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## p. 113 (#161) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Author,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 7.]&lt;br /&gt;
DECEMBER I, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
UT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to : .&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo;office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
anless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
&iacute; (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 114 (#162) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
114&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate pablication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
1 branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
I Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
ball court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. LA VERY. member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experienoe of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, now&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
I.-THE PUBLISHER AND THE AGENT.&lt;br /&gt;
THE business of the literary agent is not run&lt;br /&gt;
on philanthropic lines any more than the&lt;br /&gt;
- business of the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
In each case the first aim is entirely a selfish&lt;br /&gt;
one&mdash;to obtain a living wage, the amount of the&lt;br /&gt;
living wage-varying according to the ambition of&lt;br /&gt;
the worker; the next is to benefit the author&lt;br /&gt;
whose work is being undertaken.&lt;br /&gt;
In an article which appeared in The Author for&lt;br /&gt;
July, 1900, evidence was given of a series of con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts which might be worked beneficially for the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher and disastrously for the author,&lt;br /&gt;
although the agreements on the face of them&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 115 (#163) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
115&lt;br /&gt;
appeared to be reasonable and just, the fault&lt;br /&gt;
lying in the action of the publisher rather than&lt;br /&gt;
in the form of agreement. It is possible also&lt;br /&gt;
that under certain circumstances an agent while&lt;br /&gt;
appearing to work for the author&amp;#039;s benefit may&lt;br /&gt;
really be playing into the publisher&amp;#039;s hands, and&lt;br /&gt;
it is necessary therefore from time to time to call&lt;br /&gt;
the attention of authors to the difficulties that&lt;br /&gt;
may beset their path when under the guidance of&lt;br /&gt;
an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
It should, however, in all justice be remarked&lt;br /&gt;
that in many cases an agent&amp;#039;s assistance is&lt;br /&gt;
essential to the author, and that there are agents&lt;br /&gt;
who work unreservedly for the author&amp;#039;s interest,&lt;br /&gt;
to whom the following remarks do not apply&lt;br /&gt;
To begin with, literary agents are not as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
lawyers, and, therefore, are hardly competent to&lt;br /&gt;
draw up a legal document or to advise the author&lt;br /&gt;
on signing the same.&lt;br /&gt;
This point has become apparent on reviewing a&lt;br /&gt;
series of contracts which have been, during the&lt;br /&gt;
last few months, brought to the Society&amp;#039;s offices,&lt;br /&gt;
unfortunately after signature and after accepting&lt;br /&gt;
the agent&amp;#039;s advice.&lt;br /&gt;
An agent has allowed an author to enter into&lt;br /&gt;
half-profit agreements and royalty agreements&lt;br /&gt;
with exceedingly low royalties, and to bind him.&lt;br /&gt;
self to the publisher for the next two books on the&lt;br /&gt;
same terms.&lt;br /&gt;
That the agent should pass an agreement for&lt;br /&gt;
half profits and for low royalties might perhaps&lt;br /&gt;
be excusable under exceptional circumstances,&lt;br /&gt;
but that an agent should pass the two-book clause&lt;br /&gt;
is absolutely and entirely inexcusable. Such&lt;br /&gt;
action shows either a complete disregard of the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s business or an absolute ignorance of his&lt;br /&gt;
(the agent&amp;#039;s) own, unless, absit omen, there are&lt;br /&gt;
other and deeper reasons for the step.&lt;br /&gt;
This rule must be laid down as absolute: No&lt;br /&gt;
author should, under any circumstances, bind&lt;br /&gt;
himself to a publisher for more than one book.&lt;br /&gt;
It is better for the author that the book should&lt;br /&gt;
not be published at all than published on these&lt;br /&gt;
terms. But what does the publisher say in his&lt;br /&gt;
defence ?&lt;br /&gt;
He states&mdash;the Society has letters to show it,&lt;br /&gt;
that, unless he has the control of the next two&lt;br /&gt;
books, he will not take the same interest in the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s work, and will not push it to the same&lt;br /&gt;
extent.&lt;br /&gt;
A candid confession, indeed, for an honourable&lt;br /&gt;
publisher!&lt;br /&gt;
But what is the real result? The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
having secured the handling of the next two&lt;br /&gt;
books on ridiculously low terms, runs the first&lt;br /&gt;
book until it has covered its expenses and put the&lt;br /&gt;
usual 15 to 20 per cent. in his pocket, and then&lt;br /&gt;
neglects to push it any further.&lt;br /&gt;
Not all the lamentations of the author will&lt;br /&gt;
move him. The publisher is anxious to push&lt;br /&gt;
other books forward. He has taken the cream off&lt;br /&gt;
the milk.&lt;br /&gt;
For the reason of this action by the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
reference is again made to the article, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Trade Methods,&amp;quot; that appeared in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
of July, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
Do not sign agreements containing the above&lt;br /&gt;
condition, not even though the agent may stand&lt;br /&gt;
over you pen in hand and demand your signature,&lt;br /&gt;
stating that he can do no more for you if you&lt;br /&gt;
refuse to sign.&lt;br /&gt;
The conclusion, then, to be arrived at is that&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher, as he has the refusal of two more&lt;br /&gt;
books at cheap terms, gives really less attention&lt;br /&gt;
to the author&amp;#039;s success and takes less pains than&lt;br /&gt;
if he had one work only.&lt;br /&gt;
For in the latter case, if the publisher believes&lt;br /&gt;
in his author, he is anxious to do his best for him&lt;br /&gt;
that the author may come to him again-a course&lt;br /&gt;
the author gladly takes when he has been well&lt;br /&gt;
treated.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, agreements that have passed through an&lt;br /&gt;
agent&amp;#039;s hands are frequently brought forward,&lt;br /&gt;
which assign translation rights, Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights, American rights, and even dramatic rights&lt;br /&gt;
to the publisher, and the author has to allow the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher 50 per cent. if he succeeds in selling or&lt;br /&gt;
getting rid of them.&lt;br /&gt;
Now, it is not the publisher&amp;#039;s business to sell&lt;br /&gt;
these rights, as will be further explained below.&lt;br /&gt;
In any case, the publisher is not entitled to 50 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent of the returns.&lt;br /&gt;
Another form of agreement sanctioned by an&lt;br /&gt;
agent, equally disastrous to the author, is the&lt;br /&gt;
following :-&lt;br /&gt;
An author published a book at his own expense&lt;br /&gt;
and the edition was limited. The agreement&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to the publisher 15 per cent. on the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production including advertisements, and 15&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. on the produce of the sales, and the&lt;br /&gt;
number of the edition was such that if all sold&lt;br /&gt;
at the full price the author was bound to lose.&lt;br /&gt;
Now 15 per cent. both ways is a percentage far&lt;br /&gt;
too heavy, and 15 per cent. on the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction does not naturally induce the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
to keep it as low as possible.&lt;br /&gt;
In this particular case the author had to pay&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers according to the accounts a sum of&lt;br /&gt;
over &pound;60.&lt;br /&gt;
The agent if he had known his business should&lt;br /&gt;
certainly have pointed out that the edition limited&lt;br /&gt;
to the number proposed in the agreement and&lt;br /&gt;
selling at the price proposed could not possibly&lt;br /&gt;
cover the cost. The book is still selling, but as&lt;br /&gt;
the type has been distributed it is impossible now&lt;br /&gt;
to print any more in order to secure the author.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 116 (#164) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
116&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
From these examples it is evident that agents publisher may put a great deal of other business&lt;br /&gt;
are not only in many cases incompetent to act as through an agent&amp;#039;s hands. The agent naturally&lt;br /&gt;
legal advisers, but that often they are wanting in desires to keep such a good source of income, and,&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of their business as the confidential in return, when a promising young author comes&lt;br /&gt;
assistants of authors.&lt;br /&gt;
forward he takes the book to his friend the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
If authors have any doubt about the document lisher, and if the terms offered consist, in addition&lt;br /&gt;
laid before them they should certainly consult to other clauses, of an assignment to the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, even though the agent may see objec. of minor rights and two more books under similar&lt;br /&gt;
tions, as he surely will, to their adopting this conditions, the author is told that it is all-&lt;br /&gt;
course.&lt;br /&gt;
important that his book should be produced on&lt;br /&gt;
There are agents, well known to the Society, any terms.&lt;br /&gt;
who have a very strong objection that these It is possible that the author may demur, but&lt;br /&gt;
matters should be placed before the Secretary his scruples are easily overcome, as he is working&lt;br /&gt;
The deduction is obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
in the dark.&lt;br /&gt;
There may be another reason, however, besides An agent should advise that a book should&lt;br /&gt;
incompetence which may induce an agent to act never be published, rather than published on such&lt;br /&gt;
on lines disadvantageous to the author, namely, conditions. He should have tried every reputable&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that he may be directly or indirectly publisher in England rather than sanction such&lt;br /&gt;
under the control of a publisher. It has been an agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out in this article that sometimes an This is no place to discuss the moral aspect of&lt;br /&gt;
agent allows an author to sell his minor rights to the question, we are dealing merely with the&lt;br /&gt;
a publisher, in other places it bas been shown business view as to how the author&amp;#039;s interests are&lt;br /&gt;
that publishers have with increasing effort been effected.&lt;br /&gt;
endeavouring to obtain these rights when nego. Again, it is possible that such a case as the&lt;br /&gt;
tiating directly. (See &ldquo; Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements, following might occur:&lt;br /&gt;
with Comments,&amp;quot; issued by the Society.)&lt;br /&gt;
An agent is exceedingly busy with the works&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the business of the publisher to act as of many authors. It is important that he should&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; agent, and very often with these rights get some of them settled and off his hands at the&lt;br /&gt;
in their hands they do not know how to market earliest opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;
them or do not care about taking the trouble. Therefore, in a moment of carelessness he&lt;br /&gt;
They put them into the hands of an agent and advises an author to accept such terms as would&lt;br /&gt;
are willing to take any price for them they can not be on the whole satisfactory in their result to&lt;br /&gt;
get, without thinking of the author&amp;#039;s reputation the author.&lt;br /&gt;
or the market value of his writing, merely hoping This case, like the former, points to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that they may make &pound;50 or &pound;60 extra to increase that the author cannot be too careful about what&lt;br /&gt;
the already assured profit from the production of agreement he enters into, whether such agree-&lt;br /&gt;
the book.&lt;br /&gt;
ment is put before him directly by the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
It may therefore occur that an agent is at one or by the publisher through his (the author&amp;#039;s)&lt;br /&gt;
and the same time selling the same author&amp;#039;s work own agent.&lt;br /&gt;
for the author and for the publisher. He may T&amp;#039;he mere question of the financial terms of an&lt;br /&gt;
wish for some special reason (this is no impossible agreement is by no means the only one which&lt;br /&gt;
supposition) to keep in with the publisher, and should be looked into. In some cases the control&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly undersells the author in his own of the property is even of more importance to the&lt;br /&gt;
market.&lt;br /&gt;
author than the financial question.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a very dangerous position, and the In conclusion, therefore, before signing any&lt;br /&gt;
author should be exceedingly careful never under agreement, read carefully and study &ldquo;Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
any circumstances to sell these rights to the pub- Agreements, with Comments,&amp;quot; issued by the&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, not even on the agent&amp;#039;s advice.&lt;br /&gt;
Society.&lt;br /&gt;
It is the publisher&amp;#039;s duty to publish in book Never sign any agreement that gives the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
form, subject to whatever limitations the author lisher the control of future work. Rather refrain&lt;br /&gt;
may think fit to impose upon him.&lt;br /&gt;
from publishing altogether.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the duty of the publisher to obtain Never give the publisher the control of minor&lt;br /&gt;
the minor rights of the author and sell them for rights, which are usually handled by an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
his own benefit.&lt;br /&gt;
Never allow an agent to persuade you to any&lt;br /&gt;
It is possible, again&mdash;this example would not of these acts, even though he assures you that he&lt;br /&gt;
have been brought forward if the extraordinary will not act further for you if you refuse.&lt;br /&gt;
agreements which had been passed by agents had And be sure to refer any points about which you&lt;br /&gt;
not come to the notice of the Society-that a may be doubtful to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
117&lt;br /&gt;
Lastly, remember that agents are but human, states: &ldquo;If through inadvertence a single copy&lt;br /&gt;
they may have other axes to grind besides the were issued without this label&rdquo;-i.e., the notice&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s, and that they, in some cases, have a required by the Act that the performing rights&lt;br /&gt;
pronounced objection to having any agreement or are reserved&mdash;&ldquo;the value of the right of represen-&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement which may be in dispute placed tation might be lost.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
before the Society for its Secretary to criticise.&lt;br /&gt;
The section, however, runs :&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
The defendant in such proceedings may be acquitted of&lt;br /&gt;
such infringement, and may be entitled to the costs of&lt;br /&gt;
II.-DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.&mdash;LORD MONKS-&lt;br /&gt;
resisting the proceedings, if he proves to the satisfaction of&lt;br /&gt;
WELL&amp;#039;S BILL.*&lt;br /&gt;
the court that he has in his possession a copy of the book&lt;br /&gt;
As one who has made a careful study of the containing such dramatic or musioal work, and that such&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Law and the new Bill I should like to copy was published with the assent of the owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
say a few words on Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s interesting copyright and does not contain the notice, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
article in your November number. He opens the From this it is clear that (1) the onus probandi&lt;br /&gt;
article by stating that the Bill is not drafted from lies with the defendant; (2) &ldquo; that the book con-&lt;br /&gt;
the point of view of a playwright. Here I beg to taining, &amp;amp;c.,&amp;quot; must be published with the assent&lt;br /&gt;
differ from him. A careful jerusal of the Bill of the owner of the copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
will tend to show that this point of view bas N ow I take it that after the passing of this Act&lt;br /&gt;
been considered equally with that of the writer no dramatic work will be published without the&lt;br /&gt;
of books (the novelist is not the only literary notice &ldquo; with the assent of the author.&rdquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
person considered), and perhaps over-considered. appears that if a book is published without the&lt;br /&gt;
Over-consideration has a tendency to produce an notice the question will be: Did the author assent&lt;br /&gt;
unsatisfactory result.&lt;br /&gt;
to the book being published in the particular&lt;br /&gt;
The next point in Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s letter is the form and without this notice ? &mdash;and the question&lt;br /&gt;
duration of copvright. Here I am entirely in must be dealt with from the point of view of the&lt;br /&gt;
accord with him. Copyright ought to be per- activity, not the passivity, of the author; commis-&lt;br /&gt;
petual, and no doubt will be some day. But life sion, not omission. In this case there would be&lt;br /&gt;
and thirty years is better than the present no &ldquo; inadvertence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement, although I think a struggle should Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s remark, &ldquo;It might then be&lt;br /&gt;
be made to bring it up to life and fifty, with a argued that section 7 is retrospective,&amp;quot; appears to&lt;br /&gt;
view of bringing our new legislation into line be quite untenable.&lt;br /&gt;
with that of other nations, an important point Clause 5, sections 6 and 7, though unsatis-&lt;br /&gt;
which is being too much overlooked.&lt;br /&gt;
factory to the dramatist, appears to be the result&lt;br /&gt;
Here the dramatic author is dealt with on an rather of over-consideration of his point of view&lt;br /&gt;
equal basis with the writer of books.&lt;br /&gt;
than non-consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
The point of view of both is equally considered. That the Bill as a whole weakens the power of&lt;br /&gt;
His view of clause 5, section 5, is interesting. the dramatic author cannot be admitted; that it&lt;br /&gt;
First, however, let it be said that again as to this is not absolutely satisfactory (what human&lt;br /&gt;
clause the dramatic author is dealt with on an measure is ?) is no doubt true.&lt;br /&gt;
equal basis with the writer of books, and that a It is not absolutely satisfactory to any body of&lt;br /&gt;
similar clause (clause 4) applies to books also. authors, literary, musical, or dramatic, but the&lt;br /&gt;
The clause refers to indecent profane, &amp;amp;c., dramatic receive quite as many plums as the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic or musical work in which no copyright others.&lt;br /&gt;
is given. Mr. Grundy says: &ldquo;so that a thief has Finally, Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s article is entirely destruc-&lt;br /&gt;
only to add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel tive. It would have been more satisfactory if,&lt;br /&gt;
to his theft to be exempted from the penalty of after he bad pulled the edifice to the ground, he&lt;br /&gt;
his dishonesty.&rdquo; Now, this deduction is distinctly had pointed out how it might be re-constructed&lt;br /&gt;
amusing.&lt;br /&gt;
on happier lines.&lt;br /&gt;
A LAWYER.&lt;br /&gt;
There is another form of lawmask the Public&lt;br /&gt;
Prosecutor--that deals with indecent, &amp;amp;c., works,&lt;br /&gt;
III.-PUBLISHERS AS AGENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
and the author that indulges in infringement of The following paragraph appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright works by adding indecency, &amp;amp;c., falls Publishers&amp;#039; Circular of Oct. 27, 1900:&lt;br /&gt;
out of the frying-pan into the fire.&lt;br /&gt;
Notwithstanding the high prices paid to authors who&lt;br /&gt;
In clause 5, sections 6 and 7 (quoted in full in have made a name and manage to keep it, the position of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s letter) he makes an absolutely sound the less fortunate ones seems to become increasingly difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
and satisfactory suggestion, but here again his We have before us a case in which a new story by a writer&lt;br /&gt;
who some years ago had a decided vogue has been offered&lt;br /&gt;
example is not satisfactory, for this reason. He&lt;br /&gt;
for exclusive publication in a paper reserving three counties&lt;br /&gt;
* See page 132.&lt;br /&gt;
as its area, one of the counties being the most populous in&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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118&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
England outside of London, at-wbat figures do our readers Statute Law designed to protect it from common&lt;br /&gt;
suppose? They are not likely to guess, so we will name it; robbers who were something more than plagiarists.&lt;br /&gt;
it was &pound;5. The story, it may be mentioned, runs to nearly&lt;br /&gt;
The dramatic pickpockets who stole literary hand-&lt;br /&gt;
100,000 words, and is offered at the figure we have named&lt;br /&gt;
not by a syndicate, but by a firm of publishers. Is it&lt;br /&gt;
kerchiefs, picking the initials of the owners out&lt;br /&gt;
prudent to cat prices in this way? The story that is worth of the corners and substituting their own, were&lt;br /&gt;
only &pound;5 for serial rights in three counties is worth nothing overlooked with contempt, as the property they&lt;br /&gt;
at all, for the story that is worth anything is worth more&lt;br /&gt;
stole was considered to have no literary value;&lt;br /&gt;
than &pound;5 for such an area. We confess we were a good&lt;br /&gt;
and the stage, supplied and satisfied with this&lt;br /&gt;
deal surprised when particulars of the case under con.&lt;br /&gt;
sideration were placed before us, and we cannot believe reruse, was never thought likely to burgle the&lt;br /&gt;
that business done on a principle of unreasonable or indis. strongholds of literature-properly so called. The&lt;br /&gt;
criminate catting is to the advantage of either author or chartered felony of Shakespeare in one age and&lt;br /&gt;
publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
one language, and the equally chartered and more&lt;br /&gt;
Attention is drawn to the paragraph for this impudent felony of Moli&egrave;re in another age and&lt;br /&gt;
very important reason, that over and over again in another language, did not disturb this complacent&lt;br /&gt;
the publications of the Society, the Secretary has theory, and the statutory definition of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
warned authors against assigning to publishers never coutemplated such a thing as stage-right,&lt;br /&gt;
what may be called &ldquo;outside rights,&rdquo; and the&lt;br /&gt;
or the power of selecting plot, story, characters,&lt;br /&gt;
danger of such an assignment. Those members names, titles, dialogue, &amp;amp;c., at will from any work&lt;br /&gt;
of the Authors&amp;#039; Society who care to refer to the&lt;br /&gt;
of fiction, re-arranging them in any form that&lt;br /&gt;
articles must look at &ldquo;the Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements, might please the selecter, and using them for&lt;br /&gt;
with Comments,&rdquo; published by the Society, and an fame and profit, not only without the consent,&lt;br /&gt;
article entitled &ldquo;The Publisher and the Agent,&rdquo; but often in defiance of the active opposition of&lt;br /&gt;
in The Author of July 1, 1899. The main points, the original creator and owner. This was not&lt;br /&gt;
however, to notice are these: (1) The publisher, justice, but it was law&mdash;a legalised form of&lt;br /&gt;
as an almost universal rule, claims 50 per cent. robbery, and those who objected to it had the&lt;br /&gt;
for the sale of serial rights and translation rights. stone wall of costs to knock their heads against.&lt;br /&gt;
He even claims the same on dramatic rights. The first and greatest victim of recent times&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The publisher&amp;#039;s business is not the sale of was Mrs. Henry Wood, the novelist, whose&lt;br /&gt;
these rights but the publication in book form.&lt;br /&gt;
popular story of &ldquo; East Lynne&rdquo; was pounced&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher has not the facilities that either an upon by some nameless hack who used the licence&lt;br /&gt;
author or an author&amp;#039;s agent has for obtaining given him by a highly-paid legislature and drama-&lt;br /&gt;
a market. And lastly (3) the new danger which tised the work without the slightest communica-&lt;br /&gt;
is shown to arise from the paragraph printed tion with the author. The result of this robbery&lt;br /&gt;
above-namely, that an author by placing these by Act of Parliament has been that Mrs. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
rights in the hands of a publisher, may not only Wood, with her heirs, executors, and assigns,&lt;br /&gt;
be underselling his own work, but may also at have been despoiled during the allotted span of&lt;br /&gt;
the same time be seriously underselling the work copyright of a sum that at the lowest computa-&lt;br /&gt;
of other authors, as the publisher&amp;#039;s one desire is tion may be taken at a quarter of a million&lt;br /&gt;
not so much to get the highest price possible for sterling, supposing her equitable stage-right had&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s benefit, but to get a quick market been enforced with the business ability which&lt;br /&gt;
for his wares.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
directs the operations of a Pinero or a Barrie.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
This unblushing encouragement of a &ldquo; Thieves&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Kitchen &rdquo; by the legislature&mdash;an encouragement&lt;br /&gt;
that has been stigmatised by public writers for&lt;br /&gt;
LEGALISED ARTISTIC ROBBERY.&lt;br /&gt;
more than a quarter of a century-naturally&lt;br /&gt;
Republished from Literature, Oct. 20, 1900, by kind&lt;br /&gt;
stimulated authors with a legal training to take&lt;br /&gt;
permission of the proprietors and of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
steps for their own protection. One of the earliest&lt;br /&gt;
Go, little book, from this, my solitude,&lt;br /&gt;
and most successful of these authors who could&lt;br /&gt;
I cast thee on the waters, -wend thy ways,&lt;br /&gt;
take care of themselves was the late Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
And if, as I believe, thy plot be good,&lt;br /&gt;
Reade&mdash;a writer who possessed the unusual double&lt;br /&gt;
The stage will grab thee before many days.&lt;br /&gt;
gift of novelist and dramatist. I say unusual,&lt;br /&gt;
THEN it first entered the minds of our because neither Thackeray nor Dickens possessed&lt;br /&gt;
appointed legislators that literary pro it. To be a dramatist was one of Thackeray&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
duce, like more vulgar and material unsatisfied ambitions, and Dickens positively&lt;br /&gt;
produce, had a claim (far more shadowy, of smelt of the footlights. Charles Reade produced&lt;br /&gt;
course) to be considered as property, it occurred a drama at Drury Lane Theatre, which I should&lt;br /&gt;
to them that it would be advisable to supplement almost be justified in describing as a theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
the rough equity of the Common Law with a &ldquo;man-trap and spring-gun.&rdquo; It was called&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 119 (#167) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
119&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Gold,&rdquo; and it contained in solution the seeds The late Watts Phillips, a dramatist by profes-&lt;br /&gt;
of another drama and a powerful novel. &ldquo;Gold&rdquo; sion, as well as a novelist, the late Charles Mackay,&lt;br /&gt;
ran its allotted time, and in due course the novel Tom Taylor, Westland Marston, William Gilbert,&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s Never Too Late to Mend&rdquo; appeared, to Sir Charles Young, Florence Marryat, and Pal.&lt;br /&gt;
be followed by a carefully-prepared drama bear grave Simpson all write in the same strain, with&lt;br /&gt;
ing the same title. Some time before Charles W. S. Gilbert, F. W. Robinson, and other writers&lt;br /&gt;
Reade&amp;#039;s version of his novel found its way to the still living. An Authors&amp;#039; Protection Society was&lt;br /&gt;
stage, the hot and eager &amp;quot;adapters,&amp;quot; as they were the outcome of this agitation (for it assumed the&lt;br /&gt;
politely called, tumbled over each other in their form of an agitation), and a Royal Commission&lt;br /&gt;
haste to utilise the novelist&amp;#039;s invention. Ile was was appointed, consisting of Lord John Manners,&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for them. He selected one &ldquo; adaptation&rdquo; the Earl of Devon, Sir Charles Young, Sir Henry&lt;br /&gt;
(they used stronger terms in &ldquo;Old Fagin&amp;#039;s&rdquo; Holland, Sir John Rose, Sir Louis Mallet, Sir H.&lt;br /&gt;
days) as a test-case, and easily proved that in Drummond Wolff, Sir Julius Benedict, Mr. Daldy,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Gold&rdquo; he had anticipated the pirates and had Mr. Froude, Mr. Herschell, Dr. W. Smith, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
secured his stage-right in &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s Never Too Late FitzJames Stephen, Mr. Edward Jenkins, M.P., and&lt;br /&gt;
to Mend&rdquo; by priority of production.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Trollope. Our committee comprised&lt;br /&gt;
This signal victory obtained over legalised fraud Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Charles Dickens, jun., Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
by an author who combined in his single person B. L. Farjeon, Mr. Charles Gibbon, Mr.J. Glaisher,&lt;br /&gt;
novelist, dramatist, and sharp attorney roused F.R.S., Mr. Joseph Hatton, Mr. Edward Jenkins,&lt;br /&gt;
novelists to a sense of the value of stage-right. M.P., Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, Mr. Charles Reade,&lt;br /&gt;
but few of them had the energy or were in the and Mr. Moy Thomas, who consented to act as&lt;br /&gt;
position to take action. Their stories, such as honorary secretary. The Commission sat and&lt;br /&gt;
they were, were printed and published (some of took long, exhaustive, and varied evidence, and&lt;br /&gt;
them, perhaps, with a weak and valueless noti. its report was published in 1878. It advocated&lt;br /&gt;
fication that the &ldquo;right of dramatisation &rdquo; had the protection of the novelist. Twenty-two years&lt;br /&gt;
been reserved), and as such, according to the late have passed, and the Blue-book still paves the&lt;br /&gt;
Chief Justice Cockburn, were &ldquo; dedicated to the vaults of Westminster.&lt;br /&gt;
public,&rdquo; giving any would-be adapter the right to To make a workable play out of a novel, not&lt;br /&gt;
use names, titles, incidents, plot, and anything he written with an eye to the stage, requires much&lt;br /&gt;
could find within the four corners of the binding labour and ingenuity, and a special talent not&lt;br /&gt;
for the purpose of stage-representation, but not always possessed by the ordinary writer of fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
for printed publication. Naturally writers of In the novel the descriptive writer is perfectly&lt;br /&gt;
fiction fretted under this deprivation of a valuable unfettered. He describes his scenery and sur-&lt;br /&gt;
right. As far back as 1873, the late &ldquo; George roundings, and in many cases his characters&lt;br /&gt;
Eliot&amp;quot; wrote to me :&lt;br /&gt;
impress themselves upon the reader with the&lt;br /&gt;
I thoroughly concar in the opinion that the law of copy. smallest possible amount of dramatic dialogue&lt;br /&gt;
right in relation to the dramatisation of novels ought to be and the largest possible amount of descripe&lt;br /&gt;
changed, and I gball willingly give my adhesion to any tive writino In the drama this process is&lt;br /&gt;
energetic effort towards attaining that end.&lt;br /&gt;
reversed. The scenery is handed over to the&lt;br /&gt;
The late Lord Lytton :-&lt;br /&gt;
scene-painter, and the dress and appearance of&lt;br /&gt;
I heartily sympathise with your efforts, and shall be very&lt;br /&gt;
the characters are the work of the costume and&lt;br /&gt;
willing to co-operate to obtain such an amendment of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright law as may prevent the unauthorised dramatisation wig maker, plus the interpretation of the actor&lt;br /&gt;
of novels.&lt;br /&gt;
and actress. The words of the dialogue have to&lt;br /&gt;
The late Wilkie Collins :-&lt;br /&gt;
be subordinated to the action, and if they throw&lt;br /&gt;
My &ldquo; Poor Miss Finch&rdquo; has been dramatised, without no light on the inner character of the puppets&lt;br /&gt;
asking my permission, by some idiot in the country. I they are worse than useless, and become what the&lt;br /&gt;
have been asked to dramatige it, and I have refused, because stage-manager irreverently calls &laquo; cackle&rdquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
my experience tells me that the book is eminently unfit for shows that the man who possesses the true optique&lt;br /&gt;
stage purposes. What I refuse to do with my own work&lt;br /&gt;
du th&eacute;&acirc;tre may be a valuable collaborateur as a&lt;br /&gt;
another man (unknown in literatare) is perfectly free to do&lt;br /&gt;
against my will and (if he can get his rubbish played) to&lt;br /&gt;
reformed thief in the hands of a writer of no&lt;br /&gt;
the prejudice of my novel and my reputation.&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic talent who is willing to condone a felony.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss M. E. Braddon :-&lt;br /&gt;
The copyright law entirely overlooks the possi.&lt;br /&gt;
I have written twenty-four novels, many of these have bilities of such beneficial partnerships, where&lt;br /&gt;
been dramatised, and a fow of the dramatic versions still one man supplies just as much literature, or&lt;br /&gt;
hold the stage. I have never received the smallest pecu.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; cackle,&rdquo; as may be wanted, and the other the&lt;br /&gt;
maplele&amp;quot; as mo&lt;br /&gt;
niary advantage from any of these adaptations, nor does the&lt;br /&gt;
law of copyright in any way assist me to protect wbat&lt;br /&gt;
stage-carpentry-and this law gives the same&lt;br /&gt;
appears to be a valuable portion of my copyright-namely, legal protection, neither more nor less, to the thief&lt;br /&gt;
the exclusive right to dramatise my own creation.&lt;br /&gt;
who finds his play practically ready made as it does&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
to the thief who merely steals rough materials, and wise reflections: &ldquo;It is,&amp;quot; said M. H&eacute;brard, &ldquo;by&lt;br /&gt;
has to shape them together. A case of this kind drawing closer together; by maintaining a taste&lt;br /&gt;
is in the Law Reports-Toole v. Young-in the for fraternal intercourse, for amicable conversa-&lt;br /&gt;
seventies. A short story was written in Good tion; by learning to know better, and to esteem&lt;br /&gt;
Words in such a form (nearly all dialogue) that frankly, the estimable men who do not think as&lt;br /&gt;
it could be transferred to the stage without the we do, that we shall, little by little, introduce into&lt;br /&gt;
addition of a dozen words. It was so transferred the Press the habit of courteous polemics, a habit&lt;br /&gt;
by an unauthorised so-called adapter, and pro- which excludes neither love for the cause defended&lt;br /&gt;
duced in defiance of the writer (myself) and the nor ardent sincerity in the opinions expressed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
owner by purchase, Mr. J. L. Toole. The action &ldquo;Nos associations,&amp;quot; he concluded, &ldquo;sont sorties&lt;br /&gt;
before the late Chief Justice Cockburn brought de la presse d&amp;#039;hier ; la presse de demain sortira&lt;br /&gt;
out the &ldquo; dedication to the public&amp;quot; theory and des associations ! &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the judgment that the &ldquo;original source&rdquo; (the book D espite the popularity enioved by the minor&lt;br /&gt;
or the magazine) was open for the whole world&lt;br /&gt;
songsters of the caf&eacute; concerts and Montmartre,&lt;br /&gt;
to go to and pick out what it fancied. This judg- the Congr&egrave;s de la Chanson was not particularly&lt;br /&gt;
ment was upheld on appeal, in spite of the able successful. From fifty to sixty persons made the&lt;br /&gt;
opposition of the late Sir John Karslake.&lt;br /&gt;
vastness of the huge salle more apparent during the&lt;br /&gt;
Within the last few years a new and almost three days that the session lasted. The Immortals&lt;br /&gt;
comic interpretation of a bad statute law has held assiduously aloof from this assemblage of&lt;br /&gt;
been acted upon by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett in their humbler brethren, the rythmic exponents of&lt;br /&gt;
protecting her &ldquo;stage rights&rdquo; in &ldquo;Little Lord the transient sentiment of the boulevards. A&lt;br /&gt;
Fauntleroy.&rdquo; The Copyright Act, the Printing group of the most eminent literary members of&lt;br /&gt;
and Publishing Act&mdash;was dragged in to fire a the French Institute were confidently and joyfully&lt;br /&gt;
broadside at the pirates, and it was contended expected; one and all sent excuses at the last&lt;br /&gt;
that the &ldquo; copying of parts&rdquo; for use at rehearsals, moment. The classics of the people are its song-&lt;br /&gt;
and the actors to study, was a &ldquo;multiplication of writers.&amp;quot; wrote M. Jules Claretie some years ago;&lt;br /&gt;
copies&rdquo; within the meaning of the Copyright yet the director of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise was&lt;br /&gt;
Act. Mr. Justice Stirling, a sound judge on among the celebrities conspicuous by their&lt;br /&gt;
these questions, before whom the case was tried, absence at the Congr&egrave;s de la Chanson. In 1892&lt;br /&gt;
upheld this view, and, for the present, this the French Academy formally refused the honour&lt;br /&gt;
decision holds the field. It is difficult to speak of bestowing an annual donation of 10,000 francs&lt;br /&gt;
about such a decision, on such pettifogging on the author of the best song which had appeared&lt;br /&gt;
grounds, with becoming respect, and it would be during the year. Hence the present attitude of&lt;br /&gt;
foolish to prophesy the result if the case is ever its members.&lt;br /&gt;
carried to the Court of Appeal. The weighty&lt;br /&gt;
and valuable property of &amp;quot;stage right&amp;quot; ought&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIFE OF PASTEUR.&lt;br /&gt;
not to be left trembling on such a foundation. This voluminous work (published chez Hachette)&lt;br /&gt;
John HOLLINGSHEAD. is one of the most intensely interesting of recent&lt;br /&gt;
publications. &ldquo;La Vie de Pasteur,&amp;#039;&amp;#039; writes a&lt;br /&gt;
French critic, &ldquo;is like a chapter added to Plutarch&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
biographies. It is a page of morality in action.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
Everything there is pure; a subtle perfume of&lt;br /&gt;
virtue envelops it. This man loved truth above&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, Rue des Beaux Arts. everything in the world.&rdquo; The noble spirit in&lt;br /&gt;
MONG the memorable speeches which pre which he carried out his great work is amply&lt;br /&gt;
luded the close of the Great Exhibition exemplified in his biography. Written in a&lt;br /&gt;
not the least impressive was that delivered masterly style by M. Ren&eacute; Vallery - Radot,&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Adrien H&eacute;brard at the breakfast given by Pasteur&amp;#039;s son-in-law, it relates succinctly every&lt;br /&gt;
the Superior Press Committee of the Exhibition step achieved in the colossal experimenter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
to the members of the Departmental and Parisian career until its peaceful close in the quiet chamber&lt;br /&gt;
Press Associations. Five hundred members overlooking the fair woods of Marnes. The&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the invitation. M. H&eacute;brard presided, and friendship existing between Pasteur and Alex-&lt;br /&gt;
at the end of the repast delivered a pithy allocution, andre Dumas fils is well known. In describing a&lt;br /&gt;
prefacing his remarks with a toast in honour of visit paid by the latter to Pasteur&amp;#039;s sick-room,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Jean Dupuy (Minister of Agriculture), presi. M. Radot writes : &ldquo; Dumas, who had observed&lt;br /&gt;
dent of the Paris Press Syndicate and of the men well, loved and admired Pasteur, who was a&lt;br /&gt;
General Syndicate of Press Associations, who genius without pride and full of benevolence.&lt;br /&gt;
occupied a seat at his right hand. Among other On this New Year&amp;#039;s afternoon he commenced to&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
121&lt;br /&gt;
talk to the invalid with a cordiality somewhat&lt;br /&gt;
resembling the exuberant gaiety of his father.&lt;br /&gt;
In this chamber close to the laboratories, how far&lt;br /&gt;
was he removed from all the spheres that he had&lt;br /&gt;
scrutinised in which whirled the personages he&lt;br /&gt;
had depicted &amp;#039;poor vibrios in human form,&amp;#039; as&lt;br /&gt;
he called them-ridiculous, dangerous, or vile!&lt;br /&gt;
. . . For there was in this dramatist a man&lt;br /&gt;
eager for moral action; there was in this realist,&lt;br /&gt;
a symbolist; in this satirist, a mystic..&lt;br /&gt;
And the glance of his blue eyes, usually cold and&lt;br /&gt;
keen, penetrating the most secret thoughts; that&lt;br /&gt;
ironical glance, always on its guard, softened into&lt;br /&gt;
an expression of venerating friendship for him&lt;br /&gt;
whom he called &amp;#039; notre cher et grand Pasteur.&amp;#039;&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M. SARDOU&amp;#039;s Decision.&lt;br /&gt;
The Exhibition has decidedly not been favour.&lt;br /&gt;
able to an overflowing literary barvest. A well.&lt;br /&gt;
known critic recently fell back on past publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, because, so he asserted, there were so few&lt;br /&gt;
new ones sufficiently interesting to arouse public&lt;br /&gt;
curiosity. Meantime, the drama is more in&lt;br /&gt;
favour than ever. All rising young authors flock&lt;br /&gt;
to the footlights as the swiftest and most effec.&lt;br /&gt;
tive method of reaching the public at large. And&lt;br /&gt;
speaking of the stage reminds me of an error in&lt;br /&gt;
my last notes. It was not M. Antoine who grate-&lt;br /&gt;
fully profferred his homage to the drama, in the&lt;br /&gt;
shape of an additional 2 per cent. added to the&lt;br /&gt;
e&lt;br /&gt;
established 10 per cent. royalty received by the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist. Here is what M. Deval (manager of&lt;br /&gt;
the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e Theatre) says on the subject in an&lt;br /&gt;
open letter addressed to the Figaro&amp;#039;s theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
correspondent :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Certes non! I have not asked for an augmen-&lt;br /&gt;
tation of the dramatists&amp;#039; royalty at the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e.&lt;br /&gt;
On the contrary, it has been summarily imposed&lt;br /&gt;
on me.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I have been called before the inexorable com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee. &amp;quot;You make the maximum every evening&lt;br /&gt;
with the &ldquo; Demi-Vierges&rdquo;?&amp;#039; said the terrible&lt;br /&gt;
President.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;* But-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Chut! Do you make the maximum ?&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Yes, but my expenses are enormous with&lt;br /&gt;
Hading, Mayer, Čarlix, Hirch - .-&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Chut! Do you make the maximum ? &amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; &middot; Yes&mdash; but &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Twelve per cent. The Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e is a classified&lt;br /&gt;
theatre. Be quiet, and go&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; And I was obliged to go, much vexed,&lt;br /&gt;
I confess, at being obliged to pay 12 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
despite myself.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;May the joyous maximum console me long!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
sighs M. Deval in conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;
The Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Auteurs et Compositeurs&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatiques will undoubtedly re-echo the wish.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
AN OLD JOURNALIST.&lt;br /&gt;
By the death of M. Pierre V&eacute;ron, the French&lt;br /&gt;
Press loses a journalist of nearly fifty years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
standing. * His name may be cited among the&lt;br /&gt;
rare examples of journalists who have made a&lt;br /&gt;
fortune solely by journalism. He edited the&lt;br /&gt;
Charivari for more than thirty years, and was an&lt;br /&gt;
assiduous contributor to Le Monde Illustr&eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
None knew better than he how to depict the&lt;br /&gt;
varying phases of the boulevards. He also wrote&lt;br /&gt;
a number of airy, piquant volumes dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
the picturesque physiognomies, fashions, and&lt;br /&gt;
frolics of Paris boulvardier. Among these&lt;br /&gt;
works may be mentioned &ldquo; Paris s&amp;#039;amuse,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les&lt;br /&gt;
Pantins du Boulevard,&rdquo; &ldquo;Les Grimaces Parisi.&lt;br /&gt;
ennes,&rdquo; &ldquo;Les Propos d&amp;#039;un Boulevardier,&rdquo; &ldquo; Les&lt;br /&gt;
Marionnettes,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
Pierre V&eacute;ron had the misfortune to outlive the&lt;br /&gt;
larger number of his contemporaries. Of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;sacred phalanx&rdquo; which formerly frequented&lt;br /&gt;
Tortini, only Aur&eacute;lien Scholl, Philibert Aude-&lt;br /&gt;
brand, and &amp;#039;Henri Rochefort are still, I believe.&lt;br /&gt;
in existence. Everything had changed since the&lt;br /&gt;
far-off days when the handsome young journalist&lt;br /&gt;
was one of the ornaments of the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s&amp;#039; fouer.&lt;br /&gt;
He alone had not changed, save in appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus a slow misunderstanding rose between the&lt;br /&gt;
old man, still standing erect, and the rising&lt;br /&gt;
generation. And since he no longer understood&lt;br /&gt;
--or was understood-he became a prey to&lt;br /&gt;
pessimism and bitterness of spirit.&lt;br /&gt;
His hospitality continued unabated to the end.&lt;br /&gt;
His conversation was occasionally biting, yet he&lt;br /&gt;
had few enemies; and more than one writer of&lt;br /&gt;
to-day will remember his name with gratitude.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;He never wished to be anything outside his&lt;br /&gt;
profession, and he never used his influence except&lt;br /&gt;
for good,&rdquo; wrote a colleague on the morrow of&lt;br /&gt;
Pierre V&eacute;ron&amp;#039;s death. A truer or more concise&lt;br /&gt;
epitome of the man would be hard to find.&lt;br /&gt;
A Famous ENCOUNTER.&lt;br /&gt;
A recent Press dispute which ended in the&lt;br /&gt;
clashing of cold steel recalls to mind the famous&lt;br /&gt;
encounter of the late Francisque Sarcey and&lt;br /&gt;
Aur&eacute;lien Scholl re an extremely offensive critique&lt;br /&gt;
published by the latter in the Figaro. Its&lt;br /&gt;
object was to force the pacific Uncle into fighting&lt;br /&gt;
his adversary; since Villemessant, founder of&lt;br /&gt;
the Figaro, had wagered Scholl twenty pounds&lt;br /&gt;
that Sarcey could not be induced to fight. The&lt;br /&gt;
* Since our correspondent wrote his letter, the death of&lt;br /&gt;
another eminent French journalist bas been announced.&lt;br /&gt;
This is M. Valfrey, the foreign leader-writer (&ldquo; Whist &amp;quot;) of&lt;br /&gt;
the Figaro. The Westminster Gazette rightly says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;M. Valfrey&amp;#039;s articles had become almost a European&lt;br /&gt;
institution, and with his death a distinct political force&lt;br /&gt;
disappears.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ruse succeeded, and the good Uncle sent his and publishers might shoot at one another, under-&lt;br /&gt;
seconds to M. Scholl, demanding immediate neath was human sympathy and the desire to help&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;
one another in time of trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I hope you will not hurt me badly,&amp;quot; said This assurance is very gratifying. Now there&lt;br /&gt;
Sarcey to his antagonist, when the pair met on the happens to be at the present moment a case of&lt;br /&gt;
ground.&lt;br /&gt;
real and deep trouble. It is a document entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Rest easy-I will be on my guard,&rdquo; replied &ldquo; Form of Agreement issued by the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Scholl, good-humouredly.&lt;br /&gt;
Association.&rdquo; Mr. John Murray himself was a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And if I am short of breath you will give member of the Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
me time to rest ? &rdquo; pursued the corpulent, peace This document makes the following claims,&lt;br /&gt;
loving Sarcey.&lt;br /&gt;
among others, upon authors:&lt;br /&gt;
Scholl agreed to this also. But no sooner 1. All the rights of a book, including those of&lt;br /&gt;
were the combatants in position than the appear. translation and even dramatic rights!&lt;br /&gt;
ance of three gendarmes on horseback forced 2. The reckoning of royalties at thirteen as&lt;br /&gt;
them to retire to their carriages, and retreat at twelve, whether the book is so sold or not.&lt;br /&gt;
full gallop.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The interest on money due to the author for&lt;br /&gt;
Arrived at Maubeuge: &ldquo;We cannot return a period not defined. This means, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
to Paris without having fought,&rdquo; said Scholl, inflicting a fine upon him, large or small, accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ominously. &ldquo;The injury was bloody ; its d&eacute;noue ing to the sum due. Thus, if &pound;500 is due, and&lt;br /&gt;
ment must be so also.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the money is kept back for six months, the&lt;br /&gt;
A hasty consultation, and Baden-Baden is author at 4 per cent. is mulcted of &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
decided on. Twelve hours&amp;#039; railway travelling, 4. The right to charge a percentage for his&lt;br /&gt;
and the party arrive at the place chosen, a spot office expenses&mdash;a right which is not conceded to&lt;br /&gt;
not far from the hunting lodge of the King of booksellers or to authors. Nor is it claimed by&lt;br /&gt;
Prussia. It is Scholl who tells the story.&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors, barristers, and professional men, nor by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sarcey put on an enormous pair of spectacles, any trade.&lt;br /&gt;
I adjusted my eye-glass.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The right in commission books to charge&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;* Allez, messieurs !&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
a percentage on every item of the cost, and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Clic! clac ! several thrusts&mdash;and I tear the to take for hinıself discount on all payments.&lt;br /&gt;
sleeve of my adversary&amp;#039;s shirt. A slight pin. In other words, the document claims the&lt;br /&gt;
prick, a mere leech-bite. But I was aided by right of the publisher&mdash;the &amp;quot;equitable&amp;quot; right,&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Th&eacute;venet, a personage well known among so called&mdash;to get the book printed at as high&lt;br /&gt;
duellists. This excellent man had brought, in a cost as he can, in order to increase his own&lt;br /&gt;
his surgical case, a small phial of blood, a por profit.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of which served to colour the wound more 6. There is no clause recognising the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
vividly. The remainder was poured on Sarcey&amp;#039;s legal right to an audit. Perhaps none is&lt;br /&gt;
shirt.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
wanted. Nor is there any safeguard against&lt;br /&gt;
Thus ended this famous encounter; and none dishonesty.&lt;br /&gt;
laughed more heartily over its recital than the 7. There is complete silence as to charging for&lt;br /&gt;
good Uncle himself, the third volume of whose advertisements in a publisher&amp;#039;s own papers or&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Quarante Ans de Th&eacute;&acirc;tre &rdquo; will appear in a few magazines.&lt;br /&gt;
days.&lt;br /&gt;
Since so much has been said and written on&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. this subject, the silence must be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
intentional. That is to say, there is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
to prevent the publisher from sweeping the&lt;br /&gt;
whole returns of the book into his own pocket&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
by charging for advertisements in his own&lt;br /&gt;
papers, and by exchanges. There is no possible&lt;br /&gt;
T the dinner given to Mr. John Murray protection for the author if he chooses to do&lt;br /&gt;
by the Authors&amp;#039; Club, which is not the so. It is no answer to say that he would not&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Society as some of the papers do so. By this suppression, he seems to purpose&lt;br /&gt;
seem to think, pleasant things were said both by charging what he pleases under this head. If the&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman of the guest, and by the guest silence was unintentional perhaps Mr. Murray will&lt;br /&gt;
himself. Among others the guest is reported to make haste to explain it.&lt;br /&gt;
have said that he had discovered among the These claims, with others of less impor-&lt;br /&gt;
papers of his house the causes of all the troubles tance, form the present trouble. After Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
that were apt to spring up between authors and Murray&amp;#039;s public assurance that authors and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
publishers. He also said that though authors lishers&ldquo; deal with one another as brethren with&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
123&lt;br /&gt;
friendly feelings, and without difficulty, or&lt;br /&gt;
hostility, or friction,&amp;quot; we may look forward with&lt;br /&gt;
perfect confidence to Mr. Murray&amp;#039;s immediate&lt;br /&gt;
withdrawal, so far as he is concerned, from this&lt;br /&gt;
document.&lt;br /&gt;
per cent., which gives him &pound;17 58. more. So that,&lt;br /&gt;
in this simple and guileless way, he &ldquo;bags,&rdquo; say,&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;77 58., all at the author&amp;#039;s expense and out of&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s pocket before the sales begin. What,&lt;br /&gt;
to repeat, is that elementary law quoted above&lt;br /&gt;
from the daily paper ?&lt;br /&gt;
A man who undertakes work, whether pablic or private,&lt;br /&gt;
as a trustee for others, ought not to place himself in such a&lt;br /&gt;
position that his personal gain must conflict with his duty&lt;br /&gt;
to those who have trusted him.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is an axiom cut out of a daily paper :-&lt;br /&gt;
A man who undertakes work, whether public or private,&lt;br /&gt;
as a trustee for others, ought not to place himself in such a&lt;br /&gt;
position that his personal gain must conflict with his duty&lt;br /&gt;
to those who have trusted him.&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose that everybody will agree with this&lt;br /&gt;
elementary law : everybody, that is, except the&lt;br /&gt;
committee of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association. They&lt;br /&gt;
say, practically, &ldquo; we are not bound by the ordi-&lt;br /&gt;
nary laws which govern ordinary folk in fiduciary&lt;br /&gt;
relations. We claim to make our personal gain&lt;br /&gt;
dependent on the amount we can charge for cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production. We demand a percentage on that&lt;br /&gt;
that&lt;br /&gt;
charge: in other words, the higher the charge the&lt;br /&gt;
worse it will be for the author but the better&lt;br /&gt;
for us.&amp;quot; We have only to read the Forms of&lt;br /&gt;
Agreement to understand this remarkable atti.&lt;br /&gt;
tude.&lt;br /&gt;
A case in point has been shown me by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Thring. The agreement claimed 15 per cent. on&lt;br /&gt;
the printing, paper, and binding, 15 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
on the advertisements, and 15 per cent. on the&lt;br /&gt;
sales.&lt;br /&gt;
The interests of the author, for whom the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is acting as a fiduciary relation, are thus&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly at variance with those of the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
himself. The larger he can make the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, the better it will be for him and the&lt;br /&gt;
worse for the author. Everybody knows the wide&lt;br /&gt;
differences in printers&amp;#039; estimates.&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher has only to take the highest.&lt;br /&gt;
This will probably be 50 per cent higher than the&lt;br /&gt;
lowest. To the publisher this means 22} per&lt;br /&gt;
cent. instead of 15 per cent. Then there is an ugly&lt;br /&gt;
claim in the &ldquo;Forms&rdquo; about discount, in which&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s interest and the publisher&amp;#039;s are again&lt;br /&gt;
at variance. In the agreement before me the&lt;br /&gt;
edition was so limited that the author, on the&lt;br /&gt;
most favourable conditions, was bound to lose&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;20, while the publisher for his part actually&lt;br /&gt;
made &pound;60 without counting the discount. .&lt;br /&gt;
Take a simple case. Suppose the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction should not exceed &pound;100. The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
allowing a charge of &pound;150, pockets &pound;22 108.&lt;br /&gt;
With the advertisements, which in such a limited&lt;br /&gt;
edition should not be more than &pound;15 or so, he&lt;br /&gt;
may first advertise more than is necessary in the&lt;br /&gt;
daily and weekly journals-say, &pound;50-and may&lt;br /&gt;
then charge another &pound;30 for advertisements in&lt;br /&gt;
his own organs and by exchange. He therefore&lt;br /&gt;
makes &pound;37 108. Next, he gets discount at 7&lt;br /&gt;
The Manchester Guardian returns to the ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the sixpenny book. The writer says that&lt;br /&gt;
one of my reasons is &ldquo;rather distressing.&amp;quot; He&lt;br /&gt;
quotes my words.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The low price encourages a low view of literature.&lt;br /&gt;
Who will value a thing that costs sixpence, amuses for&lt;br /&gt;
an hour, and then is thrown away? How much does&lt;br /&gt;
one valae a sixpenny toy ?&amp;quot; The Society of Authors, led&lt;br /&gt;
by Sir Walter Besant, has done such excellent work for&lt;br /&gt;
the good of all writers that one regrets that it will make&lt;br /&gt;
sport for the Philistines by putting forth remarks of this&lt;br /&gt;
kind, which lend great colour to the hostile assertion that&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society see nothing in literature bat the&lt;br /&gt;
material of commerce, and value an author parely by his&lt;br /&gt;
price per thoasand words.&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose that I expressed my meaning badly,&lt;br /&gt;
yet I fail to see in it the least indication of con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidering literature as nothing but material of&lt;br /&gt;
commerce. What I meant was simply what I&lt;br /&gt;
said : that and nothing more. We want litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture to be valued, books to be cherished, authors&lt;br /&gt;
to be considered as separate and distinct, criti.&lt;br /&gt;
cism to be encouraged, standards and canons of&lt;br /&gt;
art to be created in the minds of readers. What&lt;br /&gt;
was the experience of America at the time when&lt;br /&gt;
all English books of any interest were brought&lt;br /&gt;
out at sixpence in wretched print and on wretched&lt;br /&gt;
paper ? They were bought for a railway journey:&lt;br /&gt;
they were read in the train : when they were&lt;br /&gt;
finished they were thrown out of window or left&lt;br /&gt;
on the seat. That is not the way to make litera.&lt;br /&gt;
ture respected. If they had had to pay a dollar&lt;br /&gt;
and a half for that book they would have taken it&lt;br /&gt;
home, put it upon their shelves, and read it again&lt;br /&gt;
and again. I should like to understand what&lt;br /&gt;
sport the Philistines can make out of this state.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, or how it can possibly touch on the&lt;br /&gt;
price of an author per thousand words. And,&lt;br /&gt;
further, I would far rather hear that a book&lt;br /&gt;
of mine had circulated a few hundreds only at&lt;br /&gt;
a price which would ensure the respect always&lt;br /&gt;
paid to things that have cost money, than many&lt;br /&gt;
thousands at a price which would allow it to be&lt;br /&gt;
thrown away as not worth preserving. What has&lt;br /&gt;
the Philistine to say to that?&lt;br /&gt;
I have on several occasions asked the meaning&lt;br /&gt;
of the reproach hurled at the unfortunate author&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 124 (#172) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I 24&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
about the thousand words. A MS. intended for&lt;br /&gt;
a book, a magazine, or a daily paper must pay&lt;br /&gt;
some regard to length. Its length may be&lt;br /&gt;
estimated by the sheet of sixteen pages, or by&lt;br /&gt;
the page, or by the column; but then it can only&lt;br /&gt;
be expressed by the number of words. Why not&lt;br /&gt;
the number of words? If, again, MSS. are to be&lt;br /&gt;
paid for according to length, that length must&lt;br /&gt;
depend on the number of words. As for the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s price, the Society has nothing whatever&lt;br /&gt;
to do with it, except, in general terms, to expose&lt;br /&gt;
sweating, which is a form of robbery ; to insist&lt;br /&gt;
on the safeguard of an agreement drawn up with&lt;br /&gt;
the advice of experts : and to let the other side&lt;br /&gt;
know that the agreement has got to be kept. To&lt;br /&gt;
suppose that the Society is interested in increas&lt;br /&gt;
ing the &ldquo; price of an author per thousand words&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is to be wholly ignorant of its principles and its&lt;br /&gt;
methods.&lt;br /&gt;
reading of the working classes, which should do&lt;br /&gt;
something to introduce a little common sense into&lt;br /&gt;
the ignorant talk that we constantly hear. The&lt;br /&gt;
working class we are told reads nothing but&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;slush &rdquo; &mdash; well &mdash; their favourite authors are&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens, Scott, and Marryat. They read nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but novels&mdash;ask the librarian to name offhand&lt;br /&gt;
a few of the books they take out. That popular&lt;br /&gt;
novelist, on whom all the critics delight&lt;br /&gt;
to jump, sells by the hundred thousand. This,&lt;br /&gt;
it is said, shows what the working class read.&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, but the working classes do not buy books&lt;br /&gt;
at all, not even by this popular novelist. Now,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Phillips claims for the reading of fiction&lt;br /&gt;
that it is not a disease but &ldquo;a symptom of&lt;br /&gt;
interest in things that are brighter and more&lt;br /&gt;
alluring than that everyday dull greyness which&lt;br /&gt;
surrounds the lives of so many people in this land&lt;br /&gt;
of ours. And again :&lt;br /&gt;
In view of their squalid daily environment the revelations&lt;br /&gt;
of a different world as depicted by the novelist, the fair&lt;br /&gt;
scenes of mountain, valley, and river, uncontaminated by&lt;br /&gt;
the ugly factories and workshops of industrial progress, the&lt;br /&gt;
vivid descriptions of works of art and beauty, the account&lt;br /&gt;
of rich dresses and splendid mansions, the clash of swords&lt;br /&gt;
and noise of battle, or the armoured panoply of chivalric&lt;br /&gt;
times, have an amount of attraction that cannot be very&lt;br /&gt;
well understood by those whose lives have been cast in&lt;br /&gt;
more favourable circumstances. I cannot see or feel that&lt;br /&gt;
this is in any way to be deplored. Before you can raise&lt;br /&gt;
the class level of intelligence you must first show the indi-&lt;br /&gt;
vidual members something better, and the way to attain.&lt;br /&gt;
thereto, so that they may make their endeavour accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
If reading is to be cultivated at all it must be from the&lt;br /&gt;
point of interest, and I maintain that the novelist, and he&lt;br /&gt;
alone ap to the present, has bad any portion in providing&lt;br /&gt;
the material wherewith to establish the love of reading in&lt;br /&gt;
the masses on a firm and fruitful basis.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is an American view of American poetry&lt;br /&gt;
(the Dial, Chicago) :-&lt;br /&gt;
Good and sound and of excellent workmanship is the&lt;br /&gt;
great mass of recent American literature; but as the&lt;br /&gt;
idealist gazes on it be seems to see the vision of a great&lt;br /&gt;
strand whereon some tempest has driven a fleet of deeply.&lt;br /&gt;
laden ships. Everything for human needs is strewn about&lt;br /&gt;
---food and raiment, and toole, and precious objects. And&lt;br /&gt;
many of the ships are seaworthy; but no flood comes and&lt;br /&gt;
no wind rises to waft them off the sand. The agitating&lt;br /&gt;
power of poetry, the tempestuous stir of great ideas, are&lt;br /&gt;
wanting to make the fleet march again in triumph over the&lt;br /&gt;
deep.&lt;br /&gt;
And here is an appreciation, from the same&lt;br /&gt;
paper, of the late Charles Dudley Warner, whose&lt;br /&gt;
death is deplored on this side of the Atlantic as&lt;br /&gt;
much as on his own side :-&lt;br /&gt;
: Charming as are these many volumes of essays and&lt;br /&gt;
impressions de voyage, we are inclined to believe that Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Warner made his most enduring contribution to literature&lt;br /&gt;
when he wrote, during the last ten years of his life, the&lt;br /&gt;
series of tbree novels which provide so suggestive a por-&lt;br /&gt;
trayal of what American life has become in its older centres&lt;br /&gt;
of civilisation, and in these latter days of frenzied com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercialism and pitiful social ideals. &amp;quot;A Little Journey in&lt;br /&gt;
the World,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Golden House,&rdquo; and &ldquo;That Fortune&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
make up a sort of novel-trilogy which will always have&lt;br /&gt;
deep interest as a set of social documents, and which comes&lt;br /&gt;
near to the high-water mark of American fiction. There is&lt;br /&gt;
in these books a riper thought and a deeper humanity than&lt;br /&gt;
were wont to characterise the author&amp;#039;s earlier writings; if&lt;br /&gt;
they are lacking in the quality that goes to the making of&lt;br /&gt;
the best class of novels, it is because they are essentially&lt;br /&gt;
the product of the critical rather than of the creative&lt;br /&gt;
intellect. But their mellow optimism, and their persistent&lt;br /&gt;
exaltation of ideals of conduct that have gone too much out&lt;br /&gt;
of fashion of late years, give these three novels a place all&lt;br /&gt;
but the highest in our fiction, and set a wortby crown upon&lt;br /&gt;
the activities of a long and helpful life.&lt;br /&gt;
One might also point out that in the evening&lt;br /&gt;
when the working man goes to the free library, he&lt;br /&gt;
has had a hard day&amp;#039;s work and is tired. Very&lt;br /&gt;
few of his class are so strong as to desire&lt;br /&gt;
study over any intellectual pursuit after a hard&lt;br /&gt;
day&amp;#039;s work. Why should we expect of him what&lt;br /&gt;
we never look for in our own young men ? The&lt;br /&gt;
lad who has sat at a desk, or attended classes, or&lt;br /&gt;
worked at his profession from nine o&amp;#039;clock till six&lt;br /&gt;
does not devote his evening as a rule to the&lt;br /&gt;
pursuit of science or to study of any kind. We&lt;br /&gt;
do not expect or look for such a thing. Why.&lt;br /&gt;
then, cast it in the teeth of the craftsman that,&lt;br /&gt;
when he knocks off the work that is his livelihood,&lt;br /&gt;
he does not take up another and a harder kind of&lt;br /&gt;
work? All that we can do is to exhort librarians&lt;br /&gt;
to admit only the best current fiction, and to exert&lt;br /&gt;
a steady pressure in the choice of books, and to&lt;br /&gt;
encourage, in addition to fiction, the reading of&lt;br /&gt;
biographies and essays and history. In course&lt;br /&gt;
of time there may arise a few who will even read&lt;br /&gt;
Literature has published a letter from a Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Cliffe Phillips, of Cardiff, on the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 125 (#173) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
125&lt;br /&gt;
philosophy; but whatever happens, fiction will&lt;br /&gt;
always be the staple--the most delightful form of&lt;br /&gt;
reading, the most favourite form of recreation.&lt;br /&gt;
We fain would let thy memory dwell&lt;br /&gt;
Where rush the tideways of the sea,&lt;br /&gt;
Where storms will moan or calms will tell&lt;br /&gt;
To all the world our love for thee&lt;br /&gt;
Whom all men loved in this old land,&lt;br /&gt;
And all men loved across the sea-&lt;br /&gt;
We well may clasp our brethren&amp;#039;s hand,&lt;br /&gt;
And light the beacon light for thee!&lt;br /&gt;
The above lines, by Lord Archibald Campbell,&lt;br /&gt;
will be inscribed on the beacon tower which is&lt;br /&gt;
now being erected at Duart Point, Mull, in&lt;br /&gt;
memory of the late Mr. William Black.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
came out in a handsome volume, very well illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated, and had all the external appearance of a&lt;br /&gt;
classic. Alas! no one wanted to read any longer&lt;br /&gt;
about Titus and his friend &rsquo;Arry. One hears con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinually of similar revivals. Mostly they depend&lt;br /&gt;
upon illustrations : in some cases they become&lt;br /&gt;
school prizes and gift books. As a rule they are&lt;br /&gt;
not successful.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, of very popular authors-poets and&lt;br /&gt;
novelists especially&mdash;the world makes a selection&lt;br /&gt;
and refuses to look at any more. &ldquo; The Cloister&lt;br /&gt;
and the Hearth&rdquo; represents Charles Reade;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Woman in White&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Moonstone&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
represent Wilkie Collins ; his shorter poems repre-&lt;br /&gt;
sent Browning ; his earlier poems, Tennyson. As&lt;br /&gt;
regards, however, the revival of writers who were&lt;br /&gt;
in some vogue fifty years ago, the question is&lt;br /&gt;
whether with them the human interest is so great&lt;br /&gt;
as to overcome the bygone fashion of setting,&lt;br /&gt;
language, ideas, and dress. It will be interesting&lt;br /&gt;
to find out whether this can be said of Smedley&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
REVIVALS AND REPRINTS.&lt;br /&gt;
USE OF THE SOCIETY&amp;#039;S NAME.&lt;br /&gt;
TT may interest some of the readers of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author to have once more put before them&lt;br /&gt;
- a point which has been raised not only in&lt;br /&gt;
these columns, but also in some of the reports of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, namely, that it is not an uncominon&lt;br /&gt;
thing for those who are not members to use the&lt;br /&gt;
Suciety&amp;#039;s name and the Society&amp;#039;s prestige for&lt;br /&gt;
bringing recalcitrant editors and publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
book.&lt;br /&gt;
TT is announced that new editions are to be&lt;br /&gt;
| published of the late Mr. Smedley&amp;#039;s three&lt;br /&gt;
novels&mdash;were there only three ? -&ldquo; Frank&lt;br /&gt;
Fairlegh&rdquo;; &ldquo;Lewis Arundel&rdquo;; and &ldquo;Harry&lt;br /&gt;
Coverdale&amp;#039;s Courtship.&rdquo; How long is it since&lt;br /&gt;
those novels appeared ? Between forty and fifty&lt;br /&gt;
years, I believe. They were not popular in the&lt;br /&gt;
sense that Marryat and Dickens were popular,&lt;br /&gt;
but they enjoyed a very considerable amount of&lt;br /&gt;
popularity. Partly this was due to the cheerful.&lt;br /&gt;
ness of their atmosphere: partly to the well-worn,&lt;br /&gt;
but at the time still acceptable nature of the inci.&lt;br /&gt;
dents&mdash;runaway ponies : long-lost heirs : rescue&lt;br /&gt;
of an old gentleman (who proves grateful) from&lt;br /&gt;
the footpad : and so forth. Perhaps there is also&lt;br /&gt;
a bull in a field : or a rock and a rising&lt;br /&gt;
tide: or a sprained ankle: if I remember&lt;br /&gt;
right there is a villain in every one. I am&lt;br /&gt;
curious to watch this revival. In all popular&lt;br /&gt;
fiction there must be something that belongs to&lt;br /&gt;
the time: something that, after fifty years, no&lt;br /&gt;
longer belongs to the time. It is wonderful to&lt;br /&gt;
note in Dickens how much the strong human&lt;br /&gt;
element which belongs to all time overcomes the&lt;br /&gt;
situations and the characters which could not&lt;br /&gt;
exist at a later time. Yet even in Dickens&lt;br /&gt;
the younger generation finds a good deal&lt;br /&gt;
that has passed away and is no longer inter-&lt;br /&gt;
esting. In other writers this is very remark-&lt;br /&gt;
able. The &ldquo;Scenes from Clerical Life,&amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
instance, have an antiquated air already :&lt;br /&gt;
and, for my own part, I dread to look at &ldquo;Jane&lt;br /&gt;
Eyre &rdquo; for fear of finding already a note of the&lt;br /&gt;
things passed away. Some years ago the late&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Bentley attempted to revive Albert&lt;br /&gt;
Smith&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Adventures of Titus Ledbury.&rdquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
The following case has recently occurred :-A&lt;br /&gt;
certain gentleman, who shall be nameless, has&lt;br /&gt;
confessed that on two occasions he wrote to an&lt;br /&gt;
editor who had not returned his MSS., and stated&lt;br /&gt;
that he should apprise the Editor of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
if he did not get an answer to his repeated com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications.&lt;br /&gt;
In both cases this had the effect of bringing&lt;br /&gt;
back the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
The gentleman is not a member of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
and, on the Secretary writing to remonstrate with&lt;br /&gt;
him on the unwarrantable use he had made of the&lt;br /&gt;
name of the Society and that of the Editor of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author, he replies as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
I simply told the editor I had written to The Author&lt;br /&gt;
anent his conduct, with the result of frightening him.&lt;br /&gt;
He continues with the amazing statement :&lt;br /&gt;
Whe&lt;br /&gt;
for&lt;br /&gt;
writers like myself, then I may aspire to join it.&lt;br /&gt;
Why, he has just confessed that the mere&lt;br /&gt;
unwarranted use of the Society&amp;#039;s name has been&lt;br /&gt;
of use to him!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 126 (#174) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
126&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
In answer to this letter, the Secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society wrote as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,-I beg to thank you for your letter, and would&lt;br /&gt;
like to draw your attention to the following points :-&lt;br /&gt;
Firstly, that yoаr letter to Sir Walter Besant would lead&lt;br /&gt;
one to suppose you bad mentioned his name.&lt;br /&gt;
Secondly, that the Society of Autbors, through its organ&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, has on two occasions already benefited you,&lt;br /&gt;
according to your own statement.&lt;br /&gt;
Thirdly, that there is the larger point of view that the work&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society does, not only by looking after copyright law,&lt;br /&gt;
but in keeping publisbers to their agreements and editors to&lt;br /&gt;
their contracts, benefit indirectly all authors.&lt;br /&gt;
In the case quoted above the demand for the&lt;br /&gt;
return of the MSS. was no doubt reasonable and&lt;br /&gt;
justifiable. That has nothing to do with the&lt;br /&gt;
question. It is absolutely monstrous that an&lt;br /&gt;
individual who is not a member of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
should put forward the Society&amp;#039;s name in making&lt;br /&gt;
a demand whether it was either reasonable or&lt;br /&gt;
the contrary. This danger to the Society, as its&lt;br /&gt;
power increases, is a very real one, if only because&lt;br /&gt;
it would tend to spread, among those whose action&lt;br /&gt;
the Society opposes, a belief that the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors affords its countenance&lt;br /&gt;
to the support of cases and actions which cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be justified by any proper thinking person.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
progress of time; hut while in the future they&lt;br /&gt;
might not be able to say that&ldquo; the pen is mightier&lt;br /&gt;
than the sword,&rdquo; they would go on saying that&lt;br /&gt;
the printing press was mightier than the sword.&lt;br /&gt;
This invention of multiplying words by a&lt;br /&gt;
mechanical process was probably the most impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tant, the most far-reaching, and the most revolu-&lt;br /&gt;
tionary invention which the world had ever&lt;br /&gt;
known. And now printing was going on to fresh&lt;br /&gt;
triumphs. Having conquered the art of repro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing words, and so multiplying thoughts, it&lt;br /&gt;
was approaching and essaying the art of repro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing pictures. Thus, it not only multiplied&lt;br /&gt;
thought, but beauty too, and the process of print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing pictures opened a new and magnificent future&lt;br /&gt;
to the art of printing. .&lt;br /&gt;
The speaker having suggested in his remarks&lt;br /&gt;
on Samuel Richardson that they could not do&lt;br /&gt;
better than instal a bust to that writer in the St.&lt;br /&gt;
Bride Foundation Institute, Mr. PASSMORE&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARDS subsequently offered to present a&lt;br /&gt;
marble bust as a memorial to the novelist and&lt;br /&gt;
an ornament to the building.&lt;br /&gt;
-oo&lt;br /&gt;
MR. BIRRELL ON EDUCATION.&lt;br /&gt;
The prizes gained by students at the Borough-&lt;br /&gt;
road Polytechnic, Southwark, were presented on&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 21 by Mr. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, Q.C., who&lt;br /&gt;
remarked that that institute, though only founded&lt;br /&gt;
in 1892, had a membership of 3602&mdash;more than&lt;br /&gt;
the number of students at one time at any of&lt;br /&gt;
our Universities; and that its whole work was an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to the grumblers who were very full of&lt;br /&gt;
what was being done in Germany or America, but&lt;br /&gt;
who would not take the trouble to learn of what&lt;br /&gt;
was going on at their very doors. In the matter&lt;br /&gt;
of education, however, the British were a most&lt;br /&gt;
close-fisted nation. As a lawyer he had often&lt;br /&gt;
been privately consulted by wealthy men with&lt;br /&gt;
money to dispose of, and he had noticed how&lt;br /&gt;
averse they always were to anything like educa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. In America, millionaires, who made their&lt;br /&gt;
money out of, say, boots and shoes and pork,&lt;br /&gt;
often felt it their duty to found a university.&lt;br /&gt;
But he did not despair of English millionaires,&lt;br /&gt;
poor and distressed as they often were, and&lt;br /&gt;
his advice to them was that they would be doing&lt;br /&gt;
a minimum of harm if they would but visit&lt;br /&gt;
these institutions in their lifetime, and at the&lt;br /&gt;
end of it assign to them a fraction of their large&lt;br /&gt;
estates.&lt;br /&gt;
THI&lt;br /&gt;
m&lt;br /&gt;
CERTAIN LITERARY SPEECHES.&lt;br /&gt;
MR. A. H. HAWKINS IN FLEET-STREET.&lt;br /&gt;
D HE St. Bride Foundation Institute, which is&lt;br /&gt;
| primarily a technical printers&amp;#039; institute,&lt;br /&gt;
- situated in a narrow lane behind Fleet-&lt;br /&gt;
street, celebrated its sixth anniversary on the&lt;br /&gt;
evening of Nov. 20, when Mr. ANTHONY HOPE&lt;br /&gt;
HAWKINS &amp;quot;inaugurated&rdquo; the Talbot Baines Reed&lt;br /&gt;
collection (about 2000 volumes) in the Pass-&lt;br /&gt;
ds Library. That library, said Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, constituted one more of a long roll of&lt;br /&gt;
munificent and wise donations which had been&lt;br /&gt;
given by Mr. Passmore Edwards. The volumes&lt;br /&gt;
which had been gathered together in the Insti-&lt;br /&gt;
tute were examples of works from the best presses&lt;br /&gt;
of Europe, from the beginning of the art down to&lt;br /&gt;
and including specimens of the Kelmscott Press,&lt;br /&gt;
to which the late William Morris bad contributed&lt;br /&gt;
so much. Mr. Morris was a great example of the&lt;br /&gt;
association between literature and printing : a&lt;br /&gt;
great author and a great printer. There was&lt;br /&gt;
another connected with the history of the locality,&lt;br /&gt;
Samuel Richardson, often called the father of&lt;br /&gt;
the English novel ; he was not only a novelist,&lt;br /&gt;
but he had the wisdom to ally that precarious&lt;br /&gt;
occupation with a good printing business, which&lt;br /&gt;
he carried on first in Fleet-street, and after-&lt;br /&gt;
wards in Salisbury Court. There were many&lt;br /&gt;
arts which would become obsolete with the&lt;br /&gt;
THE POET LAUREATE ON THE PRACTICAL&lt;br /&gt;
TEMPERAMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Chaucer Memorial window in St. Saviour&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Church, Southwark, was unveiled on Oct. 25 by&lt;br /&gt;
the Poet Laureate, Mr. ALFRED AUSTIN, who, in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
127&lt;br /&gt;
an address, referred to Chaucer as a type of what some fellow-creature not so well endowed with&lt;br /&gt;
they all felt to be the English temperament and stability and sense ? In that singular situation I&lt;br /&gt;
character. In his love of Nature he anticipated fancy the world would put up its shutters, many&lt;br /&gt;
by centuries the life of Wordsworth. This note, pulpits would be vacant, and the business of con-&lt;br /&gt;
the love of Nature, was also the note of Burns tinuing the human race would suffer a disastrous&lt;br /&gt;
and Scott. But Chaucer was not wholly or exclu- check. I am inclined to think that these mis-&lt;br /&gt;
sively insular. From Italy he brought back the fortunes will be averted, and that even the theatres&lt;br /&gt;
self-same kind of inspiration which influenced will not close their doors.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Milton, affected Shakespeare, and laid such hold&lt;br /&gt;
on Byron. Then Chaucer had the practical&lt;br /&gt;
temperament, the business-like capacity. In his&lt;br /&gt;
(Mr. Austin&amp;#039;s) opinion no man could be a great&lt;br /&gt;
OF EDITORS.&lt;br /&gt;
poet who might not equally have been a successful&lt;br /&gt;
man of affairs, a model administrator, a sagacious&lt;br /&gt;
statesman, a victorious general, or a circumspect COW may these beings be most successfully&lt;br /&gt;
and impressive archbishop. Whether it was&lt;br /&gt;
and safely approached ? This is a&lt;br /&gt;
because of its limited possession of this practical&lt;br /&gt;
question that the journalistic world asks&lt;br /&gt;
temperament that the Celtic race, which had itself very often, and to which there has never&lt;br /&gt;
produced so many beautiful and exquisite poets, been a satisfactory reply yet. Journalists talk&lt;br /&gt;
had not yet produced a really great poet, he would casually of &ldquo;my editor&rdquo; as if the term signified&lt;br /&gt;
not presume to determine, but he thought it some tame creature who is exclusively the speaker&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
was more or less certain that because of the property, and is kept in the back garden.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
fundamentally practical, weighty, massive element It would be an immense boon to outsiders if&lt;br /&gt;
in the English character, England had given the weeklies would try and induce their editors to&lt;br /&gt;
birth to the greatest poets, and to the greatest set apart a day once a fortnight in which out-&lt;br /&gt;
number of them.&lt;br /&gt;
siders, beginners, and the rank and file of&lt;br /&gt;
journalism could obtain access to the August&lt;br /&gt;
AN ESTIMATE OF MACAULAY.&lt;br /&gt;
Presence. Five minutes would be sufficient,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Richard Webb, M.P., delivered a lecture on you can say a lot in five minutes if you know&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Macaulay&amp;quot; at the London Institution on Nov. what you want to say, and I venture to think that&lt;br /&gt;
19, and referred to the charge of partisanship. editors, male and female, would discover many&lt;br /&gt;
Every writer, said the lecturer, was entitled to new ideas among these people, ideas which under&lt;br /&gt;
his own inferences: what Burke said was true, the present system must inevitably perish and&lt;br /&gt;
that historians owed to the public not only their disappear.&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge, but their judgment. It was no longer This personally conducted MS. need not be&lt;br /&gt;
contended that Macaulay was shallow or super- read then and there, but each author would be&lt;br /&gt;
ficial. In the power of telling a story dramati. able to say what induced him or her to think the&lt;br /&gt;
cally no writer of fiction had excelled Macaulay, subject treated of was interesting. Then again,&lt;br /&gt;
and beyond this power he had another gift more time, stamps, and language would be economised&lt;br /&gt;
distinctively his own, that of managing a complex if only editors would be a little more human in&lt;br /&gt;
narrative, in which a number of streams were their treatment of MSS. Do not, oh, gentle editor,&lt;br /&gt;
tributary to the main current of events. His allow your digesters to keep MSS. until all value&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Essays&amp;quot; were the best of their kind in Europe, has evaporated from them. You would not keep&lt;br /&gt;
and no doubt would live ; but when they were tradesmen&amp;#039;s goods sent on approval for fourteen&lt;br /&gt;
used for purposes of education, students should days. MSS. are equally goods submitted for&lt;br /&gt;
be warned against the errors which many of them approval, and deteriorate by detention ; be kind,&lt;br /&gt;
contained. Readers will find a full summary of therefore, in your methods of despatch.&lt;br /&gt;
the lecture in the Daily News of Nov. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
Digestors know almost at a glance what is or&lt;br /&gt;
is not suitable. A well-trained one, in perfect&lt;br /&gt;
condition, should be able to assimilate from&lt;br /&gt;
Sir HENRY IRVING TO CRITICS OF THE STAGE. twenty-five to thirty-five MSS. between the hours&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; What would become of the world,&rdquo; said Sir of 9.30 to 6.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Irving to his hosts of the Glasgow Pen Do not ask it to work longer, for a digestor&lt;br /&gt;
and Pencil Club on Nov. 22, &amp;quot;if a man were to &ldquo;off colour&rdquo; is a most dangerous thing; it sees&lt;br /&gt;
undertake no business or pleasure until he had merit where there is none, and flaws in good&lt;br /&gt;
first assured himself that under no condition work.&lt;br /&gt;
could the same enterprise, perfectly wise and Women, as a rule, make better digestors than&lt;br /&gt;
prudent for himself, upset the moral balance of men. They are more patient, and take more&lt;br /&gt;
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i 28&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
trouble to find the really best, in their opinion; days; for a magazine it will, I am sorry to say,&lt;br /&gt;
but, as a rule, they are by no means the best be as many weeks. At the end of the considera-&lt;br /&gt;
judges of what is universally interesting. They iion one will be accepted, and orders given for the&lt;br /&gt;
are apt to be influenced by pleasant descriptions, other to be returned. So far good. Four days&lt;br /&gt;
and what may be described for want of a better is not a long time to wait, and even a newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
word as &amp;quot;atmosphere.&rdquo; In my opinion, a woman article has not lost much of its freshness. But&lt;br /&gt;
editor should have a man as digestor&mdash;the other does the rejected one return ? Generally not,&lt;br /&gt;
way about. In this manner they would counteract unless the discipline in the office is very strict.&lt;br /&gt;
each other.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor supposes that it has gone, and is much&lt;br /&gt;
I have had the editors of the great weeklies in astonished on receiving a letter from the author&lt;br /&gt;
my mind when writing this. My perscnal experi. asking its fate. Inquiries are made and the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
ence goes to show that when you have obtained is found, but, of course, valueless. Who is to&lt;br /&gt;
an interview with the particular editor you are blame? This leads me to think that the question&lt;br /&gt;
hunting, he is usually a quiet, pleasant of notice to contributors is largely a question of&lt;br /&gt;
mannered person, willing to listen to what you office discipline.&lt;br /&gt;
have to say, and quite ready to put your name There is a pleasing feeling rife among writers&lt;br /&gt;
down for future use. It does not mean anything, that all MSS. coming to the offices of magazines&lt;br /&gt;
though if you happen to be a new hand, you and newspapers are actually read by the editor.&lt;br /&gt;
fancy yourself already on the highway to fame This idea is awful to contemplate calmly, and is&lt;br /&gt;
and fortune ; at least, it has never meant any. of course a phantom of the author&amp;#039;s brain. No&lt;br /&gt;
thing in my case ; but it costs nothing and gives editor of a paper of any size could possibly do&lt;br /&gt;
a pleasant, friendly tone to things.&lt;br /&gt;
it (and it was a mistake on their part ever to let&lt;br /&gt;
There is another person attached to the staff of the idea take root); hence readers, and it is to&lt;br /&gt;
a big paper, and that is the manager. I have them that writers should appeal in the first place,&lt;br /&gt;
never had the functions of this individual clearly for they are largely to blame. There appears to&lt;br /&gt;
explained to me ; at the back of my mind there me to be no rule anywhere as to how long MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
dwells a hazy notion that he is a kind of literary are kept before being read. If every newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Bill, the Lizard,&rdquo; and can fill the editorial chair and magazine had a fixed rule as to time it would&lt;br /&gt;
or a book of paste cuttings with equal facility. make contributors&amp;#039; lives much easier.&lt;br /&gt;
Over and above these things he is probably art &middot; B. How can we draw the attention of editors to&lt;br /&gt;
editor (if the paper is pictorial), has to look up this question? This is the real difficulty-editors&lt;br /&gt;
the advertisements, to quarrel with the book are hard to approach as individuals, as a body they&lt;br /&gt;
stalls and shipping agents, and to be all things to have no being. Someone with pretty manners&lt;br /&gt;
all men at the office and out of it. I may be and leisure might be deputed to go round and&lt;br /&gt;
wrong in some of my surmises, but I fear the gently draw their attention to this subject, but it&lt;br /&gt;
estimate is pretty correct.&lt;br /&gt;
would take time and probably lead nowhere.&lt;br /&gt;
There is no new light shed by my investigations Some of our chiefs in the Society of Women&lt;br /&gt;
on this subject, and unless editors will condescend Journalists are members of this powerful band;&lt;br /&gt;
to entertain the one day per fortnight idea, I fear let us, then, approach them with honeyed words and&lt;br /&gt;
there will be no amelioration in our lot. The ask them to take the matter up. Let us ask :-&lt;br /&gt;
plan can do them no harm and may do us a lot of 1. That accepted MSS. be acknowledged by&lt;br /&gt;
F. L. L. post-card at once.&lt;br /&gt;
2. That no MS. be kept longer than seven days&lt;br /&gt;
unless reserved for second consideration, when a&lt;br /&gt;
At the last meeting of the Society of Women card notifying the fact be sent.&lt;br /&gt;
Journalists the subject under discussion was that 3. That accepted MSS. should appear within&lt;br /&gt;
of notice to contributors from editors, and the two months of acceptation; if kept longer due&lt;br /&gt;
following reflections have presented themselves to notice of probable date to be sent.&lt;br /&gt;
me on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
4. All payments to be made on acceptation, not&lt;br /&gt;
A. Are editors personally responsible for due on appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
notice? Theoretically they are; legally, all things 5. That the stamps enclosed with MSS. be&lt;br /&gt;
done in a newspaper office are supposed to come returned to authors on acceptation.&lt;br /&gt;
from the editor&amp;#039;s initiative.&lt;br /&gt;
These five requests involve no hardship to any.&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers arrive at the office simultaneously; one. The accepted post-card would be printed,&lt;br /&gt;
both treat of the same subject, and the editor and only need signature and address.&lt;br /&gt;
likes both, but has only space for one. He or No. 2 presents no greater difficulty than that&lt;br /&gt;
she will require time to consider. For a news- somebody should see that seven-day-old MSS. are&lt;br /&gt;
paper this will be probably from four to five duly read and returned or accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
good.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
129&lt;br /&gt;
N.B.&mdash;For the instruction of this department, I Moore, one of his co-directors of the club, took&lt;br /&gt;
recommend Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s advice vide first the chair.&lt;br /&gt;
verse in italics of &ldquo;The &amp;#039;Ethen&rdquo; in &ldquo; Barrack The reception given to Dr. Conan Doyle was of&lt;br /&gt;
Room Ballads.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
a most enthusiastic character, and he made a&lt;br /&gt;
No. 3 would check editors in a growing habit characteristic and remarkable speech.&lt;br /&gt;
of accepting a great deal more than they are ever Mr. Frankfort Moore proposed his health,&lt;br /&gt;
likely to use. The mere fact of a fixed date dwelling under the circumstances naturally upon&lt;br /&gt;
appearing against the name of a MS. would be a the part he had taken in the South African&lt;br /&gt;
help.&lt;br /&gt;
campaign, and Dr. Conan Doyle in response,&lt;br /&gt;
No. 4 would remove a heavy strain from the touching on many points of the war, made the&lt;br /&gt;
shoulders of the weaker brethren.&lt;br /&gt;
following statements :&lt;br /&gt;
No. 5 would only affect the office boys, who, it That, in the first instance, not only the War&lt;br /&gt;
is my firm belief, annex the stamps and retail Office, but the whole of England, had under-&lt;br /&gt;
them. I have only twice had stamps sent back estimated the number of men it would be neces-&lt;br /&gt;
to me.&lt;br /&gt;
sary to send out &mdash; the largest estimate given&lt;br /&gt;
Let our editresses approach the editors, pointing by anyone prior to the war was 100,000 men. He&lt;br /&gt;
out that, for the honour of the Fourth Estate, these knew that someone would have to prove the scape-&lt;br /&gt;
grievances should be looked into.&lt;br /&gt;
goat, though the whole nation was really respon-&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Journalists in its might would sible.&lt;br /&gt;
easily find means of imposing its will, and life He then touched upon the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
would go more smoothly for everyone.&lt;br /&gt;
hospitals, and stated that it was geographically&lt;br /&gt;
But, above all things, let us do something; impossible for the requisite hospitals to be at the&lt;br /&gt;
do not let us be content to say &ldquo; Kismet.&rdquo; That front, when you had to take into consideration&lt;br /&gt;
is how abuses grow up.&lt;br /&gt;
that an army of 200,000 men had to be supplied&lt;br /&gt;
FLORA LANCASTER LUCAS (S.W.J.).&lt;br /&gt;
with provisions, and that by a single line of rail&lt;br /&gt;
38, Cathcart-road, Redcliffe-gardens,&lt;br /&gt;
which was liable to be cut at any moment, while&lt;br /&gt;
in many places the trucks had to be taken singly&lt;br /&gt;
S.W., Oct. 30.&lt;br /&gt;
across drifts or rivers.&lt;br /&gt;
He assured his hearers that the Army Medical&lt;br /&gt;
Department had worked nobly throughout the&lt;br /&gt;
campaign. No doubt Mr. Burdett Coutts&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB DINNERS.&lt;br /&gt;
figures and statements were correct, but there&lt;br /&gt;
was one weak point in his case on which he had&lt;br /&gt;
N Monday, Oct. 29, the Authors&amp;#039; Club gave&lt;br /&gt;
never been able to give any explanation&mdash;that&lt;br /&gt;
a dinner to Mr. A. W. &agrave; Beckett to con-&lt;br /&gt;
with all these grievous complaints against the&lt;br /&gt;
gratulate him on his appointment as Pre-&lt;br /&gt;
Army Medical arrangements, he had never referred&lt;br /&gt;
sident of the Institute of Journalists for the&lt;br /&gt;
any one of them to the head of the Medical Depart-&lt;br /&gt;
current year.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, General Wilson. This was not playing the&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the fact that the home-coming of the&lt;br /&gt;
game fairly. Dr. Doyle went on to state that&lt;br /&gt;
City Imperial Volunteers had been postponed&lt;br /&gt;
when he had a serious complaint to make he&lt;br /&gt;
10 Monday there were not quite so many members&lt;br /&gt;
had gone straight to the General, and found that&lt;br /&gt;
assembled at the dinner as would otherwise have&lt;br /&gt;
Lothervise have the complaint was at once attended to and set&lt;br /&gt;
been present. Journalistic duties make impera-&lt;br /&gt;
right.&lt;br /&gt;
tive calls.&lt;br /&gt;
He proceeded to give some slight account of&lt;br /&gt;
However, between thirty to forty members of&lt;br /&gt;
the different actions he had himself witnessed,&lt;br /&gt;
the club sat down, under the chairmanship of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
and the incidents of the patience and endurance&lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Hope Hawkins.&lt;br /&gt;
of the British troops.&lt;br /&gt;
Both Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins&amp;#039;s speech and&lt;br /&gt;
On sitting down he was greeted with loud and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. &agrave; Beckett&amp;#039;s reply were clever and amusing,&lt;br /&gt;
prolonged cheers.&lt;br /&gt;
dealing as they did with the ethics of journalism. On Nov. 26 the club gave a dinner to Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
Among the members present were Mr. P. W. Murray. This dinner gives occasion to a few&lt;br /&gt;
Clayden, a former president of the Institute, Mr. remarks on p. 122.&lt;br /&gt;
H. R. Tedder, Mr. Bloundelle-Burton, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Poultney Bigelow, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday, Nov, 12, the club gave a dinner to&lt;br /&gt;
their chairman, Dr. Conan Doyle, as a welcome on&lt;br /&gt;
his return from South Africa, Mr. Frankfort&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 130 (#178) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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130&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr E. F. Benson has completed a new story&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Luck of the Vails.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
AJOR A. W. A. POLLOCK, who was a Professor Hans Meyer, of Leipzig, has just&lt;br /&gt;
correspondent of the Times in the South acquired, says the Morning Post, a large number&lt;br /&gt;
African war, is writing an account of his of hitherto unutilised Heine manuscripts and&lt;br /&gt;
personal experiences, which began with Stormberg letters. The gem of this very valuable collection&lt;br /&gt;
and ended with the relief of Mafeking and&lt;br /&gt;
consists of the earliest manuscript &ldquo; Atta Troll,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Hunter&amp;#039;s march from Maribogo to Krugersdorp embracing 200 sheets containing many correc-&lt;br /&gt;
and Johannesburg. The book will be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
tions. There are also about 100 sheets of poems,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; With Seven Generals in the Boer War,&rdquo; and considerable fragments of the &ldquo;Rabbi von&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. Skeffington.&lt;br /&gt;
Bacharach,&rdquo; of the &ldquo;Gest&auml;ndnisse,&amp;quot; of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Churton Collins, we learn from the &ldquo; Harzreise,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Faust,&rdquo; &ldquo;Romantischen Schule.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Academy,&ldquo; will in his next book tell some plain &ldquo;Lutetia,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., in all some 1500 sheets of Heine&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
truths about current literature.&rdquo; The volume handwriting and 1000 sheets written by an&lt;br /&gt;
will be called &ldquo;Ephemera Critica,&rdquo; and Mr. amanuensis, but bearing Heine&amp;#039;s corrections.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins has this to say in his preface :--&lt;br /&gt;
Valuable light on phases of Heine&amp;#039;s life may be&lt;br /&gt;
These essays are parti, a protest and partly an experi gathered from the letters, numbering about 1000,&lt;br /&gt;
ment. As a protest they explain, and, I hope, justify addressed to the poet by Laube, Dingelstedt,&lt;br /&gt;
themselves ; as an experiment they are an attempt to illus- Barnhagen, Rahel, Robert Schumann, Meyer-&lt;br /&gt;
trate what we should be fortunate if we could see more beer. Hiller. Lewald. Count Auersperg, A. Weill,&lt;br /&gt;
frequently illustrated by abler hands. They are a series of&lt;br /&gt;
studies in serious, patient, and absolutely impartial criti.&lt;br /&gt;
and Heine&amp;#039;s mother, sister, and brothers.&lt;br /&gt;
ciems, having for its object a comprehensive survey of the Mr. Walter Walsh has completed a new book&lt;br /&gt;
vices and defects, as well as of the merits, characteristic of&lt;br /&gt;
on what he regards as the Romeward tendencies&lt;br /&gt;
current Belles Lettres.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Church of England, from the year 1833.&lt;br /&gt;
Our readers will be interested to know that the It will be published immediately by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
literature sent out to the South African hospitals Nisbet.&lt;br /&gt;
in response to the appeal of Miss Edith Rhodes,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Sarah Tytler&amp;#039;s new story, &ldquo; Jean Keir of&lt;br /&gt;
which was published in the April number of&lt;br /&gt;
Craigneil,&rdquo; has just been published by Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, has been very acceptable, and that&lt;br /&gt;
the hospital gardens, planted with seeds sent by&lt;br /&gt;
English contributors, have been of great use and&lt;br /&gt;
The same publisher has bought the copyrights in&lt;br /&gt;
a source of pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
the following novels by Florence Warden, and in&lt;br /&gt;
future they will be published from his office :-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. MacColl, who has been chief editor of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Bohemian Girls,&rdquo; &ldquo;Kitty&amp;#039;s Engagement,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Athen&aelig;um since 1869, retires from that position&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Our Widow,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Mystery of Dudley&lt;br /&gt;
on Jan. 1, and will be succeeded by his assistant&lt;br /&gt;
Horne.&rdquo; He has also acquired the copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
editor. Lord Frederic Hamilton is succeeded in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Wooing of Monica,&rdquo; by Mrs. L. T. Meade,&lt;br /&gt;
the editorship of the Pall Mall Magazine by the&lt;br /&gt;
and in future this novel will be issued by him.&lt;br /&gt;
art editor, Mr. George R. Halkett. Mr. Douglas&lt;br /&gt;
Story is taking over the editorship of the New&lt;br /&gt;
A seventh edition of &ldquo;A Handbook for Steam&lt;br /&gt;
Century Review.&lt;br /&gt;
Users,&rdquo; by M. Powis Bale, will shortly be issued&lt;br /&gt;
A new series of prose fancies by Mr. Richard by Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Le Gallienne is on the eve of publication by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
of publication by Mr. Mr. Ferrar Fenton is issuing, through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Lane.&lt;br /&gt;
Horace Marshall and Son, &ldquo; The Bible in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Rulers of the South &amp;quot; is the title of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Modern English, direct from the original&lt;br /&gt;
Marion Crawford&amp;#039;s latest work, which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek.&rdquo; The first volume&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan are publishing. It consists of historical&lt;br /&gt;
of this work will consist of the &ldquo; Five Books of&lt;br /&gt;
studies of Sicily, Calabria, and Malta.&lt;br /&gt;
Moses,&amp;quot; with critical notes of a philological&lt;br /&gt;
nature.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is an extract from a letter&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. have just pub-&lt;br /&gt;
inclosed with review copies of a book sent out&lt;br /&gt;
lished a new book by Mark Ashton, the author of&lt;br /&gt;
by an American firm in London the other&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;She Stands Alone.&rdquo; The book is entitled&lt;br /&gt;
day :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Haggith Shy, Quakeress&rdquo;; it is now to be&lt;br /&gt;
The accompanying &ldquo; literary notice&amp;quot; is inclosed after the&lt;br /&gt;
American fashion, simply to aid those reviewers who may be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained at Mudie&amp;#039;s and all circulating libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
pressed for time. We prefer your thought of the book in&lt;br /&gt;
The Oxford University Press has issued a new&lt;br /&gt;
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131&lt;br /&gt;
Professor C. H. Herford has written the preface, Mr. Charles Brookfield and Colonel Nugent,&lt;br /&gt;
and he directs special attention to Miss Mathe. of the Irish Guards, are collaborating on a new&lt;br /&gt;
son&amp;#039;s Christmas Carol, which is absent from the play of a semi-military character.&lt;br /&gt;
former edition, and is here enclosed in a border&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Benson&amp;#039;s Shakespearean season opens at&lt;br /&gt;
designed by Mr. Herbert George, the Paris the Comedy on Dec. 1o. On or about Dec. 22&lt;br /&gt;
medallist for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Mollison will produce his revival of &ldquo;King&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Montgomery Campbell&amp;#039;s book, entitled Henry V.&rdquo; at the Lyceum, the cast including&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Not Wise but Fair&rdquo; (Messrs. Jarrold), is very Mr. Lewis Waller. Mr. Tree&amp;#039;s next Shake-&lt;br /&gt;
well spoken of. One review says that &ldquo;it should spearean production at Her Majesty&amp;#039;s will be&lt;br /&gt;
go into every village in the Kingdom, and would &amp;quot;Twelfth Night,&rdquo; in which he will appear in the&lt;br /&gt;
do more good than tons of tracts and cartloads of character of Malvolio.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday sermons.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Julia Neilson and Mr. Fred Terry will&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Isabel Smith&amp;#039;s story of &ldquo;The Minister&amp;#039;s revive &ldquo;Sweet Nell of Old Drury&rdquo; at the&lt;br /&gt;
Guest&rdquo; has received excellent reviews from the Globe Theatre about the middle of January.&lt;br /&gt;
leading literary columns, and promises to meet&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Colin Campbell and Miss Clo Graves&lt;br /&gt;
with a highly satisfactory success.&lt;br /&gt;
have together written a comedy which Mr. and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Path of Thorns&rdquo; is a story by Mr. Ernest Mrs. Kendal will produce.&lt;br /&gt;
Vizetelly, the translator of Zola, which is about to&lt;br /&gt;
The Actors&amp;#039; Association matin&eacute;e will take&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
place at the Haymarket on Dec. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
In this month&amp;#039;s (December) Chambers&amp;#039; Journal&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Reynolds-Ball deals with the present-day&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bernard Shaw&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Three Puritan Plays&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
condition of travel in China in an article entitled&lt;br /&gt;
will be published shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; China of the Globe-trotter.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. T. Bullen&amp;#039;s new work, &ldquo; With Christ at&lt;br /&gt;
The editor of the &ldquo;Literary Year Book&rdquo; will be&lt;br /&gt;
Sea,&rdquo; is being published by Messrs. Hodder and&lt;br /&gt;
glad to receive notice from members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors of omissions from the direc-&lt;br /&gt;
tory of authors, now being corrected for the new&lt;br /&gt;
issue, which will be published by Mr. George&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen on Jan. 15 next. The editor will be glad&lt;br /&gt;
also to receive corrections and suggestions from&lt;br /&gt;
I.-WANTED, A REFERENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
anyone engaged in literary work. All com MYOULD any of your readers be so kind as to&lt;br /&gt;
munications should be addressed to the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
U state to whom, and when, and under what&lt;br /&gt;
of the &ldquo;Literary Year Book,&amp;quot; 156, Charing u circumstances, Dr. Johnson said &ldquo;I have&lt;br /&gt;
Cross-road, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
found you a reason, sir, but I am not bound to&lt;br /&gt;
A poetic drama by Mr. John Davidson, entitled find you an understanding,&rdquo; and whereabouts in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Self&amp;#039;s the Man: a Tragic Comedy,&amp;quot; will be &ldquo; Boswell&amp;#039;s Life of Johnson,&rdquo; if anywhere, the&lt;br /&gt;
published shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
observation is to be found chronicled ?&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. W. K. Clifford&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo;The Likeness of&lt;br /&gt;
Goa J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
the Night,&rdquo; has been published by Messrs. A.&lt;br /&gt;
and C. Black.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-A JUST PROTEST.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Barrie&amp;#039;s latest play, &ldquo;The Wedding May I beg space to expose a mistake which is&lt;br /&gt;
Guest,&rdquo; is published in the December number often made by the public and by reviewers&mdash;a&lt;br /&gt;
of the Fortnightly Review.&lt;br /&gt;
mistake that can be set right only by aid of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Max Beerbohm has dramatised his short&lt;br /&gt;
Press? I refer to the erroneous association of my&lt;br /&gt;
story, &ldquo; The Happy Hypocrite,&rdquo; into a one-act&lt;br /&gt;
name with the numerous &ldquo; statistical &rdquo; articles&lt;br /&gt;
play, at the request of Mrs. Patrick Campbell,&lt;br /&gt;
that have been published in magazines and&lt;br /&gt;
who will shortly produce it at the Royalty as&lt;br /&gt;
newspapers during the last two years.&lt;br /&gt;
a curtain-raiser.&lt;br /&gt;
I desire strongly to protest against this associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of my name with writings that have no&lt;br /&gt;
A new farcical comedy by Mr. Robert&lt;br /&gt;
similarity to my own work other than the mere&lt;br /&gt;
Ganthony, entitled &ldquo;The Ring Mistress,&amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
surface likeness these articles are made to show.&lt;br /&gt;
be produced at the Lyric just before Christmas, To speak plainly, the numerous articles to which&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss Kate Phillips. It will inaugurate a I refer are too often silly as regards subject, con-&lt;br /&gt;
season of matin&eacute;es, five representations weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
fusing in treatment, based on artificial &ldquo; facts,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Court Theatre has been acquired by Mr. and lacking qualities that are valued by every&lt;br /&gt;
H. T. Brickwell.&lt;br /&gt;
sincere literary craftsman.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
Some years ago the idea occurred to me that who steals a clean play is a thief, and Lord&lt;br /&gt;
many subjects of social interest and of national Monkswell protects the author against him; a&lt;br /&gt;
importance could be satisfactorily handled by pirate who steals an unclean play is not only a&lt;br /&gt;
means of diagrams, &amp;amp;c. I realised my idea, thief, but an unclean thief, and Lord Monkswell&lt;br /&gt;
bringing to the work professional actuarial know. does not protect the unclean author against him,&lt;br /&gt;
ledge of many years, and I was pleased to read So that the pirate has only to add uncleanliness&lt;br /&gt;
the unanimous opinions of the Press which told to dishonesty by stealing a work originally&lt;br /&gt;
me that I had succeeded in a task that was not unclean (not by adding immoral passages), to be&lt;br /&gt;
too easy.&lt;br /&gt;
exempted from the penalty of his dishonesty. I&lt;br /&gt;
I find that during 1899 and 1900-a period do not regard the matter as of importance, because&lt;br /&gt;
when these imitative articles have been specially he is not exempted from the penalty of his&lt;br /&gt;
numerous&mdash;I have published thirty or forty mis- uncleanliness, and the unauthorised performances&lt;br /&gt;
cellaneous articles, and of these only five have could be stopped ; but it seems illogical to con-&lt;br /&gt;
been statistical diagrammatic articles. All these done theft because another offence has been added&lt;br /&gt;
five articles were written upon important subjects, to it. I am, Sir, &amp;amp;c. SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
and they were well reviewed by the Press. But I Nov. 21, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
read lately in an important London newspaper a&lt;br /&gt;
statement made by a reviewer to the effect that I Sir,-Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s explanation in the&lt;br /&gt;
am constantly publishing statistical diagrammatic Daily News of to-day of the meaning of his&lt;br /&gt;
articles. This quite erroneous statement was remarks in the current number of The Author,&lt;br /&gt;
obviously based upon the false impression con. upon the subject of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
veyed by the innumerable statistical articles Bill, is apparently founded upon a misconception,&lt;br /&gt;
written by other persons, and the specific instances for Mr. Grundv places himself in a more unten.&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned by the reviewer had no connection able position than that in which he conceives&lt;br /&gt;
with any of my writings. The foregoing example himself to be placed by your critic&amp;#039;s &ldquo; misunder-&lt;br /&gt;
of the mistake I desire to correct is only one of standing&rdquo; of the dramatist&amp;#039;s attitude towards&lt;br /&gt;
several similar instances of my work being con the &ldquo; pirates&rdquo; and &ldquo;thieves,&rdquo; whose fortune and&lt;br /&gt;
fused with that of others.&lt;br /&gt;
reputation are derived from plays taken without&lt;br /&gt;
All my published work is invariably signed by so much as &amp;quot; by your leave&rdquo; from other authors.&lt;br /&gt;
me, and I may justly ask to be released from this As Mr. Grundy says, with not exactly &ldquo;virtuous&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
burden of erroneously-ascribed authorship of indignation, &ldquo;the pirate who steals an unclean&lt;br /&gt;
articles not written by me, and of an erroneously play is not only a thief, but an unclean thief, and&lt;br /&gt;
ascribed sympathy with such articles&mdash;a burden Lord Monkswell does not protect the unclean&lt;br /&gt;
that has been put ou me by persons who have author against him.&rdquo; I have no pity for the&lt;br /&gt;
been misled by the imitative articles in question. unclean author. Surely Mr. Grundy cannot&lt;br /&gt;
I regret to see the useful and worthy tool- seriously be asking for &ldquo; protection&rdquo; for writers&lt;br /&gt;
diagrammatic illustration-mishandled to such of indecency. &ldquo; Protection &amp;quot; from what? It is&lt;br /&gt;
poor purpose, but I do not ascribe the frequent enough for the law to &ldquo;protect&rdquo; the public from&lt;br /&gt;
mistake connected with my name to any cause the &ldquo;unclean&rdquo; thing !-Yours truly,&lt;br /&gt;
other than sheer error produced by the circum-&lt;br /&gt;
E. A. M.&lt;br /&gt;
stances I have stated.&lt;br /&gt;
31. James-street-mansions, Bucking.&lt;br /&gt;
JOHN HOLT SCHOOLING.&lt;br /&gt;
ham-gate, S.W., Nov. 22, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
(&amp;quot;J. HOLT SCHOOLING.&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 6, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;THE AUTHOR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
III.-MR. SYDNEY GRUNDY ON THE New Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
(To the Editor of the Daily News.)&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir,&mdash;In your issue of Nov. 19, there is a mis-&lt;br /&gt;
understanding of my remark in The Author, that,&lt;br /&gt;
under Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, &ldquo;a thief has only&lt;br /&gt;
to add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel to&lt;br /&gt;
his theft to be exempted from the penalty of his&lt;br /&gt;
dishonesty.&amp;quot; Upon this you comment: &ldquo;We&lt;br /&gt;
need hardly say that no thief could, by adding&lt;br /&gt;
immoral passages to a play not in itself immoral,&lt;br /&gt;
affect the author&amp;#039;s copyright in any way.&amp;quot; That&lt;br /&gt;
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