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333	https://historysoa.com/items/show/333	The Author, Vol. 11 Issue 03 (August 1900)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+11+Issue+03+%28August+1900%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 11 Issue 03 (August 1900)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1900-08-01-The-Author-11-3					41–60																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=11">11</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1900-08-01">1900-08-01</a>							3			19000801	The Et utbor.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br /> Vol. XI.—No. 3.]<br /> AUGUST 1, 1900.<br /> [PRICE SIXPENCE.<br /> 2<br /> ... 53<br /> CONTENTS.<br /> PAGE<br /> PAGE<br /> Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 41<br /> The Authors&#039; Club ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 52<br /> Literary Property<br /> Civil List Pensions ...<br /> 1. United States Circuit Court.-Southern District of New<br /> The Police as Censors<br /> York ... .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... 42 Bombay Society of Authors ...<br /> ... 54<br /> 2. Review or Return? ...<br /> Correspondence --1. Concerning English Authors ia the United<br /> 3. The Chambers of Commerce<br /> • States. 2. &quot; Printers&#039; Errors&quot; 3. Long Retention of MSS.<br /> The Copyright Act and the Five Gratis Copies<br /> 1 ... 44<br /> 4. The Indian Government as Publishers. 5. The Hardships<br /> American Letter. By John Russell Davidson<br /> ... 46<br /> of the Typist ... . ... ... ... ... ... ... 54<br /> Paris Letter, By Darracotte Scott ...<br /> Book and Play Talk...<br /> Notes from the Bulletin of the Society of American Authors.” 51 |<br /> | Books and Reviews ...<br /> ...<br /> 48<br /> PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. The Annual Report. That for the past year can be had on application to the Secretary.<br /> The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br /> Property. Issued to all Members, 6s. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the<br /> following prices : Vol. I., 108. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 88. 6d. each (Bound);<br /> Vols. V. to VIII. (Unbound), 6s. 6d.<br /> 3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. Henry Glaisher,<br /> 95, Strand, W.C. 38.<br /> 4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, late Secretary to<br /> the Society. 18.<br /> 5. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br /> size of page, &amp;c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br /> books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 28. 6d. (Out of print at present.)<br /> 6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the<br /> papers in the Society&#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br /> Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br /> kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.<br /> Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 38. .<br /> 7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&#039;s Copyright Bill of 1890. 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HERBERT<br /> THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 18.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 40 (#66) ##############################################<br /> <br /> ADVERTISEMENTS.<br /> The Society of Nuthors (Incorporated).<br /> PRESIDENT.<br /> GEORGE MEREDITH.<br /> COUNCIL.<br /> SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. AUSTIN DOBson.<br /> SIR LEWIS MORRIS.<br /> J. M. BARRIE.<br /> A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.<br /> HENRY NORMAN.<br /> A. W. À BECKETT.<br /> A. W. DUBOURG.<br /> Miss E. A. ORMEROD.<br /> ROBERT BATEMAN.<br /> SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, K.C.B., F.R.S. GILBERT PARKER.<br /> F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.Ş.<br /> D. W. FRESHFIELD.<br /> J. C. PARKINSON.<br /> SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.M.G.<br /> RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D.<br /> A. W. PINERO.<br /> SIR WALTER BEBANT.<br /> EDMUND GOSSE.<br /> THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD PIR-<br /> AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, M.P.<br /> H. RIDER HAGGARD.<br /> BRIGHT, F.R.S.<br /> THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. THOMAS HARDY.<br /> SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bart., LL.D.<br /> THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE, M.P. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br /> WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK.<br /> THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD BURGH JEROME K. JEROME.<br /> E. ROSE.<br /> CLERE.<br /> J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br /> W. BAPTISTE SCOONES.<br /> HALL CAINE.<br /> RUDYARD KIPLING.<br /> Miss FLORA L. SHAW.<br /> EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br /> PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. G. R. SIMS.<br /> P. W. CLAYDEN.<br /> THE RIGHT HON. W. E. H. LECKY, S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br /> EDWARD CLODD.<br /> M.P.<br /> J. J. STEVENSON.<br /> W. MORRIS COLLES.<br /> J. M. LELY.<br /> FRANCIS STORR.<br /> THE HON. JOHN COLLIER. .<br /> The Rev. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A. WILLIAM MOY THOMAS.<br /> SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br /> SIR A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doo. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br /> F. MARION CRAWFORD.<br /> PROF. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN.<br /> Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGB.<br /> THE Right Hon. THE LORD CURZON THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br /> OF KEDLESTON.<br /> Hon. Counsel – E. M. UNDERDOWN, Q.C.<br /> COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br /> Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS.<br /> A. W. À BECKETT.<br /> J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br /> GILBERT PARKER.<br /> SIR WALTER BESANT.<br /> J. M. LELY.<br /> E. ROSE.<br /> EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br /> HENRY NORMAN.<br /> FRANCIS STORR.<br /> D. W. FRESHFIELD.<br /> &#039;SUB-COMMITTEES.&#039;<br /> ART.<br /> Hon. John COLLIER (Chairman). I SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br /> M. H. SPIELMANN<br /> COPYRIGHT.<br /> A. W. À BECKETT.<br /> A. HOPE HAWKINS.<br /> J. M. LELY.<br /> W. M. COLLES.<br /> GILBERT PARKER.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman). I F. C. BURNAND.<br /> A. W. PINERO.<br /> A. W. À BECKETT.<br /> SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br /> EDWARD ROSE.<br /> Solicitors<br /> FIELD, ROSCOE, and Co., Lincoln&#039;s Inn Fields.<br /> CG. HERBERT THRING, 4, Portugal-street.<br /> Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING.<br /> OFFICES : 4, PORTUGAL STREET, Lincoln&#039;s Inn FIELDS, W.C.<br /> A. P. WATT &amp; SON,<br /> LITERARY AGENTS,<br /> Formerly of 2, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,<br /> Have now removed to<br /> HASTINGS HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND,<br /> LONDON, W.C.<br /> THE KNIGHTS and KINGS of CHESS. By the Rev.<br /> 1 GA. MACDONNELL, B.A. Price 28. 6d. net.<br /> London: HORACE Cox, Windsor House, Bream&#039;s-buildings, E.C.<br /> THE ART of CHESS. By JAMES Mason. Price 5s.<br /> L net, by post 58. 4d<br /> London: HORACE Cox, Wirdsor House, Bream&#039;s-buildings, E.C.<br /> |<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 41 (#67) ##############################################<br /> <br /> The Author.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br /> VOL. XI.—No. 3.]<br /> AUGUST 1, 1900.<br /> [PRICE SIXPENCE.<br /> For<br /> 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 /> M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br /> 1 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 /> (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor!<br /> III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.<br /> It is above all things necessary to know what the<br /> proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible<br /> for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly<br /> the truth. From time to time the very important figures<br /> connected with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the<br /> “Cost of Production.&quot;<br /> IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.<br /> The main points are :-<br /> (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br /> (2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br /> GENERAL.<br /> All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br /> above mentioned.<br /> Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br /> Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br /> the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br /> Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br /> The main points which the Society has always demanded<br /> from the outset are :-<br /> (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br /> means.<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on<br /> all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-<br /> joots whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are<br /> returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br /> GENERAL MEMORANDA.<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br /> TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :<br /> 1. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.<br /> This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper<br /> price can be obtained. Bat the transaction should be<br /> managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the<br /> Secretary of the Society.<br /> II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> e the onblisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise.<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “ office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> VOL. XI.<br /> 1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to<br /> the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some<br /> competent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with anyone except an established<br /> manager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS<br /> IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-<br /> (a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.<br /> This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters<br /> into such a contract shoald stipulate in the con-<br /> tract for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> G 2<br /> rights.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 42 (#68) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 42<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new<br /> or old, for inspection and note. The infor nation thus<br /> obtained may prove invaluable.<br /> 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-<br /> posed document to the Society for examination.<br /> 5. 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 /> 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of<br /> members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof<br /> safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-<br /> fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who<br /> will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)<br /> To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To<br /> stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon<br /> them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments<br /> due according to agreements.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> (6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE<br /> TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES<br /> on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between<br /> 5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &amp;<br /> percentage on the sliding scale of gro88 receipts<br /> in preference to the American system. Should<br /> obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br /> date on or before which the play should be<br /> performed.<br /> (c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE<br /> TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,<br /> fixed nightly fees). This method should be<br /> always avoided except in cases where the fees<br /> are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply<br /> also in this case.<br /> 4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> sbould grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is<br /> of great importance.<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words. :<br /> 8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly<br /> valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration.<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> &quot;As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on<br /> acoount of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information are<br /> referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> 1 branch of their work by informing young writers of<br /> its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated<br /> as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.<br /> includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic<br /> works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,<br /> technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of<br /> competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.<br /> NOTICES.<br /> THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the<br /> 1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br /> of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br /> heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br /> many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br /> 68. 6d. subscription for the year.<br /> Communications for The Author should be addressed to<br /> the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&#039;s-inn<br /> Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the<br /> 21st of each month.<br /> 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 /> The present location of the Authors&#039; Club is at 3, White-<br /> ball-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for<br /> information, rules of admission, &amp;c.<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> ·<br /> LITERARY PROPERTY.<br /> 1. HVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br /> advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br /> lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br /> business or the administration of his property. If the<br /> advice bought is such as can be given best by a solici.<br /> tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the<br /> Society&#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&#039;s<br /> opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him<br /> Counsel&#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publisher&#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the<br /> experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple<br /> to use the Society.<br /> 3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past<br /> at<br /> accounts with the loan of the books represented. The<br /> I.-UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.-SOUTHERN<br /> DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.<br /> M HE Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of<br /> the University of Oxford. Complainant. v.<br /> - Wilmore-Andrews Publishing Company,<br /> Defendant. (In Equity). Rowland Cox for<br /> Complainant. Louis F. Doyle for Defendant.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 43 (#69) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 43<br /> WHEELER, J. - The University of Oxford, right in any false manner to represent such a<br /> England, is a body corporate known by the name product as the work of the plaintiff. The use of<br /> and style by which this suit is brought.<br /> the name upon the defendant&#039;s Bibles had a<br /> Books appear to have been printed by it as tendency to so represent, and to confuse the<br /> early as the fifteenth century, and Letters Patent plaintiff&#039;s use of its name in its business.<br /> for printing books of all kinds, including Bibles, to That the plaintiff prints and publishes this<br /> have been granted to it by King Charles I. in the work in America as well as at the University<br /> seventeenth century.<br /> makes it none the less the plaintiff&#039;s product, and<br /> It has printed Bibles of many kinds prepared confers no right upon others to publish it in the<br /> by its officers and scholars with great care, which name of the plaintiff, or to use the plaintiff&#039;s<br /> are generally known as Oxford Bibles ; no other name in publishing it in America or elsewhere.<br /> Bibles are published at Oxford, and these are The evidence does not show acquiescence of the<br /> ordered, sold, and bought by that name. Among plaintiff in use by others amounting to an aban-<br /> the kinds is the “ Teachers Bible,” first published donment of right by the plaintiff, nor establish<br /> in 1876, which contains, besides the text, a Manual that the name has thereby or otherwise become<br /> of Helps to the study of the Bible full of reliable merely descriptive of the Bibles, instead of repre-<br /> information respecting the authors and books of senting their origin; nor that an “Oxford<br /> the Bible, and Palestine, a concordance, indices, Bible&quot; is merely the “ Divinity Circuit.”<br /> tables, and maps. This with new editions has The case shows sufficient interference by the<br /> since been published and sold by that name con- defendant to furnish ground for commencing the<br /> tinuously in this country, and throughout the suit, and the ceasing of the interference by the<br /> world.<br /> defendant does not take away the right of the<br /> The defendant has printed and published a plaintiff to a decree, with costs. Sufficient reason<br /> Bible specified on the title page as an “Oxford does not, however, appear to warrant an account-<br /> Bible, the S. S. Teachers Edition,&quot; and on the ing. Rahtjen v. Holzapfel, U.S. Circuit Court<br /> back as a “Holy Bible, Oxford, S. S. Teachers of Appeals, Second Circuit, April 11, 1900.<br /> Edition.”<br /> Decree for a perpetual injunction, with costs.<br /> This suit is brought against this use of that<br /> name.<br /> The defendant denies any right of the plaintiff<br /> II.—REVIEW OR RETURN ?<br /> to the exclusive use of the word “ Oxford” upon The following interesting case has been placed<br /> Bibles, and alleges that this name as applied to before the Secretary of the Society of Authors :-<br /> Bibles is used to designate and describe a style of An author publishes a limited edition of a<br /> Bible otherwise known as the “ Divinity Circuit,” very expensive illustrated work. He sends out<br /> bound in soft flexible leather, with overlapping four copies for review to the editors of the best<br /> edges; that the plaintiff has lost any right it known papers. The edition will not stand the<br /> may have had to the use of this word by permit. distribution of a larger number of review copies.<br /> ting others to use it; that the Bible with which One of the papers, after a lapse of five or six<br /> the defendant is claimed to interfere was printed weeks, fails to review the book. The author<br /> in this country; and that the defendant has writes to the editor, and the editor states that the<br /> altogether &#039;ceased using it.<br /> buok was acknowledged in due course in his list<br /> • It is insisted for the defendant that the name of publications of the day. The author again<br /> of a place of origin cannot become a valid trade writes to the editor, and points out that the book<br /> mark of goods and products, and that “Oxford ” was sent in order that it might be reviewed, and<br /> here is merely the name of the city of the plaintiff, asks for the return of the copy if it is not the<br /> and could not be exclusively used to distinguish intention of the editor to review it. To this<br /> the plaintiff&#039;s Bibles.<br /> letter the editor replies that the discretion with<br /> But this word is a part of the plaintiff&#039;s name, regard to the review of the book must be left<br /> and as such has given name to the plaintiff&#039;s entirely in his hands, and that it would be impos-<br /> Bibles, and has come to be a means of showing sible for him as editor of the paper to return the<br /> their origin. The defendant has no connection book.<br /> with the place or name, and this use of the name This interesting question arises : In the<br /> by the defendant can be for no purpose but to case of a valuable limited edition would it be<br /> represent the defendant&#039;s Bibles as coming from possible to argue that the book sent was for<br /> the plaintiff.<br /> review, and that the reviewing of the book was<br /> The plaintiff has no copyright of this work, and part of the contract, so that if the book was not<br /> anyone would, of course, have a clear right to reviewed it could not become the property of the<br /> print and publish it, but no one would have a paper to which it was sent; or, on the other hand,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 44 (#70) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 44<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> “Where a licence has been granted under this section for<br /> any British possession, any copy of the book produced<br /> subject to such licence sball, if found in any other part of<br /> Her Majesty&#039;s dominions, be deemed a pirated copy, and be<br /> treated accordingly.&#039;<br /> that the custom of sending out books for review<br /> as at present established is on the understanding<br /> that books so sent out take their chance, and that<br /> as they are sent out gratis on this understanding<br /> the editor is not bound to return them? The<br /> latter would appear to be the real legal position,<br /> but it is a further question as to what might<br /> happen if the author when sending out such a<br /> book stipulated in his letter that the book should<br /> be reviewed or the copy returned.<br /> THE COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE FIVE<br /> GRATIS COPIES.<br /> III.<br /> III.—THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.<br /> The resolution printed below was unanimously<br /> passed at the meeting of the Chambers of Com-<br /> merce of the British Empire. The resolution is<br /> of considerable importance to authors, as any step<br /> that can facilitate the passing of Lord Monks-<br /> well&#039;s Bill nust necessarily have great weight<br /> with all those who are holders of literary pro-<br /> perty. One of the chief difficulties of the passing<br /> of the Bill, as has been pointed out on many<br /> previous occasions in The Author, is the colonial<br /> question. As at this meeting of the Chambers of<br /> Commerce there were important representatives<br /> of the publishing and printing trades of all the<br /> colonies, such a resolution, in that it has been<br /> supported by these representatives, will have con-<br /> siderable weight with the Colonial Office and<br /> those concerned in promoting the Bill.<br /> Fourth CONGRESS OF THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF<br /> THE BRITISH EMPIRE.<br /> [Copyright.]<br /> Moved by Mr. Geo. N. Morang ; seconded by Hon. Thomas<br /> Fergus of New Zealand :<br /> &quot; Whereas the various Copyright Acts throughout the<br /> Empire are unnecessarily complicated and vexatious to<br /> certain dependencies, and whereas it is now contemplated<br /> to consolidate the same by a Bill now before the House of<br /> Lords. Resolved, therefore, that this Congress declares its<br /> approval of such measure, whereby the Colonies are em.<br /> powered to legislate for exclusive copyright, and earnestly<br /> trusts that it may speedily become law.&quot;<br /> Note.-The section of the Act referred to is as follows:-<br /> Sect. 34. “In the case of a legislature of any British<br /> possession, if the following circumstances occur, that is to<br /> say, if a book has been first lawfully published in any other<br /> part of Her Majesty&#039;s dominions, and it is proved to the<br /> satisfaction of an officer appointed by the Government of<br /> guch possession to receive such proofs that the owner of the<br /> copyright has lawfully granted either a licence to import<br /> for sale in such British possession or a licence to reproduce<br /> therein by any process an edition or editions of any such<br /> book designed for sale only in such British possession,<br /> it shall be lawful for the Legislature of such possession by<br /> Act or ordinance to provide for the prohibition of the impor-<br /> tation, except with the written consent of the licensee, into<br /> such possession of any copies of such book printed else-<br /> where, except under such licence as aforesaid, except that<br /> two copies may be specially imported for the bona fide ase<br /> of each of the public free libraries, of the aniversity and<br /> college libraries, and law libraries of any duly organised<br /> law institution cr society for the use of its members.<br /> TN the July Author we reviewed the various<br /> T statutes from 1662 to 1842 which regulated<br /> the business of sending a copy of every book<br /> published to the British Museum, whether<br /> demanded or not, and to Oxford, Cambridge,<br /> Edinburgh, and Dublin upon demand. It will<br /> now be desirable to say something upon the<br /> obligation of the British Museum authorities to<br /> require and preserve books, and, if we can,<br /> upon the obligation of the other authorities to<br /> preserve them, for clearly the other authorities<br /> are under no obligation to require any book<br /> whatever.<br /> For a very long time publishers have sent<br /> practically all their books to the British Museum.<br /> and the penalty for failure to send is heavy, but<br /> statutory obligation to require books or to enforce<br /> penalties there is none. Bearing this in mind,<br /> and bearing in mind also that the British Museum<br /> privilege has existed only since 1814, we think it is<br /> greatly to the credit of the authorities that the<br /> occasions on which a book published in the United<br /> Kingdom cannot be found in the British Museum<br /> library are rare indeed. Where exceptions occur,<br /> he does a public service who calls attention to<br /> them, as did recently Wirt Gerrare in a letter to<br /> Literature.<br /> As to the duty of the British Museum autho-<br /> rities to preserve books, that is much more<br /> implied than express, though there are express<br /> directions as to particular libraries. The Geor-<br /> gian statute, by which the museum was established<br /> in 1753, after reciting that-<br /> Sir Hans Sloane, having through the course of many<br /> years with great labours and expence gathered together<br /> whatever could be procured either in our own or foreign<br /> countries, did bequeath to certain trustees all his collec-<br /> tion, consisting of all his library of books, drawings, manu-<br /> scripts, prints, &amp;c., &amp;c., with short histories or accounts of<br /> them with proper references in catalogues by him made,<br /> containing thirty-eight volumes in folio and eight volumes<br /> in quarto, to be offered to Parliament for £20,000; the<br /> collection, which was worth much more, was bought for<br /> the £20,000; all arts and sciences have a connexion with<br /> each other; and the collection should be maintained not only<br /> for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and the<br /> curious, but for the general age and benefit of the public ;-<br /> and also reciting the bequest to the public of<br /> the Cottonian Library, and the building of a room<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 45 (#71) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 45<br /> under an Act of William III. “ in which, when<br /> built, all the manuscripts, written books, papers,<br /> parchments, records, and other memorials in the<br /> said library contained should be lodged and there<br /> kept to all posterity,&quot; the legacy of Mr. Arthur<br /> Edwards towards the expense of building, and<br /> the foundation of the Harleian Collection, enacted<br /> that in the cities of London or Westminster<br /> One general repository shall be provided for the reception<br /> not only of the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, but also of the<br /> Cottonian Library, and of the additions which have been or<br /> shall be made by virtue of the will of Arthur Edwards, and<br /> likewise of the Harleian Collection and of such other addi.<br /> tions to the Cottonian Library as with the approbation of<br /> the trustees shall be made, and of such other collections<br /> and libraries as with the like approbation shall be admitted<br /> into the said general repository, which several collections,<br /> additions, and library so received into the said general<br /> repository shall remain and be preserved therein for public<br /> use to all posterity.<br /> This enactment is a clear direction to the<br /> authorities to preserve libraries and collections<br /> bequeathed or given en bloc to the museum, but it<br /> could hardly be said to include the masses of<br /> single books which the law of copyright has<br /> thrown into it ever since 1814. However that<br /> of<br /> may be, the Act of 1878, which empowers the<br /> authorities to give away duplicates, and the<br /> recently rejected Bill by which it was proposed<br /> to empower the trustees to dispose of valueless<br /> printed matter, seem to show that “ once in the<br /> museum, always in the museum” is recognised<br /> as an implied rule,* and it may be assumed<br /> that the trustees have always recognised, still<br /> recognise, and will always recognise this rule.<br /> But what of the other four library authorities<br /> The publishers, as we have seen, have long treated<br /> them as equally entitled with the British Museum<br /> * The Bill as it came from the House of Lords had<br /> this clause :<br /> “ The trustees of the British Museum may, with the<br /> approval of the Treasury, make rules respecting the disposal<br /> by destruction or otherwise of printed matter deposited in<br /> the British Museum which is not of sufficient value to<br /> justify its preservation in the museum.”<br /> The Bill was dropped with the general approval of<br /> literary persons; but it may be that the intention of its<br /> framers never was to destroy anything that could possibly<br /> be called a book or pamphlet, but only blank forms,<br /> Christmas cards, wall-texts, and such like matter, whereas<br /> except for judicial decision, perhaps even newspapers are<br /> not deliverable ander the existing law. See Report of<br /> Copyright Commission, par. 166.<br /> The 3rd secticn of the British Museum Act 1878 pro-<br /> vides that,<br /> “The trustees of the British Museum may give away<br /> any duplicate works, objects, or specimens not required for<br /> the purposes of the museum. Provided always, that the<br /> power hereby conferred shall not extend to any daplicate<br /> works in the Royal Library of King George the Fourth, or<br /> in the Cracherode, Grenville, or Banksian Libraries, or to<br /> any objects presented to the Museum for age and preserva-<br /> tion therein.&quot;<br /> to gratis copies, and have, as a general rule,<br /> forwarded four copies either to the agent whom<br /> they share amongst them, or else to Stationers&#039;<br /> Hall for the use of the four libraries, without<br /> waiting for any demand. In the rare cases in<br /> which the four copies are not sent, and apparently<br /> in all those rare cases, the publisher in default<br /> receives the following notice :-<br /> To Messrs. -<br /> Agency of the University Libraries, 96, Great<br /> Russell-street, London, W.C.<br /> I am desired by the Curators of the Bodleian Library,<br /> Oxford ; the University Library, Cambridge; the Advocates<br /> Library, Edinburgh; and the Library of Trinity College,<br /> Dublin, to ask you to be good enough to supply for the use<br /> of their libraries, four [the italios are not ours) copies of<br /> the undermentioned works, one for each library, in com-<br /> pliance with the provisions of the Copyright Act (5 &amp; 6 Vict.<br /> cap. 45).<br /> Should any of the works applied for be outside the terms<br /> of the Act, or have already been delivered through another<br /> channel, you would confer on the libraries in question, and<br /> on myself, a great favoar by returning me this list, and<br /> notifying the reason of the exemption on the margin (the<br /> italics are not ours]. I should thus be able to avoid troubling<br /> you with repeated applications for unclaimable works.-<br /> Believe me, yours faithfully, G. W. ECCLES.<br /> It will be seen, on referring to the June Author,<br /> that Mr. Eccles acted for the University of<br /> Oxford so far back as 1876, and on referring<br /> to the list of British Museum officers in<br /> “ Whitaker&#039;s Almanac&quot; that Mr. Eccles holds<br /> the position of an “ Assistant, ist class,” of the<br /> Museum ; but we understand that he is shortly<br /> about to retire from that position.<br /> So much for the seemingly very efficient mode<br /> of getting the four gratis copies into the four<br /> University libraries. How about their preserva-<br /> tion there? Unlike the British Museum Library<br /> authorities, the other library authorities are not<br /> even under any implied obligation to preserve<br /> them, and, unlike those authorities, they have no<br /> annual reminder in the Appropriation Act —<br /> under which the British Museum receives a hand.<br /> some grant, but the Universities receive nothing.<br /> IV.<br /> The following letter was sent to the Times by<br /> the chairman of the Committee, and appeared<br /> there on May 31. By an unfortunate oversight<br /> it was not published, as it should have been, in<br /> our July number :-<br /> To the Editor of the Times.<br /> Sir,-The letter recently addressed to you by<br /> Mr. John Murray, in reference to the question<br /> of “gratis copies,&quot; seems to the Committee of this<br /> Society to offer an opportunity of calling atten-<br /> tion to one or two points besides those with which<br /> Mr. Murray deals. It is material to point out<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 46 (#72) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 46<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> that the tax is heavier than appears to have been of 1878 recommended the abolition of the privi.<br /> in the original contemplation of Parliament. lege, a fact which justifies the inquiry we now<br /> By the Act of 1842 a broad distinction is drawn suggest, although we do not wish to pre-judge<br /> between the British Museum and the four other the issue of it. Meanwhile it would seem to be<br /> privileged libraries. The former is to have a in the power of publishers themselves to raise<br /> copy of every book without demand. To the the question whether the existing law does not<br /> latter any book is to be delivered “on demand require a specific demand on the part of each<br /> thereof left at the place of abode of the pub- library for any book it may desire to have<br /> lisher . .” The section goes on to authorise delivered.<br /> the authorities of the four libraries to appoint an We have also to ask your indulgence to allow<br /> agent to receive the books demanded. We submit us to state that we find among our members,<br /> that the intention of Parliament plainly was that many of whom are engaged in research, strong dis-<br /> the University libraries, as distinguished from the approval of the proposal to allow the British<br /> British Museum, should make a specific demand Museum either to destroy or to scatter news-<br /> for any book they desired to receive, and that in papers. This question has been so fully dealt<br /> the absence of such demand the book should not with by Mr. Sidney Lee in your columns, that it<br /> be delivered to them.<br /> is enough to say that his objections, whether<br /> The Act contemplates an exercise of discretion, based on the danger of destruction or loss of<br /> according to which the libraries would ask for valuable matter, or on the hardship of compelling<br /> such books as would be of use to them and literary men engaged in research to follow their<br /> abstain from asking for the rest.<br /> dispersed materials from one place to another,<br /> The practice, however, is and has been for a appear far too serious to be disposed of by the<br /> long while back, quite different. Most publishers cry of “no room.&quot; There is no disposition<br /> send copies to the agent of the four libraries (they among authors to grumble at being obliged to<br /> all employ the same agent) without any demand. supply their books to the Museum. That they<br /> If any book is not sent, it is demanded as a are under this obligation does, however, seem to<br /> matter of course. By the claims of the libraries give them a right to e, pecial consideration when<br /> and the acquiescence of publishers, the libraries such a question as this is under discussion.<br /> are, under the existing practice, placed in the same<br /> ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br /> position as the British Museum, although they<br /> do not appear to be under any similar obligation<br /> to retain the books sent or to be subject to any<br /> statutory control in the use or disposal of the<br /> AMERICAN LETTER.<br /> property they thus acquire. It also appears<br /> obvious that they must acquire a vast number of<br /> New York City, July 10, 1900.<br /> books which can be of no value to them.<br /> TN these United States publishers are inclined<br /> We desire respectfully to suggest that before<br /> 1 to look askance upon the season of a Pre-<br /> the Copyright Bill now before Parliament takes<br /> - sidential campaign, and the commercially-<br /> final shape the following questions should be con-<br /> disposed author ordinarily shares this feeling of<br /> sidered :-<br /> suspicion. It is not a time for the launching of<br /> (1) Is the present system of a general demand<br /> new undertakings; the public mind is busied with<br /> of all books (if not sent without demand) on the<br /> “issues” and “ platforms,” and people would<br /> part of the University libraries in accordance with<br /> rather devour candidate So-and-so&#039;s last speech<br /> the intentions of Parliament ?<br /> or a denunciation of the legislative career of<br /> (2) When did the practice of a general<br /> candidate What&#039;s-his-name than read poetry or<br /> demand begin? Has it existed from the first, or<br /> romance. Once in every four years the country<br /> has it been of later growth; and, if so, under what<br /> is inundated with a prodigious flood of campaign<br /> circumstances did it first arise ?<br /> “ literature,” with which the enlightened voters<br /> (3) Are all the books received actually placed<br /> struggle madly, while current reading matter of<br /> in use in the libraries; or, if not, how are they all<br /> other descriptions glides by in an unnoticed and<br /> dealt with ?<br /> unimportant rivulet. Even the attention of the<br /> (4) Are any of the books disposed of by the<br /> scholar is diverted temporarily from literature to<br /> libraries; and, if so, after what lapse of time and<br /> the politics of the hour.<br /> in what manner ?<br /> An answer to these questions would, it appears<br /> POLITICS AND LITERATURE.<br /> to us, help to show how far the tax on authors The present campaign, however, which is to<br /> and publishers is justified by benefit to the public. terminate with the election of a President in<br /> It will be remembered that the Royal Commission November, promises to be less disturbing than<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 47 (#73) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 47<br /> usual. The publishing world seems to believe realised. It enlarges immeasurably the scope of<br /> confidently in the re-election of Mr. McKinley. the fiction writer. He has two publishers at<br /> Both of the present nominees of the two great hand, Mr. Frohman and the printer. He may<br /> parties were also the leaders in the struggle of play one against the other with a good deal of<br /> 1896-a fact which will probably tend to decrease advantage to himself and to his work. The serial<br /> the quantity of campaign literature of the per- publication of Mr. Zangwill&#039;s latest novel, for<br /> sonal and biographical type. And moreover, the example, has been arranged with careful reference<br /> issues, as well as the candidates, are familiar to to the time of the production of its dramatic<br /> the rank and file of the voters. Public interest version in the fall; the play will be produced on<br /> in newspaper politics will be discounted, and the the stage, it is said, before the concluding chapters<br /> output of political pamphlets and tracts should be of the story have been produced in type. Such<br /> comparatively meagre—which may be good news a scheme, and similar schemes which doubtless<br /> to British authors who look with longing eyes at will be planned, place the theatrical manager in<br /> the American literary market.<br /> direct and close business relations with the pub-<br /> The present tendency of our reading public, of lisher. It can be readily conjectured that the<br /> course, is all for China and the Orient. “East- author must profit from this expansion of his<br /> ward ho!” cries the American publisher, and audience.<br /> searches madly for a novel dealing with life under Nor can these developments be without their<br /> the mandarins. Our presses are grinding out curious effect upon the texture and character of<br /> reprints of the best books about China and the current fiction. The popular novelist must<br /> East which have been published recently in compose with the odour of grease, paint, and<br /> England, and the editors of our popular periodicals scene varnish in his literary nostrils. The unfor-<br /> are paying startling prices for articles of travel tunate critic, who is compelled to cope with our<br /> and adventure in the Yellow Empire. The present ordinary or extraordinary fiction of to-day, may<br /> crisis seems to have discovered our publishers imagine that he detects this already. Mr.<br /> very ill prepared, although there has been no Frohman and his syndicate are affecting the<br /> lack of signs of the imperial struggle, which book trade and the profession of author. It may<br /> could be read even in an unimperial democracy. be fanciful to look forward, along these lines, to<br /> At any rate, the disappearance of the Khaki hue an entrenchment of the favoured novelist&#039;s posi-<br /> of our current reading can hardly fail to be tion behind the protection of the theatrical<br /> gratifying<br /> managers, from which he would be able to dictate<br /> more equitable terms to the publishers—it may<br /> NEXT Season&#039;s THEATRES.<br /> be fanciful, but it is an enchanting picture.<br /> No little literary interest is excited by a survey<br /> of the work laid out for the coming season by BETTER DAYS IN THE Book TRADE.<br /> American theatrical managers. The plural is The financial entanglements in which two very<br /> used for reasons which are rhetorical rather than prominent American publishing houses struggled<br /> real. The theatrical manager of the United last year seem to have brought about a healthy<br /> States is Mr. Charles Frohman, the more or less reaction in the trade, which redounds somewhat<br /> intelligent head of a more or less unintelligent to the advantage of the author. It has induced<br /> syndicate in control of most of the actors, publishers to suspect that the writers of books<br /> actresses, playhouses, and playwrights in the are important factors in the production of them-<br /> country. The striking feature of Mr. Frohinan&#039;s a truism which was slighted in some long-<br /> prospectus is the importance assigned therein to established houses where the imprint of the<br /> dramatisations of popular books. Of all Mr. publisher was regarded as of far more signi.<br /> Frohman&#039;s “stars &#039; the two which have made ficance than the author&#039;s name on the title-page.<br /> the most money for him have been Miss Maude Of course, in estimating the success of the<br /> Adams and Mr. William Gillette. The former younger American publishers who have come to<br /> has played for three enormously successful years the front during the last decade, one must not<br /> in &quot;The Little Minister,” while Mr. Gillette, in forget to credit them with that modern business<br /> Dr. Doyle&#039;s “Sherlock Holmes,” has made a push, and that sympathetic acquaintance with the<br /> record of two hundred packed houses in New temper of our people, which the older houses<br /> York, with the provinces uniried. “Red lacked. They are not burdened with complicated<br /> Pottage,” « Richard Carvel,” “ Janice Meredith,” business machinery, and with creaking and dusty<br /> are a few of the novels which Mr. Frohman pro- methods of reaching the outside world in any<br /> poses to exploit behind the footlights.<br /> direction. The relations of the newer publishers<br /> The significance of this sort of thing has been with their authors display the same freedom and<br /> noted, but one may doubt whether it is fully quickness in achieving direct results, and they do<br /> VOL. XI.<br /> 1<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 48 (#74) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 48<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> not keep writers “in stock,&quot; as it were, until the<br /> PARIS LETTER.<br /> unfortunate men of letters become parts of the<br /> business routine, like persons who add columns of<br /> m 5, rue Chomel.<br /> figures in the counting-room. All this is an M HE celebrated chirographist, Mme. de<br /> encouraging sign. It makes for an equitable<br /> Thèbes, has recently published au interest-<br /> co-operation between author and publisher upon - ing work entitled “L’Enigme de la main.”<br /> a practical and business-like basis, an excellent Mme. de Thèbes is no vulgar adventuress seeking<br /> substitute for the old-fashioned sentimental rela- renown or wealth. She is a widely known and<br /> tion, which was presumed once to exist and which highly respectable personage who enjoys a Euro-<br /> meant so little latterly, in many cases when actual pean reputation. Casts of the hands of her most<br /> property rights were concerned.<br /> interesting clientèle (including a large number of<br /> A curious and suggestive state of affairs in a representative men and women of the present<br /> publishing business was disclosed here recently. day) are to be seen in her small suite of rooms,<br /> It seems that it has been the custom of the firm, situated within stone-throw of the Arc de<br /> after a book was printed and published, to store Triomphe. The hand of her friend and master,<br /> the plates and carry them on to its inventory at Alexandre Dumas fils, here reposes in solitary<br /> the cost of manufacture. It made not a particle state under a glass case. The pointed fingers<br /> of difference that, for publishing purposes, the and huge hand of Dumas père, clasping the<br /> book was dead and gone, and the plates worth slender, narrow hand of the mother of his son, is<br /> nothing more than their value as old metal. also easily recognisable. It lies carelessly on a<br /> They stood on the list of assets as representing side-table, surrounded by scores of plaster and<br /> the sum expended in composition and casting; bronze models of the characteristic hands of<br /> this might be six or seven hundred dollars, modern celebrities. Among the latter the obsti-<br /> entirely fictitious. The older the house and the nate hand of M. Emile Zola; the impassive<br /> more antiquated the plates, then the less substan- hand of Mme. Christine Nilsson; the dominating,<br /> tial would such assets become. But on the house caressing band of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt; the<br /> ledgers they would represent capital, and moneys enigmatical hand of M. Edouard Drumont; and<br /> invested, and there would be no denying the fact the energetic hand of Coquelin imperiously attract<br /> that the plates were in existence and in a good attention.<br /> state of preservation. It is needless to expatiate Mme. de Thèbes is a woman of imposing figure,<br /> upon the borrowing value of such securities. penetrating glance, and stately presence. Hers<br /> is palmistry, pure and simple-no fatalistic craft<br /> AUTHORS Who Own THE PLATES.<br /> reducing the individual will to a valueless factor.<br /> That the author should himself own outright “God,&quot; so she asserts, “has placed in each of<br /> the plates of his books is a favourite theory our hands the road.map of our life. If He has<br /> among American writers. In practice it is a done this, it is that we may make use of the<br /> luxury which is not for the ordinary, but Mr. information thus given. This map warns us of<br /> Howells and others, I believe, have found it an the accidents which menace us ; of our con-<br /> effective and simple plan in their efforts towards stitutional weaknesses; and of the defects in our<br /> establishing a reasonable status of literary nature. We are thus put on our guard to<br /> property.<br /> struggle against our bad inclinations. This is so<br /> The last canvass of the best selling books in true that, if we struggle, the lines in our road-<br /> this country, elaborately prepared by the Book- map will change.” From which fact she argues<br /> man, testifies to the overgrown popularity of that that our first duty is to know ourselves, or rather,<br /> ingenious novel “ To Have and to Hold,&quot; which to know how to decipher the hieroglyphics traced<br /> heads the list. Next come two English stories, on our hands by a Divine agency. The study is<br /> “Sophia&quot; by Weyman, and “Red Pottage.” The interesting, even though unaccompanied by the<br /> phases of life in Miss Cholmondeley&#039;s book are so blind credulity which will strain at a gnat to<br /> essentially and modernly English that the swallow a camel.<br /> American vogue of her story must be set down as<br /> a tribute to her art. After “Red Pottage&quot; on the<br /> “LA FILLE DE GEORGE SAND.&quot;.<br /> Bookman&#039;s list appear in order : “ Unleavened Such is the title of a most entertaining little<br /> Bread,&quot; a new and promising American novel by booklet published by M. Georges d&#039;Heylli for the<br /> Robert Grant, “Resurrection,” and “ The edification of a select coterie of friends. The<br /> Farringdons.” Our public&#039;s taste, if not dis author is the son-in-law of the venerable Mme.<br /> criminating, is at least encouragingly catholic to Bascans, proprietress of the school in which the<br /> the aspiring novelist abroad.<br /> wayward little Solange was brought up. Every<br /> John RUSSELL DAVIDSON. letter written by the illustrious mother was care-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 49 (#75) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 49<br /> fully guarded by the old schoolmistress. It is “ Clotilde de Lusignan,” for the sum of 2000<br /> amusing to note the logical, convincing manner in francs. This liberal remuneration is to be received<br /> which the celebrated novelist explains the method as follows: 500 francs in notes payable at a year&#039;s<br /> of education she desires to be adopted for her date ; 500 francs in notes (payable six months<br /> daughter, and the results to be obtained there- later) at the moment when twelve hundred copies<br /> from. A little later we find all these fine theories of the work in question shall have been sold.<br /> evaporating in thin air on being put to the test. The remaining 1000 francs are to be paid in notes,<br /> George Sand has, undoubtedly, written exquisite likewise dated six months hence--whenever sieur<br /> pages on maternal love; she might, and did, Grégoire Hubert shall be unable to produce on<br /> exercise a wide influence on her contemporaries the author&#039;s demand more than a hundred copies<br /> and on posterity ; nevertheless, she failed signally of this first edition !<br /> in obtaining either reverence or obedience from<br /> her own daughter. Twenty-four hours of Solange&#039;s<br /> SHEARING THE SHorn.<br /> company invariably ended in a scene and the basty But the final article in this iniquitous treaty<br /> return of the offender to Mme. Bascans&#039; charge, carries off the palm for munificence. It expressly<br /> usually accompanied by a note couched in some- states that:<br /> what the following terms:<br /> “In this sum (of 2000 francs) is included the<br /> “This morning Solange has been unbearable, cost of the advertisement of the said work,<br /> She cries because I will not arrange her curl. which M. Balzac binds and engages himself to<br /> papers, and resists when I attempt to do so. If have inserted in the journals below mentioned (or<br /> she arrive after ten o&#039;clock, I beg you will punish in those which may replace them should they<br /> her. She has been incessantly urged to hasten be suppressed), viz., the Constitutionnel, the<br /> without its having any effect on her movements. Journal des Débats, the Courrier, the Miroir, the<br /> . . . Mme. Bascans will have the kindness to Quotidienne, and the theatrical papers. The<br /> explain to her the naughtiness of her conduct.” advertisements shall each occupy at least half a<br /> * The perusal of these letters,&quot; writes a French column in the body of the journal; and shall be<br /> critic, “ will be a consolation to those women who placed either beside the article ‘Paris,&#039; or immedi-<br /> possess only a little good sense and not anyately after.” To reimburse him for this outlay,<br /> the author is entitled to six copies gratis of his<br /> A CRUEL CONTRACT.<br /> own work!<br /> On Aug. 18, 1900, the Lévy copyright of the Comment is superfluous. In 1848 the tax on<br /> novels of Honoré de Balzac expires, and this the serial novel (which led to its temporary<br /> immense work becomes public property. Some suppression) reduced Balzac to the last extremity.<br /> idea of its value may be gained from the fact that He continued to occupy the elegant hotel fur-<br /> in 1865 (after thirty years&#039; continuous re-editing) nished by Mme. de Hanska ; but he indulged in<br /> M. Michel Lévy paid 80,000 francs to the great boiled beef only once a week, eking out the<br /> man&#039;s widow for the right of being sole remaining days with the meagre broth obtained<br /> publisher during a period of thirty-five years. in cooking the above delicacy. It was probably<br /> The petty remuneration originally doled out to at this epoch that he wrote:<br /> the author for the majority of these brilliant “Creditors know how to find us much better<br /> masterpieces of French literature is truly absurd. and more promptly than our friends. For the<br /> Generous and prodigal as the elder Dumas, no sake of a little sum they often come to a place<br /> man was ever more at the mercy of his pub. where others do not come for the sake of a great<br /> lishers. Instances of his colossal extravagance, affection.”<br /> on several occasions, are not lacking. They were, He died two years later, Aug. 18, 1850.<br /> however, counterbalanced by his extraordinary<br /> fertility. Yet it is not surprising that, despite<br /> AN IDEAL HISTORIAN.<br /> his brilliant reputation, this modern Shakespeare M. Frédéric Masson is an ideal historian.<br /> of French fiction died a poor and completely Dramatic as the English Froude (and thoroughly<br /> worn-out man at the comparatively early age of reliable), he is marvellously successful in his<br /> fifty-one years, when his business inability was conscientious resuscitation and portrayal of a<br /> as mercilessly exploited as is witnessed by the bygone epoch, and the men and women who<br /> Hubert contract, which document is now in the formed it. His third volume of “Napoléon et sa<br /> possession of the Vicomte de Lovenjoul. In this famille” has closely followed its predecessor.<br /> contract “M. Honoré Balzac&quot; engages to supply The contrast between the first Napoleon and his<br /> (under the pseudonym of Lord R’Noone) a certain brother-that political Winkle Joseph, King of<br /> sieur Grégoire Hubert, libraire au Palais Royal, Spain-is pungently drawn. The latter possessed<br /> with four volumes for publication, entitled the overweening self-confidence, minus the genius,<br /> genius.”<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 50 (#76) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 50<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> of the great Bonaparte. He passed his time in thoughtful, conscientious writer, and does his<br /> elaborating a series of military mancuvres which level best to be impartial. At least, that was the<br /> failed signally when put into execution. Imme- impression left on my mind after the basty<br /> diately one stratagem proved abortive, he set to perusal of a few pages of his new volume, includ-<br /> work to devise a second still more impracticable. ing the chapter entitled “Les Dessous de Joe<br /> “What alone saved Joseph from the consequences Chamberlain.&quot;<br /> of his extraordinary combinations,&quot; writes M.<br /> Masson,&quot; was that nobody obeyed him. Marshal<br /> MM. DE REGNIER AND LUCIEN MUHLFELD.<br /> Moncey received with extreme politeness the Contrary to general expectation, M. Henri de<br /> aide-de-camp who bore the royal commands, Regnier has this year undertaken the lecturing<br /> showed the absurdity of the movement ordered, tour in the United States. He appears to have<br /> and terminated by saying, “The Emperor, sir, had great success. A well-known critic has<br /> has not entrusted me with one of his finest asserted that, though this young writer occupies<br /> regiments to compromise thus his glory and a high position among the rising generation of<br /> safety. Return to the King. Inform him of authors, his success in the poetical medium is<br /> what I have said ; and tell him that, neverthe considerably hampered by his incorrigible predi.<br /> less, should he persist, I will give the example lection for making a word in the singular rhyme<br /> that I should give of the most implicit obedience.&quot; with a word in the plural, and by his indulgence<br /> Besinères invariably affirmed that he would obey in various minor idiosyncrasies of the same<br /> immediately; that his duty, inclination, and stamp.<br /> respect impelled him to do so; and, that said, he His talented compatriot, M. Lucien Muhlfeld,<br /> acted as he chose. As to Ney, he roundly replied, also possesses a marked individuality. A year<br /> “ This order undoubtedly comes from a man who ago he published his first novel, entitled “Le<br /> understands nothing of our trade. The Emperor Mauvais Desir&quot;; and, at the present moment,<br /> has given me an army corps with which to conquer “La Carrière d&#039;André Tourette&quot; has consolidated<br /> and not to capitulate. Tell the King I have not his reputation as a novelist. It would be difficult<br /> come to Spain to play Dupont&#039;s rôle !” The to find a more complete and comprehensive study<br /> book may be obtained chez Ollendorff.<br /> of the career of an ordinary young man of<br /> bourgeois origin, or a more subtle and conscien-<br /> Two INTERESTING PUBLICATIONS.<br /> tious delineation of the multitudinous types of<br /> “Every year the tuberculose&#039; kills in France characters to be met with to-day in the various<br /> 150,000 persons-a population equal to that of grades of society.<br /> Rouen and Nantes,” is the startling assertion<br /> imprinted beneath the title-head of a new paper,<br /> APROPOS OF FRENCH DRAMATISTS.<br /> Curre Antituberculeuse, which has just been M. Jean Richepin—first-rate gymnast, play-<br /> started, edited by MM. Sersiron and Dumarest. writer, and poet—is enjoying a well-earned<br /> The object of this publication is to awaken all holiday in Palma. M. Maurice Donnay is reposing<br /> classes to the necessity of taking strong measures in “a marvellous country” in the Villa Lysis<br /> to check the increasing tendency of the populace (Agay in the Var), which boasts a garden as full<br /> to consumption; also, to set forth the best means of blossoms as an opera star&#039;s box—minus the<br /> of preventing and counteracting contagion. The card pinned to each bouquet. He is meditating<br /> movement is being warmly supported. A com. a new “ scénario” beside the violet sea ; and has<br /> mittee has been formed, and large sums have recently requested a friend to announce that the<br /> already been subscribed to found popular right of performing his latest play, “L’Education<br /> sanatoriums wherein to isolate, and endeavour to d&#039;un Prince,&quot; has been bought by Belgium, Italy,<br /> cure, the consumptive working-class adults of and America. M. Pierre Decourcelle is rejoicing<br /> Paris who are sufficiently affected to spread the in his new decoration, and in the revival at the<br /> contagion --but are still well enough to perform Ambigu Theatre of his “ Deux Gosses&quot;_which<br /> wearily their daily task. The first list of dona- play formerly broke the standing record of five<br /> tions received (published by the Euvre Anti- hundred nights, having been performed 758 con-<br /> tuberculeuse) amounted to a total of 316,000 secutive times at the above theatre (1896-1898).<br /> francs. A good beginning!<br /> M. Georges Feydeau is still to be seen on the<br /> “L&#039;A ugleterre et l’Imperialisme” is the title of grands boulevards. Elegant, sedate, and dignified,<br /> M. Victor Bérard&#039;s latest work, which is being the combined verdict of the German and English<br /> widely read. It is interesting as giving us a censors, who pilloried his “ Dame de chez Maxim&quot;<br /> glimpse of the British character and policy seen as a production injurious to the morals of the<br /> through French spectacles. M. Bérard is un spectators, has in no wise disturbed his tran-<br /> doubtedly prejudiced. Nevertheless, he is a quility. At the present moment the triple revival<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 51 (#77) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 51<br /> of the offending play and two others of the same The early experience of Stevenson with the<br /> type, at the Nouveautés, Palais-Royal, and Bouffes Century is, however, only a typical case, and not<br /> theatres, are pecuniarily justifying their author&#039;s by any means unique. While it is no doubt true<br /> popularity with the respective managers of these that the great magazines do desire to discover<br /> establishments. M. Feydeau has been engaged unknown writers of promise, they none of them<br /> for some time past on a new play, of which only offer them unreservedly much consideration and<br /> a few unimportant details have yet leaked out. encouragement.<br /> M. Edmond Rostand is likewise reported to Again, most of the magazines are like Self<br /> have a new play on hand, dealing with the perse. Culture, practically made up for six months in<br /> cution of the early Christians under Nero. The advance, à fact that the literary aspirant does<br /> principal feminine röle is designed for Mme. not know, and not knowing is seriously handi.<br /> Sarah Bernhardt.<br /> capped. The editor of a great magazine is in<br /> A Dual DISAPPOINTMENT.<br /> part obliged to provide for future publication<br /> from the very fact of unnecessary absence from<br /> The reconstruction of the Comédie Française is home in Europe and elsewhere in search of attrac-<br /> proceediag but slowly. “Play in a barn as<br /> Molière did,&quot; was the advice of M. Victorien<br /> tions. This is editorially the case with the<br /> Ladies&#039; Home Journal, and contributions during<br /> Sardou ; but bis suggestion was dismissed as<br /> proxy editorship must be left to the tender mercies<br /> impracticable. The revival of the magnificent of the one upon whom the real editor&#039;s mantle<br /> “ Patrie&quot; of the latter author has been postponed<br /> has fallen, but whose power is small.<br /> owing to lack of suitable accommodation, deco- The Book Buver, the Bookman, and the Critic,<br /> ration, &amp;c. M. Paladilhe, composer of the<br /> as organs of book publishers, all occupy special<br /> music which accompanies this famous drama, fields, and from their very nature as such<br /> made his debut at sixteen years with a Neapolitan<br /> organs are all surrounded by conditions that are<br /> song, entitled “ Mandolinata,” which instantly<br /> peculiar, and that do not count in favour of the<br /> became the success of the day. It brought fifty<br /> htnpty<br /> lite<br /> literary aspirant. They are alike erratic in<br /> francs to its author, and a million to its pub.<br /> puo various ways. They are hedged about against<br /> lisher. The music of the splendid lyrical poem<br /> the innocent or inexperienced writer as Job in<br /> being written by M. Victorien Sardou (in<br /> his prosperity was hedged about against the<br /> collaboration with M. Gheusi) for the Antique<br /> intique machinations of the Evil One. The necessity for<br /> Theatre of Orange in 1901, has been intrusted to<br /> ced to considering and booming the authors of books<br /> considering<br /> M. Camille Saint-Saëns.<br /> published by their respective firms, while not<br /> The productions of M. Henry Kistemaeckers<br /> entirely paramount, has more influence than<br /> appear doomed to misfortune, his rehearsals<br /> might be supposed by those who do not know.<br /> having again been interrupted. The success of<br /> In practice it will surely be found that thoughts<br /> M. Janvier&#039;s new play “Francine, ou le respect de<br /> of literary aspirants seldom if ever flit with<br /> l&#039;innocence&quot; (Athénée theatre) - which has<br /> cordiality across the editorial sun disks of any of<br /> obtained the unanimous approval of the entire<br /> these mediums.<br /> French Press—is responsible for the mishap.<br /> The Metropolitan Magazine has a staff that is<br /> This time M. Kistemaeckers appears to have<br /> expected to provide the material it uses. Some<br /> accepted his fate with resignation.<br /> journals also doing business on this plan hesitate<br /> DARRACOTTE Scott.<br /> not to reject a contribution offered, and then to<br /> work up the idea derived therefrom, through<br /> their own staff, to the detriment of the aspirant.<br /> NOTES FROM THE “BULLETIN OF THE<br /> It is not easy for an unknown aspirant to enter<br /> the editorial department of Frank Leslie&#039;s<br /> SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS.&quot;<br /> Popular Monthly. If the coming guest is not<br /> welcomed, the departing one is cordially speeded.<br /> THE MAGAZINES AND THE ASPIRANT.<br /> The Art Amateur has a frosty temperature for<br /> THE Home Journal does not welcome the those unknown to the editor. Disappointed ones<br /> literary aspirant, and if he calls, the air of may weep if they choose outside the office doors.<br /> the editor is distrait in interview,<br /> The Art Interchange is far more considerate, but<br /> The Broadway Magazine cheerfully admits the editor of the Interchange is an expert on<br /> to the visiting aspirant that it is not very serious, reading character and literary ability by means<br /> and will have none of the manuscripts of those of handwriting and of physiognomy, so that he<br /> who are.<br /> can tell by reading your letter, offering a contri.<br /> The Century, Scribner&#039;s, and Harper&#039;s all do bution, or by looking at you carelessly if you call,<br /> sometimes open their doors to literary aspirants. whether your stuff is likely to be available, with-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 52 (#78) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 52<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> out the trouble of reading the material. Con that the photograph was inartistic and not a<br /> tributors must call for payments, unless otherwise proper subject for copyright. The judge gave<br /> arranged.<br /> this question, as one of fact, to the jury to deter-<br /> The editorial management of Ev&#039;ry Month is mine, and they found for the defendants. Zulker,<br /> new. The editor is pleasant, but he is very limited Sweet, and Loeb, manufacturers of a household<br /> in his appropriations for contributions. The preparation, were the defendants. Jacob Schloss<br /> agreed cheque is, however, promptly sent subse- the photographer, the plaintiff; the suit being<br /> quent to publication.<br /> brought by the counsel for the Copyright<br /> The management of Success is ordinarily not League.<br /> very considerate of literary aspirants. Their un.<br /> A QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT.<br /> solicited offerings of manuscripts are very nume. Two famous books figure in court just now,<br /> rous, and their examinations are at times some- and upon them depends a question of copyright<br /> what slow, which is often a serious item to the of great interest to publishers, as well as to<br /> writer who depends upon the sale of his manu. writers and the reading public. One of these is<br /> scripts for income.<br /> Oliver Wendell Holmes&#039;s “ The Professor at the<br /> The Home Magazine will fastidiously consider Breakfast Table,&quot; the other Mrs. Harriet Beecher<br /> anything offered, especially if accompanied with Stowe&#039;s “ The Minister&#039;s Wooing.”<br /> illustrations, but its compensation rates are low. A suit has been brought by Houghton, Mifflin<br /> Munsey&#039;s says “Yes,” and means “ No.” As and Co. to enjoin R. H. White and Co. from<br /> is the case with others, a beautifully printed form selling the first-named work, and another to<br /> is used to reject manuscripts, that upon receipt enjoin Houghton and Dutton from disposing of<br /> consoles those whose funds grow low and whose the latter. The publishers assert that the sale of<br /> hearts grow sick waiting and hoping for long. these books by the respondents is a violation of<br /> delayed cheques almost as much as if the cheque copyright.<br /> itself had come. Some authors collect these The works involving the present suits were<br /> forms as others do postage stamps.<br /> published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in<br /> The Churchman has not time for anyone. 1858, and the publishers were apparently neglect-<br /> except it be a specialist. No literary aspirants ful in securing copyright. It now appears that a<br /> need apply.<br /> valid copyright was secured on the last issue of<br /> The Gentlewoman gets many of its features<br /> the year, December, 1859, and “The Minister&#039;s<br /> from Europe. It is well for the would-be con- Wooing” was published in book form and pro-<br /> tributor to remember this fact in doing business perly entered for copyright before the publication<br /> with the magazine. The editor is seldom at the in the Atlantic Monthly of the last thirteen<br /> office, and the rush and crush is thereby avoided chapters.<br /> by her.<br /> The respondents demurred from the bill. The<br /> There are many magazines, like the Impres. demurrer is based on three contentions, viz.: That<br /> sionist, the (new) Criterion, the Ledger Monthly:<br /> “The Professor at the Breakfast Table” was<br /> a few of the trade papers and others, that pay a<br /> printed serially in the magazine under a title<br /> cent per word or thereabouts, which is a good totally different from the recorded title of the<br /> average rate.<br /> magazine number in question ; that no notice of<br /> the copyright of the Atlantic Monthly was given<br /> Two COPYRIGHT Decisions.<br /> on the published copies containing the instalments<br /> A curious copyright decision was rendered by of the story in question, and that the copyrights<br /> the Supreme Court in the case of Bolles v. of said magazine number, even if valid, expired in<br /> &quot; Outing.” The judges decreed that the statutory 1897.<br /> damage could only be collected on copies infring-<br /> ing the copyright actually found in the possession<br /> of the defendant at the time the action was<br /> THE AUTHORS&#039; CLUB.<br /> announced, nothing being collectable on copies<br /> previously distributed and sold; a decision that M HE last dinner of the Authors&#039; Club for the<br /> would, in most cases of copyright infringement,<br /> present season was held on July 2. Mr.<br /> make the law inoperative, as publishers do not Frankfort Moore took the chair, and Mr.<br /> keep more publications in their possession than Walter Macfarren was the guest of the evening.<br /> are actually necessary.<br /> The speeches were excellent. The Lyric Glee<br /> Another copyright decision of interest to Singers gave the club a delightful entertainment,<br /> publishers is that in the case of a poster made by singing Mr. Walter Macfarren&#039;s four part songs.<br /> the defendants from a copyrighted photograph of As a finish to the season the evening was most<br /> a chorus girl. The defendants&#039; counsel claimed successful. The directors of the Authors&#039; Club,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 53 (#79) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 53<br /> and the Club, may congratulate themselves on the<br /> Monday night dinners during the past winter and<br /> spring, as they can reckon among the club guests<br /> some of the most distinguished people in England,<br /> among whom were the following: The Lord Chan-<br /> cellor, the Lord Mayor, the Commander-in-Chief,<br /> the Bishop of London, the French and American<br /> Ambassadors, the Swedish and Norwegian and<br /> Chinese Ministers, Sir George Trevelyan, Mr.<br /> Leslie Stephen, Mr. Bryce, General Sir Evelyn<br /> Wood, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Sir Walter Foster,<br /> Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Sir Alma Tadema,<br /> the President of the Royal Academy (Sir E.<br /> Poynter), Lord Strathcona, Sir Robert Ball, Mr.<br /> E. F. Knight, and Mr. Alfred Austin.<br /> CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.<br /> of Margaret of Navarre.” Mr. Muir and Mr. Leycester<br /> prosecuted, and Mr. Biron defended. Inspector Arrow<br /> ransacked the premises in question and removed two cab<br /> loads, but he was unable to find more than two books upon<br /> which to base a prosecution. As to one of these, “ His<br /> Excellency Eugene Rougon,&quot; the grand jury threw out<br /> the bill. Mr. Biron ridiculed the idea that “ The<br /> Heptameron&quot; was an obscene work. It was a classic<br /> historical work, he said, and was to be found in every<br /> library of note. It was a perfectly lawful publication,<br /> illustrative of the literatare and manners of the Middle<br /> Ages. The defendant had carried on a most respectable<br /> business both in Booksellers’-row and near Temple Bar,<br /> where the seizure was made, and he submitted that the<br /> prosecution was a most vindictive one on the part of the<br /> police, and wholly unjustifiable. The Common Sergeant,<br /> in summing up the case to the jury, said the only question<br /> for them was whether the work was of a lewd and lascivious<br /> character, manifestly calculated to corrupt public morals.<br /> They did not require the Vigilance Association or the police,<br /> or even critics of literary style and antiquarian research, to<br /> decide that question. A great deal depended on the time,<br /> place, and circumstances of the publication. It was a<br /> matter of common knowledge that in the writings of many<br /> respectable people, ecclesiastics, students, and others of<br /> past ages, there were passages the wholesale publication of<br /> which would not now be tolerated, yet which no one would<br /> wish to destroy or mutilate, inasmuch as in their proper<br /> place and properly used they were of great value to the<br /> student and the historian. The sole question for the jury<br /> was whether the book in the form in which it was published<br /> and advertised was calculated to corrupt public morals, and<br /> the jury must judge of the case as men of the world without<br /> leaning to a prurient morality on the one hand, or a prurient<br /> laxity on the other. The jury, after some deliberation,<br /> acquitted accused, and she was discharged.<br /> In the case of Charley Haines, otherwise Reid, committed<br /> from Tottenham on a charge of selling “ The Heptameron,&quot;<br /> Mr. Muir, after the verdict in the previous case, offered no<br /> evidence, and a verdict of not guilcy was returned. Mr.<br /> Purcell appeared for the accused, who was discharged. Mr.<br /> Muir, in justification of the action of the police, said that<br /> earlier in the year a man was prosecuted for selling the<br /> same work, and pleading guilty was sentenced.<br /> Observe that the inspector ransacked the<br /> premises—he was probably acting on information<br /> and was within his rights. He carried off “ two<br /> cab loads ” of books. That is to say he deprived<br /> a bookseller for a certain time, pending the<br /> return of the books, of his means of livelihood.<br /> He found, among the two cab loads, two on which<br /> to base a prosecution. The first was “ His<br /> Excellency Eugene Rougon.” The grand jury<br /> threw out the bill as regards this book. Other-<br /> wise the grand jury would have been an ass<br /> indeed. There remained the “Heptameron of<br /> Margaret of Navarre.” If this book is to be<br /> made the subject of a prosecution, Shakespeare,<br /> Ben Jonson, Butler&#039;s Hudibras, Burton&#039;s Anatomy,<br /> Dryden, Walt Whitman, the Cent Nouvelles Nou-<br /> velles, Boccaccio, and Heaven knows what besides,<br /> will have to vanish from the bookseller&#039;s shelves.<br /> The jury, happily, acquitted the accused. But<br /> what bookseller is safe? The next thing, perhaps,<br /> will be a raid upon the private library.<br /> NHE complete list of Pensions granted during<br /> the year ending June 20, 1900, and charged<br /> upon the Civil List, has been published.<br /> The whole amount at the disposal of the First<br /> Lord of the Treasury has been expended. The<br /> following is an analysis of the grants :<br /> Art (sculpture, painting, and singing) £300<br /> Science (archæology, submarine tele-<br /> graphy, mathematics, hygiene,<br /> Antarctic exploration)........<br /> Literature.................................... 550<br /> Pensions which have nothing to do<br /> with either Literature, Science, or<br /> Art, and have no claims, therefore,<br /> upon this Fund ........................ 105<br /> Cannot the Committee procure an amendment<br /> of the resolution so that it should include persons<br /> with claims depending on achievements in Litera-<br /> ture, Science, and Art only? This seems the<br /> only way of putting a definite stop either to the<br /> jobs which formerly disgraced the List or the<br /> little nibblings which are now allowed every year<br /> in favour of persons whose claims may be very<br /> strong, but are not literary, scientific, or artistic.<br /> 245<br /> THE POLICE AS CENSORS.<br /> THE following case was published in the<br /> Newsagent and Booksellers&#039; Review.<br /> PROSECUTION OR PERSECUTION ?<br /> Ridiculous Charges against Booksellers.<br /> At the Central Criminal Court, London, last week, Mabel<br /> Florence Thomson, manageress and secretary of a publishing<br /> company in Booksellers&#039;.row, surrendered to her bail to<br /> answer an indictment charging ber with having pablished<br /> an alleged obscene libel, a book entitled “The Heptameron<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 54 (#80) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 54<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> The mournful part of the business is that early<br /> in the present year a man was prosecuted at the<br /> instance of the police for selling the same book,<br /> and, pleading guilty, was fined.<br /> On the other hand, let us ask how it is that<br /> certain shops in some parts of the West End are<br /> allowed to flaunt in their windows every kind of<br /> picture and title which can possible invite prosecu-<br /> tion--and escape scot free, while these small<br /> dealers, who happen to have a classic in which are<br /> certain coarse passages, are harried and haled<br /> before magistrates, and have to look on while their<br /> stock-in-trade, proved to be perfectly innocent,<br /> is forcibly carried off in four-wheeled cabs.<br /> this city who is a living link between the events<br /> of the middle of this century and of its close this<br /> year. His experiences, therefore, must be of a<br /> particularly interesting kind, and those that he<br /> recounted before the Authors&#039; Society, flavoured as<br /> they were with personal allusions, were well<br /> received. As Mr. Karkaria suggested at the<br /> gathering, these reminiscences of a very active and<br /> many-sided career would be not only pleasant<br /> but instructive and edifying reading if Mr.<br /> Kabraji were to put them on paper and publish<br /> them in a book. We wish the Authors&#039; Society<br /> success, and hope it will fulfil its object of<br /> increasing friendship and intercourse among<br /> native writers.— Bombay Gazette, June 9.<br /> BOMBAY SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> TT is an encouraging sign of the times that the<br /> Parsi authors and journalists of Bombay 1. — CONCERNING ENGLISH AUTHORS IN THE<br /> have formed a “ Society of Authors ” more<br /> UNITED STATES.<br /> or less on the model of the well-known association T HAVE long felt the helplessness of English<br /> established some years ago in London. That authors in the hands of American pub.<br /> society is the first of its kind in England, though lishers. How good soever our agreements<br /> in France “ La Société des Gens de Lettres ” has may be, we have no means of seeing them carried<br /> now existed for over sixty years, and has done out. The experience of others probably tallies<br /> much good to its members as well as the literary with my own, though I have seen no complaint<br /> profession in general. Our local society also bids in The Author or elsewhere. I would propose<br /> fair to be useful and successful as it is in that our society should have an agent or an<br /> enthusiastic and able hands. The veteran Parsi agency in New York, with full powers from<br /> author, Mr. K. R. Cama, who in the present year individual writers to examine—as far as existing<br /> finishes the Psalmist&#039;s limit of three score and laws permit - either the books of publishers<br /> ten, and who is as vigorous and enthusiastic in his or the price-lists, advertisements, and sales of<br /> literary schemes as ever, is the president, and each work, and forward half-yearly statements of<br /> Mr. K. N. Kabraji, the veteran Parsi journalist, the same to authors, who, of course, would be<br /> is the vice-president. The new society performed charged some fee. This is merely a rough and<br /> a very pleasing function the other day by sketchy idea that might be thought out in<br /> inviting a very select and cultured party of detail and improved and amplified by the<br /> authors and authoresses—for Parsi lady-writers collective mind of the Incorporated Authors,<br /> have also joined the society-and their friends to should they see the utility of such an agent or<br /> an afternoon party to meet their vice-president, agency<br /> Mr. Kabraji, before his departure for England It would be well, perhaps, to impart my<br /> to-day. The most interesting part of the pro- experience with regard to “ The Last Sentence,&quot;<br /> ceedings was the speech in which this veteran a novel published by Mr. Heinemann in 1893,<br /> journalist recounted his experiences of over forty after running in Great Thoughts. Accord-<br /> years in his profession. Mr. Kabraji commenced ing to my rule, I retained the copyright of this<br /> his connection with the native Press in the pre- novel, and empowered Messrs. Lovell and Co. to<br /> Mutiny days, and all the great landmarks of publish it in the United States for me on con.<br /> recent Indian history have passed under his eyes. dition of paying me a stipulated royalty. The<br /> He witnessed the Mutiny, heard the Queen&#039;s Pro novel sold well on both sides, and I received sub-<br /> clamation proclaimed with due pomp and cere- stantial cheques from America as well as England.<br /> mony in Nov. 1858, saw the preparations in But Messrs. Lovell and Co. became bankrupt,<br /> Bombay for the Abyssinian and Afgban Wars, and, without consulting me-as I believe, illegally<br /> was present at the Grand Durbar where the -transferred this rigbt or sub-let this right of<br /> Queen was proclaimed Empress of India, took publishing to firm after firm, all of which, as far<br /> part in the festivities of the Jubilee of the Queen, as I can ascertain, became bankrupt, but con-<br /> He is the only journalist, native or European, in tinued to publish my novel and to send me from<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 55 (#81) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 55<br /> time to time varying sums as royalty. But I exceptional, in which case it may serve as a warn-<br /> could not obtain regular statements of sales, and ing to others.<br /> MAXWELL GRAY.<br /> seldom knew in whose hands the book was. It2, Mount Ararat-road, Richmond,<br /> was pirated, I believe, by one firm, but I really do Surrey. July 12, 1900.<br /> not quite know what happened to this book,<br /> except that it was always selling, a fact I ascer-<br /> tained sometimes by indirect means. At last I<br /> II.—“ PRINTERS&#039; ERRORS.&quot;<br /> received an intimation from the “ American It is distinctly amusing to find anyone com-<br /> Publishers&#039; Corporation” to the effect that they plaining of the printer as a tyrant. With most<br /> had the book, and furnishing a sort of genealogy authors he is a scapegoat. Whenever some<br /> of the firms through which it had descended to unusually palpable blunder appears in type it is<br /> them from Messrs. Lovell and Co. (or Proteus invariably spoken of as a &quot;printer&#039;s error.” In a<br /> and Co.). I think this was in 1897, when, I see. recent number of Truth, for instance, it was the<br /> £6 was received from them, presumably for 1896. demoniacal printer who compelled the editor to<br /> Then comes an entry in the autumn of 1898 of call Mr. Robert Lowe Lord Sherborne instead of<br /> 159. This was accompanied by an intimation Lord Sherbrooke. Perhaps, Sir, you will allow<br /> that the sale was so feeble they proposed printing me to say a word or two upon this harrowing<br /> no more copies. One would suppose this to be subject.<br /> the end of the history. Not at all. In May, In the first place, the printer has, and can<br /> 1900, I received a letter from the manager of the have, nothing whatever to do with it. The<br /> Publishers&#039; Plate Renting Company, stating that man who prints, i.e., the pressman, never, as far<br /> “ between the receivership of the American Pub. as my experience goes, sets up type. I suppose,<br /> lishers&#039; Corporation and the foreclosure sale of its therefore, that when Mr. Corbett says printer<br /> plates ... some publishing was done, and (see April number of The Author, p. 250) he<br /> any royalties earned were deposited in a trust means compositor ; that it is the compositor who<br /> company in this city. There are now on deposit presumes to alter his undeniably accurate spelling,<br /> royalties from the sale of your book amounting to and whose fault it is when a blunder defaces a<br /> about £60.”<br /> page. But I submit that this is putting the<br /> That is all I know (except that I claimed and saddle on the wrong horse. In any published<br /> received my cheque). It appears to me a singular matter, be it book or newspaper, a printer&#039;s error<br /> circumstance that whereas such sum as £6 for one (to use the expression in vogue) does not exist.<br /> year and 158. for another are all I appear to have It is an impossibility. The error is not that of<br /> received while the company was solvent, over £60 the compositor, but of the proof-reader. The<br /> result from the sales between Sept. 1898, and only place in which a printer&#039;s error can occur is in<br /> May, 1900, when the company was insolvent. I the first proof pulled; and if such error is over-<br /> am not informed of the sales or the percentage by looked, and appears in the published form, it is<br /> which my royalty came. It may be rightly the proof-reader, and not the compositor, who is<br /> calculated, or the trust company may be ignorant to blame.<br /> of my stipulated percentage. I do not impugn But who is to blame when blunders that exist<br /> the honesty or accuracy of the various firms which in the manuscript are perpetuated in the public<br /> have sold my book. I merely observe that the cation ? Here the question lies between the<br /> jump from 158. to £61 78. (the exact cheque) on publisher&#039;s reader and the author. Very often<br /> a book seven years old is remarkable. There was the reader is incompetent, and, failing to under-<br /> also a sudden decline from a cheque in three stand the author&#039;s meaning, ventures to correct<br /> figures to £2 on an earlier firm becoming solvent, his copy. A case once occurred in my own<br /> which is less remarkable. It is true that in 1898 experience. Being absent from Europe, I sent<br /> my novel, “ The House of Hidden Treasure,&quot; had home my copy in type, and of course could not<br /> a large sale in England and the United States, correct the proofs. In a certain passage I had<br /> and that may have sent up the American sale of used the expression “reification of a concept.&quot;<br /> “ The Last Sentence,&quot; though it had not that The reader had never heard of the word reifica-<br /> effect in England. But the point is that I, and I tion, and you may imagine my dismay when, on<br /> suppose all authors, except a few ubiquitous the publication of my book, I found that he had<br /> people, are helpless as a child in the matter; altered it to “ deification.&quot; Here he was wrong;<br /> and that an agent, who must be neither pub- and yet there certainly are cases in which a reader<br /> lisher nor author, to watch books in the might save the author from some of the gram-<br /> United States would be a great boon to English matica) atrocities that bring amateur authorship<br /> authors.<br /> into disrepute. A novelist or essayist who writes<br /> On the other hand, my experience may be &quot;like he does,” “different to,” or “neither of<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 56 (#82) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 56<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> them were,” splits his infinitives, and begins two far cry, and my publishers took what money was<br /> consecutive separate sentences with the word made by the sale of the book for themselves, then<br /> “but,&quot; is lucky if he finds a publisher ; but he (although the whole edition was entirely my pro-<br /> would be luckier still (and so would the public) perty) they disposed of the unsold copies to<br /> if the publisher&#039;s reader were benevolent enough another firm without informing me; and, on the<br /> to correct his English.<br /> F. H. B. Authors&#039; Society interfering, it was found that<br /> the firm was bankrupt and had vanished without<br /> assets.<br /> III.-LONG RETENTION OF MSS.<br /> I had written two more books by this time;<br /> Perhaps one of the greatest grievances and one a work of 58opp. 4to. on some little-known<br /> discouragements the literary aspirant has to languages, and the other a history in two volumes,<br /> suffer from is the unreasonably long detention of 875pp. 4to. A highly-placed official of the<br /> his MSS. by publishers or editors. In fact, the Government of India saw the MS. of the first<br /> preliminary step to failure or renown resembles book and said, “ You will let us have this”; of<br /> the launching of Moses among the bulrushes, or course, publication by the Government of India<br /> the venturesome vulgar boys of Margate sands is a cachet for a work, so I agreed. The second<br /> who went to sea in a sieve.<br /> book was written at the request of the Govern-<br /> A play of mine was retained by a stage manager ment in my leisure time, but not in any way “by<br /> for over a year, and then he pretended he had lost order.”<br /> it. At length I bearded the lion in his den, I agreed because my experiences with private<br /> and simply seized it on the rack of his desk, and firms of publishers had not been pleasant or<br /> walked off triumphant. Recently an elaborate profitable, and if the Government of India tells<br /> work of 500 pages went the round of four pub- one of its servants that it wishes to publish his<br /> lishers in the short twinkling of fifteen months! books, he knows a great deal better than to<br /> The fifth grand lama delightedly appropriated it refuse.<br /> by return of post, politely offering me £50 in Both books were published by the Government<br /> return for five years&#039; exile and hard labour. of India, and I received 30 copies of the first and<br /> Being but a Grub-street vagabond, I accepted; 42 copies of the second. I have not received any<br /> and then had the pleasure of correcting the proofs payment or other acknowledgment, and the<br /> of the mutilated and largely abridged “copy,&quot; Government have all the rights and the owner-<br /> which, although written in the same legible hand ship of the books.<br /> as enclosure, largely abounded in distinctly Now, have I been well treated or not, and how<br /> “ printer&#039;s errors.” My magnum opus having do the Government compare, as publishers, with<br /> honourably run the gauntlet of the critics, I hope some of those firms our Society has been so busy<br /> fully inquired about the sales by way of curiosity, safeguarding its members against ? TALAI.<br /> but received no answer.<br /> I have lost nearly half of my contributions to<br /> magazines, and enclosure represents the sting of a<br /> V.—THE HARDSHIPS OF THE TYPIST.<br /> recent experience.<br /> Your correspondent&#039;s remarks on the hardships-<br /> J. S. LAURIE. of the typist are just. Ninepence a thousand words<br /> is cruel pay, in face of the fact ihat the work is<br /> IV.—THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT AS PUBLISHERS. very uncertain.<br /> I give my experiences with publishers in the The lady who has typed my later novels (Miss<br /> hope of obtaining some expression of opinion E. Longworth, 310, Strand) assures me that some-<br /> regarding the position adopted by the Indian times for weeks at a stretch she has scarcely any.<br /> Government towards those of its unfortunate thing to do, and then is wearied by a sudden rush<br /> servants who happen to be authors.<br /> of work, much of which she has to put out and<br /> In 1887 I wrote, at the request of the head of pay for, as she cannot do it in the time given her.<br /> the local government under which I was then And authors are always in a hurry!<br /> serving, a small work containing special informil- She charges me is. a thousand words, and gives.<br /> tion which I alone possessed, and brought the a carbon copy in, which is, I think, as fair as<br /> MS. to England. The Secretary of State for anyone can desire. One cannot expect typewriting<br /> India gave me £100 and told me to bave the book to be done well for less, and any typist who makes<br /> published at my own expense ; both he and the a lower charge shows herself an enemy to the other<br /> Government of India promised to take a certain members of her profession.<br /> number of copies.<br /> One thing should be remembered—that the<br /> This was very satisfactory, and I hoped for a working of a typewriter is exhausting to most<br /> reasonable profit. I had returned to the East, a women. It causes a fearful backache in many<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 57 (#83) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 57<br /> cases, and, if persisted in too long every day, is Mr. Beckles Willson, whose history of the<br /> very injurious to health. Considering all this, I Hudson&#039;s Bay Company was published a few<br /> should be ashamed to pay another woman less months ago, is now writing a somewhat similar<br /> than I should care to work for myself. Is it not work on the East India Company.<br /> time that typists combined to protect themselves ?<br /> Mr. Anstey&#039;s new story, to be published in<br /> Ninepence a thousand words will soon sink to<br /> October by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., is<br /> sixpence—and then ? Mary L. PENDERED.<br /> called “ The Brass Bottle.”<br /> be<br /> Mr. Ashton Ellis&#039;s life of Wagner will be in<br /> four volumes, the first of which Messrs. Kegan<br /> BOOK AND PLAY TALK.<br /> Paul hope to publish in the autumn.<br /> Mr. C. T. Hagberg Wright, the librarian of the<br /> MOLONEL SPENCER CHILDERS, of the London Library, is engaged upon a biography of<br /> Royal Engineers, has prepared the “Life Count Tolstoy.<br /> and Correspondence of Mr. Childers,&quot; Mr. Ferrar Fenton has in the press a sixth<br /> which will be published in one volume by Mr.<br /> edition of his “ St. Paul&#039;s Epistles in Modern<br /> Murray. Mr. Childers&#039;s political career lasted<br /> English,” with an “Introduction estimating that<br /> from 1860 to 1892, during which time he occupied<br /> Apostle&#039;s influence upon the Progress of Man.<br /> five Ministerial posts--First Lord, Chancellor of<br /> kind.&quot; The publishers are Messrs. Horace Mar.<br /> the Duchy, Secretary for War, Chancellor of the<br /> shall and Son.<br /> Exchequer, and Home Secretary.<br /> Mr. Aylmer Gowing&#039;s new novel, “A Spider&#039;s<br /> Lord Rosslyn is publishing through Messrs.<br /> Web,” will be the next work produced in Mr.<br /> Blackwood an account of his adventures during<br /> Burleigh&#039;s half-crown series. The plot is evolved<br /> the war in South Africa. The book will be called<br /> through the arts of a fair Russian Arachne, who<br /> “ Twice Captured.”<br /> spins her web about a young English attaché. A<br /> Mr. W. Basil Worsfold is writing “ The Story contrast to the dark shadow of deceit and crime<br /> of Egypt” for Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son&#039;s is found in an idyllic love story in England.<br /> little Story of the Empire Series. “The Story of<br /> A third edition of Mr. de V. Payen-Payne&#039;s<br /> Uganda,&quot; which also will appear this autumn, is by<br /> 1, is by “French Idioms and Proverbs &quot; is shortly to be<br /> Brigadier-General Lugard, C.B., D.S.O.<br /> published by Mr. David Nutt. The first edition<br /> A new history of “The Venetian Republic” has of this work appeared in 1893, and the second in<br /> been written by Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, and will 1897, and it is now accepted in all colleges and<br /> be published shortly.<br /> schools where French is seriously studied as a<br /> The Publishers&#039; Circular makes the following competent guide to a very difficult subject. For<br /> statement (July 21):-<br /> those preparing for examinations, such as those<br /> As an indication of the success of the net system, the<br /> of the London, Victoria, or Welsh Universities,<br /> Booksellers&#039; Association has sent a letter to the Publishers&#039; the Society of Arts, the Oxford and Cambridge<br /> Association expressing the hope that the number of net locals, or the Civil Service Commissioners, this<br /> books may be increased. The publishers are now giving book is valuable.<br /> the matter their serious attention.<br /> A story of Afghan life by Miss Lillias Hamilton,<br /> The War Fund book, “For Britain&#039;s Soldiers,&quot;<br /> who was the Ameer&#039;s medical adviser, will be wi<br /> or will be which Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne has got together and<br /> published by Mr. Murray, under the title “A<br /> Messrs. Methuen are publishing gratuitously, will<br /> Vizier&#039;s Daughter : an Autobiography.” This<br /> be on sale for three months only, so as to induce<br /> publisher has also on his autumn list a novel by<br /> the charitable to buy copies in the pious hope that<br /> Lady Hely Hutchinson, entitled “Monica Grey,&quot;<br /> they may go to a premium afterwards. The con-<br /> and one by the Hon. Mrs. Walter Forbes, “A<br /> tributors are Messrs. Alden, Besan, Crockett,<br /> Gentleman.”<br /> Hornung, Hyne, Kipling, Mason, Moore, Pem-<br /> berton, Roberts, Ridge, Wells, White, Wood, and<br /> “ Footsteps of a Throne&quot; is the title of Mr.<br /> Mrs. Croker.<br /> Max Pemberton&#039;s new book, which Messrs.<br /> Methuen will publish in this country.<br /> An early new comedy at Wyndham&#039;s Theatre<br /> will be “My Lady Dainty,” by the lady who<br /> A posthumous story by the late Mrs. Lynn wrote “ Young Mr. Jedburg” and “ An American<br /> Linton, entitled “ The Second Life of Theodora<br /> Citizen.” The new piece was produced success-<br /> Desanges,” will appear shortly.<br /> fully at Brighton a month ago. The scene is<br /> Mr. Egerton Castle&#039;s new novel for the autumn laid partly in Devonshire and partly in New<br /> is to be called “ The Sacred Orchard.&quot;<br /> York.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 58 (#84) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 58<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> At the Duke of York&#039;s a new comedy by Mr. Exhibition, and the other (which should be con-<br /> Henry Arthur Jones will be produced by Mr. sulted by all interested in the China crisis) with<br /> Charles Frohman in September.<br /> the most important recent English and French<br /> In view of the success which the German plays works on China ; it appeared in Literature of<br /> have met with in London this year, a syndicate<br /> ndirate<br /> July 21.<br /> July 21.<br /> (with Mr. Henry Oppenheim and the Earl of Mr. Cosmo Hamilton&#039;s new book is called<br /> Dysart among the guarantors) has been formed “Impudent Dialogues,&quot; and will be published by<br /> for the production of German pieces at the Mr. Arrowsmith next spring. The romantic play<br /> Comedy Theatre from the middle of October to in four acts founded on “ The Countess Tekla,&quot;<br /> the middle of April next.<br /> by Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Robert Barr, is to be<br /> The object of the National Drama Company, produced in London next Easter. Mr. Hamilton<br /> which has just been formed, is “to provide an is at present engaged on a society extravaganza<br /> organisation by which our great plays may be to be called “The Danger of Innocence,” which<br /> produced in frequent succession; and it has been will form the Christmas number of the World.<br /> thought advisable,” says the prospectus,“ to The editor of the Century Magazine has taken<br /> make Mr. F. R. Benson&#039;s Shakespearean and Old up the charge against the American stage, and<br /> Comedy company-which has long been engaged goes the length of saying that American drama-<br /> in this work as a private undertaking, and has a tists are not only incapable of appreciating what<br /> repertory of no less than twenty-three of Shake is intellectual, instructive, wholesome, or inspiring,<br /> speare&#039;s plays—the basis of the new organisa but addicted naturally to what is morbid, auda-<br /> tion.” The capital is £27,000 in ordinary and cious, or unclean. On this subject, and in view<br /> preference shares, and the board of directors of the recent discussion in Parliament of the<br /> includes Sir H. W. Lawrence, Sir John Scott, Mr. English stage, it is instructive to observe the<br /> Joseph Walton, Q.C., and Mr. Benson.<br /> point of view of another American, Judge<br /> Mr. Stephen Phillips has written for Mr. Beer- Fursman, as expressed in his summing-up in the<br /> bohm Tree a new play on the subject of Herod prosecution against the performance of “ Sapho&quot;<br /> the Great. It will be called “The King of the in New York-a case which ended, as will be<br /> Jews,&quot; and will be presented at Her Majesty&#039;s remembered, in the acquittal of Miss Olga<br /> during the coming season. Mr. Tree intends also Nethersole and her colleagues. Addressing the<br /> to produce two Shakespearean plays—“ Julius jury on their duties, the judge said:<br /> Cæsar” and “ Othello.&quot; For the former he has Consider as to them only the fair arguments that in the<br /> secured Mr. Murray Carson for the part of Julius cold deliberation of honest minds ought to prevail. Where<br /> Cæsar, Mr. Beveridge as Casca, and Mr. Robert<br /> you sit there is no room for imagination. Where you sit<br /> there is no room for sympathy, for prejudice, or for<br /> Taber for the role of Cassius.<br /> vengeance. You are not here in the interests of any public<br /> Mr. Martin Harvey has taken the Lyceum newspaper. You are not here in the interests of the public<br /> Theatre for the autumn, and his programme will<br /> prosecution. You are not here in the interests of the<br /> defendants. You are here as sworn officers of the law to<br /> probably include, first, “ Romeo and Juliet,&quot; and determine what the truth is—what justice requires, what<br /> afterwards an adaptation by Mr. Charles Hannan fairness demands, under the evidence and the law in this<br /> of Mr. Marion Crawford&#039;s story, “A Cigarette case. The law requires you to presume that these defen.<br /> Maker&#039;s Romance.&quot;<br /> dants are innocent. Innocence is the garb with which the<br /> law clothes every accused person, and the prosecution is<br /> The familiar type of melodrama at the Adelphi required in law to overcome this presumption by evidence<br /> is at last to suffer an eclipse, Mr. George that leaves no reasonable doubt in a man&#039;s mind. ...<br /> Edwardes having secured the house as a home<br /> The statute does not make it an offence that the tenor,<br /> for the production of musical plays.<br /> the product, the outcome of a book or a play is not moral.<br /> The statute makes it an offence when it offends public<br /> On August 30 Miss Julia Neilson will re-open decency so as to become a public nuisance. Mere sag-<br /> the Haymarket Theatre with the new play by Mr.<br /> gestiveness—and I think it must be said in all fairness<br /> Paul Kester entitled &quot;Sweet N L of &#039;Durga that there are things in this play, and it cannot be denied<br /> and has not been denied, that are to a certain extent sag.<br /> -otherwise Nell Gwyn. The play is in four<br /> gestive—but mere suggestiveness is not sufficient. It is<br /> acts, and besides Miss Neilson the cast includes<br /> not enough, in order to make a crime under this statute,<br /> Mr. Fred Terry, Mr. W. Mollison, Mr. Sydney that it may offend the modesty of young girls. This statute<br /> Brough, and Miss Constance Collier.<br /> means, when it declares a play to be an offence against<br /> public decency, that it shall be of such a character as to<br /> Two bibliographical articles of considerable offend in that manner the great mass of the people of all<br /> interest at the present juncture appeared in characters, of all estates, of all faiths, of all denominations,<br /> the course of July in Literature from the of all positions in society.<br /> pen of E. A. Reynolds-Ball. One (July 7) The only book ever done by President Lincoln<br /> dealt with the recent literature of the Paris is about to be published in America by Messrs.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 59 (#85) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 59<br /> BOOKS AND REVIEWS.<br /> (In these columns notes on books are given from reviews<br /> which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,<br /> logrollers.)<br /> McClure, Phillips, and Co., and will be a repro.<br /> duction in exact facsimile of a small scrap-<br /> hook compiled by Lincoln for use in the political<br /> campaign of 1858. This book was presented by<br /> the owner to his strongest supporter, Captain<br /> James N. Brown, who carried it with him in 1860<br /> and in subsequent campaigns for use as a book of<br /> reference whenever Lincoln&#039;s opinions were called<br /> in question. Captain Brown died in 1868, and<br /> the book passed to his sons, by whose desire it is<br /> now being published. The clippings give. in<br /> Lincoln&#039;s own words, “the substance of all I have<br /> ever said about negro equality,&quot; and the book also<br /> contains notes in Lincoln&#039;s handwriting prefaced<br /> to the extracts from his speeches. It will be<br /> called “Abraham Lincoln : His Book.”<br /> Mr. Norman Hapgood is following his recent<br /> biography of Lincoln with a life of Washington.<br /> The source of the title, “Red Pottage,&quot; has<br /> been engaging the curiosity of American readers<br /> and reviewers. Some attributed the passage<br /> quoted by the author—&quot; After the red pottage<br /> comes the exceeding bitter cry”—to the Bible,<br /> others thought it came from Omar Khayyam.<br /> At length, Messrs. Harper and Brothers, the<br /> American publishers of the book, sought to place<br /> the matter beyond doubt by asking Miss Chol.<br /> mondeley. Her reply was as follows:-<br /> Miss Cholmondeley, in answer to Messrs. Harpers&#039; inquiry<br /> of May 23, regrets to say she does not know where the<br /> motto comes from—“After the red pottage,” &amp;c. She<br /> remembers jotting it down in her note-book years ago, but<br /> when she turned to it she found to her surprise she had not<br /> added the author&#039;s name, which in nearly every other case<br /> she had been careful to do. She thinks it may be found in<br /> the sermons of the Rev. John Hamilton Thom.<br /> The curiosity of the American reading public<br /> in regard to another lady novelist, Miss Ellen<br /> Thorneycroft Fowler, has been answered in a<br /> singular fashion. Messrs. D. Appleton and Co.<br /> have issued a new edition of “ Concerning Isabel<br /> Carnaby,&quot; which presents a portrait and an<br /> elaborate biographical and critical study of the<br /> author.<br /> The late Mr. Harold Frederic&#039;s work, “The<br /> Damnation of Theron Ware,” which is known in<br /> England as “ Illumination,” is being dramatised<br /> in the United States.<br /> Mr. Walter H. Page, formerly editor of the<br /> Atlantic Monthly, is named as editor of a new<br /> illustrated magazine which Messrs. Doubleday,<br /> Page, and Co. hope to bring out in the autumn.<br /> It will be called “The World&#039;s Work,&quot; and will<br /> attempt to cover a field of its own.<br /> THE “OVERLAND&quot; TO CHINA, by Archibald R. Colqu.<br /> houn (Harper, 168.), “ covers a vast area, for its backbone,<br /> so to speak, is a journey of 7000 miles to and through the<br /> Far East.&quot; Much of it is immediately concerned with the<br /> vital issue and localities of the present crisis, and the Daily<br /> Chronicle trusts it &quot; will be very widely read. It is full of<br /> exact information set forth in most readable fashion, and it<br /> appears at a moment sensationally opportune.&quot; &quot;The<br /> account of diplomatic life in Peking as it used to be is the<br /> best extant.&quot;<br /> CHINA, THE LONG-LIVED EMPIRE, by Eliza R. Scada-<br /> more (Macmillan, 8s. 6d. net), is “to be recommended,”<br /> says the Daily News, &quot;as a lively and vivid account of<br /> Chinese life and character. With its sketches of scenes<br /> and persons where with the entire world is now concerned,<br /> it appears at an opportune moment. It contains a large<br /> namber of good illustrations.&quot;<br /> THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSPIRACY; or, The Aims of<br /> Afrikanderdom, by Fred W. Bell (Heinemann, 58. net), deals<br /> with “a matter of great importance,&quot; says the Times, and<br /> &quot;serves a useful purpose in bringing the known facts and<br /> the argument to be deduced from them within the reach of<br /> all who seek to be informed.”<br /> My DIOCESE DURING THE WAR, Extracts from the Diary<br /> of the Right Rev. Arthur Hamilton Baynes, D.D., Bishop of<br /> Natal (Bell, 68.), is described by the Daily Chronicle as<br /> “in large measure a chronicle of small things, of personal<br /> detail and hearsay in the rear of the fighting line, of<br /> hamanitarian and yet sensible views of the war and its<br /> consequences.” The author was at the front, says the<br /> Spectator, “and saw many things from a point of view<br /> somewhat different from that either of the soldier or of the<br /> war correspondent, and what he writes is in the best taste,<br /> simple, anaffected, and graphic, withont the least attempt<br /> at fine writing.”<br /> A HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by Harald<br /> Höffding (Macmillan, 308.), is a translation from the German<br /> of a work wbich, says the Guardian, “undoubtedly stands in<br /> the front rank of histories of philosophy, not only on account<br /> of the eminence and learning of its author, bat even more<br /> from the lucidity of its plan and the consistency with which<br /> it is adhered to throughout. A history of philosophy should,<br /> the author tells us, throw light on what philosophy really<br /> is ; and the present book not only does this by distin.<br /> guishing the chief problems of the philosopher and tracing<br /> their rise and development, but also by making clear every-<br /> where the intimate relation of philosophy to political and<br /> social conditions and to scientific progress. Parts of the<br /> work are, indeed, almost as much a history of calture as of<br /> philosophy.” The Guardian adds, however, that the trans-<br /> lation needs a “very thorough revision.” Professor<br /> Höffding&#039;s work, says the Daily Chronicle, “is charac-<br /> terised by singular clearness, discrimination, and detach.<br /> ment of mind.”<br /> ROBERT BROWNING, by A. Waagh (Kegan Paul, 28. 6d.<br /> net), is a volume of the “ Westminster Biographies,&quot; &quot; and<br /> is in every way an excellent piece of work,” says the<br /> Spectator. “The two personalities of Robert Browning and<br /> his wife are sympatbetically treated, and there is some<br /> admirable criticism of their literary work.” “It is,&quot; says<br /> the Daily Telegraph “at once a biography, concise, but<br /> omitting nothing material, and a scholarly critical apprecia-<br /> tion.” “Mr. Waugh&#039;s criticism,” says the Daily Chronicle,<br /> “ is justly appreciative, not fanatically eulogistic.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 60 (#86) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 60<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> NATURE IN DOWNLAND, by W. H. Hudson (Longmans,<br /> 108. 6d. net), is, among other things, full, says the Daily<br /> Chronicle, “ of amusing evidences of the rural intelligence<br /> as found in the county of Sussex.” “It is long since Mr.<br /> Hudson gave as a book. It is longer still since he gave us<br /> Bo good a book as this one, in which there are more than a<br /> few passages that recall the Naturalist in La Plata &#039;at<br /> his happiest.” The “Downland,” says the Daily News, is<br /> Spectator, the promise is redeemed “ with a measure of<br /> success rare in sequels. Though less prodigal of incident<br /> and description, the present volume is far superior to its<br /> predecessor in concentration and intensity. . . . At the<br /> close of “The School for Saints&#039; it may be remembered<br /> that Robert Orange, the brilliant and many-sided idealist,<br /> had become engaged to the beautiful Mrs. Partieto. . . .<br /> The volume before as unfolds the tragic consequences of<br /> Sussex Downs. “Mr. Hudson shows us every detail of<br /> the landscape,” the features of the treeless downs, the<br /> abundant flowers, bird and beast, reptile and insect, “even<br /> the seldom-noticed snail, apon whose sculptured covering<br /> nature has indeed bestowed some of her very daintiest handi.<br /> work.&quot;<br /> BURMA, by Max and Bertha Ferrara (Low, 308.), describes<br /> “the modern Burmese as he lives and has his being from<br /> the cradle to the grave, with,&quot; says the Daily Telegraph,<br /> “ a painstaking elaborateness and exactitude.” The Daily<br /> Chronicle says the book contains &quot;genuine masses of infor.<br /> mation,&quot; and a “beautiful and varied collection of photo<br /> graphs.” “Everyone,” says Literature, “who is so fortu.<br /> nate as to have read Mr. Fieiding&#039;s book, &#039;The Soul of a<br /> People,&#039; should get ‘Burma. Although, from its size,<br /> weight, and price, it comes into the category of &#039;gift-books,&#039;<br /> books which serve to decorate a table and never get read,<br /> * Burma&#039; should prove the exception to this rule. Our<br /> authors&#039; detailed account of the outward life of the Burmese<br /> -an account which rounds off and completes Mr. Fielding&#039;s<br /> story of their life-is well worth reading.&quot;<br /> A SON OF THE STATE, by W. Pett Ridge (Methaen,<br /> 38. 60.), &quot; is vivid as well as engrossing,” says the Daily<br /> News, &quot;and its robust manliness— quality that asserts<br /> itself on every page—is not certainly its least merit. And,<br /> apart from all other considerations, we can only advise those<br /> who are discontented with existing State institutions to read<br /> Mr. Pett Ridge&#039;s book and benefit by his cheerful optimiam.”<br /> He depicts for us, says the Daily Chronicle,&quot; the blatant,<br /> garish, open-air life of the City-road.” “All the early part<br /> of Mr. Bobbie&#039;s vagrant career is exceedingly gay, lively,<br /> and well told,” and “the book may be recommended to<br /> everyone as a pleasant summer drink.”<br /> LITTLE ANNA MARK, by S. R. Crockett (Smith, Elder<br /> and Co., 68.), is &quot; a rattling rousing story of adventure and<br /> misadventure,&quot; says the Daily Telegraph, &quot;related in the<br /> first person by a somewhat dull-witted Scottish youth.”<br /> The Daily News describes the hero of the book as “a<br /> picturesque villain whose crimes are of the medieval and<br /> semi-Satanic kind,” while&quot; the good angel of the work is a<br /> big Englishman with the euphonious name of Umpbray<br /> Spurway.” The scene is laid partly in Scotland, partly on<br /> a pirate ship, and partly in mysterious tropical islands. The<br /> Chronicle confesses that “Little Anna Mark ” is “very<br /> much to our liking.” “Mr. Crockett carries us along from<br /> exciting incident to thrilling episode, and gives as scarce<br /> time to breathe.&quot;<br /> THE LADYSMITH TREASURY, edited by J. Eveleigh Nash<br /> (Sands, 68.), “has nothing to do with Ladysmith or the<br /> war,” remarks the Spectator, “ except that the profits of the<br /> book are to go to the relief of distress in the town. It con-<br /> tuids sixteen short stories and ketebes. Among the<br /> authors we see the names of Ian Maclaren, W. E. Norris,<br /> Morley Roberts, and F. Frankfort Moore. We recommend<br /> the book to ou readers, and can do so without scruple, not<br /> only because the object is patriotic, but because there is<br /> good literary work in it.”<br /> ROBERT ORANGE, by John Oliver Hobbes (Unwin, 68.),<br /> which the Daily Telegraph describes as a containing work<br /> “uniformly sober, restrained, literary,&quot; is the promised con-<br /> tinuation of “The School for Saints,&quot; and, says the<br /> adds: “It is rare in these democratic days to encounter &amp;<br /> book in which the existence of the masses is barely hinted<br /> at; it is not unwelcome, after the tyranny of slum realism,<br /> to be for once in a way completely relieved from the con.<br /> templation of squalid emotions and underbred unhappiness.”<br /> AFRICAN NIGHTS&#039; ENTERTAINMENTS, by A. J. 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The cheerful patience<br /> of the poor is cleverly indicated, and readers who like this<br /> stamp of story will enjoy Miss Annie Wakeman&#039;s book.&quot;<br /> Miss Wakeman&#039;s charwoman, says the Daily Chronicle, &quot; is<br /> magnificently real and altogether admirable.”<br /> STUDIES IN LOVE, by Maud Egerton King (Dent, 43. 60.<br /> net), consists of four stories, which in the opinion of the<br /> Daily News are &quot; very charming,” After saying that the<br /> book is “very pretty reading,” the Spectator adds that it is<br /> “ one which irresistibly suggests a hammock and a hot mid.<br /> summer afternoon as the proper place and time for its<br /> perasal.”<br /> A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAY, by E. 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