<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>239</td><td>https://historysoa.com/items/show/239</td><td>The Author, Vol. 01 Issue 01 (May 1890)</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.+01+Issue+01+%28May+1890%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Author&lt;/em&gt;, Vol. 01 Issue 01 (May 1890)&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031017927&amp;amp;view=1up&amp;amp;seq=20&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031017927&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>1890-05-19-The-Author-1-1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1&ndash;24</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;button class=&quot;toggle&quot;&gt;The Author, pp. 1&ndash;3&lt;/button&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The Report of the Society of Authors for the year 1890 spoke of the great importance of keeping members more fully and more regularly supplied with information, not only on the work of the Executive Committee, but also on the various matters which concern the author in the safeguarding of his interests and the preservation of his property. The simplest method of effecting this, it was thought, would be to hold frequent meetings for the purpose of conference and discussion. As, however, a large number of our members live in the country, we could seldom hope to obtain a really representative gathering, and the discussions would have a tendency to drop into the hands of a few, and so be robbed of half their value. It is also to be considered that no discussions can have any real value which are not founded on knowledge of the facts. Now, the ordinary member knows little of the facts. It was, therefore, then thought that occasional leaflets might be issued conveying the facts. To this plan, however, there appeared many obstacles. First, leaflets are tossed aside and lost; then, even if they are read and preserved, there is no place for discussion, for questions, or for suggestions. The private member of the Society would feel that he was taking no real part in its management and government. If he thought the committee was moving too slowly in the right, too quickly in the wrong, direction &ndash; there would be no opportunity for saying so, except by writing a letter to the Secretary, to be by him laid before the Committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Considering the question from its many points of view, it has seemed most desirable to have our own organ for our own purposes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Author&lt;/i&gt; is therefore founded to be the organ of literary men and women of all kinds &ndash; the one paper which will fully review, discuss, and ventilate all questions connected with the profession of literature in all its branches. It will be the medium by which the Committee of our Society will inform its members generally of their doings, and it will become a public record of transactions conducted in the interests of literature, which have hitherto been secret, lost, and hidden for the want of such an organ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The chief aim of the Society &ndash; this has been advanced again and again &ndash; is to promote the recognition of the fact, hitherto most imperfectly understood, that literary property is as real a thing as property in every other kind of business: that it should be safeguarded in the same manner, and regarded with the same jealousy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hitherto the mere existence of literary property even in the face of such patent facts as the enrichment of publishers, has been carefully concealed and even denied. Risks of publishing, costs of publishing, have been dangled before the eyes of authors, so that they should regard the subject as one of extreme peril and pure speculation. One can never even now read a leading article about publishing without being solemnly assured that the trade is one in which frightful risks are constantly run, and that the success of any book is pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, as a matter of act, there is very little speculation indeed in publishing, and there are very, very few publishers &ndash; only the leading houses &ndash; who ever run any risks at all, either by buying books or by bringing out books at a risk. Risks are run when a House starts a magazine, or when it embarks on illustrated editions of an expensive kind, or when educational books are published. The ordinary risk run in the production of books is, as a rule, next to nothing. For, first, the author is seldom paid except by results; next, the author, when a house consents to &quot;take the risk,&quot; is, for the most part, one who commands a certain sale. With the smaller houses books about which there is the slightest risk are always paid for by the authors in advance, either wholly or in part. And very, very seldomn indeed, do the ill-advised authors who advance their money ever see it back again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Again, as to the actual cost of production. By carefully keeping this a profound secret, interested persons have succeeded in establishing a kind of &lt;i&gt;taboo&lt;/i&gt;, as of some holy, sacred thing which must not be so much as touched. We have, however, thoroughly investigated the whole question, and are now in a position to throw complete light upon the cost of producing any kind of book that can be named, in any type and in any form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a very important step. Its importance cannot be over-estimated. &lt;i&gt;It enables the author, for the very first time in the history of literature, to know what it is he is asked to concede to the publisher, and what it is he reserves for himself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have also done more: we have collected together a vast amount of information as to publishers' agreements: especially as to what, in reality, is the meaning of the clauses contained in them: we have ascertained what it is they ask the author to surrender and for what consideration. And we have acquired a knowledge of various frauds, made possible by the terms of these agreements, in the different methods of publishing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This knowledge is so beneficial to the author that its existence ought to be widely spread and made known to every person who is engaged in the production of literature of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Again, the Society is constantly engaged in answering questions connected with every branch of literature and its practice. Many of these questions are answered by letter over and over again, taking up a great deal of the Secretary's time. They would be answered more effectively in a journal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It follows from these clauses that we may have a good deal to say about the seamy side of the publishing trade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It must, however, be borne in mind very carefully that the Society has not and never has had, any quarrel with honourable publishers. It has always asked for one thing only &ndash; &lt;i&gt;just and honest treatment, fair and open agreements, and honourable observance of those agreements.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has therefore been determined to establish this journal as an organ for the especial use of the Society. At first we shall bring out &lt;i&gt;The Author&lt;/i&gt; on the fifteenth of every month. The journal will contain papers, notes, letters, questions, and information on all subjects connected with literature and its profession.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The members of the Society will be kept informed of all that part of our work which is not confidential. Among other features of novelty and interest will be an account in each number of some one case that has been brought before the Society &ndash; of course without the names. The consideration of these cases will, we are certain, show the world the absolute necessity for some such organisation as our own, though the widespread ignorance which we have unfolded was hardly guessed by our founders at our first institution. Each number will also contain an article or leaflet on some topic belonging to our own interests. There will be notes on the various branches of our work. Our columns will be open to suggestions, letters, and questions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We shall send out this journal to all our members as their own organ. We shall continue it for one year at least.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We shall be very glad to hear from members who may be willing to assist us by original contributions, which should be short, and on some subject belonging to our special field, which is the &lt;i&gt;safeguarding of literary property for the producer of literature.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Members are invited to send in notices of the books which they are about to produce, and copies of their books when they appear. It is intended to give a short notice of the purpose and contents of these works when this is possible. In the case of fiction a very brief account, &lt;i&gt;but not a review&lt;/i&gt;, will be attempted.&lt;/p&gt;
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MAY 15, 1890.&lt;br /&gt;
[Price, Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ORGAN OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS&lt;br /&gt;
(INCORPORATED).&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Published for the Societe by&lt;br /&gt;
ALEXANDER P. WATT, 2, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
1890.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Society of Authors (Jncorporated).&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENT.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD TENNYSON, D.C.L.&lt;br /&gt;
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SIR EDWIN ARNOLN, K.C.S.I.&lt;br /&gt;
ROBERT BATEMAX.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. -&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. Prof. BONNEY, F.R.S.&lt;br /&gt;
T. COMyxS CARK.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD CLODD).&lt;br /&gt;
ThĚ EARL OF DESART.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. DUBOURG.&lt;br /&gt;
PROF. MICHAEL FOSTER, F.R:S.&lt;br /&gt;
HERBERT GARDNER, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
EDMUND GOSSE.&lt;br /&gt;
II. RIDER HAGGARD.&lt;br /&gt;
THOMAS HARDY.&lt;br /&gt;
PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S.&lt;br /&gt;
COUNCIL.&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE MEREDITH.&lt;br /&gt;
HERMAN C. MERIVALE.&lt;br /&gt;
J. C. PARKINSON,&lt;br /&gt;
The EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY,&lt;br /&gt;
SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bart., LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK.&lt;br /&gt;
A. G. Ross.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.&lt;br /&gt;
W. BAPTISTE Scoones,&lt;br /&gt;
J. J. STEVENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
JAS. SULLY.&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAM MOY THOMAS.&lt;br /&gt;
H. D. TRAILL, D.C.L..&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. Counsel-E. M. UNDERDOWN, Q.C. :&lt;br /&gt;
Auditor-Rev. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE, F.L.S.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
Robert BATEMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
EDMUND Gosse..&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman-WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
H. RIDER HAGGARD.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Lely.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK.&lt;br /&gt;
A. G. Ross.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Field, Roscoe &amp;amp; Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.&lt;br /&gt;
OFFICES.&lt;br /&gt;
4, Portugal Street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. A/onth/v.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. I.&mdash;No. i.]&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 15, 1890.&lt;br /&gt;
[Price Sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
The Author&lt;br /&gt;
Something like a Publisher&lt;br /&gt;
The First Principles of Literary Property&lt;br /&gt;
Notes on Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
A Hard C&lt;br /&gt;
The Helpable Author&lt;br /&gt;
On Committee&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Queries, No. 1&lt;br /&gt;
1 Dinner&mdash;To&lt;br /&gt;
p Editions&lt;br /&gt;
: Advice&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
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A copy of this paper will be sent free to any member of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society for one twelvemonth. It is hoped, however, that most&lt;br /&gt;
members will subscribe to the paper. The yearly subscription is&lt;br /&gt;
65. 6d. including postage, to be sent to the Society, 4, Portugal&lt;br /&gt;
Street, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
representative gathering, ana uie uu^u&lt;br /&gt;
have a tendency to drop into the hands of a few,&lt;br /&gt;
and so be robbed of half their value. It is also to&lt;br /&gt;
be considered th?t no discussions can have any real&lt;br /&gt;
value which are not founded on knowledge of&lt;br /&gt;
the facts. Now, the ordinary member knows little&lt;br /&gt;
of the facts. It was, therefore, then thought that&lt;br /&gt;
occasional leaflets might be issued conveying the&lt;br /&gt;
facts. To this plan, however, there appeared many&lt;br /&gt;
obstacles. First, leaflets are tossed aside and lost;&lt;br /&gt;
then, even if they are read and preserved, there&lt;br /&gt;
is no place for discussion, for questions, or for&lt;br /&gt;
suggestions. The private member of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
would feel that he was taking no real part in its&lt;br /&gt;
will intorni&lt;br /&gt;
thought the&lt;br /&gt;
he right, too&lt;br /&gt;
&bull;e would be&lt;br /&gt;
by writing a&lt;br /&gt;
d before the&lt;br /&gt;
many points&lt;br /&gt;
to have our&lt;br /&gt;
De the organ&lt;br /&gt;
ds&mdash;the one&lt;br /&gt;
.nd ventilate&lt;br /&gt;
ofession of&lt;br /&gt;
rill be the&lt;br /&gt;
our Society&lt;br /&gt;
heir doings,&lt;br /&gt;
and it will become a public record 01 transactions&lt;br /&gt;
conducted in the interests of literature, which have&lt;br /&gt;
hitherto been secret, lost, and hidden for the want&lt;br /&gt;
of such an organ.&lt;br /&gt;
The chief aim of the Society&mdash;this has been&lt;br /&gt;
advanced again and again&mdash;is to promote the&lt;br /&gt;
recognition of the fact, hitherto most imperfectly&lt;br /&gt;
understood, that literary property is as real a thing&lt;br /&gt;
as property in every other kind of business: that it&lt;br /&gt;
should be safeguarded in the same manner, and&lt;br /&gt;
regarded with the same jealousy.&lt;br /&gt;
Hitherto the mere existence of literary property&lt;br /&gt;
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The Society of Authors (Jncorporated).&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENT.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD TENNYSON, D.C.L.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.S.I.&lt;br /&gt;
ROBERT BATEMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. PROF. Bonnev, F.R.S.&lt;br /&gt;
T. COMyxS CARK.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD CLODD.&lt;br /&gt;
THE EARL OF DESART&lt;br /&gt;
COUNCIL.&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE MEREDITH.&lt;br /&gt;
HERMAN C. MERIVALE.&lt;br /&gt;
T. C. PARKINSON,&lt;br /&gt;
THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
G. ROSS.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors,&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. FIELD, Roscoe &amp;amp; Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.&lt;br /&gt;
OFFICES&lt;br /&gt;
4, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN&amp;#039;S INN FIELDS, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Orgon of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. I.&mdash;No. 1.]&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 15; 1890.&lt;br /&gt;
[Price SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
... 13&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author ...&lt;br /&gt;
Something like a Publisher ...&lt;br /&gt;
The First Principles of Literary Property&lt;br /&gt;
Notes on Copyright ...&lt;br /&gt;
A Hard Case, No. I....&lt;br /&gt;
Questions and Answers&lt;br /&gt;
Leaflet No. I.-On Syndicating&lt;br /&gt;
The Press and the Society ...&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
The Helpable Author&lt;br /&gt;
On Committee...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Queries, No. 1&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
At Work ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Notes.-The Annual Dinner-To those who seek Advice&lt;br /&gt;
New Books and New Editions ...&lt;br /&gt;
Advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
management and government. If he thought the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee was moving too slowly in the right, too&lt;br /&gt;
THE Report of the Society of Authors for the quickly in the wrong, direction&mdash;there would be&lt;br /&gt;
year 1890 spoke of the great importance no opportunity for saying so, except by writing a&lt;br /&gt;
of keeping members more fully and more letter to the Secretary, to be by him laid before the&lt;br /&gt;
regularly supplied with information, not only on the Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
work of the Executive Committee, but also on the Considering the question from its many points&lt;br /&gt;
various matters which concern the author in the of view, it has seemed most desirable to have our&lt;br /&gt;
safeguarding of his interests and the preservation own organ for our own purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
of his property. The simplest method of effecting The Author is therefore founded to be the organ&lt;br /&gt;
this, it was thought, would be to hold frequent meel- of literary men and women of all kinds&mdash;the one&lt;br /&gt;
ings for the purpose of conference and discussion. paper which will fully review, discuss, and ventilate&lt;br /&gt;
As, however, a large number of our members live in all questions connected with the profession of&lt;br /&gt;
the country, we could seldom hope to obtain a really literature in all its branches. It will be the&lt;br /&gt;
representative gathering, and the discussions would medium by which the Committee of our Society&lt;br /&gt;
have a tendency to drop into the hands of a few, will inform its members generally of their doings,&lt;br /&gt;
and so be robbed of half their value. It is also to and it will become a public record of transactions&lt;br /&gt;
be considered that no discussions can have any real conducted in the interests of literature, which have&lt;br /&gt;
value which are not founded on knowledge of hitherto been secret, lost, and hidden for the want&lt;br /&gt;
the facts. Now, the ordinary member knows little of such an organ.&lt;br /&gt;
of the facts. It was, therefore, then thought that The chief aim of the Society&mdash;this has been&lt;br /&gt;
occasional leaflets might be issued conveying the advanced again and again-is to promote the&lt;br /&gt;
facts. To this plan, however, there appeared many recognition of the fact, hitherto most imperfectly&lt;br /&gt;
obstacles. First, leaflets are tossed aside and lost; understood, that literary property is as real a thing&lt;br /&gt;
then, even if they are read and preserved, there as property in every other kind of business : that it&lt;br /&gt;
is no place for discussion, for questions, or for should be safeguarded in the same manner, and&lt;br /&gt;
suggestions. The private member of the Society regarded with the same jealousy.&lt;br /&gt;
would feel that he was taking no real part in its Hitherto the mere existence of literary property&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
even in the face of such patent facts as the enrich-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of publishers, has been carefully concealed&lt;br /&gt;
and even denied. Risks of publishing, costs of&lt;br /&gt;
publishing, have been dangled before the eyes of&lt;br /&gt;
authors, so that they should regard the subject as&lt;br /&gt;
one of extreme peril and pure speculation. One&lt;br /&gt;
can never even now read a leading article about&lt;br /&gt;
publishing without being solemnly assured that the&lt;br /&gt;
trade is one in which frightful risks are constantly&lt;br /&gt;
run, and that the success of any book is pure&lt;br /&gt;
speculation.&lt;br /&gt;
Now, as a matter of fact, there is very little&lt;br /&gt;
speculation indeed in publishing, and there are&lt;br /&gt;
very, very few publishers&mdash;only the leading houses&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;who ever run any risks at all, either by buying&lt;br /&gt;
books or by bringing out books at a risk. Risks&lt;br /&gt;
are run when a House starts a magazine, or when&lt;br /&gt;
it embarks on illustrated editions of an expensive&lt;br /&gt;
kind, or when educational books are published.&lt;br /&gt;
The ordinary risk run in the production of books&lt;br /&gt;
is, as a rule, next to nothing. For, first, the&lt;br /&gt;
author is seldom paid except by results; next, the&lt;br /&gt;
author, when a house consents to &amp;quot;take the risk,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is, for the most part, one who commands a certain&lt;br /&gt;
sale. With the smaller houses books about which&lt;br /&gt;
there is the slightest risk are always paid for by the&lt;br /&gt;
authors in advance, either wholly or in part. And&lt;br /&gt;
very, very seldom indeed, do the ill-advised authors&lt;br /&gt;
who advance their money ever see it back again.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, as to the actual cost of production. By&lt;br /&gt;
carefully keeping this a profound secret, interested&lt;br /&gt;
persons have succeeded in establishing a kind of&lt;br /&gt;
taboo, as of some holy, sacred thing which must&lt;br /&gt;
not be so much as touched. We have, however,&lt;br /&gt;
thoroughly investigated the whole question, and are&lt;br /&gt;
now in a position to throw complete light upon the&lt;br /&gt;
cost of producing any kind of book that can be&lt;br /&gt;
named, in any type and in any form.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a very important step. Its importance&lt;br /&gt;
cannot be over-estimated. It enables the author,&lt;br /&gt;
for the very first time in the history of literature, to&lt;br /&gt;
know what it is he is asked to concede to the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
and what it is he reserves for himself.&lt;br /&gt;
We have also done more: we have collected&lt;br /&gt;
together a vast amount of information as to pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers&amp;#039; agreements: especially as to what, in reality,&lt;br /&gt;
is the meaning of the clauses contained in them:&lt;br /&gt;
we have ascertained what it is they ask the author&lt;br /&gt;
to surrender and for what consideration. And we&lt;br /&gt;
have acquired a knowledge of various frauds, made&lt;br /&gt;
possible by the terms of these agreements, in the&lt;br /&gt;
different methods of publishing.&lt;br /&gt;
This knowledge is so beneficial to the author&lt;br /&gt;
that its existence ought to be widely spread and&lt;br /&gt;
made known to every person who is engaged in&lt;br /&gt;
the production of literature of any kind.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the Society is constantly engaged in&lt;br /&gt;
answering questions connected with every branch&lt;br /&gt;
of literature and its practice. Many of these ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tions are answered by letter over and over again,&lt;br /&gt;
taking up a great deal of the Secretary&amp;#039;s time.&lt;br /&gt;
They would be answered much more effectively in&lt;br /&gt;
a journal.&lt;br /&gt;
It follows from these clauses that we may have a&lt;br /&gt;
good deal to say about the seamy side of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing trade.&lt;br /&gt;
It must, however, be borne in mind very carefully&lt;br /&gt;
that the Society has not and never has had, any&lt;br /&gt;
quarrel with honourable publishers. It has always&lt;br /&gt;
asked for one thing only&mdash;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;ustand honest treatment,&lt;br /&gt;
fair and of en agreements, and honourable observance&lt;br /&gt;
of those agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
It has therefore been determined to establish&lt;br /&gt;
this journal as an organ for the especial use of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society. At first we shall bring out The Author&lt;br /&gt;
on the fifteenth of every month. The journal will&lt;br /&gt;
contain papers, notes, letters, questions, and in-&lt;br /&gt;
formation on all subjects connected with literature&lt;br /&gt;
and its profession.&lt;br /&gt;
The members of the Society will be kept informed&lt;br /&gt;
of all that part of our work which is not confidential.&lt;br /&gt;
Among other features of novelty and interest will&lt;br /&gt;
be an account in each number of some one case that&lt;br /&gt;
has been brought before the Society&mdash;of course&lt;br /&gt;
without the names. The consideration of these&lt;br /&gt;
cases will, we are certain, show the world the&lt;br /&gt;
absolute necessity for some such organisation as&lt;br /&gt;
our own, though the widespread ignorance which&lt;br /&gt;
we have unfolded was hardly guessed by our&lt;br /&gt;
founders at our first institution. Each number will&lt;br /&gt;
also contain an article or leaflet on some topic be-&lt;br /&gt;
longing to our own interests. There will be notes&lt;br /&gt;
on the various branches of our work. Our columns&lt;br /&gt;
will be open to suggestions, letters, and questions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 3 (#17) ###############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
We shall send out this journal to all our members&lt;br /&gt;
as their own organ. We shall continue it for one&lt;br /&gt;
year at least.&lt;br /&gt;
We shall be very glad to hear from members&lt;br /&gt;
who may be willing to assist us by original contri-&lt;br /&gt;
butions, which should be short, and on some&lt;br /&gt;
subject belonging to our special field, which is the&lt;br /&gt;
safeguarding of literary property for the producer of&lt;br /&gt;
literature.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are invited to send in notices of the&lt;br /&gt;
books which they are about to produce, and copies&lt;br /&gt;
of their books when they appear. It is intended&lt;br /&gt;
to give a short notice of the purpose and contents&lt;br /&gt;
of these works when this is possible. In the case&lt;br /&gt;
of fiction a very brief account, but not a review,&lt;br /&gt;
will be attempted.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
SOMETHING LIKE A PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&bull;&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
HE was a young man, and he was from the&lt;br /&gt;
country. He stood in the bar of a&lt;br /&gt;
Camden Town public-house, and he&lt;br /&gt;
turned abouta glass ofstout in his hand with anxious&lt;br /&gt;
countenance. Many young men of anxious coun-&lt;br /&gt;
tenance may be seen in London bars all day long.&lt;br /&gt;
He had the customary cigarette of vile paper and&lt;br /&gt;
bad tobacco between his lips.&lt;br /&gt;
Beside him, also with a glass of stout in his hand,&lt;br /&gt;
stoodanolder man,upon whom fifty springs, at least,&lt;br /&gt;
had smiled in sunshine and in shower. His face&lt;br /&gt;
showed the soft influences of the former, but in&lt;br /&gt;
patches, as one on the right cheek, one on the end&lt;br /&gt;
of the nose, and one on the forehead. Thus will&lt;br /&gt;
flowers grow in my lady&amp;#039;s garden, here a few and&lt;br /&gt;
there more, for Nature loves not regularity. His&lt;br /&gt;
coat also showed by its appearance that many springs&lt;br /&gt;
had distilled upon it many showers. The habits of&lt;br /&gt;
the man could be easily inferred from his appear-&lt;br /&gt;
ance : he was one of those who look upon wine when&lt;br /&gt;
they can get it, but not for long, because they&lt;br /&gt;
make haste to swallow it; when there is no wine,&lt;br /&gt;
such a man looks upon, and swallows, any other&lt;br /&gt;
kind of drink that is ardent and intoxicating; such&lt;br /&gt;
anonealso loves tobacco, the society of men, and the&lt;br /&gt;
flare of gas lamps. As for his profession, that was&lt;br /&gt;
more difficult to discuss. Not exactly a sporting&lt;br /&gt;
man, though probably ready to get a &amp;quot;bit upon a&lt;br /&gt;
cert.&amp;quot;&mdash;hiseyes lacked the shrewdness of thesporting&lt;br /&gt;
man, and he was too shabby: not a journalist&mdash;he&lt;br /&gt;
was too slow in his movements, and his speech;&lt;br /&gt;
journalists, even if they loaf about the bar, always&lt;br /&gt;
possess a certain smartness: not a clerk, that is, not&lt;br /&gt;
a clerk in a berth: not a tradesman, or a working&lt;br /&gt;
man, or an artist of any kind. A certain cunning,&lt;br /&gt;
of the kind harshly called low, lurked in his eyes&lt;br /&gt;
and on his lips. He might certainly be set down&lt;br /&gt;
as one who lived by his wits, and that in spite of&lt;br /&gt;
his character and reputation. Now when you have&lt;br /&gt;
lost your character it is a good thing to have some&lt;br /&gt;
wits to fall back upon.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Seems to me,&amp;quot; said the young man, &amp;quot;that there&lt;br /&gt;
is not a single berth left in the whole of London.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not without a hundred fighting for it,&amp;quot; said the&lt;br /&gt;
elder.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve stumped round every place of business in&lt;br /&gt;
London and I can find nothing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What might be your line, young man?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why, when I came up to town I thought that&lt;br /&gt;
something in the publishing line&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Publishing?&amp;quot; echoed the other. &amp;quot;Ah! that is&lt;br /&gt;
a line and no mistake&mdash;if you&amp;#039;re fly to the dodges.&lt;br /&gt;
Publishing? Ah !&amp;quot; he heaved a deep sigh. &amp;quot;If I&lt;br /&gt;
only had the capital&mdash;ever so little capital&mdash;I say&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;ever so little capital,&amp;quot; he repeated meaningly,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;there is a fortune in it&mdash;for self and partner&mdash;a&lt;br /&gt;
fortune, I say. Easy living after the first fortnit,&lt;br /&gt;
and a fortune afterwards.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why? Are you a publisher, then?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Do I look like it in this get up? No. But I&lt;br /&gt;
wish I was. Young man, there isn&amp;#039;t a trick on the&lt;br /&gt;
cards but I know it. There isn&amp;#039;t a dodge in the&lt;br /&gt;
trade that I ain&amp;#039;t up to.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Where did you learn it?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Never mind that. Perhaps I had a berth in a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s house. Perhaps I hadn&amp;#039;t. That&amp;#039;s my&lt;br /&gt;
business. Young man, have you got any capital?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mighty little.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s go partners. I&amp;#039;ll find the business and&lt;br /&gt;
you shall find the money. How much have you&lt;br /&gt;
got?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The young man emptied his waistcoat pocket,&lt;br /&gt;
There was a small heap of silver. &amp;quot;Thai&amp;#039;s all I&amp;#039;ve&lt;br /&gt;
got,&amp;quot; he said. He counted it. &amp;quot;Comes to thirty-&lt;br /&gt;
four shillings and thruppence.&amp;quot; He put back the&lt;br /&gt;
money in his pocket. &amp;quot;Capital? I wish I had&lt;br /&gt;
any.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The eyes of the other man twinkled with greed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Thirty-four shillings?&amp;quot; he cried. &amp;quot;Why there&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
enough and more than enough. Keep the four&lt;br /&gt;
and thruppence for yourself. Miss, two fours of&lt;br /&gt;
Scotch&mdash;I&amp;#039;ll stand. Good Lord! man, your for-&lt;br /&gt;
tune&amp;#039;s made. Hands upon it, partner.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hands upon it, I say. I&amp;#039;ll land the first&lt;br /&gt;
Juggins in a week. Then the way they&amp;#039;ll come in&lt;br /&gt;
will astonish you. It will indeed. Here&amp;#039;s success&lt;br /&gt;
to the firm.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 4 (#18) ###############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
In this way, and on a capital of thirty shillings,&lt;br /&gt;
was founded the Imperial and Colonial Publishing&lt;br /&gt;
Company, Limited. You may, however, look in&lt;br /&gt;
vain for the registration of the Company, because&lt;br /&gt;
it never was registered.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
The advertised offices of the Company were in&lt;br /&gt;
a small street leading out of a main thoroughfare.&lt;br /&gt;
Those who called upon the manager, if they worked&lt;br /&gt;
their way up the stairs, found that the offices con-&lt;br /&gt;
sisted of one room at the back of the second floor;&lt;br /&gt;
there was no brass plate; publicity was not courted&lt;br /&gt;
in any way; and the manager was out.&lt;br /&gt;
Two girls rang the bell. A woman came up&lt;br /&gt;
from the depths below.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s out, Miss,&amp;quot; she said to their enquiry.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;We have called every day at different times&lt;br /&gt;
and he is always out.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;He is generally out, Miss. Business takes him&lt;br /&gt;
out. But he comes for his letters. There&amp;#039;s lots of&lt;br /&gt;
letters and parcels &amp;quot;At that moment a red&lt;br /&gt;
cart stopped at the door and delivered three bulky&lt;br /&gt;
parcels. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re always coming. You write to&lt;br /&gt;
him and you&amp;#039;ll get an answer. Better write than call.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The girls turned away. They were gentlewomen,&lt;br /&gt;
but not rich. One glance at their gloves showed&lt;br /&gt;
so much. Another at their jackets confirmed the&lt;br /&gt;
first impressions. They were, however, gentle-&lt;br /&gt;
women, and they were sisters.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Nell,&amp;quot; said one, &amp;quot;the man is a rogue, I am sure&lt;br /&gt;
of it. No one but a rogue would hide himself away.&lt;br /&gt;
He is a rogue.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The other one sighed heavily. &amp;quot;Oh!&amp;quot; she&lt;br /&gt;
said, &amp;quot;who is to keep ignorant girls like us from&lt;br /&gt;
the hands of rogues? What shall I do? What&lt;br /&gt;
shall I do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Have you sent him all he wanted, dear?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;All. He asked first for ^45. He said if I&lt;br /&gt;
would give him ^45 that would be the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
my risk, and he would take the rest. He said that I&lt;br /&gt;
should have three-fourths of all the money that the&lt;br /&gt;
book produced. He said that his reader reported&lt;br /&gt;
so favourably that its success was certain. You&lt;br /&gt;
know how I got the money, dear.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You sold everything, your watch and chain,&lt;br /&gt;
your two rings, your bracelet, and the silver spoons&lt;br /&gt;
that had been grandmother&amp;#039;s. Oh! I know.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Then he wrote again and said that he had&lt;br /&gt;
made a mistake, and must have ten pounds more,&lt;br /&gt;
and I found that and sent it him, and since then I&lt;br /&gt;
can get nothing&mdash;no answer to my letters&mdash;no&lt;br /&gt;
proofs&mdash;nothing!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Nell, he is a rogue. And oh! to think of the&lt;br /&gt;
months and months of work you have given to the&lt;br /&gt;
story. Nell, it was a beautiful story. Oh 1 we&lt;br /&gt;
will, we must, do something to the man.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, dear. But who is to pay the lawyer?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Can you write it all over again?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s the use when the man has got the right&lt;br /&gt;
of publishing it?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Nell, sit down and write another.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; she answered, &amp;quot; I have no heart to write&lt;br /&gt;
another. Let us go home, dear. I will take that&lt;br /&gt;
place of cashier in the draper&amp;#039;s shop&mdash;fifteen&lt;br /&gt;
hours a day and eight shillings a week; that will be&lt;br /&gt;
better&mdash;anythingwill be better than meeting another&lt;br /&gt;
McAndrew. Oh! I have no heart,&amp;quot; her voice&lt;br /&gt;
choked, &amp;quot; I have no heart to try again.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
III.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;My name is Trencher, and if you&amp;#039;ll give me&lt;br /&gt;
only five minutes, I should take it kindly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I will give you those five minutes,&amp;quot; said the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary, with affability. &amp;quot;Now, Mr. Trencher,&lt;br /&gt;
what is your business?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Trencher was a young man of fashionable&lt;br /&gt;
get up, yet, as nasty particular persons would say,&lt;br /&gt;
not quite. In fact, certainly nowhere near. His&lt;br /&gt;
manner, however, at this moment betrayed anxiety.&lt;br /&gt;
He was jumpy: in certain circles, it would be&lt;br /&gt;
whispered that it looked like &amp;quot;having &amp;#039;em again.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
He produced, with trembling fingers, a card on&lt;br /&gt;
which was written this legend &amp;quot;Imperial and&lt;br /&gt;
Colonial Publishing Company, Limited. Manager,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. McAndrew.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A., Christian name. Stands for Ananias?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
asked the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. It&amp;#039;s about him&amp;quot; he said&lt;br /&gt;
mysteriously. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s about A. McAndrew. If you&lt;br /&gt;
can run him in I don&amp;#039;t care what happens.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I know a good deal about this gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
already,&amp;quot; said the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll tell you all about him. He got my money&lt;br /&gt;
first&mdash;thirty shillings he had off o&amp;#039; me. That&amp;#039;s how&lt;br /&gt;
we began. We were to go partners and he was to&lt;br /&gt;
manage. First he put an advertisement in the&lt;br /&gt;
papers.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It is here,&amp;quot; said the Secretary, laying his hand&lt;br /&gt;
on a book.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Country papers at first&mdash;saying that all MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
would be carefully considered, and that the Com-&lt;br /&gt;
pany were prepared to offer most liberal terms.&lt;br /&gt;
We had a dozen replies to that first batch of&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements. Lucky we had, because there was&lt;br /&gt;
no more money for a second batch. Out of the&lt;br /&gt;
dozen we got ten MSS. sent up. Out of the ten&lt;br /&gt;
three stood in with our terms. In a week we divided&lt;br /&gt;
a hundred and five pounds between us.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Your terms,&amp;quot; said the Secretary, &amp;quot;were con-&lt;br /&gt;
tained in this letter. He opened the book and&lt;br /&gt;
read. &amp;#039;Our reader has reported so favourably on&lt;br /&gt;
your MSS. that we are prepared to offer you the&lt;br /&gt;
following liberal terms. You will send us the sum&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 5 (#19) ###############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
5&lt;br /&gt;
of &pound;$0 or &amp;#039;&mdash;or whatever it was&mdash;&amp;#039; and we will&lt;br /&gt;
publish your book at no risk or expense to your-&lt;br /&gt;
self, and we agree to meet all demands up to 10,000&lt;br /&gt;
copies. All proceeds to be divided into two por-&lt;br /&gt;
tions: one of two-thirds for yourself, the other of&lt;br /&gt;
one-third for the Company. You will kindly reply&lt;br /&gt;
at your earliest convenience, because in the present&lt;br /&gt;
enormous press of work the Company cannot keep&lt;br /&gt;
such an offer open.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;Your obedient servant,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;A. (meaning Ananias) McAndrew,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;Manager.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;P.S.&mdash;The present is the best time of year for&lt;br /&gt;
publishing.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the letter,&amp;quot; said Mr. Trencher ; &amp;quot;always&lt;br /&gt;
the same letter. No occasion ever to alter that&lt;br /&gt;
letter, except the figures, sometimes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And with that single letter you bagged your&lt;br /&gt;
prey?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes. Oh! He knew what he was about. No&lt;br /&gt;
Juggins like a liter&amp;#039;y Juggins, he used to say, and&lt;br /&gt;
I&amp;#039;m sure he was right. Believe all you tell &amp;#039;em,&lt;br /&gt;
they will&mdash;anything you tell &amp;#039;em. You can&amp;#039;t pile&lt;br /&gt;
it up too high. Well, sir, three year ago that&lt;br /&gt;
game begun.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see. And how many works did you actually&lt;br /&gt;
have sent you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;First and last there was more than a hundred.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And how many did you publish?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The fellow grinned.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, what with putting off and telling lies,&lt;br /&gt;
and not answering letters, he didn&amp;#039;t actually print&lt;br /&gt;
more than three. Sometimes a first sheet would be&lt;br /&gt;
struck off just to keep &amp;#039;em amused, but not if he&lt;br /&gt;
could help it, because it runs into money. The&lt;br /&gt;
printers wouldn&amp;#039;t set it up without being paid&lt;br /&gt;
beforehand.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Shameful want of confidence.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mostly they gave up writing, when they found&lt;br /&gt;
they got no reply.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And those you did print?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well; we printed a hundred copies and gave&lt;br /&gt;
the author a dozen, and there was an end of that.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Where are the MSS.?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s got&amp;#039;em. They&amp;#039;re no use, though. He won&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
make anything out of them. There&amp;#039;s a hundred&lt;br /&gt;
and more lying there. All paid fcr.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I judge, therefore, from your coming here to&lt;br /&gt;
make a clean breast of it, that you and your partner&lt;br /&gt;
have quarrelled?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like this, mister. He says to me, three&lt;br /&gt;
months ago, he says, &amp;#039;Pardner,&amp;#039; he says, &amp;#039;the&lt;br /&gt;
game&amp;#039;s getting much too hot for us. Time for us to&lt;br /&gt;
separate. Time for us to go divers ways, as wide&lt;br /&gt;
apart as we can. Now we&amp;#039;ll value the business and&lt;br /&gt;
I&amp;#039;ll buy. you out.&amp;#039; That&amp;#039;s what he says. Well, I,&lt;br /&gt;
thinking that sooner or later there must be a shindy,&lt;br /&gt;
and that he&amp;#039;d get run in&mdash;not me&mdash;because, you&lt;br /&gt;
know, this kind of business after all, is&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It certainly is,&amp;quot; said the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And some time or other somebody who&amp;#039;d been&lt;br /&gt;
kidded on to stump up would go before a magis-&lt;br /&gt;
trate&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Which would be awkward,&amp;quot; said the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Jes&amp;#039; so. I says, then, &amp;#039;Give me my share,&amp;#039; I&lt;br /&gt;
says, &amp;#039;and lemme go.&amp;#039; So we valued the business&lt;br /&gt;
and agreed. I was to have four hundred quid for&lt;br /&gt;
my share&mdash;that was agreed&mdash;and I took it in a&lt;br /&gt;
three months bill, and went away and started on&lt;br /&gt;
my own account. The Royal Britannic Federated&lt;br /&gt;
Publishing Company, mine was. J. Trencher,&lt;br /&gt;
Manager.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;J. standing for Judas, probably,&amp;quot; said the Secre-&lt;br /&gt;
tary. &amp;quot;Excuse me. You have done pretty well?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, I haven&amp;#039;t done at all well yet. And I don&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
know what you mean about Judas, neither.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Never mind. Pray go on,&amp;quot; said the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;We are coming apparently to the most interesting&lt;br /&gt;
part.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I hadn&amp;#039;t been started a week before the letters&lt;br /&gt;
began to come in.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What letters? More MSS.?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No. Letters from the people he&amp;#039;d done out of&lt;br /&gt;
their money. What does he do? Oh! the villain!&lt;br /&gt;
Directly after I was out of the office, he tells every-&lt;br /&gt;
body who threatened or complained that his case&lt;br /&gt;
belonged to me, and he must write to me and that&lt;br /&gt;
I was no longer his partner. There are fifty of &amp;#039;em&lt;br /&gt;
at this moment wanting their money and their MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
back. Well, I could have stood that, because you&lt;br /&gt;
can&amp;#039;t give people what you haven&amp;#039;t got. But yester-&lt;br /&gt;
day&mdash;yesterday&mdash;&amp;quot; Here his emotion got almost&lt;br /&gt;
too much for him&mdash;&amp;quot; the bill fell due. You&amp;#039;d hardly&lt;br /&gt;
believe it, but it&amp;#039;s true. His bill fell due&mdash;the bill for&lt;br /&gt;
that four hundred, my share of the business, it fell&lt;br /&gt;
due, and I presented it and&mdash;and&mdash;no one would&lt;br /&gt;
believe that such a villain could be living&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It was not met, I suppose ?&amp;quot; said the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No&mdash;it wasn&amp;#039;t met. He&amp;#039;s done me out of my&lt;br /&gt;
share and he&amp;#039;s got the business still, and he&amp;#039;s turning&lt;br /&gt;
over all the people that are going to bring actions on&lt;br /&gt;
to me. And now I&amp;#039;m ruined, and I come to you to&lt;br /&gt;
make a clean breast of it, if you can run him in.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Ananias McAndrewis, however, still at large,&lt;br /&gt;
and when last we heard he was beginning the&lt;br /&gt;
game again under another name and with a new&lt;br /&gt;
company.&lt;br /&gt;
Note by the Editor.&mdash;This story is literally&lt;br /&gt;
and exactly true. The man, we have just learned,&lt;br /&gt;
is really beginning the game over again. Moral.&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Never answer an advertisement of a so-called pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher without first writing to the Society for advice.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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6&lt;br /&gt;
7 HE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE following considerations and maxims may&lt;br /&gt;
appear to some readers elementary. The&lt;br /&gt;
cases which constantly arise before the&lt;br /&gt;
Society prove, however, that like the Ten Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mandments, it is wise to have them exposed to&lt;br /&gt;
view, and to be frequently reminded of them.&lt;br /&gt;
1. Literary property is a very real thing. It is as&lt;br /&gt;
real as property in land, houses, mines, or any&lt;br /&gt;
other kind of property. Hundreds of people live&lt;br /&gt;
upon its proceeds in great luxury, plenty, and&lt;br /&gt;
comfort. Thousands of people live upon it by&lt;br /&gt;
thrift and carefulness.&lt;br /&gt;
2. When a man has made a book lie has increased&lt;br /&gt;
the wealth of the country, provided it be a book&lt;br /&gt;
serviceable to the community and saleable.&lt;br /&gt;
3. He has created this wealth; it is his own; he&lt;br /&gt;
must be as careful not to part with it, except for a&lt;br /&gt;
just consideration, as if it were a mine or a quarry,&lt;br /&gt;
or an estate.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Literary property is subject to the laws which&lt;br /&gt;
protect all other property; the simplest and the&lt;br /&gt;
mostcomprehensive of these laws is the Eighth Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mandment, &amp;quot;Thou shalt not steal.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Applied to literature and to the persons whose&lt;br /&gt;
business it is to buy and sell various forms of&lt;br /&gt;
literature, the Commandment is thus to be inter-&lt;br /&gt;
preted, &amp;quot;Thou shalt not cheat the author in buying&lt;br /&gt;
his work from him; thou shalt not write or speak&lt;br /&gt;
lies concerning the cost of preparing his work for the&lt;br /&gt;
press; thou shalt not agree with him on terms such&lt;br /&gt;
as will give to thyself the profits on his labour. The&lt;br /&gt;
work is his, not thine at all; his the design of it,&lt;br /&gt;
the invention,the fancy, the imagination,the learning,&lt;br /&gt;
the brain and the hand of it&mdash;all is his. If it be-&lt;br /&gt;
comes thine, it must be by an equitable agreement,&lt;br /&gt;
which shall give thee a fair reward for labour done,&lt;br /&gt;
and leave to him all the rest.&amp;quot; In no other way&lt;br /&gt;
can the Eighth Commandment be interpreted by&lt;br /&gt;
those who deal with authors.&lt;br /&gt;
5. What is the commercial value of a book?&lt;br /&gt;
Clearly it depends upon the number of copies&lt;br /&gt;
which the public will take. So the value of a&lt;br /&gt;
field depends upon its fertility; of a ship upon her&lt;br /&gt;
carrying power and seaworthy qualities; of a horse&lt;br /&gt;
upon his strength and youth. Some fields are&lt;br /&gt;
sterile&mdash;they are sold for a small sum&mdash;some are&lt;br /&gt;
worthless. So with books. An author&amp;#039;s income&lt;br /&gt;
from a book must depend upon the copies bought&lt;br /&gt;
by the public.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Most books published have no commercial&lt;br /&gt;
value at all&mdash;a very large number have no literary&lt;br /&gt;
value at all. How, then, do they get published?&lt;br /&gt;
They are published at the expense of tlie author.&lt;br /&gt;
7. The book which does succeed may have a&lt;br /&gt;
nominal success, or it may have an enormous sue&lt;br /&gt;
cess. If a MS. has any literary value, a thing&lt;br /&gt;
which may be easily ascertained by having it&lt;br /&gt;
examined at the Society of Authors, its success is&lt;br /&gt;
always possible. And so often of late years has a&lt;br /&gt;
book unexpectedly taken the world by storm that&lt;br /&gt;
the author must always consider his MS. as a pos-&lt;br /&gt;
sible great success.&lt;br /&gt;
8. It must be remembered that publishers live&lt;br /&gt;
by publishing. They therefore look to make&lt;br /&gt;
money by every book which they issue. It is a&lt;br /&gt;
great mistake to suppose, as some authors do, that&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher does not first consider the commer-&lt;br /&gt;
cial prospects of a book. In many cases it is the&lt;br /&gt;
only thing he does consider.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Therefore the publisher must be paid. He&lt;br /&gt;
must be paid for the time and trouble he, through&lt;br /&gt;
his servants, gives to the preparation of the work&lt;br /&gt;
for the press; for the publicity which he gives to&lt;br /&gt;
it; and, in a very few cases, for the prestige of his&lt;br /&gt;
name.&lt;br /&gt;
10. It is self-evident that every book must stand&lt;br /&gt;
or fall by its own merits. That is to say, that it is&lt;br /&gt;
idle to talk of the failure of one book being a&lt;br /&gt;
reason for giving the author of another book less&lt;br /&gt;
than his due.&lt;br /&gt;
With these considerations, which are indisput-&lt;br /&gt;
able and elementary, before him, let every author&lt;br /&gt;
read carefully over any agreement offered to him,&lt;br /&gt;
and before signing it, ascertain what it gives the&lt;br /&gt;
author, and what it gives or reserves for the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, (1) for the first edition, (2) for the second and&lt;br /&gt;
following editions.&lt;br /&gt;
Next let the same author take any of his&lt;br /&gt;
agreements in the past, and with the light of the&lt;br /&gt;
accounts which were afterwards rendered to him,&lt;br /&gt;
and the information which we now give him, let&lt;br /&gt;
him draw his own conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES ON COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Copyright in Lectures.&lt;br /&gt;
DOES anybody ever take the trouble to secure&lt;br /&gt;
his copyright in a public lecture? It is a&lt;br /&gt;
curious and amusing process which the&lt;br /&gt;
law in its wisdom requires him to go through.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, perhaps, nothing objectionable in his&lt;br /&gt;
having to give two days&amp;#039; notice of his intentions to&lt;br /&gt;
two justices of the peace, both of whom must live&lt;br /&gt;
within five miles of the locus in quo. But, beyond&lt;br /&gt;
the presumption that the aforesaid justices might,&lt;br /&gt;
if the notice were civilly worded, take tickets for, if&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
7&lt;br /&gt;
not attend, the lecture, it is not easy to understand&lt;br /&gt;
the object of the interesting proviso. There is cer-&lt;br /&gt;
tainly no necessity to make it public that on this&lt;br /&gt;
occasion only &amp;quot;all rights are reserved.&amp;quot; It is no&lt;br /&gt;
business either of the author&amp;#039;s or of the magistrates to&lt;br /&gt;
warn reporters off the premises. Nevertheless, the&lt;br /&gt;
former would, on giving the statutory notice, be&lt;br /&gt;
entitled to confiscate any printed and published&lt;br /&gt;
reports (or, for that matter, the whole edition of&lt;br /&gt;
every newspaper in the Kingdom which published&lt;br /&gt;
the lecture without leave), and, moreover, to re-&lt;br /&gt;
cover a penny for every sheet in their custody.&lt;br /&gt;
What a fortune Mark Twain would realise if he&lt;br /&gt;
went on tour in the silly season! But, to further&lt;br /&gt;
illustrate the beautiful simplicity of the law, a&lt;br /&gt;
lecturer is powerless to protect himself against&lt;br /&gt;
unauthorised re-delivery. It is only publication&lt;br /&gt;
that is prohibited by statute. Anybody who likes&lt;br /&gt;
is entitled to take down a lecture verbatim and can&lt;br /&gt;
re-deliver it with perfect impunity, or, in other&lt;br /&gt;
words, while there is copyright there is no such&lt;br /&gt;
thing as performing right in a species of literary&lt;br /&gt;
production in which this may be really valuable.&lt;br /&gt;
Sermons, on the other hand, seem to be clearly&lt;br /&gt;
public property, that is, if delivered &amp;quot;by any&lt;br /&gt;
person in virtue of or according to any gift, endow-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, or foundation.&amp;quot; In other words, Noncon-&lt;br /&gt;
formist ministers, unless they, too, come within the&lt;br /&gt;
category, enjoy an advantage denied to the Clergy&lt;br /&gt;
of the Established Church. For it would, we&lt;br /&gt;
imagine, be open to them to give the statutory&lt;br /&gt;
notice of the intended delivery and so secure the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, if not the performing right (if we may use&lt;br /&gt;
the expression), in the production in question. The&lt;br /&gt;
Clergy of the Church of England cannot, however,&lt;br /&gt;
under any circumstances reserve their rights. The&lt;br /&gt;
only remedy open to them if their pulpit eloquence&lt;br /&gt;
is reproduced is, like the Bishop of Peterborough,&lt;br /&gt;
to take a leaf out of the book of the &amp;quot;old Parlia-&lt;br /&gt;
mentary hand,&amp;quot; and deny that they have been&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;correctly reported.&amp;quot; In the same way, too, no&lt;br /&gt;
lecture delivered in any university, public school,&lt;br /&gt;
or college, or on any public foundation can under&lt;br /&gt;
any conditions be protected. But there is seldom&lt;br /&gt;
any very great demand for sermons, university or&lt;br /&gt;
college lectures, so that their authors enjoy rather&lt;br /&gt;
more protection, independent of statute, than most&lt;br /&gt;
of them desire.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Copyright in Recitations.&lt;br /&gt;
Should the recitation ot popular pieces be pro-&lt;br /&gt;
hibited by law? The relative advantage or disadvan-&lt;br /&gt;
tage accruing to an author is, of course, wholly&lt;br /&gt;
beside the question. It is quite possible that in&lt;br /&gt;
many cases an author might regard himself as quite&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently recompensed by probable sales. It is&lt;br /&gt;
notorious that more than one well-known firm of&lt;br /&gt;
musical publishers not only do not reserve their&lt;br /&gt;
rights in their songs, but announce to all whom it&lt;br /&gt;
may concern that they can be sung anywhere. But&lt;br /&gt;
now that recitations are once more becoming popular,&lt;br /&gt;
there is no doubt whatever that the right of delivery&lt;br /&gt;
of favourite verse will become valuable, and the&lt;br /&gt;
question of its protection acquires an added import-&lt;br /&gt;
ance. There is no more reason why an author&lt;br /&gt;
should have no control over and derive no profit&lt;br /&gt;
from the recitation of his work than that a novelist&lt;br /&gt;
should have to submit to be dramatized whether&lt;br /&gt;
he likes it or not. The results of protection would,&lt;br /&gt;
of course, be that royalties would have to be paid if&lt;br /&gt;
the author chose to reserve and enforce his rights.&lt;br /&gt;
It would perhaps be necessary that some analogous&lt;br /&gt;
conditions to those required by the Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
(Musical Compositions) Act, 1882, should be&lt;br /&gt;
devised to prevent people being &amp;quot; Walled.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
III. Anglo-American Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
It is always risky to prophesy, and Anglo-&lt;br /&gt;
American Copyright is a subject on which even&lt;br /&gt;
a sporting prophet would hesitate to hazard a&lt;br /&gt;
forecast. It is, however, not impossible that the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill before Congress should, in the words of its&lt;br /&gt;
sixth section, &amp;quot;go into effect&amp;quot; on the 1st July,&lt;br /&gt;
1890. Committees of both Houses have reported&lt;br /&gt;
in favour of the measure: not that that counts for&lt;br /&gt;
much! We are not likely to forget that in 1889&lt;br /&gt;
it was thrown out at the last moment by a single&lt;br /&gt;
member who had no views on the subject, and&lt;br /&gt;
was really opposing another measure. But, still,&lt;br /&gt;
it is satisfactory to know that .the tariff men,&lt;br /&gt;
the petty pirates, and the moneyed ignoramuses&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
the three classes of which the opposition con-&lt;br /&gt;
sists&mdash;have so far made a very poor show.&lt;br /&gt;
During the sittings of the House Committee on&lt;br /&gt;
Judiciary Mr. Roger Sherman, formerly a Phila-&lt;br /&gt;
delphia publisher, declared that &amp;quot;the outcry for&lt;br /&gt;
the passage of the Bill was simply the clamour of&lt;br /&gt;
200 authors against the interests of 50,000,000&lt;br /&gt;
people.&amp;quot; There is a truly delicious naivete about&lt;br /&gt;
this confession of a preference for stealing litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture instead of buying it. As for the Bill itself&lt;br /&gt;
it will undoubtedly confer valuable rights upon&lt;br /&gt;
those English writers who can conform to its&lt;br /&gt;
conditions. These require the books to be&lt;br /&gt;
printed from type set up in the States, and two&lt;br /&gt;
copies to be delivered to the Librarian of Con-&lt;br /&gt;
gress &amp;quot;on or before the day of publication.&amp;quot; If the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill becomes law in this form considerable diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
culty, it may be remarked, will arise in securing&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in serial stories, for, as it now stands,&lt;br /&gt;
each number would have to be delivered as an&lt;br /&gt;
independent publication, a matter obviously of&lt;br /&gt;
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8&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
great practical difficulty. But in view of the&lt;br /&gt;
multifarious exigencies which have compelled&lt;br /&gt;
modifications innumerable, and hampered the&lt;br /&gt;
efforts of the American (Authors) Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
League, it is idle to criticise the measure as a&lt;br /&gt;
final settlement of the difficulty. It is enough,&lt;br /&gt;
for the present, if it makes Anglo-American Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right ultimately possible.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. The securing of American Rights.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the above was written, the International&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bill has been brought before the House&lt;br /&gt;
of Representatives and has been defeated by 126&lt;br /&gt;
votes to 98. The conscience of the great Re-&lt;br /&gt;
public therefore remains unawakened, that is to&lt;br /&gt;
say, five-ninths of the American conscience is un-&lt;br /&gt;
moved. The other four-ninths may be trusted to&lt;br /&gt;
keep moving. Perhaps our grandchildren may&lt;br /&gt;
reap the fruits of their agitation. What is now to&lt;br /&gt;
be done?&lt;br /&gt;
There seems to be but one way for an English&lt;br /&gt;
author to hold at bay the piratical publishers of the&lt;br /&gt;
United States: it is to enter into collaboration&lt;br /&gt;
with an American writer. By this arrangement a&lt;br /&gt;
perfect copyright is obtainable; one which will defy&lt;br /&gt;
the devil&mdash;the printer&amp;#039;s devil&mdash;and all his works.&lt;br /&gt;
One American member of the Incorporated&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors has already written to offer an&lt;br /&gt;
honourable partnership of this kind with British&lt;br /&gt;
authors who desire to protect their literary&lt;br /&gt;
property. Enquiries relating to the subject should&lt;br /&gt;
be addressed to the Secretary of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn-fields,&lt;br /&gt;
W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
A HARD CASE.&lt;br /&gt;
No. 1.&lt;br /&gt;
IT is now some five years ago since a young lady&lt;br /&gt;
wrote a volume of poems and sent them to a&lt;br /&gt;
certain advertising society for publication.&lt;br /&gt;
The so-called managing director told her in reply&lt;br /&gt;
that, although her work was of indubitable merit,&lt;br /&gt;
it required to be revised by some one who&lt;br /&gt;
understood the &amp;quot;rules of Poetical Composition.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Such an article he had on hand, and he begged&lt;br /&gt;
to recommend that she should apply to a per-&lt;br /&gt;
son in Fleet Street, posing as the editor of a&lt;br /&gt;
non-existent journal, for advice. This gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
expressed himself willing to teach her poetry for&lt;br /&gt;
the comparatively moderate fee of jQt, 14J. 6d. As&lt;br /&gt;
his grammar was not, however, without blemish he&lt;br /&gt;
would seem to have been only duly modest. For&lt;br /&gt;
three months the young lady received instruction in&lt;br /&gt;
poetry from him, and then again applied to the&lt;br /&gt;
advertising society to have her verses published.&lt;br /&gt;
Apparently her tutor had proved of service, for the&lt;br /&gt;
managing director now agreed to issue her book for&lt;br /&gt;
her, on her advancing the sum of ,&pound;50. For this&lt;br /&gt;
sum he was prepared to produce the MS. in volume&lt;br /&gt;
form and &amp;quot; to meet all demands for sales up to&lt;br /&gt;
3,000 copies.&amp;quot; The volume was to be published&lt;br /&gt;
at 6*., Cr. 8vo., good toned paper, and to be bound&lt;br /&gt;
in cloth boards, and gilt lettered. The payment&lt;br /&gt;
was to be made in the following manner: &pound;20 at&lt;br /&gt;
once; &pound;20 on seeing the last proofs; and the&lt;br /&gt;
balance within three months.&lt;br /&gt;
The only agreement made between author and&lt;br /&gt;
publisher was the interchange of letters ratifying&lt;br /&gt;
the above proposition. The lady&amp;#039;s friends lent her&lt;br /&gt;
the money, evidently having no idea of the true&lt;br /&gt;
commercial value of poetry, and the book went to&lt;br /&gt;
press.&lt;br /&gt;
The phrase, &amp;quot;to meet all demands,&amp;quot; will receive&lt;br /&gt;
full consideration in our next number.&lt;br /&gt;
Now it would seem that the publisher&amp;#039;s first&lt;br /&gt;
opinion as to the value of the author&amp;#039;s work was&lt;br /&gt;
nearly a correct one, when he recommended that&lt;br /&gt;
she should learn verse, but that he rather over-rated&lt;br /&gt;
the improvement that had been effected by his&lt;br /&gt;
friend, the instructor in poesy. For there was no&lt;br /&gt;
sale. But, on the other hand, there were, in&lt;br /&gt;
addition to the ^50, several small items to pay&lt;br /&gt;
for.&lt;br /&gt;
There was advertisement in the publisher&amp;#039;s own&lt;br /&gt;
lists, &pound;2 2S. There was the &amp;quot;time of the traveller&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in offering the work to the trade, &pound;1 1js. There&lt;br /&gt;
was &pound;2 for warehousing, &pound;2 2s. for the privilege&lt;br /&gt;
of membership of the Literary Association, of which&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher was managing director. These sums,&lt;br /&gt;
with others for postage, &amp;amp;c, brought the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
account on the whole transaction into the following&lt;br /&gt;
position.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) She had paid for three months&amp;#039; poetical&lt;br /&gt;
instruction. (Exactly what she paid is not quite&lt;br /&gt;
clear&mdash;over ,&pound;10, however.)&lt;br /&gt;
(2) She had paid &pound;50 for the production of her&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) She still owed j&pound;g odd to the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
(4) There were no sales at all: so that she had&lt;br /&gt;
received nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
Then the publisher began to write in a threatening&lt;br /&gt;
way for this &pound;9.&lt;br /&gt;
He expressed himself as not surprised at the ill-&lt;br /&gt;
success of her book (though on previous occasions&lt;br /&gt;
he had spoken well of her work), and attributed&lt;br /&gt;
this to the lack of advertisements. He badgered&lt;br /&gt;
her to advertise through himself to the extent of j&pound;$&lt;br /&gt;
or jQio, assuring her that she would then get good&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 9 (#23) ###############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE A UTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
9&lt;br /&gt;
reviews. But her means would nol allow her to&lt;br /&gt;
take his advice. Then he suggested that she&lt;br /&gt;
should contribute at the rate of is. a line to a&lt;br /&gt;
column of advertisement that he proposed to insert&lt;br /&gt;
in the Standard of a good many other books he was&lt;br /&gt;
bringing out. Here, again, she was obdurate.&lt;br /&gt;
Then he sent her a lawyer&amp;#039;s letter.&lt;br /&gt;
She applied to the Society of Authors, and&lt;br /&gt;
escaped further payment; but it would have been&lt;br /&gt;
useless to attempt to extract from the publisher the&lt;br /&gt;
money he had already received on grossly false re-&lt;br /&gt;
presentation, for about this period he became a&lt;br /&gt;
bankrupt.&lt;br /&gt;
Of the numerous letters two are appended.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The first received by the author from the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Secretary.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
2. The second received by the author from the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Editor.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
Date.&mdash;March 6th, 1884.&lt;br /&gt;
Name.&mdash;Miss C. D.&lt;br /&gt;
Address.&mdash;16, High St. .&lt;br /&gt;
Title and No.&mdash;Poems.&lt;br /&gt;
Length.&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Opinion.&mdash;&amp;quot; Requires revision by an expert, who&lt;br /&gt;
understands the rules of poetical composition.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Author should write Mr. L., Street,&lt;br /&gt;
London, forhis instructions topoetical students.&lt;br /&gt;
Writer has ability, and if she only studied the&lt;br /&gt;
rules of poetical composition she would do&lt;br /&gt;
well.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;One poem could be set to music. Charge,&lt;br /&gt;
including composition of music, would be&lt;br /&gt;
Ss. for 250 copies.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A. B. C, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
Re MSS.from the Metropolitan Publishing and&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Society.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;We have received your MSS. and beg to say&lt;br /&gt;
we cannot accept same, as they are unprepared for&lt;br /&gt;
press. You write them as though poetry, but they&lt;br /&gt;
are prose. If you write out the Penalty as though&lt;br /&gt;
prose, no capital letters, &amp;amp;c, you will find it reads&lt;br /&gt;
better. If you do this and send again we can&lt;br /&gt;
finish revising for half a guinea, and print.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Editor.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
It seems almost incredible that even an inex-&lt;br /&gt;
perienced girl should not have guessed that these&lt;br /&gt;
people were common sharpers. But she did not.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Managing Director &amp;quot; advertised largely and&lt;br /&gt;
the number of his victims is proportionally large.&lt;br /&gt;
Yet he has never got into prison. His victims&lt;br /&gt;
were generally helpless, and generally sensitive to&lt;br /&gt;
ridicule, while it always seems an unsatisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
thing to spend ^50 in bringing a criminal action&lt;br /&gt;
against a person who has robbed you of .&pound;50.&lt;br /&gt;
It should be observed that this case has nothing&lt;br /&gt;
to do with the story on pp. 3-5.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.&lt;br /&gt;
1. Is it right for editors to keep a book sent&lt;br /&gt;
to them for review when they give no notice of the&lt;br /&gt;
book ?&mdash;It is right because it is impossible for&lt;br /&gt;
every book that is published to receive a review,&lt;br /&gt;
and every book is sent for review on the chance of&lt;br /&gt;
getting it.&lt;br /&gt;
2. How long should an editor be free to keep&lt;br /&gt;
a MS. without reply?&mdash;If the article is one of&lt;br /&gt;
immediate interest he should return it at once if&lt;br /&gt;
he cannot find time to consider it. A contributor&lt;br /&gt;
in such a case should state the urgency of the sub-&lt;br /&gt;
ject. Under ordinary circumstances no one who&lt;br /&gt;
knows the labours of an editor or the piles of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. into which he must look should grumble at&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for three or four months.&lt;br /&gt;
3. How long should a contributor be expected&lt;br /&gt;
to wait before payment?&mdash;All the honourably&lt;br /&gt;
conducted magazines pay on publication, or a few&lt;br /&gt;
days afterwards. It has, however, been proved to&lt;br /&gt;
the Society that there are certain journals&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
happily only a few&mdash;who make a point of never&lt;br /&gt;
paying unless they are compelled by threats of law.&lt;br /&gt;
It seems incredible that a magazine proprietor or&lt;br /&gt;
editor should thus make as many enemies as he has&lt;br /&gt;
contributors. It is unhappily, quite true.&lt;br /&gt;
4. What payment should be made for a magazine&lt;br /&gt;
article?&mdash;This question is often asked. There is&lt;br /&gt;
no answer possible, because the practice necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
differs. A magazine of limited circulation obviously&lt;br /&gt;
cannot afford to pay its contributors much. Then&lt;br /&gt;
if payment is made by the page, that too varies;&lt;br /&gt;
some magazines, such as Blackwood&amp;#039;s or Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
millan&amp;#039;s, have a page double that of Longmans&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
The best advice to be given is this. In the high-&lt;br /&gt;
class magazines contributors are paid by a regular&lt;br /&gt;
scale, unless special terms are made. Therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
the contributor may rely on the usual treatment&lt;br /&gt;
according to the scale of that journal. In maga-&lt;br /&gt;
zines of inferior kind the contributor would do&lt;br /&gt;
well to ask beforehand what payment will be made&lt;br /&gt;
if the paper be accepted. Suppose the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
refuses to name his scale and sends back the MS.,&lt;br /&gt;
that will be better than to have it taken and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished, and then not paid for.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 10 (#24) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
IO&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
LEAFLET No. I.&lt;br /&gt;
On Syndicating.&lt;br /&gt;
IT was in the Report issued at the beginning&lt;br /&gt;
of last year that we first made an announce-&lt;br /&gt;
ment concerning our attempt at forming for&lt;br /&gt;
ourselves a syndicate of our own members. We&lt;br /&gt;
guarded ourselves at that time by a warning which&lt;br /&gt;
we hoped would be sufficient to prevent the raising&lt;br /&gt;
of hopes doomed to disappointment. We were&lt;br /&gt;
wrong. There has been a good deal of dis-&lt;br /&gt;
appointment among some of our members who&lt;br /&gt;
thought that in this way their own work might be&lt;br /&gt;
disposed of.&lt;br /&gt;
It was found at the outset, first, that the news-&lt;br /&gt;
papers among which we at first proposed to place&lt;br /&gt;
the works of our members were engaged to the&lt;br /&gt;
various syndicates in existence for a year, a year&lt;br /&gt;
and a half, or even longer. It was next found, what&lt;br /&gt;
had been expected, that no writers have any chance&lt;br /&gt;
at all of getting their work taken in country and&lt;br /&gt;
colonial newspapers except those who have already&lt;br /&gt;
achieved a certain reputation. So that both the&lt;br /&gt;
time of commencing operations was postponed, and&lt;br /&gt;
the writers for whom the syndicate was to work were&lt;br /&gt;
limited in number.&lt;br /&gt;
After a great deal of consideration and experi-&lt;br /&gt;
menting, it has been found that the best and&lt;br /&gt;
fairest way of working is, as regards short tales, to&lt;br /&gt;
arrange for one batch at a time covering a whole&lt;br /&gt;
quarter. Each writer of this batch takes, first of&lt;br /&gt;
all, his market value; that is to say, the price he&lt;br /&gt;
can command in magazines, or that which other&lt;br /&gt;
syndicates&mdash;trade syndicates&mdash;are willing to pay&lt;br /&gt;
him: he sells to our syndicate, not, as in all other&lt;br /&gt;
syndicates, the story outright, but the right to its&lt;br /&gt;
appearance once, and only once, in a certain&lt;br /&gt;
quarter. This done, the work becomes again his&lt;br /&gt;
own property. Next, when all the writers have&lt;br /&gt;
been paid, the balance, if any, is equally divided&lt;br /&gt;
among the writers in proportion to the length&lt;br /&gt;
of their work. That is to say, for a tale running&lt;br /&gt;
over three weeks, a writer would receive three&lt;br /&gt;
times that accorded to one of a single week. About&lt;br /&gt;
twenty-five per cent, of the whole is required&lt;br /&gt;
for agency printing and postage. This may seem a&lt;br /&gt;
large amount, but the trouble involved is very great,&lt;br /&gt;
and there is no way of avoiding such charges&lt;br /&gt;
except by keeping a special clerk for the purpose&lt;br /&gt;
in the offices of the Society. The services of such&lt;br /&gt;
a clerk, properly qualified and experienced, would&lt;br /&gt;
amount to quite as much as the commission&lt;br /&gt;
of an agent. After a little there must be a further&lt;br /&gt;
charge for the work of editing, which hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
has been done for nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
Then comes, next, the question&mdash;Where to place&lt;br /&gt;
these stories? At first it was thought that the&lt;br /&gt;
provincial press would be the best medium. It&lt;br /&gt;
has, however, been found that, though the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
vincial press may sometimes be useful, it cannot&lt;br /&gt;
always be depended upon, and that it may in some&lt;br /&gt;
cases be best to sell the work to some one pro-&lt;br /&gt;
prietor or editor. This has, in fact, been done in&lt;br /&gt;
the case of the first quarter&amp;#039;s collection. One pro-&lt;br /&gt;
prietor has bought the right for Great Britain and&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland. They have also been sold in America&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
also to one man; in Australia and New Zealand&lt;br /&gt;
to another; and in India to another. The amount&lt;br /&gt;
to be divided among the writers of this batch will&lt;br /&gt;
rule far higher than anything they could obtain&lt;br /&gt;
from ordinary syndicates.&lt;br /&gt;
The next quarter&amp;#039;s batch is now in course of&lt;br /&gt;
preparation.&lt;br /&gt;
If members think they already possess the kind&lt;br /&gt;
of name that popular journals desire to place in&lt;br /&gt;
their columns, they may communicate with the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor at the Society&amp;#039;s office. The Editor&amp;#039;s busi-&lt;br /&gt;
ness is very simple: it is merely to provide such&lt;br /&gt;
a collection of stories as will be vouched for by&lt;br /&gt;
the names of their writers. He is not, in fact, the&lt;br /&gt;
judge: he has only to record the judgment of&lt;br /&gt;
purchasers, and to cater for them. It is not so&lt;br /&gt;
much the quality of his wares that he has to con-&lt;br /&gt;
sider, as their fashion and popularity. Therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
the Editor must not be blamed if he has to tell&lt;br /&gt;
a member that he cannot offer to syndicate his&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, however, another branch of syndicating&lt;br /&gt;
work&mdash;that of longer stories. Here, again, though&lt;br /&gt;
names come first, there may be special reasons&lt;br /&gt;
why a work by a less known hand might be syndi-&lt;br /&gt;
cated with a certain measure of success.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 11 (#25) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
If any member, therefore, would like to try this&lt;br /&gt;
method, he should send, first of all, his name, his&lt;br /&gt;
list of previous work, and a complete scenario of&lt;br /&gt;
the work, showing its length, number of chapters,&lt;br /&gt;
the story, the place and time, and anything that may&lt;br /&gt;
recommend it. This scenario should be type-written,&lt;br /&gt;
which would not cost more than two or three&lt;br /&gt;
shillings. He can then learn whether he may&lt;br /&gt;
hope for any success in this way. But, again, let&lt;br /&gt;
him not blame the Editor should failure follmv.&lt;br /&gt;
He would like to oblige all the members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society if he could.&lt;br /&gt;
This syndicating is intended, of course, as a first&lt;br /&gt;
step in the action of authors for themselves and by&lt;br /&gt;
themselves. When we consider all the difficulties&lt;br /&gt;
in the way: first, the profound distrust of anything&lt;br /&gt;
to do with publishing that is spread over a des-&lt;br /&gt;
pondent world; next, the suspicion and jealousy&lt;br /&gt;
with which authors too often regard each other;&lt;br /&gt;
thirdly, their colossal ignorance of all matters con-&lt;br /&gt;
nected with their own business; and, fourthly, the&lt;br /&gt;
danger of awakening extravagant hopes of a millen-&lt;br /&gt;
nium to come the day after to-morrow&mdash;we might be&lt;br /&gt;
excused if we desisted from the attempt. But when&lt;br /&gt;
we consider how much the Society has done already,&lt;br /&gt;
and is now doing, when we remember that we&lt;br /&gt;
are the pioneers, and when we remember that&lt;br /&gt;
in such a cause progress must be slow, we are&lt;br /&gt;
resolved to persevere. All the steps that we have&lt;br /&gt;
taken, all that we are going to take, are based upon&lt;br /&gt;
one proposition: that literature belongs to the&lt;br /&gt;
Poet&mdash;the Maker&mdash;not to the Trader&mdash;not to him&lt;br /&gt;
who only sells.&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
THE PRESS AND THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
ONE reason, and that not the least, for the&lt;br /&gt;
existence of such a journal as this is the&lt;br /&gt;
necessity for keeping the Society and its&lt;br /&gt;
objects from misrepresentation&mdash;wilful or through&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance&mdash;in the newspaper press and in the&lt;br /&gt;
magazines. We have read from time to time articles,&lt;br /&gt;
both generous and appreciative, presenting our&lt;br /&gt;
aims truthfully. We have also been misrepresented&lt;br /&gt;
by numerous paragraphs, written either by persons&lt;br /&gt;
totally unacquainted with this Society, or wholly&lt;br /&gt;
ignorant of the subject, or maliciously inspired&lt;br /&gt;
by our enemies. For instance, it has been the&lt;br /&gt;
constant habit of these gentlemen to represent the&lt;br /&gt;
Society as inspired by a blind hatred of all pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, thus attempting to identify themselves and&lt;br /&gt;
their own frauds with the honourable houses. Or&lt;br /&gt;
they find occasion to gird at the Society as talking&lt;br /&gt;
against &amp;quot;the wicked publisher,&amp;quot; implying that we&lt;br /&gt;
are not defending ourselves against dishonest&lt;br /&gt;
people, but attacking the whole trade.&lt;br /&gt;
It has, however, been reserved for the Con-&lt;br /&gt;
temporary Review, of all magazines in the world, to&lt;br /&gt;
produce an article on the Society, and its work&lt;br /&gt;
which is indeed amazing.&lt;br /&gt;
One would not take notice of this production but&lt;br /&gt;
for the fact that it suggests certain questions which&lt;br /&gt;
should not only be administered to the author, but&lt;br /&gt;
to all those persons who are contemplating such&lt;br /&gt;
articles on this subject. If before sitting down to&lt;br /&gt;
write, they will kindly read and consider these&lt;br /&gt;
questions, they may possibly save themselves the&lt;br /&gt;
subsequent affliction of discovering that they have&lt;br /&gt;
been writing on a subject of which they know&lt;br /&gt;
nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not necessary that we should reply in detail&lt;br /&gt;
to the article; and, indeed, very much of it is&lt;br /&gt;
exactly what we have always ourselves advocated.&lt;br /&gt;
As for the rest&mdash;but the questions will themselves&lt;br /&gt;
indicate the nature of the reply which might be&lt;br /&gt;
made.&lt;br /&gt;
They are these :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Have you ever studied the different methods&lt;br /&gt;
of publishing? If so, when and where? Under&lt;br /&gt;
whose guidance, and with what advantages?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What steps have you taken to ascertain the&lt;br /&gt;
cost of producing books, the money spent on&lt;br /&gt;
advertising, the trade price of selling, the demand&lt;br /&gt;
for different kinds of books, the risk in producing&lt;br /&gt;
books, what and of what kind? In fact, what&lt;br /&gt;
special knowledge do you possess of the publishing&lt;br /&gt;
trade?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Whit have you learned, before writing this&lt;br /&gt;
precious article, concerning the various kinds of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement presented to authors by publishers?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Do you know, by personal examination and ex-&lt;br /&gt;
perience, what these agreements represent, namely,&lt;br /&gt;
can you tell, by reading an agreement, what the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher offers to the author, and what he reserves&lt;br /&gt;
for himself?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Do you know, by experience of your own, the&lt;br /&gt;
treatment of authors by their publishers? In the&lt;br /&gt;
case you quote, where you received twelve guineas,&lt;br /&gt;
have you ascertained what amount was made by&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you aware that the body of men, whom&lt;br /&gt;
you take upon yourself to assail, have been engaged&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 12 (#26) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
for five years in a most careful and painstaking&lt;br /&gt;
examination of the whole of the publishing business&lt;br /&gt;
in every branch?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you aware that this body of men, the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of the Society of Authors, in all their&lt;br /&gt;
publications have made, and are making, but one&lt;br /&gt;
demand, namely, for just and honourable deal-&lt;br /&gt;
ing?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you also aware that they have demanded,&lt;br /&gt;
and are still demanding, not only equitable agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments, but the keeping of those agreements to the&lt;br /&gt;
letter?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Have you read their reports and their circu-&lt;br /&gt;
lars?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
If you cannot answer these questions, we would&lt;br /&gt;
submit another. &amp;quot;What right have you to be&lt;br /&gt;
heard on the questions at all?&amp;quot; We would also ask&lt;br /&gt;
you to select those adjectives in the English lan-&lt;br /&gt;
guage which apply to one who ventures to talk in&lt;br /&gt;
public on a subject concerning which he is pro-&lt;br /&gt;
foundly ignorant.&lt;br /&gt;
If you can answer these questions; if you have&lt;br /&gt;
really made a study of a very difficult and obscure&lt;br /&gt;
subject, kept purposely in obscurity by interested&lt;br /&gt;
persons; if you have really read the reports and&lt;br /&gt;
papers of the Society, and have duly considered&lt;br /&gt;
and meditated on them, you have, perhaps, a right&lt;br /&gt;
to speak.&lt;br /&gt;
Supposing this to be the case, let us ask the&lt;br /&gt;
writer what he means by the following :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The bargain between author and publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
one perfectly well understood.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Is it? Then, we will ask him another question.&lt;br /&gt;
It is this.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Will you, who so perfectly well understand the&lt;br /&gt;
bargain between author and publisher, kindly ex-&lt;br /&gt;
plain the following agreement?&amp;quot; A. B. publishes&lt;br /&gt;
covenants with C. D. the author, as follows :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
He is to have the sole copyright of a MS. on the&lt;br /&gt;
following conditions. He is to publish it at his&lt;br /&gt;
sole risk and expense: he is to sell it at 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
each copy: after 500 copies are sold he is to give&lt;br /&gt;
the author a royalty of 15 per cent, on the trade&lt;br /&gt;
price, not the published price. He is to decide&lt;br /&gt;
if any cheaper editions are to be issued: he is to&lt;br /&gt;
have the power of selling off remainder of stock:&lt;br /&gt;
he is, in fact, to have the complete control of the&lt;br /&gt;
book.&lt;br /&gt;
The book is printed in small pica, crown 8vo,&lt;br /&gt;
and contains 21^ sheets. The question for you&lt;br /&gt;
who understand so clearly the bargain between&lt;br /&gt;
author and publisher is this. When 3,000 copies&lt;br /&gt;
of the book have been sold, allowing ^30 for&lt;br /&gt;
advertising, what profit the author has made and&lt;br /&gt;
what the publisher? We will answer this question&lt;br /&gt;
for you in our next number.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the author of this paper says, &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
royalty system is so obviously fair that there is no&lt;br /&gt;
need to say much about it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Quite so. Then we will put to him the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
ing questions. &amp;quot;Will you kindly explain what&lt;br /&gt;
you mean by the royalty system? What, if you&lt;br /&gt;
please, is the royalty system? What percentage&lt;br /&gt;
should be given on an equitable royalty? And&lt;br /&gt;
why? What does that leave the publisher?&lt;br /&gt;
You had, probably, something in your mind when&lt;br /&gt;
you wrote the passage. What, we repeat, is the&lt;br /&gt;
royalty system? Is it ten, twenty, thirty, forty&lt;br /&gt;
per cent.? And, in any case, why do you fix upon&lt;br /&gt;
that proportion, and what does it leave for the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Again, seeing that if our Society is strong on any&lt;br /&gt;
point at all, it is upon the point of equitable agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments, seeing that from the outset it has never&lt;br /&gt;
ceased to argue in favour of such agreements, and&lt;br /&gt;
seeing that it has always insisted on such agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ments being carried out honestly and to the letter,&lt;br /&gt;
what does the writer of the paper mean by the&lt;br /&gt;
following solemn peroration?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are our contracts to be binding upon us only&lt;br /&gt;
so long as we find it profitable to ourselves to keep&lt;br /&gt;
them?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are our moral instincts getting feebler? Are&lt;br /&gt;
we losing our sense of honour?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is our respect for the sacredness of plighted&lt;br /&gt;
troth on the wane?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;If they who ought to be the trainers of the&lt;br /&gt;
national constitution are helping to improve it, and&lt;br /&gt;
helping others to believe that literary workers are&lt;br /&gt;
only workers for hire and determined on getting it,&lt;br /&gt;
even at the price of broken faith and broken pledges,&lt;br /&gt;
then there can be but a gloomy outlook for us all&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
the days of shame are at hand!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Really! This is indeed terrible. But this critic&lt;br /&gt;
now has our questions before him and will perhaps&lt;br /&gt;
answer them.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us remind him, lastly, of certain lines, written&lt;br /&gt;
a hundred and fifty years ago, and still, unhappily,&lt;br /&gt;
applicable.&lt;br /&gt;
Look thro&amp;#039; the world, in every other trade,&lt;br /&gt;
The same employment&amp;#039;s cause of kindness made;&lt;br /&gt;
At least, appearance of goodwill creates,&lt;br /&gt;
And every fool puffs off the fool he hates.&lt;br /&gt;
Cobblers with cobblers smoke away the night,&lt;br /&gt;
And in the common cause ev&amp;#039;n players unite.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors alone, with more than savage rage,&lt;br /&gt;
Unnatural war with brother authors wage.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
the author.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HELPABLE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
From an Address by Edmund Gosse.*&lt;br /&gt;
GRUB STREET is with us to-day. It is&lt;br /&gt;
mitigated to some degree, no doubt&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
greatly mitigated&mdash;by the blessed institu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of journalism, which has opened the sluice&lt;br /&gt;
and, to a great extent, let out the waters. With&lt;br /&gt;
journalism in particular we have nothing to do&lt;br /&gt;
here. But when we put aside the relief now&lt;br /&gt;
afforded by journalism we find things much in the&lt;br /&gt;
same condition as they were in the last century, or&lt;br /&gt;
even in many cases worse, since, if journalism now&lt;br /&gt;
exists, the patron does not exist. You have&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps some idea, but I think it very possible&lt;br /&gt;
that you have but little idea, of how much suffer-&lt;br /&gt;
ing and miserj&amp;#039; is going on among what are called&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;people of letters&amp;quot; in the present day; how many&lt;br /&gt;
men there are&amp;#039;that are struggling, loafing about&lt;br /&gt;
the British Museum, and walking idly up and&lt;br /&gt;
down Fleet Street&mdash;men who might perhaps be&lt;br /&gt;
the Otways and Chattertons of the age if they had&lt;br /&gt;
a little more encouragement given to them. But&lt;br /&gt;
these people-&mdash;for again we must face the matter&lt;br /&gt;
not with sentimentality but with common-sense&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
these men are divided into two great classes, the&lt;br /&gt;
helpable and the unhelpable. Permit me for a&lt;br /&gt;
moment to deal with the unhelpable.&lt;br /&gt;
In the last century the unhelpable was typically&lt;br /&gt;
exemplified by a certain Samuel Boyse, the author&lt;br /&gt;
of a poem on the Deity. Samuel Boyse seems to&lt;br /&gt;
have started in life with as many advantages as&lt;br /&gt;
ever befel a man of letters. The number of Earls&lt;br /&gt;
and Countesses that filed through bis career is&lt;br /&gt;
enough to make the modern unpatroned author&lt;br /&gt;
envious; but it was impossible for them to help&lt;br /&gt;
Boyse. His whole life was a long continuation of&lt;br /&gt;
his being picked up out of the gutter by some&lt;br /&gt;
noble patron, put on his legs, and seen to fall&lt;br /&gt;
again the moment he was left. He is the person&lt;br /&gt;
who spent six weeks in his bed with his arm thrust&lt;br /&gt;
through a blanket, because he had pawned every-&lt;br /&gt;
thing which he possessed in the world, and who,&lt;br /&gt;
when a subscription was made for him, spent the&lt;br /&gt;
first money that came in, still in bed, with his&lt;br /&gt;
hand still through the blanket, in a feast of truffles.&lt;br /&gt;
The same Samuel Boyse opened a subscription for&lt;br /&gt;
his poems, and, marvellous as it may seem, that&lt;br /&gt;
was responded to. As the contributions came in&lt;br /&gt;
they were, with slow regularity, expended upon a&lt;br /&gt;
delightful potation called &amp;quot;Twopenny&amp;quot; &mdash; hot&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Twopenny.&amp;quot; Samuel Boyse had a commission&lt;br /&gt;
given to him by a publisher, to translate Fenelon&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;On the Existence of the Deity,&amp;quot; and he celebrated&lt;br /&gt;
that event by immediately marrying. There was&lt;br /&gt;
no help whatever for Samuel Boyse, and at last,&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Grievances of Authors.&amp;quot; Field and Tuer. 2s. (xl.&lt;br /&gt;
when he had gone through every possible phase of&lt;br /&gt;
beggary and misery, he died.&lt;br /&gt;
Do you suppose that there are no Samuel&lt;br /&gt;
Boyses nowadays? Pardon me for insisting that&lt;br /&gt;
there are. I will mention one instance which it is&lt;br /&gt;
impossible can wound anyone now, an instance of&lt;br /&gt;
a man who has been for some years past dead&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
and who I believe was known, or known of, by&lt;br /&gt;
some of my friends on this platform. He was a&lt;br /&gt;
man who came up from one of the Universities&lt;br /&gt;
with some amount of knowledge, for he said he had&lt;br /&gt;
taken a First, although it must be confessed that&lt;br /&gt;
his name never could be found in the lists. This&lt;br /&gt;
man had the highest ambition to excel in literature,&lt;br /&gt;
yet all that he managed to make was 35*. a week&lt;br /&gt;
from the editor of a weekly paper, to keep himself&lt;br /&gt;
in board and lodging. Well, if this man had had&lt;br /&gt;
the slightest power of helping himself, there is no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt that he might have risen to better things;&lt;br /&gt;
but he was in a much worse position than Boyse,&lt;br /&gt;
for there was no interest taken in him by the&lt;br /&gt;
aristocracy, and no curiosity felt about his poems.&lt;br /&gt;
He was left to his unaided efforts. His unaided&lt;br /&gt;
efforts plunged him lower and lower in the&lt;br /&gt;
tide of things, till at last, at the office where he got&lt;br /&gt;
his only salary, a meerschaum pipe was missed&lt;br /&gt;
by the editor. There was some mystery about it&lt;br /&gt;
for a little while, when there came a letter from the&lt;br /&gt;
contributor, saying that the Rubicon was now&lt;br /&gt;
crossed, and that he wished to resign his position&lt;br /&gt;
on the paper; he enclosed a ticket from a pawn-&lt;br /&gt;
broker. After this unfortunate incident, he sank&lt;br /&gt;
lower and lower, till he hung all day about the&lt;br /&gt;
British Musuem. At last he became a super at a&lt;br /&gt;
theatre, and then he faded out altogether. Now,&lt;br /&gt;
those two persons, whom I take as types, belong to&lt;br /&gt;
the unhelpable class, with which we can do nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
What, then, of the helpable author? The&lt;br /&gt;
helpable author is not the fashionable novelist,&lt;br /&gt;
the fashionable essayist, the successful man who&lt;br /&gt;
has many other strings to his bow, who has a&lt;br /&gt;
salary here, who has private means there. No!&lt;br /&gt;
The person whom we wish, if possible, to do some-&lt;br /&gt;
thing to help is the half-successful writer, the&lt;br /&gt;
person who has a right to exist, and who yet&lt;br /&gt;
cannot force himself, or herself, strongly upon the&lt;br /&gt;
public. And there are two classes of the helpable&lt;br /&gt;
to whom I would specially draw attention. One&lt;br /&gt;
of those consists of women.&lt;br /&gt;
Here again I speak of the smaller, yet legitimately&lt;br /&gt;
successful, lady-writers. My own impression is&lt;br /&gt;
that most ladies of this class claim rather less than&lt;br /&gt;
more of what they have a right to; they have their&lt;br /&gt;
small circle of readers, a circle for whom they&lt;br /&gt;
prepare innocent and delightful recreation. They&lt;br /&gt;
have a right to be protected for the sake of these&lt;br /&gt;
readers, as well as for their own sake. They have&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 14 (#28) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
a right to demand that there should be some body,&lt;br /&gt;
some society, ready to see that they do not fall into&lt;br /&gt;
traps, that they.do not become the prey of sharpers,&lt;br /&gt;
and, in short, to protect their legitimate interests.&lt;br /&gt;
And there is, again, another class of the helpable;&lt;br /&gt;
that is the beginner, the new man of genius. I&lt;br /&gt;
know nothing that strikes one more in observing&lt;br /&gt;
literary life than the fact that the new man, the&lt;br /&gt;
man who comes forward with a book for the first&lt;br /&gt;
time, unless he is exceedingly lucky, makes a&lt;br /&gt;
mistake. He forms a disadvantageous bargain, he&lt;br /&gt;
does something or other which cripples him at the&lt;br /&gt;
outset, and this he has to wipe out and forget&lt;br /&gt;
before he can make a proper start. The beginner,&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, forms another class whom we desire, by&lt;br /&gt;
this Society, to have the privilege of protecting and&lt;br /&gt;
helping.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
ON COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
DURING the present year, up to May the first,&lt;br /&gt;
forty-eight new members have joined the&lt;br /&gt;
Society. This is a very gratifying increase.&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time it cannot be denied that there are&lt;br /&gt;
a large number of persons engaged in the profession&lt;br /&gt;
of literature who look coldly on without joining the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, while we are working in their interests.&lt;br /&gt;
That our efforts have not been fruitless is shown by&lt;br /&gt;
many facts. For instance, before we began, every&lt;br /&gt;
publisher would have felt himself insulted at the&lt;br /&gt;
mere proposal to audit his accounts. No publisher&lt;br /&gt;
would now refuse. Again, while four or five years&lt;br /&gt;
ago authors were meekly accepting a ten per cent,&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, they are getting almost everywhere two-&lt;br /&gt;
pence in the shilling, which is a sixteen per cent,&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, and in some cases twenty and twenty-five&lt;br /&gt;
per cent, royalty. The influence of the Society is&lt;br /&gt;
also shown by the eagerness of certain houses to offer&lt;br /&gt;
guarantees of good faith. The policy of the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee has always been the same: to ascertain&lt;br /&gt;
carefully and to set forth the truth as to cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, trade returns and profits, methods of pub&lt;br /&gt;
lication and what they mean&mdash;agreements and what&lt;br /&gt;
they mean&mdash;in short, to supply their members with&lt;br /&gt;
the means of ascertaining what it is that a prof-&lt;br /&gt;
fered agreement gives the author and what it&lt;br /&gt;
reserves to the publisher. To learn these things&lt;br /&gt;
has taken the Committee five years of unremitting&lt;br /&gt;
labour. Nor are they quite certain, yet, that they&lt;br /&gt;
have learned the whole truth. Those who looked&lt;br /&gt;
for a sudden revolution in the business relations of&lt;br /&gt;
literature, as well as those who looked for no prac-&lt;br /&gt;
tical results at all, are equally disappointed. The&lt;br /&gt;
Society, however, has pursued and is pursuing the&lt;br /&gt;
even tenor of its way.&lt;br /&gt;
The &amp;quot;Cost of Production&amp;quot; is out of print&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
another edition, after correcting a few errors of no&lt;br /&gt;
great importance, will be issued as soon as it can&lt;br /&gt;
be got ready.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committeehave carefully considered theques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the proposed &amp;quot;leaflets,&amp;quot; the result of these&lt;br /&gt;
deliberations being the appearance of &amp;quot;The Author.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Chairman was fortunate enough to secure at&lt;br /&gt;
a second-hand book shop, Wilkie Collins&amp;#039;s large&lt;br /&gt;
collection of tracts and papers connected with&lt;br /&gt;
International Copyright. He has presented them&lt;br /&gt;
to the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
A memorial has been drawn up addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
First Lord of the Treasury on the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;
Civil Pensions List. Next month, perhaps, we&lt;br /&gt;
may have more to say on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
At the beginning of last year the Chairman&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Guardian a series of letters on the&lt;br /&gt;
management of the Literary Department of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge,&lt;br /&gt;
with no other apparent effect than to call forth a&lt;br /&gt;
good deal of private correspondence from authors&lt;br /&gt;
who have been in the hands of this Department.&lt;br /&gt;
Early this year he again addressed the Publication&lt;br /&gt;
Committee on a special case, with the expected&lt;br /&gt;
result. He has now written a pamphlet on the&lt;br /&gt;
whole question, which, together with the previous&lt;br /&gt;
correspondence, will be published immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
The points at issue are confidently left to the&lt;br /&gt;
decision of the public.&lt;br /&gt;
A case of extensive fraud&mdash;so extensive that the&lt;br /&gt;
man chiefly concerned is found to have a hundred&lt;br /&gt;
unpublished MSS. in his possession&mdash;was taken up&lt;br /&gt;
by the Committee, but broke down owing to the&lt;br /&gt;
refusal of the victims to give evidence! This is&lt;br /&gt;
an interesting illustration of the black ignorance&lt;br /&gt;
which prevails as to literary property. Not one of&lt;br /&gt;
these men or women, had he or she been robbed of&lt;br /&gt;
a watch, a purse, a mantle, or an umbrella, but&lt;br /&gt;
would have gone straight to the nearest magistrate&lt;br /&gt;
and gave evidence fearlessly. But it was only a&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript&mdash;only a thing which might have been&lt;br /&gt;
worth many thousand pounds! In such a case as&lt;br /&gt;
this, we can only hope to instruct the world and&lt;br /&gt;
gradually to create as great a jealousy over literary&lt;br /&gt;
property as prevails for every other kind.&lt;br /&gt;
In another case, however, when the victim was&lt;br /&gt;
willing and ready to come forward, we recovered&lt;br /&gt;
for him the money of which he had been plundered&lt;br /&gt;
and the unsold copies of his work.&lt;br /&gt;
A case was recently brought before us in which&lt;br /&gt;
a country newspaper had republished, without&lt;br /&gt;
permission, a paper from a magazine. We obtained&lt;br /&gt;
compensation for the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sprigge&amp;#039;s book on the &amp;quot;Methods of Publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion,&amp;quot; with the frauds, tricks, and dangers to which&lt;br /&gt;
the author is exposed in every one, is very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
ready. It will be issued as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
15&lt;br /&gt;
A circular letter has been issued by the Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right Committee addressed to colonial libraries and&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers asking for information on the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
pirated editions in the various colonies, and how&lt;br /&gt;
far such editions damage the sale of the authorised&lt;br /&gt;
English editions.&lt;br /&gt;
The draft of the Copyright Bill has been placed&lt;br /&gt;
in the hands of Mr. James Rolt, New Square,&lt;br /&gt;
Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn, for revision up to the date of the&lt;br /&gt;
latest legislation.&lt;br /&gt;
The question of copyright in pieces for recitation&lt;br /&gt;
has been brought before the Committee. It was&lt;br /&gt;
suggested that perhaps authors might not feel&lt;br /&gt;
themselves injured by a recitation which could not&lt;br /&gt;
fail to increase their popularity. It was decided to&lt;br /&gt;
ask the opinion of two gentlemen, well known pro-&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
ducers of such pieces.&lt;br /&gt;
It was recently stated in a morning paper that&lt;br /&gt;
any person, author or not, may become a member&lt;br /&gt;
of this Society. The statement was publicly denied&lt;br /&gt;
by the Chairman. As, however, there existed no&lt;br /&gt;
bye-law on the subject, but only the practice of&lt;br /&gt;
the Committee, and the implied understanding&lt;br /&gt;
that members should be authors, three have been&lt;br /&gt;
passed, viz.:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
1. No one shall be eligible for membership or&lt;br /&gt;
fellowship of the Society who is not actually an&lt;br /&gt;
author of some published literary or artistic work.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Should anyone desire to consult the Society as&lt;br /&gt;
to literary work, without having as yet qualified for&lt;br /&gt;
membership, the Secretary may then and there&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
reporting the case at the next Committee Meeting &mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
admit him as an Associate only, on payment of one&lt;br /&gt;
guinea, his privileges to consist only of the right to&lt;br /&gt;
ask advice from the office, this right to terminate&lt;br /&gt;
at the end of the current year. Such an Associate&lt;br /&gt;
can have no part in the administration.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Any donor of ten guineas shall be admitted&lt;br /&gt;
by the Secretary then and there, reporting the&lt;br /&gt;
case at the next Committee, to be an Honorary&lt;br /&gt;
Associate of the Society. Such Associate can take&lt;br /&gt;
no part in the administration.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY QUERIES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Who Wrote This Ballad?&lt;br /&gt;
BOLD TURPIN upon Hounslow Heath&lt;br /&gt;
His black mare Bess bestrode,&lt;br /&gt;
When he saw a Bishop&amp;#039;s coach and four&lt;br /&gt;
Sweeping along the road:&lt;br /&gt;
He bade the coachman stop, but he,&lt;br /&gt;
Suspecting of the job,&lt;br /&gt;
His horses lashed&mdash;but soon rolled off&lt;br /&gt;
With a brace of slugs in his nob.&lt;br /&gt;
Galloping to the carriage door,&lt;br /&gt;
He thrust his face within,&lt;br /&gt;
When the Chaplain cried&mdash;&amp;quot; Sure as eggs is eggs&lt;br /&gt;
That is the bold Turpin.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Quoth Turpin, &amp;quot;You shall eat your words&lt;br /&gt;
With sauce of leaden bullet:&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
So clapped his pistol to his mouth,&lt;br /&gt;
And fired it down his gullet.&lt;br /&gt;
The Bishop fell upon his knees,&lt;br /&gt;
When Turpin bade him stand:&lt;br /&gt;
And gave him his watch, a bag of gold,&lt;br /&gt;
And six bright rings from his hand.&lt;br /&gt;
Rolling with laughter Turpin plucked&lt;br /&gt;
The Bishop&amp;#039;s wig from his head,&lt;br /&gt;
And popp&amp;#039;d it on the Chaplain&amp;#039;s poll&lt;br /&gt;
As he sat in the corner dead.&lt;br /&gt;
Upon the box he tied him then,&lt;br /&gt;
With the reins behind his back,&lt;br /&gt;
Put a pipe in his mouth, the whip in his hand,&lt;br /&gt;
And set off the horses smack!&lt;br /&gt;
Then whispered in the black mare&amp;#039;s ear,&lt;br /&gt;
Who luckily wasn&amp;#039;t fagg&amp;#039;d,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You must gallop fast and far, my dear,&lt;br /&gt;
Or I shall be surely scragg&amp;#039;d.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
He never drew bit, nor stopped to bait,&lt;br /&gt;
Nor walked up hill or down,&lt;br /&gt;
Until he came to Gloucester Gate,&lt;br /&gt;
Which is the Assizes town.&lt;br /&gt;
Full eighty miles in one dark night&lt;br /&gt;
He made his black mare fly,&lt;br /&gt;
And walk&amp;#039;d into court at nine o&amp;#039;clock,&lt;br /&gt;
To swear an alibi.&lt;br /&gt;
A hue and cry the Bishop raised,&lt;br /&gt;
And so did Sheriff Forster,&lt;br /&gt;
But stared to hear that Turpin was&lt;br /&gt;
By nine o&amp;#039;clock at Gloucester.&lt;br /&gt;
So all agreed it couldn&amp;#039;t be him&lt;br /&gt;
Neither by hook nor crook:&lt;br /&gt;
And said that the Bishop and Chaplain was&lt;br /&gt;
Most certainly mistook.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
AT WORK.&lt;br /&gt;
This column is reserved entirely for Members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, wlio are invited to keep tlie Editor&lt;br /&gt;
acquainted with their work and engagements.&lt;br /&gt;
PROFESSOR MAX MULLER is engaged in&lt;br /&gt;
preparing for the press his second volume&lt;br /&gt;
of Gifford Lectures, delivered last year at&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow. The title will be Physical Religion. The&lt;br /&gt;
next courses, which will be delivered at Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
in 1891 and 1892, will treat of Anthropological and&lt;br /&gt;
Psychological Religion.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Max Muller&amp;#039;s new edition of the &amp;quot;Rig-&lt;br /&gt;
Veda,&amp;quot; with Sayana&amp;#039;s Commentary, is progressing.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE A UTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Two volumes of 800 pages 4to. are finished. The&lt;br /&gt;
third volume is passing through the press, and it is&lt;br /&gt;
hoped that the whole work, in four volumes, will be&lt;br /&gt;
ready for the ninth meeting of the International Con-&lt;br /&gt;
gress of Orientalists, to be held at Oxford in 1892.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Edmund Gosse will publish this month a&lt;br /&gt;
reprint of his early poems, under the title of &amp;quot; On&lt;br /&gt;
Viol and Flute&amp;quot; (Messrs. Kcgan Paul, Trench,&lt;br /&gt;
Triibner and Co.), with illustrations by Mr. Alma&lt;br /&gt;
Tadema and Mr. Hamo Thornycroft. The June&lt;br /&gt;
volume of the &amp;quot;Camelot Classics&amp;quot; will be the&lt;br /&gt;
Scandinavian portion of Mr. Gosse&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Northern&lt;br /&gt;
Studies,&amp;quot; originally issued in 1879. Mr. Gosse is&lt;br /&gt;
also engaged on a collected edition of the poetical&lt;br /&gt;
works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, founded on the&lt;br /&gt;
papers placed in his hands by the late Mr. Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Browning.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Alfred Austin is engaged upon a poem, in&lt;br /&gt;
form more or less like &amp;quot;Prince Lucifer,&amp;quot; which will&lt;br /&gt;
exhibit the influence and operation of Pessimism&lt;br /&gt;
on a richly endowed nature. Messrs. Macmillan&lt;br /&gt;
will publish early in the autumn a collected edition&lt;br /&gt;
of his poetical works in six volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
The collected verses of Mr. Walter Herries&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock will shortly appear in one of the volumes&lt;br /&gt;
called the &amp;quot;Rosslyn Series&amp;quot; (Remington and Co.).&lt;br /&gt;
A story, entitled &amp;quot;A Blind Musician,&amp;quot; adapted&lt;br /&gt;
from the Russian of Korolenko by Stepniak and&lt;br /&gt;
William Westall, has just been published by Ward&lt;br /&gt;
and Downey.&lt;br /&gt;
In the course of a few days the same publishers&lt;br /&gt;
will issue by the same author a collection of strange&lt;br /&gt;
crimes put into narrative form and told in tales.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. James Payn&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;The Burnt Million,&amp;quot; 3 vols.,&lt;br /&gt;
has just been published by Messrs. Chatto and&lt;br /&gt;
Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;London City.&amp;quot; Those who appreciated Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Kensington,&amp;quot; will be glad to hear that he&lt;br /&gt;
has completed a similar work for the same publishers&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;Messrs. Field and Tuer. It will be illustrated by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Luker, junior. The published price will&lt;br /&gt;
be 42J.; but subscribers who pay in advance can&lt;br /&gt;
have it for 2 if.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stanley Little is engaged upon a novel&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with Sussex life and scenes. His new play&lt;br /&gt;
will probably see the light in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Plain Tales from the&lt;br /&gt;
Hills &amp;quot; will form one of the next volumes of Baron&lt;br /&gt;
Tauchnitz&amp;#039;s Continental Series of English Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Hermann&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Scarlet Fortune&amp;quot; is to&lt;br /&gt;
be issued in shilling form by Messrs. Trischler and&lt;br /&gt;
Co. His &amp;quot;Eagle Joe&amp;quot; will shortly appear as a&lt;br /&gt;
special number of the Illustrated London News.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. David Christie Murray has completed his&lt;br /&gt;
lecture engagements in Australia, and is now&lt;br /&gt;
lecturing in New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. G. Chisholm&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Handbook of Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercial Geography&amp;quot; has recently been published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Longmans and Co. (515 pp., 29 maps,&lt;br /&gt;
and index, price \(ss.) This work is an attempt to&lt;br /&gt;
give interest to the leading facts of commerce by&lt;br /&gt;
setting forth the natural conditions that account for&lt;br /&gt;
the magnitude and direction of international com-&lt;br /&gt;
merce all over the globe. The work is divided&lt;br /&gt;
into two main sections, one dealing with com-&lt;br /&gt;
modities, the other with countries. There is also&lt;br /&gt;
a statistical appendix which shows by five years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
averages the absolute and relative amount of&lt;br /&gt;
foreign trade in the more important articles of the&lt;br /&gt;
chief commercial countries of the world.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Alec Tweedie, author of &amp;quot;A Girl&amp;#039;s Ride in&lt;br /&gt;
Iceland&amp;quot; (Griffith, Farran, and Co., 5*.), has pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 2s. 6d.) a&lt;br /&gt;
little book on the &amp;quot;Oberammergau Passion Play.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
It contains historical notes, an account of the&lt;br /&gt;
origin of Passion Plays, a full account of the Play&lt;br /&gt;
itself, and of the country (how to reach it, &amp;amp;c),&lt;br /&gt;
with a chapter on Church Plays specially written for&lt;br /&gt;
this work by the Rev. Canon Shuttleworth.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John W. Lovell, of New York, has effected&lt;br /&gt;
a publishing combination which may prove of&lt;br /&gt;
great importance to English authors. Under the&lt;br /&gt;
system of unlicensed competition in the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
English books, which has been developing in the&lt;br /&gt;
United States for the past five years or more, the&lt;br /&gt;
works of popular English writers, and especially of&lt;br /&gt;
English novelists, have been reproduced in half a&lt;br /&gt;
dozen ditferent editions within a week of the&lt;br /&gt;
appearance of the authorised American edition.&lt;br /&gt;
This has resulted in a war of prices which has&lt;br /&gt;
left little or no profit out of which the recognised&lt;br /&gt;
editor can pay the English writer. At the same&lt;br /&gt;
time the quality of the books produced under this&lt;br /&gt;
suicidal system has grown steadily worse. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Lovell has purchased the plates and stock of no&lt;br /&gt;
less than twenty of the principal American firms&lt;br /&gt;
engaged in the business of issuing reprints of&lt;br /&gt;
English books. This reduction of twenty competing&lt;br /&gt;
houses to one will certainly tend to bring order&lt;br /&gt;
out of the chaos which has been so destructive&lt;br /&gt;
alike to the interests of the English author and the&lt;br /&gt;
American publisher. Mr. Lovell has a large&lt;br /&gt;
opportunity and should he, as there is reason to&lt;br /&gt;
hope, use it responsibly, the amalgamation of trade&lt;br /&gt;
interests which he has accomplished will be likely&lt;br /&gt;
to bring about beneficent results for English writers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. James Baker, F.R.G.S., has recently brought&lt;br /&gt;
out &amp;quot;By the Southern Sea, a Summer Idyll&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(Longmans, 6s.). The work has been well received,&lt;br /&gt;
not only here, but in America. The same author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
*7&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Papers on Forgotten Great Englishmen,&amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in the Leisure Hour, have had the effect&lt;br /&gt;
of reviving the memory of one Englishman at least,&lt;br /&gt;
who was for nearly fifty years a leader of the&lt;br /&gt;
Wyclyfites in Bohemia. The papers have been&lt;br /&gt;
translated into Czech, and will appear as a feuilleton&lt;br /&gt;
in the Silve Slivo, a Bohemian paper.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. T. Bailey Saunders has in the Press &amp;quot;Coun-&lt;br /&gt;
sels and Maxims,&amp;quot; being the second part of Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Schopenhauser&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Aphorismen zur Leibesweis-&lt;br /&gt;
heit.&amp;quot; It is to be uniform with his &amp;quot;Wisdom of&lt;br /&gt;
Life,&amp;quot; the first part of the same work (Sonnenschein&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., 2s. 6d.). His translation of Schopen-&lt;br /&gt;
hauser&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Religious Dialogues, and other Essays,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is going into a second edition.&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. E. Gough has brought out (Kegan Paul,&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., price i6x. each volume) the third volume&lt;br /&gt;
of his work, entitled, &amp;quot;The Bible True from the&lt;br /&gt;
Beginning.&amp;quot; He proposes to complete it in seven&lt;br /&gt;
volumes. The author writes, &amp;quot;The two chief&lt;br /&gt;
principles of the work are the following. First,&lt;br /&gt;
that there is in Scripture a system of grades and&lt;br /&gt;
grade words which proves the Bible to be verbally&lt;br /&gt;
inspired. Second, that far beyond what is usually&lt;br /&gt;
supposed, the histories contained in the Bible are&lt;br /&gt;
moral and not literal.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rider Haggard&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Beatrice,&amp;quot; now running, is&lt;br /&gt;
published by a syndicate of papers. The &amp;quot;World&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Desire,&amp;quot; in which he has collaborated with Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrew Lang, is running in the New Review.&lt;br /&gt;
The first quarter&amp;#039;s collection of stories syndicated&lt;br /&gt;
for the Society has been sold for serial right&mdash;one&lt;br /&gt;
appearance only, after which each becomes again&lt;br /&gt;
the property of the owner&mdash;in Great Britain,&lt;br /&gt;
America, India, Australia, and New Zealand. The&lt;br /&gt;
Editor is now preparing the second quarter&amp;#039;s col-&lt;br /&gt;
lection. Will members who desire to belong&lt;br /&gt;
kindly read the leaflet on &amp;quot;Syndicating &amp;quot; in this&lt;br /&gt;
number?&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Oliphant will next year contribute a novel&lt;br /&gt;
to the Sun. At present she is in the Holy Land,&lt;br /&gt;
and writes that the change of air and scenery has&lt;br /&gt;
greatly invigorated her.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. George Macdonald has written the Christmas&lt;br /&gt;
Number for the Sunday Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. F. Smith, Fellow and Lecturer of St.&lt;br /&gt;
John&amp;#039;s College, Cambridge, has finished a new&lt;br /&gt;
translation of Rabelais. The text will be illustrated&lt;br /&gt;
by copious notes, giving among other things the&lt;br /&gt;
sources whence this great Master drew. A&lt;br /&gt;
limited edition only will be published, signed and&lt;br /&gt;
numbered. No cheaper edition will be produced.&lt;br /&gt;
The trade will not sell it at a lower than the&lt;br /&gt;
subscription price. The agent for the work is Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
A. P. Watt, 2, Paternoster Square.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor of Lippincott&amp;#039;s Magazine has secured&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Clarke Russell and Mr. Rudyard Kipling for&lt;br /&gt;
an early date.&lt;br /&gt;
The many admirers of &amp;quot;Owen Meredith &amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
make a note that his &amp;quot;Ring of Amasis&amp;quot; has just&lt;br /&gt;
been published (Macmillan, 3*. 6d.).&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Grant Allen has completed a new three-&lt;br /&gt;
volume novel.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir George Douglas is compiling the volume of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Scottish Minor Poets&amp;quot; for the Canterbury Series.&lt;br /&gt;
Starting with Ramsay&amp;#039;s publication of the &amp;quot;Tea&lt;br /&gt;
Table Miscellany&amp;quot; in the year 1724 (in which a few&lt;br /&gt;
original contributions were included), the collection&lt;br /&gt;
will comprise selections from Tannahill, Mother-&lt;br /&gt;
well, Lady Nairne, and a whole host of minor&lt;br /&gt;
writers, and will terminate probably with a specimen&lt;br /&gt;
of the song-writer&amp;#039;s art by the late Dr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
Mackay. The volume will be prefaced by a&lt;br /&gt;
critical and historical introduction, and will be&lt;br /&gt;
inscribed to the Lady John Scott, the foremost&lt;br /&gt;
living writer of Scottish Song.&lt;br /&gt;
The new weekly called Short Cuts begins with&lt;br /&gt;
a novel by Mr. George Sims. The conductors seem&lt;br /&gt;
to have secured as fine a collection of contributors&lt;br /&gt;
as can be found in the lists of any magazine in the&lt;br /&gt;
world. Presumably, taste in popular reading has&lt;br /&gt;
been developed as well as the number of readers.&lt;br /&gt;
Almost every writer of note seems included in the&lt;br /&gt;
list.&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. Charles D. Bell, D.D., of Cheltenham,&lt;br /&gt;
has just published &amp;quot;A Winter on the Nile&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(Hodder and Stoughton, price 6d.), containing the&lt;br /&gt;
record of a tour up the Nile as far as the Second&lt;br /&gt;
Cataract, with a sojourn at Luxor and a description&lt;br /&gt;
of recent discoveries and antiquities at Bubastis&lt;br /&gt;
and the Fayoum. The same author has recently&lt;br /&gt;
issued &amp;quot; Reminiscences of a Boyhood in the Early&lt;br /&gt;
Part of the Century&amp;quot; (Sampson, Low, and Co.,&lt;br /&gt;
price bd.).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Church and Creed&amp;quot; (William Blackwood and&lt;br /&gt;
Sons, price 4s. 6d.), by Professor Momerie, which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in December last, has gone into a second&lt;br /&gt;
edition. His &amp;quot;Origin of Evil&amp;quot; is in its sixth edition,&lt;br /&gt;
and his &amp;quot;Agnosticism &amp;quot; in the third.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Edward Walford, his long connection with&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hurst and Blackett being severed after&lt;br /&gt;
a period of twenty-seven years, has commenced a&lt;br /&gt;
new Peerage, called the &amp;quot;Royal Windsor Peerage,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
at a cost of one-third the price of Lodge. He has&lt;br /&gt;
added lists of an order of knighthood, that of St.&lt;br /&gt;
John of Jerusalem, of which the Queen has become&lt;br /&gt;
Patron and Head, and the Prince of Wales Grand&lt;br /&gt;
Prior.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walford is also bringing out at, he requests&lt;br /&gt;
us to say, his own cost, a &amp;quot;Life of William Pitt,&amp;quot; in&lt;br /&gt;
which he advances new and striking views of that&lt;br /&gt;
statesman.&lt;br /&gt;
The title of Mr. C. F. Keary&amp;#039;s newly-published&lt;br /&gt;
novel is &amp;quot;A Mariage dc Convenance&amp;quot; (Fisher&lt;br /&gt;
Unwin, 2 vols., price 21s.).&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. McGrigor Allan, author of &amp;quot;Women&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Suffrage Wrong in Principle and Practice,&amp;quot; has in&lt;br /&gt;
hand two treatises, one called &amp;quot;The Tobacco&lt;br /&gt;
Scourge,&amp;quot; the other, &amp;quot;Advantages of a Channel&lt;br /&gt;
Tunnel to our Enemies.&lt;br /&gt;
A second edition is just ready of Mr. F. Howard&lt;br /&gt;
Collins&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
(Williams and Norgate, 1 vol., 8vo, 15s.). The&lt;br /&gt;
work has been favourably received in America, and&lt;br /&gt;
has been translated at the present time into French,&lt;br /&gt;
German, and Russian.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor A. H. Church, F.R.S., has just issued&lt;br /&gt;
his &amp;quot;Chemistry of Paints and Painting&amp;quot; (Seeley&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., 8vo, pp. 312).&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Geo. Williamson, editor of Boyne&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Seven-&lt;br /&gt;
teenth Century Tokens,&amp;quot; has in hand a book on&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Coins of the Bible.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Egmont Hake&amp;#039;s work, &amp;quot;Free Trade in&lt;br /&gt;
Capital,&amp;quot; which has greatly interested the Emperor&lt;br /&gt;
of Germany, is being translated into German.&lt;br /&gt;
*&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
HE date of the Annual Dinner has not yet&lt;br /&gt;
been fixed, but it will be held rather earlier&lt;br /&gt;
in the year than formerly.&lt;br /&gt;
Circulars will be sent out as soon as the date&lt;br /&gt;
has been definitely decided upon.&lt;br /&gt;
The Secretary earnestly begs that in all cases&lt;br /&gt;
where a member can do so, he will give notice at&lt;br /&gt;
the office early of his intention to be present.&lt;br /&gt;
Last year the dinner suffered from the fact that the&lt;br /&gt;
tables were over-crowded. As, however, one quarter&lt;br /&gt;
of those present signified their intention within the&lt;br /&gt;
last day or two, the discomfort, if any, was unavoid-&lt;br /&gt;
able.&lt;br /&gt;
The tickets for the dinner will be, as last year,&lt;br /&gt;
10s. 6d. This sum will include claret. Payment&lt;br /&gt;
should be made to &amp;quot;Society of Authors (Dinner&lt;br /&gt;
Account),&amp;quot; and all Cheques and Postal Orders&lt;br /&gt;
should be crossed, &amp;quot;Imperial Bank, Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
Branch.&amp;quot; Much letter writing would be saved&mdash;a&lt;br /&gt;
serious consideration to an office whose clerical&lt;br /&gt;
staff is very small&mdash;if members would enclose the&lt;br /&gt;
money when ordering the tickets.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee hope that as many members as&lt;br /&gt;
possibly can, will be present.&lt;br /&gt;
In all cases where an opinion is desired upon a&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript, the author should send with it a table&lt;br /&gt;
of contents and a type-written scenario. This latter&lt;br /&gt;
can always be done at the expense of two or three&lt;br /&gt;
shillings. It must be clearly understood that a prac-&lt;br /&gt;
tised reader does not require to read the whole of an&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s work before being perfectly able to give a&lt;br /&gt;
just opinion on its merits. If by the help of a&lt;br /&gt;
scenario the reader can grasp at once the story, he&lt;br /&gt;
is so much the more able readily to point out any&lt;br /&gt;
errors of construction, and to devote more time to&lt;br /&gt;
examination of style and other technical points.&lt;br /&gt;
If he know the author&amp;#039;s design, it is possible to say&lt;br /&gt;
if he has succeeded or failed. With the honestest&lt;br /&gt;
intent in the world to thoroughly peruse a manu-&lt;br /&gt;
script, it is difficult not to get weary when the work&lt;br /&gt;
is badly written, and wrongly paged, and when much&lt;br /&gt;
time has to be idly spent in finding out what the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s story is before a decision can be arrived&lt;br /&gt;
at concerning its merits. The more the reader&lt;br /&gt;
is helped, the better he can discharge his duties.&lt;br /&gt;
It has been brought to our notice that certain&lt;br /&gt;
people are advertising that they publish &amp;quot;on terms&lt;br /&gt;
approved by the Society of Authors,&amp;quot; or words to&lt;br /&gt;
that effect.&lt;br /&gt;
It is pleasing to receive this acknowledgment&lt;br /&gt;
of our labours, but we are compelled to warn&lt;br /&gt;
readers that the Society is wholly unconnected&lt;br /&gt;
with any firm of publishers whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
This list includes books by members published&lt;br /&gt;
since the beginning of the year. In future issues&lt;br /&gt;
the list will be monthly. If omissions are dis-&lt;br /&gt;
covered the Editor will be glad to receive them.&lt;br /&gt;
Religious.&lt;br /&gt;
Gough, Edward. The Bible true from the&lt;br /&gt;
Beginning. Vols. II and III. Kegan Paul,&lt;br /&gt;
Trench and Co. 165. each.&lt;br /&gt;
Harper, Henry A. The Bible and Modern&lt;br /&gt;
Discoveries. 8vo, pp. 536. A. P. Watt. ids.&lt;br /&gt;
Lightfoot (Late Bishop of Durham). The&lt;br /&gt;
Apostolic Fathers. Part II. 3 vols. Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
millan. 48.C&lt;br /&gt;
Art, Fiction, and Belles Lettres.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen, Grant. The Tents of Shem. A Novel.&lt;br /&gt;
Chatto and Windus. 6d. The Tents of Shem. 3 vols. Chatto and&lt;br /&gt;
Windus. 3if. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
19&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Walter. The Holy Rose. Chatto and&lt;br /&gt;
Windus. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Black, William. The New Prince Fortunatus.&lt;br /&gt;
3 vols. Sampson Low. 31J. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Blackmore, R. D. Kit and Kitty: A Story of&lt;br /&gt;
West Middlesex. 3 vols. Sampson Low.&lt;br /&gt;
3is. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Bramston, M. Apples of Sodom. A Novel.&lt;br /&gt;
2 vols. Smith and Innes. 12s.&lt;br /&gt;
Caird, Mona. The Wing of Azrael. 3 vols.&lt;br /&gt;
Triibner and Co. 3 if. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
The Wing of Azrael. Kegan Paul and Triib-&lt;br /&gt;
ner and Co. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron, Mrs. H. Lovett. The Cost of a Lie.&lt;br /&gt;
A Novel. 2nd Edition. F. V. White, is.&lt;br /&gt;
Crawford, F. Marion. Sant I&amp;#039;lario. New&lt;br /&gt;
Edition. Macmillan. 6,r.&lt;br /&gt;
Marzio&amp;#039;s Crucifix. New Edition. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
3*. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Zoroaster. Macmillan. 3^. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Coleman, John. The White Ladye of Rosemount:&lt;br /&gt;
A Story of the Modern Stage. Hutchinson.&lt;br /&gt;
2S.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins, Wilkie (The late). A Rogue&amp;#039;s Life&lt;br /&gt;
from his Birth to his Marriage. Chatto and&lt;br /&gt;
Windus. 2s.; y. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Blind Love. A Novel. 3 vols. Chatto and&lt;br /&gt;
Windus. 315. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Croker, Mrs. Some One Else. Low. 2s.; 2s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Crommelin, May. Cross Roads. 3 vols. Hurst&lt;br /&gt;
and Blackett.&lt;br /&gt;
Crommelin, May, and Brown, John Moray.&lt;br /&gt;
Violet Vyvian, M.F.H. A Novel. F. V.&lt;br /&gt;
White. 2s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Desart, Earl of. The Little Chatelaine. 3 vols.&lt;br /&gt;
Swan Sonnenschein. 315. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Goodchili&amp;gt;, J. A. A Fairy Godfather. Reming-&lt;br /&gt;
ton. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Hoey, Mrs. Cashel. The Question of Cain.&lt;br /&gt;
New and Revised Edition. Ward and Downey.&lt;br /&gt;
6*.&lt;br /&gt;
Kennard, Mrs. Edward. Landing a Prize. A&lt;br /&gt;
Novel. F. V. White. 2S. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties, and&lt;br /&gt;
other Verses. Thaclter and Co. Soldiers Three: Stories of Barrack Room&lt;br /&gt;
Life. Sampson Low.&lt;br /&gt;
Lang, Andrew. Old Friends. Longmans. 6s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Lyall, Edna. The Hardy Norseman. New&lt;br /&gt;
Edition. Hurst and Blackett. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
Lytton, Lord. The Ring of Amasis. Macmillan&lt;br /&gt;
and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
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