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DECEMBER 1, 1893.<br />
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[Prick SIXPENCE.<br />
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For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the Authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the<br />
collective opinions of the committee unless<br />
they are officially signed by G. Herbert<br />
Thring, Sec.<br />
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: ge Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br />
remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and<br />
requests that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
important communications within two days will write to him<br />
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union<br />
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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Communications and letters are invited on all subjects<br />
connected with literature, but on no other subjects what-<br />
ever. Articles which cannot be accepted are returned if<br />
stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br />
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WARNINGS AND ADVICE.<br />
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T is not generally understood that the author, as the<br />
vendor, has the absolute right of drafting the agree-<br />
ment upon whatever terms the transaction is to be<br />
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carried out. Authors are strongly advised to exercise that<br />
right. Inevery other form of business, the right of drawing<br />
the agreement rests with him who sells, leases, or has the<br />
control of the property.<br />
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EADERS of the Author and members of the Society<br />
are earnestly desired to make the following warnings<br />
as widely known as possible. They are based on the<br />
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experience of nine years’ work by which the dangers<br />
to which literary property is especially exposed have been<br />
discovered :—<br />
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1. SprraL Ricuts.—In selling Serial Rights stipulate<br />
that you are selling the Serial Right for one paper at a<br />
certain time only, otherwise you may find your work serialized<br />
for years, to the detriment of your volume form.<br />
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2. Stamp your AGREEMENTS. — Readers are most<br />
URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their agreements<br />
immediately after signature. If this precaution is neglected<br />
for two weeks, a fine of £10 must be paid before the agree-<br />
ment can be used as a legal document. In almost every<br />
case brought to the secretary the agreement, or the letter<br />
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which serves for one, is forwarded without the stamp. The<br />
author may be assured that the other party to the agree-<br />
ment never neglects this simple precaution. The Society,<br />
to save trouble, undertakes to get all the agreements of<br />
members stamped for them at no expense to themselves<br />
except the cost of the stamp.<br />
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3. ASCERTAIN WHAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT GIVES TO<br />
BOTH SIDES BEFORE SIGNING 1T.—Remember that an<br />
arrangement as to a joint venture in any other kind of busi-<br />
ness whatever would be instantly refused should either party<br />
refuse to show the books or to let it be known what share he<br />
reserved for himself.<br />
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4. Lirerary AcEntTs.—Be very careful. You cannot be<br />
too careful as to the person whom you appoint as your<br />
agent. Remember that you place your property almost un-<br />
reservedly in his hands. Your only safety is in consulting<br />
the Society, or some friend who has had personal experience<br />
of the agent. Do not trust advertisements alone.<br />
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5. Cost OF PropuctTion.-—Never sign any agreement of<br />
which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part,<br />
until you have proved the figures.<br />
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6. CHorcEe oF PuBLISHERS.—Never enter into any cor-<br />
respondence with publishers, especially with those who ad-<br />
vertise for MSS., who are not recommended by experienced<br />
friends or by this Society.<br />
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7. FuturE Worx.—Never, on any accownt whatever,<br />
bind yourself down for future work to anyone.<br />
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8. Royatry.—Never accept any proposal of royalty until<br />
you have ascertained what the agreement, worked out on<br />
poth a small and a large sale, will give to the author and<br />
what to the publisher.<br />
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g. PERSONAL Risk.—Never accept any pecuniary risk or<br />
responsibility whatever without advice.<br />
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10. ResEctED MSS.—Never, when a MS. has been re-<br />
fused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises<br />
they may put forward, for the production of the work.<br />
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11. AMERICAN Ricuts.—Never sign away American<br />
rights. Keep them by special clause. Refuse to sign any<br />
agreement containing a clause which reserves them for the<br />
publisher, unless for a substantial consideration. If the<br />
publisher insists, take away the MS. and offer it to<br />
another.<br />
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12. Cesston or Copyricgut.—Never sign any paper,<br />
either agreement or receipt, which gives away copyright,<br />
without advice.<br />
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13. ADVERTISEMENTS.—Keep control over the advertise-<br />
ments, if they affect your returns, by a clause in the agree-<br />
ment. Reserve a veto. If you are yourself ignorant of the<br />
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14. Never forget that publishing is a business, like any<br />
other business, totally unconnected with philanthropy,<br />
charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with<br />
business men. Be yourself a business man.<br />
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re VERY member has a right to advice upon his<br />
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agreements, his choice of a publisher, or any<br />
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dispute arising in the conduct of his business or<br />
the administration of his property. If the advice sought<br />
is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member has<br />
a right to an opinion from the Society’s solicitors. If the<br />
case is such that Counsel’s opinion is desirable, the Com-<br />
mittee will obtain for him Counsel’s opinion. All this<br />
without any cost to the member.<br />
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2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publisher’s agreements do not generally fall within the<br />
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple<br />
to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually<br />
engaged upon such questions for us.<br />
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3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past<br />
accounts with the loan of the books represented. This isin<br />
order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree-<br />
ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively<br />
sofar. The Secretary will always be glad to have any<br />
agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor-<br />
mation thus obtained may prove invaluable.<br />
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4. If the examination of your previous business trans-<br />
actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should<br />
take advice as to a change of publishers.<br />
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5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-<br />
posed document to the Society for examination.<br />
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6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in<br />
the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks of every publish-<br />
ing firm in the country. Remember that there are certain<br />
houses which live entirely by trickery.<br />
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7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you<br />
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are<br />
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing<br />
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-<br />
dence of the writer.<br />
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8. Send to the Editor of the Author notes of everything<br />
important to literature that you may hear or meet with.<br />
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THE AUTHORS’ SYNDICATE.<br />
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EMBERS are informed :<br />
1. That the Authors’ Syndicate takes charge of<br />
the business of members of the Society. With, when<br />
necessary, the assistance of the legal advisers of the Syndi-<br />
cate, it concludes agreements, collects royalties, examines<br />
and passes accounts, and generally relieves members of the<br />
trouble of managing business details.<br />
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2. That the expenses of the Authors’ Syndicate are<br />
defrayed solely out of the commission charged on rights<br />
placed through its intervention. Notice is, however, hereby<br />
given that in all cases where there is no current account, a<br />
vooking fee is charged to cover postage and porterage.<br />
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3. That the Authors’ Syndicate works for none but those<br />
members of the Society whose work possesses a market<br />
value.<br />
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4. That the Syndicate can only undertake any negotiation<br />
whatever on the distinct understanding that those negotia-<br />
tions are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all<br />
communications relating thereto are referred to it.<br />
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5. That clients can only be seen by the Editor by appoint-<br />
ment, and that, when possible, at least four days’ notice<br />
should be given. The work of the Syndicate is now so<br />
heavy, that only a limited number of interviews can be<br />
arranged.<br />
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6. That every attempt is made to deal with the corre-<br />
spondence promptly, but that owing to the enormous number<br />
of letters received, some delay is inevitable. That stamps<br />
should, in all cases, be sent to defray postage.<br />
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7. That the Authors’ Syndicate does not invite MSS.<br />
without previous correspondence, and does not hold itself<br />
responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice.<br />
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It is announced that, by way of a new departure, the<br />
Syndicate has undertaken arrangements for lectures by<br />
some of the leading members of the Society ; that a<br />
“Transfer Department,” for the sale and purchase of<br />
journals and periodicals, has been opened ; and that a<br />
“Register of Wants and Wanted” has been opened.<br />
Members anxious to obtain literary or artistic work are<br />
invited to communicate with the Manager.<br />
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There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose services<br />
will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It<br />
is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the<br />
Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in<br />
the Syndicate.<br />
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NOTICES.<br />
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HE Editor of the Author begs to remind members of the<br />
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br />
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br />
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heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br />
6s. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
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The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and<br />
communications on all subjects connected with literature<br />
from members and others. Nothing can do more good to<br />
the Society than to make the Author complete, attractive,<br />
and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this<br />
work send their names and the special subjects on which<br />
they are willing to write?<br />
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Communications for the Author should reach the Editor<br />
not later than the 21st of each month.<br />
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All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work which<br />
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
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Members and others who wish their MSS. read are<br />
requested not to send them to the Office without previously<br />
communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable<br />
despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in<br />
which they are received. It must also be distinctly under-<br />
stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances,<br />
undertake the publication of MSS.<br />
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The Authors’ Club is now open in its new premises, at<br />
3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary<br />
for information, rules of admission, &c.<br />
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Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they<br />
have paid their subscriptions for the year ? If they will do<br />
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this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker’s<br />
order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the<br />
trouble of sending out a reminder.<br />
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Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the<br />
warning numbered (7). It is a most foolish and a most<br />
disastrous thing to bind yourself to anyone for a term of<br />
years. Let them ask themselves if they would give a<br />
solicitor the collection of their rents for five years to come,<br />
whatever his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest?<br />
Of course they would not. Why then hesitate for a moment<br />
when they are asked to sign themselves into literary bondage<br />
for three or five years ?<br />
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Those who possess the “Cost of Production” are<br />
requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15<br />
per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble<br />
of “doing sums,” the addition of three shillings in the<br />
pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding<br />
is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be<br />
added twenty-four shillings more, so that it now stands at<br />
£9 4s. The figures in our book are as near the exact truth<br />
as canbe procured; but a printer’s, or a binder’s, bill is so<br />
elastic a thing that nothinz more exact can be arrived at.<br />
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Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged<br />
in the “ Cost of Production” for advertising. Ofcourse, we<br />
have not included any sums which may be charged for<br />
inserting advertisements in the publisher’s own magazines,<br />
or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too<br />
often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from<br />
sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket,<br />
by inserting any number of advertisements in his own<br />
magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are<br />
who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those<br />
who practise this method of swelling their own profits<br />
call it.<br />
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THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
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HE formal general meeting to adopt the<br />
iL report of 1892 was held at the rooms of<br />
the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society,<br />
<br />
20, Hanover-square, W., on Thursday, Nov. 23,<br />
at five o’clock p.m. 1n the absence of Sir Frederick<br />
Pollock, the chairman, Mr. J. M. Lely was voted<br />
into the chair. The chairman then proposed that<br />
the report should be taken as read,as it had already<br />
been circulated to all the members earlier in the<br />
year, and he made a short speech commenting<br />
on the success of the Society during the current<br />
year. He touched on the case of Macdonald v. The<br />
National Review ; and explained the importance<br />
of the case to all authors. He then spoke of the<br />
Chicago conference, and the fact that Mr. Besant<br />
and Mr. 8. S. Sprigge, as representatives of the<br />
Society, acted as delegates free of expense to the<br />
Society. He then made some remarks about<br />
the current copyright law, and suggested that,<br />
if it were impossible to bring in a law codifying<br />
the copyright law as generally, it might be<br />
possible to bring in a law amending the most<br />
serious faults in the present state of copyright.<br />
These serious faults he grouped under four<br />
heads: Dramatisation of Novels, Abridgment,<br />
<br />
Magazine Copyright under the 18th section of<br />
the Act of 1842, and Newspaper Copyright.<br />
He further stated that the Society had pro-<br />
gressed in numbers and power during the current<br />
year, and that 1140 members was the present<br />
number on the books. Lastly, he invited any<br />
member present to bring forward any other<br />
points for the consideration of the Society,<br />
touching the Report or otherwise. Sir William<br />
Thomas Charley, Q.C., then got up and thanked<br />
the secretary for the valuable help and infor-<br />
mation he had given with regard to some<br />
matters he had laid before him. As the meeting<br />
was merely formal, and none of the members<br />
present had points that they cared to discuss,<br />
the adoption of the report was moved by Mr. J.<br />
M. Lely and seconded by Sir W. T. Charley. Mr.<br />
Arthur 4 Beckett then moved a vote of thanks<br />
to the chairman, which was seconded by Capt.<br />
Claude Harding, who thanked the chairman for<br />
the interest he had always taken in the Society<br />
from its commencement, and the labour he had<br />
bestowed as a lawyer on the copyright laws. The<br />
vote of thanks was carried unanimously, and the<br />
meeting then dissolved.<br />
<br />
2 0<br />
<br />
CERTAIN USEFUL FACTS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I.—On Corrections.<br />
<br />
NE of the most interesting items in a pub-<br />
lisher’s account is that called ‘“ author's<br />
corrections,” and one of the most valuable<br />
<br />
features in Mr. Sprigge’s ‘“‘ Methods of Publish-<br />
ing” is his exposure of the casual way in which<br />
this item is charged.<br />
<br />
It is there shown that the allowance to be made<br />
the author for corrections varies from one agree-<br />
ment to another; there is no fixed rule; there is<br />
not even uniformity of practice in the same firm.<br />
The following cases are cited :<br />
<br />
(1) The author is allowed ros in all for cor-<br />
rections. After that he has to pay for them. In<br />
the book referred to it means 6d. a sheet.<br />
<br />
(2) He is allowed tos. per sheet for corrections.<br />
<br />
(3) Nothing is said about corrections.<br />
<br />
(4) The sum of £6 was allowed for the author.<br />
<br />
(5) The sum of £3 was allowed.<br />
<br />
(6) Nothing was said about corrections, but<br />
the author was liable for “any loss” in the pub-<br />
lication of the book.<br />
<br />
(7) The author was allowed 10s. per sheet of<br />
sixteen pages.<br />
<br />
Thus it is proved that there is no uniform<br />
charge.<br />
<br />
But what do these varied forms of limitation<br />
mean? What are “corrections to the extent of<br />
10s. a sheet of sixteen pages ?”<br />
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234<br />
<br />
Tt has been ascertained that whatever sum<br />
was named in the publisher’s account the price<br />
charged by the printer for corrections was 1s, 2d.<br />
or 1s. 3d. an hour. This is something gained.<br />
It enables an author, for example, to show that a<br />
charge for £106 13s. made in a certain account<br />
for corrections, meant the work of one man for<br />
1706 hours, so that at eight hours a day it meant<br />
one man’s work for 213 days and two hours, or<br />
35 weeks, three days, and two hours, or eight<br />
months, three weeks, three days, and two hours !<br />
Now, the setting up of the whole book could be<br />
done in much less time.<br />
<br />
Obviously, therefore, the charges made for<br />
corrections are often merely capricious—or worse.<br />
<br />
The first duty of the author is to satisfy him-<br />
self that the charge has been rea'ly made by the<br />
printer and really paid by the publisher.<br />
<br />
Here, however, is an attempt to connect work<br />
with time as well as time with money.<br />
<br />
Inexperienced persons correct expensively<br />
because they are inexperienced.<br />
<br />
They may note the following points:<br />
<br />
1. The mere substitution of one word for<br />
another about the same length can be done<br />
in three or four minutes—say, in three<br />
minutes and a half, Therefore, this kind<br />
of correction allows about seventeen words<br />
in an hour, and costs 1s. 3d. an hour.<br />
<br />
2. If, however, the author strikes out half a<br />
line bodily, so that the type has to be<br />
shifted for some lines or for a quarter of a<br />
page, the single correction may cause work<br />
for ten minutes or half an hour, or even<br />
longer.<br />
<br />
This is all that can be said about the connection<br />
<br />
between work and time.<br />
<br />
Let the author remember not to disturb the<br />
lines, and he will probably avoid a long bill for<br />
corrections.<br />
<br />
A safe rule is to have duplicate proofs, and to<br />
enter the corrections on both proots. In case of<br />
dispute the copy kept can be referred to.<br />
<br />
To sum up. The allowance of tos. a sheet<br />
means about eight hours’ work per sheet, or<br />
about 136 words—a very fair allowance.<br />
<br />
A better plan stil], though it means a tax on<br />
the author, is to type write the whole at a charge<br />
of 1s. to 1s. 3d. per thousand words, or about<br />
£4 for a book of 70,000 words, correct, it care-<br />
fully, and hand it in to the printer as a first proof<br />
corrected for press.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II—Tue Dererrep Royatry.<br />
“Tn consideration of a royalty of 2d. in the<br />
shilling on the published price, to begin when<br />
two thousand copies have been sold.”<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
We take a six-shilling novel. An edition of<br />
<br />
3000 was printed.<br />
<br />
The following was the cost (see “ Cost of Pro-<br />
duction,” p. 27):<br />
Composition, 17 sheets at £1 7s. 6d. £ s. d,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
per sheeh oe 23 7 ©<br />
<br />
Printing, 17 sheets at 16s. 2d. per<br />
sheet... 21.2260 eee eG 13 14<br />
Paper cgccreec i ee<br />
Binding, at 5d. a volume ............... 62 10 0<br />
Advertisine (,...0.. ee se 25 0 ©<br />
Moulding, at 5s. a sheet................. 4 5 ©<br />
Stereoty ping, at gs. asheet ............ 713 6<br />
Corrections: ....5..65005 bo 210.9<br />
#185 10 |<br />
<br />
It would be only in the case of a book pretty<br />
certain to prove successful that a publisher would<br />
begin with an edition of 3000.<br />
<br />
The price of the book to the trade would be<br />
generally 3s. 73d. We may however, making<br />
allowance for bad debts, call it 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
We have, thus, these figures :<br />
<br />
By the first 1500 copies— £ sd<br />
The publisher would gain ............ 76.19 98<br />
The author would gain ............... Nil.<br />
<br />
By the first 2000 copies—<br />
The publisher would gain ............<br />
The author would gain ...............<br />
By the first 3000 copies—<br />
The publisher would gain ............ 289 9 8<br />
The author would gain ............... 50.0.0<br />
<br />
164 9 8<br />
Nil.<br />
<br />
It may be said that is an extreme case, and<br />
one not likely to happen. But such a proposal<br />
was actually made, a short time ago, to a very<br />
distinguished man of letters, that his royalty<br />
should begin after 2000 copies.<br />
<br />
Or, a deferred royalty may be proposed to begin<br />
after 400 or 500 copies. It is often deferred beyond<br />
the point where the circulation is likely to end.<br />
And the royalty that is then offered gives the<br />
publisher by far the greater share.<br />
<br />
For instance, suppose a royalty of 2d. in the<br />
shilling, to begin on such a 6s. book after 500<br />
copies are sold.<br />
<br />
The cost of the first thousand (all copies bound)<br />
would be, approximately, £100. If only 500 are<br />
bound, about £90. :<br />
<br />
The sale of 500 copies (supposing only 500<br />
bound) brings in £87 10s., showing that the pub-<br />
lisher has thus recouped his expenditure.<br />
<br />
The sale of the next 450 (allowing 50 for Press<br />
copies) brings in £78 15s. ‘I'hese copies have to<br />
be bound at a cost of about £10.<br />
<br />
The author takes £22 10s., the publisher about<br />
£46—more than twice as much.<br />
<br />
If, however, under a deferred royalty to begin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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after 500 copies, the book is such that the pub-<br />
lisher can reckon on a large sale, and can print<br />
3000 copies, the following is the pleasing result :<br />
The publisher makes £215<br />
The author makes £125<br />
<br />
On a royalty of 2d. in the shilling from the<br />
begining the author makes £150 and the pub-<br />
lisher £190, so that in everyone of these cases<br />
the publisher gets the better of the author.<br />
<br />
If a deferred royalty is offered, care must be<br />
taken to ascertain (1) whether the postponement<br />
covers all, or more than, the cost of production ;<br />
and (2) what the royalty afterwards proposed<br />
means.<br />
<br />
For instance, a royalty of 2d. in the shilling to<br />
begin after the cost of production is defrayed,<br />
thus :<br />
<br />
First, a certain number having defrayed the<br />
cost, there remains of the edition of 1000, say<br />
of a 12s. book, 400 copies. They sell at about<br />
7s. 6d. a copy. The 400 copies realise £150.<br />
<br />
The author takes £40.<br />
The publisher takes £110.<br />
<br />
The deferred royalty, therefore, it will be seen,<br />
may become a most potent means of defrauding<br />
the author, and in such a proposal it is above all<br />
things necessary to work out the figures carefully<br />
before signing.<br />
<br />
i by this arrangement.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II[.—On Spectat, or RepucEep, PRICEs.<br />
<br />
A publisher, writing recently in the Athenxun,<br />
tried to make a great point of the wonderful<br />
difficulties presented by special sales; .e., sales at<br />
a reduced price, to meet exceptional circumstance<br />
—in plain language, to “ make a deal.”<br />
<br />
Now, it may very well happen that in order<br />
that this deal may be made, the publisher may<br />
sacrifice books in which the author has an interest<br />
in order torun books entirely his own. Therefore,<br />
it would be quite right to insist on the mainten-<br />
ance of the royalty—if there is a royalty—what-<br />
ever the publisher’s terms may be, and to insist on<br />
the usual trade terms if it isa profit-sharing agree-<br />
ment. A better plan would be to have nothing<br />
whatever to do with a publisher who proposed to<br />
reduce terms in order to suit his own convenience,<br />
unless the author chooses to sell his interest<br />
outright on terms to be agreed upon, with the<br />
help of someone who understands these things.<br />
<br />
Suppose, however, that circumstances arise<br />
which may make it desirable for “ special”<br />
terms, the author being consulted in this matter.<br />
<br />
We may consider the approximate figures as a<br />
guide. The ordinary 6s. volume is taken, which<br />
costs (approximately) 1s. a copy when an edition<br />
of 3000 is printed, and sells for 3s. 73d. (gene-<br />
rally) a copy. This shows a profit of 2s. 73d. on<br />
<br />
every copy, supposing the whole edition of 3000<br />
to go off. A royalty of 21°9, or nearly 22 per<br />
cent., gives author and publisher half profits.<br />
<br />
If, f.r any reason, special terms are offered,<br />
say at 2s. a copy instead of 3s. 75d., the profit is<br />
reduced to 1s. a copy, and the royalty, giving<br />
half profit to both publisher and author, would<br />
be reduced to 83 per cent. But in the case of<br />
a large success a half profit system is unfair,<br />
because it puts the services of administration and<br />
collection on an equality with the work of crea-<br />
tion, so that the preceding must only be taken<br />
as an illustration.<br />
<br />
eas<br />
<br />
LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I.—Hieu Court oF 'Justice—CHANCERY<br />
Division.<br />
<br />
(Before Mr. Justice STrRLING.)<br />
RUSKIN UV. COPE BROTHERS AND CO. (LIMITED).<br />
<br />
This was a motion on behalf of Mr. John<br />
Ruskin, the well-known author, asking for an<br />
injunction to restrain the defendants from selling<br />
or offering for sale any book or works being<br />
piracies of the plaintiff's works or infringements<br />
of his copyright therein, and particularly a book<br />
entitled ‘Cope’s Smokeroom Booklets, No. 13. .<br />
John Ruskin.” The defendants were manu-<br />
facturers of and dealers in tobacco, and it<br />
appeared that for advertising purposes they had<br />
published a series of booklets consisting of<br />
extracts from the works of celebrated authors,<br />
prefaced by introductory notices and accom-<br />
panied by advertisements of their tobacco and<br />
cigars. It was their practice to send these book-<br />
lets out with the goods sold by them, and,<br />
although a small price was put upon them, they<br />
alleged that it was not their practice to offer them<br />
for sale, and that they had in fact not sold them<br />
for profit. The particular booklet in question in<br />
this action consisted almost entirely of passages<br />
reprinted from Mr. Ruskin’s ‘‘ Fors Clavigera,”’<br />
and it appeared that as soon as it came to the<br />
knowledge of Mr. Ruskin’s secretary the writ in<br />
this action was immediately issued. An injunc-<br />
tion was now applied for in the same terms.<br />
<br />
Mr. Buckley, Q.C.. and Mr. Bramwell Davis<br />
appeared for the plaintiff.<br />
<br />
Mr. Hastings, Q.C. (with whom was Mr.<br />
Dunham), for the defendants, said that he could<br />
not dispute that what had been done was legally<br />
wrong ; but as soon as the defendants found out<br />
that Mr. Ruskin objected to it they at once took<br />
steps to call in the copies already issued by them,<br />
As counsel on behalf of the defendants, he was<br />
willing to submit to a perpetual injunction in<br />
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<br />
the terms of the notice of motion, and his clients<br />
were ready to give an undertaking not to issue<br />
any further copies of the booklet and to do their<br />
best to get in the copies which they had already<br />
called in, and to make an affidavit verifying the<br />
number of copies published and the disposal<br />
thereof, and to deliver up to the plaintiff for<br />
cancellation all such parts of the booklets in their<br />
possession as were piracies of the plaintiff's works,<br />
and, moreover, to pay the costs of the action.<br />
They were also willing that the hearing of the<br />
motion should be treated as the trial of the<br />
action.<br />
<br />
These terms having been accepted by the plain-<br />
tiff, the case came to an end.—From the Tvmes,<br />
Nov. 25, 1893. :<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
TI.—Botron County Court.<br />
(Before His Honour Judge Jones.)<br />
ACTION BY A JOURNALIST ARTIST.<br />
<br />
Charles George Harper, artist, of London, who<br />
was represented by Mr. Cannot, barrister, in-<br />
structed by Messrs. Judge and Priestley, London,<br />
sued Messrs. Tillotson and Son for £30 9s. 10d.,<br />
alleged to be due for drawings and contributions<br />
supplied by him for publication in the Wheeler.<br />
Mr. M. Fielding, solicitor, appeared for the<br />
defence.—Mr. Cannot said plaintiff was an artist<br />
of distinction, and a contributor to various impor-<br />
tant newspapers of sketches and articles upon<br />
topics of interest. On March 26, 1892, he received<br />
a communication inviting contributions, and<br />
plaintiff thereupon sent a letter with a sketch and<br />
an article, fixing his price. From April, 1892,<br />
down to June, 1893, he supplied various drawings<br />
and sketches, amounting in all to £81 14s. 10d.<br />
Certain of these were used, and £51 5s. had been<br />
paid to him for them. The balance constituted<br />
the claim. The reason that had not been paid<br />
was that defendants contended they had not to<br />
pay for things they did not use, but plaintiffs<br />
contention was that their letters indicated an<br />
agreement that he should send them sketches and<br />
articles for which he should be paid whether used<br />
or not.—Mr. Fielding intimated that his defence<br />
was that his clients were not to pay for unused<br />
material.—A lot of correspondence was then gone<br />
through by Mr. Cannot. In conclusion he pointed<br />
out that defendants had mistaken their legal<br />
position. The fact that they had received certain<br />
blocks established plaintiff's claim —Harper was<br />
then sworn. He tendered evidence in accordance<br />
with counsel’s opening statement. In cross-<br />
<br />
examination he admitted that many of his<br />
drawings would have been just as good three<br />
years hence as they would if published in 1892.<br />
—Mr. Fielding, for the defence, remarked it<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
might have been better had the parties had a<br />
more explicit agreement. Harper had been told<br />
both in Bolton and at the Crystal Palace that he<br />
was not to be paid until articles were used.—<br />
Mr. Wm. Fairhurst deposed to having several<br />
conversations with Harper, whom he told they<br />
would not pay for unused matter. Further,<br />
Harper admitted to him, in regard to another<br />
case, that the contributor ought not to be paid<br />
till the contributions were used.—Mr. Win.<br />
Brimelow, one of the partners in the firm of<br />
defendants, said he also told Harper they did<br />
not pay for unused contributions. Cross-<br />
examined by Mr. Cannot, he said they could<br />
keep matter sent to them till the sender requested<br />
its resurn.—His Honour summed up, and held<br />
that the letter early in 1892 was an agreement<br />
that Harper should be paid whether his contri-<br />
butions were used or not. The subsequent con-<br />
versations did. not constitute a fresh agreement.<br />
He gave a verdict for the plaintiff, less £2 2s.,<br />
the price of a drawing rejected.—Bolton Evening<br />
News.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Til.—“ A Royvauty AGREEMENT,<br />
<br />
The following is a printed form tendered<br />
recently to an author :—<br />
<br />
“Memorandum of agreement made this<br />
day of between (author), for himself, his<br />
executors, administrators, and assigns, of the one<br />
part, and (publisher), for himself, his executors,<br />
administrators, and assigns, of the other part.<br />
Whereas the author is the proprietor of the copy-<br />
right in a work entitled , which he<br />
has requested the publisher to publish on the<br />
terms and conditions hereinafter appearing, it is<br />
hereby agreed between the author and publisher<br />
as follows :—<br />
<br />
1. The author guarantees that there is copy-<br />
right in the said work in the United Kingdom,<br />
and that he is the proprietor thereof. Should<br />
the publication of the said work subject the pub-<br />
lisher to any legal proceedings, civil or criminal,<br />
the author undertakes to indemnify the publisher<br />
against all fines, damages, costs, expenses, OF<br />
liabilities which the publisher may incur in or<br />
in connection with such legal proceedings.<br />
<br />
2. Subject to the provisions of this agreement,<br />
the publisher shall have the sole right to publish<br />
the said work in the British Dominions during<br />
the term of copyright by law conferred therein<br />
upon the author, and shall further have the sole<br />
right as between himself and the author, to<br />
publish the said work in all other countries unless<br />
and untii the right of publication in any such<br />
country is assigned as provided in clauses 9 and<br />
10 hereof.<br />
<br />
3. All details as to the time and manner of<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
publication, production, and advertisement, and<br />
the number and destination of free copies, sball<br />
be left to the sole discretion of the publisher, who<br />
shall bear all expenses of production, publication,<br />
and advertisement, except the amount (if any) by<br />
which the cost of corrections of proofs, other than<br />
printer’s errors, at per printer's invoice, exceeds<br />
an average of five shillings per sheet of sixteen<br />
pages of printed matter, which amount shall be<br />
borne by the author.<br />
<br />
4. When the first or any later edition of the<br />
said work has been sold out, the publisher shall<br />
not be bound to reprint the said work if he con-<br />
siders its past sale not to warrant such reprint ;<br />
but if, when any such edition is exhausted, the<br />
publisher shall not, within one month after<br />
receiving a request in writing from the author to<br />
publish a further edition, decide to publish such<br />
further edition, the author shall be at liberty to<br />
make such arrangements as he thinks fit for the<br />
publication of any further edition or editions of<br />
the said work, provided that he take over the<br />
moulds, stereo-plates, or electro-plates, or other<br />
similar plant used for or taken from any previous<br />
edition at their net cost as per invoice.<br />
<br />
5. The published price of the first edition<br />
shall, on publication, be 3s. 6d. per copy, but the<br />
publisher shall have the power in his discretion<br />
to alter the published price of any edition as he<br />
may think fit, and to sell the residue of any<br />
edition at a reduced price, or as a remainder.<br />
<br />
6. Subject to the payment of the royalties<br />
hereinafter mentioned, all proceeds of the sale of<br />
editions, remainders, or copies of the said work<br />
in the British dominions, or elsewhere, shall be<br />
received by and be the property of the publisher.<br />
<br />
7. The author shall be entitled to receive on<br />
publication, six presentation copies of the first<br />
edition of the work, and three copies of every<br />
subsequent edition, and shall be entitled to pur-<br />
chase further copies for personal use at half the<br />
published price net.<br />
<br />
8. The publisher shall pay to the author no<br />
royalty on the first 1000 copies sold, but on all<br />
copies after the said 1000 have been disposed of<br />
the publisher shall deliver to the author on the<br />
29th day of September in each year a statement<br />
of the number of copies sold, whether singly, or<br />
in editions, or remainders, and whether in the<br />
British dominions or elsewhere, during the year<br />
before the preceding 30th day of March, with<br />
the price or prices at which such copies were sold,<br />
and shall, at the time of such delivery, pay to<br />
the author on all such copies sold at above half<br />
their published price a royalty of 10 per cent. on<br />
their published price, and all such copies sold at<br />
or below half their published price, a royalty of<br />
10 per cent. on the net receipts of such sales. In<br />
<br />
VOL, Iv.<br />
<br />
237<br />
<br />
calculating such royalties, thirteen copies shall<br />
be reckoned as twelve, and no royalties shall be<br />
paid upon any copies presented to the author, or<br />
others, or to the Press, or upon copies destroyed<br />
by fire.<br />
<br />
g. Except as provided in clause [reference<br />
omitted, but apparently 11] hereof, the copy-<br />
right, whether English or foreign, in the said<br />
work, including the rights of translation, drama-<br />
tisation, and publication of any dramatic version<br />
thereof, shall not be sold, assigned. or trans-<br />
ferred by the author, either as a whole, or for a<br />
limited time, or over a limited space, without the<br />
consent of the publisher.<br />
<br />
10. In the case of works which have not copy-<br />
right in the United States, and in view of the<br />
frequent necessity of immediate action in such<br />
cases, the publisher shall have full power, without<br />
consulting the author, to sell, assign, or transfer<br />
advance rights, or stereo-plates, electro-plates, or<br />
shells of the said work for use in the United<br />
States, together with ‘control of the market,”<br />
meaning thereby an agreement that no right to<br />
publish the said work in the United States shall<br />
be sold or assigned to any other person by the<br />
author or original publisher thereof, and the<br />
author agrees to execute on request any do ‘ument<br />
which may be necessary or expedient to carry<br />
this clause into effect.<br />
<br />
11. That the proceeds of the sale or transfer of<br />
<br />
copyright, as defined in clause 9 hereof, or of the<br />
sale, transfer, or assignment of any of the interests<br />
defined in clause 10 hereof, for use in the United<br />
States, shall be received by the publisher, and<br />
be divided in the proportion of one-half to the<br />
author and one-half to the publisher, such<br />
amounts to be payable as and when provided in<br />
clause 8 hereof. In the case of stereo-plates,<br />
electro-plates, or shells, sold under clause 10<br />
hereof, the net proceeds of the sale, after deducting<br />
the invoiced cost of their production, shall be<br />
received, divided, and paid over in the same<br />
way.<br />
12. The author undertakes, at the request of<br />
the publisher, and on receiving a suitable indem-<br />
nity against costs (if any), to take all proceed-<br />
ings necessary to enforce his copyright in the said<br />
work, whether in the British dominions or else-<br />
where, and to allow his name to be used by the<br />
publisher in all proceedings, and to comply with<br />
all formalities of registration or deposit of<br />
copies necessary to acquire or protect copyright,<br />
whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere,<br />
aid to allow his name to be used by the pub-<br />
lisher for the purpose of compliance with such<br />
formalities.<br />
<br />
13. The author guarantees to buy from the<br />
publisher for cash 500 copies at 2s. per copy<br />
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net. As witness the hands of the parties hereto,<br />
the day of the year first above written.”<br />
<br />
The preceding is the actual agreement repro-<br />
duced word for word. The following are a few<br />
notes of explanation :<br />
<br />
Clause 1. For instance, if the publisher be pro-<br />
ceeded against by the printer for not paying his<br />
pill, would the author have to indemnify him?<br />
For, certainly, this might be described as an<br />
action arising out of publication.<br />
<br />
Clause 2. What is the meaning of the words<br />
in the second clause, “as between himself and<br />
the author”? Does this clause mean that the<br />
publisher shall have all the rights—American and<br />
continental ? If not, what does it mean ?<br />
<br />
Clause 3. This is a very comprehensive clause.<br />
The publisher claims complete control: (1) Over<br />
time of publication. He may therefore put it off<br />
as long as he pleases. (2) Over the manner of<br />
production. Does this mean the form and<br />
price of the book? (3) Corrections are allowed<br />
up to five shillings a sheet. What is the connec-<br />
tion between words and money and time in the<br />
item of corrections ?<br />
<br />
Clauses 8 and 13. The author is to pay £50<br />
down on account of expenses, é.e., he is to buy<br />
500 copies at 2s. each. One would like to know<br />
what will be the further expense in the production<br />
of the book. Then the publisher puts in his own<br />
pocket, as well, the whole proceeds of the next 500.<br />
When 1000 copies are sold the author’s royalties<br />
begin at the magnificent rate of 10 per cent., 2.e.,<br />
4id. a copy.<br />
<br />
But the publisher may sell it at half, or less<br />
than half the price, in which case the author is to<br />
get only 10 per cent. of the sum realized.<br />
<br />
Clause 9.—The author seems called upon in<br />
this clause, for no consideration whatever, to<br />
place all his dramatic rights, and the right of<br />
translation, in the absolute power of the pub-<br />
lisher.<br />
<br />
Clauses 10 and 11.—The publisher demands<br />
50 per cent. for acting as a literary agent in<br />
placing the book in America. The agent does it<br />
for 10 per cent., and sometimes less. It would<br />
seem, also, that if the literary agent does the<br />
work, the publisher shall also have 50 per cent.<br />
<br />
These are a few points rising out of this<br />
remarkable agreement. A publisher is certainly<br />
within his right in making any stipulations and<br />
terms he pleases. We do not deny that right.<br />
It is for the author, before accepting these terms,<br />
to ascertain what they mean.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
IV.—A PossisLE APPLICATION,<br />
We have abstained from figures in considering<br />
he clauses of this agreement because we do not<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
know the length of the MS. or the proposed form<br />
of the book. Let us now, however, take an<br />
imaginary case worked out on the terms of the<br />
agreement.<br />
<br />
We will set down—see “ Cost of Production,”<br />
p. 27—the cost of producing and advertising a<br />
book of 192 pp., in small pica, 29 limes to a page,<br />
and 253 words to a page, as, for the first 1000,<br />
£70, the cost of production of the next 3000 as<br />
£110.<br />
<br />
Now, the publisher sells to the author 500 at<br />
2s., and to the trade 450 at 1s. 11d. He then<br />
prints a second edition of 3000, of which he sells,<br />
say, 1500 at 1s. 11d. He then, we will suppose,<br />
reduces the price to half, and sells the remaining<br />
1500 at that price. He sells advance sheets to<br />
America for £50, and the right of translation<br />
into French for £10. How does the account<br />
stand according to our figures ?<br />
<br />
Receipts :— £ 3.8<br />
From the author’s contribution ...... 0 0 6<br />
From the trade for the first edition,<br />
<br />
abs) lid. 95 43.2.8<br />
From the second edition, 1500 at<br />
<br />
18, LiQs ose ee 143 15 O<br />
1500 ab 18. OG. cevcsecpeer nruerensseeees 2ST 5 @<br />
<br />
£368 2 6<br />
<br />
Cost of production :—- 2 se<br />
The first 6d1Hi0On = 00s eee 70 0 8<br />
The second edition ................006- 110 6 @<br />
<br />
Author’s royalties, 10 per cent.,<br />
4id. On 1500 COpies ..............-.+ 26 5 ©<br />
Author’s royalties 10 per cent. on<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
SUM FORMBCO |... 132.8<br />
Publisher’s profit: ...............0s:eeeee 148 15 0<br />
£368 2 6<br />
<br />
So that by this agreement, after the whole 4000<br />
are gone, the author's little perquisites amount to<br />
£39 7s. 6d., towards his first advance of £50,<br />
and the publisher’s to £148 15s.! There are also<br />
the American rights and the rights of translation,<br />
of which the publisher takes 50 per cent. ! And<br />
the author has, one supposes, the right to dispose,<br />
somehow, if he can of the 500 for which he<br />
paid.<br />
<br />
It may be objected that we have taken an<br />
imaginary case: that the book in question would<br />
not sell to anything like this extent; that it had<br />
illustrations, but none were mentioned in the<br />
agreement; that the figures of cost, &c., are all<br />
wrong. The answer 1s, that it is permissible to<br />
apply the terms of any agreement to any imagi-<br />
nary case, if it is a reasonable and a possible case.<br />
But we have taken a possible and a common case,<br />
and on the supposition of certain sales have shown<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
what this agreement would, in such a case, lead<br />
to.<br />
<br />
Another way of looking at the agreement is<br />
this: According to our figures every copy after<br />
the first 1000, would cost 84d. At the trade<br />
price of 1s. 11d. we should have this result :<br />
<br />
The author, after the first 1000, having advanced<br />
already £50, would receive 43d. a copy.<br />
<br />
The bookseller would receive a profit of 73d.<br />
<br />
The publisher would receive a profit of 10d.<br />
<br />
At the half price rate the author would receive<br />
10 per cent. on the amount realised, 7.e., 10 per<br />
cent. on 21d., or 2;,d.—poor wretch !<br />
<br />
The bookseller makes a profit of gid.<br />
<br />
The publisher makes a profit of 9 ‘od.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
V.—A Nonpescriet AGREEMENT.<br />
<br />
Here is another agreement which may be added<br />
to the many in the “Methods of Publishing.”<br />
We live and learn the ways of the ingenious pub-<br />
lisher. This time the terms are very simple.<br />
The author is to receive £25 if the three volume<br />
novel sells 250 copies. He is to receive £25 if a<br />
new edition is produced. Finally, he is to receive<br />
a third and last payment of £25 if 5000 copies<br />
are sold of the cheap edition.<br />
<br />
We are not concerned with what happened to<br />
this book, whether it was successful or not.<br />
The point for our readers to consider is that<br />
terms were offered which in the event of the<br />
greatest possible success limited the author’s<br />
returns to £75, and gave the publishers all the<br />
rest !<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ViI.—Wuar Constirures a CxLaim to Copy-<br />
RIGHT ?<br />
<br />
Mr. Fisher Unwin refuses permission to pub-<br />
lish the correspondence mentioned in the last<br />
number of the Author, on the ground that it would<br />
be incomplete. He does not state in what respects<br />
it would be incomplete ; nor how he knows that it<br />
would be incomplete ; nor does he offer to make it<br />
complete. Therefore the answer to this question<br />
wil] want the interesting illustration we proposed<br />
to give it by publishing this correspondence.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Oe<br />
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OMNIUM GATHERUM FOR DECEMBER.<br />
<br />
What is good for the swarm is good for the bee.—M.<br />
AURELIUS ANTONINUS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Subjects for Treatment.—Texts from the Tal-<br />
mud, as enunciated in the Quarterly Review<br />
article of July, 1867; the Mending of the House<br />
of Lords, with special reference to Lord Salis-<br />
bury’s and Lord Dunraven’s Bills of 1888; the<br />
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Riddle of the Universe, as solved by Mr. Faw-<br />
cett; Mr. Keir Hardie’s Nationalisation of Mines<br />
Bill; the Choice of an Executor; Professional<br />
Etiquette ; the Cultivation of the Cranberry ; the<br />
Special Taxation of Pluralist Directors, and of<br />
Foreign Barley; the Bank of England; the<br />
Consolations of Illegitimacy; Overwork; the<br />
Subjugation of Dipsomania by Hypnotism ;<br />
Christmas in Dublin.<br />
<br />
Grace Aguilar.—She was (so Ilearn from Mrs.<br />
Crosland’s “Landmarks of a Literary Life’’)<br />
descended from one of those Spanish-Jewish<br />
families who fled from persecution under Ferdi-<br />
nand and Isabella. Though by no means rich,<br />
she refused Mr. Colburn’s liberal offer to write a<br />
history of the persecution of the Jews in England<br />
because she did not choose “ to revive the memory<br />
of half-forgotten wrongs.” A little later, her<br />
income having slightly increased, she wrote to<br />
the editor of a magazine to which she contri-<br />
buted, volunteering to accept half the sum which<br />
she had been accustomed to receive, so that there<br />
might be a surplus for those who wanted the<br />
money more than she did.<br />
<br />
“ The Daily Paper.’—This remarkable literary<br />
adventure of Mr. Stead deserves, I think, the<br />
cordial support «f authors, if I may judge from<br />
the sample number published with the “ Review<br />
of Reviews Annual.” It is with great satisfac-<br />
tion that I see it is to have machine-cut pages, a<br />
front paged indexed table of contents, and adver-<br />
tisements careful y distinguished from news<br />
Absit all spookage !<br />
<br />
Control of Literature by Advertisers.—Writes<br />
Mr. Vizeteily in his “Glances Back through<br />
Seventy Years,” ‘‘ Cyrus Redding,” writes he,<br />
“ mentions that Colburn used to say that a hundred<br />
pounds laid out discreetly in advertising would<br />
make any book go down with the public, as the<br />
expenditure of this amount materially influenced<br />
the criticisms.” How we have changed since Col-<br />
burn’s time!<br />
<br />
The Lind Abridgment.—It is good news that<br />
an abridged edition of J. Lind’s biography is<br />
about to be issued by the authors. It is dis-<br />
tressing to reflect that it might be no breach of<br />
copyright if this were done by strangers, but<br />
consoling that other intending biographers may<br />
take the hint and cut their stories short. Very<br />
few of the biographed are worth more than one<br />
volume of 800 pages, and even Lord Shaftesbury<br />
and Dr. Pusey might have been presented in<br />
some 1000 pages apiece, whereas the one had<br />
three volumes, and the other is now having<br />
four.<br />
<br />
Publication of our Names.— We of the Authors’<br />
Society now number 1141 persons. Rightly or<br />
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wrongly, we have hitherto abstained from divulg-<br />
ing our names. Why should not this secrecy<br />
cease, and a printed list of all our members be<br />
circulated amongst us? Our too modestly budding<br />
Shakespeares and Sapphos, and any other<br />
members who wished to remain anonymous,<br />
could still have their wishes respected, as the<br />
name list might conclude with the words, “In<br />
addition to the above there are also [39 or 47<br />
or as the case may be] members of the Society,<br />
who for various reasons do not wish their names<br />
to be published.”<br />
<br />
Finis.—“ There is an end to everything, even<br />
to Wimpole-street,” as Sydney Smith said just<br />
before his death, and these Omnium Gathera,<br />
in which I have been babbling on since January<br />
last, now have their end, as it is high time they<br />
should. A merry Christmas to all!<br />
<br />
J. M. Lety.<br />
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es<br />
<br />
THE LITERARY AGENT.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
HE onslaught upon the Literary Agent, lately<br />
made by a publisher in the Athenewn,<br />
will prove useful if it leads us to consider<br />
<br />
the position and the functions of the Literary<br />
Agent, and the reasons, for or against, the placing<br />
of business arrangements in his hands. Those of<br />
us who choose to work through an agent are<br />
actuated by the following reasons (they are put<br />
as briefly as possible) :—<br />
<br />
1. We desire to free ourselves from the trouble<br />
and worry of managing our own affairs.<br />
<br />
2. Trouble and worry and fighting—not to say<br />
humiliation—seem to us inevitable in the present<br />
chaotic condition of publishing, unless the author<br />
is foolish enough to place himself unreservedly<br />
in the hands of his publisher; that is to say, to<br />
accept a business man’s own estimate of the<br />
value of his services.<br />
<br />
3. We desire to have a man of business to<br />
make our arrangements for us with a man of<br />
business. He must be a man who understands<br />
thoroughly what is meant by every form of<br />
publishing agreement; he must be a man of<br />
undoubted integrity ; and he should be a persona<br />
grata to honourable publishers.<br />
<br />
4. We desire also to have a man of business<br />
thinking and working for us, not only administer-<br />
ing the affairs of the present, but also arranging<br />
those of the future.<br />
<br />
5. We certainly do not desire that injustice<br />
should be committed towards publishers in our<br />
interests.<br />
<br />
6. We do not find that the employment of an<br />
agent has in the slightest degree affected the<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
friendly relations which exist between ourselves<br />
and our publishers.<br />
<br />
7, We find that the freedom of mind and<br />
the absence of pecuniary anxiety which we<br />
enjoy in consequence of an agent’s care for our<br />
interests is a boon which cannot be measured by<br />
money.<br />
<br />
8. Given a publisher who desires to treat an<br />
author honourably, that is to say, on terms<br />
which between men of business are considered<br />
honourable, what objection can he _ possibly<br />
have to arranging these terms with an agent<br />
instead of an author ?<br />
<br />
g. It is alleged that the literary agent insists on<br />
a life long agreement. We have never made<br />
any such agreement.<br />
<br />
10. When a publisher cries out upon the<br />
literary agent it must be remembered that it is<br />
not he, but the author, who pays the agent.<br />
Why, then, does he complain? The answer is<br />
obvious. Why, the thing is so thin that a child<br />
can understand it.<br />
<br />
11. When a publisher cries out that the literary<br />
agent deprives him of his friend, why was<br />
the friendship destroyed? That friendship<br />
which survives the appearance of the literary<br />
agent upon the scene is the only kind of<br />
friendship between author and publisher which<br />
is desired.<br />
<br />
12. When a publisher complains of the literary<br />
agent taking ten per cent. for his services, the<br />
answer is that the amount of the commission<br />
must always be an arguable quantity, but it is<br />
at least a good deal lower than that demanded<br />
by many publishers when they propose to take<br />
50 per cent. for arranging American copyright<br />
or continental rights.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, it may be stated—<br />
<br />
1. That the agent may be dishonest. That is<br />
very true. For instance, there is an agent who is<br />
said to have a commission for taking authors to<br />
a certain House. Against dishonesty the only<br />
guard is experience. At the Society we have<br />
experience and cannot only warn, but recommend.<br />
Between a dishonest publisher and a dishonest<br />
agent the choice is between the devil and the<br />
deep sea.<br />
<br />
2. There are authors who think themselves<br />
strong enough to conduct their own affairs and<br />
to arrange their own engagements. One or two<br />
may be, and are, actually srtong enough. Many<br />
of those who think themselves so are living in a<br />
fool’s paradise. But undoubtedly those who do<br />
know the truth about publishing and are not<br />
afraid or ashamed to make their own terms do<br />
not want an agent.<br />
<br />
3. The young writer who is as yet unknown<br />
and has no clientele does not want an agent. Let<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
him work on, making some kind of a name for<br />
himself gradually or by a single coup. When he<br />
has done so an agent may advantageously take<br />
him in hand.<br />
<br />
ee<br />
<br />
EROTION.<br />
<br />
Martial Epig. : Book V., 38.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Far fairer did my darling seem<br />
Than ev’n the full-plum’d swan ;<br />
<br />
No lamb beside Tarentum’s stream<br />
Matched my Erotion !<br />
<br />
More exquisite she was to me<br />
Than the most lustrous pearl<br />
<br />
Of Lucrine lake or Persian sea,<br />
My peerless little girl!<br />
<br />
The lily in its purest prime,<br />
The snow’s unsullied fall,<br />
The ivories of Orient clime,<br />
Whiter was she than all!<br />
<br />
Her hair surpassed the coils that crown<br />
The maidens of the Rhine,<br />
<br />
The dormouse with its golden down,<br />
Theria’s fleeces fine.<br />
<br />
Sweet was her breath as Paestan bowers,<br />
As amber all a-glow,<br />
<br />
Or honey freshly hived from flowers<br />
That on Hymettus blow.<br />
<br />
The squirrel by her side had been<br />
Bereft of all its grace,<br />
The peacock paltry ’mid its sheen,<br />
The Phoenix commonplace !<br />
* * * * * * *<br />
<br />
Scarce cold upon the new-made pyre<br />
My pretty darling lies ;<br />
<br />
The Fates were wrought with envious ire<br />
To rob me of my prize;<br />
<br />
And ere six years she’d counted quite,<br />
In her sixth winter-tide,<br />
<br />
My pet, my plaything, my delight,<br />
My own Erotion died !<br />
<br />
Yet Paetus who himself displays<br />
The wildest of despair,<br />
<br />
(He’s pummelled now his chest for days,<br />
And pulled ont half his hair !)<br />
<br />
Paetus is pleased to rally me<br />
On being a little sad—<br />
<br />
“ What! snivelling for a slave!” sneers he,<br />
‘You surely must be mad!<br />
<br />
“Why I have lost a wife, endowed<br />
With all the world could give,<br />
<br />
Riches, position, lineage proud,<br />
Yet I contrive to live!”’<br />
<br />
With resignation truly rare<br />
Our friend ’gainst trouble strives ;<br />
He finds himself a millionaire,<br />
Yet, strange to say, survives !<br />
Wiiiiam TOYNBEE.<br />
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241<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
<br />
\ CARD is before me bidding me to the unveil-<br />
ing of the Lowell window at Westminster<br />
on Wednesday, the 28th. The address will<br />
<br />
be—by this time has been—given by the ight Hon.<br />
Arthur Balfour. It will certainly be—have been<br />
—an excellent address. Mr. Balfour has shown<br />
on several occasions, but especially in a certain<br />
Rectorial address, the possession of what are<br />
recognised asthe literary gifts. But why should<br />
Mr. Balfour be called upon to speak on this<br />
occasion? The gift of the window was set on<br />
foot chiefly by a committee of literary men and<br />
women; the subscriptions, although they include<br />
some from Lowell’s friends not of the literary<br />
craft, came chiefly from literary men and women.<br />
Tt is essentially a gift from literary folk to a<br />
man of letters. Therefore the address should<br />
have been delivered by an English man of<br />
letters. Why did not the chairman of the com-<br />
mittee himself, Mr. Leslie Stephen, perform this<br />
duty? He would have been acknowledged by<br />
everybody as the right man. In the selection of<br />
Mr. Arthur Balfour I recognize the same spirit<br />
which excluded men of letters from the great<br />
Function in Westminster Abbey of 1887. Let<br />
them stand aside—humbly—in a corner, while<br />
their betters speak. In the same way, to speak<br />
of a smaller thing, when the Jeffries bust was<br />
put up in Salisbury cathedral, not a single<br />
member of the committee—who were all men of<br />
letters—was invited. In the same way, at the<br />
annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund<br />
the nen of letters are made to know their place,<br />
which is down below, while the Chairman is sup-<br />
ported right and left by a row of noble lords.<br />
When will men of letters learn to take their<br />
proper place in all things literary’ That place<br />
is in the front; if oratory is wanted, it is for<br />
them tofindit. The emancipation of the author<br />
from the man with the bag must be accompanied<br />
by the elevation of the author to the leadership<br />
in his own craft and all that belongs to it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
-—e ~--<br />
<br />
The above was written in anticipation. As<br />
everybody has learned, with the greatest regret,<br />
Mr. Balfour was on the day confined to his<br />
room with influenza. Mr. Leslie Stephen did,<br />
after all, deliver the address, and proved the<br />
fitness of a literary man in things literary. What<br />
has been written, however, may stand.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
One may conjure with the name of Bronte.<br />
Everything connected with that strange family<br />
ig curious and significant. All their history, from<br />
the great-grandfather downwards, goes to build<br />
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<br />
up Charlotte. Dr. William Wright’s new book<br />
(«The Bronté Family”: Hodder and Stoughton)<br />
takes us back to the ancestors, and restores them<br />
to the world. Now we know how they got their<br />
gift for story telling and from whom. ‘This is a<br />
season wonderfully rich in biographical work and<br />
memoirs and reminiscences, but this book is to me<br />
by far the most striking and the most interesting<br />
—even more interesting than Sir Walter Scott’s<br />
Letters. To say that it is as interesting as a<br />
novel is nothing, because novels are very often<br />
horribly dull. To say that no novel of the year<br />
equals it in interest is nearer the cold, unvar-<br />
nished truth.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There are no shilling shockers this year. Were<br />
there any last December? Or the year before ?<br />
Is it possible that they have all perished without<br />
a single tear? Only yesterday, standing at a<br />
bookstall, I became aware of their absence. Some-<br />
thing jarred. The coloured Christmas pictures had<br />
just awakened a fond reminiscence of the bilious-<br />
ness peculiar to the joyous festival now within<br />
sight. One had become seasonably uncomfort-<br />
uble — Christmassy irritable. ‘I'hen, to repeat,<br />
something jarred. Where were the shilling<br />
Christmas stories ? Where indeed? Where are<br />
they gone, the old familiar covers ? And to think<br />
that in my time I have written about fifteen,<br />
more or less! Six—from 1876 to 1881—were<br />
written in collaboration for Mr. Charles Dickens.<br />
One as a private venture, and a very good venture,<br />
too. Five more alone for Mr. Charles Dickens.<br />
And then four for Mr. Arrowsmith. And now, I<br />
suppose, no one will ever write any more. Is it,<br />
then, a lost industry ? But the illustrated papers<br />
remain. Courage, camarades, le Diable est mort!<br />
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<br />
I beg to express in this column my appreciation<br />
of Rider Haggard’s Mexican story. I do so<br />
while I am fresh from reading it at two pro-<br />
longed sittings. The glow and glamour of the<br />
romance are still upon me. I have been, I am<br />
still, in Mexico among the Aztecs. Long years<br />
ago, when I read Prescott’s “History of the<br />
Conquest of Mexico,” something of the same<br />
glamour fell upon me. He, too, could charm<br />
his readers, and take them with him to the<br />
wondrous city of Mexico. The great distinguish-<br />
ing quality of Rider Haggard, which he un-<br />
doubtedly possesses in a very high degree, is this<br />
magic power of seizing and holding his readers,<br />
so that they become absorbed and abstracted from<br />
all earthly things while their eyes devour the page,<br />
and their minds are far away among the creations<br />
of the author's brain. This is a great gift. One<br />
<br />
would not compare in these pages one living<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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writer with another, nor would one assign to this<br />
man so much, and to another so much more or<br />
less. Also a writer’s power is not the same over<br />
every reader. His mesmeric influence is strong<br />
over some minds, weak over others. My own<br />
mind, for instance, is most readily subjugated by<br />
Rudyard Kipling and by Rider Haggard.<br />
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<br />
I read a notice of “ Montezuma’s Daughter ”<br />
inan evening paper. It was not so much a notice<br />
as a dissection. ‘“ Here,’ said the writer, “we<br />
have a shipwreck; we know very well that the<br />
hero will get to shore; and we guess what will<br />
happen next; here is a coincidence—why—we<br />
knew it was coming.” Andso on. All this was<br />
quite true, perfectly true. But—without coinci-<br />
dence, dangers, escapes, where is pure romance<br />
of the sixteenth century? There is but one bag<br />
of tools for the romance writer. You might just<br />
as well complain because an architect follows<br />
well-known plans, and has his arch, his Corinthian<br />
column, or his porch of columns. The dissection<br />
was perfectly correct, no doubt. But when you<br />
have finished the dissection, what next? Can<br />
anyone, by assisting at the dissection, become a<br />
writer of romance? Will the learned dissector,<br />
if he is a novelist, take his bag of tools and make<br />
a romance and let it be compared with ‘“ Monte-<br />
zuma’s Daughter”? Or, if he is not a novelist,<br />
but a critic, will he name a romance of adventure<br />
which he would compare with “ Montezuma’s<br />
Daughter”? A romance must have “ grip’—<br />
that is the first essential ; it must hold the reader<br />
spellbound to the finish. This romance possesses<br />
the quality of “grip” in an eminent degree.<br />
What should a novelist most pray for? Grip.<br />
And next? Grip—And then more grip.<br />
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<br />
<br />
Mr. Robert Sherard’s book on Zola will be<br />
read by everyone who reads the “Master.”<br />
A man’s life is not, it is true, completed until it<br />
is closed. Many things may happen to Zola<br />
before the end—great and good things, one<br />
hopes and expects. But the world is not content<br />
to wait; it wants to know something about the<br />
young days, the days of small things, the wrong<br />
starts, the struggles to win the lowest rung of<br />
the ladder. These are things of the greatest<br />
interest, and it is well that they should be written<br />
of Emile Zola. The one indispensable condition of<br />
an incomplete biography is that it should be<br />
written with the full consent and knowledge of<br />
the subject. In this case not only did Emile<br />
Zola consent to the work proposed by his friend<br />
and disciple, but he gave the writer every possible<br />
assistance and information. The result is a work<br />
conceived and executed in perfect taste, with the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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proper reticences, and yet the fullest information.<br />
We see how Zola, the son of a man who was<br />
half Venetian and half Greek, and of a mother<br />
who was wholly French, brought up in Provence,<br />
inherited the imagination and the ardour of the<br />
South with the common sense and the artistic<br />
sense of France. The story of his father’s<br />
struggles and success, and of his death at the<br />
very moment of success, is told too briefly. How<br />
Zola worked ; how he starved; how he climbed<br />
upwards, making his failures, as Augustine made<br />
his sins, stepping-stones to achievement ; this is<br />
a new chapter in the history of men who have<br />
made their literary way. Paris has always its<br />
Balzacs and Zolas, starving and working and<br />
hoping. It has also those who starve and work<br />
and hope in vain. Young Zola, or young<br />
Balzac, in this country, would find a temporary<br />
home on the Daily News or the Daily Chronicle.<br />
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<br />
A writer, under the nom de plume of<br />
“Tngenue,” sends me, in vindication of her<br />
remarks upon critics, a small collection of critical<br />
remarks upon her recent work. These extracts<br />
show most astonishing disagreement on the book.<br />
If they were seriously advanced as an example<br />
of the present condition of English criticism, they<br />
would at once prove criticism to be a mockery,<br />
literary standards as not existing, and literary<br />
judgment as much a matter of chance as the deci-<br />
sions of the great Judge Brid’oison. Here are<br />
the conflicting gems. Is it possible to explain—<br />
to reconcile—judgments so opposite? Ihave not<br />
read the book, and therefore I am not expected<br />
to add another judgment to this long list of oppo-<br />
sites :<br />
<br />
1. The temerarious reader who pursues this story to the<br />
end will put straws in his hair, and be dealt with by the<br />
Commissioners of Lunacy.<br />
<br />
2. There are points about it which make portions not<br />
merely readable, but even exciting and engrossing.<br />
<br />
3. We have never read a more absurdly-planned book.<br />
<br />
4. The tale itself is highly emotional, cleverly constructed,<br />
and ably written throughout.<br />
<br />
5. This is a clever book in parts. . . It is the<br />
kind of book to keep one awake all night, for it defies the<br />
best intentions of the reader to lay it aside.<br />
<br />
6. An outstanding merit of the novel is that the writer<br />
has a secret worth the keeping, and that he keeps it securely<br />
locked till almost the very close of a delightful novel.<br />
<br />
7. It is difficult to believe that any but an enforced reader<br />
will arrive at the end of this ill-constructed, ill-imagined<br />
story.<br />
<br />
8. Confusion reigns supreme. A farrago of weari-<br />
some improbability put together in a manner that makes it<br />
a sort of puzzle not worth while to solve.<br />
<br />
g. The plan is hardly a success. . . The story is odd,<br />
oe and exciting—altogether a most tantalising<br />
<br />
ook,<br />
<br />
10. This curious story keeps the reader wide awake from<br />
cover to cover. We gladly recommend as a dish<br />
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likely to suit all who relish humour, pathos, romance, and<br />
unconventionality.<br />
<br />
11. The two talk such tiresome twaddle that the bored<br />
and bewildered reviewer gives the whole thing up.<br />
<br />
12. To attempt a description of the plot would be to<br />
destroy the prospective reader’s pleasure. The<br />
reader is hurried from in a most bewildering and<br />
exciting manner. Thestory . is well written<br />
and amusing.<br />
<br />
13. The author may have aimed at originality or at a<br />
practical joke; but the originality is elaborated to boredom,<br />
and the joke is hidden by a pile of words.<br />
<br />
14. The confused jumble the stilted phraseology<br />
<br />
will be taken as evidence of the amateur’s ineptitude.<br />
<br />
15. We must find room to commend to all who want<br />
a good story. We should hope that, like all the novels of its<br />
class, this story will have success. Unlike many in its class,<br />
it will have deserved it.<br />
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16. Mr. is not a genius, and his freak distinctly<br />
bores us.<br />
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17. Difficult to come across a more utterly foolish novel.<br />
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It is only in works of imagination—poetry,<br />
drama, fiction—that one comes across such extra-<br />
ordinary opposite opinions. How, one asks in<br />
wonder, can the same work strike men of sound<br />
mind and, presumably, literary experience so<br />
differently ? It may be suggested that some of<br />
the opinions come from the critics of the Stoke<br />
Pogis Express. Not so ; they appear in the papers<br />
to which one commonly sends books. I do not,<br />
of course, suggest for a moment that any one<br />
of these judgments is wrong, Nothing would<br />
induce me, after these judgments, to read the<br />
book with the intention of adding another. But,<br />
like “Ingenue” herself, whose language and<br />
thought seemed to me those of exaggeration, I<br />
ask whether a book can be at the same time dull<br />
and exciting, foolish and interesting, successful<br />
and a failure, ably planned and absurdly planned,<br />
twaddling and well written, a confused jumble<br />
and likely to suit all who like humour and<br />
pathos?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The one truth which seems to come out of<br />
these contradictory opinions is that the book<br />
possessed at least strength and originality enough<br />
to compel attention. It was able to exercise a<br />
a certain amount of magnetism over its readers.<br />
This is evident from the direct outspoken abuse<br />
and praise which it called forth. Feeble books<br />
get feeble notices; commonplace books are<br />
dismissed with commonplace remarks; the first<br />
proof of the critic’s ignorance, as of his incom-<br />
petence, is his hesitation about saying a single<br />
word of direct praise; it is easier to find fault.<br />
Anyone can pretend to pick holes; to praise a<br />
book for its style, its dialogue, its characters, is to<br />
pin yourself down. In order to go so far the<br />
critic must not only read the book, but he must<br />
know something of his trade.<br />
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« Add to your ‘ Warnings,’” writes a corre-<br />
spondent, “this very necessary one, ‘ Do not sign<br />
any agreement or consent to any terms after<br />
lunch or dinner.’ When the champagne is flowing<br />
keep a head cool enough, at least, to refuse the<br />
discussion of business. And keep also one eye<br />
upon your host; if he lets his glass stand full<br />
while you are atways filling your own, put on the<br />
whole armour of suspicion’? This seems excel-<br />
lent advice. Is not the custom of taking a glass<br />
over a bargain, part of the old game of getting<br />
the better of the other man by making him drunk ?<br />
“ Will you walk into my parlour ?” said the spider<br />
to the fly. ‘Here is champagne—let us drink.<br />
Your glass stands full—pass the bottle—drink<br />
about. Another y Nonsense, man, it won’t hurt<br />
you. So—and another. What a good, what an<br />
excellent writer you are! Iam honoured only by<br />
your acquaintance! To publish your books is more<br />
than an honour; it is immortality. Here is the<br />
agreement—allow me to fill up—Ah!- success to<br />
your new book! We must drink that. Here is the<br />
agreement—and a pen; your name here, if you<br />
please. Thanks—thanks—one more glass? John,<br />
a cab for th's gentleman.”<br />
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One may be mistaken, but there seem to me<br />
signs of an approaching change in the treatment<br />
of love by women in fiction. It is not going to<br />
be of less importance to life than men have made<br />
it; on the contrary, it will be of greater import-<br />
ance. But it will be treated more realistically<br />
from the womau’s point of view, which is a com-<br />
paratively new thing, a sign of independence.<br />
This change is illustrated by a story in Olive<br />
Schreiner’s little bundle of three. It is the last<br />
of the three, and is called “The Policy in Favour<br />
of Protection .’ The author makes one of her<br />
characters speak of love and when it means<br />
marriage. She says—<br />
<br />
Have you thought of what love is between a man and a<br />
woman when it means marriage? That long, long life<br />
together, day after day, stripped of all romance and<br />
distance, living face to face: seeing each other as a man<br />
sees his own soul? Do you realise that the end of marriage<br />
is to make the man and woman stronger than they were ;<br />
and that if you cannot, when you are an old man and woman<br />
and sit by the fire, say, ‘ Life has been a braver and a freer<br />
thing for us, because we passed it hand in hand, than if we<br />
had passed through it alone,’ it has failed? Do you care<br />
for him enough to live for him, not to-morrow, but when he<br />
is an old, faded man, and you an old, faded woman? Can<br />
you forgive him his sins and his weaknesses, when they<br />
hurt you most? If he were to lie a querulous invalid for<br />
twenty years, would you be able to fold him in your arms<br />
all that time, and comfort him, as a mother comforts her<br />
little child? ~<br />
<br />
This is essentially the woman’s view. The man cares<br />
<br />
nothing and thinks nothing except of the woman<br />
whom he loves. All novels have hitherto ended<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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in the man obtaining his desire. The wedding<br />
bells rmg. Thetaleis ended. And afterwards<br />
The woman thinks of that, you see. For her the<br />
story is only beginning. Again—another glimpse<br />
of womanhood :<br />
<br />
The mother heart had not swelled in me yet; I did not<br />
<br />
know all men were my children, as the large woman knows<br />
when her heart is grown.<br />
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“ T’homme qui fait des souliers est stir de son<br />
salaire: homme qui fait un livre n’est jamais stir<br />
de rien.” The above comes from Marmontel. It<br />
is sent to me asa contribution to the subject of the<br />
author’s position. The same kind of thing has<br />
been said over and over again. And it seems to<br />
me foolishness. And since a good many of my<br />
readers have literary aspirations, I will show them<br />
why they must not adopt such an illustration of<br />
the literary profession. The author who wants to<br />
sell a book may be exactly like the shoemaker<br />
who wants to sella shoe. ‘hat is to say, if the<br />
shoemaker is engaged to make a shoe he always<br />
gets paid ; if an author is engaged, he gets pad<br />
too. If the artist in leather is not engaged for<br />
the job, but simply offers his shoe as a work of<br />
art to the public, he is just like the author who<br />
offers a book which the public have not asked for.<br />
If he is a popular author, the public do, in a<br />
sense, invite him or engage him. The profound<br />
Marmontel, like so many other people, confuses<br />
the literary and the commercial value of a book.<br />
The author who does good work and gets it pub-<br />
lished is quite sure, sooner or later, of getting<br />
recognition for his genius, his scholarship, his<br />
powers. But he is not quite sure, until he<br />
becomes popular, of getting dollars to any extent<br />
that will recompense him for his labours, as other<br />
kinds of work are recompensed. That is one<br />
reason why we should dissuade everybody from<br />
relying on literature as a profession. It can be<br />
followed very well with other and more lucrative<br />
work. One who does so follow it—as supplemen-<br />
tary to the bread winning—may lead the happiest<br />
lite in the world, because the attempt to make<br />
literature is the happiest kind of work that there<br />
is in the world. Watter BxEsant.<br />
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FEUILLETON.<br />
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I.—Tue Lrapren Puivm.<br />
<br />
T was, to look at, a lovely plam, ripe, covered<br />
with a delicate bloom, delicately coloured,<br />
sweetly rounded ; it was such a plum as one<br />
<br />
would choose out of the whole heap; it looked as<br />
if it had been gathered that very day from a<br />
southern wall, built by ancient men of good red<br />
brick, warmed through and through by three<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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hundred summer suns—a wall well known to wasp<br />
and humble bee ; and it lay upon the mantelshelf<br />
in Alf Kerb’s room. And when he had finished<br />
the simple toilette with which he prepared for<br />
the day’s labours, he put that plum in his pocket,<br />
lit his pipe, assumed his hat, and sallied forth.<br />
<br />
There was no one in the coster trade who could<br />
surpass Alf Kerb, whether as a salesman or as<br />
one who always guessed, by singular prescience,<br />
that delicate and uncertain thing—what the<br />
public want. He was proud of his cart, and<br />
proud of his trade. He did himself well, and he<br />
did his girl well. In the matter of honesty<br />
especially he prided himself. Some costers give<br />
short weight. Not Alf. His scales were open to<br />
the inspector at any time. And as for value—<br />
of course, one only had to taste ’em and try ’em<br />
before you buy ’em.<br />
<br />
“It’s plums to-day,” said Alf; and he dropped<br />
that lovely plum from the mantelshelf into his<br />
pocket—one would think, to the total destruction<br />
of its delicate bloom.<br />
<br />
There was certainly no more honest coster in<br />
the whole town. Alf always said so himself.<br />
Religious, too. He had several times been seen at<br />
evening service before the costers’ supper. _ In his<br />
early manhood he was one of those who subscribed<br />
towards the famous Presentation Donkey, the<br />
testimonial of the trade to Lord Shaftesbury.<br />
And at a friendly lead, or in case of any trouble<br />
connected with the coppers and the beak, no one<br />
was readier than Alf Kerb.<br />
<br />
He had every reason, therefore, to be satisfied<br />
with himself, and he sallied forth that morning,<br />
his long coat tails flying all abroad, a little red<br />
feather in his hat, a scarlet tie-handkerchief<br />
round his neck, and his pipe in his mouth, the<br />
envy of his less successful rivals, the object of<br />
deepest admiration to the ladies of the model<br />
dwelling houses where he lived. But he was un-<br />
moved by envy as by admiration, He would have<br />
wished, such was the nobility of his nature, that<br />
a success equal to his own might be achieved by all<br />
who followed the fortunes of the coster’s cart.<br />
And, as regards the latter, his heart was true to<br />
his own gal. Other maidens might sigh, but<br />
they had no chance.<br />
<br />
The top of the profession.<br />
lay that lovely plum.<br />
<br />
“It’s plums to-day,” said Alf.<br />
<br />
A beautiful day in early September. The strong<br />
and swift tide of human life swept and surged,<br />
high tide at nine in the morning, low tide at<br />
noon, high tide again at five, round the asphalted<br />
road opposite Broad-street Station and Broad-<br />
street, where the costers ever crawl, and the news-<br />
paper men continually do bawl. Among the<br />
carts was that of Alf Kerb himself. It was<br />
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moving at a snail’s pace—no one could “ move<br />
on” with less alacrity than Alf, and he was inviting<br />
the passers-by to taste ’em and try ’em—taste ’em<br />
and try ’em, before you buy ’em. The cart was<br />
piled up with plums, rapidly diminishing in bulk,<br />
and tickets in blue and gold proclaimed the<br />
amazing nature of the “value” and the wonder-<br />
ful lowness of the price. A customer—another—<br />
a third. The eyes of the policeman at the corner<br />
watched the plum merchant as he rapidly weighed<br />
out his fruit by the pound—by the two pound—<br />
by the three pound. Presently, from a look of<br />
curiosity the policeman’s eyes changed to a look<br />
of the deepest interest. For he remarked a very<br />
singular thing. The coster, with every purchase,<br />
pulled a plum out of his left-hand pocket, placed<br />
it in the scale among the other plums, took it out,<br />
and dropped it in his pocket again before he<br />
poured the plums of that purchase into the paper<br />
bag.<br />
<br />
The policeman drew nearer; he watched more<br />
intently; had any of the people rushing past<br />
observed him they might have warned Alf Kerb<br />
that he was under surveillance. But the un-<br />
happy young man noticed not. He was driving<br />
a brisk trade, and the plum went backwards and<br />
forwards continualiy.<br />
<br />
Then a hand was laid upon his shoulder.<br />
* What have you got in your pocket ?”’ asked the<br />
policeman.<br />
<br />
* Nothink,” Alf replied, in the language of his<br />
profession.<br />
<br />
“Let me see that plum in your pocket.”<br />
<br />
“TL ain’t got no plum.”<br />
<br />
“You come along o’ me,” said the official.<br />
‘“ Bring yer barrer.”’<br />
<br />
Worship-street is not far off. Before the luck-<br />
less merchant could realise what had happened,<br />
his cart was in charge of the police, and he<br />
himself was waiting his turn.<br />
<br />
The evidence against him stated that he had<br />
seen the man take a plum out of his pocket, lay<br />
it in the scale, and put it back in his pocket with<br />
every purchase, so that the customer was<br />
defrauded to the extent of the weight of that<br />
plum, which was, in fact, constructed of lead, and<br />
artfully painted so as to appear only a simple<br />
natural plum. He also informed his worship that<br />
this false plum weighed 73oz. so that the<br />
customer who bought a pound of plums only<br />
obtained 850z., which was a fraud to the extent<br />
of nearly 50 per cent.<br />
<br />
Asked what he had to say, Alfred Kerb<br />
declared, with tears in his eyes, that everybody<br />
always did it; that a man must live; that his<br />
expenses of rent, barrow, stock, and scales, living,<br />
and keeping company with his girl, rendered it<br />
absolutely necessary for him to practice secret<br />
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Mozely gave us a record of clerical life, as<br />
<br />
well academic as parochial, and the profession of<br />
letters is not unfairly represented by the similar<br />
<br />
works of the two ‘Trollopes, To us,<br />
Mill’s Autobiography seems to be as in-<br />
comparably — the English classic of the<br />
former kind, as Pepys’ Diary is generally<br />
<br />
acknowledged to be of the latter. The author of<br />
the memorial verses in Punch (whoever he may<br />
have been) wrote of Mill: “ This rebel craved one<br />
loved and loving rule,’ which seems to sum up<br />
the whole matter, showing us why his doctrines—<br />
being rebellious—are often severely handled,<br />
while his autobiography is always treated<br />
with respect and reverence. But it is rather<br />
with the works which aspire to be classed<br />
with Pepys’ Diary that we have to deal with<br />
here, bemg the more frequent. A recent writer<br />
says somewhere that when he writes a work of<br />
travel he will tell what people said, rather than<br />
what he saw and what they did; which remark<br />
led us to reflect that, of all literary tasks, to<br />
record talk and conversation must be one of the<br />
most difficult—if we would be faithful. It is to<br />
this art that “ Boswell’s Johnson ” owes its charm,<br />
but then that work, though it might fairly be<br />
called a volume of reminiscences, is not autobio-<br />
graphical. We have one book in which an excess<br />
of conversation is recorded, but in such a way<br />
that the author made himself conspicuous as the<br />
typical example of a parasite and a political<br />
hanger-on, and that book is the “ Diary of George<br />
Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe-Regis.”<br />
It is often said that it is a great point in literature<br />
so to open the discourse as to excite interest in<br />
the main rather than in any minor motif of the<br />
work. In his “Life of Balzac,” Mr. Wedmore says :<br />
“The very first sentence of the Curé de Tours is<br />
a proof how well the craftsman knew his craft.<br />
‘In the beginning of the year 1826 the principal<br />
person in this history—the Abbé Birroteau—on<br />
his way home from the house at which he had<br />
been spending the evening, was surprised by a<br />
shower.’ The sentence strikes the keynote ; it is<br />
never lost sight of—the abbé and his small dis-<br />
comforts are in our mind to the end.” On this<br />
principle the opening sentence of Dodington’s<br />
Diary ought to excite our very greatest sympathy.<br />
“ The Diary. 1749.—In the beginning of the year<br />
I was grievously affected with the first fit of the<br />
gout, which with a fall that strained one leg and<br />
wounded the other, confined me to my chamber<br />
near three months.”<br />
<br />
With our compassion thus aroused, let us con-<br />
sider some of his conversations as he records them.<br />
We may note it as curious that Dodington, like<br />
Pepys, held a post in the Admiralty, but at a<br />
time when the quarrels of the king and the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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<br />
prince made them tout to the courtiers for their<br />
support quite as often as the courtiers ever begged<br />
for place at the royal hands. The prince desired<br />
to secure the services of Dodington, and the<br />
interview is thus described :—<br />
<br />
Juxy 18.—After dinner, he took me into a private room,<br />
and of himself began to say, that he thought I might as well<br />
be called treasurer of the chambers as any other name; that<br />
the Earl of Scarborough, his treasurer, might take it ill if I<br />
stood upon the establishment with higher appointments than<br />
he did; that his royal highness’s destination was, that I<br />
should have £2000 per annum. That he thought it best to<br />
put me upon the establishment at the highest salary only,<br />
and that he would pay me the rest himself. I humbly<br />
desired that I might stand upon the establishment without<br />
any salary, and that I would take what he now designed for<br />
me when he should be king, but nothing before. He said that<br />
it became me to make him that offer, but it did not become<br />
him to accept it, consistent with his reputation, and there-<br />
fore it must be in present. He then immediately added,<br />
that we must settle what was to happen in reversion, and<br />
said that he thought a peerage with the management of the<br />
House of Lords, and the seals of Secretary of State for the<br />
southern province, would be a proper station for me,<br />
if I approved of it. Perceiving me to be under much<br />
confusion at this unexpected offer, and at a loss how to<br />
express myself, he stopped me, and then said, “I now<br />
promise you on the word and honour of a prince that,<br />
as soon as I come to the crown, I will give you a peerage<br />
and the seals of the southern province.’ Upon my<br />
endeavouring to thank him, he repeated the same words,<br />
and added (putting back his chair), ‘and I give you leave<br />
to kiss my hand upon it now by way of acceptance ; ” which<br />
I did accordingly.<br />
<br />
If this interview really took place, and the offer<br />
was really made, we do not see how Dodington<br />
could have described it better. Let us take a<br />
conversation four years later which Dodington<br />
had with the princess.<br />
<br />
She [the princess] thought they [the ministry] had very<br />
few friends, and wondered at their not getting more, and<br />
that it was their cowardice only which hindered them ; that<br />
if they talked of the king she was out of patience; it was<br />
as if they should tell her, that her little Harry below would<br />
not do what was proper for him; that just so, the king<br />
would sputter and make a bustle, but when they told him<br />
that it must be done, from the necessity of his service, he<br />
must do it, as little Harry must when she came down. I<br />
replied, I was sincerely sorry, not for the present, but that I<br />
apprehended this want of real, attached, and declared<br />
friends might produce ugly consequences and contests in<br />
case of a demise. . . That for the ministers she<br />
had never seen them in her life. Madame, says I, your<br />
royal highness will forgive me, but if I had not catched<br />
myself I was just going to say, lord, madam! what<br />
do you mean?—I mean, answered she, just as I<br />
say; the only way I could see them in the prince’s<br />
time I don’t call seeing them; and since that time, I have<br />
never seen the Duke of Newcastle what I should call more<br />
than once, but as I am speaking to you with great exact-<br />
ness, it was twice; and I have not seen Mr. Pelham at all,<br />
no—not once.<br />
<br />
These and similar conversations are found<br />
between records of matters of fact, some of great<br />
moment, such as (1751)—<br />
<br />
Dec. 12.—This day died Lord Bolingbroke ;<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
and others of trivial such as<br />
R754)<br />
<br />
I went to the House to vote for the liberty to import<br />
champagne in bottles. Lord Hillsborough moved it; Mr.<br />
<br />
Fox seconded it. We lost the question—ayes, 74; noes,<br />
14].<br />
<br />
We have afterwards conversations at one time<br />
with Mr. Fox, and at another with Mr. Pitt,<br />
in which, even if their opinions are misrepre-<br />
sented, they are made to talk very sensibly.<br />
When we remember that Dodington considered<br />
himself a patriot—and dedicated his book to<br />
such—we ought surely to consider that some of<br />
the evil attached to his name is due to the fact<br />
that it is impossible to record the sayings and<br />
doings of men in high places without seeming to<br />
put oneself and one’s own concerns more in the<br />
foreground than is proper. So that Doding-<br />
ton’s Diary is as much a warning to the would-<br />
be diarist as Pepy is an example.<br />
<br />
When we pass from our own literature to other<br />
times and other tongues, two classics confront us,<br />
the “ Confessions of Augustine ” and the “ Confes-<br />
sions of Rousseau.” They are held to be the only<br />
writers who have ever been able to lay bare their<br />
inmost selves to the delight or disgust of their<br />
readers. Some think that Augustine’s life as he<br />
records it has quite a modern aspect, if we make<br />
due allowance for the difference in manners of<br />
different ages. The clever youth who passes with<br />
success through the educational course of his<br />
time, and afterwards leads a somewhat idle and<br />
perhaps a somewhat godless life, becomes con-<br />
verted, he takes orders, and eventually becomes<br />
a bishop. If that were the whole story there<br />
must be many such men in every Christian com-<br />
munion. But it is not the whole story, for if we<br />
correct our estimate of the “ Confessions” by, e.g.,<br />
the Oxford translation of Fleury, which deals<br />
with Augustine, his other writings, and his epis-<br />
copate, it is clear how the spirit of intolerance<br />
was the main spirit, the life and soul of<br />
Christendom. No person of authority m any<br />
communion, Puritan, Anglican, Roman, or<br />
Greek, would be allowed to-day to disturb the<br />
peace for the sake of teaching theology. We<br />
are to remember also that Augustine speaks of<br />
himself as a professor of rhetoric, and there is<br />
certainly a rhetorical insincerity about his “ Con-<br />
fessions’”? which make us value it far less than<br />
“‘ Pilgrim’s Progress”’ as a record of that strange<br />
mental attitude and its consequences which the<br />
religious call “conversion.” It must also be<br />
admitted that the atmosphere of such literature<br />
is an artificial one. With Rousseau, however,<br />
matters are quite different, he never steps much<br />
out of the world with its ordinary human passions ;<br />
but we cannot find ourselves able to sympathise<br />
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importance,<br />
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with those who speak of Rousseau as selfish and<br />
vain. We think him of all men the most to be<br />
pitied. Too little attention has been paid to one<br />
or two facts he has recorded, because they are<br />
not of nature to be discussed, except perhaps by<br />
the surgeon and pathologist. It is sufficient to<br />
say that he tells us he had been an invalid and a<br />
sufferer from childhood. If we place this fact<br />
beside his susceptibility to feminine influence, it<br />
is not surprising that he should have been<br />
morbidly sensitive lest his malady should be dis-<br />
covered. The last translation of Rousseau’s<br />
“ Confessions” we have seen is that in the<br />
“Masterpieces of Foreign Literature” (Stott),<br />
and, though a very useful edition, it is as well<br />
to remember that George Eliott said it would be<br />
worth while learning French to read the original.<br />
Je WS:<br />
[We were in error last month in saying that<br />
Mr. Saintsbury’s prefatory essay to the “ Pen-<br />
tameron” was not published for the first time. ]<br />
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set<br />
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THE LOWELL MEMORIAL IN WEST-<br />
MINSTER ABBEY.<br />
<br />
N R. LESLIE STEPHEN, on Nov. 28,<br />
NN unveiled the memorial which has been<br />
<br />
placed in honour of the late James Russell<br />
Lowell at the entrance to the Chapter-house,<br />
Westminster Abbey. The memorial includes a<br />
window and a bust underneath, which is said<br />
to be an admirable likeness of the late American<br />
Minister. The window has been erected by Messrs.<br />
Clayton and Bell, and consists of three lights. In<br />
the centre is the figure of Sir Launfal, from<br />
Lowell’s poem of that name, below is an angel with<br />
the Holy Grail, and in the lowest compartment<br />
the incident of Sir Launfal and the leper is repre-<br />
sented. The right light has the figure of St.<br />
Botolph, the patron saint of the church at Boston,<br />
Lincolnshire, from which the Massachusetts city,<br />
Lowell’s birthplace, derived the name; below is<br />
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. The light<br />
on the left contains the figure of St. Ambrose,<br />
one of the reputed authors of the Te Deum<br />
Laudamus; below is a group representing the<br />
emancipation of slaves. In trefoils above the<br />
side-lights are shields bearing the arms of the<br />
United States and the United Kingdom.<br />
<br />
Mr. Leslie Stephen said that he was under-<br />
taking a task which had been imposed upon him<br />
very much against his will. He had hoped that<br />
the address in commemoration of Lowell would<br />
have been delivered by Mr. Arthur Balfour, who<br />
had unfortunately fallen a victim to the fiend<br />
influenza. As he had the honour of being chair-<br />
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to fill it sufficiently taxes our powers. But<br />
when we were eighteen it was otherwise. We<br />
<br />
then stood on the threshold of the world, and<br />
were most anxious to take up a great deal of<br />
room in it. We were desperately afraid of lead-<br />
ing a dull life. We longed for a career. We<br />
wanted something to do that seemed worth doing,<br />
and that others thought worth doing, for at that<br />
age we attached immense importance to the<br />
opinion of those around us.<br />
<br />
It was this phase Thackeray realised when he<br />
made Ethel plunge headlong into the social com-<br />
petition she despised, because she could see no other<br />
channel for her energy and ambition, and I should<br />
like to claim for him that, if he failed to compre-<br />
hend women, at least he understood girls.<br />
<br />
Jussie M. Barrer.<br />
— — exc.<br />
<br />
AMERICAN WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
N England women journalists are something<br />
of an experiment. In the United States<br />
they are a firmly established institution.<br />
<br />
There no newspaper worthy of the name is with-<br />
out one woman special at least, while the majority<br />
of the large dailies employ all the way from three<br />
to fifteen on the staff. In London only occasion-<br />
ally do we hear of a special woman commissioner.<br />
I attribute this fact not so much to the prejudices<br />
of the newspaper proprietors and editors as to the<br />
difference between the English and the American<br />
woman. The English girl is brought up in the<br />
belief that ‘ A woman’s noblest station is<br />
retreat,” while the American girl, from her<br />
earliest childhood, has instilled into her mind the<br />
principles of independence, and she begins early<br />
to ponder on the subject of how to earn her own<br />
living. An English woman, although she may<br />
write just as well as her American cousin, con-<br />
siders it more womanly to confine her talents to<br />
the making of poetry and sending contributions<br />
to the various weekly and monthly periodicals,<br />
than to go into an office and do general newspaper<br />
work. Not so with the American. She has a<br />
longing to be in the world of men, to become part<br />
and parcel of the great bustle of our large cities.<br />
She goes to an editor and says, “I want to bea<br />
reporter. I can write well, and I’m not afraid of<br />
work. Have you any room forme?” Then she<br />
is asked to go out and write up the opening of a<br />
fashionable millinery establishment, bring in an<br />
account of the next fire that occurs in her neigh-<br />
bourhood, or to furnish an original idea that will<br />
make the paper go. If she proves herself capable<br />
in any of these lines, she will probably go to work<br />
at space rates, taking assignments from the city<br />
editor, doing her work always under the super-<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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<br />
<br />
vision of his blue pencil. Then if she is discovered<br />
to possess the requisite talent, nerve, and what is<br />
known in journalistic circles as “ getthereative-<br />
ness,” she is given a place as a regular salaried<br />
member of the staff and left to work her way<br />
from the bottom rung of the ladder to the top.<br />
To be a success as an American journalist, it is<br />
not necessary to be an eloquent or deep writer;<br />
but brightness, originality, and perfect fearless-<br />
ness are essential qualities. The woman journalist<br />
knows from the start that she must make her<br />
copy “snappish”’ and entertaining, and her great<br />
ambition always is to get a “ scoop” on the other<br />
city papers. About a year ago Miss Blank, a<br />
young woman employed on a Chicago paper, dis-<br />
covered that the society writer on another daily<br />
had got hold of some important news in relation<br />
to a fashionable divorce case, an account of which<br />
was to be published the next morning. It was<br />
late in the afternoon, and Miss Blank could think<br />
of no legitimate means of obtaining the desired<br />
information, but she went somewhat on the prin-<br />
ciple that ‘“All’s fair in love and war and<br />
journalism.” She disguised herself, and, mas-<br />
querading as a book agent, made a tour of the<br />
<br />
. composing-room of the opposition paper, and<br />
<br />
while petitioning the foreman and the proof<br />
reader to look over her wares, she ran her eye<br />
along the corrected proofs of the divorce scandal,<br />
made a mental note of certain important items,<br />
returned to her own office and fixed up her copy.<br />
In the morning her rival did not make its<br />
expected “scoop.”<br />
<br />
But let it not be supposed that American women<br />
journalists are cold - hearted and unprincipled.<br />
The girl who accomplished the above feat is one<br />
of the most indefatiguable workers among the<br />
poor and outcast women in Chicago. In all our<br />
large cities many a criminal has been run down<br />
and brought to justice by women reporters, and<br />
hundreds of hungry children are fed and clothed<br />
through the same agency. Thus these women<br />
are enabled to do much good while they are<br />
making notes for startling newspaper revelations,<br />
and it will be seen that sensational journalism<br />
has its good as well as its bad points.<br />
<br />
A really successful woman journalist does a<br />
man’s work and receives a man’s pay. If<br />
employed on a morning paper she rarely leaves<br />
the editorial office before two o’clock in the morn-<br />
ing, and sometimes later, for she generally revises<br />
her own proofs and writes her own headlines.<br />
She must be ever ready with ideas, and when<br />
asked to write on a certain subject, she seldom<br />
says “I can’t.” Ishall never forget an incident<br />
that happened to me when I first started out in my<br />
journalistic career. I had been employed about<br />
<br />
a year as reporter on a prominent western paper,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
and was the only woman on the staff. One Sun-<br />
day morning, about two o'clock, I was putting on<br />
my wraps preparatory to leaving the office, when<br />
the managing editor rushed over to me, and said,<br />
“ There’s half a column editorial space. I wish<br />
you would write me an editorial on ‘ Are Women<br />
Natural Liars ?’ taking the affirmative side.” I<br />
had no time to argue the pros and cons of the<br />
question with him. It was, ‘‘ Mine not to reason<br />
why.” At 2.301 knew all the editorial page must<br />
be set up, and I had only half an hour, so I<br />
wrote the article, giving many reasons that might<br />
go to prove that my own sex were natural hars,<br />
and handed it to the editur, who read it and sent<br />
it upstairs. “You used very convincing argu-<br />
ments to prove the point, didn’t your” he said,<br />
with a suspicion of a twinkle in his eye. ‘ Yes,”<br />
I answered. “And did you believe what you<br />
wrote?” “No, certainly not,” I retorted. “I<br />
can give better points on the negative side.”<br />
“Well,” said he, laughing, “I should say that<br />
the fact of your writing that editorial would go<br />
to prove that you were right in taking the affirma-<br />
tive side.” But I had myreward. The next day<br />
my salary was increased, and I was sent off with<br />
a commission to write up the evil doings of the<br />
State Legislature, then in session, and from that<br />
time I ranked third on the staff of the paper.<br />
<br />
In the United States, journalism is one profes-<br />
sion in which women are as well paid as men,<br />
and very high salaries are received by competent<br />
workers. In some offices a number of the women<br />
reporters do not write at all. They are employed<br />
as detectives, putting themselves in the most<br />
perilous surroundings in order to obtain their<br />
notes, which are daily sent to the newspaper, and<br />
written up in proper shape by a less daring, but<br />
perhaps more eloquent person.<br />
<br />
There is always a spirit of gallantry among the<br />
male members of a staff where a woman is em-<br />
ployed, and though there is a general good cama-<br />
raderie existing between her and the men, it is<br />
never forgotten that she is a woman and entitled<br />
to certain courtesies.<br />
<br />
Very often she finds her desk brightened up with<br />
flowers, the gift of various members of the staff,<br />
and a cab is always at her service when she is<br />
doing night work and obliged to go home late.<br />
She has a notable influence on the moral atmo-<br />
sphere of the office, and although on summer<br />
days and nights many of the men do their work in<br />
shirt sleeves, which she always excuses, there is<br />
never any profanity made use of in her presence.<br />
The proprietor of a certain southern newspaper,<br />
who had always held to the old-fashioned notion<br />
that a newspaper office was no fit place for a<br />
woman, was, about two years ago, induced to take<br />
a woman on the staff on the plea that the men<br />
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would show better behaviour. Two months<br />
afterwards he declared he should always have a<br />
woman about the place, as his managing editor<br />
had not been drunk once since the young woman<br />
entered his employ.<br />
<br />
The majority of American women journalists<br />
are young women, not by any means of the crank<br />
or dress reform order, but graceful, stylish-looking<br />
girls, who from choice or necessity go out into<br />
the world to make their way. In age they range<br />
from twenty to thirty, very few women older than<br />
that being employed. In the majority of cases, if<br />
they do not marry before that time, they give up<br />
active reportorial work and devote their talents to<br />
amore solid kind of literature. When they do<br />
marry, it is generally in their own profession, and<br />
they go on with journalistic work in conjunction<br />
with their husbands.<br />
<br />
The number of women journalists in the United<br />
States is steadily increasing, and there are many<br />
American editors who insist that the best,<br />
cleverest, and most thorough work on our news-<br />
papers is done by women.<br />
<br />
EuizasetH L. Banks.<br />
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<br />
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS AND COPY-<br />
RIGHT QUESTIONS.*<br />
<br />
By S. S. Spriaax, late Secretary to the Committee of<br />
Management, and W. Ourver Hopes, late Hon. Secretary<br />
to the Copyright Sub-committee.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
HE English Society of Authors, though<br />
always, it is hoped, in sympathy with<br />
abstract principles of justice, has been so<br />
<br />
busy with the practical evils besetting the calling<br />
of letters, that it has had but little time to spare<br />
from the ills that are, for the consideration of the<br />
good that might be.<br />
<br />
True Copyright—Should it be World-wide and<br />
’ Time-long ?<br />
<br />
That true copyright should be world-wide and<br />
time-long is just one of those propositions that<br />
we have never tried to find much time to con-<br />
sider, for, whatever it should be, it never will be<br />
either.<br />
<br />
All those who are in the habit of talking or<br />
writing concerning literary property from the<br />
standpoint of persons desiring to safeguard it,<br />
fall into the habit of comparing it as much as<br />
possible with other forms of property, because<br />
they find by experience that it is easy to get an<br />
<br />
* This paper was read before the Congress in Literature<br />
at Chicago in July, 1893. The cross-headings in italics are<br />
the subjects upon which the organizers of the Congress<br />
desired the representatives of the Society of Authors to<br />
inform them.<br />
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¥.<br />
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audience to appreciate the sanctity of the owner’s<br />
right in—say—houses, stocks, shares, &c., and<br />
so, by transition, easy to demonstrate the sanctity<br />
of the rights of an author in his brain-work,<br />
while it is very difficult to convince even an author<br />
of this sanctity by merely alluding to copyright<br />
questions. But this does not, or should not, blind<br />
the most enthusiastic champion of the writer's<br />
rights to the fact that there are differences—<br />
practical and sentimental—between a house and<br />
a book, between a mine and a poem, between a<br />
ground-rent and a copyright.<br />
<br />
That True Copyright should be World-wide.<br />
<br />
To put this thesis in other words is to propose<br />
that the author should have the sole right to<br />
permit multiplication of copies of his work in<br />
other lands, and in other languages. In this way<br />
it sounds so reasonable that it might be thought<br />
impossible to suggest anything against it. And<br />
there is nothing serious to say. The author may<br />
not know what is best for himself with regard to<br />
translation, and if his work is produced in a<br />
tongue of which he is ignorant, he will certainly<br />
be in this plight. And he may be ignorant of<br />
what constitutes his best chance of favourable<br />
reception in a foreign land, even though he is<br />
sufficiently master of the foreign tongue to see<br />
for himself that his work is adequately rendered.<br />
But this is nothing. The literary property is the<br />
author’s, and he has the right, among other<br />
rights, to mismanage it if he likes. But a word<br />
must be said about translation, and the position<br />
of the adequate or artistic translator. While we<br />
thoroughly recognise the right of the author<br />
in his property to extend over all the world, it<br />
must not be forgotten that the intermediate<br />
assistance of the translator is often brain-work of<br />
the highest sort, and that the translator’s right<br />
in that property is as sacred as the author’s right<br />
in the original work. The position of the trans-<br />
lator is one that must be arranged between him-<br />
self and the author, a point which was carefully<br />
provided for by the terms of the Berne Conven-<br />
tion. (Selected Artieles of the Berne Convention,<br />
I, 2, and 11.)<br />
<br />
That True Copyright should be Time-long.<br />
<br />
That true copyright should be time-long is<br />
equally a beautiful proposition, but is much more<br />
open to objections. In a developing scheme of<br />
things a finite vested right must always lead to<br />
abuse. Ground-rents, to which copyright is very<br />
aptly comparable in many ways, have led to gross<br />
abuse in more than one country, and it wants no<br />
imagination to see that, for the protection of the<br />
author’s own reputation as much as for the pro-<br />
tection of the public, it is right that a time should<br />
be fixed at which the work should pass from the<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
private hands of the possessor to the public care<br />
of the community. Two examples will illustrate<br />
the truth of this, and will serve as well as fuller<br />
illustration. First, suppose that the copyright of<br />
Shakespeare’s works in these days were in the<br />
possession of a very hard business man. He<br />
might corner the market in Shakespeare to the<br />
serious detriment of the public, and, perhaps, to<br />
the impairment of the poet’s reputation, he might<br />
depress the circulation. Or, again, a prudish<br />
owner might consider it his duty to omit certain<br />
passages, or even certain poems, and the result<br />
might be the mutilation or suppression of a<br />
masterpiece. These considerations make the<br />
question of time-long copyright a difficult one, We<br />
should like to say that, inasmuch as a man’s brain<br />
work is his own property, he ought to be able to be-<br />
queath it to his heirs for their good, and to secure<br />
it to them as tightly as he could desire ; and it is<br />
clear that this is the only logical opinion that can<br />
be held on the matter. If we assume that the<br />
existing law in all countries with regard to pro-<br />
perty—real or personal—is right, then an author<br />
should be given copyright in perpetuity. Weare<br />
aware that the arguments for allowing the public<br />
to enter into public possession of private property,<br />
if logically applied to other sorts of property,<br />
would land us in pronounced communism. Yet,<br />
from motives of expediency, we are not prepared<br />
to uphold the proposition that true copyright<br />
should be time-long, but inclined to think that<br />
its duration should have a limit for the protec-<br />
tion of the author’s fame; though that limit<br />
should be a very long one for the protection of<br />
his purse. That is to say, that, although it is<br />
convenient to describe literary property as<br />
exactly analogous to other property, it is for the<br />
good of the private proprietor as much as to the<br />
advantage of the public to allow an illogical dis-<br />
tinction to exist with regard to its ownership. It<br />
may be mentioned that this view of the matter<br />
was very practically taken in the first Copyright<br />
Act of England (The Act of Anne, 8 Anne, c. 19).<br />
For that Act was granted as much for the protec-<br />
tion of the public as of the author, and designed<br />
to protect the public’s interests in good books<br />
from the very abuses that we have suggested<br />
might occur if the time-long copyright, which<br />
sounds so fittmg in sentiment, were to be put<br />
into practice. For, as far as authors are con-<br />
cerned, it is doubtful whether that Act was an<br />
unmixed blessing. It conferred upon them a<br />
qualified right, whereas they already possessed in<br />
all probability an unqualified right, and, by recog-<br />
nising for them the smaller, it lost for them the<br />
greater position. But the preamble to the Act<br />
<br />
points out that copyright was granted to authors<br />
as much for the good of the public as of<br />
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the author, as it was seen that unless<br />
“learned men” receive ‘‘encouragement to<br />
compose and write useful books,’ they, probably,<br />
would not trouble to do so. How very sensible<br />
is this utilitarian view by comparison with the<br />
sentiment that an author should be hysterically<br />
willmg to take out his reward in glory! The<br />
danger that the market might be cornered, to<br />
the public detriment. was also foreseen, and power<br />
granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury to<br />
regulate the price of books. This provision is,<br />
m Mr. Lely’s opinion,‘ the origin of the existing<br />
enactments, by which the Judicial Committee of<br />
the Privy Council may, after the death of an<br />
author, licence the republication of books which<br />
the proprietor of the copyright refuses to re-<br />
publish. Some such arrangement as this might<br />
be designed, in the case of time-long copyright,<br />
to get over the difficulties arising from an abuse<br />
of property by the copyright owner; but such a<br />
body as the Judicial Committee of the Privy<br />
Council could never be an easy one to approach<br />
or move, aud it is difficult to believe that an<br />
abuse that could only be rectified by appeal to<br />
such a tribunal would not soon spring up and<br />
flourish. Another proposition has been made,<br />
which also invokes the aid of the Privy Council,<br />
and also is something in the nature of a compro-<br />
mise, being designed to benefit the private owner<br />
while protecting the public interest. It has been<br />
suggested that the author, or rather his heirs or<br />
assignees, should be placed in the existing posi-<br />
tion of a patentee, who is able to go to the Privy<br />
Council at the expiration of his privileged period,<br />
and on proving that he hasas yet not been benefited<br />
- by his privilege, to obtain an extension of that<br />
period. But the idea isnot of any great practical<br />
value, because of the small number of authors who<br />
would ever benefit under such a scheme. Those<br />
who know anything of the book market know<br />
that it has hardly ever occurred (and can hardly<br />
ever be expected to occur) that books which have<br />
failed to be profitable wares during the legal<br />
team of copyright have become more valuable<br />
property after the expiration of the term. Words-<br />
worth, however, is one such case. A third sug-<br />
gestion has been made, borrowed evidently from<br />
the jubilee regulations of the Hebraic Law. Tt is<br />
that the copyright vf an author’s work, after<br />
being public property for some reasonable time,<br />
so that the community may reasonably enjoy it,<br />
should pass back to the owner, who had inherited<br />
it or purchased the reversion. The practical<br />
difficulties in the fulfilment of any such scheme<br />
can be seen at a glance to be enormous.<br />
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The objections to a time-long copyright are<br />
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very valid, but to a world-wide copyright there<br />
are none.<br />
To pass to the next suggested theme :—<br />
<br />
* Domestic Copyright: what changes in present<br />
laws are desirable from the author’s standpoint ?<br />
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The first Copyright Act was the Act of Anne<br />
<br />
(8 Anne, ¢. 19), passed in 1709, which applied to<br />
“books and writings”’ alone, and gave to authors<br />
of books then existing a copyright for twenty-<br />
one years, and to authors of books to be in<br />
future published fourteen years from publication.<br />
During the next 110 years this was supplemented<br />
by the following eleven Acts :—<br />
<br />
In 1735.8 Geo. 2, c. 13, giving copyright in<br />
engravings.<br />
<br />
In 1739, 12 Geo. 2, ¢. 36, to prohibit the<br />
importation of British books reprinted<br />
abroad, and to repeal so much of the Act of<br />
Anne as empowered the limiting of the<br />
prices of books (repealed).<br />
<br />
In 1767, 7 Geo. 3, c. 38, to render the Act of<br />
1735 more effectual.<br />
<br />
In 1777, 17 Geo. 3, ¢. 57, to render the Acts of<br />
1735 and 1767 still more effectual.<br />
<br />
In 1798, 38 Geo. 3, ¢. 71, giving copyright in<br />
busts and new models (repealed).<br />
<br />
In 1801, 41 Geo. 3, ¢. 107, extending copyright<br />
in books for fourteen years more, if author<br />
still living at the end of the first fourteen<br />
years (repealed).<br />
<br />
In 1814, 54 Geo. 3, ¢. 56, giving copyright in<br />
every kind of sculpture.<br />
<br />
In 1814, 54 Geo. 3, c. 156, extending copyright<br />
in books to a term of twenty-eight years<br />
certain, and the residue of the life of the<br />
author (repealed).<br />
<br />
In 1833, 3 Will. 4, c. 15, giving author of play<br />
sole liberty of representation. (Bulwer<br />
Lytton’s Act.)<br />
<br />
In 1835,5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 65, to prevent the<br />
publication of lectures without consent.<br />
<br />
In 1838, 1 & 2 Vict. c¢. 59, the first Interna-<br />
tional Copyright Act (repealed.)<br />
<br />
In 1842 came the Act under which we at pre-<br />
sent lie (5 & 6 Vict. c. 45). The essentials,<br />
from the author’s point of view, were that<br />
the term of copyright was extended to forty-<br />
two years from publication, or till seven<br />
years from the death of the author, whichever<br />
shall be the longer, and that dramatic copy-<br />
right was also extended to musical composi-<br />
tions. During the next forty years this was<br />
supplemented by nine more Acts :—<br />
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* The authors, of course, confined themselves to con-<br />
sideration of the domestic copyright of their own land, but<br />
the debate at Chicago chiefly raged round the domestic copy-<br />
right of the United States.<br />
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In 1844, 7 Vict. c. 12, the principal existing<br />
International Copyright Act.<br />
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In 1847, 10 & 11 Vict. ¢. 95, the Foreign Re-<br />
prints Act, allowing the suspension by Order<br />
in Council, of the prohibition of importation<br />
of pirated books into the colonies.<br />
<br />
In 1852, 15 Vict. c. 12, an International Copy-<br />
right Act, allowing translation of political<br />
articles in foreign periodicals.<br />
<br />
In 1862, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 68, for the first time<br />
giving copyright in paintings, drawings, and<br />
photographs.<br />
<br />
In 1875, 38 Vict. c. 12, the Canada Copyright<br />
Act, and 38 & 39 Vict. ¢. 53, to allow the<br />
Royal assent to be given to the Canadian<br />
“ Copyright Act of 1875.”<br />
<br />
In 1876, the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876,<br />
<br />
9 & 40 Vict. c. 36, s. 42, by which there is a<br />
prohibition of importation of, and a forfeiture<br />
and power of destruction of, “ Books wherein<br />
the copyright shall be first subsisting, first<br />
composed, or written or printed in the United<br />
Kingdom, and printed or reprinted in any<br />
other country, as to which the proprietor of<br />
such copyright or his agent shall have given<br />
to the Commissioners of Customs a notice in<br />
writing, duly declared, that such copyright<br />
subsists, such notice also stating when such<br />
copyright will expire.”<br />
<br />
In 1882, the Copyright in Musical Compositions<br />
Act, 45 & 46 Vict. c. 40, to protect the public<br />
from vexatious actions for unauthorised per-<br />
formances of musical compositions.<br />
<br />
In 1886, the International Copyright Act, 49<br />
& 50 Vict. ¢, 33, to enable Her Majesty to<br />
accede to the Berne convention.<br />
<br />
In 1888, a second Copyright in Musical Com-<br />
positions Act, further to amend the law in<br />
the subject-matter of the Act of 1882.<br />
<br />
The result of all this legislation has been to<br />
render the copyright law of England complicated,<br />
inconclusive, incoherent, and disorderly, to a<br />
degree that is hardly credible. ‘“‘ The law,” said<br />
the Commissioners of 1878, “is wholly destitute of<br />
any sort of arrangement, incomplete, often<br />
obscure, and even when it is intelligible upon<br />
long study, it is in many parts so ill expressed<br />
that no one who does not give such study to<br />
it can expect to understand it.” ‘It cannot be<br />
said,” says Mr. Lely,? “that even the recent<br />
statutes dealing with copyright in musical com-<br />
positions show much improvement in form upon<br />
those which preceded them,” but he allows that<br />
<br />
the International Copyright Act of 1886 forms a<br />
<br />
bright exception.<br />
The Society of Authors, immediately upon its<br />
foundation, set to work to remedy this state of<br />
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affairs, being reimforced in the belief in the<br />
necessity for remedial legislation by the know-<br />
ledge of the many hardships that authors have to-<br />
undergo in the present state of affairs, and by the<br />
sight of the descendants of more than one splendid<br />
literary creator in poor circumstances. A scrutiny<br />
of the names of those who have benefited by the<br />
pension list* bears out well the fact that<br />
literature has too often brought its votaries no<br />
solid reward, but those names not only do not<br />
represent the true state of affairs, but they<br />
absolutely misrepresent it. For the pensions<br />
have been granted, by Liberal and Conservative<br />
Governments alike, in a manner that is entirely<br />
at variance with the designed purpose of the<br />
fund, and the numbers who have properly<br />
obtained assistance from time to time because of<br />
their distinction in literature, science, and art,<br />
bear no proper numerical proportion to the<br />
numbers who have been pensioned for other<br />
reasons. Many of these latter had not only no<br />
claim whatever to assistance from this particular<br />
fund, but, as surviving relations of persons in the<br />
various Crown services, were actually entitled to<br />
pensions from other sources. This abuse is one<br />
to which the Society of Authors has invited the<br />
attention of responsible statesmen, and one it<br />
hopes to see righted ere long. Tf a list of un-<br />
successful applicants for a place on the Establish-<br />
ment, and a list of the persons who have at<br />
different times been helped by the Royal Literary<br />
Fund could be published, they would reveal a<br />
state of affairs that would make very clear to the<br />
most thoughtless how necessary in England a<br />
society for the protection of authors’ interests is<br />
and has been. So that the first task the Society<br />
of Authors set itself ‘was to procure the draught-<br />
ing of a Bill that should give to authors larger<br />
rights in and a securer hold upon their property.<br />
The Bill, whose memorandum and more essential<br />
clauses follow, was drafted by Mr. Underdown,<br />
Q.C., and laid by him before the Board of Trade<br />
in 1886 on behalf of the Society of Authors.<br />
‘Afterwards it became necessary, in view of the<br />
passage of the International Copyright Bill of<br />
1886, to revise it, and this was done in 1892,<br />
when it was placed in the hands of Lord<br />
Monkswell.<br />
<br />
Tt will be sufficient here to quote the chief<br />
amendments of the bill now in Lord Monkswell’s<br />
charge in the House of Lords, as they will<br />
sufficiently answer, with regard to the United<br />
Kingdom, the question suggested for conference,<br />
viz.: What changes in present laws are desirable<br />
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Literature and the Pension List.” By W. Morris:<br />
Colles, Barrister-at-Law. Office of the Incorporated Society<br />
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LORD MONKSWELL’S BILL.<br />
MEMORANDUM.<br />
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Scope of Bill—This Bill is intended to con-<br />
solidate and amend the law of copyright other<br />
than copyright in designs.’<br />
<br />
Existing Law.—The existing law on the<br />
subject consists of no less than eighteen Acts of<br />
Parliament, besides common law principles,<br />
which are to be found only by searching the law<br />
reports. Owing to the manner in which the Acts<br />
have been drawn the law in many cases is hardly<br />
intelligible, and is full of arbitrary distinctions<br />
for which it is impossible to find a reason. [See<br />
paragraphs 9 to 13 of the Report of the Royal<br />
Commission on Copyright of 1878.]<br />
<br />
Instances of Defects of Existing Law.—For<br />
instance, the term of copyright in books is the<br />
life of the author and seven years, or forty-two<br />
years from publication, whichever period is the<br />
longer ; in lectures, when printed and published,<br />
the term is (probably) the life of the author,<br />
or twenty-eight years; in engravings twenty-<br />
eight years, and in sculpture fourteen years,<br />
with a possible further extension for another<br />
fourteen years, while the term of copyright in<br />
music and lectures, which have been publicly<br />
performed or delivered but not printed, is<br />
wholly uncertain. Again, the necessity for and<br />
effect of registration is entirely different with<br />
<br />
regard to (1) books, (2) paintings, (3) dramatic _<br />
<br />
works.<br />
<br />
Arrangement of Bill—tIn consolidating these<br />
enactments (all of which it is proposed to repeal)<br />
it has been thought advisable to deal separately<br />
with the various subjects of copyright, viz.: (1)<br />
literature, (2) music and dramatic works, and<br />
(3) works of art, and to make the part of the<br />
Bill dealing with each of these as far as possible<br />
complete in itself. This will account for certain<br />
repetitions which might otherwise seem unneces-<br />
sary.<br />
<br />
Foundation of Amendments.—The alterations<br />
proposed to be made in the law are for the most<br />
part those suggested in the Report of the Royal<br />
Commission on Copyright of 1878, and embodied<br />
in a Bill introduced at the end of the Session<br />
of 1879 by Lord John Manners, Viscount<br />
Sandon, and the Attorney-General, on behalf<br />
of the then Government. References will be<br />
found in the margin of the present Bill both<br />
to the Report of the Commission and the Bill<br />
of 1879.<br />
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* The law of copyright in designs is contained in<br />
Part III. of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act,<br />
1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 57), repealing and re-enacting with<br />
amendments the Copyright of Designs Acts of 1842 of 1843,<br />
of 1850, of 1861, and of 1875,<br />
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Summary of Chief Amendments.—The most<br />
important of these alterations may be summarised<br />
as follows :—<br />
<br />
1. A uniform term of copyright is introduced<br />
for all classes of work, consisting of the life<br />
of the author and thirty years after his<br />
death. The only exceptions are in the cases<br />
of engravings and photographs, and anony-<br />
mous and pseudonymous works for which,<br />
owing to the difficulty or impossibility of<br />
identifying the author, the term is to be<br />
thirty years only, with power for the author<br />
of an anonymous or pseudonymous work<br />
at any time during such thirty years to<br />
declare his true name and acquire the full<br />
term of copyright. [See Clause 15 (books),<br />
<br />
Clause 29 (music and drama), Clause 36<br />
(works of fine art and photographs). |<br />
<br />
. The period after which the author of an<br />
article or essay in a collective work (other<br />
than an encyclopedia) is to be entitled to.<br />
the right of separate publication is reduced<br />
from twenty-eight years to three years.<br />
[ See Clause 15. |<br />
<br />
3. The right to make an abridgment of a work<br />
is for the first time expressly recognised as<br />
part of the copyright, and an abridgment<br />
by a person other than the copyright owner<br />
is made an infringement of copyright. [See<br />
Clauses 5 and 21. |<br />
<br />
4. The authors of works of fiction are given<br />
the exclusive right of dramatising the same<br />
as part of their copyright, and the converse<br />
right is conferred on authors of dramatic<br />
works. [See Clause 21, par. 2.]<br />
<br />
5. The exhibition of photographs taken on<br />
commission, except with the consent of the<br />
person for whom they are taken, is rendered<br />
illegal.2 [See Clause 41. |<br />
<br />
6. Registration is made compulsory for all<br />
classes of work in which copyright exists,<br />
except paintings and sculptures; that is to<br />
say, no proceedings for infringement or<br />
otherwise can be taken before registration,<br />
nor can any proceedings be taken after regis-<br />
tration in respect of anything done before<br />
the date of registration, except on payment<br />
of a penalty. [See Clause 90.] This penalty,<br />
it should be wentioned, was not recom-<br />
mended by the Royal Commission, but is<br />
introduced in order that an accidental<br />
omission to register may not entirely deprive<br />
the copyright owner of his remedies. Regis-<br />
tration of paintings and sculpture is made<br />
optional owing to their being so frequently<br />
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® At present it seems to be merely a matter of implied<br />
contract. See Pollard v. The Photographic Company (40<br />
Ch. Div. 345).<br />
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and, unless they be published in print by<br />
the author, the exclusive right of re-<br />
delivering them in public:<br />
<br />
“ Publication” shall have the following mean-<br />
ings<br />
Tn the case of books, the first act of offering<br />
<br />
for sale, notifying, or exposing as ready<br />
for sale to the public any work or copy of<br />
a work, or the depositing or registering of<br />
any copy of a work in the manner pro-<br />
vided in this Act:<br />
<br />
In the case of a lecture, piece for recitation,<br />
address, or sermon which is printed, any<br />
act which constitutes publication in the<br />
case of a book, or, if such lecture, piece,<br />
address, or sermon be not published in a<br />
printed form, the first delivery in public:<br />
<br />
“Translation’’ shall include an abridgment or<br />
adaptation of a book in a language different<br />
from that in which it was previously pub-<br />
lished.<br />
<br />
11.—(1) Every assignment of copyright or<br />
performing right other than an assignment by<br />
operation of law or testamentary disposition,<br />
shall be in writing, signed by the assignor or his<br />
agent, duly authorised in writing.<br />
<br />
(2) Noassignment of or other dealing with any<br />
subject of copyright or performing right (other<br />
than an assignment by operation of law or testa-<br />
mentary disposition) shall pass the copyright or<br />
performing right therein unless the intention to<br />
assign the same shall be expressly evidenced in<br />
writing, signed as aforesaid.<br />
<br />
12. If the owner of the copyright or perform-<br />
ing right in any work shall give permission to<br />
another person to copy, imitate, perform, or<br />
otherwise repeat such work, such permission shall<br />
not, in the absence of an express agreement to<br />
the contrary, disentitle such owner from giving a<br />
similar or any other permission with respect to<br />
the same work, even though the first person to<br />
whom such permission was given has acquired<br />
copyright or performing right in his work.<br />
<br />
15. Duration of Copyright in Literary Works.<br />
—Copyright in books, lectures, pieces for recita-<br />
tion, addresses, and sermons, shall endure for the<br />
following terms:<br />
<br />
(1) If the work is published in the lifetime<br />
and in the true name of the original copy-<br />
right owner, for the life of the original copy-<br />
right owner, and thirty years after the end<br />
of the year in which his death shall take<br />
place :<br />
<br />
(2) If the work is written or composed by two<br />
or more persons jointly, for the life of the<br />
longest liver, and thirty years after the end of<br />
the year in which his death shall take place:<br />
<br />
(3) In the case of posthumous works, for<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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thirty years from the end of the year in<br />
which the same shall have been first pub-<br />
lished :<br />
<br />
(4) In the case of an anonymous or pseudo-<br />
nymous work, for thirty years from the end<br />
of the year in which the same shall have<br />
been first published: Provided always that<br />
upon the original copyright owner thereof<br />
or his personal representative, during the<br />
continuance of the said term of thirty<br />
years, with the consent of the registered<br />
copyright owner, making a declaration of<br />
the true name of the ‘“ original copyright<br />
owner ”’ and the insertion thereof, in the form<br />
set forth in the Schedule Three of this Act<br />
in the Register, the copyright shall, subject<br />
to the provisions of this Act, be extended to<br />
the full term of copyright under this Act.<br />
<br />
16. Copyright in Articles in Collective Works.<br />
—(1) In the case of any article. essay, or other<br />
work whatsoever, being the subject of copyright,<br />
first published in and forming part of a collective<br />
work, for the writing, composition, or making of<br />
which the original copyright owner shall have<br />
been paid or shall be entitled to be paid by the<br />
proprietor of the collective work, the copyright<br />
therein shall, subject as is hereinafter mentioned,<br />
and in the absence of any agreement to the con-<br />
trary, belong to such proprietor for the term of<br />
thirty years next after the end of the year in which<br />
such work shall have been first published :<br />
<br />
(2) Except in the case where such article,<br />
essay, or other work is first published in an<br />
encyclopedia, the original copyright owner<br />
thereof and his assigns shall, after the term of<br />
three years from the first publication thereof,<br />
have the exclusive right to publish the same in a<br />
form, and shall have copyright therein as a<br />
separate publication for the term provided by<br />
section fifteen of this Act, and notwithstanding<br />
anything hereinbefore contained, the proprietor<br />
of the collective work shall not, either during the<br />
said term of three years, nor afterwards during<br />
the continuance of copyright therein, be entitled<br />
to publish such article, essay, or other work, or<br />
any part thereof, in a separate form, without the<br />
consent in writing of the original copyright owner<br />
or his assigns.<br />
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19. Newspaper Copyright.— The copyright<br />
given by this Act in respect of newspapers 8<br />
extend only to articles, paragraphs, communica-<br />
tions, and other parts which are compositions of<br />
a literary character, and not to any articles, para-<br />
graphs, communications, or other parts which<br />
are designed only for the publication of news, or<br />
to advertisements.<br />
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21. Infringements.—The following acts by any<br />
person other than the copyright owner, and with-<br />
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out his consent in writing, shall be deemed to be<br />
infringements of copyright, unless such acts shall<br />
be specially permitted by the terms of this or<br />
some other Act not hereby repealed :<br />
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(1) In the case of books, printing or otherwise<br />
multiplying, or causing to be printed or other-<br />
wise multiplied, for distribution, sale, hire,<br />
or exportation copies, abridgements or trans-<br />
lations of any copyright book or any part<br />
thereof; exporting for sale or hire any such<br />
copies, abridgements, or translations, printed<br />
unlawfully in any part of the British domi-<br />
nions; importing any such copies, abridge-<br />
ments, or translations, whether printed<br />
unlawfully in any other part of the British<br />
dominions, or printed without the consent of<br />
the copyright owner in any foreign state; or<br />
knowing such copies to have been so printed<br />
or imported, distributing, selling, publishing,<br />
or exposing them for sale or hire, or causing<br />
or permitting them to be distributed, sold,<br />
published, or exposed for sale or hire:<br />
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(2) In the case of a book which is a work of<br />
fiction, it shall also be an infringement of the<br />
copyright therein, if any person shall, without<br />
the consent of the owner of the copyright,<br />
take the dialogue, plot, or incidents related<br />
in the book, and use them for or convert<br />
them into or adapt them for a dramatic work,<br />
or, knowing such dramatic work to have been<br />
so made, shall permit or cause public perfor-<br />
mance of the same :<br />
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(3) Inthe case of lectures, pieces for recita-<br />
tion, addresses, or sermons, whether before<br />
or after they are published in print by the<br />
owner of the copyright, the same acts as here-<br />
inbefore declared to be infringements in the<br />
case of books, and if they be not published<br />
in print by the owner of the copyright,<br />
re-delivering them or causing them to be<br />
re-delivered in public.<br />
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22, Extracts—Notwithstanding anything in<br />
this Act contained, the making of fair and moderate<br />
extracts from a book in which there is subsisting<br />
copyright, and the publications thereof in any<br />
otherwork, shall not be deemed to be infringement<br />
of copyright if the source from which the extracts<br />
have been taken is acknowledged.<br />
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23. Reporting Lectures—It shall not be<br />
deemed an infringement of copyright ina lecture,<br />
piece for recitation, address, or sermon, to report<br />
the same in a newspaper, unless the person<br />
delivering the same shall have previously given<br />
notice that he prohibits the same being reported.<br />
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24. New Editions.—For the purposes of this<br />
Act any second or subsequent edition of a book<br />
which is published with any additions or altera-<br />
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tions, whether in the letterpress or in the maps<br />
or illustrations belonging thereto, shall be deemed<br />
to be a new book.<br />
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Copyright in Works of Fine Art and Photographs.<br />
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34. Definitions—In addition to the interpreta-<br />
tion given in Part I. of this Act the following<br />
expressions in this Part ITI. shall, unless the<br />
context otherwise requires, have the following<br />
meanings :<br />
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“ Painting ’”’ shall mean and include a painting<br />
either in or with oil, distemper, water, or<br />
other vehicle, and drawing, either in crayons,<br />
charcoal, pastels, chalk, pencil, ink, or any<br />
other material, executed by hand and not by<br />
printing impression, or any mechanical or<br />
chemical process ; and “ painter” shall mean<br />
any person who executes a painting as above<br />
defined :<br />
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“ Photograph” shall mean and include the<br />
photographic negative and any positives or<br />
copies made therefrom :<br />
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“Publications” shall mean—<br />
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In the case of engravings and photographs, the<br />
first act of offering for sale, or of delivering<br />
to a purchaser, or advertising, notifying, or<br />
exposing as ready for sale to the public or<br />
for delivery to a purchaser, any copy of a<br />
work, or delivering at the registration office<br />
established under this Act a written request<br />
for the registration of such work as herein-<br />
after provided ; and the verb “ to publish, ’<br />
in all its moods and tenses, shall have a<br />
meaning corresponding with that of the<br />
publication.<br />
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“Replica” shall mean a repetition of a paint-<br />
ing executed by the painter thereof, or<br />
caused by him to be executed in the same<br />
material, and of, or so nearly of, the same<br />
size as to render doubtful the identity of the<br />
original work :<br />
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“Work of fine art” shall mean and include a<br />
painting, sculpture, and engraving as defined<br />
in this Act.<br />
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35. Artist to have Copyright in his Work, and in<br />
the Design if Original.—(1) Every person, being<br />
a British subject, or domiciled in some part of<br />
the British dominions, who from or according to<br />
his own original design shall execute, or cause to<br />
be executed, any work of fine art, shall have<br />
copyright therein, that is to say, the sole right ot<br />
copying, reproducing, repeating, and multiplying<br />
copies of that work, and of the design thereof, of<br />
any size, and either in the same material or by<br />
the same kind of art in which such work shall<br />
have been first executed, or in any other form or<br />
material or by any other kind of art, and the<br />
word “ copyright,” when used in relation to works<br />
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of fine art executed under the conditions in this<br />
first sub-section set forth, shall mean such right<br />
as aforesaid.<br />
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(2.) Not in the Design if not Original.—<br />
Every such person who, from the design of<br />
another, shall, without infringing any copyright,<br />
lawfully execute any work of fine art, shall<br />
(except when employed to execute the same by<br />
the author of that design, and in the case of an<br />
engraving except further when employed to<br />
execute the same by any other than such author)<br />
have copyright therein, that is to say, the sole<br />
right of copying, reproducing, and multiplying<br />
copies of the same work, but not, save as<br />
expressed in that work, the design thereof, and<br />
the word “ copyright,” when used in relation to<br />
works of fine art executed under the condition in<br />
this second sub-section set forth, shall mean such<br />
right as aforesaid.<br />
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(3.) In the case hereinbefore excepted of an<br />
engraving executed by some person employed for<br />
that purpose by another, the copyright shall<br />
belong to the employer if a British subject or<br />
domiciled as aforesaid at the time when such<br />
engraving shall be published, although not the<br />
author of the design.<br />
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(4.) Nothing herein contained shall have the<br />
effect of giving any person copyright in a copy or<br />
repetition of a painting by a painting, of sculp-<br />
ture by sculpture, or of an engraving by an<br />
engraving, except in the case of a copy or imita-<br />
tion by a painting in black and white or mono-<br />
chrome of a painting in polychrome.<br />
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(5.) This section shall apply to works of fine<br />
art executed either before or after the passing or<br />
commencement of this Act; Provided as to works<br />
executed before the passing or before the com-<br />
mencement of the Act, that the same, if paintings<br />
or sculpture, have not been sold, and, if<br />
engravings, have not been published, before the<br />
commencement of the Act.<br />
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36. Duration of Copyright.—The copyright<br />
hereinbefore given shall, in the case of paintings<br />
and sculpture, endure for the life of the person<br />
to whom the same is so given, and thirty years<br />
next after his death; and in the case of<br />
engravings not published in or forming part of a<br />
book, for the term of thirty years next after the<br />
end of the year in which they shall be published.<br />
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37. Painter of Portrait on Commission not to<br />
repeat it.—If the subject of or the principal<br />
object in any painting executéd on the order of any<br />
person for valuable consideration be the likeness<br />
of that person or of any person whose likeness<br />
was stipulated in the agreement for the painting,<br />
the painter or other owner of the copyright shall<br />
not by virtue of his copyright be entitled, with-<br />
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out the consent in writing of the owner for the<br />
time being of the painting, to repeat, copy, or<br />
reproduce the said likeness in any way or by any<br />
kind of art.<br />
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38. Replica not to be made without leave of<br />
Owner of Original—Whenever any painting<br />
shall have been sold, and the copyright therein<br />
shall remain the property of the painter, he shall<br />
not, without the consent in writing of the pur-<br />
chaser or other owner of the painting, be entitled<br />
by virtue of the copyright to make or cause to be<br />
made a replica of such painting, and if, before<br />
selling the painting, the painter shall have made<br />
or caused to be made a replica of it, and shall<br />
afterwards sell the one, he shall not, without the<br />
consent of the purchaser, or owner of that one, be<br />
entitled to sell, exhibit, or part with the property<br />
in the other.<br />
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41. Photographs taken on Commission not to<br />
be Sold or Exhibited—(1) Whenever after the<br />
commencement of this Act any protographic<br />
likeness of any person is taken on commission,<br />
neither the photographer, nor any other person,<br />
whether he owns the copyright therein or not,<br />
shall, without the consent in writing of the person<br />
for whom the work was executed, sell, offer for<br />
sale, or exhibit in public in any shop window or<br />
otherwise any copy of such likeness.<br />
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(2.) If such photographer or other person<br />
shall sell, offer for sale, or exhibit any copy of<br />
such likeness in manner aforesaid, every copy of<br />
such likeness in his possession shall be forfeited<br />
and delivered up to the person for whom the<br />
work was executed.<br />
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Copyright in the British Colonial and other<br />
Possessions.<br />
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51. Saving for Colonial Legislative Powers.<br />
—Nothing in this Act is intended or shall be<br />
construed in such manner as to lessen or to dero-<br />
gate from any power at present possessed by the<br />
legislative authorities in any British possession<br />
to legislate with respect to copyright in that<br />
possession, nor in such a manner as to deprive<br />
any person in a British possession of any copy-<br />
right or performing right he may be entitled to<br />
or may hereafter acquire in such possession under<br />
any law now in force or hereafter to be made in<br />
such possession, or to interfere with or lessen<br />
such right.<br />
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Penalties and Procedure.<br />
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87. Damages.—(1.) If any person shall infringe<br />
copyright or performing right, the owner thereof<br />
may, in addition to any other remedy, maintain<br />
an action or other proceeding allowed by the law<br />
of the place where the wrong has been committed<br />
ro damages and for an injunction, or either of<br />
them.<br />
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(2.) All actions or other proceedings for any<br />
such infringement shall be commenced within<br />
twelve calendar months next after the same is<br />
committed, or else the same shall not be main-<br />
tainable.<br />
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go. No Action, $c., before Registration.—(1.)<br />
No action, prosecution, or summary or other legal<br />
proceeding shall be maintained or maintainable<br />
m respect of any infringement of copyright or<br />
performing right under this Act, except as is<br />
hereinbefore provided as to foreign works, and<br />
except it be for infrmgement of copyright in a<br />
painting or work of sculpture, until the work has<br />
been registered at the Copyright Registration<br />
Office established under this Act, or at a registra-<br />
tration office in some British possession, and no<br />
such action, prosecution, or summary or other<br />
legal proceeding shall after registration be<br />
maintained or maintainable in respect of any<br />
infringement committed before the date of regis-<br />
tration of the work, unless or until in any<br />
such proceeding a penalty of ten pounds, or such<br />
less sum as the court may direct, shall have been<br />
paid.<br />
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(2.) If any copies, repetitions, or imitations of<br />
the work have been made before registration of<br />
the work, no action or other proceeding shall<br />
(except upon payment of such penalty as afore-<br />
said) be maintained or maintainable after regis-<br />
tration in respect of the circulation or sale of<br />
such copies, repetitions, or imitations, or to<br />
enforce any forfeiture or penalty in respect<br />
thereof.<br />
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(3.) Provided always that registration of any<br />
work within one month from the first publica-<br />
tion thereof shall enure for the benefit of the<br />
copyright owner as from the date of the publica-<br />
tion.<br />
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gt. Summary Remedy for Infringement.—ln<br />
lieu of any action or other proceeding for damages<br />
it shall be lawful in every case of infringement of<br />
copyright or of performing right, except of per-<br />
forming rights in musical compositions, for the<br />
owner of the right to apply ina summary manner<br />
to a court of summary jurisdiction in that part of<br />
the British dominions where the wrong has been<br />
committed, or where the person who has been<br />
guilty of the infringement dwells; and such<br />
court may, on production of the certificate of<br />
registration, or in the case of paintings and sculp-<br />
ture, on other proof of the title of the applicant,<br />
order the person who has been guilty of the in-<br />
fringement to pay a penalty not exceeding five<br />
pounds and all costs, and the money so paid as<br />
penalty shall be given by way of compensation to<br />
the owner of the copyright or performing right.<br />
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recovered in respect of any infringement of the<br />
performing right in a dramatic work.®<br />
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The remaining themes, viz.: The present Status<br />
of International Copyright, and The Desirability<br />
of a Conformity of Copyright Laws among all<br />
Nations, will be best considered together, for<br />
they open up identical questions.<br />
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With us the present status of International<br />
Copyright is determined by two things, the<br />
Statutes of the Berne Convention, and “ An Act<br />
to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the<br />
Revised Statutes of the United States relating to<br />
Copyrights,” commonly called in England ‘“‘ The<br />
American Copyright Bill;” but the enormous<br />
colonial possessions of the British Empire make<br />
of Colonial Copyright a question that has to be<br />
considered from something the same point of<br />
view as International Copyright.<br />
<br />
The British owner of a copyright has three<br />
markets in addition to the domestic one, viz., the<br />
Continent of Europe (largely still a matter of<br />
translation), America, where of course the circula-<br />
tion is enormous, and the Colonies, where the<br />
demand for books has lately much increased.<br />
<br />
The question of Colonial and Canadian copy-<br />
right need not be gone into here. It will be<br />
sufficient to say that the present law, which has<br />
been so heartily abused by the Royal Commis-<br />
sion, 1s nowhere in a condition of less working<br />
efficiency than it is in our colonies, while the<br />
colonial demand is getting larger daily. In the<br />
Straits Settlements and at the Cape the Society<br />
of Authors have been enabled to interfere in<br />
behalf of home copyright owners, and to exact the<br />
payment of the miserable duty on foreign<br />
reprints, but the sums so obtained are wretchedly<br />
inadequate, and the whole question is one that<br />
requires thorough investigation with a view to<br />
thorough reform.<br />
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International copyright in Europe, as well as<br />
in Haiti and Tunis, is regulated by the Berne<br />
Convention, of which the following articles form<br />
the foundation :—<br />
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1. Authors of any of the countries of the<br />
Union (Great Britain, Germany, Belgium,<br />
Spain, France, Haiti, Switzerland, and<br />
Tunis) or their lawful representatives, shall<br />
enjoy in the other countries for their works,<br />
whether published in one of those countries<br />
or unpublished, the rights which the respec-<br />
tive laws do now or may hereafter grant to<br />
natives.<br />
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2. The enjoyment of these rights is subject to<br />
the accomplishment of the conditions and<br />
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formalities prescribed by law in the country<br />
of origin of the work, and cannot exceed in<br />
the other countries the term of protection<br />
granted in the said country of origin.<br />
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. The country of origin of the work is that in<br />
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which the work is first published, or if such<br />
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as regards their unauthorised reproduction<br />
in the countries of the union.<br />
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for which the translating right has fallen<br />
into the public domain, the translator cannot<br />
oppose the translation of the same work by<br />
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publication takes place simultaneously in other writers.<br />
several countries of the Union, that one of<br />
them in which the shortest term of protection<br />
is granted by law.<br />
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4. For unpublished works the country to which<br />
the author belongs is considered the country<br />
of origin of the work.<br />
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. The stipulations of the present Convention<br />
apply equally to the publishers of literary<br />
and artistic works published in one of the<br />
countries of the Union, but of which the<br />
authors belong to a country which is not a<br />
party to the Union.<br />
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6. The expression “ literary and artistic works ”<br />
comprehends books, pamphlets, and all other<br />
writings; dramatic or dramatico-musical<br />
works, musical compositions with or without<br />
words, works of design, painting, sculpture,<br />
and engraving; lithographs, illustrations,<br />
geographical charts, plans, sketches, and<br />
plastic works relative to geography, topo-<br />
graphy, architecture, or science in general;<br />
in fact, every production whatsoever in the<br />
literary, scientific, or artistic domain which<br />
can be published by any mode of impression<br />
or reproduction.<br />
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7, Authors of any of the countries of the<br />
Union, or their lawful representatives, shall<br />
enjoy in the other countries the exclusive<br />
right of making or authorising the transla-<br />
tion of their works until the expiration of<br />
ten years from the publication of the original<br />
work in one of the countries of the Union.<br />
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8. For works published in incomplete parts<br />
(“‘livraisons”) the period of ten years com-<br />
mences from the date of publication of the<br />
last part of the original work.<br />
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g. For works composed of several volumes pub-<br />
lished at intervals, as well as for bulletins or<br />
collections (‘ cahiers’’) published by literary<br />
or scientific societies, or by private persons,<br />
each volume, bulletin, or collection is, with<br />
regard to the period of ten years, considered<br />
as a separate work.<br />
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10. In the cases provided for by the present<br />
article, and for the calculation of the period<br />
of protection, the 31st of December of the<br />
year in which the work was published is<br />
admitted as the date of publication<br />
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11. Authorised translations are protected as<br />
original works. They consequently enjoy<br />
the protection stipulated in Articles 1 and 2,<br />
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The Society of Authors was, of course, not<br />
officially represented at the Berne Conference,<br />
only the chosen representatives of the contract-<br />
ing natiens being present, and no external evi-<br />
dence or assistance being invited. But the late<br />
Sir Francis Ottiwell Adams, who was Plenipo-<br />
tentiary for Great Britain, was one of the<br />
founders of our Society, and we were so com-<br />
pletely in touch with his individual views on the<br />
subject, that it is a matter of no surprise that<br />
we have no fault to find with the terms of the<br />
Berne Convention.” They seem to us reasonable,<br />
to give to the public that facility of access to<br />
good books in all tongues, to which the public<br />
has a right, and yet to reserve to the author<br />
sufficient proprietary control over his property<br />
to make it easy for him to obtain proper pecuniary<br />
reward, if he sets about it properly. Great<br />
Britain has posed largely as a deeply injured<br />
country, because of the way her authors have<br />
been exploited in the past by other nations, but<br />
the fact is that, as far as the continent of Europe<br />
is concerned, the country most benefited by the<br />
Berne Convention is France, while the sinner,<br />
whose depredations have. been most checked by<br />
the Convention is Great Britain. The reason of<br />
this is not far to seek. There was and is a certain<br />
and by no means small number of French story-<br />
tellers, whose works all English people read, in<br />
French if they can, and in translation if they<br />
cannot. The result of this high development of<br />
the art of fiction in France was to encourage the<br />
issue in England of an enormous amount of<br />
translations from the French—good, indifferent,<br />
and bad—which all, however, had their one<br />
common characteristic, that they were unautho-<br />
rised, and that their sale contributed nothing to<br />
the author, and very little to the translator. The<br />
statutes of the Berne Convention have corrected<br />
this evil. For the extension of protection to<br />
“authorised translations ’? makes it necessary for<br />
the translator to approach the author or owner of<br />
the copyright so as to obtain the necessary autho-<br />
risation. This must lead to the question of price<br />
being discussed between them, and by the corre-<br />
spondence passing through the Society of Authors<br />
we know that this is the case. Both parties are<br />
benefited. The translator will receive terms and<br />
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owner of the copyright, having selected a person<br />
fit to discharge the duty of translator, need no<br />
longer fear the abuse of his property at the hands<br />
of incompetent or dishonest workmen. He can<br />
leave it to the person whom he has authorised to<br />
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There are certain anomalies in the working of<br />
the terms of the Berne Convention that can be<br />
traced to the want of uniformity in the period of<br />
copyright in the different countries. And this<br />
want of uniformity is very striking. For instance,<br />
in Great Britain the period is life and seven<br />
years, or forty-two years from publication, which-<br />
ever may be the longer; in Germany, life and<br />
thirty years beyond; in Italy, life or forty years<br />
from publication, whichever may be the longer ;<br />
in Belgium, life and twenty years beyond; in<br />
Spain, life and eighty years beyond; in France,<br />
life and fifty years beyond; in Haiti, life, and<br />
the widow’s life beyond, or for twenty years to<br />
benefit children, or for ten years to benefit other<br />
heirs ; and in Mexico, where the native output is<br />
very small, time-long copyright is granted. How<br />
can absolutely fair reciprocal terms be arranged<br />
between nations whose first notions of what is<br />
due to the author and what to the public differ<br />
so fundamentally ? Only a world-wide and time-<br />
long copyright would ever get rid of these<br />
anomalies. For it is impossible to imagine all<br />
the nations of the earth deciding in conclave<br />
that, say, life and fifty years is the just<br />
term of protection. No limited term can<br />
ever seem right to everybody. It is possible to<br />
conceive a yveneral admission that literary pro-<br />
perty, beg in no way distinguishable from other<br />
property, belongs to its owner in perpetuity. But<br />
this is the proposition, which, though strong in<br />
logic is, for reasons of practical expediency, very<br />
weak.<br />
<br />
Nearly all that can be done at present to give<br />
the author and the publisher a fair chance in<br />
foreign lands has been done by the Berne Con-<br />
vention, in behalf of copyright owners happening<br />
to be citizens of one of the contracting States,<br />
And it should be mentioned that it is open for<br />
any State to join the union by providing domestic<br />
legislation that will enable her to comply with<br />
the conditions demanded by the statutes. And<br />
allusion is made to this because there are note-<br />
worthy absentees from the number of contracting<br />
States. For instance, Russia is still outside, and<br />
it is difficult to over-estimate the influence that<br />
Russia has had upon European literature. One<br />
great author, Count Tolstoi, is believed to desire<br />
no pecuniary return for his work; but the Russian<br />
school of novelists alone is a large one, and as<br />
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they may not all acquiesce in Count Tolstoi’s<br />
creed, it seems to us a little odd that Russia does<br />
not join the union. For it must be noted that it<br />
is fiction, and fiction in translation, that is chiefly<br />
going to be benefited by the terms of the Berne<br />
Convention. Scientific and abstruse monographs<br />
will circulate in their original language, because,<br />
firstly, scientific language has been thoughtfully<br />
arranged upon a classical basis, so as to be very<br />
similar in all tongues; and, secondly, the people<br />
to whom such works are necessary, will generally<br />
make light of the task of translating them for<br />
themselves. Norway and Sweden, again, should<br />
join, having regard to the boom in Norse litera-<br />
ture.<br />
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In the next two markets, the American and the<br />
Colonial, the British author has only to consider<br />
English-speaking people. And here he may<br />
grumble with justice that he has been hardly<br />
used. For no doubt his works, requiring no<br />
intermediary translation, have, in days gone by,<br />
been more pirated than have the books of even<br />
the popular French novelists.<br />
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The new American Act will right this, for it has<br />
conceded to foreign authors, of whom the English<br />
are, by identity of tongue, far the most important,<br />
rights in their works. It is too soon to criticise<br />
the working of the Bill in all its details, but it is<br />
not too soon to recognise that the new legislation<br />
is bound to be of the greatest possible service to<br />
all our popular authors of both nations. It is<br />
strongly felt by us, however, that the enactment<br />
compelling simultaneous publication should give<br />
way to a six months’ period of waiting on either<br />
side.<br />
<br />
The Report of the Copyright Commission deal-<br />
ing with the question of American Copyright<br />
before the passage of the Bill runs as follows,<br />
and states very fairly what was felt to be the posi-<br />
tion at the time :—<br />
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“When deciding upon the terms in which we<br />
should report upon this subject, we have felt the<br />
extreme delicacy of our position in expressing an<br />
opinion upon the policy and laws of a friendly<br />
nation, with regard to which a keen sense of<br />
injury is entertained by British authors. Never-<br />
theless, we have deemed it our duty to state the<br />
facts brought to our knowledge, and frankly to<br />
draw the conclusions to which they lead.<br />
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Although with most of the nations of the Con-<br />
tinent treaties have been made, whereby reciprocal<br />
protection has been secured for the authors of<br />
those countries aud your Majesty’s subjects, it<br />
has hitherto been found impracticable to arrange<br />
any terms with the American people. We pro-<br />
ceed to indicate what im our view are the diffi-<br />
culties which have impeded a settlement.<br />
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the fact that, although the language of the two<br />
countries is identical, the original works pub-<br />
lished in America are, as yet, less numerous than<br />
those published in Great Britain. This naturally<br />
affords a temptation to the Americans to take<br />
advantage of the works of the older country, and<br />
at the same time tends to diminish the induce-<br />
ment to publish original works. It is the opinion<br />
of some of those who gave evidence on this sub-<br />
ject, and it appears to be plain that the effect of<br />
the existing state of thimgs is to check the<br />
growth of American literature, since it is impos-<br />
sible for American authors to contend at a profit<br />
with a constant supply of works, the use of which<br />
c sts the American publisher little or nothing.<br />
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“Were there in American law no recognition<br />
of the rights of authors, no copyright legislation,<br />
the position of the United States would be<br />
logical. But they have copyright laws; they<br />
afford protection to citizen or resident authors,<br />
while they exclude all others from the benefit of<br />
that protection. The position of the American<br />
people in this respect is the more striking, from<br />
the circumstance that, with regard to the<br />
analogous right of patents for inventions, they<br />
have entered into a treaty with this country for<br />
the reciprocal protection of inventors.<br />
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“Great Britain is the nation which naturally<br />
suffers the most from this policy. The works of<br />
her authors and artists may be, and generally<br />
are, taken without leave by American publishers,<br />
sometimes mutilated, issued at cheap rates to a<br />
population of forty millions, perhaps the most<br />
active readers in the world, and not seldom in<br />
forms objectonable to the feelings of the original<br />
author or artist.<br />
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“Incidentally, moreover, the injury is intensi-<br />
fied. The circulation of such reprints is not<br />
confined to the United States. They are<br />
exported to British Colonies, and particularly to<br />
Canada, in all of which the authors are theoreti-<br />
cally protected by the Imperial law.”<br />
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There is only one point which it seems to us<br />
the commissioners rather missed, though it must<br />
be remembered that it was not so evident<br />
then as it was just previous to the passage of the<br />
American Copyright Bill. And that is, that<br />
American literature itself was becoming an<br />
enormous thing. At the time of the Copyright<br />
Commission, American lterature certainly meant,<br />
to many English people, the highly artistic and<br />
delicate work of two or three poets and two or<br />
three novelists, and the incomparable exponents<br />
of a new sort of humour—the humour of quiet<br />
exaggeration. But all this has been changed<br />
now, and there are a score of American<br />
authors whose names are household words in<br />
England. And how has this been accomplished ?<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
By piracy. While the English author has been<br />
lifting up a justly aggrieved voice against the<br />
action of the American, he was apparently in<br />
ignorance that he was treating the American<br />
author at that very time in the same larcenous<br />
manner.<br />
<br />
All English authors have welcomed with<br />
pleasure the passage of an Act that bids fair to<br />
set at rest a question whose consideration and<br />
debate have given tise to an acrimony that can<br />
be well understood.<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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Correspondeuts are requested to state their case in as few<br />
words as possible where the facts speak for themselves ;<br />
and if they advance opinions to regard brevity before<br />
style. The limited space of the Author requires attention<br />
to these points.<br />
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I—A Dvusious CHARGE.<br />
<br />
OP ene eae years ago I not only wrote<br />
verses, but had my verse printed at my own<br />
expense—but not published. A friend, if I<br />
<br />
may speak of a relation as a friend, Mr. E. C. J.<br />
we will call him, declared, upon hearing that I<br />
had written a book of verses, that he was “ much<br />
concerned for my reputation as an author,” or<br />
perhaps it was “as a poet,” and urgently begged<br />
that I would allow him to look through my<br />
verses ; he said nothing about any revision, or<br />
any charge for his services. It was, he gave me<br />
to understand, a spontaneous outcome of good<br />
feeling and anxiety for my literary reputation<br />
that urged him to offer his advice. To his<br />
taking a copy of the book away with him I could<br />
of course make no objection, in fact, he was quite<br />
welcome to any volumes he might require. My<br />
friend was highly intellectual, fairly well read,<br />
and well educated; a man of good position and<br />
recognised authority on certain subjects, but he<br />
had, however, no literary tastes, and he was, more-<br />
over, strictly matter of fact, with not an atom of<br />
sentiment about him, and painfully unpoetical.<br />
I should not imagine that he had ever read a<br />
line of our great poets in his life, and yet he took<br />
upon himself the task of revising a book of<br />
poems. My friend who bore away with him my<br />
book was even ignorant of the most simple laws<br />
of versification. When the book was returned<br />
to me it was marked here and there on the<br />
margin in red ink, and remarks were made in<br />
what I thought to be his handwriting. Whoever<br />
made them could not have been occupied for more<br />
than an hour in the task, since there were not<br />
more than fifty of these red ink corrections<br />
throughout the book, which consisted of about<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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one hundred pages, and such corrections as were<br />
made displayed in many places utter indifference<br />
to the rules of English grammar and literary<br />
construction. For this unmasked for service,<br />
thrust upon a youth who perhaps would have<br />
fared better had he been dealt with by competent<br />
reviewers, I was asked to pay £10; and in utter<br />
ignorance of the value of the service thus thrust<br />
upon me, I wrote and despatched to my friend a<br />
cheque for that amount. Now that I am<br />
acquainted with matters relating to book pro-<br />
duction and the profession of literature, now<br />
that I know how hard it is to earn £10, I_ begin<br />
to suspect that I dil very wrong to admit this<br />
claim; that I was, in fact, imposed upon, and my<br />
reason for writing to the Author is to obtain<br />
from that best friend, not only to literary aspi-<br />
rants, but to veteran authors, é.e., the Editor, his<br />
opinion of the facts I have related. A. M.<br />
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[Of course there can Le no doubt whatever on<br />
the subject. As the facts are related, the young<br />
writer should have refused to pay this impudent<br />
demand. It was, however, twenty-eight years<br />
ago. Perhaps such a demand would not be made<br />
in these days.—Ep. |<br />
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Il.—Lert To Pay.<br />
<br />
The following story may be of use perhaps to<br />
somebody unversed im the ways of editors, so I<br />
tell it:—-An article of mine went to a paper for<br />
which I have often written, and was duly<br />
accepted. But the letter announcing this fact<br />
expressed a wish for a few photographs to illus-<br />
trate the article, and mentioned five or six as the<br />
number likely to be required. I accordingly,<br />
after considerable trouble—for the views were<br />
difficult to get—bought five photographs and<br />
despatched them to the paper, and my article<br />
appeared, illustrated, however, by only two out<br />
of the five. After a while I received an envelope<br />
containing all the photographs, but no money<br />
beyond the sum due for the letterpress. So I<br />
had to pay for things quite useless to me, and<br />
got simply at the suggestion of the editor, a<br />
mode of procedure which I thought, and think,<br />
very shabby on his part, and which took some of<br />
the “gilt off the gingerbread,” never too highly<br />
gilt at its best for struggling authors. N. D.<br />
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I11.—Tue Epiror Acatn.<br />
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In view of the many, no doubt deserved,<br />
charges of editorial neglect of unknown authors,<br />
a personal experience on the other side may<br />
perhaps be interesting. Between two and three<br />
years ago I submitted a manuscript to the editor<br />
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of a well-known monthly magazine, whose rule I<br />
had previously discovered to be courtesy to all<br />
contributors, immediate notice of MSS., and<br />
prompt payment for such as were accepted. The<br />
MS. in question was a short story of about 8000<br />
words. This the editor considered too long. He<br />
returned the story, and asked me to curtuil it,<br />
which I could not consent to do, and I wrote<br />
expressing my inability and regret. More than a<br />
year and a half afterwards the editor wrote to ask<br />
me to let him have the MS. back, as he could<br />
then place it. The story had meantime appeared<br />
in another publication. Now, that is the part<br />
which I consider noteworthy —that a sympathetic<br />
and experienced man could know so little of the<br />
ways of authors as to imagine that a writer could<br />
afford to keep copy on hand for such a period.<br />
But this is not all. A year later, namely, during<br />
the present week, the editor wrote again, and<br />
without any communication between us in the<br />
interval. He had obviously forgotten my last<br />
letter, as well as the title of the story, and merely<br />
said that, having returned a story of mine some<br />
time ago, he begged to have it again for recon-<br />
sideration. To specify the story in question he<br />
thereupon supplied me with the whole plot in<br />
brief.<br />
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Now, this from a very busy man, at the head.<br />
not only of a publication, but of a publishing<br />
house, and after an interval of between two and<br />
three years, strikes me as an incident well worth<br />
<br />
recording. A letter in verification of the above<br />
statement is inclosed.<br />
Nov. 11. EK. Rentout Esuer.<br />
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IV.—Bryonp THE AGREEMENT.<br />
<br />
I have heard of a piece of generosity on the<br />
part of a publishing firm which should be recorded<br />
if only pour encourager des autres. They bought<br />
the copyright of a certain book, which thus<br />
became their property absolutely, the author<br />
baving no further claim upon them. The serial<br />
rights of this work were purchased by a journal,<br />
the publishers thereupon voluntarily forwarded to<br />
the author, above and beyond their purchase<br />
price, a moiety of the sum they had received<br />
from the journal in question. L. 8.<br />
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[The publishing tirm in question was that of<br />
Messrs. Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co.—Ep. |<br />
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V.—Wuy Resecrep.<br />
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J. B. urges that editors should state why a<br />
MS. has been rejected. He also points out that<br />
a single adjective—dull, unsuitable, uninteresting,<br />
too long, too short—would generally convey all<br />
the information wanted. But has J. B. any idea<br />
of the work of an editor as it is’ Iv is enough<br />
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to read a bundle of MSS. without the additional<br />
labour of affixing to each a form containing, if<br />
only in a single word, the reason for rejection.<br />
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VI.—Tue Germans’ Turn,<br />
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At various annual dinners of the Authors’<br />
Society, and at the lesser feasts of the Authors’<br />
Club, we have honoured and feted Americans<br />
and Frenchmen, Dutchmen and Belgians, but<br />
up to the present time, for some curious reason,<br />
certainly not out of respect for their literature,<br />
we have never yet given a dinner to German<br />
authors. And yet their literature has an immense<br />
influence for good upon our English art of writing ;<br />
and how very great an influence their scientific<br />
work has had upon our scientific writers will<br />
quickly be seen by a reference to any modern<br />
English scientific work. The preface of these<br />
works generally refers to the German works<br />
quarried from and used, whatever branch of<br />
science is being studied.: Could we not do honour<br />
to such writers as Jordan, Ebers, and Dahn,<br />
Eckstein and Freytag, Bodenstedt, Scheffel, or<br />
Stinde, or to a language that has produced in our<br />
day such writers, even though they may not, nay,<br />
some cannot, be present? When we remember the<br />
number of Germans in England, probably many<br />
German authors would avail themsclves of an<br />
invite from the English authors to visit England ;<br />
and although the language of Goethe and Schiller,<br />
Humboldt and Mommsen, may not be so widely<br />
and lightly known as the language of Moliére<br />
and Hugo, yet enough English speakers of<br />
German could easily be found to entertain our<br />
guests.<br />
<br />
The present day literature of Germany is worthy<br />
of highest honour. Her plays have been adapted,<br />
and proved immense successes on our English<br />
stage ; her history and her science is accepted in<br />
our Universities as the highest authority, and<br />
latest developments of thought and research ;<br />
her novels are stirring and elevating; her poetry<br />
is thoughtful, and in touch with nature; her<br />
humorists are being copied by our most modern<br />
wits; and yet our Authors’ Society has up to now<br />
not done the literature of the German people<br />
honour in the persons of the professors of that<br />
literature. It is an oversight; but I am nor only<br />
speaking my own thoughts when I express a hope<br />
that a dinner, followed by a conversazione, will<br />
ere long be arranged by the English Society of<br />
Authors to German writers. Jams Baker.<br />
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VII.—AvtuHors anD PUBLISHING.<br />
As one who has written and published several<br />
books which have brought much “grist” to the<br />
vublishers, but very little to their author, I must<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
take exception to Mr. Andrew Lang’s statement<br />
in this month’s Author, when he says: “ As to<br />
the author’s ignorance of the sum which should<br />
be his due, I presume that he finds out his<br />
market value, like other people, as soon as he is<br />
‘ quoted,’ in all senses. His first effort is a shot<br />
in the dark. Let it even ‘make an outer,’ and he<br />
begins to know what he should be paid.”’ This<br />
is so misleading, and so contrary to my own<br />
experience (albeit, not quite ‘‘ an idiot,” as Mr,<br />
Andrew Lang would term all authors ignorant of<br />
the ways of publishers), that I must be pardoned<br />
for stating my own case. After various essays<br />
in authorship I “made a hit’? in book form;<br />
but. got little thereby, for I had sold the copyright<br />
for £15. At my second venture (generally con-<br />
sidered my best work), my publishers, as I know<br />
now sorrowfully, must have netted hundreds,<br />
where I received tens, of pounds. For my third<br />
book I received less than tor my second; a little<br />
more for my fourth; a little more for my fifth—<br />
altogether less than £100. It is only now, that<br />
by means of the Society of Authors, “The<br />
Methods of Publishing,” and “ The Cost of Pro-<br />
duction,’ I am beginving to know the value of<br />
my literary work. And but for our Society I<br />
should beas much in the dark now, after publish-<br />
ing some dozen books, as to what remuneration<br />
an author ought to receive for his work, as all<br />
authors and literary men generallv were fifty<br />
years ago! The Incorporated Society of Authors<br />
is doing a good work, and a great work, by letting<br />
in a flood of light upon matters formerly en-<br />
veloped in the darkness and mystery of “trade<br />
secrets.” CLERICUS.<br />
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VIII.—Lirerary Insurance.<br />
<br />
T observe that in the current 1.umber of the<br />
Author Mr. J. M. Lely raises the question of<br />
insurance of MSS.,.and expresses the belief that<br />
they are uninsurable.<br />
<br />
Allow me to state my experience.<br />
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I have a considerable number of literary MSS.,<br />
notes, and memoranda; and, as their destruction<br />
would mean the loss to me of the results of a<br />
very large amount of labour and research, I last<br />
year sought to insure them. After the risk had<br />
been declined by more than one good office<br />
(including that in which my household effeets<br />
are insured), it was at last accepted by the Fine<br />
Art Insurance Company Limited, of 28, Cornhill,<br />
E.C., and I now hold a policy in that office. Mr.<br />
Cecil T. Davis, of the Public Library, Wands-<br />
worth, is, I believe, the agent for literary<br />
insurances, and to him all communications from<br />
those who wish to insure either books or MSS.<br />
should be addressed. Miter CuHRIsTyY.<br />
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IX.—ILuvstRaTIons.<br />
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Surely the difficulties connected with the cost<br />
of illustrations would be surmounted if the artist<br />
furnished the blocks ready for printing. If the<br />
illustrator did this, he could, if he desired, make<br />
fresh drawings, when the blocks turned out un-<br />
satisfactorily, at his own expense; and the<br />
author would know exactly what his illustrations<br />
would cost. There is nothing more unsatisfac-<br />
tory to an artist than to see bad illustrations<br />
bearing his name; and, if the expense of re-<br />
doing a drawing came out of his own pocket, he<br />
would willingly sacrifice part of his profits. But<br />
if the author or the publisher has to bear the<br />
charge of the artist’s mistakes, he naturally<br />
objects. I have illustrated some books in this<br />
manner, stating my price, and bearing all risks of<br />
occasional failure, and I find that 1s. to 2s. per<br />
square inch is fair payment for ordinary land-<br />
scape and architectural work (or simple figure<br />
subjects), inclusive of process blocks ready for<br />
the printer. Figure subjects requiring several<br />
models, or elaborate or historical costumes, would,<br />
of course, be more costly. This is a far more<br />
satisfactory manner of working to the artist,<br />
because it is impossible always to be perfectly<br />
sure that a drawing will reproduce well. Just as<br />
one sees faults in print which were overlooked in<br />
MS., so one sees mistakes in the engraving<br />
which remained undiscovered in the drawing.<br />
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X.—Reticion in Darty Lire.<br />
<br />
Some months ago I agreed to supply a serial<br />
story for the pages of a new religious weekly. I<br />
was to be paid at a certain rate per chapter, and<br />
at the request of the editor I forwarded copy well<br />
in advance of the date of publication. Long ere<br />
all the chapters had appeared in the paper the<br />
whole of the MS. of them was in the editor’s<br />
keeping. I had dismissed the story from my<br />
mind, when one morning I was surprised by a visit<br />
from one of the editor’s clerks, bringing me ap<br />
urgent letter from him saying that the MS. of<br />
the forthcoming chapter of my story had some-<br />
how been lost at the office, and entreating me to<br />
help him out of this “ awkward dilemma.” Could<br />
I supply a second copy? I explained to the<br />
messenger that Thad no copy of my work. AIlI<br />
could do was to look up my notes of the story<br />
and rewrite that particular chapter. Was that<br />
what the editor wished? Iwas told that it was,<br />
and that the MS. must be at the office not later<br />
than the first postal delivery on Monday morning.<br />
It was then midday on Saturday, so I set about<br />
the distasteful task of endeavouring to recall<br />
and reconstruct matter which had lost its interest<br />
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for me. It was a most irksome task, and occupied<br />
me for some five hours that evening and a couple of<br />
hours on the following day. On Monday evening<br />
I received the printer’s proofs. Imagine my<br />
chagrin on perceiving that they were printed<br />
from the original MS., which apparently had<br />
turned up in the interval! At this time I had<br />
received payment for all the chapters except the<br />
last four, of which this was one. These were not<br />
paid for, and after waiting for several weeks I<br />
wrote to the editor asking for a settlement,<br />
and drawing his attention to the fact that,<br />
although only four chapters remained unpaid for,<br />
I was really entitled to payment for five, as I had<br />
rewritten one at his request. After a delay of<br />
some weeks I received a reply to this effect. “In<br />
view of the fact that material for the story which<br />
you rewrote was in drawer at office all the time,<br />
and that the matter you furnished was not origi-<br />
nal, we have made the cheque so much, and hope<br />
you will approve.” The amount of the cheque<br />
provided tos. 6d. as the magnificent remuneration<br />
for my seven hours’ work. Was this or was it<br />
not very shabby treatment ?<br />
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Oct. 25- A Member OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
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AT THE SIGN OF THE “AUTHOR'S HEAD.”<br />
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<br />
N Mr. Black’s new novel, “The Handsome<br />
Humes” (Sampson Low and Co.), the<br />
author has discovered and made use of<br />
<br />
the fact that the pugilist of to-day has<br />
an opportunity of making more money than<br />
he used to do when the P.R. was the fashion,<br />
and so we have in this story an ex-prize-<br />
fighter who has had his daughter educated in a<br />
clergyman’s family. When she is of age to keep<br />
her father’s house, his first care is to hide her<br />
away from his earlier acquaintances, only one of<br />
whom makes any appearance. Accident brings<br />
the girl a handsome lover, and she has to con-<br />
tend against the old difficulties of family pride<br />
and pedigree, with the addition ofa titled rival.<br />
However, as becomes her father’s daughter and<br />
Mr. Black’s heroine, her beauty soon “knocks<br />
them out of time’’—though, all unwittingly, she<br />
makes her father sacrifice himself for her sake. It<br />
is a charming story, but the reader may perhaps<br />
feel inclined to ask, as usual, if anything is<br />
known of the heroine’s mother. The author<br />
would probably adapt Balzac’s answer to a<br />
somewhat similar question, and say, “I did not<br />
know Miss Summers during her mother’s life-<br />
time.”<br />
<br />
From a small volume of verse by Mr. Arthur<br />
Hood, entitled ‘Smiles and Tears,’ we give the<br />
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following extract, being part of ‘A Poor Man’s<br />
Song” :—<br />
The pride that holds its head aloof<br />
Above life’s common pains,<br />
And boasts because some grandsire made<br />
A hoard of ill-got gains.<br />
* *<br />
<br />
* * *<br />
Or that still viler boasting that<br />
On marriage rears its head,<br />
And nestles in the riches left<br />
By the uncared for dead.<br />
* * * * *<br />
<br />
Let Genesis be written fresh,<br />
The old one’s out of date:<br />
<br />
It could not be one man was made<br />
With Mother Eve for mate.<br />
<br />
But two, as species for the race<br />
That was to follow after—<br />
<br />
One rich—the angels’ special care ;<br />
One poor—the devil’s laughter.<br />
<br />
The author of “ Somnia Medici” has put for-<br />
ward another volume of poetry, entitled “ Tales in<br />
Verse,” of which there are seventeen in various<br />
metres, interspersed with songs, all too long for<br />
quotation except the followimg:—<br />
<br />
Then he sang<br />
The taunt of cowardice that hides in gloom.<br />
<br />
A lord and a king thou hast bid me to sing.<br />
I have sung of thy hateful realm ;<br />
<br />
And I sing thy affright in the fall of night,<br />
And the death that shall overwhelm.<br />
<br />
For where are thy arms and thy lying charms,<br />
And thy slaves that bow the knee,<br />
<br />
Thy hall of state and each breathing hate,<br />
In this shadow where none may see ?<br />
<br />
But I know thee near, and I have thee here,<br />
For a coward in vain shall flee;<br />
<br />
And my song is a spear to thy open ear,<br />
And its point shall be sharp to thee.<br />
<br />
Of dainty books, beautiful books, books in<br />
artistic bindings, books in artistic print, books<br />
with lovely illustrations, there is certainly a<br />
revival growing and spreading very fast, imso-<br />
much that there may be a danger before long<br />
of the outside appearance becoming of more value<br />
than the text itself. Certainly there will be col-<br />
lectors of books for their outside alone. Here is<br />
an exquisitely beautiful book called “ A Book of<br />
Pictured Carols,” designed under the direction<br />
of Arthur J. Gaskin, and published by George<br />
Ellen.<br />
<br />
A new translation of Andersen’s Fairy Tales<br />
<br />
has been published by Mr. George Allen, also<br />
with illustrations by Arthur J. Gaskin. It is<br />
<br />
safe to say that no illustrations to any previous<br />
edition can compare for a moment with these.<br />
As to the accuracy of the new translation, Danish<br />
scholars may speak; at least one may say that<br />
the English is good, and that it shows no sign of<br />
being a translation. The general presentation<br />
and appearance of the book are most artistic.<br />
<br />
‘THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
“Men and Men,” a love story, by V. 8. Sim-<br />
mons, author of “Green Tea,” is a story to be<br />
noted and read. It is not long; itis not new in<br />
its place or in its people; yet it is fresh, and seizes<br />
the reader.<br />
<br />
The book of the month is Wright’s “ Brontés<br />
in Treland.”<br />
<br />
The following arrangements have been con-<br />
cluded through the Authors’ Syndicate: Mr.<br />
George Meredith’s new story, “Lord Ormont<br />
and his Aminta,” will run serially through the<br />
Pall Mali Magazine, commencing in the<br />
December number.<br />
<br />
Mr. Hall Caine’s story of the sale of the Isle of<br />
Man to the English Crown will, under the title of<br />
“The Manxman,” commence in the Queen and a<br />
limited syndicate of provincial newspapers in<br />
January.<br />
<br />
Mr W. E. Norris’s story, “ Matthew Austin,”<br />
will begin in the January number of the Cornhill<br />
Magazine.<br />
<br />
Mr. William Patrick Kelly, author of “Some<br />
Exciting Adventures,’ now running in the<br />
Million, has arranged with a Swiss newspaper<br />
proprietor for the translation and serial publica-<br />
tion of the “ Adventures” in his paper.<br />
<br />
Eden Phillpotts, whose new book, “In Sugar<br />
Cane Land,” is to be published shortly, and whose<br />
new novel, ‘Some Everyday Folks,” appears<br />
through Messrs. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.,<br />
before Christmas, has also found time to do a<br />
good deal for the coming Christmas numbers.<br />
He will be represented in the Graphic, Black<br />
and White, English Illustrated Magazine,<br />
Hearth and Home, and the Magazine of Short<br />
Stories.<br />
<br />
In the list of books published last month there<br />
oceur three misprints. For “ Rossetti” was<br />
printed “ Rossette,” for “ Barabbas” was printed<br />
“Barnabas,” for ‘Daudet” was printed<br />
“ Dandet.”<br />
<br />
Miss Mary Rowsell’s comedietta ‘‘ Richard’s<br />
Plan,” her joint drama with H. A. Saintsbury,<br />
“The Gambler,” and the play by Edwin Gilbert<br />
adapted from her story of ‘‘ Petronella,” called<br />
“White Roses,” have all been. taken and<br />
printed by Mr. Samuel French, 89, Strand, who<br />
will give information as to the terms of per-<br />
formance.<br />
<br />
Esmé Stuart will publish this season, through<br />
Messrs. Bentley and Son, a new novel called<br />
““The Power of the Past.”<br />
<br />
The same author has also produced this<br />
autumn “A Woman of Forty: a Monogram”<br />
(Messrs. Methuen and Co.).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
“ Penshurst Castle” is the title of Mrs. Emma<br />
Marshall’s new novel. It is a historical romance,<br />
the period laid in the time of Sir Philip Sidney.<br />
It will be published immediately by Messrs.<br />
Seeley and Co.<br />
<br />
The same author produced in October a story<br />
for girls called “The Close of St. Christopher”<br />
(publishers, Nisbet and Co.).<br />
<br />
“Into the Silent Land ” is the title of a volume<br />
of epitaphs copied chiefly from tombstones, by<br />
E. M. T., published by Simpkin, Marshall, and<br />
Co. (Crown 4to., illustrated, price 5s.).<br />
<br />
“The Desert Ship” (Hutchinson and Co.),<br />
which is now well before the re.ders of adven-<br />
ture stories, will be followed shortly by two serials<br />
from the pen of its author, Mr. John Bloundelle-<br />
Burton. One, dealing with the attempted colo-<br />
nisation of Darien (1698-9), and entitled ‘The<br />
Gentleman Adventurer,” will commence in Young<br />
England in January, and run through the year ;<br />
and another, “The Adventures of Viscount<br />
Anerly,’”’ will commence in the People a month<br />
or so later.<br />
<br />
Who wrote “Captain Clutterbuck’s Cham-<br />
pagne” ? We learn from the publishers, Messrs.<br />
W. Blackwood and Sons, that the author was<br />
General William MHamley, elder brother of<br />
General Sir Edward B. Hamley. It is strange<br />
that two brothers should both make a literary<br />
mark, and each with a single novel which sur-<br />
vives, and will survive when all their other work<br />
is forgotten.<br />
<br />
The first number of a new sixpenny monthly<br />
magazine will be issued shortly. It will be<br />
called the Imperial Magazine, and will be con-<br />
ducted by Mr. Francis George Heath. We have<br />
received a copy of Cream, together with a<br />
prospectus of the Imperial Press, Limited, also<br />
conducted by Mr. Heath.<br />
<br />
A new novel by Miss Peard, called “ An Inter-<br />
loper,”’ will form one of the serials in Temple Bar<br />
for 1894.<br />
<br />
The thirteenth volume of Arrowsmith’s “Three-<br />
and-Sixpence ” Series contains a story by Harold<br />
Vallings, author of ‘The Transgression of<br />
Terence Clancy,” &c. It is entitled “Three Brace<br />
of Lovers,” and is illustrated by G. P. Jacomb-<br />
Hood aud Frank Feller.<br />
<br />
A cheap edition of Mr. Payn’s new novel, “A<br />
Stumble on the Threshold,” illustrated by Hal<br />
Ludlow, is just announced. (Horace Cox.)<br />
<br />
“A Step Aside,” by Gwendolen Douglas<br />
Galton (Mrs. Trench Gascoigne); and the<br />
“Martyrdom of Society,” by Quillim Ritter.<br />
(Horace Cox.)<br />
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“Doing and Daring” is a Christmas book for<br />
<br />
boys, a tale of New Zealand. There is plenty of<br />
<br />
adventure in it; there are plenty of hairbreadth<br />
<br />
escapes; there is plenty of bravery and pluck.<br />
What can boys want more?<br />
<br />
ee<br />
<br />
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I.—Tue Penny Novetette.<br />
To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette.<br />
<br />
Str,—In the allusion made to the ‘penny<br />
novelette’” in your review of my last book, “ A<br />
Strange Temptation,’ your reviewer touched,<br />
perhaps unconsciously, on a question which is<br />
beginning to be one of great importance to<br />
myself and my fellow-novelists. We have two<br />
distinct classes of readers, and the danger is, lest<br />
in providing for the delicate, long-necked stork<br />
we may starve the hungry fox. It pleases one’s<br />
conceit to be called upon to write for the higher<br />
class of readers, which is becoming daily<br />
more fastidious, and demands a style which<br />
must be epigrammatic, packed with meaning, and<br />
as dainty in phraseology as Théophile Gautier’s.<br />
But I am not sure that it is good for us. The<br />
fear is that in attempting to cater for this public<br />
we may fall into what Dr. John Brown called<br />
“the sin of effort or of mere cleverness.” And<br />
there is a much larger second public, con-<br />
sisting of readers coming up not only from the<br />
lower middle classes, but from the board schools.<br />
Their name is legion, and we are obliged to take<br />
their needs into consideration. They not only buy<br />
our cheap editions, but they read our stories<br />
when they are first of all published by the news-<br />
paper agencies; and it is I suppose, an open<br />
secret that we novelists make most of our profits in<br />
serial publication. This is alow argument. A<br />
better one is the true one, that we are proud of<br />
providing these readers with good and unobjec-<br />
tionable reading. But for them the phraseology<br />
must not be too studied, nor the allusions too<br />
subtle, and the plot must be more or less exciting.<br />
It is painful to receive a message from one or<br />
other of them that your last book was so ‘‘ deep”’<br />
that they “could not understand it,” and to know<br />
that what Mrs. Brown calls “deep”? may at the<br />
same time seem shallow to a critic who belongs<br />
to the educated minority.<br />
<br />
You have often started good controversies, and<br />
if you or any of your readers can tell us writers<br />
of fiction how to solve this problem they will<br />
oblige—Yours faithfully,<br />
<br />
Lity SPENDER.<br />
<br />
Bath, Nov. 14.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Il.—Cocxnrey PRONUNCIATION.<br />
<br />
By ANDREW W. TUER, F.S.A.<br />
<br />
To Messrs. CHEVALIER, Du Maurier, ANSTEY, SULLIVAN,<br />
and others, in the hope that this scientific paper may pro-<br />
mote, even among distinguished students, greater untfor-<br />
mity in the pronunciation of a classic tongue.<br />
<br />
There would almost seem to be an opening for<br />
<br />
a dictionary of Cockney pronunciation.<br />
<br />
But it<br />
<br />
might pall, and at the moment a short list of<br />
<br />
words as yow pronounce them, and as<br />
<br />
he<br />
<br />
pronounces them, together with a few applica-<br />
tions, may suffice.<br />
<br />
You.<br />
Always<br />
Asked<br />
Assure<br />
As<br />
Away<br />
Baby<br />
Bank<br />
Been<br />
Boot-lace<br />
Came<br />
Carpet<br />
Carriage<br />
Cab<br />
Can<br />
Champagne<br />
Cheer<br />
Child<br />
Coffee<br />
Cross<br />
Daisy<br />
Day<br />
Decided<br />
Don’t<br />
Dozen<br />
Door<br />
Do you here?<br />
Drawing<br />
Duke<br />
Else<br />
Ever<br />
Face<br />
Far<br />
Fat<br />
First<br />
Five<br />
Flowers<br />
Fried<br />
Froze<br />
Garden<br />
Get<br />
<br />
Going<br />
<br />
Good morning !<br />
Gone<br />
<br />
Got your<br />
Gradually<br />
Gravel<br />
Guineas<br />
Hammersmith<br />
Harvest<br />
<br />
Have<br />
Headache<br />
Hear, hear!<br />
<br />
Here (Look her<br />
<br />
Home<br />
<br />
HE.<br />
Allwiz<br />
Ahst<br />
Asshaw<br />
Ez<br />
A-wy<br />
Bi-bee<br />
Benk<br />
Bin<br />
Boot-lice<br />
Kime<br />
Carpit<br />
Kerridge<br />
Keb<br />
Kin<br />
Shempine<br />
Chur<br />
Chahld<br />
Cawffay<br />
Crawss<br />
Di-zee<br />
Dy<br />
Dissardid<br />
Down’t<br />
Dezzin<br />
Dawer<br />
J’eer?<br />
Drawrin’<br />
Jook<br />
Elsh<br />
Ivver<br />
Fice<br />
Fur<br />
Fet<br />
Fust<br />
Fahve<br />
Flahs<br />
Frahd<br />
Frowze<br />
Garding<br />
Git<br />
A-gowin<br />
Mawnin !<br />
Gawn<br />
Gotch<br />
Gredjooly<br />
Grevvil<br />
Guinnays<br />
Emma Smith<br />
’Arvist<br />
"Ev<br />
*Ed-ike<br />
Yur, yur!<br />
e) He-yer<br />
,Owm<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
You.<br />
Horses<br />
How is<br />
Idiot<br />
Isn’t<br />
Lady<br />
Last<br />
Like<br />
News<br />
No<br />
Now<br />
Noses<br />
Obituary<br />
Odious<br />
Off<br />
Ob!<br />
Paper<br />
Pardon<br />
Particular<br />
Partner<br />
Perhaps<br />
Prospect<br />
Pure<br />
Put your<br />
Quite<br />
Rain<br />
Railway<br />
Recollect<br />
Regular<br />
Ridiculous<br />
Right<br />
Row<br />
Roses<br />
Same<br />
Say<br />
Says<br />
Showers<br />
Sit<br />
Smoking<br />
So<br />
Soft<br />
Society<br />
Stones<br />
Straight<br />
Surely<br />
Such<br />
Suppose<br />
Tired<br />
To-day<br />
Tract<br />
Tremendous<br />
Violets<br />
Ways<br />
Wept<br />
Worse<br />
<br />
He.<br />
> Awsiz<br />
Owzh<br />
Idjit<br />
Eyen’t<br />
Li-dee<br />
Lahs<br />
Lahk<br />
Nooz<br />
Now<br />
Nay-ow<br />
Nowziz<br />
Obitchooary<br />
Ojus<br />
Awf<br />
Ow!<br />
Piper<br />
Parding<br />
Purtickler<br />
Pardner<br />
Preps<br />
Prospick<br />
Pee-aw<br />
Putch<br />
Quaht<br />
Rine<br />
Rahlwy<br />
Reckerlec’<br />
Regler<br />
Ridiklis<br />
Raht<br />
Ray-ow<br />
Rowziz<br />
Sime<br />
Sy<br />
Siz<br />
Shahs<br />
Sid<br />
Smowkin’<br />
Sow<br />
Sawft<br />
Sussarty<br />
Stowns<br />
Strite<br />
Shawly<br />
Sitch<br />
Spowze<br />
Tahd<br />
Ter-dy<br />
Trek<br />
Tremenjis<br />
Vahlits<br />
Wize<br />
Wep’<br />
Wuss<br />
<br />
You. He. You. Hz.<br />
You { Yus, yas, yis, You Joo<br />
or yahss You You<br />
You Yer You Jer<br />
You Choo Yours Yaws<br />
<br />
St. James's Gazette.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
T1I.—A Humorist’s Recirmen.<br />
<br />
Robert Barr (whose pseudonym, ‘‘ Luke Sharp,”<br />
<br />
is familiar to the readers of the Detroit Free<br />
<br />
Press) has written an article on “ How a Literary<br />
<br />
Man Should Live,” of which the conclusion is<br />
cited by his permission :—<br />
<br />
“JT am not,” he says, “an advocate of early<br />
rising. I believe, however, that every literary<br />
man should have fixed hours for getting up. I<br />
am very firm with myself on that score. I make it<br />
arule to rise every morning in winter between<br />
the hours of six and eleven, and in summer from<br />
half-past five until ten. A person is often tempted<br />
to sleep later than the limit I tie myself to, but<br />
a little resolution with a person’s self at first will<br />
be amply repaid by the time thus gained, and<br />
the feeling one has of having conquered a ten-<br />
dency to indolence. I believe thata literary man<br />
can get all the sleep he needs between eight<br />
o'clock at night and eleven in the morning. I<br />
know, of course, that some eminent authorities<br />
disagree with me, but I am only stating my own<br />
experience in the matter, and don’t propose to<br />
enter into any controversy about it.<br />
<br />
“ On rising I avoid all stimulating drinks, such<br />
as tea or coffee. They are apt to set the brain<br />
working, and I object to work, even in its most<br />
disguised forms. A simple glass of hot Scotch,<br />
say half a pint or so, serves to tide over the<br />
period between getting up and breakfast time.<br />
Many literary men work before breakfast, but<br />
this I regard as a very dangerous habit. I try<br />
to avoid it, and so far have been reasonably<br />
successful, I rest until breakfast time. This<br />
gives the person a zest for the morning meal.<br />
<br />
“ For breakfast the simplest food is the best.<br />
I begin with oyster stew, then some cold chicken,<br />
next a few small lamb chops and mashed potatoes,<br />
after that a good-sized beefsteak and_ fried<br />
potatoes, then a rasher of bacon with fried eggs<br />
(three), followed by a whitefish or two, the meal<br />
being completed with some light, wholesome<br />
pastry, mince pie for preference. Care should be<br />
taken to avoid tea or coffee, and I think a word<br />
of warning ought to go forth against milk. The<br />
devastation that milk has wrought among literary<br />
men is fearful to contemplate. They begin,<br />
thinking that if they find it is hurting them,<br />
they can break off, but too often before they<br />
awaken to their danger the habit has mastered<br />
them. I avoid cayling at breakfast except a<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
large tumbler of brandy, with a little soda water<br />
added to give it warmth and strength.<br />
<br />
“No subject is of more importance to the<br />
literary aspirant than the dividing of the hours<br />
of work. I divide the hours just as minutely as<br />
I can, and then take as few of the particles as<br />
possible. I owe much of my success in life to the<br />
tact that I never allow work to interfere with the<br />
sacred time between breakfast and dinner. That<br />
is devoted to rest and thought. Much comfort<br />
can be realised during these hours by thinking<br />
what a stir you would make in the literary world<br />
if you could hire a man like Howells for five<br />
dollars a week to do your work for you. Such<br />
help, I find, is very difficult to obtain, and yet<br />
some people hold that the labour market is<br />
overcrowded. ‘The great task of the forenoon<br />
should be preparation for the midday meal. The<br />
thorough enjoyment of this meal has much to do<br />
with a man’s success in this life.<br />
<br />
“ Of course, I do not insist that a person<br />
should live like a hermit. Because he break-<br />
fasts frugally, that is no reason why he should<br />
not dine sumptuously. Some people dine at six<br />
and merely lunch at noon. Others have their<br />
principal meal in the middle of the day, and have<br />
a light supper. There is such merit in both<br />
these plans that I have adopted both. I take a<br />
big dinner and a light lunch at noon, and a heavy<br />
dinner and a simple supper in the evening. A<br />
person whose brain is constantly worried about<br />
how he can shove off his work on somebody else<br />
has to have a substantial diet. The bill of fare<br />
for dinner should include everything that abounds<br />
in the market—that the literary man can get<br />
trusted for.<br />
<br />
“ After a good rest when dinner is over, remain<br />
quiet until supper-time, so that the brain will<br />
not be too much agitated for the trials that come<br />
after that meal.<br />
<br />
“T am a great believer in the old adage of<br />
‘early to bed.’ We are apt to slight the wisdom<br />
of our forefathers; but they knew what they<br />
were about when they advised early hours. [<br />
always get to bed early—say two or three in the<br />
morning. I do not believe in night work. It is<br />
rarely of a good quality. The brain is wearied<br />
with the exertions of the day, and should not be<br />
overtaxed. Besides, the time can be put in with<br />
iess irksomeness at the theatre, or mm company<br />
with a lot of congenial companions who avoid the<br />
stimulating effects of tea, coffee, and milk.<br />
Tobacco, if used at all, should be sparingly in-<br />
dulged in. I never allow myself more than a<br />
dozen cigars a day ; although, of course, I supple-<br />
ment this with a pipe.<br />
<br />
‘When do I do my literary work ? Why, next<br />
day of course ”’ Rosperr Barr.<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
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TV.—ADVERTISING AS A FINE Arr.<br />
<br />
It is about time that advertisements were<br />
edited. Even the largest papers are feeling this,<br />
and for our pocket-paper it is mdispensable At<br />
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