<table><tr><th>Omeka ID</th><th>Omeka URL</th><th>Title</th><th>Subject</th><th>Description</th><th>Creator</th><th>Source</th><th>Publisher</th><th>Date</th><th>Contributor</th><th>Rights</th><th>Relation</th><th>Format</th><th>Language</th><th>Type</th><th>Identifier</th><th>Coverage</th><th>Publisher(s)</th><th>Original Format</th><th>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry</th><th>Pages</th><th>Participants</th><th>Pen Name</th><th>Physical Dimensions</th><th>Position End Date</th><th>Position Start Date</th><th>Position(s)</th><th>Publication Frequency</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Sex</th><th>Society Membership End Date</th><th>Society Membership Start Date</th><th>Start Date</th><th>Sub-Committee End Date</th><th>Sub-Committee Start Date</th><th>Text</th><th>To</th><th>URL</th><th>Volume</th><th>Death</th><th>Biography</th><th>Birth</th><th>Committee End Date</th><th>Committee of Management End Date</th><th>Committee of Management Start Date</th><th>Committee Start Date</th><th>Committee(s)</th><th>Council End Date</th><th>Council Start Date</th><th>Date</th><th>Bibliography</th><th>End Date</th><th>Event Type</th><th>From</th><th>Image Source</th><th>Interactive Timeline</th><th>Issue</th><th>Location</th><th>Members</th><th>Ngram Date</th><th>Ngram Text</th><th>Files</th><th>Tags</th></tr><tr><td>347</td><td>https://historysoa.com/items/show/347</td><td>The Author, Vol. 12 Issue 04 (November 1901)</td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+12+Issue+04+%28November+1901%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Author&lt;/em&gt;, Vol. 12 Issue 04 (November 1901)&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication&quot;&gt;Publication&lt;/a&gt;</td><td>1901-11-01-The-Author-12-4</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>29&ndash;52</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=12&quot;&gt;12&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1901-11-01&quot;&gt;1901-11-01&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td>19011101</td><td>The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
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Vol. XII.&mdash;No. 4.&lt;br /&gt;
NOVEMBER 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
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General Memoranda ....&lt;br /&gt;
Warnings to Dramatic Authors ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
How to Use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
The Reading Branch ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Notices ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
The Pension Fund of the Society of Author:&lt;br /&gt;
From the Committee ...&lt;br /&gt;
The Work of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
Authorities&lt;br /&gt;
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Author and Literary Agent&lt;br /&gt;
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property&lt;br /&gt;
An Old to a Young Reviewer ...&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&amp;quot; ...&lt;br /&gt;
The Publication of Educational Books&lt;br /&gt;
Bookselling ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
King Alfred as an Author...&lt;br /&gt;
The Authors&amp;#039; Club&lt;br /&gt;
Book and Play Talk ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
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Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the&lt;br /&gt;
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[All prices net. Amply to the Secretary, 39, ou Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s Gate, S.JI.]&lt;br /&gt;
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The Society of Authors (Incorporated).&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENT,&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE MEREDITH.&lt;br /&gt;
COUNCIL.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
MRS. CRAIGIE.&lt;br /&gt;
THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAM MOY THOMAS.&lt;br /&gt;
E. MARION CRAWFORD,&lt;br /&gt;
SIR A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doc. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD,&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT Hox. THE LORD (&amp;#039;URZON PROF. J. M. D, MEIKLEJOHN.&lt;br /&gt;
OF KEDLESTON.&lt;br /&gt;
llon. Counsel - E. M. UNDERDOWN, K.C.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. , BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D).&lt;br /&gt;
D. W. FRESHFIELD.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY,&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY NORMAN, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER, V.P.&lt;br /&gt;
E. ROSE.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
SUB-COMMITTEES.&lt;br /&gt;
Hox. John COLLIER (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. SPIELMANN,&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
W. M, COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
F. C. BURNAND.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. PINERO.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD ROSE.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors_&lt;br /&gt;
FIELD), ROSCOE, and Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
i G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
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OFFICES: 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY&amp;#039;S GATE, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
( The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.--No. 4.&lt;br /&gt;
NOVEMBER 1st, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
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GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
M agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. Selling it Outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to:&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of patting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo;office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
III. The Royalty System.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
IY. A Commission Agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
13.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
General.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.&lt;br /&gt;
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author 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 (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that AMERICAN RIGHTS may be exceed-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
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8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This&lt;br /&gt;
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do&lt;br /&gt;
some publishers. Members can make their own deductions&lt;br /&gt;
and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning,&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, THOSE AUTIJORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA-&lt;br /&gt;
TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and&lt;br /&gt;
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY&lt;br /&gt;
AND DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The&lt;br /&gt;
lieaders are writers of competence and experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
TIHE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society that, although the paper is sent to them&lt;br /&gt;
free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
very 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;
58. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER&lt;br /&gt;
THAN THE 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;
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor,&lt;br /&gt;
the member has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is&lt;br /&gt;
clesirable, the Committee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts, with a copy of the book 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 thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. BEFORE SIGNING ANY AGREEMENT WHATEVER, send&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society&lt;br /&gt;
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you&lt;br /&gt;
are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the&lt;br /&gt;
independence of the writer,&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception&lt;br /&gt;
of members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-&lt;br /&gt;
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&lt;br /&gt;
-(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give&lt;br /&gt;
advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements&lt;br /&gt;
in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
7. No contract should be entered into with a literary&lt;br /&gt;
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration the contracts submitted to them by literary&lt;br /&gt;
agents, and are recommended to submit them for inter-&lt;br /&gt;
pretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
for&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are signed&lt;br /&gt;
or initialled the Authors alone are responsible.&lt;br /&gt;
None of the papers or paragraphs must be taken&lt;br /&gt;
as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
such is especially stated to be the case.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ARE INVITED BY THE&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on&lt;br /&gt;
no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
return articles which cannot be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY begs to give notice&lt;br /&gt;
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,&lt;br /&gt;
and he requests members who do not receive an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to important communications within two days to&lt;br /&gt;
write to him without delay. All remittances should be&lt;br /&gt;
crossed Inion Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent&lt;br /&gt;
by registered letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
31&lt;br /&gt;
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
The office of the Incorporated Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
has been removed to-&lt;br /&gt;
39, OLD QUEEN STREET,&lt;br /&gt;
STOREY&amp;#039;S GATE, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
The Secretary during the last month has dealt&lt;br /&gt;
with seven fresh cases, in three of which he has&lt;br /&gt;
already been successful. With the exception of&lt;br /&gt;
three cases which are still in the course of negotia-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, he has satisfactorily terminated those that&lt;br /&gt;
were before him at the date of publication of last&lt;br /&gt;
month&amp;#039;s Author. The Committee have determined&lt;br /&gt;
to take counsel&amp;#039;s opinion on behalf of one of their&lt;br /&gt;
members in a complicated case on the interpretation&lt;br /&gt;
of an agreement where a large amount of literary&lt;br /&gt;
property is involved.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee have decided to call a meeting of&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Sub-committee, with a view to again&lt;br /&gt;
raising the question of the Copyright Bill. The&lt;br /&gt;
course that the Copyright Sub-committee adopts&lt;br /&gt;
will be reported in due course in these columns.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICE.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE EDITOR begs to inform members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Society and other readers of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author that the cases which are from time&lt;br /&gt;
to time quoted in The Author are cases that hare&lt;br /&gt;
come before the notice or to the knowledge of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society, and that those members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society who desire to have the names of&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers concerned can obtain them on&lt;br /&gt;
application.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PENSION FUND OF THE SOCIETY&lt;br /&gt;
OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE following is the total of donations and&lt;br /&gt;
1 subscriptions promised or received up to&lt;br /&gt;
the 1st October, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
Further sums will be acknowledged from month&lt;br /&gt;
to month as they are received, as it has been con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidered unnecessary to print the full list with&lt;br /&gt;
every issue.&lt;br /&gt;
Donations ........&lt;br /&gt;
...........&pound;1439 16 6&lt;br /&gt;
Subscriptions...&lt;br /&gt;
......... 107 18 6&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Walter Besant Memorial.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee feel that the debt of gratitude&lt;br /&gt;
owed by the Society to their founder, Sir Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, should be adequately recorded in a per-&lt;br /&gt;
manent memorial, and are sure that all members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society will share this feeling. In their&lt;br /&gt;
opinion such memorial should commemorate not&lt;br /&gt;
only his distinction as a novelist, and as an&lt;br /&gt;
historian and a citizen of London, but also his&lt;br /&gt;
services to his fellow writers, and the special&lt;br /&gt;
position he occupied amongst them.&lt;br /&gt;
The summer holidays intervening have caused&lt;br /&gt;
a certain amount of delay in the Committee&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
action, but they have conferred with Lady Besant,&lt;br /&gt;
who gives the project her cordial approval. The&lt;br /&gt;
approval of George Meredith, the President of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, has also been accorded to it, and it&lt;br /&gt;
has been decided, with the sanction of the Dean&lt;br /&gt;
and Chapter, to place a memorial in the crypt of&lt;br /&gt;
St. Paul&amp;#039;s, adjacent to the tablet that commemorates&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Reade.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Frampton, A.R.A., has promised to&lt;br /&gt;
undertake the work, and it is hoped that such a&lt;br /&gt;
sum will be raised as will enable the scheme to be&lt;br /&gt;
carried out in a manner worthy of its object.&lt;br /&gt;
A letter has already been sent to the members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Council of the Society, and in due course&lt;br /&gt;
a circular containing further particulars will be&lt;br /&gt;
sent out to all mernbers, and from time to time&lt;br /&gt;
the list of subscriptions will be published in The&lt;br /&gt;
Author.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee make this statement as a pre-&lt;br /&gt;
liminary notice, in order that it may not appear&lt;br /&gt;
to those who loved and admired our late founder&lt;br /&gt;
that any unnecessary delay has taken place in&lt;br /&gt;
organising the expression of the affection and&lt;br /&gt;
regret felt towards their founder by the members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 10, Harrison, Mrs. (Lucas Malet)&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 15, Rossi, Miss L. ...&lt;br /&gt;
5 5&lt;br /&gt;
0 10&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
FROM THE COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
The Work of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
VER. OWEN SEAMAN has been elected&lt;br /&gt;
y a member of the Council of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors and member of the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
of Management.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Harrison (Lucas Malet) has been elected a&lt;br /&gt;
member of the Council.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee elected at their meeting in&lt;br /&gt;
vctober twenty-five members and eight associates&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 32 (#412) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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32&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
TT will be our endeavour to publish in every&lt;br /&gt;
1 number of The Author at least one article from&lt;br /&gt;
the pen of some well-known member of our&lt;br /&gt;
Society. Several have already promised to write&lt;br /&gt;
articles on some literary subject which will be of&lt;br /&gt;
interest to their fellow-writers, and we trust that,&lt;br /&gt;
on reading this notice, other members will volun-&lt;br /&gt;
tarily offer their services. The length of such&lt;br /&gt;
articles ought to be about four columns.&lt;br /&gt;
The above paragraph points the reason of the&lt;br /&gt;
failure of the commission book. A publisher has&lt;br /&gt;
nothing to work for if he publishes a commission&lt;br /&gt;
book, and therefore, in the great majority of cases.&lt;br /&gt;
a work put on the market under an arrangement&lt;br /&gt;
of this kind is bound to fail. If it is successful, it&lt;br /&gt;
is generally owing to the action of the author. not&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
Until the publisher rise&lt;br /&gt;
Until the publisher rises up who will publish&lt;br /&gt;
nothing but commission books, the same resnlt will&lt;br /&gt;
alway&lt;br /&gt;
always occur.&lt;br /&gt;
We have inserted a notice in The Author con-&lt;br /&gt;
cerning the bona fides of the cases quoted in its&lt;br /&gt;
pages. It has been necessary to do so owing to the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that a great many detractors of the Society have&lt;br /&gt;
stated that these cases never really occurred. The&lt;br /&gt;
main reasons for withholding names are generally&lt;br /&gt;
two. Firstly, the fear of the member concerned lest&lt;br /&gt;
he should be involved in an action for libel ; and&lt;br /&gt;
secondly, his dislike for any publicity which he con-&lt;br /&gt;
siders may prejudice him should he be seeking&lt;br /&gt;
further publication.&lt;br /&gt;
The latter point, no doubt, acts as a very strong&lt;br /&gt;
lever. Members of the Society used to fear the&lt;br /&gt;
publication of the fact that they were members, on&lt;br /&gt;
the ground that publishers would refuse to deal with&lt;br /&gt;
them, and even now there are some who are afraid&lt;br /&gt;
of this position. This is one of the reasons why&lt;br /&gt;
the votes of the members of the Society were against&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of a list of members. This fear,&lt;br /&gt;
however, has to a great extent passed away, and&lt;br /&gt;
subscribers to the Society are only too anxious to&lt;br /&gt;
proclaim their membership when they are in diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
culties with publishers. As a matter of fact, there&lt;br /&gt;
are those who are not members, and never have&lt;br /&gt;
been, who are only too glad at times to make a&lt;br /&gt;
false statement in order to bring a publisher to a&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable understanding.&lt;br /&gt;
The discussion of this subject calls to our mind&lt;br /&gt;
the question of the one-book man, which has&lt;br /&gt;
been mentioned in The Author from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
Now that the war has been raging in South Africa&lt;br /&gt;
for some time, the point is perhaps brought more&lt;br /&gt;
forcibly before the public.&lt;br /&gt;
Many on their return from South Africa desire&lt;br /&gt;
to publish their reminiscences, and laying their&lt;br /&gt;
maiden effort at the feet of a publisher are met&lt;br /&gt;
with the usual answer that there are too many books&lt;br /&gt;
of the kind on the market, but that, if the author&lt;br /&gt;
cares to pay for the cost of production, he will&lt;br /&gt;
publish the book on commission. This is the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s harvest. It is quite certain that the&lt;br /&gt;
one-book man, whether he is a yeoman returning&lt;br /&gt;
from the war, or whether he is a man of distinction&lt;br /&gt;
writing his memoirs, will not, as a rule, obtain&lt;br /&gt;
advice on a matter of this kind. He will trust&lt;br /&gt;
himself to the publisher as he would to his con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential adviser&mdash;the pity of it.&lt;br /&gt;
The absurdity of the position has often been&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned, but the fact remains the same. The&lt;br /&gt;
consequence is, a considerable outlay by the author&lt;br /&gt;
usually exceeding the ordinary market price of the&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production of the book, and no return in&lt;br /&gt;
the way of profits. The reason of the lack of profits&lt;br /&gt;
arises, firstly, because&mdash;coming back to Sir Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Scott&amp;#039;s statement&mdash;the publishers have no stimulus&lt;br /&gt;
to push the book ; secondly, because of the over-&lt;br /&gt;
charge (this word is not the word used by the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers) for printing, paper, advertising, and&lt;br /&gt;
other details of the cost of production,&lt;br /&gt;
It may be instructive to draw the attention of&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society to the opinion of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers expressed by Sir Walter Scott, quoted in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Lockhart&amp;#039;s Life,&amp;quot; vol. 2, chapter 4. Sir Walter&lt;br /&gt;
states as follows:--&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The publishers are very like farmers who flourish best&lt;br /&gt;
to high rent, and in general take most pains to sell a book&lt;br /&gt;
that has cost them money to purchase.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
From experience at the Society&amp;#039;s office, it is quite&lt;br /&gt;
clear that Sir Walter Scott was well aware of the&lt;br /&gt;
peculiarities of the publishing trade, and his state-&lt;br /&gt;
ment continues as true now as it was then. If an&lt;br /&gt;
author will but value himself at his proper standard,&lt;br /&gt;
he is much more likely to obtain satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
arrangements, and have his books more liberally&lt;br /&gt;
pushed, than his fellow who may be constantly&lt;br /&gt;
underselling his own market.&lt;br /&gt;
It is curious to note that in the case of theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
performances the tendency of the public is to&lt;br /&gt;
demand pieces which are light, pleasing and&lt;br /&gt;
amusing. For every serious drama that is pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced there must be at least two of a lighter and&lt;br /&gt;
more amusing kind, yet, on turning to literature,&lt;br /&gt;
we see wonderfully few amusing writers compared&lt;br /&gt;
with the number who write serious, problematical&lt;br /&gt;
and heavy fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be interesting if some of the latter-day&lt;br /&gt;
philosophers would write an article dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 33 (#413) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
33&lt;br /&gt;
this question from the psychological point of view.&lt;br /&gt;
It is impossible to think that those who read the&lt;br /&gt;
works of fiction placed on the market read them&lt;br /&gt;
with a view to a serious study of life, rather than&lt;br /&gt;
with a view to their personal amusement.&lt;br /&gt;
will forward statements containing figures--that&lt;br /&gt;
is, of the price given, of the circulation, and of&lt;br /&gt;
other details&mdash;we will gladly work out the returns&lt;br /&gt;
to the publisher and the author, and again test the&lt;br /&gt;
truth of the publishers&amp;#039; statement regarding the&lt;br /&gt;
profits from school books.&lt;br /&gt;
The following paragraph taken from the New&lt;br /&gt;
Zealand Times will have a mournful significance&lt;br /&gt;
to many members of the Authors&amp;#039; Society :-&lt;br /&gt;
* A visit to the grave of R. L. Stevenson would disappoint&lt;br /&gt;
many people. While some time back visits to this famous&lt;br /&gt;
hill were most frequent, the limit must now be six persons&lt;br /&gt;
yearly. And no wonder! The place is quite overgrown&lt;br /&gt;
with weeds, and perhaps will some day be hard to discover.&lt;br /&gt;
I understand that on receiving a complaint from a Sydney&lt;br /&gt;
resident, a little while back, the British Consul sent some&lt;br /&gt;
of his men up and the place was cleared. It is now time&lt;br /&gt;
for another clearing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;To write a book is an easy task ; it requires only pen and&lt;br /&gt;
ink and some patient paper. To print a book is slightly&lt;br /&gt;
more difficult, because genius often expresses itself in&lt;br /&gt;
illegible manuscript. To read a book is still more difficult,&lt;br /&gt;
as one must struggle against sleep. But the most difficult&lt;br /&gt;
task that anyone may attempt is to sell a book. -Felir&lt;br /&gt;
Dahn.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The above cutting from the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular&lt;br /&gt;
is mildly satirical. It is also inaccurate. We let&lt;br /&gt;
it pass. It is not the first time The Author has&lt;br /&gt;
been reminded that genius lies with the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
and that the great literary undertakings of the&lt;br /&gt;
world would fall flat without &ldquo;a goose to lay the&lt;br /&gt;
golden egg.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
In the last number we had reason to make some&lt;br /&gt;
remarks about epigrams ; the following, culled from&lt;br /&gt;
a comic paper, may suggest an idea to some member&lt;br /&gt;
on the point of writing an article on the subiect&lt;br /&gt;
on the point of writing an article on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
She (to unromantic brother) : He called me the apple&lt;br /&gt;
of his eye. Is that an epigram ?&lt;br /&gt;
He: No, it&amp;#039;s piffle.&lt;br /&gt;
We have taken the liberty of printing the late&lt;br /&gt;
James Runciman&amp;#039;s opinion on the subject of&lt;br /&gt;
literary men being businesslike ; it is pithy and&lt;br /&gt;
powerful. It may act as an antidote to those who&lt;br /&gt;
from time to time objected to some of the methods&lt;br /&gt;
of our Founder.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; No babble sickens me so much as that about the fading&lt;br /&gt;
about the fading&lt;br /&gt;
of noble aspirations. The talk about contempt for money&lt;br /&gt;
mostly comes from men who are too self-indulgent to&lt;br /&gt;
undergo exertion, but who will readily take whatever they&lt;br /&gt;
can get without trouble. In my own experience of life, I&lt;br /&gt;
have found that if you want to see an unscrupulous grabber&lt;br /&gt;
of the worst type you must seek out a wild poet who despises&lt;br /&gt;
Philistines. He will not deny himself anything ; he will&lt;br /&gt;
feed from any hand, and he will write lightsome sarcasms&lt;br /&gt;
about everyone who feeds him. He is generous to himself,&lt;br /&gt;
and he is overpoweringly bitter towards those who make&lt;br /&gt;
life an affair of half-pence; but he snatches half-pence&lt;br /&gt;
greedily enough when they have been earned by other&lt;br /&gt;
people. He is secretly ashamed because his own impotence&lt;br /&gt;
reduces him to being beholden to the Philistine, and he&lt;br /&gt;
eases his shame by making scornful comments on his&lt;br /&gt;
providers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The men who do the lordly acts of generosity, the men&lt;br /&gt;
who are beneficent to their families, to the poor, to the&lt;br /&gt;
State, are the hard fellows who take their work as they find&lt;br /&gt;
it, live rationally, forego indulgences, and gather the form&lt;br /&gt;
of force which we call money. They can afford to be&lt;br /&gt;
munificent, and they are good citizens, for the simple reason&lt;br /&gt;
that they recognise the laws of existence and preserve their&lt;br /&gt;
self-respect. There is more real poetry in the heart of a&lt;br /&gt;
merchant who goes soberly homeward wondering what he&lt;br /&gt;
can do to gratify his wife and children than there is in the&lt;br /&gt;
whole tribe of fribbles who think that the main duties of&lt;br /&gt;
life are to wear ugly hats and derive&amp;#039;impressions.&amp;#039; People&lt;br /&gt;
like Firth and Nasmyth and Armstrong have given more&lt;br /&gt;
happiness to the world than have all the rhymers and&lt;br /&gt;
prosers that ever moaned about the waywardness of fate&lt;br /&gt;
and the accursed influence of .dross.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; JAMES RUNCIMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert MacLehose, of the well-known&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow firm, has kindly written an article on&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Net System,&rdquo; which is published in this&lt;br /&gt;
month&amp;#039;s Author.&lt;br /&gt;
The matter may not appear of much importance&lt;br /&gt;
to members of the Society, but the price at which&lt;br /&gt;
books are sold to the public, and the maintenance&lt;br /&gt;
of a flourishing book trade throughout the country,&lt;br /&gt;
should not be looked upon with indifference by the&lt;br /&gt;
producers.&lt;br /&gt;
With the author should lie ultimately the power&lt;br /&gt;
of determining in what manner and at what price&lt;br /&gt;
his wares should be marketed, that he may receive&lt;br /&gt;
the fair reward of his labour.&lt;br /&gt;
In those countries where the publisher and&lt;br /&gt;
booksenler by strong combination rule the market,&lt;br /&gt;
the author suffers and the tradesmen flourish.&lt;br /&gt;
The policy of all should be to obtain a just return.&lt;br /&gt;
It is to be hoped that further articles on the book&lt;br /&gt;
rade m uture numbers may lead to the clearing&lt;br /&gt;
up of certain disputed points.&lt;br /&gt;
We have put forward in the last number of The Quite recently a case came before the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Author and are printing in this number some a book published in cheap form in England under&lt;br /&gt;
remarks on the production of educational works. an author&amp;#039;s name which had never been written by&lt;br /&gt;
If any member of the Society, or the public, the author.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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34&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society readily dealt with the matter and American writers. For Continental rights, too, an&lt;br /&gt;
the book was withdrawn from circulation with agent in each of the countries where translations&lt;br /&gt;
apologies.&lt;br /&gt;
are issued is a necessity if anything like the full&lt;br /&gt;
We regret to say that the same mistake has pecuniary value is to be extracted for them. Then&lt;br /&gt;
frequently occurred the other side of the water, again, for an English writer living abroad (say, in&lt;br /&gt;
and is much more difficult to deal with.&lt;br /&gt;
a colony) or travelling, a London literary agent is,&lt;br /&gt;
The American pirate has in many cases grown if not a necessity, at any rate a luxury. The&lt;br /&gt;
bold, through freedom from persecution. He finds literary agent may be of service also to the &ldquo;one-&lt;br /&gt;
an English writer whose works sell in quantities in book&rdquo; man--the writer who publishes only now&lt;br /&gt;
America, proceeds to take a certain amount of copy and again, the writer who knows that his books&lt;br /&gt;
-Heaven knows where he gets it from-binds it will not sell, and does not look to get a profit out&lt;br /&gt;
up in cheap form, and publishes it, with the name of them.&lt;br /&gt;
of the popular writer referred to.&lt;br /&gt;
As to whether the London literary agent will&lt;br /&gt;
This naturally causes the author in England consent to handle the work of this latter class, is&lt;br /&gt;
inany heart-burnings, as his literary reputation is another matter.&lt;br /&gt;
at stake, and the damage that may accrue may But for the professional writer, the writer who&lt;br /&gt;
possibly be very large.&lt;br /&gt;
pens matter which sells, the writer who looks to&lt;br /&gt;
To strike at this grievance, although a matter of make a living, or part of a living, out of his books&lt;br /&gt;
import, is a question of considerable difficulty, as and serial rights, I emphatically hold that the&lt;br /&gt;
it is very often the case that the author, unwilling literary agent, as at present on offer in London, is&lt;br /&gt;
to journey to the other side of the water, does not a clog and a hindrance.&lt;br /&gt;
care about starting an action in America. He The literary agent&amp;#039;s first object is very naturally&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly refrains from taking up the matter, to make his own living. Observe how the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
with the exception, perhaps, of writing a few letters interest clashes with this at the very outset. The&lt;br /&gt;
to the American papers, and the pirate flourishes agent has, say, three short tales by three tolerably&lt;br /&gt;
on his ill-gotten gains. The Society, however, has well-known pens, A., B. and C., in his hands, each&lt;br /&gt;
some influence in New York, and has succeeded on worth for serial use about &pound;20. He wants to sell&lt;br /&gt;
one or two occasions in settling cases of this kind, all three to one magazine, as he knows that other&lt;br /&gt;
owing to the weight of its name, without the markets are crowded. He knows quite well that&lt;br /&gt;
necessity of commencing action.&lt;br /&gt;
the pay-sheet of that particular magazine will not&lt;br /&gt;
There is another amusing trick that some of the stand &pound;60, though it would be quite equal to taking&lt;br /&gt;
American publishers indulge in. This is not so one tale at &pound;20, which at 10 per cent. commission&lt;br /&gt;
harmful from the literary standpoint, but to the would produce him &pound;2. This also would leave the&lt;br /&gt;
author is rather a cause for amusement than a other two tales on his hands and cause him further&lt;br /&gt;
reason for alarm.&lt;br /&gt;
trouble. But instead of selling this one tale at&lt;br /&gt;
When in America we noticed several cheap full price, he prefers to make a bargain for the&lt;br /&gt;
editions of books written by famous authors, with three at &pound;10, which produces him &pound;4, and the&lt;br /&gt;
the portraits of the authors on the paper cover bother of the thing is over as far as he is con-&lt;br /&gt;
outside. In many cases the portraits bore no cerned. It is a case of small profits and quick&lt;br /&gt;
resenıblance whatever to the author in the flesh as returns.&lt;br /&gt;
we knew him in England, and in many cases went I think a point of view has been missed over&lt;br /&gt;
beyond this and bore an extremely strong resemb- this matter. Authors should remember that they&lt;br /&gt;
lance to other well-known authors with whom we are all in competition against one another, and&lt;br /&gt;
have the honour of being acquainted.&lt;br /&gt;
why competitors in the same affairs should employ&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T. the same agent to represent them, is a riddle which&lt;br /&gt;
no sane business man can answer.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors should remember, too, that they are per-&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR AND LITERARY AGENT. sonally responsible for anything this agent chooses&lt;br /&gt;
to bind them to, accidentally or otherwise. Lite-&lt;br /&gt;
rary agents are notorious for making slipshod&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. Literary agents are constantly ignor-&lt;br /&gt;
S the Secretary of the Society of Authors asks ing their principal&amp;#039;s definite instructions on the&lt;br /&gt;
1 my opinion on the utility of the Author&amp;#039;s doubtful ground of expediency. Literary agents&lt;br /&gt;
Agent, I wish to say that in most cases he (presumably on the old plea that all writers are&lt;br /&gt;
seems to me a useless and expensive excrescence. fools) charge, at the lowest, the grotesquely ex-&lt;br /&gt;
To take first the exceptions. For an English cessive fee of 10 per cent. on all monies received.&lt;br /&gt;
writer, an American agent is a necessity, and the From a beginner this charge might not be&lt;br /&gt;
converse may to a lesser degree hold true for exorbitant; but then the literary agent is far too&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
35&lt;br /&gt;
wise to handle a beginner&amp;#039;s work. For a writer among the incompetent. Mr. Heinemann, with&lt;br /&gt;
whose writing income is over, say, &pound;500 a year, a protective zeal, complains that it is against the&lt;br /&gt;
charge of &pound;50 per &pound;500 is ridiculous. A man in interests of literature that an author should be&lt;br /&gt;
that position would, with the exercise of a little pledged body and soul &ldquo; years ahead.&rdquo; An author&lt;br /&gt;
common sense, have no trouble whatever in selling who can be overworked by his agent, or forced by&lt;br /&gt;
his wares, and if he grudged the hour or two a &amp;quot;pledges&rdquo; into over-production, is an author who&lt;br /&gt;
week necessary to attend to a few simple letters, will ruin himself in any case. Tragedy of this&lt;br /&gt;
he could with his &pound;50 hire the services of a clerk kind depends on those circumstances of life which&lt;br /&gt;
or secretary who would serve him far more profit drive other men than authors to desperate-in-&lt;br /&gt;
ably than any general agent.&lt;br /&gt;
variably killing-efforts to fight an unphilanthropic&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, what does experience show? How many world. So far as my own experience of agents is&lt;br /&gt;
of the writing men and women, who are at the top concerned, I can but say that in the first instance&lt;br /&gt;
of the ladder to-day as regards money receipts for I managed my own transactions. I did not manage&lt;br /&gt;
their work, employ a London literary agent ? them badly : I have no grievances to air: I am&lt;br /&gt;
There is one doubtful exception : all the rest do quite willing that the publisher should make his&lt;br /&gt;
not. (Remember, I am not speaking of American legitimate profit on what is always for him not&lt;br /&gt;
or Continental agents.)&lt;br /&gt;
merciful patronage, but speculation absolutely. I&lt;br /&gt;
The writers to whom the services of the present have now given the arrangement of my contracts to&lt;br /&gt;
literary agents may be recommended, are those who a well-known, very able, and very courteous agent.&lt;br /&gt;
are lazy, incompetent, or self-indulgent. The others I do not find my &ldquo; physical and mental health&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
should give up one entire half-day to mastering the sinking under his influence. I write when I please,&lt;br /&gt;
very simple business aspects of the matter, and then as I please, and for a sum of money which I myself&lt;br /&gt;
either handle their own affairs personally, or (if fix-either on account of royalties, or for a fee&lt;br /&gt;
they are abnormally large) put them in the hands outright. My agent collects this, deducts a reason-&lt;br /&gt;
of a secretary, or an agent or solicitor who in able commission for his trouble, sees that my agree-&lt;br /&gt;
literary matters acts for them, and for no one else. ments--subject to my own approval--are in order,&lt;br /&gt;
OMEGA. that my interests are protected abroad and else-&lt;br /&gt;
where. Publishers may not like him : I have no&lt;br /&gt;
fault to find.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of the author with his first&lt;br /&gt;
I HAVE been asked to offer some reply to Mr. Success :- An agent will not advise him against&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann&amp;#039;s straightforward letter in the October his interest. This is certain. In the case of the&lt;br /&gt;
number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
unknown author--who wishes for information, for&lt;br /&gt;
I do not propose to discuss the agent from the an introduction, the agent will not mislead him.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s point of view. That is not my business. Quite the reverse. He will tell him actual facts&lt;br /&gt;
But as an author 1 may perhaps be allowed to hold about the commercial side of &ldquo;art.&amp;quot; And why&lt;br /&gt;
a strong opinion with regard to writers generally not? What is the matter with commerce that a&lt;br /&gt;
and literature.&lt;br /&gt;
person of supposed refinement is expected to shrink&lt;br /&gt;
What is this nonsense about the author&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;greed&rdquo; from it with disgust? If men have been expressly&lt;br /&gt;
for an &ldquo;immediate money return &rdquo; ? This snobbish taught to get their bread by preaching the Word&lt;br /&gt;
attitude in the matter of an artist and his fees was of God, there is certainly no reason why they&lt;br /&gt;
never found at any time among the distinguished. Should rate their own compositions as too precious&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Angelo wanted his money paid, and his for any earthly payment, or too sublime to be&lt;br /&gt;
contracts arranged, many years in advance. Shake- treated with in legal contracts. Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
speare, Moli&egrave;re, Balzac, George Sand, George Eliot, has the reputation of being a generous publisher&lt;br /&gt;
de Maupassant, and Sir Walter Scott were never so. and an appreciative one. He cannot have had&lt;br /&gt;
vulgar as to affect indifference to financial affairs. a disheartening struggle with the &ldquo;literary&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
I take it that of all peculiar signs of an essential classes. But he must know that the weak among&lt;br /&gt;
commonness in an artist, this one of prattling them were born weak, and not made so by un-&lt;br /&gt;
about the indignity of accepting money for &amp;quot;art&amp;quot; scrupulous middlemen.Authors are marred by&lt;br /&gt;
is the most striking. I have never met a person over-advertisement and worthless praise--never&lt;br /&gt;
with such insincere views who did not live on the because they insist on adequate payment, and are&lt;br /&gt;
complaining generosity of relatives and friends. represented by efficient men of business.&lt;br /&gt;
Art is work; the artist is a working man or&lt;br /&gt;
PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGIE.&lt;br /&gt;
woman, and the moment that an author, or a critic,&lt;br /&gt;
or a craftsman seeks to better a condition of such&lt;br /&gt;
honesty by making it a mood or a pose instead of&lt;br /&gt;
a necessity and a calling, he may be counted&lt;br /&gt;
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36&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&lt;br /&gt;
for complaint on this score. It, on the other hand,&lt;br /&gt;
he does find that this is the case, it seems to me a&lt;br /&gt;
An Answer to Mr. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
very good argument, from the author&amp;#039;s point of&lt;br /&gt;
view, for employing an agent, even at the sacri-&lt;br /&gt;
In the October number of the Author there fice of that &ldquo;intimate intercourse with the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
appeared a most interesting letter from Mr. lisher&rdquo; which Mr. Heinemann finds so helpful.&lt;br /&gt;
W. Heinemann, on the subject of the literary Nor, again, do I see that the &ldquo;immediate money&lt;br /&gt;
agent, which stated very distinctly and lucidly return&rdquo; (on account of royalties, I suppose) which&lt;br /&gt;
the view of an eminent publisher on this ques. Mr. Heinemann accuses the agent of fostering is&lt;br /&gt;
tion. He took no middle line, and from the procured &ldquo;at the cost of all dignity and artistic&lt;br /&gt;
point of view of both author, publisher and litera- repose.&rdquo; Personally I have published books both&lt;br /&gt;
ture, condemned the agent with resonant anathe- with and without immediate money return, but I&lt;br /&gt;
mas. This was very valuable, because it stated do not recollect any disturbance in my own repose-&lt;br /&gt;
the case of the publisher frankly and without fulness. In fact, I do not quite see what Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
loophole for misunderstanding, and leaves no doubt Heinemann means.&lt;br /&gt;
as to why the publisher-for we cannot be wrong I suppose there are bad agents as well as good&lt;br /&gt;
in taking Mr. Heinemann&amp;#039;s utterances as excellently ones; I suppose also there are bad publishers as&lt;br /&gt;
representative&mdash;dislikes the agent.&lt;br /&gt;
well as good ones, but I am happy to say I have&lt;br /&gt;
On certain points I feel myself hopelessly incap- never yet met an inferior variety in either kind,&lt;br /&gt;
able of agreeing with Mr. Heinemann : he says, nor do I wish to. More especially I desire to steer&lt;br /&gt;
for instance, that &ldquo;no author would be so quixotic clear of the figure, which Mr. Heinemann&amp;#039;s vigorous&lt;br /&gt;
as to employ a literary agent if he did not hope protest calls up&mdash;a sort of Mephistopbeles, by&lt;br /&gt;
to get as much more out of the publisher as the whom the unfortunate author is &ldquo; pledged and&lt;br /&gt;
agent&amp;#039;s commission represents.&amp;quot; Would Mr. Heine- sold body and soul to syndicates and publishers&lt;br /&gt;
mann, therefore, argue that the landlord who on time bargains years ahead!&rdquo; Now, authors are&lt;br /&gt;
employs an agent hopes to get as much more out not probably a business-like class; they are much&lt;br /&gt;
of the tenant as his agent&amp;#039;s income represents ? too futile and dreamy-that, indeed, is why they&lt;br /&gt;
Both author and landlord appear to me to employ are right to employ agents&mdash;and it is exactly to save&lt;br /&gt;
an agent-primarily-for a very different reason, an author some gross mistake of binding himself&lt;br /&gt;
namely, that by using one they save themselves a that agents may be, and I think often are, useful.&lt;br /&gt;
good deal of trouble, and of time which they find Certainly I have never met with one who would&lt;br /&gt;
they can otherwise employ more profitably. More not strongly dissuade an author from the very&lt;br /&gt;
especially is this true, I think, of any author wbo course which, it appears to Mr. Heinemann, they&lt;br /&gt;
either contributes to magazines or desires a serial are apt to inculcate. But here, again, publishing&lt;br /&gt;
appearance for his work. In his case (particu- is a business, and it would surely be equally ill-&lt;br /&gt;
larly if the author does not habitually read the judged on the part of a publisher to buy the yet&lt;br /&gt;
magazines in which he wishes his work to appear) unwritten produce of an over-driven author, for&lt;br /&gt;
the agent is invaluable. If he is at all competent he would probably make a very bad bargain.&lt;br /&gt;
he will be far more likely to know that magazine Nor, again, do I see why the author should not&lt;br /&gt;
which will be suitable for his author&amp;#039;s work, and get as much as he can for his work. Given that&lt;br /&gt;
in the case of serialisation what magazines have he has completed his book, his artistir effort is&lt;br /&gt;
openings, than the author himself. Given then over. His book is now a property, to be sold,&lt;br /&gt;
that the agent has arranged a good serialisation and the agent, rightly, so it seems to me, gets as&lt;br /&gt;
for a story, is the publication of it then to be much for it as he can, asking terms (unless his&lt;br /&gt;
taken out of his hands ? That does not seem to author has a strong predilection for a certain&lt;br /&gt;
me quite fair.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher-and I think most authors have) not&lt;br /&gt;
Publishing is a business. At least, in the from one house only, but, it the terms there offered&lt;br /&gt;
majority of cases I do not suppose that a man do not seem sufficient, from another, or, if he&lt;br /&gt;
embraces that calling with the sole and altruistic chooses, from a third. Why he should let one&lt;br /&gt;
aim of bringing masterpieces within the reach of publisher have it cheap, if, ceteris paribus, he can&lt;br /&gt;
the million (though he is probably quite happy in get more from another, or why such a proceeding&lt;br /&gt;
reaching the million); and, while no good publisher is derogatory to literature, I cannot imagine. But,&lt;br /&gt;
would wish that the imprint of his house should as this business of securing the best market for&lt;br /&gt;
godfather a work of rank and beastly tendency, the goods is a matter requiring time, trouble, and&lt;br /&gt;
yet his object is primarily to make his business experience, and is not to all a congenial employ.&lt;br /&gt;
pay. Unless, then, he finds that the employment ment, it seems to me only wise of the author to&lt;br /&gt;
of an agent by an author tends to make his busi- entrust it to someone who presumably has the&lt;br /&gt;
ness less paying, I do not see what grounds he has experience, and for whose time and trouble he is&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
37&lt;br /&gt;
content to pay. And here, I imagine, Mr. Heine- so to do, and, as a rule, I think he does it. Besides,&lt;br /&gt;
mann&amp;#039;s far more serious accusation against the he thereby increases his own dividends.&lt;br /&gt;
agents applies. He says he has not always found One word more. If all publishers were like&lt;br /&gt;
them scrupulously honest. It is very distressing Mr. Heinemann, I think the calling of the agent&lt;br /&gt;
that it is so, but, on the other hand, from the would be seriously endangered. But in the present&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s point of view, it is equally distressing to state of this imperfect world they are not. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
find he has in his ignorance signed some contract Heinemann with a becoming modesty assumes&lt;br /&gt;
which gives his publisher a quite undue share of that they are. I wish I agreed with him.&lt;br /&gt;
profit in the success of his book. Such contracts&lt;br /&gt;
E. F. BENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
have been signed. But it is really beside the point&lt;br /&gt;
to argue the question on such grounds. Dishonest&lt;br /&gt;
agents I hope are as rare as dishonest publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&lt;br /&gt;
and bona fides must be assumed for the abstract&lt;br /&gt;
argument.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the very interesting discussion&lt;br /&gt;
Nor is it on such grounds that personally I now being carried on in your paper in reference&lt;br /&gt;
employ an agent. As I have said, I have never to Literary Agents, I venture to offer a few&lt;br /&gt;
yet met with a dishonest publisher, and I do not suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
employ an agent to save me from his possible A n inexperienced author&mdash;I mean an author who&lt;br /&gt;
clutches. On the other hand, in the case of a is not well acquainted with the publications or&lt;br /&gt;
book which I once published without employing the personal characters and characteristics of large&lt;br /&gt;
an agent, I found that no account had been rendered numbers of publishers&mdash;is very likely to attack the&lt;br /&gt;
to me for over three years, and that when, with wrong publisher, or to attack the right publisher&lt;br /&gt;
suitable courtesy I hope, I applied for it, it was in the wrong way or at the wrong time. I&lt;br /&gt;
not without some personal trouble and &amp;quot;dunning&amp;quot; know this by bitter experience. Fortunately (or&lt;br /&gt;
that I succeeded in getting it. Now, I object to unfortunately), I still believed that my books&lt;br /&gt;
dunning anybody : I do not happen to like it. ought to be published. But the number of&lt;br /&gt;
But I do not in the least object to instructing my possible publishers was too vast. It was the same&lt;br /&gt;
agent to do so. That is one of the things for which with editors. There were too many of them, and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;he is there.&amp;quot; And, in this case, I regretted I. I did not know which (if any) would be likely to&lt;br /&gt;
had not employed him before.&lt;br /&gt;
accept this or that article at this or that time.&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, I disagree with Mr. Heinemann in his One of my chief mistakes was to try the old-&lt;br /&gt;
assertion that agents are of no use to the untried established firms first.&lt;br /&gt;
author who at present has no market. It seems Then I found an experienced agent, and he&lt;br /&gt;
to me that it is exactly here&mdash;if they are com- immediately said, &ldquo; This piece of work will be&lt;br /&gt;
petent&mdash;where they are most useful. The agent accepted by A. or by B. or by C. or-by no one.&lt;br /&gt;
knows, more or less, what ten per cent. on a six. That piece of work we&amp;#039;ll offer to A., if he does&lt;br /&gt;
shilling book means. The untried author has no idea. not accept the first piece. This third piece of&lt;br /&gt;
And this innocent child of nature is confronted work is, I fear, hopeless.&amp;quot; Within a few weeks&lt;br /&gt;
with a document which says that twelve copies he had placed all the MSS., except two, that I&lt;br /&gt;
are counted as eleven, or thirteen (I forget which), put into his hands, and had bearded several lions&lt;br /&gt;
that he receives ten per cent. on the first thousand (as I then thought them) and had arranged for&lt;br /&gt;
and twelve and a half per cent. on the second future works. Apart from this agent I think I&lt;br /&gt;
that in case of a colonial edition he gets 211, per should have given up in despair.&lt;br /&gt;
copy, and something obscure occurs to remainders, With another agent, however, I might have&lt;br /&gt;
which are also obscure. More particularly there paid initial fees and then have been just as badly&lt;br /&gt;
may be a sublime silence about American sales and off as before. But it seems to me that the&lt;br /&gt;
American copyright, and he knows nothing of the inexperienced author is likely to do better if he&lt;br /&gt;
stringency of law prevailing in that remarkable tries to choose an agent than if he tries to choose&lt;br /&gt;
continent, which really seems expressly designed a publisher or editor. For there are far fewer agents&lt;br /&gt;
for the confusion of budding authors, and as likely than publishers or editors. It is far harder to make&lt;br /&gt;
as not American rights and protection then get mistakes in attempts to find a good agent.&lt;br /&gt;
left out of the contract altogether. Poor bleating There is another point. The sensitive author&lt;br /&gt;
lamb! yet that sinister shepherd the agent could despairs because he has his MS. rejected, let us&lt;br /&gt;
have saved him.&lt;br /&gt;
say, by two publishers. They state that they do&lt;br /&gt;
And here I speak from bitter experience. True, not see a public for the book. The agent is not&lt;br /&gt;
it is not in any sense at all the business of the sensitive : offer him a good commission, and he&lt;br /&gt;
English publisher to make his author acquainted will try again and again. He may be refused by&lt;br /&gt;
with copyright law. But it is the agent&amp;#039;s business some publisher who would have accepted the MS,&lt;br /&gt;
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38&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
direct from the author. But I fancy that few for complaint. All other arguments against the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers are such fools as to refuse a good book agent having failed, it is now declared that the&lt;br /&gt;
because it comes through an agent, or to accept a literary diplomatist is only of use to authors of&lt;br /&gt;
bad book because it comes direct from the author. established reputation. That I can deny as far as&lt;br /&gt;
How little right an author has to be discouraged my own experience has shown. Years ago, when I&lt;br /&gt;
simply and solely because one or two publishers was unknown, and as yet scarcely published, it was&lt;br /&gt;
have refused some book, numerous authors past my agent who took me by the hand. To him I&lt;br /&gt;
and present can testify. Within a week I had a have applied for advice in more than one crisis of&lt;br /&gt;
MS. refused by one publisher (A.), as having no a somewhat adventurous career, and to his good&lt;br /&gt;
likely sale, and then quite eagerly accepted by judgment and guidance I owe whatever fruit of&lt;br /&gt;
another publisher (B.). B. at the same time my work I now enjoy. It is the young and in-&lt;br /&gt;
refused a second MS. for the very reason that A. experienced writer who is in need of advice. To&lt;br /&gt;
had just given, and this second MS. was straight the established author the agent is an absolute&lt;br /&gt;
way accepted by A.&lt;br /&gt;
necessity, in order to look after his interests in&lt;br /&gt;
The agent, then, is likely to save the author various directions, and more especially so when, as&lt;br /&gt;
from too hasty despair ; but, on the other hand, in my own case, the author habitually resides out&lt;br /&gt;
should the author have mistaken his profession in of England, and is unable to have personal inter-&lt;br /&gt;
life, then no despair can be too hasty. And the views with editors or publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
agent who honestly or dishonestly encourages false Finally, I should like to ask Mr. Heinemann,&lt;br /&gt;
hopes may be wasting some of the most valuable who has (in print) such a marked antipathy to the&lt;br /&gt;
months or years of a man&amp;#039;s whole life. I should literary agent, a single but direct question. My&lt;br /&gt;
add that, if the author refuses to pay the agent brother authors and myself would be interested to&lt;br /&gt;
anything until he shall have placed the MS., and know whether it is not a fact that in order to effect&lt;br /&gt;
agrees to pay a royalty then, the agent will not be the sale of his English books in America he&lt;br /&gt;
encouraged to take up MSS. which he knows to be actually employs a literary agent in New York !&lt;br /&gt;
utterly &ldquo;unlikely.&rdquo; The worst possible plan seems Until the question is answered further comment&lt;br /&gt;
to me to pay the agent his full pay in advance, is needless.&lt;br /&gt;
whether he shall succeed or not. For then he&lt;br /&gt;
Yours truly,&lt;br /&gt;
only has the expense of carrying or posting the&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAM LE QUEUX.&lt;br /&gt;
MS. to fresh publishers or editors at varying Castor, Peterborough,&lt;br /&gt;
intervals. He has comparatively little interest October 12th, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
in really exerting himself and interviewing the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher or editor personally, as my agent did&lt;br /&gt;
with such good effect.&lt;br /&gt;
EUSTACE MILES.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,&mdash;It happens occasionally that a publisher&lt;br /&gt;
may act as an agent. For instance, a well-known&lt;br /&gt;
v.&lt;br /&gt;
firm succeeded in serialising a novel which it had&lt;br /&gt;
To the Editor of THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
undertaken to issue for me, the commission was&lt;br /&gt;
fifty per cent! I am not complaining of the rate,&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,&mdash;In common with many other authors I&lt;br /&gt;
because it had been specified in the previous agree-&lt;br /&gt;
have been much amused and somewhat surprised&lt;br /&gt;
ment. I have by me other agreements signed by&lt;br /&gt;
at Mr. Hcinemann&amp;#039;s remarks regarding that much-&lt;br /&gt;
a different firm in which also it is stated that the&lt;br /&gt;
abused necessity to the novelist, the literary&lt;br /&gt;
commission in the event of serialisation is to be&lt;br /&gt;
agent. It seeins to me that the majority of the&lt;br /&gt;
fifty per cent. Now, my agent&amp;#039;s commission is&lt;br /&gt;
reasons given for objecting to the agent are the&lt;br /&gt;
only ten per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
very reasons why an author should employ him.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
But, apart from these, Mr. Heinemaun makes a&lt;br /&gt;
Fact.&lt;br /&gt;
distinct assertion which is certainly open to con-&lt;br /&gt;
tradiction when he complains that the agent fosters&lt;br /&gt;
in the author a spirit of greed. I have no know-&lt;br /&gt;
DURING the summer months the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
ledge of the methods of other agents save my own, received a letter, of which the following is a&lt;br /&gt;
but I can honestly say that my own agent, in&lt;br /&gt;
copy :-&lt;br /&gt;
selling one of my books, keeps before him the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that the sale is not in my best interests if the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Dear Sir, I have decided to discontinue my sabscrip-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher does not have an opportunity of making&lt;br /&gt;
tion to the Authors&amp;#039; Society. I have put my affairs as&lt;br /&gt;
regards my literary work into the hands of an agent. With&lt;br /&gt;
a fair profit.&lt;br /&gt;
many thanks for the kind help you have so often given me,&lt;br /&gt;
Personally I fail to see Mr. Heinemann&amp;#039;s cause believe me to be, very truly yours,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 39 (#419) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
39&lt;br /&gt;
We would like to make some remarks upon it.&lt;br /&gt;
In the early days of the Society the publishers were&lt;br /&gt;
very naturally opposed to the idea of having their&lt;br /&gt;
agreements and their methods of doing business&lt;br /&gt;
overlooked by the Society of Authors, and one of&lt;br /&gt;
the best known houses sent round a circular to all&lt;br /&gt;
the authors who published with it, asking them&lt;br /&gt;
not to join the Society. Those days, we are glad&lt;br /&gt;
to say, have long passed ; not only have authors as&lt;br /&gt;
a mass found the Society useful, but even in some&lt;br /&gt;
instances the publishers have been bound to&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledge that the work it does is good and&lt;br /&gt;
fair. From the letter quoted above it would&lt;br /&gt;
appear that the agent is also objecting to have his&lt;br /&gt;
methods looked into from the point of view of the&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Society. That a feeling against having&lt;br /&gt;
their business arrangements overlooked has been&lt;br /&gt;
growing amongst agents is clear from the informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion that has come to the Society. The interest of&lt;br /&gt;
publisher and author is bound to be antagonistic ;&lt;br /&gt;
it is natural, therefore, that the publisher should&lt;br /&gt;
object. The interest of agent and author is&lt;br /&gt;
identical. It is very serious, therefore, for the&lt;br /&gt;
author when the agent assumes an attitude of&lt;br /&gt;
antagonism. We must state finally that the&lt;br /&gt;
placing of your work in the hands of an agent&lt;br /&gt;
is an additional reason for belonging to the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, as an author in this position has two&lt;br /&gt;
people to look after, firstly the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
secondly the agent.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps after all the letter was only an outcome&lt;br /&gt;
of the silly season.&lt;br /&gt;
standing against the total from &ldquo; The Cost of Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction &rdquo; of &pound;7 13s. The moulding is the same&lt;br /&gt;
price in both estimates, and the binding also.&lt;br /&gt;
When a fresh edition of&ldquo; The Cost of Production&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is brought out it will have to be entirely revised,&lt;br /&gt;
and it is hoped that it will be possible to include&lt;br /&gt;
an exhaustive statement at the same time of the&lt;br /&gt;
American cost, which American publishers boast&lt;br /&gt;
is as low if not lower than the English.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, note this statement.&lt;br /&gt;
ESTIMATE FROM &amp;quot; THE COST OF PRODUCTION.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
500 Copies, crown 8vo, Small Pica type,&lt;br /&gt;
Composition, 17 sheets at &euro;1 78. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
per sheet .......... ............. 423 7 6&lt;br /&gt;
Printing, 17 sheets at 58, 9d. per sheet 4 17 9&lt;br /&gt;
Paper, , &bdquo; 98.&lt;br /&gt;
7 13 0&lt;br /&gt;
Moulding,&lt;br /&gt;
:58.&lt;br /&gt;
5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Binding, at 4d, a vol. .... ....... 8 6 8&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;48 911&lt;br /&gt;
RECENT PRINTER&amp;#039;S ESTIMATE.&lt;br /&gt;
500 Copies, crown 8vo, set in Small Pica.&lt;br /&gt;
Composition, 17 sheets at 228. 6d ....... &euro;19 26&lt;br /&gt;
Printing, 17 sheets at 58. 3d............. 4 9 3&lt;br /&gt;
Paper, 8&pound; reams, 60 double-crown 158. 6 7 6&lt;br /&gt;
Moulding only, 5s. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Binding, 4d....&lt;br /&gt;
8 6 8&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;42 10 11&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
I.-Cost of Production.&lt;br /&gt;
THE first estimate printed below is taken from&lt;br /&gt;
1 the third edition of &ldquo;The Cost of Production,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
which was issued in 1891.&lt;br /&gt;
The book is now out of print; but to show that&lt;br /&gt;
the prices for printing, paper, etc., were fair at the&lt;br /&gt;
time of issue-although at first this was frequently&lt;br /&gt;
denied by the publishers&mdash;and are fair at the&lt;br /&gt;
present date, a second estimate is put forward&lt;br /&gt;
which was obtained from a printer only a year&lt;br /&gt;
ago. The printer&amp;#039;s name is not given, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
sufficient to state that he is a man in a large way&lt;br /&gt;
of business, with works in the neighbourhood of&lt;br /&gt;
London, who does extensive trade with the chief&lt;br /&gt;
publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
On comparing the two estimates, it will be seen&lt;br /&gt;
that the composition is considerably cheaper, as&lt;br /&gt;
much as &otilde;s, a sheet, and the printing 6d. a sheet.&lt;br /&gt;
The paper is also cheaper, the total &pound;6 78. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-American Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
The Publishers&amp;#039; Circular has an article with&lt;br /&gt;
regard to the production and circulation of books&lt;br /&gt;
in America, and complains, as is not unnatural,&lt;br /&gt;
of the lack of reciprocity in the American Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right Law. It points out that many publishing&lt;br /&gt;
houses have started branch offices in America.&lt;br /&gt;
This effort of English publishers is, no doubt, use-&lt;br /&gt;
ful, both for the trade and for the English authors ;&lt;br /&gt;
but the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular makes a suggestion&lt;br /&gt;
that English printers ought rather to start branch&lt;br /&gt;
establishments in New York. This suggestion,&lt;br /&gt;
from the author&amp;#039;s point of view, would be much&lt;br /&gt;
more satisfactory than a branch publishing house,&lt;br /&gt;
and we commend it to the notice of some of the&lt;br /&gt;
larger printing firms. It is useless at this hour of&lt;br /&gt;
the day to grumble about the American Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Law. It is better than no copyright law, but the&lt;br /&gt;
Americans, save only a small intellectual minority,&lt;br /&gt;
have failed to grasp the great principles referring&lt;br /&gt;
to literary property&lt;br /&gt;
The day may come, and we hope at no distant&lt;br /&gt;
date, when they will take a more enlightened view&lt;br /&gt;
of the position, and join the signatories of the&lt;br /&gt;
Berne Convention.&lt;br /&gt;
What authors have to do at present is to make the&lt;br /&gt;
best of existing circumstances, and it will be more&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory for the profession to have a trustworthy&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 40 (#420) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
40&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
English printer established in New York than an no reason why it should not also become of unlimited&lt;br /&gt;
English publisher, however trustworthy.&lt;br /&gt;
duration.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A new law published in the latest Gazette brings Siam&lt;br /&gt;
into line with Western nations in the matter of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
The preamble points out that hitherto authors have had no&lt;br /&gt;
III.-A Publisher&amp;#039;s Trick.&lt;br /&gt;
protection for their work in this country, anyone baving&lt;br /&gt;
A well-kuown publisher, writing to an author&lt;br /&gt;
the right to republish and sell any book. The new enact-&lt;br /&gt;
ment follows the lines of the English law, giving protection&lt;br /&gt;
who objected to the terms of his agreement, stated&lt;br /&gt;
for forty-two years, or the period of the author&amp;#039;s life, with&lt;br /&gt;
as follows, &ldquo; that the agreement was settled by a grace of seven years, whichever is the longer. To copy-&lt;br /&gt;
--- , K.C., and is identical with the one signed right a book it has to be registered at the Royal Scribe&lt;br /&gt;
by all my authors.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Department within twelve months after publication ; the&lt;br /&gt;
fee charged is five ticals, and a copy has to be presented to&lt;br /&gt;
We have frequently pointed out before that the&lt;br /&gt;
the Department mentioned, another to the Royal Library,&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements issued by the Publishers&amp;#039; and another to the Royal Buddhist Library at Wat&lt;br /&gt;
Association were approved by Mr. Joseph Walton, Benchamabopit. Translation is also prohibited. The&lt;br /&gt;
K.C., who has recently been raised to the Bench,&lt;br /&gt;
passing of such a law is a wise proceeding, even if the&lt;br /&gt;
result on literature cannot be expected to be very notice-&lt;br /&gt;
and we have shown in the pamphlet published&lt;br /&gt;
able. We hope it may have the effect of encouraging the&lt;br /&gt;
by the Society how disastrous they are to authors. Siamese author. But as trade bulks so very much larger&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walton, no doubt, followed his instructions than letters in modern Siam, it is to be trusted that the&lt;br /&gt;
and approved the agreements that best served bis&lt;br /&gt;
Government will without delay follow up this law with&lt;br /&gt;
another giving protection to trade marks. The need of&lt;br /&gt;
clients, the publishers. So that the point which&lt;br /&gt;
some system of registration which will protect both the&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is putting forward, although it has seller and the buyer of genuine articles is very real. The&lt;br /&gt;
been frequently successful in silencing the objec consular courts in Bangkok enforce laws to prevent the&lt;br /&gt;
tions of authors, is really no argument whatever&lt;br /&gt;
perpetration of such frauds, and the anomaly of the&lt;br /&gt;
Siamese courts being unable to do anything in the matter&lt;br /&gt;
to induce an author to sign an agreement. In&lt;br /&gt;
has been pointed out often enough.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
fact, if anything, it should at once lead him in&lt;br /&gt;
the opposite direction. A clever K.C., when asked&lt;br /&gt;
to draw an agreement, would be bound to make&lt;br /&gt;
that agreement more strongly in favour of his&lt;br /&gt;
V.&ndash;Press Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
client than the layman who might be drawing a The letter in your last number signed &ldquo;Old&lt;br /&gt;
similar document.&lt;br /&gt;
Bird,&amp;quot; and a recent correspondence in a contem-&lt;br /&gt;
The second part of the publisher&amp;#039;s statement is porary anent the republication of a leading article&lt;br /&gt;
untrue. But if it were true, it is no argument, in a London newspaper practically unaltered in&lt;br /&gt;
because certain authors are ill-advised in signing matter or phrase, the second version differing only&lt;br /&gt;
an agreement, that other authors should be equally from the first in the signature appended, suggest&lt;br /&gt;
ill-advised, and we have pointed out on former a larger question than any personal dispute. The&lt;br /&gt;
occasions with regard to the publication of books subject of press copyright is one which has often&lt;br /&gt;
in a series what a trap this argument has been to been discussed, and the possible legislation for its&lt;br /&gt;
the unwary author.&lt;br /&gt;
betterment has been many times forecast, but the&lt;br /&gt;
Again we find it necessary to put forward these result so far is nil. A quarter of a century ago,&lt;br /&gt;
remarks, because again the publisher brings forward when the mills of the press, following a high pre-&lt;br /&gt;
his misleading statements.&lt;br /&gt;
cedent, ground slowly, the grievance of journalistic&lt;br /&gt;
theft was not so keenly felt and the delinquent&lt;br /&gt;
was only in a small way of business. At present&lt;br /&gt;
the malpractice has become so systematic and&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;Copyright in Siam.&lt;br /&gt;
universal that we have arrived at the preposterous&lt;br /&gt;
We print the following cutting from the Bangkok position of a journal being deliberately undersold&lt;br /&gt;
Times.&lt;br /&gt;
and paradoxically pushed out of the market by&lt;br /&gt;
It is interesting as showing the gradual evolution the illegitimate sale of its own contents.&lt;br /&gt;
of literary copyright in foreign countries. It was This is a sweeping statement. Let us examine&lt;br /&gt;
not long ago that Japan joined the Berne Conven- it. Examples of the Tit Bit order of papers in&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and now Siam has passed a Copyright Law. which the same paragraph goes the round of all&lt;br /&gt;
This, perhaps, may be followed by their becoming and appears consecutively in the whole series are&lt;br /&gt;
signatories to the treaty.&lt;br /&gt;
not relied on. The identical item apparently&lt;br /&gt;
There seems to be little doubt that as friendly serves as well for all as for each, and from the&lt;br /&gt;
intercourse between nations increases, copyright regularity with which it reappears, and from the&lt;br /&gt;
will become universal at no distant date, and it dim memories which it often reawakens, it was&lt;br /&gt;
is to be hoped that when this point is realised, not original to the paper first issuing it. Nor is&lt;br /&gt;
legislators will also realise that there is absolutely the dissemination of the world&amp;#039;s news, the beneficent&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 41 (#421) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
41&lt;br /&gt;
growth of knowledge through journalistic inter- No doubt it is hard for a Government, or a&lt;br /&gt;
change, the popularisation of the eternal verities Parliament, smothered in a maze of heterogeneous&lt;br /&gt;
in the form of meteorological reports, or the duties which range from the conduct of a great&lt;br /&gt;
apotheosis of the commonplace in paragraphs, or war abroad to the transfer of a constable or the&lt;br /&gt;
mishaps to battleships, herein impeached. No trespass of a goat at home, to undertake new&lt;br /&gt;
newspaper possesses copyright in the incidence of legislation on any question which presents im-&lt;br /&gt;
events or their direction; the weather is the (some- mediate as well as ultimate difficulties. And&lt;br /&gt;
times undesirable) heritage of mankind. But the certainly the question of press copyright presents&lt;br /&gt;
comments of the editor on the mismanagement of both. Nevertheless it should be attacked. The&lt;br /&gt;
the universe, and the experiences of the contributor present anomalous conditions are unfair to honest&lt;br /&gt;
in this insignificant microcosm, are as much their journals, unjust to industrious contributors, and a&lt;br /&gt;
own copyright, and should be as rigidly protected fraud on the purchasing public.&lt;br /&gt;
by the law, as the jocularities of the farceur or the&lt;br /&gt;
OUTLANDER.&lt;br /&gt;
inventions of the fictionist. Take a concrete&lt;br /&gt;
instance of the journalistic buccaneer and note his&lt;br /&gt;
NOTE.&mdash; The law on the subject is quite clear. If&lt;br /&gt;
nefarious influence.&lt;br /&gt;
a paper does not care to enforce its rights, the&lt;br /&gt;
There is a well-known high-class weekly matter is different. The Times has on sundry&lt;br /&gt;
provincial paper, with an enormous circulation, occasions brought actions and has shown very&lt;br /&gt;
published at one penny, which reprints in every effectively that a paper, if it desires, can, under the&lt;br /&gt;
issue several columns from London sixpenny existing law, absolutely protect its articles and&lt;br /&gt;
journals. In some cases the acknowledgment of contributions.-ED.&lt;br /&gt;
the source from which these are lifted is given&lt;br /&gt;
prominently at the beginning or end of the matter&lt;br /&gt;
annexed. Often, however, it is embodied in the&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&lt;br /&gt;
middle of the article&mdash;&amp;quot;says a writer in,&rdquo; &ldquo;writes&lt;br /&gt;
The following cutting from the Daily Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. &mdash; in&rdquo; &ndash; so that to a casual observer the&lt;br /&gt;
will be of interest to dramatic authors :-&lt;br /&gt;
article in question is original matter specially&lt;br /&gt;
contributed to the paper. This great provincial&lt;br /&gt;
An author&amp;#039;s rights are strangely interpreted by the com.&lt;br /&gt;
mittee and stage management of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise.&lt;br /&gt;
newspaper also prints weekly a notice in heavy&lt;br /&gt;
It appears that M. Gaston Schefer, whose piece, &ldquo; Le Roi,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
type to the effect that it requires no outside is about to be produced, has been harassed during the&lt;br /&gt;
contributions and will pay for none such. I rehearsal period by being forced to alter and cut his scenes&lt;br /&gt;
cannot afford to buy the London journal at six-&lt;br /&gt;
to please M. Le Bargy, who is entrusted with the staging&lt;br /&gt;
according to the rules of the theatre. The playwright&lt;br /&gt;
pence when I can get all of it I have time to read&lt;br /&gt;
revolted at last when he was coolly asked to change the&lt;br /&gt;
in the provincial paper for a penny. The provin d&eacute;nouement which makes the &amp;quot;King&amp;quot; abdicate from sheer&lt;br /&gt;
cial paper cannot afford to pay me for an original discouragement. M. Jules Claretie has under pressure&lt;br /&gt;
contribution when it, and the contemporaries with&lt;br /&gt;
resolved to produce &ldquo;Le Roi&amp;quot; in its intact form almost&lt;br /&gt;
immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
which it must compete, can appropriate what they&lt;br /&gt;
please gratis from journals which have paid A dispute of this kind not infrequently arises&lt;br /&gt;
liberally for the &ldquo;copy&amp;quot; of which they are thus with regard to theatrical representation. It can&lt;br /&gt;
audaciously dispossessed.&lt;br /&gt;
only be settled in two ways, (1) by agreement,&lt;br /&gt;
This state of affairs is disgraceful. The law (2) by the doctrine of expediency.&lt;br /&gt;
must deal with it. It must be made as penal to There are many dramatic writers of established&lt;br /&gt;
steal a journal&amp;#039;s matter as a man&amp;#039;s hat. Library position who insist upon inserting a clause in their&lt;br /&gt;
books and umbrellas have long, by a curious mental agreement that their piece must not be altered,&lt;br /&gt;
obliquity, been regarded as communal. But this but must be acted verbatim. They sell a licence&lt;br /&gt;
specialisation is wholly irrational. As it exists, to perform to an actor-manager. If any dispute&lt;br /&gt;
however, we must put up with it. And in the arises as to the wording of the play or its alteration,&lt;br /&gt;
same way journals which reciprocate each other&amp;#039;s the author can either refer to the agreement and&lt;br /&gt;
theft may very well be left to fight the matter out enforce his rights as against the manager, or, if he&lt;br /&gt;
amongst themselves. The law does not concern deems it expedient, accept the alteration and let&lt;br /&gt;
itself very intimately with the lighter wrangles of the matter go forward.&lt;br /&gt;
professed lawbreakers, and a man in Whitechapel In the case of young dramatic authors it is very&lt;br /&gt;
may kick his wife to death at leisure provided he often impossible to insert a clause of this kind.&lt;br /&gt;
observe the amenities by not doing it in the street. Under these circumstances, if the manager has&lt;br /&gt;
But it is certainly time that journals which employ merely a licence to perform the play, he must per-&lt;br /&gt;
their own staff and pay their own contributors form that play and no other play, and may not&lt;br /&gt;
should have legal protection from the hooligans alter it.&lt;br /&gt;
of the press.&lt;br /&gt;
The question of expediency may again arise, as&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
42&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sibethor&lt;br /&gt;
it is more important for a young author to have inadequate private income by reviewing. In this&lt;br /&gt;
his play put before the public than it is to obtain career I was very fairly successful. Not that I flatter&lt;br /&gt;
a monetary return by way of damages from a myself that I was qualified for my task by any&lt;br /&gt;
manager, however large.&lt;br /&gt;
special interest in or knowledge of literature. Apart&lt;br /&gt;
The attention of all dramatic authors must be from a certain natural turn for epigram, I consider&lt;br /&gt;
drawn to the point which is put forward in the that my success was due to the practical view I&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Warnings to Dramatic Authors,&amp;quot; namely, that it is took of my occupation. I have no doubt from&lt;br /&gt;
essential to give to a manager a licence to perform what I know of you and of your work that your&lt;br /&gt;
only. If he transfers the whole of his rights, he talents are superior to any of which I could boast,&lt;br /&gt;
hands over a piece of property which, within certain while you have always shown a genuine love of&lt;br /&gt;
bounds, a manager will be able to alter and vary. letters, a taste which I have been free to develope&lt;br /&gt;
If he gives the licence to perform, a manager only in later years. I doubt, however, if either&lt;br /&gt;
can only perform what has been handed to him as faculty or enthusiasm will compensate for the new-&lt;br /&gt;
a whole play, and can make no alteration without fangled scruples by which I understand that you&lt;br /&gt;
the consent and sanction of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
are hampered.&lt;br /&gt;
From the foregoing quotation it is really impos- Let me deal with some of these. I hear that it&lt;br /&gt;
sible to see what were the author&amp;#039;s rights, as every. is a fixed principle with you never to review&lt;br /&gt;
thing must depend upon the form of agreement, a book unless you have read it, or at least the&lt;br /&gt;
but it is sufficient to state that authors should avoid greater part of it. Things must certainly have&lt;br /&gt;
all chance of such disputes arising by settling the changed since the good old times. You surely&lt;br /&gt;
agreement on a satisfactory basis before the play is realise how such a method must limit your output.&lt;br /&gt;
handed over.&lt;br /&gt;
Unless the standard of remuneration has been&lt;br /&gt;
greatly raised, I cannot understand how the most&lt;br /&gt;
modest income can be earned on such terms. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
VII.&lt;br /&gt;
can I believe that this system prevails generally&lt;br /&gt;
The&ldquo;Journal of the American Society of Authors&rdquo; among your contemporaries. I notice, for example,&lt;br /&gt;
states that Mr. Vanderbilt has had his house that one of the &ldquo;weeklies &amp;quot; reviews, in a single&lt;br /&gt;
both the exterior and the interior-photographed issue, from six to twelve novels, all the notices&lt;br /&gt;
from all points of vantage with a view of pro- being, so far as I can judge, by the same hand.&lt;br /&gt;
tecting himself, by copywriting every negative; Cau it be supposed that the reviewer reads from&lt;br /&gt;
against the man with the Kodak.&lt;br /&gt;
six to twelve novels to make &ldquo;copy&rdquo; worth at most&lt;br /&gt;
From the English point of view, the execution from two to four guineas ?&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Vanderbilt&amp;#039;s idea does not afford him any In my own time the problem for us reviewers was&lt;br /&gt;
protection. There is no doubt that to whatever far more strict. Besides receiving our honorarium&lt;br /&gt;
extent a private house has been brought under the for &ldquo;copy,&amp;quot; we kept and sold the book reviewed, a&lt;br /&gt;
camera by one person, this would not prevent any custom which I understand is now less common.&lt;br /&gt;
one else from taking a photograph from exactly the The volume fetched more if the pages were uncut ;&lt;br /&gt;
same standpoint with exactly the same effect, if and in order to reap the full harvest, we had to&lt;br /&gt;
this were possible; but it would be a distinct criticise on the strength of such limited examina-&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of copyright to photograph another tion as this condition prescribed. This may seem&lt;br /&gt;
person&amp;#039;s photograph or in any way to copy his to you to be a difficult or risky method. In point&lt;br /&gt;
original negative.&lt;br /&gt;
of fact, it was quite possible to concoct a plausible&lt;br /&gt;
judgment from glimpses between the sheets. Often&lt;br /&gt;
the arrangement of these admitted of a glance at&lt;br /&gt;
AN OLD TO A YOUNG REVIEWER.&lt;br /&gt;
the Preface, which might prove invaluable : the&lt;br /&gt;
method of the book was usually ascertainable from&lt;br /&gt;
accessible portions : samples of style and quotations&lt;br /&gt;
M Y DEAR GEORGE,--Your relatives, who could be extracted and adapted to the critical&lt;br /&gt;
I are naturally anxious for your success in the attitude assumed by the reviewer ; and many&lt;br /&gt;
career on which you have now for some time other methods were developed by practice. Indeed,&lt;br /&gt;
been embarked, have asked me to advise you from my among the confraternity with which I associated,&lt;br /&gt;
own past experience, especially with regard to certain he would have passed as a mere &ldquo; &amp;#039;prentice hand&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
scruples which I hear that you entertain, and which who thought it necessary to mutilate his books by&lt;br /&gt;
seem likely to injure your prospects. You are cutting their pages. I do indeed recall that on&lt;br /&gt;
aware that before my marriage with your poor one occasion I got into trouble with my editor in&lt;br /&gt;
aunt, which brought me, if not domestic happiness, consequence of an insufficient examination of a&lt;br /&gt;
at least the modest competence which I still enjoy, work he had submitted to me. I had condemned&lt;br /&gt;
I was compelled for many years to supplement an it for giving no illustrations, though the subject&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
43&lt;br /&gt;
was one which eminently demanded them. On would be more beneficial to the interests of a book&lt;br /&gt;
closer examination the book proved to be full of than one of censure. I remember, for example,&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations, though these, being mainly on the that a friend of mine, by a savage onslaught, sent&lt;br /&gt;
pages, had escaped my notice. This misadventure a book through three editions. He had written&lt;br /&gt;
was, however, condoned in consideration of my long that &ldquo;if the public was prepared to wade through&lt;br /&gt;
tried devotion to the interests of the paper. a desert of dulness in search of an occasional oasis&lt;br /&gt;
You, as I hear, maintain that you can form an of impropriety,&amp;quot; that was the book for it. The&lt;br /&gt;
opinion of a book only after full perusal. In my public was so prepared, and made a rush for it, such&lt;br /&gt;
own experience the reviewer was rarely called upon as no &amp;quot;puff&rdquo; could have secured. Remember, too,&lt;br /&gt;
for an independent judgment. Either his cue was that no author of experience ever protests, and if&lt;br /&gt;
given him, or his acquaintance with the interests he does, no editor need take any notice. Besides,&lt;br /&gt;
or tendency of the paper indicated what sort of when all is said and done, you, as the father of a&lt;br /&gt;
notice would be acceptable. There were in those young family, have no right to take any such line&lt;br /&gt;
days very distinct divisions of political or literary as will limit your earnings or alienate your&lt;br /&gt;
faction which had to be reckoned with : there was employers. Do not allow any whimsical scruples&lt;br /&gt;
also keen rivalry between publishing firms, as to hamper your career. Justice, like Charity,&lt;br /&gt;
between those of &ldquo;Bungay and Bacon.&rdquo; Even if begins at home.&lt;br /&gt;
these considerations did not indicate the line to be If, after all that I have said, you are still deter-&lt;br /&gt;
taken, we could be sure that the proprietors of the mined to waste your time in reading your books, I&lt;br /&gt;
paper would not be too well pleased if we &ldquo; slated &amp;quot; advise you to adopt a plan, not unknown in my&lt;br /&gt;
a work put out by a publisher who spent hundreds own day. You must make your reading go as far&lt;br /&gt;
a year in advertisements with us, or in praising as possible by multiplying your reviews. I myself&lt;br /&gt;
the publications of those who neglected us. And, at one time adopted this method with some success.&lt;br /&gt;
if the author&amp;#039;s reputation suffered in consequence, I wrote anonymously (as many notices as I could&lt;br /&gt;
surely author and publisher are in the same boat. place), under a nom de plume, and in my own name.&lt;br /&gt;
They have combined their interests, and must sink There was in this system the charm of variety.&lt;br /&gt;
or swim together. The remedy, moreover, was in One had to adapt the several notices to the views&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher&amp;#039;s own hands. Also it not infrequently of each editor, or the interests of each paper, and&lt;br /&gt;
happened that author or publisher had been asked to vary the style so as to escape identification. If&lt;br /&gt;
and selfishly refused some favour : early sheets, for I were reviewing the work of any writer of influence,&lt;br /&gt;
example, or an interview ; and it was only just I usually arranged that the most laudatory notice&lt;br /&gt;
that he should suffer for his curmudgeonliness. should be that which appeared under my own&lt;br /&gt;
And, apart from these considerations of business, name. By this means it not infrequently happened&lt;br /&gt;
it seldom occurred that the author was entirely that, while my various notices neutralised each&lt;br /&gt;
dissociated from our personal likes or dislikes. other, there accrued to my account a valuable&lt;br /&gt;
Either he was a friend or enemy, or the friend or friendship and literary alliance, as well as the&lt;br /&gt;
relation of some one towards whom we had favour reputation of a kindly critic. This may prove to&lt;br /&gt;
or the reverse. No one, surely, would grudge the you by no means the least valuable hint I am able&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer his satisfaction in fulfilling the claims of to give.&lt;br /&gt;
friendship ; nor consider him less justified in using I am told that it is becoming a common practice&lt;br /&gt;
his opportunity so soon as his enemy had, by for editors of the higher class to entrust the books&lt;br /&gt;
publication, delivered himself into his hands. I sent them to specialists on the subject treated, to&lt;br /&gt;
well remember the thrill of anticipation with which authors, and to men of literary culture and of&lt;br /&gt;
we watched the publishers&amp;#039; announcements.&lt;br /&gt;
leisure, to whom the honorarium is of less impor-&lt;br /&gt;
In the absence of any such predisposing senti- tance than interest in the subject. As for the&lt;br /&gt;
ments or interests, the reviewer had to consider specialist, I would ask such editors what they&lt;br /&gt;
what kind of notice best suited his style and the suppose encyclop&aelig;dias were made for ; and, with&lt;br /&gt;
ear of the public. My own manner lent itself regard to the employment of amateurs, whether&lt;br /&gt;
more readily to incisiveness, and in those days they think it fair to take the bread out of the&lt;br /&gt;
the public loved dissection. These considerations mouths of a diligent, long-suffering, and honour-&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily influenced the tone of my anonymous able profession in order to increase the already suffi-&lt;br /&gt;
reviews.&lt;br /&gt;
cient incomes of dilettanti ? Personally I have&lt;br /&gt;
You will ask, no doubt, how this method could no fear that this movement will go far. Such&lt;br /&gt;
secure justice to authors. Is it not clear that, for superior persons are little likely to fall in with the&lt;br /&gt;
them, it all came right in the end ? If the Argus rules of the game : they will insist on taking their&lt;br /&gt;
condemned from such motives as I have indicated, own line, and there will be an inevitable return to&lt;br /&gt;
the Fulminator would praise on analogous grounds; the regular hand, prepared to perform his allotted&lt;br /&gt;
nor could it be assumed that a laudatory notice task punctually and obediently. For my own part,&lt;br /&gt;
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44&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
I may confidently say that from the moment I When will educational writers as a body come to&lt;br /&gt;
became independent I have never deprived my late learn the real value of the product of their brain ?&lt;br /&gt;
profession of a sixpence. I have honourably When will they join together to combat the&lt;br /&gt;
abstained from writing, and have simply enjoyed present prices, to prevent the oft-repeated claim of&lt;br /&gt;
my leisure. Though never a bookish man, I have certain publishers that they make their profits on&lt;br /&gt;
acquired a considerable taste for letters, a taste educational works ? and when will they remember&lt;br /&gt;
which, during my literary career, I had neither that the value of the smallest primer must not be&lt;br /&gt;
time nor inclination to cultivate, and have often calculated from the mere time it takes to put pen&lt;br /&gt;
been ainused to find how great a delight I can take to paper, but must be reckoned from the time&lt;br /&gt;
in books which I had pronounced unreadable. spent in obtaining a life-long experience as scholar&lt;br /&gt;
I sincerely hope that this long letter may not be and teacher ?&lt;br /&gt;
thrown away on you, and that, by giving due atten The Committee of the Society have from time&lt;br /&gt;
tion to the precepts and example I have endeavoured to time proclaimed this. It is not without its use&lt;br /&gt;
to put before you, you may attain to the success to state it once again.&lt;br /&gt;
which I am sure your talents are able to command. When the leaders of one of the greatest pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fessions have realised that selling their stored&lt;br /&gt;
I am,&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge cheap is not generous, is not altruistic,&lt;br /&gt;
Your affectionate Uncle,&lt;br /&gt;
does not benefit the vast numbers who are yearning&lt;br /&gt;
JUDAS QUILLDRIVER. for that knowledge, but only puts profits into&lt;br /&gt;
the pocket of the publisher, they will not only&lt;br /&gt;
deservedly reap what they have laboriously sown,&lt;br /&gt;
THE PUBLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL but will be acting in a kindly and generous spirit&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS.&lt;br /&gt;
towards those who are beginning to struggle along&lt;br /&gt;
the paths that they as masters have long ago left&lt;br /&gt;
behind them.&lt;br /&gt;
Another Illustration.&lt;br /&gt;
To show that this is no imagined statement, it&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,- The article on &ldquo; Literary Earnings&rdquo; in your issue&lt;br /&gt;
is sufficient to mention that in one or two cases&lt;br /&gt;
of Tuesday last, by Mr. A. J. Church, is very interesting that have come before the Society where educa-&lt;br /&gt;
May 1, as one who has had a similar experience, be allowed tional writers have troubled to publish their own&lt;br /&gt;
to make a brief statement of its practical results! Like&lt;br /&gt;
books-in spite of all the disadvantages of fight-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Church, I began with a book of school exercises, which&lt;br /&gt;
is still on sale. This was in 1876, twenty-six years ago to&lt;br /&gt;
ing against trade prejudices and trade prices&mdash;they&lt;br /&gt;
the present year, inclusive. During this time I have gathered in for themselves a substantial and, in&lt;br /&gt;
edited or compiled twenty books in all, for which I have&lt;br /&gt;
some cases, a golden harvest.&lt;br /&gt;
received (in round numbers) &pound;2,400-i.e., not far off &euro;100&lt;br /&gt;
It must once again be stated that the circula-&lt;br /&gt;
per annum. These include (1) Elementary school books,&lt;br /&gt;
such as Latin and Greek exercises and selected passages&lt;br /&gt;
tion of successful educational books is enormous&lt;br /&gt;
for translation ; (2) school editions of classical authors, and continued, and surpasses by thousands the&lt;br /&gt;
with notes and introductions ; (3) annotated editions of circulation of any work of fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
two English classics. The last cost more time and trouble&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
than all the rest, and the result has been that I have&lt;br /&gt;
received on an average less than 65 per annum for one of&lt;br /&gt;
these books and nothing at all for the other, against which&lt;br /&gt;
a considerable debt is still standing. As to the school&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKSELLING.&lt;br /&gt;
books, nearly three-fourths of the protit has come from the&lt;br /&gt;
selected extracts and exercises, compilations requiring very&lt;br /&gt;
little brain-work-only a certain amount of judgment gained&lt;br /&gt;
by experience in teaching. Of the classical texts with notes&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;Net&rdquo; System.&lt;br /&gt;
I find that those which cost the most labour in production M HE object of this paper, which is written at&lt;br /&gt;
have proved least remunerative. During the past year&lt;br /&gt;
1 the request of the Editor of The Author, is&lt;br /&gt;
about 2,000 copies of these editions were sold, comprising&lt;br /&gt;
thirteen volumes, of which only five gained any profits ; of&lt;br /&gt;
two-fold : in the first place, I wish to show&lt;br /&gt;
the &amp;quot; selection&amp;quot; books (five in all) were sold 3,124 copies, that the &ldquo;net&amp;quot; system was not devised in the&lt;br /&gt;
yielding a profit of over &pound;100. I have not yet had a interests of one class, the booksellers, at the&lt;br /&gt;
statement of accounts for the English books above men.&lt;br /&gt;
expense of the authors and the publishers, but that&lt;br /&gt;
tioned, which are published by another firm ; but, judging&lt;br /&gt;
by the average of former years, I should say the profits&lt;br /&gt;
the interests of authors and publishers have been&lt;br /&gt;
from them will not be over &pound;5, probably somewhat less. considered equally with those of the booksellers ;&lt;br /&gt;
Yours, &amp;amp;c.,&lt;br /&gt;
and, secondly, to deal with a few of the objections&lt;br /&gt;
C. S. JERRAM. raised against the system.&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, September 14.&lt;br /&gt;
The usual discount given by the booksellers to&lt;br /&gt;
By the kind permission of the author, the above the public for cash payment on&ldquo; ordinary&rdquo; books,&lt;br /&gt;
letter, which appeared in the Westminster Gazette, is i.e., on books not published at &ldquo;net&amp;quot; prices, is&lt;br /&gt;
printed in these pages.&lt;br /&gt;
25 per cent. off the published prices, or &ldquo;3d. in the&lt;br /&gt;
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45&lt;br /&gt;
shilling.&rdquo; Now it has been proved that with such consideration if it were the case, as is contended&lt;br /&gt;
a discount, that part of a bookseller&amp;#039;s business by, some critics, that the days of bookselling are&lt;br /&gt;
which consists of the selling of new books, cannot past. If the conditions of the time had brought&lt;br /&gt;
be made to pay. I say &ldquo;cannot be made to pay&rdquo; it about that the decay of bookselling did not&lt;br /&gt;
advisedly, for the &ldquo;new books&rdquo; department must matter, then the booksellers would have to be left&lt;br /&gt;
pay its share of the cost of rent, assistance, and to their fate. It is true that the conditions of&lt;br /&gt;
incidental expenses of the business, and under these the time have changed. The spread of education,&lt;br /&gt;
conditions this department yields no profit, and and the introduction of free libraries, have made the&lt;br /&gt;
often involves a loss. It has long been known in position of the bookseller different from what it&lt;br /&gt;
a general way that this was so, and that book- was. But though it is generally agreed that his&lt;br /&gt;
selling was fast decaying ; but it has now been position is different, it is equally felt that his&lt;br /&gt;
shown from figures that with the heavy expenses existence is necessary. Sir Walter Besant has&lt;br /&gt;
required for the upkeep of a bookselling business, frequently insisted in The Author, with much&lt;br /&gt;
it is impossible to make it pay at &ldquo;threepence in emphasis, that the bookseller&amp;#039;s counter is an&lt;br /&gt;
the shilling&rdquo; discount. The booksellers who do essential element in the publication of a book,&lt;br /&gt;
make a living out of their business, do not make and that no book is really published till it has&lt;br /&gt;
it off the sale of new books; they make it off other found its place there.&lt;br /&gt;
things, such as second-hand books, or stationery, or We are thus placed in this dilemma :--On&lt;br /&gt;
remainders, or fancy goods, or a circulating library. the one hand, we have booksellers working under&lt;br /&gt;
It will thus be seen that there is not much conditions which leave them no profit on the&lt;br /&gt;
encouragement to the bookseller to push the &ldquo;new sale of new books; on the other hand, we have&lt;br /&gt;
books&rdquo; department of his business. Publishers, authors and publishers requiring the assistance&lt;br /&gt;
especially the publishers of the more ephemeral of booksellers for the sale of the books they&lt;br /&gt;
literature and of non-copyright books, have sought have written and published. It is perfectly&lt;br /&gt;
to remedy this evil by increasing their allowance clear, then, that the demand of the book-&lt;br /&gt;
to the booksellers. But this has only made matters sellers that the authors and publishers should&lt;br /&gt;
worse, for while, on the one hand, the allowance to help them in devising some scheme which should&lt;br /&gt;
the booksellers from the publisher has increased in make bookselling profitable, was a demand as&lt;br /&gt;
the case of &amp;quot; light literature,&rdquo; it has not increased much in the interests of the authors and&lt;br /&gt;
to the same extent on the less popular books, and publishers as of the booksellers.&lt;br /&gt;
on books of a more permanent standing; and on The problem of how to make bookselling profit-&lt;br /&gt;
the other hand, the discount given by the book- able is no new problem. It has exercised the&lt;br /&gt;
seller to his customer has increased. The retail minds of booksellers and publishers for many&lt;br /&gt;
discount, which at one time was 10 per cent., has years. But it is only within the last two years&lt;br /&gt;
increased from 20. in the shilling to 3d. in the that a practicable working scheme has been given&lt;br /&gt;
shilling, and in the case of some libraries to 4d. in a fair trial. The difficulty was to devise a scheme&lt;br /&gt;
the shilling and even more! Further, while, as which should be compulsory, and yet allow a&lt;br /&gt;
all readers of The Author know, the allowances to certain measure of freedom to author, publisher, and&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers by the publishers vary from about bookseller alike. It was strongly urged at one&lt;br /&gt;
25 per cent, to about 42 per cent. off the published time that there should be a compulsory limit of&lt;br /&gt;
prices of different books, the discount given by discount on all books. This was objected to on&lt;br /&gt;
the bookseller to the public off them all is uniform. the ground that it left no freedom to any one. On&lt;br /&gt;
The bookseller can afford to give a large discount the other hand, the increase of discount given by&lt;br /&gt;
off books on which he receives an allowance of some publishers to booksellers was valueless, as it&lt;br /&gt;
12 per cent., but he obviously cannot afford the was met by an increase of discount given by the&lt;br /&gt;
same discount off books on which he receives an booksellers to the public. The introduction by&lt;br /&gt;
allowance of 30 per cent. After allowing for some enterprising publishers of net books, i.e., of&lt;br /&gt;
working expenses, which must be reckoned at from books off which no discount was to be given to the&lt;br /&gt;
12 per cent. to 15 per cent. on his &ldquo;turnover,&rdquo; he public, was a step in the right direction ; as the&lt;br /&gt;
can still give a discount of 25 per cent. on novels public, though it demands a uniform discount and&lt;br /&gt;
of a very popular nature, and leave a slight margin as large a discount as it can get, is contented, as a&lt;br /&gt;
of profit; but the same discount given off &ldquo;solid&rdquo; rule, with no discount, if a book is published at a&lt;br /&gt;
literature often means actual loss to him. But net price. But this step was not sufficient, as&lt;br /&gt;
the public does not realise this, and demands a some booksellers began to give a discount off net&lt;br /&gt;
uniform discount on all books. It takes little books, and if this had become general, the advantage&lt;br /&gt;
calculation to see that, under these conditions, of having books published at net prices would be&lt;br /&gt;
bookselling cannot be made remunerative.&lt;br /&gt;
neutralised.&lt;br /&gt;
This state of matters would not warrant serious The plan which has now been adopted is&lt;br /&gt;
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46&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
this : Books are divided into two classes : (1) &amp;quot; ordi- made by the publishers and the great majority of&lt;br /&gt;
nary&rdquo; books, off which booksellers can give booksellers to compel the very small minority of&lt;br /&gt;
what discount they like to the public without unwilling booksellers to sell net books at net prices.&lt;br /&gt;
interference from any one ; and (2)&ldquo; net&rdquo; books, (2) The country booksellers sometimes complain&lt;br /&gt;
off which it is agreed that no discount may be that while on &ldquo;ordinary&rdquo; books they can charge&lt;br /&gt;
given either to the public or to libraries. This rather more than the charges made in London,&lt;br /&gt;
plan, it will be seen, meets the objections of those they cannot charge more on net books. Country&lt;br /&gt;
authors or publishers who object to compulsion, as booksellers, it is contended, have to pay carriage&lt;br /&gt;
they can publish their books as &ldquo; ordinary&rdquo; books. from London, while London booksellers are saved&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time it meets the demand of those this expense. In reply to this last contention, the&lt;br /&gt;
who have shown that compulsion is necessary, as London booksellers state that their expenses for&lt;br /&gt;
all books published at net prices must be sold &ldquo;collectors &rdquo; about equalise the expense of carriage&lt;br /&gt;
without discount to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
to the country. But whether this be so or not, if&lt;br /&gt;
The objections which have been raised against the country bookseller has a sufficient profit on&lt;br /&gt;
the present &ldquo;net&amp;quot; system are chiefly four: &ldquo;net&rdquo; books and cannot be undersold, it is no&lt;br /&gt;
(1) That it is compulsory. (2) That it makes hardship to him if the London bookseller makes&lt;br /&gt;
it necessary for country booksellers to supply larger profits. His other complaint is that while&lt;br /&gt;
books at the same rate as in London. (3) That he can charge, say, 4s. 9d. for a 6s. novel which is&lt;br /&gt;
no advantage is gained by cash payment; and charged 4s. 6d. in London, he cannot charge more&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Libraries and schools which buy many books, than 4s. 6d, for a net book that is charged 4s. 617.&lt;br /&gt;
and large purchasers, are charged at the same rate in London. While this is true, he forgets that it&lt;br /&gt;
as small purchasers.&lt;br /&gt;
pays him better to sell a 4s. 61. net book at 4$, 611.&lt;br /&gt;
I admit that all these objections are valid objec- than to sell a 68. &amp;quot;ordinary&rdquo; book at 4s. 9.&lt;br /&gt;
tions; but I am equally convinced that in all cases Further, if he has to order a net book specially for&lt;br /&gt;
the advantages of the net system outweigh the a customer, he is quite entitled to charge 2d. or 31.&lt;br /&gt;
disadvantages.&lt;br /&gt;
for carriage if he likes.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) While &ldquo;free trade&amp;quot; in books, as in every- (3) The objection that a customer who pays&lt;br /&gt;
thing else, may be an excellent thing, book selling, cash gets no advantage is a more serious one. But&lt;br /&gt;
as a trade, ceases to be &ldquo; free&rdquo; when the discount this is an objection that holds true in other trades.&lt;br /&gt;
given by one bookseller becomes of necessity the It is not customary, so far as I know, to give&lt;br /&gt;
standard of discount among all the booksellers in discount for cash payment for meat or groceries&lt;br /&gt;
the same town. With few exceptions it has been or the like. Indeed the customer who runs an&lt;br /&gt;
found that if one bookseller increases the discount account often gets a small allowance when he pays&lt;br /&gt;
to the public all his neighbours must follow suit. his account, while the cash purchaser gets none.&lt;br /&gt;
In some towns there has been for years an agree. It is certainly a hardship that a bookseller who&lt;br /&gt;
ment among the booksellers as to the terms on cannot get payment for, say, two years, should not&lt;br /&gt;
which books are to be sold; but such agreements be able to charge more than he does to a cash&lt;br /&gt;
are frequently upset by an increase in discount purchaser. On &amp;quot; ordinary&rdquo; books he can do so,&lt;br /&gt;
being given by a new bookseller, or by a draper or for a 6s, novel that is charged 4s. 6il, or 5s. for&lt;br /&gt;
a chemist who wishes to get the name of being a cash will be charged 6s, net if not paid for in two&lt;br /&gt;
cheap draper or a cheap chemist because he sells years. But it seems to me that the proper way to&lt;br /&gt;
books cheaper than the legitimate bookseller. deal with this difficulty is to charge interest on&lt;br /&gt;
Voluntary agreements are not sufficient, as they unpaid accounts. This is already done in other&lt;br /&gt;
can be destroyed at any moment. A bookseller trades, and I see no reason why it should not be&lt;br /&gt;
knows that he cannot be undersold in &ldquo;net&rdquo; adopted with books.&lt;br /&gt;
books, and the more books become net the more (4) Lastly, it is objected that large purchasers&lt;br /&gt;
will he be able to afford to make his stock more pay the same rate as small purchasers. But the&lt;br /&gt;
attractive, and to pay for better assistants; and if giving of special terms to large purchasers is not a&lt;br /&gt;
the public have to pay a little more for their books, matter of principle, and is not always expedient.&lt;br /&gt;
they will gain compensatory advantages.&lt;br /&gt;
For instance, it is obviously much more expensive&lt;br /&gt;
But the subject of &ldquo; Free Trade&rdquo; is a wide one, for a railway company to carry a passenger one&lt;br /&gt;
and cannot be argued out here. It is sufficient to mile for one penny than 400 miles for 400 pence.&lt;br /&gt;
note that the whole value of the present system But the large purchaser of 400 miles of railway&lt;br /&gt;
turns on its compulsory character. And if authors travelling gets no advantage over the small&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers are free to publish books as purchaser of one mile of travelling. It is a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; ordinary&rdquo; books, which are not liable to inter. question of averages. One librarian may give a&lt;br /&gt;
ference, and booksellers are free to refuse to stock bookseller a great deal of trouble, another may give&lt;br /&gt;
net books, none need complain if an agreement is no trouble ; but the bookseller cannot differentiate&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
47&lt;br /&gt;
between the two. The advisability of giving a done. The King called his common-placebook&lt;br /&gt;
discount off net books to libraries and schools was &ldquo;Enchiridion,&amp;quot; and liked to have it always at&lt;br /&gt;
fully discussed, but it was decided that it was hand. It must have contained, besides Latin&lt;br /&gt;
expedient to make no exceptions to the rule of quotations, memoranda written by the King him-&lt;br /&gt;
supplying net books at net prices.&lt;br /&gt;
self. A few fragments of it are preserved in&lt;br /&gt;
The &amp;quot;net&amp;quot; system is now on its trial. It William of Malmesbury.&lt;br /&gt;
remains to be seen whether &ldquo;ordinary&rdquo; books It was after this that the King became an&lt;br /&gt;
or &ldquo;net &rdquo; books will gain the day. The rapid author. All his works are translations. The first&lt;br /&gt;
increase in the number of books published at net was the &ldquo; Consolations of Bo&euml;thius,&amp;quot; a book ex-&lt;br /&gt;
prices, and the general welcome given by the public tremely popular throughout the middle ages, in&lt;br /&gt;
to the net system, argues well for its future. So which the last remnants of the classical spirit are&lt;br /&gt;
far the net system has not spread to any extent to mingled with the Christian thought of a later&lt;br /&gt;
novels and light literature; but it is gradually epoch. At the date of the translation the King&lt;br /&gt;
doing so. But I think it is better that the system was not entirely master of Latin, and must have&lt;br /&gt;
should be adopted gradually rather than at a had Asser&amp;#039;s assistance.&lt;br /&gt;
forced rate. It is better that authors and the The next work was a translation of Orosius&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
public should see for themselves that it is the &ldquo;History of the World.&rdquo; Orosius, a Spanish priest,&lt;br /&gt;
best, as it is the most rational system of book- became, in 410, acquainted with Augustine of&lt;br /&gt;
selling, than that they should feel in any way that Hippo. At Augustine&amp;#039;s suggestion he undertook&lt;br /&gt;
they are forced to adopt a system which they do a history of the world, with a view to demonstrating&lt;br /&gt;
not understand. In America, where the same that Christianity had not been the cause of the&lt;br /&gt;
problems have had to be faced, it is proposed to fall of the Roman Empire-a view held by the&lt;br /&gt;
make the net system practically universal, and to aristocratic pagan party. The historically worth-&lt;br /&gt;
apply it at once not only to the more expensive less work became popular with the clergy, and&lt;br /&gt;
books, but also to novels. Whether our American supplanted better means of self-instruction.&lt;br /&gt;
friends are wise in trying to adopt suddenly the The merits of Bo&euml;thius are not great ; Orosius&lt;br /&gt;
system which we are desiring to introduce gradually, has none. Alfred&amp;#039;s translations have a value not&lt;br /&gt;
time only will show; but it is at least satisfactory possessed by the originals, in consequence of his&lt;br /&gt;
to know that the system which has been adopted having been a very free translator. He not only&lt;br /&gt;
here has been accepted as the model for America. omitted much, but added without hesitation matter&lt;br /&gt;
ROBERT MACLEHOSE. of his own.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus he appends to Bo&euml;thius historical matter&lt;br /&gt;
of a subsequent date; and supplements Orosius&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
KING ALFRED AS AN AUTHOR, imperfect geography by his own more accurate&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of Northern Europe. He adds little&lt;br /&gt;
Ta date when the celebration of the millen- scraps of information here and there, and now and&lt;br /&gt;
A nium of the death of King Alfred the Great then makes an allusion to himself.&lt;br /&gt;
is justly commanding national attention, we His third work was a translation of Bede&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
offer our &amp;#039;small tribute of a brief record of the Ecclesiastical History. In making this the King&lt;br /&gt;
King&amp;#039;s literary labours.&lt;br /&gt;
omitted much that was of interest only to&lt;br /&gt;
They belong to the later part of his life, the Northumbrians, but carefully retained everything&lt;br /&gt;
second half of that interval during which the relating to the early Kings of Wessex. He made&lt;br /&gt;
struggle with the Danes was suspended.&lt;br /&gt;
no additions, and it is to be regretted that he&lt;br /&gt;
Strange to say, the very day of their commence should not have given himself the trouble to&lt;br /&gt;
ment is known-the feast of St. Martin, the 11th supply from his own knowledge historical facts&lt;br /&gt;
of November, 887. Before that Alfred had written with which Bede was unacquainted.&lt;br /&gt;
himself a little prayer-book, a copy of the Hours, to Thus far the King&amp;#039;s works were mainly historical&lt;br /&gt;
which he had added various devotions. On the date and philosophic. His last book was purely theo-&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned, his tutor, Aeser, * was reading to him. logical, a translation of St. Gregory the Great&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Struck by a certain passage, Alfred requested Asser &ldquo;Regula Pastoralis,&rdquo; a sort of &ldquo; Whole Duty of&lt;br /&gt;
to write it in his prayer-book. Every page had Priests.&amp;quot; This work may have been taken up in&lt;br /&gt;
been filled by the additions which the King had at 890, for in the Preface Alfred alludes to the&lt;br /&gt;
different times made. Asser suggested that they assistance he had received in his previous works&lt;br /&gt;
should begin a new book, a separate collection from Asser and others. The most interesting&lt;br /&gt;
of passages that pleased the King. This was morsel of all that he wrote is his own really&lt;br /&gt;
admirable Preface to this book. In it we possess&lt;br /&gt;
* Asser was a mouk of Saint David&amp;#039;s, subsequently pro-&lt;br /&gt;
moted by Alfred to the bishopric of Sherbourne. He was&lt;br /&gt;
a valuable memorial of his own mind, and of the&lt;br /&gt;
the King&amp;#039;s biographer.&lt;br /&gt;
purposes which he had in setting forth his works.&lt;br /&gt;
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48&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
He explains that he desired by his own example to some time next year. &ldquo;Rural England&rdquo; will&lt;br /&gt;
revive the learning which had so entirely vanished, probably be the title of this volume which deals&lt;br /&gt;
and to this end he reminds his readers of those with a subject of national importance.&lt;br /&gt;
better times long passed, whose glory could only Says the author :_&lt;br /&gt;
be regained by means of education and instruction.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can conscientiously say that no fatigue or effort has&lt;br /&gt;
Allusions are made to other books begun by him, been spared&mdash;and I may add that the work involved in&lt;br /&gt;
among them a translation of the Book of Psalms, dealing with many localities and among many people&lt;br /&gt;
but the remaining works ascribed to him are with these problems and investigations is not light. It&lt;br /&gt;
is, in short, something not unlike the labours of a Royal&lt;br /&gt;
either very doubtful, or certainly the work of other&lt;br /&gt;
Commission faced single-handed.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
writers. He may have had a hand in some of&lt;br /&gt;
The effort is at once the most arduous, the most&lt;br /&gt;
them. Some may be due to his influence or&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion. But literary myths soon gathered&lt;br /&gt;
exhausting, and the most interesting of the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
life. He has striven to treat his task in a tem-&lt;br /&gt;
around him. Works in which he had taken no part&lt;br /&gt;
perate and impartial spirit, to weigh and sift the&lt;br /&gt;
were assigned to him. Folk literature fell under&lt;br /&gt;
the spell of his name, and such productions as col-&lt;br /&gt;
evidence, and to set down nothing he does not&lt;br /&gt;
believe to be true.&lt;br /&gt;
lections of popular sentences, proverbs, and parables&lt;br /&gt;
circulated as &ldquo; The Proverbs of King Alfred.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw is to re-issue, in a revised&lt;br /&gt;
His real claim to literary greatness rests upon&lt;br /&gt;
form and with a new preface, his early novel,&lt;br /&gt;
the higlı aims with which he wrote, and the great &ldquo; Cashel Byron&amp;#039;s Profession.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
impetus which he gave to a vernacular English He is also publishing, through Mr. Grant&lt;br /&gt;
literature.&lt;br /&gt;
Richards, a new version of the story in Elizabethan&lt;br /&gt;
blank verse, entitled &ldquo; The Admirable Bashville ;&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;
or, Constancy Unrewarded&rdquo;; and &ldquo;A Note on&lt;br /&gt;
Modern Prize Fighting.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. H. Wilkins, the author of &ldquo;The Love of&lt;br /&gt;
W ITH the return of members from their&lt;br /&gt;
an Uncrowned Queen,&rdquo; is publishing, through&lt;br /&gt;
V holidays the Authors&amp;#039; Club, like other&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Longmans, a new historical work in two&lt;br /&gt;
clubs, is showing renewed life.&lt;br /&gt;
volumes &mdash; &ldquo; Caroline the Illustrious.&amp;quot; It is a&lt;br /&gt;
Preparations are being made for a series of&lt;br /&gt;
of memoir of Caroline of Anspach, wife of George II.&lt;br /&gt;
dinners in the autumn, when the Club will enter-&lt;br /&gt;
There are portraits and illustrations.&lt;br /&gt;
tain, as heretofore, a number of distingushed guests.&lt;br /&gt;
Simultaneous editions of Mr. Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
These dinners have for a long time been a feature&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Kim&rdquo; have been published in England, the&lt;br /&gt;
of the Club, and take place on Monday nights.&lt;br /&gt;
Colonies, Canada, and the United States, as well&lt;br /&gt;
Many of the most famous men of the day have&lt;br /&gt;
honoured the Club with their presence-ambassa-&lt;br /&gt;
as in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and&lt;br /&gt;
Denmark.&lt;br /&gt;
dors, lawyers, generals, doctors, artists, musicians,&lt;br /&gt;
and others.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Macmillan are issuing an &eacute;dition de lure&lt;br /&gt;
Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour. G.C.B., has accepted besides; and later on &ldquo;Kim&rdquo; will be included in&lt;br /&gt;
the invitation of the Club for November 4th.&lt;br /&gt;
the Outward Bound edition of the author&amp;#039;s works&lt;br /&gt;
published by Charles Scribner and Sons, of New&lt;br /&gt;
York.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Some of Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s stories are, we under-&lt;br /&gt;
stand, being translated into the Malayan language.&lt;br /&gt;
TN his new book, &ldquo;A Winter&amp;#039;s Pilgrimage&amp;quot; Although Lucas Malet&amp;#039;s big novel &ldquo; Sir Richard&lt;br /&gt;
1 (Longmans), Mr. Rider Haggard gives an Calmady &rdquo; was only published on September 13th,&lt;br /&gt;
account of travels in Italy, Egypt, Cyprus, the first and second editions are exhausted owing&lt;br /&gt;
and Palestine. The author believes he has to the enormous demand for it. A third edition is&lt;br /&gt;
identified Golgotha. He says, &ldquo; As it chances, on being issued. Messrs. Methuen are issuing a special&lt;br /&gt;
the cliff at this spot, the face of the rock looking edition as well. It is limited to 500 copies in&lt;br /&gt;
towards Jerusalem has undoubtedly a fantastic, but two vols., 12s.&lt;br /&gt;
to my fancy, a very real resemblance to a rotting The same firm is publishing, in 3s. 6d. form,&lt;br /&gt;
human skull.&rdquo; The photograph which illustrates Lucas Malet&amp;#039;s earlier novels: &ldquo;The Wages of&lt;br /&gt;
the spot helps to strengthen the author&amp;#039;s statement Sin,&rdquo; &ldquo; Colonel Enderby&amp;#039;s Wife,&rdquo; &ldquo; The Gateless&lt;br /&gt;
in a striking manner.&lt;br /&gt;
Barrier,&rdquo; &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
The substance of the articles by Mr. Rider It seems that up to the end of September soupe&lt;br /&gt;
Haggard, entitled &ldquo;Back to the Land,&rdquo; which have 190,000 copies of Mr. Hall Caine&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;The Eternal&lt;br /&gt;
been appearing in The Daily Express week after City &rdquo; were sold in England and America. The&lt;br /&gt;
week since May, will be published in book form demand steadily continues.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
49&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Tristram of Blent&rdquo; Sharp is known as the authoress of &ldquo; Wymps,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
stands high on the list of recent novels selling other popular stories.&lt;br /&gt;
well ; there is a steady demand for it.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Cobb has written a new story for&lt;br /&gt;
Miss R. N. Carey&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Herb of Grace&amp;quot; also children. It will be issued shortly in the series of&lt;br /&gt;
continues popular. Rita&amp;#039;s &ldquo; A Jilt&amp;#039;s Journal&rdquo;; Dumpy Books for Children. The same author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Maxwell Grey&amp;#039;s &ldquo;A Four-leaved Clover&rdquo;; and successful story, &ldquo; Bountiful Lady,&amp;quot; appeared as&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frankfort Moore&amp;#039;s &ldquo; A Nest of Linnets&rdquo; are one of the Dumpy Books. Mr. Grant Richards is&lt;br /&gt;
doing well.&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Secret Orchard,&rdquo; Mr. and Mrs. Egerton &ldquo;Old Knowledge,&amp;quot; a story of present-day&lt;br /&gt;
Castle&amp;#039;s new novel (Macmillan, 6s.), is doing Donegal, is the name of Mr. Stephen Gwynn&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
excellently well. The scene is laid in France, in new book. In it the author relates the experiences&lt;br /&gt;
a great ch&acirc;teau owned by the Duke of Cluny, a of an English girl who goes to lodge in an Irish&lt;br /&gt;
descendant of the Stuarts, who inherits their cottage in order to fish and paint.&lt;br /&gt;
charm and their faithlessness.&lt;br /&gt;
The central figure in the story is an old peasant,&lt;br /&gt;
It will be remembered that Mr. and Mrs. Kendal a man rarely gifted, a visionary who paints his own&lt;br /&gt;
produced &ldquo; The Secret Orchard &amp;quot; in the form of visions. The &ldquo; Old Knowledge&amp;quot; means the folk-&lt;br /&gt;
a play.&lt;br /&gt;
beliefs of the peasants, which are interpreted by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. Marion Crawford has just published him in the light of modern mysticism.&lt;br /&gt;
through the same firm his new novel, &laquo; A Maid Miss Jane Barlow&amp;#039;s new book, &ldquo; From the Land&lt;br /&gt;
of Venice.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of the Shamrock,&rdquo; is a collection of sketches of&lt;br /&gt;
A new and uniform edition of this popular Trish&lt;br /&gt;
Irish life and character.&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s works is being issued fortnightly by The Board of Education has selected as the his-&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Macmillan at 38. 6d. a volume.&lt;br /&gt;
torical subject in 1902, for students in men&amp;#039;s training&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Deep Sea Plunderings&rdquo; is the title of Mr. colleges, &ldquo;The History of Europe from 1814-1848,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Frank T. Bullen&amp;#039;s new book just issued by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Oscar Browning has written a work to&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. O&lt;br /&gt;
Smith Elder &amp;amp; Co. There are eight illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
meet the demand thus created for a convenient book.&lt;br /&gt;
by Arthur Twidle.&lt;br /&gt;
In fourteen chapters he sketches the restoration of&lt;br /&gt;
the Bourbons, and the ascendancy of the Holy&lt;br /&gt;
The same author is publishing through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Alliance and absolutist principles throughout&lt;br /&gt;
Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton &ldquo;The Apostles of the South&lt;br /&gt;
Europe ; the dawn of the revolutionary spirit in&lt;br /&gt;
East,&rdquo; 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Greece and her liberation ; the abortive revolutions&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Agnes Giberne has just published, at 5s., of 1830, and the gradual growth of the reaction&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Mighty Deep, and what we know of it.&amp;quot; against unlimited monarchy and aristocratic privi-&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Pearson are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
lege in the several European countries; and finally,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Great Lowlands&rdquo; is the name of Annie E. in France, the fall of the monarchy of July. Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Holdsworth&rsquo;s new novel. Messrs. Hodder &amp;amp; Macmillan publish it.&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Horace G. Hutchinson&amp;#039;s new book is entitled&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George R. Sims is editing Messrs. Cassell &ldquo;Dreams and their Meanings.&amp;quot; There are many&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Co.&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Living London.&rdquo; This big work deals accounts of experiences sent by correspondents, and&lt;br /&gt;
with London from the human side. Mr. Pett two chapters, contributed mainly from the journals&lt;br /&gt;
Ridge is among the contributors.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Psychical Research Society, on Telepathic&lt;br /&gt;
Another contribution to King Alfred literature and Premonitory Dreams. Messrs. Longmans,&lt;br /&gt;
is the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke&amp;#039;s &ldquo; King Alfred,&rdquo; Green &amp;amp; Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
ls, net. There is an appendix of passages from The same publishers have ready the third volume&lt;br /&gt;
the writings of Alfred, selected and translated from of Mr. John Beattie Crozier&amp;#039;s &ldquo; History of Intellec-&lt;br /&gt;
the old English by Kate M. Warren.&lt;br /&gt;
tual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolu-&lt;br /&gt;
Also there is &ldquo;God Save King Alfred&rdquo; by the tion.&rdquo; This volume is political, educational and&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. E. Gilliat, late of Harrow School. This book social, including an attempted reconstruction of the&lt;br /&gt;
for boys is a romance of Alfred&amp;#039;s life ; his youth, politics of England, France and America for the&lt;br /&gt;
exploits, courtship, betrothal, and kingship are twentieth century.&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with. It is illustrated with drawings by Mr. Andrew Lang&amp;#039;s new book, &ldquo;Magic and Reli-&lt;br /&gt;
Gutzan-Borghum.&lt;br /&gt;
gion&rdquo; (10s. 6d. net, Longmans), contains a series of&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Evelyn Sharp&amp;#039;s new book, for girls in their criticisms of recent speculations regarding early&lt;br /&gt;
teens, is called &ldquo; The Youngest Girl in the School.&rdquo; religion, dealing especially with Mr. Frazer&amp;#039;s theories&lt;br /&gt;
There are illustrations by C. E. Brock. Miss in &ldquo;The Golden Bough.&rdquo; Other essays deal with&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the latest results of anthropological research in the&lt;br /&gt;
religious field, and in that of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Essays of an Ex-Librarian,&rdquo; by Dr. Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Garnett, C.B. (716, Heinemann), is a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
literary criticisms. There are critical studies on&lt;br /&gt;
Peacock, Beckford, Moore, Coleridge, and Matthew&lt;br /&gt;
Arnold, and essays on Shelley, Lord Beaconsfield,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c., &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;Illustrated History of English Literature,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which Dr. Garnett and Mr. Edmund Gosse are&lt;br /&gt;
publishing through Mr. Heinemann, in four volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
has been prepared on entirely new lines by the authors,&lt;br /&gt;
who have given a life-study to the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
A consecutive history of the entire course of&lt;br /&gt;
English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon to our&lt;br /&gt;
own day, will be given in one type, so that this, if&lt;br /&gt;
the reader so desires, can be read alone as a narrative&lt;br /&gt;
of the evolution of English style.&lt;br /&gt;
A biography of each author is to be supplied in&lt;br /&gt;
a different type, and from the work of each leading&lt;br /&gt;
writer at least one characteristic quotation will be&lt;br /&gt;
made.&lt;br /&gt;
Jean Delaire, author of &ldquo;A Dream of Fame,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
has recently published a new book called &ldquo;Two&lt;br /&gt;
Girls and a Dream.&rdquo; The writer tells how the two&lt;br /&gt;
girls, Gem the painter and Loise the waiter, struggle&lt;br /&gt;
in London to make a living. Ultimately Loise&lt;br /&gt;
becomes a famous writer, but a heart-lonely woman;&lt;br /&gt;
while Gem marries happily. There is an obvious&lt;br /&gt;
moral in the story.&lt;br /&gt;
The first of Messrs. Anthony Treherne &amp;amp; Co.&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
1s. series of sporting novels is &ldquo; Little Cherie, or&lt;br /&gt;
The Trainer&amp;#039;s Daughter,&amp;quot; by Lady Florence Dixie.&lt;br /&gt;
His Majesty the King has accepted a copy.&lt;br /&gt;
The Leadenhall Press are also issuing Part I. of&lt;br /&gt;
a book of poems written by Lady Florence Dixie&lt;br /&gt;
when she was a child, under the pseudonym of&lt;br /&gt;
- Darling.&amp;quot; The book consists of nearly 400 pages&lt;br /&gt;
and contains selections of poems written between&lt;br /&gt;
the ages of ten and seventeen vears. It is dedicated&lt;br /&gt;
to the first Lord Lytton and contains a poem of&lt;br /&gt;
some fifteen lines by him recording his first meeting&lt;br /&gt;
with the child authoress. The popular edition is&lt;br /&gt;
2s.6d., but the &eacute;dition de luce costs 7s. 61.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. B. Baildon, M.A. Cantab., formerly&lt;br /&gt;
lecturer on English in the University of Vienna,&lt;br /&gt;
has been appointed to the lectureship in English&lt;br /&gt;
Language and Literature in University College,&lt;br /&gt;
Dundee. Mr. Baildon was a contemporary at&lt;br /&gt;
school and college of Robert Louis Stevenson, and&lt;br /&gt;
stevenson, and&lt;br /&gt;
a second edition of his &ldquo;Life-Study and Criticism&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
of that writer was published in September last.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Duckworth have just issued a translation&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Charles Hastings&amp;#039; &ldquo; The Theatre,&amp;quot; 8s. net.&lt;br /&gt;
The authorised translation is by Miss Frances A.&lt;br /&gt;
Welby.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Pinero&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Iris&amp;quot; is doing so well, and is so&lt;br /&gt;
likely to hold the boards for months to come, that&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bourchier has not troubled to make any&lt;br /&gt;
definite arrangements regarding its successor.&lt;br /&gt;
After the run of &ldquo; The Second in Command,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which has been played over 300 times, and has had&lt;br /&gt;
a very successful tour in the provinces, Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Maude and Harrison will produce at the Hay-&lt;br /&gt;
market Theatre a four-act adaptation from the&lt;br /&gt;
French, by Mr. Sydney Grundy.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Emerald Isle&amp;quot; at the Savoy is to be&lt;br /&gt;
replaced very shortly by the musical version of&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Basil Hood&amp;#039;s playlet &ldquo;Ib and Little&lt;br /&gt;
Christina -&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Martin Harvey intends to produce his new&lt;br /&gt;
play &ldquo;After All&rdquo; in London as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; After All&rdquo; was received with great enthusiasm&lt;br /&gt;
when played in Dublin last month.&lt;br /&gt;
The third special Wednesday matin&eacute;e of &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Second Mrs. Tanqueray,&rdquo; given by Mrs. Patrick&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell at the Royal Theatre, takes place on the&lt;br /&gt;
6th inst.&lt;br /&gt;
A new book by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll.&lt;br /&gt;
LL.D., is announced by Messrs. Hodder &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Stor&lt;br /&gt;
Its title is &ldquo; The Church&amp;#039;s One&lt;br /&gt;
Foundation : Christ and Recent Criticism.&rdquo; Price&lt;br /&gt;
De ce&lt;br /&gt;
Also by the same author a series of articles&lt;br /&gt;
which appeared in the British Weekly have been&lt;br /&gt;
put into volume form and called &ldquo;Sunday After-&lt;br /&gt;
noon Prayers.&rdquo; Its price is also 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton are also publish-&lt;br /&gt;
ing &ldquo; The Pulpit Bible,&amp;quot; by the Rev. Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, D.D. The original notes and comments&lt;br /&gt;
on Holy Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation,&lt;br /&gt;
are printed in the margin of a quarto Bible,&lt;br /&gt;
specially printed in new type and strongly bound&lt;br /&gt;
in Persian levant.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen have published an unusually&lt;br /&gt;
large first edition of the &ldquo;Life of Robert Louis&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson,&amp;quot; by his cousin, Mr. Graham Balfour.&lt;br /&gt;
The interest in Stevenson is, however, so great&lt;br /&gt;
that a second edition has been immediately called&lt;br /&gt;
for to meet the demand. The Life is in two&lt;br /&gt;
volumes, 258. net.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Conan Dovle is bringing his history of the&lt;br /&gt;
South African War up to date for the new edition&lt;br /&gt;
to be issued by Messrs. Smith, Elder &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Wemyss Reid, who kuew the late William&lt;br /&gt;
Black intimately, has nearly finished his life of&lt;br /&gt;
that popular novelist.&lt;br /&gt;
The popular shilling edition of Prince Kropot-&lt;br /&gt;
kin&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo; Fields, Factories, and Workshops,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
. 51&lt;br /&gt;
which was published about three months ago, has A monograph on the Russian musical instrument,&lt;br /&gt;
been quite exhausted, and another large edition is &ldquo;The Balalaika,&rdquo; by Algernon Rose, has just been&lt;br /&gt;
now in the press.&lt;br /&gt;
published by the Musical Association. The essay&lt;br /&gt;
The first editions of Mr. James Baker&amp;#039;s new treats of the instrument in its various forms, and&lt;br /&gt;
journalistic novel, &ldquo; A Double Choice,&rdquo; have been sizes, from the piccolo to the contra-basso balala&iuml;ka.&lt;br /&gt;
quickly exhausted, and seem to have aroused the The leading makers of the instrument are men-&lt;br /&gt;
public&amp;#039;s curiosity. The Morning Post concluded tioned, and a minute description of the structure&lt;br /&gt;
its review with the words :&lt;br /&gt;
and method of playing forms the body of the&lt;br /&gt;
article.&lt;br /&gt;
- Journalism is surely the freest profession in the world,&lt;br /&gt;
and every paper is open to anyone who has something to&lt;br /&gt;
say, and knows how to say it.&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
That bright little weekly, &ldquo; The People&amp;#039;s Friend,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
for 21st inst. contains an interview with Edith C.&lt;br /&gt;
Kenyon, authoress of &ldquo; The Hand of His Brother,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;
who has of late years devoted herself more especially SIR, --Mr. Egerton Castle has lately put out an&lt;br /&gt;
to serial writing. The same journal has taken her ingenious defence of fiction--a branch of art which&lt;br /&gt;
new serial, &ldquo; Love&amp;#039;s Golden Thread.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
may perhaps be thought capable of taking up its&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. E. Rentoul Esler&amp;#039;s new book, &amp;quot; The own defence on the obvious ground of success.&lt;br /&gt;
Awakening of Helena Thorpe,&rdquo; has just been But a suspicion may be lurking in minds of&lt;br /&gt;
issued by Messrs. S. W. Partridge &amp;amp; Co. It exceptional intelligence like his, that a little reac-&lt;br /&gt;
treats of the perennial problems that become fresh tion may threaten its enormous popularity. If,&lt;br /&gt;
when seen through a fresh temperament.&lt;br /&gt;
urges Mr. Castle, characters and events in a story&lt;br /&gt;
The floral farms at Wisbech form the opening&lt;br /&gt;
be of convincing power, &ldquo;it can make no differ-&lt;br /&gt;
scene of Mrs. Bertram Tanqueray&amp;#039;s new novel,&lt;br /&gt;
ence in the intellectual pleasure of the reader&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Call of the Future,&rdquo; which has been published&lt;br /&gt;
whether what he is made to realise so vividly is a&lt;br /&gt;
this autumn by Messrs. Hurst &amp;amp; Blackett.&lt;br /&gt;
record of fact or mere fancy.&rdquo; But surely pleasure,&lt;br /&gt;
even if intellectual, is not the whole object of life,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Week&amp;#039;s Survey &amp;quot; is the title of a new&lt;br /&gt;
and the pleasure derived from watching the course&lt;br /&gt;
penny Weekly Review of Literature, Politics, and of a &ldquo; love affair &amp;quot;--such being the usual interest&lt;br /&gt;
Social Affairs. It is strongly supported both on of an English novel---can hardly claim any very&lt;br /&gt;
the literary and the business sides. The ideal of high level of intellect. Is not Diana Vernon ... as&lt;br /&gt;
the paper is to be at once substantial and interest-&lt;br /&gt;
living now as Rob Roy Macgregor? Do we not&lt;br /&gt;
ing. Its low price should enable it to reach a see in our mind&amp;#039;s eye the lovable John Ridd ...&lt;br /&gt;
large number of people.&lt;br /&gt;
or Mr. Samuel Pepys ... or King James ? It&lt;br /&gt;
Miss May Bateman&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Glow- may be so, but ought it? The story of James the&lt;br /&gt;
worm&rdquo; (formerly announced as &ldquo; The Idealist&rdquo;), Second is full of useful warning; the story of Di&lt;br /&gt;
has just been issued by Mr. Heinemann. Miss Vernon or that of Lorna Doone can but be an&lt;br /&gt;
Bateman has had to change her title owing to the expression of an author&amp;#039;s fancy. One is a decora-&lt;br /&gt;
appearance of another work of fiction bearing the tive painting, the other a serviceable chart. Some,&lt;br /&gt;
same name.&lt;br /&gt;
indeed, appear to assume that the historic romance&lt;br /&gt;
A selection of new pieces which have been printed 18 of more value than history itself, but they do&lt;br /&gt;
in journals of repute is a feature of Mr. Mackenzie not bear in mind that by the very exigencies of his&lt;br /&gt;
Bell&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Collected Poems&rdquo; to be published at once by&lt;br /&gt;
art the romancer is bound to distort the truth.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Burleigh.&lt;br /&gt;
The object of &ldquo; Ivanhoe&rdquo; or &ldquo; The Talisman&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
to provide a pleasant pastime, that of Thierry and&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr&uuml;bner &amp;amp; Co. are&lt;br /&gt;
Freeman was quite different. Subject to personal&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers of Mr. Ernest A. Tietken&amp;#039;s volume&lt;br /&gt;
limitations these show what our ancestors were and&lt;br /&gt;
of poems, &ldquo; The Heavenly Link,&amp;quot; price 5s.&lt;br /&gt;
what they did not draped in the elegancies of a&lt;br /&gt;
Under the title &ldquo; Mr. Punch&amp;#039;s Dramatic Sequels&rdquo; fancy ball, but in their own barbaric vigour. The&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew &amp;amp; Co., Limited, will great use of history is to connect the present with&lt;br /&gt;
republish at the end of October the series of con- the past; the great weakness of fiction is that it&lt;br /&gt;
tinuations to famous plays by St. John Hankin helps to stimulate emotions for which it can find&lt;br /&gt;
which appeared in Punch in the early part of the no employment. It is true that Thierry gave&lt;br /&gt;
year. Mr. E. J. Wheeler has provided fourteen high praise to Scott&amp;#039;s perception of life in Norman&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations for the &ldquo;Sequels&rdquo; in which the times; Scott was the fashion when Thierry wrote,&lt;br /&gt;
portraits of many prominent actors will be and his pleasant ways completed the hypnotism.&lt;br /&gt;
recognised. The price will be five shillings (net). But Thackeray came and torpedoed the paradox.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
52&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
one of fact, which I could bring abundance of&lt;br /&gt;
unquestionable authority to support, while the&lt;br /&gt;
article generally was on a subject concerning which&lt;br /&gt;
I have a specialist&amp;#039;s knowledge. Consequently I&lt;br /&gt;
do not know which to admire most, the rudeness&lt;br /&gt;
of the editor in defacing a MS. as such, or the&lt;br /&gt;
impertinent annotations on a subject of which he&lt;br /&gt;
palpably knew nothing, and I, admittedly, a good&lt;br /&gt;
deal. I say &ldquo;admittedly&amp;quot; because I write there-&lt;br /&gt;
upon for five journals every week, and I have not&lt;br /&gt;
yet found a proprietor complacent enough to pay&lt;br /&gt;
specialist&amp;#039;s prices without value received.&lt;br /&gt;
A MEMBER.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Editor will give the name of the magazine&lt;br /&gt;
to any member of the Society who may desire the&lt;br /&gt;
information - Ej&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Ivanhoe,&amp;quot; as read by him, was clearly not history.&lt;br /&gt;
Indeed, in all Scott&amp;#039;s gallery there is not one&lt;br /&gt;
historical figure introduced that is true to nature&lt;br /&gt;
--even Louis Onze in &ldquo; Quentin Durward &rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
idealised. The reason is in the very nature of the&lt;br /&gt;
art. But if this be the case in the higher ranges of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction and in the hands of the greatest masters,&lt;br /&gt;
what must it be with fiction as an industry, with&lt;br /&gt;
tales which depend for prosperity on their power&lt;br /&gt;
to stimulate barren emotions and to excite idle&lt;br /&gt;
curiosity ? And observe, there is here no question&lt;br /&gt;
of quality ; novelists of great momentary vogue&lt;br /&gt;
could be named whose work is not literature at all.&lt;br /&gt;
If we are told, then, of the enormous popularity of&lt;br /&gt;
such works we need not surrender our case&mdash;we&lt;br /&gt;
merely turn in another direction. We muse on the&lt;br /&gt;
taste of the reading public and on the indications&lt;br /&gt;
atforded of its intellectual and moral conditions.&lt;br /&gt;
It is easy to see that such criticism will not apply&lt;br /&gt;
to the masterpieces of the art, so long, at least, as&lt;br /&gt;
it does not distort our historical impressions. But&lt;br /&gt;
the public will prefer--absolutely prefer- bad novels&lt;br /&gt;
to good, just as a Kaffir would not exchange his&lt;br /&gt;
bottle of &ldquo; Cape smoke&amp;quot; for a flask of wine from&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Metternich&amp;#039;s vineyard. The glorification&lt;br /&gt;
of a royal Stuart, the defamation of the Eliza-&lt;br /&gt;
bethan Catholics, are as much an abuse of pen and&lt;br /&gt;
ink as the production of trashy trade love stoires ;&lt;br /&gt;
fortunately these are not as influential or enduring&lt;br /&gt;
as great works of pure imagination. Against such&lt;br /&gt;
there is no law: but it is to be feared that the&lt;br /&gt;
public won&amp;#039;t discriminate.&lt;br /&gt;
SENEX.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;THE HANDLING OF MSS.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, Mr. F. H. Freshfield asks whether the&lt;br /&gt;
defacement of MSS. is ever practised &ldquo;by really&lt;br /&gt;
good houses&rdquo;? Let me give an example. Some&lt;br /&gt;
three or four months ago I forwarded a type-&lt;br /&gt;
written article to the editor of a magazine pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished by one of the best-known houses in the&lt;br /&gt;
the hostelznown houses in the&lt;br /&gt;
world. In a few weeks the MS. was returned&lt;br /&gt;
and, of course, I do not complain of that. I&lt;br /&gt;
addressed an envelope to another high-class publi-&lt;br /&gt;
cation, and was just enclosing the MS., when I&lt;br /&gt;
decided to glance through it anew. To my surprise,&lt;br /&gt;
I found several passages scored in pencil at the&lt;br /&gt;
sides, and in one place the word &ldquo;Rubbish !&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
written in the margin.&lt;br /&gt;
Having removed these obnoxious marks, I posted&lt;br /&gt;
the MS. In four days it was in type, without a&lt;br /&gt;
word excised, and in less than a month I had&lt;br /&gt;
received &pound;8 188. 6d. as payment. Presumably,&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, the article was not without worth.&lt;br /&gt;
What I particularly desire to explain, however, is&lt;br /&gt;
that the incidental statement which the editor of&lt;br /&gt;
the first magazine had marked as &ldquo;rubbish&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;HALL CAINE, THE MAN AND THE NOYELIST.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
To the Editor of THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, I regret to find in the October number of&lt;br /&gt;
The Author a paragraph co the effect that Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hall Caine has &ldquo; revised&rdquo; the MS. of my forth-&lt;br /&gt;
coming book relating to himself and his work. I&lt;br /&gt;
have seen this paragraph in other papers, but have&lt;br /&gt;
left it uncontradicted, because it was my intention&lt;br /&gt;
to wait until the publication of my book in order&lt;br /&gt;
to give the erroneous statement the refutation for&lt;br /&gt;
which it called. But now that the paragraph has&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in The Author&mdash;a paper in which all&lt;br /&gt;
literary news is not only correct but &ldquo;official &rdquo;&mdash;I&lt;br /&gt;
feel compelled to state the true facts of the case.&lt;br /&gt;
I can do this best by quoting from a letter&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to me by Mr. Hall Caine a few weeks&lt;br /&gt;
ago-&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR MR. KENYON,&mdash;I have looked over the portion of&lt;br /&gt;
your manuscript which you sent me, and have made a few&lt;br /&gt;
comparatively unimportant changes. They concern what&lt;br /&gt;
you say of my friends, living and dead, and therefore I&lt;br /&gt;
have felt it to be my duty to set you right where I thought&lt;br /&gt;
you were wrong. With what you say of myself, whether&lt;br /&gt;
in the way of criticism or biography. I do not feel that I&lt;br /&gt;
have any right to interfere, and I fear I must deny myself&lt;br /&gt;
the pleasure of writing the Preface which you are good&lt;br /&gt;
enough to request. If your view of my life and my books is to&lt;br /&gt;
have any value for the public, it must stand as your own,&lt;br /&gt;
without any criticism or endorsement from me. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Yours very truly,&lt;br /&gt;
H&Aring;LL CAINE.&lt;br /&gt;
This letter speaks for itself. My MS. has in no&lt;br /&gt;
sense been &ldquo;revised&rdquo; by Mr. Caine-part of it&lt;br /&gt;
was read by him and a few errors of fact put&lt;br /&gt;
right. That, and the loan of some interesting&lt;br /&gt;
letters, constitute the whole sum of his respon-&lt;br /&gt;
sibility for the text of my monograph.&lt;br /&gt;
I am, etc.,&lt;br /&gt;
C. FRED. KENYON.&lt;br /&gt;
Ellesmere Park, Eccles,&lt;br /&gt;
October 13th, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
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