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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. I11.—No. 11.]<br />
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APRIL 1, 1893.<br />
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CONTENTS.<br />
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[Prick SIXPENCE.<br />
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PAGE. | PAGE. |<br />
Warnings oe ae . 387 | Notesfrom Paris By Robert H. Sherard oe ere 402<br />
How to Use the Society 388 | Ballade of the Primrose Way. By Robert Richardson .. 404<br />
The Authors’ Syndicate... oe oes =e 388 Notes and News. By the Editor ... oe = wee 405<br />
Notices... ns aes 389 | Correspondence—<br />
From the Committee... 390 1.—Prompt Payment = 410<br />
Literary Property— | 2.—Justice from America ... 410<br />
LC echt ard Magazines 3.—For a Union... pe ee par 420<br />
ae ey ce oe Vi ee 4.—Misstatements in Review... ... 410<br />
ee nm Amencan 18 : ae - 5.—The Conceit of Amateurs... we 411<br />
3.—The Rights of Copyright ... ae i 6.—The Paris Typist 411<br />
4.—The United States Publishing Company yok Gepieter a eae Wild hoe<br />
5.—An Old Author on Literary Property ... | Re Tent MSS. a Be 5 io eS 412<br />
The Hardships of Publishin, | 9. An Easy French Lesson . 412<br />
Attack and Defence... Les | From the Fapers—<br />
The Book of the Future | 1.—The Hardships of Publishing =: S18<br />
Books and Printing ... eee eee ave es | 2.—Authors at Home ... i eae woe 413<br />
Omnium Gatherum for April. By J. M. Lely 3.—The New Irish Literary Society wo | te B18 t<br />
The S.P.C0.K. again ... cB ae ssa “ At the Sign of the Author’s Head"’ ... sa a Se wee 414 i<br />
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responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
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notice that all remittances are acknow-<br />
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that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
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write to him without delay. All remittances<br />
should be crossed Union Bank of London,<br />
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WARNINGS.<br />
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EADERS of the Author and members of<br />
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the following warnings as widely known<br />
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of eight years’ work by which the dangers to<br />
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1. Ser1au Rieuts.—In selling Serial Rights<br />
stipulate that you are selling the Serial Right for<br />
one paper at a certain time, a simultaneous Serial<br />
Right only, otherwise you may find your work<br />
serialized for years, to the detriment of your<br />
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most URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping<br />
their agreements immediately after signature. If<br />
this precaution is neglected for two weeks, a fine of<br />
£10 must be paid before the agreement can be used<br />
as a legal document. In almost every case brought<br />
to the secretary the agreement, or the letter which<br />
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serves for one, is forwarded 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 />
Ios. 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 />
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3. ASCERTAIN WHAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT<br />
GIVES TO BOTH SIDES BEFORE SIGNING IT.-<br />
Remember that an arrangement as to a joint<br />
venture in any other kind of business whatever<br />
would be instantly refused should either party<br />
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what share he reserved for himself.<br />
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4. Lirerary Acrenrs.—Be very careful. You<br />
cannot be too careful as to the person whom you<br />
appoint as your agent. Remember that you place<br />
your property almost unreservedly in his hands.<br />
Your only safety is in consulting the Society, or<br />
some friend who has had personal experience of<br />
the agent. Do not trust advertisements alone.<br />
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5. Cost or Propuction.—Never sign any<br />
agreement of which the alleged cost of pro-<br />
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6. Cuoice or Pusiisners.—Never enter into<br />
any correspondence with publishers, especially<br />
with those who advertise for MSS., who are<br />
not recommended by experienced friends or by this<br />
Society.<br />
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7. Fururs Work.—Never, on any account<br />
whatever, bind yourself down for future work<br />
to anyone.<br />
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8. Royaury.—Never accept any proposal of<br />
royalty until you have ascertained what the<br />
agreement, worked out on both a small and a<br />
large sale, will give to the author and what to the<br />
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advice.<br />
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been refused by respectable houses, pay others,<br />
whatever promises they may put forward, for the<br />
production of the work.<br />
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American rights. Keep them by special clause.<br />
Refuse to sign any agreement containing a clause<br />
which reserves them for the publisher, unless for<br />
a substantial consideration. If the publisher<br />
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another.<br />
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paper, either agreement or receipt, which gives<br />
away copyright, without advice.<br />
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advertisements, if they affect your returns, by a<br />
clause in the agreement. Reserve a veto. If you<br />
are yourself ignorant of the subject, make the<br />
Society your adviser.<br />
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14. Never forget that publishing is a business,<br />
like any other business, totally unconnected with<br />
philanthropy, charity, or pure love of literature.<br />
You have to do with business men. Be yourself a<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 o;inion from the<br />
Society’s solicitors. If the «as» 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 />
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eenerally fall within the experience of ordinary<br />
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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 />
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transactions by the Secretary proves unfavour-<br />
able, you should take advice as to a change of<br />
publishers.<br />
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send the proposed document to the Society for<br />
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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 />
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Members are informed:<br />
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1. That the Authors’ Syndicate takes charge of<br />
the business of members of the Society. With,<br />
when necessary, the assistance of the legal advisers<br />
of the Society, it concludes agreements, collects<br />
royalties, examines and passes accounts, and<br />
generally relieves members of the trouble of<br />
managing business details.<br />
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charged on rights placed through its intervention.<br />
This charge is reduced to the lowest possible<br />
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they are not entitled to the services of the Syndi-<br />
cate gratis, a misapprehension which appears to<br />
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3. That the Authors’ Syndicate works for none<br />
but those members of the Society whose work<br />
possesses a market value.<br />
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4. That the business of the Syndicate is not to<br />
advise members of the Society, but to manage<br />
their affairs for them.<br />
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5. That the Syndicate can only undertake<br />
arrangements of any character on the distinct<br />
understanding that those arrangements are placed<br />
exclusively in its hands, and that all negotiations<br />
relating thereto are referred to it.<br />
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6. That clients can only be seen personally by<br />
appointment, and that, when possible, at least<br />
four days’ notice should be given. The work of<br />
the Syndicate is now so heavy, that only a limited<br />
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correspondence promptly, but that owing to the<br />
enormous number of letters received, some delay<br />
is inevitable. That stamps should, in all cases,<br />
be sent to defray postage.<br />
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MSS. without previous c¢ yrrespondence, and does<br />
not hold itself responsible for MSS. forwarded<br />
without notice.<br />
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There is an Honorary Advisory Committee,<br />
whose services will be called upon in any case of<br />
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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TYNHE 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 />
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cost of producing it would be a_ very heavy<br />
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charge on the resources of the society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the secretary<br />
the modest 6s. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
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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 />
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Members and others who wish their MSS. read<br />
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The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and<br />
MSS. are read in the order in which they are<br />
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The Authors’ Club is now opened in its new<br />
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Address the Secretary for information, rules of<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, if still unpaid, or a banker’s order, it will<br />
greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the<br />
trouble of sending out a reminder.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
Those who possess the “Cost of Production ”<br />
are requested to note that the cost of binding has<br />
advanced 15 per cent. This means, for those who<br />
do not like the trouble of “doing sums,” the<br />
addition of three shillings in the pound on this<br />
head. In other words, if the cost of binding is<br />
set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must<br />
now be added twenty-four shillings more, so that<br />
it now stands at £9 4s. The figures in our book<br />
are as near the exact truth as can be procured:<br />
but a printer’s, or a binder’s, bill is so elastic a<br />
thing that nothing more exact can be arrived at.<br />
<br />
Some remarks have been made upon the amount<br />
charged in the ‘Cost of Production” for<br />
advertising. Ofcourse, we have not included any<br />
sums which may be charged for inserting adver-<br />
tisements in the publisher’s own magazines, or in<br />
other magazines by exchange. As agreements<br />
too often go, there is nothing to prevent the<br />
publisher from sweeping the whole profits of a<br />
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book into his own pocket, by inserting any<br />
number of advertisements in his own magazines,<br />
and by exchanging with others. Some there are<br />
who call this a form of fraud: it is not known<br />
what those who practise this method of swelling<br />
their own profits call it.<br />
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FROM THE COMMITTEE.<br />
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T a meeting of the committee held on<br />
Thursday, March 9g, the following resolu-<br />
tions, proposed by the chairman and<br />
<br />
seconded by Mr. J. M. Lely, were unanimously<br />
passed :<br />
<br />
“ That in the opinion of the committee—<br />
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“1, The practice of issuing books and new<br />
editions without date is embarrassing to librarians<br />
and bibliographers, and may be injurious to<br />
authors and misleading to the public, and is there-<br />
fore to be deprecated.<br />
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“2. The practice introduced by Messrs. Mac-<br />
millan and Co., of specifying in every issue of a<br />
book the date of all former issues, is highly con-<br />
venient, and its general adoption is desirable.<br />
<br />
“That copies of the foregoing resolutions be<br />
sent to the leading publishers.”<br />
<br />
An answer has been received from Messrs.<br />
Chapman and Hall showing that they have<br />
already adopted this system by printing the date<br />
and number of each edition published.<br />
<br />
Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. S. S. Sprigge have<br />
been elected delegates to represent the Society at<br />
the conference of authors to be held at Chicago<br />
on July 12, 1893.<br />
<br />
J. Hersert Turing, Secretary.<br />
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LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
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CopyricHt AND Magazines.<br />
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I.<br />
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N reply to the criticism of Mr. Charteris in<br />
your last number I should like to explain.<br />
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Mr. Charteris misunderstood me when he<br />
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says that I cited the case of Layland v. Stewart<br />
(4 Ch. Div. 419) in support of my contention<br />
that the articles must be written on the terms<br />
that the copyright therein shall belong to the<br />
proprietor. The case was cited in reference to<br />
that portion of the paragraph immediately pre-<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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ceding it (on p. 313), and it was given merely ag<br />
an authority for the general rule that an assign.<br />
ment of copyright must be in writing. My<br />
suggestion was that the proprietor of a magazine<br />
does not acquire copyright by any other means<br />
than by such assignment, unless the conditions of<br />
sect. 18 have been so fulfilled as to bring the case<br />
within the operation of the section.<br />
<br />
The decision in Sweet v. Benning (16 C. B.<br />
459) does not, as I submit, conflict with my view.<br />
The case decides that it is not necessary for the<br />
terms in question to be the subject of an express<br />
contract. In the absence of any express con-<br />
tract the court, no doubt, would hold that such<br />
terms are primd facie to be implied. Any<br />
evidence, however, rebutting such implication<br />
would, in my opinion, defeat the operation of the<br />
section ; so that the terms, whether arising from<br />
an express contract or implied, are nevertheless,<br />
I still submit, an essential condition to entitling<br />
the proprietor to copyright under sect. 18.<br />
<br />
Harouip Harpy.<br />
II.<br />
High Court of Justice.—Chancery Division —<br />
Before Mr. Justice North.<br />
Strahan v. Wilson.<br />
<br />
His Lordship this morning (March 22) gave<br />
judgment on this copyright motion. The hearing<br />
of the motion was reported in our impression of<br />
Nov. 14. The motion was treated as the trial.<br />
<br />
Mr. Justice North said: The plaintiff, who has<br />
brought this action to restrain an alleged infringe-<br />
ment of his copyright, is the author of a work<br />
published in the year 1892, called “ Marriage and<br />
Disease: a Study of Heredity and the more<br />
Important Family Degenerations.”’ Itis a work<br />
of considerable pretensions, extending over 300<br />
pages, and is, moreover, of great interest, rela-<br />
ting as it does to the mental and vital well-being<br />
of our race in successive generations; and, for the<br />
purpose of appreciating the complaint against the<br />
defendants I have read it more than once with<br />
much attention. The eighth, ninth, and tenth<br />
chapters are headed “ Marriage and Insanity.”<br />
“Marriage and Drunkenness,” and “ Marriage<br />
and Epilepsy,” and the 14th chapter is called<br />
“ Harly Marriages, their Effect upon the Children,”<br />
and they contain a great deal of wise and useful<br />
advice, though more likely, I fear, to be com-<br />
mended than followed. The defendants are the<br />
proprietor and publisher respectively of a paper<br />
called Health: « Weekly Journal of Domestic<br />
and Sanitary Science, and in the numbers of that<br />
journal published on March 18, April 22,<br />
June 18, and July 22 of last year there are four<br />
essays of about a page and a half each, with<br />
exactly the same headings as the plaintiff's<br />
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chapters to which I have referred, except that the<br />
last essay is called “ Premature Marriage and its<br />
Infants,” and they deal with the same topics as<br />
the plaintiff had done in those chapters and other<br />
parts of his work, though much more succinctly.<br />
The plaintiff's treatise is there referred to three or<br />
four times, not without approval, and a few<br />
quotations are made from it, the source from<br />
which they came being stated. But the plaintiff’s<br />
complaint is that far more than these passages<br />
are appropriated from his work, the copying from<br />
which is, as he contends, much in excess of what<br />
can be justified as a fair and reasonable use of<br />
what he has published. Having given my careful<br />
consideration to the productions of both authors,<br />
I have come to the conclusion that I cannot<br />
grant the injunction asked. In many respects I<br />
find very great resemblance between the essays<br />
and the plaintiff's book, so much so that, if the<br />
subject were new and the ground untrodden, no<br />
one could doubt that the former were to a great<br />
extent taken from the latter. But the common<br />
subject is far from novel; many authors have<br />
written thereon before, and many of the<br />
passages in the two publications which<br />
were compared with one another, are mere<br />
statements of matters which are common pro-<br />
perty, with respect to which no writer, whether<br />
a medical man or not, has any monopoly. The<br />
plaintiff has not any exclusive right to discuss<br />
these subjects, and he has no copyright in mere<br />
theories and ideas. The topics discussed by him<br />
are open to discussion by others also; and there<br />
is no reason why the matters which he has treated<br />
very ably are to be wholly forbidden ground to<br />
other writers. With respect to these matters, of<br />
which both parties have made use, I find myself<br />
unable to say that the essays published by the<br />
defendants are not a fair exercise of a mental<br />
operation deserving the character of an original<br />
work; and this applies to a large number of the<br />
passages in the two productions which were made<br />
the subject of special comparison and criticism.<br />
There are other portions of the defendants’ essays<br />
which are specially complained of by the plaintiff ;<br />
for instance, quotations from other authors found<br />
in the plaintiff’s treatise which are also found in<br />
the defendants’ essays. With respect to these<br />
I am asked by the plaintiff to draw the inference<br />
that they are all copied by the defendants from<br />
the plaintiff without reference to the authorities<br />
quoted. I find myself unable to do so; the only<br />
evidence before me consists of the affidavits of<br />
the plaintiff and that of Mr. Hawkins, the writer<br />
of the essay in question, who has not been cross-<br />
examined. and I do not feel justified from this<br />
evidence in drawing the inference which the<br />
plaintiff invites me to do, and saying that the<br />
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copying is proved. There are some of these with<br />
respect to which I cannot say that there are not<br />
grounds for suspicion ; but, upon the whole, Iam<br />
unable to hold that the plaintiff has given me<br />
sufficient proof, the onus of which is upon him,<br />
to decide iu his favour. There is also another<br />
subject of complaint ; there are certain instances<br />
given by the plaintiff by way of illustration which<br />
I believe that the writer of the essays has taken<br />
from him, though he does not admit it (his Lord-<br />
ship mentioned certain passages and continued) ;<br />
but I do not consider these and other like<br />
passages to be sufficiently substantial or material<br />
to furnish ground for my interfererce by in-<br />
junction with the publication of the defendauts’<br />
essays, especially when I find that the nature of<br />
the two publications is so different; that by the<br />
plaintiff being a standard work, while the defen-<br />
dant’s productions are merely short essays of<br />
ephemeral attraction in weekly newspapers, many<br />
months old, which cannot compete practically m<br />
any way with the treatise of the plaintiff, and<br />
would never, in my opinion, have prevented the<br />
sale of a single copy of it. Under these circum-<br />
stances, as I find myself unable to say that the<br />
defendants have infringed the plaintiffs copy-<br />
right, I must dismiss this action ; but, as I feel<br />
satisfied that the writer of the defendants’ essays<br />
has, in fact, made much greater use of the plain-<br />
tiff’s work than he states in his affidavit, I shall<br />
dismiss it without costs.<br />
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Mr. M‘Swinney and Mr. Strahan were counsel<br />
for the plaintiff; Mr. Cozens-Hardy, Q.C., and<br />
Mr. Morten for the defendants.—From the<br />
Times.<br />
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LE<br />
An American VIEW.<br />
<br />
Probably no one thing has caused more sus-<br />
picion and discontent among authors, or created<br />
more ill-feeling between authors and publishers,<br />
than the matter of returns of books sold when<br />
the contract between them is on the royalty<br />
plan.<br />
<br />
Not as many of the author’s books are sold as<br />
he expected; he suspects that full returns are<br />
not made; in some cases no doubt his suspicions<br />
are unfounded; in more, we believe, they are<br />
not. The discontent is widespread. In Rome,<br />
Signor Rossi, a distinguished Italian author and<br />
savant, told us that this was the great grievance<br />
of Italian authors, and that they would gladly<br />
engage in any movement that promised a remedy.<br />
In Paris we were informed that a committee of<br />
La Societie des Gens de Lettres is considering a<br />
plan for attaining this object. In Great Britain<br />
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your powerful Society of Authors seeks to ac-<br />
complish the same end by appointing auditors<br />
to examine the publisher’s books in behalf of its<br />
members. In the United States one of the first<br />
acts of the newly-formed association of American<br />
Authors was to appoint a committee to draft a<br />
plan for securing this object.<br />
<br />
If a plan for remedying this universal evil at<br />
once simple, practical, and effective, could be de-<br />
vised, its benefits must be apparent. Such a plan is<br />
believed to have been devised, and the writer has<br />
been invited by the Author to call the attention<br />
of British men of letters to it in the columns of<br />
this paper.<br />
<br />
But first a word as to the plan of auditing the<br />
publisher’s books. In America we find these<br />
objections to its adoption. It is expensive, it is<br />
not effective; the publisher can write up his<br />
books to suit himself, and it subjects the author<br />
to the ill-will of the publisher; for on such a<br />
request being made the latter assumes an injured<br />
air, asks if the author suspects he is being<br />
cheated ; and, although he may grant the request,<br />
it is at the expense of the entente cordiale that<br />
formerly existed between them. Now, it is a<br />
truism among American literary men that it is<br />
suicidal to quarrel with your publisher; very few<br />
even of the greatest and most popular have the<br />
nerve to attempt it. How improbable it is,<br />
therefore, that the average author will engage in<br />
one by demanding an account from his pub-<br />
lisher! The plan reported by the committee of<br />
the American Authors above referred to was in<br />
brief as follows: The author to prepare a stamp<br />
bearing his autograph, and to furnish the pub-<br />
lisher with as many as there are copies in the<br />
edition. The publisher to affix a stamp to each<br />
volume sold or given away, and to make up his<br />
quarterly or semi-annual returns on the basis of<br />
the stamps sold. Presence of an unstamped book<br />
on the market to be accounted primd facie evi-<br />
dence of default. This plan, on being submitted<br />
to several leading American publishers, was con-<br />
demned by them. They objected to the extra<br />
labour of affixing the stamps. They said further,<br />
that the plan would not be effective; that the<br />
dishonest publisher would either counterfeit the<br />
stamps or fail to affix them; that tue stamps<br />
would come off, &c. :<br />
<br />
To meet these objections the following plan<br />
has been proposed :<br />
<br />
That the present copyright law be so amended<br />
as to provide that imstead of the usual printed<br />
form—copyright 18 , by Richard Doe, &c.—it<br />
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shall be the duty of the author of every book<br />
seeking copyright to provide a stamp bearing the<br />
above words with his autograph. That instead<br />
of the printed page the publisher shall affix one<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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of said stamps to the book under pain of the<br />
usual penalties.<br />
<br />
In his contract the author to stipulate that the<br />
stamps should be used as a basis for making<br />
returns of books sold, or given away.<br />
<br />
We confess we can see but one objection to<br />
this plan—that it will entail some expense on the<br />
author; in that case half the expense of the<br />
stamps might be borne by the publisher. The<br />
stamps must be placed on the book, or there is no<br />
copyright. They could be counterfeited, but that<br />
would be a serious crime. The cost of affixing<br />
the stamp would be little more than that of<br />
setting up, plating, and printing a page; and it<br />
would (und r any royalty system) do away<br />
with the necessity of keeping any books between<br />
publisher and author—the former in making<br />
up his returns would simply count his stock-<br />
in-trade, adding to it the books sent out on<br />
sale, if any ; and by substracting the total from<br />
the number of stamps received from the author<br />
could get the actual sales for which he would<br />
account. As for the author, he would be abso-<br />
lutely sure—unless the stamps were counterfeited,<br />
in which case the rogue could easily be detected—<br />
that he was getting accurate returns of books<br />
sold. Were it a part of the copyright law, no<br />
publisher could complain that it was sought to<br />
cast a stigma upon him, and no author need fear<br />
incurring the resentment of his publisher. We<br />
think this plan would be accepted by all honest<br />
publishers, who admit that the present business<br />
relations between authors and publishers are<br />
most unsatisfactory—and that by concerted action<br />
it might be made a part of the copyright law of<br />
all countries included in the present International<br />
Copyright Law.<br />
<br />
CuaRLes Burr Topp,<br />
Secretary, Association of American Authors.<br />
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IT.<br />
Tue Rieuts oF CoPpyRicHt.<br />
<br />
If an author sells the copyright of the manu-<br />
script of a proposed book to a publisher, has the<br />
publisher a right to publish the book anony-<br />
mously ? Such is the question propounded in the<br />
March number of the Author, in which the<br />
opinion is expressed that the publisher has ‘no<br />
such right. The reputation of an author is, it is<br />
contended, of so much value to him that the<br />
publisher must be taken to have impliedly con-<br />
tracted not to smother that reputation by not<br />
publishing the author’s name. We cannot accept<br />
that as sound law. It seems to us that what the<br />
author sells to the publisher, at common law, is<br />
the right of reproduction, but with no correspond-<br />
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ing obligation on the publisher to reproduce. If<br />
this be the law (and we cannot say that the ques-<br />
tion is free from doubt) all the more necessary is<br />
it that authors should part with their copyrights<br />
only by full and carefully expressed agreements,<br />
and not be content with mere undertakings to<br />
pay the purchase money. The law, we may<br />
observe, would be different in case a book were<br />
published with such alterations as to damage the<br />
reputation of an author. In that case the author<br />
would seem to have a clear right of action, but<br />
in tort only, and not on any implied contract.—<br />
Law Times.<br />
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TV:<br />
Tae Unitep Srates PusitisHine Company.<br />
<br />
The smash of the United States Publishing<br />
Company is a disaster which had been foreseen<br />
by some. It has been stated that the cause of<br />
the failure was the granting of royalties larger<br />
than could be safely paid. This is rubbish. The<br />
royalties granted were seldom, if ever, more than<br />
would be represented by a bond fide half-profit<br />
agreement, and in some cases, as in some English<br />
houses, were far less. A writerin the Sketch states<br />
that 10 per cent.is “a royalty which the best houses<br />
accept as safe.” This is simply not the case with<br />
writers of standing and houses of repute, as is<br />
known to the Society “from information received.”<br />
The same writer warns English authors against<br />
expecting too much from America. That is a very<br />
‘wise and judicious counsel. A few novelists will<br />
largely increase their incomes, but very few. A<br />
few writers of educational books will double their<br />
incomes by the American copyright, but very few.<br />
‘And a few historical writers will find the value of<br />
their work increased.<br />
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V.<br />
An Outp Auruor on Literary PROPERTY.<br />
<br />
The following is printed from an autograph<br />
letter written by G. P. R. James in the year 1846.<br />
It illustrates the condition of literature in the<br />
Forties. It isnot known whether it was ever sent<br />
round among publishers :<br />
<br />
“The treaty regarding international copyright<br />
between England and Russia, and the probability<br />
that all the other States of the German Customs<br />
Union will adhere to the same, and that France<br />
will sooner or later conclude a treaty of a similar<br />
kind, afford great opportunities for the extension<br />
<br />
of the English book trade; but, to render the<br />
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opportunities available, it is absolutely necessary<br />
<br />
that English publishers should exert themselves<br />
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energetically to take advantage of the position in<br />
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which they are placed; and, in order to do so<br />
effectually, they have to consider and decide upon<br />
the best means of meeting the new circumstances<br />
which surround them. You will forgive me for<br />
saying that the great body of the trade neglected<br />
most lamentably the opportunity afforded by the<br />
exclusion of the American piracies from our<br />
colonies, and this induces me to press the subject<br />
upon your attention at the present.<br />
<br />
T know that several difficulties embarrass the<br />
whole question and render the English publishers<br />
timid in action; but these difficulties cannot be<br />
got over without taking ¢ general view of the<br />
position in which they stand. This I shall<br />
endeavour to give, although I may omit several<br />
particulars, which your greater experience will<br />
suggest.<br />
<br />
The English publisher about four or five years<br />
ago was only possessed of the English market,<br />
and that not altogether without competition. It<br />
usually afforded a safe and profiab e business ;<br />
but he as well as the author thought it hard that<br />
foreign publishers should be allowed to make use<br />
of the produce of an Englishman’s mind without<br />
giving him any compensation ; and representa-<br />
tions were made to Government which induced<br />
Ministers to support a Bill which excluded<br />
piracies from our colonies, and to negotiate with<br />
foreign powers for a reciprocal recognition of<br />
copyright. Thus the colonies, the whole of the<br />
Prussian dominions certainly, the whole of the<br />
Zoll-Verein probably, and France possibly, are<br />
added to the market of the English book trade.<br />
<br />
It seems to me, under the circumstances, not<br />
only to be politic, but to be an absolute duty, to<br />
afford to our colonists and foreigners a constant<br />
supply of English literature on terms which they<br />
can accept. You are well aware that before the<br />
changes were effected an enormous number of<br />
the American cheap reprints were sold in our<br />
colonies and in India, and that very large editions<br />
reprinted by Herr Tauchnitz and M. Baudry were<br />
disposed of on the Continent ; but the whole condi-<br />
tions, on which these large sales were obtained,<br />
was cheapness. Neither the Colonies or the<br />
foreigner is willing or able to give a high price<br />
for English works. They must be very low or he<br />
will not read them, Thus, if the colonial and<br />
foreign sale is to be preserved, cheap editions of<br />
English works must be published for the Colonies<br />
and the Continent. Three or four difficulties,<br />
however, present themselves to the mind of the<br />
English publisher. It is said, if we send out<br />
cheap editions, they will be returned on the<br />
English market and interfere with the more hand-<br />
some and expensive editions, which we are vbliged<br />
to print for England, where we have great outs<br />
lays to incur in advertising, &c. It is also said<br />
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that returns from such editions would be very<br />
uncertain from the difficulty of establishing<br />
colonial agencies, the want of solidity im the<br />
booksellmg houses of the Colonies, and various<br />
other {causes ; and, again, it is objected that there<br />
are obstructions, regarding transmission which<br />
would increase the price.<br />
<br />
In regard to the first difficulty vou are aware<br />
that I have always believed a reduction must be<br />
made in the price of books in England, and that<br />
I once made a great sacrifice to effect it. But<br />
setting that point aside for the present, as I find<br />
the great majority of gentlemen engaged in the<br />
book trade are opposed to immediate reduction, I<br />
think the difficulty can be obviated in regard té<br />
lighter literature, such as romances, &c., at least<br />
by a delay in the transmission of the cheaper<br />
edition to the Colonies and the Continent of two<br />
or three months. These will not operate un-<br />
favourably on the sale of the cheaper editions, as<br />
such a work is more likely to havea rapid and<br />
extensive sale in the Colonies, after it has obtained<br />
a reputation and has been noticed in reviews, &c.<br />
Nor will it admit of return on the English<br />
market ; for, supposing that the delay be three<br />
months, the time consumed in the passage to and<br />
from the colonies and in making arrangements<br />
would in addition be sufficient to secure to the<br />
English publisher the sales which an ordinary<br />
work of light literature usually commands. If<br />
the work by accident were to prove extremely<br />
popular, it would become requisite for him to<br />
publish a cheap second edition for England also ;<br />
and he might charge a price considerably higher<br />
even for that than for the colonial edition, which<br />
would still be as low as the returned books would<br />
be sold for, with the addition of freight and other<br />
incidental expenses.<br />
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You will allow me here, however, to remark<br />
that it is my belief that a complete reorganisation<br />
of the book trade must soon take place : that the<br />
trade allowances are enormous, and must be<br />
diminished ; and that they have been created by,<br />
and have fostered in return, a false and most<br />
prejudicial system of doing business. You and<br />
I know, that with one deduction or another, the<br />
trade allowances and agencies do not amount in<br />
general to less than forty per cent.; but what<br />
would the public say if they were informed that<br />
out of the total proceeds of an edition of 1500<br />
copies of an ordinary romance, supposing all sold,<br />
no less than the enormous sum of nine hundred<br />
and forty-five pounds goes into the pockets of<br />
persons who have had nothing to do with the<br />
production of the work, either as author or<br />
publisher? The heads of the trade should meet<br />
and bind themselves to set their faces against<br />
such a system.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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In regard to the second difficulty, it must be<br />
met by some means. No one will persuade me,<br />
that in a great commercial country like England.<br />
it is impossible in the book-trade to arrive at the<br />
same degree of certainty which is obtained in<br />
other mercantile transactions. Some risk must<br />
always be incurred; but either by offering to<br />
supply the colonial booksellers with the number<br />
they calculate they may require of the cheap<br />
edition, only by the condition of providing them-<br />
selves with an agent in England empowered to<br />
accept your bills for the amount, by requiring<br />
prompt paymene at a discount, or by some of the<br />
usual courses adopted by firms having dealings<br />
with the colonies in other articles, this end may be<br />
arrived at. In regard to our North American<br />
colonies, there are many most respectable houses<br />
in the United States which would, I doubt not,<br />
readily undertake to be your agents for supplying<br />
them ; and the edition being published in London<br />
would be admitted in the colony. I throw these<br />
suggestlons out merely as hints, for this part of<br />
the subject is more within your competence than<br />
mine; but of one thing be assured, the matter<br />
requires immediate decision, for things can no<br />
longer go on as they have hitherto done, or you<br />
will have a change in the law which will be very<br />
detrimeutal.<br />
<br />
In regard to the difficulties of transmission I<br />
am not fully informed in what they consist in,<br />
but Mr. Murray once told me that they did exist,<br />
and that they lay in a considerable degree with<br />
our Government. Freight, however, to all our<br />
colonies is not very high, and if the small weight<br />
and bulk of a book are considered, it would make<br />
but a trifling addition to the price.<br />
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In the above observations I have principally<br />
considered the colonies, but some part of what I<br />
have said refers also to the trade with those<br />
countries which have entered, or may enter into<br />
treaties with ourselves. No difficulties of trans-<br />
mission will here arise, and little difficulty in regard<br />
to agency and to payment. The question of the<br />
speedy return of the cheap editions upon the English<br />
market is the great one for us to consider, and<br />
how such a return may be obviated unless you<br />
find by experiment that the increased sale wil<br />
justify you in reducing the price of books in<br />
England so far as with the duty and the expenses<br />
of freight here may render the return unprofitable.<br />
The only means that suggests itself to my mind<br />
is the delay I have mentioned printing the cheap<br />
edition. However, I must inform you that Herr<br />
Tauchnitz, the Leipzig publisher, came to Baden<br />
some weeks ago to confer with me on the sub-<br />
ject, and, after a careful examination of the<br />
treaty, which has also been agreed to by his own<br />
country, Saxony (though it has not yet been<br />
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ratified), we drew up several questions, which<br />
I inclose separate, for a legal opinion upon the<br />
construction of some of thearticles. Herr Tauch-<br />
nitz is a highly respectable man, and I should<br />
wish to give him every advantage in republishing<br />
my works in Germany, consistent with my own<br />
security, and, if that cannot be done, grant him<br />
the agency for the sale.<br />
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On considering all these points, I have<br />
sketched out a plan for myself in a very vague<br />
manner for supplying our Colonies and foreign<br />
countries, in which, together, at a very low price,<br />
there were formerly sold not less at Jeast than<br />
20,000 copies, and I now submit it to you for<br />
observation and amendment. On looking over<br />
one of Herr Tauchnitz’s volumes, I find that the<br />
height of his page (I mean the printing without<br />
the margin) is precisely the same as that adopted<br />
in your edition of “ Heidelburg.” Now what I<br />
propose for you to do is this: to ascertain pre-<br />
cisely what would be the expense, when printing<br />
a new work of mine after the treaty comes into<br />
operation, of overrunning the whole so as to<br />
have thirty or thirty-one lines in a page (this<br />
would be done by merely taking out the leaves),<br />
to ascertain precisely what would be the expense<br />
of a cheap paper, not better or heavier than that<br />
of Herr Tauchnitz’s edition (of which I inclose a<br />
page) in the form necessary for the double sheet<br />
of thirty-two pages. In Germany this would be<br />
done, that is to say, the slight overrunning, the<br />
printing of four reams by machine, and the pur-<br />
chase of four reams of paper for £3 12s., or even<br />
less. If you find that it can be done at the<br />
same price in England, by putting thirty-one<br />
lines in a page, we might, out of the three volume<br />
romance make two volumes of eleven or twelve<br />
double sheets, each at the expense of £43 45.<br />
per volume in an edition of two thousand—say<br />
that the expense of stitching in wrappers made<br />
it £50—and we might afford to sell the work in<br />
the Colonies and foreign countries at 1s. 6d.<br />
the volume, or 3s. the whole work. The<br />
profit would be but small, it is true; but<br />
it is my belief that at that price, if we did<br />
not regain the whole sale which the Americans<br />
had in the colonies, and retain the sale on the<br />
Continent, we should still ultimately command a<br />
sale of five or six thousand at the least, when the<br />
profit would be considerable. Will you, then,<br />
have the calculation made of the very lowest sum,<br />
at which an edition of two thousand copies could<br />
be produced, and let me know the result as soon<br />
as possible. Will you also ascertain what would<br />
be the cost of stereotyping such a page? I have<br />
not been able to ascertain what it is here, but in<br />
Belgium a large page costs one franc.<br />
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When the exact expenses are calculated I<br />
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propose to send a circular letter, of which I<br />
enclose a copy, to booksellers to Montreal,<br />
Quebec, Toronto, Jamaica, Sydney, the Cape,<br />
Mauritius, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, as<br />
well as to write to Mr. Tauchnitz, and, if by the<br />
replies we find a sufficient sale ensured, we can<br />
print accordingly, stereotyping if justified. You<br />
must endeavour to find me the names of the<br />
most respectable colonial firms, which I think can<br />
be done easily in London. If you like to make the<br />
experiment with the “ Castle of Ebrenbreitstein,;” I<br />
will resign to you the proceeds of an edition of<br />
two thousand. Should a greater sale be obtained<br />
we will divide the surplus profits, as I lose in the<br />
first instance the sum usually paid me by Mr.<br />
Tauchnitz. If you do not like to make the<br />
experiment, I will. G. P. R. JameEs.<br />
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THE HARDSHIPS OF PUBLISHING.<br />
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volume his own papers and others which<br />
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have recently appeared on this subject.<br />
So far as we are concerned, little need be said.<br />
The bitterness which is shown against the Society<br />
finds vent in an attack upon the figures given in<br />
the “Cost of Productions.” Our answer to that<br />
is complete. A certain publisher, as was stated<br />
m<our letter to the Athenzum, received an offer<br />
for all his printing on our terms, and declined<br />
to take it. We have not stated the name of the<br />
publisher, but the fact will not be denied. Mr.<br />
Heinemann, fully answered on this point in the<br />
Atheneum, resumes his attack in the Bookman.<br />
In’ spite, however, of the flourish and parade<br />
about the figures, there they are and -there<br />
they will remain until the printers themselves<br />
show cause for their alteration. This is quite<br />
possible. Since the first edition of our book,<br />
composition has risen 15 per cent. ; and since<br />
the third edition, binding has risen 15 per cent.,<br />
as readers of the Author have been informed<br />
every month for the past six months. Mr.<br />
Heinemann complains about the item for adver-<br />
tising. This, as Mr. Spriggs carefully explained<br />
in the Introduction, is inserted so as to recognise<br />
that it is an integral part of cost of production.<br />
The sum of £20 was set down because it is an<br />
average sum for an average book. If Mr. Heine-<br />
mann reads it to mean that he should not, by the<br />
agreement, be allowed to spend more than £20<br />
on a novel, he is indeed a simple person. But, of<br />
course, it cannot carry that meaning.<br />
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Here is a word of explanation especially for<br />
those authors who complain that they are not<br />
advertised enough. The majority of books have,<br />
necessarily, a limited sale. An experienced pub-<br />
lisher can make a guess at a maximum as well as<br />
a minimum—not perhaps a young publisher, but<br />
an experienced publisher. This estimate rules<br />
the advertising. The book will not ‘‘ bear” more<br />
than a certain amount. For instance, let us take<br />
a 6s, book—perhaps a volume of essays of which<br />
the sale of a whole edition of 1000 copies is quite<br />
as much as may be hoped for.<br />
<br />
The copies (see ‘Cost of Production,” p. 27)<br />
cost for composition, printing, and paper, according<br />
to these figures, £47 12s. Add binding (increased<br />
by 15 per cent.) since those figures were obtained,<br />
£15 16s. 8d.,.in all, say, £64. The sale of 1000,<br />
less fifty for presentation copies, brings us at the<br />
rate of 3s. 4d. a copy, say, £150. Itis found by<br />
experience that to advertise more than a certain<br />
sum upon the book is waste. If this sum is £20,<br />
the amount of profit is about £65, reckoning<br />
profit as it is reckoned in every other business<br />
under the sun, as the difference between the<br />
amount realised and the amount spent.<br />
<br />
But there is another way of considering it.<br />
Let Mr. Heinemann frankly agree with the<br />
author that he is to spend a certain sum; and<br />
let the royalties be calculated on that sum. For<br />
instance, 1f £50 instead of £20 be spent in adver-<br />
tising a book, which the publisher thinks will<br />
bear that amount, it means an increased cost of<br />
production of about 23d. on each volume of a first<br />
edition of 3000. Everything is to be arranged<br />
when two honest men lay their heads together.<br />
The real question between Mr. Heinemann and<br />
his author is this: The expense being actually<br />
this or that; the advertising being so much,<br />
actually paid out of pocket, not the tariff charge ;<br />
how in equity are the returns to be shared? If<br />
Mr. Heinemann will help us in arriving at an<br />
answer to the question he will be serving both<br />
his own cause and ours.<br />
<br />
At the bottom of all this windy warfare lies<br />
the necessity of a common understanding. As<br />
for the proposed Union of Publishers, that<br />
appears to be as far off as ever. Mr. Murray<br />
plainly expresses his opinion that no good pur-<br />
pose would be gained by discussion of the rela-<br />
tion between author and publisher. This is<br />
disheartening. Perhaps we may before long<br />
illustrate the exact contrary. Mr. Frederick<br />
<br />
Macmillan complains of the tone adopted by the<br />
Author—but he does not give his grounds of<br />
complaint, and, since the tone of the Author has<br />
always been highly respectful to honourable<br />
houses, his ground of complaint is not apparent—<br />
and says that ‘“ they,” whoever “they” may be,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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would probably call a Publishers’ Union a<br />
“Band of Robbers.” On the contrary; it hag<br />
been maintained in these columns that such an<br />
union would be an excellent thing simply because<br />
it would separate and designate the black sheep—<br />
honourable men could not unite for any but<br />
honourable motives. And secondly,. because,<br />
though it is very certain that some publishers are<br />
hostile to our society, the society is in no way<br />
hostile to publishers. If it were, nothing could<br />
more readily show it than the attempt which<br />
would certainly be made if that were the case to<br />
create our own machinery.<br />
<br />
The unsigned paper which concludes Mr.<br />
Hememann’s volume, taken from the Publisher’s<br />
Weekly may be welcomed, and acknowledged as<br />
a very fair and reasonable statement of the case<br />
from the publisher’s point of view. It is here<br />
reproduced in full in order that our readers may<br />
see all that can be said on both sides.<br />
<br />
One thing may be added—one of the writers<br />
advances the proposition that “ office expenses ’<br />
form part of cost of production. He gives no<br />
reasons. I, for my part, state that the author’s<br />
“‘ office expenses’? may equally well be claimed as<br />
forming part of cost of production. Mr. Heine-<br />
mann states that the former has ‘“ conclusively<br />
proved” his case. He has proved nothing. He<br />
has only advanced a claim. The point, with<br />
many others, may be arguable, but certainly it<br />
has not been determined.<br />
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PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS.<br />
(From the Publisher's Weekly.)<br />
<br />
Another controversy is afoot in England between pub-<br />
lisher and author, started by the recent difference of<br />
opinion between Mr. Heinemann and ‘“‘ Ouida,” in which,<br />
as usual, everybody seems anxious to take a hand, with the<br />
usual result—a large waste of paper and print, and no<br />
settlement of the question at issue. In this, as in previous<br />
similar controversies, both sides are apt to take extreme<br />
positions, forgetting that the truth of the matter generally<br />
lies between the two. The author, or rather some authors,<br />
take it for granted that the publisher gets hold of the<br />
biggest and most advantageous part of the handle of the<br />
contract, while some publishers—we have reference now<br />
only to the present discussion—assume that the authors<br />
ought to accept their statements without question.<br />
Clearly both of these positions are equally preposterous.<br />
Both parties have rights which must be respected, and both<br />
are in a position to have these rights clearly defined and<br />
secured.<br />
<br />
The publisher does not run his establishment as a philan-<br />
thropic institution, and therefore will endeavour to secure<br />
himself in every way possible from suffering loss. He is at<br />
liberty to accept or reject manuscripts from whomever<br />
presents them for his consideration. He cannot be coerced<br />
or cajoled into accepting a manuscript, and therefore is as<br />
much at liberty to act as a free agent as any other mer-<br />
chant. In deciding upon publishing a manuscript the pub-<br />
lisher considers the quality of the work if by an unknown<br />
author, or the value of the reputation of a known author in<br />
connection with the new work. It occurs probably as fre-<br />
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quently that publishers hesitate to entertain a new manu-<br />
script by a well-known author as they feel constrained to<br />
refuse the work of a new or less known one. Having<br />
accepted it, however, the publisher computes the cost of<br />
making the book, including the price of composition,<br />
making plates, press-work, paper and binding, and the<br />
incidentals connected with distributing the book, including<br />
rent, travellers’ expenses, advertising, postage, editor’s<br />
copies, interest on capital invested, and such other expenses<br />
as legitimately belong to the work under consideration.<br />
Besides these he allows for a percentage of profit to himself<br />
and the author. He places at the author’s disposal his<br />
machinery and experience, and for the use of these demands<br />
a compensation. And right here we might add that the<br />
publisher more frequently than one would think earns a<br />
large slice of his profit by attending to minutiz in pre-<br />
paring and working out contracts, in the preparation of<br />
the author’s copy, pnd in attending to details that pro-<br />
perly belong to the author. An elaboration of the<br />
necessity of the author educating himself in all that<br />
pertains to the business of negotiating for manuscript, and<br />
upon the importance of properly preparing his copy and<br />
its relation to the economical production of his book, will<br />
be found in Mr. Cody’s communication to the New York<br />
Sun of the 8th inst., part of which is reprinted in this<br />
issue.<br />
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The author, on the other hand, is also a free agent, and<br />
may accept the publisher’s proposals or seek to obtain<br />
better terms elsewhere. No one can force him to entrust<br />
his work to this, that, or any other publisher. He has de-<br />
yoted months or years of his life to his work, and is justified<br />
in obtaining the highest remuneration possible for his<br />
labour. If he cannot obtain what he considers his due<br />
from a publisher, and has faith enough in his work, and<br />
capital enough to make his book, and talent enough to dis-<br />
pose of it, there is no law in any land to prevent his taking<br />
this course.<br />
<br />
If he consents of his own free will to the terms proposed<br />
by a publisher he has still a right to insist upon the strict<br />
fulfilment of them in every particular, and he will, unless<br />
he has had the misfortune to deal with a rogue, find no<br />
difficulty in obtaining as fair an accounting of the trans-<br />
action connected with his work as he would from the<br />
architect building his house.<br />
<br />
He may not obtain in the end a fair remuneration for the<br />
labour he has put into his book, but this may then be due<br />
to other causes than the dishonesty of his publisher. He<br />
may, for instance, have had the misfortune of entrusting<br />
his work to the care of an incompetent man, who may yet<br />
be honest. So he might entrust his good cloth to the<br />
tender mercies of a botch of a tailor. In both cases he<br />
would have to pay for an error of judgment. Or, his work,<br />
notwithstanding his own and his publisher’s expectations,<br />
may not have filled a demand. In that case his publisher,<br />
quite as much as himself, would have to pay for his error of<br />
judgment.<br />
<br />
This argument rests upon the supposition that the pub-<br />
lisher assumes all risk of publication. Where an author<br />
assumes this risk he becomes practically a partner in the<br />
business speculation. and so may insist beforehand upon<br />
certain privileges in the matter of accounting that would<br />
reasonably secure him against fraud on the part of<br />
sharpers.<br />
<br />
However, we do not think we go very wide of the mark<br />
in claiming that the publisher is as anxious for the success<br />
of a book as the author may be, without regard to the<br />
arrangements upon which he produces the book. He is in<br />
business to make money fully as much as to distribute<br />
literature. Asa good-selling book means a good profit to<br />
<br />
him, it is his interest to endeavour to make each of his<br />
<br />
ventures as profitable as lies in his power. In such pro-<br />
sperity the author deserves to share, and should any ques-<br />
tion arise the publisher must stand ready at all reasonable<br />
times to give a full and unequivocal report as to the status<br />
of the book that may be in dispute. We believe that such<br />
is the practice among publishers of standing and repute in<br />
all countries, and that these fear combinations of authors,<br />
under whatever name they may associate, as little as the<br />
author need have misgivings as to the honesty of the<br />
large class of reputable publishing houses all over the<br />
world.<br />
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ATTACK AND DEFENCE.<br />
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<br />
HE following letter and reply have been<br />
sent to us for publication. They speak<br />
for themselves. Which is right—Author<br />
<br />
or critic ?<br />
Mrs. Grunpy aT Home.<br />
[To the Editor of the National Observer. |<br />
London, March 6, 1893.<br />
<br />
Sir—In your current issue you are good enough to<br />
review my book, Mrs. Grundy at Home.<br />
<br />
That review contains five distinct mis-statements of fact:<br />
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1. The Archdeacon, your reviewer says, gets drunk every<br />
night.—The Archdeacon never gets drunk at all.<br />
<br />
>, All the inhabitants of Drizzlington, according to the<br />
same authority, die of consumption.—The book contains no<br />
such statement.<br />
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3. The Squire, your Reviewer tells the public, gets gout<br />
because the postal authorities paint the letter box in his<br />
park gates red.—Such a thing is nowhere affirmed in Mrs.<br />
Grundy.<br />
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4. The Vicar’s wife is, according to your Reviewer,<br />
absurdly young for her husband.—The Vicar’s wife is not<br />
mentioned at all.<br />
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5. Cyril Eade’s wife, says your Reviewer, is a “ ten years<br />
Iunatic.”—Cyril Fade’s wife is perfectly sane.<br />
<br />
Whether this intelligent style of reviewing is thought<br />
humorous, or thought smart, or thought brilliantly up-to-<br />
date, I do not know; but, in the circumstances, I must ask<br />
you to be good enough to give the foregoing brief denial of<br />
your Reviewer's statements a prominence equal to that<br />
afforded to his mis-statements.—I am, &c.,<br />
<br />
CHARLES T. C. JAMES.<br />
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| Note.—_1. Drunkenness is, no doubt, relative; as also is<br />
insanity (see answer to No. 5). Mr. James unquestionably<br />
pictures his character as taking glass after glass of Bur-<br />
gundy; thereafter talking gibberish, and gabbling the<br />
family prayers. Vide (among many others) pages 67, 97,<br />
137, 138, 140, 171, 215, 216, 217, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254,<br />
255, 277, 278, 300.<br />
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2. Vide pages 41, 42.<br />
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“I’m a being took myself—consumption,” said the melan-<br />
choly youth, with resignation.<br />
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“ All of our family ’asit.” . . .<br />
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“Most of ’em coughs up their lungs, and ’as it in these<br />
parts.”<br />
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3. Vide pages 62, 63, 216, 217, &c.<br />
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“Those horrid Post-office people have been irritating<br />
him now. They will insist upon painting the letter box he<br />
induced them to put in the lodge wall for his convenience,<br />
a bright red.”<br />
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quence of the irritation they [the postal authorities] are<br />
causing him!”<br />
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4. Vide page 65: Following after a paragraph about the<br />
Vicar, ‘“‘Mrs. Bull was there, too,” Marcia said . . .<br />
“looking shamefully young for her age” . . .<br />
<br />
‘“* Well, I do call it shameful to look so young when her<br />
husband’s seventy-one.”’<br />
<br />
It turns out that this unimportant character is not the<br />
vicar’s wife, but another’s. This is, however, quite imma-<br />
terial to the plot, if any, of the book.<br />
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5. Vide page 25: “‘ When his wife confined her drinking to<br />
three or four brief intoxications in the course of the day,<br />
Cyril Eade bore with her; but when the habit nothing<br />
could check, developed (sic) into a mere daily procession of<br />
instantaneous ether-intoxication, he pronounced marriage a<br />
failure.”’]<br />
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THE BOOK OF THE FUTURE.<br />
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HIS is the title of a lecture recently de-<br />
livered by Mr. Henry Blackburn at the<br />
London Institution. It is certain to be<br />
<br />
published; meanwhile, we have to thank Mr.<br />
Blackburn for allowing us to read the lecture as<br />
he delivered it. The author presents an entirely<br />
new idea to the world ; he laments the monotony<br />
of the printed page and the absence of personal<br />
distinction in the poets and authors of the day :<br />
<br />
Clothed in a degrading, characterless costume which takes<br />
all appearance of manliness and suppleness from his figure,<br />
living in houses and in cities in which nearly everything<br />
ornate or beautiful has been stolen, borrowed, or copied<br />
from another country or period, he is found engaged in the<br />
production of books in which, as far as the mechanical parts<br />
are concerned, nearly everything is a sham.<br />
<br />
These shams are the reproduction by machinery<br />
of the old letters, which were the work of*<br />
patience, skill, and art; the reproduction by<br />
photography of pictures which appear to be<br />
engravings and are not; the manufacture by<br />
machinery of so-called “hand-made” paper,<br />
with rough edges and coarse texture ; the binding<br />
in “vellum” which is made of pulp and rags;<br />
and the gold illuminations which are no longer<br />
gold.<br />
<br />
How, then, should the author stamp upon his<br />
work his own individuality ?<br />
<br />
Here comes the idea. It is this, that an<br />
author should first learn some system of short-<br />
hand, for rapid notes, and should then study a<br />
style of handwriting worthy of expressing his<br />
thoughts; that he should then write his book<br />
on a page, chosen for form and size, in this beau-<br />
tiful handwriting ; and that the work should be<br />
presented to the world as a photographic fac-<br />
simile. We shall then have the author himself.<br />
We must not proceed to show how this thought<br />
is developed. It is a fine thought, worthy of an<br />
artist. How far it is practicable is open to dis-<br />
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cussion. It must not be forgotten that hand-<br />
writing of the day is poor and mean, general]<br />
<br />
because those who write are unable to draw—<br />
cannot create for themselves a beautiful hand,<br />
and could not, under any circumstances. At the<br />
same time, the arts overlap; there is generally<br />
some latent ability with pen and pencil in the<br />
poet and the novelist. Readers must await the<br />
publication of the lecture. It is not quitea<br />
case in point, but it may be mentioned that<br />
Quilter’s edition (Swan Sonnenschein) of Geo.<br />
Meredith’s “Jumping Jane” is all written by<br />
the artist who drew the extremely clever pic-<br />
tures. This is not the handwriting, however, of<br />
the poet.<br />
<br />
pecs<br />
<br />
BOOKS AND PRINTING.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
E have received from the Chiswick Press<br />
(Whittingham and Co., Took’s-court,<br />
Chancery-lane) a copy of a book called<br />
<br />
“Some Notes on Books and Printing : a Guide<br />
for Authors and Others,” by Charles T. Jacobi,<br />
manager of the Chiswick Press, and Examiner in<br />
Typography to the City and Guilds of London<br />
Institute. Perhaps the Society will before long<br />
see its way to publishing its own Handbook<br />
for Authors, including, among other things, the<br />
more important part of this little book. Mean-<br />
time, those who desire to make themselves<br />
acquainted with the mechanical part of their<br />
work—the various types, the form, the headings,<br />
divisions, indexing, &c , are strongly recommended<br />
to buy this, and no other. Above all, the reader<br />
shouid note what is said on the subject of correc-<br />
tions. It is, in fact, a lesson in the art of correct-<br />
ing for the press, and a warning to do all the<br />
corrections in the MS. The various kinds of type<br />
are all shown; the different sizes of books are<br />
given; and there is a good deal of interesting<br />
talk about binding.<br />
<br />
In one point, the most important of all, there<br />
is complete silence. Not a word is said as to the<br />
Cost of Production. This, of course, makes the<br />
work incomplete. Now it is certain that a<br />
printer’s bill is an elastic thing, and that wages<br />
go up and down. But could there not be laid<br />
down some kind of average, in order to guide the<br />
reader? ‘This applies to everything—printing,<br />
paper, corrections, composition, and binding. We<br />
may know all that this book tells us and yet be<br />
in no way protected or advanced unless we know<br />
the cost of production. Therefore the book can<br />
only be recommended under protest, and with a<br />
warning that it is incomplete.<br />
<br />
The remarks about publishers are vague, but<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
they show some recognition of certain points<br />
which, a few years ago, would not have. been<br />
allowed for a moment. Thus, the writer says, “ It<br />
is strongly advised that only well-known pub-<br />
lishers be approached.” We should like to see<br />
added, ‘The Society of Authors is the only insti-<br />
tution which knows the character and standing of<br />
all publishers.” And, again, we read, ‘It is of<br />
the utmost importance that any agreement entered<br />
into should be thoroughly understood.” Quite so.<br />
But we should like to see added, “and that the<br />
author should know what such agreement gives<br />
him, and what he gives to the publisher.” These<br />
points will, we doubt not, be added in the next<br />
edition.<br />
<br />
pee<br />
<br />
OMNIUM : GATHERUM FOR APRIL.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Suggestions for Books or Articles.—A_ short<br />
life of Dandolo, the ninety-year-old doge ;—an<br />
Anglo-Irish Tunnel ;—a Dictionary of Six Lan-<br />
guages, after the model of the Universal<br />
Dictionary published by Trowitzsch, of Berlin<br />
(without a date alas! and anonymously), but<br />
having Greek and Latin, as well as English,<br />
French, German, and Italian words, and each<br />
language printed in a differently coloured type ;—<br />
the antipathies of Croker and Macaulay ;—the<br />
theological objections (if any) to cremation, with<br />
special references to the views of the late Bishop<br />
of Lincoln on the subject ;—the folly of profes-<br />
sional overwork ;—the wickedness of a marriage<br />
between May and December ;—the desirability of<br />
making Easter ap immovable feast.<br />
<br />
Correction of Proofs—-The mode of proof<br />
correction is pretty nearly settled ; indeed, there<br />
is atable of recognised corrections in Whitaker’s<br />
Almanac. But the different kinds of type (which<br />
might be symbolised by 1, 2, 3, and so on) have<br />
still to be distinguished. Could not a complete<br />
table of corrections be settled with the leading<br />
printers and printed in the Author ?<br />
<br />
Addenda.—Is there any use in these? Hardly<br />
anybody sees them. Any addition or correc-<br />
tion of real importance can be effected by a<br />
cancel.<br />
<br />
Prices and Dates of Books.—It is of importance<br />
to the reviewer (who should mention the price in<br />
his review) that the price of a book should be<br />
stated on the cover, and of the utmost import-<br />
ance to everybody that the date should be printed<br />
on the title page. It is suggested that the<br />
author has a right to insist upon a date on the<br />
title page, and that he should always exercise this<br />
right.<br />
<br />
Dates of Editions —It is of importance to<br />
future readers that the dates of past editions<br />
should be stated, and it is suggested that the<br />
best place for stating these dates is on the back<br />
of the title page and on the page facing the<br />
preface.<br />
<br />
Author’s Corrections—In most agreements it<br />
is stipulated that the author shall pay for<br />
corrections (except of printer’s errors) beyond a<br />
certain amount, which is quite fair. But in<br />
order, if necessary, to check the amount charged<br />
for these corrections, it is suggested that either<br />
the printers should be requested to keep the<br />
proofs till the printing bill is sent in, or that the<br />
author should copy the corrections on to the proof<br />
duplicates.<br />
<br />
The mention of one newspaper by another.—Is<br />
it not high time that the foolish practice (fol-<br />
lowed, I fear, by all newspaper editors except<br />
about seventeen) of one newspaper describing<br />
another as “our contemporary,” instead of<br />
speaking of ‘“ Wednesday’s Standard,’ “last<br />
week’s Literary World,’ or as the case may be,<br />
should be utterly abandoned? Is it not also<br />
ridiculous that any newspaper should ignore a<br />
subject of general interest to the public merely<br />
on the ground that that subject was first brought<br />
into prominence by another newspaper ?<br />
<br />
J. M. Lety.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ee<br />
<br />
THE S.P.C.K. AGAIN.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
HE following letter reopens the controversy<br />
of 1891:<br />
<br />
I have never written for the S.P.C.K., nor quarrelled<br />
with them, but I have heard much from both sides of the<br />
disputed questions from those more nearly concerned. It<br />
appears to me that the S.P.C.K. pay the average market<br />
price for the work supplied to them. Would the same<br />
books be likely to obtain more from other publishers? If<br />
they paid young or mediocre authors according to their<br />
enormous sales, which are owing to the Society’s reputation,<br />
and not to that of the author, they would force the market<br />
for the small religious tale, and give it a factitious value quite<br />
out of proportion to other kinds of literary work. That<br />
would be a very good thing for some of us, but would it be<br />
desirable in itself ?<br />
<br />
It may be said that such high pay would attract superior<br />
work, but, with certain almost obvious exceptions, it would<br />
hardly attract work much more useful and suitable for the<br />
purposes required. There may be other grievances, but it<br />
does not appear to me that this one offers a just ground of<br />
complaint. MrMBER OF SocrETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
<br />
The writer advances, first of all, the opinion<br />
that the 8.P.C.K. pay the “average market price<br />
for the work supplied to them.” Dothey? Then<br />
what about that lady who had written for them<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
400<br />
<br />
for years, and went to another religious society,<br />
which gave her at once what she had previously<br />
received as payment in full from the 8.P.C.K.<br />
and a royalty as well? Or, what about that<br />
historical work for which they gave £12, with a<br />
promise of more if it succeeded, and sold 7000<br />
copies, and then refused to give any more? This<br />
opinion, from the prices which I have seen, can-<br />
not be accepted. But if it were, is it the way to<br />
defend a religious society—a society whose whole<br />
aim is to advance religion, which should demand,<br />
one would suppose, from others, and should<br />
illustrate in itself, the highest possible standard<br />
of morals and principles in conduct—by saying<br />
that it only does what others do ?<br />
<br />
Again, the writer does not seem to know that<br />
there is any kind of equity in dealing with<br />
literary property. It matters nothing, in speak-<br />
ing of commercial value and the rights of pro-<br />
perty—nothing at all—whether a writer is good<br />
or bad; it matters only, from this point of view,<br />
whether he is in demand or no. The committee<br />
are to blame if they try to run a had writer; the<br />
taste of the public is to blame if they buy a bad<br />
writer’s works. The standing fact is that a<br />
writer, good or bad, for whose work there is a<br />
sale, creates a new property with every new MS.<br />
which is his until he parts with it. If any<br />
publisher buys out that writer, trading on his<br />
ignorance or his necessities, for a trifle, he is a<br />
sweater. I should, myself, use another word,<br />
but that will do.<br />
<br />
The thing is perfectly simple. I take once<br />
more—see ‘The Literary Handmaid of the<br />
Church ”’—the Archbishop of Canterbury’s own<br />
definition of sweating. He calls it “a rate of<br />
wages inadequate to the necessities of the worker,<br />
and disproportionate to the work done.”<br />
<br />
This is a very good definition, and one which<br />
enables us to find out what sweating means applied<br />
to literary property.<br />
<br />
A woman who writes popular stories can pro-<br />
duce at her best not more than three in two years<br />
—say, even two ina year. She is paid £30 apiece,<br />
we will say, for them, 7.e, she can make 60a<br />
year. This is a most miserable income for a<br />
gentlewoman to live upon. But, it may be<br />
objected, her books do not fetch enough to give<br />
her more. Then nothing more can be said: she is<br />
a failure. Should, however, the Society or House<br />
for which she writes know very well beforehand<br />
that they will sell many thousands, and that they<br />
will make a profit out of any one book by her of<br />
six times, ten times, what they gave her, then<br />
that Society, or that House, is, by the Archbishop<br />
of Canterbury’s own definition, a sweater.<br />
<br />
For, first, their wages are inadequate to the<br />
necessities of the worker; and, next, they are<br />
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disproportionate to the work done! 7.e., to the<br />
monetary value of that work. As for the con-<br />
tention that the House makes the sale, or<br />
creates the demand, that is absurd. Why do<br />
not Messrs. Longmans tell their authors that,<br />
because they are such a great House with so great,<br />
a name, they must beat them down and take all<br />
the profits to themselves? They do exactly the<br />
reverse. Anyone sees at once the absurdity of<br />
such a thing, yet people continue to repeat this<br />
absurdity concerning a religious society when<br />
they know it to be absurd when said of a House<br />
publishing for its partners.<br />
<br />
Apply the method to another kind of business.<br />
Suppose a cabinet-maker were to say to a<br />
working man ‘‘ The kind of desk you can make is<br />
very much in demand. Partly through the fact<br />
of my having shops everywhere I can sell as<br />
many as you can make. But because I don’t<br />
think it is a very artistic desk, I shall only pay<br />
you one-tenth or one-fifth of the money your desks<br />
bring in, instead of what is considered a fair<br />
price by other shops.” That is exactly the con-<br />
tention of our correspondent. The confusion in<br />
her mind is that so often noticed in these columns<br />
a feeling that inferior work ought not to be<br />
popular. But there is not always—alas !—the<br />
harmony between literary excellence and popu-<br />
larity that there ought to be; the two things are<br />
never, and never will be, commeusurable. If, in<br />
short, the §.P.C.K. should regard the equity of<br />
the case and should fall to considering their<br />
president’s definition of sweating, many gentle-<br />
women who are now pinched and poverty-stricken<br />
would blossom out into anincome. Because they<br />
are great writers? Not at all. But because their<br />
books would be on the 8.P.C.K. list, and because<br />
they would be treated with due regard to their<br />
rights and their own property, and because they<br />
would be working for a firm where equity was<br />
recognised as the true basis of all business<br />
dealings.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
spect<br />
<br />
THE AUTHORS’ CLUB.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
HE club has at last removed into its own<br />
premises. These contain a suite of eight<br />
or ten rooms at No. 3, Whitehall-court.<br />
<br />
There are reading and writing rooms, dining and<br />
luncheon rooms, a billiard room, and everything<br />
required for a first-class and most comfortable<br />
club. The subscription is very moderate—only<br />
four guineas a year. The situation is exactly<br />
central; it is impossible to desire a more con-<br />
venient situation, and the club is intended to be<br />
run as cheaply as is consistent with reasonable<br />
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comfort. Thus it is proposed to have a shilling<br />
luncheon, consisting of joint or chop with veget-<br />
ables and cheese. A small reference library is<br />
forming, and in three quiet writing rooms members<br />
may do their work undisturbed. The position,<br />
besides being perfectly central, is extremely quiet.<br />
There will be a club dinner once a month, and a<br />
house dinner oncea week. Ladies will be admitted<br />
to tea on Wednesday afternoons. The “‘ Uncut<br />
Leaves” will probably be continued every month<br />
during the season. This new feature of the club<br />
hasso far been entirely and wonderfully successful.<br />
At the last meeting unpublished papers were read<br />
by Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. Symon, and Mr. Barry<br />
Pain. Mr. Douglas Sladen takes charge of the<br />
“Uncut Leaves.”<br />
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ec<br />
<br />
THE NEW YORK “NATION.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
T is rather late in the day to call attention to<br />
a newspaper article of Jan. 2. The excuse<br />
is that it is an American article, and that I<br />
have only just read it through. The article in<br />
question occurred in the New York Nation of<br />
that date. It professed to contain an account of,<br />
and a criticism on, my Address of Dec. 17. As<br />
it had no copy to go by, the remarks must have<br />
been made upon the brief report in some London<br />
Daily. I now reprint all the paragraphs in<br />
succession, leaving out the first, which points out<br />
what is, I hope, and am sure is, true, a belief on<br />
the part of the New York Nation that my resig-<br />
nation of the post of chairman was a gain to the<br />
Society.<br />
<br />
He looks upon literature as a sort of fairyland, in which<br />
he, as the good fairy, with a wave of his wand, would make<br />
every book published an inexhaustible gold mine.<br />
<br />
T wonder what this means, and to what it refers.<br />
Eyery book an inexhaustible gold mine? Really,<br />
this is indeed interesting. Every book! But<br />
what foolish utterances of mine can the writer<br />
have in his mind<br />
<br />
There are to-day, he says, 200,000,000 English-speaking<br />
people ; in fifty years there will be 400,000,000, all wanting<br />
<br />
to read, and, moreover, all wanting to read only good<br />
literature.<br />
<br />
What says the Address ?<br />
<br />
By the passing of the American International Copyright<br />
Act a writer of importance now addresses an audience<br />
drawn from a hundred million of English-speaking people.<br />
: Every day makes it plainer and clearer that we<br />
have arrived ata time when the whole of this multitude,<br />
which in fifty years time will be two hundred million, will<br />
very soon be reading books. What kind of books? All kinds,<br />
good and bad, but mostly good; they will prefer good books<br />
to bad. Even now the direct road to popularity is by<br />
dramatic strength, clear vision, clear dialogue, whether a<br />
man write a play, a poem, a history, or a novel.<br />
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So, you see, I did not say what this writer<br />
sets down as regards numbers, nor did I say what<br />
he sets down about “ good” literature, except<br />
that one is very certain that people will prefer<br />
good books to bad, meaning by good what I have<br />
laid down—“ dramatic strength,” &c.—as above.<br />
<br />
The people, he declares, care only for what is good; for<br />
an example of the truth of this, look at the unprecedented<br />
(in England) success of the Strand Magazine. Now, this is<br />
a publication which has sent up its circulation chiefly by<br />
publishing portraits at all ages of the notorieties of the day,<br />
and articles on the Queen’s dolls or pages from her journal<br />
written in her own royal Hindustani—the devices of the<br />
cheapest journalism. Whena man seriously points to such<br />
a periodical as a proof of the people’s literary instincts,<br />
there is absolutely nothing to be said.<br />
<br />
Now let us see what was said about the Strand.<br />
First, it is absolutely false that the vast circula-<br />
tion of the Strand was created by portraits of<br />
notorieties, and articles on the Queen’s dolls.<br />
The circulation of the Strand had gone up to<br />
330,000 before the articles on the Queen’s dolls.<br />
Why, then, according to my Address, has the<br />
Strand gone up so enormously ? “ By giving<br />
dramatic work—stories which hold and interest<br />
people—essays which speak clearly—work that<br />
somehow seems to have message,” not quite the<br />
contemptible thing invented and put into my<br />
mouth by this truthful writer.<br />
<br />
In the meantime, what Mr. Besant hopes may be brought<br />
about by the society is (1) its enlargement to ten times its<br />
present numbers, as though there were not enough indiffe-<br />
rent or worse writers already flooding the world with trash ;<br />
(2) an institute or headquarters for authors ; (3) a pension<br />
fund from which every one would receive a pension of right,<br />
not of charity; and (4) an academy of letters.<br />
<br />
The writer of the article apparently supposes<br />
that the word “author” applies solely to those<br />
who write fiction. There have been published in<br />
Great Britain and Ireland during the last eight<br />
or ten years, an average of about 5000 new books<br />
a year—say 50,000 new books in all—of every<br />
kind, scientific, educational, theological, poetical,<br />
artistic, historical, technical, imaginative, &c.<br />
How many authors does this number represent ?<br />
Ten thousand? A great many more. The<br />
Society would like to include every one, good or<br />
bad, who ventures into the field of Letters, just<br />
as the Inns of Court include every one who<br />
ventures into the field of the Bar:<br />
<br />
Mr. Besant also had sometbing to say about the Authors’<br />
Conference to be held in Chicago during the Exposition.<br />
It is his opinion that by it the future interests of English<br />
authors may be largely influenced.<br />
<br />
I said nothing about the “future interests of<br />
English authors.” I said “ the future of our<br />
<br />
calling’? — the calling of Letters — which is<br />
American as well as English :<br />
But Americans should realise that Mr. Besant, despite<br />
his boundless enthusiasm, can hardly be said to represent<br />
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the most intelligent ideas and opinions of the English lite-<br />
rary world ; nor is Mrs. Walford, who seems to be accepted<br />
as an authority, a better qualified representative.<br />
<br />
That is the whole of it. Not a word about the<br />
aims of the Society, or the achievements of the<br />
Society, or the demands of tbe Society. Here we<br />
have, in what is called the leading literary paper<br />
of America, an account of this History of the<br />
English Society of Authors so garbled as to falsify<br />
it from beginning to end; the total suppression of<br />
the important part, ¢.c., the facts in the case; and<br />
the representation of the Society as a one man<br />
business, and of that one man as something worse<br />
than a fool. The reference to Mrs. Walford is<br />
obscure. As for my representing “ intelligent<br />
ideas,” the facts in the address and the History<br />
of the Society show how far the “intelligent<br />
ideas”’ of the English literary world go with the<br />
committee, while my own opinions were submitted,<br />
at the end of the Address, as my own, my indi-<br />
vidual own, and claiming to be nothing more. The<br />
question arises why the Nation, a literary paper,<br />
should go out of its way to make this attack upon<br />
the Society under the guise of an attack upon<br />
myself.<br />
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es<br />
<br />
NOTES FROM PARIS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
‘J HAD the pleasure of meeting Maeterlinck<br />
I at a déjeuner given to him in Paris last week<br />
<br />
by the young poets of the Symbolist school,<br />
and, in common with all who saw him for the first<br />
time, was delighted with the manners and modesty<br />
of this wonderful youth. He looked like a nice<br />
Oxford lad, neatly dressed in a serge suit, with a<br />
bunch of violets at his button-hole. There was<br />
not a vestige of side or pose about him. It seemed<br />
to surprise him to the point of inconvenience that<br />
we all thought him such a great man, and he had<br />
little deprecating gestures in answer to our com-<br />
pliments that were very pretty to behold. A new<br />
play of his is shortly to be produced at the<br />
‘ Theatre d’ Art, and a new volume of poems, entitled<br />
“La Quenouille et la Besace” from his pen is<br />
shortly to appear. Ihave heard certain of the<br />
poems which it contains, and they are not to<br />
be described otherwise than as masterpieces,<br />
Maeterlinck appears to me to be the man of<br />
<br />
letters of the last decade of the nineteenth<br />
century.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
An indefatigable worker is M. Camille Flam-<br />
marion, the astronomer. He is engaged on a<br />
huge astronomical encyclopedia, which won’t be<br />
finished for another eight years, but, besides this,<br />
he is a constant contributor to the Press, Articles<br />
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<br />
on astronomical subjects from his pen are to be<br />
seen in the New York Herald and other<br />
American papers almost every month. He is a<br />
constant contributor to the New Times of Peters-<br />
burg, to which he contributes a_ scientific<br />
feulleton. He also writes novels, and has just<br />
arranged for the publication of a new tale,<br />
entitled “The End of a World,’ in Scribner's.<br />
His first success was made at the age of nineteen<br />
with his “ Plurality of Inhabited Worlds,” which<br />
is now inits thirty-fifth edition The book of his<br />
which has sold best is, however, his “ Popular<br />
Astronomy,” from which he has already received<br />
100,000 francs, at the rate of 1 franc a copy.<br />
Doubtless his publisher, his brother, of the firm of<br />
Marpon and Flammarion, has made a good deal<br />
more out of the book, but Camille Flammarion<br />
does not seem to care for money. His wife, who<br />
also writes under the nom de plume of Sylvie<br />
Hugo, and who acts as his secretary, says that<br />
but for her interference they would never have a<br />
penny put by. Yet he gets fair prices for his<br />
work. The Herald pays him 100 dollars per<br />
letter, the Novoie Vremia 100 roubles, and his<br />
books, especially “ Urania,’ which has been an<br />
immense success, must bring him in large royal-<br />
ties. He is also editor of a review called<br />
LI’ Astronomie, which he founded, but which he<br />
says does not pay its way. He lives ina fifth-<br />
floor apartment in the Rue Cassini, near the Obser-<br />
vatory, from which he overlooks all Paris. He<br />
is very proud of the fact that he is the only<br />
Parisian who has never changed his address,<br />
having remained in the Rue Cassini since the<br />
war. I think, however, that Jules Simon has even<br />
a longerrecord, and has never changed his address<br />
from the Place de la Madeleine for over thirty<br />
years.<br />
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Gaston Tissandier, editor of La Nature, is<br />
another most interesting man of letters in con-<br />
temporary Paris. He has the biggest record for<br />
balloon ascensions, many of the most exciting<br />
kind, of any man in Europe—a most charming<br />
gentleman, whom it is a pleasure to meet. He<br />
lives on a fifth-floor in the Rue Chateaudun, and<br />
his apartment is stored with curiosities referring<br />
to ballooning. Amongst his papers is a proclama-<br />
tion made by the Government, at the time of<br />
Montgolfier’s first ascensions, to explain to the<br />
population that there is no reason for them to act<br />
on the offensive, with pitchforks or otherwise,<br />
against balloons and balloonists, and giving a<br />
rough description of the apparatus. He also<br />
possesses a letter written by Franklin to Sir<br />
Joseph Banks, describing at great length the<br />
first balloon ascension ever made in Paris, which<br />
the writer visited from the little house in Passy,<br />
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where he was then residing. Camille Flammarion,<br />
by the way, was also a great ascensionist in former<br />
days, and it was.in a balloon which travelled from<br />
Paris to Spa that he and his wife spent the ninth<br />
day of their honeymoon.<br />
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Most Londoners have no doubt heard of a poet<br />
called the Marquis de Leuville. I believe that<br />
his poetry is not held in very high esteem, and<br />
that things are said about the poet. It cannot,<br />
however, be contested that a recent poem of his,<br />
entitled “The Scapegoat,” about poor old de<br />
Lesseps has been very successful. Madame de<br />
Tesseps showed it to me the other day when I<br />
was down at La Chesnaye, and the whole family<br />
seemed very pleased with it. Madame de Lesseps<br />
told me that she had received copies of it from all<br />
parts of Europe. But the chief reason for which<br />
the poet should be pleased with his work is tbat<br />
it gave very sincere pleasure to a charming<br />
family, most cruelly persecuted, and most bitterly<br />
suffering.<br />
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I never suffered such emotion, I think, in the<br />
course of a somewhat checkered life, as when I<br />
recently saw de Lesseps again at La Chesnaye.<br />
He was sitting, a crushed old man, idly turning<br />
over the leaves of his ‘“ Souvenirs of Forty Years,”<br />
written in happier years, and dedicated to his<br />
children. He did not recognise me. In fact, he<br />
recognises nobody. His eyelids droop, and there<br />
is no light in his eyes save when he raises them<br />
to his wife’s face. And the last time before then<br />
that I saw him he was the personification of<br />
energy, vitality, intelligence, and strength. His<br />
eyes literally flared with light, and now the night<br />
has come and a death in life. It is very sad.<br />
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Young Léon Daudet may be considered with<br />
young Barres, the two hopes of French literature<br />
in the future. Daudet has already published a<br />
remarkable book, and has another just ready.<br />
He lives in good style with his wife, née Hugo,<br />
in the Avenue de Alma, and has some of the<br />
best claret in Paris. It will be interesting here-<br />
after to compare his career to that of his father,<br />
Alphonse Daudet. It will show whether it is<br />
better, as some say, for a man of letters to<br />
have to fight his way, like the elder Daudet, or<br />
like Zola, for instance, or to launch out on the<br />
sea with the ballast of a couple of millions of<br />
francs.<br />
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Daudet has told me that he spent three years<br />
of utter penury in Paris, with tattered boots, and<br />
often no socks, and many days where there was<br />
nothing to eat.<br />
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most, he says, was that, being a handsome lad and<br />
much run after by the fair, he was often forced<br />
to keep away from sweet trysts because his linen<br />
was in such a dreadful state that Cupid would<br />
have been seared. Zola for months lived on dry<br />
bread. The days when he could a penn orth of<br />
pork to the bread were feast-days with the present<br />
millionaire.<br />
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Those who are interested in modern French<br />
literature, and who want to be au courant with<br />
what the young poets of France are doing and<br />
saying, should read La Plume, a magazine con-<br />
tributed to by all the poets of modern France.<br />
It is edited by M. Léon Deschamps, and is not a<br />
commercial speculation. If it were, I should not<br />
speak about it here.<br />
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I see that Mr. George Moore has been cari-<br />
caturing the interviewer in a recent play. Why<br />
do people represent the interviewer as a shabby-<br />
looking individual with a note-book in his hand ?<br />
He is nothing of the sort. He is a person who<br />
goes to another person and has a conversation<br />
with him, rendering service to the person and<br />
the public alike—to the person by giving him an<br />
easy way of communicating his ideas to the<br />
public, and to the public in informing it what<br />
so-and-so thinks about such-and-such a question.<br />
He performs the function of a telephone between<br />
the wide wide world and Mr. A., B., or C. But<br />
he is more than a telephone wire because he does<br />
not only transmit the sounds ejaculated by<br />
A. B. G., but arranges them so that they shall be<br />
pleasant to the ear at the receiver, while strictly<br />
representing the ideas of the person consulted.<br />
And as no gentleman would care to use such a<br />
piece of trade properties as a note-book, he has to<br />
depend on his memory when reproducing what<br />
has been said.<br />
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The psychology of interviewing has yet to be<br />
written, and would make a capital study. But of<br />
more practical utility would be “ The Interviewer’s<br />
Complete Handbook” for beginners. Perhaps<br />
some day I will write one. A chapter would be<br />
devoted to the skirmishing in the antechamber,<br />
with practical hints how to get round the foot-<br />
men. Some have to be bluffed, some to be<br />
wheedled, some are even open to corruption. I<br />
have always considered the battle won once I have<br />
crossed the doormat. Another chapter would be<br />
devoted to the arts by which a man who has made<br />
up his “ mind to say nothing” can be got to talk<br />
in spite of himself, of which there are many, and<br />
to the methods of conveying a leading question<br />
so as to extract an answer from an unwilling<br />
subject. The interviewer, to be a useful one, has<br />
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to be as good a cross-examiner as any Q.C. in<br />
London, minus his authority and wig, and to get<br />
by wheedling and guile what the other gets by<br />
bluster and menace. He is a curious modern<br />
type, and wants studying, and should not be<br />
written about by those who know nothing about<br />
him nor his work. In any case he deserves<br />
immense sympathy, be he ever so little a nervous<br />
man. For such to present himself before an<br />
utter stranger is a great trial, and I know certain<br />
who will spend an hour dawdling about in the street<br />
of the subject trying to work up courage enough to<br />
ring at the door-bell. Some take brandy, others<br />
take runs, like jumpers. I myself always go at<br />
it with my head down like a hen facing a fox.<br />
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Jules Verne is, I am glad to say, much better<br />
again. His son, Michel Jules Verne, has resumed<br />
his pen, after a period of commercial activity in<br />
the manufacture of patent stoves and improved<br />
bicycles, and will contribute a number of scientific<br />
articles to the American magazines. He is a<br />
smart young man, and should make his way.<br />
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Madame Taine has writted to protest most<br />
strongly against the recent publication in the<br />
Figaro of a series of sonnets written by her hus-<br />
band, declaring that in his will he expressly en-<br />
joimed upon his family to keep from the public<br />
any of his writings which were in any way con-<br />
nected with his private life. Taine was always<br />
very particular on the point of his privacy, and it<br />
was doubtless with this feeling that he so rarély<br />
allowed himself to be photographed. I say<br />
“rarely,” for, although it has been said since his<br />
death that he never was photographed, I know of two<br />
negatives in existence in Paris. I once went to see<br />
him,-accompanied by a leading Parisian artist, who<br />
was to take a sketch of him in his workroom, and<br />
he nearly fired us downstairs. He would only<br />
allow the artist to be present at our conversation<br />
on his passing his word not to make any use what-<br />
ever of his visit.<br />
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I heard some young poets, all very well known<br />
in Paris, discussing profits the other day. A<br />
certain publisher’s name was being mentioned,<br />
and it transpired that in the opinion of the<br />
brotherhood he was the most liberal man in<br />
Paris. It also transpired that he had paid a<br />
certain young master as much as 200 frances for<br />
a volume of poems which I believe sold fairly<br />
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When a man is thinking of starting a paper<br />
either in London or New York you hear him<br />
figuring up the cost of paper, composition, and<br />
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machining. In Paris his first thought is about<br />
the cost of his literary staff, the other incidental<br />
expenses being looked upon as minor considera-<br />
tions. This gives in brief a very fair idea of the<br />
relative position of letters in the three countries,<br />
Again, the London newspaper proprietor and his<br />
American confrére when they have to boast of<br />
their enterprises do so about their machines,<br />
their speed, their ink, and the amount of white<br />
paper consumed in their offices in a week. The<br />
French editor boasts about the men who write<br />
for him, and the sums he pays them.<br />
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I hear that the so-called décadents have<br />
decided to revolt against the appellation, and<br />
that each of the school will in future consider it<br />
an insult to be styled by this name. As a matter<br />
of fact a finer set of young men than Stuart<br />
Merrill, Maurice Maeterlinck, Vielé-Griffin, Jean<br />
Carrére, Adolphe Retté, the athletic Christian<br />
could not wish to see. The word décadent sug-<br />
gests a dismal, greenish, pimply youth, with<br />
shabby clothes and frowsy hair. All the déca-<br />
dents that I have seen are just the reverse.<br />
They would be a credit to Hyde Park on a Sun-<br />
day afternoon.<br />
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BALLADE OF THE PRIMROSE WAY.<br />
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Our life is but an empty show,<br />
A passing shadow frail and fleet ;<br />
Earth’s joys are dross, and end in woe,<br />
For stumbling men they are not meet:<br />
Pleasure, the siren’s voice, is sweet,<br />
But death is in her kiss and glance ;<br />
Then follow not with foolish feet<br />
The Primrose path of Dalliance.<br />
Thus the sad preacher, grave and slow,<br />
In balanced phrase precise and neat;<br />
Alack! and is it really so ?<br />
Well, from the toil, the dust, the heat<br />
Of life’s rough highway, some retreat<br />
I fain would find—I’d take my chance,<br />
And follow, e’en with foolish feet,<br />
The Primrose path of Dalliance.<br />
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T know the ways where wild thorns grow,<br />
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I’ve reaped well-nigh more tares than wheat ;<br />
I know life’s ruts, some bourne I’d know<br />
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Where all fair sights and sounds compete<br />
The charméd fancy to entrance ;<br />
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I'd follow with whatever feet<br />
The Primrose path of Dalliance.<br />
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Change places, Florizel, heigho !<br />
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You're sick of “ three-pile,” song, and dance ;<br />
Let me play Prince awhile, and go<br />
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The Primrose path of Dalliance.<br />
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NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
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HIS is personal. In Punch for April 1<br />
a4 there is a statement quoted from some-<br />
where—it is not said where. This is the<br />
statement: “In the pages of the Author Mr.<br />
Besant suggests that the Society of Authors<br />
should undertake the examination of journalists.”<br />
Some verses follow, naturally in ridicule of the<br />
proposal. It is needless to say here that the state-<br />
ment is absolutely baseless. Perhaps, however, my<br />
brother journalists will kindly help me to give<br />
publicity to this protest. I have never suggested,<br />
or thought of suggesting, any such thing. The<br />
only possible foundation for the fabrication<br />
appears in the March number, where, at p. 367,<br />
after quoting Prof. Matthews’ examination paper<br />
on “The History and Art of Fiction,’ I went on,<br />
venturing on a Flight into the Impossible, to<br />
say, ‘“ What a fine field would be open to the<br />
Society if we could institute examinations for<br />
critics!” Then followed certain words meant in<br />
my little, feeble way to be playful.<br />
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The time appears to have now arrived when<br />
an attempt, at least, may be made towards an<br />
understanding with the leading publishing<br />
houses as to the creation of some recognised<br />
and accepted principles, which should guide and<br />
govern the relations of author and publisher.<br />
Sir Frederick Pollock, chairman of the committee<br />
of management, in his opening remarks at the<br />
general meeting of Dec. 17th, clearly fore-<br />
shadowed such an attempt. He said ( Times,<br />
Dec. 18): ‘‘ That the society of Authors had been<br />
described asthe enemy of publishers at large. In<br />
point of fact, they were the enemy of nothing but<br />
unbusinesslike habits, slovenly dealing, and<br />
fraudulent practices. They were on the side of<br />
any publisher who would help them to put such<br />
things down. As for the suggested union among<br />
the publishers, he thought that it would materi-<br />
ally improve the chances of a better understanding<br />
between them and authors.” He said, further,<br />
that he could not understand that there was no<br />
way of arriving at a cordial understanding between<br />
honourable men of both sides.<br />
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This is clearly a most desirable thing to attempt,<br />
and, if possible, to achieve, But the first thing<br />
necessary is to have a clear understanding of the<br />
points which will be discussed With this object,<br />
and in order to help myself in the papers which<br />
I have to take over to Chicago, I have drawn up<br />
a paper which I invite all our members to read<br />
and to give their own opinions. They need not<br />
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consider it as imposing any opinions upon them.<br />
The facts, however, are those which have been<br />
ascertained by the Society, and cannot be dis-<br />
puted. But it may be very helpful if every one<br />
will consider the problem by the light of the<br />
facts, and if possible come to some conclusion.<br />
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On p. 417 will be found the first beginning of<br />
what it is hoped may develop into a great thing<br />
—the exchange and sale of books carried on by<br />
the intermediary, without profit, of the Author.<br />
All those who want to buy books; all those who<br />
have books to exchange; all those who have<br />
books to sell; may send their lists directed to the<br />
“Book Exchange Column.” Their address must<br />
be sent, of course. The journal will not pay<br />
postage expenses, and when the thing has<br />
developed it may be necessary to make a small<br />
charge for printing the list at so much a line.<br />
The list will be sent to a selection of second-hand<br />
London and country booksellers. We shall be<br />
very pleased if we can in this way assist a body of<br />
men so useful to us as the second-hand book-<br />
sellers.<br />
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I beg correspondents, of whom one rejoices to<br />
observe an increasing number, to notice the short<br />
articles that are published in the Author. Many<br />
of the letters sent up would produce a much<br />
better effect if they were short articles instead of<br />
letters. For the publication of a grievance or a<br />
trick, a letter is perhaps better; but, for the<br />
advocacy of a measure of reform, or for the<br />
advancement of a principle, a short article is much<br />
the best form of stating the subject.<br />
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The death of Professor Minto, a member of<br />
our council, was totally unexpected. He was<br />
apparently a strong and healthy man, who might<br />
have lived to a great age. He caught a cold ;<br />
influenza followed; and he died at the age of<br />
forty-seven. As an editor, a writer, and a<br />
professor of philosophy, he worked well and did<br />
well. There were few men more wide-minded<br />
than Professor Minto.<br />
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I hope everybody will read and ponder over<br />
the remarks made in our corresnondence columns<br />
by “Onward” (p.410). They area plea for unionof<br />
authors. We area society, but are we yet a union ?<br />
We must not think of an ordinary trades union, a<br />
company banded together for the raising of wages.<br />
The union that our correspondent contemplates,<br />
and our Society can perhaps achieve, 1s one which<br />
will raise the status of literature by removing it<br />
from mendicancy and dependence. The material<br />
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whim and “ generosity ”—they still go on talking<br />
about “generosity ”»—but onr ecognised principles<br />
and methods of agreement. There must be an esta-<br />
blished etiquette between editor and contributor,<br />
by which the latter can be in some measure pro-<br />
tected from the scurvy treatment he too often<br />
receives at the hands of scurvy editors and scurvy<br />
journals, There are difficulties in the way, but<br />
surely those who lead the world, teach the world,<br />
preach to the world, amuse the world, should be<br />
the first to see that association is the only way to<br />
remove the evils under which they now labour.<br />
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It is reported that attempts are again being<br />
made in certain quarters to persuade the credulous<br />
author into committing the stupendous folly of<br />
binding himself down for all future work to one<br />
publisher! It is difficult to find words with<br />
which to stigmatize this madness. Whatever<br />
mismanagement—whatever quarrels—might arise<br />
—the luckless author would always remain the<br />
slave of the publisher to whom he had bound<br />
and chained himself. Consider, if you can, what<br />
would be thought of a man who should go to a<br />
firm of solicitors and should promise them the<br />
management of all his estates for the future,<br />
whatever their management might turn out !<br />
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A correspondent very sensibly suggests that,<br />
as much of the ill-feeling that sometimes follows<br />
a publishing transaction is caused by the author’s<br />
complete ignorance upon all points connected<br />
with printing, &c., it would be a very good plan<br />
if publishers would send out with the first proofs<br />
a plain statement on the subject of corrections.<br />
Thus, it is ridiculous to state, as is done in many<br />
agreements, that all corrections above so many<br />
“shillings” will have to be paid for by the<br />
author. How is the author to know the connec-<br />
tion between shillings and corrections? What<br />
he wants is to be told what corrections he can<br />
make without cost, and what he will. have to pay<br />
for extra corrections. He sometimes wants,<br />
besides, a hint as to the best way of making his<br />
corrections. My correspondent adds: ‘“ With<br />
some proofs that I received last October from<br />
Messrs. G. Putnam’s Sons, of New York, there<br />
came a printed paper of full instructions for<br />
‘correcting, and also a full explanation of the<br />
cost of adding additional material.” This is an<br />
example that deserves imitation.<br />
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Here is a case of conscience. The editor of a<br />
certain scientific journal sends to the publisher of<br />
a certain work on some parts of our social system a<br />
request for a copy of the book for review.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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Observe that it is not the practice of this paper<br />
to review books on such subjects at all. The<br />
publishers accede to the request and send the<br />
book. The notice which appears is contained in<br />
twenty-two lines, of which two are occupied by a<br />
quotation in verse. - It is not a review; that is to<br />
say, the readers of the journal in question could<br />
not gather from the paragraph the contents or<br />
the scope of the book, except in very general<br />
terms; and the tone of the notice is contemp-<br />
tuous and flippant. The author very fairly asks<br />
why, if this sort of thing was intended, did the<br />
editor send for a copy? It is a case of con-<br />
science. The editor was not asked to give a<br />
review ; he offered one. He received a copy of<br />
the book in return for the tacit understanding<br />
that there would follow a serious review ; he does<br />
not give a review at all, but an irresponsible and<br />
slighting “notice.” Is this justifiable ?<br />
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The following passages appeared in T'ruth.<br />
One or the other is a very remarkable specimen<br />
of the Reviewer’s Art. On Thursday, March 14,<br />
a certain new book was reviewed in two leading<br />
journals, with the following result :—<br />
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It is not interesting, it is<br />
not amusing, it is, in fact,<br />
one of the most negligible<br />
works we have recently en-<br />
countered. The compulsory<br />
reading of these volumes<br />
will afford as humiliating a<br />
discipline as the Penitential<br />
Psalms.<br />
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These are most interest-<br />
ing, valuable, and attractive<br />
volumes, and their perusal<br />
is as delightful as it is in-<br />
structive. . From<br />
whichever point of view this<br />
book be considered, it is<br />
deserving of the highest<br />
praise.<br />
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The lamented death of Taine has brought<br />
forth many tributes to his genius and his personal<br />
<br />
character. The best and noblest seems to me<br />
that which appeared in the Atheneum of<br />
March 18. It is signed “ M. D.”—initials which<br />
<br />
it is not difficult to connect with the remaining<br />
letters of the writer’s name. The following is an<br />
extract on Taine’s attitude towards the new<br />
religious ideas of the time, for those who have<br />
not seen this admirable paper :<br />
<br />
Never was a freethinker more respectful of religion or<br />
more appreciative of the vast and necessary moral force<br />
embodied in all religions. In abstaining from affirming he<br />
did not deny; and now that the pendulum of time has —<br />
swung back to the hope beyond reason, the love of mystery,<br />
the renewal of faith, which marked the third decade of our<br />
century, none watched the modern movement with a kinder —<br />
spirit than M. Taine. I remember how astonished I was to<br />
find him so warmly, so unaffectedly interested in the pro-<br />
ceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, in the<br />
hypnotic studies of a recent school of medicine, and other<br />
manifestations little calculated, I had thought, to appeal to<br />
a philosopher of pure reason. But his large spirit saw a<br />
greatness in these attempts to verify suprasensible things by<br />
a scientific method. He felt no rancour, but a curious inte-<br />
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rest, in the eager spirits who would fain explore the track<br />
he had defined as unexplorable. Among the younger gene-<br />
ration he had few closer friends than the Vicomte de Vogiié,<br />
the Chateaubriand of modern.France. Mystics, reformers,<br />
apostles, men of action, they were none of them beyond the<br />
sympathies of our sage ; for none so well as he was aware of<br />
the necessity of a moral order in the world, and of the need<br />
of a continua] renewing and reforming of that moral order.<br />
And none more than he was conscious of the impenetrable<br />
mystery which lies thick and dark behind all our systems<br />
and all our philosophies, which, if it answers to no religion,<br />
likewise refutes none either. Only a month ago he spoke<br />
with us of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and of that shadowy<br />
underworld where men see the roots and not the flowers of<br />
things. And he sighed, and said: “In all there is still an<br />
Eleusinian Mystery.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here is a difficulty.<br />
<br />
A. sends a MS. poem to B. for publication in<br />
his journal.<br />
<br />
B. says he will take the poem, but that he<br />
cannot pay for it.<br />
<br />
A. accepts the proposition.<br />
<br />
Time passes. A. waits. At last he writes. B.<br />
replies by post-card—‘ Your poem was returned<br />
to you in August last.” He has never received it.<br />
<br />
Has it been lost in the post? Did the editor<br />
send it back?<br />
<br />
Answer.—Probably the editor gave orders for<br />
its return, and the order has not been carried<br />
out.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here is a case of coincidence. In the Author<br />
of last month appeared a story of a daughter<br />
bringing by her own efforts and genius success to<br />
the father who could not command it. It was a<br />
literary success. In June of last year there<br />
appeared in the Eastern and Western Gazette,<br />
a story by Mrs. Edmonds called “The Painter's<br />
Daughter,” in which the daughter gives secretly<br />
<br />
to her father’s picture the touches and the colour<br />
<br />
which transform it from a failure to a success.<br />
The treatment of the two stories is different;<br />
there is nothing similar except the motif, and<br />
that -is the same in both. The author of the<br />
“ Painter’s Daughter” is anxious to say that she<br />
does not for one moment insinuate or suspect<br />
any plagiarism. It is a coincidence, and, as such,<br />
it deserves to be recorded.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Miss Florence Nevill, a member of our Society<br />
and the founder of the Braille Book Society,<br />
wishes me to mention the latter. Perhaps<br />
readers do not know what a Braille book is. It<br />
is a book in raised type for the blind. Writers<br />
give permission for an edition in Braille type,<br />
which is then given to institutes and schools for<br />
the blind. Miss Nevill sends me a letter from<br />
the “grateful blind children of St. Raphael’s,<br />
Montenotte, Cork,” in which they say, “ We are<br />
<br />
sure it will please you better than anything we<br />
could say, when we tell you that your books are a<br />
source of the greatest pleasure to us. We wish<br />
you could see even the little ones of all, how eager<br />
they are to read every one of them.” Those who<br />
wish to assist the blind in this way may place<br />
themselves in communication with Miss Nevill<br />
(editor of the Braille Book Society), 3, Victoria-<br />
mansions, Grand Avenue, Brighton.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Editor has received a very indignant letter<br />
from a member of the association called the<br />
“Society of Science, Letters, and Art,” whose<br />
existence and valuable work we have made known<br />
to an admiring world. He asks if the remarks<br />
made in this journal on that Society were based on<br />
personal knowledge or on hearsay ? On neither ;<br />
but on the reports and official papers of the<br />
Society. He asks what right we have to com-<br />
plain of people who choose to join a Society in<br />
order to write F.S.Sc. after their name? Well,<br />
but the little article in these columns did not<br />
complain of them. Not at all. No one has a<br />
right to complain of persons who are presumably<br />
harmless, do not obstruct the traffic, create a<br />
nuisance, or frighten the horses. Meantime if<br />
our correspondent, who concludes with a demand<br />
to have his letter printed in the Author, will<br />
kindly send us a pbalance-sheet of the Society,<br />
showing what becomes of all the money—are<br />
there not 2000 members?—that balance-sheet<br />
shall be printed here. Surely that is a reasonable<br />
offer.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Mrs. W. K Clifford writes to say that, with the<br />
exception of Messrs.- Warne, publishers have<br />
always treated her with the greatest kindness and<br />
consideration. For instance, Messrs. Cassell having<br />
bought the copyright of a story that appeared in<br />
the Quiver when she was a girl, paid her, in 1881,<br />
more than the original sum before they reprinted<br />
it with lengthy additions as a book. Of course<br />
she was wholly in their hands, and the copyright<br />
was theirs, and she was quite an unknown writer<br />
at the time of her husband’s death. The other<br />
story is this: Messrs. Wells Gardner and Darton<br />
bought, for what was a very fair payment to her<br />
in those days, the stories published in a little<br />
book called “ Children Busy.” They proved an<br />
enormous success, and were translated into many<br />
languages. The publishers sent her, of their own<br />
accord, a most pleasant letter, thanking her for<br />
her stories, and asking her to accept a handsome<br />
cheque in token of their appreciation of them.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
We learn from the Green Bag that (among<br />
other schools of Western law) a school of English<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
408<br />
<br />
law flourishes in Japan. For the use of the<br />
students who can read English text-books “a<br />
number of books were cheaply reprinted and sold<br />
at a price within the means of the students.”<br />
The list includes the works of two living English<br />
authors, as to one of whom we are certain, and as<br />
to the other, we believe, that he was not con-<br />
sulted in any way or even informed of this pro-<br />
ceeding. Japan, we believe, is not a party to the<br />
Convention of Bern. It would seem that if our<br />
Japanese brethren learn some law from England,<br />
they have preferred to take their literary morality<br />
from America—as it was before the Copyright<br />
Act of 1891.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There is a magazine which frankly throws open<br />
its pages to all those writers who will subscribe<br />
for so many copies. The number asked for, in<br />
the form presented to us, is unfortunately left<br />
blank. The author is informed that the copies<br />
can be sent to his bookseller, who will sell them<br />
for his benefit. Will he, indeed? How very<br />
accommodating! And who will buy them? The<br />
firm, whose name appears in the circular con-<br />
taining this offer, is one which habitually offers<br />
‘exceptional terms” in naming the amount, paid<br />
down, for which they will print an author’s—any<br />
author’s—work—any work. One wonders how<br />
many copies of the magazine the writer of —_say—<br />
a serial has to subscribe for insertion. Would it<br />
be 500 copies—1o0o0 copies—10,000 copies? And<br />
how satisfactory to be at once the author and the<br />
readers !<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The following, for instance, is the reply of the<br />
editor of that journal to an author forwarding<br />
a MS.:<br />
<br />
Dear Sir,—I have your paper. It would do very well<br />
indeed, but I am very crowded indeed.<br />
<br />
Do you feel disposed to aid us in promoting the circula-<br />
tion by subscribing for some copies of the number contain-<br />
ing your essay if we makeroom forit? Please read over the<br />
enclosed circulars, and inform us whether you can co-<br />
operate in the way therein indicated ?<br />
<br />
In future correspondence please send me stamped and<br />
addressed envelope as my time is very much engrossed.”<br />
<br />
The author failing to be caught by the tempt-<br />
ing bait of having to subscribe for copies, the<br />
MS. was returned.<br />
<br />
Mr. Hubert Haes sends a suggestion which<br />
may be found practical; but, I think, not yet, for<br />
certain reasons.<br />
<br />
He points out that every publisher has now his<br />
readers: or literary advisers, by whose report upon<br />
a MS. he is guided in his decision; that an<br />
author may be condemned by one“and approved by<br />
another. In any case, the fate of a young writer is<br />
decided by literary men working for publishers.<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
He further points out that a young writer<br />
frequently goes from house to house seeking<br />
acceptance ; that the same work is consequently<br />
read by many persons; and that this involves<br />
much waste of time and money.<br />
<br />
He would have, therefore, a permanent com-<br />
mittee of readers attached to the Society, to whom<br />
all new works might be submitted, and whose<br />
judgment would be accepted by publishers.<br />
<br />
Such is the scheme suggested by Mr. Hubert<br />
Haes. Publishers would certainly save a great<br />
deal of money by such an arrangement. But who<br />
is to support this committee? Reading MSS. is a<br />
laborious—-a very laborious—kind of work. As it<br />
is, our readers are paid—and very poorly paid—<br />
by the author’s guinea fee. We cannot, however,<br />
ask authors for a larger fee. Will every author<br />
be obliged to pay that guinea on Mr. Haes’<br />
plan? Moreover, our readers are asked to<br />
give an opinion which shall be instructive, and this<br />
is not quite what the publisher wants. And, again,<br />
while 60 per cent. of the MSS. submitted can be<br />
rejected in a few minutes, there remains a<br />
certain percentage on the border line, which a<br />
reader is afraid to recommend, as being risky, and<br />
yet afraid to condemn as presenting points of<br />
interest and merit. Such MSS., and those which<br />
the reader is disposed to recommend, should be<br />
read by more than one member of that committee.<br />
The idea, however, of a central committee of critics<br />
and readers to consider MSS. and to report upon<br />
their contents, their literary value, and their com-<br />
mercial prospects (the last not always depending<br />
on the second) seems one worth noting and<br />
remembering. It may be taken up in the good<br />
time coming, when the honourable houses leave off<br />
assuming as meant for themselves remarks, warn-<br />
ings, and exposures designed for the baser sort.<br />
Let us have patience. That time is coming. But<br />
even when that good time comes, we might have,<br />
as I suggested last month, a publisher receiving<br />
the opinion of the Society’s committee with con-<br />
sideration, and then putting on his own reader.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
One of my correspondents complains of the<br />
prize composition system now so much in vogue.<br />
He points out that the favourite prize is a guinea,<br />
and that the prize composition commonly covers<br />
from four to five columns ; thus, he says, depriv-<br />
ing regular contributors of so much a page, which<br />
is filled at a very low rate. To this I have<br />
<br />
replied that, (1) an editor, in his own interests,<br />
must fill his paper with what will prove most<br />
attractive ; that (2) perhaps he thinks that the<br />
winners of prize compositions are certain to be<br />
fresh and bright; and that (3) the prize toa<br />
young writer is very much more than a guinea,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
it is the first step, the first proof of capacity, the<br />
first publicity of his name; and (4) that even if<br />
it does fill up his columns at a low rate, since the<br />
prize winner is delighted and the interest of his<br />
paper is served, no one has any right of inter-<br />
ference. I hope that [ am the last person in the<br />
world to underrate or minimise the rights of<br />
authors, but this is how the question seems to<br />
me. Perhaps readers who cannot agree with this<br />
view would like to state their opinions.<br />
<br />
————— =<br />
<br />
There is one paper called Hearth and Home,<br />
where there is a literary competition every week.<br />
The prizes are offered to outsiders only-—not to<br />
those who make money regularly by writing. The<br />
editor of this department adds short criticisms on<br />
the MSS. sent in to him. These little notes seem<br />
both instructive and useful. Perhaps they are too<br />
encouraging. The real question seems to me, not<br />
whether the prize is great or small, but whether<br />
this plan is or is not calculated to encourage<br />
mediocrity into the field of letters. It ought to<br />
produce just the opposite result. The competi-<br />
tion is so enormous even in this, the first begin-<br />
nings, as to discourage most. Other discourage-<br />
ments sometimes come too late, when the candi-<br />
date has already burned his boats and cannot<br />
turn back.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A correspondent calls attention on the endless<br />
review—not criticism—question ; and to the fact<br />
that he is himself alternately praised and blamed<br />
by the same paper, and this not in one paper only<br />
but in many; so that it is quite impossible to know<br />
beforehand whether the qualities which pleased in<br />
one work will not be found the subject of derision<br />
and contempt in the next. All this is part of<br />
the system adopted in some journals. It 1s abso-<br />
lutely impossible, when the rapid reviewing (?) of<br />
books in short paragraphs is a source of income,<br />
to read adequately—or at all—the books that<br />
one has to review. Nobody can afford it. I<br />
have already mentioned the case in which the<br />
reviewer (?) was expected to review eight, ten,<br />
er a dozen novels, in a single column, for a<br />
guinea. That is, to read all these three volume<br />
novels, and to write an opinion upon them at the<br />
rate of rs.gd. anovel!! And this is not an isolated<br />
case. Now I have always thought that a book<br />
should deserve a review, 2.e., a certain proportion<br />
of the books which come out are either trivial books<br />
or bad books, which will perish immediately, and<br />
no more deserve notice than the performance of<br />
a man who plays a cornet before a public-house.<br />
It should be a distinct honour for a book to have<br />
a review; there are not more books which deserve<br />
review than would fill the literary columns of a<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
journal. Why not go back to this rule? And<br />
as for the other books, a current list might be<br />
kept of them, explaining the meaning, scope, and<br />
intention of the author in every case. This<br />
would be an unpaid advertisement of every<br />
book, quite enough for most, and better than a<br />
“slating” among the reviews, while it would<br />
leave the way clear for long and serious reviews,<br />
such as make the reputation of an author and<br />
advance the demand of a good book. The short<br />
notices of current books in the Westminster<br />
Gazette are examples of the method which I<br />
should like to see followed everywhere. That is,<br />
a serious review where the work is serious, and<br />
just a brief statement of its contents and aims<br />
where it is not thought worthy of a review.<br />
eee Se<br />
<br />
Professor Brander Mathews writes, with regard<br />
to his examination in the History and Art of<br />
Fiction, that thirty men took the paper and only<br />
one failed. I think this speaks volumes for the<br />
Professor as well as the students, and I hope his.<br />
example will be followed in this country.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The University Extension lecturers are already<br />
beginning to leave the beaten tracks. At one of<br />
their branches the subject has been the History of<br />
London, and Ihave the honour of examining that<br />
branch in this new subject of study. For my<br />
own part 1 have learned so much concerning the<br />
history of England from the study of London,<br />
that I cannot but hope that it will be taken up<br />
extensively. But books alone will not do. One<br />
must master the map; one must know where<br />
places stood; one must fill the streets with<br />
history and associations.<br />
<br />
I have to acknowledge a very generous response<br />
to my appeal on behalf of a distressed author.<br />
The lady herself wishes to convey her best thanks<br />
to everyone who has kindly helped her. The<br />
following is a list of the donors. Their names<br />
are suppressed, in accordance with the wishes of<br />
most, and the list is closed.<br />
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THE<br />
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<br />
<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
L<br />
Promrr PayMeEnt.<br />
<br />
LETTER signed “H.” calls attention to<br />
<br />
the fact that a certain Church paper sends<br />
<br />
out cheques with the proofs; and that<br />
certain daily papers do not keep their people<br />
waiting. Of course not; but it is rather super-<br />
fluous to assure the world that the great papers<br />
are ready with their payments.—Ep.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
AY,<br />
JUSTICE FROM AMERICA.<br />
<br />
Be it placed on record that an American firm of<br />
publishers have behaved with justice to an English<br />
author. The matter being rare may be worth<br />
recounting. About ten years ago I published,<br />
in two vols. “The Life and Adventures of Peg<br />
Woffington;” later, a cheap edition in one vol. was<br />
issued. The book was unprotected in the United<br />
States. Towards the end of last year Messrs.<br />
Dodd, Mead, and Co. brought out an edition of<br />
the book in two handsome vols., illustrated.<br />
Seeing it reviewed in the American papers, I put<br />
forth my claims for compensation. In answer I<br />
received an account of sales with a cheque for<br />
royalties, FirzGeratp Moutoy.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
TL. fe<br />
For a Union.<br />
<br />
The ripe tradition that writers should wait in<br />
every cold passage is well supported by the nation.<br />
First, by a niggardly Pension List, and, secondly,<br />
by what, with some self-exultation, is called a<br />
Bounty Fund. Private enterprise at times throws<br />
ina marble monument or two. But present honour<br />
and present flesh-pots are what most men barter<br />
their health and strength for. These things<br />
literary men will never get with dull acquiescence<br />
—with a thankful acceptance of small mercies.<br />
If a union is required in any profession, it is<br />
required in literature. No profession is so pro-<br />
vocative of gibes, for chaos reigns completely.<br />
An editor, however low, can pick and choose from<br />
a literary army. He can take what he likes,<br />
refuse what he likes, and pay what he likes. To<br />
which may be added, he can pay when he likes.<br />
No wonder the editorial We is pitched in a bene-<br />
ficent key.<br />
<br />
No union could make an editor take what he<br />
didn’t want. But this no union would wish.<br />
<br />
Ordinary unions neither force on the employer<br />
<br />
~ experience with the Atheneum.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
AUTHOR,<br />
<br />
unsuitable labour or excess of labour.<br />
<br />
The<br />
merely compel that labour to be carried on undae<br />
<br />
. fair conditions. Employers of ordinary labour,<br />
and editors and publishers come under the same<br />
head, with this advantage to the literary labourer.<br />
If circumstances permit, he can transmit hig<br />
<br />
wares direct to the public. He always has at his<br />
tail co-operative publishing. To him editors and<br />
publishers are middle-men. He can do without<br />
them ; they can’t possibly do without him. Surely<br />
this is argument enough. Surely there is no<br />
need to write down the stale, commonplace truth,<br />
that organised labour is, without any exception,<br />
better treated than that which is disorganised.<br />
If there are any readers of the Author who see<br />
any vital objections to a union, I should like to<br />
hear what they are. Onwarp.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IV.<br />
MissTaATEMENTS IN REVIEW.<br />
<br />
I see a statement in the last issue of the Author<br />
by Mr. Frank E. Beddard relative to a misstate-<br />
ment made in the Atheneum in areview of a work<br />
of his, and the editor’s refusal to insert a<br />
correction. This is such a common occurrence in<br />
papers and periodicals that itis (one would think)<br />
time that it was made obligatory upon editors to<br />
give space for the correction of a misstatement<br />
of fact. It happens that I had recently the same<br />
In a review of<br />
my “Life of John Linnell,” I was accused of<br />
error in two important particulars. In a letter<br />
to the editor I pomted out where his reviewer had<br />
fallen into error, and adduced proof, but he<br />
declined to insert the correction. I do not<br />
wonder ; space would probably not permit of the<br />
insertion of the correction of all such misstate-<br />
ments. There is only one way to set these<br />
matters right—a legal obligation on editors to<br />
allow of a correction of proved misstatements.<br />
But we need to have the principle of signed<br />
reviewers extended ; without it reviewing may he,<br />
and often is, worse than piracy.<br />
<br />
Aurrep T. Srory.<br />
<br />
13, Bramerton-street, Chelsea.<br />
<br />
[But how does our correspondent propose to<br />
make it obligatory? By Act of Parliament?<br />
Nothing .short of an Act would do. Would it<br />
not be a better way of procedure, without troubling<br />
our legislators, if editors demanded exact veracity<br />
from their reviewers as the very first and necessary<br />
feature in their work ?—Ep. |<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. All<br />
<br />
N.<br />
Tue Concert or AMATEURS.<br />
<br />
If this subject has not been dropped, may I<br />
add my word ?<br />
<br />
A few days ago an acquaintance—a man well<br />
known throughout England as the one authority<br />
on his own subject—told me he was going to<br />
publish a shilling book (on his own subject of<br />
course).<br />
<br />
Naturally I made the remark to be expected<br />
under the circumstances concerning my hopes for<br />
a big success. “Oh, that’s all right!” he<br />
answered cheerily ; ‘‘ my name on the cover will<br />
sell the book.” A statement which I knew to be<br />
true. I happened to know also that this was his<br />
first production in book form, and so I ventured<br />
to express a hope that, “ under those circum-<br />
stances, he was getting good terms from the<br />
publisher.” “‘ Pretty well,” he returned sweetly ;<br />
“T pay eighty pounds, and they give me half<br />
profits.” Then I get mad, and he looks mildly<br />
surprised, until I explain, and he sees there is a<br />
righteous foundation for my anger.<br />
<br />
The next day I saw him again. He had inter-<br />
viewed the publisher in the meantime, and that<br />
gentleman had lowered his demands by one half.<br />
Further than this I could not move him.<br />
<br />
“ But think of the trouble,” he remarked plain-<br />
tively, when I suggested another publisher.<br />
“« And, afterall, I don’t want to make money, you<br />
know—I want to see my name on the book.”<br />
<br />
Then I get mad again, whereupon «What<br />
does it matter to you?” cries this aspirant for<br />
literary honours; “I don’t write your sort of<br />
books.’ He could not grasp the fact that I was<br />
fighting for a principle rather than from motives<br />
of personal interest.<br />
<br />
Now, publishers cannot undertake more than a<br />
certain amount of work; and—apart from the<br />
works of really popular authors —they would<br />
almost certainly accept a work at the author’s<br />
risk before one at their own. It follows, therefore,<br />
that every book published in this way, for the<br />
eratification of a rich man’s vanity, crowds out<br />
another written, probably, with a far more serious<br />
purpose—to clothe the naked and feed the<br />
hungry. If the two classes of writers met one<br />
another on equal terms, and stood or fell by<br />
their merits alone, we should have no right to<br />
grumble. Let the best man win, whoever or<br />
whatever he may be. _It is this new practice of<br />
buying out the publishers which seems to me to<br />
form one real ground of complaint. It is a<br />
species of underselling, and underselling is a<br />
practice no fair-minded man countenances, no<br />
matter what his calling or station.<br />
<br />
Ciara LEMORE.<br />
<br />
VE.<br />
THe Paris Typist.<br />
<br />
The type-writing trouble in Paris is somewhat<br />
on a par with the servant girl trouble in our<br />
Australian colonies.<br />
<br />
The typist “ anxious to get work,” is about as<br />
eager to accept that work when it offers as the<br />
fine lady servant of the South, who inquires after<br />
a “place” im a satin gown and ostrich feathers.<br />
She is willing to accommodate her would-be<br />
employer, provided he or she be willing to pay<br />
according to her notions of what she ought to<br />
receive; but ask her to lower her charge, and it<br />
“don’t suit.”<br />
<br />
The following is my experience, and probably<br />
the experience of other struggling authors and<br />
correspondents desirous of securing the services<br />
of a typist without the inconvenience of for-<br />
warding MSS. to London:<br />
<br />
Not long since I made inquiries 10 several<br />
directions about typists in Paris. After some<br />
trouble, I obtained the address of a lady who was<br />
“on the look-out for work.” I wrote, inquiring<br />
her terms, and inclosing stamp for reply. The<br />
reply came—to the effect that she would put my<br />
work through on payment of 2 frs. 50 cent. per<br />
thousand words. The charge did not suit me.<br />
Further inquiries brought to light a second<br />
typist “out of practice ;” whilst a third was<br />
“waiting for work.” The terms of typist No. 3<br />
were also 2 frs. 50 cent. per thousand. But in this<br />
case, as I had heard the typist was really anxious<br />
to obtain employment, I wrote again and told<br />
her frankly that I believed the Paris typist could<br />
obtain regular employment by reducing her charges<br />
to the advertised London ones. Further, I made<br />
an offer to pay a little above the London rates,<br />
besides mentioning that, in a short time, I should<br />
have ready a much longer work. No notice was<br />
taken of this offer.<br />
<br />
T would not undertake to advise any girl to<br />
come abroad on the chance of making a living<br />
by type-writing. But I believe that there ¢s a<br />
good opening for some earnest worker with what<br />
a Dutch friend of mine was wont to designate a<br />
little “puss” in her. Two sisters anxious to<br />
cling together whilst one of them was pursuing<br />
her art studies here, might increase their income<br />
in this way, and obtain, through the Author, the<br />
names of authors and correspondents, who would<br />
promise to employ the typist whenever they had<br />
work to do, provided she did the work satisfac-<br />
torily. Mapame Asa L’ORME.<br />
<br />
Paris, March 13, 1893.<br />
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VII.<br />
A Register or Booxs WANTED.<br />
<br />
I have read with interest the letter of E. F.<br />
Wolferstan, and your note on the same, in the<br />
current number of the Author.<br />
<br />
In July, 1891, I sent a letter. dealing with the<br />
same subject, to most of the London morning<br />
papers. It was published in the Daily Chronicle<br />
and Morning Advertiser of the 15th and 17th<br />
inst. respectively, and I send you herewith a copy<br />
of the same.<br />
<br />
As you will see, my proposal was a central<br />
office or exchange to be maintained by subscrip-<br />
tions from the second-hand booksellers. They<br />
were to write to this exchange for any book that<br />
had been inquired for, and which they had not<br />
and did not know where to get, and from this<br />
central exchange was to be sent out every day, or<br />
any other period fixed upon, to every subscribing<br />
bookseller a list of the books wanted. Any one<br />
of them who had it or could get it would then<br />
write to the one wanting it, or he might reply to<br />
the exchange, and the latter be informed from<br />
there about it.<br />
<br />
Such an organisation would be very easy to<br />
establish and inexpensive to maintain, and, if<br />
properly arranged, would cover the entire ground.<br />
<br />
Tam very reluctant to discourage any scheme<br />
which shall tend to simplify matters, but I do<br />
not think that the one that you intend to start is<br />
the best that can be proposed, nor do I think that<br />
it will be of any general benefit.<br />
<br />
Unless it be universally recognised as the<br />
medium for obtaining second-hand books it must<br />
fail in its object, and the first thing a person who<br />
wants a book would do wculd not be to advertise<br />
for it inthe Author. One is justified in assuming<br />
this, for not every one knows of the paper, and<br />
besides there are older established papers with<br />
a larger circulation having a similar column, and<br />
yet they fail to cover the ground.<br />
<br />
The first thing that any person who wants a<br />
second-hand book would do would be to inquire<br />
for it at a second-hand bookseller’s, and the only<br />
means by which this want can be made known<br />
over the whole country is some organisation<br />
belonging to the second-hand booksellers them-<br />
selves, such ag this exchange, so that no matter<br />
in which shop in the United Kingdom a book<br />
were asked for, it should be equivalent to asking<br />
for it in every one of them.<br />
<br />
Husert Hass.<br />
<br />
28, Bassett-road, North Kensington,<br />
<br />
London, W.<br />
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<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
VIII.<br />
Lost MSS.<br />
<br />
Apropos of your paragraph under the above<br />
heading in last month’s Author, may T state a<br />
rather curious experience? More than seven<br />
years ago I sent to the editor of a popular maga-<br />
zine two short articles. One of these (a) was<br />
promptly returned, as an article on the same sub-<br />
ject had just appeared in that magazine. Six<br />
months later I wrote to ask if I might consider<br />
the other article (8) :ccepted ; and was informed<br />
in reply that it had been returned to me at the<br />
same time as the article a. I quoted extracts<br />
from correspondence proving the contrary, but no<br />
further notice was taken of my letters. Last<br />
autumn I received, to my great astonishment, the<br />
proof of article B, which, believing the original<br />
MS. to be irretrievably lost, I had re-written in<br />
much better form, and was about to submit to<br />
another editor. Thus, not only was I kept wait-<br />
ing seven years for my fee, but I had actually<br />
written two articles for it.<br />
<br />
Another editor, who more than three months<br />
ago promised to give ‘his earliest possible atten-<br />
tion” to an article submitted to him, has not yet<br />
vouchsafed his decision. Should he now decline<br />
it, or delay its publication, I should be compelled<br />
to defer the publication of a book on the same<br />
subject which I have now almost ready for press.<br />
<br />
X.Y. @.<br />
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<br />
IX.<br />
An Easy Frencu Lesson.<br />
<br />
The late Félix Pyat agreed to write a 25,000-<br />
line sensational story for a Paris paper, the<br />
Radical. When the tale, which he called “ The<br />
Ragman” (Le Chiffonier), had reached 17,000<br />
lines, he asked to be allowed to make a wind-up of<br />
it, and, being permitted so to do, disposed of his<br />
despairing hero by sending him off at nightfall to<br />
the parapet of one of the Seine bridges, thus sug-<br />
<br />
gesting to every practical novel-reader the usual<br />
<br />
“hole in the water,” and adding the fateful<br />
“Finis.” Nothing of the sort had happened,<br />
however, and some time afterwards Pyat ran the<br />
rest of his ragman’s adventures, under the title<br />
of “Epilogue of the Chiffonier,” in another<br />
popular journal, Le Cri du Peuple.<br />
Unfortunately, the author had stated in a pre-<br />
face to his first part that it would be the whole<br />
life of the hero, and that his biographer was<br />
above making two brews out of the same malt.<br />
Upon the strength of this, the first journal laid<br />
its action against the second and the executors of<br />
Pyat, and claimed £1000 damages. The courts<br />
<br />
have just decided that “the interruption of the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
novel in the course of its serial publication in one<br />
paper, followed by its transfer to another having<br />
an analogous class of readers,’ was a matter for<br />
damages, and condemned the heirs of Pyat to<br />
pay £120 to the Radical.<br />
<br />
Whence — quite apart from the “ honour<br />
bright” view of the case—romancers may see<br />
how very chary indeed they should be of their<br />
prefaces—and their fin ises.<br />
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21<br />
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<br />
FROM THE PAPERS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
L<br />
THs Harpsuirs oF PUBLISHING.<br />
<br />
a” | EVER has the hapless lot of the publisher<br />
<br />
been set forth more pathetically than by<br />
<br />
Mr. Heinemann in the last number of the<br />
Atheneun. He is at present suffering trom a most<br />
extraordinary combination of hardships andadverse<br />
circumstances. First, there is the “ manufacture<br />
clause” in the American Copyright Act, of which<br />
the best that can be said is that it has not harmed<br />
the English publisher so much as was feared.<br />
Then there are the printers’ unions, which have<br />
caused wages to be “ increased steadily for years<br />
past,” and in addition the fact that “‘ the public<br />
are more fastidious now with regard to print,”<br />
and are protesting against “the horrible stuff that<br />
they used to buy under the good-natured genera-<br />
lization of ‘ books.’”? On topof all has come the<br />
Authors’ Union in the shape of the English<br />
Authors’ Society, further to oppress and outrage<br />
the publisher. Shocking demands for increased<br />
royalties, sometimes reaching as high as 25 per<br />
cent., are now frequently made in the Society’s<br />
name, and all this, combined with the rapacity of<br />
booksellers, who insist upon 50 per cent. reduction<br />
on list prices, has brought the publishing business<br />
to a point where it must “ grapple with the danger<br />
before it is too late.” Mr. Heinemann’s remedy<br />
is a publishers’ union, to resist the aggressions of<br />
the powerful author. He calls it, to be sure, “a<br />
brotherly band,” but beneath this velvet name<br />
appears the cold iron of a real union, with hard-<br />
and-fast rules, secret passwords, walking dele-<br />
gates, and all. Such an organization could<br />
doubtless compel the overbearing author to dis-<br />
gorge a part of his swollen gains, and aid the<br />
distressed publisher to resume the custom of three<br />
mealsa day.—The New York Nation, Dee. 15.<br />
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413<br />
<br />
EL,<br />
Avuruors aT Home.<br />
<br />
The attention of the Society of Authors may<br />
be directed to a statement now made public—a<br />
statement to the effect that the editor of a<br />
literary monthly is about to publish a handbook,<br />
one feature of which will be a list of English<br />
authors, with their private addresses. There are<br />
to be similar lists, it seems, of publishers and<br />
booksellers, but to these there ca1 be no objec-<br />
tion Publishers and booksellers appeal directly<br />
to the public, and like everybody to know where<br />
they can be found. They sell over the counter,<br />
and it is well, therefore, to know where the<br />
counter is situated. Not so with the unhappy<br />
author. If we gauge his feelings accurately, he<br />
has no desire whatever to be tracked to his lair.<br />
He has no counter to sell over. He sells his<br />
produce to publishers and editors only, and they<br />
know where to find him. Moreover, they are the<br />
only people that he wants to hear from. A vain<br />
poet here and there may like to receive incense<br />
from his worshippers, if he has any; but the<br />
author by profession wishes for no such palling<br />
and appalling sweets. He desires to he left<br />
alone to do his work. But what will happen if<br />
his private address is divulged to all and sundry ?<br />
One sees it all at a glance. First of all will<br />
come the requests for autographs, and then the<br />
demands for pecuniary assistance. Admiring<br />
readers will ask for an explanation of this or that<br />
passage ; some will ask for a copy «f the book<br />
most admired. The youthful student will write<br />
for advice about ‘‘a course of reading,’ and the<br />
embryo author will solicit patronage and recom-<br />
mendation. Probably in extreme cases the<br />
miserable author will literally be bearded in his<br />
den, and will hear every knock or ring at the<br />
door with apprehension. It is a fearful prospect.<br />
Tf that Directory ever comes out, the British<br />
author will have to emigrate en masse.— Globe.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
LTT,<br />
Tue New Inisa Lirerary Socrery.<br />
<br />
At the first meeting of the Irish Literary Society,<br />
the Rey. A. Stopford Brooke delivered an address,<br />
in the course of which he said : “ The main work<br />
of the society was to get Irish literature well and<br />
statelily afloat, like a noble ship, on the world-<br />
wide ocean of the English language, so that it may<br />
be known and loved and admired wherever the<br />
English language goes. That part of our litera-<br />
ture written in the Irish tongue it will be our<br />
business to put into English. The ground is<br />
prepared for new work. There should be cheap<br />
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<br />
414 THE<br />
<br />
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<br />
editions of translations of the great stories. We<br />
have a vague hope that some of the rich Irish<br />
landlords may give a new value to their land, a<br />
value no Land League can diminish, and lay up<br />
treasures in which neither mist nor rust can cor-<br />
rupt, by subscribing to the publishing fund of<br />
this society. What an opulent literature that of<br />
Ireland is! A few societies like the Royal Irish<br />
Academy, and a few scholars know its astonishing<br />
extent, but the general public only began to<br />
understand this when the Catholic University,<br />
under the direction of John Henry Newman, placed<br />
O’Curry in the Chair of Irish Literature. Then<br />
we heard that there was buried in piles of manu-<br />
script, both in Irelandand England, and elsewhere,<br />
a new world of imaginative work, of myths, tales,<br />
legends, faerie romance, lyric and epic poems,<br />
Pagan and Christian thought, first uninfluenced<br />
by Latin literature, and then inffuenced by it—a<br />
two-fold position, which makes this part of it<br />
unique in Europe. The new society will not<br />
touch that part of this vast mass which is not lite-<br />
rature. The Norse tales will soon be drained dry for<br />
a time, and, though they have a powerful<br />
humanity, they have no love of nature. We<br />
have been even forced of late to go to India for<br />
our subjects. We have rummaged through all<br />
the great cycles of romantic listory. But the<br />
Irish stories are, as yet, untouched. Irishmen in<br />
Ireland who can talk Irish should collect the<br />
folk-tales of Ireland from the lips of the old<br />
peasants, who still hold them in their native<br />
tongue, and who have received them by oral<br />
tradition. The whole of Ireland is alive with<br />
beings who are as interesting as the Nymphs<br />
and Oreads, as Pan and all his crew. The young<br />
have fled from Ireland; the old who remember<br />
their language and have kept their folk-stories<br />
are dying out rapidly. In twenty years it will be<br />
too late to do this. By this means,’ conclnded<br />
Mr. Brooke, “by all the work on which I have<br />
dwelt, and by the cataloguing and collection of<br />
all that has been already done for Irish literature,<br />
whether in prose or poerry, into libraries con-<br />
nected with branches of this society, we ought to<br />
be able to impress on the whole of Treland the<br />
sense of a full and noble literary past which all<br />
Irishmen should honour, and which they should<br />
all work together to expand into a literature of<br />
the future. A new national literature, such as<br />
we hope hereafter to create, needs, if it can<br />
have it, a long-continued traditionary literature<br />
as a part of its foundation. Iveland need not<br />
fall back on England. She has her own past,<br />
her own poetry and prose, and she can create a<br />
future literature, full of her own traditions, instinct<br />
with her own life, using her own elements, and<br />
representing her own nationality, in the English<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
tongue. It is the only thing she need borrow, [va<br />
<br />
and she could not borrow a better vehicle.—From<br />
the Westminster Gazette.<br />
<br />
eee<br />
<br />
“AT THE SIGN OF THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A new serial story, entitled “The Die of<br />
<br />
Destiny,” by Mr. Fitzgerald Molloy, begins its<br />
course through Cassell’s Saturday Journal this<br />
first week of April.<br />
<br />
Another story by Mr. Molloy will, about the |<br />
same time, run through Messrs. Tillotson’s syndi- |).<br />
cate. The original title of this novel, “A Pauper |;<br />
<br />
eve<br />
<br />
MAS<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Peer,” has been abandoned, in deference to the a<br />
wishes of several of Messrs. Tillotson’s “clients of | -<br />
<br />
Conservative tendencies,” and will be now called i<br />
<br />
“On Wheels of Fire.”<br />
<br />
Early this month (April) Messrs. Hutchinson ‘<br />
<br />
and Co. will publish a novel in 3 vols., by Mr.<br />
<br />
Fitzgerald Molloy, entitled “ His Wife’s Soul.”<br />
Whispers (A Magazine for Surrey Folk) is<br />
<br />
announced for immediate publication.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
It will fe<br />
<br />
deal with Surrey archeology, Surrey history, and<br />
movements of importance to the county will be ole<br />
<br />
discussed under the heading “ County Gossip.”<br />
Literature, Art, and the Drama will be reviewed,<br />
and “ Notes and Queries ” of especial interest to<br />
Surrey folk will be solicited from correspondents<br />
throughout the county. Stories will be given as<br />
space permits. The new magazine, which will be<br />
published monthly, is conducted by Mr. Henry<br />
Libby and Mr. William Thomas Horton. The<br />
publishing offices are at 67, Station-road, Red-<br />
hill.<br />
<br />
“Countess Pharamond,” “ Rita’s’’ new novel,<br />
is published this month by F. V. White and Co. It<br />
<br />
is a sequel to her popular novel “ Sheba,” and, as<br />
<br />
stated in the preface, has been written owing to<br />
numerous requests from all parts of the world for<br />
an ending to the heroine’s fate in the former<br />
book.<br />
<br />
Mr. Carlton Dawe, author of “ Mount Desola-<br />
tion,” has two new novels in the press, entitled<br />
“The Emu’s Head,” 2 vols., and “The Confes-<br />
sions of a Currency Girl,” 3 vols. The former<br />
will be issued immediately. Messrs. Ward and<br />
Downey are the publishers.<br />
<br />
Dr. Karl Lentzner, well known in this country<br />
by his writings, has been appointed by the<br />
University of Oxford a University extension<br />
lecturer. His lectures will chiefly treat of modern<br />
<br />
foreign literature, especially German and Spanish.<br />
Dr. Lentzner has recently delivered, at Somerville<br />
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THE AUTHOR. 415<br />
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Hall, Oxford, before the delegates of the Oxford<br />
University Extension, a lecture, on the Evolution<br />
of the German Novel.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Florence Henderson’s book, entitled “Was<br />
She Right,’ has been published by Messrs.<br />
Masters and Co., price 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
The Rev. Frederick Langbridge’s story of<br />
Trish life, ‘“Miss Honoria,’’ will be published<br />
immediately by Messrs. F. Warne and Co. Mr.<br />
Langbridge has nearly completed a tale of adven-<br />
ture for Messrs. Methuen. He is also contributing<br />
a series of legendary and other poems to Great<br />
Thoughts, and a short series of popular ballads<br />
to the Church Monthly.<br />
<br />
Mr. W. H. Besant, Sc.D., F.R.S., has just<br />
published (Bell and Son) ‘‘ Solutions of Examples<br />
in Elementary Hydrostatics.” These examples<br />
are in accordance with the latest edition, the<br />
fifteenth, of the author’s treatise on Elementary<br />
Hydrostatics.<br />
<br />
The same author is engaged upon a new edition<br />
of his treatise on Dynamics, which will be com-<br />
pleted very shortly.<br />
<br />
Mr Lewis Carroll has finished the second part<br />
of “ Sylvie and Bruno.”<br />
<br />
Mr. Henry Wheatley’s new book on ‘ Literary<br />
Blunders,” contains the ‘“ Blunders of Authors.”<br />
Yet they say that it is a little book!<br />
<br />
Sir Morell Mackenzie’s Essays have been<br />
collected by his brother and are to be published<br />
by Sampson Low and Co.<br />
<br />
Mr. Richard le Gallienne is writing a book<br />
called “The Religion of a Literary Man.” A<br />
good many literary men have written on their<br />
religious beliefs—Addison, Johnson, Coulting,<br />
Coleridge, Carlyle, Froude, Francis Newman,<br />
Jefferies. How religion appears toa layman who is<br />
endowed with intellectual activity, scholarship,<br />
and the poetic insight, is always a most interesting<br />
subject.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Clifford is bringing out a new story, “A<br />
Wild Proxy,” through Messrs. Hutchinson.<br />
<br />
Mr. Clark Russell’s new story has also gone to<br />
these publishers.<br />
<br />
A new and revised edition of “ Ball’s Alpine<br />
Guide” is preparing, and is reported to be almost<br />
ready.<br />
<br />
Prof. Masson has been appointed Historio-<br />
grapher of Scotland, an office of great antiquity.<br />
<br />
_ Mr. Wheatley’s new edition of “ Pepys’ Diary”<br />
is so far ready that the first volume will be pub-<br />
lished immediately. It is to be far more com-<br />
plete than any previous edition.<br />
<br />
o<br />
<br />
Tolstoi’s “Archbishop and the Three Old<br />
Men,” a translation of which, by Rosamund<br />
Venning, first appeared in the Daily Chronicle,<br />
is now published in separate form ; it is, indeed,<br />
well worth the trouble which the translator took<br />
over it, and, though short, is full of matter for<br />
thought.<br />
<br />
During the last year Messrs. Chatto and<br />
Windus received 663 MSS. and accepted 44. Let<br />
candidates for literary honours consider this fact.<br />
Out of the 44 how many will succeed ? Perhaps<br />
all will attain a measure of success—but enough<br />
to encourage the author to goon? The number<br />
accepted is nearly 7 per cent.<br />
<br />
Mr. B. L. Farjeon has a new story called<br />
“ Something Occurred” quite ready.<br />
<br />
Mr. J. Passmore Edwards has sent a gift of<br />
<br />
2000 books to the Southwark Borough Poly-<br />
technic. How many thousand volumes has this<br />
creat giver of books bestowed upon the London<br />
libraries and polytechnics ?<br />
<br />
Mr. George Meredith is going to sit to Mr.<br />
G. F. Watts.<br />
<br />
The Atheneum informs us that the Dean of<br />
Westminster has appointed Mr. R. E. Prothero<br />
as his collaborateur in writing the “ Life of Dean<br />
Stanley.<br />
<br />
The Rev. H. R. Haweis has written a “ Life of<br />
Sir Morell Mackenzie,” which is to be published<br />
by Allen and Co.<br />
<br />
The English Illustrated has been transferred<br />
ftom Messrs. Macmillan’s t» Mr. Edward Arnold.<br />
We may venture to prophesy a change in the<br />
price. At one shilling it might have some chance<br />
of rivalling the American illustrated monthlies.<br />
At sixpence it cannot even attempt it, and it<br />
has in the field’ the sixpenny weeklies — the<br />
Tllustrated London News, the Graphic, the<br />
Queen, Black and White, the Sketch, all good<br />
magazines, as well as good journals.<br />
<br />
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff is engaged ona<br />
life of Renan.<br />
<br />
Mr. William Hazlitt, son of William Hazlitt<br />
(without the Mr.), is dead. He was a literary<br />
man of considerable activity.<br />
<br />
Rider Haggard’s new novel, “ Montezuma’s<br />
Daughter,” will be issued by Messrs. Longmans.<br />
<br />
It is reported that Dr. Conan Doyle has written<br />
a piece for Mr. Henry Irving, which is accepted.<br />
<br />
Those who watch American publishing houses<br />
<br />
may note that the firms of Effingkam, Maynard,<br />
<br />
and Co. and Charles C. Merrell and Co. have<br />
amalgamated.<br />
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Mr. F. J. Snell (Clarendon Press) is about to<br />
publish a “ Primer of Italian Literature.”<br />
<br />
Lady Burdett Coutts is editing a volume, which<br />
will be published by Sampson Low and Co.,<br />
dealing with the philanthropic work of English<br />
women.<br />
<br />
The Duke of Argyle, who has recently issued<br />
his “Unseen Foundations of Society,” has<br />
another work ready, called ‘Irish Nationalism:<br />
An Appeal to History.” His publisher will be<br />
Mr. John Murray.<br />
<br />
Dr. Flugel is producing, through the Clarendon<br />
Press, the “Life and Letters of Sir Philip<br />
Sidney.”<br />
<br />
Those who are ambitious of writing a success-<br />
ful work may consider the topograhical kind of<br />
book. For instance, Mr. John Lloyd Warden<br />
Page has in the press the third edition of his<br />
‘“‘ Exmoor,” the third edition of his ‘‘ Dartmoor,”<br />
and is producing the first edition of the “ Rivers<br />
of Devon from Source to Sea” (Seeley and Co.).<br />
Let the young man of ambition go and do like-<br />
wise. To be sure he must first qualify, by<br />
acquiring an accurate knowledge of every foot<br />
of ground with all the historical associations,<br />
architecture, monuments, ancient ruins, traditions,<br />
dialect, legends, and topography of the district.<br />
This is a very large collections of requisites.<br />
Therefore, the true topographical writer will ever<br />
remain a rare creature. Mr. Warden Page is<br />
also the author of ‘‘ Okehampton, the Castle, and<br />
the Surrounding Country.<br />
<br />
By way of an antidote to the shilling Shocker<br />
Mr. I. Zangwill has written a shilling Soother,<br />
entitled “Merely Mary Ann,” which Messrs.<br />
Raphael Tuck and Sons have published as the<br />
first volume of a new series of shilling novels<br />
entitled “The Breezy Library.” ‘“ Merely Mary<br />
Ann” is reported by those who have read it,in<br />
advance to be a remarkable story, and likely to<br />
cause a sensation, whether a soothing sensation<br />
or not remains to be seen.<br />
<br />
“Work and Play in India and Kashmir” is a<br />
book whose title explains its character. It is a<br />
collection of chapters on life in India by Mr. J. D.<br />
Gordon, who has been for many years a barrister<br />
practising there. The book is put together in<br />
somewhat amateurish fashion, which ought to<br />
have been attended to by publisher or printer.<br />
There are queer headings ; for instance, in the<br />
middle of chapters. The writing is rough, and<br />
of style there is none. Yet it is an interesting<br />
book.<br />
<br />
We have received “Not on Calvary Alone,”<br />
called also a “‘ Layman’s Plea for Vindication in<br />
the Temptation in the Wilderness.” One hesi-<br />
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<br />
tates in these columns to speak of a theological<br />
work at all. Let us only note that it is a<br />
thoughtful little book, and written, apparently,<br />
by an American. It is published by Eden,<br />
Remington, and Co.<br />
<br />
“Broad Norfolk” is a collection of papers<br />
originally published in the Eastern Daily Press<br />
(Norfolk News Co., Norwich). There is no part<br />
of England which possesses so many provincial-<br />
isms as Norfolk, though they are fast disap-<br />
pearing. If a stranger listens to two rustics<br />
talking their own language he thinks it is a<br />
foreign tongue. This little book preserves a great<br />
many specimens of Broad Norfolk. It is a pity<br />
that there are no songs or literature in this<br />
language.<br />
<br />
Mr. Campbell Rae-Brown has produced a<br />
humorous story, which is called “That Awful<br />
Baby.” It is published by Eden, Remington,<br />
and Co.<br />
<br />
A new sixpenny magazine, entitled The Strat-<br />
<br />
fordian, is about to be published by King Edward<br />
<br />
VI. School, Stratford-on-Avon, the school at which<br />
Shakespeare was educated. The head master’s<br />
wife, Mrs. R. 8S. De Courcy Laffan (known to the<br />
reading public as Mrs. Leith-Adams) will con-<br />
tribute a serial story for boys entitled “ St.<br />
Kilda’s ; or the Gift of God,” a fact that will lift<br />
the magazine out of the common run of school<br />
periodicals, and give it a general interest. The<br />
editor of the new venture is Mr. A. J. Williams,<br />
The School House, Stratford-on-Avon.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Jarrold and Jarrold have in the<br />
press cheap editions of “Louis Draycott,” and<br />
of “ Bonnie Kate,’ by Mrs. Leith-Adams, hoth<br />
books which were very highly noticed by the press<br />
in their first (3 vol.) editions.<br />
<br />
Those who pine for the freedom of the French<br />
novelist may order Mr. Hubert Crackanthorpe’s<br />
“ Wreckage,’ where he will find as much freedom<br />
as he can desire in some studies of women. The<br />
book is published by Heinemann.<br />
<br />
A new tale by Eleanor Stredder, “ Alutch, a<br />
story of the Chinese Hills,” is in the press.<br />
drawn from life, and gives a faithful picture of<br />
<br />
the miseries arising from the opium traffic from ©<br />
<br />
the Chinese point of view.<br />
<br />
Mr. Ruskin has at last sanctioned the compila-<br />
tion of “Selections” from his writings, which<br />
Mr. George Allen will issue in two volumes, with<br />
<br />
two portraits of the author at different ages. The _<br />
<br />
first volume—to be ready for publication in May<br />
—will deal with the following subjects :—Scenes<br />
<br />
of Travel, Characteristics of Nature, Pa<br />
eo<br />
<br />
and Sculpture, Ethical and Didactic.<br />
<br />
second volume will most probably be ready m<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
June. Besides the ordinary edition, there will be<br />
a limited one on Arnold’s unbleached hand-made<br />
paper.<br />
<br />
Mr. Arthur Severn’s “ Recollections of Ruskin”<br />
are proceeding apace, and will contain, amongst<br />
other interesting illustrations, several of incidents<br />
in Mr. Ruskin’s home life and coaching<br />
experiences, besides an important portrait never<br />
previously used.<br />
<br />
With regard to Mr. Augustus Hare’s ‘ Life of<br />
Lady Waterford,” Mr. Allen announces that the<br />
discovery of MSS. of peculiar interest will<br />
further delay the publication of the work, Mr.<br />
Hare having decided to incorporate with it the<br />
reminiscences of Lady Waterford’s no less gifted<br />
sister, Lady Canning, as well as a memoir of<br />
their mother, Lady Stewart, whose position at<br />
the court of Charles X. and intimate friendship<br />
with the Duchesse d’Augouleme gave her unique<br />
opportunities for throwing light upon an eventful<br />
period of French history. Lady Canning’s con-<br />
nection with the English court at the time of the<br />
Indian Mutiny is another element which will be<br />
contributory of matter interesting to the general<br />
public. The book will contain eight engravings<br />
from the various portraits of the personages<br />
mentioned, besides numerous other illustrations.<br />
<br />
Mr. Philip H. Bagenal, author of “The American<br />
Trish and their Influence on Irish Politics,” has<br />
written a book, which will be produced with the<br />
shortest possible delay, on the “ Priest in Politics.”<br />
It is to be published by Hutchinson and Co.<br />
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“Mr. James Payn’s pleasant story contains a startling<br />
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recognising this snug refuge of the ‘ ploughed.’ ee<br />
An ingenious plot, clever characters, and, above all, a<br />
plentiful seasoning of genial wit. The uxorious<br />
master of St. Nept’s is charmingly conceived. If only for<br />
his reminiscences of his deceased wives, *A Stumble on<br />
the Threshold’ deserves to be treasured. . . . We<br />
turn over Mr. Payn’s delightful pages, so full of surprises<br />
and whimsical dialogue. . . .”<br />
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DarLy NEWS:<br />
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“The dramatic story is told with an excellent wit. It<br />
abounds in lively presentation of character and in shrewd<br />
sayings concerning life and manners. That study of<br />
mankind which is ‘man’ has furnished a liberal educa-<br />
tion to this genial humorist. The men and women he<br />
pourtrays move before us, as do our friends and<br />
acquaintances, distinct individualities, yet each possessed<br />
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delineation of human nature, is more convincing than<br />
pages of analysis. .<br />
Neot’s, Cambridge—simple, loyal, gently independent—is<br />
a beautiful study.<br />
between Bournemouth, Cambridge, and some charming<br />
spots near the Thames.<br />
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delightful reading; we seem to be listening to the best<br />
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allow us to quote some of the wise and witty sayings,<br />
tinged it may be with cynicism, which are the outcome of<br />
Mr. Payn’s philosophy of life, and which are not the least<br />
entertaining part of this attractive novel.”<br />
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DAILY CHRONICLE:<br />
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‘Mr. James Payn is here quite at his usual level all<br />
through, and that level is quite high enough to please<br />
most people. The character drawing is good.<br />
The story of the master sounds strangely like truth.<br />
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: A book to read distinctly.”<br />
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DAILY GRAPHIC:<br />
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cumstance has never had a more novel setting. . - a<br />
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‘A very interesting story, and one that excels in clever<br />
contrast of character and close study of individualism.<br />
Sts The characters make the impression of reality on<br />
the reader. Extremely pleasant are the sketches<br />
of University life.”<br />
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THe WORLD:<br />
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“The most sensational story which the author has<br />
written since his capital novel, ‘By Proxy.’ 3<br />
Never flags for a moment.”<br />
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BLACK AND WHITE:<br />
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how to invent and lead up to a mystery.”<br />
LEEDS MERCURY:<br />
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“Three more distinctive characters have, perhaps,<br />
never been drawn by Mr. James Payn than in Walter<br />
Blythe, Robert Grey, and George Needham, Cambridge<br />
undergraduates, who figure prominently in ‘A Stumble<br />
on the Threshold.’”<br />
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Guasgow HERALD:<br />
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“| |. Mr. Payn’s latest invention in sensational<br />
episode; but wild horses will not drag from us a<br />
statement of the mystery. It is new and thoroughly<br />
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Massingberd.”<br />
BATLEY REPORTER:<br />
Is most attractive reading.”<br />
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Threshold,’ which has been the chief attraction in the<br />
‘ Queen’ during the last few months—where, by the way,<br />
it was most admirably illustrated—has just been issued<br />
in two handsome vols. by Mr. Horace Cox. The story is<br />
written in Mr. Payn’s happiest vein: it sparkles with wit,<br />
the characters are most unconventional. and the old, old<br />
theme is worked out on quite novel lines.”<br />
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HEREFORD TIMES<br />
‘< With all their sparkle and gaiety, Mr. Payn’s novels<br />
would not be complete without the dread Nemesis,<br />
mysterious in operation, and casting suspicion for a<br />
time on every side but the right one. The novel is<br />
thoroughly attractive, and a credit to the practised hand<br />
which penned it.”<br />
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