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Book and Play Talk ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
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THE PENSION FUND OF THE SOCIETY&lt;br /&gt;
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Further sums will be acknowledged from month&lt;br /&gt;
to month as they are received, as it has been con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidered unnecessary to print the full list with&lt;br /&gt;
every issue.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Work of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
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U taken up seven cases on behalf of members,&lt;br /&gt;
three dealing with accounts, three concern-&lt;br /&gt;
ing MSS., and one for money due.&lt;br /&gt;
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able replies have been received in the majority of&lt;br /&gt;
cases from the publishers and editors concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
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standing which, no doubt, will be&lt;br /&gt;
standing which, no doubt, will be settled in due&lt;br /&gt;
course. Four cases have gone into the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society&amp;#039;s solicitors to be carried through the&lt;br /&gt;
Courts, one against a publisher for the amount due&lt;br /&gt;
and unpaid on an account rendered ; two against a&lt;br /&gt;
magazine proprietor for non-payment of the amount&lt;br /&gt;
due to the author ; and one, a serious matter of&lt;br /&gt;
infringement of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
At the Committee meeting held at the beginning&lt;br /&gt;
of the year, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. A. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, and Mr. J. M. Lely were re-elected&lt;br /&gt;
members of that body. It was decided to re-&lt;br /&gt;
publish the inset in the January number as a&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlet, and, where possible, with an authorita-&lt;br /&gt;
tive statement from the editors of the magazines and&lt;br /&gt;
papers concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
A serious case of plagiarism was brought to the&lt;br /&gt;
notice of the Committee, but it is impossible, as the&lt;br /&gt;
question has not yet been settled, to say anything&lt;br /&gt;
further on this matter.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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issue in the near future a complete edition of his road of Life,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; Cupid&amp;#039;s Toll-Gate,&amp;quot; and &ldquo; In Many&lt;br /&gt;
novels. &ldquo;A Study in Scarlet&rdquo; was his first book, a Land&rdquo; are good examples of the writer in his&lt;br /&gt;
then came &ldquo;Micah Clarke.&rdquo; His &ldquo;The White lighter moments.&lt;br /&gt;
Company&amp;quot; had a great success. His world-famed The Rev. Cornelius Wetherby, late rector of St.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sherlock Holmes,&rdquo; in its sixpenny form, sold to Paul&amp;#039;s, Old Charlton, S.E., has published through&lt;br /&gt;
the extent of 150,000 copies in a phenomenally Skeffington &amp;amp; Son a book called &ldquo;In the Palace of&lt;br /&gt;
short time.&lt;br /&gt;
Wisdom&rdquo;: being some modern applications of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. E. W. Hornung&amp;#039;s new story, &ldquo;The Shadow Book of Proverbs. In his Preface the author says :&lt;br /&gt;
of the Rope,&amp;quot; is now running in Messrs. Tillotson&amp;#039;s In the following pages I speak of Solomon as the author&lt;br /&gt;
Syndicate of Papers, and in Munsey&amp;#039;s Magazine of the Book of Proverbs, by which I commit myself to no&lt;br /&gt;
more than that which is implied in the opening words of it.&lt;br /&gt;
across the water.&lt;br /&gt;
It is for the critic to determine the question of authorship,&lt;br /&gt;
It will be published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus and for the theologian to examine that of inspiration : I&lt;br /&gt;
in England, and Messrs. Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons in New would come in as a practical person, accepting a book which&lt;br /&gt;
York.&lt;br /&gt;
the Church has placed in Holy Writ, and endeavouring to&lt;br /&gt;
apply its old-world teachings to the problems of our modern&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s poem, &ldquo; The Islanders,&amp;quot; which life. Many of these papers were originally sermons ; but&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in the Times early last month, has they have been recast into a form more suitable for private&lt;br /&gt;
aroused a wide-spread and hotly animated dis- reading, and set free from the restrictions which the pulpit&lt;br /&gt;
lays upon illustrations, style, and language.&lt;br /&gt;
cussion. In fact, Mr. Kipling has raised a species&lt;br /&gt;
of tumult among athletes.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Poultney Bigelow, who went to Washington&lt;br /&gt;
for the Annual Session of the American Historical&lt;br /&gt;
Rita&amp;#039;s trenchant article on the &ldquo; Vulgarity of the&lt;br /&gt;
Association, has been invited to give a series of&lt;br /&gt;
Age&rdquo; has created quite a controversy in the&lt;br /&gt;
addresses on the German Army and its relation to&lt;br /&gt;
columns of the Daily Chronicle. The severity of&lt;br /&gt;
American interests before some of the most impor-&lt;br /&gt;
her strictures was bound to awaken criticism.&lt;br /&gt;
tant Universities. He is due in England this month.&lt;br /&gt;
This well-known novelist will publish her new&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lucien Wolf, who is intensely interested in&lt;br /&gt;
novel early in the spring, through Messrs. Hutchin-&lt;br /&gt;
international politics, and whose well-informed&lt;br /&gt;
son &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
political articles in the Fortnightly, signed &ldquo; Dip-&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey, whose last novel,&lt;br /&gt;
lomaticus,&rdquo; are widely known, is now writing a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Herb of Grace,&amp;quot; is doing so well, has a new novel history of the Triple Alliance. It will be a&lt;br /&gt;
in hand. She is not at present writing any short serious study of the diplomatic history of Europe&lt;br /&gt;
or serial stories.&lt;br /&gt;
during the last thirty years, and will contain a&lt;br /&gt;
Allen Raine&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo;A Welsh Witch,&rdquo; is chapter on the question of. alliance as raised by&lt;br /&gt;
being published by Messrs. Hutchinson &amp;amp; Co., that recent events.&lt;br /&gt;
firm having bought the copyright. Allen Raine&amp;#039;s That the author is &ldquo; Diplomaticus&rdquo; should be a&lt;br /&gt;
previous novels, &ldquo; A Welsh Singer,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Torn Sails,&amp;quot; guarantee that the book will be based on first-hand&lt;br /&gt;
By Berwen Banks,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Garthowen,&rdquo; were material. Mr. Wolf hopes to complete it about&lt;br /&gt;
brought out by the same firm.&lt;br /&gt;
the middle of the year. Anthony Treherne &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Alexander&amp;#039;s latest novel, &ldquo; The Yellow will publish it.&lt;br /&gt;
Fiend&rdquo; (Fisher Unwin), has gone into a second Mr. Archibald Dunn, author of &ldquo;Bridge, and&lt;br /&gt;
large edition. The first edition was exhausted How to Play It,&amp;quot; which has already reached a&lt;br /&gt;
immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
seventh edition, is publishing another volume on&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. B. Doveton&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Mirth and Music,&rdquo; a the same subject. It is called &ldquo;New Ideas on&lt;br /&gt;
pretty volume in green (28. 6d. nett), contains Bridge.&rdquo; In it the author has dealt with the many&lt;br /&gt;
verses both musical and mirthful. Some of them points of contention at present agitating the minds&lt;br /&gt;
should be set to music, for they are tuneful and of Bridge players. In particular, he advances a&lt;br /&gt;
singable. There is, for instance, a charming little novel theory as to &ldquo;Declarations&rdquo; and &ldquo;Doubling,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
thing, &ldquo;The Rose Bush &rdquo;; there are also &ldquo; Wasted which is not unlikely to revolutionise existing&lt;br /&gt;
Kisses,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Christmas Roses,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Rest Thee, Flut methods, and to result in placing these two diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
tering Heart,&amp;quot; &ldquo; The Poppies in the Corn,&amp;quot; and culties of the game on a thoroughly sound and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; My Lost Lady.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
solid basis.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Goldielocks&amp;quot; is a pretty fancy, put into verse Crampton&amp;#039;s Magazine is now in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
that goes with a lilt. In &ldquo; The Approach of Anthony Treherne &amp;amp; Co. The editor is Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Spring &amp;quot; Mr. Doveton shows that he can write a Harold Tremayne, author of &ldquo;Dross&rdquo; and&lt;br /&gt;
pretty poem informed with true feeling ; while in &ldquo;Reminiscences of a Gentleman Horse-Dealer.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; The Larger Hope,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;To an Orthodox Messrs. Heywood &amp;amp; Company, Ltd., have in hand,&lt;br /&gt;
Friend,&amp;quot; the author strikes a deeper note. &ldquo;A and well advanced, a most elaborate subscription&lt;br /&gt;
Tale of Two Topers&rdquo; recalls Hood. &ldquo;The Rail. work, which has been limited to a comparatively&lt;br /&gt;
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112&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
subjectis brilliantly given us&lt;br /&gt;
small number of sets, the subscription being ten form the chief attraction of Japanese works of art. Their&lt;br /&gt;
guineas. This work, &ldquo; The British Empire in the&lt;br /&gt;
wrists are supple; the picture in their minds is sure; they&lt;br /&gt;
have learnt it line for line ; it is merely the matter of a few&lt;br /&gt;
First Year of the 20th Century : Its Capital Cities&lt;br /&gt;
minutes for an artist to sketch in his picture.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and Notable Men,&amp;quot; is to be issued in two volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
and will contain over 400 illustrations and por-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Jane Austen : Her Homes and Her Friends,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
traits, produced by various expensive processes. by Constance Hill; illustrations by Ellen G. Hill,&lt;br /&gt;
There will be appendices, giving in brief form a and reproductions in photogravure, etc., 21s. nett&lt;br /&gt;
mass of statistical, historical, and biographical (John Lane), is a charming addition to Jane&lt;br /&gt;
information.&lt;br /&gt;
Austen literature. In his review of the volume&lt;br /&gt;
The compilation of the work is in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
(Jan. Bookman) Dr. Richard Garnett says :-&lt;br /&gt;
(Ja&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Eden Hooper, who compiled &ldquo; The Stock &ldquo;What Miss Ellen Hill is in the artistic, Miss Constance&lt;br /&gt;
Exchange in 1900,&amp;quot; fully subscribed at ten guineas;&lt;br /&gt;
Hill is in the literary department of the subject. She pro-&lt;br /&gt;
also &ldquo; The Stage in 1900.&rdquo; This latter work in-&lt;br /&gt;
fessedly does nothing but glean and piece together; there&lt;br /&gt;
is scarcely a detail in her book which is not strictly accurate&lt;br /&gt;
cluded amongst its supporters His Majesty the&lt;br /&gt;
and matter-of-fact; and yet the result is a more vivid por-&lt;br /&gt;
King, who bought it for his Sandringham library. trait of Jane Austen than we have hitherto seen. Probably&lt;br /&gt;
The present work is under the direct patronage of this is the only way in which so shy and retiring a character&lt;br /&gt;
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the Duke of&lt;br /&gt;
can be exhibited. With such subjects, conscious attempts&lt;br /&gt;
at portraiture become exaggeration ; the only way is to let&lt;br /&gt;
Connaught, and a number of distinguished noble-&lt;br /&gt;
them speak for themselves, and though Miss Austen has not&lt;br /&gt;
men, ambassadors, and statesmen throughout the told us much about herself, the little she does say is deeply&lt;br /&gt;
Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
significant.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In &ldquo; Barry Sullivan and His Contemporaries&rdquo; In &ldquo;Robespierre: A Study&rdquo; (Nisbet, 168.),&lt;br /&gt;
(Fisher Unwin; 2 vols., 218. nett), Mr. Robert M. M. Hilaire Belloc has quite recently given us a&lt;br /&gt;
Sillard has just given us an exhaustive, accurate, companion volume to his brilliant &ldquo;Danton.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and extremely interesting account of a famous Though the latter subject, the &ldquo;sea-green incor-&lt;br /&gt;
actor-an actor whom some old play-goers hold to ruptible,&rdquo; is not at all fascinating, M. Belloc&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
be the greatest tragic actor of the last half century. study is of vivid interest. It is a masterly bit of&lt;br /&gt;
Helen Faucit declared he was the best actor with historical work on the personal side.&lt;br /&gt;
whom she had ever played.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Archibald Little, author of &ldquo;Intimate&lt;br /&gt;
There are also accounts of all the celebrated China,&amp;quot; etc., etc., has just published &ldquo;In the Land&lt;br /&gt;
actors and actresses of his day in England, America, of the Blue Gown&amp;quot; (21s.). It is profusely illus-&lt;br /&gt;
and Australia. These volumes of reference will trated. Mrs. Little, who knows her central and&lt;br /&gt;
be of lasting value to all who are interested in southern China, describes the state of affairs up to&lt;br /&gt;
theatrical biography.&lt;br /&gt;
the moment of the Boxer outbreak. There are&lt;br /&gt;
Among the important illustrated books which chapters on unexplained riots in the west of China,&lt;br /&gt;
have appeared recently, two are especially note- the results of missionary effort, and the advance&lt;br /&gt;
worthy. One is &ldquo; The Confessions of a Carica of the anti-footbinding movement. Mrs. Little&lt;br /&gt;
turist,&rdquo; which is the autobiography of Mr. Harry carried credentials owing to which she was received&lt;br /&gt;
Furniss (2 vols., 32s.). There are over three by various highly-placed mandarins.&lt;br /&gt;
hundred illustrations, many having been made for Mr. John Murray is publishing a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
these volumes. The author sketches his career traditional Irish stories, translated by Lady&lt;br /&gt;
from his earliest days to his arrival in London at Gregory, widow of Sir William Gregory. The&lt;br /&gt;
the age of nineteen, and from that time to his title of this collection is&ldquo; Cuchulain of Muirthemne.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
appointment on the staff of Punch. This is a very&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Edith Wharton&amp;#039;s new story is called &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
readable and entertaining book.&lt;br /&gt;
Valley of Decision.&amp;quot; This accomplished writer&lt;br /&gt;
The second is &ldquo; Japan: A Record in Colour,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I in Colour,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
he&lt;br /&gt;
has already published &ldquo;A Gift from the Grave,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Mortimer Menpes (A. and C. Black, 208. &amp;quot;The Greater Inclination,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Crucial Instances.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
nett). There are a hundred illustrations, carefully&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Hardy&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Under the Greenwood&lt;br /&gt;
reproduced from Mr. Menpes&amp;#039; pictures. The&lt;br /&gt;
Tree&amp;quot; is now included in the St. Martin&amp;#039;s Library&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiastic author&amp;#039;s stories, criticisms of and&lt;br /&gt;
(Chatto and Windus). Mr. Hall Caine&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
remarks on Japanese life are piquant, and striking.&lt;br /&gt;
Deemster&rdquo;; R. L. Stevenson&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Familiar Studies&lt;br /&gt;
Of Japanese art and artists he says :-&lt;br /&gt;
of Men and Books&amp;quot;; and Charles Reade&amp;#039;s famous&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;We Westerners are taught to draw direct from the&lt;br /&gt;
historical novel, &ldquo;The Cloister and the Hearth,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
object or model before us on the platform, whereas the&lt;br /&gt;
Japanese are taught to study every detail of their model, are also published in this series of pocket volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
and to store their brains with impressions of every curve (Cloth, 2s, nett ; leather, 3s. nett.)&lt;br /&gt;
and line, afterwards to go away and draw that object from&lt;br /&gt;
An Exhibition of original Water Colours, and&lt;br /&gt;
memory. ... It is this certainty of touch and their&lt;br /&gt;
power to execute these bold, sweeping, decided lines that Black and White Drawings and Studies by Gordon&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
113&lt;br /&gt;
Browne, R.I., is on view at Messrs. Matthews and&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
Brooke&amp;#039;s Bijou Art Saloon, Bradford. Mr. Gordon&lt;br /&gt;
Browne, a son of the celebrated Hablot Knight&lt;br /&gt;
PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Browne (&ldquo; Phiz&amp;quot;), is a prolific artist. He is&lt;br /&gt;
principally known from his contributions to Punch.&lt;br /&gt;
He has illustrated Shakespeare, Defoe, Swift,&lt;br /&gt;
I.-Musical Performing Rights.&lt;br /&gt;
Bunyan, Stevenson, Scott, Pemberton, Crockett,&lt;br /&gt;
Grimm, Andersen, etc., etc. Dexterity, charm,&lt;br /&gt;
O WING to the fact that the performing rights&lt;br /&gt;
refinement and humour are the distinguishing&lt;br /&gt;
U in a piece of music are, as a general rule,&lt;br /&gt;
qualities of his art.&lt;br /&gt;
looked upon as of less value than the per-&lt;br /&gt;
We understand that &ldquo; The Serious Wooing,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
forming rights of a drama, it has been brought about&lt;br /&gt;
John Oliver Hobbes, is to be translated for &ldquo;La&lt;br /&gt;
that a great many musicians and even composers&lt;br /&gt;
Revue des Deux Mondes.&rdquo; Mrs. Craigie is at&lt;br /&gt;
are ignorant that there is any property existing in&lt;br /&gt;
musical authorship beyond the copyright-i.e., the&lt;br /&gt;
present engaged on a serial for Harper&amp;#039;s Magazines. .&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; &amp;#039; right of reproducing copies of the work.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. A. Jones&amp;#039;s well-known comedy, &ldquo; The The reason for this peculiar state of affairs is as&lt;br /&gt;
Liars,&amp;quot; has been added to the edition of his plays follows: A song or piece of music obtains a large&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
advertisement by being played by musicians and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips&amp;#039;s new drama, &ldquo; Ulysses,&amp;quot; others, in consequence of which the composer, as a&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in book form this month by Mr. general rule, is only too glad to get his piece per-&lt;br /&gt;
John Lane.&lt;br /&gt;
formed in order to obtain that advertisement,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frankfort Moore has written a one-act play,&lt;br /&gt;
thereby securing a large sale of the copies of his&lt;br /&gt;
which will be produced at an entertainment in aid&lt;br /&gt;
work, on which he receives his royalty, from&lt;br /&gt;
of the new Nurses&amp;#039; Home, Charing Cross Hospital,&lt;br /&gt;
which he makes his money.&lt;br /&gt;
to be held on 10th and 11th inst. in the Ball&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the drama the contrary holds,&lt;br /&gt;
Room of the Savoy Hotel. There are also to be namely, that there is practically, no money in the&lt;br /&gt;
tableaux designed and arranged by Messrs. George pubi&lt;br /&gt;
publication of a dramatic piece in book form, but&lt;br /&gt;
Frampton, A.R.A., J. J. Shannon, A.R.A., and&lt;br /&gt;
the dramatist obtains his reward by the royalties&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Swan, A.R.A. Miss Viola Tree is to dance.&lt;br /&gt;
from the performing rights.&lt;br /&gt;
A case recently heard in the Courts (Moul v.&lt;br /&gt;
By Royal command, Mr. Martin Harvey and his&lt;br /&gt;
Coronet Theatre, Ltd.) brings the point again&lt;br /&gt;
company gave a performance of &ldquo;A Cigarette&lt;br /&gt;
strongly before the public, and shows that a very&lt;br /&gt;
Maker&amp;#039;s Romance&amp;quot; at Sandringham on the evening&lt;br /&gt;
large property may be established by the reservation&lt;br /&gt;
of Jan. 11th. The scenery was taken from Eaton&lt;br /&gt;
of performing rights, if musical composers chose by&lt;br /&gt;
Hall, where a performance of this play had been&lt;br /&gt;
a strong combination and a firm front to market&lt;br /&gt;
given earlier in the week. The play ended shortly&lt;br /&gt;
their wares judiciously, instead of giving them&lt;br /&gt;
after midnight, and was a distinct success. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
away to the public or the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
and Mrs. Martin Harvey (Miss de Silva) were&lt;br /&gt;
In England as also in Germany, it is essential&lt;br /&gt;
presented to the King and Queen, who expressed&lt;br /&gt;
that, if the musical composer desires to retain his&lt;br /&gt;
their pleasure at the performance.&lt;br /&gt;
rights, he should have a notice printed on the&lt;br /&gt;
Before taking possession of his theatre about&lt;br /&gt;
title-page stating that the performing rights are&lt;br /&gt;
Easter, Mr. Edward Terry will go on a short&lt;br /&gt;
reserved. The Musical Copyright Act of 1882,&lt;br /&gt;
provincial tour. On his return he will appear in which is commonly known as Wall&amp;#039;s Act, com-&lt;br /&gt;
a new play by Captain Basil Hood.&lt;br /&gt;
pelled this course. It was passed owing to a pecu-&lt;br /&gt;
We understand that Miss Ethel Smyth&amp;#039;s new liar method of trickery indulged in by a Mr. Wall&lt;br /&gt;
opera, &ldquo; Der Wald,&rdquo; will shortly be produced at that was prejudicial to the public welfare.&lt;br /&gt;
the Berlin Royal Opera. Miss Smyth&amp;#039;s opera, In sundry cases, however, where a German pub-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fantasio,&amp;quot; founded on the play by Alfred de lisher has been asked by an English musician&lt;br /&gt;
Musset, is in the repertory of the Weimar and desirous of performing a piece in public whether&lt;br /&gt;
Carlsruhe Opera Houses. It has been revived he knew in whom the performing rights of the&lt;br /&gt;
frequently.&lt;br /&gt;
piece were vested, he has replied that he did not&lt;br /&gt;
Madam Sarah Bernhardt&amp;#039;s revival of Sardou&amp;#039;s know that there was such a thing as performing&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Theodora&rdquo; is proving an immense success. rights as distinct from the copyright. It is not&lt;br /&gt;
Though it is ten years since she first impersonated likely, judging from experience, that English&lt;br /&gt;
this r&ocirc;le, this marvellous actress and extraordinary musical publishers are equally ignorant, yet it is&lt;br /&gt;
woman seems, in the part, younger than ever. The worth while to put strongly before those members&lt;br /&gt;
seven scenes of the play form a series of the most of the profession of musical composers the fact&lt;br /&gt;
brilliant spectacles yet seen on the French stage. that if they chose to band themselves together&lt;br /&gt;
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114&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
they could create by their efforts, slowly yet ment, to ask for the sale of copyright and other&lt;br /&gt;
surely, a large property for themselves and a rights, which may be most valuable, which had&lt;br /&gt;
larger property for the younger members of the never been mentioned in the first instance,&lt;br /&gt;
profession.&lt;br /&gt;
If the author is not full of knowledge as to his&lt;br /&gt;
legal position, he is led, trusting to the position of&lt;br /&gt;
the firm, to believe that everything is in order.&lt;br /&gt;
The attention of the Secretary of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
II.-Notes on Agreement Clauses.&lt;br /&gt;
has again been drawn to this point, which is really&lt;br /&gt;
SOME years ago a curious case was published in a very serious one, and it appears extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the Addenda to the Methods of Publishing&amp;quot; issued&lt;br /&gt;
that one of the best houses in London should con-&lt;br /&gt;
by the Society, in which an author offered a book&lt;br /&gt;
duct their business in such a slack way as to lay&lt;br /&gt;
to one of the best known publishing firms in&lt;br /&gt;
themselves open to the charge of endeavouring to&lt;br /&gt;
London, and the firm offered to publish the book&lt;br /&gt;
get the better of an author by methods of this&lt;br /&gt;
for him on the royalty basis. The book was an&lt;br /&gt;
kind. The usual excuse put forward is that the&lt;br /&gt;
exceedingly good one, and the royalty was fair as&lt;br /&gt;
terms settled by conversation or by letter were&lt;br /&gt;
between author and publisher. The author con-&lt;br /&gt;
handed to a clerk in the office to embody in the&lt;br /&gt;
sented to the terms, and asked the publisher to&lt;br /&gt;
agreement, and that the agreement was the usual&lt;br /&gt;
embody them in a formal agreement. A few days&lt;br /&gt;
printed form. This does not appear to be a&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards he received a printed form of agree-&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory excuse, and the representatives of the&lt;br /&gt;
firm must be held responsible for the mistakes of&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
This agreement, in addition to other clauses,&lt;br /&gt;
their clerks.&lt;br /&gt;
contained the following :-&lt;br /&gt;
Do these mistakes ever occur in favour of the&lt;br /&gt;
author ? We have never seen that this is the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The copyright in this work and translations thereof,&lt;br /&gt;
case.&lt;br /&gt;
including all copyright, foreign, and other rights under&lt;br /&gt;
Once more the danger of authors assigning&lt;br /&gt;
existing or future treaties or conventions with America or&lt;br /&gt;
other foreign countries, and under the Canadian Copyright their copyright without the full knowledge of&lt;br /&gt;
Act, 1875, and any other present or future Canadian or what that assignment conveys must be impressed&lt;br /&gt;
Colonial Act, and all rights of translation and reproduction,&lt;br /&gt;
upon them.&lt;br /&gt;
and all other Imperial, Colonial, and foreign rights which&lt;br /&gt;
This case, however, affords an additional point&lt;br /&gt;
now, or during the continuance of the legal term of copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right, shall be or shall become appurtenant to the pro for discussion at the present time. It will be seen&lt;br /&gt;
prietor of the copyright of the work, shall be the property that from the latter part of the clause quoted, the&lt;br /&gt;
of the said publishers subject to the payment to the said&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is entitled to 50 per cent. on the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
author of a royalty of per cent. on the retail price of&lt;br /&gt;
the first 1,500 copies sold, and in the shilling on the re.&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s rights. These are the minor rights&lt;br /&gt;
tail price of all copies of the English edition sold beyond which are generally dealt with by the agent on&lt;br /&gt;
the first 1,500 copies, and one half of any profits which behalf of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
may be realised from the rights of translation and re- Mr. Heinemann has been objecting for certain&lt;br /&gt;
production, or any other Imperial, Colonial, or foreign&lt;br /&gt;
rights, which now, or during the continuance of the legal&lt;br /&gt;
reasons to the employment of the agent by the&lt;br /&gt;
term of copyright, shall be or become appurtenant author, and has stated that he considers the&lt;br /&gt;
to the propietor of the copyright of the work, or from the agent&amp;#039;s charges from the author&amp;#039;s point of view&lt;br /&gt;
sale of early sheets or stereotype plates of the said work in are too high. He should, however, refer to his&lt;br /&gt;
the United States or elsewhere.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
own agreements, and authors will see that in the&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; The author, on receipt of the agreement, thought, case put before them above the publisher is asking&lt;br /&gt;
of course, that it embodied the terms which had 50 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
been previously offered to him, namely, the right It is not likely, therefore, that the author will&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher to publish subject to an agreed ask the publisher to negotiate these rights when&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, and was about to sign it. He, however, the agent will negotiate them at the confessedly&lt;br /&gt;
asked the advice of the Society before taking this extravagant price of 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
step, and was at once shown the important differ- Again, as has already been pointed out, it is the&lt;br /&gt;
ence between the original offer and the agreement. agent&amp;#039;s business to know all the ready markets&lt;br /&gt;
The author thereupon wrote to the publisher, and for these minor and secondary rights, and this is&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out the difference. The agreement was not the the case with the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
promptly altered to conform with the original One point more.&lt;br /&gt;
statement. There is no objection whatever to the The agent knows the value of his client&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
publisher stating that he would offer the author work when selling these secondary rights. The&lt;br /&gt;
the royalty subject only to the transfer of all the publisher, as a general rule, does not know, and&lt;br /&gt;
copyright and other rights to the firm, but it is cares less.&lt;br /&gt;
not fair business to offer to publish a book on a Cases have been brought to this office, which&lt;br /&gt;
fixed royalty, and then when sending in the agree- have been mentioned in The Author, where a&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
115&lt;br /&gt;
publisher has sold serial rights in a book at the paper exchanged for the right one. Then, again,&lt;br /&gt;
ridiculously low price of &pound;30, where an author the defendant&amp;#039;s was a morning paper, and the sale&lt;br /&gt;
was accustomed to obtain at least &pound;100. The of it was practically over before the plaintiffs&amp;#039; was&lt;br /&gt;
danger of conveying these rights to the publisher on sale, and therefore it could not be said to come&lt;br /&gt;
is very great indeed.&lt;br /&gt;
into serious competition with the plaintiffs&amp;#039; paper.&lt;br /&gt;
It is bad for the author&amp;#039;s market and it is In all the circumstances he came to the conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
bad for the author&amp;#039;s pocket, and reduces his that the plaintiffs had failed to make out a&lt;br /&gt;
chance of success, as well as his rights, to a case for the intervention of the Court, and the&lt;br /&gt;
minimum.&lt;br /&gt;
action would therefore be dismissed with costs.--&lt;br /&gt;
From the Daily Graphic.&lt;br /&gt;
III.-Is a Title Copyright ?&lt;br /&gt;
In the Chancery Division some little time back&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Justice Swinfen-Eady gave judgment in the&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-Continental Piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
case of Willox v. Pearson.&mdash;The plaintiffs asked for From time to time members of the Society have&lt;br /&gt;
an injunction to restrain the defendant from had sound reasons for complaining of the piracy of&lt;br /&gt;
publishing, selling, or offering for sale a news their works in foreign countries, but have taken&lt;br /&gt;
paper called the North Express, or under any no steps to stop this piracy, chiefly because they&lt;br /&gt;
other title in which the word &ldquo;Express &amp;quot; was used, feel that if the matter was carried to its final issue,&lt;br /&gt;
on the ground that it was likely to lead the public it would not be worth while to commence an&lt;br /&gt;
to believe that it was an edition of the plaintiffs&amp;#039; action in a foreign country for the recovery of no&lt;br /&gt;
newspaper, the Evening Express, both papers very large amount. It is necessary, therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
being published in Liverpool.-The judge said the put before the members that many pirates do not&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs were the proprietors of the Evening care to have their methods exposed, and rather&lt;br /&gt;
Express, an old-established newspaper, with which than run the risk of such exposure will pay a&lt;br /&gt;
was associated the Liverpool Courier. Their reasonable sum if they are worried into it, although&lt;br /&gt;
paper was known throughout Liverpool and Lan it may well be that the author would not take&lt;br /&gt;
cashire as the Express, and it had a large circu- action in the Courts on account of the expense&lt;br /&gt;
lation. On December 2nd the defendant, Mr. and trouble involved.&lt;br /&gt;
Arthur Pearson, published in Liverpool a paper Members should remember these additional&lt;br /&gt;
called the North Express. Since that time the facts, that the Society has a correspondent in&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs complained that the defendant&amp;#039;s paper America, and that it has obtained considerable&lt;br /&gt;
had been called out in the streets of Liverpool assistance from the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres in&lt;br /&gt;
as the Express, and that it was so folded and Paris, and that only last year it succeeded in ob-&lt;br /&gt;
exposed for sale on the bookstalls and counters of taining a sum for the piracy of a story in Madrid,&lt;br /&gt;
newsagents that the title &ldquo; Express &amp;quot; only was ex- by first applying to the English Consul, and then,&lt;br /&gt;
posed to view, and that consequently in some cases through the Consular lawyer, to the pirate.&lt;br /&gt;
people who wanted to buy the plaintiffs&amp;#039; paper The same member of the Society for whom the&lt;br /&gt;
found that they had got the defendant&amp;#039;s. The fact money was recovered in Madrid, has recently re-&lt;br /&gt;
of the plaintiffs&amp;#039; paper being known as the Ex- covered a sum for the piracy of a story in Ger-&lt;br /&gt;
press did not give them any exclusive right to many. The following is a statement of the case.&lt;br /&gt;
that title. Sir John Willox admitted that the He sold to a German publisher the right of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
appearance of his paper and the defendant&amp;#039;s was lication in that country. Some time afterwards&lt;br /&gt;
entirely different, and that there had been no another German publisher who had reproduced&lt;br /&gt;
attempt on the part of the defendant to pass. his many translations of the same author&amp;#039;s work&lt;br /&gt;
paper off as the plaintiffs&amp;#039;. The evidence of the under the usual form of contract discovered that&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs came to this, that street vendors of the the story referred to was being pirated in a&lt;br /&gt;
defendant&amp;#039;s paper had sometimes called out Ec- bowdlerised edition. He wrote to the author to&lt;br /&gt;
press, and that people intending to purchase the that effect. The German publisher who held the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs&amp;#039; paper at bookstalls and newsagents&amp;#039; had rights of translation granted to the author the&lt;br /&gt;
taken up or had given to them the defendant&amp;#039;s right to take action in the matter, waiving any&lt;br /&gt;
paper instead. But people who purchased news claim he himself might have in the book, as he&lt;br /&gt;
papers were supposed to be able to read, and if was equally anxious that the pirate should be&lt;br /&gt;
they had done so they would have immediately punished.&lt;br /&gt;
discovered their mistake, and in the instances in The author employed the publisher who first&lt;br /&gt;
which the customers had been deceived they had, discovered the infringement to act for him, and&lt;br /&gt;
in fact, within a few minutes discovered their mis- through his agency obtained a sum from the&lt;br /&gt;
take, and had come back to the seller and got the pirate. These facts are very interesting and of no&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
116&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
little importance to members, for there is no question was going to be discussed in the Courts, the&lt;br /&gt;
doubt that every time a member whose rights are publisher having to pay the costs of the case.&lt;br /&gt;
infringed in foreign countries enforces those It would be presumptuous to advise a firm of&lt;br /&gt;
rights, or exposes the action of the pirate, to that publishers on their methods of doing business,&lt;br /&gt;
extent is the position of literary property strength- but it is surely more economical to pay the&lt;br /&gt;
ened in the country, and it is by similar methods amounts due to authors at the proper dates&lt;br /&gt;
that the Society gradually strengthened the position than to pay the amounts with additional sums&lt;br /&gt;
of literary property in England, and brought to the for costs.&lt;br /&gt;
members of the profession of letters, whether It is satisfactory to know that with the&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, knowledge and Society&amp;#039;s aid these matters have been settled.&lt;br /&gt;
assistance which they had not before.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DESIRABILITY OF A SET OF&lt;br /&gt;
V.&ndash;Cases.&lt;br /&gt;
STANDARD RULES FOR PRINTING.&lt;br /&gt;
The following cutting is taken from the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Graphic :-&lt;br /&gt;
M HE answers I have already received to the&lt;br /&gt;
In the Westminster County Court the case of Churton v 1 questions contained in my article in last&lt;br /&gt;
Calvert, Kesterton, and Co. was tried, an action by a young month&amp;#039;s Author, p. 98, show a much more general&lt;br /&gt;
lady living in Norwood to recover one guinea as nominal interest, than I had hoped for, in the subject of a&lt;br /&gt;
damages for alleged infringement of copyright. The plain-&lt;br /&gt;
tiff&amp;#039;s case was that she wrote a tale, and gave to the Favourite&lt;br /&gt;
standard set of rules for printing. The unanimous&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine the right of publishing it once for the sum of desire for such a set of rules, and the many good&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1, which amount she had been paid. She had since dis- wishes expressed that I may be able to formulate&lt;br /&gt;
covered, however, that the defendants had published the one. is indeed most gratifying and will help to&lt;br /&gt;
same tale in the Crystal Palace Magazine, and that, she con-&lt;br /&gt;
tended, they had no right to do, as she never sold the copy.&lt;br /&gt;
cheer me while devoting my best energies to&lt;br /&gt;
right.--Mr. Calvert, a member of the defendants&amp;#039; firm, co-ordinate the very valuable suggestions which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared, and said that his case was that the plaintiff had have been so kindly sent to me. Some of the&lt;br /&gt;
sued the wrong people. The judge held that there was no&lt;br /&gt;
suggestions as to details are 80 diametrically&lt;br /&gt;
sale to the defendants of the copyright, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
Farourite Magazine had no authority to pass the manu.&lt;br /&gt;
opposed that I am doubtful-whatever the final&lt;br /&gt;
script on. In these circumstances, he gave judgment for result-whether there will be any of those good&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff for one guinea damages, and allowed her the wishes left for the writer, by the time the final&lt;br /&gt;
costs of coming from Norwood.&lt;br /&gt;
form is reached !&lt;br /&gt;
The action will be interesting to members of As the answers are still coming in, it is of&lt;br /&gt;
our Society, because it was undertaken by the course impossible to give at present any analysis&lt;br /&gt;
Committee, and because the case bears on the 18th of results. May I beg those who have not yet&lt;br /&gt;
Section of the Act.&lt;br /&gt;
done so, to send me their opinions as soon as they&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff&amp;#039;s contention is fully set forth. conveniently can ? For as I said in my previous&lt;br /&gt;
The defendants maintained that the copyright was article, I should like to have sent to me at&lt;br /&gt;
theirs under the 18th Section of the Act, as there Iddesleigh, Torquay, as many answers as possible,&lt;br /&gt;
had been no formal agreement, and secondly, that dealing with Mr. Hart&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Rules for Compositors&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff was suing the wrong person.&lt;br /&gt;
and Readers.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
As will be seen, the decision of the judge held I should be glad to have also lists of words that&lt;br /&gt;
that there was no sale to the defendants of the are spelt in more than one way, or references to&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff. such lists, as there seems a general desire to have&lt;br /&gt;
The sum recovered was not a large amount, but Mr. Hart&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Rules&rdquo; considerably expanded in&lt;br /&gt;
the principle is one of importance.&lt;br /&gt;
this direction : for it to contain if possible the&lt;br /&gt;
correct spelling of all such doubtful words as&lt;br /&gt;
Hindoo, Hindu ; yelk, yolk; and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;
A very distinguished etymologist in a long reply&lt;br /&gt;
Two cases have been brought by an author concludes his letter by touching upon a point&lt;br /&gt;
against the same publisher in the course of a few which would be out of place in any rules for&lt;br /&gt;
months.&lt;br /&gt;
compositors only, but which is remarkably in place&lt;br /&gt;
The first was for a small sum on an account in the columns of a paper for anthors. He allows&lt;br /&gt;
stated, and the publisher paid the amount on the me to quote the paragraph, which is as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
day before the suinmons was returnable.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;There is one rule to observed, which you do&lt;br /&gt;
This second matter was for an account and for not notice, though it is of supreme importance:&lt;br /&gt;
any further sums that might be due, and again and that is, that the author shall present his copy&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher settled the matter only when the in such a state as to be easily legible. There is a&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 117 (#513) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
117&lt;br /&gt;
tradition among some authors, that a crabbed is the market in question a large one, but it is also&lt;br /&gt;
writing is given to a clever compositor, and there- a remarkably wide one. It is to this circumstance&lt;br /&gt;
fore one ought to write badly. The gross selfish- that the contributor who writes on the chance&lt;br /&gt;
ness of this is simply shameful, and deserves entire of acceptance, instead of in response to a definite&lt;br /&gt;
reprobation. A man who is a gentleman will commission, is indebted for the greater portion of&lt;br /&gt;
make his copy legible for the express purpose of his income. This is because if his article be&lt;br /&gt;
enabling the compositor to earn more wages (and declined by one paper, there are so many others to&lt;br /&gt;
to save his eyesight]. On this account I have which he may submit it, that, sooner or later, he&lt;br /&gt;
carefully cultivated a rather coarse kind of writing, is almost bound to find an opening for it. Editors,&lt;br /&gt;
which I use especially for press-copy. It may not too, though possessed no doubt of &ldquo;great minds,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
look &aelig;sthetic, but I defy anyone to misread it. most certainly do not &ldquo;think alike,&amp;quot; and it is&lt;br /&gt;
Of course, in letters, one is not quite so careful: one of the unattached journalist&amp;#039;s most common&lt;br /&gt;
but here also it is highly desirable.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
experiences to find that work which is declined&lt;br /&gt;
F. HOWARD COLLINS.&lt;br /&gt;
with and without thanks by one periodical is&lt;br /&gt;
Iddesleigh, Torquay.&lt;br /&gt;
effusively welcomed by others. In evidence of&lt;br /&gt;
this I would put forward two or three instances&lt;br /&gt;
from among a large number of such that have&lt;br /&gt;
occurred in my own case.&lt;br /&gt;
THE JOURNALISTIC FREE LANCE.&lt;br /&gt;
A little time ago when the question of military&lt;br /&gt;
(BY ONE OF THEM.)&lt;br /&gt;
canteens was absorbing--for reasons which need&lt;br /&gt;
not be here referred to--a good deal of public&lt;br /&gt;
attention, I wrote a short article on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
CCORDING to the general consensus of The editors of eleven papers rejected it in turn,&lt;br /&gt;
A opinion, the way of the &ldquo;free-lance&rdquo; being unable apparently to discern its high literary&lt;br /&gt;
journalist is very similar to that which we merits. On its twelfth journey through the post,&lt;br /&gt;
are authoritatively told is reserved for trans- however, it met with better fortune, for it was then&lt;br /&gt;
gressors. On this account innumerable warnings accepted by the Pall Mall Gazette. Among the&lt;br /&gt;
have from time to time been delivered against periodicals declining it may be mentioned the&lt;br /&gt;
embarking on the career, and &ldquo;awful examples&rdquo; Westminster Gazette, St. James&amp;#039;s Gazette, Chambers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
of individuals who have done so in defiance of Journal, Daily Mail, and Morning Post. In the&lt;br /&gt;
such counsels are continually being dragged into same way, the Pall Mall Gazette has declined&lt;br /&gt;
a publicity which they themselves would willingly contributions which have subsequently appeared in&lt;br /&gt;
shun. Even such past masters of the craft as the the Westminster Gazette, and Vanity Fair has said&lt;br /&gt;
late Mr. Grant Allen and Robert Buchanan had no an uncompromising &amp;quot;No&amp;quot; to matter that the&lt;br /&gt;
good words to say for it, although each of them World has hospitably said &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; to. Similarly&lt;br /&gt;
for many years derived from its practice incomes with regard to the magazines. Two articles of&lt;br /&gt;
which to the majority of &ldquo;free lances&amp;quot; must mine were successively rejected by Pearson&amp;#039;s,&lt;br /&gt;
seem beyond the dreams of even twentieth century Cassell&amp;#039;s, the English Illustrated, and the Windsor.&lt;br /&gt;
avarice. The former, for example, once placed it When I sent them to the Strand, however, they&lt;br /&gt;
on record as his settled conviction that, so far were promptly accepted. Again, stories declined&lt;br /&gt;
as financial results are concerned, the sweeping by the Royal have been purchased by Harmsworth&amp;#039;s,&lt;br /&gt;
of a crossing offers better prospects, while the and articles that the National Review has printed&lt;br /&gt;
opinion of the latter on the same subject was have first suffered rejection at the hands of the&lt;br /&gt;
scarcely more encouraging. It is little matter Contemporary. Why these things should be I do&lt;br /&gt;
for wonder, then, that when the average man not profess to be able to say: there are more&lt;br /&gt;
learns that some friend or acquaintance of his important problems in life to engage one&amp;#039;s atten-&lt;br /&gt;
has plunged into the maelstrom of &ldquo;free-lance tion. Consequently, when some few weeks ago&lt;br /&gt;
journalism,&amp;quot; he straightway laments him as Black and White published an article of mine that&lt;br /&gt;
irrevocably lost.&lt;br /&gt;
had been declined by twenty-six other periodicals&lt;br /&gt;
Now, with all deference to public opinion&mdash;which, in turn, I did not think it necessary to question&lt;br /&gt;
as a free lance myself, I naturally hold in the the editor as to his reasons for accepting it.&lt;br /&gt;
highest esteem--I cannot help thinking that in To the proprietor the most important matter&lt;br /&gt;
this particular respect it is somewhat prone to with which to concern himself is to see that his&lt;br /&gt;
be unduly pessimistic. The flood of periodical paper pays its way; to the free lance it is to see&lt;br /&gt;
literature shows no sign of abating-rather the that it pays its contributors. That the two classes&lt;br /&gt;
reverse, indeed, is the case and there is con- of individuals are not in common accord on this&lt;br /&gt;
sequently a large market for the unattached point is&mdash;to people in my position, at any rate-&lt;br /&gt;
journalist to carry his wares to. Then, not only distinctly regrettable. A result of this is that&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 118 (#514) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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118&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
instead of there being one rate of remuneration however, they hold a contrary opinion, the reverse&lt;br /&gt;
for all work of the same description, there are a is the case.&lt;br /&gt;
dozen or more. Again, in some editorial offices, Although the exact amount of remuneration&lt;br /&gt;
the rule is to pay by the thousand words, in others which the chance contributor will receive for his&lt;br /&gt;
by the line, in others by the page, and in others, work when accepted cannot be stated, it is, Dever-&lt;br /&gt;
again, &ldquo; by arrangement.&rdquo; Exactly what may be theless, quite possible to say what he may fairly&lt;br /&gt;
meant by this last I have never been able to discover. expect in the majority of instances. The follow-&lt;br /&gt;
The results of its operation, too, are so curiously ing, for example, are the prevailing rates in those&lt;br /&gt;
unequal that they would seem to call for some periodicals in which my own work has appeared :-&lt;br /&gt;
explanation. Thus, from the Strand and Harms. National Review, &pound;1 per page; Literature, &pound;3&lt;br /&gt;
worth--in each of which the system is in force--I per page ; Strand Magazine, &pound;22s. to &pound;6 per&lt;br /&gt;
have respectively received twelve guineas and four 1,000 words ; Pall Mall Magazine, from &pound;3 38.&lt;br /&gt;
guineas for articles of precisely the same length. In per 1,000 words ; English Illustrated, Harmsuorth,&lt;br /&gt;
the case of another monthly magazine where the &ldquo;by and Royal Magazine, from &pound;2 2s. per 1,000 words;&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement&rdquo; rule also obtains I was once offered Windsor Magazine and Chambers&amp;#039; Journal, from&lt;br /&gt;
in payment of the story with which I brightened &pound;1 11s. 6d. per 1,000 words; the World, Vanity&lt;br /&gt;
its pages, the originals of the four pictorial outrages Fair, Pall Mall, Westminster and St. James&amp;#039;s Gazette&lt;br /&gt;
with which it had been &ldquo;illustrated.&rdquo; Presumably, pay by the column, the rate varying from &pound;2 2s. in&lt;br /&gt;
the editor proposed to requite the artist by presents the case of the Pall Mall, to 12s. 6d. in that of the&lt;br /&gt;
ing him with my original manuscript. In the note St. James&amp;#039;s. With morning papers the rule seems&lt;br /&gt;
which accompanied this novel form of remuneration, to be to pay by the column for articles of any&lt;br /&gt;
the editor-evidently scenting a possible unwilling- length, and by the line for paragraph matter. In&lt;br /&gt;
ness on my part to fall in with his ideas&mdash;blandly the case of the former the average scale is &pound;2 2s.&lt;br /&gt;
remarked that the drawings in question were worth per column; at any rate, this is what I have&lt;br /&gt;
at least ten guineas. My reply to this was that, received for contributions to the Daily News,&lt;br /&gt;
as I only valued my story at half this amount, I Daily Chronicle, Daily Mail, and Daily Express,&lt;br /&gt;
could not conscientiously accept anything that was while for paragraphs one may count on draw-&lt;br /&gt;
so much in excess of this, and concluded with an ing threepence a line from the Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
application to be favoured with a cheque for the Gazette, and half this amount from the Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
smaller sum. Instead of readily acquiescing in so and News.&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable a request, my correspondent curtly As may be imagined, the readiest market for&lt;br /&gt;
intimated that my views were preposterous.&rdquo; the free lance is undoubtedly afforded by those&lt;br /&gt;
Of course I may have been wrong, but I remember journals which may be described as belonging to&lt;br /&gt;
thinking that this sort of thing was scarcely the Bits class, nearly all of which pay a fixed rate&lt;br /&gt;
calculated to foster the formation of those friendly of one guinea per column. The scale is not unduly&lt;br /&gt;
relations which should always exist between the extravagant, but then the standard of literary&lt;br /&gt;
members of literary circles. From a second excellence demanded by the editors of these&lt;br /&gt;
monthly magazine the only description of payment journals does not make any great strain on the&lt;br /&gt;
that I was ever able to extract for a contribution writer. Indeed, the practised journalist soon&lt;br /&gt;
duly published therein took the form of twelve comes to regard these periodicals as a species of&lt;br /&gt;
copies of the number containing my effusion. &ldquo;sink&rdquo; into which he can (with the certainty of&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the editor of a third periodical for which I receiving a guinea for it) drop, whenever he feels&lt;br /&gt;
once wrote an article paid me some very handsome inclined to do so, a column of matter which the&lt;br /&gt;
compliments on what he was good enough to more &amp;quot; literary&rdquo; papers would sternly refuse to see&lt;br /&gt;
characterise as its &ldquo;delightful style.&rdquo; When, any merit in. It takes some little time, however,&lt;br /&gt;
however, I suggested-after a considerable interval to acquire the knack of writing for Queer Bits and&lt;br /&gt;
--that a cheque would be more easily negotiable, papers of similar genre, and one&amp;#039;s early experiments&lt;br /&gt;
he seemed to take it as a personal reflection upon in this direction are almost certain to meet with&lt;br /&gt;
himself. He even went, indeed, the length of failure. Strange though it may seem to say so,&lt;br /&gt;
remarking that he was &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; at my &ldquo;impor- there is, nevertheless, a distinct art in writing, in&lt;br /&gt;
tunity.&rdquo; That I also might be &ldquo;hurt&amp;quot; by his a manner that shall suit the limited intelligences&lt;br /&gt;
declining to requite my efforts in cash did not of their readers, attractive articles on &amp;quot;How the&lt;br /&gt;
seem to enter into his calculations. As the free- King has his Hair Cut&rdquo; or &ldquo; Busmen&amp;#039;s Big Break-&lt;br /&gt;
lance journalist does not, as a rule, embark on his fasts,&rdquo; etc. It is an art, too, that the free lance&lt;br /&gt;
career as such merely for the benefit of his health, should strenuously strive after, for its acquisition&lt;br /&gt;
this question of payment for his work is an means a weekly income which, though small, is&lt;br /&gt;
extremely important one. When editors are in none the less welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
harmony with this view, all goes well ; when,&lt;br /&gt;
(To be continued.)&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 119 (#515) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
119&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;
He has been touched&mdash;&amp;#039;tis my impression&lt;br /&gt;
This painter of the urban Past&lt;br /&gt;
By pangs too tender for confession&lt;br /&gt;
M HE January dinners of the Authors&amp;#039; Club&lt;br /&gt;
After the Country, free and vast.&lt;br /&gt;
have been exceedingly successful.&lt;br /&gt;
These Piccadilly flowers we cherish&lt;br /&gt;
On January 13th, under the chairmanship of In high Parnassian glens have grown ;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. M. H. Spielmann, Mr. F. C. Gould, the cele This fountain in St. Martin&amp;#039;s Parish&lt;br /&gt;
brated caricaturist and assistant editor of the Runs here from woody Helicon.&lt;br /&gt;
Westminster Gazette, was the guest of the evening.&lt;br /&gt;
And we remember great Apollo&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Spielmann, in proposing his health, drew a&lt;br /&gt;
Once took a hireling&amp;#039;s wage and task,&lt;br /&gt;
pleasing picture of his art, stating that his ridicule&lt;br /&gt;
To teach us bards a trade should follow,&lt;br /&gt;
was kindly, and his satire without malice. He&lt;br /&gt;
And lyric Hermes wear a mask.&lt;br /&gt;
also put before those present Mr. Gould&amp;#039;s great&lt;br /&gt;
versatility and imaginative power. Taking his&lt;br /&gt;
St. Paul himself&mdash;for all his frenzies-&lt;br /&gt;
caricatures of Mr. Chamberlain for example, he Made goat-skin Tents to admiration :&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out that Mr. Gould bad represented him Spinoza&amp;#039;s Spectacles and Lenses&lt;br /&gt;
in over one hundred different forms.&lt;br /&gt;
Earned him the right to speculation ;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Gould made a pleasant speech in reply, and&lt;br /&gt;
And so some need or necromancy,&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out the difference between the political&lt;br /&gt;
Some Destiny (I do protest),&lt;br /&gt;
cartoonist of the present day in England and other&lt;br /&gt;
Veils, to our gross and purblind fancy,&lt;br /&gt;
countries.&lt;br /&gt;
On January 20th Mr. Austin Dobson was the&lt;br /&gt;
The rank and lustre of our Guest :&lt;br /&gt;
guest of the evening, and Mr. Herbert Trench the Pan from his mighty forest roof-&lt;br /&gt;
chairman. The chairman dealt exhaustively with Pan to our humble Board has strayed !&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Austin Dobson&amp;#039;s work, and pointed out the We heard him piping far aloof,&lt;br /&gt;
excellence in finish in the art of which the club&amp;#039;s But here he comes in masquerade !&lt;br /&gt;
guest was such a prominent master. He finally&lt;br /&gt;
And though, no doubt, his godship&rsquo;s proof&lt;br /&gt;
read a poem which he stated he had received from&lt;br /&gt;
Under this board might be displayed,&lt;br /&gt;
the secretary of the club, the title of which was&lt;br /&gt;
We cannot see the cloven hoof&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; To Austin Dobson, Esq., begging that he would&lt;br /&gt;
That represents the Board of Trade !&lt;br /&gt;
write a play.&rdquo; We have pleasure in printing the&lt;br /&gt;
poem below. The authorship of the poem has&lt;br /&gt;
For Pan, when he&amp;#039;d a mind to spark it,&lt;br /&gt;
not been declared. The secretary&amp;#039;s lack of imagina-&lt;br /&gt;
Would hie from Alps and pastures down&lt;br /&gt;
tive power being so well known, he was reluctantly And fiddle in Verona market&lt;br /&gt;
forced to disclaim authorship.&lt;br /&gt;
Or lead a hornpipe through the town.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Austin Dobson made a neat little speech* in&lt;br /&gt;
And so our Bard, who will not jeopard&lt;br /&gt;
reply, and a very pleasant evening was completed&lt;br /&gt;
The name that to a god belongs,&lt;br /&gt;
by his reciting a ballad of his own.&lt;br /&gt;
Assumes the ribboned Watteau shepherd&lt;br /&gt;
TO AUSTIN DOBSON, ESQUIRE, BEGGING THAT&lt;br /&gt;
And fobs us off with dainty songs.&lt;br /&gt;
HE WOULD WRITE A PLAY.&lt;br /&gt;
Ah, if he chose to drop this magic-&lt;br /&gt;
Show himself PLAYWRIGHT ! Sweep the stage&lt;br /&gt;
A fool might think (and what is worse is&lt;br /&gt;
With comedies and humours tragic,&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the stupid wise have said it)&lt;br /&gt;
How rich were we, and rich this Age!&lt;br /&gt;
That Austin Dobson&amp;#039;s perfect verses&lt;br /&gt;
Achieve no more than courtly credit ;&lt;br /&gt;
The Pen that gave us Porcelain Scenes and&lt;br /&gt;
Ballades on satin, now, at leisure,&lt;br /&gt;
As though the delicate enslavement&lt;br /&gt;
Could give us pathos like Racine&amp;#039;s, and&lt;br /&gt;
Wherewith he keeps the Town in thrall&lt;br /&gt;
Satire like Plautus&rsquo; at its pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
Ended with suburbs and the pavement&lt;br /&gt;
Retired at last to sylvan Arbours,&lt;br /&gt;
About St. James&amp;#039; and Whitehall.&lt;br /&gt;
Change, Sir, the lute for louder Chords ; ,&lt;br /&gt;
Exchange your Board of Docks and Harbours&lt;br /&gt;
But one, at least, who closelier reads him,&lt;br /&gt;
Sees through the sober cit&amp;#039;s disguise&lt;br /&gt;
For triumpbs on still greater Boards :&lt;br /&gt;
The passion of the heart that leads him,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir, write us Plays ! Take sock and buskin !-&lt;br /&gt;
The living Pan that in bim lies.&lt;br /&gt;
Steele comes to life-Rise, Goldsmith&amp;#039;s heir !&lt;br /&gt;
Cyrano&amp;#039;s windbag stick your tusk in,&lt;br /&gt;
* Note, see page 122.&lt;br /&gt;
And be our Congreve-our Moli&egrave;re !&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 120 (#516) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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120&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
SERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. 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 &ldquo;office expenses,&amp;quot;&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;
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.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
IY. 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. Waaa&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;
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;
(5.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author 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;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of onc-act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that AMERICAN RIGHTS may be exceed.&lt;br /&gt;
ingly 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;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, THOSE AUTIJORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA-&lt;br /&gt;
TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com&lt;br /&gt;
petent 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;
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
D advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor,&lt;br /&gt;
the member has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is&lt;br /&gt;
desirable, the Committee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 121 (#517) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
121&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039; Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER&lt;br /&gt;
THAN THE 21st OF EACH MONTH.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
whether members of the Society or not, are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate to the Editor any points connected with their&lt;br /&gt;
work which it would be advisable in the general interest to&lt;br /&gt;
publish.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. BEFORE SIGNING ANY AGREEMENT WHATEVER, send&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society&lt;br /&gt;
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you&lt;br /&gt;
are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the&lt;br /&gt;
independence of the writer,&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception&lt;br /&gt;
of members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-&lt;br /&gt;
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&lt;br /&gt;
-(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give&lt;br /&gt;
advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements&lt;br /&gt;
an readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
7. No contract should be entered into with a literary&lt;br /&gt;
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration the contracts submitted to them by literary&lt;br /&gt;
agents, and are recommended to submit them for inter.&lt;br /&gt;
pretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are signed&lt;br /&gt;
or initialled the Authors alone are responsible.&lt;br /&gt;
None of the papers or paragraphs must be taken&lt;br /&gt;
as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
such is especially stated to be the case.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTEKS ARE INVITED BY THE&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on&lt;br /&gt;
no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
return articles which cannot be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY begs to give notice&lt;br /&gt;
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,&lt;br /&gt;
and he requests members who do not receive an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to important communications within two days to&lt;br /&gt;
write to him without delay. All remittances should be&lt;br /&gt;
crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent&lt;br /&gt;
by registered letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.&lt;br /&gt;
This&lt;br /&gt;
The&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do&lt;br /&gt;
some publishers. Members can make their own deductions&lt;br /&gt;
and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and&lt;br /&gt;
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term&lt;br /&gt;
MSS, includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY&lt;br /&gt;
AND DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The&lt;br /&gt;
leaders are writers of competence and experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
TE must tender our apologies to the members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Authors&amp;#039; Society for the late appear-&lt;br /&gt;
ance of the January number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
The Christmas holidays were, to a small extent,&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for this, but the reason of the serious&lt;br /&gt;
delay was owing to the fact that the final proofs&lt;br /&gt;
were lost in the post on their way from our printers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
London office to their printing works in the&lt;br /&gt;
country. It became necessary, therefore, to correct&lt;br /&gt;
a second set. Should any palpable errors or&lt;br /&gt;
mistakes occur in the articles, we trust that the&lt;br /&gt;
members will treat the matter with kind forbear-&lt;br /&gt;
ance, as in some cases it was impossible to correct&lt;br /&gt;
the final proofs from the original corrections sent&lt;br /&gt;
in by the correspondents.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society that, although the paper is sent to them&lt;br /&gt;
free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
58. 62. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
The way of the author is hard. The follow-&lt;br /&gt;
ing conversation between a noted patron of all the&lt;br /&gt;
arts and master of none, and a celebrated author&lt;br /&gt;
largely read by subscribers to Mudie&amp;#039;s, bears witness&lt;br /&gt;
to this fact. &ldquo;It is true,&amp;quot; said the person of high&lt;br /&gt;
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122&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ideals, &ldquo; that you have attained prosperity by your There may be many explanations of this curious&lt;br /&gt;
writings, but you have produced nothing that will coincidence, seeing how translations of foreign&lt;br /&gt;
live.&rdquo; &ldquo;Well,&amp;quot; answered the comfortable litterateur, books sell in England ; but one point strikes us at&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;when it came to a question of which should live, once as probable, namely, the fact that so many&lt;br /&gt;
myself or my writings, I didn&amp;#039;t hesitate to sacrifice Germans can read English and speak English&lt;br /&gt;
my writings.&rdquo;&mdash;The Week Enit.&lt;br /&gt;
fluently, that they prefer reading their English&lt;br /&gt;
novels in the original Tauchnitz edition, rather&lt;br /&gt;
than in any other form, however good, whereas&lt;br /&gt;
There seems to be a very nice dispute arising&lt;br /&gt;
the average Englishman, nothing versed in foreign&lt;br /&gt;
between Monsieur Jean Richepin, the French&lt;br /&gt;
author, and Mr. David Belasco, the American play-&lt;br /&gt;
tongues, prefers to read a translation.&lt;br /&gt;
wright.&lt;br /&gt;
In a few words the position of the case is as&lt;br /&gt;
follows, as far as can be gathered from the state Mr. Austin Dobson&amp;#039;s remarks with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
ments of either party which have appeared in the Academy in his speech at the Authors&amp;#039; Club have&lt;br /&gt;
papers.&lt;br /&gt;
been wholly misreported. What he, in fact, said&lt;br /&gt;
Monsieur Richepin says that he was engaged to was : &ldquo; We have managed to build up a not&lt;br /&gt;
write a play, and was to receive certain sums in unimportant Literature in the past without the&lt;br /&gt;
payment; that he wrote the play, which Mr. Belasco assistance of an Academy of Literature, and I&lt;br /&gt;
stated was unsuitable ; but the amount was paid think we can do without it in the future. I am&lt;br /&gt;
according to the contract. Subsequently Mr. by no means satisfied that in the best Academy the&lt;br /&gt;
Belasco produced a play on the same subject which most deserving authors would be members, and&lt;br /&gt;
is practically Monsieur Richepin&amp;#039;s play.&lt;br /&gt;
I fear that it might become a field for wirepulling&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Belasco states that the Frenchman was and intrigue.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
asked to write a play from ideas of his own (Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Belasco&amp;#039;s), but when he had written the play it&lt;br /&gt;
was unsatisfactory, although the money was paid&lt;br /&gt;
LIFE: AN ANSWER.&lt;br /&gt;
under the contract. Mr. Belasco then proceeded&lt;br /&gt;
to write a play on his own ideas.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A LITTLE PAUSE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Monsieur Richepin says he will bring an action. But must I pause ?&mdash;in this dim plain ?&lt;br /&gt;
From this very scanty evidence it is bardly Where clouds return after the rain :&lt;br /&gt;
possible to draw any conclusion, even if it were And blinding mists numb heart and brain.&lt;br /&gt;
right so to do when an action is pending. We A pause for thought ? But thought is pain.&lt;br /&gt;
trust, however, that the dispute will come before A pause for prayer? My prayers are vain.&lt;br /&gt;
the Courts, as matters of this kind are of extreme I take my pilgrim&amp;#039;s staff again.&lt;br /&gt;
importance.&lt;br /&gt;
M.&lt;br /&gt;
It constantly occurs that complaints come to the&lt;br /&gt;
offices of the Society on similar lines, but as&lt;br /&gt;
The above has been forwarded by a well-known&lt;br /&gt;
sufficient evidence has been lacking to warrant writer, a member of our Society. A thought&lt;br /&gt;
taking the matter into Court, nothing has hitherto suggested by the few lines printed in last month&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
been done. We can but refer dramatic writers to Author.&lt;br /&gt;
the warnings which are constantly printed in The&lt;br /&gt;
Author.&lt;br /&gt;
A new method of publishing, entitled &ldquo; The Unit&lt;br /&gt;
Warning 9 runs as follows :&lt;br /&gt;
Library,&amp;quot; is going to be tried in the London&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Agreements for collaboration should be care market Books are to be vublished, so we gather&lt;br /&gt;
fully drawn and executed before collaboration has&lt;br /&gt;
from a pamphlet before us, in the ollowing&lt;br /&gt;
commenced.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
manner :-&lt;br /&gt;
If the agreement had been sufficiently carefully Every sheet of twenty-five pages is to cost id.&lt;br /&gt;
drafted, it would have been impossible for either There will be an extra cost for a paper cover of id.,&lt;br /&gt;
party to have made use of the other&amp;#039;s ideas on the or of cloth binding 5d., or leather binding 10d.&lt;br /&gt;
lines put forward.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus, if the book consists of 250 pages, it can be&lt;br /&gt;
purchased by the public in paper binding for 6d.,&lt;br /&gt;
A very interesting article has appeared in 5d. for the printed matter and id. for the cover. The&lt;br /&gt;
Literature from the pen of Herr Lutz, the Stuttgart size of this new publication will be 41 inches by&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, with regard to the circulation of 65 inches. It is stated that this size is convenient&lt;br /&gt;
translations of English works in Germany, and it to handle, easy to carry about, and not unworthy&lt;br /&gt;
will be seen that in none of the cases put forward of a place on the library shelf.&lt;br /&gt;
has the circulation reached a thousand copies. Every new departure in the publishing world&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 123 (#519) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
123&lt;br /&gt;
must necessarily excite the curiosity of authors.&amp;#039; and one which we hope to deal with at some future&lt;br /&gt;
In some ways, however, this form of publication date in The Author. The second point is, if&lt;br /&gt;
will not affect the modern author, as it appears an academy is advantageous, is it possible to divide&lt;br /&gt;
that only the classics are going to be brought out literature into the literature of science and the&lt;br /&gt;
under this system. This limitation is, no doubt, literature of imagination, thus necessitating two&lt;br /&gt;
wise. To publish the works of modern authors on academies instead of one ?&lt;br /&gt;
the unit system would be impossible, certainly at The academy whose proposed charter is at&lt;br /&gt;
such a low price as fd. for twenty-five pages. present lying before the King deals with the&lt;br /&gt;
From the artistic point of view also, it is literature of science, and certainly from the names&lt;br /&gt;
objectionable to buy the outcome of the artistic supporting the petition, it would appear to be the&lt;br /&gt;
brain at so much per piece. Books from new strongly held opinion that such an academy would&lt;br /&gt;
authors cannot be valued in this method any be a benefit to the scientific side of the literary&lt;br /&gt;
more than a picture can be bought by the square profession, which is composed of a much larger&lt;br /&gt;
inch. If you are dealing with the classics, you number of workers than that which deals with&lt;br /&gt;
are practically dealing with equality in value ; but imaginative writing.&lt;br /&gt;
in the case of modern publications this would not It will be a matter of some import to follow&lt;br /&gt;
be the case.&lt;br /&gt;
what opposition there is to the charter, and on&lt;br /&gt;
We await with interest the result of the what arguments such opposition is based, so that&lt;br /&gt;
experiment.&lt;br /&gt;
should there at any time be reason for a similar&lt;br /&gt;
movement towards an academy of imaginative&lt;br /&gt;
literature, it may be possible to deal with the&lt;br /&gt;
We see by an extract from the Dundee Courier difficulties of the subject by experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
that the Aberfeldy Literary Society has waxed arguments for and against are no doubt numerous.&lt;br /&gt;
strong in debate over the following subject : There are a great many people who will tell you&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Which is the greater : the Author or the&lt;br /&gt;
that the Royal Academy has not been a benefit&lt;br /&gt;
to the artistic profession, and that it does not&lt;br /&gt;
Inventor&amp;quot; ?&lt;br /&gt;
represent the true artistic spirit in England. No&lt;br /&gt;
After an interesting discussion, the inventor&lt;br /&gt;
doubt there are many who will argue the opposite.&lt;br /&gt;
carried the day by 15 to 14. This is indeed a&lt;br /&gt;
The same question has been discussed with regard&lt;br /&gt;
blow for authors, and we fear that the country&lt;br /&gt;
to the French Academy.&lt;br /&gt;
which has produced Scott and Burns shows a sad&lt;br /&gt;
Here also we shall await the result with&lt;br /&gt;
falling off. The discussion of the Aberfeldy&lt;br /&gt;
considerable attention.&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Society will no doubt have a bad effect on&lt;br /&gt;
the Scottish book trade in the coming year.&lt;br /&gt;
Peebles will perhaps follow suit, and carry We see that the American Authors&amp;#039; Society have&lt;br /&gt;
a similar motion by a larger majority. If this changed the name of their periodical to the&lt;br /&gt;
event should take place the pens of Barrie, American Author. Imitation is always the&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, Ian Maclaren, Neil Munro and others sincerest form of flattery.&lt;br /&gt;
will hardly suffice to stem the tide of popular In the first issue of this magazine under its new&lt;br /&gt;
feeling, and the desertion of towns like Glasgow, title there is an article giving out the aims of the&lt;br /&gt;
or even Edinburgh, may be the result. The Scots Society. These aims appear to be, with one very&lt;br /&gt;
must look to their laurels. The odour of the important exception, the aims of our own Society,&lt;br /&gt;
inventor&amp;#039;s financial success may taint the pure the exception being that no legal work is undertaken&lt;br /&gt;
intellectual atmosphere of the country.&lt;br /&gt;
at the expense of the American Authors&amp;#039; Society.&lt;br /&gt;
As all our members know, a legal opinion from&lt;br /&gt;
the Society&amp;#039;s solicitors can always be had gratis,&lt;br /&gt;
and further, that all expenses for accountant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
We have read the article that appeared in the charges, counsel&amp;#039;s fees, and actions carried through&lt;br /&gt;
Times with regard to the movement for the the Courts are very often entirely defrayed out of&lt;br /&gt;
formation of a British Academy. Any subject our funds; but the sanction of the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with literature naturally calls for the has to be obtained in the first instance for such&lt;br /&gt;
fullest consideration from all members of the expenditure.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Society, and of necessity, one that deals The American Society is very clear on the&lt;br /&gt;
with such important branches of literature as question of publishers&amp;#039; accounts, endeavouring to&lt;br /&gt;
history, philosophy, and philology.&lt;br /&gt;
arrange with publishers to insert in their contracts&lt;br /&gt;
One great subject for consideration is how far with authors the following points :&lt;br /&gt;
an academy is an advantage in assisting the art to &ldquo;(a) Semi-annual accounting and settling for&lt;br /&gt;
which it belongs. This is an abstract question,&lt;br /&gt;
books sold.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 124 (#520) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
124&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
on 200&lt;br /&gt;
(6) The opening of the publishers account publisher, and the publisher considers it quite as&lt;br /&gt;
books for examination by authors or their saleable as any of the author&amp;#039;s previous works, I&lt;br /&gt;
counsel.&lt;br /&gt;
do not think he would print a smaller number of&lt;br /&gt;
Keeping of the record of sales, so that there copies than had been sold of the writer&amp;#039;s latest&lt;br /&gt;
will easily appear : (1) the amount of book ; but taking the figures as they stand, it can&lt;br /&gt;
paper used in printing of books ; (2) the beshown that even if the whole of an edition does not&lt;br /&gt;
number of books printed ; (3) the number sell there is still a profit, and a not unreasonable one.&lt;br /&gt;
of books bound ; (4) the number of books For instance, if a commission publisher with a&lt;br /&gt;
given away for introductory purposes, and knowledge of the author&amp;#039;s circulation, as suggested,&lt;br /&gt;
to whom, and the number given away to prints an edition of 2,000, he would be naturally&lt;br /&gt;
the press for notices, and to which papers ; disappointed if only 1,200 sold. Yet the figures&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the number on hand.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
would turn out as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
We fear that, however good the intention of the&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
American Society may be, it will be impossible for 1,200 copies at 38. 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
200 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
it to make equitable arrangements on these points,&lt;br /&gt;
Less :&lt;br /&gt;
Cost of production and advertising &pound; s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
unless the Society can show publishers, by the as quoted in former article ...... 135 1 8&lt;br /&gt;
effect of one or two successful actions, that these Publisher&amp;#039;s.commission 15 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
points are essential to any fair contract. So long&lt;br /&gt;
............ 30 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
- 165 1 8&lt;br /&gt;
as it does not support by action those cases in&lt;br /&gt;
A royalty of between 9 and 10 per&lt;br /&gt;
which the publishers act contrary to its advice to c ent. on 1,200 copies..........&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;34 18 4&lt;br /&gt;
the author, so long, we fear, it will be an inefficient&lt;br /&gt;
Again, the publisher produces an edition of 3,000,&lt;br /&gt;
protector of the profession.&lt;br /&gt;
and sells only two-thirds.&lt;br /&gt;
It has not even published, so far, an American The figures work out as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&amp;quot; A book essential to every&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
author, not only if he is dealing on the antiquated 2,000 copies at 3s. 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
333 6 8&lt;br /&gt;
half profit basis, but also if he desires to calculate Less :&lt;br /&gt;
a fair division of profits in the form of royalties.&lt;br /&gt;
Cost of production and advertis. &pound; . d.&lt;br /&gt;
ing as quoted in former article 177 2 6&lt;br /&gt;
Publisher&amp;#039;s commission 15 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent, on &pound;333 6s. 8d.............. 50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
227 26&lt;br /&gt;
THE ADVANTAGES OF COMMISSION&lt;br /&gt;
A royalty of between 17 and 18&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHING&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. on 2,000 copies ......&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;106 4 2&lt;br /&gt;
And finally, 5,000 copies are produced, and&lt;br /&gt;
M R. MACLEHOSE has not apparently&lt;br /&gt;
3,300 only are sold.&lt;br /&gt;
grasped the main points in the article 3,300 copies at 38. 4d. ............&lt;br /&gt;
550 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
on &laquo; Commission Publishing&rdquo; which ap- Less:&lt;br /&gt;
peared in the December number of The Author. Cost of production and adver-&lt;br /&gt;
it is sy enough to produce instances in which tising as quoted in former &pound; $. d.&lt;br /&gt;
article ....................&lt;br /&gt;
........... 256 1 8&lt;br /&gt;
this form of publishing will not pay, (1) by over- Publisher&amp;#039;s commission lo per&lt;br /&gt;
estimating the length of the novel, or (2) by cent. on &pound;515 ........&lt;br /&gt;
77 00&lt;br /&gt;
underestimating its circulation. It would not be&lt;br /&gt;
333 1 8&lt;br /&gt;
worth the while of a publisher who is prepared to A royalty of over 20 per cent. on&lt;br /&gt;
issue a povel on a fifteen per cent. commission, and&lt;br /&gt;
3,300 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
Say &pound;217 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
run the risk of any loss entailed through sales These royalties are better as a whole than most&lt;br /&gt;
failing to cover the cost of production and adver- authors are in the habit of receiving. So that if&lt;br /&gt;
tising, to &ldquo; take up&rdquo; a novel by an author whose the publisher&amp;#039;s judgment fails, and the author is&lt;br /&gt;
average circulation is under 2,000 copies ; and it unfortunate, the profit is still considerable, and&lt;br /&gt;
was on this understanding, and this alone, that the the advantage with the author..&lt;br /&gt;
figures were given. It would be necessary for the Mr. MacLehose seems to believe that the length&lt;br /&gt;
author to show the past statements of his sales of the average six-shilling novel exceeds 96,000&lt;br /&gt;
received from his former publishers, and the com- words, and says that he took up at random ten&lt;br /&gt;
mission publisher would naturally be guided by popular novels, and that they each contained about&lt;br /&gt;
this information in giving the printing order, and 150,000 words. Mr. MacLehose must have picked&lt;br /&gt;
not by the length of the manuscript, as Mr. MacLe- up &ldquo;at random&amp;quot; novels like &ldquo; The Eternal City,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
hose appears to think.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Master Christian,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Sir Richard Cal-&lt;br /&gt;
We all know that authors frequently drop in mady,&rdquo; all of which are particularly long. In the&lt;br /&gt;
their circulation ; but if a writer, whose average course of business I read a very large number&lt;br /&gt;
sale is, say, 5,000 copies, sells a new novel to a of manuscripts and novels, and long experience&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 125 (#521) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
125&lt;br /&gt;
teaches me that a novel 150,000 words in length is the opportunity or unwilling to respond in a suitable spirit&lt;br /&gt;
quite the exception, but a novel of 96,000 words is to the invitation offered by the Swedish Academy. Such a&lt;br /&gt;
response is highly desirable, both as a recognition of the&lt;br /&gt;
a fair average.&lt;br /&gt;
courtesy displayed by the communications made to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. MacLehose says that I have forgotten &ldquo;that Gosse, and as an assertion of the position of British&lt;br /&gt;
an author always makes corrections in his proofs.&rdquo; literature.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a fact which no one connected with the&lt;br /&gt;
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,&lt;br /&gt;
publishing business is likely to forget, and in my&lt;br /&gt;
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,&lt;br /&gt;
estimate allowance was made for this item in the&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman of Committee, Society of Authors,&lt;br /&gt;
cost of composition.&lt;br /&gt;
39, Old Queen Street, S.W., Jan. 6.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MAN WHO SUPPLIED THE FIGURES.&lt;br /&gt;
The committee thus suggested immediately came&lt;br /&gt;
into existence, and held its first meeting at 39,&lt;br /&gt;
Old Queen Street, on Tuesday, the 14th inst. Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.&amp;#039; Garnett was in the chair, and both Mr. Gosse and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Austin Dobson spoke. Lord Avebury was&lt;br /&gt;
appointed perpetual chairman to the committee,&lt;br /&gt;
N the 3rd of January Mr. Edmund Gosse Mr. G. Herbert Thring was made secretary, and&lt;br /&gt;
wrote to the Times on the subject of the the names of Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
prize of about &pound;8,250 awarded each year John Richard Green, Mr. R. B. Haldane, M.P.,&lt;br /&gt;
for the most eminent work in pure literature by K.C., and Sir Robert Giffen, K.C.B., F.R.S.,&lt;br /&gt;
the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. were added. The committee, after discussion,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Gosse had been communicated with by two determined to recommend a certain person of&lt;br /&gt;
prominent Swedish academicians as to the reasons the highest eminence to all those persons in&lt;br /&gt;
of the total abstention of England from all com- Great Britain who appear, under the Nobel Will,&lt;br /&gt;
petition for this prize, which in 1901 was awarded to be qualified to vote for the prize of &pound;8,250&lt;br /&gt;
to the French poet, M. Sully Prudhomme. A which will, in November, 1902, be awarded by the&lt;br /&gt;
correspondence on this subject was opened up in Swedish Academy. As all votes must be received&lt;br /&gt;
the Times, in which Lord Avebury, Professor in Stockholm by the 1st of February, time was very&lt;br /&gt;
Sylvanus Thomson, Mr. A.C. Benson, of Eton, and short. The committee, however, acting with great&lt;br /&gt;
others took part, and it was also ventilated in the promptitude, drew up a circular which was sent to&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle. There was great confusion in the each member of the Council of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
public mind as to the regulations of the Nobel Authors, and also to each professor of English&lt;br /&gt;
Prize, which are highly complicated, and, aided by literature in the universities and principal&lt;br /&gt;
the Swedish academicians, Mr. Gosse gave fresh colleges of Great Britaip. To these circulars a&lt;br /&gt;
information in successive letters to the Times. very general reply was received, and the voting&lt;br /&gt;
On the 8th of January the following letter papers were forwarded to Stockholm by Mr, Thring&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in the Times :-&lt;br /&gt;
well withiu the necessary margin of time.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sir,- The committee of the Incorporate Society of These circumstances, and the correspondence in&lt;br /&gt;
Authors have been in communication, through me, with the Times, have awakened an immense amount of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Edmund Gosse, on the subject of his letter which attention in the Swedish capital. The Swedish&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in your columns on the 3rd. As Mr. Gosse indi-&lt;br /&gt;
Academy, which has to run the gauntlet of a great&lt;br /&gt;
cates, the time available for organizing any expression of&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is now very short, but it has seemed to the com-&lt;br /&gt;
deal of local criticism, made Mr. Gosse&amp;#039;s letters&lt;br /&gt;
mittee to be a case in which they might and ought to take the subject of an official communication to the&lt;br /&gt;
action as the representatives of a very large and already Stockholm newspapers, and it is quite certain that&lt;br /&gt;
organized body of British authors. Accordingly at their&lt;br /&gt;
there is no chance of a repetition of the total neglect&lt;br /&gt;
meeting to-day they decided to appoint a committee of their&lt;br /&gt;
members for the purpose of considering (and if thought&lt;br /&gt;
of English opinion which was so uufortunately&lt;br /&gt;
proper) of submitting and supporting names of British men manifested in 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
of letters with claims on the attention of the Nobel Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of the Swedish Academy. Invitations to serve on&lt;br /&gt;
this committee are being sent to the following gentlemen :-&lt;br /&gt;
THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL,&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Avebury, Mr. James Bryce, M.P., Mr. Lecky, M.P.,&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Garnett, C.B., Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Austin Dobson,&lt;br /&gt;
BY JOHN TODHUNTER.&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Edmund Gosse&mdash;and it is hoped that they will be&lt;br /&gt;
able to give their services. They are empowered to add to&lt;br /&gt;
their number any persons qualified and willing to give their&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;MT HE West&amp;#039;s awake, the West&amp;#039;s awake!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
assistance, whether members of the society or not.&lt;br /&gt;
In the future, and as the existence and conditions of the&lt;br /&gt;
This line of the &ldquo;Young Ireland&rdquo; poet&lt;br /&gt;
Nobel Prizes become fully known, it may be expected that&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;#039;48, Thomas Davis, was prophetic of&lt;br /&gt;
other bodies in this country will address themselves to&lt;br /&gt;
the more complete awakening of the national&lt;br /&gt;
similar action ; but for the purposes of the immediately&lt;br /&gt;
spirit in Ireland which has followed upon the&lt;br /&gt;
ensuing awards the appointment of this committee will at&lt;br /&gt;
least serve to show that our writers are not unmindful of &ldquo;Home Rule&rdquo; agitation of more recent times.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
To understand the true scope and meaning of the bribery and corruption, was the consummation&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Revival--but one aspect of that greater of the policy which ignored the unconquerable&lt;br /&gt;
movement which seems to be the beginning of a strength of the Irish national spirit, and attempted&lt;br /&gt;
true Irish Renaissance&mdash;it is necessary to take a the exploitation of the country for the advantage&lt;br /&gt;
bird&amp;#039;s-eye view of Irish history. What is that of &ldquo; English interests.&rdquo; The nett result has been&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Great Enchantment,&rdquo; to adopt the picturesque dismal failure. The chronic, and in the main&lt;br /&gt;
phrase of Mr. Standish O&amp;#039;Grady, which has held successful, agitation following on the Union, and&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland spell-bound for a thousand years, and the extension of the franchise in both countries, has,&lt;br /&gt;
from which she is perhaps now at last awaking ? however, done much to open the eyes of all sensible&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland is the land of an arrested civilisation. Englishmen, and to convince them that &ldquo; force is&lt;br /&gt;
In the early centuries of Western Christianity she no remedy&amp;quot; for the &ldquo;disaffection&amp;quot; of the Irish.&lt;br /&gt;
was in the van of progress; the great missionary What seems to me to be a most healthy and&lt;br /&gt;
nation, the evangelist and teacher of Europe. hopeful aspect of the present literary revival, of&lt;br /&gt;
The Irish Christian civilisation, developed out of which the germs are to be found in the similar&lt;br /&gt;
a much earlier pagan one, was destroyed in its one which accompanied the agitation of &amp;#039;48, is&lt;br /&gt;
adolescence, with its learning, literature, and art. that love of Ireland is now not so constantly&lt;br /&gt;
A nationality, however strong&mdash;and Irish nation- expressed merely in terms of hatred of England.&lt;br /&gt;
ality was strong enough to absorb and assimilate In much of the work now being done England&lt;br /&gt;
her invaders when they obtained a footing on her has retreated into the background of the national&lt;br /&gt;
shores-must remain in a semi-organised con- consciousness. We are beginning to delight in&lt;br /&gt;
dition until it achieves a stable political system. our own country, to think our own thoughts, and&lt;br /&gt;
This the Irish people never quite succeeded in dream our own dreams, without reference to&lt;br /&gt;
achieving. It remained in a ganglionic condition, England at all. Ireland is happier in her mind&lt;br /&gt;
without a governing brain. The Scotch, with a now that the political nightmare has crossed the&lt;br /&gt;
long line of hereditary kings, were enabled to Channel, to brood over the towers of Westminster.&lt;br /&gt;
preserve their independence until the crowns of First.&mdash;There is the enthusiastic revival of the&lt;br /&gt;
England and Scotland were peacefully united Irish language under the auspices of the &ldquo; Gaelic&lt;br /&gt;
under a Scottish prince. The High King of all League&amp;quot; and the &ldquo;Literary Societies.&rdquo; It had&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland was never practically the sovereign lord almost died out, but is now rejuvenescent, and has&lt;br /&gt;
of all the tributary kinglets who nominally owed apparently come to stay.&lt;br /&gt;
him allegiance, for a sufficiently long period to Secondly.&mdash;The &ldquo; Irish Texts Society,&amp;quot; under&lt;br /&gt;
establish his power as a hereditary monarch ; and the presidentship of Dr. Douglas Hyde, is doing&lt;br /&gt;
when Brian Boru and his sons fell at Clontarf in good work in the editing of texts with translations,&lt;br /&gt;
1014, founding no dynasty, the last chance of and in the preparation of a much-needed &ldquo; Handy&lt;br /&gt;
political organisation was lost. In the century Irish Dictionary.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and a half between this event and the Norman Thirdly. &mdash; The study of Irish History goes&lt;br /&gt;
invasion, Ireland, without a settled government, briskly forward. Classes for this have been formed&lt;br /&gt;
had receded rather than advanced in civilisation ; in connection with the Irish Literary Society&amp;quot; ;&lt;br /&gt;
with the Danes, defeated by Brian, established and a standard History of Ireland based on con-&lt;br /&gt;
under their own leaders in the maritime cities temporary documents, each period to be under-&lt;br /&gt;
around her coasts.&lt;br /&gt;
taken by a writer making it his special study, is&lt;br /&gt;
The English conquest begun under Henry II., projected ; though as yet not much has been done, as&lt;br /&gt;
and still abortive, has kept the country in chronic such an important piece of work will involve much&lt;br /&gt;
discontent, and England in political insecurity. time and labour.&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland has been the most dangerous &ldquo;possession&amp;quot; Fourthly.-National music, dancing, and games&lt;br /&gt;
of the British crown ; always in sullen endurance are being cultivated by the &ldquo; Gaelic League&amp;quot; all&lt;br /&gt;
of English misrule, with frequent paroxysms of over Ireland and in London. The &ldquo; Feis Ceoill,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
agitation, conspiracy, and insurrection. Her a musical festival held annually in Dublin and&lt;br /&gt;
development along national lines was checked, Belfast alternately, is also doing good work in&lt;br /&gt;
while no real assimilation between the two antago- attempting to encourage musical composition, and&lt;br /&gt;
nistic nationalities resulted. The old learning, the to raise the standard of vocal and instrumental&lt;br /&gt;
old literature, the old art were strangled ; only performances in Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;
poetry and music lingering on, like flowers run Fifthly.&mdash;Some steps are being taken to improve&lt;br /&gt;
wild, after the garden in which they flourished the condition of the schools of art and public&lt;br /&gt;
was laid waste-stray survivals of her arrested libraries in Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;
civilisation.&lt;br /&gt;
Sixthly.&mdash;There is a very promising effort, in the&lt;br /&gt;
There is the history of Ireland in a nutshell. &ldquo;Irish Literary Theatre,&amp;quot; to create a national&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;Union,&amp;quot; procured by the most shameful Irish drama and school of acting.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
127&lt;br /&gt;
This is not an exhaustive list ; but may serve It has idioms and constructions that seem to have&lt;br /&gt;
to indicate the importance of the tributary forces been blown into the hearts of poets by the wind of&lt;br /&gt;
which have, within the last ten years or so, given a mysterious inspiration, sowing seeds of sorrow&lt;br /&gt;
vigour and volume to the great national revival, and passion and humour. It is still the language&lt;br /&gt;
and which tend to make it permanent and pro- of lyrical poetry undivorced from music, and only&lt;br /&gt;
gressive.&lt;br /&gt;
waits for the art of the poet to mould it into new&lt;br /&gt;
Of all these forms of activity the most astonish- and beautiful shapes.&lt;br /&gt;
ing and significant is the revival of the national The heart of Thomas Davis would rejoice if he&lt;br /&gt;
language, since Elizabeth&amp;#039;s time under the ban of had lived, like his friend Sir Charles Gavan Duffy,&lt;br /&gt;
penal laws, and in the nineteenth century fast to see the national movement of the present day,&lt;br /&gt;
becoming extinct. A national language is the in which Sir Charles himself has played his part.&lt;br /&gt;
voice of a nation&amp;#039;s life, and it is a true instinct He was one of the founders of the &ldquo; Irish Literary&lt;br /&gt;
which has led Irish Nationalists to make this last Society,&amp;quot; and its first President; and he also pro-&lt;br /&gt;
struggle to revive the old Irish tongue as the jeoted and edited the &ldquo; New Irish Library&amp;quot; of&lt;br /&gt;
vehicle of modern Irish thought and feeling. twelve small volumes by various authors, dealing&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The language,&rdquo; says Thomas Davis, &ldquo;that grows with Irish history, biography, literature, and music;&lt;br /&gt;
with a people, is conformed to their organs&mdash; the first of these being a reprint of Davis&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
mingled inseparably with their history, is fitted &ldquo;Patriot Parliament,&rdquo; with an introduction by&lt;br /&gt;
beyond any other to express their most profound Sir Charles Duffy himself.&lt;br /&gt;
thoughts in the most natural way. To impose Space does not permit me to say much about the&lt;br /&gt;
another language on a people is to send their work of the &ldquo; Irish Literary Society,&amp;quot; which, with&lt;br /&gt;
history adrift among the accidents of translation, its monthly lectures, its original nights,&rdquo; its con-&lt;br /&gt;
to tear their identity from all places, to separate certs, its conversaziones, and its classes for the&lt;br /&gt;
them from their forefathers by a deep gulf. ... study of history and language, has done much to&lt;br /&gt;
To lose your native tongue and learn that of the unite Irish men and women of all classes and shades&lt;br /&gt;
alien is the worst badge of conquest&mdash;it is the of opinion resident in England, for the pursuit of&lt;br /&gt;
chain of the soul.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
a common object.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In 1872 the language seemed dead,&amp;quot; says So far I have dealt only with the broad lines of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Fahy, in a lecture lately delivered at a meeting the Literary Revival; I must now say something&lt;br /&gt;
of the &ldquo; Irish Literary Society&amp;quot;; and he goes on about some of the work done by the writers it has&lt;br /&gt;
to tell how the present revival came about. In produced. I am sorry I am not able to criticise&lt;br /&gt;
July, 1893, the &ldquo;Gaelic League&amp;quot; was formed, its anything written in the Irish tongue, but must&lt;br /&gt;
object being : &ldquo; The preservation of Irish as the confine myself to the work done in English, which&lt;br /&gt;
national language of Ireland, and its extension Dr. Hyde regards as a prosaic and decadent lan-&lt;br /&gt;
as a spoken tongue; the publication of existing guage ; yet there is now a vigorous and interesting&lt;br /&gt;
Gaelic literature, and the cultivation of a modern literature in English, in both prose and verse, Irish&lt;br /&gt;
literature in Irish.&rdquo; There are now over two in sentiment, and dealing with Irish subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
hundred branches of the league, and the effects of The political poems connected with the Parnell&lt;br /&gt;
their work are already evident. &ldquo;Names of streets movement are legion ; but most of them are news-&lt;br /&gt;
and railway stations appear in Irish. Irish paper verses, often spirited and good of their kind,&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements, leaders, and stories appear in but of ephemeral interest. Mr. T. D. Sullivan,&lt;br /&gt;
papers. Concerts altogether of Irish songs are whose &ldquo;God save Ireland&rdquo; has become a sort of&lt;br /&gt;
held. Sermons are given and public prayers are Irish national anthem, has written several smart&lt;br /&gt;
offered in Irish. Irish speeches are given on skits, terse and to the point, in a light satiric vein&lt;br /&gt;
platforms, and one was attempted recently in of his own, his verses being always neatly turned.&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament.&rdquo; I may add that plays have also But the tragic muse of the movement was Fanny&lt;br /&gt;
been written and performed in Irish. At the Parnell, a sister of Charles. From a poem of hers&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Irish Literary Theatre,&rdquo; this year, a play in Irish, entitled &ldquo;Post Mortem,&rdquo; I quote a few stanzas, to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Twisting of the Rope,&amp;quot; founded on a short which her early death in 1882 gives a pathetic&lt;br /&gt;
story by Mr. W. B. Yeats, and written by Dr. interest :-&lt;br /&gt;
de, was most successfully performed; &amp;quot;Shall mine eyes behold thy glory, () my country?&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Hyde himself taking the principal part, assisted . Shall mine eyes behold thy glory&lt;br /&gt;
by an amateur company of members of the &ldquo; Gaelic&lt;br /&gt;
Or shall darkness close around them ere the sun-blaze&lt;br /&gt;
League.&rdquo; Dr. Hyde has also written many songs&lt;br /&gt;
Break at last upon thy story?&lt;br /&gt;
in Irish, and he and others are laying the founda-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;When the nations ope for thee their queenly circle,&lt;br /&gt;
tions of a modern Irish literature. Trish, with an&lt;br /&gt;
As a sweet new sister hail thee,&lt;br /&gt;
Shall their lips be sealed in callous death and silence&lt;br /&gt;
elaborate metrical system of its own, has never&lt;br /&gt;
That have known but to bewail thee?&lt;br /&gt;
lost the innocence of the primitive imagination.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ah ! the tramp of feet victorious ! I should hear them&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Our creed is this : &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Twere better starve&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;Mid the shamrocks and the mosses,&lt;br /&gt;
Than live by others&amp;#039; loss or dole,&lt;br /&gt;
And my heart should toss within the shroud and quiver,&lt;br /&gt;
And better fail than pathway carve&lt;br /&gt;
As a captive dreamer tosses.&lt;br /&gt;
Through fraud and wrong to wished-for goal ;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; I should turn and rend the cere clothes round me,&lt;br /&gt;
That soon or late the right shall win,&lt;br /&gt;
Giant sinews I should borrow,&lt;br /&gt;
The weak grow strong, the mighty fall,&lt;br /&gt;
Crying, . O my brothers, I have also loved her,&lt;br /&gt;
The wicked perish in their sin,&lt;br /&gt;
In her lowliness and sorrow.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
The wronged on God not vainly call.&amp;#039;&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Let me join with you the jubilant procession,&lt;br /&gt;
Whether the Irish live up to this counsel of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Let me chant with you her story ;&lt;br /&gt;
Then contented I shall go back to the shamrocks,&lt;br /&gt;
perfection much better than their neighbours may&lt;br /&gt;
Now mine eyes have seen her glory.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
be questionable. The bitter struggle for existence&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Francis A. Fahy, whose name I have men- is happily tempered by sympathetic helpfulness&lt;br /&gt;
tioned in connection with the &ldquo;Gaelic League,&rdquo; has among the strugglers in England as in Ireland,&lt;br /&gt;
also written some political poems, vigorous, sincere,&lt;br /&gt;
where such family feeling as Mr. Faby has described&lt;br /&gt;
and full of faith in the future of Ireland. The in his &ldquo; Trish Molly 0 !&amp;quot; 18 so often found among&lt;br /&gt;
one small volume he has published contains some&lt;br /&gt;
the peasantry.&lt;br /&gt;
excellent work. The first poem in the book But enough of politics. The best work of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Dreoilin &amp;quot; (pronounced Drole-yeen, and meaning&lt;br /&gt;
movement is not in its political satire ; and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
the wren), under which signature many of his Fahy&amp;#039;s best things are his songs, which have that&lt;br /&gt;
poems first saw the light, strikes the keynote of&lt;br /&gt;
true singer&amp;#039;s lilt in them so rare nowadays. Like&lt;br /&gt;
the whole in the first verse :&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Graves, whose poems are better known in&lt;br /&gt;
England, he has written many songs to old or new&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;My name is Dreoilin, I&amp;#039;m the smallest of all the birds&lt;br /&gt;
That pour forth their notes on Irish hill-side or in grove;&lt;br /&gt;
Irish airs. Like Mr. Graves, he has the art of&lt;br /&gt;
Light is my song, though my thoughts are too deep for writing singable words. He is a great writer of&lt;br /&gt;
words,&lt;br /&gt;
love songs, of which &ldquo; Little Mary Cassidy &amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
My lay is of land, and of light, and of life, and love.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Ouid Plaid Shawl,&rdquo; with their Irish note of&lt;br /&gt;
The poem briefly recalls many memories of the humorous tenderness, are perhaps the best known.&lt;br /&gt;
loves, sorrows, and sufferings of the Irish people&mdash; His &ldquo;Irish Molly ()!&rdquo; a narrative in ballad form,&lt;br /&gt;
things he has himself seen and brooded over ; but tells how an Irish girl, on the death of her father,&lt;br /&gt;
ends with a note of confident hope.&lt;br /&gt;
emigrated to make a home for her family, dying&lt;br /&gt;
In his political poems his stern sincerity and when she had met them once more. It is a&lt;br /&gt;
common sense keep his imagination sane. He is charming poem, admirable in its simple directness&lt;br /&gt;
remarkably free from the besetting sins of Irish of expression. Out of many songs of great merit&lt;br /&gt;
patriotic poetry, sentimentality and flatulent I have only space for one. &ldquo; Drimmin Dhu,&rdquo; the&lt;br /&gt;
eloquence; and when he strikes his blows tell. He title of an old Irish melody, means &ldquo;The Black&lt;br /&gt;
does not regard the Irishman as an immaculate Cow.&rdquo; In the original it was a lamentation for&lt;br /&gt;
and ineffectual angel, and &ldquo;the Saxon&rdquo; as a devil the death of the cow ; in Mr. Fahy&amp;#039;s poem the&lt;br /&gt;
incarnate. Such vapid lines as these of a former lamentation is for the cow&amp;#039;s mistress :&lt;br /&gt;
generation are not in his manner :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;On our side is virtue and Erin,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;She&amp;#039;s gone, oh Drimmin Dhu, that loved you dear,&lt;br /&gt;
On theirs is the Saxon and guilt.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
No more at milking time her song you&amp;#039;ll hear;&lt;br /&gt;
Your kind, fond mistress now lies cold and low,&lt;br /&gt;
From his &ldquo; We&amp;#039;re not the same,&rdquo; in which he Oh, Drimmin Dhu declish, mo bhron go deo ! *&lt;br /&gt;
contrasts the ideals of the two nationalities, English&lt;br /&gt;
and Irish, satirising the seamy side of the benevo-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, fair her young face looked that day of pride&lt;br /&gt;
When with you, her portion small I called her bride ;&lt;br /&gt;
lent English filibuster, I quote a few stanzas :&lt;br /&gt;
No King I envied then on earth below-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; We&amp;#039;re not the same, we&amp;#039;re not the same-&lt;br /&gt;
Oh, Drimmin Dhu declish, mo bhron go deo!&lt;br /&gt;
In thought, or mind, or soul, or heart;&lt;br /&gt;
Our likenesses are but in name,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Who now, my Drimmin Dhu, our joy will be ?&lt;br /&gt;
We&amp;#039;re severed as the poles apart.&lt;br /&gt;
The world is desolate, for you and me,&lt;br /&gt;
We&amp;#039;ve both our theme of rightful pride,&lt;br /&gt;
Life&amp;#039;s lost for evermore its summer glow,&lt;br /&gt;
We&amp;#039;ve both our cause for blush of shame,&lt;br /&gt;
Oh, Drimmin Dhu deelish, mo bhron go deo!&lt;br /&gt;
But here our paths diverge, divide-&lt;br /&gt;
We&amp;#039;re not the same, we&amp;#039;re not the same.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Oh, voice of gentleness ! oh, looks of light !&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Our creed is not the Briton&amp;#039;s creed-&lt;br /&gt;
Oh, heart of tenderness, noon, morn, and night!&lt;br /&gt;
Soon, soon, in search of you, from earth I&amp;#039;ll go,&lt;br /&gt;
Of barter keen and money lent,&lt;br /&gt;
Oh, Drimmin Dhu declish, mo bhron go deo?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
With roots deep down in selfish greed,&lt;br /&gt;
And branching wide in cent. per cent. ;&lt;br /&gt;
With maxims smooth of .might makes right,&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
(To be continued.)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;He keeps who can-he takes who needs,&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;Woe to the weak in life&amp;#039;s tough fight,&lt;br /&gt;
* Pronounced : &ldquo;On, Dhrimmin Dhoo dheelish, mavrone&lt;br /&gt;
And Nothing like success succeeds.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
udh-yeo !&rdquo;-&ldquo;Oh, dear black-cow, my grief for ever!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
129&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; REAL PEOPLE IN FICTION.&rdquo; nil nisi bonum is a discarded axiom, even in&lt;br /&gt;
these days of the whitewash brush. If it is&lt;br /&gt;
legitimate to write novels dealing with the seven-&lt;br /&gt;
teenth century, it is equally legitimate to deal&lt;br /&gt;
with the eighteenth, and if with the eighteenth,&lt;br /&gt;
why not with the nineteenth and the twentieth ?&lt;br /&gt;
M HE author of the article on &ldquo; Real People in Surely the sorites must apply. So, too, for&lt;br /&gt;
1 Fiction,&rdquo; which appeared in the last number the one thing hinges upon the other, must&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author, has issued a useful warning to the argument apply when considering ques-&lt;br /&gt;
writers of a certain class of novel ; but there are a tions of general interest as the subject matter of&lt;br /&gt;
few points arising out of his little essay upon which novels. If one may write tales of adventure round&lt;br /&gt;
some comment may not be unacceptable.&lt;br /&gt;
the Boer war, one may write them round the&lt;br /&gt;
It is not unfair to say that his remarks apply kidnapping of missionaries by brigands, or round&lt;br /&gt;
more particularly to a very inferior type of novel. the coronation, or may write sociological stories&lt;br /&gt;
There are many writers who, by giving verbal round conscientious objection or the collection by&lt;br /&gt;
portraits of their acquaintances, recording their Methodists of a million sovereigns to commemorate&lt;br /&gt;
actual words uttered in situations analogous to the dawn of a new century. Neither in subject&lt;br /&gt;
those employed in the stories, and using their nor in period is there any precisely defined re-&lt;br /&gt;
imagination only to the extent of giving these striction imposed upon the novelist, and it is&lt;br /&gt;
acquaintances fictitious names, are simply follow difficult to see why, if in the adoption of some&lt;br /&gt;
ing the line of least resistance, quite regardless of contemporary event as the theme of a story the&lt;br /&gt;
at what point they may ultimately arrive. To introduction of contemporary personages is in-&lt;br /&gt;
such as these Mr. Armstrong&amp;#039;s words of warning volved, there need be any other objection than&lt;br /&gt;
may be useful, but if numerically they are a large that already indicated of some cons&eacute;quent limita-&lt;br /&gt;
class, artistically they are an insignificant one. tion in the use of their creative faculty. It would&lt;br /&gt;
The mere fact that they do thus follow the line of be easy to particularise, but the point is doubtless&lt;br /&gt;
least resistance predicates a lack of imagination sufficiently clear.&lt;br /&gt;
and of that creative power which distinguishes the It is when one leaves the historical or quasi-&lt;br /&gt;
good from the bad novelist.&lt;br /&gt;
historical novel and comes to those dealing only&lt;br /&gt;
But, on the other hand, there are a not in- with modern social life that the issue becomes more&lt;br /&gt;
considerable number of authors, who must be vague, and it is, of course, to the writers of these&lt;br /&gt;
taken seriously on their merits, in whose books that Mr. Armstrong primarily refers. The value&lt;br /&gt;
characters are drawn from life and presented of this class of story when well done, whether for&lt;br /&gt;
under the thinnest of disguises. Are allt hese purposes of satire or of throwing light upon our&lt;br /&gt;
to be included in your contributor&amp;#039;s indict- times, or again of mere amusement, will hardly be&lt;br /&gt;
ment? Not necessarily; not even if the result. questioned. An author who is a master of tech-&lt;br /&gt;
ing picture is not so flattering as a less honest nique, and possesses a sense of humour in addition&lt;br /&gt;
photographer might make it by judicious touching to the seeing eye, can do as good service with his&lt;br /&gt;
up.&lt;br /&gt;
pen as Du Maurier or Tenniel or Phil May have&lt;br /&gt;
Consider, for instance, the historical novel, done with their pencil. Was Du Maurier less&lt;br /&gt;
intended not only to interest as a story, but good because he employed his own family as&lt;br /&gt;
to throw light upon a period or an event of models than Phil May, who individualises types ?&lt;br /&gt;
general interest. &amp;quot;In all these books characters This is not to suggest any comparative estimate of&lt;br /&gt;
are, of course, taken from life, and the question the merit of their work ; it is merely asking the&lt;br /&gt;
arises, On this side of what point in time are question &agrave; propos of the use by the one of real&lt;br /&gt;
stories dealing with historical facts to be ruled people who were known to a wide circle of ac-&lt;br /&gt;
out of order?&lt;br /&gt;
quaintances; and the general verdict can be&lt;br /&gt;
There is scarcely any law-with the possible readily anticipated.&lt;br /&gt;
exception of the law of copyright-in which there Moreover, the question might be wisely limited&lt;br /&gt;
is so much latitude of interpretation as the law of so as to exclude caricature; wisely, because the&lt;br /&gt;
libel. But in practice it works tolerably well, and limitation serves to clear the atmosphere. It&lt;br /&gt;
no novelist of average ability need live in a state might be difficult for a satirist who desired by&lt;br /&gt;
of chronic apprehension of its terrors. The ridicule to kill some grotesque fashion to escape a&lt;br /&gt;
chronological point, therefore, on the hither side charge of having caricatured some more or less&lt;br /&gt;
of which novelists must not use real people as well known exponent of the cult, but he might be&lt;br /&gt;
figures in their books, is not a legally ascertained held entitled to an honourable discharge if while&lt;br /&gt;
one. Nor, again, can it be fixed by the date of achieving the object he had in view his caricature&lt;br /&gt;
death of the real persons concerned. De mortuis were artistically well done ; but books of this sort&lt;br /&gt;
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130&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
are a class apart, and it is seldom that a Dunciad amount of good feeling in the world as it is, but&lt;br /&gt;
is required.&lt;br /&gt;
also a vast amount of practical common sense&lt;br /&gt;
But to the abstract question of the legitimacy which gets its own way in the end.&lt;br /&gt;
of the device of employing real people as characters&lt;br /&gt;
in fiction, it would seem that for all practical&lt;br /&gt;
CRANSTOUN METCALFE.&lt;br /&gt;
purposes the answer is sufficiently simple. The&lt;br /&gt;
justification of a work of art must always be its&lt;br /&gt;
own artistic qualities, and no amount of mere&lt;br /&gt;
technique can compensate for lack of the imagina-&lt;br /&gt;
tive or poetic power which ought to prompt the&lt;br /&gt;
artist to expression, or atone for lack of taste.&lt;br /&gt;
I think one of the reasons why writers of fiction&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Taste,&rdquo; it is true, is a word as difficult to be&lt;br /&gt;
are so constantly accused, whether rightly or&lt;br /&gt;
defined as &ldquo;gentleman&rdquo;; but its significance here&lt;br /&gt;
wrongly, of &ldquo;putting real people into their books&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is obvious. If in a novel describing life in London&lt;br /&gt;
is partly owing to the conviction-deep-rooted as the&lt;br /&gt;
to-day there is not a word which can hurt the&lt;br /&gt;
forest oak&mdash;in the minds of unimaginative persons&lt;br /&gt;
feelings of, or cause the slightest pain to the most&lt;br /&gt;
that character is only a servile photograph from&lt;br /&gt;
refined and sensitive man or woman alive at the&lt;br /&gt;
life. They do not believe, and it seems improba-&lt;br /&gt;
moment, it may be argued that the author has&lt;br /&gt;
ble they ever will believe, that a study of character&lt;br /&gt;
committed a very venial offence if, as we watch the may be a creation.&lt;br /&gt;
figures moving in the pretty comedy, we turn with&lt;br /&gt;
Many persons have explained to me at enormous&lt;br /&gt;
a kindly smile to our neighbour and say, &ldquo;Ah ! length that every person in my own stories must&lt;br /&gt;
there is So-and-So.&rdquo; And the belief that the&lt;br /&gt;
be taken from among my acquaintances, because&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s good taste finds its equivalent in the good&lt;br /&gt;
in the cood that was the only way to make characters seem&lt;br /&gt;
taste of his unconscious model is not born of&lt;br /&gt;
lifelike.&lt;br /&gt;
unreasoning optimism. The price every public&lt;br /&gt;
When I lived in the country the unimaginative&lt;br /&gt;
personage pays for his public character is a certain&lt;br /&gt;
among my friends discovered, to my embarrassment,&lt;br /&gt;
limitation of his private rights, and not many&lt;br /&gt;
when I brought out a book, that each individual&lt;br /&gt;
public personages would resent being used to point&lt;br /&gt;
in it, hero and villain alike, dwelt within a radius&lt;br /&gt;
a moral or adorn a tale, provided the moral be&lt;br /&gt;
of five miles from our front door. I remember a&lt;br /&gt;
sound, and the tale be told with propriety and&lt;br /&gt;
friend saying to me reproachfully, &ldquo; We all saw at&lt;br /&gt;
taste.&lt;br /&gt;
once that you took Mrs. Alwynn (a tiresome person)&lt;br /&gt;
For the author who has no taste there always&lt;br /&gt;
from Mrs. &mdash; And we all say that it is not the&lt;br /&gt;
remains the law of libel. For the rest there&lt;br /&gt;
least like her.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is an unwritten law which is pretty generally&lt;br /&gt;
It certainly was not.&lt;br /&gt;
understood. For a vulgar success of scandal no&lt;br /&gt;
When Mrs. Clifford produced her brilliant novel,&lt;br /&gt;
detestation is too intense, no condemnation too&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Aunt Anne,&amp;quot; several of my relations wrote to me&lt;br /&gt;
severe ; but many people would regret a condition&lt;br /&gt;
in great bitterness to protest against my ruthless&lt;br /&gt;
of things which would prevent the publication of,&lt;br /&gt;
delineation of my own great-aunt, who had but&lt;br /&gt;
say, &ldquo; The New Republic.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
recently &ldquo;passed away.&amp;quot; They had recognised Aunt&lt;br /&gt;
It inay not be inopportune to add the suggestion&lt;br /&gt;
Anne at once; and there is no doubt the &ldquo; Aunt&lt;br /&gt;
Anne &rdquo; of the novel bore a certain resemblance to&lt;br /&gt;
that a more serious danger to literature than the&lt;br /&gt;
this relation.&lt;br /&gt;
use of real people in fiction is the employment of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction in the biography of real people. It is&lt;br /&gt;
I at once wrote back, and so did my father, to&lt;br /&gt;
always pleasant to be in good company, and Lord&lt;br /&gt;
explain that that clever book was not written by me.&lt;br /&gt;
Rosebery will doubtless value this tribute of&lt;br /&gt;
(I only wish it could have been.) But&lt;br /&gt;
approval of his recent wise words on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
Relations convinced against their will&lt;br /&gt;
There is too much romance in biography nowadays,&lt;br /&gt;
Are of the same opinion still.&lt;br /&gt;
and no one need lament the decay of imagination&lt;br /&gt;
in face of what is called &ldquo; personal journalism.&amp;quot; They were not for a moment deceived by the feeble&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the writers of these biographical personal falsehoods into which I had even dragged my&lt;br /&gt;
remarks are magnificent liars. Lord Rosebery hitherto respected parent. And they remained&lt;br /&gt;
made some suggestions as to the method of dealing convinced that I was the author of &ldquo; Aunt Anne.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
with the crime, and regretted that his reforms They died thinking so.&lt;br /&gt;
were Utopian. Many people are of opinion that&lt;br /&gt;
MARY CHOLMONDELEY.&lt;br /&gt;
any Utopia would be an exceedingly dull place,&lt;br /&gt;
but if this discussion can be carried on a little&lt;br /&gt;
further, it is more than probable that it will have&lt;br /&gt;
a beneficial effect. For there is not only a vast&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
131&lt;br /&gt;
AN EPITAPH ON A NAMELESS GRAVE. standpoint a man was better equipped if he had&lt;br /&gt;
some command of that instrument with which all&lt;br /&gt;
&Omicron;ύ&nu;&omicron;&mu;&alpha; &mu;&omicron;&iota;&middot; &tau;ί &sigma;&epsilon; &tau;&omicron;ύ&tau;&omicron;; &pi;ά&tau;&rho;&iota;&sigmaf; &delta;&epsilon; &mu;&omicron;&iota;&middot; &epsilon;&sigmaf; &tau;&iota; &delta;&epsilon; &tau;&omicron;&upsilon;&tau;&omicron; business has to be done-his own language.&lt;br /&gt;
&Kappa;&lambda;&epsilon;ί&nu;&omicron;&upsilon; &delta;&amp;#039; &epsilon;ί&mu;&iota; &gamma;&epsilon;&nu;&omicron;&upsilon;&sigmaf;&middot; &epsilon;&iota; &gamma;&alpha;&rho; &alpha;&phi;&alpha;&upsilon;&rho;&omicron;&tau;ά&tau;&omicron;&upsilon;;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bernard Shaw also spoke. He was, as one&lt;br /&gt;
&Zeta;ή&sigma;&alpha;&sigmaf; &delta;έ&nu;&delta;&omicron;&xi;ώ&sigmaf; έ&lambda;&iota;&pi;&omicron;&nu; &beta;ί&omicron;&nu;&middot; &epsilon;&iota; &gamma;&alpha;&rho; &alpha;&delta;&omicron;&xi;ώ&sigmaf; &kappa;&alpha;&iota;&lt;br /&gt;
would have expected, an optimist for pessimistic&lt;br /&gt;
&Kappa;&epsilon;ί&mu;&alpha;&iota; &delta;&amp;#039; &epsilon;&nu;&theta;&alpha;&delta;&epsilon; &nu;&upsilon;&nu; &tau;ί&sigmaf; &tau;ί&nu;&iota; &tau;&alpha;&upsilon;&tau;&alpha; &lambda;έ&gamma;&epsilon;&iota;&sigmaf; ;&lt;br /&gt;
reasons. He thought that boys cared nothing for&lt;br /&gt;
PAULUS SILENTIARIUS.&lt;br /&gt;
books, &amp;quot;and a very good thing too.&rdquo; That boys&lt;br /&gt;
should know less about literature now than they did&lt;br /&gt;
My name and country were&mdash;what&amp;#039;s that to thee ?&lt;br /&gt;
formerly he held to be impossible; but this he in no&lt;br /&gt;
My birth was noble-what, if it were low?&lt;br /&gt;
wise deplored, as there was a great deal too much&lt;br /&gt;
With fame I lived, then died&mdash;what, if without ?&lt;br /&gt;
reading done. &ldquo;Why should boys,&rdquo; he asked, &ldquo;be&lt;br /&gt;
I now lie here&mdash;who to whom speaketh so ? expected to read Wordsworth, one of the dullest&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY. men who ever lived ?&amp;quot; And he hoped that the&lt;br /&gt;
class mentioned by Mr. Storr would long remain in&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of &ldquo;Locksley Hall.&rdquo; The desire to teach&lt;br /&gt;
SCHOOLBOYS AND LITERATURE. literature, Mr. Shaw maintained, arose from the&lt;br /&gt;
habit of book fancying, or collecting, which was&lt;br /&gt;
A T the well-known King Alfred School in just as useless an idiosyncrasy as pigeon fancying,&lt;br /&gt;
A Hampstead a discussion was lately held on and led to such absurdities as the banning of split&lt;br /&gt;
the question&mdash;vital to authors of the infinitives, though it was the genius of the English&lt;br /&gt;
near future&mdash;whether the study and love of litera- language to split everything. Fanciers always&lt;br /&gt;
ture were decaying in schools ; by which the opener wanted to force their particular fancies upon other&lt;br /&gt;
of the discussion explained himself to mean boys&amp;#039; people, and so it was with the literary fancier :&lt;br /&gt;
schools, though at the King Alfred School boys and but Mr. Shaw declared that no one had any right&lt;br /&gt;
girls stand on an equal footing.&lt;br /&gt;
to force any education upon a child, except techni.&lt;br /&gt;
It appeared that there were both optimists and cal education, in the sense of education that would&lt;br /&gt;
pessimists in the King Alfred Society, especially be useful. Latin and Greek used to come within&lt;br /&gt;
pessimists. Mr. Francis Storr, who took the chair, that category in the days when everything that had&lt;br /&gt;
and spoke with all the weight of many years to be read was written in them ; but that was not&lt;br /&gt;
experience of practical schoolmastering, was for the the case now, and the teaching of those languages&lt;br /&gt;
prosecution, and gave recent and gloomy instances was only supported by the fraud of pretending that&lt;br /&gt;
of a class of big boys (average age seventeen), not they were necessary to the understanding of English,&lt;br /&gt;
one of whom had ever read &ldquo;Locksley Hall,&amp;quot; nor and the &ldquo; hallmark of a gentleman,&rdquo; Every other&lt;br /&gt;
had any appreciable knowledge of Wordsworth. form of education should be the spontaneous out-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; With him&rdquo; was Mr. Edward Rose, who read a come of a child&amp;#039;s character. To talk of forming a&lt;br /&gt;
paper on school papers. He had examined the child&amp;#039;s mind was an outrage, and Mr. Shaw gave&lt;br /&gt;
magazines of many schools, as Eton, Harrow, Win- it as his experience that teachers were more de-&lt;br /&gt;
chester, Rugby, Marlborough,Shrewsbury, St. Paul&amp;#039;s, moralised than any other class, which he supposed to&lt;br /&gt;
.Dulwich, Tonbridge, Ipswich, and so forth, and had be due to their continual contact with defenceless&lt;br /&gt;
tabulated the results of his investigations. A priori, minds. Their only justification, he said, lay in&lt;br /&gt;
it had seemed likely that schoolboys cared less for the necessity for the grown-ups to defend themselves&lt;br /&gt;
literature now than they did say thirty years ago; against the young, lest the latter should turn the&lt;br /&gt;
a posteriori&mdash;after examining the magazines&mdash;it world upside down ; so they deceived them until&lt;br /&gt;
appeared certain. His a priori reasons for thinking they became grown up themselves, and joined the&lt;br /&gt;
this decline and fall probable were, first, the enormous ranks of the deceivers.&lt;br /&gt;
interest now taken by boys in &ldquo;paper athletics &amp;quot;&mdash; It need hardly be said that the King Alfred&lt;br /&gt;
for example, the study of averages and the contents Society did not, as a body, accept Mr. Shaw&amp;#039;s views :&lt;br /&gt;
of newspapersentirely devoted to sport&mdash;and second, indeed, Mr. Ernest Rhys put in a formal protest&lt;br /&gt;
the amount of time now taken up in schools by more against their spirit, and the Headmaster of the&lt;br /&gt;
obviously &ldquo;paying&rdquo; subjects, such as modern lan- School&mdash;Mr. John Russell&mdash;spoke some wise and&lt;br /&gt;
guages and physical science. His proofs of actual hopeful words on the side of the optimists. He&lt;br /&gt;
decay were drawn from theschool magazines, written said, among other things, that the increasing demand&lt;br /&gt;
by the boys themselves, which formerly were in the for good cheap literature&mdash;which was, as he believed,&lt;br /&gt;
main literary reviews, but had now become for the largely purchased by boys-seemed to be the evi.&lt;br /&gt;
most part mere reports of cricket matches, concerts, dence of a continuing love for it. He had always&lt;br /&gt;
and other school news. And Mr. Rose ended by found that if a master approached literature in a&lt;br /&gt;
protesting against the purely utilitarian view of spirit of sincerity, and not of convention or dog-&lt;br /&gt;
education, while he added that even from this matism, recognising, for instance, that some parts&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
even of Shakespeare were very dull, and would read&lt;br /&gt;
literature with his pupils in that spirit-guiding&lt;br /&gt;
the youthful taste rather than dictating to it&mdash;he&lt;br /&gt;
would have no difficulty in interesting them.&lt;br /&gt;
And so, with a measure of hopefulness, the King&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred Society ceased for the moment to consider&lt;br /&gt;
how much its children cared for literary things.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Winter Pilgrimage &amp;#039;) takes credit to himself&lt;br /&gt;
for the identification of Golgotha with Skull&lt;br /&gt;
Hill,&amp;#039; not knowing, it would seem, &amp;amp;c., &amp;amp;c.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
I have not seen the paragraph referred to by the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer, but if it can be construed in such a sense,&lt;br /&gt;
I beg that it may be contradicted in your next&lt;br /&gt;
issue of The Author. My real attitude on the&lt;br /&gt;
matter of the site of Calvary will be proved&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently by the extract which I append. Why&lt;br /&gt;
the writer of the notice, in the teeth of the text&lt;br /&gt;
of the book with which he was dealing, should&lt;br /&gt;
choose to make so peculiarly unpleasant an imputa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion upon myself on the sole strength of a paragraph&lt;br /&gt;
he had read in The Author, is a question which I&lt;br /&gt;
will not discuss, since to do so without irritation&lt;br /&gt;
would not be easy.&lt;br /&gt;
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,&lt;br /&gt;
H. RIDER HAGGARD.&lt;br /&gt;
Ditchingham,&lt;br /&gt;
3rd January.&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR AND LITERARY AGENT.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,&ndash;I cannot accept without protest&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Omega&amp;#039;s&rdquo; statement, endorsed by Mr. Heinemann,&lt;br /&gt;
to the effect that &ldquo;authors are all in competition&lt;br /&gt;
against one another.&rdquo; Publishers may be animated&lt;br /&gt;
by the competitive spirit ; each one is naturally&lt;br /&gt;
anxious to secure the greatest number of popular&lt;br /&gt;
writers ; this is business, and publishing is a com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercial affair &mdash; it is highly interesting, and few&lt;br /&gt;
ways of money-making are more agreeable to men&lt;br /&gt;
of taste, with a certain courage in speculation,&lt;br /&gt;
But the &ldquo;sales&rdquo; of one author are in no way&lt;br /&gt;
affected by the success of his confr&egrave;re. M. Anatole&lt;br /&gt;
France is not consumed by envy, we may be&lt;br /&gt;
certain, because Paul Bourget has a larger public&lt;br /&gt;
than the creator of &ldquo;Monsieur Bergeret&amp;quot;; nor do both&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen join in a common hatred of Zola, who&lt;br /&gt;
can beat them magnificently any day in the matter&lt;br /&gt;
of editions. All educated readers read these three&lt;br /&gt;
authors; the sentimental half-educated, who can-&lt;br /&gt;
not understand the irony of Anatole France, read&lt;br /&gt;
Bourget only; every class of reader can find some-&lt;br /&gt;
thing in Zola. Each one of these writers knows&lt;br /&gt;
perfectly the particular group he is addressing, and&lt;br /&gt;
the idea of rivalship between them is ridiculous. I&lt;br /&gt;
could tell a hundred instances where English authors&lt;br /&gt;
me&lt;br /&gt;
have taken trouble, and written reviews, to assist&lt;br /&gt;
publications already more successful, financially,&lt;br /&gt;
than their own, and they have so written, not in&lt;br /&gt;
obedience to a forced or Quixotic impulse, but&lt;br /&gt;
because they appreciated the books, and wished to&lt;br /&gt;
shed to&lt;br /&gt;
add a specialist&amp;#039;s praise to the less critical commen-&lt;br /&gt;
dations of casual readers.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGIE.&lt;br /&gt;
FROM &amp;quot;A WINTER PILGRIMAGE,&amp;quot; PAGE 310, IST EDITION,&lt;br /&gt;
BY H, RIDER HAGGARD.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;This is the case, put briefly, but as clearly as I can set&lt;br /&gt;
it out. It is not for an amateur like myself upon the&lt;br /&gt;
strength of only two examinations, although these were&lt;br /&gt;
careful, to be dogmatic, or express any positive opinion,&lt;br /&gt;
and I express none on this or other disputed sites and&lt;br /&gt;
matters connected with the Holy Land. How can I.&lt;br /&gt;
who, lacking an extended experience of these problems,&lt;br /&gt;
must rely mainly upon my powers of observation and de-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, such as they may be, to guide me to the truth? I&lt;br /&gt;
only venture to point out, not knowing whether or no this&lt;br /&gt;
has been done in works already published, that, as I saw it&lt;br /&gt;
in the year 1900, the surface of this cliff has a quaint and&lt;br /&gt;
ghastly resemblance to a human skull. Taken in connec-&lt;br /&gt;
tion with the traditions of that place, with its undoubted&lt;br /&gt;
suitability to the dread purposes of public death, and with&lt;br /&gt;
suitability to the dread pu&lt;br /&gt;
the name by which the true spot was known, wherever it&lt;br /&gt;
may have been, I submit that this resemblance is, to say&lt;br /&gt;
the least, exceedingly suggestive.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
P.S.-Since despatching the above letter I have&lt;br /&gt;
looked through the chapter in my book headed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Gordon&amp;#039;s Tomb and Golgotha.&amp;quot; I find that it&lt;br /&gt;
contains the following&lt;br /&gt;
already quoted :-&lt;br /&gt;
already quo&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; This, at least, is sure, that if the true Calvary was where&lt;br /&gt;
many believe it to have been, among them myself, on the&lt;br /&gt;
traditional site of the Place of Stoning.&rdquo; (p. 305.)&lt;br /&gt;
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the borders of the Mahommedan cemetery, as think Otto&lt;br /&gt;
Thenius, General Gordon, Colonel Conder, Doctor Merrill,&lt;br /&gt;
and many more.&rdquo; (p. 306, 1st edition.)&lt;br /&gt;
Now this &ldquo;true Calvary&rdquo; whereof I speak is&lt;br /&gt;
the same as the &ldquo;Skull Hill &rdquo; of the identification&lt;br /&gt;
of which, with the site of the Crucifixion, the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer suggests that I have taken the &ldquo; credit.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
How much credit I have taken to myself can be&lt;br /&gt;
gathered from these extracts (to which I have&lt;br /&gt;
added the italics only).-H. R. H.&lt;br /&gt;
REVIEWING_NEW STYLE.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, -Among a packet of reviews of my book&lt;br /&gt;
* A Winter Pilgrimage,&rdquo; received by me this&lt;br /&gt;
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