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HASTINGS HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND,&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON, W.c.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KNIGHTS and KINGS of CHESS. By the Rev. IMHE ART of CHESS. By JAMES Mason. Price 53.&lt;br /&gt;
GA. MACDONNELL, B.A. Price 28. 6d. net.&lt;br /&gt;
net, by post 58. 4d&lt;br /&gt;
London HORACE Cox, Windsor House, Broam&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.O. London: HORACE Cox, Windsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 153 (#213) ############################################&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.-No. 9.]&lt;br /&gt;
FEBRUARY 1, 1901.&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;
(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;
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;
&amp;quot;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 anthor. 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;
joots 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;
ERE ar few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. 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 striotest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pooket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
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 &amp;quot; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
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;
01.&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;
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## p. 154 (#214) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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154&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
experience 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, new&lt;br /&gt;
yr 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 dooument to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
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 upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action apon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OT PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages 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. Sbould&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;
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;
sbould 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 publication.&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 informa tion are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
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;
1 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;
2180 of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
whether members of the Society or not, are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate to the Editor any points connected with their&lt;br /&gt;
work which it would be advisable in the general interest to&lt;br /&gt;
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;
advic&lt;br /&gt;
1. T 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;
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;
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## p. 155 (#215) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
155&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Unfortunately the book grew more popular,&lt;br /&gt;
and the steady sale continued. When the edition&lt;br /&gt;
sold out the author received a letter stating that&lt;br /&gt;
I.-AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher could not afford to pay the higher&lt;br /&gt;
TN The Author for July last an article was royalty, although there was a demand for a fresh&lt;br /&gt;
| printed showing how, under certain circum- edition, and that unless the author consented to&lt;br /&gt;
stances, publishers acting for their own take a lower royalty the publisher would not&lt;br /&gt;
benefit, and entirely disregarding the affairs of reproduce another edition, but that the author&lt;br /&gt;
the author, were in the habit of killing books was at liberty to take the book elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
and stopping the sales without contravening their The author could not hope to receive a larger&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
royalty from another house, as the type would&lt;br /&gt;
The following facts, to which the attention of again have to be reset. The publisher knew his&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society is particularly called, advantage, for the author must either take the&lt;br /&gt;
show how a publisher, by placing the author on lower royalty or get no further sales.&lt;br /&gt;
the horns of a dilemma after the agreement is In both these cases publishing houses of the&lt;br /&gt;
signed, forces him to alter his agreement to his first standing, disregarding the spirit and letter of&lt;br /&gt;
deliberate disadvantage and to the publisher&amp;#039;s the agreement, brought pressure to bear upon the&lt;br /&gt;
gain.&lt;br /&gt;
author. No doubt this is what is technically&lt;br /&gt;
I. A publis ber entered into an agreement with called &ldquo;business,&amp;quot; but again it would be interest-&lt;br /&gt;
an author for the production of an educational ing to know what would take place if the author&lt;br /&gt;
book, on which he offered the author a certain in like manner brought pressure to bear on the&lt;br /&gt;
royalty. The book had an enormous sale, and was publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
adopted by nearly all the educational centres in III. The third case is on somewhat similar lines.&lt;br /&gt;
England. In consequence, large sales had to be The publisher is again trying to violate his&lt;br /&gt;
made to certain institutions at a reduced rate. agreement by bringing pressure to bear on the&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher r fused to supply these orders author.&lt;br /&gt;
unless the author took half the amount of royalty. The publisher refuses to go on with the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher contended that he was unable to lication of the book, although there is a formal&lt;br /&gt;
pay so large a royalty on the reduced price. agreement existing, and refers the author to his&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps this was right, though I do not admit lawyer if he (the author) does not take less pay-&lt;br /&gt;
it. If, however, it was so, the royalty should ment than the sum agreed upon.&lt;br /&gt;
have been reduced in proportion to the reduction The author&amp;#039;s agreement is quite clear. The&lt;br /&gt;
in the sale price of the book. This, however, publisher has, however, owing to a miscalcula-&lt;br /&gt;
was not the case. The author was to reduce his tion, involved himself in a greater expense than&lt;br /&gt;
profits by 50 per cent., whereas the publisher was he thought he would, with the result that he does&lt;br /&gt;
losing only about 15 per cent. of his profits. not care to act up to the agreement as it is&lt;br /&gt;
The author was, therefore, placed in this posi. drawn. The author is again in difficulties. Either&lt;br /&gt;
tion : Either he had to accept the publisher&amp;#039;s he is bound to accept less payment or he is forced&lt;br /&gt;
offer or he had to transfer the book to another into a wearisome and tedious legal correspon-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, even if, indeed, he succeeded in finding dence, or perhaps even has to bring an action&lt;br /&gt;
another publisher to take up the work.&lt;br /&gt;
before he can obtain his rights; in the end he&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher was no doubt quite aware of loses the market on his books. G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
these points, and took advantage of the position&lt;br /&gt;
to the detriment of the author. This is hardly&lt;br /&gt;
playing the game; an agreement is an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;MR. Kiplina&rsquo;s Action.&lt;br /&gt;
in any event. If the author bad desired the Judge Lacombe, in the United States Circuit&lt;br /&gt;
publisher to alter an unfair arrangement by Court on Dec. 26, denied the motion made by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
pressure of this kind, what would the publisher Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s attorn ys to restrain R. F.&lt;br /&gt;
have said ?&lt;br /&gt;
Fenno and Co. from publishing and selling&lt;br /&gt;
II. A similar case is the following. A pub- editions of his works on which an elephant&amp;#039;s head&lt;br /&gt;
lisher entered into an agreement to pay an author a was used. The case was argued in November,&lt;br /&gt;
certain royalty; after the sale of a certain number and attracted a great deal of attention. The&lt;br /&gt;
of copies the royalty was to be increased. The question of copyright was eliminated by the&lt;br /&gt;
book sold steadily bnt not very rapidly. In consent of both parties. Judge Lacombe said&lt;br /&gt;
consequence the publisher omitted to take that Mr. Kipling had not established a common-&lt;br /&gt;
moulds, thinking, no doubt, that the sales would law trade mark, and there was no suggestion of a&lt;br /&gt;
not reach the amount on which a larger royalty statutory trade mark. He said that there was no&lt;br /&gt;
was to be paid.&lt;br /&gt;
apprehension that purchasers of the &ldquo; Elephant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 156 (#216) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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156&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
rthur......&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Arthur.&lt;br /&gt;
...........&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Head&rdquo; edition might be misled by supposing&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
that they were buying the &ldquo;Outward Bound&rdquo; or&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A..............&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott&lt;br /&gt;
any other edition of his works.&mdash;Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard ... ......&lt;br /&gt;
Weekly (New York).&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ..............................&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ..........................&lt;br /&gt;
III.-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope......... ........................&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; A warning has been forwarded to the Athen&aelig;um Norris, W. E. ......&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. G. A. Brett, president of the Macmillan&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston .....................&lt;br /&gt;
Company, New York. It is to the effect that in tarker, Gloer -... ******&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden .......&lt;br /&gt;
order to protect themselves authors must insist Pollock, sir Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
upon their books or articles when published in Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
America being prefaced or accompanied by a note Rossetti, W. M. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
that they are copyrighted. This is done quite&lt;br /&gt;
S. B. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. ........&lt;br /&gt;
simply by inserting the word copyright, followed&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof. ....&lt;br /&gt;
by the name of the author and the date. Thus,&lt;br /&gt;
r and the date. Thus, Spielmann, M. H. ...&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Copyright by Conan Doyle, 1901,&amp;quot; for an Stanton, Miss H. M. E .............&lt;br /&gt;
example. The announcement costs nothing and &middot; Tweedie, Mrs. Aleo........&lt;br /&gt;
may prevent piracy. Mr. Brett gives a case in Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
which an article appearing in an English monthly&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
review and duly copyrighted has been pirated in&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)......&lt;br /&gt;
three instances by publishers of magazines. The&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold ...&lt;br /&gt;
author can have reco rse to law; but the law&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ...&lt;br /&gt;
provides that the &ldquo;owner of the copyright shall Besant, Sir Walter.&lt;br /&gt;
show what damages he has suffered by the Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
unauthorised publication of his material.&rdquo; Mr. Brodhurst, Spencer...........&lt;br /&gt;
Brett&amp;#039;s warning does not state how the addition&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
of the words proposed will safeguard an article.&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely if publishers of magazines pirate a paper Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
in reliance on the expense and uncertainty of the 1901) ........&lt;br /&gt;
law, they will do so whether these words are&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A..&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
added or not. At the same time the words may&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S....&lt;br /&gt;
possibly deter some from an act which thus&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey&lt;br /&gt;
becomes wilful and open piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ........................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis......&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K.&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M. ........&lt;br /&gt;
PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max........&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L.&lt;br /&gt;
NHE following is the list of donations&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W.....&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or Roberts, Morley ........................&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ...&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ...&lt;br /&gt;
O 100&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
.......... &pound;100 0 0 Stanley, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ............&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A. ............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....&lt;br /&gt;
I 0&lt;br /&gt;
**********........................&lt;br /&gt;
X. Y.&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
157&lt;br /&gt;
ink.&lt;br /&gt;
accounts; it is doubtful even now if the lawyers absurd when their printed transcript of the&lt;br /&gt;
will disclose them until a court order makes them lecture is available for his use. To this the&lt;br /&gt;
subject to the gaze of the general public. The plaintiff answers that the published version was&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty is familiar enough, so familiar that it so garbled and misused in the composing room as&lt;br /&gt;
would not be worth mentioning were it not for a to be entirely valueless. The editor will be put&lt;br /&gt;
small but energetic meeting of indignation at to it to prove that this contention is groundless.&lt;br /&gt;
which several authors assembled in Boston shortly&lt;br /&gt;
after the eclipse of Mr. Badger. Boston has been&lt;br /&gt;
Who Owns THE MANUSCRIPT ?&lt;br /&gt;
the scene of many indignation meetings of vary. We are quite ready here for judicial enlighten-&lt;br /&gt;
ing degrees of potency and reason, and it may be ment upon the legal status of manuscripts as&lt;br /&gt;
that this convention of literary labourers will property. Except in the cases of eminent authors,&lt;br /&gt;
come to something. You in England, perhaps, American editors seldom print strictly &ldquo;as it was&lt;br /&gt;
have passed the stage of spasmodic agitation, written.&rdquo; Having purchased a story or an&lt;br /&gt;
but on this side the Atlantic the mildest asser- article, outrageous things are sometimes done to&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the rights of the literary producer it for reasons dictated by policy, whim, or&lt;br /&gt;
must, seemingly, be pricked and noted in scarlet mechanical convenience of make-up. Be it said,&lt;br /&gt;
however, that the author is presumably advised&lt;br /&gt;
The gathering at Boston, then, considered the of such alterations, and that a formal consent&lt;br /&gt;
question of regulating and verifying the reports thereto is not slow in coming from the average&lt;br /&gt;
which printers make to their authors and render aspirant for a place in a magazine. The real&lt;br /&gt;
ing the dependence of the author upon the honesty question arises after publication. In the absence&lt;br /&gt;
and goodwill of the publisher a trifle less com- of a prior agreement, who owns the manuscript ?&lt;br /&gt;
plete. It was said, with touching aptness, that When radical changes have been made by the&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;precariousness of the publishing trade under editor the manuscript itself shows physical&lt;br /&gt;
certain conditions&rdquo; made such a movement desir- evidence of them; more often than not it is&lt;br /&gt;
able-in short, tbat it has been found that the hacked, interlined, or at best wofully dis.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; honesty and goodwill &rdquo; of some publishers can- figured. If the author wishes for any reason&lt;br /&gt;
not endure the strain of adversity. The Boston to restore it to its original shape he is obliged&lt;br /&gt;
authors declared themselves in favour of a to devote much labour to the task, provided&lt;br /&gt;
system of numbering each volume as published, always that he is fortunate enough to lay his&lt;br /&gt;
and thus furnishing a check upon the returns hands on it.&lt;br /&gt;
and a means of ascertaining the disposition The practical solution, of course, is to pre.&lt;br /&gt;
of every book. This is doubtless good so far serve a copy. This is a safeguard generally&lt;br /&gt;
as it goes, but who is to do the numbering ? adopted, but the advisability of it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
Haply the author and the publisher together said to meet the legal point at issue.&lt;br /&gt;
hand in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of the publishers of our periodicals&lt;br /&gt;
apparently move upon the theory that, when the&lt;br /&gt;
ACTION FOR Loss OF COPY.&lt;br /&gt;
matter is not expressly stipulated beforehand,&lt;br /&gt;
A cause which promises to bring forth some- the purchase of material for serial publication&lt;br /&gt;
thing of interest is the suit of a professor of Yale passes the absolute ownership of it, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
University against one of the newspapers pub- book rights and the manuscript itself are obtain.&lt;br /&gt;
lished in New Haven. Professor Parker is an able by the author only through the courtesy of&lt;br /&gt;
instructor in the theory of music, and had pre- the publisher. I suppose that our courts would&lt;br /&gt;
pared a number of lectures on the subject which apply the rules ordinary in cases of implied con.&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered in several New England cities. A tracts, viewing the custom of the trade, the&lt;br /&gt;
local journal asked for the privilege of printing one intent of the parties, and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;
of the lectures, and for that purpose Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Parker loaned the manuscript to the editor, who&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN CHAUVINISM.&lt;br /&gt;
ordered it to be put in type and then promptly lost An anonymous contributor to the Atlantic&lt;br /&gt;
it. The author is now suing the newspaper for Monthly has given tongue to a sensible protest&lt;br /&gt;
10,000 dollars (about 2000 guineas), alleging against what he calls the cant of American&lt;br /&gt;
that in measuring his damage the court must Chauvinism,&ldquo; which affects to decry all literature&lt;br /&gt;
consider both his intention to publish a book of produced in this country that does not portray&lt;br /&gt;
the lectures and the fact that he has no way of American characters and paint American life in&lt;br /&gt;
replacing the manuscript in question, having kept what it is pleased to call the American manner.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
no copy of it. The journalists, on the other We have certainly had too much of this sort of&lt;br /&gt;
hand, admit that they are in fault, but assert opinion. Our wisely patriotic critics, on the&lt;br /&gt;
that Professor Parker&amp;#039;s measure of damage is contrary, believe that American literature means&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the English literature of the United States, and&lt;br /&gt;
THE POPULAR Books.&lt;br /&gt;
that, to use the words employed in the Atlantic, The Bookman&amp;#039;s last list of new books in order&lt;br /&gt;
the great American novel, for which we have of demand is a reliable index of what we are&lt;br /&gt;
come to be on the perpetual look-out, will be a reading. It is compiled from returns sent to the&lt;br /&gt;
great novel written by an American, no matter periodical by booksellers in thirty-two cities in&lt;br /&gt;
where the scene is laid or of what nationality the United States and the Dominion of Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
the characters may be. &ldquo;Must English litera- and runs as follows: &ldquo; Alice of Old Vincennes&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ture,&amp;quot; asks the indignant writer, &ldquo;forfeit the (Thompson), &ldquo; Eben Holden&rdquo; (Bacheller). &ldquo; In&lt;br /&gt;
name and fame of Burns, Scott, and Stevenson, the Palace of the King&amp;quot; (Crawford), &ldquo; Eleanor&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
because their genius was so markedly Scottish, or (Ward), &laquo; Tominy and Grizel&rdquo; (Barrie), and&lt;br /&gt;
of Maria Edgeworth and Tom Moore, because &laquo;The Master Christian&rdquo; (Corelli). It is com-&lt;br /&gt;
theirs was Irish? What would Apuleius and fortable to note that the two leading places are&lt;br /&gt;
Augustine and Synesius have said to the men occupied by novels written by American authors&lt;br /&gt;
who should propose to place them apart from the&lt;br /&gt;
upon American subjects. The conditions of the&lt;br /&gt;
general list of Latin authors, and call their litera-&lt;br /&gt;
holiday trade are said to have been encouraging,&lt;br /&gt;
ture &lsquo;African&amp;#039;? What would the French say&lt;br /&gt;
and trade brisk. One observes, however, that&lt;br /&gt;
to-day if Switzerland should claim as a classic of&lt;br /&gt;
several inspiring plans looking to the publication&lt;br /&gt;
hers Rousseau, who lived so little in France, or&lt;br /&gt;
of new magazines have failed to become effective&lt;br /&gt;
Voltaire, who lived so long in Switzerland ? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-in one case after a corps of editors had been&lt;br /&gt;
What, indeed ?&lt;br /&gt;
engaged, a plant established, and material pur.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Omar KHAYYAM&rdquo; ON THE STAGE.&lt;br /&gt;
chased for the first three issues. But the owners&lt;br /&gt;
and managers of American periodicals are&lt;br /&gt;
The dramatised novel continues with us to be hardened to tribulation. A British newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
the reigning fashion in matters theatrical. So&lt;br /&gt;
magnate would have us turn our dailies into&lt;br /&gt;
intense is the vogue of it that one of our play-&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, when our magazines, perhaps, will&lt;br /&gt;
producing &ldquo;syndicates&rdquo; employs a gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
whose sole business is to read the output of&lt;br /&gt;
assume the newspaper form and prosper accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly.&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
fiction as it comes wet from the press, and deter-&lt;br /&gt;
mine its value for dramatic purposes. This&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
having been determined, the syndicate&amp;#039;s play-&lt;br /&gt;
wright sets to work&mdash;and, behold ! our modern&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
drama. At seven New York theatres this week,&lt;br /&gt;
for example, the entertainment provided is drawn&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
from this generous source. No story writer who INHE great event of the month has been the&lt;br /&gt;
accords the slightest glance to the commercial&lt;br /&gt;
inaugural performances of the new&lt;br /&gt;
side of his profession would think of producing a&lt;br /&gt;
e Com&eacute;die-Francaise-the historical Maison&lt;br /&gt;
novel without considering carefully its possibili. de Moli&egrave;re, that shining glory of the French&lt;br /&gt;
ties as stage material. A lamentable feature of drama, founded in 1680 by order of Louis XIV.&lt;br /&gt;
the situation seems to be that the actual play in and partially destroyed by conflagration in the&lt;br /&gt;
such instances is something about which the year 1900. It was resuscitated, fireproof-on&lt;br /&gt;
theatre-going public has little concern. It is the last day of the old year&mdash;to greet the new&lt;br /&gt;
their popular book which they wish to &amp;quot;see.&rdquo; century. No renewal of the catastrophe is to be&lt;br /&gt;
One theatrical manager declared that he feared in the present building&mdash;the stage itself,&lt;br /&gt;
would not be afraid to invest his money in a the staircases, and all appurtenances possible,&lt;br /&gt;
stage presentment of the city directory if this being reconstructed in solid iron. The remaining&lt;br /&gt;
present craze keeps up; and it has been an paraphernalia have been so thoroughly permeated&lt;br /&gt;
nounced that Mr. Richard Mansfield, a leading with uninflammable matter that its ignition,&lt;br /&gt;
actor-manager, is going to appear in a dramatisa. under any circumstances, would be little short of&lt;br /&gt;
tion of &ldquo; Omar Khayyam.&rdquo; It would be as prac. a miracle. Congratulatory despatches from all&lt;br /&gt;
ticable to dramatise the Book of Proverbs, and, parts of the civilised world assured M. Jules&lt;br /&gt;
in truth, one can expect almost anything in this Claretie, the indefatigable director of the Maison&lt;br /&gt;
direction.&lt;br /&gt;
de Moli&egrave;re, of the universal sympathy felt with&lt;br /&gt;
It is only fair to add that among the play. him on this occasion. The medal struck by M.&lt;br /&gt;
house sensations and successes of the past month Chaplain in commemoration of the event bears, on&lt;br /&gt;
in New York have been pieces by Shakespeare, one side, the head of Moli&egrave;re in profile; on the&lt;br /&gt;
Rostand, Ibsen, Sudermann, and Pinero, so you other, a phanix rising from the flames, surrounded&lt;br /&gt;
are not to set us down as altogether lacking in with laurels. Nor are the inevitable tragic and&lt;br /&gt;
theatrical opportunities and taste.&lt;br /&gt;
comic masks, and the two memorable dates (1680.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
159&lt;br /&gt;
1900) forgotten. The inscription is in Moli&egrave;resque The Ibsens and Bj&ouml;rnsons, too, had something to&lt;br /&gt;
Latin, being taken from the closing phrases in say that they esteemed left unsaid by George&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; Malade.&rdquo; They are reported to be the last Sand and Charles Dickens. They said it; and,&lt;br /&gt;
sentences penned by the great dramatist. &ldquo;Mille, in their manner of saying it, their compatriots&lt;br /&gt;
mille annis. Vivat, cent fois vivat.&rdquo; A happy recognised their own Scandinavian attributes.&lt;br /&gt;
augury for the future of the new Com&eacute;die !&lt;br /&gt;
M. Bj&ouml;rnstjerne Bj&ouml;rnson&amp;#039;s presence in&lt;br /&gt;
Its director (and administrator-general) enjoys Paris lends additional interest to all discussion&lt;br /&gt;
the reputation of being one of the busiest and of Scandinavian literature. He possesses a&lt;br /&gt;
most intelligent men in France. &ldquo;The Com&eacute;die. singularly noble and picturesque physique, and is&lt;br /&gt;
Fran&ccedil;aise,&rdquo; he wrote on one occasion, &ldquo;must not extremely proud of his alliterative appellation,&lt;br /&gt;
be confounded with other subsidised theatres. wbich signifies : &ldquo; Bear&amp;#039;s forehead, bear&amp;#039;s son.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It is in the hands of the State, represented by one The Parisians have dubbed him the Victor Hugo&lt;br /&gt;
of its Ministers, who delegates to an administrator, of Norway, and he intends to remain here&lt;br /&gt;
named by him, the diverse powers with which he several months, being engaged in finishing a&lt;br /&gt;
is invested. In conceding it a subsidy, the State three-act drama entitled &ldquo; Laboremus,&amp;quot; which is&lt;br /&gt;
has reserved to itself guarantees, the right of to be performed simultaneously at &amp;quot;Christiania&lt;br /&gt;
direction, and other advantages and compensa- and Berlin. The fact that one of his daughters&lt;br /&gt;
tions. On its side, the Com&eacute;die propagates and bas married Sigurd Ibsen gives piquancy to the&lt;br /&gt;
spreads abroad the sentiment of the beautiful and following appreciation of Henrik Ibsen&amp;#039;s merits,&lt;br /&gt;
the artistic. By the number of places which it commonly attributed to M. Bj&ouml;rnson: &ldquo; There&lt;br /&gt;
gives, and which-taking one year with another&mdash; are two men in Europe who possess genius,&lt;br /&gt;
amount from 130,000 to 150,000 (representing an myself and Ibsen-admitting that Ibsen has it!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
average of from 600,000 to 800,000 francs) it Alexandre Dumas p&egrave;re could scarcely have ex-&lt;br /&gt;
considers it has the right to say that it aids in pressed his opinion with more characteristic&lt;br /&gt;
the diffusion of literature. , . . It has, like. modesty.&lt;br /&gt;
wise, the obligation of performing plays which&lt;br /&gt;
NEW YEAR HONOURS.&lt;br /&gt;
please the crowd and satisfy the &eacute;lite. And it is Literature and the drama are well to the fore in&lt;br /&gt;
in this that it has always merited, not only the the New Year decorations bestowed by Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
encouragement of the king who founded it, of the ment. &ldquo;Behold &middot; Va-t-en-Guerre&amp;#039; who gains the&lt;br /&gt;
emperor who gave it its charter, but of the battle!&rdquo; Fortune favours the brave; though&lt;br /&gt;
nation which is proud of it, and of that literary Fate has willed, as a parting irony, that M. Emile&lt;br /&gt;
France which draws from it&mdash;not its vanity-but Bergerat attain the coveted distinction at the&lt;br /&gt;
its pride.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
same moment as his ancient Odeonic foe, M. Paul&lt;br /&gt;
To M. Jean Richepin belongs the honour of Ginisty. Henceforward M. Bergerat may bury&lt;br /&gt;
having furnished a prologue for the re-opening the hatchet. He has no longer any valid&lt;br /&gt;
ceremony of the Com&eacute;die-Fran&ccedil;aise. This pro. grievance against his contemporaries. Success&lt;br /&gt;
logue will shortly be issued by Fasquelle in book awaits him on all sides&mdash;in the Old World as in&lt;br /&gt;
form.&lt;br /&gt;
the New. In Paris he ranks among the rare&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;UN SI&Egrave;CLE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
prophets who are honoured in their own country.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Un Si&egrave;cle&amp;quot; (Mouvement du Monde) is the In New York, his &ldquo; Plus que Reine &rdquo; is pursuing&lt;br /&gt;
title of a new volume, the work of a group of its triumphant career, and his name stands&lt;br /&gt;
eminent writers, published by H. Oudin. In second only to those of MM. Victorien Sardou&lt;br /&gt;
it we find a most able essay by that learned and Edmond Rostand. It is true that in&lt;br /&gt;
Academician and fervent disciple of Bossuet, the exciting steeplechase to place the &ldquo; Pompa-&lt;br /&gt;
M. Ferdinand Bruneti&egrave;re, analysing the develop. dour&rdquo; M. Alphonse Lemonnier came in fore-&lt;br /&gt;
ments of literature during the last hundred most; and it is no less true that the puissant&lt;br /&gt;
years. He sapiently discusses the universal author of &ldquo; Fracasse&rdquo; was one of the first to&lt;br /&gt;
tendency to &ldquo;Europ&eacute;anisation&rdquo; in all national congratulate his successful rival on his victory.&lt;br /&gt;
literature, and esteeins that his brethren of the &ldquo;Caliban Bergerat&rdquo; is becoming unrecognisably&lt;br /&gt;
pen show a marked predilection towards literary urbane.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;socialisation.&amp;quot; Among all European literatures Among the other recipients of New Year&lt;br /&gt;
he affirins that of France to have always been honours of diverse degrees are:-M. Sully-Prud-&lt;br /&gt;
the most social and the most human. Apropos homme, who sits among the Immortals, and whose&lt;br /&gt;
of other nations, M. Bruneti&egrave;re considers that graceful, poetic verses are, perhaps, better known&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of the Russian novel marked a than the poet himself ; M. Catulle Mend&egrave;s, presi-&lt;br /&gt;
literary epoch in the past century, the Tolsto&iuml;s and dent of the Critic Club, likewise poet, critic, and&lt;br /&gt;
Dostoievskis having done as much for Russia novelist of no mean talent; M. Emile Pouvillon,&lt;br /&gt;
as either Peter the Great or the Grand Catherine. one of the few popular Parisian authors who&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
imitates Mistral and Loti in preferring the at the Acad&eacute;mie des Sciences. M. Henri&lt;br /&gt;
tranquil charm of country life to the brilliant Lavedan has written a new play entitled &ldquo;Les&lt;br /&gt;
turbulence of the city; M. Gosslin Len&ocirc;tre, than M&eacute;dicis,&rdquo; which is now being rehearsed at the&lt;br /&gt;
whom none has written more learnedly on the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s Th&eacute;&acirc;tre, while the &ldquo; Cavali&egrave;re&amp;quot; of&lt;br /&gt;
revolutionary period at Paris; M. Gustave &ldquo;Jacques, son of Jean&rdquo; (Richepin) is being&lt;br /&gt;
Reynier, director of La Revue Universitaire, and rehearsed at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. The&lt;br /&gt;
author of a series of remarkable articles in the united ages of this promising young dramatist&lt;br /&gt;
Semaine politique et litt&eacute;raire, Revue de Paris, and his leading lady amount to forty-five years.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c.; M. Henri Demesse, successor of Eugene&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;J&Eacute;SUITES.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Sue, one of the most popular novelists of the&lt;br /&gt;
day, formerly vice-president of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;J&eacute;suites &rdquo;-a defence, and explanation, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Gens de Lettres; M. Rodocanachi, most erudite&lt;br /&gt;
means employed and the ends desired by this&lt;br /&gt;
member, and M. Chauchard. generous M&aelig;cenas powerful, subtile order&mdash;is the most-talked-of&lt;br /&gt;
of the latter society; M. Jules Claretie, director book of the moment. It is the work of the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise ; M. Antoine, founder&lt;br /&gt;
P&egrave;re du Lac, whose portrait has been so finely&lt;br /&gt;
and director of the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Libre; MM. Grisier,&lt;br /&gt;
drawn by M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost in &ldquo;Le Scorpion,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mounet-Sully, Delaunay, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
under the pseudonym of the P&egrave;re de l&amp;#039;&Eacute;tang.&lt;br /&gt;
Divided into three parts, respectively dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY Gossip.&lt;br /&gt;
the past, present, and future of Jesuitism, it is&lt;br /&gt;
At this moment of comparative literary stagna- written throughout in an extremely clear, read.&lt;br /&gt;
tion much interest is felt in the new volume able fashion. The reverend father is an able&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with the Communistic era (entitled &ldquo;La refuter of the accusations levelled against his&lt;br /&gt;
Colonne&rdquo;) on which M. Lucien Descaves is order from its creation up to the present day.&lt;br /&gt;
reported to be engaged. This clever pessimist Strict impartiality could scarcely be expected&lt;br /&gt;
has made his mark in fiction, journalism, and from such a champion ; but the whole work bears&lt;br /&gt;
playwriting, having !signed &ldquo; La Cage,&rdquo; and the stamp of genuine conviction on the part of&lt;br /&gt;
collaborated with M. Maurice Donnay in writing the writer. The emphatic denial (chapter I.,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;La Clairi&egrave;re,&rdquo; one of the best expositions of the part 3) that the Company of Jesus has ever been&lt;br /&gt;
strong and weak points of the socialist theory in any measure a political society, and the chal.&lt;br /&gt;
ever performed on the French stage. M. Clemen- lenge to whoever is able to prove a single act of&lt;br /&gt;
ceau is busy on Le Bloc, a new weekly publica, political intervention on the part of the Jesuits, is&lt;br /&gt;
tion which will make its d&eacute;but within a few days. likely to awaken lively discussion. The personality&lt;br /&gt;
In general appearance it will bear a strong family of the writer gives weight to the challenge. For&lt;br /&gt;
resemblance to the Lanternes, Diable &agrave; quatre, years P&egrave;re du Lac has been regarded, both by&lt;br /&gt;
and Grimaces of the last century. M. Henri friends and adversaries, as one of the leading&lt;br /&gt;
Rochefort, ex-editor of the defunct Lanterne and exponents and lights of Jesuitism in France. His&lt;br /&gt;
present director of the Intransigeant, has been book is published chez Plon.&lt;br /&gt;
officially recognised by the bureau of the Muni.&lt;br /&gt;
cipal Council as the leader of the Nationalist&lt;br /&gt;
New PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
party. The official reception of M. Emile Faguet &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Art en Silence,&amp;quot; an interesting critique of&lt;br /&gt;
at the French Academy is deferred until April, the art and moral ideas of the present day, by M.&lt;br /&gt;
owing to the prolonged absence of M. Emile Camille Mauclair (Ollendorff); &ldquo;La Philosophie&lt;br /&gt;
Ollivier in the South. In the meantime the de la Long&eacute;vit&eacute;,&rdquo; a curious and interesting work&lt;br /&gt;
unfledged Immortal has accepted (in an admirable by M. Jean Finot, editor of the Revue des Revues ;&lt;br /&gt;
open letter) the post of honorary president to the &ldquo;Seconde Patrie,&amp;quot; a tale of adventure by M.&lt;br /&gt;
Poitevin section of the Patrie Fran&ccedil;aise League. Jules Verne (Hetzel collection); &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Affaire&lt;br /&gt;
M. de Guichard has temporarily succeeded Tukanthor,&rdquo; a work by M. Hess, narrating the&lt;br /&gt;
M. Gaston Mayer as secretary-general of the recent campaign in France in favour of the King&lt;br /&gt;
Foreign Press Association, the latter having sent of Cambodge, and the French Indo-Chinese pro-&lt;br /&gt;
in his d&eacute;mission owing to a difference with the tectorates and colonies; &ldquo;Le Tour du Globe d&amp;#039;un&lt;br /&gt;
president of that association. Dr. Maurice de Bachelier,&amp;quot; by M. Andr&eacute; Laurie (College Life&lt;br /&gt;
Fleury (medical contributor to the Figaro) has series); &amp;quot;Les Cath-drales de France,&amp;quot; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
carried off one of the most important prizes in Arthur Loth (chez H. Laurens); &ldquo; Florence et la&lt;br /&gt;
the gift of the Acad&eacute;mie de M&eacute;dicine (prix Herpin, Toscane,&amp;quot; by M. E. M&uuml;ntz, containing a graphic&lt;br /&gt;
de Gen&egrave;ve, 3000 francs) for his able treatises on description of the artistic masterpieces of&lt;br /&gt;
neurasthenia, epilepsy, and the maladies of the the Renaissance epoch; and &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Espion de&lt;br /&gt;
nervous system, in addition to having been pro- l&rsquo;Empereur,&rdquo; an historical novel, by M. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
claimed laureate of one of the Lallemand prizes Laurent (Ollendorff). DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
161&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
of the paper, we leave that to the Institute of&lt;br /&gt;
Journalists. The paper, however, concludes with&lt;br /&gt;
M HE biography of Emma Marshall, by her certain notes about magazines which should&lt;br /&gt;
I daughter, is an amazing story of industry concern our readers. In New York every man&lt;br /&gt;
and perseverance. The maintenance of a who calls upon the editor is sure of a courteous&lt;br /&gt;
large family seems to have been laid upon her; reception and a patient hearing. The editors of&lt;br /&gt;
she succeeded by dint of untiring energy. The the monthly magazines in New York are always&lt;br /&gt;
following is a highly suggestive statement : at their offices&mdash;where we never expect to find an&lt;br /&gt;
So, with amazing plnok, allowing no discouragement to&lt;br /&gt;
English editor. Not only are they always acces.&lt;br /&gt;
daunt her, she hoped and worked on. It was not her way&lt;br /&gt;
sible, but they are prompt in the consideration of&lt;br /&gt;
to put her pen down to reflect, when she had finished one a MS., rarely keeping it more than two days&lt;br /&gt;
story, before starting another. Indeed, she had often as before coming to a decision. Those which they&lt;br /&gt;
many as three or four tales on the stocks at once. A list&lt;br /&gt;
propose to publish they pay for at once. Their&lt;br /&gt;
of girls&amp;#039; stories filling nearly two pages, written for one&lt;br /&gt;
publisher alone, to whom she sold the copyright of each,&lt;br /&gt;
scale of payment ranges from &pound;5 to &pound;8 a thousand&lt;br /&gt;
lies before me now. One of them is in its twelfth, many words, and even more when the contributor is a&lt;br /&gt;
in their fifth, sixth, and seventh thousand, which serves to well-known writer. The English magazine offers,&lt;br /&gt;
show that the sam she received thankfully for the MS. has as a rule, a pound a page of a thousand words.&lt;br /&gt;
in every case been repaid over and over again.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is that the standard of the English&lt;br /&gt;
This, of course, we may assume, without magazine is getting lower, save in those two or&lt;br /&gt;
asking what the sum paid for each might be. three magazines where the articles are contributed&lt;br /&gt;
There is printed at the end of the book a list of (1) by writers who do not care about the pecuniary&lt;br /&gt;
books published by Seeley and Co. They consist side, and are only anxious to get their papers pub-&lt;br /&gt;
of nineteen stories at 5s. each; twelve at 38. 6d.; lished : and (2) by men of mark invited by the&lt;br /&gt;
and six at is. The 58. books, omitting one of editor, who send in their papers without reference&lt;br /&gt;
whose circulation there is no record, include to money.&lt;br /&gt;
between them a sale of 109,000 copies. Now, in The complaints made continually about the&lt;br /&gt;
the case of an author so popular as Mrs. delays of editors are easily accounted for when&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, the royalty on a 6s. book would be at we consider that in the States an editor receives,&lt;br /&gt;
least 18. 3d., and therefore on a 5s. book at least sav, &pound;3000 a year, and gives all his time, all his&lt;br /&gt;
18. In other words, she doubtless received thought, all his resource, to the magazine, while&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5450 for this list of books published by Seeley here the editor generally draws &pound;300, carries&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. The list, however, does not seem to be on literary work of all kinds, and shows up at&lt;br /&gt;
that mentioned by the biographer as covering the office once a week or so. How is such a man&lt;br /&gt;
two pages. One knows not the price of each to consider MSS. ? How is he to return MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
or anything about them, but the fact that they with an opinion or a judgment in a reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at the fifth to the twelfth thousand is space of time? The magazine, of course, is not&lt;br /&gt;
suggestive. Could the publishers be our old edited : the papers are &ldquo; chucked in,&rdquo; the fiction&lt;br /&gt;
friends, the S.P.C.K. : In any case the author is by old hands, as good as can be had for the&lt;br /&gt;
was surely ill-advised to accept sums of which money. The most remarkable case in point was&lt;br /&gt;
her biographer could say that they were &ldquo;repaid that of the late Sir George Grove. There was no&lt;br /&gt;
over and over again.&rdquo; It appears to be a man, certainly, more strenuous in work; more&lt;br /&gt;
lamentable case of neglect to use the advice and&lt;br /&gt;
capable of work. He was secretary of the Crystal&lt;br /&gt;
the experience of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Palace, a post which should have taken the whole&lt;br /&gt;
of his time-indeed, I was always astonished that&lt;br /&gt;
In another place Mrs. Marshall writes to Mr. the directors did not insist upon having his whole&lt;br /&gt;
Richmond Seeley :&lt;br /&gt;
time. But in addition to this work he was&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose the interest in my books may increase for a offered, and accepted, the editorship of Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
time at my death. Will it be necessary to make any millan&amp;#039;s Magazine. Consider how, with the best&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangements as to who shall receive the benefit intentions, he could have edited the magazine. Of&lt;br /&gt;
then?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
course, I have no means of knowing whether the&lt;br /&gt;
It would be interesting to learn if the interest magazine went up or down under the editorship.&lt;br /&gt;
in her books did increase after her death, and if I only want to take this case as an illustration of&lt;br /&gt;
any benefit accrued to her children.&lt;br /&gt;
the English way of editing compared with the&lt;br /&gt;
American way.&lt;br /&gt;
An important and instructive article on English&lt;br /&gt;
and American journalism, very much to the letter was published in the Outlook three or&lt;br /&gt;
advantage of the latter, appeared in the Daily four weeks ago, in which the writer expressed a&lt;br /&gt;
News of Jan. 5. As regards the journalistic part mild surprise at the fact&mdash;which he had only just&lt;br /&gt;
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162&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
assisting their oppressors, which is about as plucky and&lt;br /&gt;
useful as to operate on a cat tied down to a vivisection&lt;br /&gt;
trough. In future, though, I sball boldly announce that&lt;br /&gt;
you intend to do everything you can to help the editorial&lt;br /&gt;
fraternity who, as you may read in the correspondence&lt;br /&gt;
column of the Daily News, treat Shaveling Grub Streeters&lt;br /&gt;
in so handsome a manner. Why pay any homage to Justice&lt;br /&gt;
or Virtue ? I have received The Author this month for&lt;br /&gt;
presentation to the Cheltenham Free Library, but if it is&lt;br /&gt;
filled with abuso and misrepresentation of myself and other&lt;br /&gt;
journalistic vermin, and eulogy of the noble hearts of the&lt;br /&gt;
editorial brotherhood, I think we can do without it.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT,&lt;br /&gt;
THE UNCRITICAL COMMONPLACE.&lt;br /&gt;
learned that a great many books reviewed (!)&lt;br /&gt;
are not even read. He said that everybody with&lt;br /&gt;
any sense of fairplay must admit that this is an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; evil.&rdquo; Of course it is an evil, and a most crying&lt;br /&gt;
evil. Some editors, however, have lost their sense&lt;br /&gt;
of responsibility in this matter. They know&mdash;they&lt;br /&gt;
must know-they cannot help knowing&mdash;that the&lt;br /&gt;
writers to whom they confide the books for review&lt;br /&gt;
simply cannot afford the time to read the books&lt;br /&gt;
they notice. How can a busy man stop to read&lt;br /&gt;
a book which he is expected to review in half a&lt;br /&gt;
dozen lines? Last month we called the attention&lt;br /&gt;
of our readers to the Spectator with eight novels&lt;br /&gt;
a week in two columns. It has had ten novels in&lt;br /&gt;
one week since then. But, indeed, the Spectator&lt;br /&gt;
is only one of many papers which lump all the&lt;br /&gt;
books together. The only remedy-a drastic one&lt;br /&gt;
-is for certain authors to withdraw the adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisements of their books and to give these papers&lt;br /&gt;
no books for review. Now, the writer of the&lt;br /&gt;
letter in the Outlook&mdash;which does not lump books&lt;br /&gt;
together-went on to state that the Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
Herald had adopted the system of having a large&lt;br /&gt;
staff of competent persons-private persons&mdash;who&lt;br /&gt;
were asked to review books, but not more than one&lt;br /&gt;
a week, and were paid by keeping the books.&lt;br /&gt;
This method does not &amp;quot;lump&rdquo; the books: it&lt;br /&gt;
ensures that they shall be read, and it must give&lt;br /&gt;
a certain amount of space to each. The weak&lt;br /&gt;
point is the competence of these private persons.&lt;br /&gt;
One would much rather see the books sent to&lt;br /&gt;
literary men and journalists, as at present, with&lt;br /&gt;
the proviso that they are to have but one book a&lt;br /&gt;
week, and that a reasonable space shall be&lt;br /&gt;
accorded to each. -&lt;br /&gt;
It has been found necessary for the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
to write a letter of warning against the habit&lt;br /&gt;
of certain persons who, without being members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society, use its name as a threat with&lt;br /&gt;
editors or publishers with whom they have&lt;br /&gt;
some disagreement. A particularly bad case was&lt;br /&gt;
that of a certain person who, when the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
called upon him for explanation, stated that he&lt;br /&gt;
had twice used the name of the Society as a&lt;br /&gt;
threat, and each time successfully : he added.&lt;br /&gt;
with a really beautiful inability to understand&lt;br /&gt;
the situation, that if the Society was likely to do&lt;br /&gt;
him any good he should join it! So he prefers&lt;br /&gt;
getting good out of the Society by using its&lt;br /&gt;
name without being a member. This wonderful&lt;br /&gt;
creature, on the appearance of the Secretary&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
letter in the papers, sent him the following&lt;br /&gt;
delicate and gentlemanly epistle :&lt;br /&gt;
I have read letter in the Chronicle. Not being able to&lt;br /&gt;
assist struggling authors in any way against their oppres.&lt;br /&gt;
gors, I suppose you feel you must do something to justify&lt;br /&gt;
your position and consequently adopt the easy method of&lt;br /&gt;
NHE following paragraph is from the Spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tator of Jan. 12 :&lt;br /&gt;
In our own country Edmund Spenser died &amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
lack of bread&rdquo;: Milton lived in poverty : Goldsmith was&lt;br /&gt;
hunted by dans from cradle to grave : Johnson walked&lt;br /&gt;
the night round St. James&amp;#039;s-square in lieu of a bed : Haxley&lt;br /&gt;
in his early days found it hard to earn a living : Carlyle&lt;br /&gt;
daring the first forty years of his literary life never earned&lt;br /&gt;
more than an average grocer: Browning during the greater&lt;br /&gt;
part of his career never made a penny by his poems.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a formidable array of charges against&lt;br /&gt;
the public. It would, however, be difficult to&lt;br /&gt;
present in seven or eight lines a greater number&lt;br /&gt;
of uncritical commonplaces. They are, to be sure,&lt;br /&gt;
statements consecrated by many years of uncritical&lt;br /&gt;
repetition : they are set down, without examina-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, because they have been set down so often&lt;br /&gt;
that they seem to want no examination. Let us&lt;br /&gt;
take these in detail and subject them to a little&lt;br /&gt;
simple consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The death of Spenser. Ben Jonson, speak-&lt;br /&gt;
ing loosely, says that Spenser died &ldquo;for lack of&lt;br /&gt;
bread.&rdquo; It is usual for the uncritical mind to&lt;br /&gt;
accept this statement, which was Ben Jonson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
exaggeration, as if he meant it to be taken&lt;br /&gt;
literally, and as if Spenser was actually starved&lt;br /&gt;
to death. Now we find (1) that Spenser refused&lt;br /&gt;
money from the Earl of Essex-starving people&lt;br /&gt;
do not refuse money, especially at a time when&lt;br /&gt;
there is no shame in taking it from a patron ; (2)&lt;br /&gt;
there is no question at all of Spenser&amp;#039;s wife&lt;br /&gt;
starving&mdash;she was with him at the time of his&lt;br /&gt;
death, and not only survived him, but she married&lt;br /&gt;
again; (3) Spenser at this very time had his&lt;br /&gt;
pension of &pound;50 a year, and he had as well his&lt;br /&gt;
Irish estates on which he might have raised&lt;br /&gt;
money had he wanted it. These estates descended&lt;br /&gt;
to his son, his grandson, and his great grandson;&lt;br /&gt;
the last of his descendants died in Ireland about&lt;br /&gt;
a hundred and fifty years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Milton &ldquo; lived in poverty.&rdquo; The commercial&lt;br /&gt;
value of his poems was certainly small. The writer&lt;br /&gt;
in the Spectator seems to believe that the com-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
163&lt;br /&gt;
mercial value of a book has some connection with But, if Johnson walked round the square for&lt;br /&gt;
its literary value: au opinion which is contra- want of a bed, he must have carried with him-a&lt;br /&gt;
dicted by the whole history of literature. We point which has entirely escaped the notice of the&lt;br /&gt;
know the sum received by Milton for his great writer in the Spectator :&lt;br /&gt;
epic. What connection had this sum with the (1.) His wardrobe-Johnson was not a beggar :&lt;br /&gt;
literary value of the poem? However, &ldquo; Milton he must have had a change of linen at least, with&lt;br /&gt;
lived in poverty.&rdquo; It would be no slur upon the the indispensable part of a man&amp;#039;s toilette gear.&lt;br /&gt;
time if he did-i.e., on the supposition that he There was no cloak-room in those days, nor could&lt;br /&gt;
lived on literature. But what sort of poverty he leave the things in a lodging without being&lt;br /&gt;
was it? Was Milton ever in pecuniary straits? able to take a bed.&lt;br /&gt;
Had he ever, at any time of his life, to deny (2.) His MSS.&mdash;a pretty voluminous bundle.&lt;br /&gt;
himself in anything? Did he ever live otherwise (3.) His books&mdash;Johnson accumulated books as&lt;br /&gt;
than in comfort? Could a man who occupied he wanted them: he could not get along at all&lt;br /&gt;
that very comfortable and commodious house in without books. There were then no libraries for&lt;br /&gt;
Petty France be described, except from the point the student.&lt;br /&gt;
of view of a very rich merchant or a landed Imagine, therefore, if you can, Johnson toiling&lt;br /&gt;
grandee, as a man in poverty ?&lt;br /&gt;
round and round St. James&amp;#039;s-square carrying his&lt;br /&gt;
3. Goldsmith and his duns. Goldsmith was clothes, his books, and his MSS! After the first&lt;br /&gt;
extravagant and improvident. It is not true that round he would certainly have set down the bundle&lt;br /&gt;
he was &ldquo; haunted by duns&rdquo; during his whole life. and mopped his brow and refused to carry the&lt;br /&gt;
There was a time when he was making a large load round the square any more. Again, if he had&lt;br /&gt;
income by his pen. He was not &ldquo; haunted with no bed and no money to engage a lodging, we must&lt;br /&gt;
duns&rdquo; during this period of prosperity. In his imagine him lugging that terrible bundle about&lt;br /&gt;
time, as in every other time, the man who pro- with him all that day and the next night and every&lt;br /&gt;
duced popular work made a good income, and the day until he got some money. Now to get money&lt;br /&gt;
man who did not, although his work might be from Lichfield would take about eight days.&lt;br /&gt;
very fine from a literary point of view, received a I think it will be acknowledged that Johnson&lt;br /&gt;
very small income. That he was haunted at any could not have passed that night in the way that&lt;br /&gt;
time by duns had nothing to do with his work, Reynolds is said to have reported.&lt;br /&gt;
but everything to do with his follies, and his 5. Huxley, in his early days, found it difficult&lt;br /&gt;
vices, and his extravagancies.&lt;br /&gt;
to live. Bless the Spectator ! what would he&lt;br /&gt;
4. Johnson for want of a bed walked all round have? Huxley began as a medical practitioner.&lt;br /&gt;
St. James&amp;#039;s-square. Did he? The statement is Will anyone pretend that it is usual for a young&lt;br /&gt;
advanced as Johnson&amp;#039;s own, made by him to professional man to make a large income at&lt;br /&gt;
Reynolds : the statement is at second-hand : if starting? Of course he found the usual difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;
made by Johnson at all it was probably in old 6. Carlyle made no more than the &ldquo;average&lt;br /&gt;
age, when he was inclined to exaggerate things. grocer.&rdquo; If a man writes books which are&lt;br /&gt;
Thus he said that Garrick came to town with three- unpopular he is very lucky indeed if he can make&lt;br /&gt;
halfpence in his pocket : Garrick, who came to as much as the &ldquo;average grocer.&amp;quot; I do not know&lt;br /&gt;
London in order to enter at the Inns of Court what the &ldquo;average grocer&rdquo; makes, but the writer&lt;br /&gt;
and to become a barrister&mdash;on three halfpence! we are discussing seems to know. For my own&lt;br /&gt;
However, let us examine this statement about St. part I should be inclined to think that the average&lt;br /&gt;
James&amp;#039;s-square. First of all, it must have been grocer makes a great deal more than the writer of&lt;br /&gt;
before Mrs. Johnson came to London. Certainly unpopular works. I find, therefore, no cause for&lt;br /&gt;
that estimable woman did not, at any time, tramp complaint against the public that Carlyle did so.&lt;br /&gt;
around St. James&amp;#039;s-square all night for want of a poorly, or so well.&lt;br /&gt;
bed, nor was there any necessity for doing so. 7. Lastly, there is the case of Browning. It&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Johnson had money of her own, and always is doubtless true that for many years Browning&lt;br /&gt;
lived in respectable lodgings. This limitation, made nothing by his poems. What could he&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, reduces the possible time for the all. expect? His was a case in wbich it was a good&lt;br /&gt;
nigbt tramp to three months or so, namely, when thing for the world that Browning had private&lt;br /&gt;
Johnson came first to London. Now it is known means. It would be absurd to find fault with the&lt;br /&gt;
that during this period Johnson occupied several world for not accepting him as a popular poet.&lt;br /&gt;
different lodgings : that for the greater part of The thing was simply impossible. Browning&lt;br /&gt;
the time he lived at Greenwich in order to work went on working. He attracted a following little&lt;br /&gt;
undisturbed : and that he lived with the greatest by little. Before he died he had the pleasure of&lt;br /&gt;
frugality because he was making next to nothing seeing his work take its true place in the poetry&lt;br /&gt;
and he wished to spare his wife&amp;#039;s purse.&lt;br /&gt;
of the century.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
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164&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE METHOD OF THE FUTURE.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENT says: &ldquo;I should be&lt;br /&gt;
glad to see in The Author the question of&lt;br /&gt;
Publication by Authors&amp;#039; fully dealt&lt;br /&gt;
with ; expenses and modes of advertising, advice&lt;br /&gt;
as to the number of a first edition, probable gain&lt;br /&gt;
or loss to the author, policy of stereotyping, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
On a six-shilling book, would the author count on&lt;br /&gt;
receiving 3s. if he pays for the publishing of the&lt;br /&gt;
book?&rdquo; Let us attempt an answer to these&lt;br /&gt;
points.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
The first point to observe is that the author&lt;br /&gt;
who goes to the general publisher with a book of&lt;br /&gt;
which he is willing to pay for the production will&lt;br /&gt;
almost certainly lose his money. Thus in the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Draft Agreements &amp;quot; issued by the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Association it is claimed that a publisher under&lt;br /&gt;
these circumstances has the right of charging a&lt;br /&gt;
blank percentage upon paper, printing, binding,&lt;br /&gt;
and all other expenses incurred. Nothing is said&lt;br /&gt;
as to charging for advertisements not paid for,&lt;br /&gt;
as, for instance, those in their own organs or&lt;br /&gt;
those by exchange. They mean, therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
charge for these with a percentage besides. They&lt;br /&gt;
also claim the right of charging a fee at&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning, taking discounts, and exacting&lt;br /&gt;
payment in advance. Thus, with Houses called&lt;br /&gt;
respectable, the author who pays for the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction of his book would have some such&lt;br /&gt;
account as the following, reckoning the per-&lt;br /&gt;
centage at fifteen and the commission on the&lt;br /&gt;
sales at the same amount.&lt;br /&gt;
If the actual cost of production is &pound;100,&lt;br /&gt;
including advertising: if &pound;25 is charged for&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements not paid for, on account of&lt;br /&gt;
which the publisher claims a blank percentage :&lt;br /&gt;
if the fee is &pound;15: if the sales amount to 1000&lt;br /&gt;
copies at 3s. 6d., or &pound;175 in all : if the per-&lt;br /&gt;
centage charged is 15%: if the discount charged&lt;br /&gt;
is 72%: we have the following results, without&lt;br /&gt;
counting interest on money paid in advance :&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher&amp;#039;s profit will be &pound;70 155. 7d.&lt;br /&gt;
The author&amp;#039;s account will be as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;&lt;br /&gt;
$. d.&lt;br /&gt;
Cost of production, includ-&lt;br /&gt;
ing discount. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Fee .........&lt;br /&gt;
......&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; $. d.&lt;br /&gt;
175 00&lt;br /&gt;
26 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
By sales .......&lt;br /&gt;
Less commission at 15%&lt;br /&gt;
8&lt;br /&gt;
154 10&lt;br /&gt;
15 0&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
Loss to author&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;148 15&lt;br /&gt;
20 15&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;169 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;169 100&lt;br /&gt;
It is almost impossible for the author to there are ten chances to one against the book,&lt;br /&gt;
prevent, under these conditions, the publisher not advertised or pushed, selling more than a&lt;br /&gt;
from appropriating the greater part, if not the hundred or so among the author&amp;#039;s own friends.&lt;br /&gt;
whole, of the proceeds. Therefore one must on There are other variants, but these are the&lt;br /&gt;
no account go to a general publisher with a most important. Our author must not go to a&lt;br /&gt;
commission book.&lt;br /&gt;
general publisher on any consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
There are, however, other methods.&lt;br /&gt;
Two or three firms practise a trick which&lt;br /&gt;
Cost OF PRODUCTION.&lt;br /&gt;
has been exposed over and over again, yet never&lt;br /&gt;
I take an ordinary 6s. book, 320pp., 253 words to&lt;br /&gt;
fails to catch the simple. They offer to produce a page, small pica type, sheet of 16 pp., JOOO copies.&lt;br /&gt;
the book if the author will pay so much down, It must be observed that printers estimates&lt;br /&gt;
the firm to take all other expenses and to give differ enormously. The author will do well to&lt;br /&gt;
the author two-thirds or nine-tenths-it makes get a good many estimates. Some printers think,&lt;br /&gt;
no difference&mdash;of the proceeds, and to bear the when a private person comes with a book, that&lt;br /&gt;
cost of &ldquo;all subsequent editions.&amp;quot; There never they may charge him anything they please. What&lt;br /&gt;
are any returns and there never are any subse-&lt;br /&gt;
they ought to charge may be learned from the&lt;br /&gt;
quent editions.&lt;br /&gt;
following comparative estimate. The book was&lt;br /&gt;
A more impudent method is to make the one of 20 sheets of 16pp. each : or 10 sheets of&lt;br /&gt;
author guarantee so inany copies to be sold in 32 pp. The type was small pica: there were 29&lt;br /&gt;
six months : at the end of that time the author lines to a page :&lt;br /&gt;
to pay the difference, and the publisher to take Composition per sheet of 32pp. ... (1) &pound;2 5 3&lt;br /&gt;
over the whole of the rest of the edition. Now,&lt;br /&gt;
(2) 2 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
it is to his interest that the book shall not&lt;br /&gt;
(3) 2 7 6&lt;br /&gt;
be pushed for six months : in any case he is&lt;br /&gt;
(4) 2 12 0&lt;br /&gt;
secured against loss with a very fair profit :&lt;br /&gt;
(5) 3 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 165 (#225) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
165&lt;br /&gt;
Either one of the first three charges may be advertising-i.e., there is a limit beyond which&lt;br /&gt;
called moderate. The composition per sheet money spent in advertising it is thrown away.&lt;br /&gt;
of 32pp. may be set down at a fair average In the case of a book paid for by the author he&lt;br /&gt;
of &pound;2 78.&lt;br /&gt;
should feel his way carefully, and when the&lt;br /&gt;
The printing of 1000 copies may be set down demand ceases he would do well to try a little&lt;br /&gt;
at 178. a sheet of 32 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
more advertising, and if this fails to move the&lt;br /&gt;
The paper at 28s. a sheet of 32pp.&lt;br /&gt;
book further he should stop altogether. The&lt;br /&gt;
The binding may be done for 35d. a copy amount to be spent in advertising, then, should&lt;br /&gt;
or even less, but a more general price to pay be from &pound;10 to &pound;20, or in case of a success &pound;30,&lt;br /&gt;
is 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;40, or &pound;50 as the book goes.&lt;br /&gt;
Apply this estimate to the book :&lt;br /&gt;
Composition, 10 sheets at &pound;2 78. = &pound;23 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
REVIEW COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
Printing, 10 sheets at 178. ... ... ... = 8 10 O It seems to be the belief of certain papers and&lt;br /&gt;
Paper, io sheets at 28s. ............ = 14 0 0 journals that they are entitled to copies of a book&lt;br /&gt;
Binding, 300 at 4d. ...................= 5 0 0 for review. This is, of course, absurd. The author&lt;br /&gt;
Corrections .....................&lt;br /&gt;
............... = 3 o o should make a list of the papers which seem to him&lt;br /&gt;
- to present criticism of the fairest and justest kind,&lt;br /&gt;
and should send his book to them.&lt;br /&gt;
wui&lt;br /&gt;
It is not prudent to bind at first more than will&lt;br /&gt;
NUMBER OF FIRST EDITION.&lt;br /&gt;
be wanted. It is always easy to bind more.&lt;br /&gt;
If the author has reason to believe that his&lt;br /&gt;
The cost of production, then, of such a book as&lt;br /&gt;
we are considering is &pound;54 at the outset, binding&lt;br /&gt;
book will obtain a certain popularity let him&lt;br /&gt;
only a small number to begin with.&lt;br /&gt;
print 1000 copies. If the subject is such as to&lt;br /&gt;
confine the demand for his book to a limited&lt;br /&gt;
public he would print 500 copies only. In that&lt;br /&gt;
ADVERTISING.&lt;br /&gt;
case the estimate given above would be reduced&lt;br /&gt;
It is very important that the advertising by some &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
should be considered very carefully so as not to&lt;br /&gt;
STEREOTYPING.&lt;br /&gt;
waste money. Nothing is more certain than the&lt;br /&gt;
The printers will allow the type to stand&lt;br /&gt;
absolute waste of money by certain publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not desirable to name papers.&lt;br /&gt;
for a month or so. During that time it will&lt;br /&gt;
Certain&lt;br /&gt;
be possible to form an opinion as to the future&lt;br /&gt;
jules, however, may be laid down.&lt;br /&gt;
of the book. If that opinion is favourable&lt;br /&gt;
1. The best medium for advertising is the&lt;br /&gt;
it should be moulded in readiness for stereo-&lt;br /&gt;
daily paper-not, however, all the daily&lt;br /&gt;
typing. Moulding costs about ios. a sheet of&lt;br /&gt;
papers.&lt;br /&gt;
32pp. Stereotyping costs about 16s. a sheet&lt;br /&gt;
2. The next best medium is the weekly paper of 32pp.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;not all the weekly papers, but a selec- These figures are average: they fluctuate :&lt;br /&gt;
tion: those especially which go into the they are always liable to alteration.&lt;br /&gt;
houses and the hands of reading people.&lt;br /&gt;
3. A few provincial papers.&lt;br /&gt;
Gain or Loss to the Author.&lt;br /&gt;
The amount to be spent is another most serious This may be seen by the following tables.&lt;br /&gt;
consideration. Some publishers seem to believe Fifteen per cent. commission is deducted from&lt;br /&gt;
that a book can be forced down the throat of the the sales-reckoned at 38. 6d. Advertising is&lt;br /&gt;
public by larga advertising. This is absurd. No reckoned at &pound;16. After 300 another 300 are&lt;br /&gt;
book can stand more than a certain amount of bound; after 600 another 400.&lt;br /&gt;
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000&lt;br /&gt;
Sales ...... &pound;29 15 &pound;44 12 6 459 10 $74 76 &pound;89 50 &pound;104 2 6 &pound;119 &pound;133 17 6 &pound;148 15&lt;br /&gt;
Cost ...... 700 70 00 75 0 75 OO 75 OO 82 O 82 82 00 82 0&lt;br /&gt;
The table shows that 500 copies must be sold&lt;br /&gt;
before any return at all is made, and that the sale&lt;br /&gt;
of the whole edition of 1000 produces no more than&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;60, allowing for bad debts and review copies&lt;br /&gt;
My correspondent asks if the author can&lt;br /&gt;
expect a return of 38. a copy. Most certainly&lt;br /&gt;
not. Under the most favourable terms as&lt;br /&gt;
shown here, viz., on the sale of 1000 copies,&lt;br /&gt;
he can expect at best no more than 18. old.&lt;br /&gt;
or is. 2 d. a copy. It is when a book goes&lt;br /&gt;
into a large edition that the returns are also&lt;br /&gt;
large.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 166 (#226) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
166&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher, to repeat, must not be a general Mr. Barry Pain has prepared a &ldquo;book about&lt;br /&gt;
publisher. He must be a publisher of commission a book&rdquo;-in other words, a satire entitled&lt;br /&gt;
books only, otherwise the fate of that author will &ldquo; Another Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters.&amp;quot; It&lt;br /&gt;
be such as is set forth above.&lt;br /&gt;
will be published with the following statement&lt;br /&gt;
from Mr. Barry Pain regarding the author-&lt;br /&gt;
ship :-&lt;br /&gt;
The way in which the absolute necessity for publication&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
bas arisen cannot be more clearly indicated during the life&lt;br /&gt;
of the present Emperor of China, and no clae to the mystery&lt;br /&gt;
will be found in the letters themselves. Those who know&lt;br /&gt;
THE volume on Rome in Messrs. Dent&amp;#039;s will keep silence; if anyone speaks, that may be taken as&lt;br /&gt;
T &ldquo;Mediaeval Towns&rdquo; series will be written evidence that he does not know. And in this way I trust&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Norwood Young, and illustrated by&lt;br /&gt;
that the mystery may be preserved and the sale of the book&lt;br /&gt;
stimulated.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Erichsen.&lt;br /&gt;
Roman Catholicism as a factor in European&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bret Harte contributes a foreword to a&lt;br /&gt;
politics is the subject of a book by Mr. F. C.&lt;br /&gt;
book on himself which Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton&lt;br /&gt;
Conybeare. This question-or at least that part&lt;br /&gt;
has written, entitled &ldquo; Bret Harte: a Treatise and&lt;br /&gt;
of it dealing with the temporal power of the Pope&lt;br /&gt;
a Tribute.&rdquo; The volume is being published&lt;br /&gt;
-has been much discussed during the past&lt;br /&gt;
shortly by Messrs. Greening.&lt;br /&gt;
month, on account of the address presented to the&lt;br /&gt;
The late Sir Benjamin Richardson&amp;#039;s work, Pope by the Duke of Norfolk on behalf of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Disciples of &AElig;sculapius; Biographies of Catholic Union.&lt;br /&gt;
Leaders of Medicine,&rdquo; which has long been&lt;br /&gt;
The scene of Dr. Barry&amp;#039;s new story. &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
preparing for publication, will be issued at an&lt;br /&gt;
Wizard&amp;#039;s Knot,&rdquo; is the south-west of Ireland half&lt;br /&gt;
early date.&lt;br /&gt;
a century ago. The book will be published in&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Hugh Fraser has written a novel entitled March.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Little Grey Sheep,&amp;quot; the scene of which is&lt;br /&gt;
laid in Devonshire and the Thames Valley. It&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leonard Courtney has now finished the&lt;br /&gt;
work upon which he has been engaged for a&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in a few days.&lt;br /&gt;
considerable time: &ldquo; The Working Constitution&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Beard, a founder of Ruskin House, of England.&rdquo; It will be published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, is writing a book on the Industrial&lt;br /&gt;
Dent immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
Revolution of England, which will be published&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of poems by Mr. Stephen Gwynn will&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Sonnenschein.&lt;br /&gt;
be published shortly by Mr. Lane, entitled (after&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Edward Malet, the well-known diplomatist, the first poem) &ldquo;The Queen&amp;#039;s Chronicler.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is writing his &ldquo;Reminiscences.&amp;quot; The work will&lt;br /&gt;
be published soon by Mr. Murray, from whom Mr. Henry Harland is writing a novel.&lt;br /&gt;
also will come Sir Edward Hertslet&amp;#039;s volume, &middot; Mr. Frankfort Moore&amp;#039;s new novel is called&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Recollections of the Old Foreign Office.&rdquo; &ldquo; According to Plato.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A new edition of &amp;quot; Chambers&amp;#039;s Cyclop&aelig;dia of Mr. Borchgrevink, the commander of the recent&lt;br /&gt;
English Literature,&rdquo; in three volumes, will be Antarctic expedition, has completed an account of&lt;br /&gt;
published this year&mdash;the first volume probably his voyage in the Southern Cross and bis adven-&lt;br /&gt;
in the spring. It is being edited by Dr. tures near the South Pole. The volume will be&lt;br /&gt;
David Patrick, assisted by Mr. Francis Hindes published immediately by Messrs. George Newnes&lt;br /&gt;
Groome.&lt;br /&gt;
Limited.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Louis Becke has collected his reminiscences&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Graham Balfour&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Life of Robert Louis&lt;br /&gt;
of fishing and natural history in Australia and&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson&rdquo; is expected to be ready for publica-&lt;br /&gt;
the South Seas, which, with some short stories,&lt;br /&gt;
tion in the autumn. Mr. Balfour is a cousin of&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in a volume entitled &ldquo;By Rock&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson, with whom he spent two years in&lt;br /&gt;
and Pool.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Samoa.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John G. Millais is the author of a quarto&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leslie Stephen, says the Athen&aelig;um, is&lt;br /&gt;
volume on &ldquo; The Wildfowler in Scotland.&rdquo; &ldquo;Ever&lt;br /&gt;
collecting materials for a memoir of the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
since the age of nine,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;when I first&lt;br /&gt;
J. R. Green.&lt;br /&gt;
began collecting British birds in real earnest, I&lt;br /&gt;
have made a special study of the pursuit and The life of the late Professor Henry Sidgwick&lt;br /&gt;
natural history of the wildfowl that frequent our is being written by his widow, in conjunction&lt;br /&gt;
coasts.&amp;quot; The book will be published by Messrs. with his brother, Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, Reader in&lt;br /&gt;
Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Greek in the University of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 167 (#227) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
167&lt;br /&gt;
The following letter from the secretary of the Britain.&rdquo; This book forms part of a larger&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association to the editor of the work on the origin of Imperial Britain, upon&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Circular appeared in that journal which Professor Cramb has been at work for a&lt;br /&gt;
on Jan. 12 :&lt;br /&gt;
considerable time.&lt;br /&gt;
I am instructed to inform you that Messrs. F. and E. A new and cheaper edition of Mr. R. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Stonebam, of Cheapside and elsewhere, have written to the&lt;br /&gt;
Holmes&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Queen Victoria &rdquo; is being published&lt;br /&gt;
council of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association to say that they will&lt;br /&gt;
not hencefortb sell net books to the public at less than full&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Longmans, with a photogravure&lt;br /&gt;
prices, and undertaking to send a circular to their onstomers&lt;br /&gt;
portrait and a supplementary chapter bringing&lt;br /&gt;
to this effect.&lt;br /&gt;
the memoir down to the date of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Under these circumstances the council bas much pleasure death.&lt;br /&gt;
in announcing that the embargo on the supply of net books&lt;br /&gt;
at trade prices to Messrs. Stoneham is now removed.&lt;br /&gt;
A facsimile, by the collotype process, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Commenting on this announcement, the Pub-&lt;br /&gt;
First Folio of Shakespeare will be published next&lt;br /&gt;
lishers&amp;#039; Circular congratulates &ldquo;all concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
autumn by the Delegates of the Clarendon Press,&lt;br /&gt;
including Messrs. Stoneham themselves, on the&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford. By permission of the Duke of Devon-&lt;br /&gt;
fact that they have decided no longer to sell net&lt;br /&gt;
shire, the Chatsworth copy has been placed on&lt;br /&gt;
books at a discount. . . . The enterprising&lt;br /&gt;
loan in the Bodleian Library for the purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
firm which has so long stood out has at last&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sidney Lee, who has pronounced this to be&lt;br /&gt;
given way; the result will, we fully believe, prove&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the most interesting and valuable book in the&lt;br /&gt;
whole range of English literature,&rdquo; will contribute&lt;br /&gt;
a net gain to them as well as to the trade&lt;br /&gt;
a brief introduction, and give as full a list as&lt;br /&gt;
generally.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
possible of all known copies of the First Folio,&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Skeat is now collecting a number of&lt;br /&gt;
with bibliographical details. He requests owners&lt;br /&gt;
short articles upon English etymology which have&lt;br /&gt;
of the First Folio who have not yet done so to&lt;br /&gt;
appeared from time to time in the Philological&lt;br /&gt;
communicate with him.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s Transactions and elsewhere. Together&lt;br /&gt;
with other notes of a similar character, they&lt;br /&gt;
The third and fourth volumes of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
will shortly be issued by the Clarendon Press,&lt;br /&gt;
McCarthy&amp;#039;s &ldquo;History of the Four Georges and&lt;br /&gt;
the title of the work being&ldquo; English Ety.&lt;br /&gt;
of William IV.&rdquo; will be ready early in March.&lt;br /&gt;
mologies.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
These will complete the work.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. S. Arthur Strong, Librarian to the House&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. A. and C. Black write to the Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
of Lords, is translating, from the German,&lt;br /&gt;
Herald to correct a statement which appeared in&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Kristeller&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Andrea Mantegna : His Life&lt;br /&gt;
that paper to the effect that we are not to have a&lt;br /&gt;
and Works.&rdquo; The book will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
re-issue of the Encyclop&aelig;dia Britannica&rdquo; for&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
thirty years. Messrs. Black write : &ldquo; As such a&lt;br /&gt;
statement is misleading, we beg to say that while&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Samuel Butler has written a sequel to&lt;br /&gt;
it is true an agreement has been entered into f..r&lt;br /&gt;
his well-known story, which will be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
the protection of The Times suppleinent, yet the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Erewhon Revisited.&rdquo; The discoverer visits the&lt;br /&gt;
interval decided upon is not thirty years, but less&lt;br /&gt;
country, in disguise, twenty years after his&lt;br /&gt;
than half that period.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
escape from it with his bride in a balloon.&lt;br /&gt;
Among other things he learns that he has&lt;br /&gt;
On the last Sunday of the year Professor Earl&lt;br /&gt;
been accorded divine honours in the interval. Barnes delivered an address at South Place&lt;br /&gt;
The adventures of the hero&amp;#039;s son, who visited Chapel, London, on &ldquo;Present Tendencies in&lt;br /&gt;
Erewhon ten years later, are also narrated in the Popular Literature,&amp;quot; a report of which will be&lt;br /&gt;
new story.&lt;br /&gt;
found in the Daily News for Dec. 31. He said&lt;br /&gt;
that in our attitude towards printed matter we&lt;br /&gt;
As a memorial to the late Miss Mary Kingsley,&lt;br /&gt;
were passing through a very important change-&lt;br /&gt;
it is proposed to erect a hospital for the treatment&lt;br /&gt;
a change that might be described as the demo-&lt;br /&gt;
of tropical diseases in connection with the Liver-&lt;br /&gt;
cratisation of literature. Four-fifths of the people&lt;br /&gt;
pool School of Tropical Medicine, and also to&lt;br /&gt;
had acquired the reading habit. The new demo-&lt;br /&gt;
establish a &ldquo;Mary Kingsley Society of West&lt;br /&gt;
cracy demanded emotionalism and got it. Watch&lt;br /&gt;
Africa,&rdquo; to stimulate research and collect informa-&lt;br /&gt;
the majority of people selectiog books at Mudie&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
tion regarding that country.&lt;br /&gt;
They were bent on living vicariously, in the pages&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Cramb, of Queen&amp;#039;s College, London, of novels, all the things they did not dare to do&lt;br /&gt;
whose lectures on Imperialism attracted atten. actually. But he must not be understood as con-&lt;br /&gt;
tion a month or two ago, has just published demning popular education. It was the subject&lt;br /&gt;
(through Macmillan) a volume entitled &ldquo;Reflec- to which he had devoted his life. Nor should&lt;br /&gt;
tions on the Origins and Destiny of Imperial they inveigh against the tendencies he had&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 168 (#228) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
168&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
B&lt;br /&gt;
A new stuart&lt;br /&gt;
Flors&lt;br /&gt;
PL&lt;br /&gt;
described. As had been said, &ldquo;The best way to&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
make a thing that is not bad, bad, is for good&lt;br /&gt;
people never to do it.&rdquo; And those tendencies&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
were really sane, right, normal, true, and here&lt;br /&gt;
TN reply to the letter in the January number&lt;br /&gt;
was the point-capable of infinite development.&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author entitled &ldquo;Do Authors read&lt;br /&gt;
They must work from scrappy bits towards larger&lt;br /&gt;
- Reviews,&rdquo; I wish to say that I am personally&lt;br /&gt;
wholes. They must start from sensationalism,&lt;br /&gt;
much indebted to The Author for many items&lt;br /&gt;
but with as much intellectual accompaniment&lt;br /&gt;
of great interest in the columns entitled &ldquo; Books&lt;br /&gt;
as the minds of the masses could stand. Also&lt;br /&gt;
and Reviews,&amp;quot; which might otherwise have&lt;br /&gt;
they must seek increasingly to make worthy&lt;br /&gt;
escaped my notice, and I have no doubt that&lt;br /&gt;
literature gather around worthy personalities.&lt;br /&gt;
many of the members&mdash;with the exception of&lt;br /&gt;
. . . A Salvation Army movement was&lt;br /&gt;
those who are reviewers&mdash;feel the same.&lt;br /&gt;
needed in connection with the great mass of&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the purchase of books, I can&lt;br /&gt;
democratised literature. The people wanted&lt;br /&gt;
quite believe that a man who is satiated with&lt;br /&gt;
leading in reading.&lt;br /&gt;
novels to review would not buy them, but I cannot&lt;br /&gt;
A new comic opera by Mr. Owen Hall and Mr. understand any writer asserting-apparently with&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Stuart will be produced at the Lyric pride&mdash;that he never buys a novel on principle.&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre after &ldquo; Florodora&rdquo; is taken off. The Authors, I should say, are great buyers of&lt;br /&gt;
cast will include Miss Madge Lessing, Miss books when they can afford them, and for the&lt;br /&gt;
Nancie Girling, Mr. Louis Bradfield, and Mr. best of reasons&mdash;because they are, or should be,&lt;br /&gt;
Willie Edouin.&lt;br /&gt;
book-lovers. Books form to them a little world&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Coriolanus&rdquo; is to be revived by Sir Henry of their own, and the real book-lover will, if&lt;br /&gt;
Irving when he returns to the Lyceum in April, necessary, deprive himself of many things in&lt;br /&gt;
with Miss Ellen Terry as Volumnia.&lt;br /&gt;
order to obtain a much-coveted book, be it a&lt;br /&gt;
The first performance of Mr. Haddon&lt;br /&gt;
novel, a technical work, or a volume of poems.&lt;br /&gt;
And how he prizes his books! None but the&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers&amp;#039;s new play, &ldquo;The Awakening,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
book-lover can realise how much they mean to&lt;br /&gt;
was postponed on account of the death of the&lt;br /&gt;
Queen, will take place at St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre on&lt;br /&gt;
him, as he lovingly handles them, reading and&lt;br /&gt;
Wednesday, Feb. 6.&lt;br /&gt;
re-reading his favourite pages or paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be a grand thing for authors and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Comyos Carr has adapted Carlo Goldoni&amp;#039;s booksellers alike if all the people who wished to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; La Locandiera&rdquo; for Miss Ellen Terry.&lt;br /&gt;
buy books could fully gratify that desire.&lt;br /&gt;
A new play by Mr. Pinero is likely to be the Unfortunately many of those who would most&lt;br /&gt;
vext attraction at the Garrick, and a comedy by prize books are unable to obtain them, or can get&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Carton at the Criterion ; but neither need be them only in very, very limited numbers.&lt;br /&gt;
expected for some little time, as the present plays To return to the subject, I merely offer these&lt;br /&gt;
at these houses&mdash;&ldquo; The Wedding Guest&rdquo; and remarks to express an opinion, and not by way of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Noble Lord&rdquo; respectively&mdash;continue to be complaint should the pages-entitled &ldquo; Books and&lt;br /&gt;
popular.&lt;br /&gt;
Reviews &amp;quot; be omitted in future numbers of The&lt;br /&gt;
Lecturing at Toynbee Hall, Mr. Sidney Lee&lt;br /&gt;
Author, for I have no doubt that they will be&lt;br /&gt;
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opportunities of seeing Shakespeare&amp;#039;s plays on&lt;br /&gt;
H. M. E. STANTON.&lt;br /&gt;
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the stage in the closing years of the last&lt;br /&gt;
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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.-N0. 10.]&lt;br /&gt;
MARCH 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
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...&lt;br /&gt;
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Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property-&lt;br /&gt;
1. France Leads the Way ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
2. The Copyright Bill ...&lt;br /&gt;
3. German Projected New Copyright Law&lt;br /&gt;
4. Over Produciion&lt;br /&gt;
5. Canadian Notes&lt;br /&gt;
6. The International Copyright Act&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund... ...&lt;br /&gt;
New York Letter. By John Russell Davidson&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
... 169 Paris Letter. By Darracotte Scott&lt;br /&gt;
... 177&lt;br /&gt;
Notes and News. By the Editor...&lt;br /&gt;
... 179&lt;br /&gt;
171 Publisbing on Commission... ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 181&lt;br /&gt;
171&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of American Authors&lt;br /&gt;
172&lt;br /&gt;
... ... 182&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Society of Authors ...&lt;br /&gt;
173&lt;br /&gt;
The Fraser Homes for Indigent Authors&lt;br /&gt;
... 183&lt;br /&gt;
173 Correspondence.-1. The Mote and the Beam. 2. Books and&lt;br /&gt;
.. 175 Reviewe-A Reply... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
.. 175 | Book and Play Talk...&lt;br /&gt;
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 186&lt;br /&gt;
... 182&lt;br /&gt;
172&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
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