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Paris Letter. By Darracotte Scott&lt;br /&gt;
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Post 8vo., price 6s. net.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND POSITION&lt;br /&gt;
AS APPEARING FROM&lt;br /&gt;
STATUTES, ARTICLES, CANONS, RUBRICS, AND&lt;br /&gt;
JUDICIAL DECISIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
A Compilation for General Use.&lt;br /&gt;
By J. M. LELY, M.A., Barrister-at-Law.&lt;br /&gt;
TABLE OF CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
CHAPTER 1.-Pre-Reformation Law.&lt;br /&gt;
CHAPTER V.-The Benefices Act.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;Reformation Law, except the first three I&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&mdash;Table of principal Statutes repealed and&lt;br /&gt;
Acts of Uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;
unrepealed.&lt;br /&gt;
III.-The Acts of Uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;
&raquo; VII.&mdash;Table of principal Judicial Decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;The Prayer Book and Rubrics.&lt;br /&gt;
APPENDIX.-Ecclesiastical Bills&mdash;Comprehension Bill of 1689. Ecclesiastical Appeals Bill 1850. Church Discipline&lt;br /&gt;
Bill of 1899. Statements by English Church Union and Church Association. Extracts from Decrees and&lt;br /&gt;
Canons of Council of Trent. The Creed of Pope Pius the Fourth as added to by Pope Pius the Ninth.&lt;br /&gt;
And a Copious Index.&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON: HORACE cox WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAM&rsquo;S BUILDINGS, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.-No. 6.]&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XL_NO.6.]&lt;br /&gt;
NOVEMBER I, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
I remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sab.&lt;br /&gt;
jocts whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
IT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &amp;quot; office expenses,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT,&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 98 (#138) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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98&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
IL&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e., members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors shonld remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&rsquo;s-inn.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
VVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor. the member has a right to an opinion &amp;#039;from the 1.-AN EXAMPLE OF COMMISSION PUBLISHING.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s I beg to place the following facts and figures at your&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him &middot; disposal :-&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member. A London publisher offered to produce the inclosed work,&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright &ldquo;with stiff paper cover,&amp;quot; at &pound;15 for 1000 copies, or &pound;13 108.&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the for 500 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple Another London publisher offered to produce 1000 copies,&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
also with stiff paper cover, for &pound;12 108.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past I have had 1000 copies printed, as you see, without the&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The stiff cover, for &pound;3 38. by a country printer whose name is on&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new the pamphlet.&lt;br /&gt;
G. B.&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus To the Secretary of the Authors&amp;#039; Society.&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
T INVITE very special attention to the above&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
1 letter. Observe that the actual cost of the&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlet was &pound;3 38. It is a brochure of&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are 20pp. in long primer, a full page of about 600&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
99&lt;br /&gt;
words. One publisher offered to produce it, on for advertising as the author or proprietor shall&lt;br /&gt;
commission, for &pound;15: another for &pound;12 10s., both deem desirable.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
offering a &ldquo; stiff paper cover.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
An important point in this clause has been&lt;br /&gt;
The author bad it printed, as he says, for &pound;3 38., overlooked in the Society&amp;#039;s comments. It is this.&lt;br /&gt;
but without the stiff paper cover. The name of The publisher claims a percentage on all &ldquo;dis-&lt;br /&gt;
the printing firm is given on the inside of the bursements,&rdquo; and, in the very next clause, declares&lt;br /&gt;
title page. A note is made of the firm for future that he will disburse nothing! In that case what&lt;br /&gt;
use.&lt;br /&gt;
claim has he for any percentage ?&lt;br /&gt;
Let us put down the paper cover at &pound;1. The Another point. In going to a publisher, the&lt;br /&gt;
proposals then mean that a pamphlet costing author naturally expects the whole machinery of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;3 38. is to be charged at &pound;14 or at &pound;u 108. his office, together with his skill and experience,&lt;br /&gt;
It may be urged that every tradesman has a to be placed at the service of his book. The most&lt;br /&gt;
right to put any price he pleases on his own important part, perhaps, is the knowledge when&lt;br /&gt;
wares. So he has, provided he does not deceive to advertise and to what extent. The publishers&lt;br /&gt;
his customers. Now, when an author goes to a refuse any help. They say, &ldquo; Such a sum as the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher he accepts his statement about the cost author or proprietor may deem desirable.&rdquo; Nothing&lt;br /&gt;
of printing and paper as an honest statement. is more undesirable to a general publisher than&lt;br /&gt;
It is not enough, as some publishers do, to say the success of a commission book, because if it&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;our charge&rdquo; is so and so, because the author, should succeed the bulk of the profit goes to the&lt;br /&gt;
even if he allows the publisher some profit-which author-a thing by no means in their interests.&lt;br /&gt;
ought to be plainly and honestly stated-does not This should be thoroughly understood. What&lt;br /&gt;
imagine that the profit is to be three, four, or five they prefer is a so-called &ldquo; half-profit&rdquo; system, the&lt;br /&gt;
times the actual cost.&lt;br /&gt;
very name of which now stinks, or a &ldquo; deferred&lt;br /&gt;
That the publishers in question venture to royalty &rdquo; with a large margin before it begins-a&lt;br /&gt;
make this exorbitant profit is probably due to the method the reek and stench of which is fast be-&lt;br /&gt;
baleful influence of the &ldquo; Publishers&amp;#039; Form of coming a rival even to that of the &ldquo; half-profit.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Agreement.&rdquo; What is the clause regulating this&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
assumed right of overcharge? &ldquo;The publisher&lt;br /&gt;
will supply the author with estimates for the II.-A DRAMATIST ON THE COPYRIGHT BILL.&lt;br /&gt;
printing and will charge a commission of per &ldquo;Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill from the&lt;br /&gt;
cent. on the trade prices for printing, paper, point of view of a playwright?&rdquo; Well, it is not&lt;br /&gt;
binding, advertising, and other disbursements, conceived from that point of view; it is con-&lt;br /&gt;
and reserve to himself the right to take the ceived from the point of view of authors who are&lt;br /&gt;
usual credit or the equivalent cash discount for not playwrights. To the novelist it affords a&lt;br /&gt;
cash payments, but no such discount shall exceed protection which he does not at present possess,&lt;br /&gt;
7) per cent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and to which he is entitled; and in that respect&lt;br /&gt;
All that we can say in this case is that the is a righteous and beneficent measure. On the&lt;br /&gt;
pnblishers, with this clause to guide them, playwright, beyond the extension of the term of&lt;br /&gt;
interpreted the percentage allowed in a large and his protection, it confers, to the best of my judg-&lt;br /&gt;
liberal spirit. They merely said, &ldquo; We will make ment, no benefit whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
it 300 or 400 per cent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
First, as regards the duration of the &ldquo;per-&lt;br /&gt;
It is not often that we find the publishers&amp;#039; forming right,&rdquo; which playwrights call &ldquo;stage-&lt;br /&gt;
agreements &ldquo;equitable&amp;quot; reduced to so delightful right,&rdquo; and thereby save two syllables, I think&lt;br /&gt;
an absurdity as this. Meantime, the Society&amp;#039;s that is sufficient. It is sometimes argued that&lt;br /&gt;
exposure of those firms, with comments, has now stage-right should descend to a playwright&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
gone into a second edition. Members of the representatives in perpetuity. I quite agree&lt;br /&gt;
Society will do good service by sending copies to that both copyright and stage-right should be&lt;br /&gt;
those of their friends who are concerned with perpetual; but in my view, after a certain period,&lt;br /&gt;
literary property.&lt;br /&gt;
they should become the property of the State.&lt;br /&gt;
I would next call attention to the clause which There is no such person as an absolutely original&lt;br /&gt;
follows the one already quoted. You observe author; the most nearly original author draws&lt;br /&gt;
that the publisher demands a blank percentage bis inspiration from his experience, his reading,&lt;br /&gt;
on all &ldquo; disbursements.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
his observation, his environment. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
Now read the next clause.&lt;br /&gt;
munity is part author of everything. By limiting&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The author or proprietor shall, before the the period of protection, the community comes&lt;br /&gt;
work is sent to press, pay the publisher a suffi- into its rights, but not, I submit, in the right&lt;br /&gt;
cient sum to meet the estimated charges for way. Why should a manager be able to play&lt;br /&gt;
production and publication, including such a sum Shakespeare for nothing, and so accustom hiuiself&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 100 (#140) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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100&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
If a man writes and publishes a play, pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sumably he means it to be acted for the benefit&lt;br /&gt;
of himself and his assigns; and to say so on the&lt;br /&gt;
title-page is superfluous. It might even be&lt;br /&gt;
argued that section 7 is retrospective.&lt;br /&gt;
The injustice arises through the lumping&lt;br /&gt;
together of playwrights with librettists, com-&lt;br /&gt;
posers, and vocalists, whose interests are in some&lt;br /&gt;
respects diametrically opposite. If the Bill&lt;br /&gt;
created in every literary work other than a&lt;br /&gt;
libretto two inherent rights, copyright and stage-&lt;br /&gt;
right, which not only might but must be assigned&lt;br /&gt;
separately, everybody would be protected, and&lt;br /&gt;
nobody would be troubled. As the Bill stands I&lt;br /&gt;
am compelled to the conclusion that (apart from&lt;br /&gt;
the duration of protection) it weakens the present&lt;br /&gt;
position of the playwright and strengthens that&lt;br /&gt;
of the pirate.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
to the nefarious practice of evading author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
fees? He ought to pay fees to the State. So&lt;br /&gt;
far as the author&amp;#039;s representatives are concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s term of thirty complete years&lt;br /&gt;
after death seems reasonable.&lt;br /&gt;
I am afraid this is all that can be said in&lt;br /&gt;
favour of the Bill from a playwright&amp;#039;s point of&lt;br /&gt;
view.&lt;br /&gt;
Clause 5, section 5, revives the ancient formula&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo;performing right shall not subsist in any&lt;br /&gt;
profane, indecent, seditious, or libellous dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
or musical work.&rdquo; So that a thief has only to&lt;br /&gt;
add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel to his&lt;br /&gt;
theft to be exempted from the penalty of his dis-&lt;br /&gt;
honesty. It seems scarcely a benefit to public&lt;br /&gt;
morals that protection should be extended to&lt;br /&gt;
unauthorised performances of profane, indecent,&lt;br /&gt;
seditious, and libellous works. Sections 6 and 7&lt;br /&gt;
of the same clause proceed to strew the path of&lt;br /&gt;
the pirate with roses.&lt;br /&gt;
(6) Where a dramatic or musical work is published as a&lt;br /&gt;
book, and it is intended that the performing right should be&lt;br /&gt;
reserved, the owner of the copyright, whether he has parted&lt;br /&gt;
with the performing right or not, shall cause notice of such&lt;br /&gt;
reservation to be printed on the title page or in a con.&lt;br /&gt;
spicuous part of every copy of such book.&lt;br /&gt;
(7) Where proceedings are taken for the infringement&lt;br /&gt;
of the performing right in any dramatic or musical work&lt;br /&gt;
published as a book, the defendant in such proceedings may&lt;br /&gt;
be acquitted of such infringement, and may be entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
the costs of resisting the proceedings, if he proves to the&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction of the court that he has in his possession a copy&lt;br /&gt;
of the book containing such dramatio or musical work, and&lt;br /&gt;
that such copy was published with the assent of the owner&lt;br /&gt;
of the copyright, and does not contain the notice required&lt;br /&gt;
by this Act of the reservation of the performing right; but&lt;br /&gt;
in any such case the owner of the performing right, if he is&lt;br /&gt;
not also the owner of the copyright, shall be entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
recover from the owner of the copyright damages in respect&lt;br /&gt;
of the injury he may have incurred by the neglect of the&lt;br /&gt;
owner of the copyright to cause due notice to be given of&lt;br /&gt;
the reservation of the performing right.&lt;br /&gt;
I find no such vexatious provisions in the case of&lt;br /&gt;
a work which is not dramatic in form. The result&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be this: that the theatrical possibilities&lt;br /&gt;
of a novel, which is not necessarily intended for&lt;br /&gt;
the stage, are automatically protected; whilst a&lt;br /&gt;
work the very form of which shows that it is&lt;br /&gt;
intended for the stage, if published as a book,&lt;br /&gt;
must be conspicuously labelled with such intention,&lt;br /&gt;
or it is at the mercy of any thief who comes along,&lt;br /&gt;
who is positively indemnified for his &ldquo;costs&rdquo; of&lt;br /&gt;
fighting the rightful owner! Let me put a case.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Second Mrs. Tanqueray&rdquo; is published as a&lt;br /&gt;
book. If, through inadvertence, a single copy&lt;br /&gt;
were issued without this label, the value of the&lt;br /&gt;
right of representation might be lost to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero for ever. This negotiable copy would&lt;br /&gt;
carry the right of representation on its face, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Pineru&amp;#039;s own original MS. might become so&lt;br /&gt;
much waste paper.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;THE SIXPENNY Book.&lt;br /&gt;
The Manchester Guardian has a few remarks&lt;br /&gt;
on my paper in last month&amp;#039;s Author concerning&lt;br /&gt;
the sixpenny book. The writer does not agree&lt;br /&gt;
with me. He says:&lt;br /&gt;
We should be inclined rather to think that a sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
edition of a new and successful writer&amp;#039;s first book may intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duce his work to many who would otherwise have ignored&lt;br /&gt;
it, but who may then think it worth while to bay his next&lt;br /&gt;
books in a dearer form or to order them from the libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
He also thinks that the sixpenny novel is&lt;br /&gt;
bought in the train in the place of a magazine or&lt;br /&gt;
a journal.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody, he says, who has any respectable&lt;br /&gt;
library is likely to put sixpenny books on his&lt;br /&gt;
shelves : he buys them to read and throw away.&lt;br /&gt;
He also says that I speak on the evidence of a&lt;br /&gt;
single bookseller.&lt;br /&gt;
It always does gond to hear an opposite&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. As to the above objections, I admit&lt;br /&gt;
that the production of a new and unknown&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s book in a sixpenny form might give him&lt;br /&gt;
the start that he wants. There is, however, an&lt;br /&gt;
objection in limine. No publisher will venture&lt;br /&gt;
to bring out a book by a new writer at sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
The risk is too great: the public can hardly be&lt;br /&gt;
expected to buy, even at sixpence, the work of a&lt;br /&gt;
new and unknown writer to the number of some&lt;br /&gt;
40,000, which must be taken up in order to pay&lt;br /&gt;
expenses.&lt;br /&gt;
That a sixpenny book may be bought in a train&lt;br /&gt;
instead of a magazine or a paper is certainly possi.&lt;br /&gt;
ble: nay, it bappens every day and all day long.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody who has a respectable library, will put&lt;br /&gt;
sixpenny books on their shelves. That is also&lt;br /&gt;
true. But should we offer good books in such&lt;br /&gt;
garb as to be unfit for decent shelves ?&lt;br /&gt;
It is not one bookseller, but persons in the&lt;br /&gt;
book trade, publishers as well as booksellers, who&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 101 (#141) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
101&lt;br /&gt;
have spoken to me to this effect concerning the&lt;br /&gt;
fatal sixpenny book.&lt;br /&gt;
My objections remain :&lt;br /&gt;
1. People very soon get accustomed to pay six-&lt;br /&gt;
pence for a book and will not, if they can help it,&lt;br /&gt;
give more.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The low price encourages a low view of&lt;br /&gt;
literature. Who will value a thing that costs six-&lt;br /&gt;
pence, amuses for an hour, and then is thrown&lt;br /&gt;
away? How much does one value a sixpenny toy ?&lt;br /&gt;
3. The American example is still fresh in one&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
mind, where the market was flooded with sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
books&mdash;the best and most valued productions of&lt;br /&gt;
the best authors. The public bought them;&lt;br /&gt;
read them for amusement; read them uncritically&lt;br /&gt;
and carelessly; threw them away, and thought&lt;br /&gt;
no more about book or author.&lt;br /&gt;
4. I do not say that the sale of a sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
book always prevents the sale of a dearer book.&lt;br /&gt;
I do say, however, that in many, very many, cases&lt;br /&gt;
it does, and that it takes a great many sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
books to make up, either for publisher or author,&lt;br /&gt;
one six-shilling book.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Also I do say that the instance I recorded&lt;br /&gt;
where, at an important railway stall, I found&lt;br /&gt;
actually no new books at all except the sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
book, is not a solitary case.&lt;br /&gt;
6. And I do say, also, that the experience of&lt;br /&gt;
the manager of that railway bookstall, to the&lt;br /&gt;
effect that no one would look at a book priced&lt;br /&gt;
higher than sixpence, is not a solitary experience.&lt;br /&gt;
I would also say this. I have received many&lt;br /&gt;
letters on this subject. I find that there is a&lt;br /&gt;
large class of people with very small incomes who&lt;br /&gt;
are delighted at the chance of getting good books&lt;br /&gt;
at so cheap a price. One cannot but feel the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest sympathy with these people. Their case&lt;br /&gt;
might surely be met by a simple limitation of the&lt;br /&gt;
sixpenny issue to books which have stood the test&lt;br /&gt;
of time--say, for ten or fifteen years. Books in&lt;br /&gt;
demand after that time are pretty sure to be good&lt;br /&gt;
books, while their sale at so low a price would not&lt;br /&gt;
probably affect the sale of the new and higher&lt;br /&gt;
priced candidates for success.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
lawfully published in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions&lt;br /&gt;
other than Canada, and if it is proved to the satisfaction of&lt;br /&gt;
the Minister of Agriculture that the owner of the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
so subsisting and of the copyright acquired by such publi.&lt;br /&gt;
cation has lawfully granted a license to reproduce in Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
from movable or other types, or from stereotype plates, or&lt;br /&gt;
from electro-plates, or from lithograph stones, or by any&lt;br /&gt;
process for facsimile reproduction, an edition or editions of&lt;br /&gt;
such book designed for sale only in Canada, the Minister&lt;br /&gt;
may, notwithstanding anything in the Copyright Act, by&lt;br /&gt;
order under his hand, prohibit the importation, except with&lt;br /&gt;
the written consent of the licensee, into Canada of any&lt;br /&gt;
copies of such book printed elsewhere ; provided that two&lt;br /&gt;
such copies may be specially imported for the bona fide use&lt;br /&gt;
of any public free library or any university or college&lt;br /&gt;
library, or for the library of any duly incorporated instita.&lt;br /&gt;
tion or society for the use of the members of such institu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion or society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Suspension or revocation of prohibition.-The Minister&lt;br /&gt;
of Agriculture may at any time in like manner, by order&lt;br /&gt;
under his hand, suspend or revoke such prohibition upon&lt;br /&gt;
importation if it is proved to his satisfaction that,&lt;br /&gt;
(a) the license to reproduce in Canada has torminated or&lt;br /&gt;
expired; or&lt;br /&gt;
(6) the reasonable demand for the book in Canada is not&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently met without importation; or&lt;br /&gt;
(c) the book is not, having regard to the demand therefor&lt;br /&gt;
in Canada, being suitably printed or published; or&lt;br /&gt;
(d) any other state of things exists on account of which it&lt;br /&gt;
is not in the public interest to further prohibit&lt;br /&gt;
importation.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Failure of licensee to supply book. -At any time after&lt;br /&gt;
the importation of a book has been prohibited under&lt;br /&gt;
section 1 of this Act, any person resident or being in&lt;br /&gt;
Canada may apply, either directly or through a bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
or other agent, to the person so licensed to reproduce such&lt;br /&gt;
book, for a copy of any edition of such book then on sale&lt;br /&gt;
and reasonably obtainable in the United Kingdom or some&lt;br /&gt;
other part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions, and it shall then be&lt;br /&gt;
the duty of the person so licensed, as soon as reasonably&lt;br /&gt;
may be, to import and sell such copy to the person so&lt;br /&gt;
applying therefor, at the ordinary selling price of such copy&lt;br /&gt;
in the United Kingdom or such other part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
dominions, with the duty and reasonable forwarding charges&lt;br /&gt;
added ; and the failure or neglect, without lawful excuse, of&lt;br /&gt;
the person so licensed to supply such copy within a reason.&lt;br /&gt;
able time, shall be a reason for which the Minister may, if&lt;br /&gt;
he sees fit, suspend or revoke the prohibition upon impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tation.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Customs Department to be notified.-The Minister&lt;br /&gt;
sball forth with inform the Department of Customs of any&lt;br /&gt;
order made by him ander this Act.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Penalty for unlawful importation.-All books im-&lt;br /&gt;
ported in contravention of this Act may be seized by any&lt;br /&gt;
officer of Customs, and shall be forfeited to the Crown and&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed; and any person importing, or causing or per-&lt;br /&gt;
mitting the importation, of any book in contravention of&lt;br /&gt;
this Act shall, for each offence, be liable, upon summary&lt;br /&gt;
conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.&lt;br /&gt;
It is almost impossible to overrate the import-&lt;br /&gt;
ance of the Act from the point of view of Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. Articles have been from time to time&lt;br /&gt;
printed in The Author dealing exhaustively with&lt;br /&gt;
the history of Canadian copyright and the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian book trade. In these the practical ruin&lt;br /&gt;
of the Canadian book trade by the Foreign&lt;br /&gt;
Reprints Act, and the subsequent struggle by the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian printer and the Canadian trades under&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT Act.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the text of the Canadian&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act passed on July 18, 1900 :&lt;br /&gt;
63 &amp;amp; 64 VICTORIA, CHAP. 25.&lt;br /&gt;
An Act to amend the Copyright Act.- Assented to 18th&lt;br /&gt;
July, 1900.]&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the&lt;br /&gt;
Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:&lt;br /&gt;
1. In case of license to reprint book copyrighted in United&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom or British possession, Minister may prohibit im.&lt;br /&gt;
portation of other reprints. If a book as to which there is&lt;br /&gt;
subsisting copyright under the Copyright Act has been first&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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102&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the leadership of Sir John Thompson, have also THE PENSION FUND OF THE INCORPO-&lt;br /&gt;
been reviewed. It has been demonstrated that RATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
the passing of the American Copyright Law,&lt;br /&gt;
falsely supposed to injure the Canadians, in M HE scheme of the Pension Fund as finally&lt;br /&gt;
reality was the turning point in favour of the settled was printed in the July number of&lt;br /&gt;
book trade, and that the refusal of the Canadian - The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Government to collect royalties under the Foreign The Committee now desire to inform the&lt;br /&gt;
Reprints Act gave that trade an additional members of the Society that the fund is legally&lt;br /&gt;
impetus. Those who care to study the reasons constituted, and hasten to acknowledge the&lt;br /&gt;
for these deductions are referred to the past valuable suggestions that were received prior to&lt;br /&gt;
numbers of The Author. One point, however, its final settlement.&lt;br /&gt;
was wanting to secure a completely satisfactory Mr. J. M. Lely, Mr. E. Clodd, and Mr. Douglas&lt;br /&gt;
settlement, namely, legislation by the Canadian W. Freshfield have kindly consented to act as&lt;br /&gt;
Government along the right lines. Sir John trustees of the Fund, and have signed all the&lt;br /&gt;
Thompson had fought the cause of the printer deeds necessary to confirm their appointment.&lt;br /&gt;
and the tradesman against the author whose The Pension Fund Committee will be appointed,&lt;br /&gt;
property was being much dealt with.&lt;br /&gt;
as provided by the scheme, at the next annual&lt;br /&gt;
Did Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet desire general meeting. Notice will be given in The&lt;br /&gt;
to adopt a similar point of view ?&lt;br /&gt;
Author as to the method of nominating candi-&lt;br /&gt;
There were two aspects to this question : (1) dates, and it is hoped that a large number of the&lt;br /&gt;
The Imperial and International; (2) the Cana members of the Society will show their interest&lt;br /&gt;
dian. If Sir John Thompson&amp;#039;s methods were in the scheme by voting on that occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
followed it appeared clear that the present The following details as to the present position&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial and International legislation would of the Fund will be of interest to the members :&lt;br /&gt;
become chaotic, and that any future beneficial The sum total of donations promised and paid&lt;br /&gt;
legislation would be indefinitely postponed. To amounts to &pound;1169 48. 6d. Of this total nearly&lt;br /&gt;
counteract this the supposed benefit to the &pound;1000 has been received, and by far the greater&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian would be in reality but a fresh disaster. portion is already invested in the names of the&lt;br /&gt;
Four or five years ago, before the present Govern trustees.&lt;br /&gt;
ment in Canada came into power, the Committee The sum total of annual subscriptions amounts&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors saw clearly that the to &pound;94 138.&lt;br /&gt;
settlement of the Canadian question involved the It is calculated that the investment of the&lt;br /&gt;
larger issue, and accordingly struggled to get donations will produce about &pound;30 a year; this sum,&lt;br /&gt;
the matter satisfactorily settled. In 1895 Mr. together with the proportion of subscriptions&lt;br /&gt;
Hall Caine consented at the request of the available for pensions under the scheme, will make&lt;br /&gt;
Committee to act as the Society&amp;#039;s delegate in the total amount available about &pound;60.&lt;br /&gt;
Canada. The position that Mr. Caine combated In this calculation, however, no margin is&lt;br /&gt;
was, however, subsequently altered owing to the allowed for working expenses, and it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
sudden death of Sir John Thompson.&lt;br /&gt;
expected that services in connection with the Fund&lt;br /&gt;
Early in 1898 the Committee prepared an hitherto given gratuitously should not in the&lt;br /&gt;
exhaustive report on the question, and appointed future involve a charge on the Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. H. Thring, the Secretary of their Society, In any event it is hoped that the Pension Com-&lt;br /&gt;
to represent them on a mission to Canada.&lt;br /&gt;
mittee, when elected, will be in a position at once&lt;br /&gt;
A report of this mission and its object has been to allot a substantial pension. It is most desir-&lt;br /&gt;
printed in the October number of The Author, able that they should be able to grant at least one&lt;br /&gt;
and the above print of the Bill is all that is neces. other adequate pension immediately, besides&lt;br /&gt;
sary to complete the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
meeting all working expenses.&lt;br /&gt;
It may be confidently asserted that, owing to The establishment of the Fund has been re-&lt;br /&gt;
the steps which have been taken by Sir Wilfrid ceived with general approvement by&lt;br /&gt;
Laurier and his able colleague, Mr. Sydney but at present actual pecuniary support has&lt;br /&gt;
Fisher, in whose hands lies the copyright matter been given by a comparatively small number of&lt;br /&gt;
in Canada, the Imperial Government will be persons.&lt;br /&gt;
free to take up Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, which has The Committee would impress upon the Society&lt;br /&gt;
the support in its main features of the authors the desirability of widening the field of support,&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers of Great Britain, and, it it hoped, not merely from the point of view of increasing&lt;br /&gt;
of the Colonial Governments also. If this result the Fund, but of identifying the Society at large&lt;br /&gt;
is obtained a great advance will have been made with this effort to provide for deserving, but com-&lt;br /&gt;
in the history of copyright legislation.&lt;br /&gt;
mercially unsuccessful, authors.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
103&lt;br /&gt;
Annual subscriptions from 58. and upwards are&lt;br /&gt;
cordially invited, and should be notified to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary without delay.&lt;br /&gt;
They may be paid together with the annual&lt;br /&gt;
subscriptions either by banker&amp;#039;s order (which is&lt;br /&gt;
preferred) or direct to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, reprinted from The Author, may&lt;br /&gt;
be had on application to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Great Exhibition is slowly drawing&lt;br /&gt;
towards its apogee-and its end. Inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national congresses are still its favourite&lt;br /&gt;
diversion. The memorandum of the five days&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
International Peace Congress included the pass.&lt;br /&gt;
ing of a vote of censure on Great Britain for her&lt;br /&gt;
action in South Africa. Among other speakers.&lt;br /&gt;
the well-known French writer Mme. S&eacute;verine&lt;br /&gt;
delivered an address with her usual eloquent&lt;br /&gt;
volubility. She declared herself struck by the&lt;br /&gt;
despondent tone which prevailed among the&lt;br /&gt;
orators present.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;What matter if the present escape us?&rdquo; cried&lt;br /&gt;
she. &ldquo;An invisible harvest is sprouting. The&lt;br /&gt;
words of Peace and Justice have penetrated the&lt;br /&gt;
deepest strata of humanity. Let us continue our&lt;br /&gt;
labour, as did those generations of slaves who&lt;br /&gt;
constructed the Pyramids without knowing what&lt;br /&gt;
form they would one day have. We shall not&lt;br /&gt;
house the harvest, certes. What does that&lt;br /&gt;
matter? If only a single ear of corn one day&lt;br /&gt;
sprouts on our tombs, we shall be sufficiently&lt;br /&gt;
paid for having believed and willed !&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Apropos of the other international assemblages&lt;br /&gt;
-the Congress of Spiritualists, patronised by MM.&lt;br /&gt;
Anatole France and Victorien Sardou, aroused&lt;br /&gt;
much interest among the initiated. The pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ceedings of the Women&amp;#039;s Congress were generally&lt;br /&gt;
remarkable for their sobriety of speech and&lt;br /&gt;
logical perception of the end in view, while the&lt;br /&gt;
papers read at the Sociology Congress were&lt;br /&gt;
highly interesting from a technical point of view.&lt;br /&gt;
The next Sociology Congress will be held at&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow; and the memoranda forwarded by&lt;br /&gt;
foreigners unable to attend during the sittings of&lt;br /&gt;
the present congress will shortly be published by&lt;br /&gt;
M. Ren&eacute; Worms, secretary-general, in the Annales&lt;br /&gt;
de l&amp;#039;Institut International de Sociologie.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Coquelin, senior, is registering a golden&lt;br /&gt;
harvest for the Association des Artistes Drama&lt;br /&gt;
tiques by the personal sale of tickets for a grand&lt;br /&gt;
lottery on behalf of the superannuated female&lt;br /&gt;
members of the association of which he is pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sident. The Soci&eacute;te des Auteurs et Compositeurs&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatiques has also obtained an unexpected&lt;br /&gt;
stroke of good luck. In renewing his contract&lt;br /&gt;
with the committee of the latter society, M.&lt;br /&gt;
Antoine (director of the theatre of the same&lt;br /&gt;
name) spontaneously offered to raise the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
royalty from 10 to 12 per cent. Needless to add&lt;br /&gt;
that this generous proposition was gratefully&lt;br /&gt;
accepted by M. Sardou, president of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo; Patrie &rdquo; of the above celebrated drama-&lt;br /&gt;
tist will be one of the first plays performed in the&lt;br /&gt;
new Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise, which is expected to&lt;br /&gt;
open about Dec. 29. The building will be lit by&lt;br /&gt;
2500 electric lamps, which are reported to give a&lt;br /&gt;
light 25 per cent. stronger than that which&lt;br /&gt;
formerly illuminated the scene of this historic&lt;br /&gt;
building.&lt;br /&gt;
POPULAR PLAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
Meantime the &ldquo; Aiglon&rdquo; of M. Edmond&lt;br /&gt;
Rostand (Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Sarah Bernhardt) is enjoying&lt;br /&gt;
the phenomenal success which usually attends&lt;br /&gt;
that famous author&amp;#039;s productions. Its receipts&lt;br /&gt;
have already surpassed two million francs, show-&lt;br /&gt;
ing an average of 10,373 francs 15 cents per&lt;br /&gt;
performance. M. Rostand has recently quitted&lt;br /&gt;
Paris in accordance with his physician&amp;#039;s advice, in&lt;br /&gt;
order to recuperate his health by a temporary&lt;br /&gt;
residence at Cambo-les-Bains.&lt;br /&gt;
The respective revival of &ldquo; Le R&ecirc;ve&amp;quot; of M.&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Gallet (Op&eacute;ra Comique), adapted from M.&lt;br /&gt;
Zola&amp;#039;s celebrated novel of the same name, and of&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;Demi Vierges &rdquo; of M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost&lt;br /&gt;
(Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e Theatre), have likewise been drawing&lt;br /&gt;
crowded houses. M. Bruneau, the &ldquo;innovator&lt;br /&gt;
and iconoclast who has proscribed the cavatina&lt;br /&gt;
and arioso,&amp;quot; is responsible for the superb music&lt;br /&gt;
which accompanies the former play. He is also&lt;br /&gt;
the ardent friend and disciple of M. Zola, for&lt;br /&gt;
whom he avows &ldquo;an unbounded admiration and&lt;br /&gt;
a filial affection.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is by reading Zola&amp;#039;s works&lt;br /&gt;
that I have understood my vocation,&amp;quot; he remarked&lt;br /&gt;
on one occasion. &ldquo;It is Zola who made me com-&lt;br /&gt;
prehend that it was possible to attempt in music&lt;br /&gt;
what he has himself realised in literature.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
first performance of the &ldquo; Assommoir&rdquo; of the&lt;br /&gt;
latter author is announced for November i at the&lt;br /&gt;
Porte-Saint-Martin theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, the author of the &ldquo;Demi&lt;br /&gt;
Vierges,&amp;quot; is one of the most popular writers in&lt;br /&gt;
Paris. None have better understood, or more&lt;br /&gt;
finely portrayed, the mysteries of the complex&lt;br /&gt;
heart and mind of the Parisienne fin de si&egrave;cle.&lt;br /&gt;
As a psychological vivisectionist of the feminine&lt;br /&gt;
mind he occupies a unique position in French&lt;br /&gt;
literature. M. Bourget analyses the past and&lt;br /&gt;
present, while M. Pr&eacute;vost develops the types of&lt;br /&gt;
the future.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 104 (#144) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
104&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
A MORTUARY PARAGRAPH.&lt;br /&gt;
writer over the minds of his readers. Under&lt;br /&gt;
Three deaths have been deplored in literary these circumstances it is not surprising that the&lt;br /&gt;
circles during the past month :-&lt;br /&gt;
latest volume of the &ldquo; Oeuvres compl&egrave;tes&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That of M. Adolphe Hatzfield, &ldquo; docteur d&rsquo;Alphonse Daudet &rdquo; (issued by M. A. Houssiaux)&lt;br /&gt;
&egrave;s lettres &rdquo; and professor of rhetoric at the Louis should be reported as having a brisk sale. It is&lt;br /&gt;
le-Grand College, who had the happiness to survive cleverly illustrated by M. Dawant. Alphonse&lt;br /&gt;
until the publication of his monumental achieve Daudet particularly insisted on the necessity of&lt;br /&gt;
ment, &ldquo; Le Dictionnaire de la langue Fran&ccedil;aise,&rdquo; absolute exactitude in the reproduction of a&lt;br /&gt;
which has recently been awarded a Grand Prix personage in print, &ldquo;jusqu &agrave; la couleur des&lt;br /&gt;
by the Exhibition commissioners. At the date cheveux, &agrave; la forme du nez, &agrave; un tic, &agrave; une&lt;br /&gt;
when he commenced this work (in collaboration grimace qui semblent n&eacute;cessaires, indispensables&lt;br /&gt;
with MM. Thomas and Darmesteter), M. Hatz. &agrave; la silhouette !&rdquo; Nature&mdash;that marvellous artist&lt;br /&gt;
field counted on finishing it in three years. The -in accentuating a character (so he asserted) com-&lt;br /&gt;
undertaking, however, proved more arduous than pleted the physical by the moral in such a manner&lt;br /&gt;
be anticipated. Nearly thirty years have expired that the least modification appeared a trickery.&lt;br /&gt;
between the commencement and conclusion of this The individual type carries with him son mobilier,&lt;br /&gt;
Herculean labour, begun in 1870. M. Hatzfield, ses v&ecirc;tements, sa mani&egrave;re, tout son cadre!&lt;br /&gt;
who was of Hebrew origin, had attained the It is this absolute fidelity to nature, this&lt;br /&gt;
mature age of seventy-five years.&lt;br /&gt;
masterly reproduction of outline and colouring&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Likewise of Hebrew origin was the gentle united to a poetical imagination, which have won&lt;br /&gt;
poet Louis Ratisbonne, who died at the ancient Alphonse Daudet the high place he occupies&lt;br /&gt;
Palais de Luxembourg (Palais du Senat), where among modern French writers.&lt;br /&gt;
he filled the post of librarian. Colleague and Two new busts have, likewise, been voted by&lt;br /&gt;
friend of Leconte de Lisle, Charles Edmond. the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. The first to&lt;br /&gt;
Anatole France, Albert Sorel, Jules Janin, and a M. E. Hamel, whose efforts have greatly benefited&lt;br /&gt;
host of other celebrities; author of &ldquo; La Com&eacute;die the society; the second to M. Emile Richebourg,&lt;br /&gt;
Enfantine.&rdquo; &ldquo; Les Petites Femmes.&amp;quot; ~ Les Petits the popular novelist. The statue of Balzac&lt;br /&gt;
Hommes,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les Figures Jeunes,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les Six (modelled by Falqui&egrave;re) will shortly be erected in&lt;br /&gt;
Alsaciennes,&amp;quot; and other poems of merit, he still the Place du Palais Royal, in front of the&lt;br /&gt;
counted among his proudest distinctions that of Minist&egrave;re des Finances.&lt;br /&gt;
being the friend and testamentary executor of&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred de Vigny, and the editor of the latter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
BULLETINS DE SANT&Eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
two posthumous works respectively entitled Mme. Juliette Adam has recovered her usual&lt;br /&gt;
Les Destin&eacute;es&rdquo; and &ldquo; Le Journal d&amp;#039;un Po&egrave;te.&rdquo; health, and is now intent on launching a new fort-&lt;br /&gt;
In his own last testament (dated Feb. 15, 1900) nightly publication entitled Parole Fran&ccedil;aise &agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Ratisbonne directed that his mortal l&amp;#039;&eacute;tranger, in which she proposes dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
remains should be incinerated and placed in an foreign politics and other interesting topics.&lt;br /&gt;
urn surmounted by a stela. He further added Previous to her temporary retirement, Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
that if this urn were taken to the Montmartre Adam occupied the post of editress of the&lt;br /&gt;
cemetery and placed as near as possible to the Nouvelle Revue during a period of twenty years.&lt;br /&gt;
tomb of his friend and benefactor, the great poet M. Henri de Regnier, who has been suffering&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred de Vigny, his shade would rest content from congestion of the lungs, is reported con-&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) His unfortunate brother-poet, Gabriel valescent. His illness is attributed to overwork,&lt;br /&gt;
Vicaire, generally known as the author of and the fatigues incurred during his American&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; &Eacute;maux Bressans,&amp;quot; died in a maison de sant&eacute; in trip. According to the New York papers, M.&lt;br /&gt;
Montsouris Park, aged fifty-two years. Highly Gaston Deschamps will be the next French&lt;br /&gt;
appreciated by his literary comrades, his best pro lecturer at the Harvard University, under whose&lt;br /&gt;
ductions remained comparatively unknown to the auspices he will deliver eight lectures on &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
multitude. He was also the author of several Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Contemporain.&rdquo; M. Deschamps proposes&lt;br /&gt;
successful plays and of a satirical work entitled leaving Paris in the beginning of February and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Les D&eacute;liquescences d&amp;#039;Ador&eacute; Floupette,&amp;quot; which returning about the middle of May, employing&lt;br /&gt;
enjoyed great popularity.&lt;br /&gt;
the intervening time in lecturing in the principal&lt;br /&gt;
American universities.&lt;br /&gt;
M. ALPHONSE DAUDET.&lt;br /&gt;
The large number of subscriptions already&lt;br /&gt;
New Books.&lt;br /&gt;
received by the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres for Among interesting publications of the month&lt;br /&gt;
the erection of an Alphonse Daudet monument will be found :-&ldquo; &Eacute;tudes sur l&amp;#039;Esth&eacute;tique Musi-&lt;br /&gt;
shows the influence still wielded by the defunct cale,&rdquo; by M. Ch. Grandmougin, a volume com-&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 105 (#145) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; 105&lt;br /&gt;
mencing with the Ancient Greeks and ending&lt;br /&gt;
with the great French and German composers of&lt;br /&gt;
our own day; a volume of soliloquies entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Dol&eacute;ances,&rdquo; by Jehan Rictus, a work suitable&lt;br /&gt;
for those readers who do not disdain &ldquo; le spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tacle des plus hideux bas-fonds sociaux&rdquo;;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Corridas de Toros,&amp;quot; by M. D. Cialdine, a&lt;br /&gt;
book whose title sufficiently explains its subject&lt;br /&gt;
(Soci&eacute;t&eacute; libre d&amp;#039;&eacute;dition des Gens de Lettres);&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; S&eacute;r&eacute;nissime,&amp;quot; by M. Ernest La Jeunesse, a&lt;br /&gt;
highly improbable narrative reputed to be a&lt;br /&gt;
roman &agrave; clef (chez Charpentier); &ldquo; Croquis&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;outre-Manche,&amp;quot; being the outcome of the obser-&lt;br /&gt;
vations and investigations nade for that purpose&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Hector France during his stay in England;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; La Trilogie d&amp;#039;Amour,&rdquo; a posthumous poem&lt;br /&gt;
edited by the family of a deceased young poet&lt;br /&gt;
and painter of great promise, M. Marin Follet.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
that the writer would try again. He wrote soon&lt;br /&gt;
after reporting renewed failure, and proposed to&lt;br /&gt;
publish the volume himself if the author would&lt;br /&gt;
take &pound;15 worth of orders for the book at 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
and guarantee another &pound;15 in the event of the&lt;br /&gt;
sales to the public not amounting to so much. He&lt;br /&gt;
obtained a third sum of money out of the author&lt;br /&gt;
for alterations and additious. The book came out.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody bought a copy, and Mr. Morgan is now&lt;br /&gt;
threatening Mr. N. with legal proceedings for the&lt;br /&gt;
recovery of &pound;15. Iu other words, he wants to get&lt;br /&gt;
altogether &pound;35 for the book. The editor of Truth&lt;br /&gt;
says that he has seen the book, and taken estimates&lt;br /&gt;
of the cost of production, and that &pound;25 would&lt;br /&gt;
fully pay the cost of an edition of 500 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
But has he printed and bound 500 copies ?&lt;br /&gt;
Probably he has printed and bound about 100&lt;br /&gt;
- the unfortunate author taking &pound;15 worth,&lt;br /&gt;
or eighty-six copies.&lt;br /&gt;
Truth proceeds to point out that the whole trans-&lt;br /&gt;
action is a swindle. The author has been induced&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
to believe that there will be no profits until &pound;30&lt;br /&gt;
worth has been sold. But there will then already&lt;br /&gt;
IT is now eight years since the exposure by be a profit in the publisher&amp;#039;s hands. Next, the book&lt;br /&gt;
1 Truth of a gang who preyed on the credulous never had a chance of making a profitable sale, a&lt;br /&gt;
by means of a bogus &ldquo;Literary Association&rdquo; thing which Morgan must have i nown very well.&lt;br /&gt;
led to the trial and conviction of the principals. The idea that a collection of trifles by an unknown&lt;br /&gt;
The leader, one Morgan, was sentenced to eight author will sell at all is ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;
years penal servitude, the severity of the sentence&lt;br /&gt;
marking the heinousness of the offence. Morgan&lt;br /&gt;
is now reported to be out again, and to have&lt;br /&gt;
I quite agree with every word. I would, how-&lt;br /&gt;
returned without any delay to his old courses.&lt;br /&gt;
ever, point out that another form of the trick,&lt;br /&gt;
He is said to have started another &ldquo; Literary&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
which we have exposed over and over again, is&lt;br /&gt;
society. Membership means a guinea a year:&lt;br /&gt;
quite as dishonest. The way of it is this (for&lt;br /&gt;
in return the &ldquo; proprietor&rdquo; kindly offers to&lt;br /&gt;
the hundredth time): A writer sends his MS. to&lt;br /&gt;
place the MSS. of authors before publishers&lt;br /&gt;
one of the worthy merchants who live by this&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;who pay from &pound;50 to &pound;200 for reliable&lt;br /&gt;
and similar methods. He receives back a reply-&lt;br /&gt;
three - volume novels.&rdquo; Observe that since&lt;br /&gt;
almost always in these words :&lt;br /&gt;
his seclusion the three-volume novel has become&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Our reader reports so favourably of your&lt;br /&gt;
extinct; as they do not supply the daily and&lt;br /&gt;
MS. that we are induced to offer you the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
weekly papers in the mansion where Morgan&lt;br /&gt;
ing favourable terms. You to pay us &pound;75 (or&lt;br /&gt;
spent his eight years he may be excused for not&lt;br /&gt;
any other fancy figure)-half on signing the agree-&lt;br /&gt;
knowing the fact. However, the &ldquo;proprietor&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ment, and the other half on receiving the first&lt;br /&gt;
saves himself by offering to place other and&lt;br /&gt;
proofs (or some other time). This will constitute&lt;br /&gt;
shorter stories, music, paintings, &amp;amp;c. He also&lt;br /&gt;
your sole liability. We will undertake all future&lt;br /&gt;
proposes to found a magazine for the contri-&lt;br /&gt;
editions to meet the demand, and we will divide&lt;br /&gt;
butions of his members. This is all in the old&lt;br /&gt;
the profits, giving you two-thirds and taking one-&lt;br /&gt;
style co inuch admired by the judge in the year&lt;br /&gt;
third to ourselves.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
1892. Truth has begun a new exposure of this&lt;br /&gt;
Sometimes they offer the author apparently&lt;br /&gt;
worthy. It gives the particulars of one case,&lt;br /&gt;
much better terms, and they generally end with&lt;br /&gt;
which is as follows.&lt;br /&gt;
these words : &ldquo;We shall be glad to have your&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance of this offer, and to put the work in&lt;br /&gt;
A member of this precious society named N. hand at once. We have proved that the month of&lt;br /&gt;
confided a MS. to the proprietor. After a short&lt;br /&gt;
is the best time of the year for publishing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
delay, he received a note speaking in high praise&lt;br /&gt;
of the work, lamenting the &ldquo;blindness &rdquo; of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, and stating that it had so far failed, but&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 106 (#146) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
106&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Observe that there are two or three houses literature may bring about the manufacture of books like&lt;br /&gt;
which do hardly any other kind of publishing, and&lt;br /&gt;
the manufacture of bicycles, and their distribution by&lt;br /&gt;
commercial travellers like the other products of the mana-&lt;br /&gt;
several which try the same game. The swindle is&lt;br /&gt;
facturers. In that case the publisher will have just the&lt;br /&gt;
the same as Morgan&amp;#039;s. They lead the author to same standing in the business world as any other manu-&lt;br /&gt;
believe that there will be further editions, and facturer, and will not impose upon the public any longer as&lt;br /&gt;
that there will be profits. Now they know per. a necessity in the literary field.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
fectly well that the MS. is in almost every case One remarks that the writer considers 10 per&lt;br /&gt;
pure rubbish, and absolutely certain not to sell any cent. the general royalty paid to authors. But&lt;br /&gt;
copies to speak of ; that there will be no future the English author in America does a great deal&lt;br /&gt;
editions ; and that there can be no profits. How better than that, while with us a 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
can we bring these creatures to justice ?&lt;br /&gt;
royalty could only be offered either to unknown&lt;br /&gt;
writers or under some exceptional conditions.&lt;br /&gt;
What is said about a time limit is well worth&lt;br /&gt;
There is at the office of the Society a collection consideration. The method has been adopted&lt;br /&gt;
of letters of this kind in which every month, by some authors already. But there is a danger&lt;br /&gt;
except one, is in turn alleged to be the best time which must be guarded against. The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
of the whole year for publishing.&lt;br /&gt;
even under a time agreement, claims the right of&lt;br /&gt;
selling off what remains. He may even, unless&lt;br /&gt;
prevented, issue a new edition immediately before&lt;br /&gt;
Another merry trickster&amp;#039;s game is this. The the termination of his time, and go on selling&lt;br /&gt;
publisher makes the author guarantee a sale of this edition until it has run out.&lt;br /&gt;
so many hundred copies in so many months-say&lt;br /&gt;
400 in six months&mdash;or the difference between the&lt;br /&gt;
number sold and that number. Sometimes he&lt;br /&gt;
Literature (Oct. 27) reports that in Belgium,&lt;br /&gt;
offers a small royalty on a second edition. But under the title &ldquo;Ligue pour le Livre Belge,&amp;quot; a&lt;br /&gt;
he never says anything about the first edition. society is being founded which, by means of sub-&lt;br /&gt;
There is nothing to prevent him, if the book scriptions, will assure a regular reading public&lt;br /&gt;
should have a circulation, from making his first&lt;br /&gt;
in their own country to Belgian authors. The&lt;br /&gt;
edition any number he pleases : the author will&lt;br /&gt;
new league will supplement the lending library,&lt;br /&gt;
have nothing out of it. And suppose he chooses&lt;br /&gt;
and enable the public to buy new works more&lt;br /&gt;
to begin advertising six months after the work is frequently. It has secured the patronage and&lt;br /&gt;
nominally produced. What then? Who is to&lt;br /&gt;
co-operation of &ldquo; nearly all the foremost men of&lt;br /&gt;
stop him ? Morgan! Hapless Morgan! It is literature and art.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
an unequal world. Thy fate was hard. Skilly&lt;br /&gt;
and a narrow cell and an un&aelig;sthetic prison Two members of the Committee of Management&lt;br /&gt;
chapel, while thy brother in tricks and traps goes of the Society of Authors have been elected to&lt;br /&gt;
attired in broadcloth to a lovely church and, the new Parliament. Mr. Gilbert Parker won&lt;br /&gt;
after the service, home to roast beef and pudding! Gravesend for the Conservative party by a&lt;br /&gt;
majority of 738 over the Liberal candidate; and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Norman captured for the Liberals&lt;br /&gt;
The following is an extract from a letter by a the constituency of Wolverhampton (South),&lt;br /&gt;
distinguished American author:-&lt;br /&gt;
gaining a majority of 169 votes over his Liberal&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I certainly do not think our own publishers, the best of Unionist opponent. Both gentlemen enter&lt;br /&gt;
them, have been as grasping and greedy as yours, but they&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament for the first time. Let us wish them&lt;br /&gt;
bave fallen into the habit of considering the author as their&lt;br /&gt;
own private property, to be exploited for the pecuniary&lt;br /&gt;
all the success that they can desire in this new&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of the publisher. As you know, our pretty uniform&lt;br /&gt;
field.&lt;br /&gt;
practice in this country is for the author to receive 10 per&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
cent. on the retail price of all books sold. Some of the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers reckon this to be equal to half profits, and I&lt;br /&gt;
fancy that in rendering the half-profit account they would&lt;br /&gt;
make it come to about 10 percent. I think our main&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty here would be met largely if we could return to the&lt;br /&gt;
old practice of letting the publisher print a certain number&lt;br /&gt;
of books or for a certain period of time, and let the author&lt;br /&gt;
resume control at the end of it. Doubtless the publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
a necessary factor in a country the size of oars, and I see&lt;br /&gt;
at present no way of eliminating him, especially as the&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller himself has practically disappeared as an intel.&lt;br /&gt;
ligent agent and become a mere dealer in Yankee notions&lt;br /&gt;
and periodicals; but the present commercial tendency in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 107 (#147) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
107&lt;br /&gt;
THE FOUR WINDS.&lt;br /&gt;
work. &ldquo; Cheap and Nasty &amp;quot; is the burden of the&lt;br /&gt;
song.&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the North,&lt;br /&gt;
Now, sir, although all may be &ldquo;fair in love and&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the Norland onows,&lt;br /&gt;
war,&rdquo; the commonest of &ldquo; Cheap Jacks&rdquo; would&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the winnowed skies, and sbarp, clear stars, --&lt;br /&gt;
scorn the idea of comparing his wares with those&lt;br /&gt;
Blow cold and keen across the naked bills,&lt;br /&gt;
of his pal over the way. Is it not enough that&lt;br /&gt;
And crisp the lowland pools with crystal films,&lt;br /&gt;
And blar the casement squares with glittering ice,&lt;br /&gt;
his own are dirt cheap at double the price? And&lt;br /&gt;
But go not near my love.&lt;br /&gt;
yet, from some singular oversight, you permit a&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the West,&lt;br /&gt;
regular advertiser, as aforesaid, not only to vaunt&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the few, far clouds,&lt;br /&gt;
the superiority of his typing over that of a&lt;br /&gt;
Wiod of the gold and crimson sunset lands,&lt;br /&gt;
brother struggler for a livelihood, but to vilify&lt;br /&gt;
Blow fresh and pare across the peaks and plaine,&lt;br /&gt;
the latter&amp;#039;s unseen fruit of toil as necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
And broaden the blae spaces of the beavens,&lt;br /&gt;
inaccurate and illiterate. Why? Because the&lt;br /&gt;
And sway the grasses and the mountain pines,&lt;br /&gt;
But let my dear one rest.&lt;br /&gt;
price of 8d. per 1000 is ruinous to his market,&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the East,&lt;br /&gt;
forsooth! Perhaps this Academical typer is not&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the sunrise Beas,&lt;br /&gt;
aware that even our self-willed Kaiser of yore,&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the clinging inists and gray, harsh rains,-- Harry VIII., egregiously failed in an attempt to&lt;br /&gt;
Blow moist and chill across the wastes of brine,&lt;br /&gt;
regulate the price of labour. Who, then, is&lt;br /&gt;
And shut the sun out, and tbe moon and stars,&lt;br /&gt;
this rival to the most thorough-going ruler&lt;br /&gt;
And lash the boughs against the dripping eaves,&lt;br /&gt;
Yet keep thou from my love.&lt;br /&gt;
England ever had ?&lt;br /&gt;
Now it so happens that a corresponding crime&lt;br /&gt;
But thou, sweet wind !&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the fragrant South,&lt;br /&gt;
--that of poverty-has brought me into contact&lt;br /&gt;
Wind from the bowers of jasmine and of rose, -&lt;br /&gt;
and fellowship with this daring interloper in the&lt;br /&gt;
Over magnolia blooms and lilied lakes&lt;br /&gt;
public market with the following result :-&lt;br /&gt;
And flowering forests come with dewy wings,&lt;br /&gt;
(1) Being an invalid and addicted to pencil&lt;br /&gt;
And stir the petals at her feet, and kiss&lt;br /&gt;
scribbling on any available scrap of paper, often&lt;br /&gt;
The low mound where she lies.&lt;br /&gt;
in a style of kakography that would make the&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES HENRY LUDERS.&lt;br /&gt;
cleverest compositor&amp;#039;s hair stand on end-the&lt;br /&gt;
The above poem appears in Mr. E. C. Stedman&amp;#039;s typist&amp;#039;s copy has been promptly returned without&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; American Anthology,&rdquo; a long-expected work a flaw, quite a picture of delight. This pencilled&lt;br /&gt;
which has just been published in the United scrawl with the typed copy is a too favourable&lt;br /&gt;
States. We take it from the Evening Post of case in point.&lt;br /&gt;
New York, which refers to the poem as &ldquo;an (2) I have further treated my poor, disabled&lt;br /&gt;
instance of the fine forgotten things&rdquo; that this brother tu transcribing work from books, involv.&lt;br /&gt;
Anthology brings to light again.&lt;br /&gt;
ing hieroglyphic references here, there, and every-&lt;br /&gt;
where; and it has been returned executed with&lt;br /&gt;
intelligent skill.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) I have sent him undecipherable letters from&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
learned scholars, and received them accurately&lt;br /&gt;
and sensibly rendered into legible English, and&lt;br /&gt;
all without a grumble.&lt;br /&gt;
1.-&ldquo; LIVE AND LET LIVE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Every atom of this I can prove in detail, and I&lt;br /&gt;
IT NOWING how well you merit the famous am willing, on my friend&amp;#039;s behalf, to challenge a&lt;br /&gt;
n motto, sans peur et sans reproche, I have competition by way of earnest of good faith as&lt;br /&gt;
full confidence in submitting a point of well as faith in a gentleman personally unknown&lt;br /&gt;
business etiquette to your notice. I refer to the to me. I have, however, heard that he is one of&lt;br /&gt;
newly appointed order of gens d&amp;#039;industrie that, those heroes of industry early struck down in the&lt;br /&gt;
for the sake of shortness and accuracy, may be battle of life by rheumatic fever, and yet toiling&lt;br /&gt;
called Typists or Typers-poetically authors&amp;#039; along, cheerfully and peacefully, to keep the wolf&lt;br /&gt;
blessings.&lt;br /&gt;
from the door-suffering under but one jarring&lt;br /&gt;
Naturally vour journal is a favourite organ for discord arising from the croaking of a jealous and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; bold advertisement,&rdquo; and equally so every probably prosperous rival. J. S. LAURIE.&lt;br /&gt;
vendor of bis wares is entitled to vaunt their un-&lt;br /&gt;
paralleled excellence and price to his or her heart&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
content. But it seems to me the bounds of fair&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;WHAT IS A Fair Price ?&lt;br /&gt;
competition are transgressed when pains are &ldquo;A Typist &amp;quot; sends me, as a proof that 8d. per&lt;br /&gt;
taken by one of your clients, actually without 1000 words is a common charge for copying ordi-&lt;br /&gt;
verification, to depreciate the character of a rival&amp;#039;s nary MS., six advertisements, cut from London&lt;br /&gt;
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108&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
daily papers, all offering work at that price. -turned a fact into fiction in the following&lt;br /&gt;
Another correspondent asks that The Author extract :-&lt;br /&gt;
would name a fair price. This is impossible, &ldquo;There is in London what is called a Society&lt;br /&gt;
manifestly. In all kinds of work, competition, of Authors, which is supposed to resemble the&lt;br /&gt;
supply, and demand regulate prices. I should Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres in Paris, but the&lt;br /&gt;
think that handwriting would have something to English society appears to be chiefly an associa-&lt;br /&gt;
do with the &ldquo;fair price&rdquo; of typing. For instance, tion for the multiplication and publication of&lt;br /&gt;
the handwriting of Dean Stanley was almost inferior works, and its authority on literature is&lt;br /&gt;
illegible. His friend, the late Sir George Grove, nil.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
put a great deal of his work through the Press. It is a pity that Ouida&amp;#039;s explorations in the&lt;br /&gt;
and was, I believe, the only man who was able, land of facts could only induce her to indite this&lt;br /&gt;
and that with difficulty, to read the MS. His monstrous fiction. Comment is unnecessary.&lt;br /&gt;
writing resembled the movements of a fly rescued&lt;br /&gt;
ISIDORE G. ASCHER.&lt;br /&gt;
from the ink. Surely, with such writing special&lt;br /&gt;
terms would be required. I can only advise the&lt;br /&gt;
obvious course that typewriters should continue&lt;br /&gt;
V.&ndash;For Nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
to charge a price that affords them a fair return&lt;br /&gt;
Does it not seem unfair that the rejected work&lt;br /&gt;
for their work as long as competition allows them of amateur authors is yet so frequently used by&lt;br /&gt;
to get it, and that writers who have every reason the editors of journals who set literary competi-&lt;br /&gt;
to be satisfied with the work done for them tions ?&lt;br /&gt;
should not strive to get it done. at starvation&lt;br /&gt;
Woman, a paper which had a reputation con.&lt;br /&gt;
prices. Above and beyond all others, writing siderably higher than that of any other feminine&lt;br /&gt;
persons ought to study the needs and necessities weekly, now offers a competition for a &ldquo;storyette.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of those who work for them.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B. The final rule asserts that the editor &ldquo;reserves&lt;br /&gt;
the right to use any story sent in for competition&lt;br /&gt;
that does not win a prize, as well as the prize-&lt;br /&gt;
III.-&mdash;&ldquo; Young&amp;quot; FICTION WRITERS AND THE winner&amp;#039;s.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
WAR FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely the least that can be done with rejected&lt;br /&gt;
Would you allow me through your columns to MSS. is to destroy them, and that any decent&lt;br /&gt;
thank those ladies and gentlemen who replied to editor should regard them as serviceable free&lt;br /&gt;
my letter (re the above heading) in the May &ldquo;copy&rdquo; is as unscrupulous a mode of business&lt;br /&gt;
number? A large number of contributions to as any other method of obtaining goods without&lt;br /&gt;
the proposed volume have now come in-many payment, I venture to think.&lt;br /&gt;
from well-known writers. Miss W. M. Willis-&lt;br /&gt;
Swan is kindly assisting me in the compilation&lt;br /&gt;
of the volume, and together we hope to bring it&lt;br /&gt;
to a successful issue. I should like all the&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
contributors to understand that if the scheme&lt;br /&gt;
eventually falls through, their MS. will be duly&lt;br /&gt;
T ORD ROSEBERY has been engaged for&lt;br /&gt;
returned to them; but the difficulties in our way&lt;br /&gt;
some time on a study of Napoleon during&lt;br /&gt;
may necessitate the retention of the contributions&lt;br /&gt;
the closing years of his life at St. Helena.&lt;br /&gt;
for some length of time.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is a volume to be published shortly,&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 5, 1900. James BAGNALL-STUBBS. entitled &ldquo; Napoleon : The Last Phase.&amp;quot; In one&lt;br /&gt;
of the sixteen chapters Lord Rosebery reviews&lt;br /&gt;
all the important books on the history of Bona-&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-Fact versus Fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
parte.&lt;br /&gt;
The fiction of Ouida has in its time held me Among the new books about to be issued from&lt;br /&gt;
spell-bound, and though the popularity of hosts the Oxford University Press are &ldquo; The Oxford&lt;br /&gt;
of modern novels have thrust her particular merits Book of English Verse, 1250-1900,&amp;quot; poems chosen&lt;br /&gt;
aside. the author of &ldquo;Held in Bondage &amp;quot; can and edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch, in two sizes,&lt;br /&gt;
still arrest and compel attention. Her romantic one edition being on Oxford India paper; &ldquo; An&lt;br /&gt;
Aights, her byways of adventure in the fields of English Miscellany,&amp;quot; presented to Dr. Furnivall&lt;br /&gt;
the novelist, her compact plots, her ideal heroes, in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday, and con-&lt;br /&gt;
the charm of her descriptions, and, above all, her tributed to by some fifty authorities in this&lt;br /&gt;
musical and rich rhetoric--all can still delight country and abroad on philology and early&lt;br /&gt;
and entertain the present generation. Unfortu. English literature; and &ldquo;Studies in Foreign&lt;br /&gt;
nately, however, this authoress, in a passage in Literature,&rdquo; being the Taylorian lectures, 1889-&lt;br /&gt;
her &ldquo;Critical Studies,&rdquo; has&mdash;inadvertently, I hope 1899, delivered by S. Mallarm&eacute;, W. Pater, W. P.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
[09&lt;br /&gt;
Ker, H. Brown, A. Morel Fatio, E. Dowden,&lt;br /&gt;
F. W. Rolleston, W. M. Rossetti, P. Bourget,&lt;br /&gt;
C. H. Herford, and H. Butler Clarke. The same&lt;br /&gt;
publishers have issued a charming pocket edition&lt;br /&gt;
of the early poems of Alfred Tennyson, set in very&lt;br /&gt;
clear type which is easy to read. All lovers of&lt;br /&gt;
Tennyson will be attracted by the beautiful&lt;br /&gt;
manner in which it is got up.&lt;br /&gt;
In consequence of the success of Miss Nora&lt;br /&gt;
Vynne&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo;The Priest&amp;#039;s Marriage,&rdquo; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Burleigh is trying a new experiment &mdash; that of&lt;br /&gt;
bringing out a cheap edition at 1s., concurrently&lt;br /&gt;
with a further edition of the six-shilling volume.&lt;br /&gt;
The cheap edition will be on thin paper, with a&lt;br /&gt;
ith a&lt;br /&gt;
pa per cover.&lt;br /&gt;
From New York comes the intelligence that&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. D. Howells will take charge of the &ldquo; Easy&lt;br /&gt;
Chair Department&rdquo; (an old feature revived) of&lt;br /&gt;
Harper&amp;#039;s Magazine, to whose publishers, Harper&lt;br /&gt;
and Brothers, he will become literary adviser.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Howells will also contribute a monthly&lt;br /&gt;
article on contemporary literary affairs to the&lt;br /&gt;
North American Review.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Brimley Johnson is just publishing an&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated volume of verses for schoolroom and&lt;br /&gt;
nursery by Miss Annie Matheson called &ldquo; Snow.&lt;br /&gt;
flakes and Snowdrops.&rdquo; The verses of this&lt;br /&gt;
collection run through a cycle of &ldquo; The Seasons,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and are illustrated with three sketches by Mr. F.&lt;br /&gt;
Carruthers Gould and numerous drawings by&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Winifred Hartley.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Theodore Martin&amp;#039;s biography of the late&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished shortly by Messrs. Blackwood, and is likely&lt;br /&gt;
to be of singular interest to the theatrical pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fession.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Mary F. S. Hervey has completed an&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated volume on Holbein&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Ambassadors,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
me on Holbein&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Ambassadors.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published soon by Messrs. Bell.&lt;br /&gt;
Two works which need not be expected for a&lt;br /&gt;
year or two are in progress. First, Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Dill is engaged on an historical work dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
the Flavian and Antonine periods. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Macmillan. Second, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Paget Toynbee is preparing a new edition of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Letters of Horace Walpole,&rdquo; which will include&lt;br /&gt;
a great deal of new correspondence. She appeals&lt;br /&gt;
to the possessors of letters to send them, or copies,&lt;br /&gt;
to her at Dorney Wood, Buro ham, Bucks. This&lt;br /&gt;
edition will be published by the Clarendon&lt;br /&gt;
Press.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Spencer Wilkinson has written, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Caton Woodville and Mr. Melton Prior have&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated, a popular history of the South African&lt;br /&gt;
War, which the Illustrated London News Com.&lt;br /&gt;
pany is about to issue&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Meynell has contributed an introductory&lt;br /&gt;
chapter to &ldquo;The Confessions of St. Augustine,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published by Mr. Grant Richards in&lt;br /&gt;
a few days as the first volume of a new &ldquo;Religious&lt;br /&gt;
Life&amp;quot; series.&lt;br /&gt;
A new volume of verse by Mr. Charles Whit-&lt;br /&gt;
worth Wynne, entitled &ldquo; Songs and Lyrics,&amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
be published shortly by Mr. Grant Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Samuel Gordon has finished his new novel,&lt;br /&gt;
which he calls &ldquo; Sons of the Covenant.&rdquo; It is a&lt;br /&gt;
study of the main characteristics which have&lt;br /&gt;
helped the Jew to his position as a factor in&lt;br /&gt;
European society. Messrs. Sands will publish it&lt;br /&gt;
in a few days.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Whiteing&amp;#039;s articles on &ldquo; Paris of&lt;br /&gt;
To-Day,&amp;quot; which have been appearing in the&lt;br /&gt;
Century Magazine, will be published shortly in&lt;br /&gt;
volume form by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Spencer Ashbee bequeathed his&lt;br /&gt;
valuable collection of books to the British Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
The rarest things in it are the French books&lt;br /&gt;
printed in small editions for the members of&lt;br /&gt;
several short-lived &ldquo;bibliopbile&rdquo; clubs. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Ashbee, who died at Hawkhurst, Kent, three&lt;br /&gt;
months ago, was a wealthy City man for whom&lt;br /&gt;
book-collecting was a hobby. Many of the&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful French books had been specially&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated for him by eminent French book&lt;br /&gt;
artists.&lt;br /&gt;
An account of Abyssinia by Mr. A. B. Wylde,&lt;br /&gt;
who knows the country at first hand, will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs. Methuen.&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Joseph Conrad and Mr. Ford Madox&lt;br /&gt;
Hueffer are joint authors of a novel entitled &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Inheritors,&rdquo; which Mr. Heinemann is to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. Ashby Sterry is publishing through&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sands &agrave; volume containing thirty of&lt;br /&gt;
his papers on all kinds of topics. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
called &ldquo;The Bystander ; or, Leaves for the&lt;br /&gt;
Lazy,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss L. E. Tiddeman is about to publish&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Celia&amp;#039;s Conquest&rdquo; (Chambers, 28. 6d.); &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Apple of His Eye&rdquo; (Jarrold, 18. 6d.); and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Seeing is Believing&rdquo; (Nister, 9d.)&lt;br /&gt;
Naunton Davies, author of &ldquo; Chester Cress-&lt;br /&gt;
well &rdquo; and otber novels, has written a comedy&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Foiled,&rdquo; which has already been pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced at Llandilo with success. &ldquo;Foiled&rdquo; will&lt;br /&gt;
be acted in Cardiff in December, and will, it is&lt;br /&gt;
hoped, later be produced in London.&lt;br /&gt;
An interesting series of articles is at present&lt;br /&gt;
appearing in the Genealogical Magazine, on the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Descents, and in the recent numbers an&lt;br /&gt;
attempt has been made to trace out the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
the living descendants of Mary, Queen Consort of&lt;br /&gt;
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110&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
France, and Duchess of Suffolk, the younger&lt;br /&gt;
daughter of King Henry VII. Royal Descents&lt;br /&gt;
in this country are not uncommon, but nearly all&lt;br /&gt;
well-known ones are traced from the Plantagenet&lt;br /&gt;
kings, and a descent from the Princess Mary is&lt;br /&gt;
seldom put forward. Patience and care, however,&lt;br /&gt;
demonstrate that the descendants of this princess&lt;br /&gt;
must be numbered by hundreds. Already No. 300&lt;br /&gt;
has been passed, although little more than one-&lt;br /&gt;
twentieth part of the various lines of descent have&lt;br /&gt;
been followed up. Amongst those whose names&lt;br /&gt;
have been included up to the present are:&lt;br /&gt;
Baroness Kinloss, the heir of line and first in&lt;br /&gt;
seniority, Earl Temple, the Duke of Buccleuch,&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Dalkeith, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, the&lt;br /&gt;
Marchioness of Lothian, Lord Jedburgh, Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron of Lochiel, Lady Mary Trefusis, the&lt;br /&gt;
Earl of Courtown, Lord Stopford, Lady Mary&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley, Lady Grace Bridges, Lady Lily Conyng-&lt;br /&gt;
ham Greene, Col. J. F. Cust, Lady Hampson, the&lt;br /&gt;
Earl of Romney, Lady Florence Hare, and many&lt;br /&gt;
other well-known people.&lt;br /&gt;
The Spectator in a recent number discusses the&lt;br /&gt;
fitness of authors to be politicians, and sums up&lt;br /&gt;
the question as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
The modern novelist, in short, is ex hypothesi omniscient;&lt;br /&gt;
baving largely usurped the function of the dramatist, the&lt;br /&gt;
preacher, tbe pamphleteer, and the historian, he is bound to&lt;br /&gt;
krow a good deal about everything, from metaphysics and&lt;br /&gt;
the higher criticism to the manufacture of tin-tacks or the&lt;br /&gt;
method of pilchard fishing. Take the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
bousing of the poor, and where could you find a better&lt;br /&gt;
expert than Mr. Artbur Morrison ? Or if agricultural&lt;br /&gt;
de pression were the theme of discussion, who would be&lt;br /&gt;
better fitted to serve on a committee than Mr. Rider&lt;br /&gt;
Haggard ? Outside the ranks of trained engineers, wbo&lt;br /&gt;
would be better equipped to assist the inquiry into the&lt;br /&gt;
efficiency of machinery-say, water-tube boilers&mdash;than Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling? Lastly, for sane, stimulating, and businesslike&lt;br /&gt;
criticism of our military system, where can we look, even&lt;br /&gt;
among Service membere, for a better and sounder critic tban&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Conan Doyle? We are very far from contending that the&lt;br /&gt;
ability to produce a popular novel is a guarantee of Parlia&lt;br /&gt;
mentary capacity. But we assert without fear of con.&lt;br /&gt;
tradiction tbat the preparation involved in the writing of a&lt;br /&gt;
seriods novel dealing with tbe social problems of the bour&lt;br /&gt;
constitutes a far better claim to the confidence of the&lt;br /&gt;
electorate than the equipment of the company promoter or&lt;br /&gt;
the professional politician.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Grossmith, jun., and Mr. Yorke&lt;br /&gt;
Stephens have written a comic opera, &ldquo; The Gay&lt;br /&gt;
Pretenders,&rdquo; which will be produced at the Globe&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on Nov. 10. The music is by Mr. Claude&lt;br /&gt;
Nugent.&lt;br /&gt;
When the run of &ldquo;For Auld Lang Syne&amp;quot; is&lt;br /&gt;
terminated, Mr. Henry Hamilton&amp;#039;s version of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Three Musketeers&rdquo; will be produced at&lt;br /&gt;
the Lyceum by Mr. Mollison, with Mr. Lewis&lt;br /&gt;
Waller in his old part of D&amp;#039;Artagnan. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Waller will subsequently appear in a revival of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;King Henry V.&rdquo; at the same theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
During Mr. F. R. Benson&amp;#039;s Shakespearian&lt;br /&gt;
season at the Comedy eight plays will be produced&lt;br /&gt;
(including &ldquo;Coriolanus &amp;quot;), a fortnight being&lt;br /&gt;
given to each. The season lasts from Dec. 19 to&lt;br /&gt;
April 8.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Henry Irving, in opening the new Grand&lt;br /&gt;
Tneatre and Opera House at Woolwich on Oct. 18,&lt;br /&gt;
remarked that a well-conducted theatre was a&lt;br /&gt;
necessary adjunct to true civic life. Public&lt;br /&gt;
opinion in regard to the stage was governed on&lt;br /&gt;
the whole, he believed, by a robust common sense&lt;br /&gt;
which rejected the notion that the theatre, if&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to exist at all, should be a place where&lt;br /&gt;
human nature must not be exhibited.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Patience&rdquo; is to be revived at the Savoy on&lt;br /&gt;
Nor. 7, and will be played until the new comic&lt;br /&gt;
opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. Basil Hood&lt;br /&gt;
is ready.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hermann Vezin was entertained at dinner&lt;br /&gt;
by the Pen and Pencil Club of Glasgow on the&lt;br /&gt;
occasion of his jubilee as an actor. Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Provost Chisholm presided.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Savile Clarke&amp;#039;s adaptation of &amp;quot; Alice&lt;br /&gt;
in Wonderland,&rdquo; with music by Mr. Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Slaughter, will be revived at the Vaudeville&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre about the beginning of December.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. W. K. Clifford&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo;The Likeness of&lt;br /&gt;
the Night,&rdquo; was successfully produced at the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, on Oct. 18 by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. and Mrs. Kendal.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. R. C. Carton, in an interview which&lt;br /&gt;
appears in Cassell&amp;#039;s Saturday Journal for Oct. 10,&lt;br /&gt;
niakes the following statement in reply to the&lt;br /&gt;
question &ldquo;Is the aspiring author boycotted by&lt;br /&gt;
managers ??&lt;br /&gt;
I strongly resent the folly that is talked about the diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
culties a young writer experiences in securing a hearing. It&lt;br /&gt;
has always been a struggle to succeed at first, and it always&lt;br /&gt;
will be ; but in these days it is so obviously to the advan-&lt;br /&gt;
tage of the managers to break up the limited area of&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic writing that they are very keenly on the lookout&lt;br /&gt;
for anything that is worth having. The trouble is that&lt;br /&gt;
there is so much competition that managers have to make&lt;br /&gt;
their arrangements ahead, and, as you can perceive for&lt;br /&gt;
yourself, they can&amp;#039;t very well trust entirely to untried&lt;br /&gt;
authors. They go to the tried man because tbey feel more&lt;br /&gt;
safe in so doing. If an individaal&amp;#039;s leg is to be taken off,&lt;br /&gt;
be engages, if he can afford to do so, the best and most&lt;br /&gt;
expensive surgeon, even though others might perform the&lt;br /&gt;
operation equally well, and certainly at a cheaper price.&lt;br /&gt;
What he wants is to minimise risk. Therefore he tries to&lt;br /&gt;
pat the handcuffs on Fate.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
III&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Among the books issued in October were: LIFE AND&lt;br /&gt;
LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, by his son Leonard&lt;br /&gt;
Huxley (Macmillan, 308. net); MEMOIRS AND CORRE.&lt;br /&gt;
SPONDENCE OF COVENTRY PATMORE, by Basil Champneys&lt;br /&gt;
(Bell, 328. net); and OLIVER CROMWELL, by John Morley&lt;br /&gt;
(Macmillan, 108. net).&lt;br /&gt;
THE GREAT BOER WAR, by A. Conan Doyle (Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder, 78. 6d.), reviews the whole course of the war. The&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle says that &ldquo;Dr. Conan Doyle has written&lt;br /&gt;
about as satisfactory and sound a book as one could imagine&lt;br /&gt;
on a subject so recent, so vital, and so distracted with&lt;br /&gt;
controversy.&amp;quot; The narrative is told &amp;quot; always in vigorous,&lt;br /&gt;
often in stirring, language,&amp;quot; says the Times; while the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily News pronounces the book &amp;quot; a masterly performance.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;He tells his story,&amp;quot; says the Daily Telegraph, &ldquo; in vivid&lt;br /&gt;
chapters which make the pulse of the reader beat faster as&lt;br /&gt;
he reads.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
IAN HAMILTON&amp;#039;S MARCH, by Winston Churchill (Long.&lt;br /&gt;
mans, 68.), is a narrative of the marching and fighting done&lt;br /&gt;
by General Ian Hamilton&amp;#039;s column after it moved out of&lt;br /&gt;
Bloemfontein on April 22. &ldquo;Mr. Churchill&amp;#039;s writing is&lt;br /&gt;
highly inspiriting,&rdquo; says the Spectator, which also speaks of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the great picture which he unrolls before us&rdquo; in this&lt;br /&gt;
book. - This is Mr. Churchill&amp;#039;s strength,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, &ldquo; that he recognises the interest of his subject to&lt;br /&gt;
be sufficient, and is content simply and clearly to set it in&lt;br /&gt;
array before yon.&rdquo; &ldquo;Of the complicated operations he gives&lt;br /&gt;
an excellent description,&rdquo; says the Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot;and&lt;br /&gt;
supplements his tactical explanations by some very good&lt;br /&gt;
sketch maps.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING, by Angus Hamilton (Methuen,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), &ldquo;is another in Messrs. Methuen&amp;#039;s excellent series of&lt;br /&gt;
books dealing with special events and periods of the war,&lt;br /&gt;
and it is likely,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;to be as&lt;br /&gt;
popular as the rest.&amp;quot; For the most part the story Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hamilton tells is a record of what he himself saw and&lt;br /&gt;
endured. &ldquo;The hard prosaic features of the fight, the&lt;br /&gt;
endless tedium of waiting for relief, and the monotony of&lt;br /&gt;
semi-starvation, with a hundred minor points of life in a&lt;br /&gt;
besieged town which are apt to be forgotten in the glamour&lt;br /&gt;
of ultimate success, are presented forcibly to us,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot; in this picturesque and truthful record.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
How WE ESCAPED FROM PRETORIA, by Captain Aylmer&lt;br /&gt;
Haldane (Blackwood, 18.), tells of a feat which, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &amp;quot; is among the most brilliant exploits of the war.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And after the unfailing courage of the three determined&lt;br /&gt;
to escape, that which is pleasantest in this amazing narrative&lt;br /&gt;
is the unselfish and never failing loyalty of those who helped&lt;br /&gt;
their companions on the road to liberty.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
TOMMY AND GRIZEL, by J. M. Barrie (Cassell, 68.), &ldquo; is a&lt;br /&gt;
delightful book,&amp;quot; says the Daily News, &amp;quot; full of its author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
nameless charm-his elusive and ethereal humour.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is&lt;br /&gt;
a book of extraordinary power and even of extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
beauty,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; the work of a poet and&lt;br /&gt;
a psychologist born and bred.&rdquo; Grizel, says the Times, is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;as true and lovable a woman as novelist ever created.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
QUISANT&Eacute;, by Anthony Hope (Methuen, 68.) &amp;quot; is a study,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo;worthy of one of the most brilliant&lt;br /&gt;
of our living novelists.&rdquo; &ldquo;The story does not, in Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hope&amp;#039;s earlier manner, flit pleasantly along the surface of&lt;br /&gt;
things, but planges rather into the depths, into complex&lt;br /&gt;
feelings and emotions.&amp;quot; The principal figure in the book is&lt;br /&gt;
a successful politician. The Daily Chronicle pronounces it&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Anthony Hope&amp;#039;s best.&rdquo; The Spectator describes the&lt;br /&gt;
story as &ldquo;the apotheosis of the brilliant oad.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
is never dull,&rdquo; says the Times ; &amp;quot;his electioneering is the&lt;br /&gt;
very thing, and his minor people... are quite de-&lt;br /&gt;
lightful.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING, by Gilbert Parker&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 68 ) &amp;quot; deals mainly,&rdquo; says the Daily News,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;with his favourite and happy hunting-ground of French&lt;br /&gt;
Canada, Pontiac, the idyllic Pontiac, the well-beloved&lt;br /&gt;
Seigneury, with an accompaniment of those charming rustics&lt;br /&gt;
and village characters so well-known already to this author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
readers. The first story in the volume is a really&lt;br /&gt;
masterly piece of work, a dramatic plot excellently well&lt;br /&gt;
imagined and carried out.&rdquo; &ldquo;Not even in &amp;quot;The Seats of&lt;br /&gt;
the Mighty,&amp;#039;&rdquo; says the Times, &ldquo; does Mr. Parker suggest&lt;br /&gt;
such an impression of his strength as in the most important&lt;br /&gt;
of these stories ... the other stories are slighter and&lt;br /&gt;
less ambitious, but scarcely less impressive.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHosts, by A. T. Qailler-&lt;br /&gt;
Couch (Cassell, 68.) is praised by the Daily Chronicle for&lt;br /&gt;
its purpose and workmanship. &amp;quot;A careless estimate might&lt;br /&gt;
call it &amp;amp; volume of ghost stories, but as that phrase is&lt;br /&gt;
popularly accepted, it falls quite short of a description.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mr. Couch&amp;#039;s method is largely his own, and his toach is so&lt;br /&gt;
simple and direct as to divest the other side of death of&lt;br /&gt;
almost everything that is terrible, and to present it in a&lt;br /&gt;
relation to life amenable, humane and helpful.&rdquo; &ldquo;Without&lt;br /&gt;
exactly making one&amp;#039;s flesh creep,&rdquo; says the Daily News,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;these stories produce a delightful yet ancanny effect of&lt;br /&gt;
magic and of the incomprehensible.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
JOSEPH GLANVILL: A Study in English Thought and&lt;br /&gt;
Letters of the Seventeenth Century, by Ferris Greenslet&lt;br /&gt;
(Macmillan, 6s.) tells us, says the spectator, &ldquo;all of Glan-&lt;br /&gt;
vill which it is possible to know, and that is not very much.&lt;br /&gt;
Of few English writers of equal power do we know so little.&lt;br /&gt;
But Dr. Greenslet has done something more asefal than&lt;br /&gt;
gossip about a dead author; he has related him to the&lt;br /&gt;
general intellectual movement of the time, and has there.&lt;br /&gt;
fore written a valuable chapter in the history of English&lt;br /&gt;
philosophic thought.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle calls it &ldquo;a&lt;br /&gt;
creditable and interesting book, which is specially deserving&lt;br /&gt;
of readers to-day, when the Cambridge Platonists are in&lt;br /&gt;
greater vogue than they have ever been since the publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of &amp;#039;John Inglesant.&amp;#039;&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
THE STORY OF FLORENCE, by Edmund G. Gardner&lt;br /&gt;
(Dent, 48. 6d. net.), &ldquo;is not only a history,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &ldquo;but a guide which every tourist should take&lt;br /&gt;
with him to Florence ... for it will bring succinctly&lt;br /&gt;
under his survey the crowded and glorious history of&lt;br /&gt;
Florence, and will show the conditions under which her&lt;br /&gt;
literature and art were evolved.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Gardner has done&lt;br /&gt;
wisely,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; in confining himself to&lt;br /&gt;
an account of the most salient events and the most striking&lt;br /&gt;
personalities.&rdquo; .&lt;br /&gt;
THE MEN OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE, by Frank T.&lt;br /&gt;
Ballon (Smith, Elder, 78. 6d.), is described in the sub-title&lt;br /&gt;
as &ldquo; being the polity of the Mercantile Marine for Long.&lt;br /&gt;
shore Readers.&amp;quot; Mr. Arnold White, reviewing it in the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, declares that &ldquo; Mr. Bullen has done good national&lt;br /&gt;
service in writing this book,&amp;quot; and that &ldquo; he&lt;br /&gt;
whose experience has burnt into his soul the realities of sea&lt;br /&gt;
life on a British merchant ship.&rdquo; The Globe remarks that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;it is not often that a work so thoroughly practical is put&lt;br /&gt;
before the public.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the Man and the Statesman, by&lt;br /&gt;
N. Murrell Marris (Hutchinson, 108. net), is a &ldquo;fairly&lt;br /&gt;
interesting &rdquo; compilation, says Literature. &ldquo;It is not, and&lt;br /&gt;
does not claim to be, critical.&rdquo; Miss Marris acknowledges&lt;br /&gt;
man&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
in her preface the aid which she bas received from the&lt;br /&gt;
Chamberlain family, and, says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;this&lt;br /&gt;
elaborate study of the present Secretary of State for the&lt;br /&gt;
Colonies has all the accuracy and personal interest which&lt;br /&gt;
might be expected in the circumstances. &ldquo;The book will&lt;br /&gt;
serve a useful purpose, although,&amp;quot; says the Daily News, &ldquo;it&lt;br /&gt;
cannot fail to be treated as controversial by those who&lt;br /&gt;
cannot accept the exaltation of Mr. Chamberlain&amp;#039;s colonial&lt;br /&gt;
policy.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THIRTEEN STORIES, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 6s.), are described by the author as &ldquo;sketches,&lt;br /&gt;
stories, studies, or what you call them,&rdquo; and the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, after giving a few quotations to show the spirit&lt;br /&gt;
of the book, says tbat&ldquo; po patoby quotations can do justice&lt;br /&gt;
to its proud and fastidious rebellion against the common-&lt;br /&gt;
place.&amp;quot; Literature describes&amp;quot; Rothenberger&amp;#039;s Wedding &rdquo; as&lt;br /&gt;
an amusing satiric sketch, &ldquo; La Clemenza de Tito&amp;quot; a well.&lt;br /&gt;
observed study,&amp;quot; but among the lesser stories of the thirteen&lt;br /&gt;
we like best the account of how Amarabat, the runner, failed&lt;br /&gt;
to take &amp;#039;The Gold Fish&amp;#039; from Rabat to the Sultan at Tafileh.&lt;br /&gt;
This has the true fatalistio note of the East and is told with&lt;br /&gt;
exquisite skill.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CUNNING MURRELL, by Arthur Morrison (Methuen, 68.)&lt;br /&gt;
-Literature says of this book : &ldquo;Hadleigh and its neigh-&lt;br /&gt;
boarhood had at the time of the story overlooked the&lt;br /&gt;
passage of time and still held to the ideas of an earlier&lt;br /&gt;
period. Thas Cunding Murrell could exercise those queer&lt;br /&gt;
arts of his which awed the simple country folk. He himself&lt;br /&gt;
believed in his occult powers. . . . He puts apon&lt;br /&gt;
Dorrily Thorn&amp;#039;s aunt, Mrs. Martin, the stigma of witchcraft.&lt;br /&gt;
In discovering how this tragedy works out the reader will&lt;br /&gt;
have perused &amp;amp; very successful and interesting example of&lt;br /&gt;
the modern novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BRASS BOTTLE, by F. Anstey (Smith, Elder, 68.).&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In his logical conduct of an absurd proposition, in his&lt;br /&gt;
fantastic handling of the supernatural, in his brisk dialogue&lt;br /&gt;
and effective characterisation, Mr. Anstey,&rdquo; says the Spec.&lt;br /&gt;
tator, &ldquo; has once more shown himself to be an artist and a&lt;br /&gt;
hamourist of uncommon and enviable merit.&amp;quot; Blackwood&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine says &amp;quot; Mr. Anstey ban not written anything in&lt;br /&gt;
better heart or in higher spirits since he presented a&lt;br /&gt;
delighted public with Mr. Baltitude.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MOTHER-SISTER, by Edwin Pugh (Hurst and Blackett,&lt;br /&gt;
68.).&mdash;&ldquo;Mr. Pugh studies poor-life as Mr. Morrison and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pett Ridge study it,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; and he&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly deserves to be in the same olass with them. This&lt;br /&gt;
is a somewbat new thing, this humorous study of poverty ;&lt;br /&gt;
it has great uses ; it presents pathos without mawkishness,&lt;br /&gt;
and makes us feel none the less the need for pity.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE NEW ORDER, by Oswald Crawfurd (Richards, 68.).&lt;br /&gt;
_&ldquo;The argument,&rdquo; says the Times, &ldquo;is that although there&lt;br /&gt;
may be wealth in free trade, it would be cheaper in the end&lt;br /&gt;
to revive agricultural prosperity as a guarantee against an&lt;br /&gt;
international blockade. There is a great deal of good argu-&lt;br /&gt;
ment and sound sense in the book.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Crawfurd&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
heroes are no effeminate dreamers, they are all athletes and&lt;br /&gt;
emphatically men of action.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE INFIDEL, by M. E. Braddon (Simpkin, 68.), is a tale&lt;br /&gt;
of George II.&amp;#039;s day, the heroine of which &amp;quot; is the daaghter&lt;br /&gt;
by an Italian mother of an anfrocked priest, a hireling Grub&lt;br /&gt;
Street scribe, who has imbued her with his own Voltairean&lt;br /&gt;
scepticism, but failed to impair the inherent nobility of her&lt;br /&gt;
character.&rdquo; The story is admirably &amp;quot;staged,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, and wiss Braddon&amp;#039;s style &amp;quot;leaves nothing to be&lt;br /&gt;
desired in terseness and lucidity.&rdquo; &ldquo;The old ability,&amp;quot; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; to set forth, with a richness of&lt;br /&gt;
cursory information surpassed by no writer of fiction,&lt;br /&gt;
apparently any story in any period, is still in evidence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
WINEFRED, by S. Baring-Gould (Methaen, 68.), &ldquo;is a&lt;br /&gt;
capital story,&amp;quot; says the Times, &ldquo; full as usual of violent&lt;br /&gt;
sensations, admirable in its vivid descriptions of the cliff&lt;br /&gt;
scenery, and with more humour than most of its pre-&lt;br /&gt;
decessors.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
SERVANTS OF Sin, by J. Bloundelle-Burton (Methuen,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), &ldquo; amply justifies its title,&amp;quot; observes the Times. The&lt;br /&gt;
date of the story is the Regency during the minority of&lt;br /&gt;
Louis XV. &ldquo;We are introduced to the most villainous&lt;br /&gt;
society imaginable. Mr. Bloondelle-Barton takes a less&lt;br /&gt;
lenient view of the Regent Orleans than Dumas, and he has&lt;br /&gt;
depicted the reign of the rou&eacute;s in the most larid colours.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a capital story nevertheless.&rdquo; The Spectator says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; by readers who like the costume-romance&amp;#039; it will be pro-&lt;br /&gt;
nounced a very good specimen of this class of novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE COURTESY DAME, by R. Marray Gilchrist (Heine-&lt;br /&gt;
mann, 68.), is &ldquo;decidedly good reading,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraph. Mr. Gilchrist, says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo; still&lt;br /&gt;
keeps as in and about the Peakland district of Derbyshire,&lt;br /&gt;
with which and with whose inhabitants he bas already made&lt;br /&gt;
us so familiar.&rdquo; &ldquo;This time we are introduced to a rather&lt;br /&gt;
loftier level than usual. &ldquo;The Coartesy Dame&amp;#039; is a well-&lt;br /&gt;
written and interesting novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LIFE OF SIR JOHN FOWLER, by Thomas Mackay&lt;br /&gt;
(Murray, 168.).--&amp;quot;Of a life so full of interesting and im&lt;br /&gt;
portant action,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;this memoir,&lt;br /&gt;
excellent as it is, is only too short.&rdquo; &ldquo;The life of a great&lt;br /&gt;
engineer,&rdquo; says the Daily News, &ldquo; cannot be expected to be&lt;br /&gt;
rich in romantic and picturesque incident, but Mr. Mackay&lt;br /&gt;
has at least furnished in a sober and business-like style&lt;br /&gt;
abundance of interesting details.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
FIRST FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN, by Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Victor Spiers (Simpkin, 28. 6d. or 38.), &ldquo;has the ad.&lt;br /&gt;
vantage,&rdquo; says the Educational Times, &ldquo; of being written&lt;br /&gt;
directly for English children, and not adapted from the&lt;br /&gt;
German.&rdquo; &ldquo;Professor Spiers,&amp;quot; says the Journal of Education,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;who has long been known as one of the most successful&lt;br /&gt;
teachers of higher French, bas here attempted the humbler,&lt;br /&gt;
but harder, part of nursery governess. Nursery rhymes for&lt;br /&gt;
repetition, music, simple conversations, and pictures galore&lt;br /&gt;
--all these combine to make a most attractive book.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle observes that &ldquo;if modern teaching is to be&lt;br /&gt;
effective, the reform must begin with the very foundations,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and adds that the book &amp;quot;may prove a golden bridge from&lt;br /&gt;
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