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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. VIII.—No. 12.]<br />
MA.Y 2, 1898.<br />
General Memoranda and Warnings<br />
Literary Property—<br />
1. Lord Monkswell'a Bill<br />
2. Canadian Copyright Law<br />
3. The Cost or Production<br />
4. Title Pages<br />
Thirteen as Twelve<br />
New York Letter. By Norman Hapgood<br />
Notes and News. By the Editor<br />
Feuilleton—Too Sharp for Once<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PACE<br />
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... E06<br />
... 307<br />
... 308<br />
... 308<br />
... 308<br />
... 309<br />
... 310<br />
... 318<br />
[Pbich Sixpence.<br />
Notices to Correspondents<br />
Mr. Asqulth on Criticism<br />
Personal<br />
Questions and Answers<br />
Correspondence —1. The Boxburgbe Press Limited. 2<br />
right in Titles 3. A Warning to Writers.<br />
Literary Year-Book 1S9»." 5. Editots and Contributors.<br />
6. The Publisher's Assistant 321<br />
Literature In the Periodicals 325<br />
Book Talk<br />
The Books of the Month 330<br />
FAOI<br />
815<br />
819<br />
320<br />
381<br />
No Copy-<br />
4. "Tho<br />
PUBLICATIONS OP THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report. That for January 1897 can be had on application to the Secretary.<br />
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br />
Property. Issued to all Members, 6*. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the<br />
following prices: Vol. I., 10*. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 8«. 6d. each (Bound) j<br />
Vol. V., 6f. 6d. (Unbound).<br />
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Moeeis Colles, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,<br />
95, Strand, W.C.) 3*.<br />
1 The History of the Societe des Qens de Lettre3. By S. Squire Spriqqe, late Secretary to<br />
the Society, i*.<br />
5. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br />
size of page, Ac, with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br />
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 21. 6d.<br />
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squire Spriooe. In this work, compiled from the<br />
papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.<br />
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3*.<br />
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With<br />
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix containing the<br />
Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lelt. Eyre and Spottis-<br />
woode. is. 6d.<br />
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Walter Besant<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888—1892). 1*.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst<br />
Lukge, J.U.D. 2S. 6d.<br />
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AD VERTISEMENTS.<br />
^f)e g>ociefp of Jlufljors (gncorporafeb)<br />
Sir Edwin Arnold, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.<br />
J. M. Barrie.<br />
A. W. X Beckett.<br />
KOBEKT BaTEMAN.<br />
F. E. Bbddard, F.B.S.<br />
Sib Henry Bergne, E.C.M.G.<br />
Sib Walter Besant.<br />
augustine blrrell, m.p.|<br />
Eev. Pbof. Bonnet, F.B.S.<br />
Biqht Hon. James Bbyce, M.P.<br />
Bight Hon. Lord Burqhclere, P.C.<br />
Hall Caine.<br />
Eoebton Castle, F.S.A.<br />
P. W. Clayden.<br />
Edward Clodd.<br />
W. Mobris Colles.<br />
Hon. John Collieb.<br />
Sib W. Mabtin Conway.<br />
F. Marion Cbawfobd.<br />
Eight Hon. G. N. Curzon, P.C, M.P.<br />
Hon.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
QEOEGE MEEEDITH<br />
COUNCIL.<br />
The Eabl of Desart.<br />
au8tin dobson.<br />
A. Conan Doyle, M.D.<br />
A. W. Duboubq.<br />
Pbof. Michael Foster, F.E.S.<br />
D. W. Fbeshfibld.<br />
Richard Gabnett, C.B., LL.D.<br />
EDHUND GOS8E.<br />
H. Rider Haggard.<br />
Thomas Hardy.<br />
Anthony Hope Hawkins.<br />
Jerome K. Jerome.<br />
Rudyard Kipling.<br />
Prof. E. Bay Lankester, F.B.S.<br />
W. E. H. Lkcky, P.C.<br />
J. M. Lely.<br />
Mrs. E. Lynn Linton.<br />
Bev. W. J. Loftie, F.S.A.<br />
Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Mus.Doc.<br />
Prof. J. M. D. Meiklejohn.<br />
Counsel — E. M. Underdown,<br />
Herman C. Merivale.<br />
Bev. C. H. Middleton-Wakb.<br />
Sir Lewis Morris.<br />
Henry Norman.<br />
Miss E. A. Ormbrod.<br />
J. C. Parkinson.<br />
Right Hon. Lord Pirbrioh*, P.C,<br />
F.R.S.<br />
Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., LL.D.<br />
Walter Herries Pollock.<br />
W. Baptists Scoones.<br />
Miss Flora L. Shaw.<br />
G. R. Sims.<br />
S. Squire Sprigqe.<br />
J. J. Stevenson.<br />
Francis Storr.<br />
William Moy Thomas.<br />
H. D. Traill, D.C.L.<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward.<br />
Miss Charlotte M. Yonge.<br />
Q.C<br />
A. W. 1 Beckett.<br />
Sir Walter Besant.<br />
Egerton Castle, F.S.A.<br />
W. Morris Colles.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman—Sir W. Martin Conway.<br />
D. W. Freshfield. J. M. Lely.<br />
H. Rider Haggard. Henry Norman.<br />
Anthony Hope Hawkins. Francis Storr.<br />
ART.<br />
Hon. John Collier (Chairman)<br />
Sir W. Martin Conway.<br />
M. H. Spielmann.<br />
Solicitor/—<br />
SUB-COMMITTEES.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
C. Villiers Stanford, Mas.D. (Chairman).<br />
Jacques Blumenthal.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Henry Arthur Jones {Chairman).<br />
A. W. X Beckett.<br />
Edward Rose.<br />
Field, Roscoe, and Co., Linooln'a Inn Fields.<br />
G. Herbert Thring, B.A., 4, Portugal-street. Secretary—G. Herbert Thring, B.A.<br />
4, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
OFFICES:<br />
J±. F. W^.TT & SOILST,<br />
LITERARY AGENTS,<br />
Formerly of 2, PATERNOSTER SOUARE,<br />
Have now removed to<br />
HASTINGS HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND,<br />
LONDON, "W.C.<br />
THE TEMPLE TYPEWRITING OFFICE.<br />
TYPEWRITING EXCEPTIONALLY ACCURATE. Moderate prices. Duplicates of Circulars by the latest ^<br />
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XT be Butbor,<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. VIII.—No. 12.] MAT 2, 1898. [Pbice Sixpence.<br />
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the Autliors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the<br />
collective opinions of the Committee unless<br />
they are officially signed by G. Herbert<br />
Thring, Sec.<br />
THE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br />
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and<br />
requests that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
important communications within two days will write to him<br />
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union<br />
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on<br />
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-<br />
jects whatever. Articles which cannot bo accepted are<br />
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br />
GENERAL MEMORANDA.<br />
EOR some years it has been the praotioe to insert, in<br />
every number of The Author, certain " General Con-<br />
siderations," Warnings, Notices, &c, for the guidance<br />
of the reader. It has been objected as regards these<br />
warnings that the tricks or frauds against whioh they are<br />
directed cannot all be guarded against, for obvious reasons.<br />
It is, however, well that they should be borne in mind, and<br />
if any publisher refuses a clause of precaution he simply<br />
reveals his true character, and should be left to oarry on<br />
his business in his own way.<br />
Let us, however, draw up a few of the rules to be<br />
observed in an agreement. There are three methods of<br />
dealing with literary property:—<br />
I. That of selling it outright.<br />
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper<br />
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be<br />
managed by a competent agent.<br />
II. A profit-sharing agreement.<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
VOL. Till.<br />
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a Bpecial charge for " office expenses,"<br />
nnlesB the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
(7.) To stamp the agreement.<br />
III. The royalty system.<br />
In this system, which has opened the door to a most<br />
amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the<br />
author's ignorance, it is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possiblo for an author to ascertain approximately and very<br />
nearly the truth. From time to time the very important<br />
figures connected with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the<br />
"Cost of Production." Let no one, not even the youngest<br />
writer, sign a royalty agreement without finding out what<br />
it gives the publisher as well as himself.<br />
It has been objected that these precautions presuppose a<br />
great sueeess for the book, and that very few books indeed<br />
attain to this great success. That is quite true: but there is<br />
always this uncertainty of literary property that, although<br />
the works of a great many authors carry with them no risk<br />
at all, and although of a great many it is known within a few<br />
copies what will be their minimum circulation, it is not<br />
known what will be their maximum. Therefore every<br />
author, for every book, should arrange on the chance of a<br />
success which will not, probably, come at all; bnt which<br />
may come.<br />
The four points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:—<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) That there Bhall be no secret profits.<br />
(4.) That nothing shall be charged whioh has not been<br />
actually paid—for instance, that there shall be no charge for<br />
advertisements in the publisher's own organs and none for<br />
exchanged advertisements and that all disoounts shall be<br />
duly entered.<br />
If these points are carefully looked after, the author may<br />
rest pretty well assured that he is in right hands. At the<br />
lame time he will do well to send his agreement to the<br />
secretary before he Bigns it.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE'SOCIETY.<br />
I. in VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
l^J advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. If the advice<br />
sought is Buch as can be given best by a solicitor, the member<br />
has a right to an opinion from the Society's solicitors. If the<br />
cose is such that Counsel's opinion is desirable, the Com-<br />
mittee will obtain for him Counsel's opinion. All this<br />
without any cost to the member.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publisher's agreements do not generally fall within the<br />
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not Bcruple<br />
to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually<br />
engaged upon such questions for us.<br />
3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past<br />
accounts with the loan of the books represented. This is in<br />
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-<br />
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively<br />
so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any<br />
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-<br />
mation thus obtained may prove invaluable.<br />
4. If the examination of your previous business trans-<br />
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should<br />
take advice as to a change of publishers.<br />
5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-<br />
posed document to the Society for examination.<br />
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in<br />
the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks of every publish-<br />
ing firm in the country.<br />
7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society yon<br />
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are<br />
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing<br />
the beat interests of literature in promoting the indepen-<br />
dence of the writer.<br />
8. Send to the Editor of The Author notes of everything<br />
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.<br />
9. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fireproof<br />
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-<br />
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who<br />
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:—(1)<br />
To read and advise npon agreements and publishers. (2) To<br />
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action npon<br />
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments<br />
due according to agreements.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the<br />
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br />
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br />
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br />
6s. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and<br />
communications on all subjects connected with literature<br />
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to<br />
the Society than to make The Author oomplete, attractive,<br />
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this<br />
work send their names and the special subjects on which<br />
they are willing to write?<br />
Communications for The Author should reaoh the Editor<br />
not later than the 21 Bt of each month.<br />
All persons ongaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of the Society or not, are invited to oommunieate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work which<br />
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
Members and others who wish their MSS. read are<br />
requested not to send them to the Oflice without previously<br />
communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable<br />
despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in<br />
which they are received. It must also be distinctly under-<br />
stood that the Society docs not, under any circumstances,<br />
undertako the publication of MSS.<br />
The present location of the Authors' Club is at 3, White-<br />
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for<br />
information, rules of admission, Ac.<br />
Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they<br />
have paid their subscriptions for the year p If they will do<br />
this, and remit the amount, if BtUl unpaid, or a banker's<br />
order, it will greatly assist the Sacretary, and save him the<br />
trouble of sending out a reminder<br />
Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the<br />
following warning. It is a most foolish and may be a<br />
most disastrous thing to enter into an agreement binding<br />
for a term of years. Let them ask thomselves if they<br />
would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five<br />
years to come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest<br />
or dishonest? Of course they would not. Why then<br />
hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign them-<br />
selves into literary bondage for three or five years?<br />
"ThoBe who possess the 'Cost of Production' are<br />
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15<br />
per oent." This clause was inserted three or four years ago.<br />
Estimates have, however, recently been obtained which show<br />
that the figures in the book may be relied on as nearly<br />
correct: as near as is possible.<br />
Some remarks have been made npon the amount charged<br />
in the " Cost of Production" for advertising. Of course, we<br />
have not included any Bums which may be charged for<br />
inserting advertisements in the publisher's own magazines,<br />
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too<br />
often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from<br />
sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket,<br />
by inserting any number of advertisements in his own<br />
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are<br />
who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those<br />
who practise this method of swelling their own profits call it.<br />
LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
I.—Lord Monkswell's Bill.<br />
OUR French contemporary Le Droit d'Au-<br />
teur, the organ of the Berne Bureau of<br />
International Copyright, to whose valuable<br />
columns we have been not a few times indebted<br />
for intelligence of the highest moment, published<br />
in March an article on recent copyright legisla-<br />
tion in England of a kind most encouraging to<br />
ourselves.<br />
Continental literary circles, where, naturally<br />
enough, the difficulties of British legislation are<br />
not clearly understood, have felt some doubts<br />
concerning the value of Lord Monkswell's Bill at<br />
present before the House of Lords. In States<br />
where codification has become traditional, and<br />
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amongst foreign authors, who have sometimes<br />
suffered injustice in consequence of the confused<br />
and inadequate nature of the copyright laws of<br />
Great Britain, it is not singular that opinions<br />
should have been expressed rather in favour of a<br />
thorough revision of our copyright statutes than<br />
of an enactment calculated to remove some of<br />
the present most pressing difficulties. And this<br />
will be the less wondered at when it is remem-<br />
bered that amongst ourselves the fact that the<br />
revision of the whole copyright law could not<br />
be expected to pass the House of Commons<br />
except as a Government measure has been over-<br />
looked. With the various views which have<br />
been expressed the Droit cTAuteur deals in a<br />
short article, beginning with an appropriate<br />
reference to Mr. Herbert Thring's recent contri-<br />
bution in the Fortnightly Review, and then pro-<br />
ceeding to sketch the situation, and to speak of<br />
the difficulties in the way of the improvement of<br />
our legislation. It will be unnecessary to repro-<br />
duce here the r&sumi given of Mr. Herbert<br />
Thring's article. We may pass over the<br />
exposition of the difficulties in the way of<br />
reform with which we are ourselves but too<br />
familiar; only remarking that this subject is<br />
handled with an admirable impartiality. But we<br />
should like to call the attention of our readers<br />
to the two following passages. One expresses<br />
the views of the writer in Le Droit cTAuteur:<br />
Respecting the plan of campaign choaen by the English<br />
Society of Authors, whioh is, if possible to carry through<br />
some well defined and urgently needed reforms, before pro-<br />
ceeding to codification, this is a question of tactics, regarding<br />
which it is not our place to express an opinion. The English-<br />
men interested in these matters are here in a better position<br />
to judge than we.<br />
Tn the other, near the end of the article, we<br />
have the views of a French editor: views expressed<br />
in terms which cannot be other than highly<br />
gratifying to all supporters of Lord Monkswell's<br />
Bill and the Society's action:<br />
The same view is maintained by our contemporary, Le<br />
Progrea AHUtique (March 3, 1898), in whioh the editor,<br />
M. Maurice La Riviere, writes: "Whilst admitting that<br />
partial revisions applied to matters already regulated by<br />
several different legislative measures present serious incon-<br />
veniences, as well as risks of legal inconsistencies and<br />
contradictions, often of a kind to be deeply regretted, we<br />
cannot, at the same time, avoid asking ourselves whether it<br />
does not amount to sacrificing the substance for a shadow<br />
if we decline to take advantage of the limited but definite<br />
ameliorations which would result from Lord Monkswell's<br />
bill, in order to wait—God knows how long—for a codifica-<br />
tion of the English copyright laws. The question is,<br />
perhaps, a disputable one from the point of view of the<br />
English themselves; but respecting the interests of<br />
foreigners, and more particularly those of French dramatists<br />
and men of letters in general, it appears to us that every<br />
one Bhould without hesitation support the immediate and<br />
definite adoption of the project of the English Society of<br />
Authors."<br />
II.—Canadian Copyright Law.<br />
An important meeting of the Canadian Copy-<br />
right Association was held in the Board of Trade<br />
committee room yesterday (March 11). Mr. Dan.<br />
A. Bose, vice-president, called the meeting to<br />
order, and, in opening the proceedings, referred<br />
to what had been done in the past in order to<br />
secure a proper copyright law in Canada, and<br />
place the present unsatisfactory state of things<br />
on a better footing. The subject had been<br />
thoroughly threshed out, and there was no<br />
opposition from either political party. It was<br />
not a political matter at all, but one of ordinary<br />
business and straight justice. There was every<br />
reason to suppose that it could now be satis-<br />
factorily settled. A draft bill had been prepared<br />
as a result of several conferences between the<br />
Canadian Copyright Association and Mr. Hall<br />
Caine, who represented the British authors. The<br />
principles of that measure had been assented to<br />
by both sides of the House of Commons. There<br />
would, therefore, seem to be no reason why it<br />
should not pass into law. It was not a matter<br />
that need take up much of the time of the House,<br />
seeing that the righteousness and expediency of<br />
the measure were conceded. He therefore trusted<br />
that a united effort would be made to secure this<br />
desirable result.<br />
Mr. George N. Morang said that in the present<br />
ripe state of the question it would seem to<br />
be a want of judgment on the part of the<br />
association if vigorous steps were not at once<br />
taken with a view to relieve the publishing trade<br />
from the inconvenience and injustice under which<br />
it suffered from the incidence of the present law,<br />
or rather the want of it. The publishing trade<br />
had made headway under serious difficulties, and<br />
it deserved some attention. He moved "That in<br />
view of the importance of the publishing interest<br />
in Canada, which now gives employment to a<br />
large number of persons, and in view also of the<br />
great injustice and inconvenience occasioned by<br />
the chaotic state of copyright in Canada, imme-<br />
diate steps be taken to urge on the Govern-<br />
ment to settle the question on the basis of<br />
the draft bill agreed upon by this association,<br />
as representing Canadian interests, and by Mr.<br />
Hall Caine, as representing the British interests,<br />
and that the executive of this association take<br />
requisite action in the matter and interview<br />
the Government at once." The resolution was<br />
seconded by Mr. A. S. Irving.<br />
Mr. J. Murray said that, in order that the<br />
enterprise might proceed with success, it was<br />
requisite that the sinews of war should be pro-<br />
vided. The association had shown no hanging<br />
back in this respect in past times, and he did not<br />
anticipate any difficulty on that score now. He<br />
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moved "That the executive committee be autho-<br />
rised to take steps to collect funds to promote the<br />
work of the association." The resolution was<br />
seconded by Mr. R. L. Patterson.— Toronto<br />
I for Id, March 12. __0<-^_<br />
III.—The Cost of Production.<br />
In the note on the Cost of Paper in the last<br />
Author it is stated that a "ream of paper varies<br />
in weight from loclb. to 1301b." This leaves a<br />
wide margin of choice, but it is better to make it<br />
still wider by inserting the words "suitable for a<br />
fa. volume of 10 sheets of 32 pages."<br />
IV.—Title Pages.<br />
At a recent meeting of the Publishers' Associa-<br />
tion the Report of the Committee on Title Pages<br />
was received and discussed. The Report (says<br />
the Publishers' Circular) was in the following<br />
•words :—<br />
The Committee held meetings on Tuesday, Oct.<br />
26; Tuesday, Nov. 2; and Thursday, Nov. 18;<br />
and unanimously agreed on the following recom-<br />
mendations, viz.:—<br />
(1) Date.<br />
(«) That the title page of every book should<br />
bear the date of the year of publication,<br />
i.e., of the year in which the impression or<br />
the re-issue of which it forms a part, was<br />
first put on the market.<br />
(6) That when stock is re-issued in a new<br />
form, the title page should bear the date<br />
of the new issue, and each copy should be<br />
described as a "re-issue," either on the<br />
title page or in a bibliographical note.<br />
(c) That the date at which a book was last<br />
revised should be indicated cither on the<br />
title page or in a bibliographical note.<br />
(2) Bibliographical Note.<br />
That the bibliographical note should, when<br />
possible, be printed on the Lack of the title<br />
page, in order that it may not be separated<br />
therefrom in binding.<br />
(3) Impression, Edition, Re-issce.<br />
That for bibliographical purposes definite<br />
meanings should be attached to these<br />
words when used on a title page, and the<br />
following are recommended:<br />
Impression.—A number of copies printed<br />
at any one time. When a book is re-<br />
printed without change it should be<br />
called anew impression,to distinguish<br />
it from an edition as defined below.<br />
Edition.—An impression in which the<br />
matter has undergone some change,<br />
or for which the type has be en reset.<br />
Re-issue.—A republication at a different<br />
price, or in a different form, of part of<br />
an impression which has already been<br />
placed on the market.<br />
(4) Localisation.<br />
When the circulation of an impression of a<br />
book is limited by agreement to a par-<br />
ticular area, that each copy of that impres-<br />
sion should bear a conspicuous notice to<br />
that effect.<br />
Addendum.<br />
In cases where a book has been reprinted many<br />
times, and revised a less number of times, it<br />
is suggested that the intimation to that effect<br />
should be as follows, e.g.:—<br />
"Fifteenth Impression (Third Edition)."<br />
This would indicate that the book had been<br />
printed fifteen times, and that in the course<br />
of those fifteen impressions it had been revised<br />
or altered twice.<br />
The report was adopted.<br />
THIRTEEN AS TWELVE-<br />
IT is reported that attempts are being made to<br />
pay royalties on the principle of 13 as 12.<br />
In other words, if a royalty of 20 per cent, is<br />
agreed upon it is proposed to pay a royalty on<br />
12 copies out of every 13 copies sold, or on 100<br />
copies to pay for 92. That is to say, the author<br />
is to receive a royalty of only 18 j0s per cent.<br />
What is the justification of this imposition?<br />
The practice, it is said, of giving the trade an<br />
allowance of 13 as 12. But this is only done<br />
when the bookseller orders a dozen of one work<br />
or a dozen volumes of the same publisher. Now<br />
with the declining condition of the bookseller's<br />
trade, such orders are growing fewer and fewer<br />
every day. The distributing firms doubtless<br />
send in such orders, and get these allowances, but<br />
the average bookseller does not. Of that there<br />
can be no doubt. In other words the allowance<br />
of 13 as 12 by no means covers the whole sales.<br />
Therefore, to demand of the author to give up<br />
8 per cent, because such an allowance is made in<br />
certain cases is simply an attempt to trade upon<br />
ignorance.<br />
In the next place, it may be argued fairly that<br />
the author has nothing to do with the publisher's<br />
trade arrangements. His royalty is a fixed charge<br />
on the book like the cost of printing and paper.<br />
But there is another consideration of vital<br />
importance. The royalties are now mainly based<br />
upon certain tables published some time ago in<br />
The Author, which opened the eyes of the literary<br />
world as to the meaning of the royalties they<br />
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had been offered and had received. Now these<br />
tables were prepared on the understanding that<br />
the allowance of 13 as 12 was universal.<br />
Thus the price of a 6*. book to the trade was<br />
considered to be 4s. 2d. less 10 per cent, and 13<br />
as 12, bringing the price down to 3s. 6d. very<br />
nearly.<br />
The figures thus appeared as follows:<br />
1. The cost of a 6*. book in large numbers<br />
was set down at i*. In The Author of April,<br />
p. 290, the cost of a certain book of average size<br />
was, not estimated but, actually quoted as<br />
charged and paid for at gi^d. a copy. To make<br />
it up to a shilling ,£35 would have to be spent in<br />
advertising.<br />
2. The price to the trade was set down at<br />
3«. 6d.<br />
A list of prices obtained from a book which<br />
had a circulation of many thousands was fur-<br />
nished a few months ago by a certain firm of<br />
publishers, which showed that while the dis-<br />
tributing firms paid less, the trade paid more.<br />
The average was almost exactly 3*. 6d. Perhaps,<br />
when the distributing firms take a larger propor-<br />
tion the average will be nearer 3s. 5<7.<br />
3. The profit of the book was therefore 2s. 6d.<br />
The tables of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 per cent, royalty<br />
was calculated on those figures. But if after<br />
the royalty was allowed on the 13 as 12, the<br />
publishers claim it again, they actually have it<br />
twice over. And a royalty of 20 per cent, in<br />
the old agreement should be one of 21 f per cent.<br />
For the next number of The Author new tables<br />
will be prepared, first, without reference to the<br />
allowance at all, and next, recognising it and<br />
altering the figures accordingly. But these must<br />
not be altered over again.<br />
NEW YOKE LETTER.<br />
New York, April 14.<br />
THE business of syndicate sale of literary<br />
matter, especially fiction, has had an exten-<br />
sion in the purchase by John Brisben<br />
Walker, editor and owner of the Cosmopolitan,<br />
of the Bacheller Newspaper Syndicate. He will<br />
not only do the business formerly done by the<br />
concern in sending out New York letters,<br />
woman's pages, &c, to provincial papers, but<br />
will also do a business similar to that now done<br />
by the McClure Syndicate, selling the Sunday<br />
papers all the stories which he buys for his<br />
magazine. Mr. McClure frequently allows these<br />
Sunday papers to print instalments of serials<br />
before they appear in the magazine. The general<br />
idea is that a story which has been in the maga-<br />
zine has been seen all over the country, whereas<br />
its appearance in the few newspapers has very<br />
little effect on the readers of the magazine.<br />
Mr. A. F. Jaccaci, the art editor of McClure's<br />
Magazine, is about to make a trip to the Western<br />
States to see half a dozen young writers whom he<br />
thinks promising. He said that he would like to<br />
have McClure's Magazine do for America what<br />
has been done in England by certain editors in<br />
discovering new writers, and he thinks those who<br />
need encouragement are almost all in the West,<br />
as a young m m who gets any kind of a start in<br />
New York receives so much attention, and has so<br />
much demand for his work, that he is likely to<br />
be spoiled. This theory, if it were to be<br />
weighed carefully, would, of course, need con-<br />
siderable mitigation. It is on the whole true,<br />
however, that two influences exist side by<br />
side in the literary as well as in the general<br />
life of this city. A person of any real ability<br />
in letters, or even of a factitious cleverness,<br />
is likely to become the centre of enough<br />
attention for him to dwell on if he wishes to;<br />
but, on the other hand, the city is so big, with so<br />
many diverging groups of life, that almost nobody<br />
has any individual importance, and it is more<br />
frequent to hear the loneliness which this con-<br />
dition produces dwelt upon, than the self-<br />
consciousness which is engendered by our keen<br />
appreciation of literature of any grade.<br />
Among the writers who are just beginning<br />
their careers, the author of " The Imported Bride-<br />
groom, and Other Stories," which is to be pub-<br />
lished by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. immediately,<br />
gives some genuine promise. Abraham Cahan is<br />
a young Russian Jew of high ideals and of an<br />
intensely serious nature. A large part of his<br />
life has been spent among the people of what we<br />
call our Ghetto. He is now doing regular work<br />
on the Commercial Advertiser, broadening his<br />
experience by knowledge of the varied sides of<br />
city life which newspaper reporting opens up to<br />
one. His attitude towards his surroundings is<br />
interesting, as being typical probably of the<br />
majority of serious Russians in this country. He<br />
feels entirely out of sympathy with the American<br />
temperament. The fundamental indifference and<br />
jocosity with which it takes everything, treating<br />
politics and literature with the same curiosity and<br />
the same carelessness, shock him. I fancy that<br />
he will not do his best work until his point of<br />
view as a foreigner vanishes, and he sees the<br />
American spirit from the inside rather than from<br />
the outside, enjoying it, however much he may<br />
desire to change it in detail.<br />
Mr. Henry James, who published an interesting<br />
article on literary opportunities in America in<br />
Literature a short time ago, has also some-<br />
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■what of an external point of view, in spite of his<br />
knowledge of America and his cleverness. Pro-<br />
bably nobody, however discriminating, who has<br />
not given himself up essentially to our life<br />
as it is, can speak about it in a tone which shall<br />
seem intimate and convincing to the Americans<br />
themselves. Mr. James picks out two things for<br />
special emphasis, the business man and woman.<br />
Now, those are very obvious elements of life, but<br />
it is almost certainly true that to the most<br />
sensitive and deepest people who are living in the<br />
rush of this life, it would not occur to project the<br />
business man and his special problem into the<br />
foreground in our general feeling of American<br />
life. What there is a vague and strong desire for<br />
in our literature, is not the use of these obviously<br />
literary opportunities, but the expression of some-<br />
thing more deeply characteristic, which shall give<br />
principles and shades of thought and feeling<br />
which exist throughout a whole city, or a whole<br />
social class, or the whole country. The method<br />
of writing a story about a grocer or a stockbroker,<br />
or the member of a trade union, has been tested<br />
for a good while without producing any other<br />
result than a demonstration of the fact that the<br />
hero of the novel ought to be an individual and a<br />
man, rather than a tradesman or a professional.<br />
I do not mean, of course, that his occupation<br />
should not appear in the novel, but that it should<br />
not be the essential element of it.<br />
There was a rather discouraging outcome to<br />
Miss Elizabeth Kobins's attempt to introduce<br />
Ibsen to her native country. Instead of a series<br />
of performances here and in Boston, she gave but<br />
one, "Hedda G abler," at a matinte in New<br />
York. Her supporting company was a fairly<br />
good one, thoroughly rehearsed, and the resulting<br />
performance was the best all-round presentation<br />
of an Ibsen play that I have ever seen, her own<br />
acting being better than that of anybody who has<br />
played in Ibsen here recently, with the single<br />
exception of Mr. E. J. Henley, who is now in<br />
England. In spite of these favourable conditions<br />
the success was only moderate. The audience was<br />
made up of literary people and actors, and con-<br />
tained none of the element which would support a<br />
play for any length of time. The criticisms in<br />
the Press were almost without exception as hostile<br />
as they were shallow. We are on the road to<br />
learn something about technical excellence in the<br />
drama, but we evidently shall refuse to learn it<br />
from the Norwegian.<br />
One way in which we get some instruc-<br />
tion is an absurdly dishonest one. There is a<br />
prejudice against old plays here. If an actor<br />
wished to put on Dumas's "Kean," his manager<br />
would protest vigorously. Charles Coghlan,<br />
therefore, makes an awkward, but almost literal<br />
translation of it, and advertises it as practically<br />
a new play, merely founded on an old drama, and<br />
is drawing crowded houses. Only Monday one<br />
of our most cultivated actresses, Minnie Madden<br />
Fiske, put a play on the stage, a translation from<br />
the German. The translator's name was con-<br />
spicuous, but the original author was thought of<br />
so little importance that he was not mentioned.<br />
Almost the only purely original dramatic work<br />
of any note which has been done here within the<br />
last two or three years is Mr. Gillette's " Secret<br />
Service," with which you have had an opportunity<br />
in England to become well acquainted. There is<br />
a general feeling, although as yet no definite<br />
signs, that the conditions are ripe for the poetic<br />
drama, and the success of " Cyrano de Bergerac"<br />
has encouraged that belief. Mr. Richard Mans-<br />
field, easily the leading actor in America along<br />
certain lines, will take the part.<br />
One of the notable figures in American life and<br />
letters has just retired from his principal courses<br />
at Harvard. Charles Eliot Norton has long<br />
stood pre-eminently for old world culture, and a.<br />
lack of sympathy with the elements of life around<br />
him. His method has been not to pick out what<br />
he could find in America that was vital, or beauti-<br />
ful, or capable of being used to good purpose,<br />
but to talk continually about what was ugly or<br />
crude, and to contrast it with remote opposites,<br />
ranging from Greece to Burne-Jones. He has<br />
doubtless done good as well as harm, but his<br />
influence has been academic and slight, as that of<br />
any man must be who takes the situation before<br />
him in such a narrow closet fashion.<br />
Norman Hapgood.<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
ANOTE in the Athenseum states that owing<br />
to the war and the continued excitement it<br />
is certain to create, many books planned<br />
for the autumn will be kept back by the pub-<br />
lishers in the United States. My own forecast in<br />
the matter is that the excitement over the war,<br />
which will go on increasing, will not prevent<br />
books from being read, but quite the contrary.<br />
A war wakes up the whole nation: it not only<br />
calls forth anxiety, hope, exultation, resolution,<br />
tenacity, and other emotions and passions, but it<br />
seizes on every faculty and calls it into action.<br />
As to the influence of a long war on literature,<br />
remember that in the long war of Great Britain<br />
with France, from 1793 to 1814, a great part of<br />
which, so far as operations on land were concerned,<br />
was only partially successful, our literature was<br />
enriched by work from Wordsworth, Coleridge,<br />
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3ii<br />
Southey, Lamb, Byron, Scott, Kogers, Landor,<br />
Shelley, Godwin, James Hogg, Leigh Hunt,<br />
Jeremy Bentham, Frances Burney, Mrs. Barbauld,<br />
Thomas Campbell, Edmund Burke, and a great<br />
many more. How far the excitement of war<br />
stimulated these writers I do not know; but I<br />
think that it kept them from going to sleep. It<br />
is in times of peace that people desire nothing:<br />
neither to create literature nor to read it: the<br />
national body is apt to grow fat; the national<br />
mind to grow torpid. I venture to prophesy that<br />
after the first few weeks of the war excitement<br />
the demand for new literature will not only know<br />
no abatement, but will greatly increase.<br />
The most dead, dull, and dejected time in the<br />
whole history of English literature was that of<br />
the early Thirties—a period of profound peace.<br />
At one time, I believe in the autumn of 1832,<br />
there were hardly any books published at all. It<br />
was at that time, I believe, that the world finally<br />
rebelled against the rubbish that was forced upon<br />
the book clubs as fiction and poetry. The society<br />
novel fell never to be revived; the tales in verse<br />
fell; and the book clubs fell, to be revived,<br />
perhaps. They broke up, and their place has never<br />
since been filled up. I remark, again, that this<br />
was, after many years, a time of profound peace.<br />
Many years ago I was talking on this subject<br />
with the late George Bentley. He assured me<br />
that, from his own recollection, during the excite-<br />
ment of the Crimean War, followed by that of the<br />
Indian Mutiny, the demand for books was to a<br />
marked degree greater than during the years<br />
before. When peace returned, he said, a depres-<br />
sion of the book trade set in and lasted for a long<br />
time. .<br />
Mr. Asquith spoke so well the other day on<br />
criticism, that it is a pity he did not take the next<br />
step, and show what criticism ought to do in art<br />
and literature. The opposition of " critical" and<br />
"constructive" he showed to be fallacious. That,<br />
indeed, is easy to show. It is possible to be like<br />
Goethe, critical as well as constructive: it is pos-<br />
sible to be, like Matthew Arnold, a fine poet as<br />
well as a great critic: it is, however, possible and<br />
much more common to be a fine critic, and to<br />
possess no constructive power whatever. The<br />
function of criticism is not, he insisted, at times<br />
of intellectual torpor and stagnation, a form of<br />
intellectual gymnastics. And it is absurd to say<br />
that critics are failures in literature. Quite<br />
so: it is, however, perfectly true that a large<br />
number of professed critics are failures in<br />
literature, inasmuch as they have been proved<br />
VOL. vni.<br />
unable to do anything good. Mr. Asquith quoted<br />
Matthew Arnold: "The critic must know the<br />
best that is known and thought in the world, and<br />
by making this known create a current of true<br />
and fresh ideas." Let us accept this as a starting<br />
point. The next thing is that the critic shall<br />
understand what is best when he sees it. With<br />
this object a good deal of preparation is necessary.<br />
The true critic must be, to begin with, a fine<br />
Greek scholar, a fine French scholar, if not also a<br />
fine German scholar. He must have in his mind<br />
certain canons for his own guidance: he must<br />
know what has been done in the various branches<br />
of imaginative literature, history, belles lettres.<br />
How many critics have we who could pass an<br />
examination in these subjects?<br />
Let me add to these remarks of Mr. Asquith<br />
certain dicta of Professor Saintsbury, who, above<br />
all others, is jealous as to the position and true<br />
functions of the critic in literature. He offers two<br />
or three test questions. Thus : "What idea of the<br />
original would this critic give to a tolerably<br />
instructed person who did not know that<br />
original? How far has this critic seen steadily,<br />
and seen whole, the subject which he has set him-<br />
self to consider? How far has he referred the<br />
main peculiarities of that subject to their proximate<br />
causes and effects? How far has he attempted to<br />
place, and succeeded in placing, the subject in the<br />
general history of Literature, in the collection of<br />
authors of its own department?" These are<br />
questions worth considering. Indeed, the whole<br />
essay is one which young writers—even those who<br />
do not intend to become reviewers—should read<br />
and ponder. "I think," he adds, "that if I were<br />
dictator, one of the first non-political things that<br />
I should do would be to make the order of<br />
reviewers as close a one, at least, as the bench<br />
of judges, or the staff of the Mint, or of any public<br />
establishment of a similar character."<br />
I think that it is time to withdraw the word<br />
criticism from the short notices of books which<br />
fill up our papers. They may be guides, but<br />
they are not criticisms: guides if written after<br />
honestly reading the book; misleading pretences<br />
if not. In such notices we want to know if a<br />
book is worth buying: what it contains: if it<br />
will instruct us: if it will interest us. A critic<br />
is not wanted for this work. A courteous gentle-<br />
man, ready to appreciate, slow to condemn,<br />
and incapable of misrepresentation, is the writer<br />
who should be employed for such work as this.<br />
There are one or two "hands" that might be<br />
indicated as already at work on these lines, and I<br />
hope there will be more.<br />
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In another column 'will be found a ommunica-<br />
tion from Mr. Herbert W. Smith, treating on<br />
the general questions on which we have published<br />
so many communications. He mentions three<br />
great grievances: (i) delay in considering<br />
MSS.; (2) delay in payment; and (3) unequal<br />
remuneration. He would "compel " an editor to<br />
return MSS. within a month. How would he<br />
compel him? If a writer offers an editor a<br />
MS., he may make it a condition that it is to be<br />
returned or accepted within a certain time. It is<br />
for the editor to accept that condition or to<br />
refuse. Most editors would refuse. Surely, too,<br />
allowance must be made for the mass of MSS.<br />
showered upon the editor. With regard to the<br />
second grievance, this is a real one. A writer has<br />
his MS. accepted; he may have to wait for<br />
months. I know a case in which a MS. was<br />
accepted by what used to be called a magazine of<br />
the first class. It appeared two years afterwards.<br />
Accepted MSS. ought to be paid for when they<br />
are accepted. Here, again, the writer can propose<br />
his own conditions; the editor, for his part, cau<br />
accept or refuse. As for the third complaint—<br />
that of unequal remuneration—I would ask our<br />
correspondent to name any occupation at which<br />
remuneration is equal. There is no " legitimate"<br />
rate of pay for magazine or other literary work.<br />
Some journals would shut up at once if they had<br />
to pay at the same rates as the better class organs.<br />
But here, again, writers have the matter in their<br />
own hands. If they know that a journal pays<br />
badly why send their contributions? If they<br />
plead necessity, then, ahis! there is no answer.<br />
In every profession there are necessitous persons,<br />
and there are sweaters to prey upon them. I<br />
hope, however, that those who road this com-<br />
munication will reflect (1) that, unless necessity<br />
compels them, they can propose their own condi-<br />
tions; and (2) that there is no way possible of<br />
"compelling" editors to alter their methods.<br />
Miss Betham-Edwards, in her book of "Remi-<br />
niscences," places on record the condition on which<br />
her first novel, "The White House by the Sea,"<br />
was published. The book was issued in 1857 and<br />
its last edition appeared in 1891. It has thus<br />
had forty years' run:—<br />
I must here for once and for all make it qnite clear that<br />
I do not in the very leaat reflect npon anyone else bnt<br />
myself throughout the history of this transaction. The<br />
important, I may say the only, object I had in view was to<br />
get my book well put before the pnblic—which it was, my<br />
payment being in kind, instead of money, that is to say, I<br />
received twenty-five copies of new one, two, and three<br />
volnme novels. For a young writer the bargain cannot be<br />
called a bad one. My work was well printed, well bound,<br />
well advertised, and presented to the world in excellent com-<br />
pany. The curious part of the business is this: before me<br />
lies the original edition in two handsome volumes dated<br />
1857, beside it the last pDpular edition dated 1891.<br />
Bet veen those two dates, a period of just npon thirty-five<br />
years, the book hid contrived to keep its head above water,<br />
that is to say, had been steadily reprinted from time to<br />
time j yet from its first appearance to the present day, when<br />
it is still selling, not a farthing of profit has accrued to the<br />
author.<br />
That the author should still think that the<br />
bargain "cannot be called a bad one," is truly<br />
wonderful. That there was nobody but herself<br />
to blame is certainly quite true. That any firm<br />
of publishers should offer to buy the whole copy-<br />
right of a work which might prove a well and a<br />
fountain for years to come, for twenty-five books<br />
seems incredible. Yet on another page—in the<br />
Feuilleton—appears a story of a publisher of to-day<br />
trying to get the copyright of a new writer's first<br />
book on terms no better. Miss Edwards's twenty-<br />
five works were worth nominally quite as much<br />
as the fifteen guineas offered by the publisher of<br />
to-day. oii<br />
A writer in the Morning Post has a few<br />
remarks touching Sir Henry Craik's unfortunate<br />
exhibition at a late dinner:<br />
The Secretary of the Scottish Education Department is<br />
reported to have said: "The Society of Authors had told<br />
them that the publisher was a needless invention, and<br />
. . . that the chief duty of the author was to make<br />
himself a sprightly commercial agent, who brought the<br />
most worthless wares to the dearest market." These<br />
utterances may have been rather free generalisations, and<br />
might oertainly mislead those members of the public—by<br />
far the largest class—who do not trouble their heads much<br />
about literary affairs. No one who has taken the least<br />
interest in the controversy over the ethios and practices of<br />
authors and publishers can, however, have failed to under-<br />
stand what Sir Henry Craik intended to convey, though his<br />
language was undoubtedly somewhat exaggerated.<br />
What Sir Henry Craik intended to convey can<br />
only be gathered from what he said. Now, the<br />
Society of Authors has never to my knowledge<br />
told the public that the "publisher is a needless<br />
invention." I have consulted the Secretary, who<br />
knows nothing of such a statement. It is a direct<br />
allegation, and can have no other meaning than<br />
what it says. As for the other allegation, it is<br />
difficult to meet it except by a direct denial. For<br />
what is the work of the Society of Authors? It<br />
is to define and to maintain literary property. In<br />
order to do this, it has set itself to investigate,<br />
and to publish, everything connected with literary<br />
property. It has made, or is making it, impos-<br />
sible for publishers to take advantage of superior<br />
knowledge or to trade upon ignorance. That is<br />
the chief business of the Society, and the fact<br />
that it is doing this business effectively is the<br />
cause of the wrath that springs in the minds of<br />
certain publishers at the mere mention of the<br />
Society.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
The same writer calls attention to certain<br />
words of mine, in which I ask who are the<br />
persons stated to try for a reputation by<br />
reclame, by self-advertising. The writer says:<br />
"Yet, possibly, when we reflect that some<br />
tolerably popular novelists of to-day produce<br />
three, four, five, or more books in a year, and how<br />
many writers never seem to lose any opportunity<br />
for an interview or a paragraph about their<br />
domestic affairs, some clue to the riddle may<br />
suggest itself." I am as much at a loss as ever.<br />
Who are the novelists who produce " three, four,<br />
five, or more" novels in a year? I declare that I<br />
do not know any novelist who produces work at<br />
anything like this rate. It seems to me absolutely<br />
impossible. Consider. Although the average<br />
one-volume novel is not more than half the length<br />
of the old three-volume novel, its length varies<br />
from 60,000 to 100,000 words. It would be<br />
difficult to produce more than two such novels in<br />
a year. But we are told of novelists writing<br />
"three, four, five, or more." Then, again, who<br />
are the writers who are always getting an inter-<br />
view or a paragraph about their domestic affairs<br />
into the paper? What papers admit these<br />
details? And why do the editors allow these<br />
personal notes to appear? I really think that we<br />
ought to blame the editors, and not the novelists.<br />
At all events, in The Author there have never<br />
been any personal matters other than the announce-<br />
ments of new boots. Walter Besant.<br />
FEUILLETON.<br />
TOO SHAEP FOE ONCE.<br />
I.<br />
"T HAVE brought you, Sir," said the young<br />
I man, "a MS." He spoke as if it was<br />
the most unusual thing in the world for a<br />
MS. to be brought to that house. And he laid<br />
it on the table with something of a slap.<br />
He was humble in his manner, in spite of that<br />
slap: not humble in his dress nor in his appear-<br />
ance, which were entirely commc il faut. He was<br />
humble because he was now offering for acceptance<br />
or rejection a work which had occupied his whole<br />
thoughts and his whole time for a year and a<br />
half. He believed in his work: but he was<br />
anxious, because as yet he had shown it to no<br />
one. Of course it was a novel : every ambitious<br />
young man now attempts that form of Literature<br />
and Art; although he knew it not, his work<br />
possessed the first quality necessary for success:<br />
it was real: everything in it was drawn from<br />
real life, and the pages vibrated with the reality<br />
VOL. VIII.<br />
of truth. This, however, he knew not, and he<br />
brought his MS. in doubt and anxiety.<br />
"I've too many MSS. already," said the pub-<br />
lisher, curtly. "And I've lost too much money<br />
already. I lose by everything that I publish."<br />
"In that case I will take mine elsewhere. I am<br />
sorry to have disturbed you." He took up his<br />
bundle, clapped it under his arm, and turned.<br />
"Since you always lose you're an unlucky<br />
house."<br />
"Stay." The publisher — the Controller of<br />
Destiny—the Compeller of Fame—looked at the<br />
card—it told him nothiug. "Is this your first<br />
work, young gentleman?"<br />
"The use of the phrase 'Young gentleman'<br />
is not warranted by your position or your<br />
acquaintance with me," replied the author. "But<br />
it is my first attempt."<br />
"Ah! Your first work. So. A publisher can<br />
confer no greater service upon a young man than<br />
in producing his first work. No greater service.<br />
Eemember that. I am always doing the most<br />
good-natured things, but there — one gets no<br />
credit. Now, as regards your first production—<br />
your first—crude it is, no doubt, and full of faults.<br />
Still I can—I can—well—I can submit it, if you<br />
please, to my reader. There!" He swelled out<br />
his face, and really looked as if he was conferring<br />
some great and self-denying favour. ,: If he<br />
should happen to recommend it—he recommends<br />
one in a hundred—I might be disposed—I don't<br />
know—the risk is terrible, of course—you would<br />
not mind paying down a hundred pounds or so<br />
towards the first cost?"<br />
"You can produce the whole work for less than<br />
.£80, and a great deal less after subscription."<br />
The young man took up his bundle again.<br />
"What do you mean by asking for <£ioo?<br />
Certainly not."<br />
"Stay, Sir—stay," said the publisher. "You<br />
have no money, perhaps. Dear! Dear! Thit is<br />
a pity, because, to a beginner, no system is more<br />
equitable. I am, myself, all for equity—all."<br />
"I will leave it with you, then, for three weeks.<br />
At the end of that time you must give me an<br />
answer."<br />
He turned and went away brusquely.<br />
"Humph !" said the publisher, tossing the MS.<br />
into a corner. "Mighty independent! An<br />
impudent young Beast! As if it's a favour to<br />
me offering his stuff! But he wants his work<br />
published. I'll be even with him, somehow."<br />
II.<br />
Three weeks later the young man presented<br />
himself again. "I am come," he said "for<br />
your decision as to my MS. left with you three<br />
weeks ago."<br />
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3'4<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
"Your MS.? Tour MS.? We have so many,<br />
Sir, that I am not able without . Ah! That<br />
was the title, was it? Truly." He rang the bell<br />
and ordered the clerk to bring the reader's opinion<br />
on a work with that title. He received it,<br />
glanced over it, and handed it across the table.<br />
"There, Sir, is my reader's opinion. Tou<br />
will observe that it is favourable—perhaps too<br />
favourable. The optimistic character of my<br />
reader, in fact, loses me many hundreds a year—<br />
many hundreds. I assure you he will like every-<br />
thing."<br />
The young man read the opinion through. He<br />
coloured with pleasure. The reader spoke of it<br />
in very high terms. He believed that there was<br />
a future for the work, and said so.<br />
"Tou must not take his opinion too literally,"<br />
said the publisher. "He admires everything. I<br />
shall have to get a new reader if this indiscri-<br />
minate praise goes on"<br />
"Well, sir, your decision?"<br />
"I return to my original proposal. Pay me<br />
.£100 down, and I will release you of all respon-<br />
sibility, and will bring out your novel."<br />
"And the proceeds?"<br />
"On a first novel this is unnecessary. I cannot<br />
undertake to make any returns of sales."<br />
"Then I take my work elsewhere."<br />
"Oh! Young men are so impetuous. Why<br />
stand in your own light? Well, I will give you,<br />
say, half the profits."<br />
"I take my work elsewhere."<br />
"Sir, this is very hard. I try to meet you<br />
half way, and you answer me in a manner which,<br />
I must say, is unmerited. What would you<br />
have? A royalty? Many authors do very well<br />
with a royalty. Shall we say 10 per cent, after<br />
800 copies are sold?"<br />
"That gives you about five times the profit<br />
that it would give me."<br />
"Dear, dear! How can authors get such<br />
foolish ideas? It is, I suppose, that abominable<br />
Society of Authors which has been corrupting<br />
your mind. What do you know about office<br />
expenses, rent, travellers, clerks?"<br />
"You've got a clerk and a half, two rooms,<br />
and no travellers. Try again."<br />
"Well then, you would like to sell the work<br />
right out. That, after all, is the best plan, is it<br />
not? No anxiety: no trouble: no nasty accounts<br />
to breed bad blood between author and pub-<br />
lisher."<br />
"I might—for a proper price."<br />
"Young man, I am the judge of what is a<br />
proper price."<br />
"Are you? I will give you my opinion on<br />
that subject when you make an offer."<br />
The publisher looked at him curiously. Yes:<br />
he was above all things eager to get his work<br />
published.<br />
"I might make an offer. First book: risk of<br />
total loss: danger of complete neglect: new<br />
novels come out now at the rate of three or<br />
four a day: who can hope to stand up against<br />
such competition? Young gentleman, in that<br />
optimistic account of your MS.—I am sorry I<br />
snowed it to you—one point was passed over.<br />
Believe me, the true way to judge of a work is<br />
to find out what in the reader's written opinion<br />
is left out. I cannot find, Sir, the word<br />
'stimulating.' I always find that success depends<br />
more upon the stimulating power of a work than<br />
upon anything else. When a novelist comes to me,<br />
I say, 'Is it stimulating?' My reader clearly<br />
thinks that your work is not stimulating. That,<br />
of course, materially detracts from the value of<br />
your MS. Still I am ready to make an offer?<br />
Let me see. Oh, I said first book:—have you<br />
some friends who will log-roll it?"<br />
"Thank Heaven—No."<br />
"Dear! Dear! And he blasphemously thanks<br />
Heaven! No literary connections. Heavy out-<br />
lay. Probably no returns at all. JNo influence, I<br />
suppose, at the libraries? None. Tut, tut.<br />
Dear me. Travellers—as I said before—accoun-<br />
tants, clerks—messengers—rent, taxes—well—I<br />
can offer you—" Again he looked at the man<br />
sharply. Yes, he was quivering with anxiety for<br />
the production of the MS. "I can make you the<br />
very handsome offer of Fifteen Pounds for the<br />
entire copyright with all rights—American, Con-<br />
tinental, and dramatic — of the MS. in my<br />
hands—"<br />
"What?"<br />
"Fifteen guineas. Did I say pounds? I<br />
meant guineas. I always give guineas. I am all<br />
for generosity, and—"<br />
"Keep your generosity, Sir. I have not asked<br />
for it. Give me my MS."<br />
The publisher rose solemnly. He laid his<br />
finger upon the bell; but he did not press it.<br />
"Sir," he said "you stand at the parting of<br />
two ways. I press this bell, and you are lost. I<br />
do not press the bell, and Fame and Fortune await<br />
you. Pause!"<br />
"Ring your damned bell," said the author.<br />
"In that case"—he pressed the button. "I<br />
have rung." He sank back into his chair and<br />
joined his fingers. "You have brought it on<br />
yourself, Sir—on your own head. John, bring<br />
the MS. to which this opinion refers."<br />
The young man seized the bundle and strode<br />
out.<br />
"Now," said the good man, " if the Publishers'<br />
Society was what it ought to be, there would be a<br />
Eing. I joined it hoping that there would be »<br />
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THE AUTHOR,<br />
3'5<br />
Ring. Then no one would give any more. And<br />
then the fellow—Impudent Beast !—would have<br />
to give in—to my price. Ah! It is a badly con-<br />
ducted world!"<br />
m.<br />
Three months later there were seen on every<br />
bookstall, and in every bookshop, piles of a new<br />
novel. It ran through fifty, sixty, seventy<br />
editions of a thousand each. It was a gold<br />
mine.<br />
The reader called to see his publisher.<br />
"Pity," he said, "that you let it go out of the<br />
house. I praised it as highly as I could. I<br />
thought you would have jumped at it."<br />
"I did. I offered him—Ha!—noble terms-<br />
royal terms, and he refused them. Flung out of<br />
the room he did, with insulting words."<br />
"Well, as I said, it's a pity. They advertise<br />
this morning the 146th thousand. And you<br />
might have had it. What's the matter?" For<br />
his esteemed principal fell back in his chair with<br />
a white face.<br />
"Get me a glass of something—brandy—any-<br />
thing. Yet I offered him royal terms—royal—<br />
I believe I've got a chill—it's gone straight to<br />
the liver. A hundred and forty-six—forty-six<br />
—a hundred and forty-six thousand. And I<br />
might have had it. I'm sure it's gone straight<br />
to the liver, and it might have been mine—mine<br />
—mine!!!"<br />
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.<br />
ABOUT two years ago a list was published in<br />
The Author of Notices to Correspondents,<br />
taken from various papers. Owing to<br />
application being made by many of our members<br />
for a renewal of the list, we have much pleasure<br />
in publishing the list below, which has been<br />
collected during the past two months from the<br />
papers referred to. As the question of MSS.<br />
sent to papers is, of course, of the greatest interest<br />
to our members, we think it worth while, at the<br />
same time, to reprint Counsel's opinion which was<br />
obtained on behalf of the Society about a year<br />
ago.<br />
"Editor and Author.<br />
"1. I am of opinion that if a manuscript be sent<br />
to the editor of a magazine without any previous<br />
request or agreement, the editor is not responsible<br />
for its loss while in his possession unless the loss<br />
be due to some gross negligence on his part.<br />
So long, however, as the manuscript remains in<br />
his possession the editor is bound to return it on<br />
demand, and the publication in his magazine of<br />
a notice that he will not return manuscripts does<br />
not, in my opinion, alter his liability in this respect<br />
towards an author who was not cognizant of such<br />
notice when he sent in the manuscript.<br />
"The editor's responsibility for the manuscript<br />
while in his possession is, in my opinion, that of a<br />
gratuitous or voluntary bailee, who is answerable<br />
for loss through his gross negligence, but not for<br />
any ordinary neglect. (See 1 Smith's Leading<br />
Cases, 10th edition, pp. 189, et seq.) If the<br />
manuscript has been lost, the onus lies upon the<br />
author to show that the loss was caused by the<br />
editor's gross negligence, for which alone the<br />
editor is answerable. (See Story on Bailments,<br />
9th edit. s. 410, and the cases referred to in the<br />
notes there.)<br />
"If the manuscript was in the editor's posses-<br />
sion when its return was demanded, the editor is<br />
liable, in my opinion, to an action of detenue if<br />
he refuse to return it. Evidence that the editor<br />
received the manuscript would raise a presump-<br />
tion that it was still in his possession when the<br />
demand was made. But the editor could rebut<br />
that presumption by proving that the manuscript<br />
was lost prior to the demand. The editor would<br />
not escape liability by proving that he had<br />
improperly destroyed or wrongfully parted with the<br />
manuscript (see Jones t\ Dowle, 9 M. & W. 19),<br />
or had lost it through his gross negligence (see<br />
Reeve v. Palmer, 5 C. B., N.S. 84). But it would<br />
be a good defence for the editor to bhow that<br />
before its return was demanded the manuscript<br />
was lost without default on his part (see 5 C. B.,<br />
N.S. pp. 85-89), or in some manner which could<br />
not be ascertained. In the latter cases the editor<br />
would not be liable unless the author could<br />
adduce affirmative evidence of gross negligence<br />
(see Powell v. Graves, 2 Times L. R. 663; Howard<br />
v. Harris, C. & E. 253).<br />
"2.1 am of opinion that if in the particular<br />
case referred to the author sent his manuscript<br />
to the editor in ignorance of the existence of any<br />
such notice as that which is in the magazine, then<br />
the editor could not successfully rely upon the<br />
notice as a defence to any action brought against<br />
him. In this case the notice would, in my opinion,<br />
be immaterial, but, of course, the editor might<br />
have a complete defence on other grounds, such<br />
as those I have already referred to in my answer<br />
to the first question. H the author saw or tnew<br />
of the notice before he sent his manuscript, I<br />
think he would be held to have sent it on the<br />
terms of such notice: (see Parker t\ South-<br />
Eastern Railway Company, 2 C. P. D. 416;<br />
Richards v. Rjwntree (1894) A. C. 217). The<br />
exact part of the magazine in which the notice is<br />
inserted is immaterial, except in so far as it<br />
renders it more or less likely that the author in<br />
fact saw or did not see the n tice, assuming that<br />
he ever saw the magazine.<br />
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316<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
"3. I am of opinion that the burden of proving<br />
that the author was cognizant of the notice<br />
would lie upon the editor.<br />
"T. Willes Chitty."<br />
The List.<br />
Academy.—No rejected MS. returned under the old man-<br />
agement, bnt the practice now is to return them under the<br />
usual conditions. Address, 27, Chancery-line, W.C.<br />
Anecdote3. —Important.—All Manuscripts and Drivings<br />
submitted to the proprietors of Anecdotes are subjeot to<br />
the following conditions:—!. Articles must be legibly<br />
written or typed on sheets of convenient size, and on<br />
one side only. 2. The name and address of the author<br />
rr artist must be conspicuously written upon the first or<br />
lust page, or upon the front or baok of each drawing. 3.<br />
Exoept for prize competitions, no MSS. below 500 words<br />
will be considered, and no MSS submitted for prize com-<br />
petitions will be, under any cironmstances returned. MSS.<br />
submitted for competition, and not sucoesfnl in gaining a<br />
prize, become the property of the proprietors of Anecdotes<br />
4. An envelope addressed and sufficiently stamped, must<br />
be sent with each instalment of MSS. unless the same has<br />
been definitely ordered in writing by the Proprietors of<br />
Anecdotes or the editor of the publication to which it is<br />
submitted. 5. Every effort will be made to return MSS.<br />
and drawings complying with the above conditions, but in<br />
no case will the proprietors hold themselves responsible<br />
for any MSS. or drawings submitted until the article or<br />
story or drawing has actually appeared in one of the<br />
Anecdotes publications.<br />
Answers.—Anyone sending MS. must enclose stamped<br />
and addressed envelope for return, otherwise it will<br />
neither be read nor returned. The writer must also<br />
vouch for the originality of the contribution, and give his<br />
full name and address. Articles must be short. Address,<br />
"Answers," MSS. Department, Tudor-street, E.C.<br />
Athenaeum.—Will accept artioles of a literary character,<br />
if suitable. MSS. returned if stamped and addressed<br />
envelope be enclosed. Address, Bream's-buildings, Cursi-<br />
tor-street, W.C.<br />
Bazaar, Exchange and Mart.—Artioles accepted on<br />
almost any subject, if of a thoroughly practical kind, cot<br />
otherwise. Addressed and stamped envelopes must be<br />
enolosed for return of rejected communications. Address,<br />
170, Strand.<br />
Belgravia.—All MS3. should be addressed, prepaid, to<br />
the Editor of Belgravia, Strand, W.C. Every MS. should<br />
bear the writer's name and address and be accompanied<br />
by postage stamps for its return if not accepted; but the<br />
Editor cannot hold himself responsible for any accidental<br />
loss. The Editor cannot undertake to return rejected<br />
poems.<br />
Black and White.—The Editor, whi!e open to consider<br />
MSS. and sketches, will not be responsible for their return.<br />
Contributions should be accompanied by stamped and<br />
addressed'envelope. Address, 33, Bouverie-Btreet, E.C.<br />
Cwell'l Family Magazine and CasseU's Saturday<br />
Journal.—Articles on almost any subject, if popular and<br />
interesting. Stamped and addressed envelope must be<br />
enolosed. Address, Cassell and Co., Belle Sauvage Yard,<br />
Ludgate-hill, E C.<br />
Chums.—Important !—The Editor of Chums will not be<br />
responsible for the return of rejected manuscripts. If a<br />
stamped and addressed envelope is sent with the contri-<br />
butions the Editor will alwajs endeavour to return them;<br />
bnt when stamps are not sent, manuscripts can in no-<br />
case be returned.<br />
*„* The Art Editor cannot undertake to return<br />
sketches sent on approval unless they are accompanied by<br />
an addressed envelope sufficiently stamped.<br />
Cornhill.—Any MSS. sent to the Editor are carefully con<br />
sidered, and when not accepted are returned, if stamped<br />
and addressed envelope be enolosed. Address, Messrs.<br />
Smith, Elder, and Co., 15, Waterloo-plaoe, S.W.<br />
Country Gentleman.—The Editor does not hold himself<br />
responsible for the return of any MS. sent so him. Pay-<br />
ment will only be made for those contributions which have<br />
been previously arranged for.<br />
Daily Chronicle.—The Editor cannot guarantee the<br />
return of MSS. or sketches submitted for consideration,<br />
and in no case will rejected matter be returned unless<br />
accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope.<br />
Daily Graphic.—Will return rejected contributions pro-<br />
vided a sufficiently stamped and directed envelope is<br />
enclosed. Editor will not hold himself responsible for<br />
loss or damage. Address, Milford-lane, Strand, W.C.<br />
Daily News.—Worked by a staff which is generally full.<br />
No rejected communications returned. Address, Fleet-<br />
street, E.C.<br />
Bcho.—Worked by a staff which is generally full; still,<br />
suitable MSS. would no doubt be considered. Address,<br />
22, Catherine-street, Strand, W.C.<br />
English Illustrated.—MSS. sent but not accepted must<br />
be accompanied by a wrapper, when they will if possible<br />
be returned. Address, 198, Strand, W.C.<br />
Evening News and Post.—-Worked by a staff generally<br />
full, but the Editor will return all MSS. if a fully stamped<br />
and addressed envelope be enclosed. Address 12, White-<br />
friars-street, E.C.<br />
Family Reader.—We cannot guarantee the return of<br />
rejected manuscripts.<br />
Figaro.—-The Editor will be pleased to consider articles,<br />
paragraphs, stories, and verses suitable for insertion.<br />
Accepted contributions will be paid for at our usual rates.<br />
The Editor will not accept any responsibility for MSS.<br />
sent in, but when a stamped and addressed wrapper is<br />
enclosed every care will be taken to return rejected con-<br />
tributions. Only writers who have a knowledge of English,<br />
and do not depend upon slang for effeot, will be likely to<br />
obtain advantage from this notice.<br />
Fortnightly Review.—MSS. not returned. Articles<br />
type-written are more likely to be read. Address, II,<br />
Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, W.C.<br />
Gentlewoman.—The Editor is generally too well supplied<br />
to accept more contributions, but no doubt suitable<br />
articles would be considered. A stamped envelope should<br />
be enclosed. Address, Arundel-street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Globe.—Communications may be returned if accompanied<br />
by stamped and addressed envelope; but the Editor will<br />
not be responsible for them. Address, 267, Strand, W.C.<br />
Graphic.—Stamped and addressed envelope must be<br />
enclosed. Address, 190, Strand, W.C.<br />
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marked "Communicated" or "From a Correspondent."<br />
The very frequent disregard of our rule about the return<br />
of MSS. compels us to restate it in a slightly different<br />
form:—No MS. oan be returned unless a stamped and<br />
addressed envelope is sent in the same oover as that<br />
which contains the MS. Stamps alone, or a stamped and<br />
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addressed envelope Eent afterwards or in another cover,<br />
are not sufficient.<br />
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of accident. The Editor cannot undertake to return<br />
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chatty, anecdotal articles dealing with matters or with'<br />
people of to-day (from 400 to 1400 words). Humorous-<br />
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with which he may be favoured, nor will he undertake to.<br />
return them unless this condition has been observed.<br />
Moonshine.—The humble petition of the Editor of Moon-<br />
shine showeth that whereas your Petitioner is in the<br />
habit of receiving large number of manuscripts, yclept<br />
(i' the vulgar) MSS., as hereinafter set forth. That your<br />
petitioner is unable tj use ali MSS. that are so sent him.<br />
That your Petitioner, for lack of time and opportunity,<br />
and the stress of occasional'y retiring, as who should say,<br />
to rest, cannot enter into correspondence with authors of<br />
rejected MSS., even though, by neglecting to send covers,<br />
suitably directed and stamped they may not have had<br />
their efforts returned, and may thereby be moved to.<br />
indignation. That your Petitioner will endeavour to<br />
return manuscripts when thns accompanied, but your<br />
Petitioner prayeth that (as well for their own security<br />
as for the forwarding of certain moneys in case of<br />
acceptance) his friends w.ll kindly write on the MSS.<br />
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ipsissima their reverend, respected, and worshipful names<br />
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E.C.<br />
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This, like all the daily papers, has a permanent staff.<br />
Address, 127, Fleet-street, E.C.<br />
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Morning Post.—Cannot return rejected MSS. Address<br />
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Bed ford-street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Nature.—The Editor does not hold himself responsible for<br />
opinions expressed by his correspondents. Neither can<br />
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munications.<br />
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turned. Address, Messrs. Sampson, Low, and Co., Fetter-<br />
lane, London, E.C.<br />
Novel Review.—All books and magazines intended for<br />
review must reach the office not later than the 15th<br />
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stamps are sent. The Editor will not undertake to be<br />
responsible for MS. in case of loss. All communications<br />
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Offices—18, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden, London.<br />
Our Home. -Contributors are informed that while every<br />
care will be taken of their MSS., and unsuitable matter<br />
will be returned if accompanied by stamped addressed<br />
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the loss or delay of unsolicited contributions, and advises<br />
contributors to keep a copy of the MSS. These should<br />
have address on back, and the number of words should be<br />
stated.<br />
Pall Mall Gazette.—Sketches and all communications<br />
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the Editor will endeavour to return rejected MSS. Address,<br />
18, Charing-oross, W.C.<br />
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well written. Address, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden,<br />
W,C.<br />
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safety or return of manuscripts forwarded for approval.<br />
Subscribers are particularly requested to forward all<br />
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(end of Northumberland-avenue, opposite the Hotel<br />
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Pick-Me-TJp. — The Editor of Pici-Me-Up is willing to<br />
consider MSS. and drawings forwarded to him. While<br />
he cannot accept any responsibility in regard to their<br />
eafe keeping, he will make every effort to return rejected<br />
communications if stamps are inclosed. Short stories<br />
should not exceed 1500 words, and drawings should be<br />
humorous. The Editor will be pleased to Bee artists<br />
personally on Monday and Friday mornings, at the New<br />
Editorial Office, 28, Maiden-lane, Strand.<br />
Punch does not on any consideration whatever return<br />
rejected matter, even though stamps are enolosed. Address,<br />
Fleet-street, E.C.<br />
Road.—Owing to the increasingly large number of MSS.<br />
and drawings sent in to the Road, the Editor wishes it to<br />
be clearly understood that he will not undertake to use<br />
or return any MSS. or sketches sent in to him without his<br />
written instructions. All books, photographs, and<br />
samples of goods for review must be addressed to the<br />
Editor, and to no one by name; and no individual is<br />
authorised to promise " Notices " under any pretext what-<br />
ever. The Road is on sale everywhere, and can be<br />
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forwarded on application to the manager. The publish-<br />
ing, advertisement, and subscription offices will be re-<br />
moved to 41 and 42, King-street, Covent Garden, W.C,<br />
after the beginning of the New Year.<br />
Rod and Gun.—The Editor of Bod and Gun does not,<br />
in any case, hold himself responsible for the return of<br />
rejected contributions. He is, however, always glad to<br />
consider MSS. and sketches; and, where stamps are<br />
enclosed, and the name and address are written on the<br />
manuscript, every effort will be made to return rejected<br />
contributions. The Editor desires to state that he cannot<br />
enter into correspondence regarding MS.<br />
To Ouk Colonial Readers.—The Editor is at all<br />
times glad to consider any accounts of colonial sport sub-<br />
mitted to him.<br />
St. James's Gazette.—The Editor cannot undertake to<br />
hold himself responsible for the return of rejected con-<br />
tributions.<br />
Saturday Review.—No contributions returned in any<br />
case. Suitable artioles might be accepted. Address, 38,<br />
Southampton-street, Strand.<br />
Scraps.—Short paragraphs on out-of-way subjects mostly<br />
desired. MS. returned if stamped and addressed en-<br />
velope enclosed. Address, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street,<br />
E.C.<br />
Sketch.—Any Bhort stories, not exceeding 2500 words in<br />
length, will be considered. Rejected MS. returned if<br />
stamped and addressed envelope or wrapper inclosed.<br />
Address, Manuscript Department, 198, Strand, W.C.<br />
Society.—The Editor is compelled to announce that he will<br />
not be responsible for any MSS. sent to him, nor will he<br />
guarantee their return, even if stamps are enclosed for the<br />
purpose. Authors should therefore keep copies of their<br />
contributions if they value them highly.<br />
Speaker.—MSS. not returned, when cent unrequested.<br />
Address, 115, Fleet-street, E.C.<br />
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Spectator.—No MSS. returned in any case. Address, 1,<br />
Wellington-street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Spinning Wheel.—The Editor will be glad to consider<br />
any MS. likely to be of interest to the readers of this<br />
paper, either short stories of 2000 words in length or short<br />
articles. The Editor wishes to remind contributors that,<br />
if MSS. are to be returned in case of rejection, stamps<br />
must accompany them.<br />
Stories.—The Editor of Stories will be pleased to consider,<br />
with a view to publication, short original stories or<br />
articles. Under no oiroumstances, however, can he hold<br />
himBelf responsible for MSS. submitted for his considera-<br />
tion, but where stamps are inclosed every effort will be<br />
made to ensnre the prompt return of rejected contribu-<br />
tions. Accepted matter, whether Btories or articles, if<br />
original, will be paid for at the rate of One Guinea per<br />
1000 wordB, unless otherwise arranged for. Payments for<br />
contributions are made on the date of publication of each<br />
issue. Every MS. must bear the name and address of the<br />
writer, which should be legibly written on the first page.<br />
Contributors should see that their MSS. are properly<br />
fastened, otherwise the leaves are liable to get mislaid.<br />
It must be distinctly understood that the setting up in<br />
type of any story or article does not necessarily imply<br />
acceptance, and payment will in no case be made, except<br />
on publication. Copied matter is not required, and anyone<br />
sending it in as original will be liable to proseontion. All<br />
matter paid for becomes the absolute property of Stories,<br />
Limited.<br />
Strand.—Stories of strange experiences, &c, might be sent<br />
to this paper, and articles on general subjects. Returned<br />
if not accepted, if stamped and addressed envelope en-<br />
closed. Address, Southampton-street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Sun.—Our Guinea Story.—The stories printed in these<br />
columns are contributed by readers of the Sun. Anyone<br />
may send an original story not exceeding 1200 words, and<br />
for eaoh one we use we shall pay the author £1 is. Un-<br />
suitable MSS. are returned if stamped and addressed<br />
envelopes accompany them, but we oannot enter into any<br />
correspondence regarding contributions sent us.<br />
Sunday Chronicle. — Should any difficulty be expe-<br />
rienced in obtaining the Sunday Chronicle, oomplaints<br />
should be made to the Chief Office, Mark-lane, Man-<br />
chester. On all business matters communications<br />
Bhould be addressed to the firm, and not to any indi-<br />
vidual member thereof. No notice will be taken of<br />
anonymous letters. Every communication should be<br />
authenticated with the name and address of the writer,<br />
not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of<br />
good faith. Articles, stories, sketches, verses, and other<br />
contributions should be addressed to the Editor, who,<br />
however, does not hold himself responsible for the return<br />
of rejected manuscripts. Where stamps are inclosed,<br />
and the name and address written on the manusoript,<br />
every effort will be made to promptly return unaccepted<br />
articles.—E. Hulton and Co.<br />
Times.—Does not return rejected communications. Address,<br />
Printing House-square, E.C.<br />
Tit-Bits.—The Editor of Tit-Bits cannot hold himself<br />
responsible for the return of any manuscript which may<br />
bo submitted to him. He will, however, always be glad<br />
to consider any contributions which are sent; and, when<br />
stamped addressed envelopes are enclosed when the manu-<br />
scripts are submitted, every effort will be made to return<br />
rejected contributions. Contributors are specially re-<br />
quested to put thoir names and addresses on their manu-<br />
scripts.<br />
United Service Gazette.—We would draw the attention<br />
of our correspondents to the importance of writing legibly,<br />
and on one side of the paper only. MSS. cannot be<br />
returned unless aocompanied by stamps.<br />
University Extension Journal.—The Editor cannot<br />
undertake to return rejected communications unlesB<br />
stamps are inclosed for that purpose.<br />
Vegetarian.—The Editor of the Vegetarian cannot hold<br />
himself responsible in any case for the return of MSS. or<br />
eketcheB. He will, however, always be glad to oonsider<br />
any contributions which may be submitted to him; and,<br />
when postage stamps are enclosed, every effort will bo<br />
made to return rejected contributions promptly. Con-<br />
tributors are requested to put their names and addresses<br />
on their manuscripts. Address, 33, Paternoster-row,<br />
London, E.C.<br />
Westminster Gazette.—The Editor of the Westminster<br />
Gazette cannot hold himBelf responsible in any case for<br />
the return of MS. or sketohes. He will, however, always<br />
be glad to consider any contributions, literary or pictorial,<br />
which may be submitted to him, and, when postage-<br />
stamps are enclosed, every effort will be made to return<br />
rejected contributions promptly. Contributors are specially<br />
requested to put their names and addresses on their<br />
manuscripts. Address, Tudor-street, Wbitefriars, E.C.<br />
Wheeling.—Any articles sent in on subjects suitable for<br />
the columns of Wheeling will be considered on their<br />
merits, but we wish it to be distinctly understood that<br />
contributions will not be paid for unless remuneration has<br />
been stipulated for and arranged in advance. Rejected<br />
MS. will be returned when stamped addressed envelope is<br />
forwarded.<br />
Wheels.—The Editor will be pleased to consider snch<br />
literary contributions and sketches as may be sent him,<br />
and to pay for such as are accepted. All MSS. should be<br />
typewritten. While not holding himself responsible for<br />
the safety of anything submitted, every effort will be<br />
made to promptly return rejected matter, provided that<br />
sufficient stamps be enclosed to cover the postage.<br />
Woman's Signal. — All communications intended for<br />
insertion must be written on one side only of the paper,<br />
and the writer's name and address must be given, not<br />
necessarily for publication. The Editor cannot answer<br />
correspondents privately, except on the business of the<br />
paper strictly. H a stamped and addressed wrapper be<br />
attached to a manuscript offered for publication, it will<br />
be returned if declined; but the Editor oannot be respon-<br />
sible for the accidental loss of manuscripts, and any not<br />
accompanied by a wrapper for return will be destroyed if<br />
unaccepted. Space being limited, and many manusoripts<br />
offered, the Editor begs respectfully to intimate that an<br />
article being declined does not necessarily imply that it<br />
i* not considered an excellent composition.<br />
MR. ASQUITH ON CRITICISM.<br />
THE Eight Hon. H. H. Asquith delivered the<br />
annual address to the students of the<br />
London Society for the Extension of Uni-<br />
versity Teaching on the 23rd ult., in the Mansion<br />
House, Lord Mayor Davies presiding. Prefacing<br />
his lecture by remarking that the number of<br />
students assembled there was a refutation of the<br />
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fears of those who doubted whether it were pos-<br />
sible to transplant into London soil the methods<br />
of our ancient Universities, Mr. Asquith asked<br />
them, upon the threshold, to disabuse their<br />
minds of one or two misleading or narrow asso-<br />
ciations which had grown around the term " criti-<br />
cism" in popular thought and speech. It was, of<br />
course, true that there had been eminent men in<br />
whom their own want of success in the sphere of<br />
action or production had at once stimulated and<br />
soured the critical faculty. But it was not in<br />
that dwarfed and distorted sense they used the<br />
word. Denigration, whether it sprang from baffled<br />
rivalry, from a morose and cynical temper, or from<br />
honest shortsightedness—often amused, was some-<br />
times useful, might now and then, in the hands of<br />
a writer like Junius, exhibit some of the highest<br />
qualities of literary art; but it was not criticism,<br />
No antithesis was commoner than that between<br />
criticism and construction. A great artist might<br />
be incapable of criticism, and a good critic might<br />
be incapable of creation. But neither in the<br />
individual nor in the generations of men did the<br />
one set of gifts exclude the other. Criticism, in<br />
the true sense, had a positive, as well as a<br />
negative function. By discriminating between<br />
that which is true and false, between good and<br />
bad art, between reality and imposture, by deter-<br />
mining between the ephemeral idols of fashion<br />
and recalling the wandering thought to the<br />
worship of true beauty and greatness, it became<br />
a vitalising and energising principle. It per-<br />
formed the double duty of solvent and stimulant.<br />
There was no emptier fallacy than to suppose<br />
that criticism was merely a form of intellectual<br />
gymnastics, or the business of second-rate minds.<br />
"The business of criticism," as Matthew Arnold<br />
says, "is to know the best that is known and<br />
thought in the world, by, in its turn, making this<br />
known to create a current of fresh ideas." Like<br />
every other form of intellectual activity, it might<br />
be specialised withiu the confines of a definite<br />
subject matter. So it was, for instance, in the<br />
textual criticism of literature, and in the aesthetic<br />
criticism of the arts. Both had at various times<br />
fascinated and absorbed the best intellects of<br />
the race. The Stephenses, the Scaligers, the<br />
Casaubons were but the most conspicuous figures<br />
in a huge army of confessors and martyrs to a<br />
new literary faith, the rank and file of which<br />
had been depicted with incomparable fidelity and<br />
pathos in Browning's "Grammarian's Funeral."<br />
The science of textual criticism was constantly<br />
annexing new territories, and developing wider<br />
and more penetrating methods; and in its appli-<br />
cation to sacred literature, and to the slowly<br />
deciphered records of the great religions and<br />
civilisations of the East, it had achieved in our<br />
own time some of its most memorable results.<br />
The blunders of great critics woiild be a fascinating<br />
subject in the hands of Mr. Leslie Stephen or<br />
Mr. Birrell. Not only Johnson, but Richardson<br />
and Goldsmith failed to see anything in *' Tristram<br />
Shandy "; and Scott, after his "Lady of the<br />
Lake" had been pubbshed, said that Joanna<br />
Baillie was the great poet of the century. Other<br />
examples were frequent. Mr. Asquith concluded<br />
by advising the students to study great models<br />
like Shakespeare, on whose anniversary they had<br />
met, and then to "work at the smithy " them-<br />
selves, and not to form judgments by the modern<br />
and vulgar rule of payment by results,<br />
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PERSONAL.<br />
ABOUT ,£40 has so far been raised for the<br />
purpose of erecting a memorial in Wooton<br />
Waven Church to William Somerville, the<br />
author of "The Chace." Among the subscribers<br />
are Lord Rosebery, Lord Tarborough, Lord<br />
Leigh, and Sir Walter Gilbey.<br />
The committee in charge of the proposed<br />
memorial in Liverpool to Mrs. Hemans have<br />
decided to keep the subscription list open until<br />
June 30, and they invite half-crown and shilling<br />
subscriptions from admirers of the poet who may<br />
be unable to give more. The honorary treasurer<br />
of the fund is Mr. Theodore Brown, 26, Exchange-<br />
street East, Liverpool. Nearly £100 has been,<br />
subscribed.<br />
Mr. Oswald Crawfurd is to be literary editor,<br />
and Mr. Edwin Obver general editor, of a weekly<br />
review on the lines of the late National Observer,<br />
which is about to be issued, price one penny, and<br />
entitled the London Review.<br />
Replying to the toast of "The Visitors" at<br />
the 17th annual dinner of the Press Club,<br />
presided over by Mr. John Corlett, on the 2nd<br />
ult., Mr. Anthony Hope referred to the law of<br />
libel. It seemed to him that there was much<br />
necessity for amendment of the law directed<br />
towards the prevention of frivolous and black-<br />
mailing actions against newspapers, but at the<br />
same time it was of great importance that they<br />
should take pains to show that they did not wish<br />
for any weakening of the law of libel, for only<br />
where there was a firm administration of that<br />
law was importance attached to what the Press<br />
might say. With regard to the department<br />
called Criticism, speaking for those very hand-<br />
maids of Uterature, writers of stories to amuse<br />
idle hours, he could say that many depended upon<br />
the Press, because it was in their power, in the<br />
beginning at all events, to give to the young<br />
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writer a start or to prevent him having a "fair<br />
show." He was not going to say that the reviews<br />
were always absolutely right, but real pains was<br />
given to the work, and he met constantly young<br />
writers who had found in the reviews an incen-<br />
tive and a new power to them to pursue the<br />
career in which they had set out.<br />
In connection witli the National Burns Memo-<br />
rial and Cottage Home, Mauchline, Ayrshire,<br />
a Scottish gentleman resident in England has<br />
offered to give <£ioo to help to complete the<br />
endowment, provided a few more can be got to do<br />
likewise before the Home is opened on May 7.<br />
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.<br />
Quem Dkus Vult Pkbderb, Pbius Dementat.<br />
IEXTRACT the following from the letter of<br />
a learned friend. According to some this<br />
saying is a free paraphrase of a passage in<br />
Sophocles' Antigone, 632-5, which runs:<br />
Thanks to somebody'a wisdom, a famous mot has been<br />
published, viz.: "That bad appears good to him whose wits<br />
God rains."<br />
Joshua Barnes, Professor of Greek at Cam-<br />
bridge, published in 1694 an edition of Euripides,<br />
including the Fragments, among which he gives<br />
one with this literal Latin version:<br />
At quando Numen miserias paret viro<br />
Mens laeaa primnm.<br />
In his first index, Barne3 refers to the frag-<br />
ment under the heading, "Deus quos vult<br />
perdere, dementat prius," its first appearance in<br />
England.<br />
Boissonade, a Frenchman, altered this, so as to<br />
make an iambic, into<br />
Quos vult Jupiter perdere dementat prius.<br />
From the fact of its usually appearing in the<br />
latter form, it probably came to be regarded as<br />
an old Latin iambic, which it is not. For one<br />
thing, it would not contain the word "dementat,"<br />
which is d'une tret petite latinite', and occurs<br />
only in Lactantius, tenth century.<br />
The above seems to be the most likely origin.<br />
Malone, in a note on BoswelPs Johnson, anent<br />
"Quem Deus," says : "Perhaps no scrap of Latin<br />
whatever has been more often quoted than this.<br />
The word ' demento' is of no authority. After a<br />
long search, some gentlemen of Cambridge found<br />
it among the fragments of Euripides, where it is<br />
given as the translation of a Greek iambic:<br />
"ov 0£os 61\a. ajroAccmi irpioTa uiro<f>pcvai."<br />
■ But (1) this is not an iambic; (2) there is no<br />
word diro<f>pcvai in Greek, or anything like it;<br />
(3; nobody has, from that day to this, been able<br />
to discover this particular fragment, which " the<br />
gentlemen of Cambridge" grubbed up.<br />
Faute de mieuu; the Barnes explanation seems<br />
to be the best. S. G.<br />
H I may be allowed from mere memory to<br />
answer your correspondent "Querist," the line<br />
"Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat" was<br />
the subject of a rather prolonged correspondence<br />
in the early times of Xotes and Queries, perhaps<br />
in the fifties; and the line was discovered in a<br />
Latin translation from some Greek tragedian,<br />
indeed, I think it was in Barnes's Euripides.<br />
J. Earle.<br />
Oxford, April 6.<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
I.—The Roxbttkghe Peess, Limited.<br />
IN December last, as the outcome of correspon-<br />
dence with the above-named firm of pub-<br />
lishers, formerly of 15, Victoria-street, West-<br />
minster, I forwarded to this address two MSS., one<br />
of which was returned me in January, whilst the<br />
second was, as stated in a letter from the manager,<br />
retained " for further consideration." Not hearing<br />
anything concerning the fate of the second MS., I<br />
made it my business when I was in town to call<br />
at the ofiices and see the manager, who went under<br />
the name of Mr. Charles F. Rideal. I did not<br />
see the manager, but I interviewed a man in<br />
possession of the furniture, and I think I may<br />
say that I saw about the last of the furniture<br />
before it came under the hammer. The man in<br />
possession could give me no idea as to the where-<br />
abouts of the manager, or as to the possessor of<br />
my MS. As there are doubtless numerous pro-<br />
vincial authors in a bke situation to myself, you<br />
would be doing a number of persons a service if<br />
you could give us some idea as to how to proceed<br />
with a view of recovering what, if not seen again,<br />
would represent heavy losses to many struggling<br />
authors. Provincial.<br />
April 16. __=_=^__<br />
II.—No Copyright in Titles.<br />
I recently had occasion to offer a mild remons-<br />
trance against the employment of a title which<br />
clashed with one already chosen by myself for a<br />
short tale. A record of my efforts and ill-success<br />
to establish a claim to what I fondly imagined to<br />
be my own property may not be without interest<br />
to writers.<br />
The moment the usurping name was advertised<br />
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I wrote to the publishers calling their attention to<br />
the fact. Their reply was that, as the work had<br />
been sent out for review, they were sorry to<br />
say nothing could be done. They added that as<br />
my story was not issued in book-form, and was<br />
some years old, I was not likely to be " injuriously<br />
affected" by the coincidence. This was, no<br />
doubt, perfectly true. But it did not appear<br />
to me to weaken my case, and I was bold<br />
enough to repeat the belief that I might, if so<br />
minded, enforce a withdrawal of the name. Sub-<br />
sequently I was told how it was " impossible " to<br />
prevent the use on a book of a title which had<br />
been previously appropriated for a short tale.<br />
The firm also remarked that it "would be glad to<br />
think otherwise," but there really appeared to be<br />
"no copyright in titles." Alas, this seems to be<br />
so, and I must perforce bow my head in uncon-<br />
vinced submission.<br />
It is hard lines, all the same. I cannot but<br />
think some scheme might be devised whereby the<br />
most difficult and important choice of a title<br />
should be secured to its creator, say by registra-<br />
tion or affidavit upon full, or even part, comple-<br />
tion of MSS. Perhaps some fellow-sufferer of<br />
the goosequill can indicate a plan which would<br />
spare novelists much repining?<br />
Cecil Clarke.<br />
Authors' Club, S.W., April 16.<br />
[The plan is quite simple. It is to place the<br />
matter, if any injury has been sustained, in the<br />
hands of a solicitor-—or the Secretary of the<br />
Society.—Ed.]<br />
III.—A Warning to Writers.<br />
May I draw your attention to the following<br />
facts as a warning to English writers? Last<br />
year a letter, typed on paper with the words<br />
"New York Herald, New York," printed on<br />
it, and purporting to come from one "Wallace<br />
Wood," on behalf of the Herald, was received<br />
by a friend of mine. It asked him to do a piece<br />
of literary work for the "Herald's Symposium<br />
on the World's Best Poetry." He did this<br />
piece of work, and sent it to "Wallace Wood,<br />
the New York Herald, New York." No reply<br />
was received, and, of course, no remittance.<br />
He then made inquiries at the Herald office<br />
through a respectable American solicitor, who<br />
writes him: "I saw the editor, who told me<br />
that the Herald had never had such work in<br />
mind, and that Mr. Wallace Wood must be<br />
one of the many swindlers who have used<br />
their (the New York Herald's) name in this<br />
manner."<br />
In justice to the New York Herald, and as a<br />
warning against " Mr. W. Wood" and others of<br />
his kidney, I beg you to print this letter in The<br />
Author. P. York Powell.<br />
Oriel College, Oxford,<br />
April 4, 1898.<br />
The New York Herald, New York,<br />
May 1.<br />
Dear Sib,—Would you kindly join the Herald Sym-<br />
posium on "The World's Beat Poetry" or the "Hundred<br />
Finest Poems" by mentioning the names of from six to<br />
twelve short poems in the Spanish language which you<br />
would consider as of the highest excellence, worthy to be<br />
regarded as classic and standard, or of best value to<br />
humanity, together with such criticism or suggestion (one<br />
to two hundred words) as may occur to you.<br />
Copies of this letter are sent to scholars of universities<br />
throughout the world.<br />
Very sincerely yours,<br />
Wallace Wood.<br />
IV.—' The Literary Year-Book, 1898."<br />
I regret to agree with you as to this work.<br />
It is a pity; for a really good book of the kind<br />
is much needed and would certainly pay. The<br />
Directory of Authors, oddly enough, reminds us<br />
of John Wesley's heaven: we find many welcomed<br />
therein whom we should have expected to see<br />
excluded; while several authors of repute are<br />
conspicuous by reason of their absence.<br />
But, whatever may be the errors of the editor,<br />
Mr. Joseph Jacobs, excess of politeness is not one<br />
of them. My name and address were given in the<br />
"Year-Book" for 1897, but are unaccountably<br />
omitted in that for the present year. I wrote a<br />
courteous note inquiring the reason, but have not<br />
beeu favoured with a reply. Now, I am a bond<br />
fide author, have published a book, and contri-<br />
bute to some dozen magazines, &c. I cannot,<br />
therefore, see why my name should be removed<br />
from the Directory by Mr. Joseph Jacobs.<br />
Scriptor Quidam.<br />
V.—Editors and Contributors.<br />
1.<br />
I notice in your latest issue that you give an<br />
excerpt from and comments upon an article in<br />
last month's National Revieto on this vexed<br />
question. This article I have not read in its<br />
entirety, though I have read about it and extracts<br />
from it, because the National is not taken in the<br />
public library here, and it is too expensive, alas,<br />
for me to buy. I do not know, therefore, whether<br />
the writer has touched on two phases of the<br />
question which to me seem very important, and<br />
the latter of which I do not remember to have<br />
ever seen dealt with. (1) The inordinate time<br />
MSS. are often kept (a) before being returned<br />
rejected, (6) before, if accepted, being inserted,<br />
no notice too generally being given in latter case.<br />
In regard to "a," the great grievance here is<br />
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when the article is in any way topical or dep in-<br />
dent for its interest on a subject of passing<br />
moment. But even if otherwise, if not wanted it<br />
should be returned as quickly as possible, and in<br />
as cleanly and respectable a condition as sent;<br />
unfortunately only too necessary a provision this<br />
latter. In the case of "b," I have known an<br />
editor accept an article, hoard it up for months,<br />
and then insert it in a more or less truncated<br />
state, without consulting the author in the matter<br />
at all. Often this latter gentleman is impaled<br />
upon the horns of a dilemma. He may badly<br />
want his article inserted without delay, but if he<br />
writes to an editor who has had it in his pos-<br />
session some time, with a request to that effect,<br />
the possibility is that he will have his work re-<br />
turned upon his hands, and perchance be unable<br />
to sell it elsewhere. It is dangerous for a<br />
struggling outsider in journalism to exchange<br />
any certainty for an uncertainty. The only thing<br />
is to write to the editor a polite note, taking it for<br />
granted that he has accepted the piece, and asking<br />
when he will insert it. This letter though may be<br />
ignored, or simply have the effect of a request<br />
for a return of the MS. Editors could put good<br />
MSS. from outsiders in much quicker if they<br />
liked. The fact is they keep such in reserve<br />
while they try on that patient dog, the British<br />
public, a lot of rotten, stodgy, inept stuff, not worth<br />
the paper it is printed on, much of it "lifted."<br />
That I have had some personal experience of<br />
this matter you may gauge from the following:<br />
I submitted to a certain editor, the editor of a<br />
weekly paper, with stamped addressed envelopes,<br />
in 1896, a story and article, which have never<br />
been returned me and never used. I have been<br />
frequently in communication with this editor<br />
since (a very decent fellow as his tribe goes), and<br />
he has used a certain quantity of my work, more<br />
or less, as I would have desired it; but though I<br />
have constantly referred to this tale and article, I<br />
have never learnt anything about their fate, and<br />
here we are approaching the middle of 1898.<br />
Am I too impatient? I may say other pieces<br />
have been kept from ten months downward in<br />
the same quarter. And I badly want the money<br />
for them—there is, of course, no payment until<br />
insertion; yet I dare not ask for them back, in<br />
case I should not be able to dispose of them else-<br />
where. The most I can do is to hint that I think<br />
it time some at least of them were used.<br />
Now, as to grievance (2), namely, the habit<br />
which most editors have of not sending proofs of<br />
articles where at any rate such articles are short,<br />
their idea being that they can fully supply any<br />
deficiencies in such pieces. But my experience is<br />
that they cannot — that they leave in errors that<br />
the writers themselves would certainly correct in<br />
proof, that they never attempt to bridge over<br />
hiatuses or prune real redundancies or super-<br />
fluities. Perhaps this is because most editors<br />
are careless as to the symmetry and technique of<br />
an article, which is to every decent writer all<br />
important, especially if his name is brought into<br />
connection with it. Would you believe it, that<br />
an editor once allowed me to make a most common<br />
quotation from Moliere and mis-ascribe it, while<br />
he passed my reference to a dean as " the rev."<br />
without any " very "? These poor fellows! Of<br />
course they do not know, but why do not they<br />
send us proofs and allow us to protect our work,<br />
particularly as I have found they regard an<br />
author who sends in suggestions, subsequent to<br />
submitting his article, for emendations and<br />
amplifications of it, as a nuisance. And worse,<br />
do not act on such. Expeeto Ceede.<br />
II.<br />
May I, through the medium of your columns,<br />
call the attention of divers editors to a grievance<br />
that I and other occasional contributors to their<br />
pages have to suffer through the lack of a little<br />
thoughtfulness on their part. I refer to the un-<br />
necessary mutilation of inoffensive MSS. When,<br />
to have MSS. typed costs about is. a thousand<br />
words, or, say, 5 per cent, of the author's receipts,<br />
it is, I consider, somewhat wanton of the powers<br />
that be to tear off the front and end pages, write<br />
in pencil the approximate length as measured by<br />
their own columns on the body of the MS., and<br />
then, after a few weeks have elapsed, return the<br />
remnants—sans clip, saw cover, sans an apology.<br />
Then, with regard to the editors and proprietors<br />
of journals published in the United States, I<br />
would ask if it would not be possible to induce<br />
them to copyright their productions in England,<br />
or otherwise protect them from the scissors of a<br />
certain class of their English brethren. The great<br />
popularity of the article made in the States,<br />
though conducive to large dividends for English<br />
shareholders, is a distinct hardship on the<br />
struggling native author, whose pen remains idle<br />
while that of the editor of the 20 per cent, paying<br />
journal fiercely splutters as he feverishly alters<br />
countless "Chicagos," innumerable "Illinois,"<br />
and multitudinous "Maines" into his beloved<br />
"Cottonopolis," "One of the Midland Counties,"<br />
or " A well-known seaside resort."<br />
An Unofficial Receiver—of<br />
Editorial Regrets.<br />
hi.<br />
"Don't take to literature if you've capital<br />
enough to buy a good broom, and energy enough<br />
to annex a vacant crossing," is the advice of Mr.<br />
Grant Allen.<br />
Pessimistic as it may appear, its truth will not<br />
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•be contested by those who, devoid alike of pecu-<br />
niary and social influence, have striven to make<br />
headway in the profession for which their natural<br />
qualifications fit them.<br />
It cannot be denied that the position of an<br />
unknown literary producer with regard to the<br />
man who employs or rejects his services is<br />
humiliating in the extreme.<br />
The dealer to whom he takes his wares may<br />
detain them unconscionably, use them at his own<br />
price, nay, even destroy them, without compunc-<br />
tion.<br />
Until the productions of writers, of what con-<br />
dition whatsoever, are recognised both by law and<br />
public opinion as property that cannot be stolen,<br />
under-valued, or contemptuously handled without<br />
.incurring punishment; until the entire literary<br />
community, and not merely the acknowledged<br />
leaders of it, are accepted as a body of labourers<br />
worthy of their hire, the advice of Mr. Grant<br />
Allen will continue to be sound. The heads of<br />
the literary profession are in positions to enforce<br />
fair play; there are, also, publishers and<br />
editors who value their own credit too highly<br />
to take advantage of a writer's obscurity or<br />
ignorance.<br />
But as one of the rank and file, I am almost<br />
daily brought face to face with abuses that do not<br />
perhaps affect the leaders. There can never be<br />
anything businesslike and satisfactory in literary<br />
pursuits until the following obstacles are finally<br />
surmounted:<br />
1. Delays in considering MSS.—I have had a<br />
manuscript under consideration nine months; and<br />
frequently pass three, in speculating as to the<br />
probabilities of ever beholding it again.<br />
2. Delays in payment.—Here, again, the<br />
bewildered novice has just cause for outcry,<br />
seeing that while one editor pays on publication,<br />
another will postpone settlement until the poor<br />
author has given up hopes of ever receiving his<br />
due.<br />
3. Unequal remuneration.—Why should one<br />
editor offer a guinea a column where another<br />
stops at five shillings for the same article?<br />
With regard to obstacle 1, every editor should<br />
be compelled to return rejected MSS. within the<br />
month, or pay for it at recognised rates. Other-<br />
wise how is the author to know with any degree<br />
of certainty when he is at liberty to offer the work<br />
elsewhere; and how is he to calculate his income<br />
when he has no means of judging what his MSS.<br />
are worth? The editor who keeps a MS. nine<br />
months before publishing it, and only pays after<br />
publication, as compared with the editor who<br />
ju-cepts the MS. and pays for it within the month<br />
though not publishing it for nine months, robs<br />
the author of eight months' interest.<br />
2. With regard to obstacle 2, then, there should<br />
be a fixed regulation dealing with the question of<br />
settling up. Payment on publication means<br />
nothing; since publication may not be till six<br />
seven, eight, nine, or even more months after<br />
acceptation. The only system of treating the<br />
author fairly in this case seems to me that,<br />
should his MS. be kept long enough to imply<br />
acceptation, it should be paid for within a stipu-<br />
lated time dating from its receipt.<br />
3. As regards unequal remuneration. There is<br />
this to be said. If a journtl cannot afford to<br />
remunerate its contributors at a legitimate rate,<br />
it is on a level with the bogus theatrical company<br />
and the absconding manager, and should be<br />
smashed up. Shopkeepers, manufacturers, men<br />
of business, in a large way or a small, making<br />
money or losing it, must pay their staff ordinary<br />
salaries. Their own profit his nothing to do<br />
with the case. Innumerable journalistic specu-<br />
lators, like the bogus theatrical manager, com-<br />
mence operations without capital. Should their<br />
venture succeed, it is probable they will pay<br />
contributors. Should it fail, as it invariably<br />
does, contributors are the last to be considered.<br />
Other ventures linger out a miserable existence,<br />
stealing " copy" where they can, paying ridicu-<br />
lous trifles when obliged to cash out something.<br />
Trade conducted on such principles is fraudulent;<br />
and there are scores of periodicals that, so far as<br />
minor authors a<e concerned, simply live by<br />
fraud. By compelling editors to return or pay<br />
for MSS. within a certain fixed time these<br />
swindlers would be circumvented.<br />
Should it be argued that the literary staff of a<br />
journal is not large enough to cope with the<br />
amount of unsolicited contributions forwarded<br />
within the time specified, I answer simply such<br />
literary staff requires enlarging. Bankers, mer-<br />
chants, shopkeepers, tradesmen, and professional<br />
men generally, are forced to maintain a staff in<br />
accordance with their requirements. It is only<br />
newsj>aper and magazine proprietors who are<br />
allowed to "sweat" their literary employes<br />
without remonstrance. An editor whose time is<br />
insufficient to permit of his conscientiously read-<br />
ing his MSS. and dealing with them promptly, is<br />
no credit to the firm for whom he works.<br />
At the present moment, and in spite of the<br />
efforts of the Society of Authors—which will, I<br />
hope, be the instrument of effecting great and<br />
permanent benefit to the profession of letters—a<br />
class of labourers perhaps the most enlightened,<br />
industrious, and patient, in existence, suffers<br />
indignities, wrongs, and scandalous treatment<br />
such as the most ignorant, idle, and unruly<br />
member of a trades union would resent quickly<br />
and fiercely.<br />
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I write as an author; but I am not incapable<br />
of entering into the views of the editor. I have<br />
occupied the editorial cbair; but not, I sincerely<br />
trust, with the supercilious self-sufficiency and<br />
blind disregard both of businesslike and courteous<br />
treatment so many editors display in their deal-<br />
ings with contributors. Contributors, even un-<br />
solicited contributors, are not beggars. Is it not<br />
high time editors, simple and wise, just and<br />
unjust, honest and dishonest, were forced to<br />
acknowledge this little fact?<br />
Hebbebt W. Smith.<br />
VI.—The Publishee's Assistant.<br />
A few days ago I received a (written) letter<br />
from the offices of a well-known publisher herald-<br />
ing the return of a manuscript, and I am loth to<br />
allow that letter to perish altogether unnoticed.<br />
It was brief, but it contained sufficient cause of<br />
offence. In it I was addressed as "Dear," plain<br />
and simple, without the distinction of a name,<br />
while that of my book was incorrectly given,<br />
and the whole not considered worthy of signa-<br />
ture.<br />
Now, I am not an absolute beginner, and,<br />
although I had had no previous dealings with the<br />
firm in question, I corresponded with them on<br />
the subject of my story before giving them the<br />
first refusal. They retained it from January until<br />
March, and it occurs to me that if ten weeks were<br />
required for its perusal, ten minutes might have<br />
been allowed for the writing of a civil letter; the<br />
one which I received would have been returned<br />
without comment but for the probability of its<br />
falling into the hands of the writer.<br />
I have no doubt the publisher's assistant is<br />
responsible for such cases, for the heads of the<br />
great firms are invariably courteous in personal<br />
dealings (or such, at least, has been my experi-<br />
ence). But there seems no sufficient reason that<br />
the disheartening experiences of young writers<br />
should be aggravated by insolence of the typo<br />
referred to, and I wish that the numerous pub-<br />
lishers who evidently read The Author would<br />
give the matter their consideration. E. K. S.<br />
LITEEATUEE IN THE PEEIODICALS.<br />
Unmabketableness of Vebse.—An Author's<br />
Confession.—The Eelioious Novel.—The<br />
Teaching of English.<br />
"T1THY is verse not read?" is the ques-<br />
Y V tion propounded by the Daily News<br />
(April 18), and left unanswered. The<br />
journal is reviewing a volume of poems, and<br />
contrasts the popularity of fiction with the un-<br />
marketableness of verse. Mr, Henley is the<br />
author in question, and he has stated, in explana-<br />
tion of this volume being all that he has to show<br />
in the matter of verse for the years between 1873<br />
and 1897, that, "after spending the better part<br />
of my life in the pursuit of poetry, I found myself<br />
(about 1877) so utterly unmarketable that I had<br />
to own myself beaten in art, and to addict myself<br />
to journalism for the next ten years." His case,<br />
says the Daily News, stands for many more, and<br />
"if work of this quality had appeared in prose it<br />
could never have gone begging." True, Mr.<br />
Henley's publisher rejoins tbat sales have been<br />
not so very bad, and two correspondents suggest<br />
that the subjects treated are fitted rather for<br />
prose treatment. But to our contemporary it<br />
appears an inevitable conclusion that editors<br />
know that readers no longer care for poetry. It<br />
suggests that we may be going through some<br />
process of decisive change in literary forms. At<br />
any rate, "there is more verse than ever nowa-<br />
days," and "there is less acceptance for it than<br />
ever."<br />
A disappointed author (though not a poet)<br />
makes a statement of his experiences in the<br />
April pages of the New Century Review, by way<br />
of bidding farewell to literature. "Julian<br />
Croskey," the pseudonym under which this<br />
gentleman has appeared in authorship, adopted<br />
the literary profession deliberately as a means to<br />
an end. He had been in the Chinese Customs<br />
service, and attempted to raise a rebellion, for<br />
which he was sent to prison on being handed over<br />
to the British Government. He next conceived<br />
the idea of raising a party of gentlemen to adven-<br />
ture into China and exploit the country. To<br />
secure the gentlemen confederates he must get<br />
into society. To get into society he determined<br />
upon authorship. In three months he wrote<br />
twenty-six magazine articles and two books;<br />
starvation, fever, and isolation then brought<br />
him to the London Hospital. Coming out of<br />
hospital, he next borrowed .£50, took a small room<br />
near Hampstead Heath, living on tinned meat<br />
and opium, and, although " full of creativeness,"<br />
wasted a year "in what I thought the more<br />
important duty, the composition of my bible and<br />
military scheme of conquest." This over, he<br />
began to send out his slum work, placed three or<br />
four articles, two tales, and a book. His agree-<br />
ment with the publisher specified two or three<br />
other books which he was to supply, " so that if I<br />
had taken to literature then I should at once have<br />
been launched. I, however, neglected my part of<br />
the agreement, and. let my opportunity slide." In<br />
the following year he sent out his military book.<br />
Publishers admired it, and said it would not pay;<br />
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one firm offered to accept it if the author would<br />
bear part of the cost. "I consequently withdrew<br />
it," says the author, "feeling that it would be<br />
time enough to publish it when I had made my<br />
entree into society by fiction. This was on a par<br />
with the rest of my folly, for the book is now<br />
useless, as my heart is no longer in its tenets."<br />
Another book—of "recollections "—was to be<br />
accepted if he would tone down its style. He did<br />
not tone down the style, and therefore let that<br />
opportunity also go by, but he acknowledges now<br />
(being older) that the style was abominable. He<br />
was prepared to make good use of his third year,<br />
when a catastrophe happened. He accepted a<br />
clerkship, at the instigation of his people, who<br />
insisted on his earning a "reasonable living,"<br />
and took pains to secure him a berth. From<br />
Hampstead Heath he migrated to Blooms-<br />
bury, and after office hours he worked at a<br />
piratical novel. He sent the first part to a<br />
publisher, who said it was too realistic for a<br />
"boy's book." "Boy's book" being too much<br />
for the author, he never sent the publisher the<br />
remainder, "and when the book was finished I<br />
had lost confidence, and was afraid it was far too<br />
audacious." Its fate afterwards was, being cut<br />
up into magazine stories, while books on the<br />
same lines had been appearing in the meantime<br />
and meeting with success. He gave up his clerk-<br />
ship, determined to face poverty and work again;<br />
and "from the spring of '95 onward," he says,<br />
"I have drifted from my ambitions and knocked<br />
myself to pieces." Still, he placed another book,<br />
and articles, earning ,£70 during 1896. Among<br />
his misfortunes was writing the first of a series<br />
of detective stories for a new magazine, and the<br />
magazine never appeared; sending illustrations<br />
to a magazine and getting his article back with-<br />
out them. He changed his pseudonym; he<br />
changed his address; he did not read magazines,<br />
and therefore is still ignorant whether some of<br />
his articles have appeared or not. He placed two<br />
tales with a certain magazine, "neglecting again<br />
a lucrative opening for a series. My opportuni-<br />
ties were excellent for a professional scribbler, but<br />
I would not make it my profession." Here is the<br />
catalogue of some results:—"I believe I have<br />
five tales accepted somewhere which are yet to<br />
appear, but I have burnt my records and cannot<br />
recall them. I have asked one editor if he would<br />
pay me in advance, but have had no reply. I<br />
have absolutely wasted six years. I have wasted,<br />
indeed, the first thirty years of my life." And<br />
the moral of it? This: "if you would succeed<br />
as an author, be one and nothing else. If you<br />
can beg, borrow, or steal as much as .£50 a year,<br />
cut yourself off from everything and write."<br />
A member of the Anglican clergy, the Rev.<br />
Anthony Deane, attacks "the whole genus<br />
'Religious Novel' " in the April number of the<br />
National Review. Religion, he contends, should<br />
surely be one of certain subjects which should<br />
still be considered to be outside the novelist's<br />
pale. He cites instances of technical blunders<br />
in description of religious ceremonies, and accuses<br />
"writers of irresponsible fiction " of having cari-<br />
catured the clergy and the ordinances of the<br />
Church, but he appears satisfied that" after alL<br />
no one takes these books very seriously, and they<br />
do not influence, nor are they intended to<br />
influence, the general public's estimation of the<br />
Church in the slightest degree." Mr. Deane<br />
thinks that the legitimate domain of the novel<br />
to-day—that is to say, outside "certain subjects,"<br />
of which religion should be one—is extensive<br />
enough, the limits far wider than those within<br />
which Thackeray and Dickens were content to be<br />
bound:—<br />
If our religion (saya Mr. Deane) is something more than<br />
a vague sentiment, or a hazy aspiration—if it is deep, if it<br />
is real, if it is saored to us—the " religions" novel, in whioh<br />
Biblical narratives are eked out with mawkish sentiment<br />
and glaring vulgarity, in which Divine ordinances are cari-<br />
catured, must needs seem nauseating and disgusting. If,<br />
again, we value the traditions of our literature, if we are<br />
aniiona that its future should be not unworthy of its past,<br />
we cannot but deplore this lowering of the accepted standard<br />
of taste—we cannot but regret that well-known writers, for<br />
the sake of selling gigantic editions, should be ready to<br />
pander to depraved likings, and be prepared, for the sake of<br />
making a sensation, to fling all notions of decency and<br />
reverence to the winds.<br />
The question of teaching historical English<br />
grammar is presented by Mr. Mark H. Liddell in<br />
the Atlantic Monthly as one of paramount neces-<br />
sity if we are to preserve the power of our lan-<br />
guage to formulate our thought aptly, clearly,<br />
and easily. "Our present system of studying<br />
English literature from the standpoint of New<br />
English grammar," he says, "is creating for ua<br />
two languages where but one has existed in the<br />
past—a formal language of literary expression<br />
more or less transcendental, and an informal<br />
language of every-day life, practical, familiar,<br />
simple, direct" :—<br />
In the case of the Bible, the one has already become<br />
a sacerdotal tongue full of anomalies in syntax and idiom,<br />
and set apart as a sacred Bpeech because of its obsolete-<br />
pronouns and outgrown verb forms. The homely speech<br />
of an early Christianity which sought inspiration in the<br />
humblest walks of life has thus beoome artificial, and has<br />
got separated from actual experience. It now stands in<br />
need of a gloss almost as much as the Vulgate did when,<br />
in answer to the homely cry "Givo us the Soriptures,"<br />
Tyndale translated it into the speech of everyday life.<br />
When the historical development of the English<br />
language and literature is once clearly under-<br />
stood, says the writer, this artificial process will<br />
be at an end. It will also lead to a fuller appre-<br />
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ciation of much of our best literature. Mr.<br />
Liddell avers that in a recent imposing book on<br />
the history of English literature which speaks of<br />
the influence of Chaucer's harmonious and scien-<br />
tific versification, there are in the ten lines quoted<br />
five forms of expression that Chaucer could not<br />
have used, two that he did not use, and one that<br />
no writer or speaker of English has ever used.<br />
Says Mr. Liddell: "The critic could not read<br />
inU-lligently the poetry he was criticising—a dis-<br />
qualification which one feels ought to be a serious<br />
one. If the writer had chosen the history of<br />
Greek poetry for his field, he would have been<br />
laughed out of court for such efforts."<br />
BOOK TALE.<br />
MR. HERBERT SPENCER is engaged<br />
revising "Principle* of Biology," and<br />
writing additional chapters for the work.<br />
One of these, entitled "Cell-Life and Cell-<br />
Multiplication," describes the revelations which<br />
late years have witnessed respecting the processes<br />
of cell-division and cell-fertilization. Mr. Spencer<br />
contributes to the May number of Xatural Science<br />
an article on the subject, and prefixes it with a<br />
note in which he says:—" Study of the facts and<br />
hypotheses, as set forth in recent works, have<br />
suggested to me some interpretations which I<br />
have not met with. I have thought it as well to<br />
publish them now: not waiting for completion<br />
of the first volume of the " Principles of Biology ";<br />
as this will be long delayed, even if ill-health<br />
does not prevent completion of it."<br />
Mr. J. Arthur Gibbs has written a volume on<br />
country life in Gloucestershire, which is to be<br />
publishei by Mr. John Murray under the title<br />
•' A Cotswold Village."<br />
Messrs. Duckworth have just ready a volume<br />
of articles by Mr. Norman Hapgood, who con-<br />
tributes the New York Letter to T/ie Author<br />
every month. It is entitled "Literary States-<br />
men and Others," and deals with Lord Rosebery,<br />
Mr. Morley, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Henry James,<br />
Stendhal, Merimce, American art criticism and<br />
American cosmopolitanism.<br />
Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., has written a<br />
memoir of the Hon. Sir Charles Murray, K.C.B.,<br />
which will be published by Messrs. Blackwood.<br />
At periods in his long life (1806-1895) Sir<br />
Charles was Master of the Household to the<br />
Queen, Consul-General in Egypt, and Minister at<br />
the Courts of Persia, Saxony, Denmark, and<br />
Portugal. His adherence in 1834-35 to a hunting<br />
"nation" of Pawnee Indian?, in whose lodges he<br />
lived for several months, is another episode in<br />
his interesting career. Many unpublished letters<br />
from Carlyle, Lord Brougham, Samuel Rogers,<br />
Alison, Praser, and others will be given in the<br />
memoir. Sir Charles Murray was at one time a<br />
constant frequenter of the famous breakfasts of<br />
Rogers at 22, St. James's-place.<br />
Mr. H. B. Wheatley, of the Society of Arts, is<br />
the author of a volume on " The Prices of books,"<br />
which will form one of the Library Series pub-<br />
lished by Mr. George Allen.<br />
Sir George Robertson has written a history of<br />
th3 defence of Chitral from the point of view of<br />
those inside the fort. The work, which Messrs.<br />
Methueu will publish, will also give a connected<br />
narrative of all the stirring episodes on the<br />
Chitral frontier in 1895. At the time of the<br />
siege Sir George Robertson was, of course, British<br />
Agent at Gilgit.<br />
The Committee of the Palestine Exploration<br />
Fund will shortly have ready a work by Mr.<br />
Frederick Jones Bliss, Ph.D., explorer to the<br />
fund, entitled " Excavations at Jerusalem, 1894-<br />
1897." Among the ten chapters there will be one<br />
on the chronological bearings of the excavations,<br />
another on the wall from the Protestant cemetery<br />
to the Jewish cemetery, and a third giving a<br />
historical sketch of the Wall of Jerusalem. The<br />
book will contain plans and illustrations by Mr.<br />
Archibald Campbell Dickie, A.R.I.B.A.<br />
Sir Wyke Bayliss will have ready in a few days<br />
his study of the likenesses of Christ. It is to be<br />
called "Rex Regum," and published by Messrs.<br />
Bell.<br />
Mr. Shadworth H. Hodgson, who was formerly<br />
President of the Aristotelian Society, has written<br />
a work, which will run to four volumes, entitled<br />
"The Metaphysic of Experience." It will be<br />
published shortly by Messrs. Longmans, Green,<br />
and Co.<br />
Dr. Robert Munro, F.R.S.E., has written a<br />
volume on Prehistoric Scotland, which will be<br />
published by Messrs. Blackwood in a style<br />
uniform with their County Histories series.<br />
The Diary of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm,<br />
who played chess with Napoleon at St. Helena,<br />
is expected to be published in a few months.<br />
Malcolm, after seeing much service at sea, and<br />
commanding in the North Sea during the<br />
Waterloo campaign, was appointed to the St.<br />
Helena station in 1816 in order to prevent the<br />
prisoner from escaping.<br />
"Interludes" will be the title of a volume of<br />
popular lectures on musical subjects, by the late<br />
Professor Henry Banister, which Messrs. George<br />
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Bell and Sons will issue shortly. The work has<br />
been edited by Professor Stewart Macpherson,<br />
of the Royal Academy of Music.<br />
The forthcoming volume of the Social England<br />
series, published by Messrs. Sonnenschein, will<br />
be "Life in an Old English Town,'' by Miss M.<br />
Dormer Harris. It deals especially with the<br />
history of Coventry in inediseval times, contains<br />
illustrations taken from old prints and other<br />
sources, and facsimiles of ancient MS8. A short<br />
guide to Coventry will be included.<br />
Mr. Lionel Cust has compiled, and Mr. Sidney<br />
Colvin edited, a history of the Society of Dilettanti,<br />
telling its social life and its antiquarian and<br />
artistic enterprises fr< m 1732 to the present day.<br />
Only 350 copies will be printed, and 100 of these<br />
are reserved fov the members of the society.<br />
Messrs. Macmillan are the publishers.<br />
Dr. Emil Reich's volume on Hungarian litera-<br />
ture is now nearly ready for publication by<br />
Messrs. Jarrold and Sons.<br />
In their series dealing with periods of European<br />
literature, and edited by Professor Saintsbury,<br />
Messrs. Blackwood will shortly issue "The<br />
Augustan Ages," by Oliver Elton; and later,<br />
"The Fourteenth Century," by F. J. Snell.<br />
Other volumes arranged for are "The Dark<br />
Ages," by Professor W. P. Ker; " The Transition<br />
Period," by G. Gregory Smith; "The Mid-<br />
Eighteenth Century," by J. Hepburn Millar;<br />
"The Eomantic Revolt," by Professor C. E.<br />
Vaughan; "The Romantic Triumph," by T. S.<br />
Omond; and " The Later Nineteenth Century,"<br />
by Professor Saintsbury.<br />
A series of essays on Church Reform, edited by<br />
Canon Gore, will be published immediately by<br />
Mr. Murray. Among the contributors are the<br />
Dean of Norwich, whose subject is "Pensions for<br />
the Clergy," Rev. Dr. Fry (" Church Reform and<br />
Social Problems "), Mr. Justice Phillimore<br />
("Legal and Parliamentary Possibilities"), Lord<br />
Balfour of Burleigh ("The Actual Methods of<br />
Self-Government in the Established Church of<br />
Scotland"), Canon Scott-Holland, and Canon<br />
Gore.<br />
An annotated edition of the " Lyrical Ballads"<br />
of Wordsworth and Coleridge, by Mr. Hutchinson,<br />
of Trinity College, Dublin, will be published by<br />
Messrs. Duckworth in this the centenary year of<br />
the original publication of the work.<br />
Mr. Edmund G. Gardner has written a critical<br />
work entitled "Dante's Ten Heavens," which is<br />
intended mainly to serve as an introduction to<br />
the "Paradiso." The author is a Cambridge<br />
man. Messrs. Constable are the publishers.<br />
"The Early Relations between Britain and<br />
Scandinavia" is the title of a work by Dr. Hans<br />
Hildebrand, Royal Antiquary of Sweden, to be<br />
issued by Messrs. Blackwood. It consists of the<br />
Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1896.<br />
Mrs. Meynell and Mr. William Hyde are joint-<br />
authors of an artistic work called "London<br />
Impressious," which Messrs. Constable will issue<br />
shortly. Mr. Hyde is also doing twenty illustra-<br />
tions for Mr. Meredith's " Nature Poems," which<br />
is to appear in the collected edition of Mr. Mere-<br />
dith's works published by the same house.<br />
Mr. Horace Hutchinson, the well-known autho-<br />
rity on golf, has written a gossipy volume on the<br />
pastime, which will be publi.-hed by Messrs.<br />
Methum under the title " The Golfing Pilgrim."<br />
A popularly written work on Cricket by the<br />
Hon R. H. Lyttelton will be published by Messrs.<br />
Duckworth on an early date.<br />
Mr. Pitt Lewis, Q.C., delivered recently in<br />
Middle Temple Hall a historical lecture on the<br />
Temple. It is now about to be published in a<br />
revised and expanded form by Mr. John Long.<br />
A fourth and uniform edition of Mr. James<br />
Baker's well-known West Country story, "By<br />
the Western Sea," will shortly be issued by<br />
Messrs. Chapman an 1 Hall. It appears at an<br />
apropos moment, when so many will be visiting<br />
Lynmouth and its lovely neighbourhood.<br />
Mr. Trevor-Battye's new book, "A Northern<br />
Highway of the Tsar," is due from Messrs.<br />
Constable.<br />
Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co. have begun the<br />
issue of an edition of Thackeray's works with<br />
biographical introductions by his daughter, Mrs.<br />
Ritchie. There will be thirteen volumes, which<br />
will appear at the rate of one per month. Every-<br />
body knows, of course, that Thackeray requested<br />
that his life should not be written; therefore,<br />
what Mrs. Ritchie does is merely in each volume<br />
to give the public little glimpses of the author.<br />
The first is " Vanity Fair," which the publisher<br />
issued on April 15. "I cannot help thinking,"<br />
she remarks, "that although 'Vanity Fair' was<br />
written in 1845 and the following years, it was<br />
really begun in 1817, when the little boy, so<br />
lately come from India, found himself shut in<br />
behind those filagree iron gates at Chiswick, of<br />
which he writes when he describes Miss Pinker-<br />
ton's establishment."<br />
During the publication of the work, Thackeray<br />
wrote as follows to his mother:<br />
Towards the end of the month I get so nervous that I<br />
don't speak to anybody scarcely, and once actually got up<br />
in the middle of the night and came down to write in my<br />
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night chimee; but that don't happen often, and I own that<br />
I had a nap after dinner that day.<br />
And he writes on July 2, 1848:—"'Vanity<br />
Fair' is this instant done, and I have worked so<br />
hard, that I can scarcely hold a pen and say God<br />
bless my dearest old mother." Concerning the<br />
original of Becky Sharp, Mrs. Ritchie only says:<br />
One morning a hansom drove np to the door, and out of<br />
it emerged a most charming, dazzling little lady dressed in<br />
black, who greeted my father with great affection and<br />
brilliancy, and who, departing presently, gave him a large<br />
bunch of fresh violets. This was the only time I ever saw<br />
the fascinating little person who was by many supposed to<br />
be the origin il of Becky; my father only laughed when<br />
people asked him, but he never quite owned to it. He<br />
always said that he never conecioualy oopied anyone.<br />
Novels to be published by Messrs. Macmillan<br />
include "A Philosopher's Romance," by Mr. John<br />
Berwick; "The Concert Director," by Mrs.<br />
Blissett; "The Man of the Family," by Miss<br />
Emily Phillips; "The Forest Lovers," by Mr.<br />
Maurice Hewlett.<br />
New novels by Mrs. W. K. Clifford and Mr.<br />
Edward H. Cooper are in the hands of Messrs.<br />
Duckworth for early publication.<br />
The late Mr. James Payn's novel, " By Proxy,"<br />
is about to be published in a sixpenny edition by<br />
Messrs. Chatto and Windus. The same firm have<br />
acquired the copyright of Mr. Payn's " A Modern<br />
Dick Whittington," and will issue a 3*. 6d. edition<br />
of it.<br />
Theatrical life in London, which has been the<br />
subject of numerous works of late, will also be the<br />
theme of Mr. Leonard Merrick's new novel, "The<br />
Actor Manager," which Mr. Grant Richards will<br />
publish.<br />
"Men, Women, and Things," is the title of a<br />
volume of stories by Mr. F. C. Phillips, which<br />
Messrs. Duckworth are to publish.<br />
Mr. Vincent Brown has written a novel entitled<br />
"Ordeal by Compassion," which Mr. Lane will<br />
publish. The author issued, through Messrs.<br />
Ward and Lock eighteen months ago, a novel<br />
called "My Brother." His new work is a study<br />
of a man who does ill, and finds his punishment<br />
lie in being compassioned.<br />
Sir Courtenay Ilbert is issuing, through the<br />
Oxford University Press, a digest of Indian<br />
statute law up to date. In existing works the<br />
subject is only carried down to the year 1873.<br />
Mr. Sydney J. Murray has written a treatise on<br />
money which aims at giving a popular exposition<br />
of the various technicalities which confront the<br />
investor and the speculator from time to time in<br />
the course of actual transactions. It will be<br />
called "A Popular Manual of Finance," and<br />
published by Messrs. Blackwood.<br />
Lord Farrer, who is of course a monometallist,<br />
is about to issue a voluma entitled "Studies in<br />
Currency."<br />
"Blastus, the King's Cliamberlaiu," one of<br />
Mr. Stead's recent Christmas numbers of the<br />
Review of Reviews, is to be reprinted in the form<br />
of a six-shilling volume and published by Mr.<br />
Grant Richards.<br />
The first number has appeared of the Modern<br />
Quarterly of Language and Literature, edited<br />
by Mr. H. Frank Heath, which is a resuscitation<br />
of the Modem Language Quarterly of last year.<br />
It is published by Messrs. J. M. Dent and Co.,<br />
price half-a-crown. Amongst the articles are<br />
"An Elizabethan MS. Colle -tion: Henry Con-<br />
stable," by Professor DowJen; "Alphonse<br />
Daudet," by Mr. Charles Whibley; "Historical<br />
Notes on the Similies of Dante," bv Professor<br />
W. P. Ker; "The Influencj of Goethe's Italian<br />
Journey upon his Style," by Professor Herford;<br />
and " Erne Niederliindische Paraphrase des Veni<br />
Sancte Spiritus," by Mr. Robert Priebsch. In-<br />
cluding a classified list of recent publications,<br />
the magazine contains ninety pages. Mr. Heath<br />
is assisted by Dr. Braunholtz, Dr. Breul, Mr. I.<br />
GoUancz, Mr. A. "W. Pollard, Professor Walter<br />
Rippmann, and Professor V. Spiers. The frontis-<br />
piece to the number is a portrait of Dr. Furnivall,<br />
who attained his seventy-third birthday on<br />
Feb. 4.<br />
Next July (writes the Naples correspondent of<br />
the Daily News) Signor Crispi will consign to<br />
the English publisher, who has acquired the copy-<br />
right, the MSS. of his memoirs. They form nine<br />
volumes of MS. pages, each volume numbering<br />
400 pages. The first part recounts the polemics<br />
between Mazzini and Cavour, which werj sum-<br />
marised by Crispi for the French journals of the<br />
period. The second part treats of the idea of<br />
unity and the autonomy of Sicily. The third<br />
relates to the disembarkment at Marsala and the<br />
provisional government in Sicily. The other five<br />
parts treat of events from i860 upwards. There<br />
will be a special portion dedicated to the part<br />
Crispi had in the Triple Alliance.<br />
In view of his pulpit Jubilee, Messrs. Horace<br />
Marshall and Son are publishing, under the general<br />
title of " Studies in Text," six volumes, by Dr.<br />
Joseph Parker, of the City Temple. The first<br />
volume is now ready.<br />
Another kind of book by the same author is in<br />
the press, and will be published at once by Messrs.<br />
Hurst and Blackett. The title is "Christian<br />
Profiles in a Pagan Mirror." A pagan lady<br />
visits England for the purpose of discovering<br />
what Christians believe, what they do, and<br />
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•wherein they differ from other people. This<br />
book is her report.<br />
Mr. Charles Bright's work on "Submarine<br />
Telegraphs," their history, construction, and<br />
working, will be published on May 2. It will<br />
appear in one volume, super royal 8vo., 780 pages,<br />
with a good number of plates and maps. The<br />
publishers are Crosby Lockwood and Co.<br />
Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel entitled<br />
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