /&gt;
correspondence showed that Mr. Wicks en-&lt;br /&gt;
deavoured to procure from Mr. Macqueen some&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledgment of his rights and some arrange-&lt;br /&gt;
ment for the continuance of the sales; but his&lt;br /&gt;
title to any participation in the proceeds of the&lt;br /&gt;
sale was denied in the first instance by both&lt;br /&gt;
parties. Later an endeavour to make an arrange-&lt;br /&gt;
ment was promised by Mr. Macqueen, but Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Wicks was requested to wait until full considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion could be given to the matter. A few months&lt;br /&gt;
later, nothing having been arranged, Mr. Wicks&lt;br /&gt;
found his books on sale at Messrs Smith and&lt;br /&gt;
Son&amp;#039;s bookstalls at a slightly reduced price. He&lt;br /&gt;
ascertained that some 1200 copies had been&lt;br /&gt;
bought and paid for three months before without&lt;br /&gt;
any consent on his part, and when he applied for&lt;br /&gt;
an account it was refused. Some months after&lt;br /&gt;
he was offered a third of the royalty stipulated by&lt;br /&gt;
the original agreement on a part of the sales only,&lt;br /&gt;
and the court was applied to. Pressure being&lt;br /&gt;
put upon the parties by the Lord Chief Justice&lt;br /&gt;
to make an arrangement, it was ultimately decided&lt;br /&gt;
to take an order requiring Mr. Macqueen to bind&lt;br /&gt;
the books to the satisfaction of Mr. Wicks, to&lt;br /&gt;
sell them at prices agreed to by Mr. Wicks, to&lt;br /&gt;
expend a reasonable amount in advertising the&lt;br /&gt;
books, which amount would be fixed by a third&lt;br /&gt;
person, and to pay to Mr. Wicks the amount&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledged in the account rendered, and a&lt;br /&gt;
royalty on future sales as stipulated in the origi-&lt;br /&gt;
nal agreement respecting &amp;quot;The Veiled Hand.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This agreement fixed the royalties at 1*. lod. per&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 205 (#639) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
205&lt;br /&gt;
copy on the 10s. 6d. edition, and 9^. on the&lt;br /&gt;
3s. 6d. edition, to be increased to 2*. 3d. and io\d.&lt;br /&gt;
respectively after the sale of 5000, which has been&lt;br /&gt;
the case with &amp;quot;The Veiled Hand.&amp;quot; The liquida-&lt;br /&gt;
tor of the company, who, the Lord Chief Justice&lt;br /&gt;
said, had assigned agreements that he had no&lt;br /&gt;
power to assign, was ordered to leave in the hands&lt;br /&gt;
of .the plaintiff five guineas paid into court.&mdash;The&lt;br /&gt;
Athenmum, Dec. 25.&lt;br /&gt;
m.&mdash;The Cost of Binding.&lt;br /&gt;
Exception has been taken to our estimate of t,d.&lt;br /&gt;
as the cost of plain binding. We have called&lt;br /&gt;
attention to an increase in the cost of binding.&lt;br /&gt;
This increase seems to belong to small orders.&lt;br /&gt;
Those who have sufficient business to give large&lt;br /&gt;
orders for cloth can still bind very cheaply. The&lt;br /&gt;
following taken from a publisher&amp;#039;s account shows&lt;br /&gt;
what is actually paid for binding. There were&lt;br /&gt;
1328 copies bound, viz.:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
262, in paper, at id.&lt;br /&gt;
150 at 31*. 6d. a hundred, or $zd. a volume.&lt;br /&gt;
916 at 38s. 6d. the hundred, or $\d. a volume.&lt;br /&gt;
The average amounts to 3^m&laquo;?.&mdash;i.e., a little&lt;br /&gt;
over 3|rf.&lt;br /&gt;
It is pleasant, after hearing frantic declarations&lt;br /&gt;
that the work cannot be done at the price, to&lt;br /&gt;
receive actual accounts showing that the work has&lt;br /&gt;
been done at the price.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;Thk Copyeight Association.&lt;br /&gt;
A service of plate was presented to Mr. Daldy&lt;br /&gt;
on Dec. 9 by the Copyright Association in recog-&lt;br /&gt;
nition of his services in the cause of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
The association, as is well known, has been in&lt;br /&gt;
existence a long time. It consists of a few&lt;br /&gt;
authors and some publishers: of late it has been&lt;br /&gt;
working with the Society. It is now very much&lt;br /&gt;
to be desired that the authors who are in the&lt;br /&gt;
association should remember that the Society has&lt;br /&gt;
done a great deal of solid work in connection with&lt;br /&gt;
* copyright, and that a continuance of their&lt;br /&gt;
membership might lead to complications with&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, which should have the first claim&lt;br /&gt;
upon their support.&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;Muddock v. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
(Before Mr. Justice Kekewich.)&lt;br /&gt;
This was a copyright case of some importance.&lt;br /&gt;
Two copyright actions had been brought, one&lt;br /&gt;
having been commenced in the Chancery Division&lt;br /&gt;
and the other in the Queen&amp;#039;s Bench Division, but&lt;br /&gt;
they had since been consolidated by an order in&lt;br /&gt;
the Chancery action. The writ in the Chancery&lt;br /&gt;
action was issued on Nov. 24, 1896, by the plain-&lt;br /&gt;
tiff, Mr. James Edward Muddock, the author or&lt;br /&gt;
and the registered proprietor of the copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
a work called &amp;quot;A Wingless Angel,&amp;quot; against Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
James Blackwood, a publisher, and a firm of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers called J. Blackwood and Co., claiming an&lt;br /&gt;
injunction, an account of profits, and delivery-up&lt;br /&gt;
of copies in respect of a work published by the&lt;br /&gt;
defendants under the same title, and being, in&lt;br /&gt;
fact, a reprint of the plaintiff&amp;#039;s work. On Dec. 10&lt;br /&gt;
the principal defendant, Mr. James Blackwood,&lt;br /&gt;
wrote to the plaintiff offering to submit to an in-&lt;br /&gt;
junction, to pay =&pound;10 as damages, to deliver up all&lt;br /&gt;
copies in his hands, and to pay the plaintiff&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
costs as between party and party. The plaintiff,&lt;br /&gt;
however, refused the offer, and on Dec. 18 made a&lt;br /&gt;
demand in writing on the defendants under sect.&lt;br /&gt;
23 of the Copyright Act, 1842 (5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict. c. 45),&lt;br /&gt;
for all copies of the book unlawfully printed or&lt;br /&gt;
imported; and then, on Dec. 23, 1896, issued the&lt;br /&gt;
writ in the Queen&amp;#039;s Bench action, claiming&lt;br /&gt;
damages for wrongful conversion of copies of the&lt;br /&gt;
book unlawfully printed without the consent of&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff. Then he delivered a statement of&lt;br /&gt;
claim in that action, and on Feb. 1,1897, obtained&lt;br /&gt;
an order in chambers in that action transferring&lt;br /&gt;
it to the Chancery Division, but expressly reserv-&lt;br /&gt;
ing the costs of that action to be dealt with by&lt;br /&gt;
the Chancery judge at the trial. On Feb. 8 Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Justice Kekewich, on the plaintiff&amp;#039;s application,&lt;br /&gt;
made an order that the two actions should be&lt;br /&gt;
consolidated and proceed as one action, and in the&lt;br /&gt;
consolidated action the plaintiff delivered a state-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of claim, claiming an injunction, delivery up&lt;br /&gt;
of all copies in the defendants&amp;#039; possession, an&lt;br /&gt;
account of profits made by the defendants by the&lt;br /&gt;
infringement, or, alternatively, damages in respect&lt;br /&gt;
of the infringement, with an inquiry as to the&lt;br /&gt;
amount thereof, &pound;2 50 damages for conversion as&lt;br /&gt;
in an action of trover, and costs. It appeared&lt;br /&gt;
that the plaintiff had not published any copies of&lt;br /&gt;
his work since 1875; that in 1886 the defendant&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. James Blackwood bought the stereotyped&lt;br /&gt;
plates of the work at an auction sale at Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Puttick and Simpson&amp;#039;s, of Leicester-square, and&lt;br /&gt;
had used them without demur until last year. An&lt;br /&gt;
account furnished by the defendant showed that&lt;br /&gt;
in 1886 he sold 1010 copies at a total price of&lt;br /&gt;
■&pound;38 199. g^d., and at a profit of &pound;8 lot. 4$&amp;lt;Z.;&lt;br /&gt;
also that in 1896 he sold 29 copies at a profit of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1 4&laquo;. 2d., his total profits thus amounting to&lt;br /&gt;
=&pound;9 148. 6\d. -. also that, after taking into account&lt;br /&gt;
the purchase of the plates and repairs, amounting&lt;br /&gt;
altogether to &amp;lt;&pound;io, there had been a net loss on&lt;br /&gt;
production and sale of the book of 58. $\d.&lt;br /&gt;
Warrington, Q.C., and J. G. Joseph for the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff, relied on sect. 23 of the Copyright Act,&lt;br /&gt;
1842 (5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict. c. 45) (Scrutton on Copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
p. 246), which provides that &amp;quot;all copies of any&lt;br /&gt;
book wherein there shall be copyright, and of&lt;br /&gt;
which entry shall have been made in the said&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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206&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
registry book, and which shall have been unlaw-&lt;br /&gt;
fully printed or imported without the consent of&lt;br /&gt;
the registered proprietor of such copyright, in&lt;br /&gt;
writing under his hand first obtained, shall be&lt;br /&gt;
deemed to be the property of the proprietor of&lt;br /&gt;
such copyright, and who shall be registered as&lt;br /&gt;
such, and such registered proprietor shall, after&lt;br /&gt;
demand thereof in writing, be entitled to sue for&lt;br /&gt;
and recover the same, or damages for the deten-&lt;br /&gt;
tion thereof, in an action of detinue, from any&lt;br /&gt;
party who shall detain the same, or to sue for and&lt;br /&gt;
recover damages for the conversion thereof in an&lt;br /&gt;
action for trover.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Renshaw, Q.C. and J. W. Baines, for the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant Blackwood, referred to sect. 15, which&lt;br /&gt;
enacts that &amp;quot; if any person shall, in any part of&lt;br /&gt;
the British dominions, after the passing of this&lt;br /&gt;
Act, print or cause to be printed, either for sale&lt;br /&gt;
or exportation, any book in which there shall be&lt;br /&gt;
subsisting copyright, without the consent in&lt;br /&gt;
writing of the proprietor thereof, or shall import&lt;br /&gt;
for sale or hire any such book so having been&lt;br /&gt;
unlawfully printed from paits beyond the sea, or,&lt;br /&gt;
knowing such book to have been so unlawfully&lt;br /&gt;
printed or imported, shall sell, publish, or expose&lt;br /&gt;
for sale or hire, or cause to be sold, published,&lt;br /&gt;
or exposed for sale or hire, or shall have in his&lt;br /&gt;
possession, for sale or hire, any such book so un-&lt;br /&gt;
lawfully printed or imported, without such con-&lt;br /&gt;
sent as aforesaid, such offender shall be liable to a&lt;br /&gt;
special action on the case at the suit of the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
prietor of such copyright, to be brought in any&lt;br /&gt;
court of record in that part of the British&lt;br /&gt;
dominions in which the offence shall be com-&lt;br /&gt;
mitted.&amp;quot; They submitted that the two sections&lt;br /&gt;
were inconsistent, and that the plaintiff was wrong&lt;br /&gt;
in claiming, as he had done, both in detinue and&lt;br /&gt;
in trover, for, under sect. 23 he must select the&lt;br /&gt;
one mode of action or the other, not both. As to&lt;br /&gt;
the alleged profits made by the defendant, when&lt;br /&gt;
the price of the plates and the usual trade dis-&lt;br /&gt;
count were taken into consideration, it was clear&lt;br /&gt;
there could be no profits. [Mr. Justice Kbke-&lt;br /&gt;
wich.&mdash;I should think wingless angels would&lt;br /&gt;
require some discount to make them fly. (Laugh-&lt;br /&gt;
ter.)] The plaintiff had resorted to a &amp;quot;multi-&lt;br /&gt;
plicity&amp;quot; of actions, when he might have sought&lt;br /&gt;
relief by one action. The action had been, in&lt;br /&gt;
fact, continued without any necessity, the defen-&lt;br /&gt;
dant having offered all the plaintiff could justly&lt;br /&gt;
claim.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Justice Kkkkwich said it was somewhat&lt;br /&gt;
strange that in the end of the year 1897 he should&lt;br /&gt;
be called upon for the first time to say what was&lt;br /&gt;
the meaning of sect. 23 of the Act 5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict,&lt;br /&gt;
c. 45&mdash;whether the remedy given by that section&lt;br /&gt;
was inconsistent with that given by sect. 15; but&lt;br /&gt;
he supposed he was really called upon to do that&lt;br /&gt;
because no counsel had suggested to him that&lt;br /&gt;
there was any decision; and, moreover, the book&lt;br /&gt;
on copyright which was in the bands of the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fession, and to which reference was usually made&lt;br /&gt;
on all questions of copyright, did not give any&lt;br /&gt;
case on the subject. Two points had been raised.&lt;br /&gt;
First, it was said on behalf of the defendant&lt;br /&gt;
that sect. 15 gave the proprietor of copyright a&lt;br /&gt;
remedy by special action on the case: that that&lt;br /&gt;
meant that this was the remedy which he was&lt;br /&gt;
intended to pursue, except so far as his remedies&lt;br /&gt;
at common law were not interfered with; that&lt;br /&gt;
the offender under sect. 23 was a different person&lt;br /&gt;
to the offender under sect. 15; that under sect. 15&lt;br /&gt;
he was dealing with a person who had &amp;quot; unlaw-&lt;br /&gt;
fully printed or imported &amp;quot; a book in which there&lt;br /&gt;
was a subsisting copyright, and that the other&lt;br /&gt;
Kect., 23, provided a remedy against the accidental&lt;br /&gt;
possessor of the infringing book, so as to give a&lt;br /&gt;
right of action against that accidental possessor&lt;br /&gt;
independently of his being otherwise a wrong-&lt;br /&gt;
doer. That might b-j the right view, but the&lt;br /&gt;
language of the sections was not sufficiently clear&lt;br /&gt;
to compel his Lordship to adopt it. No doubt&lt;br /&gt;
there were words in sect. 15 which were not to be&lt;br /&gt;
found in sect. 23, and he was unable to suggest&lt;br /&gt;
why the two sections should not have been put&lt;br /&gt;
into one, and why they should have been sepa-&lt;br /&gt;
rated as they were. But, on the other hand, he&lt;br /&gt;
did not see why, because the proprietor of copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right had a remedy under sect. 15 against the&lt;br /&gt;
wrong-doer, he could not sue that wrong-doer, if&lt;br /&gt;
so advised, under sect. 23. Then the next point&lt;br /&gt;
was this. The book being vested in the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
prietor of the copyright, sect. 23 said he &amp;quot;shall,&lt;br /&gt;
after demand in writing, be entitled to sue for&lt;br /&gt;
and recover the same or damages for the deten-&lt;br /&gt;
tion thereof, in an action of detinue, from any&lt;br /&gt;
party who shall detain the same, or to sue for and&lt;br /&gt;
recover damages for the conversion thereof in an&lt;br /&gt;
action of trover.&amp;quot; That provided an alternative&lt;br /&gt;
remedy; and the argument on behalf of the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant was that the plaintiff claiming to sue &bull;&lt;br /&gt;
under that section must elect to sue either in&lt;br /&gt;
detinue or in trover, and could not sue in both.&lt;br /&gt;
That was an easier point than the other.&lt;br /&gt;
There was an alternative remedy. It would,&lt;br /&gt;
in his Lordship&amp;#039;s opinion, be adopting an&lt;br /&gt;
extremely narrow construction of the Act to say&lt;br /&gt;
that the proprietor of the copyright in a book,&lt;br /&gt;
knowing that a person had a certain number of&lt;br /&gt;
copies in his hands and that he had sold other&lt;br /&gt;
copies, could not sue that person in respect of&lt;br /&gt;
the copies that he had detained, and also in&lt;br /&gt;
respect of those that he had converted to his own&lt;br /&gt;
jise. It seemed tolerably plain upon the Act&lt;br /&gt;
itself, and in accordance with what was the appa-&lt;br /&gt;
rent intention of the Legislature, that the two&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
207&lt;br /&gt;
actions might be reduced to one action distributed&lt;br /&gt;
in the way he had suggested&mdash;that is to say, the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff might sue in detinue in respect of the&lt;br /&gt;
copies the defendant had detained, and might&lt;br /&gt;
sue in trover in respect of the copies he had&lt;br /&gt;
sold and converted to his own use. Having got&lt;br /&gt;
so far, the plaintiff in the present case, who was&lt;br /&gt;
the proprietor of the registered copyright in a&lt;br /&gt;
book called &amp;quot;A Wingless Angel,&amp;quot; was entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
sue under sect. 23, and to sue the defendant not-&lt;br /&gt;
withstanding that he might have brought what&lt;br /&gt;
was called &amp;quot; a special action on the case &amp;quot; under&lt;br /&gt;
sect. 15; and he might have exercised his privi-&lt;br /&gt;
lege of bringing an action on the case by pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ceeding in the Chancery Division. What, then,&lt;br /&gt;
was the plaintiff&amp;#039;s remedy? In his Lordship&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion he was entitled to the delivery-up on&lt;br /&gt;
oath of all books in the possession of the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant&mdash;that is to say, delivery-up, and also&lt;br /&gt;
damages as in an action of trover for the books&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant had sold. The defendant had sold&lt;br /&gt;
twice. In 1886 he sold 1010 copies and realised&lt;br /&gt;
.&pound;38 19*. g^d., or, say, .&pound;39, making a profit of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;8 10s. 4%d.; and then he published the book&lt;br /&gt;
again in 1896, and sold twenty-nine copies, and&lt;br /&gt;
made a profit of &amp;lt;&pound;i 40. 2d., which on his own&lt;br /&gt;
showing was rather more than one-eighth of&lt;br /&gt;
what he had made in 1886. His Lordship de-&lt;br /&gt;
clined to order an inquiry as to damages. It&lt;br /&gt;
would be almost wicked to send the case to the&lt;br /&gt;
master or to an official referee to find damages&lt;br /&gt;
for conversion; if necessary, he should have the&lt;br /&gt;
inquiry before himself. Mr. Warrington had&lt;br /&gt;
asked him to fix a sum, and if he added forty&lt;br /&gt;
guineas for the whole, he thought he was giving&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff as much as he was entitled to. The&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff was also entitled to an injunction as&lt;br /&gt;
part of the order. Upon the question of costs,&lt;br /&gt;
his Lordship said that the plaintiff might have&lt;br /&gt;
obtained all the relief he sought by one action in&lt;br /&gt;
the Chancery Division. He seemed, however, to&lt;br /&gt;
have determined to multiply costs in every&lt;br /&gt;
possible way, and his Lordship would do his best&lt;br /&gt;
to mark his sense of that proceeding. He should&lt;br /&gt;
therefore give him only the costs of the Chancery&lt;br /&gt;
action; the costs of the other proceedings he&lt;br /&gt;
must be ordered to pay.&mdash;The Times, Nov. 17.&lt;br /&gt;
SHELLEY&amp;#039;S PUBLISHES.&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES OLLIER began his working life&lt;br /&gt;
in Messrs. Coutts&amp;#039;s bank, but a classical&lt;br /&gt;
education had developed literary tastes, and&lt;br /&gt;
these he first indulged by becoming a publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
He had not been a year in business when, through&lt;br /&gt;
Leigh Hunt&mdash;whose &amp;quot;Foliage,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Hero and&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. VIII.&lt;br /&gt;
Leander,&amp;quot; and the second edition of &amp;quot; The Story&lt;br /&gt;
of Rimini&amp;quot; he published&mdash;he was introduced to&lt;br /&gt;
Keats, and the acquaintance led to his publishing&lt;br /&gt;
the first poems of Keats in 1817. The book was&lt;br /&gt;
not a success; Keats blamed the inactivity of the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, and went over to Taylor and Hessey&lt;br /&gt;
with his subsequent works. With Shelley the&lt;br /&gt;
case was different. It was due to Oilier that&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Laon and Cythna&amp;quot; was altered and&lt;br /&gt;
converted into &amp;quot;The Revolt of Islam&amp;quot;; and,&lt;br /&gt;
although the poet complained of that proceeding,&lt;br /&gt;
all his subsequent works published in his life-&lt;br /&gt;
time, except &amp;quot;Swellfoot the Tyrant,&amp;quot; were&lt;br /&gt;
brought out by Oilier. When Shelley sent his&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Defence of Poetry&amp;quot; to Oilier in 1821, indeed, he&lt;br /&gt;
wrote that &amp;quot; if any expressions should strike you&lt;br /&gt;
as too unpopular, I give you the power of omit-&lt;br /&gt;
ting them; but I trust you will, if possible,&lt;br /&gt;
refrain from exercising this.&amp;quot; Although his&lt;br /&gt;
brother James was the man of business, the firm&lt;br /&gt;
of Charles and James Oilier, of Vere-street, did not&lt;br /&gt;
prosper. Li 1819 he published &amp;quot; The Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Pocket Book,&amp;quot; in which Shelley&amp;#039;s poem of &amp;quot; Mari-&lt;br /&gt;
anne&amp;#039;s Dream&amp;quot; was first printed; and in 1820&lt;br /&gt;
he brought out the first part of &amp;quot; Oilier&amp;#039;s Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Miscellany, in Prose and Verse, by Several&lt;br /&gt;
Hands.&amp;quot; This publication, which, as the title-&lt;br /&gt;
page said, was &amp;quot;to be continued occasionally,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
contained a remarkable article on the German&lt;br /&gt;
drama by Archdeacon Hare, and another by&lt;br /&gt;
Peacock on &amp;quot;The Four Ages of Poetry.&amp;quot; As&lt;br /&gt;
the latter, in which the writer regarded poetry as a&lt;br /&gt;
worn-out delusion of barbarous times, provoked&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Defence of Pcetry,&amp;quot; the following&lt;br /&gt;
entertaining passage may be quoted as a taste of&lt;br /&gt;
its quality. The year of writing is 1820:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
In the origin and perfection of poetry, all the associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tions of life were composed of poetio materials. With us it&lt;br /&gt;
is decidedly the reverse. We know, too, that there are nu&lt;br /&gt;
Dryads in Hyde Park nor Naiads in the Regent&amp;#039;s Canal&lt;br /&gt;
Bat barbaric manners and supernatural interventions are&lt;br /&gt;
essential to poetry. Either in the scene, or in the time, or&lt;br /&gt;
in both, it must be remote from our ordinary perceptions.&lt;br /&gt;
While the historian and the philosopher are advanoing in&lt;br /&gt;
and accelerating the progress of knowledge, the poet is&lt;br /&gt;
wallowing in the rubbish of departed ignoranoe, and raking&lt;br /&gt;
up the ashes of dead savages to find geegaws and rattles&lt;br /&gt;
for the grown babies of the age. Mr. Scott digs up the&lt;br /&gt;
poachers and cattle stealers of the anoient border. Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Byron cruises for thieves and pirates on the shores of the&lt;br /&gt;
Morea and among the Greek islands. Mr. Southey wades&lt;br /&gt;
through ponderous volumes of travel and old chronicles,&lt;br /&gt;
from which he carefully selects all that is false, useless,&lt;br /&gt;
and absurd, as being essentially poetioal; and when he has a&lt;br /&gt;
oommonplace book, full of monstrosities, strings them into&lt;br /&gt;
an epic Mr. Wordsworth picks up village legends from old&lt;br /&gt;
women and sextons; and Mr. Coleridge, to the valuable&lt;br /&gt;
information acquired from similar sources, superadds the&lt;br /&gt;
dreams of crazy theologians and the mysticisms of German&lt;br /&gt;
metaphysios, and favours the world with visions in verse,&lt;br /&gt;
in whioh the quadruple elements of sexton, old woman,&lt;br /&gt;
Jeremy Taylor, and Emanuel Kant are harmonised into a&lt;br /&gt;
T&lt;br /&gt;
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208&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
delicious poetical compound. Mr. Moore presents as with&lt;br /&gt;
a Persian, and Mr. Campbell with a Pennsylvanian tale,&lt;br /&gt;
both formed on the same principle as Mr. Southey&amp;#039;s epics,&lt;br /&gt;
by extracting from a perfunctory and desultory perusal of a&lt;br /&gt;
collection of voyages and travels, all that useful investiga-&lt;br /&gt;
tion would not seek for and that common sense would&lt;br /&gt;
reject.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Very clever, but false,&amp;quot; said Shelley of Pea-&lt;br /&gt;
cock&amp;#039;s tilt against poetry. Shelley&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Defence&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
was originally intended to appear in the second&lt;br /&gt;
part of &amp;quot;Ollier&amp;#039;s Miscellany,&amp;quot; but no second part&lt;br /&gt;
ever appeared. Then Ollier&amp;#039;s business was wound-&lt;br /&gt;
up, and the &amp;quot; Defence&amp;quot; came into the possession&lt;br /&gt;
of John Hunt, who prepared it for publication&lt;br /&gt;
in the &amp;quot; Liberal,&amp;quot; but that periodical also expired&lt;br /&gt;
before it could be published.&lt;br /&gt;
Meanwhile Oilier had become a literary adviser&lt;br /&gt;
to Bentley, and he continued long in this position.&lt;br /&gt;
He also contributed to magazines, and occasion-&lt;br /&gt;
ally gave lectures on celebrated writers. He&lt;br /&gt;
admired Shakespeare to such a degree, and held&lt;br /&gt;
himself under such a loyal weight of obligation&lt;br /&gt;
to him, that, says Hunt, &amp;quot;I have known him&lt;br /&gt;
involuntarily measure persons, whom he other-&lt;br /&gt;
wise respected, from head to foot if tbey ventured&lt;br /&gt;
to maintain the least objection to the great poet;&lt;br /&gt;
as though, in default of some possible intellectual&lt;br /&gt;
cause for it, he was trying to discover some cause&lt;br /&gt;
physical.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
As an author, Oilier possessed two faults in&lt;br /&gt;
Leigh Hunt&amp;#039;s eyes. First, he should have written&lt;br /&gt;
more; and, secondly, he should have taken more&lt;br /&gt;
pains to keep what he did write before the public.&lt;br /&gt;
His first work was &amp;quot;Altham and His Wife: a&lt;br /&gt;
Domestic Tale&amp;quot; (1818). Shelley wrote of this:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It is a natural story, most unaffectedly told in a&lt;br /&gt;
strain of very pure and powerful English.&amp;quot; Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Scott, in a critique which he wrote in the&lt;br /&gt;
Quarterly Review on the novel of &amp;quot; Haggi Baba&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in England, refers to the story of &amp;quot;Altham and&lt;br /&gt;
His Wife&amp;quot; as furnishing pleasant authority for&lt;br /&gt;
the telling of love-tales under umbrellas during a&lt;br /&gt;
shower. Ollier&amp;#039;s second book, &amp;quot;Iuesilla; or, the&lt;br /&gt;
Tempter: a Romance, with Other Tales&amp;quot; (1824),&lt;br /&gt;
Hunt said was &amp;quot;the best bit of diablerie in the&lt;br /&gt;
language.&amp;quot; So high an opinion was entertained&lt;br /&gt;
of it by the authoress of &amp;quot;Frankenstein,&amp;quot; that a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher having proposed to piece out the requi-&lt;br /&gt;
site size of a volume of stories from her pen by&lt;br /&gt;
one worthy of its companionship, she said she&lt;br /&gt;
should prefer this production of Mr. Oilier. Then&lt;br /&gt;
followed &amp;quot;Ferrers&amp;quot; (1842), a romance on the&lt;br /&gt;
execution of Earl Ferrers in 1760; &amp;quot;Fallacy of&lt;br /&gt;
Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens, with Stories of&lt;br /&gt;
Witchcraft, Life-in-Death, and Monomania&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(1848), reprinted from Ainsworth&amp;#039;s Magazine,&lt;br /&gt;
and published by the author himself. Edmund&lt;br /&gt;
Oilier, author, who died in 1886, was a son of&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Oilier.&lt;br /&gt;
EUSSIAN COPYBIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
AT present, no international copyright exists&lt;br /&gt;
in Russia. Not only is the Russian&lt;br /&gt;
Empire by far the largest and by far the&lt;br /&gt;
most important of the European States outside&lt;br /&gt;
the Berne Convention, but it is also without any&lt;br /&gt;
private copyright convention with any other&lt;br /&gt;
State. The readers of The Author will not&lt;br /&gt;
require to be told what that implies. The&lt;br /&gt;
results are, of course, as unsatisfactory to Russian&lt;br /&gt;
authors as they are to the authors of other&lt;br /&gt;
countries, all whose works are at the free disposal&lt;br /&gt;
of the subjects of the Tsar. Even editors and&lt;br /&gt;
publishers do not find it always convenient to be&lt;br /&gt;
unable either to inhibit the unlimited introduction&lt;br /&gt;
of translations of foreign works, or to get any&lt;br /&gt;
protection for those which they have themselves&lt;br /&gt;
brought out. In fact, the situation appears&lt;br /&gt;
to be rapidly becoming intolerable. The object,&lt;br /&gt;
however, of the present article is not to&lt;br /&gt;
explain that the results of unlimited piracy&lt;br /&gt;
are as unsatisfactory in Russia as elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
That is a matter of course. But it is pleasant&lt;br /&gt;
to be able to mention, on the other hand,&lt;br /&gt;
that the Russians are beginning to realise that&lt;br /&gt;
piracy is unsatisfactory, and that, in consequence,&lt;br /&gt;
some steps in a more hopeful direction have been&lt;br /&gt;
recently taken.&lt;br /&gt;
For some time past pleas have been urged in&lt;br /&gt;
favour of the renewal of the copyright conven-&lt;br /&gt;
tion formerly existing between Russia and France.&lt;br /&gt;
This lapsed upon the denunciation, in 1887, of&lt;br /&gt;
the treaty of 1861. In 1893 M. Zola published in&lt;br /&gt;
the Temps, &amp;quot;An Open Letter to the Russian&lt;br /&gt;
Press.&amp;quot; In 1894 both the St. Petersburg Society&lt;br /&gt;
of Authors and the St. Petersburg Association of&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers named commissions to consider pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posals for some new legislation. The Musical&lt;br /&gt;
Society of St. Petersburg and the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Artists took also similar steps. In the meantime&lt;br /&gt;
the Russian Government had instituted under the&lt;br /&gt;
presidency of Count Muravieff, then Minister of&lt;br /&gt;
Justice, but at present of Foreign Affairs, a com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission for the revision of the Russian code.&lt;br /&gt;
Upon reaching the section relating to copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
certain new regulations, in accordance with&lt;br /&gt;
modern views, were proposed and submitted for&lt;br /&gt;
consideration to various Russian societies com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent to give opinions concerning them. More&lt;br /&gt;
recently the text of the proposed legislation was&lt;br /&gt;
communicated to the congress at Monaco, accom-&lt;br /&gt;
panied by a letter from the Chancellor of the&lt;br /&gt;
Russian Imperial Commission. This letter ex-&lt;br /&gt;
plained that the projected regulations were&lt;br /&gt;
by no means to be regarded as final, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the right of translation, at present&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
209&lt;br /&gt;
treated in a manner altogether inconsistent&lt;br /&gt;
with the spirit of the Berne Convention,&lt;br /&gt;
would probably be reconsidered and placed&lt;br /&gt;
upon an entirely different basis. The Monaco&lt;br /&gt;
Congress was naturally much gratified by the&lt;br /&gt;
compliment paid it by the Russian Government,&lt;br /&gt;
and a special commission of the association was&lt;br /&gt;
nominated to study the proposals laid before it.&lt;br /&gt;
Those who are specially interested in the subject&lt;br /&gt;
will find lengthy and highly instructive articles&lt;br /&gt;
upon it in the recent numbers of Le Droit&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;Auteur, to which publication we are indebted&lt;br /&gt;
for the facte briefly summarised in the following&lt;br /&gt;
paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;
All literary, musical, and artistic works are to&lt;br /&gt;
be protected. With some restrictions, copyright&lt;br /&gt;
is accorded also to collections of national ballads,&lt;br /&gt;
and of other folk-lore, hitherto orally transmitted&lt;br /&gt;
(an excellent provision in a country so rich in&lt;br /&gt;
folk-lore as Russia), and to editors of ancient&lt;br /&gt;
manuscripts&mdash;the last without prejudice to editors&lt;br /&gt;
of other manuscripts of the same work. Lectures,&lt;br /&gt;
sermons, and public discourses are also to be&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. Of judicial, municipal, and other&lt;br /&gt;
public speeches of the same kind, the authors&lt;br /&gt;
are to have a copyright, but the newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
to be free to report. Laws and public regula-&lt;br /&gt;
tions are not copyright. Both writer and&lt;br /&gt;
receiver, or their heirs, have control over private&lt;br /&gt;
letters. Amongst artistic works the following&lt;br /&gt;
are particularly specified as protected&mdash;maps,&lt;br /&gt;
plans, and architectural and technical designs.&lt;br /&gt;
Photographs are protected, with some restric-&lt;br /&gt;
tions.&lt;br /&gt;
Unpublished literary and artistic works cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be seized. Damages can be claimed for infringe-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of copyright, whether wilful or uninten-&lt;br /&gt;
tional. In the latter case the culprit is respon-&lt;br /&gt;
sible only for a sum representing his actual gain.&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings before either civil or criminal&lt;br /&gt;
tribunals will be easily taken. The owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright can proceed within a limit of three years&lt;br /&gt;
after his discovery of the infringement of his&lt;br /&gt;
rights. The penalty for illicit production of&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic works will be forfeiture to the author of&lt;br /&gt;
the whole of the gross receipts. Cession of a&lt;br /&gt;
work does not include cession of the right of&lt;br /&gt;
translation. Cession of right to publish a drama&lt;br /&gt;
does not include right to perform.&lt;br /&gt;
The author&amp;#039;s rights are subject to certain&lt;br /&gt;
restrictions. The entire reproduction of works&lt;br /&gt;
of insignificant extent is permitted if they are&lt;br /&gt;
reproduced in voluminous works of an original&lt;br /&gt;
character. Reproduction in chrestomathies, or&lt;br /&gt;
in similar works of a scientific or educational&lt;br /&gt;
character, is also allowed. Periodicals are allowed&lt;br /&gt;
to copy matter from the columns of others, pro-&lt;br /&gt;
vided that the extracts are of small extent, not&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. VIII.&lt;br /&gt;
of a literary character, and not continuously&lt;br /&gt;
drawn from the same source. All such extracts&lt;br /&gt;
are to be accompanied by an indication of their&lt;br /&gt;
origin. The interests of the author are also&lt;br /&gt;
sacrificed to those of the musical composer.&lt;br /&gt;
Words for music may be taken freely from any&lt;br /&gt;
published work, unless the words have been&lt;br /&gt;
written exclusively for setting to music, and the&lt;br /&gt;
composer may sell the words with the music&lt;br /&gt;
without restriction. For restrictions on the rights&lt;br /&gt;
of artiste we must refer the rt ader to Le Droit&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;Auteur. A literary work may be dramatised&lt;br /&gt;
without the author&amp;#039;s consent after a lapse of ten&lt;br /&gt;
years from its publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Respecting translation much remains to be&lt;br /&gt;
desired. The author of a work published in&lt;br /&gt;
Russia enjovs an exclusive right of translation for&lt;br /&gt;
ten years, if this right is expressly reserved by a&lt;br /&gt;
declaration on the title or in the preface, and if&lt;br /&gt;
he publishes a tsanslation within three years after&lt;br /&gt;
the appearance of the original work. Works&lt;br /&gt;
simultaneously published in different languages&lt;br /&gt;
are to be considered as original works in every&lt;br /&gt;
one of these languages.&lt;br /&gt;
When the right of translation has become&lt;br /&gt;
public property, a translator has no power to&lt;br /&gt;
inhibit any other translation of the same work.&lt;br /&gt;
The duration of copyright will be the same as&lt;br /&gt;
at present, the life of the author and fifty years&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards. This applies also to music. Fifty&lt;br /&gt;
years from the death of the author is the dura-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the copyright of posthumous works.&lt;br /&gt;
Fifty years from the date of publication will be&lt;br /&gt;
the duration for&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(a) First editions of folk-lore;&lt;br /&gt;
(6) First editions of ancient manuscripts;&lt;br /&gt;
(c) The publications of universities, academies,&lt;br /&gt;
educational institutions, and learned societies.&lt;br /&gt;
The copyright of an anonymous or pseudony-&lt;br /&gt;
mous publication has a duration of thirty years&lt;br /&gt;
from the date of publication, unless the author&lt;br /&gt;
declares himself within that period, in which case&lt;br /&gt;
he acquires his ordinary rights.&lt;br /&gt;
The duration of copyright for a photograph is&lt;br /&gt;
five years only; for a translation it is the life of&lt;br /&gt;
the translator and thirty years afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;
The editors of periodicals, encyclopaedias,&lt;br /&gt;
almanacks, and similar works, composed of the&lt;br /&gt;
writings of different authors, have a fifty years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
copyright commencing from the date of publi-&lt;br /&gt;
cation. The contributors, without prejudice to&lt;br /&gt;
their rights in the miscellany, may, unless the&lt;br /&gt;
contrary has been expressly stipulated, reprint&lt;br /&gt;
their works two years after their appearance in&lt;br /&gt;
the miscellany.&lt;br /&gt;
The author who has ceded his right for a single&lt;br /&gt;
edition may, unless the contrary has been ex-&lt;br /&gt;
pressly stipulated, publish a new edition as soon&lt;br /&gt;
t 2&lt;br /&gt;
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2IO&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
as the first is exhausted, or, even if it be not&lt;br /&gt;
exhausted, after five years; or at any time, if the&lt;br /&gt;
work has undergone such modifications as will&lt;br /&gt;
make it really a new book.&lt;br /&gt;
These regulations will apply to all works pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished in Russia, whether the author be a Russian&lt;br /&gt;
or a foreigner. They apply also to the works of&lt;br /&gt;
a Russian subject published in a foreign country.&lt;br /&gt;
No protection is given to the works of foreigners&lt;br /&gt;
published outside the Russian Empire. Nor is&lt;br /&gt;
any hint given of conventions ultimately to be&lt;br /&gt;
concluded with other States. This would appear&lt;br /&gt;
to indicate that complete non-recognition of the&lt;br /&gt;
rights of foreigners is to be the rule. Happily,&lt;br /&gt;
the letter of the Chancellor of the Imperial Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission leaves some hopes of an ultimate more&lt;br /&gt;
liberal arrangement.&lt;br /&gt;
Henby Cbesswell.&lt;br /&gt;
NEW YORK LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
New York, Dec. 17, 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
ANUMBER of interesting changes in the&lt;br /&gt;
tendencies of publishing are visible in the&lt;br /&gt;
Christmas books this year, and they are&lt;br /&gt;
nearly all encouraging. All of the leading houses&lt;br /&gt;
are publishing less of those books which, intended&lt;br /&gt;
exclusively for Christmas sale, are of flimsy and&lt;br /&gt;
ephemeral character, with slight real interest.&lt;br /&gt;
Trifles for children, and gift-books full of cheap&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations and decorations, are not published&lt;br /&gt;
by any but some of the weaker houses. Instead&lt;br /&gt;
of that we see the solid books being advertised as&lt;br /&gt;
especially suitable for gift-books. A few of the&lt;br /&gt;
smaller houses, however, have just as large a&lt;br /&gt;
supply of tinsel as ever. Among the solid books&lt;br /&gt;
which seem to be especially popular for this par-&lt;br /&gt;
ticular purpose are those on the popular aspects&lt;br /&gt;
of science and philosophy, and especially on those&lt;br /&gt;
branches of those subjects which can be treated&lt;br /&gt;
in a half pictorial way, which explains an un-&lt;br /&gt;
common amount of literature about birds and&lt;br /&gt;
plants this year, and also explains the big&lt;br /&gt;
Christmas demand for books on art and travel.&lt;br /&gt;
The decoration is improving in the same way as&lt;br /&gt;
the contents. Really rich and luxurious paper&lt;br /&gt;
and binding are taking the place of the cheaper&lt;br /&gt;
devices, although one wasteful tendency is notice-&lt;br /&gt;
able&mdash;that of making the books so delicate that&lt;br /&gt;
any reasonable amount of handling would ruin&lt;br /&gt;
them. Perhaps of all the Christmas books,&lt;br /&gt;
properly speaking, the two most conspicuous are&lt;br /&gt;
Gibson&amp;#039;s book on London (published by tbe&lt;br /&gt;
Scribners) and &amp;quot;Joan of Arc,&amp;quot; by Boutet de&lt;br /&gt;
Mouvel, published by the Century Company.&lt;br /&gt;
John Li Farge&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Artist&amp;#039;s Letters from Japan&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
has attracted a good deal of attention, and&lt;br /&gt;
it is a reminder that the growing familiarity&lt;br /&gt;
with Japanese and French ideas in regard to&lt;br /&gt;
decoration is responsible for much of the im-&lt;br /&gt;
provement.&lt;br /&gt;
One of the most interesting of all the solid&lt;br /&gt;
books is the history of dancing from the earliest&lt;br /&gt;
stages to our own times, published by Appleton&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. as a translation from the French. The&lt;br /&gt;
text itself is complete and intelligent, and the&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations reproduce some of the finest works of&lt;br /&gt;
art from the earliest times down to Sargent,&lt;br /&gt;
Degas and Cheret.&lt;br /&gt;
Among the books which will appear before a&lt;br /&gt;
great while it must be said, to the credit of the&lt;br /&gt;
cheap magazines and the cheap publishing houses,&lt;br /&gt;
that the most interesting, to my mind at least, will&lt;br /&gt;
be given by Mr. Munsey. It will be made up of&lt;br /&gt;
a series of articles now running in the magazine&lt;br /&gt;
which give the judgment of various writers of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction on their favourite novelists. The date of&lt;br /&gt;
the issue cannot be fixed until it is known when&lt;br /&gt;
the series will be completed. Anthony Hope&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
article on Sterne, in the November number of the&lt;br /&gt;
magazine, struck me as being the best piece of&lt;br /&gt;
literary criticism of recent publication that I have&lt;br /&gt;
seen anywhere. It suggested one rather gloomy&lt;br /&gt;
conclusion for the professional critic, which is,&lt;br /&gt;
that the man who sits down occasionally to&lt;br /&gt;
express ideas which he has thought of for many&lt;br /&gt;
years gives something more permanently worth&lt;br /&gt;
while than most of the criticism which is written&lt;br /&gt;
by men who turn everything they know into&lt;br /&gt;
copy.&lt;br /&gt;
This observation, by-the-way, has its relations&lt;br /&gt;
to an article which Professor H. T. Peck has&lt;br /&gt;
recently written, in which he says that the&lt;br /&gt;
influence of the magazine on authors has been&lt;br /&gt;
generally deteriorating, by inducing them to write&lt;br /&gt;
too constantly. Except in the cases of genius,&lt;br /&gt;
he thinks it makes no difference to the author,&lt;br /&gt;
because he wouldn&amp;#039;t do anything anyway; but&lt;br /&gt;
where a man has genius he is ruined by the in-&lt;br /&gt;
ducement to hasty work. The corresponding&lt;br /&gt;
harm to the public is obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Howells, who has just returned from&lt;br /&gt;
Europe, said while abroad that there was no one&lt;br /&gt;
in this country whose good opinion was like that&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Gladstone, able to make a reputation, and&lt;br /&gt;
that Lowell&amp;#039;s opinion in his closing years would&lt;br /&gt;
have done more in that way than any other.&lt;br /&gt;
Seeking the reason for this truth, the Nation&lt;br /&gt;
thinks that it is because criticism here is too&lt;br /&gt;
gentle, and that Mr. Lowell&amp;#039;s influence lay largely&lt;br /&gt;
in his freedom from the fault of indiscriminate&lt;br /&gt;
praise, which is surely an explanation altogether&lt;br /&gt;
insufficient to explain the lack of strong criticism&lt;br /&gt;
here&mdash;-ather the effect than the cause.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
211&lt;br /&gt;
One queBtion that might with profit be dis-&lt;br /&gt;
cussed fully in this country is the ethics of&lt;br /&gt;
editing, which has received such thorough treat-&lt;br /&gt;
ment from The Author. The degree to which&lt;br /&gt;
some of the magazine editors change the words&lt;br /&gt;
and ideas in signed articles, not only in those&lt;br /&gt;
written by the less known men, but often in&lt;br /&gt;
those written by some of the most prominent&lt;br /&gt;
authors in the world is very marked. It would&lt;br /&gt;
not he safe for me to give the facts too specifically.&lt;br /&gt;
A subject about which I have found marked&lt;br /&gt;
differences of opinion lately is that of dating&lt;br /&gt;
books. One writer of long experience held that&lt;br /&gt;
in publishing a book of essays it was decidedly&lt;br /&gt;
better to date each essay, in order that the earlier&lt;br /&gt;
ones might be recognised as not the latest&lt;br /&gt;
product of the author&amp;#039;s mind. Another man,&lt;br /&gt;
of equal ability and almost equal experience, said&lt;br /&gt;
that to date the essays, or in any way, as by an&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledgment in the front of the book, to show&lt;br /&gt;
that they had been published, would injure the&lt;br /&gt;
sale, so strong is the desire for &amp;quot; something new.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The literary success of the last few weeks in&lt;br /&gt;
New York belongs to England. The enthusiasm&lt;br /&gt;
with which intelligent people have received &amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Princess and the Butterfly&amp;quot; is as much due to&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Pinero&amp;#039;8 literary qualities as to the dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
ones. There is no doubt that the play has made&lt;br /&gt;
a stronger impression on the minds of the intelli-&lt;br /&gt;
gent people of New York than anything else&lt;br /&gt;
which has been given here this year.&lt;br /&gt;
Norman Hapoood.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Speaker once more kindly devotes two or&lt;br /&gt;
three columns of abuse to this Society. It&lt;br /&gt;
appears that we contain few men of recog-&lt;br /&gt;
nised standing: that we are run by a small clique&lt;br /&gt;
of busybodies: that we claim to determine the&lt;br /&gt;
conditions upon which books shall be sold: that&lt;br /&gt;
nine-tenths of the known authors of the country&lt;br /&gt;
know nothing about the Society: that it is the&lt;br /&gt;
desire of the Society to establish a fixed royalty&lt;br /&gt;
for the author: that our Report on the Discount&lt;br /&gt;
System is a masterpiece of inconsequential&lt;br /&gt;
reasoning: and so on. Of course they put&lt;br /&gt;
my name forward as the supposed leader in&lt;br /&gt;
all this wickedness: to that I am quite accus-&lt;br /&gt;
tomed. It is the old trick of representing the&lt;br /&gt;
Society as consisting of one man. I only&lt;br /&gt;
wonder that they ever allow any others to be&lt;br /&gt;
connected with it at all. There are others, how-&lt;br /&gt;
ever: the writer acknowledges so much, though,&lt;br /&gt;
as he assures his readers, my friends, like myself,&lt;br /&gt;
only &amp;quot; cater for the middle class.&amp;quot; This is a very&lt;br /&gt;
terrible charge. How is one to get out of it?&lt;br /&gt;
Since, however, the middle class of this country&lt;br /&gt;
furnishes the great bulk of readers: since from&lt;br /&gt;
the middle class come all our men of science,&lt;br /&gt;
of art, of literature; all our preachers, most&lt;br /&gt;
of our leaders, all our engineers, lawyers,&lt;br /&gt;
merchants&mdash;in fact, all the people who ever do any-&lt;br /&gt;
thing&mdash; I really see no disgrace in &amp;quot;catering&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
for them. The Speaker, of course, &amp;quot; caters &amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
the aristocracy alone. I wonder how it is done.&lt;br /&gt;
However, the true meaning of all this wrath&lt;br /&gt;
presently appears when the writer wanders from&lt;br /&gt;
his subject in order to talk about royalties. It is&lt;br /&gt;
the increase of the royalty which inspires this real&lt;br /&gt;
and genuine indignation. Now, it is certainly not&lt;br /&gt;
true, as the writer says, that we have ever advo-&lt;br /&gt;
cated a fixed royalty. We have, however, pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished the meaning of royalties&mdash;what they give to&lt;br /&gt;
authors and what they give to publishers. These&lt;br /&gt;
truths have given a great deal of dissatisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;
It is undoubted that, thanks to the action of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, royalties have very greatly advanced; it&lt;br /&gt;
is also true that certain publishers who used to&lt;br /&gt;
offer a sweating royalty, say, of 5 per cent., have&lt;br /&gt;
had to treble, and more than treble, their terms,&lt;br /&gt;
or else to see books taken elsewhere. Other little&lt;br /&gt;
trifles have also been secured to the author, such&lt;br /&gt;
as dramatic rights, American rights, Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights, through the action of the Society in pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing the facts of the case.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, again, have been kept out of certain&lt;br /&gt;
hands to the great loss and detriment of those&lt;br /&gt;
hands: light has been poured upon the meaning&lt;br /&gt;
of production and its cost. In this way it is&lt;br /&gt;
possible that dividends may have fallen in this or&lt;br /&gt;
that company. Such a consideration suggests a&lt;br /&gt;
very simple explanation if a paper should happen&lt;br /&gt;
to be controlled by a publishing house. But, if&lt;br /&gt;
the Speaker can reason at all on the subject, one&lt;br /&gt;
would ask if any purpose is gained by all this&lt;br /&gt;
invective? Is the Society one whit the worse for&lt;br /&gt;
these attacks \ I believe not. Never has any associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion been more savagely attacked than the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors. Yet it is larger, stronger, and of better&lt;br /&gt;
repute to-day than ever before. And the editor&lt;br /&gt;
of the Speaker may ask himself if, by any of his&lt;br /&gt;
previous attacks upon the paper, he has injured the&lt;br /&gt;
Society in the slightest way? And we may ask,&lt;br /&gt;
generally, all these persons, publishers or other-&lt;br /&gt;
wise, who attack the Society, whether they find&lt;br /&gt;
their own position improved by these attacks?&lt;br /&gt;
And we may ask the whole world whether authors,&lt;br /&gt;
like other people, are prepared to give up an asso-&lt;br /&gt;
ciation which has so enormously advanced their&lt;br /&gt;
own interests? .&lt;br /&gt;
Let us remind our members that ten or twelve&lt;br /&gt;
years ago a 10 per cent, royalty was the utmost&lt;br /&gt;
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212&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ever offered. Generally it was less&mdash;a 5 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent, with something down. A certain very&lt;br /&gt;
popular novel was once given to a publisher for&lt;br /&gt;
.&pound;50 in advance and a 5 per cent, royalty. That&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s terms would now be 25 per cent. Look&lt;br /&gt;
at the difference on a sale of a thousand.&lt;br /&gt;
On a 5 per cent, royalty .&pound;15 per thousand&lt;br /&gt;
copies.&lt;br /&gt;
On a 25 per cent, royalty ,&pound;75 per thousand&lt;br /&gt;
copies.&lt;br /&gt;
On a sale of fifty thousand&mdash;it was more than&lt;br /&gt;
that&mdash;there was a difference &mdash; clear gain &mdash; of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;3000. And this is evidently the work of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society which was the first to investigate the&lt;br /&gt;
meaning of the figures and the corresponding&lt;br /&gt;
meaning of royalties. Take, however, a more&lt;br /&gt;
common case, the old royalty of 10 per cent,&lt;br /&gt;
compared with that of 25 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
On 10 per cent, the sum of ,&pound;30 for every&lt;br /&gt;
thousand copies.&lt;br /&gt;
On 25 per cent, the sum of J675 for every&lt;br /&gt;
thousand copies.&lt;br /&gt;
On a sale of fifty thousand&mdash;I repeat that the&lt;br /&gt;
book in question was very popular&mdash;the author is&lt;br /&gt;
a gainer of &pound;1250. As to other services of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, we may speak of them at another time.&lt;br /&gt;
Let the reader only consider that if the Society&lt;br /&gt;
were to become extinct these figures would very&lt;br /&gt;
speedily be lost and forgotten&mdash;and the old con-&lt;br /&gt;
dition of things would be restored.&lt;br /&gt;
I have before me certain remarks upon our&lt;br /&gt;
estimates and figures in a new paper of which&lt;br /&gt;
this is only the second number. It is called the&lt;br /&gt;
Qtiilldriver. The writer speaks well of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, but complains that in The Author young&lt;br /&gt;
writers are led to believe that the average circu-&lt;br /&gt;
lation of a novel is 3000. Not so: the average&lt;br /&gt;
is not spoken of; in preparing these figures we&lt;br /&gt;
have nothing to do with the average, we have to&lt;br /&gt;
deal with the possibilities. In dealing with, or&lt;br /&gt;
speaking of, literary property we must consider&lt;br /&gt;
actual, substantial literary property &mdash; which&lt;br /&gt;
means the achievement of popularity: we must&lt;br /&gt;
prepare agreements for possibilities &mdash; never,&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps, to be realised, yet always possible.&lt;br /&gt;
That is the meaning of our figures. When we&lt;br /&gt;
assume a circulation of 3000 it is in order to&lt;br /&gt;
provide for the possibility of that number. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
can I believe that anyone is so foolish as to&lt;br /&gt;
think that the majority of novels do actually&lt;br /&gt;
attain this figure. When a young barrister enters&lt;br /&gt;
upon his profession he considers the prizes:&lt;br /&gt;
the great practice possible: the great reputa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion; he then lays himself out, so to speak, for&lt;br /&gt;
the attainment of this great practice: he does not&lt;br /&gt;
consider the many failures which are, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
possible for him as for any other. So a young&lt;br /&gt;
writer should, and does, consider the great&lt;br /&gt;
prizes open to him, though he may never arrive&lt;br /&gt;
at them. That is, again, the meaning of the&lt;br /&gt;
thousands introduced into our figures.&lt;br /&gt;
The writer before me goes on to say that he&lt;br /&gt;
has made a list of 150 writers well known to the&lt;br /&gt;
public; that he applied to their publishers for&lt;br /&gt;
information as to the circulation of their books;&lt;br /&gt;
and that this information was actually supplied!&lt;br /&gt;
This is a most wonderful thing. Publishers are&lt;br /&gt;
confidential agents; they have no more right to&lt;br /&gt;
reveal the secrets of their authors than lawyers&lt;br /&gt;
those of their clients. It is conceivable that such&lt;br /&gt;
a revelation might damage a writer very seriously,&lt;br /&gt;
say, when one of deserved name and reputation&lt;br /&gt;
was found to enjoy a very limited circulation.&lt;br /&gt;
However, for some unknown consideration, all the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers of the Hundred and Fifty are said to&lt;br /&gt;
have betrayed their trust, and to have given the&lt;br /&gt;
information asked for. The average circulation&lt;br /&gt;
of the lot, says my writer, was 4535 volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, perhaps. But is this the average of the&lt;br /&gt;
whole army of novelists? Can it be considered&lt;br /&gt;
as even approximately the average? Let us just&lt;br /&gt;
examine the figures. There were 150 novelists&lt;br /&gt;
selected; their average was 4535. This represents&lt;br /&gt;
no more than 68,025 volumes. Consequently&lt;br /&gt;
it cannot include Hall Caine, whose last novel&lt;br /&gt;
circulated to the tune of 150,000 copies at least.&lt;br /&gt;
Put him in: the average rises to 1444 copies for&lt;br /&gt;
every one of the 151. Nor does it include&lt;br /&gt;
Rider Haggard, whose most successful story&lt;br /&gt;
means at least 120,000. Add Eider Haggard&lt;br /&gt;
and the average for 152 goes up to 2224. Add&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Treasure Island&amp;quot; with, I believe, 80,000, and&lt;br /&gt;
the average for 153 is 2732. Add Marie Corelli&lt;br /&gt;
with 80,000 (say) and the average goes up to&lt;br /&gt;
3234 for 154. Putin adozen others with a circula-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of only 10,000 each and the average for 166&lt;br /&gt;
amounts to 3723. With these figures before us&lt;br /&gt;
it becomes evident that the figures quoted cannot&lt;br /&gt;
represent an average, which must include the&lt;br /&gt;
successful as well as the unsuccessful: and that&lt;br /&gt;
if, in The Author, we were to claim 3000 as an&lt;br /&gt;
average we might perhaps be justified. We do&lt;br /&gt;
not, however, advance any such claim. We are&lt;br /&gt;
quite prepared to admit that most novelists fail&lt;br /&gt;
to catch the public ear: in all professions it is&lt;br /&gt;
only the small minority that succeeds; we are&lt;br /&gt;
also prepared to admit that if we take the lower&lt;br /&gt;
half of living novelists their average is very small.&lt;br /&gt;
But then the lower half includes the unhappy&lt;br /&gt;
people who believe that by paying for production&lt;br /&gt;
they pay for publication, and that a printed book&lt;br /&gt;
is a published book, and that every novel is a&lt;br /&gt;
mine of gold.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 213 (#647) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The report of the Sub-Committee to consider&lt;br /&gt;
the proposals made by certain publishers for the&lt;br /&gt;
enslaving of the bookseller has been received by&lt;br /&gt;
the world with apparent satisfaction. Our own&lt;br /&gt;
members, with one exception, have not expressed&lt;br /&gt;
any dissatisfaction at the result of the inquiry.&lt;br /&gt;
The one exception sent a letter to the secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
which he also forwarded to the Publishers&amp;#039; Asso-&lt;br /&gt;
ciation. It is printed in another column. One&lt;br /&gt;
would not deny to every member the right to his&lt;br /&gt;
own opinion; but in cases where, as in that lately&lt;br /&gt;
before us, the independence of literature, the&lt;br /&gt;
dignity of men and women of letters, and their&lt;br /&gt;
material interests, were all together threatened&lt;br /&gt;
under cover of coercing booksellers: when, under&lt;br /&gt;
the same pretence, it was sought to raise the price&lt;br /&gt;
of books upon a public which already pays too&lt;br /&gt;
much: in such a case it is above all things neces-&lt;br /&gt;
sary that authors should stand together, and that&lt;br /&gt;
they should sink their individual opinion and&lt;br /&gt;
think only of the general good. That means that&lt;br /&gt;
they should accept the decision of the Committee,&lt;br /&gt;
which alone, remember, was able to hear the&lt;br /&gt;
evidence.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Cunningham says that the decision was&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at by adhering to old arguments. That is not&lt;br /&gt;
a correct statement of the case. The whole report&lt;br /&gt;
has been published in this paper, so that readers&lt;br /&gt;
may judge for themselves. Weight was certainly&lt;br /&gt;
given to the opinions of the men of 1852&mdash;distin-&lt;br /&gt;
guished men&mdash;all of whom have a right to be&lt;br /&gt;
considered, even fifty years after the event. But&lt;br /&gt;
the Committee were chiefly guided by the evidence&lt;br /&gt;
before them, rather than by the arguments of 18 5 2;&lt;br /&gt;
they learned and recognised the absolute impos-&lt;br /&gt;
sibility of coercion: the degradation of the book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller, who, if the proposed plan succeeded, would&lt;br /&gt;
become a mere clerk and servant of the publisher:&lt;br /&gt;
and the absolute certainty that the next step would&lt;br /&gt;
be the degradation of the author. Indeed, the&lt;br /&gt;
Times, in making a precis of the report, left out&lt;br /&gt;
altogether the statement of the case in 1852, so&lt;br /&gt;
little importance was attached by their reader to&lt;br /&gt;
that part of the report.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Cunningham disagrees with the report.&lt;br /&gt;
That is to be lamented; but everyone must form&lt;br /&gt;
his own opinion. He then, after acknowledging&lt;br /&gt;
the valuable aid which he has received from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, withdraws from membership. This step&lt;br /&gt;
shows that he has not the least esprit de corps,&lt;br /&gt;
and that he owes no sense of duty or of brother-&lt;br /&gt;
hood to others engaged in literary work. How&lt;br /&gt;
could the Society have assisted or advised him but&lt;br /&gt;
for the association of a great many who by their&lt;br /&gt;
collective subscriptions enable us to provide offices,&lt;br /&gt;
collect cases, get legal advice, and maintain a&lt;br /&gt;
staff? How can such a Society be kept up if every&lt;br /&gt;
member who disagrees with a report or with the&lt;br /&gt;
action of the Committee immediately withdraws?&lt;br /&gt;
Surely a certain amount of loyalty is required in&lt;br /&gt;
the defence and the advancement of every cause&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
in our case more than any other, on account of&lt;br /&gt;
the fierce resentment which has always met it on&lt;br /&gt;
every side, and the unscrupulous falsehoods with&lt;br /&gt;
which it is constantly assailed. The first thing&lt;br /&gt;
necessary, however, is the feeling that every&lt;br /&gt;
writer ought to support the Society not so much&lt;br /&gt;
for the assistance which he may receive, or for&lt;br /&gt;
gratitude for the assistance which he has received,&lt;br /&gt;
so much as for the solid work which the Society&lt;br /&gt;
has rendered to the material interests of litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, and for the assistance which it is constantly&lt;br /&gt;
giving to writers in trouble or in doubt. To do&lt;br /&gt;
this effectively, we ought to have at least 2000&lt;br /&gt;
members&mdash;that is, 600 more than our present&lt;br /&gt;
number. .&lt;br /&gt;
Literary men will do well to take legal advice&lt;br /&gt;
before accepting employment under the city of&lt;br /&gt;
New York, if the experience of Mr. Charles Burr&lt;br /&gt;
Todd, the historian of the city, counts for any-&lt;br /&gt;
thing. In 1895 the Common Council was desirous&lt;br /&gt;
of printing the early records of Dutch Man-&lt;br /&gt;
hattan and English New York which were&lt;br /&gt;
stored in ancient safes in the city library, and&lt;br /&gt;
were fast going to pieces with age and handling.&lt;br /&gt;
The Mayor appointed a committee to superintend&lt;br /&gt;
their publication, the members of which previous&lt;br /&gt;
to appointment met the Mayor in his office, and&lt;br /&gt;
agreed to serve without pay provided they could&lt;br /&gt;
have a secretary and editor to do the work, who&lt;br /&gt;
should be paid, and they named Mr. Todd as such&lt;br /&gt;
editor. The Mayor said he had wished Mr. Todd&lt;br /&gt;
on the committee, but it was pointed out that the&lt;br /&gt;
latter could not afford to serve without pay; to all&lt;br /&gt;
of which the Mayor agreed. Mr. Todd was soon&lt;br /&gt;
after appointed on the committee, and, with the&lt;br /&gt;
understanding that he should be paid, accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
Later the committee appointed him editor, agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ing to pay him, though no sum was fixed. He&lt;br /&gt;
served eight months and resigned, whereupon the&lt;br /&gt;
committee voted him 150 dollars per month. The&lt;br /&gt;
city refused to pay on the ground that the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee were to serve for nothing, whereupon Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Todd sued for the amount. The case was tried&lt;br /&gt;
before Judge Russell in the Supreme Court of&lt;br /&gt;
New York, on Nov. 18, and the learned judge&lt;br /&gt;
held that as Mr. Todd was a member of a com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee which was appointed to serve without pay&lt;br /&gt;
he could recover nothing. Mr. Todd says that&lt;br /&gt;
while this may be good law it is very poor equity&lt;br /&gt;
and justice; that somebody laid a trap for him&lt;br /&gt;
in order to get his services as editor for nothing,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 214 (#648) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
214&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
and that altogether it is pretty small business for&lt;br /&gt;
the second largest city in the world.&lt;br /&gt;
He worked five years preparing his history of&lt;br /&gt;
the city, for which he has received about one&lt;br /&gt;
hundred and fifty dollars, and thinks if he per-&lt;br /&gt;
forms other services for the city it should be&lt;br /&gt;
willing to remunerate him. Waltee Be8ANT_&lt;br /&gt;
A CHAPTER OF THE PAST.&lt;br /&gt;
THE following extracts from Babbage&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Economy of Machinery &amp;quot; are interesting&lt;br /&gt;
at present:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(295.) . . . &amp;quot;A powerful combination, of&lt;br /&gt;
another kind, exists at this moment to a great&lt;br /&gt;
extent, and operates upon the price of the very&lt;br /&gt;
pages which we are now communicating informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion respecting it. A subject so interesting to&lt;br /&gt;
every reader, and still more so to every manu-&lt;br /&gt;
facturer of the article which the reader consumes,&lt;br /&gt;
deserves an attentive examination.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;We have shown in Chapter XX., p. 166, the&lt;br /&gt;
component parts of the expense of each copy of&lt;br /&gt;
the present work; and we have seen that the&lt;br /&gt;
total amount of the cost of production, exclusive&lt;br /&gt;
of any payment to the author for his labour, is&lt;br /&gt;
28. tfd.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Another fact, with which the reader is more&lt;br /&gt;
practically familiar, is, that he has paid, or is to&lt;br /&gt;
pay, his bookseller six shillings for the volume.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us now examine into the distribution of these&lt;br /&gt;
six shillings, and then, having the facts of the&lt;br /&gt;
case before us, we shall be better able to judge&lt;br /&gt;
of the merits of the combination and to explain&lt;br /&gt;
its effects.&lt;br /&gt;
Distribution of the profits on a six-shilling hook.&lt;br /&gt;
BayB at.&lt;br /&gt;
Sells at.&lt;br /&gt;
Profit on&lt;br /&gt;
capital&lt;br /&gt;
expended&lt;br /&gt;
No. 1. The publisher, who&lt;br /&gt;
s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
accounts to the author for&lt;br /&gt;
every copy received&lt;br /&gt;
3 10&lt;br /&gt;
4 2&lt;br /&gt;
10 per&lt;br /&gt;
No. 2. Bookseller, who retails&lt;br /&gt;
cent.&lt;br /&gt;
4 2&lt;br /&gt;
6 0&lt;br /&gt;
44 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent.&lt;br /&gt;
Or&lt;br /&gt;
4 6&lt;br /&gt;
6 0&lt;br /&gt;
33i Par&lt;br /&gt;
cent.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No. 1, the publisher, is a bookseller, he is in&lt;br /&gt;
fact the author&amp;#039;s agent. His duties are to receive&lt;br /&gt;
and take charge of the stock, for whieh bo sup-&lt;br /&gt;
plies warehouse room, to advise the author about&lt;br /&gt;
the times and methods of advertising, and to&lt;br /&gt;
insert the advertisements. As he publishes other&lt;br /&gt;
books, he will advertise lists of those s^ld by him-&lt;br /&gt;
self; and thus by combining many in one adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisement, diminish the expense to each of his&lt;br /&gt;
principals. He pays the author only for the&lt;br /&gt;
books actually sold, consequently, he makes no&lt;br /&gt;
outlay of capital, except that which he pays for&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements, but he is answerable for any bad&lt;br /&gt;
debts he may make in disposing of them. His&lt;br /&gt;
charge is usually 10 per cent, on the returns.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No. 2 is the bookseller, who retails the work&lt;br /&gt;
to the public. On the publication of a new book&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher sends round to the trade to receive&lt;br /&gt;
subscriptions from them for any number of&lt;br /&gt;
copies, not less than two. These copies are usually&lt;br /&gt;
charged to the subscribers, on an average, at&lt;br /&gt;
about 4 or 5 per cent, less than the wholesale&lt;br /&gt;
price of the book, in the present case they pay&lt;br /&gt;
4&laquo;. 2d. for each copy. After the day of publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, the price charged by the publisher to the&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers is 4*. 6d. Different publishers offer&lt;br /&gt;
different terms to the subscriber, and it is usual&lt;br /&gt;
after intervals of about six months for the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher again to open a subscription list, so that if&lt;br /&gt;
the work be one for which there is a steady&lt;br /&gt;
demand, the trade avail themselves of these oppor-&lt;br /&gt;
tunities of purchasing at the reduced rate enough&lt;br /&gt;
to supply their probable demand.&lt;br /&gt;
(296.) &amp;quot;The volume thus purchased of the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher at 4*. 2d. or 4*. 6d. is retailed by the&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller at 6s. In the one case he makes a&lt;br /&gt;
profit of 44, in the other of 33 per cent Even&lt;br /&gt;
the smaller of these two rates of profit on the&lt;br /&gt;
capital employed certainly appears too large. It&lt;br /&gt;
sometimes happens, when a purchaser inquires&lt;br /&gt;
for a book, the retail dealer sends across the&lt;br /&gt;
street to the wholesale agent, and receives for&lt;br /&gt;
this trifling service one-fourth part of the money&lt;br /&gt;
the purchaser pays; and perhaps the retail dealer&lt;br /&gt;
also takes six months&amp;#039; credit for the price which&lt;br /&gt;
the volume actually costs him. It is stated that&lt;br /&gt;
all retail books&amp;gt; Hers allow their customers a dis-&lt;br /&gt;
count of 10 per cent, upon orders above .&pound;20;&lt;br /&gt;
and that, therefore, the nominal profit of 44 or 33&lt;br /&gt;
per cent, is considerably reduced. H this is the&lt;br /&gt;
case, it may fairly be inquired why the price of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;2, for example, is printed upon the back of a&lt;br /&gt;
book when every bookseller is ready to sell it at&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1 16s.; and why those who are unacquainted&lt;br /&gt;
with that circumstance should be made to pay&lt;br /&gt;
more than others who are better informed?&lt;br /&gt;
Another reason has been assigned for the great&lt;br /&gt;
profit charged upon books, namely, that the pur-&lt;br /&gt;
chasers take long credit. This is probably a fact,&lt;br /&gt;
and, admitting it, no reasonable person can object&lt;br /&gt;
to a proportionate increase of price. But certainly,&lt;br /&gt;
it is equally clear that gentlemen who do pay&lt;br /&gt;
ready money should not be charged the same&lt;br /&gt;
price as those who defer their payments to a very&lt;br /&gt;
remote period. In the country there is a greater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 215 (#649) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
215&lt;br /&gt;
appearance of reason for a considerable allowance&lt;br /&gt;
between the retail dealer and the public, because&lt;br /&gt;
the profit of the country bookseller will be&lt;br /&gt;
diminished by the expense of the conveyance of&lt;br /&gt;
the books from London; but even in this case it&lt;br /&gt;
appears to be too large when compared with the&lt;br /&gt;
rate of interest which capital produces in other&lt;br /&gt;
trades.&lt;br /&gt;
(297.) &amp;quot;That the profit in retailing books is&lt;br /&gt;
really too large is proved by two circumstances:&lt;br /&gt;
First, that the same nominal rate of profit&lt;br /&gt;
existed in the bookselling trade for a long series&lt;br /&gt;
of years, notwithstanding the great fluctuations&lt;br /&gt;
in the rate of profit on capital invested in every&lt;br /&gt;
other business; secondly, that until very lately a&lt;br /&gt;
multitude of booksellers in all parts of London&lt;br /&gt;
were willing to be satisfied with a much smaller&lt;br /&gt;
profit, and to sell, for ready money, or at short&lt;br /&gt;
credit, to persons of uudoubted character, at a&lt;br /&gt;
profit of only 10 per cent., and in some instances&lt;br /&gt;
even at a still smaller percentage instead of that&lt;br /&gt;
of 25 per cent, on the published prices.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It cannot be pretended that this high rate of&lt;br /&gt;
profit is necessary to cover the risk of the book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller having some copies left on his shelves,&lt;br /&gt;
because he need not buy of the publisher a single&lt;br /&gt;
copy more than he has orders for; and even if&lt;br /&gt;
he do purchase more at the subscription price, he&lt;br /&gt;
proves, by that very purchase, that he himself&lt;br /&gt;
does not estimate that risk at above from 4 to 8&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. . It should also be remarked, that the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is generally a retail as well as a whole-&lt;br /&gt;
sale bookseller; and that beside the profit which&lt;br /&gt;
he realises on every copy sold by him in his&lt;br /&gt;
capacity of agent, he is allowed to charge the&lt;br /&gt;
author as if every copy had been subscribed for&lt;br /&gt;
at 4&laquo;. 2d., and of course he receives the same&lt;br /&gt;
profit as the rest of the trade for those retailed&lt;br /&gt;
in his shop.&lt;br /&gt;
(298.) &amp;quot;Now a certain number of the London&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers have combined together. One of their&lt;br /&gt;
objects is to prevent any bookseller from selling&lt;br /&gt;
a book at less than 10 per cent, under the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished price; and, in order to enforce this prin-&lt;br /&gt;
ciple, they refuse to sell books, except at the&lt;br /&gt;
publishing price, to any bookseller who declines&lt;br /&gt;
signing their agreement. By degrees many were&lt;br /&gt;
prevailed upon to join this combination; and the&lt;br /&gt;
effect of the exclusion it inflicted left the small&lt;br /&gt;
capitalist no option between signing or having his&lt;br /&gt;
business destroyed. Ultimately nearly the whole&lt;br /&gt;
trade, comprising about two thousand four&lt;br /&gt;
hundred persons, have signed the agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;As might be naturally expected from an agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment so injurious to many of the parties to it,&lt;br /&gt;
disputes have arisen, several booksellers have&lt;br /&gt;
been placed under the ban of the combination,&lt;br /&gt;
who allege that they have not violated its rules,&lt;br /&gt;
and who accuse the opposite party of using spies,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c, to entrap them.&lt;br /&gt;
(299.) &amp;quot;The origin of this combination has&lt;br /&gt;
been explained by Mr. Pickering, of Chancery-&lt;br /&gt;
lane, himself a publisher, in a printed statement&lt;br /&gt;
entitled, &amp;#039; Booksellers&amp;#039; Monopoly.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The following list of booksellers has been&lt;br /&gt;
copied from that printed at the head of each of&lt;br /&gt;
the cases published by Mr. Pickering of the&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers who form the committee for conduct-&lt;br /&gt;
ing this combination: Allen, J., 7, Leaienhall-&lt;br /&gt;
street; Arch, J., 61, Cornhill; Baldwin, R., 47,&lt;br /&gt;
Paternoster-row; Booth, J.; Duncan, J., 37,&lt;br /&gt;
Paternoster - row; Hatchard, J., Piccadilly;&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, R., Stationers&amp;#039;-court; Murray, J.,&lt;br /&gt;
Albemarle-street; Rees, O., Paternoster-row;&lt;br /&gt;
Richardson, J. M., 23, Cornhill; Rivington, J.,&lt;br /&gt;
St. Paul&amp;#039;s Churchyard; Wilson, E., Royal&lt;br /&gt;
Exchange.&lt;br /&gt;
(300.) &amp;quot;In whatever manner the profits are&lt;br /&gt;
divided between the publisher and the retail&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller, the fact remains, that the reader has&lt;br /&gt;
paid for the volume in his hands 6s., and that the&lt;br /&gt;
author will receive only 3s. ioe?.; out of which&lt;br /&gt;
latter sum the expense of printing the volume&lt;br /&gt;
must be paid, so that in passing through two&lt;br /&gt;
hands this book has produced a profit of 44 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent. This excessive rate of profit has drawn&lt;br /&gt;
into the book trade a larger share of capital than&lt;br /&gt;
was really advantageous, and the competition&lt;br /&gt;
between the different portions of that capital has&lt;br /&gt;
naturally led to the system of underselling, to&lt;br /&gt;
which the committee above-mentioned are en-&lt;br /&gt;
deavouring to put a stop.*&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;There are two parties who chiefly suffer from&lt;br /&gt;
this combination&mdash;the public and authors. The&lt;br /&gt;
first party can seldom be induced to take an active&lt;br /&gt;
part ag linst any grievance; and, in fact, little is&lt;br /&gt;
required from it except a cordial support of the&lt;br /&gt;
authors in any attempt to destroy a combination&lt;br /&gt;
so injurious to the interests of both.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Many an industrious bookseller would be glad&lt;br /&gt;
to sell for 5&laquo;. the volume which the reader holds&lt;br /&gt;
in his hand, and for which he has paid 6*.; and,&lt;br /&gt;
in doing so for ready money, the tradesman who&lt;br /&gt;
paid 4*. 6c?. for the book would realise, without&lt;br /&gt;
the least risk, a profit of 11 per cent, on the money&lt;br /&gt;
he had advanced. It is one of the objects of the&lt;br /&gt;
combination we are discussing, to prevent the&lt;br /&gt;
small capitalist from employing his capital at&lt;br /&gt;
that rate of profit which he thinks most advan-&lt;br /&gt;
* The monopoly cases, Nos. 1,2, and 3 of those published&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Pickering, should be oonsulted; and as the pnblic&lt;br /&gt;
will be better able to form a judgment by hearing the other&lt;br /&gt;
side of the question, perhaps the chairman of the 00m-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee (Mr. Richardson) would print those regulations&lt;br /&gt;
respecting the trade, a copy of which Mr. Piokering states&lt;br /&gt;
is refused by the committee even to those who sign thorn.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
tageous to himself; and such a proceeding is&lt;br /&gt;
decidedly injurious to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
(301.) &amp;quot;Having derived little pecuniary advan-&lt;br /&gt;
tage from my own literary productions ; and being&lt;br /&gt;
aware that from the very nature of their subjects&lt;br /&gt;
they can scarcely be expected to reimburse the&lt;br /&gt;
expense of preparing tbem, I may be permitted to&lt;br /&gt;
offer an opinion which I believe to be as little&lt;br /&gt;
influenced by any expectation of advantage from&lt;br /&gt;
the future, as it is by any disappointment at the&lt;br /&gt;
past.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Before, however, we proceed to sketch the plan&lt;br /&gt;
of a campaign against Paternoster-row, it will be&lt;br /&gt;
fit to inform the reader of the nature of the&lt;br /&gt;
enemy&amp;#039;s forces and his means of attack and defence.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Several of the great publishers find it con-&lt;br /&gt;
venient to be the proprietors of reviews, maga-&lt;br /&gt;
zines, journals, and even of newspapers. The&lt;br /&gt;
editors are paid in some instances very hand-&lt;br /&gt;
somely for their superintendence, and it is&lt;br /&gt;
scarcely to be expected that they should always&lt;br /&gt;
mete out the severest justice on works by the&lt;br /&gt;
sale of which their employers are enriched. The&lt;br /&gt;
great and popular works of the day are, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
reviewed with some care, and with deference to&lt;br /&gt;
public opinion. Without this the journals would&lt;br /&gt;
not sell, and it is convenient to be able to quote&lt;br /&gt;
such articles as instances of impartiality. Under&lt;br /&gt;
shelter of this a host of ephemeral productions&lt;br /&gt;
are written into a transitory popularity; and by&lt;br /&gt;
the aid of this process the shelves of the book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller, as well as the pockets of the public, are&lt;br /&gt;
disencumbered. To such an extent are these&lt;br /&gt;
means employed, that some of the periodical pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lications of the day ought to be regarded merely&lt;br /&gt;
as advertising machines. That the reader may&lt;br /&gt;
be in some measure on his guard against such&lt;br /&gt;
modes of influencing his judgment, he should&lt;br /&gt;
examine whether the work reviewed is published&lt;br /&gt;
by the bookseller who is the proprietor of the&lt;br /&gt;
review, a fact which can sometimes be ascertained&lt;br /&gt;
from the title of the book as given at the head of&lt;br /&gt;
the article. But this is by no means a certain&lt;br /&gt;
criterion, because partnerships in various publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions exist between houses in the book trade,&lt;br /&gt;
which are not generally known to the public; so&lt;br /&gt;
that, in fact, until reviews are established in&lt;br /&gt;
which booksellers have no interest, they can&lt;br /&gt;
never be safely trusted.&lt;br /&gt;
(302.) &amp;quot;In order to put down the combination&lt;br /&gt;
of booksellers, no plan appears so likely to succeed&lt;br /&gt;
as a counter-association of authors. If any con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderable portion of the literary world were to&lt;br /&gt;
unite and form such an association; and if its&lt;br /&gt;
affairs were directed by an active committee much&lt;br /&gt;
might be accomplished. The object of this union&lt;br /&gt;
should be to employ some person well skilled in&lt;br /&gt;
the printing and in the bookselling trade, and to&lt;br /&gt;
establish him in some central situation as their&lt;br /&gt;
agent. Each member of the association to be at&lt;br /&gt;
liberty to place any or all of his works in the&lt;br /&gt;
hands of this agent for sale; to allow any adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisements or list of books, published by members&lt;br /&gt;
of the association, to be stitched up at the end&lt;br /&gt;
of each of his own productions, the expense of&lt;br /&gt;
preparing them being defrayed by the proprietors&lt;br /&gt;
of the books advertised.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The duties of the agent would be to retail to the&lt;br /&gt;
public for ready money, copies of books published&lt;br /&gt;
by members of the association. To sell to the&lt;br /&gt;
trade, at prices agreed upon, any copies they may&lt;br /&gt;
require. To cause to be inserted in the journals,&lt;br /&gt;
or at the end of works published by members, any&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements which the committee or authors&lt;br /&gt;
may direct. To prepare a general catalogue of the&lt;br /&gt;
works of members. To be the agent for any&lt;br /&gt;
member of the association in treating respecting&lt;br /&gt;
the printing of any work.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Such a union would naturally present other&lt;br /&gt;
advantages, and as each author would retain the&lt;br /&gt;
liberty of putting any price he might think fit on&lt;br /&gt;
his productions, the public would still have the&lt;br /&gt;
advantage of reduction in price produced by com-&lt;br /&gt;
petition between authors on the same subject, as&lt;br /&gt;
well as of that arising from a cheaper mode of&lt;br /&gt;
publishing the volumes sold to them.&lt;br /&gt;
(303.) &amp;quot;Possibly one of the consequences re-&lt;br /&gt;
sulting from such an association would be the&lt;br /&gt;
establishment of a good and an impartial Review,&lt;br /&gt;
a work whose want has been felt lor several years.&lt;br /&gt;
The two long-established and celebrated Reviews,&lt;br /&gt;
the unbending champions of the most opposite&lt;br /&gt;
political opinions, are, from widely different&lt;br /&gt;
causes, exhibiting unequivocal signs of decrepi-&lt;br /&gt;
tude and decay. The Quarterly advocate of&lt;br /&gt;
despotic principles is fast receding from the&lt;br /&gt;
advancing intelligence of the age, and the new&lt;br /&gt;
strength and new position which that intelligence&lt;br /&gt;
has acquired for itself demands for its expression&lt;br /&gt;
new organs, equally the representatives of its&lt;br /&gt;
intellectual power and of its moral energies;&lt;br /&gt;
whilst, on the other hand, the sceptre of its&lt;br /&gt;
Northern rival has passed from the vigorous&lt;br /&gt;
grasp of those who established its dominion into&lt;br /&gt;
feebler hands.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A difficulty has been stated that those most&lt;br /&gt;
competent to supply periodical criticism are&lt;br /&gt;
already engaged. But it is to be observed that&lt;br /&gt;
there are many who now supply literary criticisms&lt;br /&gt;
to journals whose political principles they disap-&lt;br /&gt;
prove, and that, if once a respectable and well-&lt;br /&gt;
supported Review* were established, capable of&lt;br /&gt;
* At the moment when this opinion aa to the necessity&lt;br /&gt;
for a new Review was passing through the press, I was&lt;br /&gt;
informed that the elements of snoh an undertaking were&lt;br /&gt;
already organised.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
217&lt;br /&gt;
competing, in payment to its contributors, with&lt;br /&gt;
the wealthiest of its rivals, it would very soon be&lt;br /&gt;
supplied with the best materials the country can&lt;br /&gt;
produce.f&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ME. BALFOUR ON THE NOVEL.&lt;br /&gt;
MR. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR, M.P., pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed the toast of &amp;quot;Literature&amp;quot; at the&lt;br /&gt;
fourth annual dinner of the Sir Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Scott Club, held in Edinburgh on the 20th ult.&lt;br /&gt;
He said it was hard to believe there was a time&lt;br /&gt;
when the world did without novels, and, in its&lt;br /&gt;
own opinion, did well without novels. Like&lt;br /&gt;
tobacco and the daily Press, novels had now&lt;br /&gt;
become a general necessity. It was an interest-&lt;br /&gt;
ing speculation to reflect what the future of the&lt;br /&gt;
novel was to be. He took it that there was&lt;br /&gt;
hardly any instance in literature of any sub-class&lt;br /&gt;
of composition being cultivated with success for&lt;br /&gt;
an indefinite period. The cause of decay was&lt;br /&gt;
commonly to be found either in the habit of&lt;br /&gt;
driving peculiarities to excess so that the whole&lt;br /&gt;
species of composition seemed weighed down by&lt;br /&gt;
its own exaggerations, or else dying away in a&lt;br /&gt;
kind of senile imbecility and perishing slowly&lt;br /&gt;
amid general contempt. An example of the first&lt;br /&gt;
kind they found in the death of the Elizabethan&lt;br /&gt;
drama, and of the second in that particular&lt;br /&gt;
kind of literature of which Pope was the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest ornament. But as to the novel, if&lt;br /&gt;
there were any signs of decadence, peihaps&lt;br /&gt;
they should look for it in the obvious difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
which novelists now found in getting hold&lt;br /&gt;
of appropriate subjects for their art to deal&lt;br /&gt;
with. Scott, however, had not only his unique&lt;br /&gt;
genius to depend upon; he had the specially&lt;br /&gt;
good fortune to open an entirely new vein.&lt;br /&gt;
Where was the modern novelist to find a new&lt;br /&gt;
vein? Every country had been ransacked to&lt;br /&gt;
obtain theatres upon which their imaginary&lt;br /&gt;
characters were to show themselves. They had&lt;br /&gt;
stories of civilised life, of semi-civilised life, of&lt;br /&gt;
barbarous life. They had novels of the natural&lt;br /&gt;
and the supernatural; they had scientific novels,&lt;br /&gt;
and they had thaumaturgic novels. So hardly&lt;br /&gt;
set were they for subjects that even the quint-&lt;br /&gt;
essence of dulness was extracted from the dullest&lt;br /&gt;
t It baa been suggested to me that the doctrines main-&lt;br /&gt;
tained in this chapter may subject the present volume to the&lt;br /&gt;
opposition of that combination which it has opposed. I do&lt;br /&gt;
not entdrtain that opinion, and for this reason&mdash;that the&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers are too shrewd a class to supply such an admirable&lt;br /&gt;
passport to publicity. But, should my readers take a diffe-&lt;br /&gt;
rent view of the question, they can easily assist in remedy-&lt;br /&gt;
ing the evil by each mentioning the existence of this little&lt;br /&gt;
volume to two of his friends.&lt;br /&gt;
localities, and turned into a subject of artistic&lt;br /&gt;
treatment. Yet there was one aspect of human&lt;br /&gt;
nature, and perhaps the most interesting of all,&lt;br /&gt;
which for obvious reasons had been very&lt;br /&gt;
sparingly treated by the novelists&mdash;the develop-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of character extending through the life of&lt;br /&gt;
the individual. A novel seldom or never&mdash;not in&lt;br /&gt;
one case in a thousand&mdash;attempted to take an&lt;br /&gt;
individual and trace what in natural science&lt;br /&gt;
would be called his life history. It would be&lt;br /&gt;
very inappropriate and very unnecessary to dwell&lt;br /&gt;
upon reasons why this biographical form of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction was difficult&mdash;he would not say impossible&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;and he certainly did not venture to foretell that&lt;br /&gt;
any artist would be found who would be able to&lt;br /&gt;
overcome them. Whatever be the future of the&lt;br /&gt;
novel, they might always console themselves with&lt;br /&gt;
the reflection that every great literary revival had&lt;br /&gt;
been preceded by a period in which no revival&lt;br /&gt;
could by any possibility have been anticipated by&lt;br /&gt;
the closest critics of the time. He doubted&lt;br /&gt;
whether any contemporary of Sydney could have&lt;br /&gt;
foreseen Shakespeare; he doubted whether any-&lt;br /&gt;
body living in the Commonwealth was likely to&lt;br /&gt;
have foreseen Dry den in his maturity. He felt&lt;br /&gt;
sure nobody living in the time of Johnson could&lt;br /&gt;
really have foreseen Wordsworth, Coleridge, and&lt;br /&gt;
Scott. But though the provinces of literature&lt;br /&gt;
were many, the kingdom of literature was one;&lt;br /&gt;
however diverse were the fields, they all furthered&lt;br /&gt;
one cause. He did not pretend that literature&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily softened the manners or carried all&lt;br /&gt;
the cardinal virtues in its train. But it was the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest engine for the production of cultivated&lt;br /&gt;
happiness. It was daily producing more innocent&lt;br /&gt;
and refined pleasure in every class in every&lt;br /&gt;
country where education was known than any&lt;br /&gt;
other source of pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
IN the recent &amp;quot; Memoir&amp;quot; the evidences given of&lt;br /&gt;
good feeling toward America and Americans&lt;br /&gt;
on the part of Lord Tennyson have been&lt;br /&gt;
noted in the papers. To be sure, one might ask,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why not r And yet there were special annoy-&lt;br /&gt;
ances from American sources which must have&lt;br /&gt;
been particularly trying.&lt;br /&gt;
An American man of letters visiting England,&lt;br /&gt;
years ago, spent some time not far from Fresh-&lt;br /&gt;
water. Knowing many of Tennyson&amp;#039;s American&lt;br /&gt;
and English friends, it would have been natural,&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps, for him to obtain an introduction; yet&lt;br /&gt;
he even kept away from Tennyson&amp;#039;s end of the&lt;br /&gt;
Isle of Wight. Meeting once, in London, the&lt;br /&gt;
younger son of the Laureate, he told him he could&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
tell his father that at least one American was not&lt;br /&gt;
peering over his fences or shying stones at his&lt;br /&gt;
Farringford chickens.&lt;br /&gt;
The prying English tourist made himself a&lt;br /&gt;
nuisance to the Laureate; but the tourist who&lt;br /&gt;
came across the seas was, perhaps, a little more&lt;br /&gt;
likely to be troublesome, owing to his greater&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiasm and enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;
But, however a sensitive bard may have resented&lt;br /&gt;
intrusion upon his privacy, and whatever com-&lt;br /&gt;
plaints of their inconsiderate countrymen some&lt;br /&gt;
visiting Americans may at times have had to listen&lt;br /&gt;
to, it is evident that good feeling for &amp;quot; kin across&lt;br /&gt;
sea &amp;quot; was at the bottom of the poet&amp;#039;s large heart.&lt;br /&gt;
Some of his American friends are named in the&lt;br /&gt;
book, but there were other American acquaint-&lt;br /&gt;
ances, some of an earlier date than certain of&lt;br /&gt;
those chronicled. There were Americans unknown&lt;br /&gt;
to fame who met with warm welcome from the&lt;br /&gt;
master of Farringford, and gained there a&lt;br /&gt;
genuine, helpful, and lasting friendship.&lt;br /&gt;
A pleasant chapter in the curiosities of English&lt;br /&gt;
literature could be made of international literary&lt;br /&gt;
relations&mdash;those between Scott and Irving, Emer-&lt;br /&gt;
son and Carlyle, for instance. Such a chapter&lt;br /&gt;
might include the friendship of American and&lt;br /&gt;
English writers with individuals less distinguished&lt;br /&gt;
of the opposite country. Some of the most inti-&lt;br /&gt;
mate friends of the Brownings were Americans,&lt;br /&gt;
and Lowell had English friends true and stead-&lt;br /&gt;
fast.&lt;br /&gt;
International relations of this kind do not&lt;br /&gt;
depend upon any treaty; they ought to, and do,&lt;br /&gt;
favourably affect the public opinion of the two&lt;br /&gt;
countries. While writers on both sides have done&lt;br /&gt;
much to fan the flames of unreasoned prejudice,&lt;br /&gt;
men of letters, being often, fortunately, men of&lt;br /&gt;
imagination, insight, and goodwill, have also stood&lt;br /&gt;
for brotherhood, and not for the brutal inherited&lt;br /&gt;
instinct of fight.&mdash; &amp;quot; Topics of the Time,&amp;quot; Century&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine Christmas number.&lt;br /&gt;
PERSONAL.&lt;br /&gt;
THE American Ambassador, Colonel John&lt;br /&gt;
Hay, was the guest of the Omar Khayyam&lt;br /&gt;
Club at its first dinner of the season, held&lt;br /&gt;
in Frascati&amp;#039;s Restaurant on Dec. 8, Mr. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
Norman, the president, in the chair. His Excel-&lt;br /&gt;
lency passed an eloquent eulogy upon FitzGerald&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
translations of the Quatrains. Omar was a Fitz-&lt;br /&gt;
Gerald before the letter, or FitzGerald was a&lt;br /&gt;
reincarnation of Omar. Each seemed greater&lt;br /&gt;
than his work. Omar sang to a half barbarous&lt;br /&gt;
province, FitzGerald to the world. Wherever the&lt;br /&gt;
English speech is spoken or read the Rubaiyat had&lt;br /&gt;
taken their place as a classic. He heard Omar&lt;br /&gt;
quoted once in one of the most lonely and desolate&lt;br /&gt;
spots of the high Rockies. Certainly, Omar could&lt;br /&gt;
never be numbered among the great popular&lt;br /&gt;
writers of all time. The suffrages of the crowd&lt;br /&gt;
were not for the cool, collected observer, whose&lt;br /&gt;
eye no glitter could dazzle, no mist suffuse.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Augustine Birrell, Q-O, M.P., delivered an&lt;br /&gt;
address at the Commemoration Service of Brown-&lt;br /&gt;
ing, held at the Robert Browning Settlement,&lt;br /&gt;
Walworth, on the 12th ult. The obscure poet of&lt;br /&gt;
the obscure &amp;quot; Sordello,&amp;quot; he said, had an influence&lt;br /&gt;
on literature which was indescribably majestic.&lt;br /&gt;
Like Carlyle and Tennyson, he never bowed the&lt;br /&gt;
knee to Baal. Poverty they knew, and depression&lt;br /&gt;
of spirit, but no one of them abated a jot or tittle&lt;br /&gt;
of his pretensions, or ever asked the people what&lt;br /&gt;
they wanted. Browning&amp;#039;s religious belief was&lt;br /&gt;
not attained through the dark and mystical&lt;br /&gt;
passage of the Sacraments, but rather was the&lt;br /&gt;
result of a firm belief in a personal God, and his&lt;br /&gt;
strong faith in the soul of man. To call him a&lt;br /&gt;
cheerful poet would be wrong. He was too well&lt;br /&gt;
read in the literature of hell. But he was indeed&lt;br /&gt;
a cheering poet.&lt;br /&gt;
The Christmas dinner of the New Vagabond&lt;br /&gt;
Club took place in Holborn Restaurant on the&lt;br /&gt;
10th ult. The company was very numerous, and&lt;br /&gt;
included many ladies. Mr. Israel Zangwill pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sided, and Lord Charles Beresford was the&lt;br /&gt;
particular guest.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Rosebery, speaking at the annual meeting&lt;br /&gt;
of the Scottish History Society, suggested that&lt;br /&gt;
there should be a book of those dignities which&lt;br /&gt;
were conferred by the Stuarts after their depar-&lt;br /&gt;
ture from England in 1689.&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the pressure of the Jubilee year, the&lt;br /&gt;
committee charged with the project of a memorial&lt;br /&gt;
to Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh did not&lt;br /&gt;
make an urgent appeal for subscriptions in the&lt;br /&gt;
year just closed. They will now shortly do so.&lt;br /&gt;
As to the form the memorial shall take, a&lt;br /&gt;
monument in St. Giles&amp;#039;s Cathedral and another&lt;br /&gt;
on Calton Hill are suggested.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Masson, who for thirty years occupied&lt;br /&gt;
the chair of English Literature in the University&lt;br /&gt;
of Edinburgh, has been presented with his portrait&lt;br /&gt;
painted by Sir George Reid.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;A Young Author&amp;#039;s Gbievancb.&lt;br /&gt;
IRECENTLY read some letters in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
complaining of the time taken by editors in&lt;br /&gt;
returning rejected MSS. Personally I have&lt;br /&gt;
always found that rejected MSS. were returned&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
within a reasonable time, and it must be remem-&lt;br /&gt;
bered that contributions sent in on chance are&lt;br /&gt;
not invited. When, however, an editor has&lt;br /&gt;
personally interviewed an author, and verbally&lt;br /&gt;
arranged with him to accept a certain article for a&lt;br /&gt;
certain number of a magazine, the author natu-&lt;br /&gt;
rally looks for his article in&mdash;let us say, the&lt;br /&gt;
number for June.&lt;br /&gt;
The proof is sent to the writer some time in&lt;br /&gt;
May, but on looking at the magazine in June he&lt;br /&gt;
is often doomed to disappointment&mdash;at least if he&lt;br /&gt;
is a young author feeling his way. None of his&lt;br /&gt;
work appears. He calls on the editor, and is told&lt;br /&gt;
that his article was &amp;quot;crowded out,&amp;quot; but that it&lt;br /&gt;
will appear in July. He looks again in the July&lt;br /&gt;
number, but to no purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
He is put off with the same excuse for three,&lt;br /&gt;
four, or even six months.&lt;br /&gt;
All this time he is obliged to stand out of his&lt;br /&gt;
money. Of course such a thing could not&lt;br /&gt;
happen to a well known man, but most of us&lt;br /&gt;
must climb the ladder of fame by degrees. This&lt;br /&gt;
is essentially a young author&amp;#039;s grievance, and is&lt;br /&gt;
felt by those who are entirely dependent on their&lt;br /&gt;
pens. C. B. B.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;The Published Peice.&lt;br /&gt;
It is satisfactory to learn from Mr. Millar&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
letter in your last issue that the Dundee Adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tiser, as well as Literature, the Literary World,&lt;br /&gt;
and the Bookman, announces in the reviews&lt;br /&gt;
themselves the prices of all b &amp;gt;oks reviewed. It&lt;br /&gt;
may, perhaps, be hoped that this at present very&lt;br /&gt;
rare practice may gradually become more general,&lt;br /&gt;
and that publishers and authors will combine to&lt;br /&gt;
encourage it by procuring the price to be marked&lt;br /&gt;
on the binding, or a notification of the price to&lt;br /&gt;
be sent out with the review copies, and by&lt;br /&gt;
selecting as recipients of review copies those&lt;br /&gt;
newspapers which adopt the practice.&lt;br /&gt;
By the way, of the 379 &amp;quot;books of the month&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
catalogued in your last issue at page 198, I&lt;br /&gt;
observe that no less than thirty-seven&mdash;about&lt;br /&gt;
one-tenth of the whole&mdash;have no price affixed to&lt;br /&gt;
them. How are the prices of the omitted thirty-&lt;br /&gt;
seven to be ascertained? J. M. Lely.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOS TALE.&lt;br /&gt;
ME. MACKENZIE BELL&amp;#039;S memoir of&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Christina Rossetti will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett&lt;br /&gt;
early this month. Two offers of marriage, we&lt;br /&gt;
are told, were made to Miss Rossetti, but the&lt;br /&gt;
charming lady simply chose to be an &amp;quot;old maid.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This volume will give for the first a little Italian&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;octave &amp;quot; written by her father, Gabriele Rossetti,&lt;br /&gt;
in celebration of his &amp;quot; dear daughters&amp;quot; Christina&lt;br /&gt;
a.nd Maria&mdash;&amp;quot; fresh violets, opened at dawn.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bell also records that Miss Rossetti and her&lt;br /&gt;
brothers and sisters were accustomed to address&lt;br /&gt;
their father invariably in Italian, his native&lt;br /&gt;
language. Several portraits of the poetess will&lt;br /&gt;
appear in the memoir, including, as frontispiece,&lt;br /&gt;
a reproduction of the chalk drawing of his sister,&lt;br /&gt;
which Dante Rossetti executed in 1866.&lt;br /&gt;
The scene of Mr. Rider Haggard&amp;#039;s new&lt;br /&gt;
historical romance is laid in Holland in the days&lt;br /&gt;
of William of Orange. He has also engaged to&lt;br /&gt;
write for the Graphic a story of the Boers at the&lt;br /&gt;
time of their great trek in 1836. It will be called&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Swallow,&amp;quot; and will commence in the above&lt;br /&gt;
journal in the latter part of this year.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Gilbert Parker has written a storv called&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mrs. Falchion.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Max Pemberton has gone to the Balearic&lt;br /&gt;
Isles, which will be the scene of his next&lt;br /&gt;
story.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. E. L. Voynich, author of &amp;quot;The Gadfly,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is about to visit Austria in order to collect&lt;br /&gt;
material for a work dealing with contemporary&lt;br /&gt;
life there.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Seton Merriman has written for&lt;br /&gt;
Harper&amp;#039;s Magazine, beginning with the January&lt;br /&gt;
number, a novel entitled &amp;quot; Roden&amp;#039;s Corner.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The score or so letters which passed between&lt;br /&gt;
Emerson and Sterling, and which were briefly&lt;br /&gt;
noticed in The Author a few months ago, are&lt;br /&gt;
now to be published by Messrs. Gay and Bird&lt;br /&gt;
in book form, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson,&lt;br /&gt;
and entitled &amp;quot;A Correspondence between John&lt;br /&gt;
Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson.&amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
letters appeared during last year in the Atlantic&lt;br /&gt;
Monthly.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Black has completed his new&lt;br /&gt;
novel, and entitled it &amp;quot;Wild Eelin; otherwise&lt;br /&gt;
called Eelin of the Eyes like the Sea Wave.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
It will begin its course as a serial this month.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Lilian Goadby is retelling the story of&lt;br /&gt;
Homer&amp;#039;s Iliad for bovs and girls. The book,&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &amp;quot;The Wrath of Achilles,&amp;quot; will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished shortly by Messrs. Edwin, Vaughan and&lt;br /&gt;
Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope has written a sequel to&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Prisoner&amp;#039; of Zenda,&amp;quot; entitled &amp;quot;Rupert of&lt;br /&gt;
Hentzau.&amp;quot; It is now running serially in the Pall&lt;br /&gt;
Mall Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Emily Lawless is publishing with Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen a volume of Irish stories, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Traits and Confidences.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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2 20&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bram Stoker has written the first story&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Miss Betty,&amp;quot; a seventeenth century romance&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
for a new fiction series, which Messrs. C. Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Pearson and Co. are projecting. This series&lt;br /&gt;
aspires to give in each volume six shillings&amp;#039; worth&lt;br /&gt;
of material for half-a-crown. Mr. Stoker&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
volume will appear this month. Succeeding&lt;br /&gt;
volumes, to be issued at monthly intervals, will be&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. W. L. Alden, Clive Holland, Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
Hatton, Douglas Sladen, George Griffith, Fred.&lt;br /&gt;
Whishaw, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Adeline Sergeant has completed a novel&lt;br /&gt;
called &amp;quot;The Lady Charlotte &amp;quot; for publication by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hutchinson shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Grant Allen has written a story entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Incidental Bishop.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Le Queux is staying at Milan, and&lt;br /&gt;
writing a novol to be called &amp;quot;Scribes and&lt;br /&gt;
Pharisees.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert H. Sherard is writing the story of&lt;br /&gt;
the Dreyfus case for an American magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;David Lyall&amp;#039;s Love Story&amp;quot; is a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
Scotch idylls which Messrs. Hodder and Stough-&lt;br /&gt;
ton are publishing immediately. There has been&lt;br /&gt;
much speculation as to the identity of &amp;quot;David&lt;br /&gt;
Lyall,&amp;quot; the author of this work and of &amp;quot; The Land&lt;br /&gt;
o&amp;#039; the Leal.&amp;quot; We believe she is a sister of Annie&lt;br /&gt;
Swan (Mrs. Burnett Smith).&lt;br /&gt;
The Christmas number of Good Words con-&lt;br /&gt;
sisted of a novel entitled &amp;quot; The Looms of Time,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
by Mrs. Hugh Fraser. It will be published in&lt;br /&gt;
book form by Messrs. Isbister during the spring.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. de Courcy Laffan (&amp;quot; Mrs Leith Adams &amp;quot;) is&lt;br /&gt;
writing a novel called &amp;quot; The Prince&amp;#039;s Feathers: a&lt;br /&gt;
Story of Leafy Warwickshire in the Olden Time,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and a story of public school life entitled &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Gift of God.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A Voyage of Consolation&amp;quot; is the title of a&lt;br /&gt;
new story by Mrs. Everard Cotes.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Pendler Cudlip (&amp;quot; Annie Thomas &amp;quot;) has a&lt;br /&gt;
novel, &amp;quot;Dick Rivers,&amp;quot; about to be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. F. V. White and Co. She is engaged&lt;br /&gt;
upon another, to be called &amp;quot;Between the Devil&lt;br /&gt;
and the Deep Sea,&amp;quot; and also upon a group of&lt;br /&gt;
stories for Messrs. Tillotson.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Lovett Cameron&amp;#039;s new novel &amp;quot;Devil&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Apples,&amp;quot; will be published this month by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
White.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. R. Andom has written of cycling incidents&lt;br /&gt;
and misadventures in a volume entitled &amp;quot;Side&lt;br /&gt;
Slips&amp;quot; which Messrs. Pearson will publish.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Scenes from the Suburbs &amp;quot; is another humorous&lt;br /&gt;
work by the same author, which will be published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Jarrold. The books will appear in&lt;br /&gt;
the spring, the former illustrated by Mr. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Frederick, the latter by Mr. A. Carruthers&lt;br /&gt;
Gould.&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of Stories from soldier fife, by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
E. Livingston Prescott, will be published this&lt;br /&gt;
month by Messrs. Warne. The author has now&lt;br /&gt;
in hand a romance (not military), entitled &amp;quot; Dearer&lt;br /&gt;
than Honour.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Archibald Forbes&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Life of Louis Napo-&lt;br /&gt;
leon&amp;quot; will be ready about the middle of the&lt;br /&gt;
month. It will contain, among other illustrations,&lt;br /&gt;
a drawing of the house which, prior to 1848, the&lt;br /&gt;
future head of the Third Empire occupied in&lt;br /&gt;
London.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Kearton, F.Z.S., is writing a series&lt;br /&gt;
of sketches and tales of open-air life in the North&lt;br /&gt;
of England.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. W. G. Blaikie is writing the life of the late&lt;br /&gt;
Principal David Brown, of the Free Church&lt;br /&gt;
College, Aberdeen.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Max MUller&amp;#039;s recollections of royalty,&lt;br /&gt;
and of musical, literary, and social life, which&lt;br /&gt;
have appeared in Cosmopolis, will be published&lt;br /&gt;
shortly in a volume by Messrs. Longmans, Green,&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., under the title &amp;quot; Auld Lang Syne.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The features of Cosmopolis this year will&lt;br /&gt;
include, in English, unpublished letters of John&lt;br /&gt;
Mill and notes of Coleridge; in French, the&lt;br /&gt;
letters of Emile Ollivier to Richard Wagner, the&lt;br /&gt;
correspondence of Marshal Magnan, and the&lt;br /&gt;
memoirs of the painter Ingres; and in German,&lt;br /&gt;
further correspondence of Tourguenieff. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith has written three &amp;quot; Odes in Contribu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion to the Song of French History,&amp;quot; entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Revolution,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Napoleon,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Alsace-&lt;br /&gt;
Lorraine,&amp;quot; which will appear in the numbers for&lt;br /&gt;
March, April, and May.&lt;br /&gt;
The manuscript of &amp;quot;In Memoriam,&amp;quot; given by&lt;br /&gt;
the poet to the late Sir John Simeon, has been&lt;br /&gt;
presented by the Hon. Lady Simeon to the library&lt;br /&gt;
of Trinity College, Cambridge, Tennyson&amp;#039;s own&lt;br /&gt;
college, to which he intended it should fall.&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of sporting reminiscences by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Thomas Haydon will shortly be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Bliss, Sands, and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. R. Farquharson Sharp, of the British&lt;br /&gt;
Museum, has compiled &amp;quot; A Dictionary of English&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical,&amp;quot; being&lt;br /&gt;
a compendious account of the lives and writings&lt;br /&gt;
of 700 British writers from the year 1400 to the&lt;br /&gt;
present time. Mr. George Redway will publish&lt;br /&gt;
the work.&lt;br /&gt;
English translations of two notable French&lt;br /&gt;
works will be published shortly, simultaneously&lt;br /&gt;
with the appearance of the originals in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
221&lt;br /&gt;
These are M. Zola&amp;#039;s new novel &amp;quot;Paris,&amp;quot; trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lated by Mr. Vizetelly; and M. Huysman&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; La&lt;br /&gt;
Cathedrale,&amp;quot; whose translator is Mrs. Clara Bell.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Archer and Miss Diana White&lt;br /&gt;
have completed their translation, from the&lt;br /&gt;
Danish, of Dr. Georg Brandes&amp;#039;s critical study&lt;br /&gt;
of Shakespeare.&lt;br /&gt;
The important work &amp;quot;Industrial Democracy,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
upon which Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb have&lt;br /&gt;
long been engaged, is to be issued by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Longmans on the 4th.&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Henry of Orleans&amp;#039;s book of travels,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Tonkin to India,&amp;quot; is due this week from Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Martin Conway&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Climbing and Explora-&lt;br /&gt;
tion in the Karakoram Himalayas&amp;quot; (Unwin,&lt;br /&gt;
1894) having been translated into French and&lt;br /&gt;
published serially in the Tour du Monde, is now&lt;br /&gt;
issued, abridged, in book form, by MM. Hachette&lt;br /&gt;
et Cie. Several of Mr. A. D. McCormick&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
pictures to the work are reproduced in the French&lt;br /&gt;
volume.&lt;br /&gt;
A propos the teaching of English literature in&lt;br /&gt;
schools, the Academy notes that a recent school&lt;br /&gt;
edition of Carlyle&amp;#039;s essay, &amp;quot; The Hero as Divinity&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(George Bell and Sons) is composed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
Introduction, 90 pages; Carlyle&amp;#039;s Essay, 42&lt;br /&gt;
pages; Notes, 53 pages; Index, 4 pages. The&lt;br /&gt;
essay thus forms about 22 per cent, of the whole,&lt;br /&gt;
and our contemporary asks whether it is the&lt;br /&gt;
powder or the jam.&lt;br /&gt;
America sent over a story the other day, which&lt;br /&gt;
had some appearance of actuality, telling of a&lt;br /&gt;
popular music-hall artiste having been subjected&lt;br /&gt;
to a kissing test. How many kisses could a&lt;br /&gt;
woman stand? The limit of endurance was&lt;br /&gt;
reached, if we remember the story rightly, at 547&lt;br /&gt;
or thereabouts. Our brisk Chicago contemporary,&lt;br /&gt;
the Chap-Book, on the other hand, has just been&lt;br /&gt;
discovering what it calls &amp;quot;the most thoroughly&lt;br /&gt;
kissed young woman in English fiction.&amp;quot; This&lt;br /&gt;
curiosity, it avers, is the heroine Birdalone in&lt;br /&gt;
William Morris&amp;#039;s posthumous romance &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Water of the Wondrous Isles.&amp;quot; She is pissed&lt;br /&gt;
eighty-six times according to the analysis of the&lt;br /&gt;
Chap-Book&mdash;fifty-two by men, and thirty-four by&lt;br /&gt;
women and children. Here is a summary and&lt;br /&gt;
description of the men&amp;#039;s kisses :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
1 Merchant&lt;br /&gt;
4 Peasants&lt;br /&gt;
8 Servants&lt;br /&gt;
Hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Feet&lt;br /&gt;
Face.&lt;br /&gt;
Mouth.&lt;br /&gt;
4 ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 2 ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 0 ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 1 ..&lt;br /&gt;
0 ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 1 ...&lt;br /&gt;
&raquo; ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 0 ...&lt;br /&gt;
6 ...&lt;br /&gt;
13&lt;br /&gt;
t&lt;br /&gt;
3&lt;br /&gt;
33&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. C. Benson is writing a biographical&lt;br /&gt;
history of Eton and leading Etonians.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Edward Marston will shortly have ready&lt;br /&gt;
another book on outdoor life. There will be an&lt;br /&gt;
Edition de lujce. The publishers are, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. E. F. Benson is preparing for publication&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Methuen his story called &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Vintage,&amp;quot; which has been appearing in the&lt;br /&gt;
Graphic. It deals with the opening year of the&lt;br /&gt;
Greek War of Independence in 1820.&lt;br /&gt;
A new publisher. He is John Long, 6, Chandos-&lt;br /&gt;
street, Strand. Mr. Long&amp;#039;s programme is:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Fiction by popular authors; fiction by new&lt;br /&gt;
writers of undoubted promise; works of travel;&lt;br /&gt;
medical works; poetry that may appeal to the&lt;br /&gt;
public.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A re-edited and enlarged edition of Dickinson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Glossary of Cumberland Words and Phrases&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is to be published, by subscription, by Dr. E. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Prevost, of Newnham, Glos. The work was origi-&lt;br /&gt;
nally published by the English Dialect Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Many words and phrases are being added in the&lt;br /&gt;
re-issue.&lt;br /&gt;
A special sub-committee of the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Association is considering the subject of title-&lt;br /&gt;
pages.&lt;br /&gt;
The late strike of printers in Edinburgh caused&lt;br /&gt;
delay in the appearance of a number of books&lt;br /&gt;
during the past month. One that has suffered&lt;br /&gt;
postponement from this cause is the biography of&lt;br /&gt;
the Prince of Wales, which Mr. Grant Richards&lt;br /&gt;
now expects to publish early this month. The&lt;br /&gt;
narrative is said to exhibit &amp;quot;a truly loyal and&lt;br /&gt;
intelligent appreciation of His Royal Highness&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
career and his services to his country.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The first representation of the play &amp;quot; Admiral&lt;br /&gt;
Guinea,&amp;quot; by Messrs. W. E. Henley and Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Stevenson, took place on Nov. 29 at the&lt;br /&gt;
Avenue Theatre, London. It was produced by&lt;br /&gt;
the New Century Theatre Company, and got a&lt;br /&gt;
favourable reception. Immediately before the&lt;br /&gt;
rising of the curtain Miss Elizabeth Robins&lt;br /&gt;
delivered a prologue written for the oocasion by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henley, of which the following is a part:&lt;br /&gt;
Once was a pair of Friends, who loved to chance&lt;br /&gt;
Their feet In any by-way of Romance.&lt;br /&gt;
They, like two vagabond schoolboys, unafraid&lt;br /&gt;
Of stark impossibilities, essayed&lt;br /&gt;
To make these Penitent and Impenitent ThieveB,&lt;br /&gt;
These Pews and Oaunts, each man of them with his sheaves&lt;br /&gt;
Of humour, passion, cruelty, tyranny, life,&lt;br /&gt;
Fit shadows for the boards: till in the Btiifo&lt;br /&gt;
Of dream with dream, their Slaver-Saint came true,&lt;br /&gt;
And their Blind Pirate, their resurgent Pew&lt;br /&gt;
(A figure of deadly farce In his new birth)&lt;br /&gt;
Tap-tapped his way from Hades back to earth;&lt;br /&gt;
And so, their Lover and his Lass made one.&lt;br /&gt;
In their beat prose this Admiral here was done.&lt;br /&gt;
One of this Pair sleeps Ull the crack of doom&lt;br /&gt;
Where the great ocean-rollers plunge and boom,&lt;br /&gt;
The other waits and wonders what his Friend,&lt;br /&gt;
Dead now, and deaf, and silent, were the end&lt;br /&gt;
Revealed to his rare spirit would find to say&lt;br /&gt;
If you, his lovers, loved him for this Play.&lt;br /&gt;
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222&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Sara H. Dunn has written &amp;quot;Sunny&lt;br /&gt;
Memories of an Indian Winter,&amp;quot; which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Scott Limited will publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. E. Henley has resigned the editorship&lt;br /&gt;
of the New Review, which hereupon ceases to be&lt;br /&gt;
a monthly magazine. Uncertain health and the&lt;br /&gt;
necessities of his own literary work have com-&lt;br /&gt;
pelled Mr. Henley&amp;#039;s retirement. The Review,&lt;br /&gt;
completely transformed, will appear shortly as a&lt;br /&gt;
weekly journal, price 3c?.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. James Britten retires from the editorship&lt;br /&gt;
of Nature Notes, which he has conducted for six&lt;br /&gt;
years.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. E. Heron-Allen is translating Omar&lt;br /&gt;
Khayyam&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Rubaiyat,&amp;quot; from the original Persian,&lt;br /&gt;
Many quatrains not hitherto translated will be&lt;br /&gt;
included, and the original Persian text will also&lt;br /&gt;
be given page for page. Messrs. H. S. Nichols&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Early in the year an illustrated book of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Allegories,&amp;quot; by Dean Farrar, will be published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co. He has&lt;br /&gt;
in hand a more important work which will be&lt;br /&gt;
called &amp;quot;Texts Rightly Interpreted.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Gallant little Wales now comes in for its&lt;br /&gt;
volume in the series of Stories of the Nations,&lt;br /&gt;
published by Mr. Unwin. The writer of the&lt;br /&gt;
history is Mr. Owen M. Edwards, Fellow of&lt;br /&gt;
Lincoln College, Oxford. The same publisher&lt;br /&gt;
will shortly issue a volume entitled &amp;quot; The Welsh&lt;br /&gt;
People,&amp;quot; consisting of a series of essays, by Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fessor Rhys and Mr. Brynmor Jones, on the&lt;br /&gt;
history, antiquities, ancient laws and customs, and&lt;br /&gt;
the social characteristics of Wales.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Oscar Browning is to write a life of Charles&lt;br /&gt;
XII. of Sweden, which Messrs. Hurst and&lt;br /&gt;
Blackett will publish. The same writer&amp;#039;s Life&lt;br /&gt;
of Peter the Great is on the point of publication&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Hutchinson and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
A century and a half is a long life for a news-&lt;br /&gt;
paper. The Aberdeen Journal first appeared on&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 5, 1748, so that in a day or two it will have&lt;br /&gt;
completed its 150th year. Some time ago it&lt;br /&gt;
published a pamphlet recording its life-history.&lt;br /&gt;
It was founded by a fellow-apprentice of Benjamin&lt;br /&gt;
Franklin; its conductors bore an exciting patt in&lt;br /&gt;
the romantic rebellion of &amp;#039;45; it chronicled the&lt;br /&gt;
visit of Dr. Johnson and Boswell to Aberdeen&lt;br /&gt;
and the north; and its office was visited by&lt;br /&gt;
Robert Burns. In the United Kingdom only&lt;br /&gt;
four other daily newspapers of to-day can call up&lt;br /&gt;
a longer flight of years than the Aberdeen Journal.&lt;br /&gt;
They are Leeds Mercury (1718), Bristol Times&lt;br /&gt;
and Mirror (1735), Be/fast News Letter (1737),&lt;br /&gt;
and Birmingham Gazette (1741). The oldest&lt;br /&gt;
existing newspaper in the world is the Gazette de&lt;br /&gt;
France (1631), for which Louis XIII. wrote an&lt;br /&gt;
article.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Inderwick W. Foster has published&lt;br /&gt;
(Biscoke and Son, Richmond) a Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;
of Lawn Tennis (1874-1897). The work contains&lt;br /&gt;
titles and particulars of nearly 250 books,&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlets, &amp;lt;fec, on the game of lawn tennis.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Buchheim, who has already contri-&lt;br /&gt;
buted two popular volumes to Macmillan&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Golden&lt;br /&gt;
Treasury Series,&amp;quot; viz., &amp;quot;Deutsche Lyrike&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Balladen und Romanzen,&amp;quot; will shortly add a&lt;br /&gt;
third volume, entitled, &amp;quot;Heine&amp;#039;s Lieder und&lt;br /&gt;
Gedichte,&amp;quot; selected, and edited with notes and an&lt;br /&gt;
introduction. We also hear that the professor,&lt;br /&gt;
who, by-the-bye, has recently received the honorary&lt;br /&gt;
degree of M.A. from the University of Oxford, is&lt;br /&gt;
engaged on a monograph treating of the attempts&lt;br /&gt;
made in this country and America to popularise&lt;br /&gt;
Heine as a poet and a prose writer.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rider Haggard, at the request of the Com&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of Management, has writteu a Christmas&lt;br /&gt;
appeal for the Victoria Hospital for Children at&lt;br /&gt;
Chelsea. It is called &amp;quot;A Visit to the Victoria&lt;br /&gt;
Hospital.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle has discovered a new&lt;br /&gt;
poet&mdash;Mr. Henry Newbolt (London: Elkin&lt;br /&gt;
Matthews, ii.) I have sent for a copy of his&lt;br /&gt;
poems. Meantime, I venture to extract one poem&lt;br /&gt;
from the columns of the Daily Chronicle in the&lt;br /&gt;
belief that it will send all our readers straight&lt;br /&gt;
to their booksellers to order a copy.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAKE&amp;#039;S DRUM.&lt;br /&gt;
Drake he was a Devon man, an&amp;#039; ruled the Devon seaa&lt;br /&gt;
(Capten, art tha sleepin&amp;#039; there below P),&lt;br /&gt;
Rovin&amp;#039; tho&amp;#039; his death fell, he went wi&amp;#039; heart at ease,&lt;br /&gt;
An&amp;#039; dreamin&amp;#039; arl the time 0&amp;#039; Plymouth Hoe.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,&lt;br /&gt;
Strike et when your powder&amp;#039;s runnin&amp;#039; low;&lt;br /&gt;
If the Dons sight Devon, I&amp;#039;ll qnit the port o&amp;#039; Heaven,&lt;br /&gt;
An&amp;#039; drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long&lt;br /&gt;
ago.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Drake he&amp;#039;s in his hammock an&amp;#039; a thousand mile away,&lt;br /&gt;
(Capten, art tha sleepin&amp;#039; there below ?),&lt;br /&gt;
Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay,&lt;br /&gt;
An&amp;#039; dreamin&amp;#039; arl the time o&amp;#039; Plymouth Hoe.&lt;br /&gt;
Yarnder lames the island, yarnder lie the ships,&lt;br /&gt;
Wi&amp;#039; sailor lads a-danoin&amp;#039; heel-an&amp;#039;-toe,&lt;br /&gt;
An&amp;#039; the shore-lights flashin&amp;#039;, an&amp;#039; the night-tide dashin&amp;#039;,&lt;br /&gt;
He sees et arl so plainly as he saw et long ago.&lt;br /&gt;
Drake lies in his hammock till the great Armadas oome,&lt;br /&gt;
(Capten, art tha sleepin&amp;#039; there below P),&lt;br /&gt;
Slung atween the round shot, listenin&amp;#039; for the drum,&lt;br /&gt;
An&amp;#039; dreamin&amp;#039; arl the time o&amp;#039; Plymouth Hoe.&lt;br /&gt;
Call him on the deep sea, call him np the Sound,&lt;br /&gt;
Call him when ye sail to meet the foe;&lt;br /&gt;
Where the old trade&amp;#039;s plyin&amp;#039; an&amp;#039; the old flag flyin&amp;#039;,&lt;br /&gt;
They shall find him ware an&amp;#039; wakin&amp;#039;, as they found him&lt;br /&gt;
long ago.&lt;br /&gt;
Early this year Sir Charles Alexander Gordon&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Recollections of Thirty-uine Years in the Army&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
223&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Charles was in the Mutiny, with Lord Elgin&lt;br /&gt;
in China, and in Paris during the siege.&lt;br /&gt;
A new edition of Whitman is to be published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Putnam, with thirteen short poems&lt;br /&gt;
that did not appear in the edition prepared by&lt;br /&gt;
the poet shortly before his death. &amp;quot;Though you&lt;br /&gt;
have put the finishing touches on the &amp;#039;Leaves,&amp;#039;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
said one of his friends to Whitman, &amp;quot; you will go&lt;br /&gt;
on living a year or two longer and writing more&lt;br /&gt;
poems. The question is, what will you do with&lt;br /&gt;
these poems when the time comes to fix them in&lt;br /&gt;
the volume?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I am not unprepared,&amp;quot; said&lt;br /&gt;
Whitman, and I have a title in reserve&mdash;&amp;#039; Old Age&lt;br /&gt;
Echoes&amp;#039;&mdash;applying not so much to things as to&lt;br /&gt;
echoes of things reverberant, an aftermath.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A translation of the Italian masterpiece, the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Pecorone&amp;quot; of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, has&lt;br /&gt;
just been published by Messrs. Lawrence and&lt;br /&gt;
Bullen. Although it was published in 1558, this&lt;br /&gt;
novel has never before been done into any tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
The translation will be by Mr. W. G. Waters,&lt;br /&gt;
and illustrations will be by Mr. E. R. Hughes,&lt;br /&gt;
R.W.S.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is a tale of literary appropriation from&lt;br /&gt;
America. Mr. George Cable has been correcting&lt;br /&gt;
an American editor as to the authorship of a&lt;br /&gt;
certain poem. The editor had credited it to some&lt;br /&gt;
one named George Cooper, but Mr. Cable recog-&lt;br /&gt;
nised the poem, and wrote to the editor as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:&lt;br /&gt;
I have an impression that it was Coopered by quite&lt;br /&gt;
another George. My impression is that it was written by&lt;br /&gt;
myself twenty-seven years ago, on the occasion of the birth&lt;br /&gt;
of my first child. If yon can&amp;#039;t take my word for it, I can&lt;br /&gt;
show yon the child. I am not a frequent versifier, and&lt;br /&gt;
never should have prized this bit if it had not immediately,&lt;br /&gt;
upon its first publication (in the New Orleans Picayune),&lt;br /&gt;
begun a mad career of getting stolen&mdash;like &amp;quot; Helen of Troy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and others. It is only three days since I wrote to a Chicago&lt;br /&gt;
publishing house to say that it was not written by Mortimer&lt;br /&gt;
M. Thompson, as accredited in a volume called &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
Humbler Poets.&amp;quot; Let me tell you, oven the humblest poet&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;will turn.&amp;quot; And I wish my consoious or unconscious&lt;br /&gt;
trespassers would give this much-stolen trifle a respite.&lt;br /&gt;
Zounds, man! have I done nothing else worth stealing?&lt;br /&gt;
It&amp;#039;s mortifying.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walter Wood has completed and delivered&lt;br /&gt;
to Messrs. Tillotson and Son, for serial publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, a military story which deals largely with&lt;br /&gt;
Frontier warfare. The story will run for about&lt;br /&gt;
three months and publication is to begin at an&lt;br /&gt;
early date. This is the second military serial&lt;br /&gt;
which has been written of late for Messrs. Tillot-&lt;br /&gt;
son by Mr. Wood, who has just published a series&lt;br /&gt;
of short stories in To-day.&lt;br /&gt;
The issue of the &amp;quot;Literary Year Book&amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
1898 will be edited by Mr. Joseph Jacobs. This&lt;br /&gt;
annual, published by Mr. George Allen, now&lt;br /&gt;
makes its second appearance. The editor this&lt;br /&gt;
year has been assisted by two eminent bookmen,&lt;br /&gt;
a popular novelist, and a well-known editor. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Buskin&amp;#039;s portrait will be the frontispiece.&lt;br /&gt;
At the sale of the second portion of the library&lt;br /&gt;
formed by the late Earl of Ashburnham, a remark-&lt;br /&gt;
able price was paid for a Caxton. This is &amp;quot; Le&lt;br /&gt;
Fevre (R.), a Boke of the Hoole Lvf of Jason,&lt;br /&gt;
translated out of the French by William Caxton,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
circa 1477, black letter, small folio, a rare Caxton&lt;br /&gt;
book, one of the earliest productions of the press&lt;br /&gt;
at Westminster. The whole of the volume is&lt;br /&gt;
genuine throughout, sound, and clean. It was&lt;br /&gt;
formerly Richard Heber&amp;#039;s, and was sold in 1817&lt;br /&gt;
for .&pound;162 15s., afterwards for .&pound;95 11*., and at the&lt;br /&gt;
Heber sale for &pound;87. The late Earl bought it&lt;br /&gt;
from Payne, the bookseller. It now fetched the&lt;br /&gt;
record price of .&pound;2100, the purchaser being Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pickering.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John LI. Warden Page has written two&lt;br /&gt;
papers, which he has also illustrated, for&lt;br /&gt;
Travel. One is a description of the Great Fair&lt;br /&gt;
of Nijni Novgorod, the other is callled &amp;quot; Up the&lt;br /&gt;
Volga.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The same author&amp;#039;s new book on the &amp;quot;North&lt;br /&gt;
Coast of Cornwall&amp;quot; (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)&lt;br /&gt;
is now ready, with twenty-one vignettes by the&lt;br /&gt;
author, and a map. The price is 6*. net.&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously&lt;br /&gt;
pleased to accept a copy of Miss H. M. Burnside&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
volume of verses and ly rics, &amp;quot;Drift Weed&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(Hutchinson and Co).&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Nelson and Son have just published&lt;br /&gt;
two stories for children, written by Miss Burn-&lt;br /&gt;
side, entitled &amp;quot;The Little V.C.&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Lost&lt;br /&gt;
Letter.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
LITERATURE IN THE PERIODICALS.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, Publishers, and Booksellers. Leading&lt;br /&gt;
articles: The Times, Deo. 6; Daily Chronicle, Dec. 4;&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Circular, Deo. 11 ; The 8peaker (&amp;quot; A Question&lt;br /&gt;
of Discount&amp;quot;) Dec. 11. Letters: &amp;quot;Z&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Economist&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in Times, Deo. 4; &amp;quot;Country Bookseller&amp;quot; in Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, Deo. 27; &amp;quot;Z.&amp;quot; in Daily News, Dec. 7; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Frankfort Moore, Mr. Frederick Evans, and &amp;quot; A Publisher&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in Chapman&amp;#039;s Magazine for December.&lt;br /&gt;
What the Trade Thinks. Interviews with Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Burleigh, Mr. Frederick Evans, and others, regarding&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors&amp;#039; Committee Report on Discounts: Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, Deo. 6.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKBELLINO: A DECAYING INDUSTRY. Neville&lt;br /&gt;
Beeman. New Century Review for January.&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Grievances. From various standpoints.&lt;br /&gt;
And leading article. Morning Post for Deo. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
224&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The Payment and Fostering) op Poetry. Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
Herald for Nov. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
The Comino Litebabt Bevival. II. J. S. Tunison.&lt;br /&gt;
Atlantic Monthly for Dooember.&lt;br /&gt;
The Importation of German. Leslie Stephen.&lt;br /&gt;
National Review for December.&lt;br /&gt;
Commenting upon the &amp;quot;carefully-prepared&lt;br /&gt;
report&amp;quot; of the Society of Authors&amp;#039; special Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee on book-discounts, the Titnes agrees that&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;no compact can restore the country bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
to his old position,&amp;quot; and advises him to reshape&lt;br /&gt;
his way of doing business and be to his customers&lt;br /&gt;
more than a mere transmitter of orders. The&lt;br /&gt;
contingency of an author publishing his books&lt;br /&gt;
through a bookseller, through a printer, through&lt;br /&gt;
a literary agent, or through a draper, the Times&lt;br /&gt;
says &amp;quot; is not so very probable,&amp;quot; although &amp;quot; there&lt;br /&gt;
are authors powerful enough to defeat any&lt;br /&gt;
attempt to fix the terms on which their books are&lt;br /&gt;
to be sold.&amp;quot; But, finally, our great contemporary&lt;br /&gt;
states that &amp;quot; both authors and publishers are apt&lt;br /&gt;
to overlook the interests and bias of the reader,&lt;br /&gt;
who never was less disposed to fall in with&lt;br /&gt;
proposals to put things right at his expense. For&lt;br /&gt;
good books, which are rare, he does not probably&lt;br /&gt;
pay enough, but for indifferent and ephemeral&lt;br /&gt;
productions he is satisfied that he pays too much.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle, in placing the facts and&lt;br /&gt;
issues of the report before its readers, confesses&lt;br /&gt;
also that it sees no way to an artificial enhance-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of prices, and reads the country bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
the lesson that if he would survive &amp;quot; he will be&lt;br /&gt;
wise to lay to heart the suggestions made to him&lt;br /&gt;
by the Society of Authors.&amp;quot; In anticipating the&lt;br /&gt;
concurrence of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association with&lt;br /&gt;
the finding of the Committee, it observes that the&lt;br /&gt;
relations between authors and publishers were&lt;br /&gt;
never closer or more sympathetic than at the&lt;br /&gt;
present moment; and &amp;quot;never was a mere author&lt;br /&gt;
of the least merit so certain of a publisher and&lt;br /&gt;
therefore of a chance to win for himself an&lt;br /&gt;
audience &amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore neither publishers nor authors stand in need of&lt;br /&gt;
any adventitious helps. The; would both oommit a fatal&lt;br /&gt;
error if in an attempt to turn back the stream of irresis-&lt;br /&gt;
tible economic forces, they tried to help a section of&lt;br /&gt;
the retailers at the cost of the multitude of readers.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Economist,&amp;quot; writing in the Times, thinks that&lt;br /&gt;
if it is the interest of the author and the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
to have their books on show in shops all over the&lt;br /&gt;
country, surely the necessary steps ought to be&lt;br /&gt;
taken by them and at their expense. As to any&lt;br /&gt;
idea of restrictions upon the price at which a&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller shall offer books to the public, we quote&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Economist&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; own words:&lt;br /&gt;
The druggist is more necessary to the well-being of a&lt;br /&gt;
country town than the bookseller, and, nowadays at least,&lt;br /&gt;
he is usually a man more expensively educated. Yet he has&lt;br /&gt;
to go outside his proper sphere, selling tobacco, hair-&lt;br /&gt;
brushes, and any &amp;quot; fal-lals &amp;quot; that he can find room for. The&lt;br /&gt;
reason is that the turnover even of his indispensable goods&lt;br /&gt;
is not great enough to occupy all his time, or to furnish&lt;br /&gt;
the inoome that he desires. The country bookseller merely&lt;br /&gt;
suffers under a general disadvantage. It there are to be&lt;br /&gt;
trade combinations to supply him with an inoome greater&lt;br /&gt;
than the market affords, why not go back to pure medievalism&lt;br /&gt;
and put on restrictions all round to make every tradesman&lt;br /&gt;
happy.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A Country Bookseller&amp;quot; says that publishers&lt;br /&gt;
could stop the anomalies to-morrow if they would&lt;br /&gt;
forget the superstitious age and call twelve a dozen,&lt;br /&gt;
giving to the poor what they give to the rich; if&lt;br /&gt;
copyright publishers would sell five copies at the&lt;br /&gt;
same rate each as twenty-five; and the non-copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right man would sell twenty at the same rate&lt;br /&gt;
as 200.&lt;br /&gt;
We are assured by the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular&lt;br /&gt;
that although &amp;quot; publishers have done all in their&lt;br /&gt;
power to aid the retail trade,&amp;quot; booksellers will not&lt;br /&gt;
cease to agitate. Mr. Burleigh, the secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
the Associated Booksellers, has said as much,&lt;br /&gt;
indeed, to an interviewer. The booksellers&mdash;who&lt;br /&gt;
are, of course, disappointed with the report&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
cannot give up the movement, he said, &amp;quot;unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are to relinquish all prospects for them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves.&amp;quot; Mr. Frederick Evans spoke to the same&lt;br /&gt;
effect. Mr. F. Stoneham, on the other hand, who&lt;br /&gt;
represents the discount side of the trade, thought&lt;br /&gt;
the report a very fair statement of the whole case.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It got together the essential facts governing&lt;br /&gt;
bookselling, and, that done, its conclusions were&lt;br /&gt;
inevitable.&amp;quot; The recommendation of greater&lt;br /&gt;
energy and enterprise in the bookselling trade is&lt;br /&gt;
not, the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular considers, &amp;quot;to be&lt;br /&gt;
taken seriously.&amp;quot; The remaining criticisms&lt;br /&gt;
which the organ of the publishing trade passes&lt;br /&gt;
upon the report are contained in the following&lt;br /&gt;
passage:&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers are told they would do well to remember the&lt;br /&gt;
development of the system of serial publication; in other&lt;br /&gt;
words, they are asked to pay attention to a method of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lication whioh they have themselves called into existence&lt;br /&gt;
and are carrying on. Collective wisdom could not go beyond&lt;br /&gt;
that. Whether the bookseller can be converted into a news-&lt;br /&gt;
agent, or the newsagent into a bookseller, readers may&lt;br /&gt;
decide for themselves. It is true there are houses which&lt;br /&gt;
now handle both books and newspapers in large quantities;&lt;br /&gt;
but the results of a general adoption of the principle are, to&lt;br /&gt;
say the least, a little doubtful.&lt;br /&gt;
The Speaker acknowledges, in the name of the&lt;br /&gt;
world, that the report is an &amp;quot;amusing document.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Hasn&amp;#039;t seen anything so amusing for a long&lt;br /&gt;
time. The writer hurls at the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, after some personalities, the state,&lt;br /&gt;
ment that the whole question is one of&lt;br /&gt;
money; and concludes with the assertion that the&lt;br /&gt;
people of Great Britain begrudge every shilling&lt;br /&gt;
which they spend upon literature, and the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
phecy that&amp;quot;the middleman will disappear, leaving&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 225 (#659) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
225&lt;br /&gt;
as his only memorial a thousand desolated homes,&lt;br /&gt;
and the wholesale publishers will become more&lt;br /&gt;
and more the masters of the great trade in&lt;br /&gt;
books.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Neville Beeman tells booksellers that they&lt;br /&gt;
are chiefly responsible for their impecuniosity.&lt;br /&gt;
They are incompetent to buy cautiously, and&lt;br /&gt;
unable to sell in an intelligent manner. But in&lt;br /&gt;
defence of the bookseller it must be said that&lt;br /&gt;
many pitfalls are laid for him by those who&lt;br /&gt;
should be his best friends. To take the author:&lt;br /&gt;
he writes a good book; he becomes known by it;&lt;br /&gt;
he is seized by the wicked literary agent, who&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;proceeds to make arrangements with as many&lt;br /&gt;
publishers as possible, who are all keen to secure&lt;br /&gt;
a rising man, and one fine morning the author&lt;br /&gt;
wakes up to find he is bound to write so many&lt;br /&gt;
words a day, whether he feels inclined or not, to&lt;br /&gt;
fulfil the contracts which his master has concluded&lt;br /&gt;
for him.&amp;quot; Mr. Beeman uses the word &amp;quot;master&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
advisedly, his one objection to the literary agent&lt;br /&gt;
(&amp;quot;a useful and even necessary adjunct to the&lt;br /&gt;
literary man&amp;quot;) being that he is &amp;quot;master&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
instead of &amp;quot;servant.&amp;quot; The author, then, having&lt;br /&gt;
scored a success with his first book, proceeds to&lt;br /&gt;
turn out hurried and slipshod work; meanwhile&lt;br /&gt;
the bookseller, buying on the original reputation,&lt;br /&gt;
finds himself saddled with dead stock. Moreover,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;there is no device, however low, that an author&lt;br /&gt;
will not stoop to in order to puff and advertise&lt;br /&gt;
himself to the notice of the bookseller.&amp;quot; Mr. A.&lt;br /&gt;
rides on his bicycle in velvet knickerbockers and&lt;br /&gt;
lace frills. Mr. B. always drinks toddy while&lt;br /&gt;
writing. Mr. De Bow sends a notice to the&lt;br /&gt;
papers saying that he is off to Monte Carlo to&lt;br /&gt;
study up local colour, but Mrs. De Bow secretly&lt;br /&gt;
divulges the fact that poor Mr. De Bow is&lt;br /&gt;
really at the British Museum getting h*8&lt;br /&gt;
local colour! The bookseller&amp;#039;s grievance against&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is even more serious. &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller has no one to blame so much for his&lt;br /&gt;
present position than [sic] the publisher.&amp;quot; In&lt;br /&gt;
his selection of MSS. the publisher is guided, as a&lt;br /&gt;
rule, by his readers, the greater number of&lt;br /&gt;
whom &mdash; so Mr. Neville informs us &mdash; &amp;quot; are&lt;br /&gt;
authors who have failed to make a living them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves at writing.&amp;quot; Readers, then, are full of cranks&lt;br /&gt;
and fads in their choice of books. A publisher&lt;br /&gt;
is perhaps unable to fill his autumn list with&lt;br /&gt;
books of good merit, so he makes up with&lt;br /&gt;
second-rate books. And as the publisher&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
traveller is persuasive, and the bookseller easily&lt;br /&gt;
persuaded, the latter in the end is stocked up&lt;br /&gt;
with books that do not suit him, and suffers a&lt;br /&gt;
serious loss. A third sinner arraigned alongside&lt;br /&gt;
the author and the publisher, is the Press,&lt;br /&gt;
against whom Mr. Beeman makes charges in&lt;br /&gt;
connection with reviewing. But we pass to the&lt;br /&gt;
panacea which the writer suggests to the Book-&lt;br /&gt;
sellers&amp;#039; Association:&lt;br /&gt;
Instead of trying to mnlct the pnblio of extra pennies,&lt;br /&gt;
which do the trade no good, and only drive away business,&lt;br /&gt;
they should suggest to the publishers that they should&lt;br /&gt;
Bupply a oopy of every new book to the Booksellers&amp;#039; Asso-&lt;br /&gt;
ciation one clear fortnight before issue. The Association&lt;br /&gt;
should appoint an expert to examine each book and&lt;br /&gt;
report on its merits. Then to each member of the Asso-&lt;br /&gt;
ciation a report would be sent, and, in the event of the&lt;br /&gt;
book proving saleable, a short epitome of the plot should&lt;br /&gt;
be printed on a leaflet for the bookseller&amp;#039;s guidance. This&lt;br /&gt;
would get over to a large measure, the item of bad stock.&lt;br /&gt;
Following up Mr. Lang&amp;#039;s article of the previous&lt;br /&gt;
month, an author &mdash; Mr. Frankfort Moore &mdash; a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher (anonymous), and a bookseller (Mr. F.&lt;br /&gt;
Evans) give their views in Chapman&amp;#039;s. Neither&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Moore nor Mr. Evans thinks that the reduc-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of discounts to the public need necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
mean a diminution of sales; and the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
remarks that his class has nothing to gain by&lt;br /&gt;
proposing to enforce &amp;quot; 2d. in the is.,&amp;quot; but they&lt;br /&gt;
wish to save the booksellers from ruin. An&lt;br /&gt;
author, a publisher, and a critic air their re-&lt;br /&gt;
spective grievances, by request, in the columns&lt;br /&gt;
of the Morning Post, which devotes a leading&lt;br /&gt;
article to their views. The author says the&lt;br /&gt;
London publisher is &amp;quot; very much of a sheep; he&lt;br /&gt;
lacks initiative.&amp;quot; If one publisher gets a &amp;quot; boom&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
with a certain kind of novel, then nothing will&lt;br /&gt;
serve either him or his publishing brethren but&lt;br /&gt;
that kind of novel written by Tom, Dick, and&lt;br /&gt;
Harry, till the reader is gorged. Publishers do&lt;br /&gt;
not know how to advertise their books, and they&lt;br /&gt;
do not offer them to the dying country bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
on the principle of sale or return. The critic, too,&lt;br /&gt;
is given over to a belief in fashions; and he is&lt;br /&gt;
too generous to the established popular favourite,&lt;br /&gt;
too grudgini; to the deserving writer who has&lt;br /&gt;
not quite arrived. The critic, on his part, implores&lt;br /&gt;
authors to lighten his labours by making their&lt;br /&gt;
work either very good or very bad. Most of the&lt;br /&gt;
books that come under his notice are pretty good,&lt;br /&gt;
and he is overwhelmed by the the monotony of&lt;br /&gt;
their average excellence. Finally, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
is on the whole well content except that he is&lt;br /&gt;
troubled about the retail bookseller&amp;#039;s condition.&lt;br /&gt;
His remedy for this is suggested by the following&lt;br /&gt;
confident conclusions: &amp;quot;To advertise a book at&lt;br /&gt;
a fixed price and then to tell buyers privately that&lt;br /&gt;
that is not the price is a sham and a delusion&lt;br /&gt;
unworthy of our honourable calling. The price&lt;br /&gt;
at which a book is published and advertised is&lt;br /&gt;
the price the public should pay for it. The true&lt;br /&gt;
solution is to fix a net price which the public&lt;br /&gt;
must pay, and from which no bookseller can&lt;br /&gt;
make any allowance whatever&mdash;and live. That is&lt;br /&gt;
the conclusion of the whole matter.&amp;quot; The Post&lt;br /&gt;
finds the most interesting feature of these letters&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that the author and the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
think poorly of the criticisms of the periodical&lt;br /&gt;
Press, while the reviewer&amp;#039;s complaint is merely&lt;br /&gt;
that great works are rare, and bad work not so&lt;br /&gt;
common as is supposed. It suggests that the&lt;br /&gt;
general public would welcome &amp;quot;selection,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
the practice of curtailing reviews of most books&lt;br /&gt;
to a few words, saying whether they are worth&lt;br /&gt;
reading or not. Anyhow, &amp;quot; there is evidently at&lt;br /&gt;
present a magnificent opportunity for critics&lt;br /&gt;
whose judgments can win the public confidence.&lt;br /&gt;
To no man is a greater reward offered in the&lt;br /&gt;
literary world than to him who can prove his&lt;br /&gt;
judgment is so true and so fair that the public&lt;br /&gt;
will be ready to read the books which he recom-&lt;br /&gt;
mends.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
We noticed in this column some months ago&lt;br /&gt;
the proposal of Mr. Le Gallienne that millionaires&lt;br /&gt;
should endow the genuine poets of the country.&lt;br /&gt;
He had thought, of course, of the State doing&lt;br /&gt;
something, but abandoned the idea as hopeless,&lt;br /&gt;
and turned persuasively to the millionaires, and&lt;br /&gt;
offered them the opportunity of immortality by&lt;br /&gt;
providing for the material wants of our singers.&lt;br /&gt;
The Glasgow Herald, however, harks back to the&lt;br /&gt;
State. The apathy of the public to poetry at the&lt;br /&gt;
present day is very plain, and yet, says our&lt;br /&gt;
Scottish contemporary, &amp;quot;there is probably no&lt;br /&gt;
one among us that is so much of a Philistine or&lt;br /&gt;
so pronounced a Platonist as to wish to see poetry&lt;br /&gt;
starved out.&amp;quot; To place all the proved poets&lt;br /&gt;
of the day beyond the reach of want, and thus&lt;br /&gt;
enable them to cultivate their poetical gifts with&lt;br /&gt;
their whole mind, a not very extravagant annual&lt;br /&gt;
sum would be required. The question arises,&lt;br /&gt;
how to prove them; and here the Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
Herald writer sees the possible use of some body&lt;br /&gt;
like the French Academy, which would raise the&lt;br /&gt;
higher criticism from the slough of sheer com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercialism into which it has fallen within the&lt;br /&gt;
last quarter of a century. &amp;quot;If such a body were&lt;br /&gt;
formed, the State would find in it, and ready to its&lt;br /&gt;
hand, a committee of selection which would guide&lt;br /&gt;
as to who are and who are not proved poets.&lt;br /&gt;
Here, at all, events, is a suggestion for adding&lt;br /&gt;
to the beneficent powers of the State which has&lt;br /&gt;
in it no taint of Socialism.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BOOKS OF THE MONTH.&lt;br /&gt;
[Nov. 24 to Dec. 23.&mdash;299 Books.]&lt;br /&gt;
Abcrnethy, J. S. Life and Work of James Abernethy, 0. E. 7/6.&lt;br /&gt;
Abbott, Jones.&lt;br /&gt;
Abney, Captain. Scientific Requirements of Colour Photography.&lt;br /&gt;
1/- net. Frowde.&lt;br /&gt;
Adye, General Sir J. Indian Frontier Policy. 3/6. Smith. Elder.&lt;br /&gt;
Ainslie, Noel. Among Thorns, 6/&amp;#039;- Lawrence.&lt;br /&gt;
Alcock, D. By Far Euphrates. A Tale. 5/- Hodderand Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen, A. M. Gladys in Grammarland. 8/6. Boxburghe.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrews, W. (ed.). Bygone Durham. 7/6. Andrews.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. AH About Animals. For Old and Young. 10/6. NewneB.&lt;br /&gt;
AnonjmouB. (&amp;quot; H. M.&amp;quot; and &amp;quot; M. A. R. T.&amp;quot;). Handbook to Chris-&lt;br /&gt;
tian and Ecclesiastical Borne. Part 11. 5/- Black.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. The Official Guide to the Klondyke Country. 2/-&lt;br /&gt;
Bacon.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. (&amp;quot; O. B. P.&amp;quot;). The Soul in Paradise. Poem. 1/6.&lt;br /&gt;
Church Printing Company.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. The Print Gallery. Reproductions of Eugravings&lt;br /&gt;
from end of XVth to beginning of XlXth Century. Vol. I. 21/-&lt;br /&gt;
Grevel.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. Victorian Art. Reproduction of Pictures. 91/6 net.&lt;br /&gt;
Blades.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous. MrB. Turner&amp;#039;s Cautionary Stories. 1/6. Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
Anst&laquo;d,A. A Dictionary of Sea Terms. 7/6. Upcott Gill.&lt;br /&gt;
Armstrong, Jessie. Through Rosamund&amp;#039;s Eyes. 3/6. Jarrold.&lt;br /&gt;
Atlay, J. B. Trial of Lord Cochrane before Lord EUenborough.&lt;br /&gt;
18/- Smith, Elder.&lt;br /&gt;
Bacon, E. M. Chronicles of Tarry town and Sleepy Hollow. 5/-&lt;br /&gt;
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Bain, R. Nisbet. The Pupils of Peter the Great. 1 6 - net Constable.&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, J. H. Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Develop-&lt;br /&gt;
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Baly, E. Eur-Aryan Roots, with their English Derivatives, Ac.&lt;br /&gt;
50/- net. Kegan Paul.&lt;br /&gt;
Banbury, G. A. L. On the Verge of Two Worlas. 8/6. Boxburghe.&lt;br /&gt;
Barkly, F. A. From the Tropics to the North Sea. 8/6. Roxburghe.&lt;br /&gt;
Barrett, Wilson. The Harlequin&amp;#039;s Last Leap, Ac. 1/- Saxon.&lt;br /&gt;
Barstow, 0. H. Natty&amp;#039;s Violin. 1/6. Warne.&lt;br /&gt;
Becke, Louis. Wild Life in Southern Seas. 6/- Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
Baoby, 0. E. Creed and Life. Beverley: Wright&lt;br /&gt;
Bellot, H. L. and Willis, B. J. The Law relating to Unconscionable&lt;br /&gt;
Bargains with Moneylenders. 7/6. Stevens and Haynes.&lt;br /&gt;
Berenson, B. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 4/6.&lt;br /&gt;
Putnam.&lt;br /&gt;
Rerridge, Ruth. The Baby Philosopher. 3/6 Jarrold.&lt;br /&gt;
Bickford-Smith, R. A. H Cretan Sketches. 6/- Bentley.&lt;br /&gt;
Bicknell, Anna L. The Story of Marie Antoinette. 12/- Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
Binns, Charles F. The Story of the Potter. 1/- Newnes.&lt;br /&gt;
Black, Hugh. Friendship. 2/6. Hodder and Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Boas, Mrs. F. English History for Children. 2/6. Nisbet.&lt;br /&gt;
Boulger, D. C. The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles. 21/- net Horace&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall.&lt;br /&gt;
Brewer, H. W. Medissval Oxford: a Bird&amp;#039;s Eye View. D. Fonrdrinier.&lt;br /&gt;
Briggs, U. M. By Roadside and Biver. 4/- Stock.&lt;br /&gt;
Brockman, Louisa. Bright Thoughts. 2/6. Digby.&lt;br /&gt;
Bryant, Emi&amp;#039;y M. Norma: A School Tale. 3/6. Digby.&lt;br /&gt;
Budd, A , and others. Football. 1/- Lawrence.&lt;br /&gt;
Budge, E. A. Wallis (ed.). The Book of the Dead: The Chapters of&lt;br /&gt;
Coming Forth by Day. 60/- Kegan Paul.&lt;br /&gt;
Builder, The. Album of Royal Academy Architecture, 1897. Builder&lt;br /&gt;
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Butler, Life and Letters of William John. 12/6 net&lt;br /&gt;
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Chambers, C. H. An Underground Tragedy, Ac. 1/- Saxon.&lt;br /&gt;
Channing, F. A. The Truth about Agricultural Depression. 6/-&lt;br /&gt;
Church, Dean. Village Sermons Third Series. 6/-&lt;br /&gt;
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Clarke, H. B. The Cld Campcador and the Waning of the Orescent&lt;br /&gt;
in the West 6/- Putnam.&lt;br /&gt;
Cochrane, B. (ed.). Four Hundred Animal Stories. 2/6. Chambers.&lt;br /&gt;
Cohn, J., and Swales, F. Practical Horse Dentistry. 3/6. Vinton.&lt;br /&gt;
Coillard, Francois (tr. by 0. W. Mackintosh^. On the Threshold of&lt;br /&gt;
Central Africa. 15/- Hodder and Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins, W. E. Beginnings of English Christianity. 8/6. M&amp;lt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the &amp;quot; Narcissus.&amp;quot; 6/- Heini&lt;br /&gt;
Conybcare, Edward. A History of Cambridgeshire. 7/6. Stock.&lt;br /&gt;
Ooonley, L. A. (worda by). Singing Verses for Children. 8/6 net.&lt;br /&gt;
Cooper, E. H. The Marchioness against the County. 6/- Chapman.&lt;br /&gt;
Cordery, J. G. (tr.). The Odyssey of Homer. 7/6. Methnen.&lt;br /&gt;
Cotton, A. E. Queer Creatures. 2/6. Simplrin.&lt;br /&gt;
Couch, M. Qulller. Some Westora Folk. 8/6. Horace Marshall.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cuthbertson, Evan J. William Shakespeare. 1/- Chambers.&lt;br /&gt;
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