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1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
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manager.&lt;br /&gt;
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IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
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This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
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tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
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(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES or old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
porcentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Shoald 5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e., 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out ander heading (b.) apply will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction isM branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
I Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work whicb&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has &amp;amp; right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
1.-ON TITLES.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
WING to the fact that during the past two&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
or three months certain cases have been&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
placed before the Secretary of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the of Authors touching the infringement of property&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple in titles of hooice it he&lt;br /&gt;
in titles of books, it has been thought well to&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
2. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past repeat in substance, with certain additions, an&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The article that appeared in The Author in 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
63&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; The first statement it is necessary to make is of the plaintiffs, which product was a well-known&lt;br /&gt;
that, speaking generally, there is no copyright in marketable commodity.&lt;br /&gt;
titles. This statement, however, cannot be taken In order to obtain this property, one or two&lt;br /&gt;
as absolutely true, as in the case of &ldquo; Dick v. points therefore are clear :&lt;br /&gt;
Yates,&amp;quot; which went to the Court of Appeal, where (1) That the product must be actually selling&lt;br /&gt;
the title&ldquo; Splendid Misery &rdquo; was under discussion, on the market and must bave established a posi.&lt;br /&gt;
the Master of the Rolls made the following state. tion on the market by continuous sale.&lt;br /&gt;
ment:&lt;br /&gt;
(2) That products with similar names must be&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Now I do not say that there could not be similar products.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in a title, as for instance in a whole This latter statement would appear self-evident&lt;br /&gt;
page of title or something of that kind requiring if confusion had not frequently arisen in cases&lt;br /&gt;
invention. However, it is not necessary to decide placed before the Secretary. For instance, a book&lt;br /&gt;
that. But, assuming that there can be copyright of poems could not be confused with a philosophical&lt;br /&gt;
in a title, what does copyright mean? It means treatise, nor a work of fiction with a book of&lt;br /&gt;
the right to multiply copies of an original work. sermons, even though the names were the same.&lt;br /&gt;
If you complain that a part of your work has There are also one or two minor points which&lt;br /&gt;
been pirated you must show that that part is are very difficult of decision, and are too intricate&lt;br /&gt;
original, and if it is not original you have no to be dealt with in a short article.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. How can the title . Splendid Misery&amp;#039; The case in the American court above referred&lt;br /&gt;
be said to be original when the very same words to makes it clear that if the book is out of copy.&lt;br /&gt;
for the very same purpose were used nearly eighty right, it does not follow there is no trade mark in&lt;br /&gt;
years ago ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the title. But with whom the right of commencing&lt;br /&gt;
This case was fought out mainly on tae basis, an action would lie might need some ingenuity to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Is a title copyright, and the question of trade determine.&lt;br /&gt;
mark law on which the right of property in a title A further point arises for consideration. When&lt;br /&gt;
rests, though dealt with, was dealt with as a a book has been produced and is out of print, and&lt;br /&gt;
secondary point. The reason for this course in the author is deliberating, or states that he is&lt;br /&gt;
this particular case is clear on the facts as re- deliberating, about producing the second edition,&lt;br /&gt;
ported. Those who desire the reason are referred how far would the author have the right of&lt;br /&gt;
to the report.&lt;br /&gt;
stopping the production of a similar book under a&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Again, (1) speaking generally, it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
similar title ?&lt;br /&gt;
said there is copyright in a title.&lt;br /&gt;
Though each case must be decided on its&lt;br /&gt;
(2) If there is copyright, then the title must&lt;br /&gt;
separate facts and its separate peculiarities, the&lt;br /&gt;
claim distinct originality.&lt;br /&gt;
broad general rule would hold that as it was&lt;br /&gt;
impossible to buy the first book in the open&lt;br /&gt;
That, however, there is property in a title is&lt;br /&gt;
market, it was impossible that any of the public&lt;br /&gt;
quite clear, and the law bearing on the right of&lt;br /&gt;
could be deceived, and therefore the production&lt;br /&gt;
such property comes under, and is in some way&lt;br /&gt;
of book No. 2 could not possibly be a fraud.&lt;br /&gt;
analogous to, trade mark law, but titles cannot be This is an imo.&lt;br /&gt;
This is an important point, as cases have been&lt;br /&gt;
registered like trade marks.&lt;br /&gt;
known to occur where authors have practically&lt;br /&gt;
The real question to consider is whether the abandoned their book, their title, and their rights,&lt;br /&gt;
infringement amounts to a common law fraud on but have tried to revive both on seeing another&lt;br /&gt;
the public.&lt;br /&gt;
book produced with a similar name.&lt;br /&gt;
This is distinctly pointed out in the case which It might be useful to quote again a case that&lt;br /&gt;
is printed in the August number of The Author, was quoted in a former article, as it illustrates&lt;br /&gt;
to which the reader is referred. Although decided one or two of the most important points with&lt;br /&gt;
in the American courts, it is a case of great regard to property in a title.&lt;br /&gt;
importance, and brings into prominence the solid Messrs. Hogg in 1863 registered an intended&lt;br /&gt;
principle on which this question rests. There the new magazine to be called Belgravia. In 1866,&lt;br /&gt;
Chancellor of the University of Oxford obtained such magazine not having appeared, Mr. Maxwell,&lt;br /&gt;
an injunction against the defendant for publish in ignorance of what Messrs. Hogg had done,&lt;br /&gt;
ing a Bible termed the Oxford Bible, which was projected a magazine with the same name, and&lt;br /&gt;
not the &ldquo; Oxford Bible&rdquo; as known on the market incurred considerable expense in preparing it and&lt;br /&gt;
and published by the Clarendon Press. The extensively advertising it in August and September&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs could not possibly have any copyright as about to appear in October. Messrs. Hogg,&lt;br /&gt;
either in the Bible or title, and this is the point it knowing of this, made hasty preparations for&lt;br /&gt;
is desired to make especially clear, but the defen- bringing out their own magazine before that of&lt;br /&gt;
dant had no right to sell a product as the product Mr. Maxwell could appear, and in the meantime&lt;br /&gt;
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64&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
accepted an order from Mr. Maxwell for adver- tory way of leaving the question. It gives more&lt;br /&gt;
tising his (Mr. Maxwell&amp;#039;s) magazine on the covers scope and adaptability, and prevents the stiffen-&lt;br /&gt;
of their own publications; and the first day on ing that is often produced when a matter is&lt;br /&gt;
which they informed Mr. Maxwell that they statute-bound.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
objected to his publishing a magazine under that&lt;br /&gt;
name was Sept. 25, on which day the first number&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;COPYRIGHT IN SPEECHES.&lt;br /&gt;
of Messrs. Hogg&amp;#039;s magazine appeared. Mr. The House of Lords gave its decision on Aug. 6&lt;br /&gt;
Maxwell&amp;#039;s magazine appeared in October. Under in the appeal of Walter v. Lane, which referred&lt;br /&gt;
these circumstances, on a bill filed by Mr. Maxwell, to the publication by Mr. John Lane in book form&lt;br /&gt;
it was held that Mr. Maxwell&amp;#039;s advertisements of nearly verbatim copies of Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
and expenditure did not give him any exclusive speeches as they were reported in the Times. The&lt;br /&gt;
right to the use of the name Belgravia, and that appellants, who sued on behalf of the proprietors&lt;br /&gt;
he could not restrain Messrs. Hogg from publish of the Times, were granted an injunction by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
ing a magazine under the same name (the first Justice North, but he was reversed by the Court&lt;br /&gt;
number appeared before Mr. Maxwell had pub- of Appeal (see report in The Author for Decem-&lt;br /&gt;
lished his); and on a bill filed by Messrs. Hogg, ber last). Mr. Justice North&amp;#039;s judgment has now&lt;br /&gt;
that the registration by them of the title of an been restored by the House of Lords.&lt;br /&gt;
intended publication could not confer upon them The following is a summary of the LORD&lt;br /&gt;
a copyright in that name, and that in the circum. CHANCELLOR&amp;#039;s opinion. We have to thank the&lt;br /&gt;
stances of the case they had not acquired any editor of the Daily Chronicle for permission&lt;br /&gt;
right to restrain Mr. Maxwell from using the to use their report: &ldquo;I should very much&lt;br /&gt;
name as being Messrs. Hogg&amp;#039;s trade mark. regret if I were compelled to come to the con-&lt;br /&gt;
This case was, contrary to &ldquo;Dick v. Yates,&amp;quot; clusion that the state of the law permitted one&lt;br /&gt;
decided almost entirely on the aspect of the trade man to make profit and to appropriate to himself&lt;br /&gt;
mark. Certain papers register titles, and pro- the labour, skill, and capital of another. And it&lt;br /&gt;
duce periodically dummy copies in the hope of is not denied that in this case the defendant seeks&lt;br /&gt;
obtaining some kind of property. Anyone who to appropriate to himself what has been produced&lt;br /&gt;
has studied the question would at once know that by the skill, labour, and capital of others. In the&lt;br /&gt;
this labour is wasted, and that this kind of pro- view I take of this case, I think the law is strong&lt;br /&gt;
perty can only be claimed when a title has enough to restrain what, to my mind, would be a&lt;br /&gt;
become associated with a certain commodity by a grievous injustice. The Copyright Act confers&lt;br /&gt;
continued public circulation.&lt;br /&gt;
what it calls &amp;#039;copyright,&amp;#039; which means the right&lt;br /&gt;
How can a paper of which one copy only is to multiply copies, which it confers on the authors&lt;br /&gt;
published even every day claim to be such a of the books first published in this country. That&lt;br /&gt;
public commodity ?&lt;br /&gt;
the publication in question, namely, &amp;#039; Reports of&lt;br /&gt;
The contention is absurd.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s Speeches,&amp;#039; are simply copies of&lt;br /&gt;
From the most practical point of view, there what was first printed in the Times is not denied.&lt;br /&gt;
fore, it is best for the author not to name the And further, it has not been, and cannot be, denied&lt;br /&gt;
title of his book until his book is produced, if he that they were originally as in the Times, a sheet&lt;br /&gt;
considers that there is any particular power in or sheets of letterpress, and came within the&lt;br /&gt;
the words he is using.&lt;br /&gt;
definition of the Act as a book. The speeches,&lt;br /&gt;
Those who through personal experience have therefore, and the sheets of letterpress in which&lt;br /&gt;
come across the question of title for the first they were contained, were books first published in&lt;br /&gt;
time consider the matter as a difficulty but this country, and I confess, upon looking at the defi.&lt;br /&gt;
recently discovered, which needs immediate nition and the right conferred, I am wholly unable&lt;br /&gt;
amendment; they may, however, rest assured to discover why they are not protected by the statute&lt;br /&gt;
that the question of legislating more fully on the from being pirated by unauthorised persons.&lt;br /&gt;
point has been deeply and thoroughly discussed I do not understand the explanation the Court&lt;br /&gt;
and considered by all those who have attempted of Appeal gives of the application of the word&lt;br /&gt;
to legislate on copyright or who are interested in &amp;quot;author&amp;#039; to such publications as directories,&lt;br /&gt;
the affairs of authorship. It is not a simple or red-books, maps, &amp;amp;c. If the maker of a direc-&lt;br /&gt;
one-sided question. It is exceedingly complicated tory, red-book, or map is an author, one has to&lt;br /&gt;
and has many sides.&lt;br /&gt;
- analyse what the distinction between the author&lt;br /&gt;
At present no remedy has been devised suffi. as thus referred to, and the author of a spoken&lt;br /&gt;
ciently satisfactory to embody in any of the speech. If the producer of such a book can be&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bills, and the solution of each case is an author within the meaning of the Act, I am&lt;br /&gt;
based upon the common law. On the whole, it unable to understand why the labour of reproduc.&lt;br /&gt;
may be considered that this is the most satisfac- ing spoken words into writing or print and first&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
65&lt;br /&gt;
publishing it as a book does not make the person qualities, but because, as I have endeavoured to&lt;br /&gt;
who has so acted as much an author as the person point out, neither the one nor the other are con.&lt;br /&gt;
who writes down the names and addresses of the ditions precedent to the right created by the&lt;br /&gt;
persons who live in a particular street. The judg. statute. That right, in my view, is given by the&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the Court of Appeal rests solely on the statute to the first producer of a book, whether&lt;br /&gt;
use of the word &amp;quot;author,&amp;#039; and I cannot help that book be wise or foolish, accurate or inaccurate,&lt;br /&gt;
thinking that some confusion has been created of literary merit or of no merit whatever. It is&lt;br /&gt;
between two very different things. One, the said that in the view I have suggested there would&lt;br /&gt;
proprietary right of every man in his own lite. be as many copyrights as reporters. I do not see&lt;br /&gt;
rary composition, and the other the copyright, the difficulty. Each reporter is entitled to report,&lt;br /&gt;
that is to say, the exclusive privilege of making and each undoubtedly would have a copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
copies created by the statute. The question is his own published report. But where is the&lt;br /&gt;
solely whether this book (to use the language difficulty ? Suppose &agrave; favourite view&mdash;a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
of the statute), printed and published and exist. artists take independently their own representa-&lt;br /&gt;
ing as a book for the first time, can be copied tion of it. Is there any reason why each should not&lt;br /&gt;
by someone else than the producer of it, by those have his own copyright, or even a photograph,&lt;br /&gt;
who have not produced it themselves, but have where each photograph is taken from the same&lt;br /&gt;
simply copied that which others have laboured to point, and in the same state of the light, would&lt;br /&gt;
create by their own skill and expenditure. It is be identical in all respects. There is, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
admitted, apparently, by the Court of Appeal no copyright in the view itself, but in the supposed&lt;br /&gt;
(and, indeed, insisted on as part of the reasons picture or photograph there is. It may be there&lt;br /&gt;
for their judgment) that the owner of an unpub. is a confusion of thought between the difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
lished manuscript, although not the author of it, of proof of the piracy and the existence of piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
acquires copyright in it by first publishing it. There, as I have said before, no such difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
And I observe that it is said Lord Rosebery had arises, since it is admitted that the report of&lt;br /&gt;
no copyright in his speech, and, although he these speeches is not the result of independent&lt;br /&gt;
could have acquired copyright in it by putting it labour, but is taken from the Times. I think&lt;br /&gt;
into writing and printing and publishing it, he the judgment of Mr. Justice North was right,&lt;br /&gt;
did not do so. Here, again, the implied proposi. and that the only answer sought to be given to it&lt;br /&gt;
tion is that the only person who could gain copy. by the Court of Appeal was the restricted use of&lt;br /&gt;
right in his speech is the person who spoke it, the word author&amp;#039; with which I have endea-&lt;br /&gt;
and that the word original must by construc- voured to deal. I, therefore, move your Lord.&lt;br /&gt;
tion be read into the statute&mdash;that the true ships that the judgment of the Court of Appeal&lt;br /&gt;
analogy is the true and first inventor of the be reversed with costs, and the judgment of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Patent Laws. I think the analogy is a false one. Justice North restored.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
But if it were strictly pursued I think it would Lords Davey, James of Hereford, and Bramp-&lt;br /&gt;
not be favourable to the defendant. An importer ton concurred, but Lord Robertson differed, hold.&lt;br /&gt;
of a foreign invention is, for the purpose of the ing that, however skilful or well qualified a&lt;br /&gt;
Patent Laws, an inventor, and, as Lord Brougham reporter might be, he could not be considered an&lt;br /&gt;
said, there were two species of public benefactors author within the meaning of the Act.&lt;br /&gt;
-the one, &ldquo;those who benefit the public by their The injunction to restrain the publication was&lt;br /&gt;
ingenuity, industry and science, and invention made perpetual, and the respondents ordered to&lt;br /&gt;
and personal capability; the other, those who pay costs.&lt;br /&gt;
benefit the public without any in&ccedil;enuity or inven-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of their own by the appropriation of the&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;MERIVALE v. HARVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
results of foreign inventions. Now, the latter is This case has come before the Court of Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
a benefit to the public incontestably, and therefore The plaintiff, Mr. Herman Merivale, agreed to&lt;br /&gt;
they renderthemselves entitled to be put upon some. write for the defendant, Mr. Martin Harvey,&lt;br /&gt;
what if not entirely the same footing as inventors. a play connected with the exploits of Don&lt;br /&gt;
I might paraphrase Lord Brougham&amp;#039;s language Juan. Disputes arose with regard to the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
by asking whether those who preserve the duction of the play and the plaintiff&amp;#039;s fees,&lt;br /&gt;
memory of spoken words which are assumed to be and eventually the plaintiff brought the action,&lt;br /&gt;
of value to the public are not entitled to the claiming damages from the defendant for his&lt;br /&gt;
analogous merit which Lord Brougham attributes breach of contract in refusing to accept the play.&lt;br /&gt;
to the importer of foreign inventions ? I have The defence was a denial of the contract, and the&lt;br /&gt;
not insisted upon the skill and accuracy of those submission that the non-fulfilment was brought&lt;br /&gt;
who produce in writing or print spoken about by the plaintiff&amp;#039;s own conduct. Defendant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
words. It is not because I think the less of those counter-claim was for damages for alleged libel,&lt;br /&gt;
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66&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
which was contained in a letter written by plain sittings awakened much enthusiasm. &ldquo;Let us&lt;br /&gt;
tiff to Mr. Acton Bond. The jury (see The honour and f&eacute;te Joseph Lister,&amp;quot; wrote Dr. de&lt;br /&gt;
Author for June) found a verdict for the plaintiff Fleury on the morrow of the banquet given in&lt;br /&gt;
on the claim for &pound;500 damages, and with regard the British savant&amp;#039;s honour by the Medical&lt;br /&gt;
to the counter-claim they found there was no Faculty of Paris ; &amp;quot; ..innovators who&lt;br /&gt;
libel. The defendant now appealed.&lt;br /&gt;
bring about such complete and magnificent&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Edward Clarke, in the course of his argu- upheavals in the sphere of our activity are rare.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, said he would agree, in order to avoid a new The work of this scientific son of the great&lt;br /&gt;
trial on the counter-claim, that Mr. Merivale Pasteur is of incalculable import; scientific&lt;br /&gt;
should submit to a verdict against him in regard surgery dates from him.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to the alleged libel for &pound;50.-Mr. Chambers said As to the Philosophy Congress, a full report of&lt;br /&gt;
if this order was coupled with a withdrawal of all communications read therein will shortly be&lt;br /&gt;
all imputations on the defendant he would accept published in four volumes respectively entitled :&lt;br /&gt;
it.&mdash;Sir E. Clarke assented to this, and the court &laquo; (1) Philosophie g&eacute;n&eacute;rale et metaphysique; (2)&lt;br /&gt;
gave judgment for the plaintiff on the claim for Morale; (3) Logique et Histoire des Sciences;&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;500, and for the defendant on the counter. (4) Histoire de la Philosophie.&amp;quot; Subscriptions&lt;br /&gt;
claim for &pound;50. There were to be no costs of the for the same are being received by the secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Xavier L&eacute;on, 5, rue de Mezi&egrave;res, Paris. Great&lt;br /&gt;
poco&lt;br /&gt;
Britain is represented on the list of the Honorary&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of the Philosophy Congress by the&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
names of MM. Balfour, Herbert Spencer, and&lt;br /&gt;
Stirling.&lt;br /&gt;
4, rue des Beaux Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
NHE great Exhibition is, financially, a failure.&lt;br /&gt;
A PRODIGIOUS IMAGINATION.&lt;br /&gt;
I Nevertheless, congresses, lectures, and The great Balzac was not particularly successful&lt;br /&gt;
soir&eacute;es de gala abound. The extraordi. as a dramatist. Undeterred by this fact, an enter-&lt;br /&gt;
nary alternations of the thermometer appear prising playwright has already announced a new&lt;br /&gt;
merely to affect the attendance&mdash;not the duration play taken from &ldquo; Cousin Pons,&amp;quot; the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;of the various ceremonies. The seventh Inter of the Balzacian novels having expired on the&lt;br /&gt;
national Press Congress (which has, I believe, twentieth of last month. M. G&eacute;mier is consider-&lt;br /&gt;
chiefly occupied itself in discussing the reduction ing a three-act play, adapted from &ldquo; Colonel&lt;br /&gt;
of the postal tariff on printed matter and the Chabert&amp;quot; by M. Louis Forest; and several other&lt;br /&gt;
minimum fee for Press dispatches) was inaugu. stage-writers are likewise busy in exploiting the&lt;br /&gt;
rated under the presidency of M. William Singer, great &ldquo;Com&eacute;die Humaine,&amp;quot; which promises to&lt;br /&gt;
proprietor of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, and prove a second El Dorado to needy and skilful&lt;br /&gt;
president of the committee of the Central Bureau adapters in search of thrilling situations. The&lt;br /&gt;
of Press Associations. Prior to the invariable fertility of Balzac&amp;#039;s imagination was extraordinary.&lt;br /&gt;
shower of compliments with which each orator In this respect he was never surpassed. The&lt;br /&gt;
considers it necessary to asperge the Exhibition, following anecdote (vouched for by M. Barr&eacute;)&lt;br /&gt;
M. Singer explained the object of the present attests the truth of almost incredible narratives&lt;br /&gt;
congress.&lt;br /&gt;
extant on the subject :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;We have desired,&amp;quot; said he, &ldquo;by an inter. On one occasion, having promised M. Lireux,&lt;br /&gt;
national organisation to offer our contribution to manager of the Od&eacute;on, a five-act drama, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
the advent of concord&mdash;if not among the nations - Les Ressources de Quinola,&rdquo; Balzac duly&lt;br /&gt;
themselves, at least among those who form the van appeared at the appointed hour, and-leaning&lt;br /&gt;
guard of every people, viz., the journalists. ... carelessly against a window&mdash;unhesitatingly read&lt;br /&gt;
Thus we have decided to organise a great inter to the committee the promised five acts. After&lt;br /&gt;
national fraternity composed of important Press the usual compliments and congratulations&lt;br /&gt;
associations, a literary Red Cross union ... had been exchanged, M. Lireux proceeded to&lt;br /&gt;
based upon mutual respect and firmly bound examine the manuscript, and found merely four&lt;br /&gt;
together by the community of professional acts written&mdash;the pages devoted to the fifth act&lt;br /&gt;
interests.&amp;quot; About 400 persons were present at being still blank. He immediately informed&lt;br /&gt;
the inaugural meeting. The tragic death of Balzac of his discovery. The great writer was in&lt;br /&gt;
the Italian king prevented the attendance of the no wise disconcerted.&lt;br /&gt;
French President.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; It is true,&rdquo; he blandly acknowledged, &ldquo; that I&lt;br /&gt;
BRITISH SAVANTS.&lt;br /&gt;
have not yet written my fifth act, but I have it&lt;br /&gt;
A propos of the International Medical Congress, so well in my head that I am able to repeat it&lt;br /&gt;
the appearance of Lord Lister to attend its precisely as if I read it from the manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
67&lt;br /&gt;
Besides, I have two other d&eacute;nouements quite against any subsequent accusation of plagiarism.&lt;br /&gt;
ready-in case you are not satisfied with the one The sensible verdict given by the Third Civil&lt;br /&gt;
I have just recited to you!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Chamber a short time ago re the dispute between&lt;br /&gt;
We doubt if the dying century can boast a two well-known dramatic authors&ndash;MM. Lecocq&lt;br /&gt;
similar &ldquo;record&rdquo; memory.&lt;br /&gt;
and Bisson-is largely responsible for this com-&lt;br /&gt;
mendable state of affairs. The chamber pro-&lt;br /&gt;
MM. FRANCE AND LOTI.&lt;br /&gt;
nounced in the defendant&amp;#039;s favour, declaring that&lt;br /&gt;
That modern classic, M. Anatole France, is the plaintiff had done his comrade a grave injury,&lt;br /&gt;
engaged on a new play entitled &ldquo;La Gerbe,&amp;quot; and one meriting compensation, in thus publicly&lt;br /&gt;
destined for the Porte Saint-Martin Theatre. accusing him of plagiarism. It also expressed&lt;br /&gt;
This will be M. France&amp;#039;s second contribution to its opinion that &ldquo;the author who knows&lt;br /&gt;
the Parisian stage. The brilliant Academician&amp;#039;s how to digest the works of others; who knows&lt;br /&gt;
name first adorned the theatrical posters in 1899 how to assimilate them in his brain; who, later,&lt;br /&gt;
in connection with &ldquo;Le Lys Rouge,&rdquo; which was at the moment when he wishes to originate in&lt;br /&gt;
highly praised&mdash;but hardly popular. M. France his turn, sees them in consequence awake in his&lt;br /&gt;
visited London last March. The &amp;#039;impression imagination; who allows them to mingle in.&lt;br /&gt;
left on his mind is scarcely favourable. He sensibly with his own conceptions; that author-&lt;br /&gt;
considers the Londoners&amp;#039; enthusiasm automatic, very far from then meriting the reproach of&lt;br /&gt;
their loyal demonstrations lacking in warmth, plagiarism-only draws from his reminiscences&lt;br /&gt;
richness, spontaneity. The decorations in our the legitimate recompense of a meritorious employ&lt;br /&gt;
capital show the puerility of the national taste. of his faculties.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Even our Rubens&amp;#039; are less powerful than those in For which and other reasons the Third Civil&lt;br /&gt;
the Louvre.&lt;br /&gt;
Chamber acquitted M. Bisson, ordering the inser.&lt;br /&gt;
Nor is M. Pierre Loti a great lover of our race. tion of its judgment in three papers at the plain-&lt;br /&gt;
In the description of his Eastern travels lately tiff&amp;#039;s expense. Whereby it considerably lightened&lt;br /&gt;
published by the Figaro, he expressly states that its future labours.&lt;br /&gt;
the harrowing account he gives of the rarages&lt;br /&gt;
made by the famine in India is not intended as a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Gyp&rdquo; (COMTESSE DE MARTEL).&lt;br /&gt;
sinister attack on &ldquo;nos ennemis les Anglais,&rdquo; but The novels of &ldquo;Gyp,&rdquo; great-niece of Mirabeau,&lt;br /&gt;
merely as a new appeal to their charity. At the are highly popular here. Twelve editions of her&lt;br /&gt;
present moment M. Pierre Loti-otherwise M. le &ldquo;Trop de Chic&rdquo; are reported to have been dis-&lt;br /&gt;
capitaine de fr&eacute;gate Viaud&mdash;is en route for China, posed of in three days. Her late extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
serving on board the Redoutable as first aide-de- adventure&mdash;or hallucination &mdash; has proved an&lt;br /&gt;
camp to Admiral Pottier. He has already written excellent expedient for whetting public curiosity&lt;br /&gt;
several spirited and pathetic sketches dealing anew. At the present moment the sale of &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
with heroic combats between the French sailor and Journal d&amp;#039;Une qui s&amp;#039;en fiche&rdquo; bids fair to equal,&lt;br /&gt;
the cruel, dastardly Chinese. He will probably if not surpass, that of the most favoured of its&lt;br /&gt;
add to these pages on his return. Nor is it impos predecessors. The pages of an ancient confes-&lt;br /&gt;
sible that his present experiences may lead to a sional album have given us the following infor-&lt;br /&gt;
modification of his opinion re the Britisher abroad. mation respecting the countess&amp;#039; private sentiments&lt;br /&gt;
and inclinations.&lt;br /&gt;
A SENSIBLE DECISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Her favourite occupation is riding; her&lt;br /&gt;
Several dramatists have recently notified in the favourite food and drink are fruit and milk.&lt;br /&gt;
daily papers a similarity existing between the Solitude forms her beau-ideal of happiness, while&lt;br /&gt;
plots or titles of their half-finished productions the principal defect of her nature is her too con.&lt;br /&gt;
with those of their brethren of the pen. Amongst fiding disposition. The ass is her favourite&lt;br /&gt;
others, M. Lemonnier stated in an open letter animal; the sparrow, her favourite bird. Her&lt;br /&gt;
that he bad been engaged for the last year (in &middot; greatest misfortune would be a long life, and she&lt;br /&gt;
collaboration with M. Burani) on a four-act considers simplicity the most desirable quality in&lt;br /&gt;
play entitled &ldquo;La Marquise de Pompadour,&rdquo; a woman. The character of M. Thiers inspires&lt;br /&gt;
destined for R&eacute;jane. Suddenly he discovers that her with the deepest aversion, her principal trait&lt;br /&gt;
M. Emile Bergerat is also engaged in writing a being &mdash; ne pas &ldquo;m&amp;#039;gober&amp;quot; !&amp;#039; Maupassant is&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; Pompadour&rdquo; for Mlle. Bartet. He immediately her favourite prose author; Heine, Baudelaire,&lt;br /&gt;
announces the fact in the papers, and the matter and Bouchor are her favourite poets. Berlitz,&lt;br /&gt;
ends there. M. Paul Souday has drawn up the Saint Sa&euml;ns, and Offenbach, are the composers&lt;br /&gt;
rough skeleton of a new play when he makes she prefers; while the military feat of arms she&lt;br /&gt;
an almost similar discovery. He forthwith most admires is &ndash; the Rape of the Sabine&lt;br /&gt;
employs the same method of protecting himself Women!&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 68 (#98) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
68&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Was the latter penchant a presentiment ? asks&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKSELLER 1. STORE.&lt;br /&gt;
her witty comrade, Sergines.&lt;br /&gt;
The booksellers attribute their troubles to the&lt;br /&gt;
APROPOS OF M. ZOLA.&lt;br /&gt;
big &ldquo; department&amp;quot; stores. They say that so long&lt;br /&gt;
Two revivals of plays drawn from this&lt;br /&gt;
as books are sold in department stores at prices&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s works (&ldquo;L&amp;#039;Assommoir&rdquo; and &ldquo; Le&lt;br /&gt;
with which the regular bookseller finds it impos-&lt;br /&gt;
R&ecirc;ve&amp;quot;) are now being rehearsed&mdash;the first at&lt;br /&gt;
sible to compete, the regular tradesman cannot&lt;br /&gt;
keep his doors open. Take the case, for example,&lt;br /&gt;
the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre, the second at&lt;br /&gt;
the Op&eacute;ra Comique. &ldquo;La Sorci&egrave;re&rdquo; of M.&lt;br /&gt;
of an enormously popular novel called &ldquo; Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Carvel.&rdquo; &ldquo;Richard Carvel&rdquo; was put on the market&lt;br /&gt;
Victorien Sardou (who has just been created&lt;br /&gt;
by the Appletons to be sold at retail at one dollar&lt;br /&gt;
grand officer of the Legion of Honour) has been&lt;br /&gt;
accepted by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt; M. de&lt;br /&gt;
and fifty cents. The price at the department&lt;br /&gt;
Porto Riche is engaged on two new plays, re-&lt;br /&gt;
stores was one dollar and fourteen cents (45. 7d.),&lt;br /&gt;
spectively destined for the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise and&lt;br /&gt;
and in some it was sold at eighty-one cents&lt;br /&gt;
the Vaudeville; and M. Maurice Donnay is like-&lt;br /&gt;
(38. 4şd.), which is the publisher&amp;#039;s wholesale price.&lt;br /&gt;
wise completing a four-act play for the latter&lt;br /&gt;
Now, many of the retailers could not buy in&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently large quantities to enable them to&lt;br /&gt;
theatre. M. Jean Richepin has written an his-&lt;br /&gt;
torical drama, entitled &ldquo;La Du Barry,&amp;quot; for Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
obtain the book at the lowest wholesale price, and&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Carter M. Belasco is responsible for its&lt;br /&gt;
as for selling it at eighty-one cents, the proposi.&lt;br /&gt;
translation into English.&lt;br /&gt;
tion was absurd. Of course, the retailer does not&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
encounter this difficulty in the sale of every book&lt;br /&gt;
on his list, but this condition alone cuts him off&lt;br /&gt;
from his readiest source of profit.&lt;br /&gt;
It is now for the publishers to determine&lt;br /&gt;
whether they can afford to help the regular&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
retailers at the expense, if necessary, of the&lt;br /&gt;
jobbers. One proposed plan is to fix a net retail&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, Aug. 13. price for all books published by members of the&lt;br /&gt;
CYO ready are the people of these States to cry association. From this price the retailer would&lt;br /&gt;
out in horror against any combination of get a certain discount, but before he was permitted&lt;br /&gt;
capital, that the recently formed Publishers&amp;#039; to buy a copy of the book he would be required&lt;br /&gt;
Association was bitterly pronounced a trust by to agree not to sell any copies at retail for less than&lt;br /&gt;
Press and public, and anathematised as an unboly the price stipulated. &ldquo;In fixing the stipulated&lt;br /&gt;
thing. As a matter of fact it would be about as price it would be put at such a figure as experi.&lt;br /&gt;
easy to form a &ldquo;trust&rdquo; of book publishers as it ence has taught should yield a fair profit to the&lt;br /&gt;
has been to communicate with the Legations at retailer of conservative business methods. This&lt;br /&gt;
Peking. The essential nature of the business pre- plan would apply only to the publications issued&lt;br /&gt;
cludes it. Another wild story concerning the after the plan is adopted; no attempt under it&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association ran to the effect that the would be made to regulate the price of old&lt;br /&gt;
object of the movement was to reduce the royal publications.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ties and other compensation paid to authors in the Such a scheme would carry the benefit to the&lt;br /&gt;
future. This report occasioned so much concern author which always is the producer&amp;#039;s when a&lt;br /&gt;
that it seemed worth while to the officers of the uniform and fair price is maintained for the&lt;br /&gt;
association to disclaim any such unreasonable product.&lt;br /&gt;
and absurd motive.&lt;br /&gt;
A SCHEME TO REGULATE PRICES.&lt;br /&gt;
The real causes of the formal banding together But no bridge yet has been crossed, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of American publishers are interesting and in- American Publishers&amp;#039; Association is little more&lt;br /&gt;
structive. The association owes its being to the than organised. Mr. Charles Scribner is the&lt;br /&gt;
earnest appeals on the part of the retail book- president, Messrs. A. C. McClurg and George&lt;br /&gt;
sellers all over the country that the publishers Mifflin are the vice-presidents, Mr. George P.&lt;br /&gt;
should try to change existing conditions in the Brett is the secretary, and Col. G. B. M. Harvey&lt;br /&gt;
trade so that the retailers could make a living the treasurer. The experiment will be watched&lt;br /&gt;
For the past half a dozen years the retailer over with interest. Will the organisation stray from&lt;br /&gt;
here has been losing money. His plight has now its present avowed path, and if so, to what end ?&lt;br /&gt;
reached a pass where the publisher must act or Will it fall to pieces of its own weight, as similar&lt;br /&gt;
the bookseller must close out his business. The organisations have done before it? Whatever the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers therefore have organised themselves for outcome, this action of the publishers is certainly&lt;br /&gt;
the purpose of helping the men who make it of the greatest significance in our American book&lt;br /&gt;
possible for a publishing house to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
world, and pregnant with engaging possibilities,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ho&lt;br /&gt;
Along this line a further consideration presents Byron&amp;#039;s Profession.&amp;#039;&rdquo; Mr. Shaw continued : &ldquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
itself. The encouragement of the retail book. seems to me that the principle involved is worth&lt;br /&gt;
seller means the promotion of the reading of affirming by an English author in the only way&lt;br /&gt;
better books. A lamentable result of our trade which will convey any solid impression of his&lt;br /&gt;
conditions here has been that it is difficult to find being in earnest-namely, when he stands to lose&lt;br /&gt;
a good assortment of good books in the retail by it. On the other hand, as American pub-&lt;br /&gt;
shop. The dealers, owing to the general cutting lishers as a body have been repeatedly accused&lt;br /&gt;
of prices, are all for ephemeral &laquo; leaders,&rdquo; and by Englishmen of letters of &amp;quot;pirating&amp;#039; copy-&lt;br /&gt;
they are actually unable to handle works of more rights-an imaginary offence, as that which does&lt;br /&gt;
solid merit. Through some reasonable regulation not exist cannot be stolen-it is well that they&lt;br /&gt;
of prices the interests of good literature may be too should have a printed instance on record in&lt;br /&gt;
furthered so that dealers will be enabled to offer which that viow has been repudiated from this&lt;br /&gt;
their customers a wider range of choice. It may side of the Atlantic.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
be that the whole tone of the bookselling trade One need not comment. Harper and Brothers&lt;br /&gt;
will be correspondingly raised. This is, at least, refused to accept even this as the proper conclu.&lt;br /&gt;
a pleasant picture not only to the buyers of the sion of the correspondence, and so, as a solution&lt;br /&gt;
best books, but also to the writers of them.&lt;br /&gt;
to the singular deadlock, the honorarium was&lt;br /&gt;
finally turned over to the American Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
MR. SHAW AND &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
League, where, let us hope, it rests peacefully&lt;br /&gt;
We are talking here over a correspondence, just after its fitful wanderings.&lt;br /&gt;
made public, between Mr. Bernard Shaw and the&lt;br /&gt;
house of Harper and Brothers. In November BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
of last year Mr. Shaw offered to return to the The English Bibliographical Society has many&lt;br /&gt;
publishers an honorarium of ten pounds which American members, but not one of them has&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers, in the eighties, had sent to the ever read a paper at the society&amp;#039;s meetings or&lt;br /&gt;
author in consideration of such moral claim as contributed a monograph for publication under&lt;br /&gt;
he could give them on &ldquo;Cashel Byron&amp;#039;s Pro. its auspices. It is therefore with some gratifica-&lt;br /&gt;
fession.&rdquo; Mr. Shaw was of opinion that this sum tion that we note a strong plea, made in a&lt;br /&gt;
should be repaid because a new edition of the magazine article by Mr. Josephson, of Chicago,&lt;br /&gt;
novel had since been issued by Messrs. Brentano, for an endowed bibliographical institute here.&lt;br /&gt;
of New York, and because the &amp;quot;moral claim&rdquo; The purpose is to be the preparation of a biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
was worth nothing from the date of the Brentano graphy covering the entire field of American&lt;br /&gt;
publication. And then he went on to say: &amp;quot;I literature. At the last meeting of the American&lt;br /&gt;
entirely disagree with the ideas of twenty years Library, held at Montreal during July, a com-&lt;br /&gt;
ago as to the piratical&amp;#039; nature of American mittee reported favourably upon Mr. Josephson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
republications of non-copyright books. Unlike scheme, which is, briefly, a co-operative cata-&lt;br /&gt;
most authors, I am enough of an economist to loguing of the various public libraries in this&lt;br /&gt;
know that unless an American publisher acquires country. The editing and publishing, as well&lt;br /&gt;
copyright he can no more make a profit at my as the scientific direction, of the work would be&lt;br /&gt;
expense than he can at Shakespeare&amp;#039;s by repub- in the hands of the staff of the proposed biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
lishing &lsquo;Hamlet.&amp;#039; The English, when taxed for graphical institute. The realisation of this&lt;br /&gt;
the support of the author by a price which plan would surely be acclaimed by English&lt;br /&gt;
includes author&amp;#039;s royalties, whilst the American speaking readers everywhere, and the results of&lt;br /&gt;
nation escapes that burden, may have a grievance such an achievement can hardly be estimated.&lt;br /&gt;
against the American nation; but that is a very&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
different matter from a grievance against the&lt;br /&gt;
American publisher.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Messrs. Harper were so impressed by this&lt;br /&gt;
illumination that they politely declined to retain&lt;br /&gt;
the ten pounds; they thought that they had no&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
right to it. Mr. Shaw, in reply, insisted that&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;though you are good enough to say that you N interesting correspondence on the&ldquo; Manu.&lt;br /&gt;
have no right to it, it is clear that I have no&lt;br /&gt;
facture of a Series&rdquo; has been recently&lt;br /&gt;
right to it&mdash;and, indeed, never had&mdash;though I Ane published in the Athen&aelig;um. The author&lt;br /&gt;
have ingeniously excused myself from paying you concerned pointed out that he was offered a sum&lt;br /&gt;
interest on it, on the ground that the moral of money down&mdash;say &pound;50&mdash;and after 5000 copies&lt;br /&gt;
right&amp;#039; it secured you was respected up to the had been sold, the handsome royalty of a farthing&lt;br /&gt;
date of Messrs. Brentano&amp;#039;s reprint of Cashel a copy. The price of the book was 18. He&lt;br /&gt;
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70&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
refused indignantly. The editor, however, made but for recreation, we ought surely to be satis-&lt;br /&gt;
haste to point out that the price originally con- fied when we hear that they buy the standard&lt;br /&gt;
templated was 6d., not is., and that the royalty authors first and fiction next.&lt;br /&gt;
would be increased. It does not appear what the&lt;br /&gt;
increase really meant. Now, the small sum down,&lt;br /&gt;
The extracts from the New York paper, read&lt;br /&gt;
followed by the small royalty, after a large sale,&lt;br /&gt;
with the remarks of our New York correspondent&lt;br /&gt;
has become quite a common offer. Its applica-&lt;br /&gt;
on the question of the American Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
tion to a &ldquo;series,&rdquo; of which there are so many, is&lt;br /&gt;
Association, are of great interest to authors on this&lt;br /&gt;
in this way. One or two men, ignorant or vain,&lt;br /&gt;
side of the Atlantic. We shall perhaps learn more&lt;br /&gt;
are induced to give in their names as contributors&lt;br /&gt;
about the work of the Association. Meuntime,&lt;br /&gt;
on certain miserable terms. The names are used&lt;br /&gt;
it is a pity that the Booksellers of the United&lt;br /&gt;
as an inducement to get other well-known men States cannot form their own Association and&lt;br /&gt;
to contribute. The sum paid down in advance&lt;br /&gt;
manage their business for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
of royalties for each volume of the series&lt;br /&gt;
is in many cases absurdly small. That it is&lt;br /&gt;
so small is due mainly to the vanity of the&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the booksellers are trying to get more&lt;br /&gt;
authors, who think themselves honoured and&lt;br /&gt;
net books. This is exactly what I expected. The&lt;br /&gt;
their reputation advanced by figuring as con.&lt;br /&gt;
partial surrender of the Englishman&amp;#039;s liberty to&lt;br /&gt;
tributors to a twopenny and an unsuccessful&lt;br /&gt;
manage his business his own way is leading to&lt;br /&gt;
series. The sum of &pound;50 down and a farthing more complete subjection. Since the booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
after 5000 copies have been sold is quite muni have been unable to use their own association for&lt;br /&gt;
ficent. Of course, when the initial cost has been the regulation of their own trade, they will desire&lt;br /&gt;
repaid, the cost of the book is very small indeed, more and more to put their necks under the yoke.&lt;br /&gt;
so that the farthing is a hollow mockery. The&lt;br /&gt;
Let it be remarked that booksellers seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
deferred royalty is, in fact, now being used like the only class unable to associate for trade&lt;br /&gt;
the old &ldquo; half-profit&rdquo; method as the easiest way purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
to escape paying the author anything and to get Of course, publishers will be very ready to yield&lt;br /&gt;
his property for nothing. Let it be understood to pressure so long as the proposed restrictions&lt;br /&gt;
plainly that if the royalty is deferred until the are in their own interest; so long as they think&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production is paid it should be explained the public will support them; and so long as&lt;br /&gt;
at the outset what this cost means, and the&lt;br /&gt;
they are allowed by authors to manage the&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, when commenced, must be at least half the business for their own profit. The Association&lt;br /&gt;
trade price of the book for the rest of the edition.&lt;br /&gt;
of Booksellers, if it would only realise the con-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions, is in complete command of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;
A bookseller has been lamenting, to a represen. It may fix the trade price wbich it will consent to&lt;br /&gt;
tative of the Daily Chronicle, the deplorable run pay publishers : it may fix the discount if it&lt;br /&gt;
upon fiction. He says that people buy nothing chooses, or, if it prefers, it may leave it to any&lt;br /&gt;
else. He also savs, in the same breath. that bookseller to charge the public just what he&lt;br /&gt;
everybody buys the English standard authors. pleases. I rejoice to see that Literature remains&lt;br /&gt;
Well, but if the latter proposition is true, what sound and firm upon the point: &ldquo;There certainly&lt;br /&gt;
about the former? Granted that the public does not seem to be any reason to expect that&lt;br /&gt;
buy the standard authors, they have on their enduring advantage will result from interference&lt;br /&gt;
shelves a good corpus of literature: enough to with the competitive tendencies of human nature&lt;br /&gt;
last them all their lives : they need not go out in the book trade, any more than in the trade in&lt;br /&gt;
side their own shelves at all. What else should bicycles, in boots, in patent medicines, or any&lt;br /&gt;
they buy but fiction ? Poetry? The general other commodities.&rdquo; It is, indeed, obvious that&lt;br /&gt;
public has never greatly cared for new poetry. the attempted system of slavish subjection cannot&lt;br /&gt;
Essays? There are a few writers-e.g., Louis long continue. It is as impossible for publishers&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson and Augustine Birrell&mdash;whose essays to dictate the terms of the retailers&amp;#039; dealings with&lt;br /&gt;
are bought and read : the greater number of&lt;br /&gt;
the public as for manufacturers of cottons or of&lt;br /&gt;
essayists appeal only to scholars. Scientific any other produce. The partial success that has&lt;br /&gt;
books? They are bought by scientific men. hitherto seemed to attend the attempt is only&lt;br /&gt;
Sermons and religious books? They also are illusory. Being interpreted, it means nothing&lt;br /&gt;
bought by religious people, especially Noncon- but the despair, and perhaps also the indebted-&lt;br /&gt;
formists. Books of travel, history, biography ? ness, of a decaying trade.&lt;br /&gt;
They are mostly too dear. Of philosophy ? They&lt;br /&gt;
are above the comprehension of the people. When In Literature of July 28 is a list of thirty-four&lt;br /&gt;
we consider also that people read, not for study, novels by the most popular novelists of the day&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
71&lt;br /&gt;
which are announced or understood to be forth. The decision of the House of Lords in the case&lt;br /&gt;
coming this autumn. The names of J. M. Barrie of Walter v. Lane has been received with a good&lt;br /&gt;
and Conan Doyle are not among them. As deal of difference in opinion. One point cannot&lt;br /&gt;
regards the latter there is very good reason for be denied : the report of a speech represents the&lt;br /&gt;
his silence. One or two names have since been special expenditure of money and work by the&lt;br /&gt;
added to the list. It does not seem, therefore, at proprietors of the paper. It is reasonable at least&lt;br /&gt;
first as if the prospects of the season were so very that this special expenditure should be recognised&lt;br /&gt;
bad after all. At the same time it must be and respected. The report of a speech, again, is&lt;br /&gt;
remembered that in all seasons there is a demand its publication by tacit permission of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
for the popular novelist. It is the novel that is He grants this permission to any newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
not so much in demand&mdash;the novel by the new wbich will go to the expense of paying a reporter&lt;br /&gt;
hand, or by the hand which, so far, has shown to take down his words. This understanding is a&lt;br /&gt;
promise only&mdash;that will suffer by the bad season. kind of agreement. The right of the paper is,&lt;br /&gt;
If war does harm to the bookseller, then we have however, now established. Perhaps, if the new&lt;br /&gt;
three wars on hand : and the Americans have Copyright Bill is allowed next year to pass, it will&lt;br /&gt;
two. But there will be, in all probability, a contain clauses for copyright in news, as well as in&lt;br /&gt;
General Election here : and in America there will reported speeches and reports of all kinds. Once&lt;br /&gt;
be a Presidential Election. It will surely be the law is established there will be no more diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
common prudence to keep back doubtful.books, culties of this kind. It is quite as bad that news&lt;br /&gt;
or books whose subjects are out of harmony with obtained at enormous expense should become&lt;br /&gt;
the excitement and rush of politics, until the common property as soon as it is published as&lt;br /&gt;
elections are over-i.e., until the beginning of the that the report of a speech should be considered&lt;br /&gt;
new year. It needs no prophetic spirit to common property.&amp;#039; _&lt;br /&gt;
perceive that from the moment of the dissolution&lt;br /&gt;
of Parliament to the conclusion of the General I have before me a communication from Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Election in this country and from the present to Betham Edwards to the editor of &ldquo; M. A. P.,&rdquo; in&lt;br /&gt;
the Presidential Election of the United States which that lady laments over the good old time&lt;br /&gt;
there will be nothing heard but the voice of the when there were such cordial relations between&lt;br /&gt;
candidate, the roaring of the multitude, and the author and publisher, and the latter was so&lt;br /&gt;
exaggerations and distortions of the party courteous and so generous, and invited the poor&lt;br /&gt;
speaker.&lt;br /&gt;
author to dinner sometimes, as one invites the&lt;br /&gt;
poor relation. The paper proves the strength of&lt;br /&gt;
A new monthly magazine, the Monthly Review, old traditions. The author formerly was by no&lt;br /&gt;
is to be commenced this month by the house of means too proud to be the recipient of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
Murray. Their last venture into the field of lisher&amp;#039;s &ldquo;generosity,&amp;quot; which has now become a&lt;br /&gt;
monthly magazines was not, apparently, a word of degradation. The relations were cordial&lt;br /&gt;
success. The editor of this new venture will be because the author placed his property unre-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Newbolt, who will be responsible for servedly and without any nasty conditions, and&lt;br /&gt;
unsigned&amp;quot; editorials &rdquo; which are to form part of without inquiry as to its value, in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
each number. The rest of the magazine will be the publisher. &ldquo;Take my work,&amp;quot; he said to&lt;br /&gt;
like the other reviews. It is quite possible that the publisher, who, noble-hearted creature, was&lt;br /&gt;
the editor will be able to impress his own person. only too ready to respond in sympathetic vein.&lt;br /&gt;
ality upon the editorials, in which case the &ldquo;Take my work. It is very likely a mine of&lt;br /&gt;
success of the review will be assured. Nothing gold. Take it. Give me whatever you please :&lt;br /&gt;
belps a paper more than the belief in the power you are always generosity itself. I am very poor.&lt;br /&gt;
the principle, and the integrity, of one man. It I am glad and thankful for anything. What?&lt;br /&gt;
was the strong personal element in the Spectator In two figures ? Oh! Large-hearted, generous&lt;br /&gt;
that created the success of the paper. The patron of literature ! You will ruin yourself in&lt;br /&gt;
Cornhill flourished while Thackeray held it. your kindness to the poor author! And a dinner&lt;br /&gt;
Other examples might be quoted, but they would as well, at your own hospitable&amp;#039; table&mdash;in the&lt;br /&gt;
be too personal. As regards the signed articles bosom of your amiable family? With a glass of&lt;br /&gt;
they will at least enlarge the field for authors. wine, just as if I was your equal, one of your&lt;br /&gt;
There are plenty of capable writers on every ordinary friends ? Too much! It is too much!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
conceivable subject, but on any one subject But Miss Betham Edwards is quite wrong in&lt;br /&gt;
there are only two or three writers--perhaps considering that golden age as lost beyond&lt;br /&gt;
only one &mdash; capable of presenting the subject recovery. The time of confidence and of depen-&lt;br /&gt;
attractively. I wish Mr. Newbolt every possible dence is not by any means rendered impossible&lt;br /&gt;
success....&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; by the Authors&amp;#039; Society or by any syndicate.&lt;br /&gt;
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72&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The author has only to go back to the old con- coupon conferring benefits on young writers, ten&lt;br /&gt;
ditions. He must not presume to ask what his times more valuable than the price of the book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
property means, or what the man who so gene- What can those benefits be ?&lt;br /&gt;
rously relieves him of it makes out of it. There If the book contains the whole art of author.&lt;br /&gt;
are many publishers living who would be willing ship, what remains ? Something ten times more&lt;br /&gt;
to forget and forgive the cruel suspicions of the valuable than the price of the book. That is to&lt;br /&gt;
day, and to go back to the old happy conditions. say, ten half-crowns, or &pound;1 58. What is the valu.&lt;br /&gt;
Let those who lament the past remember that it able article which can be purchased for 258.? It&lt;br /&gt;
is always in their power to restore it. The past must be something useful to the young author-&lt;br /&gt;
may come back again, with the courtesy so dear a pair of boots, perhaps, or a silk umbrella.&lt;br /&gt;
to the feminine heart, and the tact and good Whatever it is, we thank the spirited and&lt;br /&gt;
feeling which prompt the publisher not to speak reverend donor for this spontaneous gift to the&lt;br /&gt;
about figures-sordid things !--and fill him with literary profession. We need, it is true, all we&lt;br /&gt;
ruinous generosity and the author with tearful can get.&lt;br /&gt;
gratitude. Let everyone who laments the past The third appearance of the Rev. J. Meldrum&lt;br /&gt;
take these simple steps to recover and to re Dryerre is as an editor. He has already, it&lt;br /&gt;
store it.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. seems, conveyed into port a barque containing&lt;br /&gt;
twenty stories by twenty writers, which can be&lt;br /&gt;
obic&lt;br /&gt;
had for the ridiculously small charge of 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
ANOTHER BENEFACTOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The method pursued is as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. The stories are not to be more than 2000&lt;br /&gt;
TT is now some time since an opportunity was&lt;br /&gt;
words in length.&lt;br /&gt;
1 afforded us of bringing to notice any of the&lt;br /&gt;
2. Each author, if his story is accepted,&lt;br /&gt;
benevolent methods by which earnest and&lt;br /&gt;
becomes responsible for &pound;1 58. Is it a coin-&lt;br /&gt;
disinterested. vessels offer assistance, wealth, and&lt;br /&gt;
cidence that this sum is ten times the price of&lt;br /&gt;
fame to the aspiring author. It would almost&lt;br /&gt;
the half-crown book already offered? Can the&lt;br /&gt;
seem as if these persons were weary of well.&lt;br /&gt;
wall&lt;br /&gt;
P&lt;br /&gt;
promised coupon be ten copies of that work?&lt;br /&gt;
doing; or as if their offers were met with cold 3;&lt;br /&gt;
3. The book of collected stories is to be sold at&lt;br /&gt;
distrust. However, we are now favoured with 38.0&lt;br /&gt;
one more enterprising and sporting proposal.&lt;br /&gt;
4. All the profits to be divided among the&lt;br /&gt;
The leader, guide, and friend, the Codlin of the au&lt;br /&gt;
his authors. Noble, indeed !&lt;br /&gt;
whole business. is a gentleman named &amp;quot; Rey J. 5. The editor to be recouped &ldquo;necessary&lt;br /&gt;
Meldrum Drverre.&rdquo; He is a &amp;quot; wellknown&amp;quot; expenses,&amp;quot; and to receive commission of 2d. a&lt;br /&gt;
author-he says so himself, therefore not to&lt;br /&gt;
volume.&lt;br /&gt;
know him is to confess ignorance and obscurity.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Nobody is to be admitted into this fortunate&lt;br /&gt;
He appears before us in a four-fold capacity.&lt;br /&gt;
company who cannot command among his friends&lt;br /&gt;
First as an advertiser. He there describes himself&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of at least a dozen copies at 2s. 8d. -&lt;br /&gt;
as a &ldquo;successful&rdquo; author. It is therefore, one Let us see how the plan works out.&lt;br /&gt;
presumes, out of pure Christian benevolence that There are twenty writers at &pound;1 58.; that makes&lt;br /&gt;
he undertakes certain duties not generally per- &pound;25, which is two-thirds of the cost of produc-&lt;br /&gt;
formed by successful writers. He offers lessons tion. This therefore is &pound;37 108. Very mode-&lt;br /&gt;
in authorship-he is so successful that he is rate, too. It would seem to represent an edition&lt;br /&gt;
above the restriction of grammar. Why should of 500 copies of an 8vo. volume containing 160 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
he aim at grammar when he can make himself of 250 words each--that is to say, five sheets.&lt;br /&gt;
understood without ? Thus, who can fail to It can be done for the money, binding and all.&lt;br /&gt;
understand the following? &ldquo;Lessons in Author- If it is done for less who pockets the difference ?&lt;br /&gt;
ship offered by a successful author. Terms And what about advertising the book ?&lt;br /&gt;
stamp.&amp;quot; His next appearance is as the author of But the book is &ldquo; pushed&rdquo; by the authors.&lt;br /&gt;
a book on the &ldquo; Art of Authorsbip by a well- Beautiful development of the literary life! The&lt;br /&gt;
known Author.&rdquo; He thus describes it&mdash;again author has to go round begging his friends to&lt;br /&gt;
scorning the trammels of grammar: &ldquo;This book, give him 28. 8d. each. Well : such a book as&lt;br /&gt;
giving the experience of most of our leading &ldquo;Lorna Doone,&amp;quot; or a round score of masterpieces,&lt;br /&gt;
authors, is intended to aid those desiring to enter can be had for sixpence apiece&mdash;why, then, should&lt;br /&gt;
the literary life. Practical and sympathetic- anyone buy, let us say, not a masterpiece, for&lt;br /&gt;
characterise it correctly.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
28. 8d.? However, by dint of push and touting&lt;br /&gt;
But there is more. &ldquo;Each book&rdquo;&mdash;this is one of the fortunate twenty gets rid, suppose, of&lt;br /&gt;
very mysterious and attractive&mdash;&amp;quot;contains a fifteen copies, which at 28. 8d. means 408. If he&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
73&lt;br /&gt;
is wise he will repay himself that 258., and editors and publishers&amp;#039; readers so often reject&lt;br /&gt;
forward the rest to the editor. Suppose that the good articles and books is because they are no&lt;br /&gt;
whole twenty get rid of fifteen copies each. judges of literature until it is printed and bound.&lt;br /&gt;
That means 300 copies, or &pound;40. How does it Even typewriting does not assist their judgement,&lt;br /&gt;
work out?&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; galley&rdquo; proof but little more. Indeed, the&lt;br /&gt;
The editor takes his &ldquo;necessary expenses &amp;quot;- Ideal Editor prefers handwriting to typewriting ;&lt;br /&gt;
say &pound;2 108. The rest goes to the printer, or, if it seems to give him the author&amp;#039;s thought more&lt;br /&gt;
the cost has been less than the estimate, the fresh and hot; it helps to bring out for him the&lt;br /&gt;
margin will pay something towards that ad, a literary physiognomy of the story or article.&lt;br /&gt;
copy, which amounts to &pound;2 ios. How much is The Ideal Editor appreciates style, but is no&lt;br /&gt;
left for the Company of Twenty? But the stylomaniac. If the subject be of sufficient&lt;br /&gt;
British public may buy the volume eagerly. interest he will accept an article and print it as&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps ; on the other hand, perhaps it will not. it stands, even if it be indifferently written.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, however, a fourth character in which To give style to a man who has it not is to&lt;br /&gt;
this versatile and reverend gentlemen appears. deprive him of marked individuality. Impotence,&lt;br /&gt;
He has a &ldquo; Literary Bureau &rdquo; of which he is inability to express in writing may become an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Hon. Sec.&rdquo; It is generally understood that interesting and entertaining phenomenon of which&lt;br /&gt;
an &ldquo;Hon. Sec.&rdquo; is unpaid. The Bureau buys it would be wrong to deprive readers, as witness&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.; sells MSS. at a 10 per cent. commission: many well-known cases. The Ideal Editor does&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; considers &amp;quot; MSS. with a view to publication in not regard it as his business to touch up the&lt;br /&gt;
book form : gives lessons in writing short stories : style of articles until they bear no reseinblance to&lt;br /&gt;
in writing for the Press generally : and criti. the original. Have we not seen one or two&lt;br /&gt;
cises MSS. at 28, 6d. each if not more than 4000 magazines in which each article, however diverse&lt;br /&gt;
words in length. The Bureau has been estab the subject, seemed to be the contribution of the&lt;br /&gt;
lished for ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
same pen? This was the handiwork of a stylo.&lt;br /&gt;
One would like to ask a few questions :&lt;br /&gt;
maniac. The ideal editor&amp;#039;s corrections are con.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) Have the authors of the volume already fined to slips in grammar, and even here he uses&lt;br /&gt;
published received any of their money back? his power sparingly. It has happened to the&lt;br /&gt;
(2) What becomes of the difference when the present writer that a purist editor&mdash;the least ideal&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production is less than the estimate ? type of them all-has altered the expression&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Who makes up the difference when it is &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s me!&rdquo; into &ldquo;It is I!&amp;quot; The Ideal Editor has&lt;br /&gt;
greater?&lt;br /&gt;
been known to make changes in spelling and&lt;br /&gt;
(4) What advertising is done?&lt;br /&gt;
punctuation, but again only sparingly, for in&lt;br /&gt;
(5) What were the details and the amount of both he prefers to leave free play to the individu.&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;necessary expenses&rdquo;?&lt;br /&gt;
ality which both are capable of expressing. He&lt;br /&gt;
(6) Whether the Rev. J. Meldrum Dryerre is would never, for instance, alter &ldquo;shew&rdquo; into&lt;br /&gt;
the unpaid secretary of the Bureau ? If not, &ldquo;show&rdquo; or drop the &amp;quot;e&amp;quot; in judgement, but he&lt;br /&gt;
why he calls himself &ldquo;Hon. Sec.&amp;quot; ?&lt;br /&gt;
tries to preserve for us old friends and pleasant&lt;br /&gt;
(7) To what authors or to what works can memories, and changes &ldquo; Kalendar&amp;quot; into &ldquo; Calen-&lt;br /&gt;
he refer as a successful and competent literary dar,&amp;quot; and Aachen into Aix-la-Chapelle.&lt;br /&gt;
agent? It is customary for literary agents to The Ideal Editor has no other profession and is&lt;br /&gt;
produce these references in proof of competence. very diligent in his own. He keeps a MS. but a&lt;br /&gt;
short time when it is not his intention to keep it&lt;br /&gt;
altogether. The Ideal Editor is a gentleman, and&lt;br /&gt;
therefore polite solicitude is another of his many&lt;br /&gt;
THE IDEAL EDITOR.&lt;br /&gt;
excellencies. A tender consideration, even for&lt;br /&gt;
(From the occasional contributor&amp;#039;s point of view.) the obscure and troublesome, animates his whole&lt;br /&gt;
conduct. If the contributor has sent his MS.&lt;br /&gt;
F the Ideal Editor&amp;#039;s literary qualification this unfolded in a stiff cardboard case, the editor will&lt;br /&gt;
U paper sayeth nought; its object is rather return it in the same case; if the contributor has&lt;br /&gt;
to set forth, to the shame of his Philistine folded his MS. the editor will observe the same&lt;br /&gt;
compeer, the excellencies of his rule of conduct pleats in folding and not brutally roll and crumple&lt;br /&gt;
and the praiseworthiness of his methods of pro. it as his Philistine compeer does ; if only postage&lt;br /&gt;
cedure.&lt;br /&gt;
stamps and no wrapper accompanies the MS., the&lt;br /&gt;
The first general excellency of the Ideal Editor editor in returning it is careful to use wrappers&lt;br /&gt;
is that he can judge of the merits of a contribu. that cover the whole width of the MS., so that it&lt;br /&gt;
tion in its MS. form. This may sound a truism, may in no way become soiled or defaced by post-&lt;br /&gt;
but it is none the less a fact that the reason why marks or postage stamps. He has a kind heart,&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 74 (#104) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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74&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS&amp;#039; ASSOCIATION.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
TNDIANAPOLIS, July 20. &mdash; The Bowen-&lt;br /&gt;
| Merrill Company of this city, the largest&lt;br /&gt;
publishing firm in the State, has received a&lt;br /&gt;
circular letter from Eastern publishers asking&lt;br /&gt;
representatives to attend a meeting to be&lt;br /&gt;
held in New York on Wednesday next to&lt;br /&gt;
consider a plan of co-operation whereby author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
royalties may be decreased. The circular says&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo;if the publishers and booksellers can&lt;br /&gt;
arrange matters satisfactorily, the sellers will&lt;br /&gt;
not handle books of publishers not in the&lt;br /&gt;
association and the publishers will not sell to&lt;br /&gt;
outsiders.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Nothing is said in the circular of capitalisation&lt;br /&gt;
or the number which it is proposed to take into&lt;br /&gt;
the combine. &mdash;New York Sun, July 21, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
the Ideal Editor, and knows that one journey&lt;br /&gt;
through the post will often give a MS. a sadly&lt;br /&gt;
rejected look. Moreover, he is acquainted with&lt;br /&gt;
the postal regulations; he can distinguish between&lt;br /&gt;
home and foreign ; he is aware that the minimum&lt;br /&gt;
for MSS. abroad is 2 d. and not&mdash;as the Philis-&lt;br /&gt;
tines all think-id. It would grieve him to the&lt;br /&gt;
soul to be instrumental in inflicting a postal fine&lt;br /&gt;
on a starving contributor or to add to the&lt;br /&gt;
exchequer of a rapacious foreign Government&lt;br /&gt;
Further, he never sends proofs or MSS. abroad in&lt;br /&gt;
an open gummed envelope, for he knows that&lt;br /&gt;
certain foreign postal officials, whose patriotism&lt;br /&gt;
gets the better of their honesty, are quite&lt;br /&gt;
capable of closing the gummed envelope and&lt;br /&gt;
no upon the unfortunate. perhaps&amp;#039; stary.&lt;br /&gt;
ing, contributor a postal fine of the value of a&lt;br /&gt;
luncheon.&lt;br /&gt;
When he has made up his mind to accept an&lt;br /&gt;
article, the Ideal Editor does not selfishly nurse&lt;br /&gt;
the fact in his bosom for six months or a year ;&lt;br /&gt;
he is a humane man, and immediately informs&lt;br /&gt;
the contributor of the good news. It is asking&lt;br /&gt;
too much, but there does exist a high-souled&lt;br /&gt;
editor-creature almost of another world&mdash;who&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledges every MS. as he receives it. promis&lt;br /&gt;
ing &ldquo;attention in due course.&rdquo; This of itself&lt;br /&gt;
softens the blow when the &ldquo;attention &rdquo; eventually&lt;br /&gt;
does not take the form of retention ; and, when&lt;br /&gt;
accepted, the contributor has not over long to&lt;br /&gt;
wait for an appearance. The Ideal Editor accepts&lt;br /&gt;
with judgement; therefore his pigeon-holes are&lt;br /&gt;
never unduly cluttered up, not even with&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; middles.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Ideal Editor always sends two proofs-one&lt;br /&gt;
to be returned and one to be retained. The con&lt;br /&gt;
tributor corrects both, and is thus able to see for&lt;br /&gt;
himself that the proof is actually printed as it&lt;br /&gt;
leaves his hands. For I need scarcely say that if&lt;br /&gt;
the Ideal Editor makes any changes-suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
he would prefer me to call them&mdash;they are always&lt;br /&gt;
made in the proof, which is never touched again&lt;br /&gt;
after it leaves the author&amp;#039;s hands. (N.B. The&lt;br /&gt;
two proofs are invariably accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
MS., without which a writer cannot comfortably&lt;br /&gt;
correct the proof of a difficult article). The&lt;br /&gt;
Philistine editor never returns the MS., even if&lt;br /&gt;
.the substance of the article is composed of intri.&lt;br /&gt;
cate statistics.&lt;br /&gt;
Such, then, set forth without hyperbole, are&lt;br /&gt;
some of the excellencies of the Ideal Editor. All&lt;br /&gt;
honour to him. When the Philistine who is&lt;br /&gt;
encamped over against the Sion of his sanctum&lt;br /&gt;
shall hatte been subdued to a like rightmindedness&lt;br /&gt;
and gentlemanliness of procedure, then the lite-&lt;br /&gt;
rary millennium will be nigh, and the contribut.&lt;br /&gt;
ing lamb may lie down without fear by the side&lt;br /&gt;
of the once-dreaded editing lion. M, C.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
The American Publishers&amp;#039; Association was&lt;br /&gt;
formed on last Wednesday, Charles Scribner&lt;br /&gt;
being elected president. The news of the forma-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the association was printed on the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
ing day, together with many reasons for its being.&lt;br /&gt;
Nearly every reason given was incorrect and quite&lt;br /&gt;
at variance with the real purpose of the organisa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. The story most widely circulated was sent&lt;br /&gt;
out from Chicago and was to the effect that the&lt;br /&gt;
principal book publishers of the United States&lt;br /&gt;
had decided to band themselves into a trust, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the formation of an association was the first&lt;br /&gt;
number on their programme. Another story sent&lt;br /&gt;
out from Chicago or some more windy Western&lt;br /&gt;
town, had it that the main object of the new&lt;br /&gt;
organisation was to reduce the compensation to be&lt;br /&gt;
paid to authors in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
So far as the promoters of the organisation&lt;br /&gt;
have read, not one of the stories printed relative&lt;br /&gt;
to the reason for organisation and the plans for&lt;br /&gt;
the future is correct. And right here it may be&lt;br /&gt;
well to correct one or two of these stories. In&lt;br /&gt;
the first place, it was never the intention of any&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishers who had a hand in organising&lt;br /&gt;
the association to form a trust. Anyone at all&lt;br /&gt;
familiar with the business of book publishing&lt;br /&gt;
knows that it would be about as easy to form a&lt;br /&gt;
trust of book publishers, on account of the very&lt;br /&gt;
nature of the business, as it has been to com.&lt;br /&gt;
municate with the legations in Peking. Further-&lt;br /&gt;
more, the association was not formed for the&lt;br /&gt;
purpose of buying manuscripts at reduced rates&lt;br /&gt;
or for the purpose of reducing royalties. In fact,&lt;br /&gt;
the relations of author and publisher were not&lt;br /&gt;
even considered in the formation of the new&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 75 (#105) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
75&lt;br /&gt;
association. It was not even suggested that booksellers as well as the regular retailers, and,&lt;br /&gt;
these relations were any part of the business or furthermore, the department stores bought many&lt;br /&gt;
concern of such an association.&lt;br /&gt;
more new books for which there was a popular&lt;br /&gt;
So much for the reasons that didn&amp;#039;t lead to the demand than most of the regular retailers. The&lt;br /&gt;
formation of the association and for the plans department stores were good customers, and the&lt;br /&gt;
which it never had any intention of carrying out. publishers did not feel inclined to interfere with&lt;br /&gt;
Now, as a matter of fact, this association was their business. The demands and the pleadings&lt;br /&gt;
formed at the request of retail booksellers all over and the requests of the retailers kept coming in,&lt;br /&gt;
the country and after repeated and earnest plead. however, and finally, a few months ago, some of the&lt;br /&gt;
ings on the part of the retailers that the pub publishers decided that they must do something.&lt;br /&gt;
lishers try to do something to change existing Some of them made individual investigation as to&lt;br /&gt;
conditions in the trade, and work out some scheme the extent to which the business of the regular&lt;br /&gt;
by which the retailers could at least make a dealer was impaired by the book shops in the&lt;br /&gt;
living. They have been requesting for the last department stores.&lt;br /&gt;
two or three years. More recently they have Their investigation led them to inquire about&lt;br /&gt;
fairly demanded some assistance from the pub. the sale of some of the popular novels. They found&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, representing that, if they didn&amp;#039;t get it, that the sale of &ldquo; David Harum,&rdquo; for instance, had&lt;br /&gt;
many retail booksellers would either have to close reached, at the time the investigation was made,&lt;br /&gt;
out their business or be sold out. It was as a 500,000 copies; of &ldquo;Richard Carvel,&rdquo; 438,000&lt;br /&gt;
somewhat tardy answer to this cry for help, copies had been sold. &ldquo;To Have and to Hold,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
coming from all parts of the country, that the 200,000; &ldquo; Janice Meredith,&rdquo; 250,000; and &ldquo;Red&lt;br /&gt;
association was formed.&lt;br /&gt;
Rock,&amp;quot; 84,000 copies. It has not been deter-&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore, instead of banding together to do mined just what percentage of the total sale of&lt;br /&gt;
the public or do the authors, the publishers have the books mentioned must be credited to the&lt;br /&gt;
really organised themselves for the purpose of department stores, but it is known to be large.&lt;br /&gt;
helping the men who make it possible for a pub. The investigators then tried to get at the loss to&lt;br /&gt;
lishing house to exist. It was simply a case of somebody by the cut rates at which these books&lt;br /&gt;
helping others and thereby helping themselves. were sold in the department stores. They took&lt;br /&gt;
For the benefit of those not familiar with the &ldquo;Richard Carvel &rdquo; for their purpose because&lt;br /&gt;
book trade it may be said that during each certain department stores were advertising this&lt;br /&gt;
succeeding year for the past five or six years and book extensively. The book was put out by the&lt;br /&gt;
more, the retail bookseller&amp;#039;s business has been Appletons to be sold at retail for i dollar 50 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
growing poorer and poorer. The inventory at the It was found that the price in many department&lt;br /&gt;
close of each year has shown that the profit from stores was i dollar 14 cents., while at some it was&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of books alone was less than the sold as low as 81 cents., the publisher&amp;#039;s price at&lt;br /&gt;
year before. The retailers saw that this thing wholesale. The cut from the regular retail price&lt;br /&gt;
must stop or they would have to do something was therefore 36 cents. a copy in some cases and&lt;br /&gt;
else to make a living. And yet they could see no 69 cents. in others.&lt;br /&gt;
way by which they could change the conditions. They saw at once that the volume of business&lt;br /&gt;
because they knew the chief cause and they were done by many retailers who had to compete with&lt;br /&gt;
powerless to remove it.&lt;br /&gt;
these department stores was not such as to make&lt;br /&gt;
The alleged chief cause of the decline in the it possible for tbem to meet even the higher of&lt;br /&gt;
trade of the retail booksellers has been the alleged the two cut prices. In the first place, many of&lt;br /&gt;
cause of decline in other particular lines of trade the retailers could not buy in sufficiently large&lt;br /&gt;
for many years. The booksellers laid all their quantities to enable them to buy the book at the&lt;br /&gt;
troubles to the department store, as the shoe lowest wholesale price. From all the information&lt;br /&gt;
dealer and the butcher and the greengrocer and that could be gathered it seemed to be true that,&lt;br /&gt;
the &thorn;ardware dealer had done before them. They in the case of many of the retailers, they could&lt;br /&gt;
asserted to the publisher that, so long as book&amp;#039;s not realise a decent profit and cut under i dollar&lt;br /&gt;
were sold in department stores at prices with 50 cents. As for selling the book at 81 cents.,&lt;br /&gt;
which the regular bookseller found it utterly the price made by the publishers to jobbers and&lt;br /&gt;
impossible to compete, the regular men in the others who bought in large quantities, that was&lt;br /&gt;
trade could not do business at a profit. It was to utterly out of the question. It was then for the&lt;br /&gt;
save them from the department stores that the publishers to determine whether they could afford&lt;br /&gt;
retailers appealed to the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
to help in some way the regular retailers at the&lt;br /&gt;
For some time the publishers could not see expense, if necessary, of the department store.&lt;br /&gt;
their way clear to assist the retailers. They were What determination was reached may be inferred&lt;br /&gt;
compelled to look upon the department stores as from the forming of the association.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 76 (#106) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
76&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
You couldn&amp;#039;t get a publisher to admit that the&lt;br /&gt;
association intends to antagonise a single depart.&lt;br /&gt;
ment store in a single city in the country. On&lt;br /&gt;
the contrary, they say they are going to get the&lt;br /&gt;
department store to help them in the work they&lt;br /&gt;
have undertaken. Just how they are going to do&lt;br /&gt;
this they do not say, and it is probably true that&lt;br /&gt;
they do not yet know. As a matter of fact, the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers haven&amp;#039;t got that far yet. They have&lt;br /&gt;
really only effected an organisation and elected&lt;br /&gt;
officers. A committee has been appointed to&lt;br /&gt;
draft articles of association, and when it is ready&lt;br /&gt;
to report, another meeting of the association will&lt;br /&gt;
be held.&lt;br /&gt;
Although no plan for aiding the retailers is now&lt;br /&gt;
under consideration by the association as a body,&lt;br /&gt;
the individual members are considering a scheme&lt;br /&gt;
proposed by a man who has been in the publish.&lt;br /&gt;
ing business over forty years in New York. At&lt;br /&gt;
present the plan is looked upon with much favour,&lt;br /&gt;
and it looks now as if it, or some slight modifica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of it, would be adopted by the association.&lt;br /&gt;
Under this plan a net retail price for all books&lt;br /&gt;
published after the adoption of the plan would be&lt;br /&gt;
fixed by the association. The general scale of the&lt;br /&gt;
prices fixed would be much lower than the retail&lt;br /&gt;
prices now suggested by publishers to be charged&lt;br /&gt;
for books. For instance, a book that would sell&lt;br /&gt;
at retail, without any requirement from the pub:&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, at I dollar 50 cents, would then be&lt;br /&gt;
required to be sold at i dollar 25 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
From this price the retailer would get a certain&lt;br /&gt;
trade discount, but before he was permitted to&lt;br /&gt;
buy a copy of the book he would be required to&lt;br /&gt;
agree not to sell any copies at retail for less than&lt;br /&gt;
the price stipulated by the publisher. In fixing&lt;br /&gt;
the stipulated price it would be put at such a&lt;br /&gt;
figure as experience has taught should yield a fair&lt;br /&gt;
profit to the retailer of conservative business&lt;br /&gt;
methods. This plan, as has been stated, would&lt;br /&gt;
apply only to the publications issued after the&lt;br /&gt;
plan is adopted. No attempt under it would be&lt;br /&gt;
made to regulate the retail price of old publica&lt;br /&gt;
tions. When this plan was outlined to a Sun&lt;br /&gt;
reporter yesterday, the reporter asked the man&lt;br /&gt;
who explained it if he expected such a scheme to&lt;br /&gt;
be readily accepted by the department stores. His&lt;br /&gt;
answer was:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I think we can show the department store&lt;br /&gt;
proprietors that it will not be a bad thing for&lt;br /&gt;
them. Of course, the publishers will continue to&lt;br /&gt;
give the largest discount to the purchasers of the&lt;br /&gt;
largest bill of goods, and the department stores&lt;br /&gt;
will get the benefit of that discount. The regular&lt;br /&gt;
retailers can find no fault with that. But it is a&lt;br /&gt;
question of live and let live. The publishers can&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
live off the department stores alone, and the&lt;br /&gt;
regular retailers can&amp;#039;t live with the department&lt;br /&gt;
stores under the present conditions. I think the&lt;br /&gt;
whole thing can be laid before the department&lt;br /&gt;
store men in such a way that they will accept it.&lt;br /&gt;
If they don&amp;#039;t, why we shall have to treat them, if&lt;br /&gt;
this plan be adopted, just as we would have to&lt;br /&gt;
treat a regular retailer who refused to accept the&lt;br /&gt;
terms of the plan. We should then be compelled&lt;br /&gt;
to refuse to sell to them.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;But there are others to be considered besides&lt;br /&gt;
the department stores. It is not well, for instance.&lt;br /&gt;
to forget altogether the public. The adoption of&lt;br /&gt;
this plan, or one something like it, would be of&lt;br /&gt;
great benefit to the buyers of books. In the first&lt;br /&gt;
place, the majority will be able to get their books&lt;br /&gt;
cheaper than they would if no such plan were in&lt;br /&gt;
force, because the majority of the buyers of high-&lt;br /&gt;
class books, such as the members of this associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion publish, do not buy them from department&lt;br /&gt;
stores. Therefore, if the plan were not in force,&lt;br /&gt;
the majority would buy their books at the present&lt;br /&gt;
higher scale of retail prices.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Another class that would be benefited by such&lt;br /&gt;
a scheme would be the authors. In showing that&lt;br /&gt;
the scheme would benefit them, I show how silly&lt;br /&gt;
was the story that the publishers were combining&lt;br /&gt;
against them. When it can be brought about&lt;br /&gt;
that a uniform and fair price can be maintained&lt;br /&gt;
for a product, the producers are always benefited.&lt;br /&gt;
This applies to authors as well as mill hands, and&lt;br /&gt;
the adoption of some such scheme would enable&lt;br /&gt;
us to pay better instead of poorer rates to authors,&lt;br /&gt;
even had we ever thought of trying to get authors&lt;br /&gt;
to work for less.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ſt was recalled by another publisher that, so far&lt;br /&gt;
as authors are concerned, they, as a class, are not&lt;br /&gt;
so dependent on the publishers as the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
are on them. Of poor authors, it was said, there&lt;br /&gt;
are plenty, but good ones are rare, and high-class&lt;br /&gt;
publishers can never afford to work against their&lt;br /&gt;
interests, and never have since books were pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lished. As showing the character and standing&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishing houses represented at the&lt;br /&gt;
organisation of the association, it may be stated&lt;br /&gt;
that the following were represented :&lt;br /&gt;
D. Appleton and Co.; Bowen-Merrill Company,&lt;br /&gt;
of Indianapolis ; Century Company; Henry T.&lt;br /&gt;
Coates and Co, of Philadelphia ; Thomas Y.&lt;br /&gt;
Crowell and Co.; Dodd, Mead, and Co.; Double-&lt;br /&gt;
day, Page, and Co.; Funk and Wagnalls ; Harper&lt;br /&gt;
and Brothers; Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.; John&lt;br /&gt;
Lane; Lee and Shepard, Boston; the J. B.&lt;br /&gt;
Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia; Little,&lt;br /&gt;
Brown, and Co., of Boston; Longmans, Green,&lt;br /&gt;
and Co.; McClure, Phillips, and Co.; the Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
millan Company; Thomas Nelson and Sons ;&lt;br /&gt;
G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons; James Pott and Co.;&lt;br /&gt;
Fleming H. Revell Company; R. H. Russell;&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons; Silver, Burdett, and&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 77 (#107) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
77&lt;br /&gt;
Co.; Mays, Maynard, and Co.; and Frederick A.&lt;br /&gt;
Stokes and Co.&mdash;New York Sun, July 29, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
The weakest wills are often hardest to forecast&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;like the weather.&lt;br /&gt;
Virtue cannot be defined by code, for it is&lt;br /&gt;
infinite.&lt;br /&gt;
FINLAY GLENELG.&lt;br /&gt;
REFLECTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
RT&amp;#039;S chief end is not to teach, but to touch.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
Genuine gospels are not sad.&lt;br /&gt;
The only irony in Nature lies in our.&lt;br /&gt;
selves.&lt;br /&gt;
1.-GOOD AND BAD ENGLISH.&lt;br /&gt;
It is often easier to blame Providence than to MAN YOU explain what vexes my old-fashioned&lt;br /&gt;
learn wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;
I mind-namely, the use of the adverb once&lt;br /&gt;
Microbes of misfortune thrive in the malaria of to mark time without its former companion&lt;br /&gt;
misunderstanding.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;when.&amp;quot; Taken alone, it means simply that an&lt;br /&gt;
Disease is due to lower lifeincluding our event happened on only one occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
own.&lt;br /&gt;
I have been obliged to look back or forward to&lt;br /&gt;
Lower life may help the higher&mdash;to under see whether&ldquo; once&amp;quot; meant&ldquo; once on a time &amp;quot; long&lt;br /&gt;
stand.&lt;br /&gt;
ago, or whether it was used as showing that when&lt;br /&gt;
Pessimism is a symptom of disease, sometimes some object was completed the rest followed. I&lt;br /&gt;
canonised as natural science.&lt;br /&gt;
have often met with it in books, and passed it as&lt;br /&gt;
All genius, like all love, is miraculous.&lt;br /&gt;
slip-slop-perhaps American; but I have just&lt;br /&gt;
All science is superficial, and so is even religion. found it in a leading article in a contemporary.&lt;br /&gt;
Genius never produces unhappiness&mdash;in the &ldquo;Once, moreover, the decision has been taken,&lt;br /&gt;
wisest.&lt;br /&gt;
very little time is required to send out, &amp;amp;c.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Good artists enjoy life&mdash;when free and wise. Surely it would have cost even less time to begin&lt;br /&gt;
Freedom alone cannot guarantee wisdom. the sentence with &ldquo; When once,&amp;quot; instead of com.&lt;br /&gt;
Absolute freedom is only for the perfectly wise mitting a barbarism of which no quotation in&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;the unknown.&lt;br /&gt;
Webster&amp;#039;s dictionary gives an instance.&lt;br /&gt;
No one is ever too good, or even too bad, for&lt;br /&gt;
ONCE AND EVER A LOVER OF GOOD&lt;br /&gt;
this world.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;
The absolutely impossible is unknown to us.&lt;br /&gt;
The unwise will blame Nature for their own&lt;br /&gt;
vain visions.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-WALTER v. LANE.&lt;br /&gt;
We do not know the effect of too much wisdom, The decision of the House of Lords in the case&lt;br /&gt;
for we have never tried it.&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;Walter v. Lane&rdquo; goes far to carry the point&lt;br /&gt;
Were disease always ugly, its career would be that I first urged at a meeting of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
shorter.&lt;br /&gt;
Society in the year 1891, as reported in The&lt;br /&gt;
When Nature seems unjust, or Providence Author for Feb. 1891. What I claimed was a&lt;br /&gt;
unwise, we only see our own images.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in literary style in news description ;&lt;br /&gt;
The sub-human often mistakes itself for the i.e., I see an event, or railway accident, or fire, or&lt;br /&gt;
supernatural.&lt;br /&gt;
a Tsar&amp;#039;s coronation, and I describe it in a certain&lt;br /&gt;
The unique is only the usual.&lt;br /&gt;
fashion; in fact, putting myself into the descrip-&lt;br /&gt;
It is often harder to improve ourselves than to tion, and for such work I claim a copyright. Others&lt;br /&gt;
reprove society.&lt;br /&gt;
may describe the same event or incident, but if&lt;br /&gt;
Love cannot fail, even when inexpert lovers they copy or choose my words, my mannerisms,&lt;br /&gt;
must.&lt;br /&gt;
my style, then they infringe my copyright. This&lt;br /&gt;
All art must succeed when wise&mdash;however is just what the Times claims for its report&lt;br /&gt;
invisibly.&lt;br /&gt;
of Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s speeches. Since 1891 I have&lt;br /&gt;
All worries are born of our weaknesses.&lt;br /&gt;
used every opportunity for urging this claim to&lt;br /&gt;
Facts are poor without reasons, and reasons copyright in literary style in news description, and&lt;br /&gt;
seem poorer without sympathies.&lt;br /&gt;
have spoken upon it at the International Press&lt;br /&gt;
Humour is the offspring of sense and of senti. Congress at Bordeaux, Rome, &amp;amp;c., and at Rome&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
the International Press Bureau accepted the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Ideal justice is still beyond human ken.&lt;br /&gt;
position, and it will be embodied in a bill to&lt;br /&gt;
Novel truth may become dangerous when be laid before the Berne Convention; so that in&lt;br /&gt;
wisdom does not pilot us.&lt;br /&gt;
time the paragraphist, who from his local know-&lt;br /&gt;
The nether side of unhappiness is unhealthiness. ledge gives true colour or scientific insight into&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 78 (#108) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
78&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
a descriptive note, will be able to prevent dozens Mr. Mackenzie Bell&amp;#039;s poem, &ldquo;Lord, teach us to&lt;br /&gt;
of journals immediately seizing upon his well Pray,&amp;quot; has just been published by Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
written &ldquo; par.&rdquo;&mdash;for surely England, that suffers Vincent, arranged as an anthem by Herr Georg&lt;br /&gt;
most from such &ldquo;commandeering,&rdquo; will not be Liebling, Court pianist to the Duke of Saxe.&lt;br /&gt;
bebind the internationalists in journalist legisla- Coburg and Gotha.&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&lt;br /&gt;
- JAMES BAKER. Dr. Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s history of the South African&lt;br /&gt;
War is in preparation, and will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
III.-ENGLISH AUTHORS IN THE UNITED STATES.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely the comment upon &ldquo; Maxwell Gray&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
After the flood of books on mountaineering&lt;br /&gt;
experience is quite obvious. There are various&lt;br /&gt;
which recent seasons have witnessed, there is&lt;br /&gt;
justifications for the role of literary agent, but&lt;br /&gt;
evidently to be a cessation now. So far, the only&lt;br /&gt;
no part of his function can be, for writers of any&lt;br /&gt;
my book of the kind announced for publication in&lt;br /&gt;
standing, more important than knowledge of and&lt;br /&gt;
the autumn is &ldquo;In the Ice World of the Himalaya,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
a hold upon the whole international market. If&lt;br /&gt;
by Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Maxwell Gray&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; affairs had been in the bands&lt;br /&gt;
William Hunter Workman, who had many&lt;br /&gt;
of a competent agent-by which is implied an&lt;br /&gt;
interesting adventures in their travels.&lt;br /&gt;
agent with, among other things, an American&lt;br /&gt;
representative-none of these troubles could have&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Slaves of Society&rdquo; is the title of an&lt;br /&gt;
arisen. And surely, if the Authors&amp;#039; Society is&lt;br /&gt;
anonymous satire on modern social life and&lt;br /&gt;
wise enough not to undertake agent&amp;#039;s work in this usages, which Messrs. Harper are to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
country there can be no call for it to attempt to Mr. J. Ashby-Sterry is issuing through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
do it in New York, where, it being a civilised Sands a new collection of his essays.&lt;br /&gt;
place, the business of literary agent is perfectly Mrs. Humphry Ward&amp;#039;s new novel will be pub.&lt;br /&gt;
well understood. THE LITERARY AGENCY. lished in the autumn. It has been appearing in&lt;br /&gt;
5, Henrietta-street, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Harper&amp;#039;s, and is called &ldquo; Eleanor.&rdquo; The scene is&lt;br /&gt;
laid in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
The novel upon which John Oliver Hobbes is en-&lt;br /&gt;
gaged will be called &ldquo;Love and the Soul Hunters.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Mary E. Mann has written a novel&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Among the Syringas,&rdquo; in which a&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Rev. C. Dudley Lampen&amp;#039;s new story, to country clergyman is the chief character. The&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Everett and Co. book will be published by Mr. Fisher Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
shortly, is entitled &ldquo;Barcali, the Mutineer: M. Leroy-Beaulieu, the well-known French&lt;br /&gt;
a Tale of the Great Pacific.&rdquo; It deals with the economist and authority on colonial affairs, has&lt;br /&gt;
discovery of a strange colony and the doings of recently published in Paris a work of great&lt;br /&gt;
a clever but exceedingly wicked chief engineer. interest at the present time, entitled &ldquo;La Renova-&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen and Co. are publishing at tion de l&amp;#039;Asie.&amp;quot; An English translation of this&lt;br /&gt;
once Mr. J. Bloundelle-Burton&amp;#039;s new romance,&lt;br /&gt;
book is to be brought out by Mr. Heinemann. It&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;Servants of Sin,&rdquo; the action of which will be edited, with a preface, by Mr. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
takes place during the regency of the Duke of Norman, of whose &ldquo;Peoples and Politics of the&lt;br /&gt;
Orleans, and during the time of the downfall of Far East&rdquo; Mr. Fisher Unwin is now publishing&lt;br /&gt;
Law&amp;#039;s Mississippi scheme and that of the Great a new edition.&lt;br /&gt;
Plague of Marseilles. The main incidents of this The first number of a new half-a-crown review,&lt;br /&gt;
story are founded upon fact, and many of the edited by Mr. Henry Newbolt, will be published&lt;br /&gt;
characters are, under other names, persons who by Mr. Murray on Sept. 19. The founders &ldquo;wish&lt;br /&gt;
actually existed at the period; while the actual it to take its place among its old competitors in a&lt;br /&gt;
facts themselves were unearthed by Mr. Bloun. modest and orderly manner, believing that neither&lt;br /&gt;
delle-Burton in the libraries of Paris while &amp;#039;pushfulness&amp;#039; nor loud promises are likely to&lt;br /&gt;
engaged in writing a history of the &ldquo; Three attract the readers they desire.&amp;quot; It is to be&lt;br /&gt;
Louis&rdquo; (Louis XIII., XIV., and XV.), on which called the Monthly Review.&lt;br /&gt;
he has for some years been occupied.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frederick A. Cook, who acted as surgeon,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. S. Ellis, who was closely associated anthropologist, and photographer to the &ldquo;Belgica&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
with William Morris, has since the death of his expedition to the Antarctic region, is writing an&lt;br /&gt;
friend been engaged upon a translation of &ldquo;The account of that adventure. It will be published&lt;br /&gt;
Romance of the Rose.&amp;quot; This work will form three by Mr. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
volumes of the Temple Classics, and the first of A cheap issue of Dr. George Macdonald&amp;#039;s novels&lt;br /&gt;
these is just being published by Messrs. Dent. has been begun by Messrs. Kegan Paul.&lt;br /&gt;
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A new book by Mr. F. C. Selous, entitled &ldquo; English Nell,&rdquo; the new pla y by Mr. Anthony&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Sport and Travel, East and West,&rdquo; will be pub- Hope and Mr. Edward Rose-founded on &ldquo; Simon&lt;br /&gt;
lished in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Dale&rdquo;&mdash;was produced at the Prince of Wales&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leslie Stephen&amp;#039;s work &laquo; The English Theatre on Aug. 21. The heroine, as in the&lt;br /&gt;
Utilitarians,&rdquo; will be published in a few days. It Haymarket production referred to above, is Nell&lt;br /&gt;
is in three volumes (Duckworth).&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynne.&lt;br /&gt;
In the July number of The Author a reference&lt;br /&gt;
A play by Mr. T. P. O&amp;#039;Connor, M.P., entitled&lt;br /&gt;
was made to the American novel &ldquo; To Have and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Lost Leader,&rdquo; will be produced shortly at&lt;br /&gt;
to Hold,&rdquo; by Miss Mary Johnston. It should be the Crown Theatre, Peckham. It is founded&lt;br /&gt;
explained, however, that the title this book bears upon incidents in the career of Mr. Parnell. The&lt;br /&gt;
in England is &ldquo; By Order of the Company.&rdquo; The leading part will be played by Mr. Laurence&lt;br /&gt;
former title was used in England by Miss Irving.&lt;br /&gt;
Sarah Stredder, who published a novel entitled In Mr. Cecil Raleigh&amp;#039;s new drama, &ldquo; The Price&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; To Have and to Hold &rdquo; sixteen years ago. of Peace,&rdquo; the opening scene is placed in a ward&lt;br /&gt;
The first long novel that Mr. Louis Becke has of St. Thomas&amp;#039;s Hospital; then the action passes&lt;br /&gt;
written will be published shortly by Mr. Fisher to the Houses of Parliament, and it is under-&lt;br /&gt;
Unwin. It will be called &ldquo; Edward Barry, South stood that the play has a political interest&lt;br /&gt;
Sea Pearler.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
throughout. Mr. Henry Neville and Miss Lettie&lt;br /&gt;
A collection of articles on European sport is Fairfax will take the chief parts, and it is hoped&lt;br /&gt;
being edited by Mr. F. G. Aflalo for publication to produce the play at Drury Lane on Sept. 15.&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Sands in a volume which will be called Mr. Barrie has written a new play, &ldquo; Two&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sport in Europe.&amp;quot; Among the contributors are Kinds of Women,&amp;quot; with which Mr. Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Demidoff, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., and Bourchier will reopen the Garrick Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. A. Baillie Grohman.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Alec Tweedie is leaving shortly for Canada&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson&amp;#039;s new work on the and the United States to pay several visits, and&lt;br /&gt;
living races of mankind is to appear in fortnightly she purposes spending next winter in Mexico in&lt;br /&gt;
parts, beginning immediately. Mr. Hutchinson order to write a new book on that country. Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
has been assisted by Mr. Lvdekker, Mr. J. W. Alec Tweedie&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo;Through Finland in&lt;br /&gt;
Gregory, and other authorities.&lt;br /&gt;
Carts,&rdquo; is just ready in a new edition. An up-to-&lt;br /&gt;
Collectors will be interested to note the prices date political chapter has been added, and a&lt;br /&gt;
realised by Mr. Swinburne&amp;#039;s books in the auction portrait of the author. Finland is of particular&lt;br /&gt;
rooms. The following copies which were sold by interest at the moment, in consequence of the&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sotheby were presented by the author to Tsar&amp;#039;s strange attempt to rob that interesting&lt;br /&gt;
the late Dr. Grosart, and bore inscriptions to that country of the political rights which he himself&lt;br /&gt;
effect :- SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES (1880),&lt;br /&gt;
swore to uphold when he ascended the throne.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5 128. 6d.; MARY STUART (1881), &pound;5 158.; The Russian language is being introduced ;&lt;br /&gt;
TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE (1882), &pound;5 178. 6d.; Finnish newspapers are suppressed ; the stamps&lt;br /&gt;
A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS (1883), 26 128. 6d.; and the currency are in jeopardy. Indeed, Russia,&lt;br /&gt;
MARINO FALIERO (1885), &pound;5 178. 6d. ; LOCRINE in spite of her peace manifesto, is doing her best&lt;br /&gt;
(1887), 26; A STUDY OF BEN JONSON to exterminate the independence of poor Finland.&lt;br /&gt;
(1889), &pound;6 29. 60.; A Tale OF BALEN (1896), It is an interesting struggle.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5 178. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Julia Neilson is just producing at the&lt;br /&gt;
Haymarket (Aug. 30) Mr. Kester&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Sweet Nell&lt;br /&gt;
of Old Drury.&amp;quot; Mr. George Alexander also is&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
now (Sept. 1) producing &ldquo;A Debt of Honour,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s new play.&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
A special matin&eacute;e has been organised by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Penley in aid of Mr. Arthur Pearson&amp;#039;s Fresh Air&lt;br /&gt;
DARTMOOR, by S. Baring Gould (Methuen, 68.), for a.&lt;br /&gt;
Fund for the Poor, and will take place at the&lt;br /&gt;
holiday tourist of some reading and imagination, will be&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo;a most delightful book. Soenic&lt;br /&gt;
Great Queen-street Theatre on Sept. 15. Two&lt;br /&gt;
description, anecdotes racy of the Devonian soil, antiquities,&lt;br /&gt;
new plays by Mr. Edward Jones will be produced are here poured forth with a profusion which Mr. Baring&lt;br /&gt;
on this occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
Gould&amp;#039;s lightness of touch and sense of order prevent&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips&amp;#039;s forthcoming play,&lt;br /&gt;
from being for an instant wearisome.&amp;quot; The Daily Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
says the book &ldquo;is in many respects a model of its sort. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Herod the King,&amp;quot; will follow &ldquo; Julius C&aelig;sar&amp;quot; at&lt;br /&gt;
Baring Gould has lived all his life in the neighbourhood&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
which he describes Dartmoor has been to him, as he says,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;a passion,&amp;#039; and he has indulged that passion in intimacy&lt;br /&gt;
and sympathy.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ESSAYS OF JOHN DRYDEN, selected and edited by W. P.&lt;br /&gt;
Ker (Clarendon Press, 108. 6d.), consists, for the most part,&lt;br /&gt;
of essays which were furnished as prefaces to plays or&lt;br /&gt;
poems. &ldquo;Professor Ker&amp;#039;s introductions,&amp;quot; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle,&amp;quot; have grip and suggestiveness. The notes are&lt;br /&gt;
concise and always to the point.&rdquo; Literature says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Professor Ker has earned the gratitude of all who love&lt;br /&gt;
English literature by collecting and editing these scattered&lt;br /&gt;
prefaces. His part of the work is conspicuously good.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
i There is a bibliography and an index, and in some cases&lt;br /&gt;
various readings are added from later editions which are&lt;br /&gt;
most instructive.&rdquo; &ldquo;Here at last,&rdquo; says the Spectator,&amp;quot; the&lt;br /&gt;
work of Dryden is set forth with learning, taste, and&lt;br /&gt;
restraint.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICA&amp;#039;S WORKING PEOPLE, by Charles B. Spahr&lt;br /&gt;
(Longmans, 5s. net), &ldquo;is an interesting book,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle. &ldquo;Mr. Spahr draws with a firm hand and&lt;br /&gt;
a loving touch, broadly, yet not without detail, the varieties&lt;br /&gt;
of the great Labour class as he has studied them in different&lt;br /&gt;
parts of his own land. He has a passion, all too rare&lt;br /&gt;
amongst economists, for knowing about things as they are ;&lt;br /&gt;
and in his pages we find the old factories and the new,&lt;br /&gt;
the border community, the iron centre, and above all, the&lt;br /&gt;
northern farm, sketched from the life, with other studies of&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary industries and communities, alike vivid and&lt;br /&gt;
instructive.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A SPORTSWOMAN IN INDIA, by Isabel Savory (Hutchin.&lt;br /&gt;
son, 168.) &ldquo;No better written book on Indian sport has&lt;br /&gt;
come our way these ton years,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The romance of the gorgeous Eastern cities,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &ldquo;is told with much picturesqueness, but the&lt;br /&gt;
author is far more at home in the lonely hill.camp or beating&lt;br /&gt;
in the jungle. To anyone who wishes to live for some hours&lt;br /&gt;
in a fascinating world of sport and adventure nothing could&lt;br /&gt;
be better than this gallant and light-hearted book.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
book, says the Guardian, is &amp;quot;simply a record of a most&lt;br /&gt;
enjoyable visit to India by a young lady, full of high spirits&lt;br /&gt;
... and with plenty of sound common sense and &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
temperament that enabled her to think as well as to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is this extremely pleasant volume, for the author,&lt;br /&gt;
as the guest of Sir George Wolseley, had every opportunity&lt;br /&gt;
of seeing the best and brightest aspects of the country.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Many of the personal adventures she records, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph, are &ldquo; worthy of a hardened Nimrod.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE UTTERMOST FARTHING, by P. B. Neuman (Black.&lt;br /&gt;
wood, 68.), &ldquo;is a very clever piece of work,&rdquo; says Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
** The story, though trivial and unimportant, is well put&lt;br /&gt;
together and well told, though the probabilities are not very&lt;br /&gt;
carefully respected.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle calls it &ldquo;clever&lt;br /&gt;
and decidedly original.&rdquo; Medlett and Crofts are two City&lt;br /&gt;
men, apparently good friends, who become bitter enemies&lt;br /&gt;
through the issue of a speculation which ruins one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
The main theme of the story, says the Daily News, &amp;quot; is a&lt;br /&gt;
family fead, its leading sentiment revenge-revenge, how-&lt;br /&gt;
ever, not of the Corsican quality, but the plain English&lt;br /&gt;
middle-class brand.&rdquo; It is &ldquo;a good wholesome story, told&lt;br /&gt;
in a plain onadorned and yet forcible manner.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ON ALIEN SHORES, by Leslie Keith (Hurst and Blackett,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), is described by the Daily Chronicle as &amp;quot;altogether a&lt;br /&gt;
well-studied and interesting story.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is something&lt;br /&gt;
of Datoh fidelity in the author&amp;#039;s painting of the Edinburgh&lt;br /&gt;
home.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is a quietly amusing story,&amp;quot; says the Spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tator, &amp;quot; not too short, written with great care, and, above&lt;br /&gt;
all, with a real power of describing human nature ; and&lt;br /&gt;
people who like these qualities will find this novel more than&lt;br /&gt;
merely readable.&rdquo; &ldquo;The heroine, brought up in luxury in&lt;br /&gt;
Portland Place, and then making the best of her stolen&lt;br /&gt;
marriage with a City clerk, is well-drawn and lifelike.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mis&rsquo;ESS Joy, by John Le Breton (Macqueon, 68.), &ldquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
as steeped in irony,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; as Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hardy&amp;#039;s masterpiece Tess,&amp;#039; though hardly of so intense&lt;br /&gt;
and tragic a cast.&rdquo; &ldquo;The story is a remarkable one, and well&lt;br /&gt;
as Mr. Le Breton has already written, it is by far the best&lt;br /&gt;
work we have had from his pen.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE, by Edith Wharton (Murray,&lt;br /&gt;
28. 6d. net), is &amp;quot;a work of great interest,&amp;quot; says Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The book is a purely introspective study. A man of&lt;br /&gt;
delicate fibre commits a coarse act. He publishes the&lt;br /&gt;
letters-practically the love-letters-of a woman who wrote&lt;br /&gt;
them in utter confidence.&rdquo; &ldquo;The book is chiefly concerned&lt;br /&gt;
with his repentance after his shabby deed has brought him&lt;br /&gt;
all the good things he wanted, and the study in souls,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Spectator, &ldquo;is well and cleverly done. Readers who&lt;br /&gt;
like motives, emotions, and soul-searchings will be much&lt;br /&gt;
interested in the story.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE STRONG ARM, by Robert Barr (Methuen, 6s.), con-&lt;br /&gt;
sists, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; of one longish story and&lt;br /&gt;
several short ones, more or less connected together by a&lt;br /&gt;
continuous thread of interest.&rdquo; &ldquo;There are robber barons&lt;br /&gt;
and outlaws, and intriguing archbishops, and love, and war&lt;br /&gt;
and all sorts of exciting things.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A PRINCE OF SWINDLERS, by Guy Boothby (Ward,&lt;br /&gt;
Lock, and Co., 68.) is a series of stories, linked together by&lt;br /&gt;
the identity of the hero. &ldquo;Mr. Gay Boothby gives us,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Spectator, &amp;quot; the portrait of a magnificent impostor&lt;br /&gt;
who unites the salient points of Messrs. Lecoq, Sherlock&lt;br /&gt;
Holmes, and Charles Peace, the whole seen through a&lt;br /&gt;
powerful magnifying glass.&rdquo; &ldquo;The stories are ingenious if&lt;br /&gt;
not very convincing, and readers who like sensationalism&lt;br /&gt;
and plenty of it will very likely be amused by the book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE CRIMSON WEED, by Christopher St. John (Duck-&lt;br /&gt;
worth, 68.), is, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot;a study of one of&lt;br /&gt;
those passions that can ruin a lifetime.&amp;quot; Revenge is the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;crimson weed,&rdquo; which takes root in the mind of Luke&lt;br /&gt;
Grey. The book &ldquo;gives evidence of considerable literary&lt;br /&gt;
and dramatic power. The scenes are vividly realised, and&lt;br /&gt;
the characters live, and the story, such as it is, is told with&lt;br /&gt;
no little passion and spirit.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE DESCENT OF THE DUCHESS, by Morley Roberts&lt;br /&gt;
(Sands, 38. 6d.), is &ldquo;&amp;amp; thoronghly admirable piece of&lt;br /&gt;
fooling,&amp;quot; in the opinion of the Daily News. &ldquo;It does not&lt;br /&gt;
palpitate with actuality,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;but&lt;br /&gt;
for the filling up of an hour&amp;#039;s leisure in a shady corner of&lt;br /&gt;
the garden on a hot afternoon it will do extremely well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE DEAN&amp;#039;S APRON, by C. J. Wills and Godfrey&lt;br /&gt;
Burchett (Ward, Lock, and Co., 38. 6d.) is described by the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph as &ldquo;an exceptionally clever story of&lt;br /&gt;
clerical life in a cathedral town, abounding in graphic and&lt;br /&gt;
convincing word-pictures of envious persons and scandal.&lt;br /&gt;
mongers, obviously sketched from life.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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