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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. XI.—No. 5.]<br />
OCTOBER 1, 1900.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
81<br />
... 82<br />
Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ...<br />
Literary Property-<br />
1. An Important Warping ... ...<br />
2. The Sixpenny Book ... ... ...<br />
3. Canadian Copyright<br />
4. The Meaning of Royalties...<br />
5. Resolutions of the Institute of Journalists<br />
The Manufacture of a Series<br />
PAGE<br />
Paris Letter ...<br />
Notes and News. By the Editor... ...<br />
The Coming Season ... ... ...<br />
R3 The Seventh International Press Congress<br />
Correspondence-A Query ...<br />
Literary Careers Made Easy<br />
Book and Play Talk...<br />
86 | Books and Reviews ...<br />
85<br />
86<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report. That for the past year can be had on application to the Secretary.<br />
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary<br />
Property. Issued to all Members, 6s. 6d. per annum. Back numbers are offered at the<br />
following prices : Vol. I., 108. 6d. (Bound); Vols. II., III., and IV., 88. 6d. each (Bound);<br />
Vols. V. to VIII. (Unbound), 6s. 6d.<br />
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. Henry Glaisher,<br />
95, Strand, W.C. 38.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, late Secretary to<br />
the Society. 18.<br />
5. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,<br />
size of page, &c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of<br />
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 28. 6d. (Out of print at present.)<br />
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the<br />
papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.<br />
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 38.<br />
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With<br />
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix containing the<br />
Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Eyre and Spottis-<br />
woode. 18. 6d.<br />
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Walter BESANT<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888-1892). 18.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst<br />
ST<br />
LUNGE, J.U.D. 28. 6d.<br />
10. The Addenda to the “Methods of Publishing." By G. HERBERT TARING. Being additional<br />
facts collected at the office of the Society since the publication of the “Methods." With<br />
comments and advice. 28.<br />
11. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers' Association ; with Comments. By G. HERBERT<br />
TARING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 18.<br />
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ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
PRESIDENT,<br />
GEORGE MEREDITH.<br />
COUNCIL,<br />
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR LEWIS MORRIS.<br />
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HENRY NORMAN.<br />
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ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, K.C.B., F.R.S. GILBERT PARKER.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
D. W. FRESHFIRLD.<br />
J. C. PARKINSON.<br />
SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.M.G.<br />
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BRIGHT, F.R.S.<br />
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SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bart., LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. JAMES BRYCE, M.P. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH. JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
E. ROSE.<br />
CLERE.<br />
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M.P.<br />
J. J. STEVENSON.<br />
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J. M. LELY.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER.<br />
THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A.<br />
WILLIAM Moy THOMAS.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
SIR A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doo. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
F. MARION CRAWFORD.<br />
PROF. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN.<br />
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THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD CURZON THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
OF KEDLESTON.<br />
Hon. Counsel – E. M. UNDERDOWN, Q.C.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
A. W. À BECKETT.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
GILBERT PARKER.<br />
SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
J. M. LELY.<br />
E. ROSE.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br />
HENRY NORMAN.<br />
FRANCIS STORR<br />
D. W. FRESHFIELD.<br />
'SUB-COMMITTEES.'<br />
ART.<br />
Hon. JOHN COLLIER (Chairman). I SIR W. MARTIN Conway.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN<br />
COPYRIGHT.<br />
A. W. À BECKETT.<br />
A. HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
J. M. LELY.<br />
W. M. COLLES.<br />
GILBERT PARKER.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman). F. C. BURNAND.<br />
A. W. PINERO.<br />
A. W. À BECKETT.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
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Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING.<br />
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Have now removed to<br />
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The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XI.—No. 5.]<br />
OCTOBER 1, 1900.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the Authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the<br />
collective opinions of the Committee unless<br />
they are officially signed by G. Herbert<br />
Thring, Sec.<br />
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all<br />
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and<br />
requests that all members not receiving an answer to<br />
important communications within two days will write to him<br />
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union<br />
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.<br />
It is above all things necessary to know what the<br />
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible<br />
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly<br />
the truth. From time to time the very important figures<br />
connected with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the<br />
“Cost of Production.”<br />
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
GENERAL.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on<br />
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-<br />
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are<br />
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.<br />
GENERAL MEMORANDA.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMAYNIC AUTHORS.<br />
TT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
il agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.<br />
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper<br />
price can be obtained. Bat the transaction should be<br />
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the<br />
Secretary of the Society.<br />
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of<br />
agree<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give ap American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
VOL. XI.<br />
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to<br />
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some<br />
competent legal aathority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with anyone except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS<br />
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-<br />
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.<br />
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters<br />
into such a contract should stipulate in the con.<br />
tract for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE<br />
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES<br />
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between<br />
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
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5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you<br />
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are<br />
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing<br />
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.<br />
dence of the writer.<br />
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fireproof<br />
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con.<br />
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who<br />
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)<br />
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To<br />
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon<br />
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments<br />
due according to agreements.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
in preference to the American system. Shonld<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE<br />
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,<br />
fixed nightly fees). This method should be<br />
always avoided except in cases where the fees<br />
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is<br />
of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly<br />
valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatio con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are<br />
referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of their work by informing young writers of<br />
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated<br />
aa a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.<br />
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic<br />
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,<br />
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of<br />
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the<br />
T Society that, although the paper is sent to them free<br />
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very<br />
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br />
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br />
68. 6d. subscription for the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be addressed to<br />
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn<br />
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the<br />
21st of each month.<br />
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether<br />
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate<br />
to the Editor any points connected with their work whicb<br />
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.<br />
The present location of the Authors' Club is at 3, White-<br />
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for<br />
information, rules of admission, &c.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
LITERARY PROPERTY.<br />
T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. If the<br />
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.<br />
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the<br />
Society's solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel's<br />
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him<br />
Counsel's opinion. All this without any cost to the member.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publisher's agreements do not generally fall within the<br />
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple<br />
to use the Society.<br />
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past<br />
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The<br />
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new<br />
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus<br />
obtained may prove invaluable.<br />
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro.<br />
posed document to the Society for examination.<br />
I.-A VERY IMPORTANT WARNING.<br />
A S during the past three months many cases<br />
have come before the Authors' Society<br />
wbere a half-profit or other agreement<br />
has been entered into with a publisher and the<br />
publisher in the same agreement binds the author<br />
for the next two books on the same terms, it is<br />
our duty again to repeat that both these clauses<br />
are disastrous, the latter especially so. In many<br />
cases accounts have been brought in showing<br />
a sale of 2000 copies or thereabouts, with a return<br />
to the author on “half profits ” of perhaps £5!<br />
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Two more books on the same terms would be the sale of the sixpenny book is simply ruining<br />
quite sufficient to break any person who is striving the trade.<br />
to live by writing. It is only hoped that those 6. The author on a royalty of id., which is<br />
houses especially given to this kind of contract<br />
much larger than is generally offered,<br />
may be the first to become bankrupt.<br />
cannot expect more than £156 for 50,000<br />
copies. On a 20 per cent. royalty for the<br />
same book at the nominal price of 6s.<br />
II.—THE SIXPENNY Book.<br />
he would have £60 for every thousand<br />
I have now been able to ascertain the figures<br />
copies, or for 2500, £150. So that unless<br />
respecting the production of the sixpenny book.<br />
twenty copies are taken at 6d. to one at<br />
From estimates before me—those of a printing<br />
68., the author will be a loser.<br />
firm of old standing—I learn that the cost of an<br />
7. There are now a great many sixpenny books<br />
average sixpenny book of 16opp. may be computed<br />
on the market : and they are increasing<br />
at 1 d. a copy for an edition of 50,000 copies—<br />
rather than diminishing. Publishers, in<br />
i.e., about £340. This does not include advertis-<br />
fact, seem vying with each other in the<br />
ing. These copies are sold to the retail bookseller<br />
madness of the sixpenny book.<br />
at 3 d. each, and to the wholesale bookseller at 8. The dangers resulting from this misplaced<br />
3d. The latter price, however, is by far the more<br />
cheapness are briefly these :-<br />
important, and may be taken as the average. (a) So long as books are on the stall or<br />
The cbarge to the public is 4 d. at places where<br />
counter which can be bought for 6d.,<br />
discount is allowed, and 6d. at other places.<br />
the general public will not look at a book<br />
From these figures we get the following<br />
priced more highly.<br />
facts :-<br />
It has been urged that a new public is<br />
1. The publisher, in order to clear his bare<br />
approached with the sixpenny book.<br />
costs, must get rid of 27,200 copies.<br />
This is perhaps true, but it includes and<br />
2. If he has to pay the author a royalty, these<br />
swamps the old book-buying public.<br />
figures must be materially altered. Thus,<br />
The public are induced to believe that<br />
if the author gets id.-sometimes he is<br />
6d. is the just and proper price of a<br />
offered a simple farthing !—the publisher<br />
book of any kind. This evil, which so<br />
must get rid of more than 36,000 copies<br />
largely contributed to the International<br />
in order to clear these bare costs.<br />
Copyright Act in the United States, has<br />
3. He is then left with 13,720 copies. On the<br />
already begun in this country. It will<br />
whole, if he clears off the complete edition,<br />
of necessity produce the same effects<br />
he makes the sum of £128, out of which<br />
here as were complained of there—viz.,<br />
he has to pay for such advertising as he<br />
the impossibility of the author making a<br />
thinks necessary, and his office expenses,<br />
livelihood by his work. Now, for imagi.<br />
travellers, clerks, &c.<br />
native work it is most important that<br />
4. Most of the books offered at 6d. belong to<br />
the author should be independent and<br />
the publisher, and are not loaded with any<br />
should be able to live in a certain amount<br />
royalty. In that case, the sale of the com.<br />
of ease.<br />
plete edition would produce about £285,<br />
The people cease to prize what they can<br />
subject to the above deductions. The<br />
get for nothing. They have to pay a<br />
question then arises whether, for the sake<br />
shilling for a seat in the gallery of a<br />
of this profit, it is worth while to lose the<br />
theatre: if they can get the finest work<br />
sale of the more highly-priced works.<br />
of contemporary fiction for 6d., which<br />
5. The bookseller, on the other hand, sells the<br />
will they value the more highly, an<br />
book at 4 d., and gets a profit of one<br />
evening at the play or a novel by — ?<br />
penny.<br />
They imbibe a contempt for literature<br />
A London bookseller of importance computes<br />
as a thing which by those who produce<br />
that he disposes of the sixpenny book at the rate<br />
it is considered of no value.<br />
of 500 copies a week. That is to say, he realises<br />
The bookseller, already on the verge of<br />
a profit of a little over £2 a week, which does not<br />
ruin, is driven down still lower.<br />
even cover his rent. It is not likely that many 9) The author of the sixpenny book suffers,<br />
booksellers get through a greater number every<br />
as we have seen, but the author of the<br />
week.<br />
6s. book is in imminent danger of<br />
Another bookseller reports that no one will look<br />
extinction.<br />
at any other book so long as the sixpenny book It seems as if the rational method of procedure<br />
can be obtained. It is obvious, therefore, that would be to reserve for the sixpenny editions<br />
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only those books which have stood the test of of Canada to legislate for itself in such a manner<br />
time, and have become popular works. It may as to override the Imperial Act; but fortunately<br />
then be presumed that the earlier edition is in the no Canadian legislation upon these lines ever<br />
hands of all who can afford to give the higher obtained the Royal Assent.<br />
price, while the cheap edition appeals to the wide In 1895, when the discussion was very acute,<br />
class of those who cannot afford to give so much. the Society of Authors, whose sense of responsi-<br />
It would be still more rational if the lowest bility as to the question had been constant and<br />
price of the popular book were to be one shilling. sincere, considered what further steps should be<br />
Would it not be possible for the author to taken to put forward clearly the case of Imperial<br />
guard against the danger, in his own interests as copyright. Mr. Hall Caine was at that time<br />
well as those of other writers, of booksellers, about to leave England on a tour in America, and<br />
and the general public, by inserting a clause in the committee of the Society gladly accepted his<br />
his agreements forbidding the sixpenny edition services as a delegate of the Society during his<br />
except with the consent of the author himself or visit to Canada. Mr. Hall Caine rendered mate-<br />
his agent ?<br />
W.B. rial help to the cause in which the Society was<br />
---<br />
interested, and received the committee's cordial<br />
acknowledgment of his zealous and valuable aid.<br />
III.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.<br />
It is not, however, necessary now to enter into<br />
(Reprinted by kind permission from the Times of Aug. 31.) the details of his negotiations, since the copyright<br />
The question of Canadian copyright, which has question entered on a fresh phase with Sir John<br />
been the stumbling-block to copyright legislation Thompson's death. A new Government suc-<br />
and to copyright reform for the past thirty ceeded, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier became Premier<br />
years, seems now to be within reasonable distance of Canada.<br />
of settlement. This desirable situation is largely In the beginning of 1898, Mr. Gilbert Parker,<br />
owing to the constant attention and labour of the a member of the committee of the Society of<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors. In 1875 the Authors, learnt that the question of copyright<br />
Canadian Government brought in a Copyright was again likely to be brought forward; and the<br />
Bill for Canada which obtained the Royal Society of Authors at once drew up a statement<br />
Assent, but this Act was unsatisfactory to the as to the course which copyright legislation<br />
Canadians, as, though it was considered that it should take according to their opinion for the<br />
would override the Imperial Act, their courts benefit of all authors of the Empire. In the<br />
decided in Smiles v. Belford that this view of summer of that year, when certain Canadian<br />
the law could not stand. In 1886 the Imperial Ministers were in England, the secretary of the<br />
Parliament removed another colonial difficulty by Society had a long interview with them at Mr.<br />
giving copyright to a book wherever published Parker's house. It was then thought well that<br />
within the British Empire.<br />
the Society should send over a delegate to Canada<br />
Still, for various reasons which it is unnecessary to put forward their views. The secretary of the<br />
to enumerate here, the Canadians were discon. Society was appointed to fill the post. Copyright<br />
tented ; and, in the early nineties, soon after the legislation was, however, postponed in Canada ior<br />
passing of the American Act, Sir John Thompson, the moment; but in the autumn of the following<br />
thinking, no doubt, that the Canadian trades had year-1899—at the expense of the Society, the<br />
been injured by this Act, issued a report which secretary sailed for Canada. Mr. Gilbert Parker,<br />
was based on a desire to stimulate the trade of who had taken so inuch interest in the matter,<br />
the printers and publishers in Canada to the was in Canada at the same time, and had informed<br />
disadvantage of Canadian authors and tbeir the Society of Authors that he would give his<br />
property, as well as of British authors and their best assistance to the secretary in order to help<br />
property. The Authors' Society did not find it him to carry through this important question.<br />
possible to support this report, thinking it The secretary had the honour to interview the<br />
antagonistic to the proper evolution of copyright Premier and other members of the Canadian<br />
law. The Society based their opinion on the fact Government who were especially concerned with<br />
that an author's work is his own property, and the question of copyright legislation; and he was<br />
should not be hampered by any trade considera assured not only that the Government was<br />
tion the effect of which was to deprive the author sympathetic towards the views put forward by<br />
of his legitimate profits.<br />
the Society, but also that the question of the<br />
During the next few years Sir John Thompson printing clause and the licensing methods which<br />
carried on the agitation very keenly. It would had been put forward on previous occasions would<br />
appear that he was concerned to raise a Consti- be practically laid aside. After discussing this<br />
tutional and Imperial question as to the rights difficult question with all those in Canada who<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Let us go on to the book of which 3000 at least<br />
are printed. The cost of this edition, including<br />
advertising, may be set down at about £150.<br />
The average price being 38. 7d., we have the<br />
following results if the whole edition is sold out:<br />
On a royalty, per cent. ... | 10 15 20 25 30 35<br />
were chiefly concerned, and after obtaining the<br />
support of the Canadian Society of Authors, then<br />
in its infancy, the secretary returned to London<br />
with the promise that, if possible, the Canadians<br />
would legislate on the lines suggested.<br />
At the beginning of this year a Bill was<br />
brought forward by the Minister of Agriculture,<br />
within whose department copyright business lies,<br />
giving to the Canadian publisher complete secu-<br />
rity where he had contracted with the author for<br />
the exclusive right of publication in Canada,<br />
without burdening the author with any trade<br />
restrictions. This Bill received the assent of the<br />
Canadian Parliament in July, and practically<br />
closes in a satisfactory way to all those concerned<br />
this very difficult and troublesome, but important,<br />
question.<br />
There is only one thing left to be the crowning<br />
point of the work of the Society in this direction<br />
—that is, the passing of Lord Monkswell's Copy.<br />
right Bill in the next Session. The Bill embodies<br />
the terms of the Canadian Act just passed, and<br />
if it becomes law will practically confirm the<br />
Canadian legislation on this question.<br />
Author.............................. | 90 135 180 225 270315<br />
Pablisher ....<br />
297 | 252 | 207 162 117 72<br />
But the net system is being introduced. The<br />
public will before long find out that this means<br />
taking more money out of their pockets; and<br />
taking more money, out of their pocke<br />
booksellers will find out, sooner or later, that<br />
they cannot become slaves and clerks to pub-<br />
lishers. Meantime, if the 6s. book is to be sold<br />
at 58. net, the trade price is 38. rod. Now, let us<br />
see what royalties mean on this scale, taking as<br />
before an edition of 3000.<br />
On a royalty per cent. 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 |<br />
The author will receive 75 112 150 187 225 262 300<br />
The publisher<br />
1350 1313 275/238 200 | 163 125<br />
IV.-THE MEANING OF ROYALTIES. * Royalties must not be counted 13 as 12.<br />
It is now some three years since the meaning<br />
The author must be very careful, therefore, to<br />
of Royalties was set forth in these pages. It is<br />
understand that under a net system royalties<br />
now time to repeat, with some amendments and<br />
mean figures very different from those where<br />
discount prevails. Part of the eagerness with<br />
corrections.<br />
We take, as usual, the 68. book—not necessarily<br />
which some publishers want to extend the net<br />
a novel,<br />
system is due to the ignorance of authors as to<br />
First, an edition of 1000 copies-10 sheets of<br />
the meaning of royalties.<br />
32pp. each, about 30 lines or 280 words to a<br />
But, it will be argued, the whole edition of<br />
page, small pica type— costs about £60, with such<br />
3000 copies may not be sold out. What would<br />
small advertising as an edition of this number<br />
happen then?<br />
can bear, about $70 at the outset.<br />
Let us take two cases—one in which 2000<br />
The price to the trade averages 38. 9 d., to the<br />
copies are sold and one in which 2500 copies are<br />
distributors about 28. sd. The average is about sold. In both cases a certain amount of binding<br />
38. 7d., in some cases perhaps 38.6d. We 18 saved-say, £10 and 5 respectively.<br />
formerly took it at 38. 7d.<br />
Then for a sale of 2000 copies we have:<br />
Every edition gives, on the estimate stated at<br />
the Congress of Publishers, “overs” at the rate of On a royalty per cent. | 10 | 15 | 20<br />
10 15 20 25 30 35 40<br />
2 per cent., i.e., so many copies not used in making<br />
up deficiencies. We may deduct forty copies for The author receives ..50<br />
Press, which leaves 980, and we will suppose that Tbe publisher receives 193 168<br />
the book is one of the half successes which sells<br />
these 980 copies and no more. The publisher<br />
On a sale of 2500 :<br />
therefore pays £70 for 980 copies, which are sold<br />
at 38 7d., producing say £175. If he gives the<br />
On a royalty per cont. 10 15 20 25<br />
author a shilling royalty the latter makes £49<br />
and the publisher £56. If he gives the author The author receives ... 62 91 124 186<br />
£20 down and a royalty of a shilling to begin<br />
The publisher receives / 272 243 216|179<br />
179 148<br />
after 600 are sold, he gets a little more and the<br />
author a little less. It would hardly be worth<br />
while to consider this class of book, but for the<br />
fact that there are so many of them.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
V.—THE INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.<br />
At the annual conference of this Institute, held<br />
in London under the presidency of Sir James<br />
Henderson, the following were among the resolu.<br />
tions adopted :<br />
That the Copyright Bill recently before Parliament was<br />
ansatisfactory, inasmuch as clause 12, in attempting to<br />
institute copyright in news, gives no protection to the<br />
individual journalist who supplies news, but only to the<br />
nowspaper proprietor or the news agency which publishes<br />
it, and fails to show how nows wbich has become common<br />
property (as it does on publication) can be made the basis<br />
of an action without andae restraint of journalistic enter.<br />
prise and freedom; and this conference is of opinion that<br />
& clause which more strictly defines the right of a reporter<br />
or contributor in the literary form of bis report or com.<br />
munication, will be of more value to the working journalist<br />
than any attempt to create copyright in nows qua news.<br />
That editors be discouraged from inviting oontribations<br />
to their journals from persons of wealth and position, thus<br />
depriving of valuable space those who are journalists by<br />
profession, and who have no means of living except by their<br />
profession.<br />
M<br />
THE MANUFACTURE OF A SERIES.<br />
HE following printed letters are taken from<br />
the Athenæum of Aug. 4, 1900:-<br />
THE MANUFACTURE OF A SERIES.<br />
The following correspondence is interesting as throwing<br />
an ugly light on the way in which a series may be manu.<br />
factured. A well-known author writes to us :<br />
"Some time ago I got an offer to write a book for a small<br />
sum down (I forget how much-say £50), and then, after<br />
the sale of 5000 copies, to receive £1 per 1000 copies as<br />
royalty. I scoated the proposal, as one of the many tentative<br />
ones I have had, to see how many innocent or vain men of<br />
letters could be enticed to work for nothing, and I said so.<br />
After some months the following correspondence ensued,<br />
which I think bighly instructive, and perbaps worth pub-<br />
lishing (1) in order to warn simple people, (2) in order to<br />
test whether my inclosed letter, sent back to me as very<br />
improper, is indeed so objeotionable a document:<br />
“' DEAR SIR, -You may remember that some months ago<br />
I wrote inviting you to contribute to & series of -<br />
Manuals. Mesers. have been distressed to find what<br />
had not been brought to their notice, that, besides the sum<br />
offered for the work, a royalty so small as £i per thousand<br />
after the sale of 5000 copies was proposed. This was, I can<br />
gay, a remnant of the smaller form in which the scheme was<br />
started. I feel it only due to them to stato, even at this late<br />
date, that upon discovery of the error thoy at once autho-<br />
rised me to saggest a royalty much more adequate for a<br />
book reaching a sale of 5000 copies.-Regretting the acoi.<br />
dental oversight, I am yours faithfully, i<br />
«• DEAR SIR,-I am obliged for your further note, and<br />
hope that as Messrs. — have recognised the great<br />
inadequacy of the offer originally made for them, you have<br />
acquainted such authors as were induced to acquiesce therein<br />
Otherwise these poor people will be the<br />
victims of a serious mistake.--I am, yours sincerely,<br />
who declined or were unable to contribute. The sum<br />
offered, down, for the work was approved by the publishers.<br />
But the royalty to be paid after the sale of 5000 copies bad<br />
been overlooked by their literary adviser, and not been<br />
brought before their notice until after some of the proposals<br />
had been made. The pound per thousand was a remnant of<br />
the suheme when it was intended to issue the books at 6d.<br />
For similar books at that price (sold at 4£d.) - ased<br />
to give that royalty with less money down. When it was<br />
decided that the price should be a shilling, this matter was<br />
overlooked not through my mistake or the publishers'.<br />
They were distressed [!] when they found that a farthing a<br />
copy after a book bad proved itself successful bad been<br />
offered. I spontaneously proposed to write to all and<br />
pravent misapprehension. I have taken trouble to make the<br />
whole case plain to you. I have received several replies ;<br />
none, like yours, gratuitously anxious about my “poor<br />
victims.” That you should have oriticised the terms as to<br />
royalty was only proper. But as to the tone and taste of<br />
your last letter-dear, dear! I hope you may wish to put<br />
it in your own fire! All the same, although I have secured<br />
some good writers of note, I could have wished that you<br />
had seen your way to contribate, and that the probable<br />
returns on a shilling book had justified the offer of a more<br />
tempting sum.-I am, yours faithfully, - -'<br />
The correspondence is exceedingly interesting<br />
to all technical writers, men of science, medicine,<br />
theology, &c., and points clearly to the fact that<br />
the same methods are still being pursued upon<br />
wbich the Society of Authors has from time<br />
to time thrown strong light-methods which,<br />
entirely satisfactory to the publisher, afford to<br />
the author but a small return for what must be<br />
the result of a long study. The reason why these<br />
methods are still-pursued and are still successful<br />
lies chiefly in the fact that the authors entrapped<br />
are not in the first instance authors that live by<br />
their pen, but those who, giving a constant and<br />
laborious study to one of the learned professions<br />
or sciences, desire from time to time to proclaim<br />
those studies to the public. With the very best<br />
intentions, therefore, they are constantly under-<br />
selling not only writers in their own profession,<br />
but in the profession of letters generally. In a<br />
small pamphlet issued by the Society of Authors<br />
and circulated largely among educational writers,<br />
dealing with the publication of educational works,<br />
the subject of the sort of agreements that are<br />
offered by publishers has been fully dealt with,<br />
and it would be as well to reprint part of that<br />
statement here.<br />
The agreement, it will be noticed, quoted in the<br />
first paragraph, bas some remarkable features in<br />
common with the agreement in the correspond-<br />
ence. The fact, however, need not necessarily be<br />
deduced that both agreements emanated from the<br />
same publishing house.<br />
DEFERRED ROYALTY.<br />
1. The worst feature that one observes is the deferred<br />
royalty. Tbe author is induced by the bribe of a small<br />
sum, generally £25, to accept an agreement by which he<br />
actually gives tbe publisher many thousand-say, soven to<br />
ument:<br />
“DEAR SIR,--My recent note needed no acknowledg.<br />
ment, but your reply requires a word of notice. Your kind<br />
hope that I acquainted contributors with the improved terms<br />
is justified. I did so at once before writing to those<br />
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87<br />
ten-copies for himself, should the book succeed! After , Or the book might be transferred to some other house<br />
this the author is to have 10. or perhaps 15 per cent. Let where it would conflict with another book on the same<br />
us, remembering that even with books actually carrying subject. Such transfers are not unknown.<br />
great risk the publishers never used to venture on asking Or the publishers might resolve not to re-edit the book in<br />
for more than half profits, consider what this means.<br />
favour of a new one which might sell better.<br />
Most of these works are small books, published at 28. or<br />
half-a-crown. It must be a very expensive little book that,<br />
Right OF AUTHOR TO RE-EDIT.<br />
offered at 28. 6d., would cost more than 6d. to produce in a 13. One additional proviso should be added to the present<br />
large edition of 6000, including advertising. This means notes. In a case where the author sells his copyright, a<br />
an apparent risk of £75. As for the cost of advertising, system of which the Society gravely doubts the expediency,<br />
the sum of £10 spent in advertising means no more than but which perhaps for some reason the author might desire<br />
kd. a volume for an edition of 6000. As educational books to adopt, it is absolutely essential that the author should<br />
are published, the publisher gets about 18. 3d. a copy, or bind the pablisher, in caso a fresh edition is wanted, to give<br />
gd. a copy profit, taking, of course, an average book of the him the option to re-edit upon a fixed notice. The following<br />
size and price ander consideration. So that in, say, 6000 clause appears in a publisher's agreement where he has pur-<br />
copies he gains £250, less what he advanced the author, chased the copyright:<br />
say £25. In fact, this agreement says, practically, to the “ “ The said author, in consideration of the payments and<br />
author : “ Yours is the book : it is your property, your royalties reserved to him ander this agreement, undertakes,<br />
estate: if I administer it I must have for the first 6000 as occasion may require, to edit new editions of the said<br />
copies nine times your share. Afterwards, at a 10 per work, and supply any new matter that may be necessary to<br />
cent. royalty, I am to have three times your share."<br />
bring the information contained in the work up to date."<br />
What is the way to put an end to the acceptance of This is very clumsily expressed. The author, so far as<br />
these one-sided terms ? The first thing is to pour a flood<br />
the words go, binds himself to re-edit, but the publisher, on<br />
of light upon the situation, so that everyone shall clearly the other hand, does not bind himself to ask the author to<br />
understand it. Afterwards to refuse the agreement on sach<br />
do so. If this be the proper construction of the clause, the<br />
terms, and to take the book elsewhere.<br />
author might find himself in the position of having his book<br />
ro-edited by an incompetent hand with no redress.<br />
AMOUNT OF ROYALTIES.<br />
2. Ten per cent. aged to be considered a very fair royalty. [The above paragraphs are irregularly numbered<br />
This means, however, that with a large sale the publisher owing to the fact that the least important have<br />
generally gets about three times what he gives the author! been cut out owing to pressure of space.]<br />
SMALL Sums PAID TO GREAT SCHOLARS.<br />
Though these warnings still hold good, and<br />
4. There is a certain series of books, all of which have<br />
should be carefully considered by all those to<br />
run into many thousands of copies. It will hardly be whom the publishers are making offers, yet it is<br />
believed that the publishers have actually offered one of our not these warnings which are especially the<br />
greatest living scholars £35 and £40 respectively for the subject of this paper, but the methods publishers<br />
preparation and editing of two books in this series !<br />
employ to inveigle an author to write for these<br />
BINDING CLAUSES.<br />
'scientific or educational series, and No. 4 of the<br />
7. The author frequently contracts not to write another "paragraphs printed above is the first step the<br />
book on the subject. We never find, however, the publisher<br />
publisher generally adopts. He offers a price up<br />
entering into a similar contract not to publish another book<br />
to, say, £50 to the best known authority on one of<br />
on the subject. It is essential that either both or neither of<br />
the parties to the contraot should be bound by such a<br />
the subjects of the special series which he is<br />
stipulation.<br />
about to produce, for choice selecting an indivi.<br />
“ODD COPIES."<br />
dual who is known to the world rather as a<br />
9. In one case a publisher so far presumed upon the student than as a writer. The person with whom<br />
ignorance of his author as to insert a clause stating that for<br />
he corresponds, sometimes forgetful that the book<br />
“ odd copies" no royalty should be granted ! In other<br />
words, if a bookseller ordered single copies of the work, the<br />
he is asked to write is the result of years of<br />
aathor was to have nothing. Res ipsa loquitur.<br />
research and labour, only for the moment con.<br />
scious that he has the knowledge at his finger<br />
“ 13 AS 12."<br />
ends, and that the only labour to him is the<br />
10. In some agreements the royalties have to be<br />
labour of putting it down on paper, at all times<br />
paid on the sale of “13 as 12.” This means knocking<br />
entirely ignorant of the fair market price of his<br />
off 8 per cent. from the author's profits, and as the pub.<br />
lisher does not sell thirteen copies as twelve except in work and the profits it will bring, accepts the<br />
special cases where a batch is ordered, be must not account proposition without a murmur. The publisher<br />
at this rate as if the practice were universal.<br />
is generally aware that this will be the case, but<br />
SALE OF COPYRIGHT.<br />
on occasions the specialist may demur to the<br />
12. Perhaps the most unfair clause of these agreements is<br />
terms. He then tries someone else who has an<br />
that which assigns the copyrights of the book to the pub. equally large knowledge of one of the other<br />
lisher. The dangers behind this clause are unbounded. subjects which goes to compose the series until at<br />
Above all things, an educational writer must keep the last a contract is settled. The matter. however.<br />
control of now editions. This he cannot do if the copyright<br />
is in the hands of his publisher, nor can he prevent addi.<br />
is generally settled at the first offer.<br />
tions, alterations, and omissions to the book except by<br />
To all those who are constantly writing either<br />
expensive lawsuits, which may, after all, go against him. on technical subjects or general literary matter<br />
VOL. XI.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
there is considerable experience as to the prices biographer who is writing in order that his<br />
that should be demanded and are readily paid friend's memory may live. There is the philosopher<br />
by publishers, and the gentleman whose name who wishes to embody the thoughts of a lifetime in<br />
starts the series would be the last, if the matter one volume. There are others of the same kind<br />
was put before him, to crush down or undersell too numerous to mention.<br />
his own profession, but this result unfortunately In many cases the publisher goes to these dis-<br />
happens owing to his ignorance of the current tinguished people and makes them an offer, and<br />
price.<br />
the contract is signed before they can take advice,<br />
The next step in the publisher's tactics is to or if they take advice, they take the advice of<br />
draw up a prospectus and to issue a circular. those who themselves know nothing of the<br />
This he sends round to the other well-known matter.<br />
students and writers of the different professions, There are some of these distinguished people<br />
or the different branches of study with which he who go direct to the publisher. In this case they<br />
is concerned.<br />
are to a large extent at the mercy of the house<br />
Very often these are men who are writers with which they are dealing, but in all cases a<br />
rather than students, to the same degree as the man who writes a single book falls an easy prey<br />
leader of the series who is already bound was and gets absolutely inadequate terms. Many of<br />
student rather than writer.<br />
these books of memoirs go into numerous editions,<br />
In consequence, he is often met with a remon- and are, even under disadvantageous terms, a pro-<br />
strance at the miserable terms offered and the perty to the author; only by some stray chance<br />
unsatisfactory agreement proposed. The reply his eyes are opened to the fact that with a reason-<br />
of the publisher is ready at once. Mr. --, or able contract he might have obtained at least<br />
Lord — , or Professor , has consented to three times as much as the amount he has<br />
open the series on an agreement similar to the received<br />
one offered, and if these gentlemen can write on It is more difficult for the Society and the<br />
these terms, surely the objector cannot think of Society's work to reach the author of the one book<br />
asking terms higher than those who with so large than it is to reach the writer in a series, for in a<br />
a reputation have already given their consent. series it often happens that inter-correspondence<br />
Finally, the publisher succeeds in getting his takes place, whereas in the other case the author's<br />
series completed on a set of contracts highly position is isolated.<br />
satisfactory to himself, but of poor value to the<br />
G. H. Thring.<br />
author. T'he publisher is not to blame.<br />
He trades on the credulity of writers to the<br />
14-<br />
same extent as other traders do in dealing with<br />
PARIS LETTER.<br />
their customers, but he has one larger factor in<br />
his favour-namely, the ignorance of authors.<br />
To avoid, if possible, the occurrence of the<br />
4 bis, rue des Beaux Arts.<br />
same tactics, the Society of Authors has from INTERNATIONAL congresses are still a<br />
time to time printed statements analogous to the favourite feature of the great Exhibition.<br />
statements placed here. It is only by spreading<br />
They arouse little enthusiasm here, and<br />
such statements widely that the difficulty can be appear comparatively barren of result. The<br />
avoided, and it is hoped that every writer before Academical Congress-one of the most important<br />
whom this paper falls will endeavour to commu- of the series, to which delegates from all the prin-<br />
nicate it to those other members of his profession cipal European universities were invited-was<br />
who are in ignorance of its substance.<br />
not particularly brilliant. The Fourth Inter-<br />
As a corollary to this it would be as well to national Psychological Congress awoke more inte.<br />
put forward the case of those writers also who rest. It was presided over by M. Ribot, member<br />
for some reason are writers of one book only. of the French Institute and author of the famous<br />
There are hundreds of writers who come within “Maladies de la Mémoire,” “Psychologie des<br />
this category, and nearly all of them fall into Emotions," &c. M. Charles Richet, of the Revue<br />
the same trap.<br />
Scientifique, was vice-president; while the post<br />
There is, for instance, the man who has lived of secretary-general was filled by M. Pierre Janet,<br />
an active life, and would like to record his supplementary professor of experimental psycho-<br />
memoirs. There is, again, the man who has logy at the Sorbonne, whose able treatises on<br />
attempted to reach the North Pole, and would “Automatisme Psychologique,” “L'Etat mental<br />
like to give a description of his voyage, or the des Hystériques," &c., have won their author a<br />
man who has crossed South Africa, and would European renown. The congress was sub-divided<br />
like to describe his adventures. There is the into six sections, respectively dealing with com-<br />
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parative, introspective, experimental, pathologic,<br />
The Grand Prix GOBERT.<br />
hypnotic, and social and criminal psychology. The French Academy has bestowed the Grand<br />
The subject was evidently popular. Authors, Prix Gobert on M. Pierre de La Gorce for his<br />
philosophers, doctors, priests, Jesuits, Dominicans, “Histoire du Second Empire”-an unfinished<br />
physiologists, spiritualists, Brahmins, Hindoos, work which already comprises four ponderous<br />
criminologists, and a goodly number of the fair tomes and fifteen out of the twenty years' reign<br />
sex, attentively followed the somewhat languid of Napoleon III. It is to be hoped that this<br />
discussions which only once kindled into warmth premature recompense will not deter M. de La<br />
during a debate on hypnotic and suggestive Gorce from finishing his undertaking, as was the<br />
psychology<br />
case with two of his predecessors. His history<br />
Twenty-two nations sent representatives to the embraces a period extending from the coup d'état<br />
International Congress of Librarians, presided of 1851 to the morrow of Sadowa. It is written<br />
over by M. Léopold Delisle, general administrator in a masterly style — clear, nervous, animated<br />
of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Its sittings - and well merits the signal honour it has<br />
terminated with the decision that henceforth an received, the Grand Prix Ğobert being one of<br />
International Congress of Librarians should be the most coveted distinctions in the gift of the<br />
held once in every five years. This appears to French Academy. No Academician being allowed<br />
have been its most important motion. Three to compete, Augustin Thierry, the historian,<br />
anonymous donors have offered prizes varying formerly preferred obtaining the Gobert prize to<br />
from twenty to forty pounds for the best memo- donning the palms of the Immortals.<br />
randum on the most efficacious method of destroy. The Goncourt prize has not yet been awarded.<br />
ing the insects which infest books. Intending It will become the property of the author who<br />
.competitors who desire further information on the shall have produced the best prose work of imagi-<br />
subject are asked to communicate with the secre- nation during the course of the present year, the<br />
tary-general of the Librarians' Congress, M. ten members comprising the Goncourt Academy<br />
Henry Martin, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris. being judges on this delicate point. In his latest<br />
testament M. de Goncourt further expresses the<br />
A Good YEAR FOR DRAMATISTS AND<br />
desire that this prize be given “à la jeunesse, à<br />
COMPOSERS.<br />
l'originalité, au talent, aux tentatives nouvelles et<br />
The annual report of the Société des Auteurs et hardies de la pensée et de la forme." A good<br />
Compositeurs Dramatiques states that the Parisian chance for the rising author.<br />
theatres have paid in royalties the sum of<br />
2,123,847 francs 50 centimes during the year<br />
STAGE LITERATURE.<br />
1899-1900, being 4276 francs 15 centimes less The lights of the dramatic fraternity are all<br />
than the amount previously registered. The under arms for the approaching Christmas<br />
Departmental theatres have disbursed 968,575 season. M. Abel Hermant “ très snob, délicat,<br />
francs 60 centimes in royalties, showing an la moustache légère,” is established at the Villa<br />
augmentation of 12,372 francs 35 centimes on Bassaraba (Haute-Savoie), engaged on a five-act<br />
the sum paid during the preceding year. The play. That prolific writer, M. Gaston Devore, is<br />
foreign theatres have expended 300,223 francs at Ballaigues (Switzerland), occupied in putting<br />
70 centimes in royalties, being an advance of the finishing touches to as many as four new<br />
11,967 francs 15 centimes on the amount regis contributions to stage literature--to wit, “Les<br />
tered in 1898-99. The sixty Parisian cafés. Complaisances," a five-act play; "La Domes-<br />
concerts have done still better, having paid tique,” a domestic drama in five acts, destined for<br />
265,742 francs 70 centimes in royalties, showing the Antoine Theatre; “Le Rêve," a philosophical<br />
an increase of 56,443 francs on the sum paid play written for the Vaudeville; and a drama<br />
during the preceding year. One hundred and dealing with social problems entitled“L'Individu.”<br />
five new associates have been admitted to the M. Marcel Prévost, now at Trondhjem (Norway),<br />
society, and five members have received pensions. has just finished a piece in four acts entitled<br />
The number of pensioners now on the society's “Unis,” which has been accepted by the manager<br />
books is no fewer than in persons. Six hundred of the Vaudeville Theatre, while M. Jules<br />
new plays have likewise been catalogued by the Chancel is writing a play drawn from M.<br />
society as having been performed either in France Prévost's two latest novels, “Frédérique" and<br />
or abroad during the year 1899. In short, the “Léa.” The erudite M. Stanislas Rzewuski is<br />
Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques completing two plays commenced long since. The<br />
shows a most praiseworthy budget, and is to be first is a study of modern manners, whose title<br />
congratulated on the success which has attended has not yet been decided on; the second is a<br />
its efforts.<br />
sumptuous historical drama entitled “Louise de<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
San-Felice.” The plot of the latter is laid in accomplished-after twenty years' wrangle there-<br />
Italy at the beginning of the eighteenth century. on. Greater laxity will henceforth be shown in<br />
It depicts the pretended rivalry existing between all Government examinations, and a host of minor<br />
Maria-Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples, and innovations and simplifications will be admitted-<br />
a fictitious heroine created by the author. The or rather tolerated by the State examiners. The<br />
chivalric General Championnet, the subtle Cima stringent rules respecting the accord between the<br />
rosa, a sphinx-like Horatio Nelson, and the past participle (when construed with the first<br />
beautiful Emma, Duchess of Hamilton, are among auxiliary) and its complement are no longer<br />
the dramatis persona. M. Henri Lavedan is immutable as the laws of the Medes and<br />
likewise engaged on a new play, as are also MM. Persians ; while the ubiquitous hyphen has<br />
Maurice Ordonneau, Pierre Valdagne, Eugène ceased to be a primary necessity. M. Georges<br />
Berteaux, Pierre Wolff, Arthur Bernède, Leygues, Minister of Public Instruction, has<br />
Alexandre Bisson, Henry Kistemaeckers, Antony undoubtedly been lenient ; which leniency has<br />
Mars, Pierre Decourcelle, and others.<br />
given rise to some lively discussion. In an able-<br />
and interesting article on the subject, published<br />
MEMORANDUM DE BARBEY D'AUREVILLY. in the Revue des Deux Mondes, M. Brunetière<br />
“Le Premier Memorandum de Barbey d'Aure. sensibly remarks : “A language is an historical<br />
villy,” now published by Lemerre, is anterior by formation; and in its history the only facts to<br />
twenty years to the volume issued in 1883 under be taken into account are the works of the great<br />
the same title. The present edition records the writers.” M. Leygues is evidently of the same<br />
mode of life and daily impressions of the great opinion.<br />
French writer during his early youth. The<br />
New PUBLICATIONS.<br />
analytic talent which won him fame in later “Blancador l'Avantageux," by M. Maurice<br />
years is here clearly apparent, scenes and persons Maindron ; “ Edition définitive de Balzac,” which<br />
being portrayed with the minute precision of a edition comprises fifty volumes (chez Ollendorff);<br />
Pepys and the psychological intuition of a “ La Vie à Paris (1899),” being a continuation of<br />
Bourget. In one of Count Fleury's latest works, the annual collection of daily articles by M. Jules<br />
“ Louis XV. intime et les petites maîtresses,” a Claretie (chez Charpentier); “La Charpente,” a<br />
list is given of the natural children and descen- social study by M. J. H. Rosny (à la Revue<br />
dants of that monarch. Among the latter figures Blanche); “ Les Victimes Grimacent !” by M.<br />
the name of Barbey d'Aurevilly.<br />
Frédéric Boutet, a novel dealing with the vices of<br />
The second volume of the late Francisque the classes and the misery of the masses; a trans-<br />
Sarcey's “ Quarante ans de théâtre ” has just been lation from the Polish of the famous “Quo.<br />
issued by the library of “Les Annales politiques Vadis ? ” of M. H. Sienkiewicz; “Les Rois du<br />
et littéraires." It is devoted to appreciating Ruisseau,” by M. Maurice Astier, being a detailed<br />
the works of Molière, and the classic school account of the manners, customs, and habits of<br />
represented by Regnard, Marivaux, and Beau. that curious biped, le chiffonnier—the French “rag<br />
marchais, also of Le Sage, Piron, Gresset, Favart, and bone” man (Libraire du Livre Moderne);<br />
and Sedaine. No man ever had a keener percep and the “ Mémoires de Rossignol,” ex-police<br />
tion than Sarcey of the perplexities wbich beset the inspector, a terrible narrative of the crimes,<br />
dramatic critic's path. “ The theatrical critic," passions, and weaknesses of the darker side of<br />
wrote “the good uncle” on one occasion, “must humanity.<br />
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.<br />
also have his scale of proportion understood by<br />
the public. But what shall it be? This is a grave<br />
question, and one more difficult to resolve than is<br />
generally imagined. To crush M. d'Ennery under<br />
NOTES AND NEWS.<br />
the name of Corneille, to measure MM. Marc-<br />
Michel and Labiche with Beaumarchais would DROFESSOR DOWDEN suggests in Litera.<br />
be an absurdity, if not an injustice. But on the P ture the celebration of the opening of the<br />
other hand, are all souvenirs of the past, all the<br />
20th century by an “adequate” history<br />
conditions of antique art, to be cast asideas of English literature. If the Professor would<br />
has been done with the ell and other ancient elaborate the scheme for such a history it<br />
measures ?”<br />
would be a practical step. Perhaps no one<br />
could be found among the critics of the day<br />
ORTHOGRAPHY AND SYNTAX REFORM.<br />
who would be more generally accepted as the<br />
The reform of French orthography and the editor of such a work. It would be a colossal<br />
abolition of the incomprehensible “ chinoiseries " undertaking, but the success of other great<br />
of the old French grammar have at last been undertakings—the “Encyclopædia Britannica"<br />
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and of the antiquary we should have a judicious<br />
blend. Let us seriously consider the formation of<br />
such a company.<br />
for instance, and the “ Dictionary of Biography"<br />
-should be an encouragement. I would suggest<br />
the formation of a company for the purpose. The<br />
capital required would depend upon the scheme<br />
itself—the number of volumes necessary; the<br />
payment of contributors; the office expenses;<br />
the price of the work when complete and in<br />
parts. Thus there would be:<br />
(1) The preliminary expenses.<br />
(2) The expenses of office rent, clerks, &c.<br />
(3) The editor's salary.<br />
(4) The pay of the contributors.<br />
(5) Cost of printing, paper, binding, &c.<br />
The volumes would have to be issued regularly<br />
at intervals of a quarter. From certain rough<br />
calculations I believe that the whole expense<br />
would amount to less than £2000 a volume of the<br />
size of the “ Dictionary of National Biography."<br />
How many volumes would Professor Dowden åsk<br />
for?<br />
As regards the success, we must remember that<br />
the establishment everywhere of the free library<br />
greatly helps the production and lessens the risk<br />
of embarking in these large enterprises. We<br />
might expect a thousand copies at least to be<br />
taken up by the free libraries all over the English.<br />
speaking world, provided that the work was not<br />
only written by scholars, but also by attractive<br />
writers. There would be no publisher behind<br />
it: the company would be an ordinary trading<br />
company. I believe not only that it would be a<br />
most useful contribution to the history of litera-<br />
ture, but that it would be immensely successful.<br />
I beg to invite very serious attention to the<br />
warning under the head of Literary Property. It<br />
is directed against the practice, common with one<br />
or two minor publishers, of inserting a clause in<br />
the agreement promising the publisher the<br />
author's next two books! Anything more foolish<br />
than to accede to the impudent demand it is<br />
difficult to imagine. Does a physician make a<br />
patient promise to come to him with his next two<br />
ailments? Does a solicitor bind down a client<br />
for his next two cases ? It comes to this : that<br />
although an author may be fleeced and robbed by<br />
his publisher, he will go to him twice more!<br />
Great as may be the desire to see oneself in print,<br />
there should be, one would think, some restrain.<br />
ing force in self-respect. WALTER BESANT.<br />
THE COMING SEASON.<br />
1<br />
\HE following is a classification of the books<br />
announced in the Athenæum between<br />
Aug. 18 and Sept. 29 inciusive:<br />
The publishers represented are Messrs. George<br />
Allen, Burns and Oates, Chambers, Constable,<br />
Clark, Chatto and Windus, Cambridge University<br />
Press, Cassell, Clarendon Press, Dent, Duckworth,<br />
Heinemann, Hutchinson, Methuen, Macmillan,<br />
Maclehose, Marshall, Richards, Sampson Low,<br />
Sonnenschein, Seeley, Skeffington, Unwin, Whit-<br />
aker, Wells Gardner, Black, Rivington, Chapman<br />
and Hall, Matthews, and Bemrose. The list is<br />
not therefore complete, but there are not many<br />
left of the publishers worth considering.<br />
The result is interesting. It comes out as<br />
follows:<br />
. Works announced.<br />
Theology ...<br />
......... 98<br />
History and Biography ..............<br />
Travel ......<br />
Science ..........<br />
Scholarship .............................<br />
Philosophy<br />
Law<br />
Political Economy<br />
Essays ......<br />
Fiction ........<br />
.................. 164<br />
Children's books ......................... 30<br />
Poetry and Plays......<br />
............ 29<br />
There are a few difficult to classify. There are<br />
also translations and new editions which are not<br />
entered in the above list. In connection with this<br />
list it will be interesting to watch and to classify<br />
the books which appear from day to day in the<br />
114<br />
One thing is most important. I am sure that<br />
Professor Dowden would agree in my contention<br />
that it is a great mistake to suppose that because<br />
a man has written poetry or fiction with more or<br />
less success, he is therefore a critic.<br />
"The critical<br />
The critical<br />
faculty is not the same as the imaginative; one<br />
might even go further and say that the develop-<br />
ment of the critical power tends to destroy the<br />
imagination. There are at the present moment<br />
half-a-dozen critics who stand in the front rank.<br />
It would be invidious to mention their names,<br />
Not one of these has distinguished himself<br />
by any imaginative work. On the other hand,<br />
there are as many writers on literature, writers of<br />
appreciation, who are most attractive and delight-<br />
ful, yet are not critics. There are also anti-<br />
quaries who collect facts and figures and write<br />
about them, but they are not critics. Of the<br />
gentlemen who write “reviews,” log roll and<br />
depreciate, set up little cénacles and make a fuss,<br />
I do not speak, because the editor of this great<br />
work will assuredly have none of them. But of<br />
the true critic and of the man who can appreciate<br />
............<br />
......<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
morning papers as “ Publications of the Day." M. Hebrard, of Le Temps ; England, Mr. S.<br />
One notes that the publishers of fiction seem to Campion, J.P., of the Northampton Mercury,<br />
be decreasing in number. Seven publishers bave Miss G. B. Stuart being the English secretary ;<br />
120 novels between them.<br />
Germany, Hans Tournier; America, Mr. Young;<br />
There follows next the somewhat delicate ques Sweden, M. Beckman; Hungary, M. Joseph<br />
tion: how many of these books will pay ? This Veszi. The abstention of a goodly number of<br />
involves the question : how many are paid for by well-known French journalists from being present<br />
their authors ?<br />
proved that, like the Institute of Journalists in<br />
We may rank them in four classes :<br />
England, they have their little dissensions amongst<br />
* 1. Those which are quite certain to allow of a themselves. M. Jean Bernard again brought<br />
large edition or several editions with a good margin. forward his project for making the staff of a<br />
2. Those which will allow of a single edition newspaper participators in the profits; at Rome<br />
with a small margin.<br />
he argued warmly for this, and he was now<br />
3. Those which are doubtful.<br />
requested to draw up a report upon the subject-<br />
4. Those which will not pay expenses, unless an interesting but somewhat impossible proposi.<br />
the reader's judgment is wholly incompetent. tion. M. Taunay, the energetic and ever-affable<br />
It would, of course, be invidious to name the general secretary, then brought forward his<br />
books which belong to any of the four classes. report upon a card of identity for journa-<br />
It is, however, noteworthy that, taking only lists, members of the various societies affiliated<br />
fiction, no fewer than sixty belong undoubtedly to the International Bureau. Armed with<br />
to the first class, while the second class is this card the journalist in any country is<br />
represented in fiction alone by about sixty more. to address himself to the representatives of<br />
What is wanted by writers of the first and second the committee of direction, or to the local<br />
classes is to remember that they have property associations, correspondents of the Bureau, and<br />
in their hands as real as, say, horses or cattle, he will have all facilities given him as a local<br />
which are, like most books, perishable. The journalist. The question of tariff for the post of<br />
whole parade and pretence about risk, office ex. newspapers was next considered, Signor Berger<br />
penses, and percentages should be pushed aside. arguing that the cost should never exceed two<br />
The only question is on what terms the adminis. centimes, instead of five, for international<br />
iration of the property should be granted, or at postage, and a half, or at most one, centime for<br />
what price it should be sold.<br />
interior postage; and the Bureau was authorised<br />
to take up negotiations with the various Govern. ,<br />
ments to obtain some reductions in the tariffs.<br />
The subject of telegraph tariffs was again intro-<br />
THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PRESS<br />
duced by Señor de Berazza, the Spanish dele.<br />
CONGRESS.<br />
gate, and he was able to announce that, in<br />
By JAMES BAKER, F.R.G.S.<br />
addition to the conventions between France and<br />
Spain, Luxembourg, and Portugal, this year<br />
INHE meeting this year was arranged for under certain conditions the convention and<br />
T Paris, to coincide with the Great Exhibi. restriction had been agreed to between France<br />
tion; and at Rome last year great were the and England, but Italy still failed to fall into<br />
rumours of what this Congress was to be. How line, while pourparlers were still going on with<br />
it was to eclipse all former Congresses in work and Sweden and Norway.<br />
in play, in hospitality and in excursions; one Following this a discussion occurred on<br />
excursion, it was hinted, would include Algiers. an abbreviated code for telegrams, and a<br />
But there is a French proverb of few words, prize is to be offered for the best working<br />
L'Homme propose mais Dieu dispose, and not code. The other subjects discussed included<br />
only the fates, but the weather, seemed to defeat the constitution of an international tribunal of<br />
the generously hospitable aims of the French arbitration for journalistic matters. Upon<br />
organisers.<br />
this a brisk discussion ensued, and a M.<br />
On the first morning of the Congress the news Rouzier claimed attention for a tribunal to<br />
arrived of the assassination of King Humbert, settle disputes between directors of journals and<br />
and so all official entertainments were cancelled, reporters. Tbe evergreen, but never settled,<br />
and the President of the Republic was not subject (either in England or with the inter-<br />
present at the opening séance in the Amphi. nationalists) of a school of journalism was brought<br />
théâtre of the Sorbonne. At the first business up by M. Bernard under the presidency of<br />
meeting on the following morning the presidents M. Beckman, the learned Swedish delegate.<br />
for each nation were elected—viz., for France, The Belgian delegate, Heinzman-Savino, declared<br />
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that the quickest way to vulgarise the teaching right to it and may do what he chooses with it-<br />
of journalism, or at least of certain subjects e.g., sell it for publication with or without the<br />
necessary to journalism, was to obtain the estab. author's name? This might certainly not be<br />
lishment of courses upon the subjects in the agreeable to the author of the matter in question,<br />
universities. At Heidelberg already Professor but what is the law ?<br />
DusTMAN.<br />
Koch has a journalistic course. The final [The case quoted above is sadly wanting in<br />
subject discussed was the rights of illustrators, legal exactness, and it is exceedingly difficult to<br />
and M. Janzon proposed that the central com. give a definite opinion on it. The finder might<br />
mittee make a study of the status of the journalist have a right to sell the paper with the writing<br />
in various countries. At the conclusion of the upon it, but certainly not the right of publication.<br />
work Mr. P. W. Clayden, the English president, The publication of a MS. is an entirely distinct<br />
gave a formal invitation to the Congress from the property, and cannot be thus dealt with.-G. H.<br />
city of Glasgow to assemble there in 1901. This THRING.]<br />
invitation was referred to the Central Bureau.<br />
It would be as well for the Congress to meet in<br />
Great Britain, and for once to adopt English<br />
LITERARY CAREERS MADE EASY.<br />
rules of debate. The Je demande la parole of<br />
gentlemen who have already spoken a dozen times In the old-fashioned days when a man wrote a book,<br />
delays real progress.<br />
That was all there was for him to do ;<br />
If they made it worth while for the author he took<br />
The English papers prepared for the Congress<br />
were: by Mr. F. Dolman, on “The Advantages<br />
Up bis pen and reeled off something new.<br />
of International Association," an advantage which<br />
Bat to-day, when a man writes a book tbat's a hit,<br />
Why, that's jast made a sort of a start,<br />
is immense, as I have proved in such countries as For he has to write others explaining how it<br />
Poland, Galicia, &c.; and a well-written, eloquent Came out of his houd and his heart.<br />
paper on “Ideals of Journalism," by Mr. S. He must tell how he thought of the story and when-<br />
Campion, in which he pleaded that the Press How many words daily he wrote -<br />
should not become a cloaca maxima ; that evils If he set down the lines with a pencil or pen-<br />
and festering sores of humanity should be treated<br />
These are things he must carefully note.<br />
with the surgeon's knife, and not “ with the He must give us the names of the people he took<br />
lingering affection of gbouls for fætid corrup-<br />
For nis models, and nothing omic !<br />
tion."<br />
In these days when a man makes a bit with a book<br />
He can write all his life about it!<br />
The social functions were, alas, almost oblite-<br />
Chicago Times-Herald.<br />
rated ; and as if Nature also worked against<br />
the French organisers, the great representation in<br />
the Théâtre d’Orange in the Dauphiné-to which<br />
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.<br />
and the Loire district excursions were organised<br />
-was terribly marred by an awful mistral that<br />
LITERARY concerns are for the moment in<br />
in August froze the spectators. Other excursions<br />
were to Chantilly and Pierrefonds, to Sèvres and<br />
1 tbe background, like everything else that<br />
Versailles, so that the Congressites enjoyed much<br />
is not politics. But the General Election<br />
has drawn an unusual number of writers before<br />
hue<br />
refreshment after their polyglottic labours.<br />
Death has been terribly busy with the members<br />
The electors. Up to the time of writing, we<br />
of the bureau during the past two years, and since<br />
observe among the candidates for Parliamentary<br />
the Rome meeting two excellent confrères-<br />
honours Dr. Conan Doyle, Mr. Gilbert Parker,<br />
Mr. Henry Norman, Sir George Scott Robertson,<br />
Signors Bonfadini and Torelli-Viollier—have<br />
Mr. H. J. Mackinder, and Mr. Mullett Ellis.<br />
passed onward ; let me end with this word of<br />
homage to their memory.<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins was among the<br />
number, but he has been obliged owing to sudden<br />
illness to withdraw the candidature he had<br />
contemplated.<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
Mr. Alexander Michie, the well-known authority<br />
on China, has written å life of Sir Rutherford<br />
A QUERY.<br />
Alcock, in which is narrated the progress made<br />
TF a man throws a thing away, to whom does it by Engli<br />
to whom does it.. by Englishmen in that country during the past<br />
j legally belong? Surely the finder. Following sixty years. The subject of the biography was,<br />
this reasoning, am I right in supposing that of course, at one time British Minister in Peking.<br />
if an author writes something and then throws it The third volume of Professor S. R. Gardiner's<br />
away, any person who happens to find it has a legal history of the Commonwealth and Protectorate<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
may be looked for early next year. Mr. Morley's<br />
biography of Cromwell will be published by<br />
Messrs. Macmillan during the present month.<br />
Mr. H. J. Mackinder, who last year made the<br />
first ascent of Mount Kenya, narrates this<br />
remarkable achievement in a volume which Mr.<br />
Heinemann will publish shortly.<br />
The 23rd inst. is the date fixed for the produc-<br />
tion of Mr. Zapgwill's new novel, “ The Mantle<br />
of Elijah ” (Heinemann).<br />
Mr. Gilbert Parker's tales of Pontiac, entitled<br />
“ The Lane that Had no Turning," and Mrs.<br />
Steel's new novel, “ The Hosts of the Lord,” will<br />
be published about the middle of this month by<br />
Mr. Heinemann.<br />
A new story by Miss Carey, entitled “Rue with<br />
a Difference,” will be published on Oct. 2, and<br />
one by Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, entitled<br />
“Modern Broods," on Oct. 5, both by Messrs.<br />
Macmillan.<br />
A volume of stories by the Rev. W. J. Dawson<br />
is being published by Mr. Grant Richards under<br />
the title “ The Doctor Speaks.” ,<br />
A new edition of Mr. Whistler's “ The Gentle<br />
Art of Making Enemies” will be published<br />
shortly. The work has been out of print.<br />
A new work by Deas Cromarty, entitled “The<br />
Heart of Babylon," will be published shortly by<br />
Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son.<br />
The first volume of Professor Saintsbury's<br />
sbury's<br />
“ History of Criticism and Literary Taste from<br />
the Earliest Times to the Present Day” will be<br />
published shortly by Messrs. Blackwood.<br />
Mr Charles G. Harper has added to his series<br />
of books on our great highways two volumes on<br />
“ The Great North Road.” These will be pub.<br />
lished by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and will<br />
contain numerous illustrations.<br />
Mr. Frank T. Bullen's work on “The Men of<br />
the Merchant Service” will be published on<br />
Oct. 10 by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co.<br />
: “ Webs of Mystery" is the title of Mr. John<br />
G. Rowe's first book. It is a volume of detective<br />
stories, and is published by Messrs. Walter Scott<br />
Limited. The young author has also written a<br />
five-act drama, which is likely to be produced<br />
shortly by a well-known provincial actor-manager,<br />
and is at present busy revising his new novel<br />
“A King of Busbrangers," already published<br />
serially, for book form.<br />
Mr. Albert Lee, who wrote “ The Gentleman<br />
Pensioner," which was so successful in this<br />
country and in America, has just completed a new<br />
historical romance entitled “ The Emperor's<br />
Trumpeter,” dealing with the downfall of Robes-<br />
pierre and the military career of Bonaparte. It<br />
will first appear as a serial in the new volume of<br />
Young England.<br />
The following are among the forthcoming<br />
publications of Mr. John C. Nimmo: “The<br />
Amusements of Old London," in two volumes,<br />
being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea<br />
gardens and parks, playhouses, and other diver-<br />
sions of the people of London from the 17th to the<br />
beginning of the 19th century, by W. B. Boulton ;<br />
« English Historical Memoirs is (1 volumes).<br />
by John Heneage Jesse; “ Reminiscences of a<br />
Falconer," by Major Charles Hawkins Fisher;<br />
and “A History of Steeplechasing," by William<br />
C. A. Blew, M.Ă.<br />
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. will publish<br />
Mr. C. H. Malcolm's new novel “Robert Kane"<br />
about the second week of this month, at the<br />
published price of 38. 6d.<br />
Mr. Reynolds-Ball gives an account of his<br />
recent cycling experiences among the Piedmontese<br />
Alps in a long and admirably illustrated article<br />
in the September issue of the Cyclists' Touring<br />
Club Gazette.<br />
The Oxford University Press, which is exhibit.<br />
ing in three different groups at the Paris Exhibi.<br />
tion, has gained the unique distinction of being<br />
awarded three Grands Prix-one each for higher<br />
education, book-binding, and Oxford India paper.<br />
Derek Vane's new novel, “ Ye shall be as<br />
Gods," will run as a serial in Great Thoughts,<br />
beginning in October, before heing published in<br />
volume form. It deals with a curious develop-<br />
ment of character in a woman who has elected to<br />
live apart from the world, and shows how a feeble<br />
nature may live on and absorb a strong one.<br />
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously<br />
pleased to accept a copy of the new musical novel<br />
(published by Sands and Co.) entitled “A 439:<br />
being the Autobiography of a Piano," written<br />
gratuitously by “Twenty-five Musical Scribes.”<br />
The profits go entirely to the orphanage of the<br />
Incorporated Society of Musicians, which was<br />
founded at the time of Her Majesty's first jubilee.<br />
A letter, dated the 21st ult., from the private<br />
secretary, to the editor, Mr. Algernon Rose, says<br />
that “ The Queen desires her thanks to be<br />
returned for the book.”<br />
Mr. Isaac Henderson, author of the Criterion<br />
comedy entitled “The Silent Battle." has written<br />
a new play, called “The Mummy and the<br />
Humming Top,” for Mr. Wyndham. The first<br />
production at Wyndham's Theatre, however, will<br />
be the new play in four acts by Mr. Henry Arthur<br />
puuro Charles G. Hart highways two will be<br />
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Jones, in which Mr. Wyndham (in the part of an<br />
eminent lawyer), Miss Lena Ashwell, and Miss<br />
Mary Moore will appear.<br />
Mr. Haddon Chambers has written a new play<br />
for Mr. Alexander.<br />
In Mr. Tree's production at Her Majesty's of<br />
“Herod the Great,” Mr. Stephen Phillips's poetic<br />
drama, the following will be in the cast : Miss<br />
Maud Jeffries, Mrs. Crowe, Miss Calhoun, Mr.<br />
C. W. Somerset, and Mr. King Hedley.<br />
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will reopen the Royalty<br />
Theatre on Oct. 8.<br />
Mr. Jobn Farrington and Mr. A. H. Canby will<br />
reopen Terry's Theatre in a few days with the<br />
play by Charles H. Hoyt, entitled “A Parlour<br />
Match."<br />
Among the new plays in London during<br />
September were “The Scarlet Sin,” by Mr.<br />
George R. Sims and Mr. Arthur Shirley, at the<br />
Crown, Peckham; “ Self and Lady,” by M. Pierre<br />
Decourcelle, at the Vaudeville ; “The Price of<br />
Peace," by Mr. Cecil Raleigh, at Drury Lane;<br />
and Mr. Barrie's “ The Wedding Guest” at the<br />
Garrick.<br />
The new play at the Lyceum by Mr. Seymour<br />
Hicks and Mr. F. Latham, which is to be pro-<br />
duced on Oct. 6, is called “For Auld Lang Syne.”<br />
Mr. William Mollison, Miss Lily Hanbury (as a<br />
hospital nurse), Miss Fanny Brough, Mr. W. L.<br />
Abingdon, and Mr. Leonard Boyne will play the<br />
principal parts.<br />
Mr. F. R. Benson's company will open its<br />
second season in London at the Comedy on<br />
Dec. 19. On three nights of each week the stage<br />
will be held by the German company, the Benson<br />
company occupying the remaining three nights<br />
and two matinées.<br />
Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness<br />
the Princess of Wales, the Westminster Orchestral<br />
Society is about to commence its sixteenth season.<br />
At the forthcoming orchestral concert, the pro-<br />
gramme will, as usual, include several new works<br />
of interest by British composers. In response to<br />
the wish of many music lovers resident in the<br />
country to assist in the patriotic and valuable<br />
work the society has so long carried forward,<br />
the committee have decided to enrol a limited<br />
number of country members at a nominal fee of<br />
half a guinea a year, in return for which sub-<br />
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the society's i ublications, and, when visiting<br />
London, the privileges of one-guinea members.<br />
Applications should be addressed to the hon.<br />
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH POLITICS, by John M.<br />
Robertson (Richards, 108. 6d.) is, says the Times, “ an ambi.<br />
tious, and it is fair to add, a clever book.” The Daily<br />
News begins by describing it as "a very eloquent, striking,<br />
powerful, but not convincing book," and concludes by saying<br />
that“ the English politics to which Mr. Robertson's long,<br />
depressing survey is an Introduction are not those of bound.<br />
less hope in the future, as all true Liberal politics must be,<br />
but are much more like the politics of oynical disbelief in<br />
the wisdom which guides mankind.”<br />
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, by Andrew Lang (Goupil,<br />
638. net), is "an admirable piece of work,” says the Times,<br />
and “ a real contribution to historical knowledge.” For the<br />
first time the Stuart papers at Windsor Castle have been<br />
thoroughly examined, and they form the basis of the<br />
volume. Mr. Lang, says the Spectator, “has never been<br />
more happily inspired than in this study of the broken life-<br />
story of one who will always be a premier figure in romance<br />
-the last conspicuous prince of an ill-fated house and the<br />
centre of a movement wbich he did not comprehend. He<br />
has given as the severe truth, leaving no source unsearched.<br />
to find the facts of a difficult career, and at the same time-<br />
he has invested the whole narrativa, splendid and sordid,<br />
with an unreal fairy-tale atmosphere, which is the true one."<br />
The Daily Chronicle refera to the account of the little-<br />
known engagement at Falkirk " as “an excellent example of<br />
Mr. Lang's descriptive style."<br />
THROUGH THE FIRST ANTARCTIC NIGHT, by Frederick.<br />
A. Cook, MD. (Heinemann, 208.), gives, says Literature,<br />
“a striking and graphic account of the voyage of the<br />
Belgica. The book, in fact, strikes us as a work of greater<br />
merit than the expedition itself, which seems, if we correctly<br />
anderstand Dr. Cook, to have been led in a rather a muddle..<br />
beaded manner.” “His book is interesting as, to use his<br />
own words, ' a contribution of new human experience in a.<br />
new inhuman world of ice.' ... As a rule there is a<br />
certain air of jollity in the stories of those who have<br />
wintered in the regions of ice and darkness. It is otherwise<br />
with Dr. Cook and his companions. Even Ovid in his exile<br />
on the shores of the inhospitable Euxine was not so sorry<br />
for himself as they were.” The Times points out that the<br />
expedition, which was of Belgian origin, was the first that<br />
over wintered in the South Polar area. One fourth of Dr.<br />
Cook's narrative relates to South America.<br />
HAMPSHIRE, WITH THE ISLE OF WIGHT, by George A. B.<br />
Dewar (Dent, 48. 6d. net), is bighly praised by the Daily.<br />
Chronicle, which anticipates that the reader's verdict will<br />
be: “Never had I believed Hampshire so interesting.”<br />
Besides Mr. De war, five other writers, specialists in botany,<br />
entomology, geology, &c., take charge of these departments.<br />
“The writers' main business," says the Times,“ has been to<br />
describe towns, villages, the historic houses, and the roads,<br />
and the way in which they have done it should set an<br />
example to those who will undertake the other volumes ” of<br />
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THE WHISTLING Maid, by Ernest Rhys (Hutobinson,<br />
68.), “sets forth with real charm of expression and an<br />
unfailing sense of the picturesque," says the Spectator,<br />
"the adventures on field and flood of a young Welsh damsel<br />
of high degree.” The Daily Chronicle characterises it as<br />
genuine romance—"a romance written, not from the point<br />
of view of the chap-book and the county bistory, but as a<br />
the result of a true and sensitive romantic spirit, a work, in<br />
a word, of spontaneous and sincere artistry." Similarly the<br />
Literary World, which adds: “There is no more charming<br />
creation in modern literature than the heroine, Luned, the<br />
maid of the silver pipe, who leaves ber bome wben the raid<br />
is made upon it, and, attired in boy's clothing, rides<br />
through trackless forest country to find ber father, and<br />
bring him to the rescue."<br />
SENATOR NORTH, by Gertrude Atherton (Lane, 68.), is<br />
"essentially an American story," says tbe Daily News.<br />
“It deals with the political and social life of Washington.”<br />
There is in the story a "terrible tragedy that shows how<br />
beavy lies the shadow of the curse apon the blacks in the<br />
Southern States. Mrs. Atherton's pages are crowded<br />
with portraits of men and women in various grades of<br />
society. These portraits are very clean cut.” The Spectator<br />
says that “Mrs. Atherton's portrait of the beautiful bat<br />
unbappy balf-breed, with her abiding melancholy, her social<br />
ambitions, her strange lapses into vulgar barbarism, and<br />
her fatal mendacity, is of painfully engrossing interest."<br />
“She writes of humanity,” says the Daily Telegraph, “but<br />
it is of humanity at its best, and sbe has achieved å very<br />
great and noticeable success;" and the Daily Chronicle<br />
describes the work as “ full of intellect, of character, and of<br />
movement."<br />
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG, by Mark<br />
Twain (Chatto, 68.), contains, says the Spectator, " a quantity<br />
of excellent mixed reading." "Whatever the theme or its<br />
treatment, it is good to notice that there is not the slightest<br />
trace of fatigue in the mind of the writer.” “The whole,"<br />
says the Daily News, “forms a welcome addition to the<br />
light literature of the day.” For there are all sorts of<br />
things in the book, echoes of Austrian Parliamente, of the<br />
Dreyfus case, of the author's experiences in the American<br />
Civil War, of Christian science, and a score of other<br />
subjects. The story that gives the title to the volume<br />
(“ only Mark Twain could have conceived the idea," says<br />
the Daily Telegraph) is described in the Literary World as<br />
*• a satire of the biting kind.” Of the book as a whole,<br />
the Daily Chronicle says : “ The old friend is here in the<br />
old familiar spirit, excellent company, perennially youthful.”<br />
SONS OF THE MORNING, by Eden Phillpotts (Methuen,<br />
68.), is described by the Daily Chronicle as “excellent<br />
fiction.” The idea and central thread of the story (which<br />
is laid in Devonshire) is "& sweet and strong young<br />
farnieress, in love with two good men at once-a situation<br />
80 frequent with women in real life, so rarely handled in<br />
books." "The courting of Henery Collins has some excellent<br />
humour in it”; and the depths of the book "are concerned<br />
with the most fascinating subject, witchcraft.” The work<br />
is described by the Spectator as “ earnest in aim and careful<br />
in workmanship.”<br />
The Fourth GENERATION, by Sir Walter Besant<br />
(Chatto, 68.), is a story of the present day, and “touches<br />
the old problem of beredity; but it faces that problem,"<br />
says Literature, “ in the spirit of the practical man of the<br />
world.” The conseqaences of the crime of an ancestor of<br />
Leonard Campaigne," and the fortunes of his descendants<br />
as they touch the life of Leonard, are described and followed<br />
with all the skill of a master in the art of story-telling, ap<br />
to the moment when the stain is wiped out, and the<br />
momentam, as it were, of the crime exhausted, by the<br />
marriage of the descendant of the morderer to the descen.<br />
dant of his victim.” “The story is finely proportioned,”<br />
says the Daily News; " its action never flags." “ Charac-<br />
ters are sharply drawn,” says the World, “and treated,<br />
too, with a pleasant, whimsical humour.”<br />
THE SOFT SIDE, by Henry James (Methaen, 68.), con.<br />
tains twelve studies, which, rays Literature, “will probably<br />
make new converts to his cult. Each story possesses to a<br />
high degree the sensitiveness and detachment which one<br />
generally finds in his works.” “How restful,” says the<br />
Daily Chronicle," the sense of being in the best circle' all<br />
the time." The Spectator allows that “as a virtuoso of<br />
transcendental morbidity Mr. James claims anstinted<br />
admiration."<br />
THE GATELESS BARRIER, by Lucas Malet (Methuen, 68.),<br />
is described by tbe Daily News as a “boaatifal and eerie<br />
story.” “Lucas Malet has never done as a bit of artistic<br />
work anything more refined and delicate." It is the story<br />
of the love of a living man for a lovely ghost. It is told,<br />
says the Times, "with a sense of style and a dramatic<br />
vigoar that make it a pleasure to read.” “The novel carries<br />
you along easily, naturally, spontaneously," says the Daily<br />
Telegraph, “because of its lightness of touch, its quaint<br />
vraisemblance, its original handling of familiar themes.”<br />
“Genuine imagination and charm have been at work here,”<br />
says the Daily Chronicle.<br />
THE Mystic NUMBER 7, by Annabel Gray (Simpkin,<br />
Marshall, 38. 6d.), "shows keen psychological interest and<br />
ability," in the opinion of the Glasgow Herald. Lilera-<br />
ture says “Miss Annabel Gray has a good grip upon<br />
ber subject, and writes in a fashion that should be popular<br />
with the readers of her many other books." The West-<br />
minster Gazette says "the sensational interest of the story<br />
is kept ap to the very end," while the Dundee Advertiser<br />
pronounces Glen Daile "a splendid creation.”<br />
A MASTER OF CRAFT, by W. W. Jacobs (Metbuen, 68.),<br />
his first full-length story, “ can be anreservedly recom-<br />
mended,” says the Spectator, " to all who have not lost their<br />
appetite for wholesome food for laughter.” “The scene is<br />
as usual laid on a small coasting schooner, or in the various<br />
baunts or houses of call of those engaged in this trade, and<br />
the motive is, not for the first time, furnished by the amorous<br />
susceptibilities of an amiable but singularly indiscreet<br />
skipper.”<br />
A PRIEST'S POEMs, by K. D. B. (Catholic Truth Society),<br />
is a collection of various verses arranged in different parts.<br />
The Athenæum says: “It is in the impassioned prayer to<br />
'God, Creator of the Waters,' in 'Ecce Sto ad Ostium,' in the<br />
long and at times beautiful poem Secrets of the Night' that<br />
we recogpise now and again a strain of true poetry, while<br />
the translations have the rare merit of almost persuading<br />
the reader that they are original.” The Westminster<br />
Gazette says that “the author shows genuine poetic fancy<br />
and devotional spirit.”<br />
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