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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 12.]&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
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Memoranda ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property-&lt;br /&gt;
1. Goldwin Smith on Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
2. Copyright in Austria&lt;br /&gt;
3. Capadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
4. &amp;quot;The Literary Year Book&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
5. A New Trick ...&lt;br /&gt;
6. White v. Constable ... &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Letter. By Darracotto Scott&lt;br /&gt;
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American Letter. By J. R. Davidson ..&lt;br /&gt;
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Notes and News. By the Editor...&lt;br /&gt;
... 220&lt;br /&gt;
Civil List Pensions. By W. Morris Colles&lt;br /&gt;
222&lt;br /&gt;
The Society&amp;#039;s Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
The Authors&amp;#039; Club ...&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence. - 1. Literature. 2. Commercial Morality.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Young Fiction Writers. 4. Editors ...&lt;br /&gt;
Book and Play Talk... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 226&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.&ndash;No. 12.)&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert 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;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances shonld be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
jocts whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS. 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;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property:&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
I. SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. Bat the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely carefal in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pooket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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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;
or old, for inspection and note. The information&amp;#039; thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. 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. Should&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatio con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
CEMBERS 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 gainea.&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;g-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&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;
hall.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;
1. TIVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
L advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispate arising in the condact of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable; the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
2 II&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
It also adopted a resolution calling on the&lt;br /&gt;
Government to modify the protection of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
I. &mdash; GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE COPYRIGHT&lt;br /&gt;
at present existing in treaties with France, Italy,&lt;br /&gt;
and Great Britain on the lines of the agreement&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTION.&lt;br /&gt;
with Germany, and to take steps with a view to&lt;br /&gt;
HE copyright question, on which Professor&lt;br /&gt;
concluding international treaties for the protection&lt;br /&gt;
Mavor, who has mastered it, has given you&lt;br /&gt;
of copyright with Switzerland, Russia, Roumania,&lt;br /&gt;
an article, is, of course, greatly, almost&lt;br /&gt;
and the United States. The proposal in regard&lt;br /&gt;
fatally, complicated by the prevalence of an&lt;br /&gt;
to the United States had particular reference to&lt;br /&gt;
illiberal protectionism in the United States. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
* Mr. the protection of musical works.&lt;br /&gt;
unk, the eminent New York publisher, some time The House also adopted a resolution requesting&lt;br /&gt;
ago, in a letter to The Times on &ldquo;The United the Government to subscribe to the Berne Conven-&lt;br /&gt;
States and Copyright,&amp;quot; adverted to the refusal of&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&lt;br /&gt;
the United States to allow the British applicant The Minister of Justice agreed to the introduc-&lt;br /&gt;
for their copyright to print in his own country,&lt;br /&gt;
tion of a Bill embodying these resolutions, and&lt;br /&gt;
while Great Britain allows the American applicant stated that the United States had declared its&lt;br /&gt;
for her copyright to print in his. He ascribed&lt;br /&gt;
willingness to conclude a separate treaty which was&lt;br /&gt;
this to the influence exercised by the American&lt;br /&gt;
particularly important in regard to musical works,&lt;br /&gt;
Printers&amp;#039; Union and its allied trades over the&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;Reuter.&lt;br /&gt;
Government of the United States. He was, no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt, right as to the fact. It is true that the&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
universal interests of literature, science, and art&lt;br /&gt;
The order printed below is the first that has&lt;br /&gt;
are sacrificed to those of a local handicraft. But&lt;br /&gt;
it would surely be paying a poor compliment to&lt;br /&gt;
been issued under the new Canadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Act of 1900. The order is exceedingly interest.&lt;br /&gt;
the American Government to plead on its behalf,&lt;br /&gt;
as an excuse for its failure to do justice, its sub-&lt;br /&gt;
ing from many points of view, but chiefly to the&lt;br /&gt;
jection to a sinister interest.&lt;br /&gt;
readers of The Author, because the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
The American printer, under the existing&lt;br /&gt;
Authors has made such strenuous endeavours to&lt;br /&gt;
support the view of the copyright law which has&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement, not only secures his own share of&lt;br /&gt;
the printing, but robs the English printer of that&lt;br /&gt;
resulted in the passing of this Act. As stated in&lt;br /&gt;
the report for last year, this Act practically closes,&lt;br /&gt;
which properly belongs to him.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a pity, as it seems to me, that matters&lt;br /&gt;
in a way satisfactory to all those concerned, a&lt;br /&gt;
difficult and troublesome but important question.&lt;br /&gt;
should ever have been allowed to rest on such a&lt;br /&gt;
footing. This is not free trade; it is connivance &ldquo; Department of Agriculture,&lt;br /&gt;
on the part of Great Britain at the most mani-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ottawa, Ont., March 15, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
festly unjust protection. Great Britain should &ldquo;Whereas, by an Act passed in the sixty-third&lt;br /&gt;
surely have said to the Americans that she was and sixty-fourth year of the reign of Her late&lt;br /&gt;
going into the Berne Convention, and they could Majesty, entitled - An Act to amend the Copy.&lt;br /&gt;
go into it or not as they thought best, but that right Act, it was provided that if a book as to&lt;br /&gt;
they could not expect to share its benefits without which there is a subsisting copyright under the&lt;br /&gt;
fulfilling its conditions. Had this been done, Copyright Act has been first lawfully published&lt;br /&gt;
there would have been an effort on the part of in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s Dominions other&lt;br /&gt;
the literary interest in the United States to bring than Canada, and if it is proved to the satisfac.&lt;br /&gt;
about a better arrangement, such as Mr. Funk&amp;#039;s tion of the Minister of Agriculture that the owner&lt;br /&gt;
house, to its honour, desires. At present there of the copyright so subsisting and of the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
is none.&lt;br /&gt;
right acquired by such publication has lawfully&lt;br /&gt;
That an Imperial copyright law as well as an granted a licence to reproduce in Canada from&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial marriage law and an Imperial patent law movable or other types, or from stereotype plates,&lt;br /&gt;
are the natural accessories of a united Empire or from lithograph stones, or by any process for&lt;br /&gt;
seems to me a position which is very difficult to facsimile reproduction an edition or editions of&lt;br /&gt;
assail.-GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L., in the Univer- such book designed for sale only in Canada, the&lt;br /&gt;
sity of Toronto Monthly.&lt;br /&gt;
Minister of Agriculture may, notwithstanding&lt;br /&gt;
anything in the Copyright Act, by order under&lt;br /&gt;
his hand, prohibit the importation, except with&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;COPYRIGHT IN AUSTRIA.&lt;br /&gt;
the written consent of the licensee, into Canada&lt;br /&gt;
The Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath of any copy of such books printed elsewhere ;&lt;br /&gt;
to-day (March 29) passed the Literary Convention provided that two such copies may be especially&lt;br /&gt;
with Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
imported for the bona fide use of any public free&lt;br /&gt;
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212&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
library or any university or college library or any The following remarks and comments on the&lt;br /&gt;
duly incorporated institution or society.&lt;br /&gt;
agreements may be useful to authors. There is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And whereas there is subsisting copyright in no doubt that a great many authors purchase and&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Act as to the book the title of which read &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; with a desire&lt;br /&gt;
is &bull; The Lane which had no Turning,&amp;#039; which book to get useful hints as to the management of&lt;br /&gt;
was first lawfully published in Great Britain, their property. These, no doubt, in many instances&lt;br /&gt;
and whereas it has been proved to my satisfaction they might acquire, but ihey cannot be too careful&lt;br /&gt;
that Gilbert Parker, the owner of the copyright how they deal with their agreements, and it is for&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; so subsisting and of the copyright acquired by their guidance that the following remarks are&lt;br /&gt;
such publication, has lawfully granted to George made:&lt;br /&gt;
N. Morang and Co. Limited, a licence to repro Firstly, the author of the article states as&lt;br /&gt;
duce in Canada editions of such book designed follows: &ldquo; The Copyright Act of 1842 gives the&lt;br /&gt;
for sale only in Canada.&lt;br /&gt;
author of a published book copyright in it on his&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I do hereby order, subject to the proviso registering it at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall.&rdquo; This state-&lt;br /&gt;
contained in the said Act, that the importation, ment is very misleading, as it is not necessary to&lt;br /&gt;
except with the written consent of George N. register at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall in order to obtain&lt;br /&gt;
Morang and Co. Limited, into Canada, of the copyright. Copyright is obtained by publication.&lt;br /&gt;
said book printed elsewhere, be and the same is It is only necessary to register at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall&lt;br /&gt;
hereby prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
prior to taking action for infringement.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Given under my hand and seal on the day With regard to the royalty agreement he then&lt;br /&gt;
and date above written.&lt;br /&gt;
states on the question of how far the contract&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (Signed) SIDNEY FISHER,&lt;br /&gt;
for publication should be a personal one or not:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Minister of Agriculture.&rdquo; &ldquo; It ought to be presumed that a publisher who&lt;br /&gt;
conducts a respectable and honourable business&lt;br /&gt;
will, when he retires from it, probably do so,&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-AGREEMENTS AND &ldquo;THE LITERARY YEAR however suddenly, respectably and honourably;&lt;br /&gt;
Book.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and he ought not to be deprived of the right,&lt;br /&gt;
The new issue of &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; is which he himself allows the author, of assigning&lt;br /&gt;
now before the public, and on the whole the his interest in the work if necessary. Deprived&lt;br /&gt;
editor is to be congratulated on the results of his of that right he would be justified in making the&lt;br /&gt;
efforts. But from the authors&amp;#039; point of view, hardest bargain possible for a mere life-interest&lt;br /&gt;
that is, from the point of view of the owners of in the property.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
literary property&mdash;the article on agreements must Perhaps lack of space has prevented this&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily meet with severe strictures.&lt;br /&gt;
matter from being dealt with fully; there are&lt;br /&gt;
In the introduction the editor says that in this two or three points, however, which should be dis-&lt;br /&gt;
book he takes &ldquo;the value of the author and the tinctly pointed out: firstly, that the property is&lt;br /&gt;
honesty of the man of business with whom he the author&amp;#039;s, that therefore he should have the&lt;br /&gt;
deals for granted,&rdquo; but in dealing with the ques. right of dealing with it; secondly, that many of&lt;br /&gt;
tion of agreements the honesty of the publisher the best known business houses are limited liability&lt;br /&gt;
is not in dispute. The real issue is whether a companies; thirdly, that the question of liquida-&lt;br /&gt;
book like &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; should deal tion and bankruptcy has been overlooked, and the&lt;br /&gt;
with agreements from the standpoint of the possibility that misfortune might fall to the lot&lt;br /&gt;
author or the publisher. The editor remarks, of even the best houses. In this third case the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Impartiality is our key-note&amp;quot;; if this were author&amp;#039;s property and the right of dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
possible, it is not expedient when an appeal is it might be sold under an order of the court to&lt;br /&gt;
being made to authors, and if it were expedient, the highest bidder, and the position of the author&lt;br /&gt;
the doctrine has hardly been carried out in the would be unsatisfactory and his property im-&lt;br /&gt;
article referred to. If the line of impartiality perilled.&lt;br /&gt;
had been carried out, it would have been neces- In Clause I as put forward for the reader&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sary to draft a clause and elaborate the arguments consideration the publisher undertakes to pro-&lt;br /&gt;
pro and con. This would have entailed great duce &ldquo;at his own risk and expense&amp;quot; and &ldquo; with&lt;br /&gt;
labour, a larger knowledge, and larger scope. It due diligence,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;to use his best endeavours&lt;br /&gt;
follows, therefore, that the agreements should to sell the book.&rdquo; The remark passed by the&lt;br /&gt;
either have been dealt with exhaustively or not writer is as follows: &ldquo; Part of the undertaking&lt;br /&gt;
at all, and the same remark applies equally to would seem superfluous on the part of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
other articles contained in this book. The space lisher.&rdquo; In an article published in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
given is too small to deal with the question in for July, 1900, this subject was fully dealt with,&lt;br /&gt;
a satisfactory manner.&lt;br /&gt;
and examples there quoted&mdash;examples which have&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 213 (#291) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
213&lt;br /&gt;
come before the Society-show distinctly that in case&mdash;that is, through an agent--at a charge of&lt;br /&gt;
many instances the publisher does not publish 10 per cent. only. Again, when a publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
with due diligence and does not use his best given the right to produce throughout the world,&lt;br /&gt;
endeavours to sell the book. Full knowledge it very often pays him better, missing the American&lt;br /&gt;
tends to show that an undertaking such as put copyright for the author, to sell stereos to the&lt;br /&gt;
forward in Clause 1 is by no means superfluous, United States. This course, however, is by no&lt;br /&gt;
in many cases it is absolutely necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
means so satisfactory for the author.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to Clause 2, which deals with the With regard to Clause 4 (the clause for pay-&lt;br /&gt;
indemnity to the publisher against loss for libellous ment of royalties), one very important point has&lt;br /&gt;
and scandalous matter contained in the book, been missed out-namely, that several of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
some clause on this basis is absolutely necessary lishers put net books on the market; and it&lt;br /&gt;
and fair to the publisher, but the clause put should be expressly stated in the agreement&lt;br /&gt;
down is much too wide and gives too large a whether the book is sold net or subject to the&lt;br /&gt;
scope. Again, the comment on this clause runs as usual discounts. If the book is sold net, the&lt;br /&gt;
follows : &ldquo;And the publisher may usually be author&amp;#039;s royalty should be raised proportionately.&lt;br /&gt;
entrusted with the discretionary power.&amp;quot; But if In any case it is of vital importance that the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is indemnified it is really of little lished price of the book should be inserted in the&lt;br /&gt;
importance to him how expensive the cost may be agreement. This point has been touched on by&lt;br /&gt;
One instance was brought to the notice of the the writer of the article.&lt;br /&gt;
Society in which the publisher under this indem- &ldquo;Where copies or sheets of the actual book&lt;br /&gt;
nity clause was not only anxious to fight a very itself are exported, payment should be by way of&lt;br /&gt;
expensive case in America on behalf of the author, royalty on the English published price.&amp;quot; This is&lt;br /&gt;
but desired to carry it to the higher courts. not the usual custom, nor is the method satis-&lt;br /&gt;
There is no doubt that the author should have factory. On colonial editions a sum is generally&lt;br /&gt;
some power of limiting expensive costs.&lt;br /&gt;
paid on every copy when exported in sheets.&lt;br /&gt;
In Clause 3 the publisher is given the right to It is impossible to deal with these two last&lt;br /&gt;
publish for the legal term of copyright. The clauses exhaustively. The reader can only be&lt;br /&gt;
importance of this clause cannot be over-esti. referred to the Society&amp;#039;s books &ldquo; The Methods of&lt;br /&gt;
mated. It should be pointed out that in the Publishing,&amp;quot; &ldquo; The Addenda to the Methods,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
other clauses referring to a royalty agreement, &ldquo;The Forms of Agreement issued by the Pub-&lt;br /&gt;
there is no arrangement for remuneration of the lishers&amp;#039; Association, with Comments by the Secre-&lt;br /&gt;
author on the sale of serial publication and of his tary of the Society,&amp;quot; and to Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
minor rights. The answer, no doubt, would be &ldquo;The Pen and the Book.&rdquo; The question embraced&lt;br /&gt;
that in Clause 3 the publisher has only the right in these two clauses is so large and of such&lt;br /&gt;
to publish in book form. This, however, is not importance to the author that a superficial com-&lt;br /&gt;
stated, and the point is vital when the propertyment on a superficial and inadequate statement&lt;br /&gt;
of the author is being dealt with. Some of the is more likely to throw the author into difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
comments by the writer are satisfactory and than to assist him in coming to any satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
sound, especially with regard to the price of the conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;
book. The day of publication is also an impor. The account clause follows next. Semi-annual&lt;br /&gt;
tant point, as many authors have more than one accounts should be preferred (see the books&lt;br /&gt;
contract for book publication, and it is of vital already referred to). Thirteen copies should not&lt;br /&gt;
importance that two books should not be issued be reckoned as twelve. If thirteen cupies are&lt;br /&gt;
simultaneously. The question of American pub- reckoned as twelve then the royalty should he&lt;br /&gt;
lication necessitates that care should be taken proportionately increased. The remarks with&lt;br /&gt;
with regard to the date on which a book is pro. regard to the amount allowed for corrections are&lt;br /&gt;
duced, but the whole question is dealt with by by no means in accord with the majority of agree-&lt;br /&gt;
the writer too superficially, either because he did ments put forward by publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
not care to deal with the author&amp;#039;s side of the Clause 6 refers to the revision of the book by&lt;br /&gt;
case, or through ignorance or want of space. the author, and on this clause no comment is&lt;br /&gt;
The remarks with regard to the sale of serial made, as it is stated that no comment is neces-&lt;br /&gt;
and rights other than book rights are useful. It sary. But a comment is exceedingly necessary as&lt;br /&gt;
should, however, be pointed out that a publisher it is of the greatest importance, especially in the&lt;br /&gt;
usually asks 50 per cent. of the returns on the case of technical work, that the author should&lt;br /&gt;
sale of these rights, and takes very little trouble retain the right of revision and not permit that&lt;br /&gt;
with regard to selling them ; whereas an author the book should be arbitrarily dealt with by the&lt;br /&gt;
can place these rights either by himself or through publishers. This point should be made quite&lt;br /&gt;
an agent to greater advantage, and in the latter clear. The clause as it stands is not so, as from the&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 214 (#292) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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214&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
There is one publisher certainly who states his&lt;br /&gt;
terms in the manner and order set out in the&lt;br /&gt;
Year Book, one publisher whose agreements have&lt;br /&gt;
often been commented on by the Society. No&lt;br /&gt;
author, however, should sign an agreement such&lt;br /&gt;
as is put forward in &ldquo; The Literary Year Book.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
comments on most of the points at fault have&lt;br /&gt;
been exhaustively made in the agreements issued&lt;br /&gt;
by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association and printed by&lt;br /&gt;
the Society in pamphlet form.&lt;br /&gt;
latter part of it it would appear that if the author&lt;br /&gt;
neglected to revise the book, considering, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
that it did not need revision, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
might arbitrarily revise it, and deduct what&lt;br /&gt;
ever cost there was from the returns to the&lt;br /&gt;
author. Again it should be remarked that the&lt;br /&gt;
property is the author&amp;#039;s, and the author must have&lt;br /&gt;
the right of safeguarding it.&lt;br /&gt;
The last clause, with regard to the remaindering&lt;br /&gt;
of the book, again gives the publisher too large a&lt;br /&gt;
power. He alone has the right to remainder the&lt;br /&gt;
book when he pleases. The author&amp;#039;s reputation&lt;br /&gt;
is in no way taken into consideration. From&lt;br /&gt;
examples that have been brought to the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
notice it is shown to be of importance to prevent&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher from remaindering the work until&lt;br /&gt;
after it has had a fair chance of sale.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not infrequently the case that a publisher&lt;br /&gt;
may desire to get the book off his shelves when&lt;br /&gt;
it may be selling from the author&amp;#039;s point of view&lt;br /&gt;
quite satisfactorily. The real point to be remem-&lt;br /&gt;
bered is, to allow the author some satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
control.&lt;br /&gt;
This is the&rsquo;end of the comments on the royalty&lt;br /&gt;
agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
It must not be thought that all suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
ught that all suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
made are unsatisfactory and inadequate; some of&lt;br /&gt;
them are excellent, if lukewarm, but the omissions&lt;br /&gt;
are glaring.&lt;br /&gt;
If the only fault to find with the proposed&lt;br /&gt;
agreements were faults of omission little need&lt;br /&gt;
have been said, but from the authors&amp;#039; point of&lt;br /&gt;
view the mistakes of commission necessitate&lt;br /&gt;
putting forward these corrections for their&lt;br /&gt;
guidance and their safeguard.&lt;br /&gt;
The next agreement put forward is the share&lt;br /&gt;
profit agreement. It is absolutely impossible for&lt;br /&gt;
the contributor to &ldquo;The Literary Year Book&rdquo; to&lt;br /&gt;
deal with such a complicated and dangerous sub.&lt;br /&gt;
ject in anything like a reliable manner in two&lt;br /&gt;
pages. It will be only necessary to state that, of&lt;br /&gt;
the comments made, the one with regard to adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisements is entirely misleading. The author ought&lt;br /&gt;
to have a veto on the amount spent in advertising&lt;br /&gt;
and the place where the advertisements are pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duced, and no advertisements on any account&lt;br /&gt;
should be made in the publisher&amp;#039;s own magazines&lt;br /&gt;
without special leave of the author, and then at&lt;br /&gt;
simply the cost of setting up the type and print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing. This subject has been fully dealt with in&lt;br /&gt;
the books published by the Society. Authors&lt;br /&gt;
should strongly guard against adopting this&lt;br /&gt;
method of production. The last agreement that&lt;br /&gt;
will be dealt with is where the publisher is com-&lt;br /&gt;
missioned to publish the book at the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
own expense. The writer of the article states&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the terms of such business are usually stated by&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher in the following manner and order.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
V.-A New TRICK.&lt;br /&gt;
I send you herewith a letter which I clipped&lt;br /&gt;
out of a late number of the Nation which calls&lt;br /&gt;
attention to a new system of deception, apparently,&lt;br /&gt;
that is being developed to the injury of authors.&lt;br /&gt;
It would appear that certain persons buy from&lt;br /&gt;
the authorised publishers printings of sheets of a&lt;br /&gt;
book and then add matter of some kind or other.&lt;br /&gt;
divide up the bulk into a large number of&lt;br /&gt;
volumes, and put these out as &ldquo;an edition &amp;quot; at&lt;br /&gt;
fancy prices-prices probably which no person&lt;br /&gt;
would pay, knowing the facts. The result is that&lt;br /&gt;
when the author comes to prepare a genuine&lt;br /&gt;
edition, intended for book lovers and those who&lt;br /&gt;
would ordinarily pay for fine editions of such&lt;br /&gt;
works, he finds that the market has already been&lt;br /&gt;
supplied in the way suggested in the inclosed&lt;br /&gt;
lettter.&lt;br /&gt;
A. T. GURLITZ.&lt;br /&gt;
PEPys&amp;#039;s Diary.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir,-A few days ago a book agent, representing a subscrip-&lt;br /&gt;
tion house, called upon me and offered a set of Wheatley&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
edition of &ldquo; Pepys&amp;#039;s Diary&rdquo; in eighteen volumes, at prices&lt;br /&gt;
ranging from about 50 dollars in buckram binding to I don&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
know how much in &amp;quot;crushed levant.&rdquo; He unblushingly&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that it was the &ldquo; only complete&amp;quot; edition, and was&lt;br /&gt;
imported from abroad by his firm As a caution to others&lt;br /&gt;
who may be called upon in the same way, allow me to state&lt;br /&gt;
that the only complete copyright edition of &ldquo;Pepys&amp;#039;s Diary,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
edited by Wheatley, is published by the Macmillan Com-&lt;br /&gt;
pany, in nine volumes, at i dollar 50 cents a volume. The&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan Company sold 500 sets of the sheets, printed from&lt;br /&gt;
their plates at the Norwood Press, to a subscription house for&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;extra illustrating,&amp;quot; and this is the so-called &amp;quot; imported &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
edition which is being foisted off on an unsuspecting-or&lt;br /&gt;
credulous-public in eighteen volumes at a price anywhere&lt;br /&gt;
from 3 dollars a volume ap.-Louis N. Wilson, Librarian,&lt;br /&gt;
Clark University, Worcester, Mass, Feb. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&mdash;WHITE v. CONSTABLE.&lt;br /&gt;
We have received a communication from the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff in this case. It contains :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. The report of the case from the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Circular.&lt;br /&gt;
2. A letter from the plaintiff addressed to that&lt;br /&gt;
paper.&lt;br /&gt;
3. A statement of the case by the plaintiff.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 215 (#293) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
215&lt;br /&gt;
In the last number of The Author attention&lt;br /&gt;
was called to the very strange and unintelligible&lt;br /&gt;
reports of the trial. The whole case, however,&lt;br /&gt;
seems worse-even more unintelligible-than&lt;br /&gt;
appeared from these reports.&lt;br /&gt;
By the written agreement the book had to be&lt;br /&gt;
produced on or before March 20, 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff states that by this agreement the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers were to receive as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;For the edition,&rdquo; meaning, one&lt;br /&gt;
supposes, composition, print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing, paper, and binding (query,&lt;br /&gt;
corrections as well ?)............ 95 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
For advertising ..................... 15 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies free, say, at 3s. 6d. ... 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Moulding (68. a sheet of 2 1 sheets) 6&lt;br /&gt;
aooo&lt;br /&gt;
oooo&lt;br /&gt;
Total .........................&pound;133 16 0&lt;br /&gt;
They were to pay the author 28. 6d. a copy for&lt;br /&gt;
all copies over and above the first 100, and they&lt;br /&gt;
were to issue an edition of 1500.&lt;br /&gt;
With these figures, suppose 600 copies were to&lt;br /&gt;
be sold. How would the author and publisher&lt;br /&gt;
respectively stand ?&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHER. &pound; $. d.&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies free........................ 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
500 copies at 38. 6d. less royalty?&lt;br /&gt;
at 28. 6d. ...&lt;br /&gt;
olo o&lt;br /&gt;
the edition sells the publisher makes &pound;87 108.,&lt;br /&gt;
the author &pound;58 145.&lt;br /&gt;
Or, to put it another way, 1030 copies must be&lt;br /&gt;
sold before the author realises his advance, and in&lt;br /&gt;
the most favourable event possible&mdash;a most&lt;br /&gt;
unlikely event-he can only realise &pound;58 148., from&lt;br /&gt;
which must be deducted any extras that may be&lt;br /&gt;
charged.&lt;br /&gt;
These figures suppose that the publisher made&lt;br /&gt;
no profit on the money advanced. It was stated,&lt;br /&gt;
however, in the course of the trial that the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers had lost money by the transaction.&lt;br /&gt;
This evidence had nothing to do with the point&lt;br /&gt;
at issue. It is a pity that this was the case. An&lt;br /&gt;
examination into the figures would have been&lt;br /&gt;
interesting.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. White&amp;#039;s communication opens up a great&lt;br /&gt;
many points, all of which might have formed&lt;br /&gt;
subjects for cross-examination, but as they&lt;br /&gt;
turn upon verbal agreements, which are always&lt;br /&gt;
liable to misunderstanding, it is not desirable to&lt;br /&gt;
touch upon them here. The first and most im-&lt;br /&gt;
portant question is as to the cause of the delay.&lt;br /&gt;
There is nothing at all in the evidence to show&lt;br /&gt;
that the plaintiff caused the first fortnight&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
delay : the evidence as reported tends quite in the&lt;br /&gt;
other directionthat the sheets should have been&lt;br /&gt;
placed in the binder&amp;#039;s hands in time to bring out&lt;br /&gt;
the book on the 20th: that the binders were&lt;br /&gt;
ready for them : that they only got &ldquo;some early&lt;br /&gt;
copies&rdquo; on March 31, so that the agreement was&lt;br /&gt;
then broken by nearly a fortnight: and that&lt;br /&gt;
the subsequent delay, even if it were caused&lt;br /&gt;
by the plaintiff, could not remedy the loss of&lt;br /&gt;
that fortnight and the breaking of the agree.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, if his statement as to the contract is&lt;br /&gt;
correct.&lt;br /&gt;
The second and most important question is as&lt;br /&gt;
to the amount of damage suffered by the plaintiff.&lt;br /&gt;
It is easy to be wise after the event, but would it&lt;br /&gt;
not have been better to have accepted the amount&lt;br /&gt;
paid into court rather than win the case but&lt;br /&gt;
lose the costs ?&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff&amp;#039;s letter to the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular&lt;br /&gt;
on April 6 fully sets out the inaccuracy of the&lt;br /&gt;
report.&lt;br /&gt;
The Circular expressed sorrow for its in-&lt;br /&gt;
accuracies. The Report was made up, it said,&lt;br /&gt;
from three sources. One would like to know from&lt;br /&gt;
which of the three the following interesting little&lt;br /&gt;
allegations were gathered :&lt;br /&gt;
J. That the plaintiff had &ldquo;sought and found&lt;br /&gt;
bad advice from some other London publisher.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
2. That he had given &pound;110&ldquo; towards&rdquo; the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production, whereas he gave &pound;95 for the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production-a very different thing, especially&lt;br /&gt;
considering that the book, as the author alleges,&lt;br /&gt;
was printed in Holland.&lt;br /&gt;
Total...........................&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;42 10&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
500 copies at 2s. 6d. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Less money advanced ............... 116&lt;br /&gt;
Juu wpies du 28. Oll. ...............&lt;br /&gt;
02 10&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
Loss ............... &pound;53 16 0&lt;br /&gt;
This is an excellent arrangement for the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, as, without taking any risk if the book&lt;br /&gt;
sells only 600 copies, he makes &pound;42 10s., but the&lt;br /&gt;
author loses &pound;53 16s.&lt;br /&gt;
Suppose the 1500 copies all sold :&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHER. &pound; s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies, free ...... ....... 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
1400 copies at 1s. .................. 70 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
ܝܘ ܘ ܘ | ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
Total.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;87 100&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
1400 copies at 28. 6d. ............... 175&lt;br /&gt;
Less money advanced ...... 116&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;58 14 0&lt;br /&gt;
Here, again, the publisher&amp;#039;s sound position is&lt;br /&gt;
established. The author takes all the risk. If&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 216 (#294) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
216&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
For other points we refer the reader to Mr. made the fortune of its predecessor. The first&lt;br /&gt;
White&amp;#039;s letter in the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular. The issues prognosticate a higher literary level.&lt;br /&gt;
editor, after stating that the Report was made up M. Juven is a man wise in his generation. This&lt;br /&gt;
from three different sources, says that he &ldquo; put in time he can afford to be a little more scrupulous.&lt;br /&gt;
the account just as it came&rdquo; to him. But it&lt;br /&gt;
came from three sources; someone, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
M. DESCHAMPS AND OTHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
must have pieced it together; and someone must M. Deschamps is winning golden opinions in&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the &ldquo;inaccuracies&rdquo; admitted the United States. His series of lectures on&lt;br /&gt;
by the editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Le Th&eacute;&acirc;tre contemporain en France,&amp;quot; dealing&lt;br /&gt;
In this treatment of the case we have to with the French drama from Dumas fils down&lt;br /&gt;
express some sympathy with the defendants. It to the present day (including a survey of the&lt;br /&gt;
was clearly not their fault that a case involving works of MM. Paul Hervieu, Maurice Dounay,&lt;br /&gt;
literary property should have been treated with so Henri Lavedan, Victorien Sardou, the late Henri&lt;br /&gt;
much levity, and reported with so much inaccuracy. de Bornier, Jean Richepin, Edmond Rostand,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c.) is reported to have been highly appreciated by&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Harvard University. The&lt;br /&gt;
remaining twenty-two universities and literary&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
associations which seconded the Harvard French&lt;br /&gt;
Club&amp;#039;s invitation will, undoubtedly, prove an&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
equally grateful audience.&lt;br /&gt;
THE present and future relations of Great Meantime, M. Edmond Rostand, who is engaged&lt;br /&gt;
| Britain and France have of late occupied on a new play entitled &ldquo;La Maison des Amants,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- the attention of more than one writer. for the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise ; M. Georges de Porte-&lt;br /&gt;
One of the most practical articles on this knotty Riche, delicate versifier and successful dramatist ;&lt;br /&gt;
subject is that which appeared in the Nouvelle M. St&eacute;phen Li&eacute;geard, whose distinguished poetical&lt;br /&gt;
Revue, with the signature of M. Louis Jadot. record is reinforced by his upwards of thirty&lt;br /&gt;
Its general tenor may be gathered from the years&amp;#039; close friendship with the late Henri de&lt;br /&gt;
following extract:&lt;br /&gt;
Bornier; and M. Edmond Haraucourt, im.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The English and French temperaments are passioned poet and vigorous writer, are among&lt;br /&gt;
too different ever to admit of a very lively the candidates whose names are announced as&lt;br /&gt;
sympathy between the two nations, but that need preparing to contest the vacant de Bornier&lt;br /&gt;
not prevent a discreet and pacific understanding, fauteuil. Leconte de Lisle entertained a warm&lt;br /&gt;
in the maintenance of which both parties have an admiration for the last-named candidate&amp;#039;s works.&lt;br /&gt;
interest. We have, in 1900, imported goods to In his solitary contribution to the &ldquo; Anthologie&lt;br /&gt;
England amounting to over 1,300,000,000 francs; des po&egrave;tes fran&ccedil;ais,&rdquo; we find this flattering&lt;br /&gt;
while England, on her side, has exported to us judgment: ..&lt;br /&gt;
productions amounting to about 500,000,000 &ldquo; Among all the young poets who have revealed&lt;br /&gt;
francs. Two nations having such important com themselves during these latter years, Haraucourt&lt;br /&gt;
mercial exchanges may sulk, but not fall out is assuredly the most remarkable and the best&lt;br /&gt;
with each other; they may the less do so since gifted, both as thinker and writer.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
they constitute two important factors of civilisa. The French Academy ratified this verdict by&lt;br /&gt;
tion, which implies in each the existence of an bestowing on M. Haraucourt the &ldquo;Prix de&lt;br /&gt;
amount of intelligence, energy, science, and labour, Po&eacute;sie.&rdquo; But that was before M. Rostand&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
which imposes esteem.&lt;br /&gt;
star had reached its zenith, eclipsing all lesser&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Do not let us be led astray by the aggressive lights. Needless to add that the latter is gene-&lt;br /&gt;
tone of our own or the English Press; but let us rally expected to be the successful candidate.&lt;br /&gt;
study and seek to comprehend the social, The election will probably take place towards the&lt;br /&gt;
economical, and political life of our neighbours, end of May, as the official receptions of the last&lt;br /&gt;
in order that we may take of their good qualities newly-fledged pair of immortals (MM. Faguet&lt;br /&gt;
that which is assimilable with our temperament, and Berthelot) have been postponed the first to&lt;br /&gt;
and avoid the defects this study will have revealed April 18 or 25, the second to May 2 or 9.&lt;br /&gt;
to us.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A salutary counsel which, if put into practice,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LES HABITS VERTS.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
can scarcely fail to be otherwise than beneficial to The French Academy has unanimously bestowed&lt;br /&gt;
both parties. &Agrave; propos of the subject, it is to be the Jouy prize (value 14,000 francs) on M.&lt;br /&gt;
hoped that La Contemporaine, the new periodical Adolphe Brisson. This prize is awarded every&lt;br /&gt;
launched by M. Juven, founder of Le Rire, will two years to the author of the best work, which&lt;br /&gt;
not degenerate into the rabid Anglophobia which has appeared during that period&mdash;&ldquo;soit d&amp;#039;observa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 217 (#295) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
217&lt;br /&gt;
tion, soit d&amp;#039;imagination, soit de critique, ayant The &ldquo; Euvres de Moli&egrave;re &rdquo; (1666), 2 vols., in&lt;br /&gt;
pour objet l&amp;#039;&eacute;tude des m&aelig;urs actuelles.&rdquo; In his duodecimo, Mercier binding, fetched 1860 francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
amusing sketch entitled &ldquo;Les Habits Verts&rdquo; a second &ldquo; (Euvres de Moli&egrave;re &rdquo; (1673), 8 vols. in&lt;br /&gt;
(viz., the green coats adorned with palms which&amp;#039; 12, ancient binding, was bought for 7720 francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
form the ceremonial uniform de rigueur of while a third edition of the same author (1674-&lt;br /&gt;
members of the French Academy) M. Brisson 1675), 7 vols. in 12, Frantz-Bauzonnet binding,&lt;br /&gt;
asserts the coveted garment to be an equivocal obtained 1950 francs. A fourth edition (1682),&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure to fat men. It irresistibly attracts the bearing the La Reynie arms, Frantz-Bauzonnet&lt;br /&gt;
eye, and throws up the physical imperfections of binding, fetched 13,200 francs. The original&lt;br /&gt;
the wearer. We are informed that the celebrated editions of &ldquo; Les Pr&eacute;cieuses Ridicules&amp;quot; (1660), in&lt;br /&gt;
Ernest Renan was the greatest martyr to the 12, Mercier binding; of &ldquo; Sganarelle&amp;quot; (1660), in&lt;br /&gt;
green coat who has yet existed. After having 12, Cuzin binding; of &ldquo;Le Tartuffe&amp;quot; (1669), in&lt;br /&gt;
disbursed the necessary 750 francs for his 12, Cuzin binding; of &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Amour M&eacute;decin &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Academical costume, he confidingly imagined the (1666), in 12, Mercier binding; of &ldquo;Le Bour-&lt;br /&gt;
matter was finished. But he reckoned without geois Gentilhomme&amp;quot; (1671), in 12, Frantz-Bau-&lt;br /&gt;
his bost. Immediately after his nomination he zonnet binding; of &ldquo;Psych&eacute;&rdquo; (1671), in 12,&lt;br /&gt;
commenced to expand immoderately. Each time Cuzin binding; and of the &ldquo; Recueil des Ballets&lt;br /&gt;
he was forced to don the regulation garb:&lt;br /&gt;
et F&ecirc;tes de la Cour,&rdquo; by the same author, were&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Il constatait avec d&eacute;sespoir que ce damn&eacute; respectively sold for 5100 francs, 3000 francs,&lt;br /&gt;
v&ecirc;tement semblait s&amp;#039;&ecirc;tre r&eacute;tr&eacute;ci. &ldquo;Il for&ccedil;ait, il 1220 francs, 1000 francs, 1060 francs, 2525&lt;br /&gt;
for&ccedil;ait!... Il arrivait bien &agrave; s&amp;#039;introduire francs, and 2405 francs; &ldquo; Les Sentiments de&lt;br /&gt;
dans la carapace, mais il ne pouvait plus remuer l&amp;#039;Acad&eacute;mie Fran&ccedil;aise sur le Cid&rdquo; (1638), in 8,&lt;br /&gt;
les bras. On eut dit une tortue dress&eacute;e en bearing the Cardinal de Richelieu&amp;#039;s arms, Le&lt;br /&gt;
&eacute;quilibre sur ses pattes de derri&egrave;re.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Gascon binding, fetched 9420 francs; while the&lt;br /&gt;
Several times be sent for his tailor and avowed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Euvres de Louise Lab&eacute;&rdquo; (1555), ancient&lt;br /&gt;
his suffering. The tailor finally hinted that the&lt;br /&gt;
binding, obtained 5000 francs. The &ldquo; Euvres&lt;br /&gt;
best remedy was to order a new coat. But the&lt;br /&gt;
pat. But the Compl&egrave;tes &rdquo; of Rabelais (1556), in 16, were&lt;br /&gt;
author of &ldquo;La Vie de J&eacute;sus &rdquo; turned a deaf ear&lt;br /&gt;
bought for 3000 francs ; and the original&lt;br /&gt;
to the suggestion. He had no mind to disburse editions of La Fontaine&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Contes et Nouvelles&lt;br /&gt;
a second 750 francs. Instead of doing so, he put&lt;br /&gt;
en Vers,&rdquo; in 12, in red morocco binding and&lt;br /&gt;
on his most affable air, and with the episcopal&lt;br /&gt;
gilded, and &ldquo; Fables Choisies&amp;quot; (1668) respectively&lt;br /&gt;
unction with which all his speeches and gestures&lt;br /&gt;
fetched 800 and 1060 francs. The original&lt;br /&gt;
were impregnated :&lt;br /&gt;
edition of the &ldquo;Esther&rdquo; of Racine (1689), bear-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Look you, friend,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo; you are a skil-&lt;br /&gt;
ing Mme. de Maintenon&amp;#039;s arms, ancient binding,&lt;br /&gt;
ful man. You know all the secrets of your art.&lt;br /&gt;
was bought for 7500 francs; while the &ldquo; (Euvres&lt;br /&gt;
Do you not think that an adroit repairing might&lt;br /&gt;
de Racine&amp;quot; (1697), 2 vols., Frantz-Bauzonnet&lt;br /&gt;
restore to this garment its lost elegance? I am&lt;br /&gt;
binding, fetched only 1050 francs.&lt;br /&gt;
like B&eacute;ranger; I love my old coat. It would be&lt;br /&gt;
A BOLD-FACED Piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
painful to me to separate myself from it.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M. Henry Fouquier, the well-known dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
The tailor was touched by the appeal. He did&lt;br /&gt;
critic of the Figaro, recently appeared before the&lt;br /&gt;
his utmost. The coat was transformed into a&lt;br /&gt;
Sixth Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine,&lt;br /&gt;
comfortable garment. &ldquo;And,&rdquo; adds M. Brisson,&lt;br /&gt;
suing for damages from M. Cios (advertising&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the great philosopher had the happiness of&lt;br /&gt;
agent) on account of a bold-faced act of literary&lt;br /&gt;
dying without having renewed his Academical&lt;br /&gt;
piracy perpetrated by the latter gentleman to the&lt;br /&gt;
costume !&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
detriment of M. Henry Fouquier and of the&lt;br /&gt;
THE DE VILLENEUVE SALE.&lt;br /&gt;
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. M. Cios had&lt;br /&gt;
The following prices offered at the De Ville obtained from Mme. Sarah Bernhardt the mono-&lt;br /&gt;
neuve sale (H&ocirc;tel Drouot for choice editions of poly of the sale of the &ldquo; Aiglon&rdquo; programme.&lt;br /&gt;
the respective works below cited will rejoice all Being desirous to avoid paying for the analysis of&lt;br /&gt;
loyal bibliophiles and, likewise, the fortunate the play usually contained in such booklet-&lt;br /&gt;
possessors of rare volumes. It will be remembered programmes, he hit upon the expedient of copying&lt;br /&gt;
that the late M. Guyot de Villeneuve was for verbatim the critique on the &ldquo; Aiglon &amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
many years president of the Society of French appeared in the Figaro above the signature of&lt;br /&gt;
Bibliophiles. The sum total realised by the sale the dramatic critic of that paper. M. Fouquier&lt;br /&gt;
of his magnificent library&mdash;now irretrievably duly explained to the Tribunal that, being a&lt;br /&gt;
dispersed-amounted to 399,947 francs (almost member of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres, he&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;16,000).&lt;br /&gt;
was unable to authorise any person to reproduce&lt;br /&gt;
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218&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the article in question. Had Mme. Bernhardt Samuel L. Clemens as an expert witness, called&lt;br /&gt;
herself requested him to abandon the royalty due by Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s attorney to testify to the value,&lt;br /&gt;
to him therefrom, he could only have refunded as an author&amp;#039;s asset, of an author&amp;#039;s distinctive&lt;br /&gt;
her the money after it had been regularly trade-mark. Mr. Clemens&amp;#039; trade-mark is &ldquo;Mark&lt;br /&gt;
collected by the society. He therefore demanded Twain &rdquo;; Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s trade-mark in the United&lt;br /&gt;
from M. Cios 3000 francs damages, since that States is the elephant-headed Ganesha, the god of&lt;br /&gt;
gentleman had not only reproduced the Figaro auspicious beginnings, and, although the analogy&lt;br /&gt;
article without authorisation, but had obtained seems fanciful to the layman, Mr. Clemens was per-&lt;br /&gt;
important profits by his dishonest proceeding. mitted by the commissioner to expound upon the&lt;br /&gt;
M. Fouquier won the case. The defendant not right of an author to exclusive ownership in any&lt;br /&gt;
appearing, judgment by default was pronounced pen-name and device whicb he chooses to adopt.&lt;br /&gt;
against him.&lt;br /&gt;
The informal character of the semi-judicial pro-&lt;br /&gt;
IN MEMORIAM.&lt;br /&gt;
ceedings allowed Mr. Clemens to smoke several&lt;br /&gt;
The death of M. Philippe Gille, journalist, cigars while addressing the tribunal ; he appeared&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist, and literary critic of the Figaro, has to enjoy himself, and he asserted vigorously that&lt;br /&gt;
been widely regretted. &ldquo; He read everything Mr. Kipling should defend to the last ditch his&lt;br /&gt;
conscientiously; he analysed admirably; he property in Ganesha, as would the humorist&lt;br /&gt;
quoted judiciously; and he judged impartially, himself defend his own property in the noin de&lt;br /&gt;
never forgetting the respect due to successful plume &ldquo; Mark Twain.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
talent, nor the encouragement necessary to the Mr. Clemens will soon have the opportunity so&lt;br /&gt;
young and diffident writer.&rdquo; A worthy record to do. A Western house has printed a volume&lt;br /&gt;
that any critic might be proud to merit!&lt;br /&gt;
advertised, on the title page, as &ldquo; by Mark Twain,&lt;br /&gt;
For several months previous to his death he and others.&amp;quot; The author has brought suit. Of&lt;br /&gt;
had been laid aside by a terrible malady course the words &ldquo;and others&amp;quot; were added in&lt;br /&gt;
hemiplegia, complicated by the rupture of the diamond type.&lt;br /&gt;
thyroid artery; and when, at last, the end came&lt;br /&gt;
to this conscientious worker and loyal comrade it&lt;br /&gt;
PROPOSED LAW AGAINST SMALL TYPE.&lt;br /&gt;
was welcome. His body was interred in the&lt;br /&gt;
A member of the New York State Legislature,&lt;br /&gt;
family mausoleum at Montmartre, being accom- by the way, wishes to protect the eyes of the&lt;br /&gt;
panied thither by a lengthy cavalcade including American public against any type smaller than&lt;br /&gt;
all that Paris contains of most brilliant and&lt;br /&gt;
eight-point. The suggested law is interesting,&lt;br /&gt;
illustrious in the triple realm of literature, art,&lt;br /&gt;
for, so far as I know, it is the first proposition of&lt;br /&gt;
and the drama.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
its kind. The statute takes the form of an&lt;br /&gt;
amendment to the Health Law, and its more im-&lt;br /&gt;
portant paragraphs provide that books, news-&lt;br /&gt;
papers, or serial literature shall not be published&lt;br /&gt;
in type smaller than eight-point, of which the&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
lower-case alphabet measures less than fourteen&lt;br /&gt;
ems; that the lines of type shall be separated by&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, April 12, 1901. at least two-point leads; and that this shall not&lt;br /&gt;
M R. RUDYARD KIPLING&amp;#039;S suit for apply to print contained in foot notices or indexes,&lt;br /&gt;
I damages by infringement against the or to books or other printed matter intended for&lt;br /&gt;
e house of Putnam has been given this reference use only. It is specified that any&lt;br /&gt;
week a place upon the calendar of the United person violating the regulation shall be guilty of&lt;br /&gt;
States Circuit Court, and before these words are a misdemeanour, punishable by fine of not less&lt;br /&gt;
in type the evidence will have been heard by than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand&lt;br /&gt;
judge and jury. The same distinguished author dollars.&lt;br /&gt;
has instituted an action against the Fennos, who I t is needless to describe how the indignant&lt;br /&gt;
published, as it is alleged, several of the Kipling publishers united their forces in order to secure&lt;br /&gt;
stories without any right thereto, and who added the defeat of this Bill by an adverse vote of the&lt;br /&gt;
insult to injury, according to the plaintiff&amp;#039;s claim, Assembly. From our State legislatures we are&lt;br /&gt;
by imprinting a duplicate of the famous elephant&amp;#039;s accustomed to expect anything in the way of wild&lt;br /&gt;
head designed by Mr. John Lockwood Kipling law making, but this &ldquo;eight-point law&rdquo; exhibits&lt;br /&gt;
for the authorised &ldquo;Outward Bound&rdquo; edition a desire to interfere in the making of books to&lt;br /&gt;
which was issued by the Scribners. A pre- which there would be no limit if an entering&lt;br /&gt;
liminary hearing in this latter cause is now wedge were driven. On the same ground,&lt;br /&gt;
slowly proceeding before the commissioner. It pictures poorly reproduced might be interdicted,&lt;br /&gt;
was enlivened recently by the introduction of Mr. or flimsy bindings, or even uncut edges, because&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
219&lt;br /&gt;
the nerves of the public might be unhealthfully be worth, Mr. Carnegie is quite competent to&lt;br /&gt;
strained thereby. No wonder that the publishers startle us with a scheme of this description.&lt;br /&gt;
were alarmed.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GLARE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MAGAZINES AND The &ldquo;book-play&rdquo; craze has received several&lt;br /&gt;
LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
body blows during the present theatrical season,&lt;br /&gt;
Every English writer who keeps a commercial in the shape of half a dozen preposterous dramati.&lt;br /&gt;
eye on remunerative American magazine editors sations of popular novels. The Critic magazine&lt;br /&gt;
will be more or less enlightened by the obiter tells an amusing illustration of this dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
dicta of Mr. Walter H. Page, perhaps the most fashion. It seems that one of our theatre&lt;br /&gt;
purposeful and progressive among the younger managers, who had been unlucky in his attempts&lt;br /&gt;
editors of our periodicals. Last week Mr. Page to secure the stage rights of record-breaking&lt;br /&gt;
delivered an after-dinner speech about the novels, determined to start from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
American Magazine. A newspaper report made He brushed up his United States history, selected&lt;br /&gt;
him say: &ldquo; The good editor ought to be able to a set of characters and episodes which appealed&lt;br /&gt;
see just how far each phase of development in life most strongly to his theatrical instinct, and then&lt;br /&gt;
has advanced, and then to point out how it can go a approached a successful novelist with a propo.&lt;br /&gt;
little further. Men are divided everywhere into sition to write a story about them. The manager&lt;br /&gt;
two classes. They live in two houses the house was to have the dramatic rights, the author to&lt;br /&gt;
of do&amp;#039; and the house of .don&amp;#039;t.&amp;#039; It is for the have all the novel would make. Upon these&lt;br /&gt;
former that the American magazines must be&lt;br /&gt;
terms the book has been written, and it appears&lt;br /&gt;
written.&rdquo; And again : &ldquo;The editor should have upon the spring list of a prominent publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
a well-trained sense of literary values, but he&lt;br /&gt;
Even in the absence of such an antecedent agree.&lt;br /&gt;
should not think that a magazine ought to have ment our novelists nowadays compose, consciously&lt;br /&gt;
anything to do with literature. The making of&lt;br /&gt;
or unconsciously, with the glare of the footlights&lt;br /&gt;
magazines is not literature: it is journalism. distracting the artistic vision. The output of&lt;br /&gt;
Those editors who are trying to get out monthly current fiction is inevitably affected.&lt;br /&gt;
literature are making dull magazines. It is not&lt;br /&gt;
Unfortunately, however, the selection of books&lt;br /&gt;
the magazine that ought to produce literature, but for stage purposes is, based, apparently, upon the&lt;br /&gt;
the book.&rdquo; Certainly this sort of editorial policy circulation and not upon genuine dramatic pos-&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be prevalent with us, and the wise con. sibilities, and the acting versions in some later&lt;br /&gt;
tributor will govern himself and his manuscripts cases have been as bad as could be, made usually&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly. The literary magazine &ldquo;article&rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
by mechanical and unsympathetic workmen. In&lt;br /&gt;
not in vogue, and even in periodical fiction the&lt;br /&gt;
the meantime our real playwrights are dejected&lt;br /&gt;
note is that of activity and achievement and and our critics bewail. Thus, for example, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
modernity. Does one whisper &ldquo; Kipling&amp;quot;? It Norman Hapgood in the Bookman : &ldquo; When an&lt;br /&gt;
would be unsafe to ascribe the condition to any American author of world-wide fame returned&lt;br /&gt;
single cause, however pointed the example.&lt;br /&gt;
recently to New York, after several years abroad,&lt;br /&gt;
his cominent on the stage in this city was that it&lt;br /&gt;
MR. CARNEGIE AND THE THEATRE.&lt;br /&gt;
seemed to be run to meet the taste of donkeys.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has escaped miraculously There has been no month within some time to&lt;br /&gt;
the desire to found a magazine, and in the multi. justify this verdict more neatly than the one just&lt;br /&gt;
tude of his educational charities his deliverance past.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
from such an enterprise is nothing short of provi.&lt;br /&gt;
A CHECK TO PIRATES.&lt;br /&gt;
dential. But it is suggested that the great Certain piratical dealers in dramatic literature&lt;br /&gt;
philanthropist has been attacked by the bacillus have been checkmated by an opinion of the&lt;br /&gt;
of an &ldquo;Independent Theatre.&rdquo; In the public Attorney-General of the United States regarding&lt;br /&gt;
Press he has invited responses to the question: the importation of Rostand&amp;#039;s &ldquo; L&amp;#039;Aiglon&rdquo; in book&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; What is truth on the stage?&rdquo;-a problem which, form. M. Rostand&amp;#039;s agent in this country&lt;br /&gt;
apparently does not present the slightest difficulty secured American copyright for the French pub-&lt;br /&gt;
to a small army of sages who have answered it to lisher, M. Fasquelle, and the Brentanos bought&lt;br /&gt;
their own satisfaction, if not to that of Mr. the book rights for the United States. But it&lt;br /&gt;
Carnegie. One of the New York papers was uncertain whether the latter house could&lt;br /&gt;
announces that Mr. Carnegie has in mind the prevent the wholesale and unauthorised importa-&lt;br /&gt;
endowment of an &ldquo;International&rdquo; theatre, to tion of French copies. The Attorney-General&lt;br /&gt;
unite in its dramatic bonds Great Britain and holds that the French book &ldquo; L&amp;#039;Aiglon,&amp;quot; printed&lt;br /&gt;
these States, and that Sir Henry Irving is to abroad, is prohibited importation, because it was&lt;br /&gt;
direct its operation. Whatever this gossip may copyrighted under the laws of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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220&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
T&lt;br /&gt;
The opinion should have all the effect of a judicial with his chapter on &ldquo;Agreements,&amp;quot; it is the more&lt;br /&gt;
ruling, and is a notable interpretation of the pleasant to express unqualified assent to three&lt;br /&gt;
International Act. I&lt;br /&gt;
to John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
propositions which he there advances. He says :&lt;br /&gt;
(1) &amp;quot; Literature is not adequately represented&lt;br /&gt;
- in this country.&rdquo; It is not, in fact, represented&lt;br /&gt;
at all. Nor can it be until something in the&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
nature of an Academy is created. The Bar is&lt;br /&gt;
represented; medicine is represented ; surgery,&lt;br /&gt;
HE question of sale or return seems so&lt;br /&gt;
architecture, art, actuary work, are all represented ;&lt;br /&gt;
simple as not to require any argument to&lt;br /&gt;
Literature is not. What, then, is the work and&lt;br /&gt;
recommend it. Booksellers are always&lt;br /&gt;
what the position of the Royal Society of Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
complaining of poverty; they cannot possibly,&lt;br /&gt;
ture? It may be anything that its members&lt;br /&gt;
which is quite evident, subscribe to many new&lt;br /&gt;
claim except the one thing for which it was&lt;br /&gt;
books; most new books, therefore, do not get&lt;br /&gt;
founded-the representation of Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
published at all, because publication means pro-&lt;br /&gt;
(2) What about the Society of Authors ? It&lt;br /&gt;
duction with exhibition and an offer of the book&lt;br /&gt;
represents, as Mr. Morrah points out, &ldquo;nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but the material side of Literature.&rdquo; Its one&lt;br /&gt;
to the public. Yet there is a common complaint&lt;br /&gt;
that books sent out on sale or return come back&lt;br /&gt;
object is the maintenance and defence of literary&lt;br /&gt;
unsold and soiled. It is apparently obvious that property in the interests of the author, its creator&lt;br /&gt;
they have had their chance. But have they ?&lt;br /&gt;
and owner. A humble function, perhaps, but&lt;br /&gt;
Do booksellers freely offer and push books which&lt;br /&gt;
recognised by a good many writers as useful and&lt;br /&gt;
are not their own? In many cases they certainly&lt;br /&gt;
productive of results which benefit other writers,&lt;br /&gt;
do not. Books sent on sale or return are, it is&lt;br /&gt;
including those who at present hold aloof from it,&lt;br /&gt;
said, put up on shelves and left there. This&lt;br /&gt;
and even misrepresent it and deride it while they&lt;br /&gt;
seems a very short-sighted policy. Surely it is&lt;br /&gt;
profit by it.&lt;br /&gt;
better to make a selection and to say, &ldquo; Send me&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Membership of the Society conveys, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
these books on sale or return and I will do my&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah very rightly states, no more distinction&lt;br /&gt;
best with them,&rdquo; rather than to put on a&lt;br /&gt;
than may be boasted by anyone who writes a&lt;br /&gt;
shelf books so sent and to go on pushing books,&lt;br /&gt;
book, however bad. In other words, there is no&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps of far inferior attractions, &ldquo;subscribed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
distinction in membership of the Society. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
It seems, however, that the method of sale or&lt;br /&gt;
bave any of its leaders ever pretended that there is.&lt;br /&gt;
return has been recently adopted by certain pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The Publishers&amp;#039; Circular has been apparently&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, and that, in one case at least, the results&lt;br /&gt;
having a little playful gambol. How playful it is&lt;br /&gt;
bave proved eminently satisfactory. The change&lt;br /&gt;
may be inferred from the concluding paragraph :&lt;br /&gt;
may very possibly lead to such a revolution in D&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;All we deplored was that the &middot; Literary Year&lt;br /&gt;
bookselling methods as we are all anxiously await.&lt;br /&gt;
Book &amp;#039;should say that the Authors&amp;#039; Society did not&lt;br /&gt;
ing and desiring. Meantime, which is better, to&lt;br /&gt;
represent Literature, and that it is no distinction&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; subscribe&amp;quot; for so many copies of a book on the&lt;br /&gt;
to belong to it: if that is not lamentable, we are&lt;br /&gt;
assurance of an interested traveller; to take all&lt;br /&gt;
sorry.&rdquo; It is not lamentable at all; but so long as&lt;br /&gt;
the risk in the hope of selling them; or to select&lt;br /&gt;
the Circular is sorry and penitent all is well.&lt;br /&gt;
books at no risk whatever, and to offer them with&lt;br /&gt;
the certainty of no loss, whatever happens ? In&lt;br /&gt;
the first case the bookseller has already suffered&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. P. J. Hartog writes as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
himself to be bound and fettered by the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
There is published in this month&amp;#039;s number of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
lisher as to the price of his books; he can no&lt;br /&gt;
an article on the Nobel Foundation to wbich my signature is&lt;br /&gt;
appended, and which appears, therefore, as if it had been&lt;br /&gt;
longer deal with his own property as he chooses ;&lt;br /&gt;
specially contributed to your journal. I feel sure that it&lt;br /&gt;
why, then, should he continue to take upon his is only through inadvertence that the origin of the article&lt;br /&gt;
own long-suffering shoulders the greater share of has not been explained. I should be obliged if you&lt;br /&gt;
the risk? In the other case he frankly becomes&lt;br /&gt;
woald kindly state in your next issue that the article in&lt;br /&gt;
little better than a commission agent, incurring&lt;br /&gt;
question is extracted from a summary of the regulations for&lt;br /&gt;
15 the Nobel Foundation drawn up by me, and recently issued&lt;br /&gt;
no risk, and only exercising a certain selection-&lt;br /&gt;
and that as wide a selection as his shelves will&lt;br /&gt;
allow--of the new books which are published.&lt;br /&gt;
No further explanation seems necessary. The&lt;br /&gt;
paper is an official paper sent to the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors presumably by the Board of Education,&lt;br /&gt;
In the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular of April 6 there is and signed with the name of P. J. Hartog, and&lt;br /&gt;
a letter from Mr. Herbert Morrah with which we reproduced in accordance with the right tacitly&lt;br /&gt;
entirely agree. And as we do not agree entirely conceded to the Press of publishing official&lt;br /&gt;
a of&lt;br /&gt;
e Board of Ed&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 221 (#299) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
221&lt;br /&gt;
documents. If this Society is not concerned&lt;br /&gt;
with the Nobel Foundation, it is difficult to under-&lt;br /&gt;
stand what body, or what people, are so con.&lt;br /&gt;
cerned. The paper as published in these columns&lt;br /&gt;
gave only so many of the regulations as concern&lt;br /&gt;
literature and its makers. One does not know&lt;br /&gt;
who is responsible for the distribution of copies,&lt;br /&gt;
but it seems evident that Mr. Hartog is not. It&lt;br /&gt;
is not generally considered necessary to point out&lt;br /&gt;
that official papers having the signature of official&lt;br /&gt;
persons are not sent out by those persons. But,&lt;br /&gt;
since Mr. Hartog wishes it to be so stated, let it&lt;br /&gt;
be understood that he did not send the document&lt;br /&gt;
to the Society, which will, however, continue to&lt;br /&gt;
publish extracts from Blue Books, reports of&lt;br /&gt;
commissions, and other public documents with&lt;br /&gt;
or without the official signatures which accom-&lt;br /&gt;
pany them. If, however, the &ldquo;summary.&amp;quot; is a&lt;br /&gt;
private document, the fact should have been&lt;br /&gt;
stated and confidence would have been respected.&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; name.&rdquo; This author is said to make about &pound;2000 a&lt;br /&gt;
year, partly by the aid of such spiritual assistance.&lt;br /&gt;
This method has been adopted in America within our&lt;br /&gt;
own knowledge. We know of a young writer, industrious,&lt;br /&gt;
ingenious, and anknown, who came into relations with one&lt;br /&gt;
of the most successful writers of sensational fiction, who&lt;br /&gt;
loved drink, and hated work. For some time the young&lt;br /&gt;
writer wrote under the more famous name, received a third&lt;br /&gt;
of the generoas proceeds, while the remaining two-thirds&lt;br /&gt;
were devoted to the more famous man&amp;#039;s whisky.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be curious and interesting to learn&lt;br /&gt;
how far the practice of wearing borrowed plumes&lt;br /&gt;
prevails. Some years ago a story was brought to&lt;br /&gt;
me, the names being given, in which a certain&lt;br /&gt;
writer, not unknown to the public, had actually&lt;br /&gt;
taken over and published in his own name a M&Scaron;.&lt;br /&gt;
committed to his charge. More than one novel&lt;br /&gt;
has been written with such a fraud as the motif.&lt;br /&gt;
Some ten years ago a man, assuming the name of a&lt;br /&gt;
well-known publisher, advertised for MSS. to be&lt;br /&gt;
sent to him at an office near Chancery-lane. As&lt;br /&gt;
soon as the thing became suspected he vanished&lt;br /&gt;
it with all his MSS. Were there none among them&lt;br /&gt;
of literary and commercial value? It is, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, most difficult to prove such cases; but if&lt;br /&gt;
the readers of The Author can furnish informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion on the subject they would be doing good&lt;br /&gt;
service by sending their experiences to this paper&lt;br /&gt;
for publication.&lt;br /&gt;
From time to time a protest is sent to this&lt;br /&gt;
paper by authors who complain of their critics.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be well were they to consider what good&lt;br /&gt;
purpose would be served by inserting their com-&lt;br /&gt;
plaints, either in their own interests or in the&lt;br /&gt;
general interest. A statement which is false, i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
not an opinion, but a statement of alleged fact,&lt;br /&gt;
may be advantageously corrected, but not an&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. Thus, a critic says that an author has&lt;br /&gt;
been publishing feeble rubbish. That is an&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. What good does an author do hinıself&lt;br /&gt;
by writing to protest? He advances his own&lt;br /&gt;
opinion as to his own work-certainly a favour-&lt;br /&gt;
able opinion-against a critic&amp;#039;s opinion, which, in&lt;br /&gt;
the eyes of the world, is judicial. The only&lt;br /&gt;
answer to an adverse judgment is either an appeal&lt;br /&gt;
to a recognised Court of Criticism&mdash;which does&lt;br /&gt;
not exist&ndash;or, which is the method adopted by&lt;br /&gt;
wise authors, a silent appeal to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
History is full of mistaken judgments. Not the&lt;br /&gt;
Qaarterly only, but Byron himself, failed to see&lt;br /&gt;
the powers of Keats. Let the example of Keats&lt;br /&gt;
console and stimulate the author under discipline.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps the critic may be right: he certainly is&lt;br /&gt;
not always wrong. All the more reason for con-&lt;br /&gt;
solation and an appeal to the judgment of Time.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is from the Chronicle, Brookline,&lt;br /&gt;
Mass. It is pleasant to find that this important&lt;br /&gt;
literary organ approves of the action of the Boston&lt;br /&gt;
Library. The readers for the library have&lt;br /&gt;
certainly, as the Brookline Chronicle asserts,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;done their work with a greater display of skill&lt;br /&gt;
and good judgment than one would expect them&lt;br /&gt;
to show.&amp;quot; The only consolation for the novelist&lt;br /&gt;
is that he is excluded in what he has hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
regarded as good company. He will now probably&lt;br /&gt;
proceed to study his art by new and hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
despised methods.&lt;br /&gt;
CENSORS OF Novels.&lt;br /&gt;
Amoog the books which have been &amp;quot;tabooed&rdquo; by the&lt;br /&gt;
examining committee of the Boston Public Library, and have&lt;br /&gt;
been refused admission to the archives of the library, are the&lt;br /&gt;
following. Many of them, it will be noticed, are well-known&lt;br /&gt;
books :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;David Harum,&amp;quot; George Ade&rsquo;s &ldquo;Fables in Slang,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Winston Churchill&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Celebrity,&amp;quot; Paul Bourget&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Domestic Dramas,&amp;quot; Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Change-&lt;br /&gt;
ling,&rdquo; Lilian Bell&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Instinct of Step-Fatherhood,&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
William Le Queux&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Scribes and Pharisees,&amp;quot; Captain&lt;br /&gt;
Charles King&amp;#039;s &ldquo;A Wounded Name,&amp;quot; Mary E. Wilkins&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; The People of Our Neighbourhood,&rdquo; Catcliffe Hyne&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Adventares of Captain Kettle,&rdquo; Mrs. Barton&lt;br /&gt;
Harrison&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Good Americans,&rdquo; Paul Leicester Ford&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Tattle-Tales of Capid,&rdquo; Harold Frederic&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Gloria Mundi,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Amelia E. Barr&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Trinity Bells,&rdquo; S. R. Crockett&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Ione&lt;br /&gt;
March,&rdquo; Egerton Castle&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Young April,&rdquo; Mary Hartwell&lt;br /&gt;
Catherwood&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Spanish Peggy,&rdquo; W. Pett Ridge&amp;#039;s &ldquo; A Son of&lt;br /&gt;
the State,&amp;quot; Jesse Lynch Williams&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Adventures of a&lt;br /&gt;
Freshman,&amp;quot; Gertrude Atherton&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Californians,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle quotes the following&lt;br /&gt;
notice on &ldquo;Literary Ghosts&rdquo;:&lt;br /&gt;
Not long ago a story was going round as to the&lt;br /&gt;
method adopted by a certain successfal author. He adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tised for amateurs to send on their stories to a given&lt;br /&gt;
address, whence he filcbed their plots. That is the story.&lt;br /&gt;
Bat the correspondent has a personal experience. He was&lt;br /&gt;
approached by an aathor of repute with the proposal that&lt;br /&gt;
he should write stories and send them for the man with the&lt;br /&gt;
name to &ldquo;touch up.&amp;quot; Then they were to be published under&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 222 (#300) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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222&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Senator North,&rdquo; and &ldquo; A Daughter of the Vine,&rdquo; R. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers&amp;#039;s &ldquo;In the Quarter,&rdquo; &ldquo; Outsiders,&rdquo; and &ldquo; The Con&lt;br /&gt;
spirator, &rdquo; Molly E. Seawell&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; The Loves of Lady Arabella,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Henry James&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Two Magics,&rdquo; Robert Barr&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Tekla,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&bdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Maarten Maartens&amp;#039; &ldquo; Her Memory,&amp;quot; Julia Magruder&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Struan,&rdquo; Jules Verne&amp;#039;s &ldquo; An Antarctic Mystery,&rdquo; Emile&lt;br /&gt;
Zola&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Stories for Ninon,&rdquo; Robert Barr&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Jeannie Baxter,&lt;br /&gt;
Journalist,&rdquo; E. W. Hornung&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Amateur Cracksman,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Robert Herrick&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Love&amp;#039;s Dilemma,&amp;quot; Amelia E. Barr&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Was it Right to Forgive ?&rdquo; E. W. Hornung&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Dead Men&lt;br /&gt;
Tell No Tales,&amp;quot; Shan F. Bullock&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Barrys,&amp;quot; Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
Hatton&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; When Rogues Fall Out&rdquo; and &ldquo; The White King&lt;br /&gt;
of Manoa,&amp;quot; Edward S. Van Zile&amp;#039;s &ldquo;With Sword and&lt;br /&gt;
Crucifix.&rdquo; Stanley Waterloo&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Seekers,&rdquo; Edith&lt;br /&gt;
Wharton&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Touchstone,&rdquo; Arlo Bates&rsquo;s &ldquo;Love in a&lt;br /&gt;
Cloud,&rdquo; Lilian Bell&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Expatriates,&amp;quot; and John Kendrick&lt;br /&gt;
Banga&amp;#039; &ldquo; The Idiot at Home.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A book may be rejected at the public library for any one&lt;br /&gt;
of the following reasons, or for many others :-&lt;br /&gt;
It is immoral. It is below the author&amp;#039;s usual standard.&lt;br /&gt;
The library has enough of that author anyway. It is poorly&lt;br /&gt;
written. It does not tend to promote caltare. It is too&lt;br /&gt;
sensational. It is a plagiarism. It would tend to create&lt;br /&gt;
anarchy. The money could be better spent for another&lt;br /&gt;
book, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of the exclusions seem just. . . . At any rate, it is&lt;br /&gt;
certain that the readers whose daty it is to examine and&lt;br /&gt;
report upon new books do their work conscientiously, and,&lt;br /&gt;
fortunately, with a greater display of skill and good judg.&lt;br /&gt;
ment than one would expect them to show. In fact, we&lt;br /&gt;
ought to be grateful for the good sense underlying most of&lt;br /&gt;
these decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Women Journalists has arranged&lt;br /&gt;
to hold afternoon receptions on the last Tuesday&lt;br /&gt;
in each month at Essex Hall, Essex-street,&lt;br /&gt;
Strand, with a view to promoting social inter-&lt;br /&gt;
course between members and their friends. The&lt;br /&gt;
first, held in March, was attended by more than&lt;br /&gt;
two hundred guests. Several popular artists con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributed to the success of the occasion&mdash;among&lt;br /&gt;
them Madame Amy Sherwin, Miss Madeleine&lt;br /&gt;
O&amp;#039;Connor, Miss Helen Mar, Mr. Reginald&lt;br /&gt;
Kenneth, and Mr. George Giddens.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
loose expression &ldquo; such persons as have just claims&lt;br /&gt;
on the Royal beneficence&rdquo; led to the bestowal&lt;br /&gt;
of these grants upon a large number of service&lt;br /&gt;
pensioners or their surviving relatives at the&lt;br /&gt;
expense of literature, science, and art. I dealt&lt;br /&gt;
with the whole question in &ldquo; Literature and the&lt;br /&gt;
Pension List,&rdquo; an investigation conducted and&lt;br /&gt;
published for the Incorporated Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
in 1889. This was followed up by a memorial&lt;br /&gt;
presented by the Society to the late Mr. W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith praying for further legislation for the&lt;br /&gt;
following purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
(a) The restriction of the grant of pensions&lt;br /&gt;
on the Civil List within ascertained limits.&lt;br /&gt;
(6) The allocation of pensions amounting to not&lt;br /&gt;
less than &pound;800 in each year to those who by their&lt;br /&gt;
useful discoveries in Science, or attainments in&lt;br /&gt;
Literature and the Arts, have merited the gracious&lt;br /&gt;
consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitude&lt;br /&gt;
of their country, or their widows or children.&lt;br /&gt;
(c) The increase of the Royal Bounty Fund&lt;br /&gt;
and the Civil List Pension Fund so that Her&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty may be enabled to reneve distress and&lt;br /&gt;
reward merit in a manner worthy of the dignity&lt;br /&gt;
of the Crown.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Smith, who declined to receive a deputa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, gave no encouragement whatever to the&lt;br /&gt;
prayer of the memorial, and defended the practice&lt;br /&gt;
of the Treasury on the ground of the existence of&lt;br /&gt;
certain undisclosed &ldquo;regulations,&amp;quot;* which, inter&lt;br /&gt;
alia, excluded novelists, unless &ldquo;historical&lt;br /&gt;
novelists,&rdquo; from the benefit of the Fund. He&lt;br /&gt;
further complained that &ldquo;to make such changes&lt;br /&gt;
as the memorial suggests would necessitate a new&lt;br /&gt;
Act of Parliament&rdquo;; and defended the grant of&lt;br /&gt;
pensions on the Civil List for services performed&lt;br /&gt;
in the Army, Navy, Diplomatic, Civil, and Colonial&lt;br /&gt;
Services on the ground that these are &ldquo;services&lt;br /&gt;
to the Sovereign,&amp;quot; and that the First Lord enjoys&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; that discretion which must in such cases finally&lt;br /&gt;
rest with some one responsible Minister.&rdquo; .&lt;br /&gt;
The present opportunity of redressing all these&lt;br /&gt;
grievances is, therefore, of the highest import-&lt;br /&gt;
ance. Genuine regulations should be framed to&lt;br /&gt;
restrict the grant of pensions, not upon an artificial&lt;br /&gt;
theory, but in accordance with the findings of the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of 1837. It may, too, be asked&lt;br /&gt;
whether a scale struck sixty-four years ago is&lt;br /&gt;
adequate to the needs of to-day. It cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
questioned that if the necessity were shown to exist&lt;br /&gt;
-an easy matter&mdash;the country would support&lt;br /&gt;
such a use of public money. It is the unanimous&lt;br /&gt;
testimony of every First Lord of the Treasury&lt;br /&gt;
that he is every year obliged to refuse many&lt;br /&gt;
deserving applicants, and The Author has called&lt;br /&gt;
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE demise of the Crown and the resulting&lt;br /&gt;
T revision of the Civil List Act, in accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ance with the report of the Select Com.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; mittee appointed to consider the whole question,&lt;br /&gt;
affords an important opportunity for the reform&lt;br /&gt;
of the system under which Civil List Pensions&lt;br /&gt;
are granted. The main purpose of these pensions&lt;br /&gt;
as defined by the resolution of the House of&lt;br /&gt;
Commons of 1834, and by i Vict. c. 2, s. 6, was&lt;br /&gt;
the reward of those who &ldquo; by their useful dis.&lt;br /&gt;
coveries in Science and attainments in Literature&lt;br /&gt;
and the Arts have merited the gracious considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their&lt;br /&gt;
country.&amp;quot; But the insertion in the Act of the&lt;br /&gt;
* In the House, in answer to Mr. Bryce, he acknowledged&lt;br /&gt;
that there were no such regulations.--W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 223 (#301) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
223&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
attention to many such refusals. The practice of&lt;br /&gt;
the Treasury has immensely improved since the&lt;br /&gt;
Society exposed the mismanagement of the Fund,&lt;br /&gt;
but every year grants are made to classes of&lt;br /&gt;
persons not contemplated by Her late Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Civil List Act. The further continuance of such&lt;br /&gt;
no of such&lt;br /&gt;
a state of things can and must now be rendered&lt;br /&gt;
impossible.&lt;br /&gt;
W. MORRIS COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
......&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
IO&lt;br /&gt;
The following note is from the report of the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of the House of Commons on the Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List:-&lt;br /&gt;
Your committee recommend that the new Civil List should&lt;br /&gt;
be fixed according to the following estimate :&lt;br /&gt;
First Class.&mdash;Their Majesties&amp;#039; Privy Purse......... &pound;110,000&lt;br /&gt;
Second Class.-Salaries of His Majesty&amp;#039;s House-&lt;br /&gt;
hold and Retired Allowances.......................&lt;br /&gt;
125,800&lt;br /&gt;
Third Class.-Expenses of His Majesty&amp;#039;s House-&lt;br /&gt;
hold ..............&lt;br /&gt;
............ 193,000&lt;br /&gt;
Fourth Class.-Works .........&lt;br /&gt;
20,000&lt;br /&gt;
Fifth Class.-Royal Boanty, Alms, and Special&lt;br /&gt;
Services...............&lt;br /&gt;
13,200&lt;br /&gt;
Sixth Class.&mdash;Unappropriated .........&lt;br /&gt;
8,000&lt;br /&gt;
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...&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
...............&lt;br /&gt;
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.....&lt;br /&gt;
OI.&lt;br /&gt;
..............................&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
.............&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
Smrt&lt;br /&gt;
Total for the Civil List ......... &pound;470,000&lt;br /&gt;
In the foregoing no reference has been made to the&lt;br /&gt;
pensions granted ander sections 5 and 6 of the last Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List Act, commonly called &ldquo; Civil List Pensions.&rdquo; With&lt;br /&gt;
regard to these no baggestion bas been made for any altera.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and the committee accordingly recommend the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinuance of the present system, except that the variable&lt;br /&gt;
amounts payable under this head (Appendix, Part III.)&lt;br /&gt;
should no longer form a nominal class of the Civil List,&lt;br /&gt;
but should be separately entered in the Consolidated Fand&lt;br /&gt;
Accounts.&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur........&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott .............&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard .........&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. .............&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R. ................&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ....................&lt;br /&gt;
Miles, Eastace ...............&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope...........&lt;br /&gt;
Montresor, Miss F...........&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah, Herbert ........&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E. .............&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert .......&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock, Sir Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti, W. M. ...&lt;br /&gt;
S. B. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E. .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Toplis, Miss G. ......&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Aleo...&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P...&lt;br /&gt;
Weyman, Stanley ...&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Williams, Mrs. E. L. ..&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Ernest .............&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)......&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. .....&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ..&lt;br /&gt;
Bebant, Sir Walter.&lt;br /&gt;
Bond, R. Warwick ..&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Brodbarst, Spencer....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward .&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R. ........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
1901) ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S......&lt;br /&gt;
Goldemith, W. H. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Gribble, F.&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. .......&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K......&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Macdonald, Mrs.....&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max.&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W......&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts, Morley ...............................&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ..................................&lt;br /&gt;
Rumble, Mrs. ......................&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. .....&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ..............&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P.....&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
50&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the list of donations&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
............. &pound;100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous ........&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Arnim, The Countess von&lt;br /&gt;
5 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A.&lt;br /&gt;
I 0&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ....&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ........................ ............&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter......&lt;br /&gt;
............ 100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Boevey, Miss Crawley ..&lt;br /&gt;
2 2 0&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice ............&lt;br /&gt;
0 3 6&lt;br /&gt;
Clifford, Mrs W. K.&lt;br /&gt;
5 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss ...&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs. ......&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan .....&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years)&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T...........................&lt;br /&gt;
10 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W................................&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss ..........................&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .....&lt;br /&gt;
200 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H. ............&lt;br /&gt;
2 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jacberns, Raymond ..........&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Senerowowowen&lt;br /&gt;
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 224 (#302) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
224&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
N Monday, April 15, the Authors&amp;#039; Club&lt;br /&gt;
1.-&ldquo; LITERATURE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
entertained Dr. J. A. H. Murray at dinner. V OUR friendly criticisms on the remarks&lt;br /&gt;
Professor W. W. Skeat, of Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
made in Literature of March 16 on&lt;br /&gt;
took the chair. Fewer members of the club than&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Critical Standards,&amp;quot; &agrave; propos of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
usual sat down at the table, owing to the unfor- Churton Collins&amp;#039;s recent book, are likely, I think,&lt;br /&gt;
tunate fact that the first performance of &ldquo; Corio. to convey a wrong impression of what the writer&lt;br /&gt;
lanus&rdquo; at the Lyceum Theatre had been fixed for in Literature actually said.&lt;br /&gt;
the same evening. Those members who were You say: &amp;quot;&bull; It is human,&amp;#039; the writer says,&lt;br /&gt;
present, however, greeted Dr. Murray most to speak up for a friend : to be angry if your&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiastically, and a very pleasant evening wares are condemned: to wish to stand well&lt;br /&gt;
was spent. In response to his health the guest with persons with whom one does business.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
made a long and interesting speech explaining Undoubtedly it is human. But Mr. Collins&amp;#039;s con-&lt;br /&gt;
some of the difficulties and some of the tention is that a book sent out for review demands&lt;br /&gt;
labours connected with the editing of a large impartiality, although partiality is human.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
dictionary. He stated that he had collected These are not our words ; but it is a fair&lt;br /&gt;
over five tons of material, and that he had over summary of three sentences in the note in&lt;br /&gt;
five million quotations bearing on words in the Literature. It conveys, however, a wrong&lt;br /&gt;
English language and in English literature. impression when the sentence which follows is&lt;br /&gt;
Such a statement made it apparent at once that omitted. The writer continued :&lt;br /&gt;
the labour involved in editing the work was What is human, however, we need scarcely add, is not&lt;br /&gt;
almost beyond the powers of one man. He men necessarily rigbt; and it is necessary to face the question&lt;br /&gt;
tioned at the same time some of the more - Does this obviously human attitude of reviewers towards&lt;br /&gt;
humorous sides of the work, and pointed out&lt;br /&gt;
books exist to any large extent, and does it produce such&lt;br /&gt;
that on many occasions when he had asked some terrible consequences, and cause such a failure of justice,&lt;br /&gt;
as Mr. Churton Collins imagines in his wrath ?&lt;br /&gt;
specialist with regard to the definition of technical&lt;br /&gt;
words, in a short time letters had been addressed&lt;br /&gt;
I think this puts a different colour upon the&lt;br /&gt;
to him from other gentlemen asking him to rem&lt;br /&gt;
remarks which The Author quoted, and I venture,&lt;br /&gt;
forward the details which he himself required.&lt;br /&gt;
reanired therefore, to ask you to allow me to call your&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
What had taken place was quite clear the readers&amp;#039; attention to them.&lt;br /&gt;
specialist, although he was constantly using the&lt;br /&gt;
THE EDITOR OF &ldquo;LITERATURE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
word, had no idea of its origin, and had applied&lt;br /&gt;
to someone else, who, in his turn, had applied to&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-ON COMMERCIAL MORALITY.&lt;br /&gt;
The evening ended by Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Mercury was the god of thieves and of&lt;br /&gt;
C.B., proposing the health of the chairman.&lt;br /&gt;
merchants. Oh, you libellous Ancients ! to place&lt;br /&gt;
these two classes of men under the same&lt;br /&gt;
tutelage!&lt;br /&gt;
The general meeting of the Authors&amp;#039; Club was&lt;br /&gt;
If a pickpocket abstracts my purse, my shoe-&lt;br /&gt;
held on Monday, April 15, at five o&amp;#039;clock. Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
: maker or my butcher are greatly shocked, yet the&lt;br /&gt;
Conan Doyle, as chairman, had the satisfaction one will charge for a pair of boots and the other&lt;br /&gt;
of putting before the members a balance-&lt;br /&gt;
for a leg of mutton which were never delivered,&lt;br /&gt;
sheet showing how the club had prospered&lt;br /&gt;
and neither will scruple to accept payment for&lt;br /&gt;
during the past year. Sir Walter Besant and&lt;br /&gt;
the same if he happens to escape detection. A&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell resigned in rotation from the&lt;br /&gt;
practice which your highly respectable publisher&lt;br /&gt;
directorate, but still kept their names on the&lt;br /&gt;
shudders at. Nevertheless, he will charge&lt;br /&gt;
general committee, and promised their strong&lt;br /&gt;
an unsuspecting author, who was fool enough&lt;br /&gt;
support in the future. Mr. E. W. Brabrook,&lt;br /&gt;
to accept a half-profit agreement, 428. for&lt;br /&gt;
C.B., and Mr. Morley Roberts were elected to fill&lt;br /&gt;
binding 100 of his volumes, till it is found&lt;br /&gt;
the vacant positions. The club has had a steady&lt;br /&gt;
out that the real cost was 298. per 100&lt;br /&gt;
increase of members during the past vear, and&lt;br /&gt;
volumes. He charges the unlucky half-profit&lt;br /&gt;
now embraces among its members many of the&lt;br /&gt;
book heavily for exchange advertisements which&lt;br /&gt;
best known writers of the day.&lt;br /&gt;
cost him next to nothing, and he produces&lt;br /&gt;
as vouchers receipts for full value, because the&lt;br /&gt;
conspiring publishers place these author-defraud.&lt;br /&gt;
ing instruments into each other&amp;#039;s hands. But,&lt;br /&gt;
Heaven forbid ! they are not pickpockets, nor yet&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
225&lt;br /&gt;
defrauding tradesmen-not they. Or say an its expenses. The following letter from Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
author of a school-book has, after years of toil Skeffington and Son, who were doing their&lt;br /&gt;
and thought, worked out a new system of teach utmost for us, at once showed me that it was&lt;br /&gt;
ing, say, reading or arithmetic, or any other useless to proceed further in the matter : &ldquo;I am&lt;br /&gt;
subject, forthwith your honest publisher employs clearly of opinion that the co-operation of the&lt;br /&gt;
his hack-writer to filch the idea and evade the Princess Christian in your book is as necessary as&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, for &ldquo;there is no copyright in ideas&rdquo;; ever, if not more so. But in truth it (i.e., the&lt;br /&gt;
in other words, where there is no policeman it is Queen&amp;#039;s death) will be a sad blow to all works of&lt;br /&gt;
permissible to steal. And what of those paste fiction, and indeed to most books for some time&lt;br /&gt;
and scissors using piratical backs; are they to come.&rdquo; I feel confident that Mr. Skeffington&lt;br /&gt;
much better than the light-fingered gentry? did what he could, and for my sake alone he&lt;br /&gt;
Well might Napoleon say, &ldquo;Le commerce c&amp;#039;est would have produced the book if it had been&lt;br /&gt;
un brigandage bien organis&eacute;.&rdquo; Against some of possible to do so with any chance of success. I&lt;br /&gt;
these ills there is no remedy, but the publishers wish particularly to thank the following ladies&lt;br /&gt;
could be brought to book. Let authors form and gentlemen for their great consideration and&lt;br /&gt;
themselves into an &ldquo; Authors&amp;#039; Publishing Union,&rdquo; help, and for their enthusiastic reception of my&lt;br /&gt;
and publish their own books, and then it will no proposal: M. M. Macpherson, Esq., Paris; Allen&lt;br /&gt;
longer be said, &ldquo;Now, Barabbas was a publisher.&rdquo; Oscar, Esq.; L. A. Harker, Esq.; Miss E. G.&lt;br /&gt;
A MUCH-DEFRAUDED AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Rev. C. Dudley-Camplin, Miss J. M.&lt;br /&gt;
Waterhouse, B. W. Wentworth, Esq.; Miss M.&lt;br /&gt;
Baines, Miss B. C. Hardy, Miss J. Montgomery.&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell, M. Penrose, Esq.; Frank Hopwood,&lt;br /&gt;
III.-YOUNG FICTION WRITERS AND THE WAR&lt;br /&gt;
Esq.; G. Rennie Powell, Esq.; Mrs. Isabella&lt;br /&gt;
FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Taylor, H. R. Wintle, Esq., F.R.G.S.; Miss&lt;br /&gt;
My proposal, made in The Author for May of Gibbs, Miss L. G. Moberley, W. H. Robinson,&lt;br /&gt;
last year, resulted in such a large number of Esq., F.R.A.S. In Miss W. M. Willis-Swan I&lt;br /&gt;
encouraging letters from authors of all standing found a most able and considerate fellow editor,&lt;br /&gt;
that, in spite of the many difficulties in our way, and one who did not spare time or labour to&lt;br /&gt;
we felt that we ought to proceed with the idea. bring the proposed volume to a satisfactory issue.&lt;br /&gt;
Consequently, it is with the greatest reluctance If we have failed it has not been for the want of&lt;br /&gt;
that I am compelled to write this letter acknow hard work and kindly interest. It would seem&lt;br /&gt;
ledging our defeat. At the outset we knew fully that the times and fate have alone been against&lt;br /&gt;
what to expect, and we received the following us.&lt;br /&gt;
Jas. BAGNALL-STUBBS.&lt;br /&gt;
letter from our editor :-&ldquo;I am afraid you will April 5, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
find considerable difficulty in floating the volume&lt;br /&gt;
which you propose. The young writers must&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-EDITORS.&lt;br /&gt;
make their own names first separately before they Is it not an unusual thing for an editor to&lt;br /&gt;
can do anything in association. I would not accept a poem, and then to repudiate that accept-&lt;br /&gt;
willingly throw cold water on your admirable ance without any presumable reason ?&lt;br /&gt;
project, but I am afraid that the attempt The editor of the Free Lance wrote to me on a&lt;br /&gt;
would only result in disappointinent.&rdquo; Never. post card, on receipt of a poem : &ldquo; All right!&lt;br /&gt;
theless, Sir Walter quite recently consented When I can find a comfortable corner.&rdquo; (I hold&lt;br /&gt;
to write a preface to the book, provided that this post card). Does not this amount to&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher&amp;#039;s agreement was a satisfactory accepting it, or am I drawing over much on my&lt;br /&gt;
one.&lt;br /&gt;
imagination so to interpret it?&lt;br /&gt;
At first we had a good chance of obtaining the Later on the poem was lost in the Free Lance&lt;br /&gt;
interest of a prominent member of the Royal office, and I sent another copy, which was returned&lt;br /&gt;
Family, and up to the death of Her Majesty to me with thanks.&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Victoria (to whom we hoped to have dedi. Again, the editor of the Pictorial Magazine&lt;br /&gt;
cated the volume) things were looking very is always expressing himself as most eager to&lt;br /&gt;
cheerful. Clearly we, like many others, have oblige his readers in any way he can. This is as&lt;br /&gt;
suffered greatly by the great national bereave it should be, but when I sent an addressed reply&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
post card asking for the name of the author of a&lt;br /&gt;
It is practically impossible to make a volume certain ghost story that had appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
of short stories a success, and though the many P.M. he took no notice of my request. I&lt;br /&gt;
publishers to whom I mentioned the matter were wished to locate the name of a certain decoy in&lt;br /&gt;
most kind and considerate, they were unanimous Lincolnshire, mentioned in the said story? Was&lt;br /&gt;
in their opinion that the book could not recoup this a presumptuous request ?&lt;br /&gt;
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226&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
I make no commeuts, but would like to know&lt;br /&gt;
what you and your readers think of this?&lt;br /&gt;
I even went so far as to apologise to the editor&lt;br /&gt;
of the Free Lance for my audacity in asking for&lt;br /&gt;
the insertion of an accepted poem.&lt;br /&gt;
Karsfield, Torquay. F. B. DOVETON.&lt;br /&gt;
[It seems that the editor of the Free Lance&lt;br /&gt;
might very fairly reply that he has not yet been&lt;br /&gt;
able to find a &ldquo;comfortable corner.&rdquo; The accept-&lt;br /&gt;
ance of the poem was clearly conditional. But as&lt;br /&gt;
regards the other point, if the story was anony.&lt;br /&gt;
mous the editor was surely bound to respect that&lt;br /&gt;
fact. Mr. Doveton&amp;#039;s better course would have&lt;br /&gt;
been to ask the editor to forward his question to&lt;br /&gt;
the anonymous writer. There could have been&lt;br /&gt;
no objection to such a question. It is evident&lt;br /&gt;
that if an editor is to be called upon to reveal the&lt;br /&gt;
names of his anonymous writers there is no&lt;br /&gt;
possibility of preserving an incognito which is&lt;br /&gt;
often most desirable.- ED.]&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Richard Garnett has written a series of&lt;br /&gt;
essays on Peacock, Beckford, Matthew Arnold,&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley, Lord Beaconsfield, and other writers.&lt;br /&gt;
The volume will be published by Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
under the title &ldquo; The Essays of an Ex-Librarian.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The prevailing idea that Mr. George Smith was&lt;br /&gt;
to be credited with the inception of the Pall Mall&lt;br /&gt;
Gazette, of which he was the original proprietor,&lt;br /&gt;
has been corrected in some of the obituary&lt;br /&gt;
notices of the late publisher. It was to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Frederick Greenwood that the Pall Mall owed&lt;br /&gt;
its form as a new spirit in journalism.&lt;br /&gt;
We are glad to learn that the health of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith is improved.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morley&amp;#039;s Life of Gladstone is expected&lt;br /&gt;
to be ready in October. Another forthcoming&lt;br /&gt;
volume of political interest is the autobiography&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Henry Broadhurst, M.P., one of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Gladstone&amp;#039;s Under-Secretaries of State, which&lt;br /&gt;
is being prepared for publication by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson. Mr. Broadhurst was at one time&lt;br /&gt;
an operative mason, and tramped a thousand&lt;br /&gt;
miles in winter in search of work.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Battell Loomis tells in the Atlantic&lt;br /&gt;
Monthly for March &ldquo;how to write a novel for the&lt;br /&gt;
masses.&rdquo; &ldquo;You must admit,&rdquo; he says in the&lt;br /&gt;
course of his article, &ldquo; that the vast majority of&lt;br /&gt;
the reading public is made up of dull, unthink-&lt;br /&gt;
ing people, so why should writers spend so much&lt;br /&gt;
time substantiating facts, studying costumes and&lt;br /&gt;
scenery and other details that do not affect the&lt;br /&gt;
real interest of the story, which is and must be&lt;br /&gt;
the romantic portion of it?&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
The following are among the novels announced&lt;br /&gt;
for early publication :-&ldquo; Jack Raymond,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Voynich; &ldquo; The Second Dandy Chater,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Tom Gallon; &ldquo; The Sea hath its Pearls,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Nellie Blissett; &ldquo; Voysey,&rdquo; by Mr. Richard&lt;br /&gt;
0. Prowse; &amp;quot;A Daughter of the Veldt,&amp;quot; by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Basil Marnan; &ldquo;The Extermination of Love,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
E. Gerard; and &ldquo;Lady Haife,&amp;quot; by Mr. Neil&lt;br /&gt;
Wynn Williams.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. J. Stillman&amp;#039;s autobiography is being&lt;br /&gt;
published by Mr. Grant Richards, who also&lt;br /&gt;
announces a history of Rome, designed for&lt;br /&gt;
advanced students of the subject, by Mr. Eustace&lt;br /&gt;
H. Miles.&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent issue, Literature disposes of the&lt;br /&gt;
many accounts that have been published of the&lt;br /&gt;
way the &ldquo; Recessional&rdquo; reached the Times, by&lt;br /&gt;
printing the following letter which enclosed the&lt;br /&gt;
WISS CHRISTABEL COLERIDGE is to&lt;br /&gt;
write the biography of the late Miss Char.&lt;br /&gt;
lotte Yonge. It is requested that letters&lt;br /&gt;
or papers relating to Miss Yonge&amp;#039;s life and works&lt;br /&gt;
should be forwarded to Miss Coleridge, at Cheyne,&lt;br /&gt;
Torquay, whence they will be duly returned to the&lt;br /&gt;
owners.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Marion Crawford is writing a Life of the&lt;br /&gt;
Pope.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. S. Lilly&amp;#039;s new work on the Renaissance&lt;br /&gt;
will be published shortly by Mr. Fisher Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
He studies the subject as exhibited in the careers&lt;br /&gt;
of five representative men ---- Michael Angelo,&lt;br /&gt;
Erasmus, Reuchlin, Luther, Sir Thomas More.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Gissing&amp;#039;s new novel. - The Char.&lt;br /&gt;
latan,&amp;quot; will be published shortly by Messrs. Chap-&lt;br /&gt;
man and Hall, as well as his book of travel, which&lt;br /&gt;
will be called &ldquo; By the Ionian Sea.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. J. Ford has written a history of the&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge University Cricket Club. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
published immediately by Messrs. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hall Caine&amp;#039;s new book will probably be&lt;br /&gt;
published in August.&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel by Mr. David Christie Murray&lt;br /&gt;
will be published this month by Messrs. Chatto&lt;br /&gt;
and Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
The title of Mr. Douglas Sladen&amp;#039;s new novel is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;My Son Richard : Ă Romance of the River&lt;br /&gt;
between Maidenhead and Marlow.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Dear -&lt;br /&gt;
Enclosed pleased find my sentiments on things--which I&lt;br /&gt;
hope are yours. We&amp;#039;ve been blowing up the Trumpets of&lt;br /&gt;
the New Moon a little too much for White Men, and it&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
about time we sobered down.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
227&lt;br /&gt;
If you would like it, it&amp;#039;s at your service-on the old won golden opinions. Since this appeared Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
conditions that I can use it if I want it later in book form. Prichard has by himself published an important&lt;br /&gt;
The sooner it&amp;#039;s in print the better. I don&amp;#039;t want any proof.&lt;br /&gt;
book of travel entitled &ldquo;Where Black Rules&lt;br /&gt;
Couldn&amp;#039;t you run it to-night so as to end the week piously?&lt;br /&gt;
If it&amp;#039;s not your line, please drop me a wire.&lt;br /&gt;
White&amp;quot;; and he is now in Patagonia, leading an&lt;br /&gt;
Ever yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
R. K. expedition of great geographical and scientific&lt;br /&gt;
The poem was published the next morning.&lt;br /&gt;
importance.&lt;br /&gt;
Literature adds that &ldquo;Mr. Kipling was asked to On May 7 there will appear simultaneously in&lt;br /&gt;
name his own price, but absolutely declined all England and America the &ldquo; Further Memoirs of&lt;br /&gt;
payment.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Marie Bashkirtseff,&amp;quot; the publication of which&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Mitchell and Co., of 18, New Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;
has been looked forward to with much eagerness.&lt;br /&gt;
street, E.C., and of Arundel, have just published,&lt;br /&gt;
The volume will be illustrated and will contain a&lt;br /&gt;
under the title of&ldquo; Vexed Questions &rdquo; (price 6d.),&lt;br /&gt;
diary, a very daring correspondence with Guy de&lt;br /&gt;
a collection of twenty-two articles contributed by&lt;br /&gt;
Maupassant, and an introduction by Mr. G. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Perris. Mr. Grant Richards is the English&lt;br /&gt;
Rachel Challice to the West Sussex Gazette on&lt;br /&gt;
such topics as &ldquo;Spinster Sisters,&rdquo; &ldquo; Bachelor&lt;br /&gt;
publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
Brothers,&rdquo; &ldquo;Husbands&amp;#039; Hobbies,&rdquo; &ldquo; Wives&amp;#039; &ldquo;On Peter&amp;#039;s Island,&rdquo; by Arthur R. Ropes and&lt;br /&gt;
Work,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bloodsuckers,&rdquo; and other social sub. Mary E. Ropes, has just been published by John&lt;br /&gt;
jects. Racbel Challice is the translator of &ldquo;The Murray in London and Charles Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons&lt;br /&gt;
Grandee&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Fourth Estate.&rdquo; by Se&ntilde;or A. in New York. The book deals with the fortunes&lt;br /&gt;
Pal&aacute;cio Vald&eacute;s, and the essay by the same author of a petroleum refinery, and with the story of a&lt;br /&gt;
on &ldquo; The Decadence of Modern Literature&rdquo; in young Pole and his sister, about the beginning of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Library of Famous Literature.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the reign of Alexander III. Nihilist secret socie-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Spick and Span,&rdquo; a book for children, bas&lt;br /&gt;
ties play a part in the tale, as they did in Russia&lt;br /&gt;
at the period in which the story is laid.&lt;br /&gt;
gone into a third edition. Readers wil take&lt;br /&gt;
notice that the book is published by, and can be&lt;br /&gt;
Two new romances, by the Rev. C. Dudley&lt;br /&gt;
obtained of, the writer. &amp;quot;His address is Llwny-y.&lt;br /&gt;
Lampen, will be published during the present&lt;br /&gt;
brain, Whitland, S. Wales. He has in the press&lt;br /&gt;
year. The first, which is entitled &ldquo;O&amp;#039;Callaghan,&lt;br /&gt;
another story called &ldquo; Tom Genuflex,&rdquo; price 48.&lt;br /&gt;
the Slave Trader,&amp;quot; deals with West Africa and&lt;br /&gt;
the former traffic in human flesh. The second,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Basil Tozer&amp;#039;s new book on &ldquo;Free Lance entitled &ldquo;The Servants of the Rod.&amp;quot; is a story of&lt;br /&gt;
Journalism &rdquo; appeared on Thursday, April 4. It adventure, the scenes being laid amid the wilds&lt;br /&gt;
will be found especially helpful to the young of New Guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
journalist, for whom it is intended.&lt;br /&gt;
The William Black Memorial at Duart Point,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton&amp;#039;s new novel-a Mull, has now been completed, and the Commis-&lt;br /&gt;
story of to-day-entitled &ldquo;A Vanished Rival&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
sioners of Northern Lighthouses have given&lt;br /&gt;
will be published at once by Cassell and Co. notice that on and after the night of Monday,&lt;br /&gt;
Limited. The scene is laid in the mountains of May 13, there will be shown from the &ldquo; William&lt;br /&gt;
Haute Savoie, near Evian-les-Bains, the cha-&lt;br /&gt;
Black Memorial Tower&amp;quot; a group-flashing light,&lt;br /&gt;
racters being English.&lt;br /&gt;
showing three flashes in quick succession every&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Mystery of the Moat House,&amp;quot; by Derek fifteen seconds. The memorial has been erected&lt;br /&gt;
Vane, which was very popular as a serial, is to on a point six cables south of Duart Castle.&lt;br /&gt;
be published by the Cosmopolitan Publishing London has been chosen as the place of meet.&lt;br /&gt;
Company in their new sixpenny series.&lt;br /&gt;
ing for the Congress of Academical Societies in&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Poultney Bigelow has just returned from 1904.&lt;br /&gt;
America, where he has been lecturing at various General Sir H. E. Colvile is correcting the&lt;br /&gt;
Universities on British Colonial Administra proofs of his book entitled &ldquo;The Work of the&lt;br /&gt;
tions and the Colonial History of different Ninth Division.&amp;quot; This addition to the literature&lt;br /&gt;
Colonising Powers. His forthcoming book of the Boer War will be published shortly by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Children of the Nations,&amp;quot; will be Arnold.&lt;br /&gt;
published early in this month by McClure.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Aylmer Maude has completed a work of&lt;br /&gt;
The announcement by Messrs. Archibald Con- an expository character entitled &ldquo; Tolstoy and His&lt;br /&gt;
stable and Co. of a new book by K. and Hesketh Problems.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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before &ldquo; An English woman&amp;#039;s Love Letters &amp;quot; was&lt;br /&gt;
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take place at the Criterion on Monday, June 17. of a national theatre. &ldquo;I believe,&rdquo; he says.&lt;br /&gt;
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&ldquo; Bookworm&rdquo; in the Academy expresses a pre. benefit to the public, not only from the point of&lt;br /&gt;
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known epigram on Froude and Kingsley. But It would, of course, be devoted to the perform-&lt;br /&gt;
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Froude informs the Scottish youth&lt;br /&gt;
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That History is a pack of lies.&lt;br /&gt;
Orchard,&rdquo; will be introduced to London audiences&lt;br /&gt;
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Theatre, Fulham.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole has recast and added&lt;br /&gt;
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1&ldquo; Sir Harry Parkes in China.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Sharp&amp;quot; at the Prince of Wales&amp;#039;s Theatre in&lt;br /&gt;
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addressed envelope for return in case of unsuitability.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be typewritten. The publisher cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for articles accidentally lost.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;BLACK AND WHITE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of Blark and White is always glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
articles, drawings, and photographs of topical and general&lt;br /&gt;
interest. Paragraphs and articles on any interesting&lt;br /&gt;
subject of the week are particularly invited, and all photo-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs, whether taken by amateurs or professional photo.&lt;br /&gt;
graphers, are promptly considered, and paid for, if accepted,&lt;br /&gt;
without delay.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor spares no pains to return manuscripts and&lt;br /&gt;
photographs in case he is unable to make use of them, but&lt;br /&gt;
in no case can he be held responsible for their safety.&lt;br /&gt;
Photographs are frequently lost through the carelessness&lt;br /&gt;
of the senders, who fail to write their address on the back,&lt;br /&gt;
and the Editor has a large number of photographs which&lt;br /&gt;
he is unable to return for this reason. All photographs&lt;br /&gt;
should have their description, and the name and address of&lt;br /&gt;
the sender, on the back, faintly written in pencil.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is pleased to receive drawings of any events&lt;br /&gt;
of public interest, or of general subjects; and is glad at&lt;br /&gt;
any time to receive suggestions from artists or photo-&lt;br /&gt;
graphers.&lt;br /&gt;
All payments are made promptly on acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;BOOKMAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for the Editor must be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Editor of The Bookman, 17, Paternoster&lt;br /&gt;
Row, London, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
No unused communications will be returned, whether&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are enclosed for that purpose or not, and to this&lt;br /&gt;
rule we can make no exception.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; BRITANNIA.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive original tales for con-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration, with proposals of terms. Preference will be&lt;br /&gt;
given to type-written copy on account of superior legibility,&lt;br /&gt;
but clearly-written MSS. are also suitable. Short stories,&lt;br /&gt;
of a few pages in length, to appear in a single issue are&lt;br /&gt;
preferred.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CAPTAIN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any&lt;br /&gt;
MSS., photographs, or drawings submitted to him, but&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed he will endeavour to return&lt;br /&gt;
those contributions of which he cannot make use.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CHURCH OF IRELAND.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot promise to insert in the following&lt;br /&gt;
Friday&amp;#039;s issue any letter received after Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;
Rejected MSS. can only be returned when accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by a stamped and addressed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are requested to write as legibly as&lt;br /&gt;
possible, and on one side of the paper only, and not to&lt;br /&gt;
write on Post Cards.&lt;br /&gt;
All letters and MSS. intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Editor at the Office of the Church of&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland Gazette.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous letters will not be refused publication, if&lt;br /&gt;
they are otherwise fit for insertion ; but no anonymous&lt;br /&gt;
letter can be inserted unless accompanied by the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the writer, as an evidence of good faith.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
facts or opinions of his correspondents.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CORNHILL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Communications to the Editor should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
care of Messrs. Smith, Elder &amp;amp; Co., 15, Waterloo Place,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
All contributions are attentively considered, and un-&lt;br /&gt;
accepted MSS. are returned when accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
necessary stamps for postage ; but the Editor cannot hold&lt;br /&gt;
himself responsible for any accidental loss. MSS. cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered on personal application, nor can they be&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded through the post when only initials are given.&lt;br /&gt;
Every contribution should be type-written, on one side of&lt;br /&gt;
each leaf only, and should bear the name and address of&lt;br /&gt;
the sender.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; COUNTRY LIFE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CASSELL&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Illustrated contributions for the &ldquo; Something New&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
pages are invited by the Editor, who will be glad to pay for&lt;br /&gt;
original paragraphs or photographs which are accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
Out-of-the-way and curious natural phenomena and freaks&lt;br /&gt;
of nature, as well as portraits and views likely to be of&lt;br /&gt;
topical interest two or three months after they are submitted,&lt;br /&gt;
are sure of prompt and careful consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are requested, when applying to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor for the names and addresses of the persons from&lt;br /&gt;
whom further particulars respecting articles may be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained, to forward a stamped and addressed envelope&lt;br /&gt;
for reply.&lt;br /&gt;
All contributions for the Editor&amp;#039;s consideration must be&lt;br /&gt;
type-written, and submitted at the sender&amp;#039;s risk. The&lt;br /&gt;
Editor accepts no responsibility for unsuiiable papers and&lt;br /&gt;
stories, but will use his best endeavour to return such as&lt;br /&gt;
are accompanied by stamped and addressed wrappers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CATHOLIC TIMES.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications which do not belong to the Business&lt;br /&gt;
Department of the Catholic Times and are intended for&lt;br /&gt;
insertion should be addressed to the Editor. They should&lt;br /&gt;
be plainly written, if possible in ink, and invariably on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper. Special care should be taken that names&lt;br /&gt;
of places, countries, proper names, and uncommon words&lt;br /&gt;
have every letter perfectly legible. Figures must also be&lt;br /&gt;
clear and distinct. Ivattention to these directions will&lt;br /&gt;
often compel either rejection or considerable abridgment&lt;br /&gt;
of contributions. The writers of unsolicited articles sent&lt;br /&gt;
for insertion must state clearly if payment is expected for&lt;br /&gt;
them. All communications intended for insertion must be&lt;br /&gt;
authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good&lt;br /&gt;
faith. No notice will be taken of anonymous letters.&lt;br /&gt;
Rejected communications will not be returned.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are reminded that the earlier their com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications reach this office the better the chance of their&lt;br /&gt;
publication, and all communications intended for insertion&lt;br /&gt;
in the current issue should reach us not later than Tuesday ;&lt;br /&gt;
the Editor reserves Wednesday for special correspondents&lt;br /&gt;
and telegraphic news.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CHAMBERS&rsquo; JOURNAL.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1st. All communications should be addressed - To the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, 339, High Street, Edinburgh.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
2nd. For its return in case of ineligibility, postage-stamps&lt;br /&gt;
should accompany every manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
3rd. To secure their safe return if ineligible, all manu-&lt;br /&gt;
scripts, whether accompanied by a letter of advice or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise, should have the writer&amp;#039;s name and address&lt;br /&gt;
written upon them in full.&lt;br /&gt;
4th. Poetical contributions should invariably be accom-&lt;br /&gt;
panied by a stamped and directed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; CHURCHMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to &amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Editors, 2, Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS, should bear name and address of writer and&lt;br /&gt;
be accompanied by stamps for return. The Editors will&lt;br /&gt;
endeavour to return all such MSS. : but can accept no&lt;br /&gt;
responsibility for uninvited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors accept no responsibility for opinions expressed&lt;br /&gt;
in correspondence or signed articles.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CHURCHWOMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Editors, 2, Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. should bear name and address of writer and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by stamps for return. The Editors will&lt;br /&gt;
endeavour to return all such MSS. ; but can accept no&lt;br /&gt;
responsibility for uninvited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive for consideration&lt;br /&gt;
photographs, instantaneous or other wise, besides literary&lt;br /&gt;
contributions, in the shape of articles and descriptions, as .&lt;br /&gt;
well as short stories, sporting or otherwise, not exceeding&lt;br /&gt;
2,000 words. Contributors are specially requested to place&lt;br /&gt;
their names and addresses on their MSS, and on the backs&lt;br /&gt;
of photographs. The Editor will not be responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
return of artistic or literary contributions which he may&lt;br /&gt;
not be able to use, and the receipt of a proof must not be&lt;br /&gt;
taken as evidence that an article is accepted. Publication&lt;br /&gt;
in Country Life alone will be recognised as acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
Where stamps are enclosed, the Editor will do his best to&lt;br /&gt;
return those contributions which he does not require.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to photographs, the price required for repro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, together with all descriptive particulars, must be&lt;br /&gt;
plainly stated, otherwise, when jayment is requested, it&lt;br /&gt;
must be understood that the usnal rates of the paper will&lt;br /&gt;
be paid. If it is desired that the photograph should be&lt;br /&gt;
returned, a sufficiently stamped and directed envelope must&lt;br /&gt;
be enclosed for the purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;COUNTRY SPORT.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot undertake the return of any rejected&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript, unless same is accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
addressed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive for consideration any&lt;br /&gt;
interesting, original paragraphs, sporting anecdotes, or&lt;br /&gt;
other suitable matter for insertion under this heading.&lt;br /&gt;
A postal order for 78. will be remitted immediately after&lt;br /&gt;
publication of any accepted manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CRAMPTON&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Communications to the Editor should be addressed to 5,&lt;br /&gt;
Henrietta Street, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Every MS. should bear the name and address of the&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sender, and should be accompanied by a stamped envelope&lt;br /&gt;
for return in cese of rejection.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the loss of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; DAILY GRAPHIC.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The proprietors cannot hold themselves responsible for&lt;br /&gt;
loss or damage to MSS., sketches, or other contributions&lt;br /&gt;
arising from any cause whatever. A sufficiently stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and directed envelope must accompany contributions when&lt;br /&gt;
their return is desired.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; EXAMINER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Editorial Offices, 56, Ludgate Hill, E.C., where all com&lt;br /&gt;
munications for the Editor should be addressed. Letters&lt;br /&gt;
intended for publication must be authenticated in every&lt;br /&gt;
case by the name and address of the writer, and be written&lt;br /&gt;
on one side of the paper only. Unsolicited MSS. cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be returned unless accompanied by stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are reminded that we cannot insert any&lt;br /&gt;
letters that are not authenticated by the name and address.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;GLOBE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
sent to &amp;quot; The Editor,&amp;quot; and be accompanied by the writer&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
name and address, not necessarily for insertion, but as a&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee of good faith.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for any&lt;br /&gt;
rejected MS. nor to return any contribution unaccompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by a stamped and directed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;GRAPHIC.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Graphic does not publish regularly a notice of&lt;br /&gt;
the terms on which they deal with contributors, but&lt;br /&gt;
occasionally inserts a paragraph as follows : &amp;quot;Every care&lt;br /&gt;
will be taken of all sketches received, and those not used&lt;br /&gt;
will be forwarded to any address furnished by sender; but&lt;br /&gt;
the proprietors cannot hold themselves responsible for loss&lt;br /&gt;
of or damage to MSS., sketches, or other contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
arising from any cause whatever. A sufficiently stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and directed envelope must, when possible, accompany&lt;br /&gt;
contributions where their return is desired.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
HARMSWORTH BROS.&amp;#039; PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
In regard to short stories, they must be sent direct to&lt;br /&gt;
the Editors of the respective journals chosen by the&lt;br /&gt;
contributor. The following are the lengths most suitable :&lt;br /&gt;
Answers, 2,100 words ; Home, Sweet Home, 5,000 words ;&lt;br /&gt;
Home Chut, 1,000 to 3,000 words ; Forget-Me-Not, some&lt;br /&gt;
1,800, and others 7,000; Harm sucurth Magazine, 1,500 to&lt;br /&gt;
4,000 words.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;HARMSWORTH MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Cash for Ideas.--The Editor is always glad to receive&lt;br /&gt;
ideas for articles and pictures. All readers are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
contribute to this magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Pictures and photographs are essential to all articles, and&lt;br /&gt;
must be bright and interesting.&lt;br /&gt;
All stories, articles, and photographs submitted to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor for consideration must bear the names and addresses&lt;br /&gt;
of the senders, be typewritten and accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and addressed envelopes, otherwise they cannot be considered&lt;br /&gt;
or returned. MSS. must be folded, and not rolled.&lt;br /&gt;
It must be understocd that while every care is taken of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS., they are sent at the author&amp;#039;s risk, and the Editor is&lt;br /&gt;
not responsible for their safe custody or return.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications should be addressed to the Editor,&lt;br /&gt;
Harmsworth Magazine. Carmelite House. London. E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
- FINANCE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors will not be responsible for MSS. sent to&lt;br /&gt;
them, but will make every endeavour to return rejected&lt;br /&gt;
communications when accompanied by a stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; FREE LANCE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to consider MSS. of any description&lt;br /&gt;
that may fairly be regarded as suitable for publication in&lt;br /&gt;
this journal.&lt;br /&gt;
The Free Lance stands on an exceedingly broad platform,&lt;br /&gt;
and is always open to publish paragraphs and articles of a&lt;br /&gt;
general, descriptive, or critical nature, provided they be&lt;br /&gt;
topical, interesting to both men and women, always in&lt;br /&gt;
good taste, and not too remote or too academic in style.&lt;br /&gt;
Articles must not exceed from 1,500 to 2,000 words in&lt;br /&gt;
length, and should be light and bright in treatment, full of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;points,&amp;quot; free of verbiage, and rendered readable by new&lt;br /&gt;
ideas and new points of view. Subjects may be treated&lt;br /&gt;
seriously or humorously, frankly, blandly, or caustically,&lt;br /&gt;
or merely from the informative aspect.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions referring to dead personages, party politics,&lt;br /&gt;
theological questions, Continental matters, and events of&lt;br /&gt;
years gone by are not required.&lt;br /&gt;
Accepted MSS. will be paid for during the week of&lt;br /&gt;
publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Every endeavour will be made to return unused con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributions, provided a stamped envelope be enclosed, but&lt;br /&gt;
the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the return of&lt;br /&gt;
any MSS. submitted.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. sent without stamped envelopes will be destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be typewritten (whenever possible) on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper, and should have the author&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address on the back of each sheet, and should be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Editor, Free Lance, 15, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; JEWISH WORLD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Jewish World will not in any case be&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for the return of rejected contributions. He&lt;br /&gt;
will, however, always be prepared to consider MSS. and&lt;br /&gt;
sketches that have a distinctly Jewish interest, and where&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are enclosed, and name and address of sender&lt;br /&gt;
legibly written on the manuscript, every effort will be&lt;br /&gt;
made to return rejected contributions promptly. MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
must be clearly written on one side of the paper only.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;GENTLEMAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. should be addressed, prepaid, to Sylvanus&lt;br /&gt;
Urban, care of Messrs. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus, 111, St. Martin&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Lane, W.C. Every MS. should bear the writer&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address, and be accompanied by postage stamps for its&lt;br /&gt;
return if not accepted, but the Editor cannot hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for any accidental loss.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;KING.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All manuscripts, photographs, drawings, and other&lt;br /&gt;
contributions must be plainly marked with the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of each sender, for quick identification in case of&lt;br /&gt;
return. Each photograph must have the title thereof&lt;br /&gt;
plainly written on the back, and, where possible, a few&lt;br /&gt;
words of description.&lt;br /&gt;
All available matter will be paid for on acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
The receipt of a proof, however, will not be a guarantee of&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
All unavailable matter will be promptly returned pro-&lt;br /&gt;
viding stamps are enclosed with contributions, but the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor will not hold himself liable for accidental loss.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications must be addressed to the Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;GENTLEWOMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
No notices with regard to the MSS, of contributors are&lt;br /&gt;
printed, but any that are sent in have immediate&lt;br /&gt;
consideration, and are returned if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
stamped and addressed envelope should accompany the&lt;br /&gt;
MS. if the writer wishes it to be returned in case of non-&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance. The editor can in no case hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for accidental loss. All communications should&lt;br /&gt;
be addressed to the Editor of Longman&amp;#039;&amp;amp; Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LA DIES&amp;#039; FIELD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive photographs and to&lt;br /&gt;
consider special articles on any subject of interest to cultured&lt;br /&gt;
women.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold herself responsible for rejected&lt;br /&gt;
contributions, though, if stamps are enclosed, together with&lt;br /&gt;
the full name and address of the writer, every effort will&lt;br /&gt;
be made to return them. Contributors desiring remunera.&lt;br /&gt;
tion must mention the price asked for photos. or MSS. at&lt;br /&gt;
the time of sending.&lt;br /&gt;
The receipt of a proof must not be taken as evidence&lt;br /&gt;
that an article is accepted. Publication in The Ladies&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Field will alone be recognised as acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
All correspondence concerning letterpress or illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
published in The Ladies&amp;#039; Field should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; MACMILLAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Every MS. should bear the name and address of the&lt;br /&gt;
writer, and be accompanied by sufficient postage stamps for&lt;br /&gt;
its return if necessary. Every endeavour will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
send back unaccepted articles, but the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee their safe return. Under no conditions will he&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the return of contributions in verse.&lt;br /&gt;
There is no rule in this magazine entitling a contributor&lt;br /&gt;
to the publication of his signature. This and all kindred&lt;br /&gt;
matters rest solely in the Editor&amp;#039;s discretion.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADIES&amp;#039; GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions are invited upon any subjects of interest&lt;br /&gt;
to women. Articles may be illustrated with non-copyright&lt;br /&gt;
photographs. The remuneration required should be stated&lt;br /&gt;
on the MSS. All MSS. should be typewritten, and must&lt;br /&gt;
have a stamped, addressed envelope enclosed for return.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold herself responsible for loss of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADY&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always glad to receive ideas for bright&lt;br /&gt;
articles, especially those that will illustrate well by&lt;br /&gt;
photography. While not holding himself responsible for&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and drawings sent on approval, the Editor will at all&lt;br /&gt;
times be ready to consider such contributions, and, where&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are inclosed, every effort will be made to secure their&lt;br /&gt;
safe return in case of rejection. All MSS. should be&lt;br /&gt;
typewritten, or in very clear handwriting.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications should be addressed to the Editor, The&lt;br /&gt;
Lady&amp;#039;s Magazine, Pearson&amp;#039;s, Henrietta Street, London,&lt;br /&gt;
W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADY&amp;#039;S WORLD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will not be responsible for the safe return of&lt;br /&gt;
any MSS. In all cases they must bear the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender, and be accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and addressed envelopes. Consideration will be specially&lt;br /&gt;
given to articles and stories which are typewritten&lt;br /&gt;
All drawings sent to the office for consideration must&lt;br /&gt;
also bear the names and addresses of the senders, and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by stamps for return, but the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the safety of same.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications to be addressed The Editor, The&lt;br /&gt;
Lady&amp;#039;s World.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;M. A. P.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will always be happy to consider MSS. sent&lt;br /&gt;
in by any competent contributor--whether a professed&lt;br /&gt;
journalist or not-provided they be typewritten, on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper only, and endorsed on each slip with the&lt;br /&gt;
name and address of the sender. Contributions must be&lt;br /&gt;
formally declared in a brief covering letter to be original,&lt;br /&gt;
and should deal with personal matters directly within the&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of the writer. Paragraphs relating to celebrities&lt;br /&gt;
of the past, or to notable men and women of Continental&lt;br /&gt;
or trans-Atlantic reputation only, are quite unavailable.&lt;br /&gt;
New, true, and original anecdotes relating to men and&lt;br /&gt;
women of the day will be considered with especial care. -&lt;br /&gt;
Every endeavour will be made to return unsuitable con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributions, if a stamped addressed envelope be enclosed,&lt;br /&gt;
but the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted on approval. When no stamped envelope is&lt;br /&gt;
submitted on androval When nos&lt;br /&gt;
enclosed, the Editor will assume that authors do not desire&lt;br /&gt;
the return of their MSS., which will consequently be&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed, if found, upon reading, to be unsuitable for&lt;br /&gt;
M. A. P. As regards short stories, these must be either&lt;br /&gt;
1,500 or 2,200 words in length, and, in keeping with the&lt;br /&gt;
atmosphere of the pages among which they are intended to&lt;br /&gt;
appear, must have a pleasant tone and a pleasant ending.&lt;br /&gt;
Personal interviews are granted to contributors by written&lt;br /&gt;
appointment, on Tuesdays only, from 12 to 1, and from 2.30&lt;br /&gt;
to 6 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;MCCLURE&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
There are no fixed terms for dealing with manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
sent in voluntarily, as each contribution which is accepted&lt;br /&gt;
is dealt with on its own merits and valued accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
With the exception of short stories, which are obtained&lt;br /&gt;
mainly from America, very little contributed matter is&lt;br /&gt;
found available, nearly all of the special articles being&lt;br /&gt;
written by members of the editorial staff. No notice&lt;br /&gt;
concerning the method of dealing with the matter of&lt;br /&gt;
contributions is printed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;METHODIST TIMES.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; LEISURE HOUR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All manuscripts should be sent to the Editor, The Leisure&lt;br /&gt;
Hour, 56, Paternoster Row, and must have the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender clearly written thereon, and in any&lt;br /&gt;
accompanying letter the title of the MS. must be given.&lt;br /&gt;
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.&lt;br /&gt;
Writers are recommended to keep copies of their MSS&lt;br /&gt;
A stamped addressed envelope should accompany each&lt;br /&gt;
communication. Payment for accepted manuscripts is&lt;br /&gt;
made on publication.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Office, and not to the Editor&amp;#039;s prirate&lt;br /&gt;
address. No letters can be returned, whether accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by stamps or not Correspondents will, therefore, please&lt;br /&gt;
discontinue asking for the MSS. of letters which have not&lt;br /&gt;
appeared. No notice will be taken of anonymous com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications. Contributions written on both sides of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper cannot be printed.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LONGMAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor requests that his correspondents will be good&lt;br /&gt;
enough to write to him informing him of the subject of any&lt;br /&gt;
article they wish to offer, before sending the MS. &Agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;MORNING POST.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All letters intended for insertion in the Morning Post&lt;br /&gt;
should be written on one side of the paper, and must be&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
authenticated by the name and address of the writer ;&lt;br /&gt;
either for publication, if desired, or as a confidential&lt;br /&gt;
communication to the Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
We cannot undertake to return the MSS. of such articles&lt;br /&gt;
as we may find it impossible to insert.&lt;br /&gt;
found more satisfactory, both to the author and to the&lt;br /&gt;
management, for this arrangement to obtain. When an&lt;br /&gt;
article is considered suitable, a formal offer is sent the&lt;br /&gt;
author, and if this is accepted, payment is made at once,&lt;br /&gt;
although the article may not appear for some months&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards. The only exception to this rule is in the case&lt;br /&gt;
of payment for ideas for articles.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PILOT.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Contributors are requested, in all cases, to write name&lt;br /&gt;
and address on the MSS.; and, if they are sent for&lt;br /&gt;
consideration, a fully addressed and stamped envelope&lt;br /&gt;
should be forwarded at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;
If these conditions are complied with, the Editor will&lt;br /&gt;
do his best to return unused articles. Only appearance in&lt;br /&gt;
The Pilot constitutes acceptance. Contributions stand a&lt;br /&gt;
better chance of receiving full consideration if they are&lt;br /&gt;
typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; MOTOR-CAR JOURNAL.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for insertion in this Journal&lt;br /&gt;
or relating to Editorial matters should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editorial Department, Motor-Car Journal, 39 and 40, Shoe&lt;br /&gt;
Lane, London, E.C., and must be written on one side of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper only. Letters must in all cases be accompanied by&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address of the writer, as no notice will be&lt;br /&gt;
taken of anonymous communications.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors cannot undertake to return MSS. or draw.&lt;br /&gt;
ings, although every effort will be made to do so in the&lt;br /&gt;
case of rejected communications. Where such are regarded&lt;br /&gt;
as of value, correspondents are requested to retain copies.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors and Publishers beg also to state that they&lt;br /&gt;
will accept no responsibility for unsolicited contribu-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, even if used, unless payment for same is directly&lt;br /&gt;
specified in forwarding, and the terms arranged before&lt;br /&gt;
publication.&lt;br /&gt;
To insure insertion communications and contributions&lt;br /&gt;
must be in the Editors&amp;#039; hands by Tuesday forenoon of the&lt;br /&gt;
week in which the same are intended to appear. Disap-&lt;br /&gt;
pointment may be caused by non-compliance with this&lt;br /&gt;
rule, and to avoid this, earlier receipt, if possible, is&lt;br /&gt;
necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;ONLOOKER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions.&mdash;The Editor will at all times be pleased&lt;br /&gt;
to consider short stories, articles, verses, paragraphs, etc.,&lt;br /&gt;
and will do his best to return them promptly if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope, and should be typewritten. Such communica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions should bear a note stating the rate of remuneration&lt;br /&gt;
expected, and payment will be made after insertion only.&lt;br /&gt;
It should, however, be understood that the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
kundertake any responsibility for unsolicited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
All editorial letters and copy should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, and not to anyone by name,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; PRESBYTERIAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is pleased at all times to consider MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to him, but they must be sent at the writers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
own risk. Every care will be taken, however, to return&lt;br /&gt;
unsuitable contributions when stamps are enclosed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PALL MALL GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette does not in any&lt;br /&gt;
case hold himself responsible for the return of rejected&lt;br /&gt;
contributions. He is, however, always glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and sketches; and, where stamps are enclosed and&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address are written on the manuscript,&lt;br /&gt;
every effort will be made to return rejected contributions&lt;br /&gt;
promptly. To ensure this it is absolutely necessary that&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address of the contributor should be written&lt;br /&gt;
on the manuscript itself. The sending of a proof is no&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee of the acceptance of the article.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;PUNCH.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Punch publishes no notice of the terms on which MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
is dealt with&mdash;with the exception of an intimation on the&lt;br /&gt;
cover that they should be accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
directed wrappers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;QUEEN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the safety&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS. He will, however, endeavour to return articles&lt;br /&gt;
and sketches when accompanied by a stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
wrapper or envelope. All contributions should be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;QUIVER.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Ladies or gentlemen who propose offering MSS. for&lt;br /&gt;
insertion, if approved, in The Quirer, are requested to&lt;br /&gt;
forward in the first place, or accompanying a MS., a short&lt;br /&gt;
abstract of the story or paper to be submitted. This&lt;br /&gt;
precaution will save much valuable time to all concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract should not, as a rule, exceed 250 words in&lt;br /&gt;
length.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor would be obliged if, in future, all MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to him for approval be typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
No responsibility will be taken for loss or miscarriage&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;REGIMENT.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always glad to consider short interesting&lt;br /&gt;
stories and articles, with a view to publication. MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
should, if they are not typewritten, be written very&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly. Drawings of an interesting or comic nature&lt;br /&gt;
are also considered.&lt;br /&gt;
Whilst doing his best to return unaccepted contributions&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed, the Editor will not be responsible&lt;br /&gt;
for their loss or damage in transit, although he will use his&lt;br /&gt;
utmost endeavours to avoid such.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PALL MALL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. submitted to the Editor for consideration must&lt;br /&gt;
bear the names and addresses of the Authors, be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written, and accompanied by stamps, otherwise they will&lt;br /&gt;
not be read or returned. It must be understood that they&lt;br /&gt;
are sent at the Author&amp;#039;s risk, and the Editor is not&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for their safe custody or return. All drawings&lt;br /&gt;
submitted must also bear the names and addresses of&lt;br /&gt;
the persons forwarding them, and must be accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by stamps to defray the cost of return. MSS. and drawings&lt;br /&gt;
should be addressed to the Editor, Pall Mall Vagazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; ROYAL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will always be ready to consider contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
whether literary or pictorial, and, where stamps are&lt;br /&gt;
enclosed, will make every endeavour to ensure their safe&lt;br /&gt;
return in the event of their proving unsuitable, although&lt;br /&gt;
he cannot hold himself responsible for any MSS. or drawings&lt;br /&gt;
or photographs sent on approval,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;PEARSON&amp;#039;S WEEKLY.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The rate of payment for Pearson&amp;#039;s Weekly varies in&lt;br /&gt;
accordance with the merit of the article. It has been&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
requested to send stamped and addressed envelopes for&lt;br /&gt;
the return of their MSS. in case of non-acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SANDOW&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will at all times be glad to consider articles,&lt;br /&gt;
stories, and sketches addressed to him at Crown and Sceptre&lt;br /&gt;
Court, but in order to avoid waste of time, contributors&lt;br /&gt;
would do well to submit suggestions for his approval before&lt;br /&gt;
sending in their work. Literary MSS. should be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written. In no case can the editor be responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
safety of unsolicited sketches and literary matter, but&lt;br /&gt;
where stamps are enclosed he will do his best to secure&lt;br /&gt;
their return if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; SUNDAY STRAND.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and drawings must be submitted at the owner&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
risk, and the Editor will not guarantee their safety, though&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed he will endeavour to return them.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SCIENCE GOSSIP.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Notice.-Contributors are requested to strictly observe&lt;br /&gt;
the following rules. All contributions must be clearly&lt;br /&gt;
written on one side of the paper only. Words intended&lt;br /&gt;
to be printed in itulics should be marked under with a&lt;br /&gt;
single line. Generic names must be given in full, excepting&lt;br /&gt;
where used immediately before. Capitals may only be&lt;br /&gt;
used for generic, and not specific names. Scientific names&lt;br /&gt;
and names of places to be written in round hand,&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is not responsible for unused MSS., neither&lt;br /&gt;
can he undertake to return them unless accompanied with&lt;br /&gt;
stamps for return postage.&lt;br /&gt;
- SPARE MOMENTS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
We offer a prize of Ten Shillings every week for the most&lt;br /&gt;
laugbable story.&lt;br /&gt;
The name and address of the sender should accompany&lt;br /&gt;
the Competition. If original, a declaration to that effect&lt;br /&gt;
must be inclosed ; if cut from another paper, the name and&lt;br /&gt;
date of the paper from which it was taken must be forwarded.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be the sole judge of the contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
and his decision will be final. We reserve the right of&lt;br /&gt;
dividing the 108., should we think proper, and of publishing&lt;br /&gt;
any of the stories sent in.&lt;br /&gt;
Any number of stories may be sent in by the same com-&lt;br /&gt;
petitor, but in all cases the words - Fanny Story Competition&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
must be written on the envelope. Stories will not, under&lt;br /&gt;
any circumstances, be returned.&lt;br /&gt;
Successful competitors are not debarred from again&lt;br /&gt;
contributing,&lt;br /&gt;
We do not require stories that have appeared in other&lt;br /&gt;
papeis the previous week, nor do we want stories that have&lt;br /&gt;
been already published in Spare Woments.&lt;br /&gt;
Competitions should reach the offices of Spare Woments,&lt;br /&gt;
12-14, Fetter Lane, London, E.C., not later than Friday&lt;br /&gt;
of each week. Any arriving later will be placed in the&lt;br /&gt;
following competition.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;THE SPHERE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Photographe. &mdash; The Editor will be pleased to receive&lt;br /&gt;
photographs of important current events, of interesting&lt;br /&gt;
houses, and of notable persons. These should be invariably&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by full descriptive matter, with name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender written upon the reverse of the&lt;br /&gt;
photograph. It must be distinctly understood that no one&lt;br /&gt;
living in a country under the Berne Copyright Convention&lt;br /&gt;
will be treated with who is not the owner of the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
of the photograph submitted, or who has not the permission.&lt;br /&gt;
in writing of the owner of the copyright to submit the&lt;br /&gt;
photograph to the Editor of The Sphere for reproduction.&lt;br /&gt;
All photographs used will be liberally paid for. Any&lt;br /&gt;
photograph will be returned after reproduction if&lt;br /&gt;
desired.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Januscripts. &ndash; The Editor must decline to consider&lt;br /&gt;
manuscripts of any kind unless he has been previously&lt;br /&gt;
approached as to their possible utility. This particularly&lt;br /&gt;
applies to short stories, of which the Editor has sufficient&lt;br /&gt;
in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;THE TATLER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Literary matter.&mdash;The Editor will always be pleased to&lt;br /&gt;
consider MSS. sent in by any contributor - whether&lt;br /&gt;
professed journalist or not-provided they are of a nature&lt;br /&gt;
suitable for The Tatler. Intending contributors are par-&lt;br /&gt;
ticularly recommended to read carefully the columns of&lt;br /&gt;
The Tatler before contributing. What the Editor requires&lt;br /&gt;
are short, bright, personal paragraphs about living celeb.&lt;br /&gt;
rities directly within the knowledge of the writer. New,&lt;br /&gt;
true, and original anecdotes relating to men and women of&lt;br /&gt;
the day are especially acceptable. Paragraphs compiled&lt;br /&gt;
from biographical works are not invited. As regards short&lt;br /&gt;
stories, these must be from 2,000 to 3,000 words in length&lt;br /&gt;
and in keeping with the atmosphere of the pages of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper in which they are intended to appear. All para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs and stories should be addressed to the society Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
Where a stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed every&lt;br /&gt;
effort will be made to return promptly unsuitable MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
and photographs.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; TEMPLE BAR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be addressed, post-paid, to the Editor of&lt;br /&gt;
Temple Bar. Each MS. should bear the name and address&lt;br /&gt;
of the writer (not necessarily for publication), and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by postage stamps for its return in case of&lt;br /&gt;
non-acceptance. Every care will be taken, but neither the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, nor the publisher, can be responsible for accidental&lt;br /&gt;
loss. MSS. should be written in a clear hand on one side&lt;br /&gt;
of the paper only, and the leaves should be fastened&lt;br /&gt;
together, and paged.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence- Allarticles sent are carefully considered,&lt;br /&gt;
but it is impossible to advise beforehand what subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to meet with acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SPEAKER.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the loss&lt;br /&gt;
or miscarriage of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to him,&lt;br /&gt;
though he will make every effort to return such safely, if a&lt;br /&gt;
stamped and addressed envelope is sent with them.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SPECTATOR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A notice is printed that &amp;quot; The Editor cannot return MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
under any circumstances.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; SUNDAY AT HOME.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Sunday at llome professes only to return rejected&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. which are accompanied by stamps.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SUNDAY CHRONICLE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always pleased to consider articles on&lt;br /&gt;
topical subjects and short stories. Contributors are&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; VANITY FAIR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The only terms that the Editor of Vanity Fair has with&lt;br /&gt;
regard to contributors of uninvited manuscripts are, that&lt;br /&gt;
if stamps are enclosed and the address is written on the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript, he makes every effort to return it, and he does.&lt;br /&gt;
not hold himself liable for accidental loss. Manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 9 (#317) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
are sometimes kept for some time under consideration,&lt;br /&gt;
especially when they are stories which are not of topical&lt;br /&gt;
interest ; and it must be understood that such delay does&lt;br /&gt;
not imply acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributors are specially requested to put their names and&lt;br /&gt;
addresses on their manuscripts. Address : Tudor Street,&lt;br /&gt;
Whitefriars, E.C. Telegraphic address, &ldquo; Lobby,&rdquo; London.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;VEGETARIAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Vegetarian cannot hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible in any case for the return of MSS. or&lt;br /&gt;
Sketches. He will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions which may be submitted to him ; and&lt;br /&gt;
when postage stamps are enclosed every effort will be&lt;br /&gt;
made to return rejected contributions promptly. Con&lt;br /&gt;
tributors are requested to put their names and addresses&lt;br /&gt;
on their manuscripts. Address: 33, Paternoster Row,&lt;br /&gt;
London, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; WINDSOR MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. (which should be type-written) and drawings&lt;br /&gt;
submitted must bear the names and addresses of the senders,&lt;br /&gt;
and be accompanied by stamps ; otherwise they will not&lt;br /&gt;
be considered. The Editor does not hold himself responsible&lt;br /&gt;
for the safety of any contributions forwarded for his&lt;br /&gt;
inspection. All communications must be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, Windsor Vagazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;WOMAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are invited to contribute long complete stories.&lt;br /&gt;
They should be 4,500 words in length.&lt;br /&gt;
Enclose stamped addressed envelope in case of rejection.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; WESTMINSTER BUDGET.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Westminster Budget cannot old&lt;br /&gt;
herself responsible in any care for the return of MSS. or&lt;br /&gt;
sketches. She will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions, literary or pictorial, which may be&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to her ; and when postage stamps are enclosed&lt;br /&gt;
every effort will be made to return rejected contributions&lt;br /&gt;
promptly. All illustrations appearing in The Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
Budget are copyright. Applications for permission to&lt;br /&gt;
reproduce, or for purchase of blocks, to be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Westminster Gazette cannot hold&lt;br /&gt;
himself responsible in any case for the return of MS. or&lt;br /&gt;
Sketches. He will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions, literary or pictorial, which may be sub-&lt;br /&gt;
mitte ito him ; and when postage-stamps are enclosed every&lt;br /&gt;
effort will be made to return rejected contributions promptly.&lt;br /&gt;
The following Papers and Magazines do not print any&lt;br /&gt;
notice with regard to contributions :-&lt;br /&gt;
British Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
Short Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Church Bells.&lt;br /&gt;
Sketchy Bits.&lt;br /&gt;
Church Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Lloyd&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday Times.&lt;br /&gt;
Modern Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Contemporary Review,&lt;br /&gt;
Observer.&lt;br /&gt;
English Illustrated.&lt;br /&gt;
People.&lt;br /&gt;
Fortnightly Review,&lt;br /&gt;
Referee.&lt;br /&gt;
Review of Reviews.&lt;br /&gt;
Reynolds.&lt;br /&gt;
Scribner&amp;#039;s Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Scraps.&lt;br /&gt;
United Service Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Select Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Wide World Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Shooting Times.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 10 (#318) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MANAGEMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.&lt;br /&gt;
action against an editor a case of contributory neglige ce&lt;br /&gt;
where the author failed to keep a copy of his own composi.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and that though the Society would be willing to assist&lt;br /&gt;
those who are unable to recover their MSS. when the case&lt;br /&gt;
is clear and the editor has been guilty of wilful neglect, yet&lt;br /&gt;
in the ordinary course of business, touching the circulation&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS., it should be remembered that a great deal depen&amp;#039;ls&lt;br /&gt;
upon the machinery being carefully oiled-in other words,&lt;br /&gt;
upon the courtesy and tact of the authors themselves in the&lt;br /&gt;
matter.&lt;br /&gt;
No excuse is put forward for repeating these statements&lt;br /&gt;
or for reproducing Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion, as it appears many of&lt;br /&gt;
the more recent members have no knowledge of the facts,&lt;br /&gt;
and many have forgotten them.&lt;br /&gt;
LIOR various reasons it is necessary to say a few words&lt;br /&gt;
i about the position of editors with regard to MSS. and&lt;br /&gt;
about the action of authors generally in the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
There are two fundamental principles, and if author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
adhered to them the complaint of the detention of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
would not be so frequently heard. Firstly, MSS., when&lt;br /&gt;
sent to magazines, should be typewritten, and secondly, an&lt;br /&gt;
author should invariably keep a copy of his MS.&lt;br /&gt;
Next, authors should be careful about the magazines they&lt;br /&gt;
send their MSS. to&mdash;in the first instance, that the magazines&lt;br /&gt;
are periodicals of substance and reputation ; secondly, that&lt;br /&gt;
the MSS. are suitable to the particular magazines to which&lt;br /&gt;
they are sent. In forwarding MSS. stamps and a directed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope should be enclosed, and the author&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address should be written on the MSS. In some magazines&lt;br /&gt;
editors invite MSS, to be sent to them, but the author must&lt;br /&gt;
remember that when demanding the return of a MS, he&lt;br /&gt;
must be able to show that it has reached the office, and not&lt;br /&gt;
only has reached the office, but has come into the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
a responsible party. In other magazines the editor makes&lt;br /&gt;
no request for MSS., and therefore his position with regard&lt;br /&gt;
to the possession of MSS, is slightly different from that of&lt;br /&gt;
the editor mentioned above. In the first case, if the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
has reached his hands, he will be bound to take rather&lt;br /&gt;
more care of it than in the latter case, but in neither case&lt;br /&gt;
may the editor be wilfully neglectful of the property in his&lt;br /&gt;
charge. If, however, the MS. has not been acknowledged&lt;br /&gt;
and letters have been left unanswered, it is exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
difficult for the author to show that the MS. has reached&lt;br /&gt;
the office, that it has come into the hands of a responsible&lt;br /&gt;
party, and that it has been lost through the wilful neglect&lt;br /&gt;
of the editor. It is a simple matter, if the author has a&lt;br /&gt;
copy of his MS., to write to the editor and state that he&lt;br /&gt;
withdraws the offer of the MS, unless he hears definitely&lt;br /&gt;
before a certain date, and that he will try to place it&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
The Secretary of the Society has found as a general rule.&lt;br /&gt;
on his intervening, that editors are courteous, obliging, and&lt;br /&gt;
businessiike, and will do their best to assist authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
recovery of their MSS., but authors at the same time must&lt;br /&gt;
remember that editors are overwhelmed with MSS. of all&lt;br /&gt;
sorts and kinds, and after all, they are but human.&lt;br /&gt;
It is quite certain that some of the so-called rudeness&lt;br /&gt;
and unbusinesslike conduct of editors is due to corresponding&lt;br /&gt;
characteristics in the authors who put forward their MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
It is exceedingly difficult for the Society to act in cases of&lt;br /&gt;
this kind where the editor has been roundly abused by an&lt;br /&gt;
author without any apparent cause or reason. It has,&lt;br /&gt;
however, frequently occurred that the Society has been&lt;br /&gt;
able to obtain a satisfactory answer from an editor and a&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory explanation when the author has been unable&lt;br /&gt;
to do so. In many cases this is due to the position which&lt;br /&gt;
the Society now holds, and in other cases it is due to the&lt;br /&gt;
fact of the author&amp;#039;s unbusinesslike correspondence.&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, it should be made clear to all authors that it is&lt;br /&gt;
very doubtful, now that it is so easy to obtain typewritten&lt;br /&gt;
copies of MSS., whether it might not be considered in an&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s Opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR AND AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
1. I am of opinion that if a manuscript be sent to the&lt;br /&gt;
editor of a magazine without any previous request or agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, the editor is not responsible for its loss while in his&lt;br /&gt;
possession unless the loss be due to some gross negligence&lt;br /&gt;
on his part. So long, however, as the manuscript remains&lt;br /&gt;
in his possession the editor is bound to return it on demand,&lt;br /&gt;
and the publication in his magazine of a notice that he will&lt;br /&gt;
not return manuscripts does not, in my opinion, alter his&lt;br /&gt;
liability in this respect towards an author who was not&lt;br /&gt;
cognizant of such notice when he sent in the manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor&amp;#039;s responsibility for the manuscript while in&lt;br /&gt;
his possession is, in my opinion, that of a gratuitous or&lt;br /&gt;
voluntary bailee, who is answerable for loss through his&lt;br /&gt;
gross negligence, but not for any ordinary neglect. (See I&lt;br /&gt;
Smith&amp;#039;s Leading Cases, 10th edition, pp. 189 et seq.) If the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript has been lost, the onus lies upon the author to&lt;br /&gt;
show that the loss was caused by the editor&amp;#039;s gross negligence,&lt;br /&gt;
for which alone the editor is answerable. (See Story on&lt;br /&gt;
Bailments, 9th edition, s. 410, and the cases referred to in&lt;br /&gt;
the notes there.)&lt;br /&gt;
If the manuscript was in the editor&amp;#039;s possession when its&lt;br /&gt;
return was demanded, the editor is liable, in my opinion, to&lt;br /&gt;
an action of detenue if he refuse to return it. Evidence&lt;br /&gt;
that the editor received the manuscript would raise a pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sumption that it was still in his possession when the demand&lt;br /&gt;
was made. But the editor could rebut that presumption by&lt;br /&gt;
proving that the manuscript was lost prior to the demand,&lt;br /&gt;
The editor would not escape liability by proving that he&lt;br /&gt;
had improperly destroyed or wrongfully parted with the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript (see Jones r. Dowle, 9 M. &amp;amp; W. 19), or had lost&lt;br /&gt;
it through his gross negligence (see Reeve r. Palmer, 5 C.B.,&lt;br /&gt;
N.S. 81). But it would be a good defence for the editor to&lt;br /&gt;
show that before its return was demanded the manuscript&lt;br /&gt;
was lost without default on his part (see 5 C.B., N.S.&lt;br /&gt;
pp. 85-89), or in some minner which could not be ascer.&lt;br /&gt;
tained. In the latter cise the editor would not be liable&lt;br /&gt;
unless the author could adle athrmative eridence of gross&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 11 (#319) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;regligence (see Powell r. Graves, 2 Times L. R. 663; Howard&lt;br /&gt;
r. Harries, C. &amp;amp; E. 253).&lt;br /&gt;
2. I am of opinion that if in the particular case referred&lt;br /&gt;
to the author sent bis manuscript to the editor in ignorance&lt;br /&gt;
of the existence of any such note 4 that which is in the&lt;br /&gt;
magazine, then the editor could not successfully rely upon&lt;br /&gt;
the notice as a defence to any action brought against him.&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the notice would, in my opinion, be immaterial,&lt;br /&gt;
but, of course, the editor might have a complete defence on&lt;br /&gt;
other grounds, such as those I have already referred to in&lt;br /&gt;
my answer to the first question. If the author saw or&lt;br /&gt;
knew of the notice before he sent his manuscript, I think&lt;br /&gt;
he would be held to have sent it on the terms of such&lt;br /&gt;
notice : (see Parker v. South Eastern Railway Company,&lt;br /&gt;
2 C. P. D. 416 ; Richards *. Rowntrte (1894) A. C. 217).&lt;br /&gt;
The exact part of the magazine in which the notice is&lt;br /&gt;
inserted is immaterial, except in so far as it ienders it&lt;br /&gt;
more or less likely that the author in fact saw or did not&lt;br /&gt;
see the notice, assuming that he ever saw the magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
3. 1 am of opinion that the burden of proving that the&lt;br /&gt;
author was cognizant of the notice would lie upon the&lt;br /&gt;
editor.&lt;br /&gt;
T. WILLES CHITTY,&lt;br /&gt;
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