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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
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CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
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Vou. III.—No. 5.]<br />
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OCTOBER 1, 1892. [PRicE SIXPENCE.<br />
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CONTENTS.<br />
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YW Warnings ake ae oye ee wo ase ae ae asc Lk<br />
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“— Howto Usethe Society... is as oe oe a woo 152<br />
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1 The Authors’ Syndicate... cee cae ace A igs we» 152<br />
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”% Notices... ee ae oa a me can en ee eee ty<br />
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oe “‘AtLast” ... sea a = ons ace as iy wee 154<br />
i) = Literary Property—<br />
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1.—Lee v. Gibbings. By Sir Frederick Pollock ... me =e 156<br />
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2.—A Publisher’s Bankruptcy... ... ne we moe we 156<br />
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3.—The Literary and Artistic Congress... Se ee ans LOT<br />
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4.—Godfrey v. Bradley ... ws ae es wee =a nee Oe,<br />
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“) Our Critics—The Bookseller and the Globe Sew eee 1<br />
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‘tT The New Books we oes ae ae oe eae oe sw» 162<br />
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¥ Notes from Paris. By Robert Sherard ... ae ae eae on 168<br />
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* Notes and News. By the Editor... aes a aus we we 165<br />
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Feuilleton— PAGE<br />
1.—My First Love ae eis ie é - 168<br />
2.—‘' What is the use? Said the goose ” He ste say 2109<br />
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The Shelley Centenary. Address by Mr. Edmund Gosse ... wes 140)<br />
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The Institute of Journalists. By James Baker ces mee sts LTD<br />
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Correspondence—<br />
1.—American Copyright os oes ose see ae aes he<br />
2.—'' Cataloguing” oan oes ay cae ate one «. 173<br />
3.—Books for Review ... 73<br />
4.—The Shelley Memorial F ane was wa 174<br />
5,—Literature asa Calling ... fe << ae ree ux lit<br />
6.—The Civil List = ies oe oe ae scnclts<br />
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‘At the Author’s Head” ... tte ae aS sas as wee LID<br />
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From the Papers ae an 5 ess -- on oeaed<br />
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New Books and New Editions... site es ee ee oe 416<br />
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
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1. The Annual Report. That for January 1892 can be had on application to the Secretary.<br />
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The Author, A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br />
<br />
Property. Issued to all Members.<br />
<br />
The Grievances of Authors. (The Leadenhall Press.) 2s. The Report of three Meetings on<br />
<br />
the general subject of Literature and its<br />
<br />
defence, held at Willis’s Rooms, March, 1887.<br />
<br />
Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Couxss, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher,<br />
<br />
95, Strand, W.C.) 3s.<br />
<br />
The History of the Societe des Gens de Lettres. By S. Squire Spricax, late Secretary to<br />
<br />
the Society. Is.<br />
<br />
The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br />
size of page, &c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br />
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
The Various Methods of Publication. By S.<br />
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Squrre Spriear. In this work, compiled from the<br />
<br />
papers in the Society’s offices, the various kinds of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements<br />
<br />
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3s.<br />
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Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell’s Copyright Bill now before Parlia-<br />
ment. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix<br />
containing the Berne Convention and the-American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lury. Eyre<br />
<br />
and Spottiswoode. 1s. 6d.<br />
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ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
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LINOTYPE GOMMPOSING MACHINE.<br />
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SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BOOKWORK.<br />
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“A MIGHTY BUT PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.”<br />
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OPINIONS OF VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS ON THE LINOTYPE.<br />
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For full List of Experts’ Reports and Opinions apply to the Company’s Secretary for Pamphlet.<br />
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“Tt will do away with type, and composition, and<br />
distribution, as now practised, will be known no more.”—<br />
Manchester Courier.<br />
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“ Saves 70 per cent. in cost of composing, and from three-<br />
fourths to nine-tenths in time.’’—Shefield and Rotherham<br />
Independent.<br />
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“Tt bids fair to revolutionise the present system,<br />
especially of newspaper production, for which it seems<br />
peculiarly well adapted. The instrument is one of the most<br />
beautiful and ingenious pieces of mechanism ever introduced<br />
in connection with the art of printing.” —Scotsman.<br />
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“The absolute saving of distribution, which is reckoned<br />
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as equivalent to one quarter of the cost of composition, is<br />
an important factor in the economy of this machine.<br />
With it comes emancipation from the frequent errors arising<br />
from faulty distribution. To pye matter is impossible.<br />
Unquestionably the most remarkable machine ever invented<br />
in the art of printing.”—The Printers’ Register.<br />
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“Tt stands to reason that an invention that economises as<br />
well as expedites work, without aiming a blow at those who<br />
had previously done without it, must be a success.” —Echo.<br />
<br />
“The rapidity and accuracy of the process impressed Mr.<br />
Gladstone very powerfully, or, as he expressed it himself, it<br />
‘ staggered’ him.”—Daily Chronicle.<br />
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“ One of the most remarkable machines ever invented.’’—<br />
Engineer.<br />
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“A steam-driven, type-composing and casting machine<br />
which really promises to bring about a revolution in the<br />
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composing-rooms of newspaper and book printing offices.”<br />
—Home and Colonial Matt.<br />
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* This remarkable invention promises to revolutionise all<br />
<br />
our ideas as to type-setting by machinery. It dispenses —<br />
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with movable type, and substitutes matrices in which the<br />
letters are cast in solid lines.” —Leeds Mercury.<br />
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* One of the most remarkable labour-saving Machines<br />
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ever devised in an age remarkable for such inventions.” —<br />
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—Western Mail (Cardiff).<br />
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“The work never stops, line after line is added with<br />
astonishing smoothness and regularity.” —Newcastle Daily<br />
Chronicle.<br />
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“Has come into existence to create amazement, where<br />
surprise hitherto found a home.<br />
<br />
“The Linotype, to be brief, is a machine which does away<br />
with the present expensive and slow method of type-setting.<br />
It performs all the work of a compositor antomatically, with<br />
greater precision and with far more rapidity. The most<br />
important feature of the patent, however, lies in the<br />
enormous saving it effects in the cost of setting, while a no<br />
less startling fact is that the labour of ‘ distributing,’ or the<br />
putting of the type back into cases, is dispensed with.’—<br />
Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette.<br />
<br />
“ Printing without types. A marvellous machine that<br />
makes fresh types for every line. The advance of<br />
industrial science is so rapid that this machine must, sooner<br />
or later, come into extensive use.’’—Evening News and Post<br />
(London).<br />
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THE ECONOMIC PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, ©.<br />
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39, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C.,<br />
<br />
Having acquired the monopoly of Linotype Machines in London (excepting Newspaper Offices), are<br />
in a position to quote decidedly advantageous Prices to Authors for the Composition of Books by<br />
<br />
Linotype, and also undertake the Printing, being well equipped with Printing Machinery by the<br />
best makers.<br />
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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
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Monthly.)<br />
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CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
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Vou. IIl.—No. 5.]<br />
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OCTOBER 1, 1892.<br />
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[PRicE SIXPENCE.<br />
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\\ For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
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signed or initialled the Authors alone are<br />
responsible.<br />
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WARNINGS.<br />
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Sprcian Warnine. — Readers are most<br />
URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their<br />
agreements immediately after signature. If this<br />
precaution is neglected for three weeks, a fine of<br />
£10 must be paid before the agreement can be<br />
used as a legal document. In almost every case<br />
brought to the secretary the agreement, or the<br />
letter which serves for one, is without the stamp.<br />
The author may be assured that the other party<br />
to the agreement never neglects this simple pre-<br />
caution. The stamp duty varies from 6d. up to<br />
ros. or more, according to the form of agreement.<br />
The Society, to save trouble, undertakes to get<br />
all the agreements of members stamped for them<br />
at no expense to themselves except the cost of the<br />
stamp.<br />
<br />
Reavers of the Author are earnestly desired to<br />
make the following warnings as widely known as<br />
possible. They are based on the experience of<br />
seven years’ work upon the dangers to which literary<br />
property is exposed :—<br />
<br />
(1.) Never sign any agreement of which the<br />
alleged cost of production forms an<br />
integral part, until you have proved the<br />
figures.<br />
<br />
(2.) Never enter into any correspondence with<br />
publishers, especially with those who<br />
advertise for MSS., who are not recom-<br />
mended by experienced friends or by this<br />
Society.<br />
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(3.) Nuver, on any account whatever, bind<br />
yourself down for future work to any-<br />
one.<br />
<br />
(4.) Never accept any proposal of royalty<br />
until you have ascertained what the<br />
agreement, worked out on both a small<br />
and a large sale, will give to the author<br />
and what to the publisher.<br />
<br />
(5.) Never accept any pecuniary risk or respon-<br />
sibility whatever without advice.<br />
<br />
(6.) Nuver, when a MS. has been refused by<br />
respectable houses, pay others, whatever<br />
promises they may put forward, for the<br />
production of the work.<br />
<br />
(7.) Never sign away American rights. Keep<br />
them, Refuse to sign any agreement<br />
containing a clause which reserves them<br />
for the publisher. If the publisher<br />
insists, take away the MS. and offer it<br />
to another.<br />
<br />
(8.) Never sign any paper, either agreement<br />
or receipt, which gives away copyright,<br />
without advice.<br />
<br />
(9.) Keep control over the advertisements, if<br />
they affect your returns, by clause in the<br />
agreement. Reserve a veto. If you are<br />
yourself ignorant of the subject, make<br />
the Society your adviser.<br />
<br />
(10.) Never forget that publishing is a busi-<br />
ness, like any other business, totally un-<br />
connected with philanthropy, charity, or<br />
pure love of literature. You have to do<br />
with business men.<br />
<br />
Society’s Offices :—<br />
4, Portuaat Srreet, Lincouy’s Inn Freups.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
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1. Every member has a right to advice upon<br />
his agreements, his choice of a publisher, or any<br />
dispute arising in the conduct of his business or<br />
the administration of his property. If the advice<br />
sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor,<br />
the member has a right to an opinion from the<br />
Society’s solicitors. If the case is such that<br />
counsel’s opinion is desirable, the Committee will<br />
obtain for him counsel’s opinion. All this with-<br />
out any cost to the member.<br />
<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with<br />
copyright and publishers’ agreements are not<br />
generally within the experience of ordinary<br />
solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the<br />
Society first—our solicitors are continually<br />
engaged upon such questions for us.<br />
<br />
3. Send to the office copies of past agreements<br />
and past accounts with the loan of the books repre-<br />
sented. This is in order to ascertain what has<br />
been the nature of your agreements and the<br />
results to author and publisher respectively so<br />
far. The secretary will always be glad to have<br />
any agreements, new or old, for inspection and<br />
note. The information thus obtained may prove<br />
invaluable.<br />
<br />
4. If the examination of your previous business<br />
transactions by the Secretary proves unfavour-<br />
able, you should take advice as toa change of<br />
publishers.<br />
<br />
5. Before signing any agreement whatever,<br />
send the proposed form to the Society for<br />
examination.<br />
<br />
6. The Society is acquainted with the methods,<br />
and—in the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks,<br />
of every publishing firm in the country.<br />
Remember that there are certain houses which live<br />
entirely by trickery.<br />
<br />
7. The outward and visible signs of the<br />
fraudulent publisher are—(1) a virtuous and<br />
benevolent wish to have the unquestioned conduct<br />
of your business left entirely in his hands; (2) a<br />
virtuous, good man’s pain at being told that his<br />
<br />
accounts must be audited; (3) a virtuous indig- ~<br />
<br />
nation at being asked what his proposal gives<br />
him compared with what it gives the author;<br />
and (4) irrepressible irritation at any mention of<br />
the Society of Authors.<br />
<br />
8. Remember always that in belonging to the<br />
Society you are fighting the battles of other<br />
writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to<br />
yourself, and that you are advancing the best<br />
interests of literature in promoting the inde-<br />
pendence of the writer.<br />
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152 THE AUTHOR.<br />
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9. Send to the Editor of the Author notes of —<br />
everything important to literature that you may<br />
hear or meet with.<br />
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THE AUTHORS’ SYNDICATE.<br />
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R. Colles desires to inform readers of the —<br />
Author—<br />
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1. That the Authors’ Syndicate is now in a<br />
<br />
position to take charge in whole or in part<br />
<br />
of the business of members of the Society, _<br />
<br />
With, when necessary, the assistance of 2<br />
<br />
the advisers of the Society, it will conclude<br />
agreements, collect royalties, examine and<br />
pass accounts, and, generally, relieve mem-<br />
bers of the trouble of managing business<br />
details. All accounts opened between<br />
<br />
the Syndicate and members are duly 4<br />
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audited.<br />
2. That the establishment expenses of the<br />
<br />
Authors’ Syndicate are defrayed entirely | ;<br />
out of the commission charged on rights<br />
<br />
placed through its intervention. This<br />
varies, and must vary, according to the<br />
nature of the services rendered, but the<br />
charges are reduced to the lowest —<br />
possible amount compatible with effi-<br />
ciency. Meanwhile members will please<br />
accept this intimation that they are not<br />
entitled to the services of the Syndicate<br />
gratis.<br />
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3. That he undertakes to work for none but<br />
members of the Society.<br />
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4. That his business is not to advise members<br />
of the Society, but to manage their affairs<br />
for them if they please to entrust them<br />
to him.<br />
<br />
5. That when he has any work in hand he<br />
must have it entirely in his own hands;<br />
in other words, that authors must not<br />
ask him to place certain work, and then<br />
go about endeavouring to place it by<br />
themselves.<br />
<br />
6. That when a MS. has been sent from pub-<br />
lisher to publisher, and from editor to<br />
editor, in vain, it is most likely impossible<br />
to place it.<br />
<br />
7. That in the face of the present competition,<br />
authors will do well to moderate their<br />
expectations.<br />
<br />
There is an Honorary Advisory Committee<br />
<br />
whose services will be called upon in any case o<br />
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THE<br />
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J} dispute or difficulty. It is perhaps necessary to<br />
state that the members of the Advisory<br />
-- Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever<br />
= in the Syndicate.<br />
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To this it may be added, that where advice is<br />
», sought, the Secretary of the Society, and not the<br />
‘© Syndicate, must be consulted.<br />
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Pee<br />
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NOTICES.<br />
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1 HE Editor of the Author begs to remind<br />
members of the society that, although the<br />
paper is sent to them free of charge, the<br />
<br />
» cost of producing it would be a very heavy<br />
<br />
, charge on the resources of the society if a great<br />
<br />
* many members did not forward to the secretary<br />
<br />
* the modest 6s. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
<br />
| Perhaps this reminder may be of use. With<br />
<br />
’ 800 members, besides the outside circulation of<br />
<br />
} the paper, the Author ought to prove a source<br />
<br />
, of revenue to the society.<br />
<br />
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<br />
The Editor is always glad to receive short<br />
papers and communications on all subjects con-<br />
nected with literature from members and others.<br />
Nothing can do more good to the society than<br />
to make the Author complete, attractive, and<br />
interesting. Will those who are willing to aid<br />
in this work send their names and the special<br />
subjects on which they are willing to write ?<br />
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ed<br />
<br />
All persons engaged in literary work of any<br />
kind, whether members of the Society or not,<br />
are invited to communicate to the Editor any<br />
points connected with their work which it would<br />
be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Members and others who wish their MSS. read<br />
are requested not to send them to the Office with-<br />
out previously communicating with the Secretary.<br />
The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and<br />
MSS. are read in the order in which they are<br />
received. It must also be distinctly understood<br />
that the Society does not, under any circum-<br />
stances, undertake the publication of MSS.<br />
<br />
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<br />
The Authors’ Club is now opened in temporary<br />
premises, at 17, St. James’s Place, St. James’s<br />
Street. Address the Secretary for information,<br />
rules of admission, &c.<br />
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Will members take the trouble to ascertain<br />
whether they have paid their subscriptions for<br />
the year? If they will do this, and remit the<br />
amount or a banker’s order, it will greatly assist<br />
the Secretary, and save him the trouble of<br />
<br />
sending out a reminder.<br />
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Those who are elected members during the<br />
last three months of the year are advised that<br />
their subscriptions cover the whole of the follow-<br />
ing year.<br />
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Members are most earnestly entreated to attend<br />
to the warning numbered (3). It is a most foolish<br />
and a most disastrous thing to bind yourself to<br />
anyone for a term of years. Let them ask them-<br />
selves if they would give a solicitor the collection<br />
of their rents for five years to come, whatever<br />
his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest ?<br />
Of course they would not. Why then hesitate<br />
for a moment when they are asked to sign<br />
themselves into literary bondage for three or five<br />
years ?<br />
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How, we are asked almost every day, is the<br />
young writer to make a beginning ? He should<br />
first get’ an opinion from one of the Society’s<br />
readers as to the merits and chances of his book.<br />
It may be that certain points would be suggested<br />
foralteration. It may be that he will find himself<br />
recommended to put his MS. in the fire. He<br />
should, if encouraged, offer his MS. to a list<br />
of houses or of magazines recommended by the<br />
Society. There is nothing else to be done. No<br />
one, we repeat, can possibly help him. If those<br />
houses all refuse him, it is not the least use trying<br />
others, and, if he is a wise man, he will refuse to<br />
pay for the production of his own work. If, how-<br />
ever, as too often happens, he is not a wise man,<br />
but believes that he has written a great thing, and<br />
is prepared to back his opinion to the extent of<br />
paying for his book, then let him place his work<br />
in the hands of the Society, and it shall be<br />
arranged for him without greater loss than the<br />
actual cost of production. At least he will not be<br />
deluded by false hopes and promises which can<br />
end in nothing.<br />
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ROM our point of view the heavy sentences<br />
passed during this week by the Common<br />
Serjeant upon Sir Gilbert Campbell and<br />
<br />
Messrs. Morgan, Tomkins, Steadman, Tolmie,<br />
and Clarke, has been most righteously deserved.<br />
For years the man Morgan, generally with the<br />
assistance of Tomkins, has been preying upon<br />
literary and artistic aspirants. Now flattering<br />
their vanity, now abusing their ignorance, and<br />
now appealing to their greed—from which the<br />
literary aspirant is by no means more free than<br />
other people. The method of swindling em-<br />
loyed was always the same. Whether as the<br />
Artists’ Alliance or the Authors’ Alliance, as the<br />
Charing Cross Publishing Company or the City<br />
of London Publishing Company, as Bevington<br />
and Co., or Longman and Co., or, lastly, as the<br />
International Society of Literature, Science, and<br />
Art, the broad plan remained the same. Im-<br />
mense advantages in money or prestige were<br />
offered to painters who could not sell their pic-<br />
tures, to authors who could not find publishers,<br />
to unknown musicians, and to provincial patrons<br />
of letters, if they would join some institution<br />
existing for the purpose of breaking down the<br />
barriers existing between them and the admiring<br />
notice of the world at large.<br />
<br />
The co-operative bodies asked for an entrance<br />
fee and a subscription; the publishing firm went<br />
a little further and asked for manuscripts and<br />
cheques. In no case was anything done in re-<br />
turn forthe payments. Fellowship of the various<br />
alliances brought neither notoriety nor remunera-<br />
tion, and cheques to Bevington and Co. or Long-<br />
‘man and Co., although cashed by those enter-<br />
prising firms, never resulted in the issue of the<br />
manuscripts. Nor were the manuscripts returned.<br />
We say “at last,” for we have known of the<br />
fraudulent character of the deeds of Morgan and<br />
his companions for years, but have been powerless<br />
to do more in opposition to them than to warn<br />
those who applied to us for advice to beware of<br />
‘the obvious and various traps. Now and again<br />
we had détails given to us of some particular<br />
piece of swindling perpetrated by Bevington and<br />
Co., or by The City of London Publishing Com-<br />
pany, but we were always strictly enjoined by the<br />
swindled parties to preserve their names a secret.<br />
As, also, it is our experience that this sort of<br />
rogue never has any money at all that. can be<br />
recovered from him, we could hardly recommend<br />
our members to prosecute, thereby to reveal<br />
themselves as dupes at the expense of their own<br />
purses. In 1890 there was started the Inter-<br />
national Society of Authors with Sir Gilbert<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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‘Publication and’ Perforniance dof Fellows’ ‘and Members’<br />
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Campbell for chairman and William James | |<br />
Morgan as curator. The country was flooded 4% |.<br />
with the following prospectus—we omit the<br />
names of the Assistant Secretaries and the<br />
“ Councillors” :—<br />
<br />
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY of LITERATURE,<br />
SCIENCE, AND ART, in connection with THE ARTISTS’<br />
ALLIANCE.—Instituted a.p. 1889, under Act of Parlia-<br />
ment 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 112—-ExEcuTIve Counciz:<br />
Curator, William James Morgan, Esq.; Chairman, Sir G.<br />
Campbell, Bart.; Secretary, William Nathan Stedman,<br />
Esq.; Assistant Secretaries, .... ; CouNcILLORS: Dayid<br />
Tolmie, Esq.,....C. M. Clarke, Esq.,....; CHrer<br />
OrricEs, 20, York Buildings, Adelphi, Strand, W.C.;<br />
Gallery and West End Offices, The Marlborough Gallery,<br />
39, Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, W., London.<br />
<br />
The object of this Society is to promote the advancement<br />
of Art, Literature, Science, and Music, and the advantage<br />
of its Fellows and Members.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
The means whereby this object is attainable are :—<br />
<br />
(a) The encouragement of Students and Professors of all<br />
ages and of both sexes in all branches of Art, Literature, § @<br />
Science, or Music (i) by purchasing from or publishing for || -<br />
Fellows and Members the best results of their geniusor = =<br />
their labour; (ii) by the distribution of Prizes; and (iii) by ey<br />
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affording introductions for the purpose of making a market §9)"<br />
for the sale of Fellows’ and Members’ Pictures and other Art rh<br />
productions, and for the sale, printing, and publication of tog<br />
their Literary and Scientific Works and Musical Com- “ro<br />
<br />
positions.<br />
<br />
(b) The publication of a Magazine devoted to the in-<br />
terests of Art, Literature, Science, and Music, to which<br />
Fellows and Members are invited to contribute. A copy of<br />
the Magazine will be forwarded regularly to each Fellow<br />
and Member, post free.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
(c) The enrolment, as Fellows or as Members of the odd<br />
Society, of ladies and gentlemen (in all parts of the world) (bls<br />
who follow for pleasure or for profit the pursuits of Art, ot<br />
Literature, Science, or Music as amateurs or professionals, ale<br />
and, as Honorary Fellows or as Honorary Members, all lig 3<br />
those who sympathise generally with the objects of the ont:<br />
Society.<br />
<br />
Arrangements have been made, upon advantageous térms, Ot<br />
for :—<br />
<br />
I.—The Exhibition and Sale of Pictures and other Works At<br />
of Art executed by Fellows and Members at the Marl- ecg<br />
<br />
borough Gallery, 39, Great Marlborough Street, Regent 38%<br />
Street, W.<br />
<br />
IIl—The Reading, Editing, Purchase, Sale, Printing, and<br />
Publication of Fellows’ and Members’ manuscript contribu-<br />
tions (prose or poetry) in Magazine, and-in Volume or Book<br />
form. oes<br />
<br />
IliIl.—The correction (where necessary), Purchase, Sale,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Musical Compositions. ~ : : :<br />
IV.—The bestowal of Prizes and other rewards for such Aor<br />
<br />
£<br />
Inventions, Productions, and Improvements, as tend to the gilt<br />
employment of the masses, and the increase of trade; : abs<br />
and for meritorious works in all the various departments of 30 &<br />
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the Fine Arts, Literature, and Science.<br />
<br />
Fellows and Members of the Society are invited to make<br />
use of the Rooms of the Society, for the purposes of re-<br />
ceiving or writing letters, making appointments, &c. They<br />
are at liberty to use the offices as a London address, and, if<br />
desired, letters received there for them will be forwarded on<br />
to them by post. It is designed, as soon as is practical, to<br />
largely extend the advantages in this direction, so as<br />
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to afford Fellows and Members all the privileges of a first<br />
rate London Club.<br />
<br />
Each Fellow will be entitled to a Free Season Pass (trans-<br />
ferable) for himself (or herself) and four friends, admitting<br />
to all the Exhibitions or Bazaars held at the Marlborough<br />
Gallery, and each Member will be entitled to a similar Pass<br />
admitting himself (or herself) and two friends.<br />
<br />
A Register, open at all times to Art buyers, Publishers,<br />
and other employers of artistic, literary, scientific, musical,<br />
or educational labour is kept, and Fellows or Members<br />
desiring remunerative home or other occupation may have<br />
their requirements entered therein free of charge.<br />
<br />
Fellows and members are invited to contribute to the<br />
Journal of the Society, to attend the London and local<br />
conversaziones and soirées, to read papers and to join in the<br />
discussions. When mutually desired, introductions are<br />
given with the view that congenial acquaintanceships and<br />
friendships may be thus induced. Correspondents upon all<br />
subjects connected with literature, the arts, and the<br />
sciences are also introduced to each other in all parts of the<br />
world, who thus by letter interchange information peculiar<br />
to their own spheres.<br />
<br />
No entrance fee is required. The subscription dates<br />
from the time of payment. Ladies and gentlemen actively<br />
engaged in any one or more of the various branches of art,<br />
literature, science, or music are eligible for election as<br />
Fellows, and have diplomas granted to them with the right<br />
of appending the letters F.S.L. to their names. Certificates<br />
of membership (M.S.L.) are also issued.<br />
<br />
The annual subscription as an active or honorary member<br />
is one guinea. This subscription may be compounded for<br />
for a term of five years upon payment of three guineas, or<br />
for life upon payment of seven guineas. The annual sub-<br />
seription as a Fellow is two guineas. This subscription may<br />
be compounded for for a term of five years upon payment of<br />
seven guineas, or for life upon payment of fifteen guineas.<br />
Students under twenty-one years of age are admitted as<br />
Associate Members or Associate Fellows at half fees.<br />
<br />
Form or APPLICATION FOR HONORARY OR ACTIVE<br />
<br />
MEMBERSHIP OR FOR FELLOWSHIP.<br />
<br />
To the Executive Council.— Please enrol me an™<br />
of the International Society of Literature, Science, and Art,<br />
for which I enclose the sum of my + Sub-<br />
scription.<br />
* State here if Active or Honorary Member or Fellow.<br />
+State here if for yearly, for five years, or for life.<br />
<br />
Name in full*<br />
Address<br />
<br />
Ss<br />
<br />
Proposed by<br />
*If a lady, state whether Miss or Mrs.<br />
*.* Cheques and postal orders are to be made payable to<br />
the Curator, Mr. W. J. Morgan. Fellows and members,<br />
whether honorary or active, incur no pecuniary or other<br />
liability beyond the amount of their subscription.<br />
<br />
This precious document was headed by some<br />
hundred names extracted from the Peerage, the<br />
Army List, the “Clerical Directory,” and the lists<br />
of some of the obscurer learned societies, and the<br />
list was a fluctuating one. Many of the names<br />
were placed on the list of the Council of Fellows<br />
without their owners’ sanction, and when with-<br />
drawn were immediately replaced by others<br />
equally euphonious and obtained on equally easy<br />
terms. Many of these victims to their own<br />
importance haying found, from us or from the<br />
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masterly exposure in Truth, that they were being<br />
used to bolster up a cruel system of theft,<br />
insisted that their names should be withdrawn<br />
from the various compromising documents, but<br />
in most cases they experienced great difficulty in<br />
getting their wishes attended to.<br />
<br />
We were able to warn our members against this<br />
society at once, not only because the nature of<br />
Sir Gilbert Campbell’s institution was revealed<br />
in its prospectus sufficiently to all who know,<br />
but because we were able to trace the connec-<br />
tion between the new swindle and the bye-gone<br />
games of Mr. Morgan as Bevington and Co. and<br />
others. From letters, prospectuses, and docu-<br />
ments in our possession, we knew from the first<br />
that the International Society of Literature,<br />
Science, and Art was deserving of the character<br />
that it has at last obtained, but, save warning all<br />
inquirers, and speaking plainly im the pages of<br />
the Author, we could do nothing. We could<br />
not prosecute, and could find no one willing to<br />
do so.<br />
<br />
Great publicity was, however, let in upon the<br />
character of the association by the case of<br />
Swindells v. Morgan, tried before Mr. Justice<br />
Grantham, in the Queen’s Bench Division, about<br />
a year ago. The society furnished information<br />
that proved invaluable to the plaintiff, and con-<br />
tributed towards the cost of the prosecution, and<br />
Mr. Swindells, the author, recovered five hundred<br />
pounds, which, as it appears, and as might have<br />
been expected, he never cot.<br />
<br />
At last the Public Prosecutor has interfered,<br />
and his interference, although to us it may have<br />
seemed a little unduly deferred, has been attended<br />
with signal success, and was conducted in a@<br />
manner that called for approval both from judge<br />
and public. William James Morgan, the curator,<br />
has received eight years’ penal servitude, and<br />
Tomkins has received five. Sir Gilbert Camp-<br />
bell is sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour,<br />
and Steadman to fifteen. These people were not<br />
associated with Morgan in his earlier ventures.<br />
Tolmie will be imprisoned for six months, and<br />
Clarke for four.<br />
<br />
It only remains for us to say that our informa-<br />
tion in this important case was placed in the<br />
hands of the Treasury.<br />
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156 THE AUTHOR. -<br />
LITERARY PROPERTY. right matter. Assignors should look carefully | {jj<br />
to their agreements and receipts to see that they (+4).<br />
I do not commit themselves in haste to anything | «a:<br />
; of this kind. Freperick Poniock, j<br />
<br />
Linn v. GrBpines. : [The statement in the article referred to, that | (a<br />
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DO not agree with Mr. Justice Kekewich’s — the three publishers all abstained from disclaim. |. «<br />
opinion (which was not necessary to the ing the right to alter books as owners of the —/<br />
actual decision) that the author’s cause of copyright, was not advanced as a complaint, but | ji)<br />
<br />
action against an assignee of the copyright who<br />
publishes the work in a mutilated or garbled form<br />
must be libel or nothing. The right to reproduce<br />
a literary work is not the same thing as the right 11.<br />
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as a significant fact.—Ep1ror. |<br />
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<br />
<br />
to reproduce disjointed parts of it, or to mix<br />
other matter with it. Whether the omission,<br />
alteration, or addition complained of be such as<br />
substantially to disfigure the work must be a ques-<br />
tion of fact in each case. I can imagine cases<br />
in which the copyright-owner ought to have the<br />
power of alteration, though not without warning.<br />
It is common to sell the copyright of law books,<br />
reserving to the author the option of preparing<br />
new editions as required on specified terms.<br />
What if a new edition is demanded and the<br />
author is unwilling or unable to undertake it ?<br />
It may have become necessary to rewrite whole<br />
pages of the book to bring it into accordance<br />
with the existing state of the law; so that, if the<br />
copyright-owner may not touch the original text,<br />
the copyright will be worthless. I suppose that<br />
similar considerations are more or less applicable<br />
to text-books in other sciences. There is a<br />
further question, but too purely legal to discuss<br />
here, whether the cause of action allowed to be<br />
possible by Mr. Justice Kekewich is not really<br />
in the nature of slander of title rather than libel<br />
proper.<br />
<br />
The condition of literary property may be<br />
chaotic; but the fact that the point in Lee vy.<br />
Gibbings has never been raised before seems rather<br />
to be to the credit of both authors and publishers<br />
than to the discredit of the law.<br />
<br />
T cannot altogether follow the complaint made<br />
in the last number of the Author that the<br />
publishers. quoted by Mr. Lee did not express<br />
any opinion as to the right of the matter. If<br />
they had been called as witnesses, it would have<br />
been their business not to give an opinion upon<br />
the point of law before the court, but to answer<br />
questions of fact as to the practice and under-<br />
standing in the trade as known to them by<br />
experience. I do not see how they could be<br />
expected to go farther in giving voluntary<br />
opinions than they would or could have gone as<br />
witnesses in court.<br />
<br />
It may be that assignments of copyright<br />
drafted in the interest of the assignee will in<br />
future often contain words expressly giving the<br />
assignee the right to abridge or alter the copy-<br />
<br />
Tue BANKRUPTCY OF A PUBLISHER.<br />
<br />
Recent Far.ures. — Messrs. Trischler and<br />
Marsden, publishers and magazine proprietors,<br />
carrying on business at 18, New Bridge-street,<br />
E.C., against whom a receiving order was made<br />
on Aug. 22 last, have lodged with the Official<br />
Receiver a proposal for a scheme to be submitted<br />
to their creditors. They offer to pay a compo-<br />
sition of 7s. 6d. in the pound upon the unsecured<br />
debts (except one, which is deferred), by instal-<br />
ments extending over a period of fifteen months,<br />
from approval, with security, which is specified.<br />
From the observations of the Official Receiver<br />
(Mr. A. H. Wildy) it appears that the debtor<br />
Trischler has been in business since Oct. 1887, and<br />
in June 1889 he was joined by Marsden, who paid<br />
£5500 for a half-share in the business, and each<br />
partner contributed equally towards the joint capi-<br />
tal of £4422. On May 15 last a private meeting of<br />
creditors was held, at which a proposal was made<br />
to convert the business into a limited liability<br />
company under which debentures were to be<br />
issued to the creditors for the amount of their<br />
debts, but, owing to the opposition of one creditor<br />
the proposed scheme fell through. The insol-<br />
vency is attributable to inability to realise stock<br />
and manuscripts owing to the depressed state of<br />
the book trade, losses by bad debts, loss on<br />
trading caused by over-production, and loss on<br />
unprofitable publications. The liabilities, as<br />
shown by the joint statement of affairs, amount<br />
to £12,238, and the assets are estimated by the<br />
debtors at £2294, after payment of preferential<br />
claims. The Official Receiver reports that the<br />
terms of the proposal, subject to official confirma-<br />
tion of the value of the assets, and assuming that<br />
the creditors are satisfied with the guarantees<br />
offered, are calculated to benefit them. Trischler<br />
makes no proposal in respect of his separate<br />
estate, but Marsden offers tos. in the pound to<br />
his separate creditors, certain claims being with-<br />
drawn. The Official Receiver also reports in<br />
favour of the latter proposal. Times.<br />
<br />
The above is instructive as a comment on what<br />
has been argued inthe Author (see especially Mr.<br />
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<br />
Fairbairn’s paper in the September number) on<br />
the bankruptcy of a publisher. One can only<br />
urge upon our readers the necessity of a pro-<br />
tecting clause in case of bankruptcy.<br />
<br />
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<br />
TET.<br />
Ture Lirprary aNnp ArTIsTIC CoNGRESS.<br />
<br />
Milan, Sept. 19.<br />
At to-day’s sitting of the Literary and Artistic<br />
Congress here it was decided that the alienation<br />
of a work of art did not carry with it the ght<br />
of reproduction. The congress further gave<br />
expression to its desire that the appending of<br />
forged signatures to works of art should be made<br />
a punishable offence, and claimed for architec-<br />
tural works the same protection as is offered to<br />
other works of art.<br />
Sept. 20.<br />
The International Literary and Artistic Con-<br />
gress to-day decided that the country in which a<br />
work is first published should be regarded as the<br />
country of origin. In the event, however, of a<br />
work being published simultaneously in more<br />
than one country, that country which grants the<br />
shortest period for the protection of the rights of<br />
authors is to be considered the country of origin.<br />
It was also resolved to accord protection to<br />
authors whose names are attached to their works.<br />
Paragraph 3 of the ninth article of the Berne<br />
Convention was annulled, and the use of per-<br />
forated cards for organettes was declared to be<br />
an act of piracy. Protection was afforded to<br />
Russian authors against the illegal translation of<br />
their works in Russia, and the right of reproduc-<br />
tion, including also that of translation, was<br />
reserved to the author for a period of ten to<br />
twenty years. It was further resolved that<br />
authors belonging to the countries of the union<br />
should enjoy the right of translation during the<br />
period of their protection in the country of origin,<br />
provided that they had exercised this right within<br />
a period of twenty years.<br />
Milan, Sept. 23.<br />
At its sitting to-day, the International Literary<br />
and Artistic Congress approved of the establish-<br />
ment at Berne of an International Statistical<br />
Bureau for the registration of the works of<br />
authors, together with the date of their publica-<br />
tion, and likewise sanctioned the arrangement<br />
arrived at for the settlement of the relations<br />
between authors and publishers.—feuter.<br />
<br />
The above paragraphs are from the Times.<br />
Have these resolutions of the Congress any other<br />
importance than an expression of opinion ?<br />
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VOL. III.<br />
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fides was not questioned in the least.<br />
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IV.<br />
GopFrrEy v. BRADLEY AND Co.<br />
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<br />
It will be remembered that a note on this case<br />
was published in the August number of the<br />
Author. Mr. Godfrey, the plaintiff in this case,<br />
has written the letter which appears below. It<br />
will, therefore, be best to restate exactly the<br />
circumstances of the case.<br />
<br />
I was informed by our secretary, Mr. Thring,<br />
in the name of a well-known man of letters, that<br />
a case was shortly to be brought before the<br />
courts, of alleged plagiarism, and I was asked if<br />
I would read the two books in question, and, if<br />
invited, give evidence in court. This I declined to<br />
do, on the ground that I was already fully occupied.<br />
The secretary then informed me that he had been<br />
invited to do so in case of my refusal. We con-<br />
sidered the matter carefully, It appeared to me<br />
so important that a charge of plagiarism, so<br />
easily made, should be fairly considered, without<br />
<br />
bias on either side, that I thought if Mr. Thring<br />
was willing to take the trouble, it would be a very<br />
fit and proper thing for him, in his position, to<br />
undertake. Observe that there was no question<br />
of offending publisher in the matter; nothing<br />
was imputed against the publisher, whose bona<br />
It was<br />
simply a question between two novels—a question<br />
therefore affecting every novelist.<br />
<br />
Mr. Thring read both novels. He came to the<br />
conclusion that, although there were certain<br />
strong similarities of plot, the treatment was<br />
quite different. He thought that there was no<br />
plagiarism at all, but that there was probably a<br />
common origin to both novels. He was, there-<br />
upon, subpcenaed to give evidence.<br />
<br />
After he had been subpeenaed he received a<br />
letter from the plaintiff in the case, informing him<br />
that he was a member of the Society, and asking<br />
for his support. This was actually the very<br />
morning when the case came on.<br />
<br />
As regards my own action in the case, it is quite<br />
simple and would certainly be repeated, unless I<br />
knew that the plaintiff was a member. In that<br />
case I should certainly have called a committee<br />
together, and placed the responsibility of giving<br />
evidence against a member in their hands.<br />
<br />
It may be asked whether Mr. Thring exercised<br />
sufficient diligence in ascertaining if the plaintiff<br />
was a member. Now, let us consider:<br />
<br />
(1.) The plaintiff is not the writer of the book.<br />
He represents the author who is deceased. Is<br />
it reasonable to expect that the secretary should<br />
know all the works written by the relations of<br />
members ?<br />
<br />
(2.) The novel was written twenty years ago.<br />
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158 THE AUTHOR.<br />
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It does not appear to have gone into a second<br />
edition. Can we expect a man to remember any-<br />
thing about a novel which appeared twenty years<br />
ago, “and has never since been reprinted ?<br />
<br />
(3. ) But he might have observed the name of<br />
Godfrey on the list of members. What connection<br />
would that suggest? Mr. Godfrey is not a<br />
novelist. Should he have written to Mr.<br />
Godfrey to ask if he was in any way connected<br />
with the plaintiff? I think that could not<br />
reasonably be expected. If a member thinks so<br />
little of the Society as to bring an action on a<br />
point of literary property without consulting, or at<br />
least informing, the society, I think he has no<br />
reason to complain at any turn that might be<br />
taken.<br />
<br />
As regards Mr. Godfrey’s attempt to show that<br />
the society acted wilfulty against a member for<br />
an offending publisher, that, as the facts above<br />
quoted show, is quite ridiculous.<br />
<br />
Mr. Godfrey informs me by letter that he con-<br />
sulted Mr. Sprigge about the case four years ago.<br />
This has nothing to do with the point. He did<br />
not inform Mr. Thring, who could not be expected<br />
to know anything about a letter written four<br />
years ago.<br />
<br />
As regards the name of the gentleman who<br />
sent the case to Mr. Thring, that, of course, can<br />
only be published at his own request. The<br />
Secretary will not give up the names of any<br />
persons who place themselves in communication<br />
with him. Otherwise, the whole proceedings of<br />
every society or association or company in the<br />
world might be advertised in the papers.<br />
<br />
What I said about plagiarism is not what Mr.<br />
Godfrey tries to make out. I said, and I repeat,<br />
that there is no charge more easily brought than<br />
that of plagiarism, or more difficult to disprove.<br />
That has nothing to do with provedtheft. I have<br />
not yet read the two books in question, and I<br />
hope not to have to read them. Iam, therefore,<br />
notin the least concerned with the question of<br />
this particular charge of plagiarism, which mav or<br />
may not be true. Iam only concerned about the<br />
action of our secretary, the responsibility for<br />
which lies entirely upon myself. And I have<br />
only to repeat that wnder similar circumstances I<br />
should do exactly the same thing again in the<br />
interests of our members, and for the protection<br />
of those among us who are novelists. But members<br />
who may be contemplating similar actions, may<br />
be assured that if they will take the trouble to<br />
inform our secretary beforehand, I will willingly<br />
put the responsibility of the case upon the<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
Mr. Godfrey sneers at Mr. Thring’s legal<br />
knowledge. In this case, however, no legal know-<br />
ledge was required at all,<br />
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I think I should add, that the abusive letter<br />
<br />
which follows would certainly not have appeared<br />
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in the Author, if the person abused had been any<br />
<br />
other than myself. Water Busant.<br />
Chairman, Committee of Management.<br />
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IL.<br />
Garrick Club, W.C., Aug. 22, 1892.<br />
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Str,<br />
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In last month’s issue of the Author you pub-<br />
lished a report of this case, with certain comments<br />
intended to explain away the extraordinary action<br />
of the Secretary of the Society of Authors, which,<br />
it now appears, was taken under your authority.<br />
When the members of the Society have read my<br />
statement of the facts I think they will agree<br />
with me that your explanation is—to use the<br />
mildest terms —an insufficient defence of a<br />
lamentable blunder.<br />
<br />
The following is a brief history of the matter.<br />
Some time ago I discovered’ that the London<br />
Journal was publishing a story which was a<br />
craftily disguised copy of a novel called ‘ Loyal,”<br />
written by my wife several years ago. I called<br />
the attention of the proprietors to this, and re-<br />
ceived in reply an off-hand refusal to discuss the<br />
matter. I then took legal action ; the case was<br />
tried, and I obtained a verdict, with damages.<br />
The judge, in commenting on the evidence, said<br />
(I quote from the newspaper reports): “ No one<br />
who found a succession of similar passages and<br />
the exact similarity of language, both in descrip-<br />
tion and in conversation, used as to corresponding<br />
characters in corresponding situations, could<br />
possibly doubt that the writer of ‘A Mad Mar-<br />
siage’ had before her the novel ‘ Loyal.’<br />
<br />
He was quite satisfied that the main plot of<br />
‘Loyal’ had been incorporated into ‘A Mad<br />
Marriage.’ ”<br />
<br />
Now in this action, I, a member of the Society<br />
of Authors, representing a deceased author, was<br />
proceeding against a publisher who was making<br />
profits from stolen literary property. I was, in<br />
fact, doing exactly the work that the Society<br />
professes to do, and so certain did I feel of its<br />
sympathy and support that I wrote to the Secre-<br />
tary giving him notice of the trial, and sug-<br />
gesting that some representative should be<br />
present. My amazement may, therefore, be<br />
imagined when I found that the principal witness<br />
for the publisher and against me was our Secre-<br />
tary, who gave evidence which derived its sole<br />
weight from the fact that he described himself<br />
in his official capacity. What was the natural<br />
inference ? What impression was this likely to<br />
convey to the judge? That the Society, which<br />
was created to ioe authors from publishers,<br />
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considered this so scandalous an attempt to<br />
blackmail a publisher, that it felt bound to unite<br />
with the common enemy to defeat a dishonest<br />
member of its own body.<br />
<br />
Fortunately the evidence of this witness went<br />
so far as to defeat its mischievous intention. It<br />
was as follows: “The Secretary of the Incorpo-<br />
rated Society of Authors said there were some<br />
incidents which were similar in the two novels,<br />
put ‘A Mad Marriage’ was not, in his opinion,<br />
an infringement of the copyright in ‘ Loyal.’<br />
He did not think the substance of the plot<br />
of ‘Loyal’ had ;been incorporated in ‘A Mad<br />
Marriage.’”’<br />
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The value of this testimony can be estimated<br />
by reference to the judge’s remarks, already<br />
quoted.<br />
<br />
These are the facts. What is your explana-<br />
tion? You say you authorised the Secretary of<br />
our Society to take part in this case because<br />
every novelist of distinction (in which IT assume<br />
you rightly include yourself) is from time to<br />
time accused of plagiarism. This is equivaient<br />
to saying that it is the duty of the Public<br />
Prosecutor to defend a receiver of stolen goods<br />
because unfounded charges of theft are occasion-<br />
ally made. I invite careful consideration of this<br />
argument. It at least proves that novelists of<br />
distinction may sometimes write amazing non-<br />
sense. Possibly your logic may be intended as a<br />
pleasantry. I cannot say. My sense of humour<br />
is, 1 fear, defective, since I failed to appreciate<br />
another comic utterance, contained in a letter<br />
you wrote to me, that “Thring’s own sym-<br />
pathies seem to have been with you, but as a<br />
lawyer he was against you.” From this I<br />
appear to have escaped two dangers, for Mr.<br />
Thring’s “sympathies”? seem to be as eccentric<br />
as his legal knowledge. But, as you add,<br />
“ Happily the judge ruled otherwise.” Happily<br />
indeed ; but is it not monstrous that the impar-<br />
tiality of a judge should be requisite to save<br />
me from the hostile vagaries of our paid Secre-<br />
tary ?<br />
<br />
Your main argument of justification I have<br />
already dealt with. Others you urge, but they<br />
are of so little weight that I will dispose of them<br />
ina group. You say that neither you nor Mr.<br />
Thring knew who were the parties to the action,<br />
that you did not know I was a member of the<br />
Society, and that Mr. Thring was compelled to<br />
give evidence on a subpena. To all of this I<br />
answer that before our Secretary mixed himself up<br />
in a literary action it was his duty to ascertain<br />
who were the parties to it, that a simple reference<br />
to the list of members would have given the other<br />
information, and that the omission of such pre-<br />
cautions was inexcusable. I will go further and<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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say that these points are of no importance, and<br />
that the Society exists to protect the literary pro-<br />
perty of authors under any and all circumstances<br />
where justice is on their side, whether they be<br />
living or dead, members or non-members, and<br />
that the action of the Society as represented by<br />
you and the Secretary in ranging itself on the side<br />
of a publisher in opposing such a claim was a<br />
serious mistake, calculated to lessen confidence in<br />
the administration ; for it is clear that members<br />
who imagine they are supporting an associa-<br />
tion for the defence of their literary rights may at<br />
any moment find they are maintaining an engine<br />
for their own destruction.<br />
<br />
Whether such a danger is or is not to continue<br />
is now the question. Had you frankly admitted<br />
that the action authorised by you was a regret-<br />
table mistake, and given me an assurance that<br />
care would be taken to prevent its repetition, di<br />
should have been satisfied ; but you add discour-<br />
tesy to injury in the tone of your comments, not<br />
the least offensive of which is the concluding one :<br />
“ Mr. Thring’s action was wholly prompted by a<br />
laudable desire to forward the interests of the<br />
Society and its members.” What does this mean ?<br />
How could it have been to the interests of the<br />
Society that its Secretary should oppose me unless<br />
mine was a dishonourable and improper action ?<br />
T ask you, if this action had been brought by you,<br />
against a publisher who was selling a piracy. of<br />
one of your novels, would you have authorised the<br />
Secretary to appear in his official capacity against<br />
you ‘in the interests of the Society?’ If not,<br />
in the name of reason, why not? IJ am as inca-<br />
pable of dishonest action in such a matter as you<br />
or any member of Society, and the discourtesy of<br />
your suggestion to the contrary (for your words<br />
bear no other meaning) compels me to persist in<br />
the course I have taken on the advice of several<br />
prominent members of the Council, to lay the<br />
whole matter before the members at the next<br />
general meeting, and leave them to express an<br />
opinion upon it.<br />
<br />
Grorare W. GODFREY.<br />
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P.S.—One point I find I have overlooked. You<br />
say that the Secretary’s interference in this<br />
matter was authorised by you at the request of<br />
“4, well-known novelist, not concerned in the<br />
case.” Ihave already asked by letter to be fur-<br />
nished with the name of this gentleman, but with-<br />
out success. Tagain ask for this information,<br />
and invite the well-known novelist, who I believe<br />
to be a member of the Society, to explain his<br />
action in enlisting the services of a paid official<br />
of the Society against a brother member, and on<br />
behalf of a publisher (who is not amember), in an<br />
action “in which he was not concerned.”<br />
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The following is an account of the part I took<br />
with regard to giving evidence in the case of<br />
Godfrey and Bradley.<br />
<br />
Mr. Bradley called here one afternoon with a<br />
letter of introduction from a well-known literary<br />
man to the chairman of the Society. In his<br />
absence I interviewed Mr. Bradley, and he stated<br />
that he wanted the chairman to read certain<br />
books involved in a case of infringement of<br />
copyright, and to give evidence as a technical<br />
witness. This, I said, I thought he would not do,<br />
and, after some further conversation, he asked<br />
me whether I would do so. To this I again<br />
demurred, but stated that, with the leave of the<br />
managing committee or of the chairman, I would<br />
‘read the books and form the opinion. He there-<br />
upon told me the following story, so that I might<br />
put the facts before the managing committee or<br />
the chairman.<br />
<br />
In 1872 a novel was published; by Tinsley<br />
Brothers called “Loyal.” In 1874 a story was<br />
run through the London Journal entitled “A<br />
Mad Marriage,’ subsequently published by<br />
Tinsleys, which the then proprietor of the London<br />
Journal had bought from the authoress, an<br />
American. Since 1874 he had become proprietor<br />
vf the London Journal, and in 1889 ran “A<br />
Mad Marriage” again through his paper. He<br />
was now being sued by the executors of the<br />
authoress of ‘‘ Loyal” for infringement of copy-<br />
right.<br />
<br />
He then told me that the matter was of impor-<br />
tance as the case might come on any day, and he<br />
would be glad of my answer as soon as possibie.<br />
As it was impossible to call a committee meeting<br />
in the time, I put the facts as stated by Mr.<br />
Bradley before the chairman, and he told me that<br />
he thought it would be a fit and proper thing for<br />
me to accept the invitation to read the novels<br />
through, and if required give evidence on either<br />
side. Upon Mr. Bradley calling the next day<br />
I stated that it had been impossible to call a<br />
committee meeting, and that Mr. Besant had<br />
authorised me, in the absence of the com-<br />
mittee, to read the novels through and give<br />
evidence if necessary. Mr. Bradley thereupon<br />
brought me copies of the two books and I read<br />
them through carefully, and came to the con-<br />
clusion that “A Mad Marriage” was not such<br />
a substantial copy of ‘ Loyal” as to amount to an<br />
infringement of copyright, and that, although<br />
many of the scenes resembled each other, yet<br />
it was quite probable that they had been drawn<br />
from a common source. I have seen no reason<br />
since to alter that opinion. I was thereupon<br />
subpeenaed by Mr. Bradley as a witness in the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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case. About a week later, on the morning of<br />
the day on which the case was heard, I received<br />
a letter from Mr. Godfrey, asking me whether I<br />
could not render his counsel some assistance with<br />
regard to the question of copyright in the action,<br />
as he was a member of the Society. This was<br />
the first notice I had received that the plaintiff<br />
was a member of the Suciety. I had only been<br />
told previously that the plaintiff was the exe-<br />
cutor of the deceased writer. It was impossible<br />
for me at this period not to attend as a witness,<br />
as that would have rendered me liable for con-<br />
tempt of court, a serious charge.<br />
<br />
I thereupon went down to the courts to try<br />
and see the plaintiff’s solicitor and counsel, to<br />
tell them what conclusion I had arrived at, and<br />
also to inform them of the fact that I had been<br />
subpeenaed as a witness for the other side. I<br />
was, however, unable to find them. Later on in the<br />
day I was called from my office to give evidence,<br />
which I accordingly did, stating my case as I<br />
have stated it above. I may further state that<br />
the question is not one of law, as Mr. Godfrey<br />
seems to think, but absolutely a question of<br />
fact, each case being decided on its own merits.<br />
I would add that had my opinion been on the<br />
side of the plaintiff I should have been equally<br />
willing to give evidence to that effect.<br />
<br />
Mr. Godfrey wrote to me subsequently very<br />
angrily on the matter, asking at the same time<br />
the name of the gentleman who had introduced<br />
Mr. Bradley to the office. To this request I did<br />
not accede, as it is impossible for me to give the<br />
names of any person corresponding with me,<br />
whether he is a member of the Society or other-<br />
wise. G. Herpert Turine.<br />
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Bee.<br />
<br />
OUR CRITICS,<br />
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GAIN the Society and its journal have<br />
received the wholesome administration<br />
of plain truth and candid criticism. This<br />
<br />
time from several quarters, of which the first is<br />
our friend the Bookseller: The -faithful critic<br />
has addressed himself to the “Notices’’ which<br />
are repeated every month. He is so determined<br />
to be faithful that he brings himself perilously<br />
near that Division of the High Court of Justice<br />
which takes the libel cases. For instance, if by<br />
calling the editor a “‘ very sharp man of business<br />
indeed,” he implies, as he seems to do, that the<br />
editor has any pecuniary interest in the success of<br />
the Society or its organ, he has only to repeat the<br />
suggestion in order to have an opportunity of<br />
proving his statement in that court.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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“Tn paragraph II.” of the notices, says the<br />
writer in the Bookseller, “ authors are solicited to<br />
contribute gratuitously to the ‘organ.’ The<br />
following is paragraph IT.<br />
<br />
The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and<br />
communications on all subjects connected with literature<br />
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to<br />
the society than to make the Author complete, attractive,<br />
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this<br />
work send their names and the special subjects on which<br />
they are willing to write.<br />
<br />
Not a word about gratuitous contributions, you<br />
see, Whether the Author is written for nothing,<br />
and edited for nothing, by our own members, for<br />
ourselves, is a question that concerns ourselves<br />
alone.<br />
<br />
“Paragraph III,” says the writer in the<br />
Bookseller, “is a request for the sort of informa-<br />
tion which is sometimes called Literary Garbage.”<br />
Here is paragraph III. :<br />
<br />
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of this Society or not, are invited to communicate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work<br />
which it would be advisable in the general interest to<br />
publish.<br />
<br />
If contributions by writers ov their own sub-<br />
jects are called “ Literary Garbage,” then the<br />
Bookseller regards literature from a new point of<br />
view. Perhaps the writer of the paper, by the<br />
word Garbage, means something not always<br />
saleable.<br />
<br />
However this may be, the tone of the communi-<br />
<br />
cation and the design of the writer are unqis-<br />
takeable. He means to misrepresent and to<br />
falsify the work of the society.<br />
. Bhe writer then copies out the advice given<br />
in our Notices to beginners, which he professes<br />
not to understand. It is, of course, perfectly<br />
simple and means exactly what it says. He then<br />
goes on to say that the members of the Council of<br />
the Society do not follow the advice of the Society.<br />
Quite so. The members of the Council are not<br />
beginners, and the advice is not given to them,<br />
but to beginners. Nor is the society a publishing<br />
firm.<br />
<br />
It is a melancholy thing to see such a paper as<br />
the Bookseller publishmg 80 spiteful and<br />
venomous a paper. The assumption, by the writer,<br />
is the stale device, renewed whenever the persons<br />
interested in misrepresenting the society can get<br />
the chance of implying or stating—either will do<br />
—that the society is conducted in hostility to<br />
publishers. Nothing, of course, can be farther<br />
from the truth. It is hostile, and will continue<br />
hostile, to those fraudulent persons who disgrace<br />
an honourable calling. ‘There is never a number<br />
of the Author in which it is not expressly stated<br />
that certain warnings are intended to guard<br />
authors—not against publishers— but against<br />
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certain fraudulent publishers—those who cheat<br />
in one or other of the various ways we have<br />
detected and exposed.<br />
<br />
The position is as follows: The Society exists<br />
for the defence and maintenance of literary pro-<br />
erty. No one will probably object. to the aims<br />
of the Society. In the course of its work the<br />
Society has discovered the existence of certain<br />
frauds. The methods of these frauds it has<br />
proceeded, in the interests of those who hold or<br />
produce literary property, to expose. It exposes<br />
them regularly once a month in the pages of the<br />
Author. Can the Bookseller suggest any better<br />
way of exposing these frauds? For they must be<br />
exposed. And cannot the Bookseller understand<br />
that the best interests of those honourable men<br />
who follow the calling of which it is the organ<br />
are most truly served by making things uncom-<br />
fortable and difficult for the unworthy and the<br />
dishonest? As for the “ warnings,” there is not<br />
one which an honourable publisher can for a single<br />
moment consider as directed against himself. :<br />
<br />
The Globe, again, has a paragraph in which it<br />
enlarges and repeats the charges—if they can<br />
be called charges—of this indignant person.<br />
The writer of the paragraph, pretending to quote<br />
from the Bookseller, says: «Among his points,<br />
some of the most effective are that writers taught<br />
to fancy themselves sweated all round are never-<br />
theless invited to work for nothing in the Author ;<br />
that by asking for personalia about men of letters,<br />
and inserting leaderettes about fourth or fifth-rate<br />
authors, the journal encourages the collection of<br />
literary garbage; that there are men on the<br />
council of the Society who publish their own<br />
works in defiance of the very advice they are<br />
responsible for. Mr. Besant, therefore, will know<br />
that some of his blows have gone home to his foes,<br />
the publishers.”<br />
<br />
The words “ writers taught to fancy themselves<br />
sweated all round are nevertheless invited to<br />
work for nothing inthe 4 uthor,” refer to nothing<br />
at all in the Bookseller except the words “ authors<br />
are solicited to contribute gratuitously to the<br />
organ ”—already considered. The little enlarge-<br />
ment about the sweating is simply invented by the<br />
writer of the paragraph. The words “asking for<br />
personalia about men of letters and inserting<br />
leaderettes about fourth or fifth-rate authors”<br />
are also invented by the author of the paragraph.<br />
Nothing whatever 1s said in the Bookseller about<br />
“ Jeaderettes,’ and, im fact, there have been no<br />
“Jeaderettes” in the Author on fourth or fifth-<br />
rate authors. Nor, to repeat, has the Author<br />
ever asked for “ personalia ” about men of letters.<br />
What it asks for, month after month, may be<br />
seen by looking at the “Notices ’—i.e., it asks<br />
for “ communications on all subjects connected<br />
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with literature,” and for “any points connected<br />
with their work which it would be advisable in<br />
the general interest to publish.” Lastly, the<br />
assertion about the Council has already been met.<br />
It is so stupid that one wonders how even the<br />
most hostile writer should repeat it. The last<br />
words about the “foes” show the spirit of the<br />
paragraph. It is, as has been stated above, the<br />
commonest way of attacking the Society to repre-<br />
sent it as hostile to all publishers. Everybody<br />
sees the stupid folly of such hostility, and declares<br />
against the stupid folly of the Society. That is<br />
to say, since the only foes of the Society are the<br />
dishonest persons spoken of above, the Globe<br />
charges the whole body of publishers with dis-<br />
honesty. It is the accusation of the Globe, not of<br />
the Society, or of the Author, or of the editor.<br />
Let it be remembered that whoever accuses the<br />
Society, or the editor of this paper, with hostility<br />
to publishers generally, charges the body of<br />
publishers generally with dishonesty. We do<br />
not quake, we never have made such a charge,<br />
and we never shall.<br />
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THE NEW BOOKS.<br />
<br />
HE Lists for the Publishing Season are not<br />
yet complete. Taking, however, the lists<br />
issued in the Atheneum of Sept. 17 and 24<br />
<br />
we find the following notes on the number of<br />
books announced as about to appear. The order<br />
is that in which the lists were published.<br />
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The Clarendon Press _ ... will produce 51 works.<br />
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Messrs. Macmillan and<br />
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(Ol ee . 62. |.<br />
Mr. William Heinemann 3 300g<br />
Messrs. Hodder and<br />
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Stoughton 1.0... =. 5 32<br />
Messrs. Williams and<br />
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Norgate... . 6.)<br />
Messrs. Methuen = os 27<br />
Messrs. Warne and Co. ... 3 1S) 4s<br />
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Messrs. Virtue and Co. ... 3<br />
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Messrs. Skeffington and<br />
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Son ne ‘5 1352;<br />
Messrs, James Clark and<br />
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GOe. Ao = 145,<br />
Messrs. Sampson Low<br />
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and Co.... eee Vado wee ” 52 »<br />
Mr. Fisher Unwin ... ... s 45<br />
The Cambridge University ‘<br />
<br />
PPORS i is 356s<br />
Mr. David Nutt 3 10,<br />
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Messrs. Hutchinson and<br />
Co. ose oue aes wee oe) 25 ?<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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The 8.P.C.K. ... will produce 17 works,<br />
Messrs. Chambers ... 18<br />
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Messrs. J. and T. Clark a 5a<br />
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These lists do not contain the new books of<br />
Blackwood, Bentley, Black, Blackie, Chatto and<br />
Windus, Longman, Smithand Elder, Percival, the<br />
Religious Tract Society, and many others. But<br />
as eighteen publishers between them are going to<br />
produce next month 475 books of sufficient im-<br />
portance to be announced, and since there are at<br />
least five and twenty others not represented in<br />
the lists of these two weeks, it may be fairly<br />
estimated that the autumn output of fairly im-<br />
portant books amounts to more than a thousand.<br />
<br />
Next as to the authors of these books. Our<br />
President will produce a new volume of poems;<br />
George Meredith, another new volume of poems;<br />
J. Addington Symons, a Life of Michelangelo<br />
Buonarotti; Austin Dobson, a critical biography<br />
of Hogarth, illustrated; Mr. Charles Leland, a<br />
“ Book of the Hundred Riddles of the Fairy<br />
Bellavia;’’ Professor Seeley, the ‘ Growth of<br />
British Policy ;”” Mr. Lewis Morris, the “ Vision<br />
of Saints ;”’ Mr. George Saintsbury, a new edition<br />
of Florio’s Montaigne; Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie,<br />
“Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning ;””<br />
William Watson “The Dream of Man;” Stop-<br />
ford Brooke, a ‘‘ History of Early English Litera-<br />
ture;” Richard Garnett, a ‘“ Life of Heinrich<br />
Heine.” Among others novelists are represented<br />
by a smaller list than usual. Among them are<br />
Grant Allen, Mrs. Alexander, J. M. Barrie, Amelia<br />
Barr, William Black, Walter Besant, Frank<br />
Barrett, May Crommelin, Everett Hale, Sarah<br />
Doudney, Mrs. Clifford, H. C. Davidson, George<br />
Macdonald, Christie Murray, L. T. Meade,<br />
Mrs. Molesworth, Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Spender,<br />
and Frank Stockton.<br />
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The list is not complete. We will return<br />
to the subject next month. We may note, how-<br />
ever, that the production of tooo books in a<br />
single month, though this is by far the most<br />
fruitful month in the year, proves what we are<br />
always proclaiming—the magnitude, the solidity,<br />
of literary property. Another point will not<br />
escape our readers: the rapid advance made by<br />
certain quite young firms. = ;<br />
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NEWSPAPER guerilla war, which, if<br />
limited as to the number of the combatants<br />
on either side, is bitter in the extreme, is<br />
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being waged at present in Paris apropos of the<br />
recent formation ofa committee for the erection of<br />
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a memorial statue to Baudelaire. Rodin, one of<br />
¢he most remarkable of contemporary sculptors has<br />
been commissioned to execute the statue, which is<br />
to be placed above the poet’s grave. Leconte de<br />
Lisle is president of the committee, which includes<br />
amongst its members most of the best known<br />
poets and littérateurs of France. Our poet Swin-<br />
burne, by the way, is also amember. Now, there<br />
are a certain number of people in the world of<br />
letters in Paris who abhor Baudelaire and all his<br />
works, and one of these, that distinguished critic<br />
Ferdinand Brunetitre, made the formation of the<br />
Baudelaire Committee the occasion for publishing<br />
a short but most bitter attack on the great poet<br />
inthe Revue des Deux Mondes. The article was<br />
remarkable for little but the venom of the attack,<br />
nothing fresh in the way of criticism was put for-<br />
ward, only the old cowplaints of Saint-Beuve,<br />
Scherer, and the rest. Baudelaire’s friends and<br />
admirers were not slow to reply to this attack on<br />
the dead master, and most of the literary papers<br />
contained replies to the Rerue des Deux Mondes<br />
article. The quarrel has now settled down into<br />
an exchange of personalities between M. Brune-<br />
tigre and Albert Delpit the novelist. Up to date<br />
of writing it is the latter who has the last word,<br />
and amongst other pleasant things that he<br />
has had to say about Brunetiére is that he is<br />
made up of equal proportions of spite and envy,<br />
that his lips curl up showing his canines, which<br />
is the true sign of the envious man, that Delpit<br />
was his friend for ten years, but can be so no<br />
longer at any price, that Brunetitre never took a<br />
degree at the University, and that he, Delpit,<br />
hopes that he may forget the friend as readily<br />
as he has already forgotten the man.<br />
<br />
I really consider that Brunetiére’s attack was<br />
uncalled for. If those of us who admire<br />
Baudelaire like to subscribe moneys to place a<br />
statue of him on his tomb, which is entirely a<br />
private affair, I do not see why this should be<br />
made the subject of unfavourable comment in the<br />
press. It is not as if the statue was to be put in<br />
a public place, which might be interpreted to<br />
mean that we wished to force the public to<br />
recognise as we recognise it the genius of the<br />
dead poet. And in any case it is always regret-<br />
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able when the life and the work of a man who is<br />
dead are bitterly attacked. Baudelaire has, and<br />
always will have, a large number of admirers, just<br />
as he has, and will always have a number<br />
of readers who will turn with disgust from his<br />
pages. It is a mere question of what the reader<br />
understands by the word “ art.” Nobody denies<br />
his perfect mastery of the technique of his art<br />
nor his power of music. What Baudelaire’s<br />
detractors attack in his work is the unhealthy<br />
tone of his thoughts. In contradistinction to that<br />
coster with whom the great Chevalier has made<br />
us familiar, it’s “the things. he says’ and not<br />
“the nasty way he says it” that Baudelaire’s<br />
critics object to,<br />
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Baudelaire’s private life has also been dragged<br />
into the discussion as if that had anything to do<br />
with his merits or demerits as a poet. We have<br />
been told for the thousandth time that Baudelaire<br />
was an immoral man. This may possibly be the<br />
case, although I have always heard from those<br />
who had the privilege of his acquaintance that he<br />
lived most soberly in his modest furnished<br />
lodgings in the Rue d’Amsterdam, and that the<br />
only thing that he indulged himself in was<br />
charcuterie in various forms. There was doubt-<br />
less much more talk than action in Baudelaire’s<br />
immorality. He may have wanted to horrify<br />
people, much like Byron, about himself, for his<br />
great joy, as he once told the Prefet de Police,<br />
was to ‘ ¢tonner les sots.”<br />
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Amongst the many excellent things to be found<br />
in “ The Wrecker” the description of Bohemian<br />
life in the Latin Quarter in Paris is particularly<br />
well done. The days of “ La Vie de Bohéme ” are,<br />
by no means, as has been said over and over<br />
again, past, and Doppelgangers of every one of<br />
famous character in Murger’s book, not excepting<br />
Mimi Pinson, could be found to-day over and<br />
over again in the hotels meublés of that quarter.<br />
They dress a little less raggedly perhaps, and on<br />
the whole have more luxurious tastes, for Bohemia<br />
has marched with the times also, but there they<br />
are just the same. Here, for instance, 1s a scene<br />
which I witnessed a few days ago, and which<br />
might have come st raight out of the pages of<br />
“Vie de Bohéme.”’ I was walking down the<br />
Boulevard St. Michel with a young Breton<br />
gentleman, who has recently given up the study<br />
of medicine for the practice of literature. It was<br />
not to be wondered at that his clothes should not<br />
be of the best. At the corner of the Rue de<br />
Cluny we came upon another man of letters, who<br />
though rather shabby as to his hat and boots,<br />
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wore a magnificent cloth overcoat. I recognised<br />
the man as a very well-known poet and writer,<br />
who contributes occasionally some most brilliant<br />
essays to the press, and who at one time was<br />
considered to be the coming man of Paris. As<br />
soon as my friend saw him he left my side and<br />
crossed over to him and an animated dialogue<br />
ensued between the two. I did not hear what<br />
they said, but they seemed to be both much<br />
excited. In the end, in answer to a particularly<br />
vehement speech on the part of the young Breton,<br />
the other was seen to unbutton his overcoat, dis-<br />
closing therewith that he had nothing on between<br />
it and his shirt. My Breton friend presently<br />
joined me, and I asked him what the trouble was.<br />
“Oh! ce cochon,’’ he said, “he’s got my overcoat<br />
on. We lived together a few weeks ago, for we<br />
were collaborating. Just before we separated<br />
menage X. told me that as he had some business<br />
visits to pay, and, as his clothes were too shabby,<br />
he would be much obliged to me if I would lend<br />
him my overcoat to put on over them so as to<br />
hide their tattered condition. I did so, and<br />
haven’t seen him since until to-day. I wanted<br />
my coat back first, because I, too, am getting<br />
very rusty; and, secondly, because here’s the<br />
winter coming when it will be needed. Well,<br />
he opens it and shows me that he’s telling the<br />
truth when he says that he has nothing else to<br />
wear. He has sold his coat and waistcoat and<br />
couldn’t go out in his shirt-sleeves.”’<br />
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I do not know how Bohemians of this class<br />
would ever be able to live at all were it not for<br />
the large amount of credit which is given by the<br />
hotel-keepers. and restaurateurs in the Latin<br />
Quarter. The credit system was created for the<br />
benefit of the students, but is useful to a<br />
number of men of letters, artists, and so forth.<br />
Many of these have little else to live upon than<br />
the credulity, or rather the faith, of the gargotte-<br />
keepers in themselves. They mean to pay as soon<br />
as the great picture or the great book, which is<br />
to make them famous and rich, shall have been<br />
painted or written. Sometimes the book is never<br />
written nor the picture painted, and then the<br />
creditors get left. I could mention several well-<br />
known names of writers here who have about as<br />
much order in their affairs as had Dick Swiveller.<br />
One very well-known man, whose entire belong-<br />
ings consist in his bed and its furniture—which<br />
are unseizable under distress warrant in France—<br />
got a sound thrashing the other day from a<br />
marchand de vins, who met him in Montmartre,<br />
and to whom he owed many weeks of board and<br />
lodging. If all his creditors were to go for him<br />
similarly, I am afraid France would lose a’ poet<br />
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whom many thousands of admirers consider to<br />
be the first poet in France, ;<br />
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A certain journal has been pitching into me<br />
for defending Oscar Wilde against certain<br />
abominable attacks which were recently made<br />
against him, remarking that Oscar Wilde,<br />
least of all men, needs a sandwich man to<br />
puff him. If the many writers who cannot<br />
stomach the success which this remarkable<br />
poet has achieved would leave him alone, his<br />
friends and admirers would have no occasion<br />
to take up the cudgels on his behalf. “Que<br />
Messieurs les—what shall we say ?—commen-<br />
cent.”<br />
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The vegetarians ought to get an interview with<br />
Mr. Xavier Marmier, who is the doyen d’age of<br />
the French Academy, and who believes and hopes<br />
to prolong his life—he is already eighty-eight<br />
years old—by a strict course of vegetarianism.<br />
For many months past he has not touched meat,<br />
and describes himself as having benefited wonder-<br />
fully by this régime. He suffers a good deal<br />
from rheumatism, but expects to be rid of this<br />
also by continuing to avoid meat, and says that<br />
his sufferings have notably diminished cf late.<br />
Marmier is a splendid old fellow, one of the most<br />
sympathetic of the Academicians. He is, how-<br />
ever, a decided literary antagonist of Emile Zola,<br />
whom he told never to hope for his vote for the<br />
Academy. “Zola tried to convince me,” he said,<br />
“that it is the novelist’s duty to describe life as<br />
he finds it, whether beautiful or ugly, but for all<br />
that there are passages in‘ Germinal,’ ‘]’Assom-<br />
moir’ and ‘ La Terre,’ which I shall never be able<br />
to admit. Altogether, I am afraid that Zola will<br />
have to wait for the disappearance of quite a<br />
number of the ‘old gang” amongst the<br />
Academicians, before the coveted laurel-leaf<br />
embroidery shall deck his coat.<br />
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Iam very sorry to see, from a Scotch paper,<br />
that my poor friend, John E. Barlas, the poet,<br />
has at last been and gone and done it for himself,<br />
and having been “ remitted ”’ by the Crieff autho-<br />
rities, consequent on an insane assault he com-<br />
mitted in that town, to the sheriff of Perth, has<br />
now been remitted to a lunatic asylum. Poor<br />
Barlas was a most brilliant scholar, and in the<br />
thirteen volumes of poetry which he published,<br />
under the pseudonym of Evelyn Douglas, there<br />
was much work of really the highest order. He<br />
created several new metres, many of most musical<br />
effect. I never met an English poet yet who took<br />
his vocation so entirely au sérieuw. The late<br />
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Doctor Hueffer, who read some articles of his<br />
about the Paris Salon, sad that they were the<br />
best pieces of art criticism which he had read for<br />
many years, but Barlas would stick to poetry in<br />
spite of my advice. Recently, however, he had<br />
taken to prose-writing for the reason that drives<br />
most of us unpractical poets to that, and was<br />
also trying his hand at fiction. I consider his<br />
unhappy end a decided loss to English letters.<br />
There was plenty of good stuff in John Evelyn<br />
Barlas.<br />
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_ I met Dr. Blanche on the boulevards the other<br />
day, and asked him how De Maupassant went.<br />
The doctor threw his hands into the air in an un-<br />
equivocal gesture of despair. IT would have tried<br />
for more detail, only quailed under the eye of that<br />
mental juge d’instruction, the greatest mad<br />
doctor in Europe. I felt quite relieved when I<br />
had got round the corner of the Rue Scribe, and<br />
had not been asked by Blanche “to come along<br />
o’ me.” Itis pretty well known that De Maupas-<br />
sant is totally lost, and that the setting im of<br />
paralysis in its worst form is only a question of<br />
time.<br />
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De Maupassant was the most truthful writer of<br />
the age. He was a thorough pessimist, and,<br />
come frankly, can one study human nature and.<br />
be otherwise ? It was grand training to read him,<br />
because the moral inoculation of pessimism is as<br />
necessary to a man as it is for him to be vacci-<br />
nated. If were a despot I should insist on<br />
having Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi, and<br />
De Maupassant included in the curriculum of<br />
my youthful studies. The man who has been so<br />
inoculated is prepared for all the filthy sorrows of<br />
life. Now JI, for instance, have, during the<br />
last months, been the victim of such treachery,<br />
cowardice, and vileness, that, but for my schooling,<br />
T should certainly have gone under, heart-broken.<br />
Well, nothing of the sort ; I was prepared for all<br />
these abominations, and to-day can enjoy my<br />
cigarette and my pernod aw sucre just as much as<br />
before. Your practical pessimist, taught to<br />
expect nothing but vileness from human nature,<br />
has more joy at one little act of kindness or of<br />
loyalty than a hundred optimists.<br />
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I should like to commend to the notice of my<br />
readers a newspaper index which Mr. Edward<br />
Curtice, of Romeike and Curtice, proposes to<br />
publish daily, commencing on the new year. It is<br />
to be a large sheet, published at one penny, and<br />
will give the contents of all the publications of the<br />
day. This index will be invaluable to those who<br />
are interested in questions, and who want to know<br />
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VOL. III.<br />
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where to look in the periodical press for the<br />
latest utterances on the same.<br />
Rosert H. SHERARD.<br />
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NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
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N looking at the September number of the<br />
Idler, I came across a paper by Grant Allen,<br />
to which I naturally turned. Presently, to<br />
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my amazement, T found my own name mentioned<br />
in connection with one or two statements, which<br />
made me “‘sit-up.” In the first he speaks of the<br />
cost of production “so obnoxious to Mr. Walter<br />
Besant.” Why is the “cost of production ”<br />
obnoxious tome? The Society, through its officers,<br />
has, it is true, by dint of great trouble ascertained<br />
something like the real cost of producing the ordi-<br />
nary book. It has also published the results of<br />
this investigation ; and a very valuable work it is<br />
for the information and the protection of the<br />
author. Further, the Society has discovered that<br />
in many cases the author has been grossly over-<br />
charged as to the “cost of production.” But<br />
why is the cost of production obnoxious to me?<br />
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The writer says, further, that he once paid a sum<br />
of money to get a book produced, and does not<br />
grumble—well! but how does that affect me—or<br />
anybody? Why, I ask again, is the cost of pro-<br />
duction obnoxious to me?<br />
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Next, Grant Allen says, “Mr. W. B. will have<br />
it that there is no such thing as generosity in<br />
publishers.” Where have I said anything so<br />
silly? Next, I suppose, one will be accused of<br />
saying that publishers have no natural affections,<br />
no pity, no fear, no anything. He then goes on<br />
to say that he has been treated with great<br />
generosity by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, who<br />
brought out his first book. What I have said<br />
over and over again, and probably shall repeat it<br />
over and over again, is that it is just as degrading<br />
for a man of letters to ask—or to accept—“ geue-<br />
rosity,” from a publisher, as it would be for a<br />
barrister to ask “ generosity ” of a solicitor. It is<br />
not generosity that we want, but justice. The<br />
administration, and the acquisition, and the sale<br />
of literary property may be governed, and must<br />
be governed, as soon as people understand the<br />
subject, by the same principles as govern other<br />
forms of property. Those who desire the indepen-<br />
dence of literature will jom the men and women<br />
who are working their hardest to place literary<br />
property on a footing equitable both to the<br />
author and the publisher. But to stand, hat in<br />
hand, blessing the generosity of the man with<br />
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the bag—when shall we agree that the spectacle<br />
is humiliating, and the attitude degrading ¥<br />
What, again, is generosity? A publisher knows<br />
certainly, that a minimum of so much will be<br />
realized by any book that he undertakes. In<br />
the case of a new author even, he can, in the<br />
case of a novel, pretty certainly arrive at such<br />
a minimum. If he is a just and an honour-<br />
able man, he will, if he buys the book, give<br />
for it a sum calculated, as he considers, justly.<br />
The book is then his own. If he afterwards<br />
chooses to give the author more in the case of<br />
a success, that is due to his sense of justice<br />
over and above the letter of the law. But<br />
the author has no ground of complaint in any ease.<br />
But what of generosity? Where is that? It<br />
will be agreed that there is such a thing as a fair<br />
division of profits, I suppose. If he gives the<br />
author more, he robs himself and degrades the<br />
author ; if less, he robs the author and degrades<br />
himself.<br />
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Now, let us look at the case quoted by Grant<br />
Allen. Ido not read it a case of “ generosity”<br />
at all, but as a case of great clearness of judgment.<br />
I can speak of this firm with greater freedom,<br />
because no one has as yet ventured to charge me<br />
with hostility to Chatto and Windus, who have<br />
published books by me for fifteen years, and I<br />
hope will continue to do so to the end of the<br />
chapter. My reading of the case is this: Mr.<br />
Chatto, discovering in Grant Allen a highly<br />
promising writer, encouraged him to write a<br />
novel; he then read the novel, and saw that<br />
it would go; he then bought the novel at what<br />
he considered a just price. By so doig he<br />
rendered the author the greatest possible ser-<br />
vice, a service of which Grant Allen shows<br />
himself honourably sensible. -But that a pub-<br />
lisher should have the literary acumen to find<br />
out a good man and to launch him; and that he<br />
should in his business arrangements display a<br />
spirit of equity—this reading seems to me far<br />
more creditable, as well as the more likely to be<br />
true, than the old dream of “ generosity,” which<br />
can only mean giving the author more than is his<br />
just and rightful due. Not “ generosity,’ my<br />
friend Grant Allen. Let us ask for anything but<br />
that. Not generosity. The man with the bag<br />
loves the word; he loves to be thought the<br />
Patron of Literature; he calls himself, whenever<br />
he can, the Patron of Literature; well, let him<br />
be “generous” to those who love the bended<br />
knee and the arching back. We will go rather<br />
to the man who stands upright and face to face<br />
with us; before whom we stand upright; who<br />
agrees with us according to the right and the<br />
Justice of the case.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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Two great Americans have passed away, George<br />
William Curtis and the poet Whittier. Of the<br />
former, there has appeared in the New York<br />
Nation, a biographical paper which makes the<br />
English readers of that paper understand for the<br />
first time how great was the position occupied by<br />
this writer, and how extended was his influence. In<br />
this country, no man of letters would be allowed<br />
to occupy such a position, nor, I think, does any<br />
living man of letters aspire to such a position,<br />
That is to say, more than one leader in British<br />
politics is a man of letters; but he is a states-<br />
man first and a man of letters next. Mr. Glad-<br />
stone and Mr. Arthur Balfour are men of letters,<br />
but they are statesmen first. George William<br />
Curtis, like Lowell, was a man of letters first,<br />
and always, a man of letters before everything<br />
else. He lived by literature: at first he lectured<br />
until he was able to live by writing. He was<br />
also an orator: a finished and powerful speaker.<br />
He spoke on the anti-slavery side; he delivered<br />
eulogies upon Lowell and Bryant. He held<br />
numerous public offices. He was chairman in<br />
1871 of the first Civil Service Commission ; he<br />
founded the Civil Service Reform Association—<br />
which has rescued 36,000 national offices from<br />
the old “spoil”? system ; he headed the Indepen-<br />
dent party, which refused to have Blaine for<br />
President; he was chairman of the Committee on<br />
Education—in this capacity he advocated the<br />
enlargement of women’s educational advantages ;<br />
he was Chancellor of the University of New<br />
York; he was President of the Metropolitan<br />
Museum; he was President of the National<br />
Conference of Unitarian Churches. The follow-<br />
ing is the conclusion of the Nation’s paper :<br />
<br />
In every personal relation he was a good man to know,<br />
a better man to love, as relative or friend. He was full of<br />
pleasant talk and golden memories of persons and events,<br />
nowhere more interesting and engaging than in some<br />
friendly circle ; everywhere, and especially in his own home,<br />
the least formidable of men, putting the most awkward at<br />
their ease. His most remarkable endowment was not any<br />
intellectual distinction, any imaginative force or originality<br />
of mind, but a character which united in itself the rarest<br />
gentleness and the sternest sense of duty and resolve to<br />
have it done. He was our Puritan cavalier. His gracious<br />
manners masked an iron will. He added nothing to our<br />
literature which did not make for kindness, charity, and<br />
peace; nothing to our politics which does not shame its<br />
ordinary levels and beckon it to higher things.<br />
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These are very noble words. We who did not<br />
know Curtis personally may assume that they are<br />
well deserved. Are there many other American<br />
men of letters of whom such things could be<br />
written ? If so, then, indeed, that country should<br />
be proud of its authors. Let us ask, however,<br />
what such a man would be in our own country.<br />
Probably he would become an anonymous writer<br />
of leading articles. In his own circle of intimate<br />
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friends he would be known as a man of singular<br />
gifts, exercising a great and unknown amount of<br />
influence; outside his own circle he would be<br />
utterly unknown. And our own countryman<br />
would voluntarily live in the shade. He would<br />
not be able to speak ; he would be a shy man; he<br />
would avoid an active part in the work of the<br />
day. It is not well done of the modern English<br />
littérateur. He should come out of his retreat<br />
and take his share in the speaking and the<br />
fighting.<br />
<br />
SS<br />
<br />
The following lines are quoted by the New<br />
York Critic. They are from Lowell’s £ ‘pistle to<br />
George Curtis:<br />
<br />
1874.<br />
Curtis, whose Wit, with Fancy arm in arm,<br />
Masks half its muscle in its skill to charm,<br />
And who so gently can the Wrong expose<br />
As sometimes to make converts, never foes,<br />
Or only such as good men must expect,<br />
Knaves sore with conscience of their own defect,<br />
I come with mild remonstrance. Ere I start,<br />
A kindlier errand interrupts my heart,<br />
And‘ must utter, though it vex your ears,<br />
The love, the honour felt so many years.<br />
<br />
Curtis, skilled equally with voice and pen<br />
<br />
To stir the hearts or mould the minds of men,—<br />
That voice whose music, for I’ve heard you sing<br />
Sweet as Casella, can with passion ring,<br />
<br />
That pen whose rapid ease ne’er trips with haste,<br />
Nor scrapes nor sputters, pointed with good taste,<br />
First Steele’s, then Goldsmith’s, next it came to you,<br />
Whom Thackeray rated best of all our crew,—<br />
Had letters kept you, every wreath were yours ;<br />
Had the World tempted, all its chariest doors<br />
Had swung on flattened hinges to admit<br />
<br />
Such high-bred manners, such good-natured wit ;<br />
At courts, in senates, who so fit to serve ?<br />
<br />
And both invited, but you would not swerve,<br />
<br />
All meaner prizes waiving, that you might<br />
<br />
In civic duty spend your heat and light,<br />
<br />
Unpaid, untrammelled, with a sweet disdain<br />
Refusing posts men grovel to attain.<br />
<br />
Good Man all own you; what is left me, then,<br />
<br />
To heighten praise with but Good Citizen ?<br />
<br />
But why this praise to make you blush and stare,<br />
And give a backache to your Easy-Chair ?<br />
* * * * *<br />
PostTscRIPT, 1887.<br />
Curtis, so wrote I thirteen years ago,<br />
Tost it unfinished by, and left it so ;<br />
Found lately, I have pieced it out, or tried,<br />
Since time for callid juncture was denied.<br />
Some of the verses pleased me, it is true,<br />
And still were pertinent,—those honouring you.<br />
These now I offer: take them if you will,<br />
Like the old hand-grasp, when at Shady Hill<br />
We met, or Staten Island, in the days<br />
When life was its own spur, nor needed praise.<br />
x % * * *<br />
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167<br />
<br />
The death of Whittier removes one of the last<br />
surviving American writers of the old school.<br />
He, like Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Holmes,<br />
and a few others, was lmneally descended from<br />
Dryden, Pope, and Gold-mith. We must defer<br />
certain remarks on this poet for a month.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The following is a list of “ favourite’ books<br />
drawn up by Benjamin Franklin in the year<br />
1722, published in the New York Courant. It is<br />
reprinted in the New York Critic of August 20.<br />
“How many private libraries of the present<br />
day,” asks the Critic, “ have these books?” = =<br />
have, or have had, myself those marked with a<br />
star — rather more than half — and imine is a<br />
“ragged” library indeed.<br />
<br />
History of the Affairs of<br />
<br />
Europe,<br />
* The Tale of a Tub,<br />
Josephus Ant,<br />
History of France,<br />
Her. Moll’s Geography,<br />
British Apollo,<br />
Heylin’s Cosmography,<br />
Sandy’s Travels,<br />
* Du Bartas,<br />
<br />
Theory of the Earth,<br />
<br />
* Pliny’s Natural History,<br />
* Aristotle’s Politicks,<br />
* Roman History,<br />
* Athenian Oracle,<br />
Sum of Christian Theo-<br />
logy,<br />
Cotton Mather’s History of<br />
New England,<br />
Oldmixon’s History of<br />
American Colonies,<br />
Burnet’s History of the<br />
<br />
Reformation, * Hudibras,<br />
* Virgil, * The Spectator,<br />
* Milton, * The Turkish Spy,<br />
* The Guardian, Art of Speaking,<br />
Art of Thinking, The Lover,<br />
<br />
Bs<br />
<br />
Oldham’s Works,<br />
<br />
The Ladies’ Calling,<br />
<br />
Pacquett * Shakespeare’s Works,<br />
* St. Augustine’s Works.<br />
<br />
The Reader,<br />
<br />
Cowley’s Works,<br />
<br />
The Ladies’<br />
Broken Open,<br />
<br />
*<br />
<br />
ae<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Those who love their Rabelais must make a<br />
note that the new translation by Mr. WF.<br />
Smith, one of the Lecturers and Fellows of St.<br />
John’s College, Cambridge, is on the point of<br />
appearing. It will be in two volumes royal 8vo.,<br />
and will contain, as well as the Gargantua and<br />
Pantagruel, the minor writings, letters, &e.<br />
There are also notes, appendices, &c. Mr. W. F.<br />
Smith has long been known as a student of<br />
Rabelais. The edition is limited to 750, and is<br />
subscribed by Mr. A. P. Watt, 2, Paternoster-<br />
square, at 258. a Copy ; put, after a certain number<br />
are subscribed the price will be raised, so that<br />
those who wish to secure the work should make<br />
haste.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ladies of literary pursuits may like to know<br />
that the report of the Society for the Em-<br />
ployment of Women announces a new—and<br />
at present—remunerative field of industry for<br />
educated women. It is that of lecturing on<br />
domestic science. In many parts of the country<br />
<br />
<br />
168 THE<br />
<br />
these lectures have been started, and at the<br />
present moment the demand is greater than the<br />
supply. The subjects of the lectures are samita-<br />
tion, personal and domestic hygiene, nursing,<br />
first aid to the injured, and artisan cookery with<br />
demonstrations. Instructions in these subjects<br />
can be obtained in London and other large centres.<br />
The qualities wanted, next to a knowledge of the<br />
subject, are especially the power of interesting an<br />
audience and of speaking. Perhaps it might<br />
prove more satisfa: tory in the long run to take up<br />
with lecturing than to crowd the ranks of candi-<br />
dates for the post of successful novelist.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
What has become of the guides to London?<br />
Has the scheme collapsed? We were to have<br />
had a service of lady guides, with a central<br />
office in communication with the great hotels, so<br />
that a guide could be obtained and one sent off at<br />
short notice. I fear the preliminary studies,<br />
without which it is impossible to become a trust-<br />
worthy guide, have proved tcoo much It seemed<br />
at one time a promising opening. Certainly,<br />
speaking as an amateur and occasional guide to<br />
London, it is very easy to interest a party. If<br />
this note should meet the eye of anyone who<br />
helped to start the Lady Guides Association, it<br />
would be taken as a kindness if he would send<br />
some particulars of the society and its history to<br />
the writer.<br />
<br />
Water Bzsanvt.<br />
<br />
ec<br />
<br />
FEUILLETON.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
i,<br />
My First Love.<br />
<br />
PYNHE children slept. A solitary evening loomed<br />
before me. Not the first by many a score<br />
and hundred. They had been laboriously<br />
<br />
filled in. Alisonand Macaulay aided and abetted<br />
<br />
me. Scott, Bulwer-Lytton, Charlotte Bronté<br />
helped ne with all their might. But to night<br />
reading palled. I looked around me wondering<br />
how I should get through the evening. Thus,<br />
with a sudden inspiration, I seized a pen, dashed<br />
into a story, and the world was transformed.<br />
<br />
The bursting of day in the tropics is not more<br />
<br />
gloom-dispelling. No longer were lonely even-<br />
<br />
ee a period of dread ; they were ardently longed<br />
or.<br />
Like secret conspirators my faithful quill and<br />
<br />
I plotted and wrote till midnight. Time dragged<br />
<br />
no longer. It flew. A year passed.<br />
<br />
oe is coming to-night to play chess,”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
remarked a pleasant, clear-toned, voice at break.<br />
fast time. Its owner claims proprietorship over<br />
the house, goods and chattels, including myself.<br />
That cabalistic ceremony at St. George's,<br />
Hanover-square, has much to answer for. “ He<br />
has developed into a full-blown editor.”<br />
<br />
“B editor! Of what, the Meld or Sport-<br />
ing Chronicle?”<br />
<br />
“ Oh, no,” laughed the voice, muffled in toast.<br />
« A new weekly that H is starting, It is to<br />
outshine everything, and sell at sixpence.”’<br />
<br />
He came, elated to the skies and brimming<br />
over with talk of the new project. His beloved<br />
chess failed to quash it. Even current rumour<br />
on the subject of the famous tournament fell<br />
flat.<br />
<br />
“We have one story by ———”’ (he named a<br />
leading author of the day, on the council of the<br />
society). ‘‘ But we are at our wits end where to<br />
find another. H talks of advertising.”’<br />
<br />
My silly little heart gave a bound. In the<br />
supremest matter-of-fact tone I said ‘“‘I have one<br />
I could finish in a week or two, if you thought it<br />
would do.”<br />
<br />
“You! <A story, a novel!” I don’t know<br />
which was the more astonished, B or my<br />
husband. Five-and-twenty years ago, the crowd<br />
of women writers was infinitely less dense than<br />
now.<br />
<br />
Half exultant, half reluctant, I drew the MS.<br />
from its hiding-place. After turning a few<br />
pages, ‘ By Jove, it will do,’ exclaimed B :<br />
clapping his hands gleefully. ‘I must show it<br />
H ; but Iam confident he will have it.” I<br />
don’t think terms were ever mentioned or thought<br />
of.<br />
<br />
It was a significant coincidence that on the<br />
day of publication I happened to be in the<br />
Strand. I looked in at the office, and purchased<br />
a couple of numbers. Next day B arrived,<br />
to bring me a copy and report progress.<br />
<br />
Progress! it was stagnation: failure the most<br />
pronounced.<br />
<br />
“Up to five o’clock we had only sold four<br />
copies. Then a lady came and bought two.<br />
That is the sum total so far.’ But H .<br />
persists in being hopeful. ‘These things take<br />
time,” he says, ‘“‘and that lady ——”<br />
<br />
What could my eyes have said? J spoke never<br />
a word.<br />
<br />
“Oh, don’t, don’t,” he broke out in a voice of<br />
absolute anguish. ‘‘ Don’t say you were the lady.<br />
‘A lady with a white veil,’ the boy said. You<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
never wear a white veil, now, do you? Oh! it<br />
was balm of Gilead, her coming. H. sent<br />
for a bottle of fizz to drink it to her. ‘The lady<br />
<br />
in the white veil!’ Ah, don’t be so cruel as to<br />
say it was you. I daren’t tell H——,” followed<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
THE<br />
<br />
by a long-drawn sigh ; mournful as midnight<br />
breeze on dark Helvellyn.<br />
<br />
It had been arranged, after H saw it,<br />
that I should retain the MS. in my possession.<br />
I was anxious to revise it, and they would send<br />
for the instalments week by week. Each number<br />
was to have one full-page coloured illustration.<br />
I was honoured with it, the first number.<br />
wretched thing! The third week arrived, but lo<br />
and behold! no messenger from the office. Natu-<br />
rally I concluded the whole thing had collapsed.<br />
But no! In course of time the number appeared,<br />
and, located at its usual post, my story ! Had the<br />
MS., in desperation, sprouted wings and flown to<br />
the office? If so, like a homing pigeon it had<br />
returned, for there it lay, still in its brown paper<br />
wrapper.<br />
<br />
In horror I gazed at the heading of the<br />
chapter: ‘ My hounds are of the true Spartan<br />
breed.” And a lurid light burst upon my<br />
bewildered faculties. Dominated by his strong<br />
sporting proclivities, B had interpolated a<br />
chapter after his own fancy. Greyhounds and<br />
“saplings’”’—whatever that may be? I thought<br />
they were young trees—the Ridgway Club;<br />
Waterloo Cup; Ashdown Park coursing meeting ;<br />
poachers and an ancestral ghost swarmed in the<br />
foreground of my quiet Warwickshire scene.<br />
<br />
Explanation and apology followed in due<br />
course. Irregularities in the office. “ No one to<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
send.’ “Knew I shouldn't mind;”? and so<br />
forth.”<br />
Not mind! How to scatter sharp to the four<br />
<br />
winds of heaven all this wretched rabble of<br />
hounds, ghosts, pups, and poachers, I don’t<br />
see. But it must be done. It will utterly ruin<br />
the next chapter, beside giving me an infinity of<br />
trouble.<br />
<br />
A popular writer—Mr. Percy B. St. John—<br />
on an urgent occasion, summoned his victims to<br />
the river side, enticed them into a boat, and<br />
immediately swamped it. I could not do that,<br />
although I had a river handy. Mine would not<br />
in “the loomp,’ I imagine, be amenable to<br />
reason.<br />
<br />
Well: H showed considerable mettle, and<br />
dropped it. He ran the magazine to some-<br />
thing like a dozen numbers before he Jost heart,<br />
and succumbed to circumstances. Both tales, as<br />
far as I remember, were, by editorial request,<br />
expeditiously wound-up. I was paid so much per<br />
column. The cheque for the whole was for £15.<br />
<br />
Many a story, both long and short, has been<br />
published since then. But my first love, wooed in<br />
secret, while the children were asleep, remains<br />
in statu quo to this day; a ghastly memory—<br />
dog-encumbered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
169<br />
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1,<br />
«* What's the use ?’<br />
Said the goose.”<br />
<br />
The Goose was old, and grey, and tough,<br />
when, by repeated disappointments, she was<br />
driven to make the above remark.<br />
<br />
Michaelmas after Michaelmas had passed over<br />
her head, and she ought to have been very<br />
thankful that she still possessed a head for<br />
another Michaelmas to pass over. It was more<br />
than many of her contemporaries could boast.<br />
<br />
She was a literary goose, be it known ; which,<br />
as everybody will admit, is the worst kind of<br />
goose possible. The most indigestible and giddy,<br />
if not dry and tough. She was born that way,<br />
poor thing, so let us not judge her too harshly.<br />
<br />
The great mistake of her life was, that she would<br />
lay nothing but literary eggs. It was foolish<br />
and obstinate of her to do. so; for all her best<br />
friends had told her, at least once a week, that the<br />
market was overstocked already, and the sooner<br />
she left off the better. Only a few, dear, foolish<br />
Ducks and Goslings of her acquaintance loved<br />
and admired them. This encouraged the old goose<br />
in her absurd practices, for the small circle of<br />
her relations and friends was all the world to her.<br />
<br />
One unlucky day (she had dreamed about<br />
stuffing and green apple-sauce the night before),<br />
she was introduced to a gander. Nota literary<br />
gander, though such he pretended to be, and he<br />
was wise, but he was wicked. Now he flattered<br />
this foolish goose, and told her her eggs were<br />
worth a lot of money. He could sell thousands<br />
of them, if she would only trust him ; and swore<br />
upon his honour (of which he had no more than<br />
Touchstone’s knight) as a gander and a gentle-<br />
man, that he would negotiate the matter success-<br />
fully, if she would give him enough green peas<br />
to provide him with dinners fora month. The<br />
goose, who was always afraid that the eggs would<br />
become stale, if not quickly sold, closed with the<br />
proposal at once, and, not without considerable<br />
difficulty, supplied him with the number of peas<br />
he required. The unprincipled gander, however,<br />
having eaten all the peas, dropped the basket of<br />
eggs and flew away, cackling hideously.<br />
<br />
Then our goose went home again, her vanity<br />
sorely wounded, for geese can be as vain as any<br />
other birds, great or small, of the feminine<br />
gender. But all her dear ducks and goslings<br />
came quacking and cackling round her, and<br />
loved and believed in her as fondly as ever. So<br />
she laid some more literary eggs (you see she<br />
was no fool, for experience did not make her<br />
wise); and then, as she gazed at them sadly,<br />
she asked the immortal question which rhymes<br />
so nicely with the name of her species.<br />
<br />
Can anyone answer her question ?<br />
<br />
<br />
THE<br />
THE SHELLEY CENTENARY.<br />
<br />
N R. EDMUND GOSSE, at the meeting of<br />
<br />
170<br />
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the Shelley Centenary, delivered the<br />
following address :<br />
<br />
“We meet to-day to celebrate the fact that,<br />
exactly one hundred years ago, there was born,<br />
in an old house in this parish, one of the greatest<br />
of the English poets, one of the most individual<br />
and remarkable of the poets of the world. This<br />
beautiful county of Sussex, with its blowing<br />
woodlands andits shining downs, was even then<br />
not unaccust:med to poetic honours. One<br />
hundred and thirty years before it had given<br />
birth to Otway, seventy years before, to Collins.<br />
But charming as these pathetic figures were and<br />
are, not Collis and not Otway can compare for<br />
a moment with that writer who is the main<br />
intellectual glory of Sussex, the ever-beloved and<br />
ethereally illustrious Percy Bysshe Shelley. It<br />
has appeared to me that you might, as a Sussex<br />
audience gathered in a Sussex town, like to be<br />
reminded, before we go any further, of the exact<br />
connection of our poet with the county—of the<br />
stake, as it is called, which his family held in<br />
Sussex—and of the period of his own residence<br />
in it. You willsee that, although his native<br />
province lost him early, she had a strong claim<br />
upon his interests and associations.<br />
<br />
“Into the particulars of this strange life I need<br />
not pass. You know them well. No life so<br />
brief as Shelley’s has occupied so much curiosity,<br />
and for my patt I think that even too minute<br />
inquiry has been made concerning some of its<br />
details. The Harriet problem leaves its trail<br />
across one petal of this rose; minuter insects, not<br />
quite so slimy, Jurk where there should be<br />
nothing but colour and odour. We may well, I<br />
think, be content to-day to take the large<br />
romance of Shelley’s life, and leave any sordid<br />
details to oblivion. He died before he was quite<br />
thirty years of age, and the busy piety of<br />
biographers has peeped into the record of almost<br />
every day of the last ten of those years. What<br />
seems to me most wonderful is that a creature so<br />
nervous, so passionate, sill-disciplined as Shelley<br />
was, should be-able to come out of such an<br />
unprecedented ordeal with his shining garments<br />
so little specked with mire. Let us, at all<br />
events, to-day, think of the man only as “the<br />
peregrine falcon” that his best and oldest friends<br />
describe him.<br />
<br />
“We may, at all events, while a grateful Iing-<br />
land is cherishing Shelley’s memory, and con-<br />
gratulating herself on his majestic legacy of song<br />
to her, reflect almost with amusement on the very<br />
different attitude of public opinion seventy and<br />
even fifty years ago. That he should have been<br />
<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
pursued by calumny and’ prejudice through his<br />
brief, misrepresented life, and even beyond the<br />
tomb, can surprise no thinking spirit. It was<br />
not the poet who was attacked, it was the reyo-<br />
lutionist, the enemy of kings and priests, the<br />
extravagant and paradoxical humanitarian. It ig<br />
not needful, in order to defend Shelley’s genius<br />
aright, to inveigh against those who, taught in<br />
the prim school of eighteenth century poetics, and<br />
repelled by political and social peculiarities which<br />
they but dimly understood, poured out their<br />
reprobation of his verses. Hven his reviewers,<br />
<br />
‘perhaps, were not all of them ‘ beaten hounds’<br />
<br />
and ‘carrion kites;’ some, perhaps, were very<br />
respectable and rather narrow-minded English<br />
gentlemen, devoted to the poetry of Shenstone.<br />
The newer a thing is, in the true sense, the slower<br />
people are to accept it, avd the abuse of the<br />
Quarterly Review, rightly taken, was but a token<br />
of Shelley’s opulent originality.<br />
<br />
“To this unintelligent aversion there succeeded<br />
in the course of years an equally blind, although<br />
more amiable, admiration. Among a certain class<br />
of minds the reaction set in with absolute violence,<br />
and once more the centre of attention was not the<br />
poet and his poetry, but the faddist and his fads.<br />
Shelley was idealised, etherialised, and canonised.<br />
Expressions were used about his conduct and his<br />
opinions which would have been extravagant it<br />
employed to describe those of a virgin-martyr or<br />
of the founder of a religion. Vegetarians<br />
clustered around the eater of buns and raisins,<br />
revolutionists around the enemy of kings, social<br />
anarchists around the husband of Godwin’s<br />
daughter. Worse than all, those to whom the<br />
restraints of religion were hateful, marshalled<br />
themselves under the banner of the youth who<br />
had rashly styled himself an atheist, forgetful of<br />
the fact that all his best writings attest that,<br />
whatever name he might give himself, he, more<br />
than any other poet of the age, saw God in every-<br />
thing. This also was a phase, and passed away.<br />
The career of Shelley is no longer a battle-field<br />
for fanatics of one sort or the other; if they still<br />
skirmish a little in its obscurer corners, the main<br />
tract of itis not darkened with the smoke from<br />
their artillery. It lies, a fair open country of<br />
pure poetry, a province which comes as near to<br />
being fairy-land as any that literature provides<br />
for us.<br />
<br />
“ We cannot, however, think of this poet as of<br />
a writer of verses in the void. He is anything<br />
but the ‘idle singer of an empty day.’ Shelley<br />
was born amid extraordinary circumstances into<br />
an extraordinary age. On the very day, 100<br />
years ago, when the champagne was being drunk<br />
in the hall of Field-place in honour of the birth<br />
of a son and heir to Mr. Timothy Shelley, the<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
thundercloud of revolution was breaking over<br />
Europe. Never before had there been felt within<br />
so short a space of time so general a crash of the<br />
political order of things. Here, in England, we<br />
were spectators of the wild and sundering stress,<br />
in which the other kingdoms of Europe were dis-<br />
tracted actors. The faces of Burke and of his<br />
friends wore ‘the expression of men who are<br />
going to defend themselves from murderers,’ and<br />
those murderers are called, during the infancy of<br />
Shelley, by many names, Mamelukes and Suliots,<br />
Poles and Swedes, besides the all-dreaded one of<br />
sans culottes. In the midst of this turmoil Shelley<br />
was born, and the air of revolution filled his veins<br />
with life.<br />
<br />
It is not for grey philosophers, or hermits wear-<br />
ing out the evening of life, to pass a definitive<br />
verdict on the poetry of Shelley. It is easy for<br />
critics of this temper to point out weak places in<br />
the radiant panoply, to say that this is incohe-<br />
rent, and that hysterical, and the other an ethe-<br />
real fallacy. Sympathy is needful, a recognition<br />
of the point of view, before we can begin to judge<br />
Shelley aright. We must throw ourselves back<br />
to what we were at twenty, and recollect how<br />
dazzling, how fresh, how full of colour, and<br />
melody, and odour, this poetry seemed to us—<br />
how like a May-day morning in a rich Italian<br />
garden, with a fountain, and with nightingales in<br />
the blossoming boughs of the orange trees, with<br />
the vision of a frosty Appennine beyond the belt<br />
of laurels, and clear auroral sky everywhere above<br />
our heads. We took him for what he seemed,<br />
‘a pard-like spirit beautiful and swift, and we<br />
thought to criticise him as little as we thought<br />
to judge the murmur of the forest or the reflec-<br />
tions of the moonlight on the lake. He was<br />
exquisite, emancipated, young like ourselves, and<br />
yet as wise as a divinity. We followed him un-<br />
questioning, walking in step with his panthers,<br />
as the Bacchantes followed Dionysus out of<br />
India, intoxicated with enthusiasm.<br />
<br />
“Tf our sentiment is no longer so rhapsodical,<br />
shall we blame the poet? Hardly, I think. He<br />
has not grown older, it is we who are passing<br />
further and further from that happy eastern<br />
morning where the light is fresh, and the shadows<br />
plain and clearly defined. Over all our lives,<br />
over the lives of those of us who may be seeking<br />
to be least trammelled by the common-place, there<br />
creeps ever onward the stealthy tinge of conven-<br />
tionality, the admixture of the earthly. We<br />
cannot honestly wish it to be otherwise. It is<br />
the natural development, which turns kittens into<br />
cats, and blithe-hearted lads into earnest members<br />
of Parliament. If we try to resist this inevitable<br />
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tendency, we merely become eccentric, a mockery<br />
to others, and a trouble to ourselves.<br />
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accept our respectability with becoming airs of<br />
gravity ; it is another thing to deny that youth<br />
was sweet.- When I see an elderly professor<br />
proving that the genius of Shelley has been over-<br />
rated, I cannot restrain a melancholy smile.<br />
What would he, what would I, give for that<br />
exquisite ardour, by the light of which all other<br />
poetry than Shelley’s seemed dim ? You recol-<br />
lect our poet’s curious phrase that to go to him<br />
for common-sense was like going to a gin-palace<br />
for mutton chops. The speech was a rash one,<br />
and has done him harm. But it is true enough<br />
that those who are conscious of the grossness of<br />
life, and are over-materialised, must go to him<br />
for the elixir and ether which emancipate the<br />
senses.<br />
<br />
“Tf Lam right in thinking that you will all<br />
be with me in considering this beautiful passion<br />
of youth, this recapturing of the illusions, as the<br />
most notable of the gifts of Shelley’s poetry to<br />
us, you will also, 1 think, agree with me in<br />
placing only second to it the witchery which<br />
enables this writer, more than any other, to seize<br />
the most tumultuous and agitat ing of the<br />
emotions, and present them to us coloured by the<br />
analogy of natural beauty. Whether it be the<br />
petulance of a solitary human being, to whom<br />
the little downy owl is a friend, or the sorrows<br />
and desires of Prometheus, on whom the primal<br />
elements attend as slaves, Shelley is able to mould<br />
his verse to the expression of feeling, and to<br />
harmonise natural phenomena to the magnitude<br />
or the delicacy of his theme. No other poet has<br />
so wide a grasp as he in this respect, no one<br />
sweeps so broadly the full diapason of man in<br />
nature. Laying hold of the general life of the<br />
universe with a boldness that is unparalleled, he<br />
is equal to the most sensitive of the naturalists in .<br />
his exact observation of tender and humble<br />
forms.<br />
<br />
“And to the ardour of fiery youth and the<br />
imaginative sympathy of pantheism, he adds<br />
what we might hardly expect from so rapt and<br />
tempestuous a singer, the artist’s self-restraint.<br />
Shelley is none of those of whom we are some-<br />
times told in these days, whose mission is too<br />
serious to he transmitted with the-arts of<br />
language, who are too much occupied with the<br />
substance to care about the form. All that is<br />
best in his exquisite collection of verse cries out<br />
against this wretched heresy. With all his<br />
modernity, his revolutionary instinct, his disdain<br />
of the unessential, his poetry is of the highest<br />
and most classic technical perfection. No one,<br />
among the moderns, has gone further than he in<br />
the just attention to poetic form, and there is so<br />
severe a precision in his most vibrating choruses<br />
that we are taken by them into the company, not<br />
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of the Ossians and the Walt Whitmans, not of<br />
those who feel, yet cannot control their feelings,<br />
but of those impeccable masters of style,<br />
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who dwelt by the azure sea<br />
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Of serene and golden Italy,<br />
Of Greece the mother of the free.<br />
<br />
« And now, most inadequately and tamely, yet<br />
I trust, with some sense of the greatness of my<br />
theme, I have endeavoured to recall to your<br />
minds certain of the cardinal qualities which<br />
animated the divine poet whom we celebrate<br />
to-day. I have no taste for those arrangements<br />
of our great writers which assign to them rank<br />
like schoolboys in a class, and I cannot venture<br />
to. suggest that Shelley stands above or below<br />
this or that brother immortal. But of this I am<br />
quite sure, that when the slender roll is called of<br />
those singers who make the poetry of England<br />
second only to that of Greece (if even of Greece),<br />
however few are named, Shelley must be among<br />
them. To-day, under the auspices of the greatest<br />
poet our language has produced since Shelley died,<br />
encouraged by universal public opimion and by<br />
dignitaries of all the professions, yes, even by<br />
prelates of our national Church, we are gathered<br />
here as a sign that the period of prejudice is over,<br />
that England is in sympathy at last with her<br />
beautiful wayward child, understands his great<br />
language, and is reconciled to his harmonious<br />
ministry. A century has gone by, and once more<br />
we acknowledge the truth of his own words:<br />
<br />
“The splendours of the firmament of time<br />
May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not ;<br />
Like stars to their appointed height they climb.”<br />
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<br />
THE INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
HE conference of the Institute of Journalists<br />
(which now numbers 3118 members) at<br />
Edinburgh this year proved to be a most<br />
<br />
interesting and enjoyable gathering. The impor-<br />
tant business of the meeting was the discussion<br />
and arrangement of the orphan fund scheme,<br />
the question of lineage, or the “usage” of news<br />
correspondence, which touches most closely the<br />
reporter, and the all important matter of estab-<br />
lishing an educational test to be applied to all<br />
wishing to enter the Institute, either as associates<br />
or members. This important step to prevent<br />
illiterate and incompetent men posing as<br />
journalists, created much discussion, and, incon-<br />
gruously enough, as the sitting was in the hall of<br />
their own university, the Edinburgh district<br />
moved that the time was not yet come for an<br />
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educational test to be imposed on those wishing to<br />
enter the Institute. Their principal reason for<br />
this motion appeared to be that in Scotland many<br />
men raised themselves from printers to journal-<br />
ists; but this was not considered by the con-<br />
ference to be a reason why such men should not<br />
also educate themselves, and a Mr. Duncan, of<br />
Aberdeen, stated that he had stepped from the<br />
composing room to the reporter’s desk, but he<br />
felt he would have been the better if some such<br />
examination had been forced upon him. A very<br />
large majority of the Conference were in favour<br />
of such a test, and, after a discussion as to<br />
whether it should not be more technical than<br />
the scheme submitted by the examination com-<br />
mittee, and as to the relative merits of Latin,<br />
French, and German, it was passed that in future<br />
all candidates must pass an examination, or pro-<br />
duce a recognised certificate, such as the Oxford<br />
or Cambridge examinations, before he would be<br />
elected a member of the Institute; Mr. Gilzcan<br />
Reid remarking that he hoped some day to see a<br />
school for journalists established. 'The members<br />
of the Conference were most interestingly enter-<br />
tained by the Lord Provost and Council of Edin-<br />
burgh, and at the annual dinner Lord Rosebery<br />
proposed the toast of the evening, ‘‘ The Institute<br />
of Journalists,” in what may be termed a most<br />
dramatic and humorous speech. Especially<br />
happy was he in comparing the work of a foreign<br />
secretary with that of a journalist. Both inter-<br />
viewed great personages, both received telegrams ;<br />
but the journalist received telegrams which in<br />
some way or other miscarried ere they reached<br />
the foreign secretary, as in the case of that<br />
telegram announcing the evacuation of Egypt.<br />
He likened the drawing together of all the<br />
journalists of the Empire to Imperial Federation,<br />
and he welcomed the fact that political speeches<br />
were being curtailed, and home and _ colonial<br />
topics more fully discussed. If Lord Rosebery<br />
held the audience intent, so also did Professor<br />
Masson, ina most earnest and powerful speech<br />
upon the power and danger of this huge and<br />
grand profession of journalism. With incisive<br />
phrases and energetic accents he urged journa-<br />
lists to intense accuracy and honourable fairness ;<br />
and he asserted that the Universities that were<br />
established to acquire knowledge must recognise<br />
the pro’ession of journalism, that disseminated<br />
knowledge. With apt literary allusion and quota-<br />
tion he emphasised his words, and charmed his<br />
audience, mostly members of that “‘ dangerous ”’<br />
profession. As a Glasgow editor was elected<br />
president of the institute for the coming year, it<br />
was a very fitting ending to the Conference that<br />
the members went to Glasgow, and were most<br />
hospitably entertained by the Lord Provost of<br />
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«) that city, the whole proceedings ending with a<br />
| day’s run amidst the hills and firths of the Clyde<br />
<br />
upon the famous steamer “ Columba,” which was<br />
placed at the disposal of the institute by Mr.<br />
David McBrayne. This last day proved remark-<br />
ably fine, and the Kyles of Bute and Arran Hills<br />
stood out beneath the blue cloud-flecked sky in<br />
all their loveliness as the steamer, with its<br />
journalistic freight, steamed amidst them. On<br />
the following day those who write newspapers<br />
that Sir George Trevelyan, at the Glasgow dinner,<br />
asserted all men must read—dispersed to all<br />
parts of the empire, for some were present from<br />
Europe, the Cape and India, and from Treland<br />
and Scotland and England.<br />
James BakER.<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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American COPYRIGHT.<br />
<br />
RIOR to the passing of the American Copy-<br />
right Bill I sent a short story to one of the<br />
London magazines. The editor accepted it,<br />
<br />
and forwarded me a cheque in payment, at the same<br />
time intimating that the copyright would remain<br />
my property. A few days after the appearance<br />
of the story in the magazine in question I re-<br />
ceived a second cheque from the editor for<br />
“American rights”—the only notice given me<br />
that my work had been used in the States. I<br />
was, naturally, very much edified to find that the<br />
story had seen the light both here and there, and<br />
the second cheque—which I had not anticipated<br />
receiving—was especially comforting.<br />
<br />
The 4th of July passed, and I sent the same<br />
magazine another paper, which was published<br />
in due course, and again a cheque for “ American<br />
rights”’ reached me. But the feeling of satis-<br />
faction with which the second cheque had filled<br />
me on the former occasion is now tempered by<br />
doubts as to the right of the editor to dispose of<br />
and republish my work in America without my<br />
permission. Whether in so doing he secured for<br />
me American copyright I do not quite know, but I<br />
observe that the date of the New York journal<br />
in which the story appeared—it was sent me by<br />
a friend who happened to see it—is four days<br />
ahead of the London magazine; the former being<br />
published on the 27th of the month, the latter on<br />
the 1st of the following month.<br />
<br />
The above details, it seems to me, bear on a<br />
point of the copyright question not hitherto dis-<br />
cussed in the Author. I would ask (1) whether<br />
an editor is privileged to republish in America<br />
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a work the copyright of which is the property of<br />
the author; and (2) whether, under the circum-<br />
<br />
stances given, the dual publication secures<br />
American copyright. A. B:<br />
I:<br />
CATALOGUING.<br />
<br />
In my “green salad” days—before unfor-<br />
tunately the Society of Authors was at hand to<br />
give advice to the unsophisticated—I signed an<br />
agreement with a firm of some repute for several of<br />
my books on half share terms. Thinking at that<br />
time that the publishers were good kind peopl><br />
to bring out my lucubrations at all, nothing was<br />
inserted in the agreement about advertising.<br />
The books have had a steady sale ever since.<br />
When my first half-yearly account came in, my<br />
admiration for these good kind gentlemen was<br />
considerably damped when I found that, in addi-<br />
tion to charging 15 per cent. for publishing, each<br />
book was loaded with a charge of one guinea and<br />
a half for cataloguing. This went on for some<br />
time, until I became somewhat wiser in my gene-<br />
ration, and proceeded to kick at these impositions.<br />
Eventually I succeeded in getting half a guinea<br />
off each book; but I am sti'l charged two guineas<br />
per annum on each for cataloguing. My object<br />
in writing is to ask if this charge can be legally<br />
sustained? Of necessity most tradesmen must<br />
have a list of the wares they have for sale, and<br />
why not books? I could, of course, object to<br />
their insertion, but should in this case greatly<br />
damage their sale. I need hardly say since these<br />
days my arrangements as to publishing have<br />
become very different, and, thanks to the Society<br />
and its mouthpiece the Author, anyone trying to<br />
“have me on toast” in a similar way will find<br />
they are “ barking up the wrong tree’”’ as our<br />
American friends very expressively put it.<br />
<br />
Tyomas CwMRAG JONES.<br />
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TT.<br />
Booxs For REvIEW.<br />
<br />
“Frequently books are sent to papers for<br />
review, and no review ever appears. When this<br />
is the case, should not editors return the books?<br />
Perhaps no review is better than a bad one; but<br />
this is questionable. —<br />
<br />
Many persons are not influenced by a review,<br />
but would rather judge of a book for themselves,<br />
and, unless the name of the book, author, and<br />
publisher be brought to their notice in a review<br />
or advertisement, how can they possibly judge of<br />
the merits of a book ?<br />
<br />
But when several books are sent to publishers<br />
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who neither acknowledge nor return them, it is a<br />
serious addition to the expenses of launching a<br />
book into the world.”<br />
<br />
[The question seems to resolve itself into this.<br />
Do we in sending a@ Lok for review rely on a<br />
tacit understanding that it will be reviewed—or<br />
do we send it on the chance that the editcr will<br />
see fit to give it a review ? |<br />
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IV.<br />
Tur SHetLEY MErMoriAt.<br />
<br />
In the number of the Author for August there<br />
is a curiously worded sentence recommending, as<br />
a memorial to Shelley, ‘an institute something<br />
like the Shakespeare’s house at Stratford.” Which<br />
does the writer mean? Shakespeare’s house, his<br />
birthplace, or the small remains of the house he<br />
built, or the beautiful Memorial Theatre and<br />
Library, with the gardens by the side of the<br />
Avon, erected in the poet’s honour mainly by one<br />
of his fellow-townsmen, with the sympathy and<br />
collaboration of admirers throughout the English-<br />
speaking world. The cost of each of these three<br />
monuments would be easily ascertained, and I<br />
should be glad, if the last-named building be the one<br />
referred to, to furnish notes on what one man has<br />
done for the recovery of England’s greatest poet<br />
which might suggest in what manner another poct<br />
might be honoured. I may just add that during<br />
the thirteen years the Memorial Theatre has been<br />
opened twenty-four plays of Shakespeare’s have<br />
been produced in strict accordance with the<br />
original text; that the library contains an un-<br />
exampled collection of Shakespeare literature,<br />
including the precious folios and quartos; and<br />
that Mr. C. E. Flower has edited a most useful<br />
edition of Shakespeare’s plays, either for the stage<br />
or for reading aloud. HK. N. P.<br />
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V.<br />
LirERATURE AS A CALLING.<br />
<br />
Mr. James Payn is displeased with Mr. Grant<br />
Allen’s pessimistic view of literature as a trade,<br />
and persists in recommending it as an agreeable<br />
and sufficiently lucrative calling. Mr. Payn*<br />
admits that upon the start he found much help<br />
and kindness, and, of course, his own talents did<br />
the rest. So genial a writer naturally remembers<br />
the kindness and the pleasures of success, and<br />
forgets the early pangs. But perhaps there are<br />
no black periods in his career to remember.<br />
<br />
Writing as a woman of some literary expe-<br />
riences, I am inclined to believe that no view of<br />
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* Notes of the Week, Illustrated London News, Sept. 17.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
literature as a pursuit can be too sombre and dis-<br />
couraging. It ought to be regarded solely as an<br />
affair for people of independent means, though<br />
those among my acquaintances rail as bitterly<br />
against editors and publishers as we poor<br />
wretches who live and eat, say, bread and roots<br />
by their good pleasure.<br />
<br />
I have published half a dozen books, of which<br />
one at least has reached a third edition (without<br />
lending any extra weight to my purse, alas!). I<br />
have had stories in good magazines and articles<br />
in good papers, and been permitted at odd times<br />
to try my hand upon every kind of journalism,<br />
from leading articles, provincial letters, and<br />
reviewing, to descriptive reporting and para-<br />
graphs. A wealthy newspaper proprietor en-<br />
gaged me to write about half of his newspaper,<br />
a leaderette, two columns of notes of the week,<br />
and usually a couple of miscellaneous articles, as<br />
well as the selection of several lots of cuttings. I<br />
received the magnificent pay of £1 a week. One<br />
year onlydid I make the colossal sum of of £130;<br />
every other I am thankful to get as far as<br />
£80. Will Mr. Payn contend that these results<br />
are satisfactory? ‘True, unlike Mr. Payn, I have<br />
never found help or any kindness from my literary<br />
superiors—rather the reverse. True also, I am of<br />
vagabond tastes, like foreign wanderings and a<br />
novel on a sofa rather than the desk. These may<br />
<br />
be impediments to success, but I have fully tested |<br />
<br />
the disadvantages of the choice of rash youth, the<br />
one thing to which I have shown a misguided<br />
<br />
fidelity. x<br />
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VI.<br />
<br />
Tue Crvin List.<br />
<br />
On receiving my copy of the Author for<br />
September, I was much struck by an article headed<br />
“The Civil List,’ from which it appears to me<br />
<br />
that the writer has not studied his subject with<br />
<br />
sufficient impartiality. I am not myself aware<br />
for what precise class of individuals the benefits<br />
of the Civil List Pensions were originally designed,<br />
but if, as your correspondent infers, they were<br />
for those who have advanced the causes of litera-<br />
ture, science, and art, why, in the name of wonder,<br />
should consuls and their widows be excluded ?<br />
<br />
Why should a man be neither literary, scien-<br />
tific, nor artistic because he is a consul ?<br />
<br />
Further on in the same article we are told, with<br />
some bitterness, that ‘‘to be the widow of a<br />
consul is to be assessed at a pension of £120 a<br />
year, while to be the widow of the greatest<br />
historian of the day only entitles one to a pension<br />
of £100.” Then we hear of “a malign influ-<br />
ence ” at work to produce this dire result. Iam<br />
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far from denying that there may be frequent<br />
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mistakes in the granting of the pensions dis-<br />
cussed, or even that ‘a job” is never known in<br />
connection therewith; but surely the bestowers<br />
take some account of the pecuniary circumstances<br />
of the recipients? If “the greatest historian of<br />
the day” has left his widow £20 a year more<br />
than the unfortunate consul could leave to his,<br />
why should not the difference be adjusted in their<br />
respective grants ?<br />
<br />
But the sentence with which I quarrel the<br />
most is the following, evidently written satiri-<br />
cally :<br />
<br />
“Let the pension, which should have been hers<br />
(referring to a contemporary novelist), be given<br />
to the widows and daughters of men in the Civil<br />
Service who have nothing whatever to do with<br />
literature, science, or art.”<br />
<br />
Presumably, this scathing statement applies to<br />
consuls, yet without great searchings of memory<br />
it appears to me that the Consular Corps has<br />
other claims than its civil ones. What about<br />
Sir Richard Burton, or Mr. Palgrave, or Mr.<br />
Oswald Crauford as far as literature goes ? or say,<br />
Consul O'Neill, long at Mozambique, a gold<br />
medallist of the Geographical Society, or Sir<br />
John Kirk, once one of Livingstone’s party ?<br />
Have not these done something for science ?<br />
<br />
My husband and J, ina very small way, have<br />
done something for natural history. That<br />
department of the South Kensington Museum<br />
has been at various times glad to accept various<br />
objects, osteological and otherwise, collected and<br />
prepared by us. It has algo shown its apprecia-<br />
tion of our efforts by asking us to continue them<br />
by collecting some specimens required. Once<br />
even, I wrote a story; it was not a pecuniary<br />
success; but, as the comforting Author has often<br />
assured us, that is no criterion of merit. Yet<br />
if I were unfortunately left a needy widow—<br />
consuls are not highly paid, their lives are expen-<br />
sive, and the contingency is not impossible—I<br />
should, according to your correspondent, have no<br />
claim on the pension fund because the Consular<br />
Corps has nothing to do with either literature,<br />
science, or art. A Consuu’s Wire.<br />
<br />
[Nobody, surely, objects to a pension being<br />
bestowed upon a consul’s wife or widow if the<br />
consul has literary, scientific, or artistic claims,<br />
If he has none, he has no claim to a fund which<br />
is granted for literature, science, and art,—<br />
Eprror. |<br />
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“AT THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.”<br />
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<br />
M* EDMUND GOSSE joins the company<br />
/ of novelists. His first work of fiction<br />
<br />
will be published immediately by Heine-<br />
mann. Let us hope that it will be the first of<br />
many.<br />
<br />
A new and cheaper edition of Mr. J. E. Gore’s<br />
“ Scenery of the Heavens” will be published<br />
immediately by Messrs. R. A. Sutton and Co.,<br />
11, Ludgate-hill.<br />
<br />
Vols. IV. and V. of “The Poets and Poetry of<br />
the Century ”’ are the next to appear. The editor,<br />
Mr. Alfred H. Miles, is himself responsible for<br />
many of the articles, and among the other con-<br />
tributors are Dr. Garnett, Dr. Furnivall, Mr.<br />
Austin Dobson, Mr. A. H. Bullen, Mr. Joseph<br />
Knight, Dr. Japp, Mr. Ashcroft Noble, and Mr.<br />
Mackenzie Bell.<br />
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Mr. Andrew W. Tuer, of the Leadenhall Press,<br />
is engaged on a little work on Horn-Books, and<br />
desires it to be known that he will be grateful<br />
for references to material and examples.<br />
<br />
The June, July, and August numbers of the<br />
Eastern and Western Review contain respec-<br />
tively a story, ‘The Painter’s Daughter,” a paper<br />
on quaint customs in rural Greece, and a tale<br />
translated from the Greek of Karkabitsas. By<br />
Mrs. E. M. Edmonds. Mrs. Edmonds has also<br />
in the press an original story called “The History<br />
of a Church Mouse.” Publishers, Messrs. Law-<br />
rence and Bullen.<br />
<br />
Here is a useful little book; not a literary little<br />
book: a useful book. It is called “The Best<br />
Thing to Do.” It is written by Mr. ©. J. L.<br />
Thompson, and it is published at the Record<br />
Press, 374, Strand, for one shilling, Those who<br />
read this book will have a great deal of practical<br />
evidence about common ailments, clothing, sea<br />
sickness, accidents, &c. The Record Press is new<br />
to us. Its list contains works chiefly on Nursing,<br />
Hospital Work, &c.<br />
<br />
A new edition of “ Steam Pumps and Pumping :<br />
a Handbook for Pump Users,’ by Mr. Powis<br />
Bale, A.M.L.C.S., has just been issued by Messrs.<br />
Crosby, Lockwood, and Son, Stationers’ Hall-<br />
court, E.C.<br />
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The record of the Shelley Centenary Celebra-<br />
tion at Horsham is to be preserved in a permanent<br />
form. A pamphlet containing Mr. Edmund<br />
<br />
Gosse’s address, the speeches of Professor J.<br />
Nichol and Mr. Frederic Harrison, together with<br />
press and personal notices, has been compiled and<br />
edited by the Hon. Secs., Messrs. J. Stanley<br />
Little and J. J. Robinson, and will be issued<br />
shortly.<br />
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“ An Order to View,” by “ Lohta Talsduan”<br />
(Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co.),<br />
is described by the author as a “ record of pain-<br />
ful, personal experiences connected with the dis-<br />
posal of a country house.” Thatis his way of<br />
putting it. The volume is, in fact, a gossiping,<br />
pleasant, rambling talk about a great many<br />
things.<br />
<br />
Mr. Henry Neville’s new collection of stories<br />
“Tn the Tilt Yard of Life,’ is published by<br />
Ward and Downey. It consists of “ Barbara’s<br />
Confession,” ‘ Elizabeth’s Confession,” ‘The<br />
Best Friend,” ‘Golden Gates,’ ‘Silas Single-<br />
ton,” “A Jew in Moscow,” “ Gritty’s Glove,” &e.<br />
The author does not tell us if the stories have<br />
already appeared elsewhere. If the reader is not<br />
familiar with them, he will do well to get the<br />
volume and read the book.<br />
<br />
Certain remarks were quoted in the August<br />
number of the Author as from the Salisbury and<br />
Winchester Times. It should have been from the<br />
Salisbury and Winchester Journal.<br />
<br />
A correspondent says: “I not only write my<br />
own books, but I print, illustrate, and bind them.<br />
I select the material and the type; I design the<br />
cover, and I give the book, on commission, to a<br />
firm which publishes many books in that way.”<br />
His last book is before me. Paper, printing, and<br />
binding are all good; the binding especially is<br />
excellent. By this plan, the author may pay a<br />
little more than a publisher would for production,<br />
but then, if the publisher sends in a false return,<br />
as is too often done, the author is no better for the<br />
saving. He pays a commission-fee, of course,<br />
but would a publisher let him off so easily in any<br />
other system? The weak point is the advertising.<br />
If any reader of these lines wishes to follow this<br />
example, the Society would be ready to advise him<br />
on this head.<br />
<br />
A correspondent writes @ propos of the verses,<br />
“The Lame Boy,” which appeared in the Author<br />
of September. I have just returned from Shet-<br />
land, where I met a rising young author, Mr.<br />
J. H. B. This young man has so far lost the<br />
use of his eyesight that he can no longer read,<br />
and can hardly see a few yards. He teaches<br />
navigation and other subjects in Lerwick ; is the<br />
author of two books, one in prose and one in<br />
verse, and is now writing a novel. His poems<br />
have gone into a second edition. He is in excel-<br />
lent spirits, and the loss of his eyesight does not<br />
seem to have had any effect upon him.”<br />
<br />
The third edition of Mr. J. B. Crozier’s book,<br />
“ Civilisation and Progress” will be ready on<br />
Noy. 1. Price 14s. Publishers, Messrs. Long-<br />
mans and Co.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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In another column will be found a letter on the<br />
subject of books for review. A prospectus of a new<br />
paper to be called Pleasure, is lying on the table.<br />
In this, the editor promises to return press copies<br />
which are sent to him, and do not, for some<br />
reason or other, receive a review.<br />
<br />
Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman has received<br />
from Columbia College, the degree of Doctor of<br />
Letters. The college deserves our warmest con-<br />
gratulations. It is said that Dr. Stedman’s<br />
lecture on the “ Nature and Elements of Poetry,”<br />
given at the Johns Hopkins, Philadelphia, and<br />
Chicago Universities was the last addition to his<br />
work and reputation which determined Columbia<br />
College. The lecture is to be issued in book<br />
form immediately by Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin,<br />
and Co. I hope there will be an English<br />
edition.<br />
<br />
Mr. Douglas Sladen has been correcting the<br />
proofs for his new book on Japan, which will<br />
appear very shortly.<br />
<br />
Mr. J. Stanley Little continues his articles on<br />
“ Aspects and Tendencies of Current Fiction ”<br />
in the Library Review, to the September number<br />
of which he also contributes a paper entitled<br />
“ Why Honour Shelley ?”’<br />
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The Independent Theatre Society will give<br />
their next performance on Friday evening,<br />
Oct. 21, when a new stage version of Webster's<br />
tragedy, ‘The Duchess of Malfi,” will be pro-<br />
duced with a specially selected caste under the<br />
direction of Mr. William Poel, member of<br />
council New Shakespeare Society, and Mr. H. de<br />
Lange.<br />
<br />
Dr. G. C. Williamson, of the Mount, Guildford,<br />
has in preparation a monograph on John<br />
Russell, R.A., the famous crayon artist of the<br />
early part of this century. The Queen has<br />
granted him permission to photograph five<br />
pictures by Russell in her possession. The<br />
diploma picture by Russell in the Royal Academy<br />
will also be reproduced in the volume. Dr.<br />
Williamson invites owners of Russell’s pictures to<br />
communicate with him.<br />
<br />
Mr. Edward Stanford will shortly publish a<br />
second edition (considerably rewritten and much<br />
enlarged) of Mr. Reynold Ball’s ‘‘ Mediterranean<br />
Winter Resorts.” The new edition will contain<br />
special articles on the principal invalid stations<br />
by eminent medical authorities practising on the<br />
Continent.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell’s yachting story, “ The<br />
Wee Widow’s Cruise in quiet Waters,” which has<br />
just finished running in the Lady’s Pictorial, is<br />
to be published immediately in New York by the<br />
Cassell Publishing Company.<br />
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H.R.H. The Duchess of Connaught has been<br />
pleased to accept the dedication of Mrs. Edith E.<br />
Cuthell’s new children’s story “ Only a Guard-<br />
room Dog,’ to be published next month by<br />
Messrs. Methuen, illustrated by W. Parkinson.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Chatto and Windus will publish<br />
shortly a novel entitled “A Family Likeness,” by<br />
Mrs. B. M. Croker.<br />
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FROM THE PAPERS.<br />
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<br />
? R. LAUDER BRUNTON has made a<br />
D discovery which ought to entitle him<br />
to the gratitude of all who live by<br />
intellectual labour. It is nothing less than<br />
the secret of how to have ideas at will. One<br />
night, after a long day’s work, this eminent<br />
physician was called upon to write an article<br />
immediately. He sat down with pen, ink, and<br />
paper before him, but not a single idea came into<br />
his head, not a single word could he write. Lying<br />
back, he then soliloquised, ‘‘ The brain is the<br />
same as it was yesterday, and it worked then;<br />
why will it not work to-day.” Then it occurred<br />
to him that the day before he was not so<br />
tired, and that probably the circulation was a<br />
little brisker than to-day. He next considered<br />
the various experiments on the connection<br />
between cerebral circulation and mental activity,<br />
and concluded that if the blood would not come<br />
to the brain the best thing would be to bring the<br />
brain down to the blood. It was at this moment<br />
that he was seized with the happy thought of<br />
laying his head “flat upon the table. At once<br />
his ideas began to flow and his pen to run across<br />
the paper.’ By and by Dr. Brunton{thought “I<br />
am getting on so well I may sit up now. But it<br />
would not do. “The moment,” he continues,<br />
“that I raised my head, my mind became an<br />
utter blank, so I put my head down again flat<br />
upon the table, and finished my article in that<br />
position.””—Leeds Mercury, July 30, 1892.<br />
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It is a great satisfaction to feel that among the<br />
many young makers of verse in England there<br />
are a few real poets. Among these, and one of the<br />
youngest of them, is Mr. William Watson, who<br />
recently acquired an enviable prominence as a<br />
poet through a slender volume of excellent verse,<br />
entitled “‘ Wordsworth’s Grave, and other Poems.”<br />
The contents of that volume, with the addition of<br />
twenty or more new pieces, now reappear as<br />
“Poems by William Watson,” and they are fine<br />
enough to convince one that this poet is the fore-<br />
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most among his contemporaries. He has imagina-<br />
tion; he is thoughtful; he has a gift of expression<br />
and a freshness of phrase which give a delightful<br />
charm to his work; he has style and, above all,<br />
a poet’s high regard for the rules governing<br />
his art.— New York Critic.<br />
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<br />
From an address to Oliver Wendell Holmes on<br />
his 83rd birthday :<br />
Last of a line, behold the veteran stand,<br />
The lance of wit still trembling in his hand,<br />
With locks all whitened now, but holding still<br />
A cheerful courage, an enduring will;<br />
Last of a race of bards,—too proud to climb<br />
Into the saddle of new-fashioned rhyme,<br />
Too wise to value art o’er lucid sense,<br />
Too brave to draw the curb on eloquence,<br />
Not always deep, perhaps, in flow of song,<br />
But full-voiced, limpid, tuneful, fluent, strong.<br />
A voice, gay, genial, grave,—still true to guide<br />
From erring ways kot youth’s impatient stride ;<br />
A humour keen, yet with no rankling smart,<br />
Its champagne sparkles bubbling from the heart ;<br />
A wit perennial and a fancy free,<br />
The bloom of spring on life’s long-wintered tree ;<br />
A heart as tender as a lover’s thought<br />
A falcon spirit, fearless, firmly wrought,<br />
Quick to detect, yet tardy to condemn,<br />
Well armed with pungent, pointed apothegm ;<br />
Shrewd Yankee mind with graft of learning’s fruit ;<br />
An ear fine-tuned as Blondel’s joyous lute ;<br />
As sly and quaint as Shandy in his style<br />
With something of the Frenchman in his smile.<br />
At four-score still a bright-eyed, kindly man,<br />
Part courtier-cavalier, part Puritan ;<br />
Reverend where’er the rose of culture grows,<br />
From austral summer to Alaskan snows ;<br />
A school-boy’s eye beneath his doctor’s hat,<br />
Our love-crowned poet, laureled Autocrat.<br />
CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS.<br />
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New York Critic.<br />
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<br />
What Mr. Stedman did for Austin Dobson ten<br />
years ago is done for William Sharpe now by<br />
Thomas A. Janvier, whose introduction to<br />
“Flower o’ the Vine” is prose with the grace of<br />
poetry, happily conceived and felicitously appro-<br />
priate. ‘Flower o’ the Vine” contains the sub-<br />
stance of two recent volumes of Mr. Sharpe’s<br />
verse—“ Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phan-<br />
tasy” (London) and “ Sospiri di Roma ” (Rome)<br />
Poems of the North and of the South—the first<br />
exhibiting a fine power of imagination, the second<br />
rich in fancy and exquisite bits of description.<br />
Of each of these collections we have already had<br />
something to say. Let us now take a word from<br />
the genial host who speaks thus of his guest's<br />
credentials: “Here, joined, but not blended, is<br />
the poetry of the South and of the North. It is<br />
an inversion of that curious process by which the<br />
waters of the White and Blue rivers, whereof the<br />
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Nile is made, flowing out from separate sources,<br />
journey on together in the same channel for a<br />
long while without mingling. In this case, the<br />
two streams of verse come from the same source<br />
—yet instantly are so distinct and separate that<br />
the most acutely critical of observers would not<br />
be likely to refer them to a common origin :<br />
His ballads are not mere masses of rhymes<br />
dexterously fitted together; they are poems with<br />
living souls I do hold to be remarkable<br />
this merging of two distinct patents of poetic<br />
nobility in a single fortunate heir.” “ Flower of<br />
the Vine”’ ought. to come into the hands of every<br />
lover of fine poetry.— New York Critic.<br />
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A check has been put, by the decision of an<br />
American judge, upon the attempt to strain the<br />
interpretation of a clause in the McKinley Tariff<br />
Act in such a way as to prevent the importation<br />
duty free into the United States of old books that<br />
have been partially rebound within twenty years.<br />
The question is one of considerable importance.<br />
As book collectors know to their cost, there has<br />
long been a considerable demand for old books in<br />
this country to be exported to America. As it<br />
would be absurd to regard a copy of an old<br />
English book—say a first folio of Shakespeare, or<br />
the precious little volume contaiming Keats’s<br />
“ Tamia,’ and ‘‘ Hyperion”—as competing with<br />
any American industry. Congress wisely deter-<br />
mined that old books should be exempt, and it<br />
fixed the limit at twenty years. But, owing toa<br />
construction, which seems to turn partly on the<br />
absence of a comma, it was contended that the<br />
mere repair of the binding—and most old books<br />
in the original binding have been ‘backed ”’ or<br />
otherwise repaired — within that time would<br />
entail forfeiture of the privilege. Judge Putnam,<br />
however, of the Circuit Court of the United<br />
States for the district of Massachusetts, has<br />
decided that books that have been bound for<br />
twenty years are entitled to free entry in spite of<br />
-subsequent repairs. His words are: ‘‘ I would<br />
-regard them as so entitled, even though it also<br />
appeared. that, in consequenee of accident or<br />
ordinary use, they had needed and received<br />
‘repairs in all respects equal in extent to new and<br />
-original binding.”’— Daily News.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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