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RUDYARD KIPLING.&lt;br /&gt;
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EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. G. R. Sims.&lt;br /&gt;
P. W. CLAYDEN.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT Hon. W. E. H. LECKY, S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD CLODD.&lt;br /&gt;
M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
J. J. STEVENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
W. MORRIS COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HON. JOHN COLLIER.&lt;br /&gt;
THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A. WILLIAM MOY THOMAS.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doc. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.&lt;br /&gt;
F. MARION CRAWFORD.&lt;br /&gt;
PROF. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGI.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT Hon. The LORD CURZON THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE. I&lt;br /&gt;
OF KEDLESTON.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. Counsel &ndash; E. M. UNDERDOWN, Q.C.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
J. Scott KELTIE, LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
E. ROSE.&lt;br /&gt;
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY NORMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
D. W. FRESHFIELD.&lt;br /&gt;
SUB-COMMITTEES.&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. JOHN COLLIER (Chairman). I SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. SPIELMANN&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. A BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
W. M. COLLEB.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman). H. BURNAND.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. PINERO.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD ROSB.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitore FIELD, ROScor, and Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
G. HERBERT THRING, 4, Portugal-street.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING.&lt;br /&gt;
OFFICES : 4, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN&amp;#039;S INN FIELDS, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
A. P. WATT &amp;amp; SON,&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY AGENTS,&lt;br /&gt;
Formerly of 2, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,&lt;br /&gt;
Have now removed to&lt;br /&gt;
HASTINGS HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND,&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KNIGHTS and KINGS of CHESS. By the Rev. I THE ART of CHESS. By JAMES Mason. Price 58.&lt;br /&gt;
1 (A. MACDONNELL, B.A. Price 2s. 6d. not.&lt;br /&gt;
| 1 not, by post 58. 4d&lt;br /&gt;
London: HORACE Cox, Windsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s buildings, E.C. | London: HORACE Cox, Wirdsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. XI.-No. 1.]&lt;br /&gt;
JUNE 1, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
(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 figares themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Socretary 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,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
W the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&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 the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for &amp;amp; possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
porcentage 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 one act plays shuuld&lt;br /&gt;
be preserved.&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 licei ce 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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 be 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 sabject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as &amp;amp; composition is treated by a coach. The Readers are&lt;br /&gt;
writers of competence and experience. The fee is one&lt;br /&gt;
guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
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;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY,&lt;br /&gt;
1. LIVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
V 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;
THE ANNUAL DINNER.&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici. NHE dinner of the Society of Authors was&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
held in ihe King&amp;#039;s Hall of the Holborn&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Restaurant on Wednesday, May 16, and&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member. passed off very successfully. Mr. Pinero made&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright an excellent chairman, and delighted those pre-&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the sent with an interesting and amusing speech&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins responded for the&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past Society. A full account of the evening will be&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The inserted in the July number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
As to the item of &pound;26 158., the following is the cost price :&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d. &pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinding ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 8 9&lt;br /&gt;
o 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Acts of Parliament ........ 0 1&lt;br /&gt;
W&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
..........&lt;br /&gt;
I.-RUBINSTEIN v. WATERLOW BROTHERS AND&lt;br /&gt;
LAYTON (LIMITED).&lt;br /&gt;
TN this case Mr. J. S. Rubinstein claimed an&lt;br /&gt;
account from the defendants. The questions&lt;br /&gt;
in dispute raised points of interest and im-&lt;br /&gt;
portance to authors and publisbers. The case was&lt;br /&gt;
tried before Mr. Hemming, Q.C., on the 15th May.&lt;br /&gt;
According to the plaintiff&amp;#039;s case, he had&lt;br /&gt;
written several law books and forms, which the&lt;br /&gt;
defendants had published with large profit to&lt;br /&gt;
themselves. In August, 1897, he saw them to&lt;br /&gt;
ascertain their lowest terms for bringing out at&lt;br /&gt;
his risk a book he then intended to write on the&lt;br /&gt;
Land Transfer Act, 1897. On the 9th August&lt;br /&gt;
they wrote :-&ldquo;We are willing to publish your&lt;br /&gt;
work on the following terms. We to debit you&lt;br /&gt;
with printing, binding, advertising, &amp;amp;c.; you to&lt;br /&gt;
allow us 33 per cent. on the publication price of&lt;br /&gt;
copies sold. As it is the practice now to allow&lt;br /&gt;
20 per cent. off the publication price to the&lt;br /&gt;
general public, and 25 per cent. or 33} per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
&dagger;&lt;br /&gt;
to the trade, you will see we have, in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
with your request, based our offer on the lowest&lt;br /&gt;
possible terms.&amp;quot; These terms were accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the delay in the issue of rules under the&lt;br /&gt;
Act, the book was not published till December,&lt;br /&gt;
1808. when it was brought out at 58. In April.&lt;br /&gt;
1899, the defendants, at the plaintiff&amp;#039;s request,&lt;br /&gt;
furnished accounts charging &pound;245 168. 4d. for&lt;br /&gt;
printing, &amp;amp;c., 1000 copies of the book, and&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;52 18s. 5d. for publishing the copies then sold.&lt;br /&gt;
The accounts included items of &pound;173 108. 6d. for&lt;br /&gt;
composition, reading, proving, imposing, &amp;amp;c., and&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;26 158. for binding. As the defendants refused&lt;br /&gt;
to give specific details, the action was brought.&lt;br /&gt;
In the course of the proceedings, the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
were requested to produce books and documents,&lt;br /&gt;
but they asserted that the time-sheets had been&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed. They delivered under an order the&lt;br /&gt;
following particulars, showing how the items of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;173 1os. and &pound;26 159. were made up :-&lt;br /&gt;
As to the item of &pound;173 108., the following is the cost price :&lt;br /&gt;
Land Transfer Act, 1897, *&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d. &pound; 8. d&lt;br /&gt;
Ex. R. Binding Electro... 0 6 4&lt;br /&gt;
Composing Demy 8vo. Book,&lt;br /&gt;
pp. &amp;amp; pp., Case ............ 82 0&lt;br /&gt;
0.T...............................&lt;br /&gt;
14/10/98, Alters, and pp. in&lt;br /&gt;
Sheet pfe.......... 2 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
2011 98, 1000 Copies demy&lt;br /&gt;
8vo., 316 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Press .. ......... 8 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
750 Bound in whole cloth,&lt;br /&gt;
Paper ........................ 1 2&lt;br /&gt;
Postage paid on Books ...... 2 3 4&lt;br /&gt;
20 15 3&lt;br /&gt;
Total charge against plaintiff ............... 26 15 3&lt;br /&gt;
On the hearing of the case the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
admitted they could not produce any book con.&lt;br /&gt;
taining copies of the time sheets that had been&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed. They gave the following figures as&lt;br /&gt;
representing how the item &pound;82 in their particulars&lt;br /&gt;
were made up, although they could not verify&lt;br /&gt;
them in detail:-&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
12494 hours at 8 d. ........................... 44 4 II&lt;br /&gt;
126 hours overtime at 18. old. ............ 6 119&lt;br /&gt;
50 16 8&lt;br /&gt;
Added to cover establishment oharges, &amp;amp;c. 31 3 4&lt;br /&gt;
82 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
The referee decided on the construction of the&lt;br /&gt;
contract that the defendants were entitled, in&lt;br /&gt;
addition to their publishing commission, to profit&lt;br /&gt;
on the printing, binding, &amp;amp;c., but he considered&lt;br /&gt;
the sums claimed extravagant. To avoid the&lt;br /&gt;
expense, of continuing the inquiry, the&lt;br /&gt;
expense of continuing the inquiry the plaintiff&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the figures given by the defendants as to&lt;br /&gt;
the cost, and the parties accepted a suggestion of&lt;br /&gt;
the referee to add 20 per cent. profit. On this&lt;br /&gt;
basis the amount claimed by the defendants was&lt;br /&gt;
reduced by &pound;47 148.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-MERIVALE v. HARVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
In the Queen&amp;#039;s Bench Division, May 21, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Justice Grantham and a special jury heard the&lt;br /&gt;
action, Merivale v. Harvey, which was brought to&lt;br /&gt;
recover damages for breach of contract. There&lt;br /&gt;
was a counter-claim for damages for libel. Sir&lt;br /&gt;
E. Clarke, Q.C., and Mr. C. Mathews appeared&lt;br /&gt;
for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hammond Chambers,&lt;br /&gt;
Q.C., and Mr. Spencer Bower for the defendant.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir E. Clarke, in opening the case for Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Herman Merivale, said it was arranged that the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant should send the plaintiff a Spanish&lt;br /&gt;
book dealing with the incidents connected with&lt;br /&gt;
the time of Don Juan, from which plaintiff was&lt;br /&gt;
to write a play. The play was completed on&lt;br /&gt;
June 11, and was much approved by the defen-&lt;br /&gt;
dant. A long correspondence then took place&lt;br /&gt;
between the parties regarding the cast, minor&lt;br /&gt;
alterations, and such like, in the course of which&lt;br /&gt;
difficulties arose. Eventually the plaintiff said&lt;br /&gt;
that nothing was left for the protection of himself&lt;br /&gt;
and work but to place himself in his lawyer&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sydney Grundy, dramatic author, was the&lt;br /&gt;
first witness called, and said he thought a fair&lt;br /&gt;
106 18&lt;br /&gt;
Total charge against plaintiff ............&lt;br /&gt;
173 100&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sum to pay the plaintiff for his work was 1000 the directors of theatres that the society intends&lt;br /&gt;
guineas. In cross-examination witness said he to continue to demand the dues as heretofore.&lt;br /&gt;
had not read the play, but he assumed a run of at The managements which refuse the payment will&lt;br /&gt;
least 100 nights, because Mr. Harvey accepted it, be placed under the ban of the society-that is to&lt;br /&gt;
and he respected his intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;
say, they will not receive permission to perform&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatic author, said any new plays.&lt;br /&gt;
he considered that Mr. Merivale had contributed The Recht der Feder justly remarks,&ldquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
most admirable work to the stage. He agreed shows what organisation and unity can effect.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
with Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s evidence. In cross-examina-&lt;br /&gt;
tion witness said he had not read the play, but&lt;br /&gt;
from his knowledge of Mr. Merivale and his IV. &mdash; CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GERMAN&lt;br /&gt;
work that he should have written an unsatis-&lt;br /&gt;
EMPIRE AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.&lt;br /&gt;
factory work was not the least probable.&lt;br /&gt;
A convention has been entered into between the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Chambers, on behalf of the defendant, above empires for the protection of literary,&lt;br /&gt;
commented upon the fact that the plaintiff was artistic, and photographic works. The most&lt;br /&gt;
not called, and proceeding said that so far from important articles of the convention are the&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant behaving badly to the plaintiff, the following :-&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff bad behaved to the defendant in a way All indigenous (einheimisch) works produced&lt;br /&gt;
entirely without reason or common sense. He in either empire are to enjoy the protection&lt;br /&gt;
had also written letters of a libellous character, accorded to such works in the other: but with&lt;br /&gt;
suggesting that the defendant had cheated him. the limitation that the protection accorded to&lt;br /&gt;
That was an untrue and malicious statement, and foreign works is not to exceed that accorded to the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff must have known that it was untrue at home productions.&lt;br /&gt;
the time.&lt;br /&gt;
A work is to be considered einheimisch which&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Martin Harvey was then called, and stated is protected by the interior legislation, either in&lt;br /&gt;
that he was the defendant, and at present was consequence of its place of production, or of the&lt;br /&gt;
manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre. He nationality of the author, or of his domicile.&lt;br /&gt;
ask. d the plaintiff to adapt for him, last year. In all relations between the German Empire&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Don Juan,&amp;quot; from a Spanish play. He and his and the kingdoms and countries represented by&lt;br /&gt;
wife made suggestions to the plaintiff, and they the Austrian Reichsrath, the protection accorded&lt;br /&gt;
were well taken until he suggested that the by the convention depends solely upon compliance&lt;br /&gt;
character of Inez should be made more human. with the conditions and formalities prescribed by&lt;br /&gt;
It was suggested by the plaintiff that this part the legislation of the country of origin.&lt;br /&gt;
should be entrusted to Mrs. Harvey. The cost of But in the case of the Hungarian Crown the&lt;br /&gt;
producing the play would be something between protection depends not only upon compliance with&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;2000 and &pound;3000. The time came when he the conditions and formalities of the country of&lt;br /&gt;
instructed Mrs. Cuninghame Graham to write a origin, but also upon compliance with those&lt;br /&gt;
play on the subject. The play written by her required by the legislation of the other country.&lt;br /&gt;
ran only for three weeks and a few days. In his The exclusive right of translation into a&lt;br /&gt;
judgment the plaintiff&amp;#039;s play would not have run language in which no authorised and complete&lt;br /&gt;
longer if produced. He paid Mrs. Graham &pound;100, translation has appeared has a duration of three&lt;br /&gt;
and was to have paid her another &pound;100 if the years only from the date of publication of the&lt;br /&gt;
piece ran 100 nights.&lt;br /&gt;
original.&lt;br /&gt;
Similar evidence was given by Mrs. Harvey, An authorised translation appearing within the&lt;br /&gt;
wife of the defendant.&lt;br /&gt;
prescribed limit is protected for five years.&lt;br /&gt;
The learned judge having summed up, the The years are to be calculated exclusively of the&lt;br /&gt;
jury found there was a contract and a breach by year of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant. They also found there was no The convention is retrospective; but an excep-&lt;br /&gt;
libel. In the result they gave a verdict for the tion is made for works already partly completed.&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff &mdash; damages &pound;500. Judgment accord. The convention is to remain in force for ten&lt;br /&gt;
ingly.&mdash;Daily Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
The French text of the whole convention will&lt;br /&gt;
be found in the Droit d&amp;#039;Auteur for April. Our&lt;br /&gt;
III.-ACTING RIGHTS IN DE Balzac.&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary, Das Recht der Feder, remarks&lt;br /&gt;
The powerful French &ldquo; Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens des respecting it:&lt;br /&gt;
Lettres,&rdquo; in consideration of the approaching &ldquo;The advantages which we gain in Austria are&lt;br /&gt;
expiration of the protection of the acting rights not very great. Certain German books cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
of De Balzac&amp;#039;s dramatic works, has announced to reproduced there in German. Articles in periodi-&lt;br /&gt;
years.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
cals will be protected only when the probibition&lt;br /&gt;
of reproduction is not neglected. Little security&lt;br /&gt;
against translation is afforded by the very short&lt;br /&gt;
period of protection. In Hungary the case is&lt;br /&gt;
even worse. It is true that German books can&lt;br /&gt;
be no longer there reproduced in German, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the German periodicals of Hungary cannot&lt;br /&gt;
reprint from the German periodicals, provided&lt;br /&gt;
that the reproduction of articles, feuilletons, &amp;amp;c.,&lt;br /&gt;
is duly interdicted, but translation can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
be prevented; and the works must be registered,&lt;br /&gt;
which costs 5 florins, besides stamps. These con-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions are consequences of the Hungarian law of&lt;br /&gt;
1844, and that law was simply a copy of our own&lt;br /&gt;
law of the date. So we, after all, can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
complain. It is thus that, in this world, castiga.&lt;br /&gt;
tion for shortcomings is always exacted.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
We may add that the terms of the convention&lt;br /&gt;
between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary (see&lt;br /&gt;
The Author for April, 1900, p. 233) seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly more liberal than the terms of the con-&lt;br /&gt;
vention between Austria-Hungary and Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
V.-THE PATRONAGE OF A PREFACE.&lt;br /&gt;
The readiness of certain publishers&mdash;even of&lt;br /&gt;
some of justly high repute--to ignore or over-&lt;br /&gt;
ride the wishes or feelings of authors has been&lt;br /&gt;
exemplified in a recent experience of my own. I&lt;br /&gt;
bring the matter before you and your readers,&lt;br /&gt;
and publicly record my protest, not by way of&lt;br /&gt;
airing a grievance or seeking support, but only&lt;br /&gt;
from a sense of esprit de corps&mdash;to call attention&lt;br /&gt;
to a certain infringement of an author&amp;#039;s inalien-&lt;br /&gt;
able rights, and to warn those who forget to safe-&lt;br /&gt;
guard them from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
A book of mine upon Mr. Ruskin was lately&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Cassell and Co., who&lt;br /&gt;
arranged with Messrs. Lippincott (more accu-&lt;br /&gt;
rately known as the J. B. Lippincott Company),&lt;br /&gt;
of Philadelphia, to issue it also in the United&lt;br /&gt;
States. This was done. Through an oversight&lt;br /&gt;
-following on a fire, I now learn-no copy of&lt;br /&gt;
the work was forwarded to me; but I ascertained&lt;br /&gt;
from a review notice sent to me by a New York&lt;br /&gt;
paper that the book was prefaced by an intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction written by an American gentlenian of&lt;br /&gt;
letters without my having been in any way con-&lt;br /&gt;
sulted as to the propriety or reasonableness of&lt;br /&gt;
such a proceeding. I wrote at once a letter of&lt;br /&gt;
remonstrance to Messrs. Cassell&mdash;who were in&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of what had been done and were, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, in no way responsible&mdash;and they forwarded&lt;br /&gt;
that communication to the Lippincott Company.&lt;br /&gt;
From this firm I have received the following&lt;br /&gt;
courteous explanation :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In regard to the small note by Mr. Morris&lt;br /&gt;
about which Messrs. Cassell have inquired in&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
your behalf, you will see that it occupies but&lt;br /&gt;
three pages and is of simply general character,&lt;br /&gt;
giving the date of Ruskin&amp;#039;s death and a few&lt;br /&gt;
remarks. We took such an interest in your work&lt;br /&gt;
and its success here that we desired to bring it as&lt;br /&gt;
closely as possible in touch with the American&lt;br /&gt;
public. Mr. Morris is well known as a poet,&lt;br /&gt;
writer on art, and director of one of our largest&lt;br /&gt;
institutions, and we felt that the connection of&lt;br /&gt;
his name with the book (but especially mentioned&lt;br /&gt;
separately from your work and over his own&lt;br /&gt;
signature) would be an advantage to it in placing&lt;br /&gt;
your book before those interested in Ruskin&lt;br /&gt;
here.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
I replied as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In regard to the Introduction, I must&lt;br /&gt;
warmly protest, upon principle, against your&lt;br /&gt;
action in the matter. I very readily believe, from&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morris&amp;#039;s achievements and reputation, that&lt;br /&gt;
that Introduction (which I have not yet seen)&lt;br /&gt;
does honour to the book and, besides lending&lt;br /&gt;
distinction to it, may help the sale. Had it been&lt;br /&gt;
proposed to me that Mr. Morris should con-&lt;br /&gt;
tribute this preface, I migbt perhaps have&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the suggestion with pleasure ; if I had&lt;br /&gt;
taken a contrary course, it would have been that&lt;br /&gt;
I did not wish my work to receive any extraneous&lt;br /&gt;
assistance, helpful and charming as Mr. Morris&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
doubtless is.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;But that is not the point. What I complain&lt;br /&gt;
of is this&mdash;&mdash;that without any sort of reference to&lt;br /&gt;
me you have endowed me with a sponsor. This&lt;br /&gt;
act I consider to be wholly unjustifiable. You&lt;br /&gt;
say you felt it would be an advantage, but it&lt;br /&gt;
was necessary that I also should feel it to be so,&lt;br /&gt;
and say as much, before you proceeded in the&lt;br /&gt;
matter as you have. You have assumed a kind&lt;br /&gt;
of proprietorship not only in the book, but in&lt;br /&gt;
the author, which is altogether beyond the sphere&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher, and which must be resented by&lt;br /&gt;
every writer who is subjected to it.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I entirely appreciate the courtesy of your&lt;br /&gt;
letter and your desire to strengthen the book as&lt;br /&gt;
much as possible; but I feel it incumbent upon&lt;br /&gt;
me to put before you the real view of the case,&lt;br /&gt;
and to take such steps to draw public attention to&lt;br /&gt;
it as I think wise, in order to safeguard the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of those authors whom publishers regard&lt;br /&gt;
-perhaps rightly-as in need of strengthening.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;For it must be clear that when a publisher&lt;br /&gt;
agrees to issue a work, the understanding is that&lt;br /&gt;
that work, as it proceeded from the author&amp;#039;s pen&lt;br /&gt;
and from no other, will be published in its&lt;br /&gt;
entirety and in not more than its entirety-&lt;br /&gt;
which, in logic, is absurd; and it must be equally&lt;br /&gt;
manifest that any proposal for including a preface&lt;br /&gt;
by another writer should be openly made and&lt;br /&gt;
agreed to, and that the moment for raising any such&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
question is at the time of the publisher&amp;#039;s acqui. He seems, also, to have been a man of remark-&lt;br /&gt;
sition of the work.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
able endowments, philanthropical temperament,&lt;br /&gt;
The question is, whether an author cannot and elevated sentiments. After his death the&lt;br /&gt;
rest between his own covers without, so to say, fickle tide of public favour waned. Popular pre-&lt;br /&gt;
having a strange&mdash;though, I am willing to admit, judice blackened his name, and represented him as&lt;br /&gt;
a most exemplary and distinguished-bedfellow an alchemist and sorcerer who had obtained from&lt;br /&gt;
forced upon him by the publisher, unasked. The the Evil One the secret of the mysterious philo-&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the alien is ticketed with his own name, sopher&amp;#039;s stone. A few fragments of the House&lt;br /&gt;
does not alter the complexion of the proceeding with the big Gable&mdash;&ldquo; la Maison du grand&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, especially abroad, often seek the support pignon&rdquo;&mdash;which he built for himself in the rue&lt;br /&gt;
of a distinguished writer to lend them counten. de Montmorency in 1407, are reported to be still&lt;br /&gt;
ance in a preface. Alexandre Dumas, no doubt, in existence.&lt;br /&gt;
profited by Jules Janin&amp;#039;s preface to &ldquo; La Dame&lt;br /&gt;
aux Cam&eacute;lias.&amp;quot; Chaucer&amp;#039;s Urry, Dr. Johnson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Two ANCIENT NOTABILITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
Croker, Scott&amp;#039;s Mr. Lang, and Byron&amp;#039;s Mr. The name of Robert Estienne enjoys a less&lt;br /&gt;
Henley are, of course, among the pains and ambiguous reputation. Born in 1503, he was&lt;br /&gt;
pleasures of immortality. But to the mortal promoted to the office of royal publisher by&lt;br /&gt;
author, while he lives. the right of veto, and Francis I., who took pleasure in occasionally&lt;br /&gt;
assuredly of consultation, is sacred.&lt;br /&gt;
visiting his prot&eacute;g&eacute;&amp;#039;s workshops, and profiting by&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. SPIELMANN. his erudite conversation. For Robert Estienne&lt;br /&gt;
was one of the most learned men of his time. His&lt;br /&gt;
Latin Bible is a typographical masterpiece, and&lt;br /&gt;
the purity of his classical editions is notorious.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
The latter fact is partly accounted for by his prac-&lt;br /&gt;
tice of placing his corrected proof-sheets in the&lt;br /&gt;
5, rue Chomel, Paris. windows of his shop, in order that all scholars,&lt;br /&gt;
NHE Great Exhibition is slowly progressing&lt;br /&gt;
teachers, and savants who passed that way might&lt;br /&gt;
I towards completion. Most interesting is the peruse them, and point out any slips or errors&lt;br /&gt;
quaint collection of buildings entitled &ldquo;Le that they perceived therein. The perfection of&lt;br /&gt;
Vieux Paris,&amp;quot; situated on the right bank of the&lt;br /&gt;
the Estienne publications bears witness that the&lt;br /&gt;
Seine just below the Pont de l&amp;#039;Alma. The grim literati of the epoch were competent and obliging&lt;br /&gt;
old Porte Saint-Michel forms the entry to the critics.&lt;br /&gt;
Middle-age and Renaissance Quarter. To the left&lt;br /&gt;
Th&eacute;ophraste Renaudotis undoubtedly the&lt;br /&gt;
runs the ancient Vieilles-Ecoles-street, in which most amusing figure in this learned quartette.&lt;br /&gt;
stands the Maison aux Piliers, the first town-hall Having obtained a doctor&amp;#039;s degree at Montpellier,&lt;br /&gt;
of Paris, precursor of the present stately H&ocirc;tel de he came to Paris to exercise his art at the sign of&lt;br /&gt;
Ville. Here also are the houses of four person-&lt;br /&gt;
the Golden Cock. Patients were apparently rare ;&lt;br /&gt;
ages dear to the bibliophiles of all nations: to for in a comparatively short time he successively&lt;br /&gt;
wit_Moli&egrave;re. Nicolas Flamel. Robert Estienne. established an address bureau, a registry office&lt;br /&gt;
and Th&eacute;ophraste Renaudot. The first &mdash; the for persons seeking situations, a pawnshop, a&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare of French literature&mdash;was born in chemistry laboratory, a gratuitous consultation&lt;br /&gt;
1622 in an old house belonging to the public office; and finally, the famous Gazette, which&lt;br /&gt;
market-place, where his father, Master Poquelin, first appeared in manuscript in 1631, and was&lt;br /&gt;
busily pursued the trade of upholsterer or carpet soon after duly printed on four pages as behoved&lt;br /&gt;
weaver beneath the sign of the Apes&amp;#039; Pavilion.&lt;br /&gt;
the dignity of the first French periodical. The&lt;br /&gt;
Larousse asserts that no other writer can be com fourth page was exclusively reserved for adver.&lt;br /&gt;
pared with Moli&egrave;re as regards his fine portrayal tisements. Which detail proves that, despite his&lt;br /&gt;
of character, his high originality of conception, failure in the profession, Renaudot was an excel-&lt;br /&gt;
his sparkling verve, his humorous power, his lent feeler of the public pulse. This versatile&lt;br /&gt;
natural gifts, and the good sense and Gallic ancestor of the modern French newspaper (and&lt;br /&gt;
freshness of his style. &laquo; Every man who knows many other useful institutions) died in the year&lt;br /&gt;
how to read,&rdquo; said Sainte-Beuve, &ldquo;is one reader 1653.&lt;br /&gt;
more for Moli&egrave;re.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE GONCOURT ACADEMY.&lt;br /&gt;
Nicolas Flamel was a species of French Para. The Goncourt Academy is flourishing like a&lt;br /&gt;
celsus. He died in 1418, but the date of his green bay tree. Its tale of members has been&lt;br /&gt;
birth is unknown. He appears to have enjoyed completed by the election of MM. El&eacute;mir&lt;br /&gt;
no small celebrity as a writer, publisher, illumi. Bourges, Lucien Descaves, and L&eacute;on Daudet, the&lt;br /&gt;
nator, and miniature painter of the first order. two first being elected unanimously. It had been&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that M. J.-K. Huysmans&amp;#039; adoption into in dramatic circles, asserting that the public had&lt;br /&gt;
the Benedictine Order would necessitate this never expended so large a portion of its private&lt;br /&gt;
eccentric writer&amp;#039;s withdrawal from the ranks of income at the theatre as at the present moment.&lt;br /&gt;
the new society. But M. Huysmans speedily The above statistics (with the list of new members&lt;br /&gt;
negatived the idea by announcing his intention received) having been duly made known, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of accepting the emoluments and taking part in routine congratulatory compliments exchanged,&lt;br /&gt;
the agapes of the brotherhood. M. Emile Zola&amp;#039;s M. Pierre Decourcelle-one of the dramatists&lt;br /&gt;
irrevocable determination to persevere in his whose productions are most patronised abroad-&lt;br /&gt;
candidature for a French Academy fauteuil proposed the raising of i per cent. of the tax&lt;br /&gt;
prevented his accepting a seat at the fraternal levied on all French plays represented elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;
board. For immortals and poets are among the than on French soil, the surplus thus obtained&lt;br /&gt;
inadmissible items. The legal debates to deter- to be devoted to the Retired Pension Fund of the&lt;br /&gt;
mine whether the Goncourt institution was &ldquo;to society. The committee declared this generous&lt;br /&gt;
be or not to be &amp;quot; were most interesting. Accord. proposition to be antagonistic to the existing&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the adverse party, Edmond de Goncourt&amp;#039;s statutes of the society. Thereupon M. Decourcelle,&lt;br /&gt;
intention was to create a small &ldquo;c&eacute;nacle,&amp;quot; a little warmly seconded by an overwhelming majority,&lt;br /&gt;
literary chapel in front of the great cathedral demanded a general meeting extraordinary. The&lt;br /&gt;
whose radiant dome wounded and offended his too authorities declared the incident closed, and&lt;br /&gt;
susceptible sight.&lt;br /&gt;
ordered the opening of the ballot to decide the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;If the French Academy be-as its detractors election of the new members of the committee.&lt;br /&gt;
assert-merely the drawing-room of French litera- Forthwith ensued a general stampede of members&lt;br /&gt;
ture,&amp;quot; said Ma&icirc;tre Chenu, &ldquo;the Goncourt Insti- to draw up a petition for a general assembly.&lt;br /&gt;
tution&mdash;with its dinners at twenty francs per head Sixty-five signatures-in lieu of the twenty&lt;br /&gt;
- will never rank higher in the eyes of the world necessary to legalise the request-were appended&lt;br /&gt;
than a literary table d&amp;#039;h&ocirc;te.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to this document, which has recently been sub-&lt;br /&gt;
To which Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; replied, &ldquo; Our adver- mitted to the newly elected committee (presided&lt;br /&gt;
sary gives us the choice between a pious and a over by M. Victorien Sardou) and by them referred&lt;br /&gt;
gastronomic comparison. As a little chapel the to the judicial council of the society. The latter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Goncourt Academy will lead up to the great decision has not yet been made known.&lt;br /&gt;
cathedral. As a table d&amp;#039;h&ocirc;te it will not keep its&lt;br /&gt;
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.&lt;br /&gt;
guests long; when the dinner is finished each one&lt;br /&gt;
will pass into the drawing-room-of the French&lt;br /&gt;
The Dramatists and Musical Composers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Academy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Society occupies a more prominent position than&lt;br /&gt;
Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; won the day. Wherefore the&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of French Authors&mdash;the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
first dinner partaken in company by the members&lt;br /&gt;
Gens de Lettres. The relative importance and&lt;br /&gt;
of the new academy was given in honour of the&lt;br /&gt;
aim of the two institutions were clearly set forth,&lt;br /&gt;
celebrated advocate who had so ably pleaded their&lt;br /&gt;
a few months since, in.a speech delivered by M.&lt;br /&gt;
cause in court, and whose eloquence had pre-&lt;br /&gt;
Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, president of the French Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
vented the annulment of Edmond de Goncourt&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Society, at the latter&amp;#039;s annual banquet, at which the&lt;br /&gt;
darling project. Ma&icirc;tre Poincar&eacute; undertook the&lt;br /&gt;
chair was taken by M. Victorien Sardou, presi.&lt;br /&gt;
cause for love, not lucre. He pleaded none the&lt;br /&gt;
dent of the sister society. &ldquo;The two societies,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
worse on that account.&lt;br /&gt;
said M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost,&ldquo; are united by a fraternal&lt;br /&gt;
bond.&rdquo; &ldquo;The great family of men of letters have&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATISTS AND MUSICAL COMPOSERS. the right to be proud of these two sisters. They&lt;br /&gt;
The annual general assembly of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
have both turned out well. We can say so boldly&lt;br /&gt;
Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques was rather&lt;br /&gt;
to-day, since both have passed the critical age;&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; stormy affair. Its yearly report was drawn&lt;br /&gt;
since one of these respectable ladies is sixty, and&lt;br /&gt;
up by M. Paul Milliet, and contained the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
the other eighty years of age. Yes, we are the&lt;br /&gt;
ing satisfactory paragraph : &ldquo; In 1866-67, the&lt;br /&gt;
&ntilde; . &amp;quot; In 1866.67 the&lt;br /&gt;
younger;&lt;br /&gt;
younger. The elder is the richer, the more&lt;br /&gt;
annual theatrical receipts of Paris amounted to&lt;br /&gt;
powerful of the two sisters; but, all the same,&lt;br /&gt;
thirteen million francs : in 1876-77. to sixteen the younger is not to be pitied.&amp;quot; *&amp;quot; You, the&lt;br /&gt;
million francs; in 1886-87, to nineteen million&lt;br /&gt;
great ones of the theatre&mdash;the Sardous, Hal&eacute;vys,&lt;br /&gt;
francs ; in 1896-97, to twenty-two million francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
and Dumas&mdash;you have accomplished this deed of&lt;br /&gt;
and in 1899-1900, they have attained a total&lt;br /&gt;
a true and admirable socialism. You have said,&lt;br /&gt;
of exactly twenty-two million, one hundred and&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; The little writers, the new comers, shall be paid&lt;br /&gt;
fifty thousand, nine hundred and thirty-six&lt;br /&gt;
as we are the day their plays are acted on the&lt;br /&gt;
francs, eighteen centimes.&rdquo; M. Milliet protested&lt;br /&gt;
same stage. Their feebleness, their inexperience,&lt;br /&gt;
vigorously against the pessimistic spirit current * This speech was addressed to M. Victorien Sardou.&lt;br /&gt;
Domy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&middot; THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
shall no longer be exploited ; or else the great possesses his qualities. And it may be safely&lt;br /&gt;
writers will put their ban on the stage.&amp;#039; We&mdash;the said of any good writer that he is jealous of&lt;br /&gt;
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres-out of a mere himself and will always give his best at the&lt;br /&gt;
nothing ... have founded a solid and time, even though the best at the time is not his&lt;br /&gt;
flourishing institution. We have added a con- best at some other time. It is a simple contract.&lt;br /&gt;
siderable sum to the income of the writer as long The publisher or the editor says &ldquo;Give me your&lt;br /&gt;
as he works ; and when he can no longer work, book-your treatise-your novel&mdash;for such and&lt;br /&gt;
we have insured him a half security, at least, to such a consideration.&rdquo; And the author signs the&lt;br /&gt;
that dignified leisure in old age to which all those contract.&lt;br /&gt;
are entitled who in their measure have striven to This kind of contract is made in every branch&lt;br /&gt;
increase the patrimony of beauty which is their of literature. Where it is entered into by a&lt;br /&gt;
country&amp;#039;s heritage...Novelist and drama dramatist and a manager it must be as binding as&lt;br /&gt;
tist, what are they but two sides of the same between publisher and author. The manager&lt;br /&gt;
genius ?&rdquo; M. Pr&eacute;vost concluded by saying that secures a play written by a dramatist of reputa-&lt;br /&gt;
he drank to the good understanding of the two tion so well established that he is certain to get&lt;br /&gt;
societies which represented the two phases of good work. When the play arrives, if the&lt;br /&gt;
French genius ; to the fraternity of the book and manager finds that for some reason or other he&lt;br /&gt;
the play; and to M. Victorien Sardou,&ldquo; homme would like to be off his bargain-a play, for&lt;br /&gt;
de lettres&rdquo; and prince of the French stage. instance, requires actors capable of representing&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. it &mdash; he cannot do so unless the other party&lt;br /&gt;
consents.&lt;br /&gt;
-ou&lt;br /&gt;
One or two of the papers speak of the hard-&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
ship of having a play which a manager cannot put&lt;br /&gt;
on the stage, but he should have thought of that&lt;br /&gt;
THE case of Merivale v. Harvey (p. 3) is&lt;br /&gt;
possibility beforehand. Dramatists of repute do&lt;br /&gt;
one which affects most vitally the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
not write on the chance of being accepted: they take&lt;br /&gt;
literary property. For literary property,&lt;br /&gt;
commissions and enter into agreements. These&lt;br /&gt;
which must not be confounded with literature,&lt;br /&gt;
considerations seem elementary, but in the view of&lt;br /&gt;
must be subjected to the same laws as govern&lt;br /&gt;
such actions as Merivale v. Harvey being possible&lt;br /&gt;
other property. If, for instance, an author signs&lt;br /&gt;
it is surely necessary to point them out. In&lt;br /&gt;
an iniquitous or unjust agreement, even if he were&lt;br /&gt;
matters of principle the most elementary facts&lt;br /&gt;
to give his publishers the rights which their&lt;br /&gt;
must be continually repeated. We find that the&lt;br /&gt;
Association claims, he must abide the conse-&lt;br /&gt;
Ten Commandments are repeated every Sunday:&lt;br /&gt;
quences. No one is so loud in his assertion of&lt;br /&gt;
they are also put up for all the world to read.&lt;br /&gt;
this simple axiom as the publisher where the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Merivale deserves the thanks of the whole&lt;br /&gt;
enforcement of an agreement is in his favour.&lt;br /&gt;
literary community for taking his case into open&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, an agreement entered into by&lt;br /&gt;
court and establishing a precedent.&lt;br /&gt;
a publisher with an author is equally binding&lt;br /&gt;
even when it turns out not to be in his favour. The views of the American critic, quoted in&lt;br /&gt;
another page, on English literature do not greatly&lt;br /&gt;
differ from those most often expressed on this&lt;br /&gt;
It is customary&mdash;it is indeed the rule&mdash;when an side. I have omitted a small part of the paper&lt;br /&gt;
author has arrived at a certain stage of reputa- which speaks of living writers. Of Louis Steven.&lt;br /&gt;
tion for him to accept engagements to write for son he speaks with words of very faint praise :&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, journals, or for publishers. Agree-&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson has already taken his place as an entertaining&lt;br /&gt;
ments are entered into by which the author novelist of the second or third class, and his singularly&lt;br /&gt;
pledges himself to write a book on some subject, lovable personality is not now mistaken for literary genius&lt;br /&gt;
an article, a novel, by a certain time for a certain by any great number of persons.&lt;br /&gt;
consideration set forth in the agreement. The The time immediately after a writer&amp;#039;s death is&lt;br /&gt;
publisher makes the offer, with the full knowledge apt to be unwilling to concede his genius. It is&lt;br /&gt;
that the author&amp;#039;s reputation is such as to carry off like a reaction from admiration which in his&lt;br /&gt;
his book with a profit to himself; the author, on lifetime could not acknowledge shortcomings&lt;br /&gt;
the other hand, values his reputation too highly and unconsciously closed the eyes to defects.&lt;br /&gt;
to send in scamped and unworthy work. He may There are, very possibly, persons who will agree&lt;br /&gt;
be unequal&mdash;all writers are; the best work of a with this writer in his estimate of Stevenson. It&lt;br /&gt;
good writer is often above his average work- remains, however, to be seen what their attitude&lt;br /&gt;
still his average work bears his stamp and will be in ten years. Time, the only infallible&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
critic, weeds out the lesser and the inferior work announcement was made: &ldquo; Dues five dollars yearly,&lt;br /&gt;
and leaves a writer&amp;#039;s best, however small in quan-&lt;br /&gt;
strictly in advance, and must accompany all applications&lt;br /&gt;
for membership. Absolutely no exception will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
tity, for posterity. It certainly seems to many of&lt;br /&gt;
this rule.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson&amp;#039;s old readers as if the selection made The assurance was made that the &ldquo;membership fee&lt;br /&gt;
by Time from Stevenson&amp;#039;s works will be such as would be returned in full from any dissatisfied member.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to place him above the &ldquo; second or third class.&rdquo; Remittances, it was announced, must be made to no other&lt;br /&gt;
person than Courtney, who signed himself &ldquo; Seorutary of&lt;br /&gt;
the Association.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The annual dinner of the Society of the 16th Women by the dozen applied to Courtney for employ.&lt;br /&gt;
was a success in every way. The attendance was ment, and brought many manuscripts to him. He rejected&lt;br /&gt;
a great deal larger than at any previous dinner-&lt;br /&gt;
none of them if the applicants were prepared to pay the&lt;br /&gt;
membership fee of five dollars. The most inexperienced&lt;br /&gt;
there were nearly 350 present; the difficult task writers were assured that their work gave indications&lt;br /&gt;
of seating the people seems to have been accom of great genius, and that hundreds of newspapers in&lt;br /&gt;
plished without giving offence to any; there was the West were anxious to purchase the manuscripts at&lt;br /&gt;
a cheerful sound of talk; and the speeches by&lt;br /&gt;
high rates.&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman, Mr. Pinero, by Mr. Anthony Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney was so successful that women who applied to&lt;br /&gt;
him told their friends what an excellent business oppor.&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Lord Monkswell,&lt;br /&gt;
tunity they had discovered, and in that way caused&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Henry Norman were admirable. There Courtney&amp;#039;s roll of membership to be greatly increased. He&lt;br /&gt;
was not the least sign of fatigue among an made promises to many of them, which some of the women&lt;br /&gt;
audience always difficult to please during any of&lt;br /&gt;
now claim he has not kept. He arranged to meet them at&lt;br /&gt;
them.&lt;br /&gt;
his desk on Satarday last, but, although many waited until&lt;br /&gt;
late in the afternoon, he did not appear.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday they visited his office in crowds, but still&lt;br /&gt;
Given a collection of 350 literary men and there was no sign of the &amp;quot;secretary.&amp;quot; Yesterday the&lt;br /&gt;
women, including many of the best known, women descended upon his office again, and camped near&lt;br /&gt;
given a chairman who is the first English drama-&lt;br /&gt;
bis desk from early morning until nearly six o&amp;#039;clock in the&lt;br /&gt;
tist of the day, given such speakers as those&lt;br /&gt;
evening, but Courtney failed to make his appearance. The&lt;br /&gt;
members of the &ldquo; Association of New York Writers &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
named above-would not this gathering be con-&lt;br /&gt;
ove, would not this gathering be conlooked at one another mournfully all day, exchanging&lt;br /&gt;
sidered remarkable in any other country? Yet experiences.&lt;br /&gt;
was it considered in any way remarkable by the Persons from whom Courtney rented desk room told me&lt;br /&gt;
Press ?&lt;br /&gt;
that they knew nothing about the man, except that he had&lt;br /&gt;
paid them for one month&amp;#039;s rent. He gave thom no references,&lt;br /&gt;
The following slip has been sent to the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
nor did he say where he lived or where he had come from.&lt;br /&gt;
He is described as tall, dark, of athletic build, and when&lt;br /&gt;
as a warning to English writers :-&lt;br /&gt;
last seen wore a dark moustache.&lt;br /&gt;
More than fifty confiding young women with literary&lt;br /&gt;
-on&lt;br /&gt;
aspirations and trusting natures are anxiously looking for a&lt;br /&gt;
man who says he is J. Courtney, and who until Saturday In justice to our own country I must remind&lt;br /&gt;
last condacted what he styles &ldquo;The Association of New&lt;br /&gt;
our readers that Mr. Courtney has been antici.&lt;br /&gt;
York Writers,&amp;quot; in room 9 at No. 853, Broadway.&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney made his appearance at the place mentioned,&lt;br /&gt;
od pated by his brethren in the gentle art of&lt;br /&gt;
which is ocoupied as a printing office, about three weeks&lt;br /&gt;
wheedling on this side of the Atlantic. There&lt;br /&gt;
ago, and rented desk room. Then he inserted an adver was the gentleman who advertised for MSS.,&lt;br /&gt;
tisement in a number of newspapers stating that he had using the name of a well-known publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
exceptional facilities for disposing of original manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
He bolted with his booty and, it is believed,&lt;br /&gt;
to publications throaghont the West. To persons who&lt;br /&gt;
answered the advertisements he gave a printed circular,&lt;br /&gt;
carried his MSS. over to America, where&lt;br /&gt;
hundreds of which he also sent throngh the mails to persons he proposed to sell them for his own profit.&lt;br /&gt;
living out of town. This document stated that the &ldquo; asso. There was another practitioner who had a second&lt;br /&gt;
ciation had larger facilities for the sale of manuscript and pair back in a court off Holborn for an office and&lt;br /&gt;
placing of members in paying positions than any similar&lt;br /&gt;
concern in the United States. It is the only one enabled&lt;br /&gt;
also advertised for MSS., and, on the interven.&lt;br /&gt;
to furnish immediate and permanent work to its members.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the Society, disappeared, leaving a room&lt;br /&gt;
Membership is limited strictly to 100. New members full of papers. There was the gentleman-not&lt;br /&gt;
admitted only through vacancies occurring by reason of old yet suppressed&mdash;who advertised for MSS. and,&lt;br /&gt;
members accepting positions or otherwise retiring.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
invariably, on receiving one, replied that his&lt;br /&gt;
In setting forth the advantages of membership it was&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that an opportunity was presented of &amp;quot;procuring&lt;br /&gt;
reader&amp;#039;s report was so favourable that he was&lt;br /&gt;
desirable positions on high class publications through our&lt;br /&gt;
prepared to offer the following exceptional&lt;br /&gt;
efforts; also the revision and sale of your manuscripts on a terms&mdash;the author to pay &pound;60, &pound;70, &pound;80, or&lt;br /&gt;
Jo per cent. basis by as ; work at home is also furnished any other fancy offer, and to receive 99 per&lt;br /&gt;
members on request, paying from ten dollars to fifteen dollars cent. or 150 per cent. or anything else, of the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
weekly, at copying, revising, correcting, &amp;amp;c., and, if desired,&lt;br /&gt;
ceeds. Mr. Courtney, of New York, is no doubt&lt;br /&gt;
furnished at once on admission to membership.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney&amp;#039;s circular said nothing about the cost to a great man, but we have produced greater. The&lt;br /&gt;
prospective members until the end, when the following agreements published in last month&amp;#039;s Author&lt;br /&gt;
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1&Omicron;&lt;br /&gt;
TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
show a master hand. London is still ahead of said to be imposed by the present law upon authors and&lt;br /&gt;
New York in publishing enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers which requires gratuitous presentation, are&lt;br /&gt;
desirous of receiving evidence from the University of Oxford&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. as to the value of the right.&lt;br /&gt;
The Commissioners will also be glad to receive informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion as to the average number of works of which copies are&lt;br /&gt;
received annually, and whether such copies are as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
presented voluntarily by the author or apon demand made&lt;br /&gt;
THE COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE FIVE&lt;br /&gt;
by the University.&lt;br /&gt;
PRESENTATION COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
J. LEYBOURN GODDARD, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Similar Letters were sent to the Universities of&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge and Dublin, and to the Faculty of&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Copyright Commission by its report of Advocates.&lt;br /&gt;
1878 recommended the retention of the&lt;br /&gt;
The Oxford Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
- present privilege of the British Museum&lt;br /&gt;
Bodleian Library, July 4, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Library (dating from 1845) to have sent to it,&lt;br /&gt;
I have had the honour of bringing your communication&lt;br /&gt;
whether demanded or not (the right of acquiring, of the 20th (sic) alt. before the curators of this library, and&lt;br /&gt;
but on demand only, dating from 1814) a copy of am directed to inform you that it was resolved-&lt;br /&gt;
every copyright book, but the abolition of the&lt;br /&gt;
1. That the librarian be requested to answer in writing&lt;br /&gt;
the questions asked by the Commissioners, and to state on&lt;br /&gt;
privilege of four other libraries (dating in the&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of the curators that the University of Oxford desires&lt;br /&gt;
case of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh from to retain its ancient privilege, not merely in the interests&lt;br /&gt;
1709, and in the case of Dublin from 1801) to of the University, but for the sake of the public.&lt;br /&gt;
have sent to them within one month after demand 2. That the librarian be authorised to communicate with&lt;br /&gt;
in writing made within twelve months of publica-&lt;br /&gt;
the Commissioners farther as circumstances may require.&lt;br /&gt;
Roverting, therefore, to your communication as above, I&lt;br /&gt;
tion, a copy of every such book. &ldquo;In making&lt;br /&gt;
proceed to lay before you such answers as I may in reply to&lt;br /&gt;
this recommendation&amp;quot; (as to the abolition of the&lt;br /&gt;
the queries of the commissioners therein contained :-&lt;br /&gt;
privilege in the case of libraries other than that 1. Average number of works received annually.-Taking&lt;br /&gt;
of the British Museum), observe the Commis an average of the last three years, we have received 4775&lt;br /&gt;
sioners, &ldquo;we have taken into consideration the&lt;br /&gt;
works, comprised in 5301 volumes.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Books very rarely come direct from the authors. They&lt;br /&gt;
facts that the bodies to whom the libraries&lt;br /&gt;
are delivered by the publishers, the price of them being&lt;br /&gt;
belong are possessed of considerable means, and&lt;br /&gt;
reckoned, I believe, as a part of the expenge of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
are well able to purchase any books which they 3. The greater part of the firms, and notably the most&lt;br /&gt;
may require; and also that the repeal of the important ones, send either to our London agent in Great&lt;br /&gt;
clause giving the privilege will not deprive the&lt;br /&gt;
Russell-street (Mr. Eccles) or to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, without&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for any demand. There are, however, a few firms&lt;br /&gt;
libraries of any property already acquired, but&lt;br /&gt;
from whom we have to demand everything, and even where&lt;br /&gt;
merely of a right to obtain property hereafter to our claim is disregarded.&lt;br /&gt;
be created.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
4. The books not sent are comparatively few, consisting&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bills of 1890 and of the chiefly of second editions without alterations, privately&lt;br /&gt;
present Session, the first of which was directly printed books not for sale, classes of works which are not&lt;br /&gt;
claimable under the Copyright Act.&lt;br /&gt;
promoted by the Authors&amp;#039; Society, disregarded&lt;br /&gt;
H. 0. Coxe, Librarian.&lt;br /&gt;
the recommendation of the Commissioners, and&lt;br /&gt;
retained the privilege of all five libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
The Cambridge Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
The controversy having been again reopened&lt;br /&gt;
by a letter of Mr. Murray to the Times and&lt;br /&gt;
University Library, Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Jane 29, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise, it becomes desirable, in the interest of&lt;br /&gt;
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your&lt;br /&gt;
all concerned, to go into the whole subject some letter of yesterday&amp;#039;s date.&lt;br /&gt;
what at length, and to begin with printing, from The long vacation has just commenced, and there will not&lt;br /&gt;
the appendix to the report of the Commissioners,&lt;br /&gt;
be a meeting of the Library Syndicate until the middle of&lt;br /&gt;
the correspondence between the Commissioners on&lt;br /&gt;
October, but I will take the earliest opportunity possible of&lt;br /&gt;
laying your letter before the syndicate, and I am certain that&lt;br /&gt;
the one hand, and the four library authorities of the University will be willing to supply the Commissioners&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin on with all the information which they may require.&lt;br /&gt;
the other :-&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY BRADSHAW.&lt;br /&gt;
THE QUESTIONS OF THE COMMISSIONERS.&lt;br /&gt;
October 26, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Commission, 13, Delahay-street.&lt;br /&gt;
With reference to your letter of June 28 last, which I&lt;br /&gt;
June 28, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledged at the time, will you kindly let me have one&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Commissioners on Copyright having had before line referring me to the date of the appointment of the Com.&lt;br /&gt;
them the subject of the present right of the University of mission, that I may find the terms in the Gazette ?&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, and the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin and I laid your letter before our authorities at the first meet-&lt;br /&gt;
the Faculty of Advocates, to receive upon demand a copying of the term, and they are now considering the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
of every book published in this country, and the hardship&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY BRADSHAW.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
The Dublin Reply.&lt;br /&gt;
Library, July 5, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
Your letter was sent to the Queen&amp;#039;s University, Dablin&lt;br /&gt;
Castle, which accounts for my not having replied sooner. It&lt;br /&gt;
would be very difficult to state the pecuniary value of our&lt;br /&gt;
privilege under the Copyright Act. If I were to estimate it&lt;br /&gt;
by the selling price of books, I am sure that &pound;1500 annually&lt;br /&gt;
would not compensate for our loss. But other considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tions would make me regret very much a change in our&lt;br /&gt;
present system.&lt;br /&gt;
The namber of books received each year is at present&lt;br /&gt;
between 3000 and 4000, and this is on the increase. The&lt;br /&gt;
anthors seldom present a copy, bat the publishers are bound&lt;br /&gt;
to do so on demand, and as a rule they comply with this&lt;br /&gt;
very regularly. Any farther information I will be happy to&lt;br /&gt;
impart.&lt;br /&gt;
I may add that I laid your letters before the governing&lt;br /&gt;
body of this University.&lt;br /&gt;
J. A. MALET, D.D., Senior Fellow and Librarian.&lt;br /&gt;
II. &Eacute;tudier et comparer les lois qui r&eacute;gissent les biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;ques dans les divers pays.&lt;br /&gt;
III. &Eacute;changes internationaux.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Rapports des biblioth&egrave;ques aveo les administrations :&lt;br /&gt;
Etat, municipalit&eacute;s, corporations, &amp;amp;c. ; autonomie des&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&egrave;gnes.&lt;br /&gt;
V. De la meilleure organisation des biblioth&egrave;ques popu.&lt;br /&gt;
laires.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Recrutement da personnel des biblioth&egrave;ques ; con.&lt;br /&gt;
ditions exig&eacute;es ou &agrave; exiger des candidats aux fonctions de&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&eacute;caires ; situation faite &agrave; ces fonctionnaires.&lt;br /&gt;
DEUXI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
B&acirc;timents, mobilier, am&eacute;nagement des biblioth&egrave;ques.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. &Eacute;tudier l&amp;#039;am&eacute;nagement des biblioth&egrave;ques au moyen&lt;br /&gt;
&acirc;ge.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Exposer les meilleurs moyens &agrave; employer pour installer&lt;br /&gt;
les livres dans une biblioth&egrave;que nouvelle et pour am&eacute;liorer&lt;br /&gt;
l&amp;#039;installation d&amp;#039;une biblioth&egrave;que ancienne.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Indiqaer les perfectionnements r&eacute;alis&eacute;s ou projet&eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
dans les biblioth&egrave;ques les plus r&eacute;cemment install&eacute;es.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Indiquer particuli&egrave;rement les pr&eacute;cautions &agrave; prendre&lt;br /&gt;
pour mettre les biblioth&egrave;quos &agrave; l&amp;#039;abri de l&amp;#039;incendie.&lt;br /&gt;
The Edinburgh Reply&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 4, 1876.&lt;br /&gt;
In reply to your letter of the 29th June, I am instructed&lt;br /&gt;
by the Faculty of Advocates to forward to you the&lt;br /&gt;
socompanying particulars as to value, &amp;amp;c., of works&lt;br /&gt;
received under the Copyright Act. The subject will be&lt;br /&gt;
further considered by the Faculty after the court resames&lt;br /&gt;
in October, and if necessary, further communication will&lt;br /&gt;
be made.&lt;br /&gt;
JAMES T. CLARK.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The annual money value of books, &amp;amp;c., received under&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Act, estimated at about &pound;1500.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The number of books, exclusive of pamphlets and&lt;br /&gt;
music, received annually, about 3500. The namber of&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlets received in 1874 was 1551, and of pieces of&lt;br /&gt;
music, 1337,&lt;br /&gt;
3. Nearly all the large publisbing firms in London send&lt;br /&gt;
their works for the Advocates&amp;#039; Library either to our London&lt;br /&gt;
agent or to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall without waiting for any demand.&lt;br /&gt;
u&lt;br /&gt;
The Scotch publishers send either direct to the library or&lt;br /&gt;
to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, in both cases, as a rule, without any&lt;br /&gt;
demand being made. The few books tbat are published in&lt;br /&gt;
the provincial towns are generally demanded, and the demand&lt;br /&gt;
invariably complied with, either by sending the work claimed&lt;br /&gt;
or by a letter intimating that the work has already been&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded to Stationers&amp;#039; Hall for us.&lt;br /&gt;
TROISI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Traitement des manuscrits, livres imprim&eacute;s, cartes de&lt;br /&gt;
g&eacute;ographie, estampes, photographies, &amp;amp;c.-Acquisition de&lt;br /&gt;
volumes &mdash; Enregistrement &mdash; Estampillage-Inventaires,&lt;br /&gt;
catalogues et r&eacute;pertoires-Moyens de conservation-&lt;br /&gt;
Restauration-Reliure.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Indiquer les mesures qui ont &eacute;t&eacute; r&eacute;cemment reconnues&lt;br /&gt;
comme les plus propres &agrave; dresser le catalogue d&amp;#039;une biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;que nouvelle ou &agrave; am&eacute;liorer les catalogues d&amp;#039;une biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
th&egrave;que ancienne.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Application &agrave; la biblioth&eacute;conomie des divers syst&egrave;mes&lt;br /&gt;
de classification bibliographique.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Des catalogaes collectifs.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Utilisation des &eacute;l&eacute;ments de r&eacute;pertoire publi&eacute;s &agrave; l&amp;#039;&eacute;tat&lt;br /&gt;
de fiches ou des bulletins imprim&eacute;s joints par les &eacute;diteurs&lt;br /&gt;
aux volames.&lt;br /&gt;
V. Traitement &agrave; appliquer aux pi&egrave;ces volantes et aux&lt;br /&gt;
documents parlementaires et administratifs qu&amp;#039;il importo do&lt;br /&gt;
conserver, mais qui ne peuvent &ecirc;tre imm&eacute;diatement cata-&lt;br /&gt;
logu&eacute;s.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Avantages et inconv&eacute;nients de la constitution des&lt;br /&gt;
recueils factices, aussi bien de ceux qui ont &eacute;t&eacute; form&eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
anciennement que de ceux qui sont &agrave; constituer.&lt;br /&gt;
VII. De l&amp;#039;atilit&eacute; des r&eacute;colements et des meilleurs moyens&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;y proc&eacute;der.&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. De l&amp;#039;hygi&egrave;ne des livres. Par quels moyens peut-on&lt;br /&gt;
le mieux les pr&eacute;server des divers agents de destruction ?&lt;br /&gt;
IX. Mesures &agrave; prendre pour la conservation et la restaura-&lt;br /&gt;
tion des objets composant une biblioth&egrave;que : palimpsestes,&lt;br /&gt;
papyrus, manuscrits, manuscrits &agrave; peintures, livres imprim&eacute;s,&lt;br /&gt;
cartes de g&eacute;ographie, estampes, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
CONGRESS OF LIBRARIANS.&lt;br /&gt;
N International Congress of Librarians will&lt;br /&gt;
be held in Paris on Aug. 20-23 next. The&lt;br /&gt;
following is the official programme. The&lt;br /&gt;
address of the secretary is M. Henry Martin,&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; le Biblioth&egrave;que d&rsquo;Arsenal, Rue de Sully 1,&lt;br /&gt;
Paris :-&lt;br /&gt;
PREMI&Egrave;RE Division.&lt;br /&gt;
Histoire, l&eacute;gislation, organisation des biblioth&egrave;ques&lt;br /&gt;
publiques. D&eacute;p&ocirc;t l&eacute;gal, copyright, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. R&eacute;sumer les renseignements nouveaux qu&amp;#039;on peut avoir&lt;br /&gt;
sur l&amp;#039;histoire des biblioth&egrave;ques, depuis les origines jusqu&amp;#039;aux&lt;br /&gt;
temps modernes.&lt;br /&gt;
QUATRI&Egrave;ME DIVISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Usage des livres &agrave; l&amp;#039;int&eacute;rieur et &agrave; l&amp;#039;ext&eacute;rieur des&lt;br /&gt;
biblioth&egrave;ques.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONS PROPOS&Eacute;ES.&lt;br /&gt;
I. Sous quelles conditions le pr&ecirc;t des livres peut-il &ecirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
autoris&eacute; dans les diff&eacute;rentes cat&eacute;gories de biblioth&egrave;ques ?&lt;br /&gt;
I I. Comment doivent &ecirc;tre r&eacute;gl&eacute;es les communications des&lt;br /&gt;
volumes imprim&eacute;s et manuscrits d&amp;#039;une biblioth&egrave;que &agrave; une&lt;br /&gt;
autre ?&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
D&lt;br /&gt;
G&lt;br /&gt;
III. De la responsabilit&eacute; des biblioth&eacute;caires pour la com great writers of prose, the contrast between the&lt;br /&gt;
munication et le pr&ecirc;t des livres confi&eacute;s &agrave; leur garde.&lt;br /&gt;
living and the dead is seen to be almost as&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Des dangers de transmission des maladies con-&lt;br /&gt;
tagieuses par les livres des biblioth&egrave;ques publiques et des&lt;br /&gt;
pronounced as in the case of the poets. Within&lt;br /&gt;
moyens d&amp;#039;y rem&eacute;dier.&lt;br /&gt;
twenty years Carlyle and Ruskin, by far the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest prosateurs of our time, have ceased to&lt;br /&gt;
appeal to us with the living voice. The per-&lt;br /&gt;
suasive eloquence of Newman and Martineau&lt;br /&gt;
AN AMERICAN CRITIC.&lt;br /&gt;
has been hushed, and the plea for culture, voiced&lt;br /&gt;
in such dulcet terms by Arnold and Pater,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Dial, Chicago, May 1, 1900.)&lt;br /&gt;
is no longer heard. All these men are now&lt;br /&gt;
DURNING now to English literature-our among&lt;br /&gt;
own literature upon the other side of the The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule&lt;br /&gt;
ocean&mdash;the capital fact confronts us that&lt;br /&gt;
Our spirits from their urns,&lt;br /&gt;
in 1880 there were six great English poets among but to whose counsel we may no longer turn when&lt;br /&gt;
the living, and that in 1900 there remains but one. new questions arise and call for new solutions.&lt;br /&gt;
During the twenty years Tennyson and Browning, Of the four great men of science who have caught&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti and Morris and Arnold, have all passed the ear of the general public during the past&lt;br /&gt;
away, leaving Mr. Swinburne in exalted isolation, twenty years, and whose teachings have wrought&lt;br /&gt;
the only great poet of the nineteenth century so complete a change in the attitude of all think-&lt;br /&gt;
whom we may hope will live to carry on into the ing men toward the claims of scientific culture,&lt;br /&gt;
twentieth its glorious literary tradition. Our and the place of science in education, Mr. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
age of gold has to all seeming reached an end. Spencer alone remains to us. Darwin, Huxley,&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Stedman, who a quarter of a century and Tyndall have died, but happily they lived&lt;br /&gt;
ago recognised in the years of the Victorian long enough to witness the general acceptance of&lt;br /&gt;
reign a distinct literary period, which even then the ideas for which they fought so good a fight,&lt;br /&gt;
showed signs of drawing to a close, must himself and to be assured that the evolutionary principle&lt;br /&gt;
be a little surprised at the completeness with had won for itself the suffrages of all whose judg-&lt;br /&gt;
which his prediction has been borne out by the ment was worth having. The older school of&lt;br /&gt;
event. In the place of our major poets we have historical writing, as represented by Green and&lt;br /&gt;
now only minor ones, and the fact that we Froude, has given place to the school repre-&lt;br /&gt;
have them in larger numbers than ever before sented by Dr. Gardiner and the Bishop of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
offers us no consolation for the loss of the great The scholarship of these men is, no doubt, deeper&lt;br /&gt;
departed. Aside from Mr. Swinburne, we are and more accurate than was that of their pre-&lt;br /&gt;
compelled to point, when questioned concerning decessors, but their &ldquo; literature &rdquo; is sadly to seek&lt;br /&gt;
onr living poets, to Mr. Aubrey De Vere, Mr. and their influence consequently restricted. The&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith, Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton, general reader, with a taste for this sort of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. William Watson, Mr. writing, does not turn to the &ldquo; Select Charter,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen Phillips, Mr. W. B. Yeats, and Mr. but rather takes down from the shelf his well-&lt;br /&gt;
Rudyard Kipling. We hold these men in worn &ldquo; Short History of the English People,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
esteem, it is true, but however we may admire is not particularly concerned with the fact that&lt;br /&gt;
the delicate art of Mr. Bridges, for example, or later research has invalidated some of its posi-&lt;br /&gt;
the resonant virility of Mr. Kipling, our sense of tions. . . .&lt;br /&gt;
proportion does not permit us to set these men When we contrast the period of the sixties and&lt;br /&gt;
upon anything like the plane occupied by the seventies with the period of the eighties and nine.&lt;br /&gt;
great poets who have died since 1880. And, with ties we may realise all the difference between a&lt;br /&gt;
but few exceptions, our living poets seem to be period in which the creative imagination is at full&lt;br /&gt;
no more than &amp;quot;little sonnet-men,&lt;br /&gt;
tide and a period in which the food of genius is&lt;br /&gt;
Who fashion in a shrewd, mechanic way,&lt;br /&gt;
fast ebbing away. In the later of the two periods&lt;br /&gt;
Songs without souls that flicker for a day,&lt;br /&gt;
English literature has rounded out the great work&lt;br /&gt;
To vanish in irrevocable night.&lt;br /&gt;
of the earlier; as the great writers bave died, only&lt;br /&gt;
Prose fiction of some sort or other we have lesser ones have appeared to take their places ;&lt;br /&gt;
always with us, and the names of Mr. Meredith and many of the younger men, recognising the&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Hardy would lend distinction to any futility of any attempt to carry on the old tradi.&lt;br /&gt;
period, but the great age of the Victorian nove- tion upon its old lines, have become mere experi.&lt;br /&gt;
lists ended with the death of &ldquo;George Eliot&rdquo; menters in new moods and forms, hoping to hit&lt;br /&gt;
in 1881. ... Since her death we have also upon some promising line of new literary endea-&lt;br /&gt;
lost Lord Beaconsfield, Trollope, Black, Black- vour, but not as yet indicating with any precision&lt;br /&gt;
more, and Stevenson. When we turn to the the direction which will be taken by the move-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
13&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the coming century. This restlessness,&lt;br /&gt;
this confusion of ideals, and this uncertainty of&lt;br /&gt;
aim, are the unmistakable marks of a transition&lt;br /&gt;
period in literature. A remarkable age has&lt;br /&gt;
rounded to its close, and it is impossible to deter-&lt;br /&gt;
mine with any assurance whether the age to come&lt;br /&gt;
will be merely critical and sterile, or whether it&lt;br /&gt;
will give birth to some new creative impulse.&lt;br /&gt;
When&ldquo; R. F. C.,&amp;quot; who is writing in the inte-&lt;br /&gt;
rests of education, goes un to say that &ldquo; books&lt;br /&gt;
about boys confuse a boy&amp;#039;s mind and cripple his&lt;br /&gt;
power of distinguishing true from false; books&lt;br /&gt;
written down to his level check the growth of his&lt;br /&gt;
mind altogether&amp;quot;-we are reminded of an observa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of Sir Walter Scott on this very issue. &ldquo;I&lt;br /&gt;
rather suspect,&rdquo; he says in a footnote appended&lt;br /&gt;
to the &ldquo;Autobiography&rdquo; in 1826, &ldquo; that children&lt;br /&gt;
derive impulses of a powerful kind in hearing&lt;br /&gt;
things which they cannot entirely comprehend ;&lt;br /&gt;
and therefore, that to write down to children&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
understanding is a mistake: set them on the&lt;br /&gt;
scent, and let them puzzle it out.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CONCERNING BOOKS FOR BOYS.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
A N article on this subject was published in&lt;br /&gt;
the Guardian of May 2, in which the&lt;br /&gt;
writer (&ldquo; R. F. C.&rdquo;) remarks that &ldquo;no one&lt;br /&gt;
who has made acquaintance with the literature&lt;br /&gt;
provided for boys- especially at Christmas-can&lt;br /&gt;
fail to be struck with the extraordinary badness&lt;br /&gt;
of it.&rdquo; Even childhood is not spareu in that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; general rush for amusement which is one of&lt;br /&gt;
the worst effects of material prosperity,&amp;quot; but it is&lt;br /&gt;
when the nursery is left behind that the mischief&lt;br /&gt;
really begins to work. To keep him quiet, we&lt;br /&gt;
pack the boy off with &ldquo; half-a-dozen gaily illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated wanton misrepresentations of facts of every&lt;br /&gt;
sort,&rdquo; and his purse is tempted by those who un&lt;br /&gt;
scrupulously trade upon his simplicity with cheap&lt;br /&gt;
waggeries and sham introductions to life. Then&lt;br /&gt;
we&ldquo; proceed to wonder at the fatuity of his views&lt;br /&gt;
of life&amp;quot;:-&lt;br /&gt;
The fact is that most books for boys-apart from the&lt;br /&gt;
humorous books, which are all hopeless--are worthless for&lt;br /&gt;
one or two reasons : they are either written &ldquo; down&amp;quot; to the&lt;br /&gt;
supposed level of a boy&amp;#039;s mind, or they are written about&lt;br /&gt;
imaginary boys. This second class is worthless, because&lt;br /&gt;
books of this kind can only be made entertaining by mere&lt;br /&gt;
extravagance. Real boys are infinitely entertaining to live&lt;br /&gt;
with, infinitely dull to read about, and school life can only be&lt;br /&gt;
made eventful enough for a story by stuffing it with&lt;br /&gt;
absurdities. The only successful story of school life ever&lt;br /&gt;
written, &amp;quot;Tom Brown,&rdquo; owes its success largely to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that it is not a story at all. Of the rest, some are written&lt;br /&gt;
by those who know nothing of schools, and the result is an&lt;br /&gt;
absolately fictitions and unreal picture ; others are written&lt;br /&gt;
by schoolmasters, who draw upon their experience, and&lt;br /&gt;
these are for some unknown reason far more fictitious and&lt;br /&gt;
anreal than the former. Boys know all this perfectly well,&lt;br /&gt;
of course, and read these books merely for the sake of the&lt;br /&gt;
chapter-sure to come sooner or later-in which some&lt;br /&gt;
unhappy pedagogue makes a fool of himself, if not accord.&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the author&amp;#039;s intention, yet surely according to the&lt;br /&gt;
reader&amp;#039;s understanding. Never give a boy books written&lt;br /&gt;
about boys, unless they were not intended for boys to read.&lt;br /&gt;
The knowledge of the combined demand of the boy who&lt;br /&gt;
wants to pass an idle hour, and the immoral elder who&lt;br /&gt;
wants to bribe him to do it, is too much for the average&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s sense of responsibility. Any trash will do, and he&lt;br /&gt;
writes any trash ; and if there is a football match and a&lt;br /&gt;
scholarship competition (with the hero accused of cheating)&lt;br /&gt;
add &amp;amp; score or two off &amp;amp; master or two, the book will be&lt;br /&gt;
praised and the author will-alas! the day--go home and&lt;br /&gt;
write another just like it.&lt;br /&gt;
[By an unfortunate accident the greater part of &ldquo; Book&lt;br /&gt;
and Play Talk&amp;quot; has been mislaid too late to allow of its&lt;br /&gt;
being rewritten.!&lt;br /&gt;
THE completion of the &ldquo; Dictionary of&lt;br /&gt;
National Biography&rdquo; will be celebrated at&lt;br /&gt;
- the Mansion House, London, on June 29,&lt;br /&gt;
when the proprietors, the editor, and a number of&lt;br /&gt;
the contributors to the great work will be the&lt;br /&gt;
guests of the Lord Mayor at luncheon.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Marsh&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Ada Vern-&lt;br /&gt;
ham, Actress,&amp;quot; on which he has been engaged&lt;br /&gt;
for over two years, will be ready for publication&lt;br /&gt;
on June 1. It will be published by Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
Long.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur W. &agrave; Beckett, who has already&lt;br /&gt;
filled the offices of Deputy-Chairman, Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary, and Chairman of the London District&lt;br /&gt;
of the Institute of Journalists, has been nomi-&lt;br /&gt;
nated by the council of that body President for&lt;br /&gt;
the year 1900-01. The institute holds its con-&lt;br /&gt;
gress in London in September next. Sir Hugh&lt;br /&gt;
Gilzean-Reid, Lord Glenesk, Sir Edward Law.&lt;br /&gt;
son, Sir John Willox, Sir Edward Russell, Sir&lt;br /&gt;
Wemyss Reid, and Sir James Henderson have&lt;br /&gt;
served as presidents of the Institute of Jour-&lt;br /&gt;
nalists since the date of its incorporation by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Ferrar Fenton has in the Press a new&lt;br /&gt;
version of his &ldquo; New Testament in Modern&lt;br /&gt;
English,&rdquo; which is an improved translation, with&lt;br /&gt;
critical notes, to supersede his former popular&lt;br /&gt;
issues of St. Paul&amp;#039;s Epistles and the Gospels in&lt;br /&gt;
current English. This new version will make,&lt;br /&gt;
with the American edition, 14,000 copies of the&lt;br /&gt;
New Testament and the 16.00oth of the Pauline&lt;br /&gt;
Epistles of his versions. The work has been&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted in both England and the United&lt;br /&gt;
States. Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son, of&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Temple House, Temple Avenue, London, will be I have written some successful books, I will&lt;br /&gt;
the British publishers, and Messrs. H. 0. not mention on what subjects, suffice to say they&lt;br /&gt;
Houghton and Co., Cambridge, Mass., Boston, were not novels. After the last one had run into&lt;br /&gt;
and New York, in America, for the translator. several editions my good friend and shepherd&lt;br /&gt;
Those interested in opera, especially in the asked me if I would suggest a subject that had&lt;br /&gt;
present season at Covent Garden, will read with not been written to death, and what my terms&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure a special issue of the London Musical would be for a similar book.&lt;br /&gt;
Courier, which contains photographs of all the&lt;br /&gt;
I did mention a subject and terms, and as&lt;br /&gt;
artists engaged. biographical sketches, stories of luckily I am not compelled by force of circum.&lt;br /&gt;
the operas, and many other interesting features.&lt;br /&gt;
stances to accept thankfully &ldquo;the crumbs that&lt;br /&gt;
fall from the rich man&amp;#039;s table,&rdquo; these terms were&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Coulson Kernahan&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
based on lines so long and so ably laid down&lt;br /&gt;
Avenging of Ruthanna,&rdquo; on which she has been&lt;br /&gt;
by The Author, and were distinctly fair as&lt;br /&gt;
engaged for the last year, was published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
between one business man and another. A few&lt;br /&gt;
John Long at the end of May.&lt;br /&gt;
days after I received a letter saying he could not&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bernard Shaw&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo; You Never Can possibly agree to the terms mentioned, and pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Tell,&rdquo; was so well received at the recent matin&eacute;e posing others, but as I could perceive through&lt;br /&gt;
performances that it may be produced again for them the &ldquo; cloven foot&rdquo; suggesting the possi.&lt;br /&gt;
a short run in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
bility of inflated cost of production, corrections,&lt;br /&gt;
advertising, cataloging, et h&aelig;c genus omnes, and&lt;br /&gt;
as a &ldquo;burnt child dreads the fire,&rdquo; I declined&lt;br /&gt;
them.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
About eighteen months after, I was surprised&lt;br /&gt;
to see a book advertised by this firm, on exactly&lt;br /&gt;
1.&mdash;THE READING BRANCH-A SUGGESTION.&lt;br /&gt;
the subject suggested by me, from the pen of that&lt;br /&gt;
well-known writer, Mr. L. Hack.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE remarks made by Mr. Pinero at the&lt;br /&gt;
Now, I do not blame Mr. Hack. who has bis&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s dinner the other night on the&lt;br /&gt;
living to get, and is often a rather clever fellow;&lt;br /&gt;
brotherly relations which should exist&lt;br /&gt;
but in this case it required a particular and special&lt;br /&gt;
between author and dramatist possessed a peculiar&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge to write an acceptable book that would&lt;br /&gt;
interest for many of us. It was significant that our&lt;br /&gt;
sell, and this knowledge the writer did not&lt;br /&gt;
leading playwright should have been asked and&lt;br /&gt;
possess.&lt;br /&gt;
should have consented to preside on that occasion,&lt;br /&gt;
On looking it over, I found it was chiefly a&lt;br /&gt;
and especially so when taken in conjunction with&lt;br /&gt;
r&eacute;chauff&eacute; of old material, extracts from journals,&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that a dramatists&amp;#039; committee has been&lt;br /&gt;
with a top-dressing of more or less original matter,&lt;br /&gt;
recently appointed by the Society. May I sug.&lt;br /&gt;
the whole being almost useless for the readers for&lt;br /&gt;
gest that a still further step be taken in this&lt;br /&gt;
whom it was intended.&lt;br /&gt;
direction? The reading of authors&amp;#039; MSS., which&lt;br /&gt;
The result was that when the book was pub-&lt;br /&gt;
is such a useful branch of the Society&amp;#039;s work,&lt;br /&gt;
lished, it fell with a &ldquo;sickening thud,&rdquo; and very&lt;br /&gt;
might be extended to include plays submitted by&lt;br /&gt;
few copies were sold. The publisher will doubtless&lt;br /&gt;
members, the fee charged to vary according to&lt;br /&gt;
suffer a loss in this case, but most people will&lt;br /&gt;
the number of acts.&lt;br /&gt;
agree, I think, that it served him right under the&lt;br /&gt;
At present, whilst the writers of books have&lt;br /&gt;
circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
many ways of testing the merits of their works,&lt;br /&gt;
In case some may think I tell this little tale&lt;br /&gt;
the would-be playwright has no one to whom he&lt;br /&gt;
out of pique, I can assure them it is not so, as my&lt;br /&gt;
can turn for advice. A competent opinion on the&lt;br /&gt;
literary vanity has been satiated long ago, and I&lt;br /&gt;
faults of one&amp;#039;s style and on one&amp;#039;s aptitude (or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise) for playwriting would be a great hoon&lt;br /&gt;
can readily get rid of all the work I have the time&lt;br /&gt;
to perpetrate.&lt;br /&gt;
to many who, whilst recognising fully the diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
Moral.&mdash;Never communicate your ideas unless&lt;br /&gt;
culties to which Mr. Pinero referred, are anxious&lt;br /&gt;
to learn by criticism as well as practice.&lt;br /&gt;
you are sure of your man. A. PENN-WYPER.&lt;br /&gt;
- H. A. SPURR.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;WELCOME.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-Hoist WITH HIS Own PETARD.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of us who read Mr. Robert H. Sherard&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
I cannot say I grieve very deeply when the mournful tribute to the memory of Ernest Dowson&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;sharp&rdquo; publisher is overtaken by a Nemesis of must have exclaimed : &ldquo;If I had only known.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
his own creating--but he occasionally is, as the The words certainly rose to my lips when I&lt;br /&gt;
following incident will illustrate.&lt;br /&gt;
learned that we must have been living within a&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
15&lt;br /&gt;
few streets of the dead man at a time when he&lt;br /&gt;
sorely needed help. To think that such help&lt;br /&gt;
was withheld is bitter. It is just those evils for&lt;br /&gt;
which no one in particular is responsible that&lt;br /&gt;
makes life unendurable. At the present moment&lt;br /&gt;
there may be other Ernest Dowsons living lonely&lt;br /&gt;
and unrecognised in London. I should like to&lt;br /&gt;
tell them that if they care to make acquaintance&lt;br /&gt;
with strangers who would like to be friends they&lt;br /&gt;
will always be welcome at our house. As I am a&lt;br /&gt;
journalist and novelist it goes without saying we&lt;br /&gt;
are not rich, but we love the things they love.&lt;br /&gt;
Though we cannot offer substantial material aid&lt;br /&gt;
we can at least extend a hearty and sympathetic&lt;br /&gt;
hospitality. If any genuine literary workers,&lt;br /&gt;
whether men or women, care to accept this very&lt;br /&gt;
informal invitation for themselves, or wish to&lt;br /&gt;
recommend others, I shall be glad to hear from&lt;br /&gt;
them. Enclosing my name and address, but not&lt;br /&gt;
for publication, and trusting you will be good&lt;br /&gt;
enough to forward letters,&lt;br /&gt;
Card Mille FailthE.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
rhyme and grammar observed in the &amp;#039;Canterbury Tales &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
wherewith to test the authorship of any doubtfal poem.&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is the new part of the book. For the rest it&lt;br /&gt;
is a clear and convenient sommary of investigations made&lt;br /&gt;
by the author and other Chancerian scholars, each as&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Lounsbury.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, by&lt;br /&gt;
the Right Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, the Lord Bishop&lt;br /&gt;
of England (Murray, 68.), is an &ldquo;admirable volame,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
tbe Daily Chronicle, and ought to have a very wide circu.&lt;br /&gt;
lation.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is a human touch throughout, for which&lt;br /&gt;
we commonly look in vain in ecclesiastical history. The&lt;br /&gt;
Bishop recognises that the Church of each age is largely the&lt;br /&gt;
child of the age.&rdquo; &ldquo;He has the true judicial spirit,&rdquo; says.&lt;br /&gt;
the Morning Post, and the book &ldquo; can do nothing but good&lt;br /&gt;
wherever it is read.&rdquo; &ldquo;One would almost call it a history&lt;br /&gt;
of Christianity in England.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
DOCTRINE AND DOCTRINAL DISRUPTION, by W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Mallock (Black, 78. 6d. net), is described in the sub-title as&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;an Examination of the Intellectual Position of the Church&lt;br /&gt;
of England.&rdquo; It is described by the Guardian as having&lt;br /&gt;
been written in the interests of the Church of Rome ; &amp;quot;Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mallock&amp;#039;s own position appears to us to be freely open to&lt;br /&gt;
criticism of just the same character as that which he delights&lt;br /&gt;
to pass on the position of Anglicans ; and when he comes&lt;br /&gt;
to demolish their several authorities we cannot help feeling&lt;br /&gt;
that sometimes his argument recoils on his own head.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Expository Times says it is possible that Mr. Mallook &ldquo;has.&lt;br /&gt;
written a book that will make the ears of all that hear it&lt;br /&gt;
tingle.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle pays a tribute to the author&lt;br /&gt;
as &ldquo; a brilliant controversialist.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCE SINCE 1814, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin&lt;br /&gt;
(Chapman, 68.), is &ldquo;interesting reading,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraph, &amp;quot;for anyone who can appreciate an unbiassed&lt;br /&gt;
and level-headed criticism of French political history daring&lt;br /&gt;
the past eighty-five years.&rdquo; &ldquo;To some of us,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &amp;quot; the solidarity of modern French political his-&lt;br /&gt;
tory, which M. de Coubertin makes the chief point of bie&lt;br /&gt;
book, seems so deeply hidden ander surface turmoil as to be&lt;br /&gt;
almost an unreal thing. He goes far towards convincing&lt;br /&gt;
us, however.&rdquo; He unfolds the kaleidoscopic tale, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;in a brief compass, and with a pen that&lt;br /&gt;
is always lucid and often brilliant.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND FROM THE ROMAN OCCUPA.&lt;br /&gt;
TION, by Andrew Lang (Blackwood, Vol. I. 158.) is pro-&lt;br /&gt;
nounced by Literature to be &ldquo;the most readable&rdquo; work on&lt;br /&gt;
the subject, &amp;quot;and, taking account of the use that has been&lt;br /&gt;
made of recent specialist research, the most complete.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Spectator, also, says that &ldquo;Mr. Lang has not written&lt;br /&gt;
a better. balanced book, or one more likely to be read,&lt;br /&gt;
than this.&rdquo; While it &ldquo; does not compete with Hill Burton&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
in point of size, it brings a great deal of fresh light to&lt;br /&gt;
bear upon both the War of Independence and matters&lt;br /&gt;
ecclesiastical.&amp;#039;&rdquo; The period covered by the first volume&lt;br /&gt;
ends with the death of Cardinal Beaton; &amp;quot;and throngh-&lt;br /&gt;
out the period,&rdquo; says the Guardian, &ldquo;it will be emi.&lt;br /&gt;
nently gratifying to the Scot to find what will appear&lt;br /&gt;
to him a complete vindication of the anti-English atti-&lt;br /&gt;
tude.&rdquo; &ldquo;Politically, the historian&amp;#039;s sympathies are&lt;br /&gt;
manifestly and not unjustly on the side of Beaton and the&lt;br /&gt;
old Church.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
HERBERT SPENCER : His LIFE AND WORK, by Hector&lt;br /&gt;
Macpherson (Chapman, 58. net), &ldquo;interesting and sug-&lt;br /&gt;
gestive,&rdquo; according to the Daily Telegraph, &ldquo;is to be&lt;br /&gt;
commended,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot;alike to those who&lt;br /&gt;
know Mr. Spencer&amp;#039;s works and to those who know them not.&lt;br /&gt;
The one class will find refreshment to the memory in the&lt;br /&gt;
clear, coherent, and accurate abstract which it supplies;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR John CHARLES MOL-&lt;br /&gt;
TENO, by P. A. Molteno (Smith, Elder and Co., 208.), intro&lt;br /&gt;
duces the English reader to South Africa before the age of&lt;br /&gt;
gold, for Sir John Molteno&amp;#039;s political career ended in 1882.&lt;br /&gt;
He was the first Prime Minister at the Cape. The work is,&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo; &amp;amp; gallant and successfal effort to&lt;br /&gt;
preserve bis memory and vindicate his policy.&rdquo; It is &amp;quot;not&lt;br /&gt;
a memoir, but a history.&rdquo; &ldquo;Those parts of the book which&lt;br /&gt;
deal with the Confederation schemes are,&rdquo; says the Spectator,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; of permanent interest.&rdquo; &ldquo;On the whole, Mr. Molteno&lt;br /&gt;
writes with marked fairness.&rdquo; Literature states that the&lt;br /&gt;
work &ldquo; cannot be ignored by any careful student of South&lt;br /&gt;
African history-though it would sadly mislead a student&lt;br /&gt;
who studied nothing else.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON TO LADYSMITH, VIA PRETORIA, by Winston&lt;br /&gt;
Spencer Churchill (Longmans, 6s.), contains, says the Times,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;a very vivid and interesting diary of the war in Natal.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Churcbill&amp;#039;s style, says the Daily News, &amp;quot; is as lively as&lt;br /&gt;
bis experiences have been.&rdquo; &ldquo;In all the correspondence&lt;br /&gt;
that bas come from South Africa,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; there is nothing better than bis story of the wrecking of&lt;br /&gt;
the armoured train, the journey of its captured crew to the&lt;br /&gt;
Transvaal, the life of the prisoners at Pretoria, and the&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s escape.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHAUCER CANON, by the Rev. Professor W. Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat (Clarendon Press, 38. 6d. net), &amp;quot;distinguisbes clearly,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
gays Literature, &ldquo;between the genuine works of the poet&lt;br /&gt;
and those which were wrongly attributed to him by early&lt;br /&gt;
editors, such as Thynne, Speght, and Stowe in the sixteenth&lt;br /&gt;
century. External evidence is generally enough to disprove&lt;br /&gt;
their genuineness, but in cases where this is insufficient,&lt;br /&gt;
with Professor Skeat&amp;#039;s help, we may take the rules of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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16&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
pioneer in the literature of Provence. &ldquo;And we can testify&lt;br /&gt;
from our examination of his work (As well as from the&lt;br /&gt;
verdict of a highly competent Proven&ccedil;al scholar), that&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Smith has gone with great thoroughness into his&lt;br /&gt;
task.&rdquo; The book is &amp;quot;well worth reading, if only as a&lt;br /&gt;
bistorical gaide to one of the most interesting regions in&lt;br /&gt;
Europe.&rdquo; The book is elegantly illustrated, says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, and &ldquo;there is nothing about the troubadours that&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Jastin Smith does not know.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
HURRAH FOR THE LIFE OF A SAILOR (Blackwood, 128. 6d.)&lt;br /&gt;
is by Vice-Admiral Sir William Kennedy, who relates his&lt;br /&gt;
experiences in the Royal Navy. Reviewing it under the&lt;br /&gt;
title &ldquo; Yaros,&amp;quot; Literature states that the book will be&lt;br /&gt;
popular with boys as well as grown-up people, and should&lt;br /&gt;
give a stimulus to recruiting for the Navy.&rdquo; The Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, says it is &ldquo;bright with humour, and gay wisdom&lt;br /&gt;
is found on every page.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
THE DISENCHANTMENT OF NURSE DOROTHY (Skeffing-&lt;br /&gt;
tou). The Scotsman says that &ldquo;the story is interesting,&lt;br /&gt;
readable, and instructive.&amp;quot; Tbe Hospital says that the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;quot; has evidently a considerable personal acquaint-&lt;br /&gt;
ance with hospital life, and some of her sketches of&lt;br /&gt;
character are admirably done.&amp;quot; The Nursing Record thinks&lt;br /&gt;
that the author is &ldquo;evidently acquainted with her subject,&lt;br /&gt;
and possesses considerable literary ability.&rdquo; Her book is&lt;br /&gt;
called &amp;quot; distinctly readable.&amp;quot; .&lt;br /&gt;
OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
the other class will find it an excellent introduction to the&lt;br /&gt;
dozen volumes in which the Doctrine of Evolution is&lt;br /&gt;
defined and explained, or even to Mr. Howard Collins&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
epitome of that doctrine.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE SECOND LADY DELCOMBE, by Mrs. Arthur Kennard&lt;br /&gt;
(Hutchinson, 6s.), appears to the Spectator to be &amp;quot; a good,&lt;br /&gt;
if not exactly brilliant, specimen of the modern novel of&lt;br /&gt;
society.&rdquo; &ldquo;It deserves to be, as it doubtless is,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily News, &ldquo;one of the successes of the publishing season.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a pleasant romance-running, it is true, on more or less&lt;br /&gt;
hackneyed lines&mdash;yet refreshingly unusual in its types and&lt;br /&gt;
conditions. The loveless mariage de convenance, ending,&lt;br /&gt;
not in disaster, bat, owing to the nobility of soul of the wife&lt;br /&gt;
and the uprightness of the husband, in real love : this is the&lt;br /&gt;
main theme of the book, but it is pleasantly diversified by&lt;br /&gt;
character-study and incident.&amp;quot; The figure of the American&lt;br /&gt;
heiress, says the Daily Telegraph,&amp;quot; is as convincing as it is&lt;br /&gt;
attraclive and pathetic. This particular cbaracter is, in&lt;br /&gt;
fact, as good in its way as anything that has appeared&lt;br /&gt;
recently in the realms of novel-writing.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The characters&lt;br /&gt;
are real,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;and the dialogue always&lt;br /&gt;
easy and natural.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE WEST END, by Percy Wbite (Sands, 68.), is a&lt;br /&gt;
novel dealing with the ways and works of &ldquo;smart&rdquo; men&lt;br /&gt;
and women. The principal obaracter is a millionaire&lt;br /&gt;
maker of jam, who determines upon the conquest of&lt;br /&gt;
society. The Daily Chronicle speaks of the book as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; in the main a criticism of society, wherein we have&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Percy White&amp;#039;s genuine gifts of observation, pene-&lt;br /&gt;
trating, but not entirely unsympathetic, and his satirical&lt;br /&gt;
reflection, trenchant, but not all unkindly.&rdquo; The Spectator&lt;br /&gt;
calls it a &ldquo;clever poyel,&rdquo; and Literature says &amp;quot;it deserves&lt;br /&gt;
a high rank when compared with the average novel of&lt;br /&gt;
the day.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
NELL GWYN, COMEDIAN, by F. Frankfort Moore&lt;br /&gt;
(Pearson, 6s.), a novel of which the vivacious orange girl is&lt;br /&gt;
heroine, is described by the Spectator as &amp;quot;a brisk and&lt;br /&gt;
entertaining, though superficial, sketch of life and manners&lt;br /&gt;
at the Court of the Restoration.&rdquo; &ldquo; The most attractive and&lt;br /&gt;
best-done portrait-sketoh in the volume,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, &ldquo;is that of the Duchess of Marlborough while yet&lt;br /&gt;
she was Miss Sarah Jennings.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BATH COMEDY, by Agnes and Egerton Castle (Mac.&lt;br /&gt;
millan, 6s.), is described by the Spectator as &ldquo;a very lively&lt;br /&gt;
and entertaining comedy.&amp;quot; Literature says it is as &ldquo; viva-&lt;br /&gt;
cions a story as anyone could wish to read.&rdquo; The scene is&lt;br /&gt;
laid in mid-eighteenth-century Bath, the &ldquo;modish period of&lt;br /&gt;
powder and patches.&rdquo; &ldquo; The plot develops,&amp;quot; says the Spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tator, &ldquo;oat of the stratagem resorted to by Mrs. Kitty&lt;br /&gt;
Bellairs, a sprightly widow, to effect a reconciliation between&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Jasper Standish and his too-adoring wife, a bride of&lt;br /&gt;
three months.&rdquo; &ldquo;Altogether this is a very lively and enter-&lt;br /&gt;
taining comedy of the artificial yet artistic sort.&rdquo; &ldquo; It is a&lt;br /&gt;
sanny book,&amp;quot; says the Literary World, &ldquo; daintily written,&lt;br /&gt;
constructed with the artifice that the comedy of manners&lt;br /&gt;
requires.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
FROM VELDT CAMP FIREB, by H. A. Bryden (Horst and&lt;br /&gt;
Blackett, 38. 6d.), consists of &ldquo;excellent stories,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot; wbich cannot fail to make an impression&lt;br /&gt;
at the present moment when the interest of everyone is&lt;br /&gt;
centred upon tbat part of the world. Mr. Bryden knows&lt;br /&gt;
South Africa and its inhabitants thorongbly well, and on&lt;br /&gt;
the whole his opinion of the Transvaal Boer would not&lt;br /&gt;
appear to be an unfavourable one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE TROUBADOURS AT HOME, by Justin H. Smith&lt;br /&gt;
(Putnam, 258. net), leads the Spectator to say that, while&lt;br /&gt;
the subject has been much studied by Germans and French,&lt;br /&gt;
for the Anglo-Saxon world the author is something of a&lt;br /&gt;
M HE death-roll of the month includes Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
I fessor STANLEY LEATHES, the eminent&lt;br /&gt;
- Semitic scholar, who died at Much Hadham,&lt;br /&gt;
aged seventy; Dr. CoWIE, Dean of Exeter, at&lt;br /&gt;
the age of eighty-four; General Pitt-RIVERS,&lt;br /&gt;
anthropologist and antiquary; and Miss Chris&lt;br /&gt;
HAMMOND, whose book illustrations in black and&lt;br /&gt;
white were well known.&lt;br /&gt;
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4. The History of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, late Secretary to&lt;br /&gt;
the Society. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type,&lt;br /&gt;
size of page, &amp;amp;c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of&lt;br /&gt;
books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 28. 6d. (Out of print at present.)&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the&lt;br /&gt;
papers in the Society&amp;#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various&lt;br /&gt;
kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 38.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill of 1890. With&lt;br /&gt;
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix containing the&lt;br /&gt;
Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Eyre and Spottis-&lt;br /&gt;
woode. Is. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER BESANT&lt;br /&gt;
(Chairman of Committee, 1888&mdash;1892). 18.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By ERNST&lt;br /&gt;
LUNGE, J.U.D. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
10. The Addenda to the &amp;quot;Methods of Publishing.&amp;quot; By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional&lt;br /&gt;
facts collected at the office of the Society since the publication of the &ldquo; Methods.&amp;quot; With&lt;br /&gt;
comments and advice. 28.&lt;br /&gt;
11. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association ; with Comments. By G. HERBERT&lt;br /&gt;
THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. IS.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. XI.&mdash;No. 2.]&lt;br /&gt;
JULY 2, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are - As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&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;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
T remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union (2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&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;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
UT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
1 agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&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 WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of 1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
N the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise. IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING EIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
D 2&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, now&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 the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. 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 (b.) 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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 sabject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
T HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. TA VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to ase the Society&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
-SCHEME FOR PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
1. INHE fund is established for the purpose&lt;br /&gt;
of providing pensions for authors in&lt;br /&gt;
need of such assistance, and for no&lt;br /&gt;
other purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Contributions to the fund may be either by a&lt;br /&gt;
single donation or by a donation spread over three&lt;br /&gt;
or more years, or by an annual subscription.&lt;br /&gt;
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3. All donations and not less than two-thirds which such candidate is to be proposed, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of the annual subscriptions (after deducting the nomination of each such candidate shall be sub-&lt;br /&gt;
working expenses) shall be added to the capital scribed by at least three members of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
of the fund and invested. The remainder of the A list of the names of the candidates so nominated&lt;br /&gt;
annual subscriptions with the income from invest. shall be sent to the members of the Society with&lt;br /&gt;
ments shall be devoted to the payment of pensions the annual report of the managing committee, and&lt;br /&gt;
or to the purchase of annuities to satisfy pensions those candidates obtaining the most votes at the&lt;br /&gt;
already granted.&lt;br /&gt;
general meeting shall be elected to serve on the&lt;br /&gt;
4. The granting of pensions shall be in the Pension Fund committee.&lt;br /&gt;
discretion of a committee to be called the Pension 10. The secretary of the Society shall act as&lt;br /&gt;
Fund Committee of the Incorporated Society of the secretary of the Pension Fund committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, and such committee shall consist of the 11. For the purpose of granting or refusing a&lt;br /&gt;
chairman of the managing committee of the pension five members of the Pension Fund com-&lt;br /&gt;
Society, and six other members of the Society, of mittee shall be a quorum, but for any other busi-&lt;br /&gt;
whom three shall be elected by the managing ness three members shall be a quorum of such&lt;br /&gt;
committee and three by the members of the committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Society at the annual general meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
12. All receipts in respect of the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
5. One of the members of the Pension Fund shall be forthwith paid into an account to be&lt;br /&gt;
Committee elected by the managing committee of kept in the names of three trustees, who shall be&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, and one of the members elected by members of the society and shall be called the&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society shall retire at the Pension Fund trustees. The first Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
annual general meeting in each year. As between trustees shall be nominated by the managing com-&lt;br /&gt;
two or more members of the Pension Fund Com- mittee of the Society, and new trustees shall from&lt;br /&gt;
mittee elected by the same body, the member who time to time be appointed with the approval of&lt;br /&gt;
has been longest in office shall retire, and for this such managing committee.&lt;br /&gt;
purpose the period of office of each member shall 13. All payments in respect of pensions or&lt;br /&gt;
be computed from his last election. As between working expenses, and all investments of the&lt;br /&gt;
two or more who have been in office an equal Pension Fund shall be made by the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
length of time, the member to retire shall in Fund trustees with the approval of the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
default of agreement between the members con- Fund committee. All cheques on the account of&lt;br /&gt;
cerned be determined by ballot. A retiring the trustees shall be signed by two trustees and&lt;br /&gt;
member of the committee shall be eligible for countersigned by the secretary, or in his absence&lt;br /&gt;
re-election.&lt;br /&gt;
by a member of the Pension Fund comunittee.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Society at any general meeting at 14. The amount of any pension shall be not less&lt;br /&gt;
which a member of the Pension Fund committee than &pound;25 nor more than &pound;100 per annum.&lt;br /&gt;
retires as above-mentioned, shall fill up the 15. Membership of the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
vacancy by electing a member in his place, and shall not give any right to a pension, but pensions&lt;br /&gt;
may fill up any other vacancy among members shall be granted to members of the Society only,&lt;br /&gt;
appointed by the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
and such members (if in other respects qualified&lt;br /&gt;
7. If at any general meeting of the Society at as hereby required) shall become eligible for pen-&lt;br /&gt;
which the election of a member of the Pension sions as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
Fund committee ought to take place such (1) For pensions to be granted in the years&lt;br /&gt;
member shall not be elected, the managing com-&lt;br /&gt;
1901 to 1905, members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
mittee may fill the vacancy by the election of a&lt;br /&gt;
having become such not later than March 1,&lt;br /&gt;
member of the Society not being a member of the&lt;br /&gt;
1901, and so continuing to the date of their&lt;br /&gt;
managing committee.&lt;br /&gt;
application.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Any casual vacancy occurring on the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
For pensions to be granted in the years&lt;br /&gt;
Fund committee may be filled by the managing&lt;br /&gt;
1906 to 1912, members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
committee of the Society, but any person so&lt;br /&gt;
having become such not later than March 1,&lt;br /&gt;
chosen to fill the place of a member appointed by&lt;br /&gt;
1902, and so continuing to the date of their&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society shall hold office only&lt;br /&gt;
application.&lt;br /&gt;
until the next annual general meeting of the&lt;br /&gt;
For jensions to be granted after the year&lt;br /&gt;
Society.&lt;br /&gt;
1912, members of the Society who have&lt;br /&gt;
9. Any candidate for election to the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
been such members for not less than ten&lt;br /&gt;
Fund committee by the members of the society&lt;br /&gt;
clear years before the date of their appli-&lt;br /&gt;
(not being a retiring member of such committee)&lt;br /&gt;
cation, and so that for this purpose such&lt;br /&gt;
sball be nominated in writing to the secretary at&lt;br /&gt;
ten years of membership need not be&lt;br /&gt;
least three weeks prior to the general meeting at&lt;br /&gt;
continuous.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 20 (#42) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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20&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Provided that any person who is otherwise quali. Pension Fund committee may cancel or suspend&lt;br /&gt;
fied for a pension, but has ceased to be a member his pension.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society before the date of his application, 22. The granting of a pension shall not impose&lt;br /&gt;
may in the discretion of the managing committee any personal liability whatever on any member of&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society be re-elected a member without the Society or of the managing committee or of&lt;br /&gt;
further payment, and thereupon shall become the Pension Fund committee or on the trustees,&lt;br /&gt;
eligible for a pension.&lt;br /&gt;
but every pension shall be deemed to be payable&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; 16. No pension shall be granted to any person only out of the income available for that purpos&eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
under the age of sixty years, so long as suitable 23. If at any time hereafter the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
candidates of the age of sixty years or upwards should reach an amount sufficient in the judg-&lt;br /&gt;
shall present themselves. Provided that a pension ment of the Pension Fund committee to meet all&lt;br /&gt;
may be granted to a person of less age if and claims reasonably likely to be made upon it in&lt;br /&gt;
while he shall in the opinion of the Pension Fund future, and if such committee shall pass a resolu-&lt;br /&gt;
committee be totally incapacitated for work&amp;#039; by tion to that effect and the managing committee of&lt;br /&gt;
reason of illness or accident.&lt;br /&gt;
the Society shall concur in such resolution, then&lt;br /&gt;
17. In granting or refusing pensions the the Pension Fund committee may either (a)&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund committee shall consider not only cease to receive any further subscriptions to the&lt;br /&gt;
the necessities of the applicant, but also the fund unless and until additional needs arise, or&lt;br /&gt;
merit of his work; and, other matters being (6) apply the whole or any part of the annual&lt;br /&gt;
equal, long and continuous membership of the subscriptions (although in excess of one-third of&lt;br /&gt;
Society shall be considered a recommendation, such subscriptions) to the payment of pensions or&lt;br /&gt;
18. The application for a pension need not be the purchase of annuities for pensioners or the&lt;br /&gt;
made by the applicant personally, but may be increase of any pensions or annuities already&lt;br /&gt;
presented on his behalf by any two members of the granted or purchased, but the powers conferred&lt;br /&gt;
Society. Provided that any person whose name by this clause shall not be exercised unless the&lt;br /&gt;
is so presented shall, if requested by the Pension amount of the fund for the time being be not&lt;br /&gt;
Fund committee, signify in writing his willingness less than &pound;20,000.&lt;br /&gt;
to accept a pension if granted, and if he shall 2 4. The Pension Fund committee shall have&lt;br /&gt;
refuse so to do, his application shall not be enter power to make and from time to time vary bye-&lt;br /&gt;
tained.&lt;br /&gt;
laws for regulating applications for pensions and&lt;br /&gt;
19. All applications for pensions shall be for otherwise carrying out the purposes of this&lt;br /&gt;
deemed contidential, but the names of the scheme.&lt;br /&gt;
recipients of pensions and the amounts granted 25. Any of the provisions of this scheme may&lt;br /&gt;
shall be stated in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
from time to time be varied by a resolution of&lt;br /&gt;
20. Except as otherwise provided in rule 16, all the trustees and the Pension Fund committee&lt;br /&gt;
pensions shall be tenable during the life of the sitting together, but no such variation shall&lt;br /&gt;
pensioner or until he shall become a bankrupt or take effect unless and until the same shall be&lt;br /&gt;
shall alienate, charge, or incumber his pension or confirmed by a resolution of the managing com-&lt;br /&gt;
some part thereof, but the Pension Fund com- mittee of the Society. Provided always that the&lt;br /&gt;
mittee may at any time in their absolute discretion Pension Fund shall at all times hereafter be&lt;br /&gt;
discontinue any pension for either of the following administered by the committee, consisting of&lt;br /&gt;
reasons:&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Incorporated Society of Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
(a) If the pensioner&amp;#039;s conduct shall, in the Settled on behalf of the Incorporated Society&lt;br /&gt;
opinion of such conimittee, be such as of Authors by George Cave, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn, May 31,&lt;br /&gt;
would disqualify him from membership of&lt;br /&gt;
1900, and finally approved by the managing com-&lt;br /&gt;
the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of the Society at the meeting of the&lt;br /&gt;
(6) If such committee shall be satisfied that&lt;br /&gt;
committee on Monday, June 18, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
the pensioner is in receipt of an indepen-&lt;br /&gt;
G. HERBERT THRING, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
dent income sufficient for his support.&lt;br /&gt;
21. Any pensioner may at any time be required&lt;br /&gt;
by the Pension Fund committee to make a statu-&lt;br /&gt;
tory declaration stating that he has not alienated,&lt;br /&gt;
charged, or incumbered his pension or any part&lt;br /&gt;
thereof, and also (if required) stating that he is&lt;br /&gt;
not in receipt of any independent income or&lt;br /&gt;
specifying the amount of such income, and in the&lt;br /&gt;
event of any pensioner refusing or neglecting on&lt;br /&gt;
request to make such statutory dcclaration, the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 21 (#43) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
21&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
rather thau at the lower percentages for the&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of the author. This is business.&lt;br /&gt;
I.-TRADE METHODS.&lt;br /&gt;
Closely analogous to this case is the example&lt;br /&gt;
TN these columns have been exposed month of the deferred royalty-a frequent method of&lt;br /&gt;
after month the more flagrant tricks producing works of fiction. The difference, how-&lt;br /&gt;
practised upon authors, chiefly by means of ever, is that in the latter case the agreement, to&lt;br /&gt;
agreements the nature of which they do not the eye of the expert, is bad from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
understand. Let us now consider how an agree- A publisher, through long experience, knows&lt;br /&gt;
ment which seems fair may be rendered futile by the average sale. He knows the amount likely&lt;br /&gt;
the methods of the publisher in handling the work to be taken on subscription of a book of this kind&lt;br /&gt;
or in administering the author&amp;#039;s property.&lt;br /&gt;
brought out from his house.&lt;br /&gt;
In many instances the publisher is only He assures the author that, owing to the risk&lt;br /&gt;
anxious to turn over his money, making 15 or 20 of production, he cannot afford to pay a royalty&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. on the transaction, and has no real on a number of copies, and accordingly gets x&lt;br /&gt;
interest either in the property on which he is number of copies free. Owing to this fact, it is&lt;br /&gt;
supposed to be conscientiously working or in the arranged to the author&amp;#039;s satisfaction that a pro-&lt;br /&gt;
desires of the public before whom he poses as a portionately higher royalty shall be paid on copies&lt;br /&gt;
patron. It is perhaps not altogether bis fault, it sold above the fixed number. Alas! poor author,&lt;br /&gt;
is his hereditary instinct. Curiously enough, he never gets his higher royalty ; the accounts&lt;br /&gt;
this cause of anxiety is often disastrous to the come in, and he is disappointed. He does not&lt;br /&gt;
author. .&lt;br /&gt;
know the trade of infanticide, but the guilty&lt;br /&gt;
An author undertakes the writing of a bio. party is sometimes discovered and his tricks&lt;br /&gt;
graphy, and enters into an agreement with the divulged. The distribution of the type in the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher to produce the book, subject to a certain first case shows the passive neglect of the infant&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, the royalty to be raised after the sale of for want of proper care and nourishment; and in&lt;br /&gt;
copies of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
the second case the use of an active agent in its&lt;br /&gt;
In making this kind of contract, the author, destruction. In the first example, the result is&lt;br /&gt;
having full confidence in his agent, believes that brought about by bad judgment and carelessness;&lt;br /&gt;
the book will be pushed for all it is worth, and in the second, by intentional bad faith.&lt;br /&gt;
the business managed for his benefit. The T he next example is not one of frequent occur.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, however, before entering into the con rence, but is extremely interesting as the result-&lt;br /&gt;
tract has made up his mind that the book will not namely, the turnover of the publisher&amp;#039;s money&lt;br /&gt;
sell above the number on which the smaller at a sound percentage, and the cessation of profits&lt;br /&gt;
royalty is paid, and he bas also calculated that, to the author-is practically the same as in the&lt;br /&gt;
selling up to that number, it will pay him a hand cases quoted above; the motive is different, and&lt;br /&gt;
some return of 15 or 20 per cent on the capital it is not so much one of gain as of personal spite.&lt;br /&gt;
expended.&lt;br /&gt;
To obtain a satisfactory result, you must imagine,&lt;br /&gt;
An edition is printed accordingly, but the on the one hand, an author whose head is swollen&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s judgment is at fault. The edition to a size too large for his body; while, on the&lt;br /&gt;
sells out within six months, and there is still a other side, you must have a publisher who is&lt;br /&gt;
demand.&lt;br /&gt;
rather anxious to obtain the work of the author,&lt;br /&gt;
If the type is still standing it would barely pay as he kuows that the publication is a sound 20&lt;br /&gt;
more than 5 or 10 per cent. to push the book to per cent. investment. After a considerable&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of another 500 copies, taking into con amount of wrangling, in which the publisher&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sideration the higher royalty and further adver- temper has been upset by the author&amp;#039;s cupidity,&lt;br /&gt;
tising. (Further advertising would be necessary, an agreement has been arrived at. The author&lt;br /&gt;
as the book has been allowed to drop from the is to receive a sum down in advance of royalties.&lt;br /&gt;
market for two or three weeks.)&lt;br /&gt;
The author thinks the sum far too small, con-&lt;br /&gt;
But the type is not standing. It has been sidering, in his opinion, the assured circulation of&lt;br /&gt;
broken up, so that the infallibility of the pub. the book.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher&amp;#039;s judgment is necessarily confirmed, as it is The publisher, altogether put out, is glad to&lt;br /&gt;
impossible for another edition to sell. He has get off with such a small advance, and is deter-&lt;br /&gt;
made it impossible. It could not possibly pay him mined to show the author that, after all, the public&lt;br /&gt;
to re-set the type and print, so that in spite of are not overwhelmed with a desire to read his&lt;br /&gt;
mild remonstrances from the author the book deathless productions.&lt;br /&gt;
dies, a victim of infanticide.&lt;br /&gt;
Is it a paradox to kill a deathless production in&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher proceeds to turn over his capital its infancy? Infanticide, at any rate, paradox or&lt;br /&gt;
again at the higher percentage for his own benefit, not, supervenes. The book is produced, and&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
22&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
continues to sell until the sum advanced on complete his book on the same subject as the&lt;br /&gt;
royalties is covered. By this time, too, the result of his life&amp;#039;s work. His mind is at once&lt;br /&gt;
publisher has earned his expected percentage on made up. He hurries to the office without&lt;br /&gt;
his capital. At once the house is drawn and the delay, writes a letter to the Professor asking him&lt;br /&gt;
infant&amp;#039;s life is extinguished.&lt;br /&gt;
if he may have the honour of publishing his&lt;br /&gt;
The cause and effect can be clearly linked, as book.&lt;br /&gt;
the number at which the sale stops is damning The unfortunate author falls into the trap, and&lt;br /&gt;
evidence; but legal proof there is none. The in due course enters into a hard-and-fast agree-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher in his letters is full of regret.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, handing over to the publisher (according&lt;br /&gt;
A desire to study the accounts closely will often to the equitable agreement drafted by their asso.&lt;br /&gt;
produce a disastrous result, but a longing to see ciation) almost every right the author could&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;Day Book&rdquo; will infallibly bring about a possibly possess, and at the same time binds him-&lt;br /&gt;
fatal ending.&lt;br /&gt;
self not to abridge the work or produce any other&lt;br /&gt;
The following example is also instructive. work which may interfere with the sale. The pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The same lesson can be drawn from it as froin lisher takes care that no such clause should fetter&lt;br /&gt;
all the others.&lt;br /&gt;
his action, as that would be ruinous to its success.&lt;br /&gt;
A publisher enters into a contract with a young The Professor goes to bed and thinks that he&lt;br /&gt;
author for the publication of his first book on a has toiled for years, and thus at length obtained&lt;br /&gt;
royalty basis, and in the agreement binds the the reward for his life&amp;#039;s long labours. He wakes&lt;br /&gt;
author for a second book on the same terms. in due course, but only to find his only child&lt;br /&gt;
This is yery bad for the author, but he accepts, strangled at its birth. He weeps, and consults&lt;br /&gt;
sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through the publisher, who informs him that for some&lt;br /&gt;
nervousness, sometimes through indifference. unexplained reason the work has fallen flat, and&lt;br /&gt;
The first book comes out, and has a remarkable will not sell.&lt;br /&gt;
run for a first book. It certainly does not bring The Professor is unable, owing to the terms of&lt;br /&gt;
the author much return financially, as he is only his agreement, however much he may desire it,&lt;br /&gt;
being paid a small royalty after the sale of a fixed to publish elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
number of copies, but it is a really profitable But the publisher&amp;#039;s copyright book still sells&lt;br /&gt;
investment for the publisher, as he sees a satis- briskly.&lt;br /&gt;
factory return in the present and great possi. The commercial instinct is a wonderful pos-&lt;br /&gt;
bilities in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
session. The British Empire is founded on it.&lt;br /&gt;
The second book is brought out in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
with the agreement. The circulation is, however,&lt;br /&gt;
small compared with that of the first book. The To the above remarks, based upon actual&lt;br /&gt;
author is astonished and disappointed, but the experience, I append two cases, the first with the&lt;br /&gt;
tradesman knows. The circulation is sufficiently naines.&lt;br /&gt;
large to satisfy his mercantile spirit, and is kept In the year 1869-70, I, being then secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently small to enable him to gain a third the Palestine Exploration Fund, and therefore&lt;br /&gt;
volume from the same pen on the same remune having my attention every day called to the&lt;br /&gt;
rative terms, for &ldquo;as the second book has gone subject, arranged with the late Professor Palmer&lt;br /&gt;
so badly he with great regret is unable to make a to write a history of the city of Jerusalem from&lt;br /&gt;
better offer.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the siege of Titus to modern times. He, for his&lt;br /&gt;
The eyes of the expert, however, sees the share, contributed the history from Moslem&lt;br /&gt;
inwardness of the mancuvre. The marks of the Historians : I, for my part, the history from the&lt;br /&gt;
murderer&amp;#039;s fingers are on the throat of the infant. Crusaders&amp;#039; and Christian Chronicles. We devoted&lt;br /&gt;
The last example is perhaps the saddest of all, much time and labour to the work: the thing&lt;br /&gt;
as everyone knows the fondness of a parent for had never before been done: we hoped to produce&lt;br /&gt;
the child of his old age, and the old Professor a standard book. We intrusted it to Bentley and&lt;br /&gt;
who suffers is the victim of this cruel plot. Son on a half-profit system. An edition of a&lt;br /&gt;
It happens in this wise. A publisher has an thousand copies was printed, and the book was&lt;br /&gt;
excellent educational work on some special duly produced, making a very creditable appear-&lt;br /&gt;
subject. He has bought the copyright for a ance. The edition was completely sold out; an&lt;br /&gt;
small sum, and is pushing its sale to the utter account was rendered showing no profits; and we&lt;br /&gt;
most; it is selling in larger numbers than then learned, to our mortification, that the type&lt;br /&gt;
even B.&amp;#039;s famous novel &ldquo;Balderdash.&rdquo; But had been distributed and no moulds had been&lt;br /&gt;
he wakes up with the uncomfortable recollection made. I vainly urged upon the publishers the&lt;br /&gt;
that at a dinner the night before he had heard production of a second edition. Many years&lt;br /&gt;
Professor R&mdash; state that he was about to passed, I again pressed for the production of a&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 23 (#45) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
23&lt;br /&gt;
new edition. By this time Professor Palmer was&lt;br /&gt;
dead. The firm undertook to bring out a new&lt;br /&gt;
edition at last, subject to the condition that I&lt;br /&gt;
should guarantee 300 copies. I did so, and placed&lt;br /&gt;
the copies myself to prevent any possibility of&lt;br /&gt;
mistake. The book I afterwards, on the disap-&lt;br /&gt;
pearance of the firm, transferred to Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Chatto and Windus. It has gone through three&lt;br /&gt;
editions, I believe, since its revival.&lt;br /&gt;
The second instance is of a three-volume novel&lt;br /&gt;
Some years ago the author signed an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
by which he was to receive a very large royalty-.&lt;br /&gt;
think about 98. a copy-after 350 copies had been&lt;br /&gt;
sold. The worthy publisher printed 350 and then&lt;br /&gt;
distributed the type. This case has been already&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned in an early number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;THE COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE Five&lt;br /&gt;
GRATIS COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
It will have been seen from the correspond-&lt;br /&gt;
ence of 1876 between the Royal Commissioners&lt;br /&gt;
on the one hand and the authorities of the&lt;br /&gt;
four privileged libraries of Oxford, Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Edinburgh and Dublin on the other, which we&lt;br /&gt;
printed in the June Author, that Cambridge left&lt;br /&gt;
oft&lt;br /&gt;
the questions of the Commissioners unanswered,&lt;br /&gt;
that Oxford, though otherwise fully answering,&lt;br /&gt;
was silent as to the value of the privilege, only&lt;br /&gt;
stating the desire of the University to retain it,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;not merely in the interests of the University,&lt;br /&gt;
but for the sake of the public,&rdquo; and that Edin.&lt;br /&gt;
burgh and Dublin agreed in putting the value&lt;br /&gt;
at not less than &pound;1500 a year. It will now be&lt;br /&gt;
desirable to state shortly the history and present&lt;br /&gt;
effect of the statutory privileges of the five&lt;br /&gt;
libraries entitled to gratis copies &mdash; the British&lt;br /&gt;
Museum, so entitled absolutely, and the libraries&lt;br /&gt;
of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh,&lt;br /&gt;
so entitled on written demand only, to be made&lt;br /&gt;
within a limited time.&lt;br /&gt;
The first Act, that of 1662, directed the printer&lt;br /&gt;
of every book to send one copy to the Royal&lt;br /&gt;
Library and one copy to each of the Vice-&lt;br /&gt;
Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge Univer-&lt;br /&gt;
sities for the use of the public libraries there;&lt;br /&gt;
the second, that of 1709, which first gave statu-&lt;br /&gt;
tory copyright, directed nine copies to be delivered&lt;br /&gt;
at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall for the use of the Royal&lt;br /&gt;
Library, the Oxford and Cambridge Libraries, the&lt;br /&gt;
library of Sion College in London, the libraries&lt;br /&gt;
of the four Scotch Universities (of St. Andrews,&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh), and &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
library commonly called the library belonging to&lt;br /&gt;
the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh respec-&lt;br /&gt;
tively.&rdquo; In 1801, the Legislative Union with&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland having just been accomplished, an amend&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
ing Copyright Act directed the delivery of two&lt;br /&gt;
additional copies for the use of the libraries of&lt;br /&gt;
Trinity College and of the King&amp;#039;s Inns, Dublin,&lt;br /&gt;
making eleven gratis copies in all.&lt;br /&gt;
In 1814 two great changes were made. The&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum, which had been founded in&lt;br /&gt;
pursuance of Sir Hans Sloane&amp;#039;s will so far back&lt;br /&gt;
as 1759, first became entitled to a gratis copy,&lt;br /&gt;
taking the place of the Royal Library; and the&lt;br /&gt;
requirement of a demand on the part of all the&lt;br /&gt;
privileged libraries first made its appearance,&lt;br /&gt;
without any distinction, as at present, between&lt;br /&gt;
the British Museum and the other libraries. The&lt;br /&gt;
extensiveness of the privilege caused great dis.&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction amongst publishers, and in 1818 a&lt;br /&gt;
Select Committee of the House of Commons&lt;br /&gt;
resolved :-&lt;br /&gt;
That it is desirable that so much of the Copyright Act as&lt;br /&gt;
requires the gratuitous delivery of every work should be&lt;br /&gt;
repealed except in so far as relates to the British Museum,&lt;br /&gt;
and that a fixed allowance in lien thereof should be granted&lt;br /&gt;
to such of the other libraries as may be thought expedient.&lt;br /&gt;
This resolution was founded upon a great mass&lt;br /&gt;
of evidence, Mr. Rees complaining of the&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;955 168. which eleven copies of his Encyclo-&lt;br /&gt;
p&aelig;dia might have been sold for, Mr. Baldwin&lt;br /&gt;
averring that he had lost in his general business&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1275 in four years, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
Nothing was done, however, until 1836. In&lt;br /&gt;
that year, Mr. James Silk Buckingham, the&lt;br /&gt;
founder and first editor of the Athen&aelig;um news-&lt;br /&gt;
paper and a most voluminous writer, introduced&lt;br /&gt;
in a very learned speech a Bill to take away the&lt;br /&gt;
privilege from all the eleven libraries, and the&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act, which was the result, took away&lt;br /&gt;
the privilege from six of them&mdash;the libraries of&lt;br /&gt;
Sion College, of the four Universities of Scotland,&lt;br /&gt;
and of the King&amp;#039;s Inns at Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;
The Act of 1836 had a preamble that-&lt;br /&gt;
The provisions of the said Act [of 1814 requiring&lt;br /&gt;
gratuitous delivery of eleven copies] have in certain rospects&lt;br /&gt;
operated to the injury of author and publishers, and have in&lt;br /&gt;
some cases checked or prevented the publication of works&lt;br /&gt;
of great utility and importance, and it is therefore expedient&lt;br /&gt;
that the said Act should be amended.&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament accordingly directed compensation&lt;br /&gt;
to be made to the six deprived libraries out of&lt;br /&gt;
the consolidated fund by annual payments to be&lt;br /&gt;
ascertained &ldquo;according to the value of the books&lt;br /&gt;
which may have been actually received&rdquo; by each&lt;br /&gt;
such library upon an average of the three years&lt;br /&gt;
ending June 30, 1836, it being also enacted&lt;br /&gt;
that-&lt;br /&gt;
The person of persons or body politio or corporate pro-&lt;br /&gt;
prietors or managers of the library for the use whereof any&lt;br /&gt;
Bach book would have been delivered, shall and they are&lt;br /&gt;
hereby required to apply the annual compensation hereby&lt;br /&gt;
authorised to be made in the purchase of books of literature,&lt;br /&gt;
science and the arts, for the use of and to be kept and pre-&lt;br /&gt;
served in such library : Provided always that it shall not&lt;br /&gt;
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24&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
be lawful for the Treasury to direct the issue of any sum of Copies for four other Libraries if demanded.-&lt;br /&gt;
money for such annual compensation until sufficient proof A similar copy, printed on the paper of which the&lt;br /&gt;
shall have been adduced of the application of the money&lt;br /&gt;
largest number of copies are printed for sale, must&lt;br /&gt;
last issued to the purpose aforesaid.&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered&lt;br /&gt;
The words which we have italicised present not&lt;br /&gt;
On demand thereof in writing left at the abode of the&lt;br /&gt;
a few difficulties of construction. Clearly they&lt;br /&gt;
pablisher thereof at any time within twelve months next&lt;br /&gt;
impose some restriction upon the discretion of&lt;br /&gt;
after the publication thereof under the hand of the officer of&lt;br /&gt;
the library authorities. But what is it? The the Company of Stationers who shall from time to time be&lt;br /&gt;
term &ldquo; books &rdquo; seems to exclude all newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
appointed by the said company for the purposes of this Act,&lt;br /&gt;
and magazines, and no books of mere reference,&lt;br /&gt;
or ander the band of any other person thereto authorised&lt;br /&gt;
by the authorities of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the&lt;br /&gt;
such as almanacs and directories, could be called&lt;br /&gt;
Public Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; books of literature,&rdquo; however useful they might Advocates, Edinburgh, the Library of Trinity College,&lt;br /&gt;
be to the student. But it would be difficult to Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;
exclude any novel whatever. Encyclop&aelig;dias The copies are to be delivered-&lt;br /&gt;
might be helped in by their scientific articles, but&lt;br /&gt;
Within one month after demand made thereof in writing&lt;br /&gt;
the point is a doubtful one.&lt;br /&gt;
as aforesaid to the said officer of the said Company of&lt;br /&gt;
The sums payable to the six various libraries Stationers for the time being, which copies the said officer&lt;br /&gt;
were originally as follows: To the University of shall, and he is hereby required to receive at the ball of&lt;br /&gt;
St. Andrews, &pound;630; of Aberdeen, &pound;320; of&lt;br /&gt;
the said company for the use of the library, for which such&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow, &pound;707; and of Edinburgh. &pound;575; to&lt;br /&gt;
demand sball be made within such twelve months as afore.&lt;br /&gt;
said, and the said officer is hereby required to give a receipt&lt;br /&gt;
King&amp;#039;s Inns Library, Dublin, &pound;433 6s. 8d.; and&lt;br /&gt;
in writing for the same and within one month after any such&lt;br /&gt;
to Sion College, &pound;363 158. 2d. The two last book shall be so delivered to him as aforesaid to deliver the&lt;br /&gt;
named sums are still annually paid ; the compen- same for the use of such library.&lt;br /&gt;
sations to the four Scotch Universities became The publishers are authorised, if they prefer it,&lt;br /&gt;
merged some ten years ago by virtue of the to deliver the demanded books free of expense at&lt;br /&gt;
Universities (Scotland) Act 1889 in the much the libraries themselves to the librarians, and such&lt;br /&gt;
larger grant of &pound;42,000 for the general purposes delivery is made equivalent to a delivery to&lt;br /&gt;
of the four Universities. This grant is divisible the officer of the Stationers&amp;#039; Company. The&lt;br /&gt;
amongst the four Scotch Universities in sbares, and&lt;br /&gt;
penalty for not delivering books pursuant to&lt;br /&gt;
for purposes as therein directed; the Act, how the Act is not more than &pound;5 besides the value of&lt;br /&gt;
ever, specially providing that &ldquo;the University of the undelivered book, recoverable either sum-&lt;br /&gt;
Aberdeen shall receive an annual sum of &pound;320 marily before justices of the peace or by ordinary&lt;br /&gt;
for the purchase of books for the library of the action at the suit of the librarian, who, if&lt;br /&gt;
University.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
successful, is entitled to all costs reasonably&lt;br /&gt;
Lastly, we come to the Act of 1842, which incurred.&lt;br /&gt;
contains the present law of the subject in five It will be seen therefore (1) that the British&lt;br /&gt;
long and rather confused sections, the effect of Museum is entitled, without any demand, to a copy&lt;br /&gt;
which is shortly as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
of every book published in the British dominions;&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum Copy.&mdash;A printed copy of the (2) that the four other libraries are entitled, but&lt;br /&gt;
whole of every book and of any subsequent on written demand only, to a copy of every book&lt;br /&gt;
edition published with any additions or altera published in the United Kingdom ; (3) that the&lt;br /&gt;
tions, printed on the best paper on which any demand may be made either by the Stationers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
copies are printed, must be delivered at the Company&amp;#039;s officer or by an agent of the library&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum, on behalf of the publisher authorities; (4) that by whomsoever the demand&lt;br /&gt;
. Within one month after first publication, if the is made, the delivery must be made to the&lt;br /&gt;
first publication be within the bills of mortality; Stationers&amp;#039; Company&amp;#039;s officer ; and (5) that it is&lt;br /&gt;
Within three months, if the first publication for the Stationers&amp;#039; Company&amp;#039;s officer, and not any&lt;br /&gt;
be in any other part of the United Kingdom; other demanding agent, to deliver the books to&lt;br /&gt;
Within twelve months, if the first publication the four libraries, unless (6) the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
be in any other part of the British dominions. deliver the copies free of expense to the libraries&lt;br /&gt;
The italicised area&mdash;that of the &ldquo;bills of direct.&lt;br /&gt;
mortality&rdquo;-is indeed a strange one in an Act&lt;br /&gt;
so lively as the Copyright Act of 1842. The&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;THE STAMPING OF AGREEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; bills&amp;quot; themselves died some sixty years ago. A point of some little importance in the&lt;br /&gt;
The City was always within them, and West stamping of authors&amp;#039; agreements may interest&lt;br /&gt;
minster soon became so, as also did Lambeth, you. A few days ago I sent an agreement, through&lt;br /&gt;
Stepney, and other metropolitan parishes, but the local stamp office, to be stamped at Somerset&lt;br /&gt;
St. Pancras and Marylebone were never included. House. It was an ordinary agreement to do&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
25&lt;br /&gt;
X.&lt;br /&gt;
om&lt;br /&gt;
A MEMBER.&lt;br /&gt;
certain work for a publisher, which would result, Law Courts, justifying his claims, generally for&lt;br /&gt;
in due course, in the production of a book, the the pecuniary benefit of his adviser or counsel.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in which was to belong to the pub. Voil&agrave; tout ! Yes! Wiser is the poor Grub-street&lt;br /&gt;
lishers. I asked that it should be impressed tramp who, on achieving publication, spends his&lt;br /&gt;
with the ordinary agreement stamp of sixpence. 78. 6d. on a suitable banquet&mdash;not forgetting to&lt;br /&gt;
After three days came back a message requiring pour out a libation to the gods.&lt;br /&gt;
an additional 198. 6d., being the amount of the&lt;br /&gt;
J. S. LAURIE.&lt;br /&gt;
ad valorem duty on the sum which the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
were to pay me for my work. In other words, V.-ALTERING WITHOUT THE AUTHOR&amp;#039;S CONSENT.&lt;br /&gt;
the Inland Revenue claimed to treat the agree. I want to know what is (a) the law and (b) the&lt;br /&gt;
ment as an assignment of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
custom of the trade (or profession) with regard&lt;br /&gt;
Now, to this contention there are just two fatal to altering without consent of the author the&lt;br /&gt;
objections: (1) that, by English law, it is im. signed articles in books of reference, guide-books,&lt;br /&gt;
possible to assign a thing which is not in existence, &amp;amp;c., in future editions.&lt;br /&gt;
and as my MS. was not even begun, I had, of I am supposing the author has made over all&lt;br /&gt;
course, no copyright to assign ; (2) that the copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
statute expressly contemplates assignment of I imagine that the whole question turns upon&lt;br /&gt;
copyright (by entry at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall) without the contribution being signed. Does it not ?&lt;br /&gt;
payment of stamp duty.&lt;br /&gt;
Although the regulations of the Oxford office&lt;br /&gt;
did not permit me to obtain the Somerset House&lt;br /&gt;
letter for study, I managed to express my objec-&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
tions to its claim to such effect that I have now&lt;br /&gt;
received an official intimation that the claim to&lt;br /&gt;
5, rue Chomel.&lt;br /&gt;
ad valorem duty will not be pressed.&lt;br /&gt;
MAURUS JOKAI, the celebrated&lt;br /&gt;
Hungarian novelist, is now visiting&lt;br /&gt;
Paris, accompanied by his young wife.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.--COPYRIGHT SECURED BY PUBLICATION AND This is his first visit since 1867. He has been&lt;br /&gt;
SALE.&lt;br /&gt;
warmly welcomed by his compatriots and the&lt;br /&gt;
In the daily Press of May 16 there is allu. brethren of his craft; and the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens&lt;br /&gt;
sion without question to Sir E. M. Thompson&amp;#039;s de Lettres has given a banquet in his honour.&lt;br /&gt;
opinion that &ldquo; practically all published books Although M. Jokai numbers seventy-five years,&lt;br /&gt;
are registered at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall, and are thus well-counted, he is quite out of the running as&lt;br /&gt;
copyright.&rdquo; I venture to doubt if more than regards age beside the &ldquo; beaux vieillards &rdquo; who still&lt;br /&gt;
25 per cent. of published books are registered at hold honoured places in the ranks of Parisian&lt;br /&gt;
all, and that for the simple reason that such regis- writers. M. E.Cormon-author of so many popular&lt;br /&gt;
tration confers no copyright, or, in point of fact, plays, and father of the well-known painter-is&lt;br /&gt;
similarly as letters patent, any privilege beyond in his ninety-second year. He is an assiduous&lt;br /&gt;
being the essential preliminary to litigation. theatre-goer, and was lately in evidence at a dress&lt;br /&gt;
Indeed, even this is permissible just before any rehearsal at the Th&eacute;atre de la R&eacute;publique, busily&lt;br /&gt;
action is entered ; and in a recent threatened suit engaged in superintending the revival of &ldquo; Une&lt;br /&gt;
I myself adopted this course successfully with refe. Cause C&eacute;l&egrave;bre,&amp;quot; the joint production of MM.&lt;br /&gt;
rence to a production fifteen years old. Seven and Adolphe d&amp;#039;Ennery and E. Cormon, success.&lt;br /&gt;
sixpence per work on all published books would fully performed at the Ambigu theatre a quarter&lt;br /&gt;
obviously yield a mine of vast wealth either to the of a century ago. (M. d&amp;#039;Ennery died in 1899, aged&lt;br /&gt;
Stationers&amp;#039; Corporation or any other official eighty-eight years, possessed of a fortune which&lt;br /&gt;
beneficiary, unconditionally on any material con- amounted in round figures to about &pound;400,000.)&lt;br /&gt;
sideration whatsoever. The hardship of the MM. Aur&eacute;lian Scholl and Paul Meurice, likewise,&lt;br /&gt;
invent is is infinitely worse, since pairate can see leave M. Jokai behind. The former resumes&lt;br /&gt;
and study any existing specification and procure his pen at intervals in dilatory virtuoso fashion.&lt;br /&gt;
another for himself by a slight alteration.&lt;br /&gt;
His senior, M. Paul Meurice, still compares&lt;br /&gt;
As I understand the matter after a life-long favourably in literary activity with a score of&lt;br /&gt;
experience, and the production of more than 100 modern authors. He is an ardent disciple of&lt;br /&gt;
genuine copyrights on which no fee has been paid, Victor Hugo, to boot; and recently presented&lt;br /&gt;
I fancy I am entitled to affirm that the sale of to the National Library a collection of over a&lt;br /&gt;
even a single volume across the counter con- thousand documents, photographs, &amp;amp;c., connected&lt;br /&gt;
stitutes publication. In case of dispute, why, the with the great French writer and his family. This&lt;br /&gt;
owner must either succumb or fight it out in the collection will shortly be open to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ing. Only once in his life did he take part in the&lt;br /&gt;
latter sport, when he fired by mistake on a&lt;br /&gt;
gendarme, and was summoned for the offence.&lt;br /&gt;
AN EMINENT NONAGENARIAN.&lt;br /&gt;
But the doyen of the French Academy and the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; beaux vieillards litteraires &amp;quot; is M. Ernest&lt;br /&gt;
Legouv&eacute;. His birth certificate is exbibited in the&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Pavilion at the Exhibition. It is dated&lt;br /&gt;
Monday, Feb. 16, 1807. M. Legouv&eacute; enjoys at&lt;br /&gt;
the present moment the full possession of all his&lt;br /&gt;
faculties. He is extremely keen on fencing, and&lt;br /&gt;
attributes his robust health to his diurnal twenty&lt;br /&gt;
or thirty minutes&amp;#039; practice with the foils.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The love of fencing,&amp;quot; he asserts, &ldquo;is not&lt;br /&gt;
merely a taste-it is a passion. C&amp;#039;est le jeu, avec&lt;br /&gt;
le vice en moins et la sant&eacute; en plus !&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The eminent nonagenarian estimates his supple-&lt;br /&gt;
mentary achievements with unusual modesty.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Although my plays have been represented six-&lt;br /&gt;
teen hundred times at the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
he says, &ldquo;I am neither a great poet nor a great&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist. But since I have applied my&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic and poetical faculty to teaching the&lt;br /&gt;
young, I have succeeded in writing lessons which&lt;br /&gt;
were not tiresome. I have spoken to youth in a&lt;br /&gt;
language which it has loved and understood.&rdquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
is, perhaps, the success which M. Legouv&eacute; values&lt;br /&gt;
most highly. His latest work, issued a few&lt;br /&gt;
months ago, contains the lectures delivered to the&lt;br /&gt;
students at the S&egrave;vres Normal School. At the&lt;br /&gt;
period when this volume was compiled its&lt;br /&gt;
author designed it for the closing memorial of&lt;br /&gt;
his long literary career. Several stray bints,&lt;br /&gt;
however, incline us to believe that M. Legouv&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
has now another work on hand, which will appear&lt;br /&gt;
shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
M. JULES VERNE.&lt;br /&gt;
The plays and novels of M. Jules Verne are as&lt;br /&gt;
popular as ever. Their author has advantageously&lt;br /&gt;
renewed the contracts connected with his drama-&lt;br /&gt;
tised versions of &ldquo;Michel Strogoff&rdquo; and &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
Tour du Monde.&rdquo; He is at present engaged on a&lt;br /&gt;
new volume for the Extraordinary Voyage series.&lt;br /&gt;
If his wonderful fertility and health hold good&lt;br /&gt;
for a few more years, he will undoubtedly attain&lt;br /&gt;
what is generally asserted to be his grand&lt;br /&gt;
desideratum&mdash;viz., the publication of his hundredth&lt;br /&gt;
volume. M. Jules Verne is in his seventy-third&lt;br /&gt;
year. He lives quietly at Amiens, and patronises&lt;br /&gt;
a vegetarian r&eacute;gime. A slight limp, the result of&lt;br /&gt;
an accident many years ago, gives him a hesitating&lt;br /&gt;
gait, while his mild blue eyes and placid expression&lt;br /&gt;
appear evidence of a nature wholly at variance&lt;br /&gt;
with the wild adventurous types he delights in&lt;br /&gt;
creating. He formerly possessed a small yacht,&lt;br /&gt;
the Saint Michel, which never ventured itself in&lt;br /&gt;
rougher waters than those of the English Channel&lt;br /&gt;
and Mediterranean Sea. The author of &ldquo; Twenty&lt;br /&gt;
Thousand Leagues under the Sea&amp;quot; considers&lt;br /&gt;
fishing a barbarous amusement and detests hunt.&lt;br /&gt;
ACADEMY Prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
The French Academy has a varded the sum of&lt;br /&gt;
5000 francs (prix Alfred N&eacute;e) to&amp;#039; M. Brieux for&lt;br /&gt;
his last graphic drama entitled &ldquo;La Robe&lt;br /&gt;
Rouge.&rdquo; The fortunate recipient is now engaged&lt;br /&gt;
in writing a new play entitled &ldquo;La Petite Amie,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
whose details have not yet been made public.&lt;br /&gt;
Mme. Jean Bertheroy has been awarded 4000&lt;br /&gt;
francs (prix d&amp;#039;&eacute;loquence) for her essay on the&lt;br /&gt;
French poet Andr&eacute; Chenier (1762-1794), while&lt;br /&gt;
M. Pierre de la Gorse has received 9000 francs&lt;br /&gt;
(prix Gobert) for his &ldquo;Histoire du Second&lt;br /&gt;
Empire). A number of minor prizes have also&lt;br /&gt;
been awarded.&lt;br /&gt;
In order to encourage literary talent the Var&lt;br /&gt;
Academy at Toulon has announced its intention of&lt;br /&gt;
celebrating its centennial anniversary by a literary&lt;br /&gt;
competition on six given subjects. The prizes&lt;br /&gt;
will consist of valuable artistic objects, and the&lt;br /&gt;
winners&amp;#039; names and compositions will be inscribed&lt;br /&gt;
in the Golden Book which the Academy will&lt;br /&gt;
publish on that occasion. The manuscripts of the&lt;br /&gt;
unsuccessful candidates will not be returned.&lt;br /&gt;
This is certainly rather hard on the unsuccessful&lt;br /&gt;
candidates.&lt;br /&gt;
Rocks AHEAD FOR THE PUBLISHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
In deciding a dispute between two publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
the Civil Chamber recently gave some interesting&lt;br /&gt;
information which completely upset the current&lt;br /&gt;
illusion respecting the copyright of the title of a&lt;br /&gt;
paper. It distinctly stated that the property of a&lt;br /&gt;
journal&amp;#039;s title could only lapse through non-&lt;br /&gt;
usage; but that the popular belief that a non-&lt;br /&gt;
usage of one vear was sufficient to annul such a&lt;br /&gt;
copyright was an erroneous idea, based on no&lt;br /&gt;
legal foundation. Whether editor and publisher&lt;br /&gt;
would alike be held responsible for the infringe.&lt;br /&gt;
ment of a similar copyright was not stated.&lt;br /&gt;
The latter is walking softly since the Third&lt;br /&gt;
Civil Chamber has abolished his immunity, and&lt;br /&gt;
rendered him liable for the articles printed under&lt;br /&gt;
his direction. The action brought by fifty-three&lt;br /&gt;
merchants, manufacturers, &amp;amp;c., against the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
prietors and editors of the Antijuif has led to&lt;br /&gt;
this commendable reform. &ldquo;Granted,&rdquo; said the&lt;br /&gt;
judgment, &ldquo;that ... if Article 43 of the&lt;br /&gt;
law of July 29, 1881, enacts that the printer&lt;br /&gt;
cannot be penally pursued as an accomplice (in&lt;br /&gt;
virtue of Article 60 of the Penal Code referring&lt;br /&gt;
to printed matter) except in the event, and under&lt;br /&gt;
the conditions, foreseen by Article 6 of the law of&lt;br /&gt;
June 7, 1848, relating to riotous assemblages;&lt;br /&gt;
this law has only been framed from a penal point&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 27 (#49) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
37&lt;br /&gt;
of view, and is not intended to detract in any Poor &ldquo;Caliban-Bergerat&rdquo; cannot boast such&lt;br /&gt;
manner from the principles laid down by the good fortune. The fourth and last volume of his&lt;br /&gt;
Civil Law, which render each person responsible &ldquo;Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Complet d&amp;#039;Emile Bergerat&rdquo; has just&lt;br /&gt;
for the prejudice caused by his fault, &amp;amp;c.&rdquo; been issued by Ollendorff. Rarely has a writer&lt;br /&gt;
For which, and sundry other causes, the printing of equal merit been handicapped hy a more per-&lt;br /&gt;
society known as the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; Paul Dupont has sistent run of ill-luck than that which has for&lt;br /&gt;
been separately and jointly condemned with the years dogged the productions of the talented&lt;br /&gt;
proprietors and editors of the Antijuif to pay author of &ldquo; Plus que Reine.&amp;quot; His fierce defence&lt;br /&gt;
damages amounting to twenty-eight thousand of the children of his brain make part of the&lt;br /&gt;
francs for injurious matter printed in the columns dramatic history of the period. In the preface&lt;br /&gt;
of the Antijuif. Wherefore the Israelites rejoice to the first volume of the &ldquo; Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Complet,&rdquo; M.&lt;br /&gt;
and the Philistines mourn.&lt;br /&gt;
Bergerat states that the publication of this work&lt;br /&gt;
represents thirty-five years of struggle&mdash;&ldquo;not&lt;br /&gt;
CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM.&lt;br /&gt;
without courage, perhaps &amp;quot;&mdash;for theatrical life.&lt;br /&gt;
The publication of the &ldquo;Vierges Fortes &amp;quot; series A little later he claims the glory of having&lt;br /&gt;
-comprising two novels respectively entitled invented the following three words, viz., Tripa-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fr&eacute;d&eacute;rique&amp;quot; and&ldquo; L&eacute;a &rdquo;-of M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, touillage, Cabotinville, Soireux, which, he says,&lt;br /&gt;
was quite a social event. The reason is obvious. have become national property, and sum up the&lt;br /&gt;
Both works deal in a masterly style with the entire history of the theatrical customs of his&lt;br /&gt;
burning question of contemporary Feminism, time. M. Rostand would probably entertain a&lt;br /&gt;
which is the prominent topic of the day. France different opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTI Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
-or rather Paris-is witnessing the tidal rise of&lt;br /&gt;
the Feministic Era which England successfully&lt;br /&gt;
encountered, developed, and utilised several&lt;br /&gt;
decades ago. Everything worth reading on the&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
subject is eagerly perused. The &ldquo;Femmes&lt;br /&gt;
Nouvelles &rdquo; of Paul and Victor Margueritte have&lt;br /&gt;
INHE annual dinner of the Women Writers was&lt;br /&gt;
just attained their twentieth re-edition (chez&lt;br /&gt;
held in the Criterion Restaurant on June 25.&lt;br /&gt;
Plon). Nevertheless, M. Pr&eacute;vost still remains&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Humphry Ward was president, and&lt;br /&gt;
the undisputed leader and apostle of the move-&lt;br /&gt;
among a large company were Mrs. Bishop, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
Hodgson Burnett, Miss Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler,&lt;br /&gt;
A recent article from bis pen in the Figaro,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Beatrice Harraden, Dr. Margaret Todd, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
anent the author&amp;#039;s right of publishing &ldquo; Le Secret&lt;br /&gt;
Clifford, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Miss Violet Hunt,&lt;br /&gt;
sentimental &agrave; deux,&amp;quot; has given rise to some&lt;br /&gt;
and Miss Clo Graves. The meeting was most&lt;br /&gt;
piquant controversy between him and M. Gabriele&lt;br /&gt;
successful. In concluding an eloquent reference&lt;br /&gt;
D&amp;#039;Annunzio &mdash; whom his admirers here have&lt;br /&gt;
to the late Miss Kingsley, Mrs. Humphry Ward&lt;br /&gt;
surnamed &ldquo;the Marcel Pr&eacute;vost of Italy.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
latter took umbrage at a supposed reflection&lt;br /&gt;
Those true knights-errant of intelligence and pity, who&lt;br /&gt;
(in an article which he confessed he had not&lt;br /&gt;
thought no travail of mind and body too great to face if&lt;br /&gt;
read) questioning the good taste of his having only they might come at the truth and tell it, who wandered,&lt;br /&gt;
staged Madame Eleonora Duse, under the thin suffered, laaghed, and learned, who made a new wisdom of&lt;br /&gt;
disguise of the Foscarina&amp;#039;s name, as the heroine&lt;br /&gt;
their fellows&mdash;it was of them that they might say in the&lt;br /&gt;
of his new novel, &ldquo; Le Feu,&rdquo; which work is now&lt;br /&gt;
words of a true poet who was with them that night&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Out of danger, dreams, disasters,&lt;br /&gt;
appearing in serial form in the Revue de Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
They arise to be our masters.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
No such reflection had ever been made&mdash;at least, Small and thin was the true band of them in every age.&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Pr&eacute;vost. Matters were finally explained, One of its most honoured members assuredly was with them&lt;br /&gt;
and the susceptible Italian declared himself satis-&lt;br /&gt;
as she spoke, Mrs. Bishop; and of their inmost company&lt;br /&gt;
fied. The celebrity of the personages concerned&lt;br /&gt;
let them as women rejoice in it with pride that night was&lt;br /&gt;
Mary Kingsley.&lt;br /&gt;
has given undue notoriety to the incident.&lt;br /&gt;
The members of the Authors&amp;#039; Club held a&lt;br /&gt;
A DRAMATIC CONTRAST.&lt;br /&gt;
dinner on Monday, June 11, when Mr. E. F.&lt;br /&gt;
The health of M. Edmond Rostand is reported Knight, the correspondent of the Morning Post&lt;br /&gt;
to be completely re-established. According to who was wounded at Belmont, was the guest of&lt;br /&gt;
the theatrical returns published at the end of the evening, and Mr. Bloundelle-Burton, an old&lt;br /&gt;
May, the &ldquo; Aiglon&rdquo; is making 11,000 francs friend of Mr. Knight, and the well-known author&lt;br /&gt;
a day, and &ldquo; Cyrano de Bergerac&amp;quot; 10,000 francs. of the &ldquo; Hispaniola Plate,&amp;quot; was the chairman..&lt;br /&gt;
Whereby the lucky dramatist daily pockets a Mr. Bloundelle-Burton made a very interesting&lt;br /&gt;
royalty of 2500 francs&mdash;a princely revenue. speech with regard to Mr. Knight&amp;#039;s career, and&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
said :&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Knight in response gave a graphic description&lt;br /&gt;
of the fighting powers of Tommy Atkins and his&lt;br /&gt;
experiences during the battle of Belmont.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frankfort Moore proposed the health of&lt;br /&gt;
the other guests, amongst whom was Mr. Charlton,&lt;br /&gt;
one of the engineer officers of H.M.S. Powerful.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charlton gave a detailed account of the part&lt;br /&gt;
that the crew of the Powerful had taken in the&lt;br /&gt;
war from the time of their leaving Singapore.&lt;br /&gt;
There were about thirty members present, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Percy White, Mr. E. A. Morton, Mr. G. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Mr. Douglas Sladen, and Mr. M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann being among the number.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday, June 18, the Authors&amp;#039; Club held a&lt;br /&gt;
dinner to Lord Strathcona. There was a large&lt;br /&gt;
gathering. Mr. Robert Machray was in the chair.&lt;br /&gt;
In answer to the toast of his health Lord Strath-&lt;br /&gt;
cona gave some very interesting facts about his&lt;br /&gt;
connection with the Hudson Bay Company, and&lt;br /&gt;
that company&amp;#039;s connection with the Empire, and&lt;br /&gt;
he ended his speech with a statement regarding&lt;br /&gt;
the enthusiasm of the Canadians in their action&lt;br /&gt;
in the present war. He stated that all the&lt;br /&gt;
Colonials were not so much fighting for the Mother&lt;br /&gt;
Country as fighting for themselves as part of the&lt;br /&gt;
Empire. His speech was enthusiastically received.&lt;br /&gt;
and dreary as the mines of Potosi. Yet from either there is&lt;br /&gt;
no return, and though little confident of finding content-&lt;br /&gt;
ment-happiness is too proud a term-I must work, I&lt;br /&gt;
believe, in those damp caverns till once the whole mind is&lt;br /&gt;
recast or the lamp of life has ceased to burn within it.&lt;br /&gt;
In the same collection was the following letter&lt;br /&gt;
from the Countess of Blessington :-&lt;br /&gt;
Since I first sent a book before the public I never,&lt;br /&gt;
directly or indirectly, asked for a notice of a book of mine.&lt;br /&gt;
I have hitherto been so fortunate as to have had my works&lt;br /&gt;
kindly treated by the Press, but this kind treatment would&lt;br /&gt;
have given me but little satisfaction had I owed it to any&lt;br /&gt;
solicitations of mine.&lt;br /&gt;
The following letter by Dr. Conan Doyle is taken&lt;br /&gt;
from the columns of the Daily Telegraph, to whose&lt;br /&gt;
veteran war correspondent in South Africa, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Bennet Burleigh, the letter was addressed. &ldquo;As&lt;br /&gt;
I fear to spoil or transpose Dr. Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
graphic depiction of the event,&rdquo; says Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Burleigh, &ldquo;I give it in his own words&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;
Brandfort, Monday, May 7.&lt;br /&gt;
My dear Barleigh, - ... and saw a little fight&lt;br /&gt;
beyond the Vet River. We had a curious adventure on the&lt;br /&gt;
way back, which might perhaps make a paragraph for a&lt;br /&gt;
letter if ever the great events run short. Langman and I&lt;br /&gt;
were riding back, and had reached the point where the&lt;br /&gt;
engagement was the day before, when a mounted Kaffi,&lt;br /&gt;
came across us, and told us that a wounded Englishman&lt;br /&gt;
had been deserted or overlooked, and was out some two or&lt;br /&gt;
three miles to the west on the veldt. We got him to guide&lt;br /&gt;
us, and set off in search. At last, in the middle of a large&lt;br /&gt;
clear space, we came across him, but he was dead. He was shot&lt;br /&gt;
in the stomach and through one arm, and had apparently bled&lt;br /&gt;
to death. He belonged to the New South Wales Mounted&lt;br /&gt;
Infantry, and had the initials &ldquo;N. M&amp;#039;M.&amp;quot; upon bis batand on a&lt;br /&gt;
silk handkerchief in his pocket. Horse and rifle were gone. A&lt;br /&gt;
carious detail was that his water-bottle lay beside him, and&lt;br /&gt;
on it was balanced a red chess pawn. The other chessmen&lt;br /&gt;
were in his haversack out of his reach. We laid the poor&lt;br /&gt;
fellow across my saddle and led the horse back to the road,&lt;br /&gt;
where we placed him under a telegraph post, and told the&lt;br /&gt;
officer of the next convoy, who promised to have him&lt;br /&gt;
decently buried.&lt;br /&gt;
Close to Brandfort we saw mounted and armed Boers on&lt;br /&gt;
a hill within half a mile of us. We were told that they&lt;br /&gt;
were Boers, and did not believe it, but this morning we&lt;br /&gt;
learn that they have been pursued. I suppose that they&lt;br /&gt;
thought we were too small game, but as we were unarmed and&lt;br /&gt;
apon tired horses, we were lucky to get past them.&lt;br /&gt;
A. CONAN DOYLE.&lt;br /&gt;
The President of the Argentine Republic has&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the adhesion of the Kingdom of Italy to&lt;br /&gt;
the Treaty of Montevideo-A South American&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Union. Signor F. Foa discusses, in&lt;br /&gt;
an interesting article in the pages of our Italian&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary I Dritti d&amp;#039;Autore, the value to&lt;br /&gt;
Italian authors of this new international agree&lt;br /&gt;
ment. The advantages which it will confer do&lt;br /&gt;
not appear to be very great.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Thring contributes an interesting article&lt;br /&gt;
on &ldquo;The Copyright Bills, 1900,&amp;quot; to the Nine.&lt;br /&gt;
teenth Century for June. The article is a plain&lt;br /&gt;
statement of facts. At its conclusion the author&lt;br /&gt;
remarks dryly, respecting the Bills, &ldquo;Whatever&lt;br /&gt;
may be their demerits, they claim to have&lt;br /&gt;
reduced the law into an intelligible shape, in&lt;br /&gt;
which it is capable of being criticised by the most&lt;br /&gt;
unlearned of authors, and of being amended by&lt;br /&gt;
the most inexperienced of legislators.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES FROM AMERICA.&lt;br /&gt;
A letter written by Carlyle from Edinburgh&lt;br /&gt;
in 1821 was sold in London recently in the&lt;br /&gt;
collection belonging to the late Chevalier de&lt;br /&gt;
Chatelain. It was addressed to Dr. Allen, and&lt;br /&gt;
contained the following revelation of the philo-&lt;br /&gt;
sopher&amp;#039;s mind-he was then only twenty-six :-&lt;br /&gt;
Literature is like money, the appetite increases by&lt;br /&gt;
gratification. The mines of literature, too, are unwholesome&lt;br /&gt;
LOLLOWING the evidence of publishers that&lt;br /&gt;
F there is an improving market for the&lt;br /&gt;
better class of books, the New York&lt;br /&gt;
Evening Post adds the testimony of the Hart-&lt;br /&gt;
ford (Conn.) Public Library, as given in the&lt;br /&gt;
president&amp;#039;s annual report. From this it appears&lt;br /&gt;
that there has been a large gain in more serious&lt;br /&gt;
reading matter at the expense of tiction. As&lt;br /&gt;
compared with two years ago, novels have fallen&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
29&lt;br /&gt;
off 7 per cent., while sociology has gained about&lt;br /&gt;
8 per cent., the fine arts and history 11 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
each, and biography 15 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
A complete edition of the works of Mr. Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
Wentworth Higginson&mdash;who, at seventy-five, is&lt;br /&gt;
still active with his pen-is being prepared by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
A new serial by Mr. Hamlin Garland has just&lt;br /&gt;
begun. It is a story of Western life, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Eagle&amp;#039;s Heart,&rdquo; and deals with adventurous&lt;br /&gt;
life in cow towns and mining settlements.&lt;br /&gt;
Commenting on the recent financial difficulties&lt;br /&gt;
of Messrs. Appleton, the Sewanee Review for&lt;br /&gt;
April (Longmans) says:&lt;br /&gt;
Coming so soon after the Harper assignment, this notable&lt;br /&gt;
event in the publishing world calls special attention to the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the pablisher of to-day does business on very&lt;br /&gt;
different lines from his predecessor. Production must now&lt;br /&gt;
be on a large scale if success is to be attained, and produc-&lt;br /&gt;
tion on a large scale means a big smash if affairs go wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
Local booksellers have long since gone to the wall; will&lt;br /&gt;
publishers go, too, leaving a trust monarch of all it surveys ?&lt;br /&gt;
We hope not.&lt;br /&gt;
The people of Northampton (Mass.) and dis-&lt;br /&gt;
tinguished guests from abroad have just erected a&lt;br /&gt;
memorial to Jonathan Edwards, the American&lt;br /&gt;
philosopher of the eighteenth century, and a&lt;br /&gt;
For the eighteenth century, and, a&lt;br /&gt;
proposal is made to issue a new edition of his&lt;br /&gt;
works.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Janice Meredith&rdquo; has been dramatised, the&lt;br /&gt;
rights of production going to Miss Mary Manner-&lt;br /&gt;
ing. Mr. Daniel Frohman will present&ldquo; Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Carvel &rdquo; in the coming season.&lt;br /&gt;
Ogilvie, Stuart&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Louis N.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Barnett&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Sonnenschein, A.&lt;br /&gt;
Prinsep, Val&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Scott, Clement&lt;br /&gt;
Todd, Dr. Margaret&lt;br /&gt;
Senior, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Zangwill, I.&lt;br /&gt;
Shaw, Bernard&lt;br /&gt;
And many others.&lt;br /&gt;
The Chairman gave the toast of the evening,&lt;br /&gt;
and began his speech by an allusion to the losses&lt;br /&gt;
that letters had suffered through the deaths of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Ruskin, Dr. Martineau, Mr. R. D. Blackmore, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. W. Steevens. Proceeding, Mr. Pinero said :&lt;br /&gt;
This corporation of prominent literary men and&lt;br /&gt;
women to-night, for the first time in its history-&lt;br /&gt;
for the first time in the history of any modern&lt;br /&gt;
literary association-extends a kindly hand to the&lt;br /&gt;
poor hack-playwright. What is the reason, ladies&lt;br /&gt;
and gentlemen, underlying this generous and&lt;br /&gt;
gracious act on the part of the governing body of&lt;br /&gt;
your Society? I cannot tell you. I can only&lt;br /&gt;
indulge in surmise, in hypotheses. A vainer&lt;br /&gt;
person than myself might suppose that your&lt;br /&gt;
council is desirous of promoting a feeling of&lt;br /&gt;
fraternity, of establishing something approach-&lt;br /&gt;
ing a bond of equality between writers of books&lt;br /&gt;
and writers of plays. (Cheers.) But I cannot&lt;br /&gt;
think that; the assumption would be too arro.&lt;br /&gt;
gant. At the furthest, I can only believe that&lt;br /&gt;
certain members of your Council-grey-haired&lt;br /&gt;
men, perhaps, anxious to be at peace with the&lt;br /&gt;
world, even with playwrights; gentlemen of&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledged literary eminence, but possessed of&lt;br /&gt;
those normal feelings of compassion of which&lt;br /&gt;
writers of scholarly English are not necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
destitute&mdash;I can only believe that these gentlemen&lt;br /&gt;
have been impelled by a simple good-natured&lt;br /&gt;
impulse to bestow a passing pat-on-the-back upon&lt;br /&gt;
a poor, distant relative. (Laughter.) It may be&lt;br /&gt;
that I take too depressed a view of the whole&lt;br /&gt;
affair. It may be that the novelist is not only&lt;br /&gt;
gradually relaxing in his disdain for the drama,&lt;br /&gt;
but is applying himself assiduously to the task&lt;br /&gt;
of grasping the special conditions of dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
writing. It may be that in doing this he has&lt;br /&gt;
become possessed of the suspicion that these con-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions are exceptionally arduous, that they are&lt;br /&gt;
conditions requiring a wide and curious knowledge&lt;br /&gt;
of life and of manners, a rapid but assured touch&lt;br /&gt;
in the delineation of surface characteristics,&lt;br /&gt;
an unerringly accurate ear in striking the deeper&lt;br /&gt;
notes of pathos and of passion, and a wise&lt;br /&gt;
economy of selection and a dexterity of composi.&lt;br /&gt;
tion exacted by no other form of art. It may be,&lt;br /&gt;
too, that from his own young experience he is&lt;br /&gt;
beginning to perceive that while out of the&lt;br /&gt;
theatre the despised playwright labours in cir.&lt;br /&gt;
cumstances demanding the exercise of the closest&lt;br /&gt;
application and the practice of the sternest self-&lt;br /&gt;
denial, the writer of drama should bring to the&lt;br /&gt;
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE INCORPORATED&lt;br /&gt;
SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
[Owing to the fact that the original dinner report has been&lt;br /&gt;
lost or mislaid, the present curtailed report has been&lt;br /&gt;
inserted at the last moment.]&lt;br /&gt;
THE annual dinner of the Society was held in&lt;br /&gt;
the King&amp;#039;s Hall of Holborn Restaurant on&lt;br /&gt;
May 16, and was a large and highly suc-&lt;br /&gt;
cessful gathering Mr. A. W. Pinero presided.&lt;br /&gt;
Among the company were&lt;br /&gt;
Archer, William&lt;br /&gt;
Greville, Lady Violet&lt;br /&gt;
Ball, Sir Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Grundy, Sydney&lt;br /&gt;
Beringer, Mrs. Oscar&lt;br /&gt;
Hare, Mr. and Mrs. John&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, Anthony Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Blake, Dr. Sophia&lt;br /&gt;
Hooking, Rev. Silas&lt;br /&gt;
Browning, Oscar&lt;br /&gt;
Hollingshead, John&lt;br /&gt;
Castle, Egerton&lt;br /&gt;
Hunt, Holman&lt;br /&gt;
Charley, Sir W. J.&lt;br /&gt;
Jacobs, W. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Collier, The Hon. John and Lee, Sidney&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Lennox, Lady William&lt;br /&gt;
Colin Campbell, Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R.&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney, W.L.&lt;br /&gt;
Middlemass, Miss Jean&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell, Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Fitoh, Sir Joshua&lt;br /&gt;
Norma&lt;br /&gt;
an, Mr. and Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Grand, Mmo. Sarab&lt;br /&gt;
Henry&lt;br /&gt;
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30&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
rehearsal of his work evidence of his capacity for does she persist in calling herself Anthony&lt;br /&gt;
gently influencing and gaining the sympathy and Hope ? &amp;quot; (Laughter.) But what I was about to&lt;br /&gt;
support of clever men and women of diverse but say is that, with writers of such high account&lt;br /&gt;
peculiarly sensitive temperaments, without which devoting themselves in part to the theatre, it will&lt;br /&gt;
capacity no dramatist ought to pass the stage be a matter of small wonder if the prevalent and&lt;br /&gt;
door; possessing which capacity he might, in disparaging idea of contemporary drama, and of&lt;br /&gt;
other and more fortunate walks of life, have led those who give their energies wholly to dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
parties or won battles. And I am encouraged to writing, does not ultimately yield to a fairer, a&lt;br /&gt;
think that there is something in all this, by more truthful, estimate. Only one danger do I&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that the drama has lately received many apprehend from the invasion of the playhouse by&lt;br /&gt;
notable contributions from authors enjoying the novelist-and I confess the contemplation of&lt;br /&gt;
enviable reputations in other departments of litera- it chills me to the marrow&mdash;the possibility that&lt;br /&gt;
ture. I will not attempt to furnish you with a the mere playwright may some day find his occu-&lt;br /&gt;
complete roll of these authors; in such an endea- pation gone. Indeed, the rich imagination of&lt;br /&gt;
vour the memory might prove treacherous, and Mr. Wells might form a conception of a time&lt;br /&gt;
the omission of a single name would, perhaps, when the carefully preserved skeleton of the&lt;br /&gt;
make one appear less ignorant than ungracious. dramatist who was not a novelist will be all&lt;br /&gt;
But I cannot refrain from mentioning, especially, that is left to remind people of the old order&lt;br /&gt;
two writers who have thus distinguished them of things. However, time alone can decide&lt;br /&gt;
selves&mdash;who have, if I may say so, made them- whether or not events are to justify these&lt;br /&gt;
selves indispensable to the modern stage. I fears, and, meanwhile, it is well, I suggest to you,&lt;br /&gt;
speak of the gentleman who is incautiously that we should all dwell together in the most&lt;br /&gt;
described in the list of your Council as Mr. perfect good-fellowship. It may be that the im-&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, but who masks himself closely from provisatore, reciting his romances in the market&lt;br /&gt;
the public under another title, and of that charm- place, with flashing eye and to the accompani.&lt;br /&gt;
ing lady who, by her own perversity, obliges me ment of sweeping gesture, is a slightly more&lt;br /&gt;
to be so ungallant as to allude to her as John imposing figure than the marionette man as we&lt;br /&gt;
Oliver Hobbes. (Cheers.) I wonder whether espy him through the curtains of his booth&lt;br /&gt;
any of you ladies and gentlemen are, like myself, lovingly assorting his little company of dolls.&lt;br /&gt;
a little disturbed by the dark disguises of certain But each plays his part : each suffers or enjoys&lt;br /&gt;
of our modern writers. (Laughter.) I confess I his share of defeat or of success; each, upon&lt;br /&gt;
find it difficult to feel quite at ease with mysterious occasion, tightens his belt in answer to the&lt;br /&gt;
figures in sombre draperies and slouch bats. One cravings of hunger, or releases a button after a&lt;br /&gt;
is almost inclined, for example, in speaking of congratulatory feast; each knows what it is to&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hobbes and of the creator of the delightful be waked from sleep by the sound of his own&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Prisoner of Zenda,&rdquo; to drop into a whisper. sighing, or to shirk purposely the slumber that&lt;br /&gt;
And the confusion in the public mind, too, pro- would suspend, even for a moment, the conscious.&lt;br /&gt;
duced by the aliases of popular authors is ness of a rare prosperity. Let them, therefore&lt;br /&gt;
positively lamentable. Only the other day, while the marionette man and the weaver of&lt;br /&gt;
on a visit to a provincial town, I found myself tales &mdash; foregather at the end of their day&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sitting beside a young lady who takes an eager, labour, as we do to-night, and, between their&lt;br /&gt;
if somewhat uninformed, interest in current draughts of Falerno, console one another, and&lt;br /&gt;
literature. &ldquo;I wish you would explain to me,&rdquo; stimulate one another, and so help one another,&lt;br /&gt;
she said, &ldquo;why many of our famous novelists until the hour comes when the friendship must&lt;br /&gt;
appear to be so anxious to conceal their identity.&amp;quot; perforce be broken, when the voice in the market&lt;br /&gt;
I hazarded the conjecture that it is, in some place is hushed, or the booth is found empty. In&lt;br /&gt;
instances perhaps, a precautionary measure on the this spirit, ladies and gentlemen, in the spirit&lt;br /&gt;
part of those who may desire, in later years, the which this Society has done much, and will, I&lt;br /&gt;
opportunity of living down their successes. &ldquo;Tell venture to prophesy, do even more in the future,&lt;br /&gt;
me,&amp;quot; my companion went on, evidently far from to promote ; in the spirit expressed by&lt;br /&gt;
satisfied, &ldquo;tell me, have you ever met Mrs. the time-worn, but still eloquent, phrase-the&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie ?&rdquo; I said I had had that privilege. Brotherhood of Letters&mdash;I beg leave to submit&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; And what is your opinion of her as an author?&rdquo; the toast which it is my duty to propose. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
was the next question. I had no hesitation in With this toast I have the privilege of associating&lt;br /&gt;
replying, &ldquo; Assuredly one of the most brilliant the name of the gentleman of whom I have&lt;br /&gt;
women writers any country has produced.&rdquo; &ldquo;I already tremulously made mention-Mr. Hawkins.&lt;br /&gt;
agree with you,&rdquo; said my fair friend, &ldquo;I have And here you will, I am sure, appreciate the&lt;br /&gt;
read every word she has written. But why- renewed difficulties of my position. But if I&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
31&lt;br /&gt;
cannot overcome these difficulties, I can, I think, he told them that that was why he wrote them-&lt;br /&gt;
partially evade them; and with your permission (laughter)&mdash;and he therefore appreciated more the&lt;br /&gt;
I do so in this wise, by associating with this attitude of a man like Lord Monkswell, who had&lt;br /&gt;
toast the name of Mr. Hawkins and coupling probably not read his works, but had recognised,&lt;br /&gt;
with the name of Mr. Hawkins that of his friend, in his attitude towards the law of copyright, that&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hope. (Laughter.) Now, of Mr. Hawkins an author must live and have the means of feed.&lt;br /&gt;
I can say little, except that he is a devoted and ing bis brain so that it could produce the splendid&lt;br /&gt;
invaluable servant of this Society; and of Mr. visions that other people delighted to read about&lt;br /&gt;
Hope you will require me to tell you nothing, for in his books. (Laughter.) He thought the&lt;br /&gt;
is he not known to his brother and sister authors rights of authors should be as long-lived as&lt;br /&gt;
as a good comrade, and to the wide world as a those of the original shareholders in the New&lt;br /&gt;
writer of combined daintiness and power, and of River Company. After all, Shakespeare might&lt;br /&gt;
apparently inexhaustible fertility ? Indeed, tbe without exaggeration be considered to have done&lt;br /&gt;
worst I have ever heard of Mr. Anthony Hope- as much for the nation as one of those share.&lt;br /&gt;
and if I have not heard it, I must have dreamed holders. (Laughter and cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
it-is that it may be remarked of him as a writer LORD MONKSWELL responded.&lt;br /&gt;
that his profundity will never be remembered till Mr. HENRY Norman, in giving &ldquo; The Chair-&lt;br /&gt;
we have succeeded in forgetting his vivacity. I man,&rdquo; said the laughter caused by Mr. Pinero&lt;br /&gt;
do not know how just a reflection you may consider was not as the crackling of thorns under the pot,&lt;br /&gt;
this to be, but it is one that can be more easily but was always ornamented by a valuable idea.&lt;br /&gt;
repelled by Mr. Hawkins, or apologised for by He had given to the world the solemnities as seen&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hope, than dealt with by myself. I will no through the eyes of the humorist. He had held&lt;br /&gt;
longer, therefore, stand between you and these up the mirror to life as it was, and consequently&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen. I give you&ldquo; The Society of Authors.&rdquo; the absurd cbarge of indecency was made against&lt;br /&gt;
Let us drink to its continued, its increasing, him. (Laughter.) The toast would be drunk&lt;br /&gt;
usefulness and welfare. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
with especial heartiness. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS replied to the Mr. Pinero made a brief reply, and the com-&lt;br /&gt;
toast. The Society of Authors, he said, was pany adjourned to tea and talk.&lt;br /&gt;
making steady progress, but it wanted money.&lt;br /&gt;
Every day it was asked to undertake important&lt;br /&gt;
work which it could not undertake because of&lt;br /&gt;
this deficiency. There was notably the case of&lt;br /&gt;
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.&lt;br /&gt;
America. The relations of literary men with that&lt;br /&gt;
country were becoming more and more intimate&lt;br /&gt;
and important, and the Society felt it desirable to&lt;br /&gt;
IN the year 1887, shortly after the foundation&lt;br /&gt;
maintain in America a permanent staff to look&lt;br /&gt;
1 of the Society, an article appeared in Time,&lt;br /&gt;
after the interests of British authors. (Hear,&lt;br /&gt;
e a monthly magazine now extinct, on the&lt;br /&gt;
hear.) Next year the Society would make a start&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors. It is signed with the name&lt;br /&gt;
with the Pension Fund. A man who had done&lt;br /&gt;
of J. Neville Porter, a writer of whom I know&lt;br /&gt;
good literary work would not under this scheme get&lt;br /&gt;
nothing. His name is not in the list of Barristers&lt;br /&gt;
charity from the Society, but his brothers would&lt;br /&gt;
and Solicitors for this current year. He writes,&lt;br /&gt;
offer him a testimonial in the shape of a good,&lt;br /&gt;
however, with apparent knowledge of law, and was&lt;br /&gt;
solid pension. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
laudably desirous of presenting the facts of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. BERNARD Shaw then proposed &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
case as he understood them. So much has been&lt;br /&gt;
Guests.&amp;quot; He said he bad often been asked why&lt;br /&gt;
done since that time that it is well to look&lt;br /&gt;
he became an author, and had given many&lt;br /&gt;
back and to consider arguments and statements&lt;br /&gt;
reasons, most of them untrue&mdash;(laughter)-but&lt;br /&gt;
advanced thirteen years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
the real reason was because he had an unconquer.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SALE OF A MS. OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
able aversion to honest work of any description. We find a publisher writing to say that he&lt;br /&gt;
(Laughter.) He had had to work a good deal should take no notice at all of any opinion of the&lt;br /&gt;
harder than people who had adopted honest Society as to the fair price. He understands by&lt;br /&gt;
means, and he would therefore point out to those this time that the author would then go to some-&lt;br /&gt;
who had not become authors, and therefore one else. Mr. Porter remarks, however, that&lt;br /&gt;
wanted to&mdash;(laughter)&mdash;that, if they entered the authors are not the best judges of the value of&lt;br /&gt;
profession on his grounds, they would probably MSS. He did not understand that the Society&lt;br /&gt;
be disappointed. (Laughter.) When people intended to proceed with the advice and help of&lt;br /&gt;
told him, with a slight air of unexpectedness, secretaries and solicitors always engaged upon the&lt;br /&gt;
that they had read his books and admired them, subject of Literary Property, and with a perma-&lt;br /&gt;
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32&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
nent committee also continually engaged upon inore than, as said above, a solicitor or a medical&lt;br /&gt;
the subject; so that it may now be fairly ad. man.&lt;br /&gt;
vanced that the Chairman and Secretary of the The author&amp;#039;s risk, where there is risk, is his&lt;br /&gt;
Society, not to speak of the Committee, have time and labour; the publisher&amp;#039;s risk, where there&lt;br /&gt;
between them a wider and firmer grasp of the is risk, is the money actually expended and the&lt;br /&gt;
subject than any publisher or company of pub. proportionate cost of his establishment.&lt;br /&gt;
lishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is another reference to a leading case :&lt;br /&gt;
Here, however, is a warning which should be&lt;br /&gt;
A contract between an anthor and a publisher, that the&lt;br /&gt;
looked into. We have always protested against&lt;br /&gt;
latter should, at his own risk and expense, publish a work&lt;br /&gt;
any alteration of an author&amp;#039;s work without his belonging to the former upon payment of an equal division&lt;br /&gt;
consent. Read this note from the article :-&lt;br /&gt;
of the profits after all charges had been defrayed, may,&lt;br /&gt;
It bas been decided in the case of Cox v. Cox (11 Hare,&lt;br /&gt;
according to the dictum of Lord Justice Tarner in the case&lt;br /&gt;
118), that in the absence of a specific contract, reserving&lt;br /&gt;
of Stevens v. Benning (6 D. M. G. 229), be considered in&lt;br /&gt;
to the author a qualified copyright, the purchaser of a MS.&lt;br /&gt;
the double light of a licence and a partnership-a licence for&lt;br /&gt;
is entitled to alter and deal with it according to his&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of the treatise, and then a joint adventure&lt;br /&gt;
discretion. The consequence has been that several treatises&lt;br /&gt;
between the author and publisher in the copies to be thus&lt;br /&gt;
have been published in &amp;amp; ridiculous manner, much to the&lt;br /&gt;
published. A pablisher, therefore, on the half-profit&lt;br /&gt;
prejudice of the writers. The remedy for this is, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
Bystem, is bound to show the author his accounts and&lt;br /&gt;
a matter for the agreement-form.&lt;br /&gt;
vouchers in respect of the work published, or an action&lt;br /&gt;
may be commenced to compel him to do so unless the pab.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher satisfies the judge that there is some preliminary&lt;br /&gt;
THE HALF-Profit System.&lt;br /&gt;
question to be tried. It is not, therefore, necessary to bave&lt;br /&gt;
It appears that Mr. E. Marston, according to &amp;amp; stipulation in the agreement to this effect.&lt;br /&gt;
this writer, had written to the papers, stating&lt;br /&gt;
When there is no assignment of copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
that he knew nothing of any secret profits.&lt;br /&gt;
the agreement, and no stipulated time during&lt;br /&gt;
It was stated, from knowledge, by those who which the publisher is entitled to publish a book,&lt;br /&gt;
then represented the Society that there existed a&lt;br /&gt;
can the author put an end to the contract ? On&lt;br /&gt;
widespread system of secret profits, viz., by adding this point Mr. Porter is instructive :-&lt;br /&gt;
to the cost of printing, paper, corrections, and&lt;br /&gt;
If the author endeavour to put an end to the contract,&lt;br /&gt;
binding; and further, by advertisements costing and to stop the publication of any subsequent edition by&lt;br /&gt;
nothing to the publisher, such as advertisements the publisher, he must take action for this object previous&lt;br /&gt;
in their own organs and by exchanges. It has to any expenso being incurred by the publisher on account&lt;br /&gt;
been remarked repeatedly that in the agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
of such new edition; otherwise the publisher is entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
be repaid this cost, and to enjoy the benefit of all the profit&lt;br /&gt;
forms put forward by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association&lt;br /&gt;
the hope of which induced him to incur this expense. But&lt;br /&gt;
they claim the right of adding percentages, and when expense has not been incurred by the pablisher on a&lt;br /&gt;
say nothing about the advertisements which cost subsequent edition, the author can lawfully terminate the&lt;br /&gt;
nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
joint undertaking, and prevent any further issue of his work&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Porter in this article falls into the trap&lt;br /&gt;
by the publisher, even if the latter has stereotyped the&lt;br /&gt;
book before the publication of the last published edition.&lt;br /&gt;
set for him, and looks upon the publisher as an&lt;br /&gt;
In deciding this question in 1838 in the case of Reade v.&lt;br /&gt;
agent as well as a publisher. The publisher is Bentley (4 Kay &amp;amp; J. 664-6), Vice-Chancellor Wood (after.&lt;br /&gt;
entitled, Mr. Porter says, to a profit on every wards Lord Hatherley) pointed out the difficulties which&lt;br /&gt;
thing, to cover incidental expenses, and the cost&lt;br /&gt;
were connected with the subject, and the grounds on which&lt;br /&gt;
of his establishment; in other words, to cover&lt;br /&gt;
his judgment was based. He mentioned that, while on the&lt;br /&gt;
one band it might be stated on bebalf of the publisher that&lt;br /&gt;
his own work in the business. What claim has&lt;br /&gt;
he had devoted the benefit of his talents and status as a&lt;br /&gt;
he, after this, on the proceeds of the book ? And publisher to the undertaking, and bad incurred charges in&lt;br /&gt;
why are not the author&amp;#039;s &ldquo;incidental expenses &amp;quot; respect of bringing out the first edition in the hope that he&lt;br /&gt;
and the cost of his establishment to be con. would be repaid the expense of the first by the sale of the&lt;br /&gt;
sidered? And why are not the bookseller&amp;#039;s inci.&lt;br /&gt;
second and subsequent editions, and to hold the author at&lt;br /&gt;
his own instance to be at liberty to put an end to the agree-&lt;br /&gt;
dental expenses and the cost of his establishment&lt;br /&gt;
ment after the first edition had been published, would be to&lt;br /&gt;
to be considered ? And why do not solicitors, enable him, by an arbitrary and unreasonable exercise of&lt;br /&gt;
medical men, and professional men of all kinds that power, to deprive the publisher of all his profits. On&lt;br /&gt;
charge for their establishments ? The history the contrary, it might be contended, on behalf of the&lt;br /&gt;
of the half-profit system is simply this : It meant,&lt;br /&gt;
anthor, that unless he was empowered to terminate the&lt;br /&gt;
contract, he might be under an obligation to the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
at first, the honest deduction from proceeds of&lt;br /&gt;
during the whole of the latter&amp;#039;s life, while the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
actual cost and money expended. The publisher would be under no reciprocal obligation to bim. The former&lt;br /&gt;
then began to filch and to steal : he said he had could also prevent the author from publishing a single copy&lt;br /&gt;
spent &pound;20 when he had only spent &pound;15, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
of the treatise so long as the publisher expressed his readi.&lt;br /&gt;
ness to continue publishing. The author, however, would&lt;br /&gt;
Then he began to rob on a system of adding so&lt;br /&gt;
bave no reciprocal power, and could not compel the pab.&lt;br /&gt;
much per cent.&mdash;saying nothing about it. Of&lt;br /&gt;
lisher to publish more than a single edition of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
course he has no right to any such profit any The latter, moreover, in the bona fide exercise of his discre.&lt;br /&gt;
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33&lt;br /&gt;
tion as to the proper time and mode of publication, might twelve. Aboat &pound;150 was spent by the plaintiffs in adver.&lt;br /&gt;
decline indefinitely to publish, but without giving up his tising the book, and more than 40,000 copies of it were sold.&lt;br /&gt;
agreement, while the author, at the same time, might be of As, however, Mrs. Cook became offended with the plaintiffs&lt;br /&gt;
an opposite opinion, yet for months, and even years, might for describing the book as a companion work of their series,&lt;br /&gt;
be kept in suspense, and probibited from publishing on his she gave them notice to put an end to the contract with&lt;br /&gt;
own account, until the publisher thought that the time had them, and entered into an agreement for the issue of a&lt;br /&gt;
arrived for the revival of the public interest in the book. revised edition of the book with Messrs. Routledge. It was&lt;br /&gt;
Under such circumstances, this learned judge thought the firstly maintained by the plaintiffs that their agreement&lt;br /&gt;
position of the author to be one of so great hardship and with Mrs. Cook amounted to a sale of the copyright; but,&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty, that anless it was clearly proved to have been at the hearing of the case, they merely moved for an injunc.&lt;br /&gt;
contemplated by both the contracting parties it should not tion to restrain the farther publication of the book as long&lt;br /&gt;
be enforced.&lt;br /&gt;
as any copies printed by them before the receipt of the&lt;br /&gt;
notice were unsold. The injunction, however, was not&lt;br /&gt;
On a royalty system we have advanced so much&lt;br /&gt;
granted, and the plaintiffs&amp;#039; bill of complaint was dismissed&lt;br /&gt;
that Mr. Porter&amp;#039;s remarks need not be quoted. with costs. The verbal agreement referred to was 28&lt;br /&gt;
follows, according to the statement of Mr. Warne, mentioned&lt;br /&gt;
THE COMMISSION SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
by the Master of the Rolls in his judgment, viz. : &ldquo;I,&amp;quot; said&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Warne, &amp;quot;offered a royalty of a penny a copy on all&lt;br /&gt;
On the commission system he says that profits copies sold, counting thirteen copies as twelve ; to which&lt;br /&gt;
-i.e., secret profits-on the cost of production&lt;br /&gt;
she replied, I have a speculative turn of mind, and will&lt;br /&gt;
are reasonable. Surely when a man agrees&lt;br /&gt;
take the penny.&amp;#039; To this I consented.&rdquo; This is all the con-&lt;br /&gt;
versation that occurred, and is the evidence upon which the&lt;br /&gt;
to act as agent for another man, and to sell&lt;br /&gt;
agreement is based. It is to be hoped that this case will&lt;br /&gt;
his wares for a fixed percentage, to take secretly be &amp;amp; warning to authors and publishers against entering&lt;br /&gt;
another kind of percentage is pure swindling and into a mere verbal arrangement for publication. It is oppor.&lt;br /&gt;
cheating. Mr. Porter does not seem to under. tane to remark concerning this point that, if &amp;amp; contract&lt;br /&gt;
stand this. Very few people did thirteen years&lt;br /&gt;
between an author and publisher is one that cannot be per.&lt;br /&gt;
formed within a year after being made, no legal action is&lt;br /&gt;
ago. His words, however, on vouchers show his&lt;br /&gt;
maintainable upon it for its enforcement, unless the agree-&lt;br /&gt;
desire to present the subject fairly :-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, or some memorandum or note of such, is in writing,&lt;br /&gt;
The commission publisher is under the same legal obliga-&lt;br /&gt;
and signed by the person to be charged therewith. It is&lt;br /&gt;
tion to show his accounts and vouchers on demand by the&lt;br /&gt;
not necessary, however, for this purpose that the agreement&lt;br /&gt;
author, as the half-profit system publisher is bound to show&lt;br /&gt;
should be in one document. It may be collected from many&lt;br /&gt;
them to his author, as the former publisher is the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
papers if they are clearly connected, and do not reqaire&lt;br /&gt;
agent.&lt;br /&gt;
parol testimony to maintain the connection, as such&lt;br /&gt;
evidence is inadmissible for that object.&lt;br /&gt;
On the subject of &amp;quot;risk&rdquo; he has been led&lt;br /&gt;
The rest of the paper is devoted to speculation&lt;br /&gt;
astray, as so many used to be, by a confusion of&lt;br /&gt;
as to the future of the Society. The writer thinks&lt;br /&gt;
thought. Those who wrote on one side used,&lt;br /&gt;
that authors will rather go to their solicitors than&lt;br /&gt;
and still use, the word &ldquo; risk&rdquo; to signify danger&lt;br /&gt;
to a committee of authors, still under the supposi-&lt;br /&gt;
of loss; the publishers confused the minds of&lt;br /&gt;
tion that the Committee will themselves attempt&lt;br /&gt;
people by meaning chance of not making great&lt;br /&gt;
lawyers&amp;#039; work. He also thinks that publishers&lt;br /&gt;
profits. There are hundreds of writers, taking all&lt;br /&gt;
will refuse to treat with authors who send agree-&lt;br /&gt;
the branches, whose books carry no kind of risk-&lt;br /&gt;
ments to the Society, forgetting that if one&lt;br /&gt;
i.e., they are quite certain to be sold up to a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher puts his dignity before his business&lt;br /&gt;
number which will pay all expenses and leave a another man will reverse the operation.&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable margin. There are not many books&lt;br /&gt;
which are certain to sell in large quantities. That&lt;br /&gt;
THEN AND Now.&lt;br /&gt;
is as true to-day, when the demand for books has The Society proposed at the outset to recom-&lt;br /&gt;
so greatly increased, as it was thirteen years ago. mend authors to houses where they would be safe&lt;br /&gt;
-or comparatively safe. It is objected that&lt;br /&gt;
THE NEED FOR AGREEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
experienced authors will not need the advice of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, and that inexperienced authors will&lt;br /&gt;
As to the folly of not looking after agreements,&lt;br /&gt;
find the publishers unwilling to publish in the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Porter adduced a remarkable case :-&lt;br /&gt;
mode recommended by the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
A notewortby instance of this was stated in the case of&lt;br /&gt;
Now, during the whole period of its existence,&lt;br /&gt;
Warne v. Routledge, adjadicated upon by Sir George Jessel,&lt;br /&gt;
Master of the Rolls, in Jane, 1874. In this instance, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
the Society has steadily kept its members out of&lt;br /&gt;
Milicent Cook wrote a book called &ldquo;How to Dress on &pound;15 certain publishers&rsquo; hands. . Authors experienced&lt;br /&gt;
a Year as a Lady, by a Lady,&amp;quot; and entered into a verbal and authors inexperienced use the Society for&lt;br /&gt;
contract with Messrs. Warne and Co. that they should information and for advice : they come to the&lt;br /&gt;
pablish the work anonymously, and incur all expenses&lt;br /&gt;
Society when they are in difficulties. They get&lt;br /&gt;
directly and indirectly connected therewith, and that each&lt;br /&gt;
copy should be published at one shilling, and that the plain.&lt;br /&gt;
a legal opinion for nothing, and that of a kind&lt;br /&gt;
tiffs were to remunerate her by a royalty of one penny for which requires special knowledge which their own&lt;br /&gt;
each copy sold. The copies were to be rookoned thirteen as solicitors could not give them.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
boys.&lt;br /&gt;
The failure of these forebodings is instructive Straightforward copying, duplicating, &amp;amp;c., are&lt;br /&gt;
and interesting.&lt;br /&gt;
still fairly easy to obtain, but the ever increasing&lt;br /&gt;
The writer acknowledges at the end of his paper army of &amp;quot; pocket-money &rdquo; workers who can afford&lt;br /&gt;
that the Society may have a great future before to undersell their work makes it increasingly&lt;br /&gt;
it. Yet he does not understand the greatness of difficult for a copyist to earn a living wage.&lt;br /&gt;
that future.&lt;br /&gt;
Some of us have to earn our own living by our&lt;br /&gt;
One point he advances which seems worth con. own unaided efforts, and some of us would gladly&lt;br /&gt;
sidering, but is not. He thinks that the Society earn it by less mechanical means&mdash;by making our&lt;br /&gt;
might point out methods of literary training for machines the handmaids of our intellect, and by&lt;br /&gt;
the higher class of instructive literary work. The placing our capacities of mind at the service of&lt;br /&gt;
only method of literary training for this higher those who write. A BOOK-LOVING TYPIST.&lt;br /&gt;
class of work is a full mind. A writer in order&lt;br /&gt;
to be instructive must be himself a scholar and a&lt;br /&gt;
student in his subject. Toe rest can be learned&lt;br /&gt;
II.-CONCERNING BOOKS FOR Boys.&lt;br /&gt;
by any work on rhetoric which will point out the The piece which you print in your June number&lt;br /&gt;
meaning of arrangement and order, attention to under this heading is useful, as a good example of&lt;br /&gt;
the marshalling of facts and an endeavour to aim the prevalent opinion with regard to books for&lt;br /&gt;
at the charm of style and language.&lt;br /&gt;
** Any trash will do,&amp;quot; says the writer in the&lt;br /&gt;
Guardian from whose article you have quoted,&lt;br /&gt;
and this sentiment is apparently indorsed by&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers and reviewers. The very manner in&lt;br /&gt;
which the &ldquo; gift book&rdquo; makes its annual appear-&lt;br /&gt;
I.-AUXILIARY LITERARY WORK.&lt;br /&gt;
ance on the market is sufficient to rank it as some.&lt;br /&gt;
CAY I draw your attention to a branch of thing equal in value to Christmas crackers and&lt;br /&gt;
auxiliary literary work, i.e., typewriting candied fruit.&lt;br /&gt;
in combination with what, for want of The pay for this class of work is miserably&lt;br /&gt;
a better term, I must call secretarial duties? The poor; the reason, I am told, being the large dis-&lt;br /&gt;
question for the educated typist who aspires to be count which the publisher has to give to the book.&lt;br /&gt;
something more than part of ber machine is, How seller, while the reviewing is altogether a farce,&lt;br /&gt;
may such work be obtained ?&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; innocents&amp;quot; being slaughtered in batches of&lt;br /&gt;
It is depressing to read lists of historical, from thirty to forty in a single column. When&lt;br /&gt;
biographical, and educational books, and to a longer&ldquo; notice&amp;quot; is given, it is often worse&lt;br /&gt;
realise that all of them have entailed a consider than none at all. I have been severely lectured&lt;br /&gt;
able amount of auxiliary work-such as copying for &ldquo; preaching a sermon on horse-racing,&amp;quot; when&lt;br /&gt;
and arranging notes, epitomes of documents, and the book in question contained no mention what.&lt;br /&gt;
sorting masses of information, in addition to the ever of this kind of sport-a clear proof that the&lt;br /&gt;
more mechanical work of copying the finished &ldquo;reviewer&rdquo; had got the contents of several&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
volumes mixed up in his head before setting to&lt;br /&gt;
A busy author must often need the services of work.&lt;br /&gt;
an efficient helper at some stage of the prepara- The assertion made by &ldquo;R. F. C.&rdquo; that boys&lt;br /&gt;
tion of his works, and he must need one who has read a sto y of school life simply to enjoy the&lt;br /&gt;
had experience and who is endued with a sense of discomfiture of a comic schoolmaster is a mis-&lt;br /&gt;
literary form. There can be no doubt that chievous statement, the untruth of which I, or&lt;br /&gt;
supply and demand both exist; but how may any writer of similar experience, can prove by&lt;br /&gt;
they be brought into contact ? I have ceased to letters received from readers ; but when our books&lt;br /&gt;
believe in advertisement as a means of procuring are bought as rubbish, sold as rubbish, and re-&lt;br /&gt;
either permanent or temporary appointments; as viewed as rubbish, it is perhaps natural for anyone&lt;br /&gt;
an instance, mine has appeared in The Author for to suppose that they are read and written in the&lt;br /&gt;
three montbs without eliciting a single reply. same spirit.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps this is not surprising, for the capacities It may, however, surprise &ldquo; R. F. C.&rdquo; to learn&lt;br /&gt;
of an advertiser are, after all, merely a matter of that there are men and women who regard the&lt;br /&gt;
conjecture.&lt;br /&gt;
weaving of stories calculated to influence the&lt;br /&gt;
Is there any hope for the typist (and there impressionable mind of a child as a branch of the&lt;br /&gt;
must be many of them) who has not the necessary literary calling as honourable as that of the sensa-&lt;br /&gt;
capacity for original literary work, but who fortional novelist or newspaper hack.&lt;br /&gt;
love of books would fain have a place in the To write successfully for the young is an art&lt;br /&gt;
humbler rauks of literature ?&lt;br /&gt;
requiring special gifts and methods; an art which,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
35&lt;br /&gt;
though at present ignored, will in time receive character-study, and every word that Miss Dora&lt;br /&gt;
due recognition and reward, but which is not Russell could give me. When nothing was&lt;br /&gt;
likely to derive either assistance or encouragement forthcoming, and at the request, in writing, of&lt;br /&gt;
from the penning of articles such as the one to the lady&amp;#039;s sisters, I did the best I could. I looked&lt;br /&gt;
which you have referred.&lt;br /&gt;
day after day for improvement. There even&lt;br /&gt;
A WRITER FOR Boys. came to be some hope; but, unbappily, it never&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at fruition. May I, then, ask at what&lt;br /&gt;
precise point should I have stopped supply, and&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;ROYALTIES.&lt;br /&gt;
by announcing that the novel could not proceed&lt;br /&gt;
When consulting the &ldquo; Tables of Royalties &rdquo; in ended all? It has been stated that sentiment of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; for 1900, I was sur that sort should not have prevented the enlighten-&lt;br /&gt;
prised to see that they only mention royalties ment of the public. But the syndicate was&lt;br /&gt;
varying from 2 to 15 per cent. Was this writing its congratulations on an improvement&lt;br /&gt;
curious table composed with the view of throwing which was being evidenced hy &ldquo;the manner in&lt;br /&gt;
dust into the eyes of inexperienced authors by which you and Colonel Craig are finishing the&lt;br /&gt;
making them believe that 27 was a reasonable story.&amp;quot;&amp;#039; Whose part was it to announce that a&lt;br /&gt;
royalty and 15 per cent. the utmost limit of work so satisfactorily proceeding-even in the&lt;br /&gt;
generosity ? I notice that the book is the pro- opinion of the syndicate which had had a&lt;br /&gt;
perty of a publisher, and perhaps that accounts monopoly of the authoress&amp;#039;s work for years-had&lt;br /&gt;
for the milk in the cocoanut. GLENFRUIN. now become one of unavoidable collaboration.&lt;br /&gt;
Not mine, surely.&lt;br /&gt;
The serial issue began on Oct. I, 1897, as &ldquo; A&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
New and Exciting Story! By that Talented and&lt;br /&gt;
With reference to &ldquo; A. Penn-Wyper&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; commu- Popular Authoress, Dora Russell.&rdquo; Of this&lt;br /&gt;
nication in the June number, I cannot suppose description I, of course, knew nothing, for I had&lt;br /&gt;
there would be any difficulty in forming a joiut never been consulted about the publication of the&lt;br /&gt;
committee to which a publisher and an author tale. I had not even heard of the issue having&lt;br /&gt;
would be mutually willing to submit the question commenced until several weeks after the date&lt;br /&gt;
of terms, in cases where the publisher was desirous given. When I at last asked for the names of&lt;br /&gt;
to publish a work and the author was willing that the papers in which the novel was appearing, I&lt;br /&gt;
he should do so. They could both state their got this somewhat curt answer from the syndi-&lt;br /&gt;
respective cases in writing, and their willingness cate: &ldquo;It is a rule of our office not to supply&lt;br /&gt;
to abide by the decision given. It would secure to such information as you ask for.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
both the effective representation of their interests. The question has been put: How far did I&lt;br /&gt;
T. L.&lt;br /&gt;
acquiesce in the issue of the novel under the&lt;br /&gt;
name of the popular authoress? I answer: only&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;&ldquo;A TORN-Out PAGE,&rdquo; &ldquo;BY&rdquo; Dora RUSSELL. in so far as I did not take legal action to prevent&lt;br /&gt;
It having become an item of general informa- it, or render myself liable to prosecution for&lt;br /&gt;
tion, froin a review which appeared in Vanity calumnious publication. But forbidding the&lt;br /&gt;
Fair of April 19, that the above novel could not issue by injunction would have been, first,&lt;br /&gt;
have been the unassisted work of the popular impossible, in my circumstances; secondly, unfair&lt;br /&gt;
novelist, I have had to assume all responsibility, to Dora Russell, who, after all, had actually&lt;br /&gt;
moral and literary, for the fact that every word written some thirty-three thousand words of the&lt;br /&gt;
on the concluding 239 pages was wholly mine. novel with her own hand; and thirdly, a stulti-&lt;br /&gt;
The letter proposing the scheme to the syndicate fication of myself, who, to help her, had written&lt;br /&gt;
was penned with her own hand. My undertaking the remainder. What I felt called upon to do&lt;br /&gt;
the task had the warm approval in writing of her was to satisfy the syndicate with the work. As&lt;br /&gt;
family. Every instalment as written by me was to duty to the public, that body had for weeks&lt;br /&gt;
read aloud to the authoress in the presence of her been assured that the novel was &ldquo;by&rdquo; the popular&lt;br /&gt;
sisters, except the concluding two.&lt;br /&gt;
writer before I had even come to know that the&lt;br /&gt;
When I wrote to the syndicate indorsing Miss clients of the syndicate &ldquo;would acquire it.&rdquo; And&lt;br /&gt;
Dora Russell&amp;#039;s statement of my willingness to &ldquo;by&rdquo; Miss Dora Russell the novel actually was,&lt;br /&gt;
finish the novel as a help to her, I plainly made up to just about that time. Had I a right to&lt;br /&gt;
my doing so conditional upon &ldquo;the scheme being assume that the syndicate&amp;#039;s clients would be&lt;br /&gt;
announced to your readers as you&rdquo; (the syndicate allowed to go on from that point, issuing the tale&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; may deem fit.&rdquo; Taking up the authoress&amp;#039;s without the announcement which I had demanded?&lt;br /&gt;
characters and incidents as I found them, I was As Vanity Fair says: &ldquo; Explanation of the&lt;br /&gt;
absolutely resolved to use every plot, every facts should have been made, as could easily&lt;br /&gt;
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36&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
have been done by a few words of preface, or by be true, I seem to have been badly treated. If&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel Craig&amp;#039;s name as joint author.&rdquo; I hold their &ldquo; belief,&amp;quot; on the contrary, be even mode-&lt;br /&gt;
that I could not, by anticipation, charge the rately justified by the quality (such as it is) of&lt;br /&gt;
syndicate with the intention of continuing to the writing, I must have produced a fairly suc-&lt;br /&gt;
publish the novel from the point at which the cessful imitation (which should have been an-&lt;br /&gt;
work came to be mine (i.e., from p. 110) without nounced as such) of a certain class of popular&lt;br /&gt;
the announcement for which I had stipulated fiction, for which they have found a place.&lt;br /&gt;
expressly from the first. Am I to suppose that Either way, I hope, Sir, that you will find some&lt;br /&gt;
if I had received, and made use of, a letter of of the &ldquo; literary interest&rdquo; so dear to T&amp;#039;he Author&lt;br /&gt;
thanks and commendation from the syndicate for in my statement of the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
my part of the work I should have been chargeable&lt;br /&gt;
R. MANIFOLD CRAIG.&lt;br /&gt;
with condonation and &ldquo;acquiescence&rdquo; past all 3, Harcourt-buildings,&lt;br /&gt;
pardon ?&lt;br /&gt;
The Temple, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
I have come to know that the syndicate and a [Colonel Craig&amp;#039;s case is not one in which any&lt;br /&gt;
London publisher have announced their belief question of legal liability arises. It presents,&lt;br /&gt;
that the authoress wrote every word of &ldquo;A Torn. however, some features of literary interest, and&lt;br /&gt;
out Page.&rdquo; Very well. Let us courteously assume the Committee have thougbt it right to give&lt;br /&gt;
that, after the fullest inquiry in every direction Colonel Craig this opportunity of stating his&lt;br /&gt;
except mine, they considered they had adequate view. 7&lt;br /&gt;
grounds for that belief. But I have at this&lt;br /&gt;
moment in my possession most of the typewritten&lt;br /&gt;
sheets, bearing proofs of being those from which&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
my part of the work was set up. I allege that I&lt;br /&gt;
typed them in my own residence, directly upon COLUMNS of book announcements are very&lt;br /&gt;
my typewriter ; and that Miss Dora Russell I thin at present, as it is too early yet for the&lt;br /&gt;
was never in my home, and never saw my type-&lt;br /&gt;
autumn lists. One of the important books&lt;br /&gt;
writer. Is the belief of the syndicate and the then will be the biography of Professor Huxley,&lt;br /&gt;
publisher compatible with the veracity of that which his son is writing and which Messrs. Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
allegation? These sheets came back to me in the millan will publish. Mr. P. A. Chalmers Mitchell&lt;br /&gt;
ordinary course of proof-correction. I allege is carrying out a long-standing engagement with&lt;br /&gt;
that they and their fellows constituted the only Messrs. Putnam for a book on Huxley, while Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;copy&amp;quot; of the story which was in existence at Edward Clodd is writing a volume on the same&lt;br /&gt;
the time of the serial publication. Can that subject for Messrs. Blackwood&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Modern English&lt;br /&gt;
statement be refuted ? Again, I have it under Writers &amp;quot; series. Another volume in this series&lt;br /&gt;
the hand of the syndicate that there had been no will be on George Eliot, by Mr. Sidney Lee, whose&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;copy&amp;quot; from the authoress for months, and that services in connection with the now completed&lt;br /&gt;
she was far over two years in arrears with her &ldquo; Dictionary of National Biography&rdquo; have just&lt;br /&gt;
work. Suddenly, directly upon the acceptance of been commemorated by a presentation of plate&lt;br /&gt;
my categorical offer to &ldquo;finish &amp;quot; the novel, typo- made to him in the name of the contributors to&lt;br /&gt;
script copy begins to flow in at the rate of that monumental work.&lt;br /&gt;
- 15,000 to 20,000 words per week. Am I, in my&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Justin McCarthy is finishing his &ldquo; History&lt;br /&gt;
courteous effort to believe in the belief of the&lt;br /&gt;
of the Four Georges,&rdquo; and contemplates writing a&lt;br /&gt;
syndicate, to opine that that circumstance did not&lt;br /&gt;
novel on Ireland as he knew it in his youth.&lt;br /&gt;
strike them, or seem other than matter of course ?&lt;br /&gt;
I am entirely content that my whole case shall be&lt;br /&gt;
When Mr. B. L. Farjeon&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
read in the light of the declared belief of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mesmerists,&rdquo; is published by Messrs. Hutchinson,&lt;br /&gt;
syndicate and the publisher. Surely, they can&lt;br /&gt;
the volume will be found to contain also a&lt;br /&gt;
have no objection.&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic version of the story. This is the first&lt;br /&gt;
I hold a statement of the syndicate that their&lt;br /&gt;
time, we believe, that the two have been com-&lt;br /&gt;
clients &ldquo; bad perceived the distinction between&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
bined in one volume. The object is to safeguard&lt;br /&gt;
the authoress&amp;#039;s work and mine. I answer that&lt;br /&gt;
the author against unauthorised stage versions of&lt;br /&gt;
with another statement from the same gentlemen.&lt;br /&gt;
his novel.&lt;br /&gt;
They say I have deceived them-palming as The Hon. W. H. Lyttleton is writing on &ldquo;Out-&lt;br /&gt;
collaborated work matter which was entirely my Door Games&rdquo; for Messrs. Dent&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Haddon&lt;br /&gt;
own. Now, I claim that all this is matter of Hall Library.&amp;quot; His work will be in two volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
literary interest; and surely the syndicate is at and in the first cricket and golf will be treated.&lt;br /&gt;
liberty to decide which is their real opinion. But &ldquo;Hunting,&rdquo; by Mr. Otho Paget, is another pro-&lt;br /&gt;
they cannot have it both ways. If what I allege spective volume in the series, but before either&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
37&lt;br /&gt;
of these there will be published &ldquo;Our Forests and all times takes extreme pains in revising his&lt;br /&gt;
and Woodlands,&rdquo; by Dr. John Nisbet, who pleads writings, is re-writing part of &ldquo;Evelyn Innes.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
for more support from the State to enable land.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Le Queux calls his forthcoming&lt;br /&gt;
owners to form plantations on poor lands and&lt;br /&gt;
waste tracts.&lt;br /&gt;
story &ldquo; An Eye for an Eye,&rdquo; and the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
of Anthony Trollope&amp;#039;s works (which, by the way,&lt;br /&gt;
An important scheme for the foundation of an&lt;br /&gt;
continue to find a good sale) have formally per-&lt;br /&gt;
international association of the principal scientific mitted the use of this title. On the subject of&lt;br /&gt;
and literary academies of the world is reported by duplicate titles, Mrs. Roy Devereux has been&lt;br /&gt;
the London correspondent of the Manchester writing in the Academy with reference to her&lt;br /&gt;
Guardian. It provides for the division of the book, &laquo;Sidelights on South Africa,&rdquo; having been&lt;br /&gt;
association into two sections, &ldquo;scientific &rdquo; and followed in a few months by one by Lady Sykes,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; literary&rdquo; respectively, and is the outcome of a entitled &ldquo;Sidelights on the War in South Africa.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
meeting of the representatives of the chief Euro. Mrs. Roy Devereux states that several cases have&lt;br /&gt;
pean and American academies held at Wiesbaden been reported to her in which readers who asked&lt;br /&gt;
in October last. &ldquo;The Royal Society, which has for her book were supplied with that of Lady&lt;br /&gt;
taken a leading part in the promotion of the Sykes.&lt;br /&gt;
scheme, will naturally represent this country in&lt;br /&gt;
Among the newer guide-books &ldquo; Paris in its&lt;br /&gt;
the scientific section, and steps are being taken&lt;br /&gt;
with a view to securing an adequate representa-&lt;br /&gt;
Splendour,&amp;quot; by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, must&lt;br /&gt;
tion in the second section.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
*be mentioned. It is a popular study of Paris&lt;br /&gt;
past and present, historic and picturesque. It is&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Neufeld, the &ldquo;prisoner of the illustrated by sixty studies in photogravure, and&lt;br /&gt;
Khalifa,&rdquo; is writing a story of adventure for&lt;br /&gt;
it contains 580 pages, in two volumes priced at&lt;br /&gt;
boys, based on his experiences in Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;
one guinea, and published by Dana Estes and Co.,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walter Winans is writing a book-an Boston.&lt;br /&gt;
&eacute;dition de luxe&mdash;on the art of revolver shooting, &ldquo;The Mystic Number 7,&rdquo; by Annabel Gray,&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published by Messrs. Putnam. the publication of which was delayed on account&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne&amp;#039;s letter to The Author of the war, is now at all the libraries and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
suggesting to novelists to combine in producing a&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
book which should be sold on behalf of the War Mr. Thomas Cobb bas in the press a novel&lt;br /&gt;
Fund has come to fruition. The volume is entitled &ldquo; Severance,&amp;quot; which will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; For Britain&amp;#039;s Soldiers,&amp;quot; and contains Mr. John Lane. He has also almost ready &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
stories by Mrs. Croker, Mr. W. L. Alden, Sir Bountiful Lady,&amp;quot; to appear as one of Mr. Grant&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Besant, Mr. Crockett, Mr. Hornung, Mr. . Richards&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Dumpy Books for Children.&rdquo; &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Hyne, Mr. Kipling, Mr. Mason, Mr. Moore, Mr. Dissemblers,&amp;quot; from the same pen, will form a part&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Ridge, Mr. Wells, of Lippincott&amp;#039;s Magazine for September.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. White, and Mr. Wood. It will be published&lt;br /&gt;
immediately by Messrs. Methuen, whose services&lt;br /&gt;
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales has accepted a&lt;br /&gt;
copy of the &ldquo;Handbook to Christian and Eccle-&lt;br /&gt;
also are given by way of a contribution to the&lt;br /&gt;
siastical Rome&rdquo;-third volume, &ldquo;Monasticism, and&lt;br /&gt;
same patriotic cause.&lt;br /&gt;
Ecclesiastical Rome&rdquo; (A. and C. Black), by&lt;br /&gt;
Sir George Trevelyan is editing the diary of M. A. R. Tuker and Hope Malleson. Part 4&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Macaulay.&lt;br /&gt;
(Monasticism) contains an account of the order&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Maurice Hewlett&amp;#039;s new novel is to be called of St. John of Jerusalem, of which H.R.H. is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Richard Yea and Nay.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Grand Prior in England and of which the first-&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s new novel is entitled named author is a member.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Fourth Generation.&rdquo; After appearing as a Among many articles and stories of special&lt;br /&gt;
serial it has been partly rewritten and enlarged interest to be published in the August issue of&lt;br /&gt;
for publication in book form in September or The Argosy, a short story is included from the&lt;br /&gt;
October.&lt;br /&gt;
pen of the late Mr. Stephen Crane.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Neil Munro is writing a new novel, which The first thing which the author of &ldquo; To Have&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. Blackwood, but will and to Hold&rdquo; ever wrote for publication is said&lt;br /&gt;
not run serially.&lt;br /&gt;
to have been a little account of a roadside meeting&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Moore&amp;#039;s new story will be called with Queen Victoria in the south of France.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sister Teresa,&amp;quot; and it will have a certain connec- Professor Owen Edwards has completed his&lt;br /&gt;
tion with his last work, &ldquo;Evelyn Innes.&rdquo; The volume on Wales for &ldquo; The Story of the Nations&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
chief subject is convent life. Mr. Moore, who at series.&lt;br /&gt;
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* THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Herman Merivale has been granted a Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List pension.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Casino Girl,&amp;quot; a comic opera, written by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Harry B. Smith, and composed by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Ludwig Englander, is the American &ldquo;success&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which is now taking the place of &ldquo;An American&lt;br /&gt;
Beauty&rdquo; at the Shaftesbury. The scene is laid&lt;br /&gt;
in Egypt, and one of the characters represents&lt;br /&gt;
the Khedive. The title r&oacute;le is held by Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Mabelle Gilman, a singer and dancer whom&lt;br /&gt;
London sees for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Julia Neilson&amp;#039;s season at the Haymarket&lt;br /&gt;
will open on Aug. 30, when she and Mr. William&lt;br /&gt;
Mollison will produce &ldquo;Mistress Nell Gwynne,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
a new play by Paul Koster. The part of&lt;br /&gt;
Charles II. will be taken by Mr. Fred Terry.&lt;br /&gt;
A new play called &ldquo;The Great Philanthropist,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss Gertrude Warden and the late Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Wilton Jones, will be produced at the Strand on&lt;br /&gt;
July 16, by way of celebrating Mr. Sidney&lt;br /&gt;
Alport&amp;#039;s return from Australia. Miss Kate&lt;br /&gt;
Rorke and Mr. Abingdon will be in the cast.&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo; Pirates of Penzance&amp;quot; is being revived&lt;br /&gt;
at the Savoy.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will produce in the&lt;br /&gt;
autumn an adaptation of Echegary&amp;#039;s play, trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lated by Mr. J. M. Graham, and adapted by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Arthur Symons, entitled &ldquo;Mariana.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert Marshall has written a play for&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frederick Harrison and Mr. Cyril Maude.&lt;br /&gt;
It will touch the events of the South African&lt;br /&gt;
war.&lt;br /&gt;
of one of the most remarkable figures of the day.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Interesting and historically important,&rdquo; is the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraph&amp;#039;s opinion of the speeches. The Daily News says&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Vindex&rdquo; is obviously an admirer of Mr. Rhodes, but &amp;quot; the&lt;br /&gt;
book should be equally welcome to those who do not and&lt;br /&gt;
those who do share his admiration.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE GENTLEMAN PENSIONER, by Albert Lee (Pearson,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), is a bistorical romance dealing with the rising of the&lt;br /&gt;
Nortbern Lords in Elizabeth&amp;#039;s days. The Spectator says :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Mr. Lee cleverly varies the adventures, and his story is&lt;br /&gt;
something more than readable.&rdquo; British Weekly describes&lt;br /&gt;
it as &ldquo;a powerful and abeorbing story, full of delicate&lt;br /&gt;
writing, without weakness or a touch of affectation . . .&lt;br /&gt;
a really excellent bit of historic fiction. Graphic says:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Mr. Lee has made the most of his study of bulldog&lt;br /&gt;
tenacity and fidelity.&rdquo; Scotsman describes the story as &ldquo; a&lt;br /&gt;
very successful attempt to deal with an interesting episode&lt;br /&gt;
in English history.&amp;quot; The World: &ldquo;Those who enjoy&lt;br /&gt;
historical romance will find this an excellent specimen of&lt;br /&gt;
the class to which it belongs.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
HISTORY OF EPIC POETRY, by John Clark (Oliver and&lt;br /&gt;
Boyd, Edinburgh, 58.), is referred to by the Spectator as&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;a very instructive volume, especially in respect of various&lt;br /&gt;
poems wbich are often spoken of, but very seldom read. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Clark has had the patience to deal with Valerius Flaccus&lt;br /&gt;
and Statius, and, what is a far greater achievement, Silius&lt;br /&gt;
Italicas himself.&rdquo; &ldquo;He limits his subject on his title-page&lt;br /&gt;
to .post-Virgilian,&amp;#039; bat he has something to say about both&lt;br /&gt;
Homer and Virgil that is worth reading. The defence of&lt;br /&gt;
Virgil, in particular, is distinctly able. The book, as a&lt;br /&gt;
whole, is an addition of value to the literature of criticism.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES HENRY PEARSON, Fellow of Oriel and Educa.&lt;br /&gt;
tion Minister in Victoria : Memorials by Himself, his Wife,&lt;br /&gt;
and his Friends, edited by William Stebbing (Longmans,&lt;br /&gt;
148.), &ldquo; one of the most interesting of recent biographies&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
(Literature), is a &ldquo;deeply interesting work,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator; it &ldquo;supplies a want, and we are grateful to Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Pearson and to Mr. Stebbing for presenting us with a true&lt;br /&gt;
portrait of Charles Henry Pearson.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
(Hon. Alfred Deakin) says the volume will leave the reader&lt;br /&gt;
with &ldquo; a profound admiration&rdquo; for the man it commemo.&lt;br /&gt;
rates.&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF GREECE, by Evelyn Abbott, M.A., LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
(Longmans, 108. 6d.). Part III. : From the Thirty Years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Peace to the Fall of the Thirty at Athens, 445.403, B.C.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The first volume of Dr. Abbott&amp;#039;s History was published&lt;br /&gt;
in 1888, and another volume is wanting to complete the&lt;br /&gt;
purpose ; 80 that we have here,&amp;quot; says the Spectator, &ldquo;a&lt;br /&gt;
leisurely, well-considered work, which has occupied the&lt;br /&gt;
better part of two decades. The author&amp;#039;s aim is to provide&lt;br /&gt;
a history in moderate compass dealing with broad lines of&lt;br /&gt;
development rather than minuto archeological questions.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a book of a different class from Holm&amp;#039;s brilliant work ;&lt;br /&gt;
for one thing, it considers the great texts more in detail,&lt;br /&gt;
giving four volumes to his two. .. It is free from&lt;br /&gt;
the wordy platitudes of Curtius, and it is fairer and more&lt;br /&gt;
scientific than the many volumes of Grote and Thirlwall.&lt;br /&gt;
In certain ways it resembles Beloch&amp;#039;s compendium, but it&lt;br /&gt;
has many qualities of its own. It is extremely readable,&lt;br /&gt;
and in the simple, anrhetorical style there is often a genuine&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiasm and appreciation.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THINGS SEEN : IMPRESSIONS OF MEN, CITIES, AND&lt;br /&gt;
Books, by G. W. Steevens, collected and edited by G. S.&lt;br /&gt;
Street, with a memoir by W. E. Henley (Blackwood, 58.).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Quite apart from the tragic circumstances of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Steevens&amp;#039;s death,&rdquo; says the Spectator, &ldquo;the energy and&lt;br /&gt;
versatility displayed in the aureum quinquennium which&lt;br /&gt;
succeeded an exceptionally brilliant academic career, and&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
GRANT ALLEN, A Memoir, by Edward Clodd (Richards,&lt;br /&gt;
68.) is, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot;authoritative in many&lt;br /&gt;
ways. It has the authority of a long and intimate friend.&lt;br /&gt;
ship with its subject; it has, too, the authority of kinship&lt;br /&gt;
in studies pursued in much the same spirit, and certainly to&lt;br /&gt;
similar conclusions.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Clodd does a real service to his&lt;br /&gt;
friend&amp;#039;s memory in publishing letters which show how the&lt;br /&gt;
very makers of evolutionary sciences regarded Grant Allen.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The book also contains some of Grant Allen&amp;#039;s letters,&lt;br /&gt;
though he was &ldquo;not a great writer of letters,&amp;quot; and two of the&lt;br /&gt;
dearest of his friends &ldquo;add greatly to the value&rdquo; of the&lt;br /&gt;
book by &ldquo;vividly-written reminiscences : Miss Alice Bird&lt;br /&gt;
and Professor York Powell.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CECIL RHODES, by Vindex (Chapman, 128. net), is &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
collection of speeches made by Mr. Rhodes from 1881 to&lt;br /&gt;
the present year. The Times says these give&ldquo; an extremely&lt;br /&gt;
interesting view &rdquo; of the development of contemporary&lt;br /&gt;
history in South Africa, with &ldquo;characteristic bits of self-&lt;br /&gt;
revelation which, when the speeches are read together as a&lt;br /&gt;
whole, leave a tolerably vivid impression of the personality&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
39&lt;br /&gt;
the charm of his personality, the pablication of these stray&lt;br /&gt;
papers, edited by two intimate friends, is entirely justified&lt;br /&gt;
by their intrinsic merits.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL, by Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Francis Hovey Stoddard (of New York University) (Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
millan, 68.), is praised by the Daily Chronicle as &ldquo; not only&lt;br /&gt;
well-written and well-informed, but also marked throughout&lt;br /&gt;
by measured judgment, proportion, and a certain dignity of&lt;br /&gt;
attitude and expression.&rdquo; The Daily News calls it &amp;quot;an&lt;br /&gt;
interesting book on a pleasant sabject.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
DRIFT, by Horatio F. Brown (Richards, 58. net), is a&lt;br /&gt;
volume of poems. The Spectator says that &amp;quot; what strikes&lt;br /&gt;
the reader most in Mr. Brown&amp;#039;s verse is his feeling for and&lt;br /&gt;
power of transmitting the charm of natural scenery. His&lt;br /&gt;
verse is full of rhythm and shows a nice and scholarly use&lt;br /&gt;
of language, bat beyond this there is what we may term an&lt;br /&gt;
hieracchic knowledge of invoking the genius loci, whether&lt;br /&gt;
he is dealing with England, Switzerland, or Italy. ..&lt;br /&gt;
The glimpses we get of hedgerows, of pine-clad mountain&lt;br /&gt;
slopes, or of windy wastes of inland waters are generally&lt;br /&gt;
incidental and unpremeditated.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
THE ART AND CRAFT OF GARDEN MAKING, by Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
H. Mawson (Batsford, 218.), is not only &ldquo;excellent to read and&lt;br /&gt;
look at&mdash;the pictures with which it is embellished are without&lt;br /&gt;
exception delightful&mdash;but it is,&rdquo; says the Spectator, &ldquo;full of&lt;br /&gt;
practical suggestions for those who wish to lay out a&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful garden.&rdquo; &ldquo;Just at first,&amp;quot; says Literature, &ldquo; the&lt;br /&gt;
beauty of the designs and the great charm of Mr. Chamber-&lt;br /&gt;
lain&amp;#039;s chapter-headings threaten to deflect the mind of the&lt;br /&gt;
reader from the wise things in the text, but this is only at&lt;br /&gt;
first.&rdquo; The Times says &ldquo;Mr. Mawson has plenty of ideas&lt;br /&gt;
and a very pretty taste&amp;quot;; and the Daily Chronicle is equally&lt;br /&gt;
appreciative.&lt;br /&gt;
VILLAGE NOTES, by Pamela Tennant (Heinemann, 6s.),&lt;br /&gt;
bas, says the Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot;all the charm of the quaint&lt;br /&gt;
and primitive country she describes--South Wiltshire,&lt;br /&gt;
with its patient, slow-witted, but intelligent rustics, and&lt;br /&gt;
its rare provincialisms of speech.&rdquo; &ldquo; It is pleasant,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; to those loving Nature, who yet do&lt;br /&gt;
not write about her, to find her approached in such a manner&lt;br /&gt;
as Mrs. Tennant&amp;#039;s.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
NATURE IN DOWNLAND, by W. H. Hadson (Longman,&lt;br /&gt;
108. 6d.), is described by Literature as &amp;quot;a guidebook in the&lt;br /&gt;
sense that it reveals to you not the most interesting spots&lt;br /&gt;
and the exact turnings to take in reaching them, but the&lt;br /&gt;
trae beauty of the Sussex Downs, and the charm of the&lt;br /&gt;
human and of the wild life which inhabits them.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN NORMANDY, by Percy&lt;br /&gt;
Doarmer, with illustrations by Joseph Pennell (Macmillan,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), leads the Daily Chronicle to say : &ldquo;If not too soon to&lt;br /&gt;
think of summer holidays, here is a book to send the fancy&lt;br /&gt;
toward a very pleasant land of travel.&rdquo; Literature says it&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; will take a high place&rdquo; in Messrs. Macmillan&amp;#039;s series of&lt;br /&gt;
guide books, while the Spectator advises &amp;quot;all travellers in&lt;br /&gt;
Normandy, and especially all cyclists,&rdquo; to read Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Dearmer&amp;#039;s book before they leave England.&lt;br /&gt;
TALKS WITH OLD ENGLISH CRICKETERS, by A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Pullin (&amp;quot; Old Ebor&amp;quot;) (Blackwood, 68.), &ldquo;is crammed with&lt;br /&gt;
matter of the greatest interest to all who take delight in&lt;br /&gt;
the game and the lore of cricket.&amp;quot; Among the veterans&lt;br /&gt;
with whom the reader is able to talk familiarly are V. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Walker and Richard Daft.&lt;br /&gt;
TRAVELS IN ENGLAND, by Richard Le Gallienne&lt;br /&gt;
(Richards, 68.), is &ldquo;peripatetic prose,&rdquo; in the language of&lt;br /&gt;
the Daily Chronicle, which thanks the bicycle &amp;quot; for having&lt;br /&gt;
taken Mr. Le Gallienne on a roving tour through the green&lt;br /&gt;
places of England, odorous with the memory of sweet&lt;br /&gt;
names.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Le Gallienne is peculiarly rich in suggestion,&lt;br /&gt;
and as a &amp;#039; Voyage autour de ma chambre&amp;#039; may be more&lt;br /&gt;
interesting than a journey to the moon, so are these&lt;br /&gt;
desultory rides on a bicycle quite independent for their&lt;br /&gt;
interest of the ground covered.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A PEEP INTO Punch,&rdquo; by J. Holt Schooling (Newnes,&lt;br /&gt;
58.), is the &ldquo;Story of Punch, with illustrations by Himself.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* Altogether,&rdquo; says the Spectator, &ldquo;this is a delightfully&lt;br /&gt;
amusing book by one who knows his subject.&rdquo; The Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle describes it as excellent for a lazy summer day.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; THE HOUSING QUESTION, by Alfred Smith, late&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman of the Housing Committee, L.C.C.(Swan Sonnen-&lt;br /&gt;
schein). &ldquo;Mr. Smith,&rdquo; says the Guardian, &ldquo;writes as&lt;br /&gt;
an expert and with the authority of one. This little book&lt;br /&gt;
contains an admirably clear statement of all the aspects of&lt;br /&gt;
housing the poor so far as that question affects London ;&lt;br /&gt;
and, though other towns suffer from the evils of overcrowding,&lt;br /&gt;
London suffers from them to a degree and extent which no&lt;br /&gt;
other city can approach. The second section sets out in an&lt;br /&gt;
impressive form the vast dimensions which this evil has -&lt;br /&gt;
attained in London.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM, by H. G. Wells (Harper,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), will be considered by many, says the Daily Telegraph,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the most fascinating piece of work he has done.&amp;quot; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Wells portrays the life of the fifth-rate assistant master.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;It is wonderfully well done,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The descriptive pages are charming, the dialogue real and&lt;br /&gt;
bright.&rdquo; &ldquo;The element of irresponsible gaiety which&lt;br /&gt;
animated &ldquo;The Wheels of Chance,&amp;#039;&rdquo; says the Spectator, &ldquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
here replaced by a more consistently serious outlook on the&lt;br /&gt;
struggle for existence that goes on in the humbler ranks of&lt;br /&gt;
the teaching profession.&rdquo; &ldquo;The bandful of vivid human&lt;br /&gt;
figures belong,&rdquo; says Literature, &ldquo; to a great extent, to the&lt;br /&gt;
world of South Kensington students, and into that often&lt;br /&gt;
purposeless and sordid background Mr. Wells weaves the&lt;br /&gt;
poetry of life and the beauty of human love.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
JAN OXBER, by Orme Agnas (Ward, Look, and Co.,&lt;br /&gt;
38. 6d.), is a series of stories dealing with West of&lt;br /&gt;
England villagers. Mr. Agous, says the Daily Telegraph,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;has achieved a remarkable task in reproducing not only&lt;br /&gt;
the superficial life of the west country village, but the actual&lt;br /&gt;
workings of the rustic mind. Jan Oxber is a very striking&lt;br /&gt;
oharacter, and his tragic story is told with unforced pathos&lt;br /&gt;
and unexaggerated truth.&rdquo; The Spectator describes it as&lt;br /&gt;
Hvigorous,&amp;quot; &ldquo; well told,&rdquo; and &ldquo;highly entertaining&amp;quot;; and&lt;br /&gt;
says that &ldquo;the author is one of our ablest interpreters of&lt;br /&gt;
rural manners.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
UNLEAVENED BREAD, by Robert Grant (Hutchinson, 68.),&lt;br /&gt;
is a portrait of a type of American woman. &ldquo; Viewed in&lt;br /&gt;
the light of a study of character, it would be difficult,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Spectator, &amp;quot; to find a modern novel cleverer than &middot; Un.&lt;br /&gt;
leavened Bread.&amp;#039;&rdquo; The book is divided into three sections.&lt;br /&gt;
one for each of Selma&amp;#039;s matrimonial experiments, so that,&lt;br /&gt;
says the Literary World, it is &ldquo; three moderately long stories&lt;br /&gt;
rather than a novel. It is well written, and the characters&lt;br /&gt;
succeed in making us accept them as reasonable human&lt;br /&gt;
beings.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART, and Other Stories,&lt;br /&gt;
by H. Rider Haggard (Longmans, 68.), are stories of Zulus&lt;br /&gt;
and Central Africa. The Daily Chronicle heads its notice&lt;br /&gt;
of the yolume : &ldquo;Mr. Haggard in his True Vein.&rdquo; &ldquo;Black&lt;br /&gt;
Heart and White Heart,&amp;quot; the tale from which the volume&lt;br /&gt;
takes its name, is, says the Spectator, &ldquo;quite in Mr. Hag.&lt;br /&gt;
gard&amp;#039;s most vigorous and effective manner.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE ACCUSED PRINCESS, by Allen Upward (Pearson,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), belongs, in the opinion of Literature, &amp;quot;to the class con-&lt;br /&gt;
ventionally known as &amp;#039;readable.&amp;#039;&rdquo; . The author &ldquo;makes a&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
new departure, and follows in the footsteps of Sherlock&lt;br /&gt;
Holmes. His book relates the mystery of the ruby of&lt;br /&gt;
Bharani, one of the sacred stones of India and the property&lt;br /&gt;
of the British Crown. It tells how the gom was brought&lt;br /&gt;
over to Europe to be sold, and how it disappeared and was&lt;br /&gt;
subsequently recovered with the help of an English detec-&lt;br /&gt;
tive.&amp;quot; The Daily Chronicle finds the story &ldquo;good and&lt;br /&gt;
ingeniously worked-out.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Upward&amp;#039;s characters are&lt;br /&gt;
quite alive, and the accused princess quite charming.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHICAMON STONE, by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder, and Co., 68.), &amp;quot; is much more than a story for boys,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Spectator, &ldquo;though by its wealth of incident and&lt;br /&gt;
is wealth of incident and&lt;br /&gt;
its crazy athleticism ... it will appeal with peculiar&lt;br /&gt;
force to the javenile reader. Mr. Phillipps-Wolley is a&lt;br /&gt;
poet as well as a sportsman; he has a keen sense of the&lt;br /&gt;
picturesque and the sinster, a happy knack of translating&lt;br /&gt;
his impressions into forcible and suggestive language, and a&lt;br /&gt;
most artistic touch in the portraiture of villains, whether&lt;br /&gt;
of the pale or red-skinned variety.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is a delightful&lt;br /&gt;
book of stirring adventure,&rdquo; says the Pilot, &ldquo;one of the&lt;br /&gt;
best we have read for some time. The scene is laid in&lt;br /&gt;
Alaska; the Chicamon Stone is a specimen of gold, and the&lt;br /&gt;
book tells of the efforts of several people to find the rock&lt;br /&gt;
from which the specimen was taken, and so to become&lt;br /&gt;
rich. There is no love-making, indeed, there is no woman&lt;br /&gt;
in the book; the interest of the wild rough life is the only&lt;br /&gt;
interest, but that is sufficient, for there is no want of peril&lt;br /&gt;
and of thrilling escapes.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
VOICES IN THE NIGHT, by Flora Annie Steel (Heine-&lt;br /&gt;
mann, 68.). &ldquo; We cannot better summarise our impressions&lt;br /&gt;
of this brilliant but unequal novel,&rdquo; says the Spectator,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; than by saying we have been fascinated by the native or&lt;br /&gt;
bazaar portion of the story and bored by the Anglo-Indian&lt;br /&gt;
chapters.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A LADY OF THE REGENCY, by Mrs. Stepney Rawson&lt;br /&gt;
(Hutchinson, 68.), is described by the Pilot as &amp;quot;a very fine&lt;br /&gt;
historical picture by an excellent artist. Jane, the girl&lt;br /&gt;
whose love affairs, after a bad start, come at last to a happy&lt;br /&gt;
end, is the Lady of the Regency in question, but from first&lt;br /&gt;
to last Caroline of Brunswick is the real heroine. From the&lt;br /&gt;
moment the novel opens up with her playing &amp;#039;blind man&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
buff&amp;#039; in her house at Blackheath, or bidding her guests&lt;br /&gt;
* bite off the head of the sugar Prince of Wales,&amp;#039; her figure&lt;br /&gt;
is thrown on the canvas with masterly art.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
his &ldquo;Notes on Sport and Travel,&rdquo; published a few&lt;br /&gt;
months ago. The news of Miss Kingsley&amp;#039;s death&lt;br /&gt;
came as a great shock to her many friends in this&lt;br /&gt;
country. She was about thirty-five years of age.&lt;br /&gt;
MR. STEPHEN CRANE died at Baden-weiler,&lt;br /&gt;
Baden, on June 5, aged thirty years. Of his&lt;br /&gt;
work as author and war correspondent, the most&lt;br /&gt;
distinguished is &ldquo; The Red Badge of Courage,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
published four years ago. As a detailed study&lt;br /&gt;
(in the form of romance) of the development of&lt;br /&gt;
a raw recruit in the American Civil War under&lt;br /&gt;
the fire of the enemy, it was remarkable in that&lt;br /&gt;
the author had&lt;br /&gt;
the author had not up to that time had any real&lt;br /&gt;
experience of what he so realistically described.&lt;br /&gt;
Next in importance comes his &ldquo; The Open Boat,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
a sketch of the wreck of a filibuster on the&lt;br /&gt;
Florida coast. Mr. Crane also wrote verse. He&lt;br /&gt;
was in the Cuban campaign as a correspondent,&lt;br /&gt;
and before the illness which has cut him off he&lt;br /&gt;
was writing some sketches of his Army experi-&lt;br /&gt;
ences before Santiago. He was also to proceed&lt;br /&gt;
to St. Helena on a commission for a London&lt;br /&gt;
daily. A volume of short stories, which will&lt;br /&gt;
probably be called &ldquo;Wounds in Rain,&amp;quot; and a&lt;br /&gt;
novel of adventure are among his literary&lt;br /&gt;
remains.&lt;br /&gt;
The death-roll of the month also includes the&lt;br /&gt;
Rev. J. M. RODWELL, the Orientalist, who trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lated the Koran about forty years ago ; Mr. H. R.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS (89), author of &amp;quot;Junius Revealed by his&lt;br /&gt;
Surviving Grandson,&rdquo; and an authority on the&lt;br /&gt;
literature of angling; Mr. D. D. WELLS, the&lt;br /&gt;
young American novelist, author of &ldquo;Her Lady-&lt;br /&gt;
ship&amp;#039;s Leopard,&rdquo; &amp;amp;c.; and Dr. T. H. RAND (New&lt;br /&gt;
Brunswick), whose&ldquo; Treasury of Canadian Verse&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
has lately been published by Messrs. Dent in this&lt;br /&gt;
country.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
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EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY NORMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
D. W. FRESHFIELD.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;SUB-COMMITTEES.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. John COLLIER (Chairman). I SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
M. H. SPIELMANN&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
W. M. COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman). I F. C. BURNAND.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. PINERO.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD ROSE.&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors&lt;br /&gt;
FIELD, ROSCOE, and Co., Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Fields.&lt;br /&gt;
CG. HERBERT THRING, 4, Portugal-street.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING.&lt;br /&gt;
OFFICES : 4, PORTUGAL STREET, Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn FIELDS, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
A. P. WATT &amp;amp; SON,&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY AGENTS,&lt;br /&gt;
Formerly of 2, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,&lt;br /&gt;
Have now removed to&lt;br /&gt;
HASTINGS HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND,&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KNIGHTS and KINGS of CHESS. By the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
1 GA. MACDONNELL, B.A. Price 28. 6d. net.&lt;br /&gt;
London: HORACE Cox, Windsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ART of CHESS. By JAMES Mason. Price 5s.&lt;br /&gt;
L net, by post 58. 4d&lt;br /&gt;
London: HORACE Cox, Wirdsor House, Bream&amp;#039;s-buildings, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 3.]&lt;br /&gt;
AUGUST 1, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For&lt;br /&gt;
the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
(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;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
joots whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TERE 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;
1. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. Bat 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;
e the onblisher 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;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract shoald 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;
G 2&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
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42&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The infor nation thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gro88 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 (b.) 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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
sbould 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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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;
&amp;quot;As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
acoount of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
1 branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
ball-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. HVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice bought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments 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;
at&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
I.-UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.-SOUTHERN&lt;br /&gt;
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of&lt;br /&gt;
the University of Oxford. Complainant. v.&lt;br /&gt;
- Wilmore-Andrews Publishing Company,&lt;br /&gt;
Defendant. (In Equity). Rowland Cox for&lt;br /&gt;
Complainant. Louis F. Doyle for Defendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
43&lt;br /&gt;
WHEELER, J. - The University of Oxford, right in any false manner to represent such a&lt;br /&gt;
England, is a body corporate known by the name product as the work of the plaintiff. The use of&lt;br /&gt;
and style by which this suit is brought.&lt;br /&gt;
the name upon the defendant&amp;#039;s Bibles had a&lt;br /&gt;
Books appear to have been printed by it as tendency to so represent, and to confuse the&lt;br /&gt;
early as the fifteenth century, and Letters Patent plaintiff&amp;#039;s use of its name in its business.&lt;br /&gt;
for printing books of all kinds, including Bibles, to That the plaintiff prints and publishes this&lt;br /&gt;
have been granted to it by King Charles I. in the work in America as well as at the University&lt;br /&gt;
seventeenth century.&lt;br /&gt;
makes it none the less the plaintiff&amp;#039;s product, and&lt;br /&gt;
It has printed Bibles of many kinds prepared confers no right upon others to publish it in the&lt;br /&gt;
by its officers and scholars with great care, which name of the plaintiff, or to use the plaintiff&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
are generally known as Oxford Bibles ; no other name in publishing it in America or elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
Bibles are published at Oxford, and these are The evidence does not show acquiescence of the&lt;br /&gt;
ordered, sold, and bought by that name. Among plaintiff in use by others amounting to an aban-&lt;br /&gt;
the kinds is the &ldquo; Teachers Bible,&rdquo; first published donment of right by the plaintiff, nor establish&lt;br /&gt;
in 1876, which contains, besides the text, a Manual that the name has thereby or otherwise become&lt;br /&gt;
of Helps to the study of the Bible full of reliable merely descriptive of the Bibles, instead of repre-&lt;br /&gt;
information respecting the authors and books of senting their origin; nor that an &ldquo;Oxford&lt;br /&gt;
the Bible, and Palestine, a concordance, indices, Bible&amp;quot; is merely the &ldquo; Divinity Circuit.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
tables, and maps. This with new editions has The case shows sufficient interference by the&lt;br /&gt;
since been published and sold by that name con- defendant to furnish ground for commencing the&lt;br /&gt;
tinuously in this country, and throughout the suit, and the ceasing of the interference by the&lt;br /&gt;
world.&lt;br /&gt;
defendant does not take away the right of the&lt;br /&gt;
The defendant has printed and published a plaintiff to a decree, with costs. Sufficient reason&lt;br /&gt;
Bible specified on the title page as an &ldquo;Oxford does not, however, appear to warrant an account-&lt;br /&gt;
Bible, the S. S. Teachers Edition,&amp;quot; and on the ing. Rahtjen v. Holzapfel, U.S. Circuit Court&lt;br /&gt;
back as a &ldquo;Holy Bible, Oxford, S. S. Teachers of Appeals, Second Circuit, April 11, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
Edition.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Decree for a perpetual injunction, with costs.&lt;br /&gt;
This suit is brought against this use of that&lt;br /&gt;
name.&lt;br /&gt;
The defendant denies any right of the plaintiff&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;REVIEW OR RETURN ?&lt;br /&gt;
to the exclusive use of the word &ldquo; Oxford&rdquo; upon The following interesting case has been placed&lt;br /&gt;
Bibles, and alleges that this name as applied to before the Secretary of the Society of Authors :-&lt;br /&gt;
Bibles is used to designate and describe a style of An author publishes a limited edition of a&lt;br /&gt;
Bible otherwise known as the &ldquo; Divinity Circuit,&rdquo; very expensive illustrated work. He sends out&lt;br /&gt;
bound in soft flexible leather, with overlapping four copies for review to the editors of the best&lt;br /&gt;
edges; that the plaintiff has lost any right it known papers. The edition will not stand the&lt;br /&gt;
may have had to the use of this word by permit. distribution of a larger number of review copies.&lt;br /&gt;
ting others to use it; that the Bible with which One of the papers, after a lapse of five or six&lt;br /&gt;
the defendant is claimed to interfere was printed weeks, fails to review the book. The author&lt;br /&gt;
in this country; and that the defendant has writes to the editor, and the editor states that the&lt;br /&gt;
altogether &amp;#039;ceased using it.&lt;br /&gt;
buok was acknowledged in due course in his list&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; It is insisted for the defendant that the name of publications of the day. The author again&lt;br /&gt;
of a place of origin cannot become a valid trade writes to the editor, and points out that the book&lt;br /&gt;
mark of goods and products, and that &ldquo;Oxford &rdquo; was sent in order that it might be reviewed, and&lt;br /&gt;
here is merely the name of the city of the plaintiff, asks for the return of the copy if it is not the&lt;br /&gt;
and could not be exclusively used to distinguish intention of the editor to review it. To this&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff&amp;#039;s Bibles.&lt;br /&gt;
letter the editor replies that the discretion with&lt;br /&gt;
But this word is a part of the plaintiff&amp;#039;s name, regard to the review of the book must be left&lt;br /&gt;
and as such has given name to the plaintiff&amp;#039;s entirely in his hands, and that it would be impos-&lt;br /&gt;
Bibles, and has come to be a means of showing sible for him as editor of the paper to return the&lt;br /&gt;
their origin. The defendant has no connection book.&lt;br /&gt;
with the place or name, and this use of the name This interesting question arises : In the&lt;br /&gt;
by the defendant can be for no purpose but to case of a valuable limited edition would it be&lt;br /&gt;
represent the defendant&amp;#039;s Bibles as coming from possible to argue that the book sent was for&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff.&lt;br /&gt;
review, and that the reviewing of the book was&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff has no copyright of this work, and part of the contract, so that if the book was not&lt;br /&gt;
anyone would, of course, have a clear right to reviewed it could not become the property of the&lt;br /&gt;
print and publish it, but no one would have a paper to which it was sent; or, on the other hand,&lt;br /&gt;
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44&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Where a licence has been granted under this section for&lt;br /&gt;
any British possession, any copy of the book produced&lt;br /&gt;
subject to such licence sball, if found in any other part of&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions, be deemed a pirated copy, and be&lt;br /&gt;
treated accordingly.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
that the custom of sending out books for review&lt;br /&gt;
as at present established is on the understanding&lt;br /&gt;
that books so sent out take their chance, and that&lt;br /&gt;
as they are sent out gratis on this understanding&lt;br /&gt;
the editor is not bound to return them? The&lt;br /&gt;
latter would appear to be the real legal position,&lt;br /&gt;
but it is a further question as to what might&lt;br /&gt;
happen if the author when sending out such a&lt;br /&gt;
book stipulated in his letter that the book should&lt;br /&gt;
be reviewed or the copy returned.&lt;br /&gt;
THE COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE FIVE&lt;br /&gt;
GRATIS COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.&lt;br /&gt;
The resolution printed below was unanimously&lt;br /&gt;
passed at the meeting of the Chambers of Com-&lt;br /&gt;
merce of the British Empire. The resolution is&lt;br /&gt;
of considerable importance to authors, as any step&lt;br /&gt;
that can facilitate the passing of Lord Monks-&lt;br /&gt;
well&amp;#039;s Bill nust necessarily have great weight&lt;br /&gt;
with all those who are holders of literary pro-&lt;br /&gt;
perty. One of the chief difficulties of the passing&lt;br /&gt;
of the Bill, as has been pointed out on many&lt;br /&gt;
previous occasions in The Author, is the colonial&lt;br /&gt;
question. As at this meeting of the Chambers of&lt;br /&gt;
Commerce there were important representatives&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishing and printing trades of all the&lt;br /&gt;
colonies, such a resolution, in that it has been&lt;br /&gt;
supported by these representatives, will have con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderable weight with the Colonial Office and&lt;br /&gt;
those concerned in promoting the Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
Fourth CONGRESS OF THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF&lt;br /&gt;
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.&lt;br /&gt;
[Copyright.]&lt;br /&gt;
Moved by Mr. Geo. N. Morang ; seconded by Hon. Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
Fergus of New Zealand :&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Whereas the various Copyright Acts throughout the&lt;br /&gt;
Empire are unnecessarily complicated and vexatious to&lt;br /&gt;
certain dependencies, and whereas it is now contemplated&lt;br /&gt;
to consolidate the same by a Bill now before the House of&lt;br /&gt;
Lords. Resolved, therefore, that this Congress declares its&lt;br /&gt;
approval of such measure, whereby the Colonies are em.&lt;br /&gt;
powered to legislate for exclusive copyright, and earnestly&lt;br /&gt;
trusts that it may speedily become law.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Note.-The section of the Act referred to is as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
Sect. 34. &ldquo;In the case of a legislature of any British&lt;br /&gt;
possession, if the following circumstances occur, that is to&lt;br /&gt;
say, if a book has been first lawfully published in any other&lt;br /&gt;
part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions, and it is proved to the&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction of an officer appointed by the Government of&lt;br /&gt;
guch possession to receive such proofs that the owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright has lawfully granted either a licence to import&lt;br /&gt;
for sale in such British possession or a licence to reproduce&lt;br /&gt;
therein by any process an edition or editions of any such&lt;br /&gt;
book designed for sale only in such British possession,&lt;br /&gt;
it shall be lawful for the Legislature of such possession by&lt;br /&gt;
Act or ordinance to provide for the prohibition of the impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tation, except with the written consent of the licensee, into&lt;br /&gt;
such possession of any copies of such book printed else-&lt;br /&gt;
where, except under such licence as aforesaid, except that&lt;br /&gt;
two copies may be specially imported for the bona fide ase&lt;br /&gt;
of each of the public free libraries, of the aniversity and&lt;br /&gt;
college libraries, and law libraries of any duly organised&lt;br /&gt;
law institution cr society for the use of its members.&lt;br /&gt;
TN the July Author we reviewed the various&lt;br /&gt;
T statutes from 1662 to 1842 which regulated&lt;br /&gt;
the business of sending a copy of every book&lt;br /&gt;
published to the British Museum, whether&lt;br /&gt;
demanded or not, and to Oxford, Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
Edinburgh, and Dublin upon demand. It will&lt;br /&gt;
now be desirable to say something upon the&lt;br /&gt;
obligation of the British Museum authorities to&lt;br /&gt;
require and preserve books, and, if we can,&lt;br /&gt;
upon the obligation of the other authorities to&lt;br /&gt;
preserve them, for clearly the other authorities&lt;br /&gt;
are under no obligation to require any book&lt;br /&gt;
whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
For a very long time publishers have sent&lt;br /&gt;
practically all their books to the British Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
and the penalty for failure to send is heavy, but&lt;br /&gt;
statutory obligation to require books or to enforce&lt;br /&gt;
penalties there is none. Bearing this in mind,&lt;br /&gt;
and bearing in mind also that the British Museum&lt;br /&gt;
privilege has existed only since 1814, we think it is&lt;br /&gt;
greatly to the credit of the authorities that the&lt;br /&gt;
occasions on which a book published in the United&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom cannot be found in the British Museum&lt;br /&gt;
library are rare indeed. Where exceptions occur,&lt;br /&gt;
he does a public service who calls attention to&lt;br /&gt;
them, as did recently Wirt Gerrare in a letter to&lt;br /&gt;
Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
As to the duty of the British Museum autho-&lt;br /&gt;
rities to preserve books, that is much more&lt;br /&gt;
implied than express, though there are express&lt;br /&gt;
directions as to particular libraries. The Geor-&lt;br /&gt;
gian statute, by which the museum was established&lt;br /&gt;
in 1753, after reciting that-&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Hans Sloane, having through the course of many&lt;br /&gt;
years with great labours and expence gathered together&lt;br /&gt;
whatever could be procured either in our own or foreign&lt;br /&gt;
countries, did bequeath to certain trustees all his collec-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, consisting of all his library of books, drawings, manu-&lt;br /&gt;
scripts, prints, &amp;amp;c., &amp;amp;c., with short histories or accounts of&lt;br /&gt;
them with proper references in catalogues by him made,&lt;br /&gt;
containing thirty-eight volumes in folio and eight volumes&lt;br /&gt;
in quarto, to be offered to Parliament for &pound;20,000; the&lt;br /&gt;
collection, which was worth much more, was bought for&lt;br /&gt;
the &pound;20,000; all arts and sciences have a connexion with&lt;br /&gt;
each other; and the collection should be maintained not only&lt;br /&gt;
for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and the&lt;br /&gt;
curious, but for the general age and benefit of the public ;-&lt;br /&gt;
and also reciting the bequest to the public of&lt;br /&gt;
the Cottonian Library, and the building of a room&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
45&lt;br /&gt;
under an Act of William III. &ldquo; in which, when&lt;br /&gt;
built, all the manuscripts, written books, papers,&lt;br /&gt;
parchments, records, and other memorials in the&lt;br /&gt;
said library contained should be lodged and there&lt;br /&gt;
kept to all posterity,&amp;quot; the legacy of Mr. Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Edwards towards the expense of building, and&lt;br /&gt;
the foundation of the Harleian Collection, enacted&lt;br /&gt;
that in the cities of London or Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
One general repository shall be provided for the reception&lt;br /&gt;
not only of the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, but also of the&lt;br /&gt;
Cottonian Library, and of the additions which have been or&lt;br /&gt;
shall be made by virtue of the will of Arthur Edwards, and&lt;br /&gt;
likewise of the Harleian Collection and of such other addi.&lt;br /&gt;
tions to the Cottonian Library as with the approbation of&lt;br /&gt;
the trustees shall be made, and of such other collections&lt;br /&gt;
and libraries as with the like approbation shall be admitted&lt;br /&gt;
into the said general repository, which several collections,&lt;br /&gt;
additions, and library so received into the said general&lt;br /&gt;
repository shall remain and be preserved therein for public&lt;br /&gt;
use to all posterity.&lt;br /&gt;
This enactment is a clear direction to the&lt;br /&gt;
authorities to preserve libraries and collections&lt;br /&gt;
bequeathed or given en bloc to the museum, but it&lt;br /&gt;
could hardly be said to include the masses of&lt;br /&gt;
single books which the law of copyright has&lt;br /&gt;
thrown into it ever since 1814. However that&lt;br /&gt;
of&lt;br /&gt;
may be, the Act of 1878, which empowers the&lt;br /&gt;
authorities to give away duplicates, and the&lt;br /&gt;
recently rejected Bill by which it was proposed&lt;br /&gt;
to empower the trustees to dispose of valueless&lt;br /&gt;
printed matter, seem to show that &ldquo; once in the&lt;br /&gt;
museum, always in the museum&rdquo; is recognised&lt;br /&gt;
as an implied rule,* and it may be assumed&lt;br /&gt;
that the trustees have always recognised, still&lt;br /&gt;
recognise, and will always recognise this rule.&lt;br /&gt;
But what of the other four library authorities&lt;br /&gt;
The publishers, as we have seen, have long treated&lt;br /&gt;
them as equally entitled with the British Museum&lt;br /&gt;
* The Bill as it came from the House of Lords had&lt;br /&gt;
this clause :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The trustees of the British Museum may, with the&lt;br /&gt;
approval of the Treasury, make rules respecting the disposal&lt;br /&gt;
by destruction or otherwise of printed matter deposited in&lt;br /&gt;
the British Museum which is not of sufficient value to&lt;br /&gt;
justify its preservation in the museum.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Bill was dropped with the general approval of&lt;br /&gt;
literary persons; but it may be that the intention of its&lt;br /&gt;
framers never was to destroy anything that could possibly&lt;br /&gt;
be called a book or pamphlet, but only blank forms,&lt;br /&gt;
Christmas cards, wall-texts, and such like matter, whereas&lt;br /&gt;
except for judicial decision, perhaps even newspapers are&lt;br /&gt;
not deliverable ander the existing law. See Report of&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Commission, par. 166.&lt;br /&gt;
The 3rd secticn of the British Museum Act 1878 pro-&lt;br /&gt;
vides that,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The trustees of the British Museum may give away&lt;br /&gt;
any duplicate works, objects, or specimens not required for&lt;br /&gt;
the purposes of the museum. Provided always, that the&lt;br /&gt;
power hereby conferred shall not extend to any daplicate&lt;br /&gt;
works in the Royal Library of King George the Fourth, or&lt;br /&gt;
in the Cracherode, Grenville, or Banksian Libraries, or to&lt;br /&gt;
any objects presented to the Museum for age and preserva-&lt;br /&gt;
tion therein.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to gratis copies, and have, as a general rule,&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded four copies either to the agent whom&lt;br /&gt;
they share amongst them, or else to Stationers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Hall for the use of the four libraries, without&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for any demand. In the rare cases in&lt;br /&gt;
which the four copies are not sent, and apparently&lt;br /&gt;
in all those rare cases, the publisher in default&lt;br /&gt;
receives the following notice :-&lt;br /&gt;
To Messrs. -&lt;br /&gt;
Agency of the University Libraries, 96, Great&lt;br /&gt;
Russell-street, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
I am desired by the Curators of the Bodleian Library,&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford ; the University Library, Cambridge; the Advocates&lt;br /&gt;
Library, Edinburgh; and the Library of Trinity College,&lt;br /&gt;
Dublin, to ask you to be good enough to supply for the use&lt;br /&gt;
of their libraries, four [the italios are not ours) copies of&lt;br /&gt;
the undermentioned works, one for each library, in com-&lt;br /&gt;
pliance with the provisions of the Copyright Act (5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict.&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 45).&lt;br /&gt;
Should any of the works applied for be outside the terms&lt;br /&gt;
of the Act, or have already been delivered through another&lt;br /&gt;
channel, you would confer on the libraries in question, and&lt;br /&gt;
on myself, a great favoar by returning me this list, and&lt;br /&gt;
notifying the reason of the exemption on the margin (the&lt;br /&gt;
italics are not ours]. I should thus be able to avoid troubling&lt;br /&gt;
you with repeated applications for unclaimable works.-&lt;br /&gt;
Believe me, yours faithfully, G. W. ECCLES.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen, on referring to the June Author,&lt;br /&gt;
that Mr. Eccles acted for the University of&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford so far back as 1876, and on referring&lt;br /&gt;
to the list of British Museum officers in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Whitaker&amp;#039;s Almanac&amp;quot; that Mr. Eccles holds&lt;br /&gt;
the position of an &ldquo; Assistant, ist class,&rdquo; of the&lt;br /&gt;
Museum ; but we understand that he is shortly&lt;br /&gt;
about to retire from that position.&lt;br /&gt;
So much for the seemingly very efficient mode&lt;br /&gt;
of getting the four gratis copies into the four&lt;br /&gt;
University libraries. How about their preserva-&lt;br /&gt;
tion there? Unlike the British Museum Library&lt;br /&gt;
authorities, the other library authorities are not&lt;br /&gt;
even under any implied obligation to preserve&lt;br /&gt;
them, and, unlike those authorities, they have no&lt;br /&gt;
annual reminder in the Appropriation Act &mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
under which the British Museum receives a hand.&lt;br /&gt;
some grant, but the Universities receive nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&lt;br /&gt;
The following letter was sent to the Times by&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman of the Committee, and appeared&lt;br /&gt;
there on May 31. By an unfortunate oversight&lt;br /&gt;
it was not published, as it should have been, in&lt;br /&gt;
our July number :-&lt;br /&gt;
To the Editor of the Times.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir,-The letter recently addressed to you by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Murray, in reference to the question&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;gratis copies,&amp;quot; seems to the Committee of this&lt;br /&gt;
Society to offer an opportunity of calling atten-&lt;br /&gt;
tion to one or two points besides those with which&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Murray deals. It is material to point out&lt;br /&gt;
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46&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
that the tax is heavier than appears to have been of 1878 recommended the abolition of the privi.&lt;br /&gt;
in the original contemplation of Parliament. lege, a fact which justifies the inquiry we now&lt;br /&gt;
By the Act of 1842 a broad distinction is drawn suggest, although we do not wish to pre-judge&lt;br /&gt;
between the British Museum and the four other the issue of it. Meanwhile it would seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
privileged libraries. The former is to have a in the power of publishers themselves to raise&lt;br /&gt;
copy of every book without demand. To the the question whether the existing law does not&lt;br /&gt;
latter any book is to be delivered &ldquo;on demand require a specific demand on the part of each&lt;br /&gt;
thereof left at the place of abode of the pub- library for any book it may desire to have&lt;br /&gt;
lisher . .&rdquo; The section goes on to authorise delivered.&lt;br /&gt;
the authorities of the four libraries to appoint an We have also to ask your indulgence to allow&lt;br /&gt;
agent to receive the books demanded. We submit us to state that we find among our members,&lt;br /&gt;
that the intention of Parliament plainly was that many of whom are engaged in research, strong dis-&lt;br /&gt;
the University libraries, as distinguished from the approval of the proposal to allow the British&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum, should make a specific demand Museum either to destroy or to scatter news-&lt;br /&gt;
for any book they desired to receive, and that in papers. This question has been so fully dealt&lt;br /&gt;
the absence of such demand the book should not with by Mr. Sidney Lee in your columns, that it&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered to them.&lt;br /&gt;
is enough to say that his objections, whether&lt;br /&gt;
The Act contemplates an exercise of discretion, based on the danger of destruction or loss of&lt;br /&gt;
according to which the libraries would ask for valuable matter, or on the hardship of compelling&lt;br /&gt;
such books as would be of use to them and literary men engaged in research to follow their&lt;br /&gt;
abstain from asking for the rest.&lt;br /&gt;
dispersed materials from one place to another,&lt;br /&gt;
The practice, however, is and has been for a appear far too serious to be disposed of by the&lt;br /&gt;
long while back, quite different. Most publishers cry of &ldquo;no room.&amp;quot; There is no disposition&lt;br /&gt;
send copies to the agent of the four libraries (they among authors to grumble at being obliged to&lt;br /&gt;
all employ the same agent) without any demand. supply their books to the Museum. That they&lt;br /&gt;
If any book is not sent, it is demanded as a are under this obligation does, however, seem to&lt;br /&gt;
matter of course. By the claims of the libraries give them a right to e, pecial consideration when&lt;br /&gt;
and the acquiescence of publishers, the libraries such a question as this is under discussion.&lt;br /&gt;
are, under the existing practice, placed in the same&lt;br /&gt;
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
position as the British Museum, although they&lt;br /&gt;
do not appear to be under any similar obligation&lt;br /&gt;
to retain the books sent or to be subject to any&lt;br /&gt;
statutory control in the use or disposal of the&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
property they thus acquire. It also appears&lt;br /&gt;
obvious that they must acquire a vast number of&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, July 10, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
books which can be of no value to them.&lt;br /&gt;
TN these United States publishers are inclined&lt;br /&gt;
We desire respectfully to suggest that before&lt;br /&gt;
1 to look askance upon the season of a Pre-&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Bill now before Parliament takes&lt;br /&gt;
- sidential campaign, and the commercially-&lt;br /&gt;
final shape the following questions should be con-&lt;br /&gt;
disposed author ordinarily shares this feeling of&lt;br /&gt;
sidered :-&lt;br /&gt;
suspicion. It is not a time for the launching of&lt;br /&gt;
(1) Is the present system of a general demand&lt;br /&gt;
new undertakings; the public mind is busied with&lt;br /&gt;
of all books (if not sent without demand) on the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;issues&rdquo; and &ldquo; platforms,&rdquo; and people would&lt;br /&gt;
part of the University libraries in accordance with&lt;br /&gt;
rather devour candidate So-and-so&amp;#039;s last speech&lt;br /&gt;
the intentions of Parliament ?&lt;br /&gt;
or a denunciation of the legislative career of&lt;br /&gt;
(2) When did the practice of a general&lt;br /&gt;
candidate What&amp;#039;s-his-name than read poetry or&lt;br /&gt;
demand begin? Has it existed from the first, or&lt;br /&gt;
romance. Once in every four years the country&lt;br /&gt;
has it been of later growth; and, if so, under what&lt;br /&gt;
is inundated with a prodigious flood of campaign&lt;br /&gt;
circumstances did it first arise ?&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; literature,&rdquo; with which the enlightened voters&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Are all the books received actually placed&lt;br /&gt;
struggle madly, while current reading matter of&lt;br /&gt;
in use in the libraries; or, if not, how are they all&lt;br /&gt;
other descriptions glides by in an unnoticed and&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with ?&lt;br /&gt;
unimportant rivulet. Even the attention of the&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Are any of the books disposed of by the&lt;br /&gt;
scholar is diverted temporarily from literature to&lt;br /&gt;
libraries; and, if so, after what lapse of time and&lt;br /&gt;
the politics of the hour.&lt;br /&gt;
in what manner ?&lt;br /&gt;
An answer to these questions would, it appears&lt;br /&gt;
POLITICS AND LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
to us, help to show how far the tax on authors The present campaign, however, which is to&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers is justified by benefit to the public. terminate with the election of a President in&lt;br /&gt;
It will be remembered that the Royal Commission November, promises to be less disturbing than&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
47&lt;br /&gt;
usual. The publishing world seems to believe realised. It enlarges immeasurably the scope of&lt;br /&gt;
confidently in the re-election of Mr. McKinley. the fiction writer. He has two publishers at&lt;br /&gt;
Both of the present nominees of the two great hand, Mr. Frohman and the printer. He may&lt;br /&gt;
parties were also the leaders in the struggle of play one against the other with a good deal of&lt;br /&gt;
1896-a fact which will probably tend to decrease advantage to himself and to his work. The serial&lt;br /&gt;
the quantity of campaign literature of the per- publication of Mr. Zangwill&amp;#039;s latest novel, for&lt;br /&gt;
sonal and biographical type. And moreover, the example, has been arranged with careful reference&lt;br /&gt;
issues, as well as the candidates, are familiar to to the time of the production of its dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
the rank and file of the voters. Public interest version in the fall; the play will be produced on&lt;br /&gt;
in newspaper politics will be discounted, and the the stage, it is said, before the concluding chapters&lt;br /&gt;
output of political pamphlets and tracts should be of the story have been produced in type. Such&lt;br /&gt;
comparatively meagre&mdash;which may be good news a scheme, and similar schemes which doubtless&lt;br /&gt;
to British authors who look with longing eyes at will be planned, place the theatrical manager in&lt;br /&gt;
the American literary market.&lt;br /&gt;
direct and close business relations with the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The present tendency of our reading public, of lisher. It can be readily conjectured that the&lt;br /&gt;
course, is all for China and the Orient. &ldquo;East- author must profit from this expansion of his&lt;br /&gt;
ward ho!&rdquo; cries the American publisher, and audience.&lt;br /&gt;
searches madly for a novel dealing with life under Nor can these developments be without their&lt;br /&gt;
the mandarins. Our presses are grinding out curious effect upon the texture and character of&lt;br /&gt;
reprints of the best books about China and the current fiction. The popular novelist must&lt;br /&gt;
East which have been published recently in compose with the odour of grease, paint, and&lt;br /&gt;
England, and the editors of our popular periodicals scene varnish in his literary nostrils. The unfor-&lt;br /&gt;
are paying startling prices for articles of travel tunate critic, who is compelled to cope with our&lt;br /&gt;
and adventure in the Yellow Empire. The present ordinary or extraordinary fiction of to-day, may&lt;br /&gt;
crisis seems to have discovered our publishers imagine that he detects this already. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
very ill prepared, although there has been no Frohman and his syndicate are affecting the&lt;br /&gt;
lack of signs of the imperial struggle, which book trade and the profession of author. It may&lt;br /&gt;
could be read even in an unimperial democracy. be fanciful to look forward, along these lines, to&lt;br /&gt;
At any rate, the disappearance of the Khaki hue an entrenchment of the favoured novelist&amp;#039;s posi-&lt;br /&gt;
of our current reading can hardly fail to be tion behind the protection of the theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
gratifying&lt;br /&gt;
managers, from which he would be able to dictate&lt;br /&gt;
more equitable terms to the publishers&mdash;it may&lt;br /&gt;
NEXT Season&amp;#039;s THEATRES.&lt;br /&gt;
be fanciful, but it is an enchanting picture.&lt;br /&gt;
No little literary interest is excited by a survey&lt;br /&gt;
of the work laid out for the coming season by BETTER DAYS IN THE Book TRADE.&lt;br /&gt;
American theatrical managers. The plural is The financial entanglements in which two very&lt;br /&gt;
used for reasons which are rhetorical rather than prominent American publishing houses struggled&lt;br /&gt;
real. The theatrical manager of the United last year seem to have brought about a healthy&lt;br /&gt;
States is Mr. Charles Frohman, the more or less reaction in the trade, which redounds somewhat&lt;br /&gt;
intelligent head of a more or less unintelligent to the advantage of the author. It has induced&lt;br /&gt;
syndicate in control of most of the actors, publishers to suspect that the writers of books&lt;br /&gt;
actresses, playhouses, and playwrights in the are important factors in the production of them-&lt;br /&gt;
country. The striking feature of Mr. Frohinan&amp;#039;s a truism which was slighted in some long-&lt;br /&gt;
prospectus is the importance assigned therein to established houses where the imprint of the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatisations of popular books. Of all Mr. publisher was regarded as of far more signi.&lt;br /&gt;
Frohman&amp;#039;s &ldquo;stars &amp;#039; the two which have made ficance than the author&amp;#039;s name on the title-page.&lt;br /&gt;
the most money for him have been Miss Maude Of course, in estimating the success of the&lt;br /&gt;
Adams and Mr. William Gillette. The former younger American publishers who have come to&lt;br /&gt;
has played for three enormously successful years the front during the last decade, one must not&lt;br /&gt;
in &amp;quot;The Little Minister,&rdquo; while Mr. Gillette, in forget to credit them with that modern business&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Doyle&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Sherlock Holmes,&rdquo; has made a push, and that sympathetic acquaintance with the&lt;br /&gt;
record of two hundred packed houses in New temper of our people, which the older houses&lt;br /&gt;
York, with the provinces uniried. &ldquo;Red lacked. They are not burdened with complicated&lt;br /&gt;
Pottage,&rdquo; &laquo; Richard Carvel,&rdquo; &ldquo; Janice Meredith,&rdquo; business machinery, and with creaking and dusty&lt;br /&gt;
are a few of the novels which Mr. Frohman pro- methods of reaching the outside world in any&lt;br /&gt;
poses to exploit behind the footlights.&lt;br /&gt;
direction. The relations of the newer publishers&lt;br /&gt;
The significance of this sort of thing has been with their authors display the same freedom and&lt;br /&gt;
noted, but one may doubt whether it is fully quickness in achieving direct results, and they do&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
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48&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
not keep writers &ldquo;in stock,&amp;quot; as it were, until the&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
unfortunate men of letters become parts of the&lt;br /&gt;
business routine, like persons who add columns of&lt;br /&gt;
m 5, rue Chomel.&lt;br /&gt;
figures in the counting-room. All this is an M HE celebrated chirographist, Mme. de&lt;br /&gt;
encouraging sign. It makes for an equitable&lt;br /&gt;
Th&egrave;bes, has recently published au interest-&lt;br /&gt;
co-operation between author and publisher upon - ing work entitled &ldquo;L&rsquo;Enigme de la main.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
a practical and business-like basis, an excellent Mme. de Th&egrave;bes is no vulgar adventuress seeking&lt;br /&gt;
substitute for the old-fashioned sentimental rela- renown or wealth. She is a widely known and&lt;br /&gt;
tion, which was presumed once to exist and which highly respectable personage who enjoys a Euro-&lt;br /&gt;
meant so little latterly, in many cases when actual pean reputation. Casts of the hands of her most&lt;br /&gt;
property rights were concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
interesting client&egrave;le (including a large number of&lt;br /&gt;
A curious and suggestive state of affairs in a representative men and women of the present&lt;br /&gt;
publishing business was disclosed here recently. day) are to be seen in her small suite of rooms,&lt;br /&gt;
It seems that it has been the custom of the firm, situated within stone-throw of the Arc de&lt;br /&gt;
after a book was printed and published, to store Triomphe. The hand of her friend and master,&lt;br /&gt;
the plates and carry them on to its inventory at Alexandre Dumas fils, here reposes in solitary&lt;br /&gt;
the cost of manufacture. It made not a particle state under a glass case. The pointed fingers&lt;br /&gt;
of difference that, for publishing purposes, the and huge hand of Dumas p&egrave;re, clasping the&lt;br /&gt;
book was dead and gone, and the plates worth slender, narrow hand of the mother of his son, is&lt;br /&gt;
nothing more than their value as old metal. also easily recognisable. It lies carelessly on a&lt;br /&gt;
They stood on the list of assets as representing side-table, surrounded by scores of plaster and&lt;br /&gt;
the sum expended in composition and casting; bronze models of the characteristic hands of&lt;br /&gt;
this might be six or seven hundred dollars, modern celebrities. Among the latter the obsti-&lt;br /&gt;
entirely fictitious. The older the house and the nate hand of M. Emile Zola; the impassive&lt;br /&gt;
more antiquated the plates, then the less substan- hand of Mme. Christine Nilsson; the dominating,&lt;br /&gt;
tial would such assets become. But on the house caressing band of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt; the&lt;br /&gt;
ledgers they would represent capital, and moneys enigmatical hand of M. Edouard Drumont; and&lt;br /&gt;
invested, and there would be no denying the fact the energetic hand of Coquelin imperiously attract&lt;br /&gt;
that the plates were in existence and in a good attention.&lt;br /&gt;
state of preservation. It is needless to expatiate Mme. de Th&egrave;bes is a woman of imposing figure,&lt;br /&gt;
upon the borrowing value of such securities. penetrating glance, and stately presence. Hers&lt;br /&gt;
is palmistry, pure and simple-no fatalistic craft&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORS Who Own THE PLATES.&lt;br /&gt;
reducing the individual will to a valueless factor.&lt;br /&gt;
That the author should himself own outright &ldquo;God,&amp;quot; so she asserts, &ldquo;has placed in each of&lt;br /&gt;
the plates of his books is a favourite theory our hands the road.map of our life. If He has&lt;br /&gt;
among American writers. In practice it is a done this, it is that we may make use of the&lt;br /&gt;
luxury which is not for the ordinary, but Mr. information thus given. This map warns us of&lt;br /&gt;
Howells and others, I believe, have found it an the accidents which menace us ; of our con-&lt;br /&gt;
effective and simple plan in their efforts towards stitutional weaknesses; and of the defects in our&lt;br /&gt;
establishing a reasonable status of literary nature. We are thus put on our guard to&lt;br /&gt;
property.&lt;br /&gt;
struggle against our bad inclinations. This is so&lt;br /&gt;
The last canvass of the best selling books in true that, if we struggle, the lines in our road-&lt;br /&gt;
this country, elaborately prepared by the Book- map will change.&rdquo; From which fact she argues&lt;br /&gt;
man, testifies to the overgrown popularity of that that our first duty is to know ourselves, or rather,&lt;br /&gt;
ingenious novel &ldquo; To Have and to Hold,&amp;quot; which to know how to decipher the hieroglyphics traced&lt;br /&gt;
heads the list. Next come two English stories, on our hands by a Divine agency. The study is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sophia&amp;quot; by Weyman, and &ldquo;Red Pottage.&rdquo; The interesting, even though unaccompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
phases of life in Miss Cholmondeley&amp;#039;s book are so blind credulity which will strain at a gnat to&lt;br /&gt;
essentially and modernly English that the swallow a camel.&lt;br /&gt;
American vogue of her story must be set down as&lt;br /&gt;
a tribute to her art. After &ldquo;Red Pottage&amp;quot; on the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LA FILLE DE GEORGE SAND.&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
Bookman&amp;#039;s list appear in order : &ldquo; Unleavened Such is the title of a most entertaining little&lt;br /&gt;
Bread,&amp;quot; a new and promising American novel by booklet published by M. Georges d&amp;#039;Heylli for the&lt;br /&gt;
Robert Grant, &ldquo;Resurrection,&rdquo; and &ldquo; The edification of a select coterie of friends. The&lt;br /&gt;
Farringdons.&rdquo; Our public&amp;#039;s taste, if not dis author is the son-in-law of the venerable Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
criminating, is at least encouragingly catholic to Bascans, proprietress of the school in which the&lt;br /&gt;
the aspiring novelist abroad.&lt;br /&gt;
wayward little Solange was brought up. Every&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON. letter written by the illustrious mother was care-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
49&lt;br /&gt;
fully guarded by the old schoolmistress. It is &ldquo; Clotilde de Lusignan,&rdquo; for the sum of 2000&lt;br /&gt;
amusing to note the logical, convincing manner in francs. This liberal remuneration is to be received&lt;br /&gt;
which the celebrated novelist explains the method as follows: 500 francs in notes payable at a year&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
of education she desires to be adopted for her date ; 500 francs in notes (payable six months&lt;br /&gt;
daughter, and the results to be obtained there- later) at the moment when twelve hundred copies&lt;br /&gt;
from. A little later we find all these fine theories of the work in question shall have been sold.&lt;br /&gt;
evaporating in thin air on being put to the test. The remaining 1000 francs are to be paid in notes,&lt;br /&gt;
George Sand has, undoubtedly, written exquisite likewise dated six months hence--whenever sieur&lt;br /&gt;
pages on maternal love; she might, and did, Gr&eacute;goire Hubert shall be unable to produce on&lt;br /&gt;
exercise a wide influence on her contemporaries the author&amp;#039;s demand more than a hundred copies&lt;br /&gt;
and on posterity ; nevertheless, she failed signally of this first edition !&lt;br /&gt;
in obtaining either reverence or obedience from&lt;br /&gt;
her own daughter. Twenty-four hours of Solange&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
SHEARING THE SHorn.&lt;br /&gt;
company invariably ended in a scene and the basty But the final article in this iniquitous treaty&lt;br /&gt;
return of the offender to Mme. Bascans&amp;#039; charge, carries off the palm for munificence. It expressly&lt;br /&gt;
usually accompanied by a note couched in some- states that:&lt;br /&gt;
what the following terms:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In this sum (of 2000 francs) is included the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;This morning Solange has been unbearable, cost of the advertisement of the said work,&lt;br /&gt;
She cries because I will not arrange her curl. which M. Balzac binds and engages himself to&lt;br /&gt;
papers, and resists when I attempt to do so. If have inserted in the journals below mentioned (or&lt;br /&gt;
she arrive after ten o&amp;#039;clock, I beg you will punish in those which may replace them should they&lt;br /&gt;
her. She has been incessantly urged to hasten be suppressed), viz., the Constitutionnel, the&lt;br /&gt;
without its having any effect on her movements. Journal des D&eacute;bats, the Courrier, the Miroir, the&lt;br /&gt;
. . . Mme. Bascans will have the kindness to Quotidienne, and the theatrical papers. The&lt;br /&gt;
explain to her the naughtiness of her conduct.&rdquo; advertisements shall each occupy at least half a&lt;br /&gt;
* The perusal of these letters,&amp;quot; writes a French column in the body of the journal; and shall be&lt;br /&gt;
critic, &ldquo; will be a consolation to those women who placed either beside the article &lsquo;Paris,&amp;#039; or immedi-&lt;br /&gt;
possess only a little good sense and not anyately after.&rdquo; To reimburse him for this outlay,&lt;br /&gt;
the author is entitled to six copies gratis of his&lt;br /&gt;
A CRUEL CONTRACT.&lt;br /&gt;
own work!&lt;br /&gt;
On Aug. 18, 1900, the L&eacute;vy copyright of the Comment is superfluous. In 1848 the tax on&lt;br /&gt;
novels of Honor&eacute; de Balzac expires, and this the serial novel (which led to its temporary&lt;br /&gt;
immense work becomes public property. Some suppression) reduced Balzac to the last extremity.&lt;br /&gt;
idea of its value may be gained from the fact that He continued to occupy the elegant hotel fur-&lt;br /&gt;
in 1865 (after thirty years&amp;#039; continuous re-editing) nished by Mme. de Hanska ; but he indulged in&lt;br /&gt;
M. Michel L&eacute;vy paid 80,000 francs to the great boiled beef only once a week, eking out the&lt;br /&gt;
man&amp;#039;s widow for the right of being sole remaining days with the meagre broth obtained&lt;br /&gt;
publisher during a period of thirty-five years. in cooking the above delicacy. It was probably&lt;br /&gt;
The petty remuneration originally doled out to at this epoch that he wrote:&lt;br /&gt;
the author for the majority of these brilliant &ldquo;Creditors know how to find us much better&lt;br /&gt;
masterpieces of French literature is truly absurd. and more promptly than our friends. For the&lt;br /&gt;
Generous and prodigal as the elder Dumas, no sake of a little sum they often come to a place&lt;br /&gt;
man was ever more at the mercy of his pub. where others do not come for the sake of a great&lt;br /&gt;
lishers. Instances of his colossal extravagance, affection.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
on several occasions, are not lacking. They were, He died two years later, Aug. 18, 1850.&lt;br /&gt;
however, counterbalanced by his extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
fertility. Yet it is not surprising that, despite&lt;br /&gt;
AN IDEAL HISTORIAN.&lt;br /&gt;
his brilliant reputation, this modern Shakespeare M. Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Masson is an ideal historian.&lt;br /&gt;
of French fiction died a poor and completely Dramatic as the English Froude (and thoroughly&lt;br /&gt;
worn-out man at the comparatively early age of reliable), he is marvellously successful in his&lt;br /&gt;
fifty-one years, when his business inability was conscientious resuscitation and portrayal of a&lt;br /&gt;
as mercilessly exploited as is witnessed by the bygone epoch, and the men and women who&lt;br /&gt;
Hubert contract, which document is now in the formed it. His third volume of &ldquo;Napol&eacute;on et sa&lt;br /&gt;
possession of the Vicomte de Lovenjoul. In this famille&rdquo; has closely followed its predecessor.&lt;br /&gt;
contract &ldquo;M. Honor&eacute; Balzac&amp;quot; engages to supply The contrast between the first Napoleon and his&lt;br /&gt;
(under the pseudonym of Lord R&rsquo;Noone) a certain brother-that political Winkle Joseph, King of&lt;br /&gt;
sieur Gr&eacute;goire Hubert, libraire au Palais Royal, Spain-is pungently drawn. The latter possessed&lt;br /&gt;
with four volumes for publication, entitled the overweening self-confidence, minus the genius,&lt;br /&gt;
genius.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
of the great Bonaparte. He passed his time in thoughtful, conscientious writer, and does his&lt;br /&gt;
elaborating a series of military mancuvres which level best to be impartial. At least, that was the&lt;br /&gt;
failed signally when put into execution. Imme- impression left on my mind after the basty&lt;br /&gt;
diately one stratagem proved abortive, he set to perusal of a few pages of his new volume, includ-&lt;br /&gt;
work to devise a second still more impracticable. ing the chapter entitled &ldquo;Les Dessous de Joe&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;What alone saved Joseph from the consequences Chamberlain.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
of his extraordinary combinations,&amp;quot; writes M.&lt;br /&gt;
Masson,&amp;quot; was that nobody obeyed him. Marshal&lt;br /&gt;
MM. DE REGNIER AND LUCIEN MUHLFELD.&lt;br /&gt;
Moncey received with extreme politeness the Contrary to general expectation, M. Henri de&lt;br /&gt;
aide-de-camp who bore the royal commands, Regnier has this year undertaken the lecturing&lt;br /&gt;
showed the absurdity of the movement ordered, tour in the United States. He appears to have&lt;br /&gt;
and terminated by saying, &ldquo;The Emperor, sir, had great success. A well-known critic has&lt;br /&gt;
has not entrusted me with one of his finest asserted that, though this young writer occupies&lt;br /&gt;
regiments to compromise thus his glory and a high position among the rising generation of&lt;br /&gt;
safety. Return to the King. Inform him of authors, his success in the poetical medium is&lt;br /&gt;
what I have said ; and tell him that, neverthe considerably hampered by his incorrigible predi.&lt;br /&gt;
less, should he persist, I will give the example lection for making a word in the singular rhyme&lt;br /&gt;
that I should give of the most implicit obedience.&amp;quot; with a word in the plural, and by his indulgence&lt;br /&gt;
Besin&egrave;res invariably affirmed that he would obey in various minor idiosyncrasies of the same&lt;br /&gt;
immediately; that his duty, inclination, and stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
respect impelled him to do so; and, that said, he His talented compatriot, M. Lucien Muhlfeld,&lt;br /&gt;
acted as he chose. As to Ney, he roundly replied, also possesses a marked individuality. A year&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; This order undoubtedly comes from a man who ago he published his first novel, entitled &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
understands nothing of our trade. The Emperor Mauvais Desir&amp;quot;; and, at the present moment,&lt;br /&gt;
has given me an army corps with which to conquer &ldquo;La Carri&egrave;re d&amp;#039;Andr&eacute; Tourette&amp;quot; has consolidated&lt;br /&gt;
and not to capitulate. Tell the King I have not his reputation as a novelist. It would be difficult&lt;br /&gt;
come to Spain to play Dupont&amp;#039;s r&ocirc;le !&rdquo; The to find a more complete and comprehensive study&lt;br /&gt;
book may be obtained chez Ollendorff.&lt;br /&gt;
of the career of an ordinary young man of&lt;br /&gt;
bourgeois origin, or a more subtle and conscien-&lt;br /&gt;
Two INTERESTING PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
tious delineation of the multitudinous types of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Every year the tuberculose&amp;#039; kills in France characters to be met with to-day in the various&lt;br /&gt;
150,000 persons-a population equal to that of grades of society.&lt;br /&gt;
Rouen and Nantes,&rdquo; is the startling assertion&lt;br /&gt;
imprinted beneath the title-head of a new paper,&lt;br /&gt;
APROPOS OF FRENCH DRAMATISTS.&lt;br /&gt;
Curre Antituberculeuse, which has just been M. Jean Richepin&mdash;first-rate gymnast, play-&lt;br /&gt;
started, edited by MM. Sersiron and Dumarest. writer, and poet&mdash;is enjoying a well-earned&lt;br /&gt;
The object of this publication is to awaken all holiday in Palma. M. Maurice Donnay is reposing&lt;br /&gt;
classes to the necessity of taking strong measures in &ldquo;a marvellous country&rdquo; in the Villa Lysis&lt;br /&gt;
to check the increasing tendency of the populace (Agay in the Var), which boasts a garden as full&lt;br /&gt;
to consumption; also, to set forth the best means of blossoms as an opera star&amp;#039;s box&mdash;minus the&lt;br /&gt;
of preventing and counteracting contagion. The card pinned to each bouquet. He is meditating&lt;br /&gt;
movement is being warmly supported. A com. a new &ldquo; sc&eacute;nario&rdquo; beside the violet sea ; and has&lt;br /&gt;
mittee has been formed, and large sums have recently requested a friend to announce that the&lt;br /&gt;
already been subscribed to found popular right of performing his latest play, &ldquo;L&rsquo;Education&lt;br /&gt;
sanatoriums wherein to isolate, and endeavour to d&amp;#039;un Prince,&amp;quot; has been bought by Belgium, Italy,&lt;br /&gt;
cure, the consumptive working-class adults of and America. M. Pierre Decourcelle is rejoicing&lt;br /&gt;
Paris who are sufficiently affected to spread the in his new decoration, and in the revival at the&lt;br /&gt;
contagion --but are still well enough to perform Ambigu Theatre of his &ldquo; Deux Gosses&amp;quot;_which&lt;br /&gt;
wearily their daily task. The first list of dona- play formerly broke the standing record of five&lt;br /&gt;
tions received (published by the Euvre Anti- hundred nights, having been performed 758 con-&lt;br /&gt;
tuberculeuse) amounted to a total of 316,000 secutive times at the above theatre (1896-1898).&lt;br /&gt;
francs. A good beginning!&lt;br /&gt;
M. Georges Feydeau is still to be seen on the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;L&amp;#039;A ugleterre et l&rsquo;Imperialisme&rdquo; is the title of grands boulevards. Elegant, sedate, and dignified,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Victor B&eacute;rard&amp;#039;s latest work, which is being the combined verdict of the German and English&lt;br /&gt;
widely read. It is interesting as giving us a censors, who pilloried his &ldquo; Dame de chez Maxim&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
glimpse of the British character and policy seen as a production injurious to the morals of the&lt;br /&gt;
through French spectacles. M. B&eacute;rard is un spectators, has in no wise disturbed his tran-&lt;br /&gt;
doubtedly prejudiced. Nevertheless, he is a quility. At the present moment the triple revival&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
51&lt;br /&gt;
of the offending play and two others of the same The early experience of Stevenson with the&lt;br /&gt;
type, at the Nouveaut&eacute;s, Palais-Royal, and Bouffes Century is, however, only a typical case, and not&lt;br /&gt;
theatres, are pecuniarily justifying their author&amp;#039;s by any means unique. While it is no doubt true&lt;br /&gt;
popularity with the respective managers of these that the great magazines do desire to discover&lt;br /&gt;
establishments. M. Feydeau has been engaged unknown writers of promise, they none of them&lt;br /&gt;
for some time past on a new play, of which only offer them unreservedly much consideration and&lt;br /&gt;
a few unimportant details have yet leaked out. encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Edmond Rostand is likewise reported to Again, most of the magazines are like Self&lt;br /&gt;
have a new play on hand, dealing with the perse. Culture, practically made up for six months in&lt;br /&gt;
cution of the early Christians under Nero. The advance, &agrave; fact that the literary aspirant does&lt;br /&gt;
principal feminine r&ouml;le is designed for Mme. not know, and not knowing is seriously handi.&lt;br /&gt;
Sarah Bernhardt.&lt;br /&gt;
capped. The editor of a great magazine is in&lt;br /&gt;
A Dual DISAPPOINTMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
part obliged to provide for future publication&lt;br /&gt;
from the very fact of unnecessary absence from&lt;br /&gt;
The reconstruction of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise is home in Europe and elsewhere in search of attrac-&lt;br /&gt;
proceediag but slowly. &ldquo;Play in a barn as&lt;br /&gt;
Moli&egrave;re did,&amp;quot; was the advice of M. Victorien&lt;br /&gt;
tions. This is editorially the case with the&lt;br /&gt;
Ladies&amp;#039; Home Journal, and contributions during&lt;br /&gt;
Sardou ; but bis suggestion was dismissed as&lt;br /&gt;
proxy editorship must be left to the tender mercies&lt;br /&gt;
impracticable. The revival of the magnificent of the one upon whom the real editor&amp;#039;s mantle&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Patrie&amp;quot; of the latter author has been postponed&lt;br /&gt;
has fallen, but whose power is small.&lt;br /&gt;
owing to lack of suitable accommodation, deco- The Book Buver, the Bookman, and the Critic,&lt;br /&gt;
ration, &amp;amp;c. M. Paladilhe, composer of the&lt;br /&gt;
as organs of book publishers, all occupy special&lt;br /&gt;
music which accompanies this famous drama, fields, and from their very nature as such&lt;br /&gt;
made his debut at sixteen years with a Neapolitan&lt;br /&gt;
organs are all surrounded by conditions that are&lt;br /&gt;
song, entitled &ldquo; Mandolinata,&rdquo; which instantly&lt;br /&gt;
peculiar, and that do not count in favour of the&lt;br /&gt;
became the success of the day. It brought fifty&lt;br /&gt;
htnpty&lt;br /&gt;
lite&lt;br /&gt;
literary aspirant. They are alike erratic in&lt;br /&gt;
francs to its author, and a million to its pub.&lt;br /&gt;
puo various ways. They are hedged about against&lt;br /&gt;
lisher. The music of the splendid lyrical poem&lt;br /&gt;
the innocent or inexperienced writer as Job in&lt;br /&gt;
being written by M. Victorien Sardou (in&lt;br /&gt;
his prosperity was hedged about against the&lt;br /&gt;
collaboration with M. Gheusi) for the Antique&lt;br /&gt;
intique machinations of the Evil One. The necessity for&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre of Orange in 1901, has been intrusted to&lt;br /&gt;
ced to considering and booming the authors of books&lt;br /&gt;
considering&lt;br /&gt;
M. Camille Saint-Sa&euml;ns.&lt;br /&gt;
published by their respective firms, while not&lt;br /&gt;
The productions of M. Henry Kistemaeckers&lt;br /&gt;
entirely paramount, has more influence than&lt;br /&gt;
appear doomed to misfortune, his rehearsals&lt;br /&gt;
might be supposed by those who do not know.&lt;br /&gt;
having again been interrupted. The success of&lt;br /&gt;
In practice it will surely be found that thoughts&lt;br /&gt;
M. Janvier&amp;#039;s new play &ldquo;Francine, ou le respect de&lt;br /&gt;
of literary aspirants seldom if ever flit with&lt;br /&gt;
l&amp;#039;innocence&amp;quot; (Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e theatre) - which has&lt;br /&gt;
cordiality across the editorial sun disks of any of&lt;br /&gt;
obtained the unanimous approval of the entire&lt;br /&gt;
these mediums.&lt;br /&gt;
French Press&mdash;is responsible for the mishap.&lt;br /&gt;
The Metropolitan Magazine has a staff that is&lt;br /&gt;
This time M. Kistemaeckers appears to have&lt;br /&gt;
expected to provide the material it uses. Some&lt;br /&gt;
accepted his fate with resignation.&lt;br /&gt;
journals also doing business on this plan hesitate&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
not to reject a contribution offered, and then to&lt;br /&gt;
work up the idea derived therefrom, through&lt;br /&gt;
their own staff, to the detriment of the aspirant.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES FROM THE &ldquo;BULLETIN OF THE&lt;br /&gt;
It is not easy for an unknown aspirant to enter&lt;br /&gt;
the editorial department of Frank Leslie&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Popular Monthly. If the coming guest is not&lt;br /&gt;
welcomed, the departing one is cordially speeded.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MAGAZINES AND THE ASPIRANT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Art Amateur has a frosty temperature for&lt;br /&gt;
THE Home Journal does not welcome the those unknown to the editor. Disappointed ones&lt;br /&gt;
literary aspirant, and if he calls, the air of may weep if they choose outside the office doors.&lt;br /&gt;
the editor is distrait in interview,&lt;br /&gt;
The Art Interchange is far more considerate, but&lt;br /&gt;
The Broadway Magazine cheerfully admits the editor of the Interchange is an expert on&lt;br /&gt;
to the visiting aspirant that it is not very serious, reading character and literary ability by means&lt;br /&gt;
and will have none of the manuscripts of those of handwriting and of physiognomy, so that he&lt;br /&gt;
who are.&lt;br /&gt;
can tell by reading your letter, offering a contri.&lt;br /&gt;
The Century, Scribner&amp;#039;s, and Harper&amp;#039;s all do bution, or by looking at you carelessly if you call,&lt;br /&gt;
sometimes open their doors to literary aspirants. whether your stuff is likely to be available, with-&lt;br /&gt;
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52&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
out the trouble of reading the material. Con that the photograph was inartistic and not a&lt;br /&gt;
tributors must call for payments, unless otherwise proper subject for copyright. The judge gave&lt;br /&gt;
arranged.&lt;br /&gt;
this question, as one of fact, to the jury to deter-&lt;br /&gt;
The editorial management of Ev&amp;#039;ry Month is mine, and they found for the defendants. Zulker,&lt;br /&gt;
new. The editor is pleasant, but he is very limited Sweet, and Loeb, manufacturers of a household&lt;br /&gt;
in his appropriations for contributions. The preparation, were the defendants. Jacob Schloss&lt;br /&gt;
agreed cheque is, however, promptly sent subse- the photographer, the plaintiff; the suit being&lt;br /&gt;
quent to publication.&lt;br /&gt;
brought by the counsel for the Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
The management of Success is ordinarily not League.&lt;br /&gt;
very considerate of literary aspirants. Their un.&lt;br /&gt;
A QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
solicited offerings of manuscripts are very nume. Two famous books figure in court just now,&lt;br /&gt;
rous, and their examinations are at times some- and upon them depends a question of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
what slow, which is often a serious item to the of great interest to publishers, as well as to&lt;br /&gt;
writer who depends upon the sale of his manu. writers and the reading public. One of these is&lt;br /&gt;
scripts for income.&lt;br /&gt;
Oliver Wendell Holmes&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Professor at the&lt;br /&gt;
The Home Magazine will fastidiously consider Breakfast Table,&amp;quot; the other Mrs. Harriet Beecher&lt;br /&gt;
anything offered, especially if accompanied with Stowe&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Minister&amp;#039;s Wooing.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations, but its compensation rates are low. A suit has been brought by Houghton, Mifflin&lt;br /&gt;
Munsey&amp;#039;s says &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; and means &ldquo; No.&rdquo; As and Co. to enjoin R. H. White and Co. from&lt;br /&gt;
is the case with others, a beautifully printed form selling the first-named work, and another to&lt;br /&gt;
is used to reject manuscripts, that upon receipt enjoin Houghton and Dutton from disposing of&lt;br /&gt;
consoles those whose funds grow low and whose the latter. The publishers assert that the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
hearts grow sick waiting and hoping for long. these books by the respondents is a violation of&lt;br /&gt;
delayed cheques almost as much as if the cheque copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
itself had come. Some authors collect these The works involving the present suits were&lt;br /&gt;
forms as others do postage stamps.&lt;br /&gt;
published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in&lt;br /&gt;
The Churchman has not time for anyone. 1858, and the publishers were apparently neglect-&lt;br /&gt;
except it be a specialist. No literary aspirants ful in securing copyright. It now appears that a&lt;br /&gt;
need apply.&lt;br /&gt;
valid copyright was secured on the last issue of&lt;br /&gt;
The Gentlewoman gets many of its features&lt;br /&gt;
the year, December, 1859, and &ldquo;The Minister&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
from Europe. It is well for the would-be con- Wooing&rdquo; was published in book form and pro-&lt;br /&gt;
tributor to remember this fact in doing business perly entered for copyright before the publication&lt;br /&gt;
with the magazine. The editor is seldom at the in the Atlantic Monthly of the last thirteen&lt;br /&gt;
office, and the rush and crush is thereby avoided chapters.&lt;br /&gt;
by her.&lt;br /&gt;
The respondents demurred from the bill. The&lt;br /&gt;
There are many magazines, like the Impres. demurrer is based on three contentions, viz.: That&lt;br /&gt;
sionist, the (new) Criterion, the Ledger Monthly:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Professor at the Breakfast Table&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
a few of the trade papers and others, that pay a&lt;br /&gt;
printed serially in the magazine under a title&lt;br /&gt;
cent per word or thereabouts, which is a good totally different from the recorded title of the&lt;br /&gt;
average rate.&lt;br /&gt;
magazine number in question ; that no notice of&lt;br /&gt;
the copyright of the Atlantic Monthly was given&lt;br /&gt;
Two COPYRIGHT Decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
on the published copies containing the instalments&lt;br /&gt;
A curious copyright decision was rendered by of the story in question, and that the copyrights&lt;br /&gt;
the Supreme Court in the case of Bolles v. of said magazine number, even if valid, expired in&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Outing.&rdquo; The judges decreed that the statutory 1897.&lt;br /&gt;
damage could only be collected on copies infring-&lt;br /&gt;
ing the copyright actually found in the possession&lt;br /&gt;
of the defendant at the time the action was&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;
announced, nothing being collectable on copies&lt;br /&gt;
previously distributed and sold; a decision that M HE last dinner of the Authors&amp;#039; Club for the&lt;br /&gt;
would, in most cases of copyright infringement,&lt;br /&gt;
present season was held on July 2. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
make the law inoperative, as publishers do not Frankfort Moore took the chair, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
keep more publications in their possession than Walter Macfarren was the guest of the evening.&lt;br /&gt;
are actually necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
The speeches were excellent. The Lyric Glee&lt;br /&gt;
Another copyright decision of interest to Singers gave the club a delightful entertainment,&lt;br /&gt;
publishers is that in the case of a poster made by singing Mr. Walter Macfarren&amp;#039;s four part songs.&lt;br /&gt;
the defendants from a copyrighted photograph of As a finish to the season the evening was most&lt;br /&gt;
a chorus girl. The defendants&amp;#039; counsel claimed successful. The directors of the Authors&amp;#039; Club,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
53&lt;br /&gt;
and the Club, may congratulate themselves on the&lt;br /&gt;
Monday night dinners during the past winter and&lt;br /&gt;
spring, as they can reckon among the club guests&lt;br /&gt;
some of the most distinguished people in England,&lt;br /&gt;
among whom were the following: The Lord Chan-&lt;br /&gt;
cellor, the Lord Mayor, the Commander-in-Chief,&lt;br /&gt;
the Bishop of London, the French and American&lt;br /&gt;
Ambassadors, the Swedish and Norwegian and&lt;br /&gt;
Chinese Ministers, Sir George Trevelyan, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Stephen, Mr. Bryce, General Sir Evelyn&lt;br /&gt;
Wood, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Sir Walter Foster,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Sir Alma Tadema,&lt;br /&gt;
the President of the Royal Academy (Sir E.&lt;br /&gt;
Poynter), Lord Strathcona, Sir Robert Ball, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
E. F. Knight, and Mr. Alfred Austin.&lt;br /&gt;
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
of Margaret of Navarre.&rdquo; Mr. Muir and Mr. Leycester&lt;br /&gt;
prosecuted, and Mr. Biron defended. Inspector Arrow&lt;br /&gt;
ransacked the premises in question and removed two cab&lt;br /&gt;
loads, but he was unable to find more than two books upon&lt;br /&gt;
which to base a prosecution. As to one of these, &ldquo; His&lt;br /&gt;
Excellency Eugene Rougon,&amp;quot; the grand jury threw out&lt;br /&gt;
the bill. Mr. Biron ridiculed the idea that &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Heptameron&amp;quot; was an obscene work. It was a classic&lt;br /&gt;
historical work, he said, and was to be found in every&lt;br /&gt;
library of note. It was a perfectly lawful publication,&lt;br /&gt;
illustrative of the literatare and manners of the Middle&lt;br /&gt;
Ages. The defendant had carried on a most respectable&lt;br /&gt;
business both in Booksellers&rsquo;-row and near Temple Bar,&lt;br /&gt;
where the seizure was made, and he submitted that the&lt;br /&gt;
prosecution was a most vindictive one on the part of the&lt;br /&gt;
police, and wholly unjustifiable. The Common Sergeant,&lt;br /&gt;
in summing up the case to the jury, said the only question&lt;br /&gt;
for them was whether the work was of a lewd and lascivious&lt;br /&gt;
character, manifestly calculated to corrupt public morals.&lt;br /&gt;
They did not require the Vigilance Association or the police,&lt;br /&gt;
or even critics of literary style and antiquarian research, to&lt;br /&gt;
decide that question. A great deal depended on the time,&lt;br /&gt;
place, and circumstances of the publication. It was a&lt;br /&gt;
matter of common knowledge that in the writings of many&lt;br /&gt;
respectable people, ecclesiastics, students, and others of&lt;br /&gt;
past ages, there were passages the wholesale publication of&lt;br /&gt;
which would not now be tolerated, yet which no one would&lt;br /&gt;
wish to destroy or mutilate, inasmuch as in their proper&lt;br /&gt;
place and properly used they were of great value to the&lt;br /&gt;
student and the historian. The sole question for the jury&lt;br /&gt;
was whether the book in the form in which it was published&lt;br /&gt;
and advertised was calculated to corrupt public morals, and&lt;br /&gt;
the jury must judge of the case as men of the world without&lt;br /&gt;
leaning to a prurient morality on the one hand, or a prurient&lt;br /&gt;
laxity on the other. The jury, after some deliberation,&lt;br /&gt;
acquitted accused, and she was discharged.&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of Charley Haines, otherwise Reid, committed&lt;br /&gt;
from Tottenham on a charge of selling &ldquo; The Heptameron,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Muir, after the verdict in the previous case, offered no&lt;br /&gt;
evidence, and a verdict of not guilcy was returned. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Purcell appeared for the accused, who was discharged. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Muir, in justification of the action of the police, said that&lt;br /&gt;
earlier in the year a man was prosecuted for selling the&lt;br /&gt;
same work, and pleading guilty was sentenced.&lt;br /&gt;
Observe that the inspector ransacked the&lt;br /&gt;
premises&mdash;he was probably acting on information&lt;br /&gt;
and was within his rights. He carried off &ldquo; two&lt;br /&gt;
cab loads &rdquo; of books. That is to say he deprived&lt;br /&gt;
a bookseller for a certain time, pending the&lt;br /&gt;
return of the books, of his means of livelihood.&lt;br /&gt;
He found, among the two cab loads, two on which&lt;br /&gt;
to base a prosecution. The first was &ldquo; His&lt;br /&gt;
Excellency Eugene Rougon.&rdquo; The grand jury&lt;br /&gt;
threw out the bill as regards this book. Other-&lt;br /&gt;
wise the grand jury would have been an ass&lt;br /&gt;
indeed. There remained the &ldquo;Heptameron of&lt;br /&gt;
Margaret of Navarre.&rdquo; If this book is to be&lt;br /&gt;
made the subject of a prosecution, Shakespeare,&lt;br /&gt;
Ben Jonson, Butler&amp;#039;s Hudibras, Burton&amp;#039;s Anatomy,&lt;br /&gt;
Dryden, Walt Whitman, the Cent Nouvelles Nou-&lt;br /&gt;
velles, Boccaccio, and Heaven knows what besides,&lt;br /&gt;
will have to vanish from the bookseller&amp;#039;s shelves.&lt;br /&gt;
The jury, happily, acquitted the accused. But&lt;br /&gt;
what bookseller is safe? The next thing, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
will be a raid upon the private library.&lt;br /&gt;
NHE complete list of Pensions granted during&lt;br /&gt;
the year ending June 20, 1900, and charged&lt;br /&gt;
upon the Civil List, has been published.&lt;br /&gt;
The whole amount at the disposal of the First&lt;br /&gt;
Lord of the Treasury has been expended. The&lt;br /&gt;
following is an analysis of the grants :&lt;br /&gt;
Art (sculpture, painting, and singing) &pound;300&lt;br /&gt;
Science (arch&aelig;ology, submarine tele-&lt;br /&gt;
graphy, mathematics, hygiene,&lt;br /&gt;
Antarctic exploration)........&lt;br /&gt;
Literature.................................... 550&lt;br /&gt;
Pensions which have nothing to do&lt;br /&gt;
with either Literature, Science, or&lt;br /&gt;
Art, and have no claims, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
upon this Fund ........................ 105&lt;br /&gt;
Cannot the Committee procure an amendment&lt;br /&gt;
of the resolution so that it should include persons&lt;br /&gt;
with claims depending on achievements in Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, Science, and Art only? This seems the&lt;br /&gt;
only way of putting a definite stop either to the&lt;br /&gt;
jobs which formerly disgraced the List or the&lt;br /&gt;
little nibblings which are now allowed every year&lt;br /&gt;
in favour of persons whose claims may be very&lt;br /&gt;
strong, but are not literary, scientific, or artistic.&lt;br /&gt;
245&lt;br /&gt;
THE POLICE AS CENSORS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE following case was published in the&lt;br /&gt;
Newsagent and Booksellers&amp;#039; Review.&lt;br /&gt;
PROSECUTION OR PERSECUTION ?&lt;br /&gt;
Ridiculous Charges against Booksellers.&lt;br /&gt;
At the Central Criminal Court, London, last week, Mabel&lt;br /&gt;
Florence Thomson, manageress and secretary of a publishing&lt;br /&gt;
company in Booksellers&amp;#039;.row, surrendered to her bail to&lt;br /&gt;
answer an indictment charging ber with having pablished&lt;br /&gt;
an alleged obscene libel, a book entitled &ldquo;The Heptameron&lt;br /&gt;
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54&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The mournful part of the business is that early&lt;br /&gt;
in the present year a man was prosecuted at the&lt;br /&gt;
instance of the police for selling the same book,&lt;br /&gt;
and, pleading guilty, was fined.&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, let us ask how it is that&lt;br /&gt;
certain shops in some parts of the West End are&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to flaunt in their windows every kind of&lt;br /&gt;
picture and title which can possible invite prosecu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion--and escape scot free, while these small&lt;br /&gt;
dealers, who happen to have a classic in which are&lt;br /&gt;
certain coarse passages, are harried and haled&lt;br /&gt;
before magistrates, and have to look on while their&lt;br /&gt;
stock-in-trade, proved to be perfectly innocent,&lt;br /&gt;
is forcibly carried off in four-wheeled cabs.&lt;br /&gt;
this city who is a living link between the events&lt;br /&gt;
of the middle of this century and of its close this&lt;br /&gt;
year. His experiences, therefore, must be of a&lt;br /&gt;
particularly interesting kind, and those that he&lt;br /&gt;
recounted before the Authors&amp;#039; Society, flavoured as&lt;br /&gt;
they were with personal allusions, were well&lt;br /&gt;
received. As Mr. Karkaria suggested at the&lt;br /&gt;
gathering, these reminiscences of a very active and&lt;br /&gt;
many-sided career would be not only pleasant&lt;br /&gt;
but instructive and edifying reading if Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Kabraji were to put them on paper and publish&lt;br /&gt;
them in a book. We wish the Authors&amp;#039; Society&lt;br /&gt;
success, and hope it will fulfil its object of&lt;br /&gt;
increasing friendship and intercourse among&lt;br /&gt;
native writers.&mdash; Bombay Gazette, June 9.&lt;br /&gt;
BOMBAY SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
TT is an encouraging sign of the times that the&lt;br /&gt;
Parsi authors and journalists of Bombay 1. &mdash; CONCERNING ENGLISH AUTHORS IN THE&lt;br /&gt;
have formed a &ldquo; Society of Authors &rdquo; more&lt;br /&gt;
UNITED STATES.&lt;br /&gt;
or less on the model of the well-known association T HAVE long felt the helplessness of English&lt;br /&gt;
established some years ago in London. That authors in the hands of American pub.&lt;br /&gt;
society is the first of its kind in England, though lishers. How good soever our agreements&lt;br /&gt;
in France &ldquo; La Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres &rdquo; has may be, we have no means of seeing them carried&lt;br /&gt;
now existed for over sixty years, and has done out. The experience of others probably tallies&lt;br /&gt;
much good to its members as well as the literary with my own, though I have seen no complaint&lt;br /&gt;
profession in general. Our local society also bids in The Author or elsewhere. I would propose&lt;br /&gt;
fair to be useful and successful as it is in that our society should have an agent or an&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiastic and able hands. The veteran Parsi agency in New York, with full powers from&lt;br /&gt;
author, Mr. K. R. Cama, who in the present year individual writers to examine&mdash;as far as existing&lt;br /&gt;
finishes the Psalmist&amp;#039;s limit of three score and laws permit - either the books of publishers&lt;br /&gt;
ten, and who is as vigorous and enthusiastic in his or the price-lists, advertisements, and sales of&lt;br /&gt;
literary schemes as ever, is the president, and each work, and forward half-yearly statements of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. K. N. Kabraji, the veteran Parsi journalist, the same to authors, who, of course, would be&lt;br /&gt;
is the vice-president. The new society performed charged some fee. This is merely a rough and&lt;br /&gt;
a very pleasing function the other day by sketchy idea that might be thought out in&lt;br /&gt;
inviting a very select and cultured party of detail and improved and amplified by the&lt;br /&gt;
authors and authoresses&mdash;for Parsi lady-writers collective mind of the Incorporated Authors,&lt;br /&gt;
have also joined the society-and their friends to should they see the utility of such an agent or&lt;br /&gt;
an afternoon party to meet their vice-president, agency&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Kabraji, before his departure for England It would be well, perhaps, to impart my&lt;br /&gt;
to-day. The most interesting part of the pro- experience with regard to &ldquo; The Last Sentence,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ceedings was the speech in which this veteran a novel published by Mr. Heinemann in 1893,&lt;br /&gt;
journalist recounted his experiences of over forty after running in Great Thoughts. Accord-&lt;br /&gt;
years in his profession. Mr. Kabraji commenced ing to my rule, I retained the copyright of this&lt;br /&gt;
his connection with the native Press in the pre- novel, and empowered Messrs. Lovell and Co. to&lt;br /&gt;
Mutiny days, and all the great landmarks of publish it in the United States for me on con.&lt;br /&gt;
recent Indian history have passed under his eyes. dition of paying me a stipulated royalty. The&lt;br /&gt;
He witnessed the Mutiny, heard the Queen&amp;#039;s Pro novel sold well on both sides, and I received sub-&lt;br /&gt;
clamation proclaimed with due pomp and cere- stantial cheques from America as well as England.&lt;br /&gt;
mony in Nov. 1858, saw the preparations in But Messrs. Lovell and Co. became bankrupt,&lt;br /&gt;
Bombay for the Abyssinian and Afgban Wars, and, without consulting me-as I believe, illegally&lt;br /&gt;
was present at the Grand Durbar where the -transferred this rigbt or sub-let this right of&lt;br /&gt;
Queen was proclaimed Empress of India, took publishing to firm after firm, all of which, as far&lt;br /&gt;
part in the festivities of the Jubilee of the Queen, as I can ascertain, became bankrupt, but con-&lt;br /&gt;
He is the only journalist, native or European, in tinued to publish my novel and to send me from&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 55 (#81) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
55&lt;br /&gt;
time to time varying sums as royalty. But I exceptional, in which case it may serve as a warn-&lt;br /&gt;
could not obtain regular statements of sales, and ing to others.&lt;br /&gt;
MAXWELL GRAY.&lt;br /&gt;
seldom knew in whose hands the book was. It2, Mount Ararat-road, Richmond,&lt;br /&gt;
was pirated, I believe, by one firm, but I really do Surrey. July 12, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
not quite know what happened to this book,&lt;br /&gt;
except that it was always selling, a fact I ascer-&lt;br /&gt;
tained sometimes by indirect means. At last I&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;&ldquo; PRINTERS&amp;#039; ERRORS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
received an intimation from the &ldquo; American It is distinctly amusing to find anyone com-&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Corporation&rdquo; to the effect that they plaining of the printer as a tyrant. With most&lt;br /&gt;
had the book, and furnishing a sort of genealogy authors he is a scapegoat. Whenever some&lt;br /&gt;
of the firms through which it had descended to unusually palpable blunder appears in type it is&lt;br /&gt;
them from Messrs. Lovell and Co. (or Proteus invariably spoken of as a &amp;quot;printer&amp;#039;s error.&rdquo; In a&lt;br /&gt;
and Co.). I think this was in 1897, when, I see. recent number of Truth, for instance, it was the&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;6 was received from them, presumably for 1896. demoniacal printer who compelled the editor to&lt;br /&gt;
Then comes an entry in the autumn of 1898 of call Mr. Robert Lowe Lord Sherborne instead of&lt;br /&gt;
159. This was accompanied by an intimation Lord Sherbrooke. Perhaps, Sir, you will allow&lt;br /&gt;
that the sale was so feeble they proposed printing me to say a word or two upon this harrowing&lt;br /&gt;
no more copies. One would suppose this to be subject.&lt;br /&gt;
the end of the history. Not at all. In May, In the first place, the printer has, and can&lt;br /&gt;
1900, I received a letter from the manager of the have, nothing whatever to do with it. The&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Plate Renting Company, stating that man who prints, i.e., the pressman, never, as far&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; between the receivership of the American Pub. as my experience goes, sets up type. I suppose,&lt;br /&gt;
lishers&amp;#039; Corporation and the foreclosure sale of its therefore, that when Mr. Corbett says printer&lt;br /&gt;
plates ... some publishing was done, and (see April number of The Author, p. 250) he&lt;br /&gt;
any royalties earned were deposited in a trust means compositor ; that it is the compositor who&lt;br /&gt;
company in this city. There are now on deposit presumes to alter his undeniably accurate spelling,&lt;br /&gt;
royalties from the sale of your book amounting to and whose fault it is when a blunder defaces a&lt;br /&gt;
about &pound;60.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
page. But I submit that this is putting the&lt;br /&gt;
That is all I know (except that I claimed and saddle on the wrong horse. In any published&lt;br /&gt;
received my cheque). It appears to me a singular matter, be it book or newspaper, a printer&amp;#039;s error&lt;br /&gt;
circumstance that whereas such sum as &pound;6 for one (to use the expression in vogue) does not exist.&lt;br /&gt;
year and 158. for another are all I appear to have It is an impossibility. The error is not that of&lt;br /&gt;
received while the company was solvent, over &pound;60 the compositor, but of the proof-reader. The&lt;br /&gt;
result from the sales between Sept. 1898, and only place in which a printer&amp;#039;s error can occur is in&lt;br /&gt;
May, 1900, when the company was insolvent. I the first proof pulled; and if such error is over-&lt;br /&gt;
am not informed of the sales or the percentage by looked, and appears in the published form, it is&lt;br /&gt;
which my royalty came. It may be rightly the proof-reader, and not the compositor, who is&lt;br /&gt;
calculated, or the trust company may be ignorant to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
of my stipulated percentage. I do not impugn But who is to blame when blunders that exist&lt;br /&gt;
the honesty or accuracy of the various firms which in the manuscript are perpetuated in the public&lt;br /&gt;
have sold my book. I merely observe that the cation ? Here the question lies between the&lt;br /&gt;
jump from 158. to &pound;61 78. (the exact cheque) on publisher&amp;#039;s reader and the author. Very often&lt;br /&gt;
a book seven years old is remarkable. There was the reader is incompetent, and, failing to under-&lt;br /&gt;
also a sudden decline from a cheque in three stand the author&amp;#039;s meaning, ventures to correct&lt;br /&gt;
figures to &pound;2 on an earlier firm becoming solvent, his copy. A case once occurred in my own&lt;br /&gt;
which is less remarkable. It is true that in 1898 experience. Being absent from Europe, I sent&lt;br /&gt;
my novel, &ldquo; The House of Hidden Treasure,&amp;quot; had home my copy in type, and of course could not&lt;br /&gt;
a large sale in England and the United States, correct the proofs. In a certain passage I had&lt;br /&gt;
and that may have sent up the American sale of used the expression &ldquo;reification of a concept.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Last Sentence,&amp;quot; though it had not that The reader had never heard of the word reifica-&lt;br /&gt;
effect in England. But the point is that I, and I tion, and you may imagine my dismay when, on&lt;br /&gt;
suppose all authors, except a few ubiquitous the publication of my book, I found that he had&lt;br /&gt;
people, are helpless as a child in the matter; altered it to &ldquo; deification.&amp;quot; Here he was wrong;&lt;br /&gt;
and that an agent, who must be neither pub- and yet there certainly are cases in which a reader&lt;br /&gt;
lisher nor author, to watch books in the might save the author from some of the gram-&lt;br /&gt;
United States would be a great boon to English matica) atrocities that bring amateur authorship&lt;br /&gt;
authors.&lt;br /&gt;
into disrepute. A novelist or essayist who writes&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, my experience may be &amp;quot;like he does,&rdquo; &ldquo;different to,&rdquo; or &ldquo;neither of&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
them were,&rdquo; splits his infinitives, and begins two far cry, and my publishers took what money was&lt;br /&gt;
consecutive separate sentences with the word made by the sale of the book for themselves, then&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;but,&amp;quot; is lucky if he finds a publisher ; but he (although the whole edition was entirely my pro-&lt;br /&gt;
would be luckier still (and so would the public) perty) they disposed of the unsold copies to&lt;br /&gt;
if the publisher&amp;#039;s reader were benevolent enough another firm without informing me; and, on the&lt;br /&gt;
to correct his English.&lt;br /&gt;
F. H. B. Authors&amp;#039; Society interfering, it was found that&lt;br /&gt;
the firm was bankrupt and had vanished without&lt;br /&gt;
assets.&lt;br /&gt;
III.-LONG RETENTION OF MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
I had written two more books by this time;&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps one of the greatest grievances and one a work of 58opp. 4to. on some little-known&lt;br /&gt;
discouragements the literary aspirant has to languages, and the other a history in two volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
suffer from is the unreasonably long detention of 875pp. 4to. A highly-placed official of the&lt;br /&gt;
his MSS. by publishers or editors. In fact, the Government of India saw the MS. of the first&lt;br /&gt;
preliminary step to failure or renown resembles book and said, &ldquo; You will let us have this&rdquo;; of&lt;br /&gt;
the launching of Moses among the bulrushes, or course, publication by the Government of India&lt;br /&gt;
the venturesome vulgar boys of Margate sands is a cachet for a work, so I agreed. The second&lt;br /&gt;
who went to sea in a sieve.&lt;br /&gt;
book was written at the request of the Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
A play of mine was retained by a stage manager ment in my leisure time, but not in any way &ldquo;by&lt;br /&gt;
for over a year, and then he pretended he had lost order.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
it. At length I bearded the lion in his den, I agreed because my experiences with private&lt;br /&gt;
and simply seized it on the rack of his desk, and firms of publishers had not been pleasant or&lt;br /&gt;
walked off triumphant. Recently an elaborate profitable, and if the Government of India tells&lt;br /&gt;
work of 500 pages went the round of four pub- one of its servants that it wishes to publish his&lt;br /&gt;
lishers in the short twinkling of fifteen months! books, he knows a great deal better than to&lt;br /&gt;
The fifth grand lama delightedly appropriated it refuse.&lt;br /&gt;
by return of post, politely offering me &pound;50 in Both books were published by the Government&lt;br /&gt;
return for five years&amp;#039; exile and hard labour. of India, and I received 30 copies of the first and&lt;br /&gt;
Being but a Grub-street vagabond, I accepted; 42 copies of the second. I have not received any&lt;br /&gt;
and then had the pleasure of correcting the proofs payment or other acknowledgment, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of the mutilated and largely abridged &ldquo;copy,&amp;quot; Government have all the rights and the owner-&lt;br /&gt;
which, although written in the same legible hand ship of the books.&lt;br /&gt;
as enclosure, largely abounded in distinctly Now, have I been well treated or not, and how&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; printer&amp;#039;s errors.&rdquo; My magnum opus having do the Government compare, as publishers, with&lt;br /&gt;
honourably run the gauntlet of the critics, I hope some of those firms our Society has been so busy&lt;br /&gt;
fully inquired about the sales by way of curiosity, safeguarding its members against ? TALAI.&lt;br /&gt;
but received no answer.&lt;br /&gt;
I have lost nearly half of my contributions to&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, and enclosure represents the sting of a&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;THE HARDSHIPS OF THE TYPIST.&lt;br /&gt;
recent experience.&lt;br /&gt;
Your correspondent&amp;#039;s remarks on the hardships-&lt;br /&gt;
J. S. LAURIE. of the typist are just. Ninepence a thousand words&lt;br /&gt;
is cruel pay, in face of the fact ihat the work is&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT AS PUBLISHERS. very uncertain.&lt;br /&gt;
I give my experiences with publishers in the The lady who has typed my later novels (Miss&lt;br /&gt;
hope of obtaining some expression of opinion E. Longworth, 310, Strand) assures me that some-&lt;br /&gt;
regarding the position adopted by the Indian times for weeks at a stretch she has scarcely any.&lt;br /&gt;
Government towards those of its unfortunate thing to do, and then is wearied by a sudden rush&lt;br /&gt;
servants who happen to be authors.&lt;br /&gt;
of work, much of which she has to put out and&lt;br /&gt;
In 1887 I wrote, at the request of the head of pay for, as she cannot do it in the time given her.&lt;br /&gt;
the local government under which I was then And authors are always in a hurry!&lt;br /&gt;
serving, a small work containing special informil- She charges me is. a thousand words, and gives.&lt;br /&gt;
tion which I alone possessed, and brought the a carbon copy in, which is, I think, as fair as&lt;br /&gt;
MS. to England. The Secretary of State for anyone can desire. One cannot expect typewriting&lt;br /&gt;
India gave me &pound;100 and told me to bave the book to be done well for less, and any typist who makes&lt;br /&gt;
published at my own expense ; both he and the a lower charge shows herself an enemy to the other&lt;br /&gt;
Government of India promised to take a certain members of her profession.&lt;br /&gt;
number of copies.&lt;br /&gt;
One thing should be remembered&mdash;that the&lt;br /&gt;
This was very satisfactory, and I hoped for a working of a typewriter is exhausting to most&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable profit. I had returned to the East, a women. It causes a fearful backache in many&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
57&lt;br /&gt;
cases, and, if persisted in too long every day, is Mr. Beckles Willson, whose history of the&lt;br /&gt;
very injurious to health. Considering all this, I Hudson&amp;#039;s Bay Company was published a few&lt;br /&gt;
should be ashamed to pay another woman less months ago, is now writing a somewhat similar&lt;br /&gt;
than I should care to work for myself. Is it not work on the East India Company.&lt;br /&gt;
time that typists combined to protect themselves ?&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anstey&amp;#039;s new story, to be published in&lt;br /&gt;
Ninepence a thousand words will soon sink to&lt;br /&gt;
October by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., is&lt;br /&gt;
sixpence&mdash;and then ? Mary L. PENDERED.&lt;br /&gt;
called &ldquo; The Brass Bottle.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
be&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Ashton Ellis&amp;#039;s life of Wagner will be in&lt;br /&gt;
four volumes, the first of which Messrs. Kegan&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Paul hope to publish in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. C. T. Hagberg Wright, the librarian of the&lt;br /&gt;
MOLONEL SPENCER CHILDERS, of the London Library, is engaged upon a biography of&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Engineers, has prepared the &ldquo;Life Count Tolstoy.&lt;br /&gt;
and Correspondence of Mr. Childers,&amp;quot; Mr. Ferrar Fenton has in the press a sixth&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published in one volume by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
edition of his &ldquo; St. Paul&amp;#039;s Epistles in Modern&lt;br /&gt;
Murray. Mr. Childers&amp;#039;s political career lasted&lt;br /&gt;
English,&rdquo; with an &ldquo;Introduction estimating that&lt;br /&gt;
from 1860 to 1892, during which time he occupied&lt;br /&gt;
Apostle&amp;#039;s influence upon the Progress of Man.&lt;br /&gt;
five Ministerial posts--First Lord, Chancellor of&lt;br /&gt;
kind.&amp;quot; The publishers are Messrs. Horace Mar.&lt;br /&gt;
the Duchy, Secretary for War, Chancellor of the&lt;br /&gt;
shall and Son.&lt;br /&gt;
Exchequer, and Home Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Aylmer Gowing&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo;A Spider&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Rosslyn is publishing through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Web,&rdquo; will be the next work produced in Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Blackwood an account of his adventures during&lt;br /&gt;
Burleigh&amp;#039;s half-crown series. The plot is evolved&lt;br /&gt;
the war in South Africa. The book will be called&lt;br /&gt;
through the arts of a fair Russian Arachne, who&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Twice Captured.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
spins her web about a young English attach&eacute;. A&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Basil Worsfold is writing &ldquo; The Story contrast to the dark shadow of deceit and crime&lt;br /&gt;
of Egypt&rdquo; for Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son&amp;#039;s is found in an idyllic love story in England.&lt;br /&gt;
little Story of the Empire Series. &ldquo;The Story of&lt;br /&gt;
A third edition of Mr. de V. Payen-Payne&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Uganda,&amp;quot; which also will appear this autumn, is by&lt;br /&gt;
1, is by &ldquo;French Idioms and Proverbs &amp;quot; is shortly to be&lt;br /&gt;
Brigadier-General Lugard, C.B., D.S.O.&lt;br /&gt;
published by Mr. David Nutt. The first edition&lt;br /&gt;
A new history of &ldquo;The Venetian Republic&rdquo; has of this work appeared in 1893, and the second in&lt;br /&gt;
been written by Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, and will 1897, and it is now accepted in all colleges and&lt;br /&gt;
be published shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
schools where French is seriously studied as a&lt;br /&gt;
The Publishers&amp;#039; Circular makes the following competent guide to a very difficult subject. For&lt;br /&gt;
statement (July 21):-&lt;br /&gt;
those preparing for examinations, such as those&lt;br /&gt;
As an indication of the success of the net system, the&lt;br /&gt;
of the London, Victoria, or Welsh Universities,&lt;br /&gt;
Booksellers&amp;#039; Association has sent a letter to the Publishers&amp;#039; the Society of Arts, the Oxford and Cambridge&lt;br /&gt;
Association expressing the hope that the number of net locals, or the Civil Service Commissioners, this&lt;br /&gt;
books may be increased. The publishers are now giving book is valuable.&lt;br /&gt;
the matter their serious attention.&lt;br /&gt;
A story of Afghan life by Miss Lillias Hamilton,&lt;br /&gt;
The War Fund book, &ldquo;For Britain&amp;#039;s Soldiers,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
who was the Ameer&amp;#039;s medical adviser, will be wi&lt;br /&gt;
or will be which Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne has got together and&lt;br /&gt;
published by Mr. Murray, under the title &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen are publishing gratuitously, will&lt;br /&gt;
Vizier&amp;#039;s Daughter : an Autobiography.&rdquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
be on sale for three months only, so as to induce&lt;br /&gt;
publisher has also on his autumn list a novel by&lt;br /&gt;
the charitable to buy copies in the pious hope that&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Hely Hutchinson, entitled &ldquo;Monica Grey,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
they may go to a premium afterwards. The con-&lt;br /&gt;
and one by the Hon. Mrs. Walter Forbes, &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
tributors are Messrs. Alden, Besan, Crockett,&lt;br /&gt;
Gentleman.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Hornung, Hyne, Kipling, Mason, Moore, Pem-&lt;br /&gt;
berton, Roberts, Ridge, Wells, White, Wood, and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Footsteps of a Throne&amp;quot; is the title of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Croker.&lt;br /&gt;
Max Pemberton&amp;#039;s new book, which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen will publish in this country.&lt;br /&gt;
An early new comedy at Wyndham&amp;#039;s Theatre&lt;br /&gt;
will be &ldquo;My Lady Dainty,&rdquo; by the lady who&lt;br /&gt;
A posthumous story by the late Mrs. Lynn wrote &ldquo; Young Mr. Jedburg&rdquo; and &ldquo; An American&lt;br /&gt;
Linton, entitled &ldquo; The Second Life of Theodora&lt;br /&gt;
Citizen.&rdquo; The new piece was produced success-&lt;br /&gt;
Desanges,&rdquo; will appear shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
fully at Brighton a month ago. The scene is&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Egerton Castle&amp;#039;s new novel for the autumn laid partly in Devonshire and partly in New&lt;br /&gt;
is to be called &ldquo; The Sacred Orchard.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
York.&lt;br /&gt;
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58&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
At the Duke of York&amp;#039;s a new comedy by Mr. Exhibition, and the other (which should be con-&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Arthur Jones will be produced by Mr. sulted by all interested in the China crisis) with&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Frohman in September.&lt;br /&gt;
the most important recent English and French&lt;br /&gt;
In view of the success which the German plays works on China ; it appeared in Literature of&lt;br /&gt;
have met with in London this year, a syndicate&lt;br /&gt;
ndirate&lt;br /&gt;
July 21.&lt;br /&gt;
July 21.&lt;br /&gt;
(with Mr. Henry Oppenheim and the Earl of Mr. Cosmo Hamilton&amp;#039;s new book is called&lt;br /&gt;
Dysart among the guarantors) has been formed &ldquo;Impudent Dialogues,&amp;quot; and will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
for the production of German pieces at the Mr. Arrowsmith next spring. The romantic play&lt;br /&gt;
Comedy Theatre from the middle of October to in four acts founded on &ldquo; The Countess Tekla,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the middle of April next.&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Robert Barr, is to be&lt;br /&gt;
The object of the National Drama Company, produced in London next Easter. Mr. Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;
which has just been formed, is &ldquo;to provide an is at present engaged on a society extravaganza&lt;br /&gt;
organisation by which our great plays may be to be called &ldquo;The Danger of Innocence,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
produced in frequent succession; and it has been will form the Christmas number of the World.&lt;br /&gt;
thought advisable,&rdquo; says the prospectus,&ldquo; to The editor of the Century Magazine has taken&lt;br /&gt;
make Mr. F. R. Benson&amp;#039;s Shakespearean and Old up the charge against the American stage, and&lt;br /&gt;
Comedy company-which has long been engaged goes the length of saying that American drama-&lt;br /&gt;
in this work as a private undertaking, and has a tists are not only incapable of appreciating what&lt;br /&gt;
repertory of no less than twenty-three of Shake is intellectual, instructive, wholesome, or inspiring,&lt;br /&gt;
speare&amp;#039;s plays&mdash;the basis of the new organisa but addicted naturally to what is morbid, auda-&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&rdquo; The capital is &pound;27,000 in ordinary and cious, or unclean. On this subject, and in view&lt;br /&gt;
preference shares, and the board of directors of the recent discussion in Parliament of the&lt;br /&gt;
includes Sir H. W. Lawrence, Sir John Scott, Mr. English stage, it is instructive to observe the&lt;br /&gt;
Joseph Walton, Q.C., and Mr. Benson.&lt;br /&gt;
point of view of another American, Judge&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips has written for Mr. Beer- Fursman, as expressed in his summing-up in the&lt;br /&gt;
bohm Tree a new play on the subject of Herod prosecution against the performance of &ldquo; Sapho&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the Great. It will be called &ldquo;The King of the in New York-a case which ended, as will be&lt;br /&gt;
Jews,&amp;quot; and will be presented at Her Majesty&amp;#039;s remembered, in the acquittal of Miss Olga&lt;br /&gt;
during the coming season. Mr. Tree intends also Nethersole and her colleagues. Addressing the&lt;br /&gt;
to produce two Shakespearean plays&mdash;&ldquo; Julius jury on their duties, the judge said:&lt;br /&gt;
C&aelig;sar&rdquo; and &ldquo; Othello.&amp;quot; For the former he has Consider as to them only the fair arguments that in the&lt;br /&gt;
secured Mr. Murray Carson for the part of Julius cold deliberation of honest minds ought to prevail. Where&lt;br /&gt;
C&aelig;sar, Mr. Beveridge as Casca, and Mr. Robert&lt;br /&gt;
you sit there is no room for imagination. Where you sit&lt;br /&gt;
there is no room for sympathy, for prejudice, or for&lt;br /&gt;
Taber for the role of Cassius.&lt;br /&gt;
vengeance. You are not here in the interests of any public&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Martin Harvey has taken the Lyceum newspaper. You are not here in the interests of the public&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre for the autumn, and his programme will&lt;br /&gt;
prosecution. You are not here in the interests of the&lt;br /&gt;
defendants. You are here as sworn officers of the law to&lt;br /&gt;
probably include, first, &ldquo; Romeo and Juliet,&amp;quot; and determine what the truth is&mdash;what justice requires, what&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards an adaptation by Mr. Charles Hannan fairness demands, under the evidence and the law in this&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Marion Crawford&amp;#039;s story, &ldquo;A Cigarette case. The law requires you to presume that these defen.&lt;br /&gt;
Maker&amp;#039;s Romance.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
dants are innocent. Innocence is the garb with which the&lt;br /&gt;
law clothes every accused person, and the prosecution is&lt;br /&gt;
The familiar type of melodrama at the Adelphi required in law to overcome this presumption by evidence&lt;br /&gt;
is at last to suffer an eclipse, Mr. George that leaves no reasonable doubt in a man&amp;#039;s mind. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Edwardes having secured the house as a home&lt;br /&gt;
The statute does not make it an offence that the tenor,&lt;br /&gt;
for the production of musical plays.&lt;br /&gt;
the product, the outcome of a book or a play is not moral.&lt;br /&gt;
The statute makes it an offence when it offends public&lt;br /&gt;
On August 30 Miss Julia Neilson will re-open decency so as to become a public nuisance. Mere sag-&lt;br /&gt;
the Haymarket Theatre with the new play by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
gestiveness&mdash;and I think it must be said in all fairness&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Kester entitled &amp;quot;Sweet N L of &amp;#039;Durga that there are things in this play, and it cannot be denied&lt;br /&gt;
and has not been denied, that are to a certain extent sag.&lt;br /&gt;
-otherwise Nell Gwyn. The play is in four&lt;br /&gt;
gestive&mdash;but mere suggestiveness is not sufficient. It is&lt;br /&gt;
acts, and besides Miss Neilson the cast includes&lt;br /&gt;
not enough, in order to make a crime under this statute,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Fred Terry, Mr. W. Mollison, Mr. Sydney that it may offend the modesty of young girls. This statute&lt;br /&gt;
Brough, and Miss Constance Collier.&lt;br /&gt;
means, when it declares a play to be an offence against&lt;br /&gt;
public decency, that it shall be of such a character as to&lt;br /&gt;
Two bibliographical articles of considerable offend in that manner the great mass of the people of all&lt;br /&gt;
interest at the present juncture appeared in characters, of all estates, of all faiths, of all denominations,&lt;br /&gt;
the course of July in Literature from the of all positions in society.&lt;br /&gt;
pen of E. A. Reynolds-Ball. One (July 7) The only book ever done by President Lincoln&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with the recent literature of the Paris is about to be published in America by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
59&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
McClure, Phillips, and Co., and will be a repro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction in exact facsimile of a small scrap-&lt;br /&gt;
hook compiled by Lincoln for use in the political&lt;br /&gt;
campaign of 1858. This book was presented by&lt;br /&gt;
the owner to his strongest supporter, Captain&lt;br /&gt;
James N. Brown, who carried it with him in 1860&lt;br /&gt;
and in subsequent campaigns for use as a book of&lt;br /&gt;
reference whenever Lincoln&amp;#039;s opinions were called&lt;br /&gt;
in question. Captain Brown died in 1868, and&lt;br /&gt;
the book passed to his sons, by whose desire it is&lt;br /&gt;
now being published. The clippings give. in&lt;br /&gt;
Lincoln&amp;#039;s own words, &ldquo;the substance of all I have&lt;br /&gt;
ever said about negro equality,&amp;quot; and the book also&lt;br /&gt;
contains notes in Lincoln&amp;#039;s handwriting prefaced&lt;br /&gt;
to the extracts from his speeches. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
called &ldquo;Abraham Lincoln : His Book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Norman Hapgood is following his recent&lt;br /&gt;
biography of Lincoln with a life of Washington.&lt;br /&gt;
The source of the title, &ldquo;Red Pottage,&amp;quot; has&lt;br /&gt;
been engaging the curiosity of American readers&lt;br /&gt;
and reviewers. Some attributed the passage&lt;br /&gt;
quoted by the author&mdash;&amp;quot; After the red pottage&lt;br /&gt;
comes the exceeding bitter cry&rdquo;&mdash;to the Bible,&lt;br /&gt;
others thought it came from Omar Khayyam.&lt;br /&gt;
At length, Messrs. Harper and Brothers, the&lt;br /&gt;
American publishers of the book, sought to place&lt;br /&gt;
the matter beyond doubt by asking Miss Chol.&lt;br /&gt;
mondeley. Her reply was as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Cholmondeley, in answer to Messrs. Harpers&amp;#039; inquiry&lt;br /&gt;
of May 23, regrets to say she does not know where the&lt;br /&gt;
motto comes from&mdash;&ldquo;After the red pottage,&rdquo; &amp;amp;c. She&lt;br /&gt;
remembers jotting it down in her note-book years ago, but&lt;br /&gt;
when she turned to it she found to her surprise she had not&lt;br /&gt;
added the author&amp;#039;s name, which in nearly every other case&lt;br /&gt;
she had been careful to do. She thinks it may be found in&lt;br /&gt;
the sermons of the Rev. John Hamilton Thom.&lt;br /&gt;
The curiosity of the American reading public&lt;br /&gt;
in regard to another lady novelist, Miss Ellen&lt;br /&gt;
Thorneycroft Fowler, has been answered in a&lt;br /&gt;
singular fashion. Messrs. D. Appleton and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
have issued a new edition of &ldquo; Concerning Isabel&lt;br /&gt;
Carnaby,&amp;quot; which presents a portrait and an&lt;br /&gt;
elaborate biographical and critical study of the&lt;br /&gt;
author.&lt;br /&gt;
The late Mr. Harold Frederic&amp;#039;s work, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Damnation of Theron Ware,&rdquo; which is known in&lt;br /&gt;
England as &ldquo; Illumination,&rdquo; is being dramatised&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walter H. Page, formerly editor of the&lt;br /&gt;
Atlantic Monthly, is named as editor of a new&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated magazine which Messrs. Doubleday,&lt;br /&gt;
Page, and Co. hope to bring out in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be called &ldquo;The World&amp;#039;s Work,&amp;quot; and will&lt;br /&gt;
attempt to cover a field of its own.&lt;br /&gt;
THE &ldquo;OVERLAND&amp;quot; TO CHINA, by Archibald R. Colqu.&lt;br /&gt;
houn (Harper, 168.), &ldquo; covers a vast area, for its backbone,&lt;br /&gt;
so to speak, is a journey of 7000 miles to and through the&lt;br /&gt;
Far East.&amp;quot; Much of it is immediately concerned with the&lt;br /&gt;
vital issue and localities of the present crisis, and the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle trusts it &amp;quot; will be very widely read. It is full of&lt;br /&gt;
exact information set forth in most readable fashion, and it&lt;br /&gt;
appears at a moment sensationally opportune.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The&lt;br /&gt;
account of diplomatic life in Peking as it used to be is the&lt;br /&gt;
best extant.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
CHINA, THE LONG-LIVED EMPIRE, by Eliza R. Scada-&lt;br /&gt;
more (Macmillan, 8s. 6d. net), is &ldquo;to be recommended,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &amp;quot;as a lively and vivid account of&lt;br /&gt;
Chinese life and character. With its sketches of scenes&lt;br /&gt;
and persons where with the entire world is now concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
it appears at an opportune moment. It contains a large&lt;br /&gt;
namber of good illustrations.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSPIRACY; or, The Aims of&lt;br /&gt;
Afrikanderdom, by Fred W. Bell (Heinemann, 58. net), deals&lt;br /&gt;
with &ldquo;a matter of great importance,&amp;quot; says the Times, and&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;serves a useful purpose in bringing the known facts and&lt;br /&gt;
the argument to be deduced from them within the reach of&lt;br /&gt;
all who seek to be informed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
My DIOCESE DURING THE WAR, Extracts from the Diary&lt;br /&gt;
of the Right Rev. Arthur Hamilton Baynes, D.D., Bishop of&lt;br /&gt;
Natal (Bell, 68.), is described by the Daily Chronicle as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;in large measure a chronicle of small things, of personal&lt;br /&gt;
detail and hearsay in the rear of the fighting line, of&lt;br /&gt;
hamanitarian and yet sensible views of the war and its&lt;br /&gt;
consequences.&rdquo; The author was at the front, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &ldquo;and saw many things from a point of view&lt;br /&gt;
somewhat different from that either of the soldier or of the&lt;br /&gt;
war correspondent, and what he writes is in the best taste,&lt;br /&gt;
simple, anaffected, and graphic, withont the least attempt&lt;br /&gt;
at fine writing.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by Harald&lt;br /&gt;
H&ouml;ffding (Macmillan, 308.), is a translation from the German&lt;br /&gt;
of a work wbich, says the Guardian, &ldquo;undoubtedly stands in&lt;br /&gt;
the front rank of histories of philosophy, not only on account&lt;br /&gt;
of the eminence and learning of its author, bat even more&lt;br /&gt;
from the lucidity of its plan and the consistency with which&lt;br /&gt;
it is adhered to throughout. A history of philosophy should,&lt;br /&gt;
the author tells us, throw light on what philosophy really&lt;br /&gt;
is ; and the present book not only does this by distin.&lt;br /&gt;
guishing the chief problems of the philosopher and tracing&lt;br /&gt;
their rise and development, but also by making clear every-&lt;br /&gt;
where the intimate relation of philosophy to political and&lt;br /&gt;
social conditions and to scientific progress. Parts of the&lt;br /&gt;
work are, indeed, almost as much a history of calture as of&lt;br /&gt;
philosophy.&rdquo; The Guardian adds, however, that the trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lation needs a &ldquo;very thorough revision.&rdquo; Professor&lt;br /&gt;
H&ouml;ffding&amp;#039;s work, says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;is charac-&lt;br /&gt;
terised by singular clearness, discrimination, and detach.&lt;br /&gt;
ment of mind.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ROBERT BROWNING, by A. Waagh (Kegan Paul, 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
net), is a volume of the &ldquo; Westminster Biographies,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
is in every way an excellent piece of work,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator. &ldquo;The two personalities of Robert Browning and&lt;br /&gt;
his wife are sympatbetically treated, and there is some&lt;br /&gt;
admirable criticism of their literary work.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is,&amp;quot; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Daily Telegraph &ldquo;at once a biography, concise, but&lt;br /&gt;
omitting nothing material, and a scholarly critical apprecia-&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Waugh&amp;#039;s criticism,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; is justly appreciative, not fanatically eulogistic.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
NATURE IN DOWNLAND, by W. H. Hudson (Longmans,&lt;br /&gt;
108. 6d. net), is, among other things, full, says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, &ldquo; of amusing evidences of the rural intelligence&lt;br /&gt;
as found in the county of Sussex.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is long since Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hudson gave as a book. It is longer still since he gave us&lt;br /&gt;
Bo good a book as this one, in which there are more than a&lt;br /&gt;
few passages that recall the Naturalist in La Plata &amp;#039;at&lt;br /&gt;
his happiest.&rdquo; The &ldquo;Downland,&rdquo; says the Daily News, is&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, the promise is redeemed &ldquo; with a measure of&lt;br /&gt;
success rare in sequels. Though less prodigal of incident&lt;br /&gt;
and description, the present volume is far superior to its&lt;br /&gt;
predecessor in concentration and intensity. . . . At the&lt;br /&gt;
close of &ldquo;The School for Saints&amp;#039; it may be remembered&lt;br /&gt;
that Robert Orange, the brilliant and many-sided idealist,&lt;br /&gt;
had become engaged to the beautiful Mrs. Partieto. . . .&lt;br /&gt;
The volume before as unfolds the tragic consequences of&lt;br /&gt;
Sussex Downs. &ldquo;Mr. Hudson shows us every detail of&lt;br /&gt;
the landscape,&rdquo; the features of the treeless downs, the&lt;br /&gt;
abundant flowers, bird and beast, reptile and insect, &ldquo;even&lt;br /&gt;
the seldom-noticed snail, apon whose sculptured covering&lt;br /&gt;
nature has indeed bestowed some of her very daintiest handi.&lt;br /&gt;
work.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
BURMA, by Max and Bertha Ferrara (Low, 308.), describes&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the modern Burmese as he lives and has his being from&lt;br /&gt;
the cradle to the grave, with,&amp;quot; says the Daily Telegraph,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; a painstaking elaborateness and exactitude.&rdquo; The Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle says the book contains &amp;quot;genuine masses of infor.&lt;br /&gt;
mation,&amp;quot; and a &ldquo;beautiful and varied collection of photo&lt;br /&gt;
graphs.&rdquo; &ldquo;Everyone,&rdquo; says Literature, &ldquo;who is so fortu.&lt;br /&gt;
nate as to have read Mr. Fieiding&amp;#039;s book, &amp;#039;The Soul of a&lt;br /&gt;
People,&amp;#039; should get &lsquo;Burma. Although, from its size,&lt;br /&gt;
weight, and price, it comes into the category of &amp;#039;gift-books,&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
books which serve to decorate a table and never get read,&lt;br /&gt;
* Burma&amp;#039; should prove the exception to this rule. Our&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; detailed account of the outward life of the Burmese&lt;br /&gt;
-an account which rounds off and completes Mr. Fielding&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
story of their life-is well worth reading.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A SON OF THE STATE, by W. Pett Ridge (Methaen,&lt;br /&gt;
38. 60.), &amp;quot; is vivid as well as engrossing,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
News, &amp;quot;and its robust manliness&mdash; quality that asserts&lt;br /&gt;
itself on every page&mdash;is not certainly its least merit. And,&lt;br /&gt;
apart from all other considerations, we can only advise those&lt;br /&gt;
who are discontented with existing State institutions to read&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Pett Ridge&amp;#039;s book and benefit by his cheerful optimiam.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
He depicts for us, says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; the blatant,&lt;br /&gt;
garish, open-air life of the City-road.&rdquo; &ldquo;All the early part&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Bobbie&amp;#039;s vagrant career is exceedingly gay, lively,&lt;br /&gt;
and well told,&rdquo; and &ldquo;the book may be recommended to&lt;br /&gt;
everyone as a pleasant summer drink.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LITTLE ANNA MARK, by S. R. Crockett (Smith, Elder&lt;br /&gt;
and Co., 68.), is &amp;quot; a rattling rousing story of adventure and&lt;br /&gt;
misadventure,&amp;quot; says the Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot;related in the&lt;br /&gt;
first person by a somewhat dull-witted Scottish youth.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily News describes the hero of the book as &ldquo;a&lt;br /&gt;
picturesque villain whose crimes are of the medieval and&lt;br /&gt;
semi-Satanic kind,&rdquo; while&amp;quot; the good angel of the work is a&lt;br /&gt;
big Englishman with the euphonious name of Umpbray&lt;br /&gt;
Spurway.&rdquo; The scene is laid partly in Scotland, partly on&lt;br /&gt;
a pirate ship, and partly in mysterious tropical islands. The&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle confesses that &ldquo;Little Anna Mark &rdquo; is &ldquo;very&lt;br /&gt;
much to our liking.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Crockett carries us along from&lt;br /&gt;
exciting incident to thrilling episode, and gives as scarce&lt;br /&gt;
time to breathe.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LADYSMITH TREASURY, edited by J. Eveleigh Nash&lt;br /&gt;
(Sands, 68.), &ldquo;has nothing to do with Ladysmith or the&lt;br /&gt;
war,&rdquo; remarks the Spectator, &ldquo; except that the profits of the&lt;br /&gt;
book are to go to the relief of distress in the town. It con-&lt;br /&gt;
tuids sixteen short stories and ketebes. Among the&lt;br /&gt;
authors we see the names of Ian Maclaren, W. E. Norris,&lt;br /&gt;
Morley Roberts, and F. Frankfort Moore. We recommend&lt;br /&gt;
the book to ou readers, and can do so without scruple, not&lt;br /&gt;
only because the object is patriotic, but because there is&lt;br /&gt;
good literary work in it.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ROBERT ORANGE, by John Oliver Hobbes (Unwin, 68.),&lt;br /&gt;
which the Daily Telegraph describes as a containing work&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;uniformly sober, restrained, literary,&amp;quot; is the promised con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinuation of &ldquo;The School for Saints,&amp;quot; and, says the&lt;br /&gt;
adds: &ldquo;It is rare in these democratic days to encounter &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
book in which the existence of the masses is barely hinted&lt;br /&gt;
at; it is not unwelcome, after the tyranny of slum realism,&lt;br /&gt;
to be for once in a way completely relieved from the con.&lt;br /&gt;
templation of squalid emotions and underbred unhappiness.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
AFRICAN NIGHTS&amp;#039; ENTERTAINMENTS, by A. J. Dawson&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 68.), contains a dozen studies of Morocco&lt;br /&gt;
which the Spectator says are &ldquo; very picturesque.&rdquo; &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; West Coast&amp;#039; stories in the book are also striking,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Dawson has seized the essential difference between&lt;br /&gt;
Morocco and what we may call the East&amp;#039; with acute&lt;br /&gt;
appreciation.&rdquo; Mr. Dawson&amp;#039;s book, says the Daily Chronicle,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;does not hold a dull page, and the unmistakable earnest-&lt;br /&gt;
ness aboat certain of the more dramatic stories robs them&lt;br /&gt;
of any offence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHARWOMAN, as chronicled&lt;br /&gt;
by Annie Wakeman (Macqueen, 6s.), &ldquo; if it really gives a trne&lt;br /&gt;
account of its heroine&amp;#039;s adventures,&amp;quot; &ldquo; may be taken,&amp;quot; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Spectator, &amp;quot; as a striking example of the fact that happi-&lt;br /&gt;
ness does not lie in outward circumstances.&rdquo; &ldquo;Through the&lt;br /&gt;
various vicissitudes of her career Betty shows no sort of&lt;br /&gt;
feeling of her life being intolerable, but bears her troubles&lt;br /&gt;
as she does her babies, with a fine sense of the uselessness&lt;br /&gt;
of a struggle against the inevitable. The cheerful patience&lt;br /&gt;
of the poor is cleverly indicated, and readers who like this&lt;br /&gt;
stamp of story will enjoy Miss Annie Wakeman&amp;#039;s book.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Wakeman&amp;#039;s charwoman, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; is&lt;br /&gt;
magnificently real and altogether admirable.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
STUDIES IN LOVE, by Maud Egerton King (Dent, 43. 60.&lt;br /&gt;
net), consists of four stories, which in the opinion of the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily News are &amp;quot; very charming,&rdquo; After saying that the&lt;br /&gt;
book is &ldquo;very pretty reading,&rdquo; the Spectator adds that it is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; one which irresistibly suggests a hammock and a hot mid.&lt;br /&gt;
summer afternoon as the proper place and time for its&lt;br /&gt;
perasal.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAY, by E. Phillips Oppen.&lt;br /&gt;
heim (Ward, Lock and Co., 68.) is said by the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
News to be quite up to his usual level.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The story is&lt;br /&gt;
romantic, and the African scenes are very vivid and&lt;br /&gt;
picturesque.&rdquo; Mr. Oppenheim takes for the theme of his&lt;br /&gt;
novel the always engrossing topic of the quest and attain-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of boundless wealth. Scarlett Trent, the hero, is an&lt;br /&gt;
ex-Board-school boy who bas drifted to West Africa, and&lt;br /&gt;
in partnership with a broken down and bibulous aristo-&lt;br /&gt;
crat secured a valuable mining concession on the Congo.&lt;br /&gt;
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL HANDBOOK TO THE&lt;br /&gt;
PARISH OF CHELSEA, by Reginald Blunt (Lawley, 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
net.), is described by the Spectator as &ldquo;an attractive hand-&lt;br /&gt;
book,&amp;quot; and by the Daily News as &ldquo;an admirable little&lt;br /&gt;
volume.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MEMORIES OF SOME OXFORD Pets, collected by Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Wallace (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 38.), &ldquo;is a delightful&lt;br /&gt;
book,&amp;quot; says the Spectator, &ldquo;fittingly commended to tbe&lt;br /&gt;
reader by Mr. Warde Fowler&amp;#039;s admirable preface. Dogs, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, occupy, so to speak, the front benches. It needs no&lt;br /&gt;
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date on or before which the play should be reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
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4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction isM branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
I Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work whicb&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has &amp;amp; right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
1.-ON TITLES.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
WING to the fact that during the past two&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
or three months certain cases have been&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
placed before the Secretary of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the of Authors touching the infringement of property&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple in titles of hooice it he&lt;br /&gt;
in titles of books, it has been thought well to&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
2. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past repeat in substance, with certain additions, an&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The article that appeared in The Author in 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
63&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; The first statement it is necessary to make is of the plaintiffs, which product was a well-known&lt;br /&gt;
that, speaking generally, there is no copyright in marketable commodity.&lt;br /&gt;
titles. This statement, however, cannot be taken In order to obtain this property, one or two&lt;br /&gt;
as absolutely true, as in the case of &ldquo; Dick v. points therefore are clear :&lt;br /&gt;
Yates,&amp;quot; which went to the Court of Appeal, where (1) That the product must be actually selling&lt;br /&gt;
the title&ldquo; Splendid Misery &rdquo; was under discussion, on the market and must bave established a posi.&lt;br /&gt;
the Master of the Rolls made the following state. tion on the market by continuous sale.&lt;br /&gt;
ment:&lt;br /&gt;
(2) That products with similar names must be&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Now I do not say that there could not be similar products.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in a title, as for instance in a whole This latter statement would appear self-evident&lt;br /&gt;
page of title or something of that kind requiring if confusion had not frequently arisen in cases&lt;br /&gt;
invention. However, it is not necessary to decide placed before the Secretary. For instance, a book&lt;br /&gt;
that. But, assuming that there can be copyright of poems could not be confused with a philosophical&lt;br /&gt;
in a title, what does copyright mean? It means treatise, nor a work of fiction with a book of&lt;br /&gt;
the right to multiply copies of an original work. sermons, even though the names were the same.&lt;br /&gt;
If you complain that a part of your work has There are also one or two minor points which&lt;br /&gt;
been pirated you must show that that part is are very difficult of decision, and are too intricate&lt;br /&gt;
original, and if it is not original you have no to be dealt with in a short article.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. How can the title . Splendid Misery&amp;#039; The case in the American court above referred&lt;br /&gt;
be said to be original when the very same words to makes it clear that if the book is out of copy.&lt;br /&gt;
for the very same purpose were used nearly eighty right, it does not follow there is no trade mark in&lt;br /&gt;
years ago ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the title. But with whom the right of commencing&lt;br /&gt;
This case was fought out mainly on tae basis, an action would lie might need some ingenuity to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Is a title copyright, and the question of trade determine.&lt;br /&gt;
mark law on which the right of property in a title A further point arises for consideration. When&lt;br /&gt;
rests, though dealt with, was dealt with as a a book has been produced and is out of print, and&lt;br /&gt;
secondary point. The reason for this course in the author is deliberating, or states that he is&lt;br /&gt;
this particular case is clear on the facts as re- deliberating, about producing the second edition,&lt;br /&gt;
ported. Those who desire the reason are referred how far would the author have the right of&lt;br /&gt;
to the report.&lt;br /&gt;
stopping the production of a similar book under a&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Again, (1) speaking generally, it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
similar title ?&lt;br /&gt;
said there is copyright in a title.&lt;br /&gt;
Though each case must be decided on its&lt;br /&gt;
(2) If there is copyright, then the title must&lt;br /&gt;
separate facts and its separate peculiarities, the&lt;br /&gt;
claim distinct originality.&lt;br /&gt;
broad general rule would hold that as it was&lt;br /&gt;
impossible to buy the first book in the open&lt;br /&gt;
That, however, there is property in a title is&lt;br /&gt;
market, it was impossible that any of the public&lt;br /&gt;
quite clear, and the law bearing on the right of&lt;br /&gt;
could be deceived, and therefore the production&lt;br /&gt;
such property comes under, and is in some way&lt;br /&gt;
of book No. 2 could not possibly be a fraud.&lt;br /&gt;
analogous to, trade mark law, but titles cannot be This is an imo.&lt;br /&gt;
This is an important point, as cases have been&lt;br /&gt;
registered like trade marks.&lt;br /&gt;
known to occur where authors have practically&lt;br /&gt;
The real question to consider is whether the abandoned their book, their title, and their rights,&lt;br /&gt;
infringement amounts to a common law fraud on but have tried to revive both on seeing another&lt;br /&gt;
the public.&lt;br /&gt;
book produced with a similar name.&lt;br /&gt;
This is distinctly pointed out in the case which It might be useful to quote again a case that&lt;br /&gt;
is printed in the August number of The Author, was quoted in a former article, as it illustrates&lt;br /&gt;
to which the reader is referred. Although decided one or two of the most important points with&lt;br /&gt;
in the American courts, it is a case of great regard to property in a title.&lt;br /&gt;
importance, and brings into prominence the solid Messrs. Hogg in 1863 registered an intended&lt;br /&gt;
principle on which this question rests. There the new magazine to be called Belgravia. In 1866,&lt;br /&gt;
Chancellor of the University of Oxford obtained such magazine not having appeared, Mr. Maxwell,&lt;br /&gt;
an injunction against the defendant for publish in ignorance of what Messrs. Hogg had done,&lt;br /&gt;
ing a Bible termed the Oxford Bible, which was projected a magazine with the same name, and&lt;br /&gt;
not the &ldquo; Oxford Bible&rdquo; as known on the market incurred considerable expense in preparing it and&lt;br /&gt;
and published by the Clarendon Press. The extensively advertising it in August and September&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiffs could not possibly have any copyright as about to appear in October. Messrs. Hogg,&lt;br /&gt;
either in the Bible or title, and this is the point it knowing of this, made hasty preparations for&lt;br /&gt;
is desired to make especially clear, but the defen- bringing out their own magazine before that of&lt;br /&gt;
dant had no right to sell a product as the product Mr. Maxwell could appear, and in the meantime&lt;br /&gt;
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64&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
accepted an order from Mr. Maxwell for adver- tory way of leaving the question. It gives more&lt;br /&gt;
tising his (Mr. Maxwell&amp;#039;s) magazine on the covers scope and adaptability, and prevents the stiffen-&lt;br /&gt;
of their own publications; and the first day on ing that is often produced when a matter is&lt;br /&gt;
which they informed Mr. Maxwell that they statute-bound.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
objected to his publishing a magazine under that&lt;br /&gt;
name was Sept. 25, on which day the first number&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;COPYRIGHT IN SPEECHES.&lt;br /&gt;
of Messrs. Hogg&amp;#039;s magazine appeared. Mr. The House of Lords gave its decision on Aug. 6&lt;br /&gt;
Maxwell&amp;#039;s magazine appeared in October. Under in the appeal of Walter v. Lane, which referred&lt;br /&gt;
these circumstances, on a bill filed by Mr. Maxwell, to the publication by Mr. John Lane in book form&lt;br /&gt;
it was held that Mr. Maxwell&amp;#039;s advertisements of nearly verbatim copies of Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
and expenditure did not give him any exclusive speeches as they were reported in the Times. The&lt;br /&gt;
right to the use of the name Belgravia, and that appellants, who sued on behalf of the proprietors&lt;br /&gt;
he could not restrain Messrs. Hogg from publish of the Times, were granted an injunction by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
ing a magazine under the same name (the first Justice North, but he was reversed by the Court&lt;br /&gt;
number appeared before Mr. Maxwell had pub- of Appeal (see report in The Author for Decem-&lt;br /&gt;
lished his); and on a bill filed by Messrs. Hogg, ber last). Mr. Justice North&amp;#039;s judgment has now&lt;br /&gt;
that the registration by them of the title of an been restored by the House of Lords.&lt;br /&gt;
intended publication could not confer upon them The following is a summary of the LORD&lt;br /&gt;
a copyright in that name, and that in the circum. CHANCELLOR&amp;#039;s opinion. We have to thank the&lt;br /&gt;
stances of the case they had not acquired any editor of the Daily Chronicle for permission&lt;br /&gt;
right to restrain Mr. Maxwell from using the to use their report: &ldquo;I should very much&lt;br /&gt;
name as being Messrs. Hogg&amp;#039;s trade mark. regret if I were compelled to come to the con-&lt;br /&gt;
This case was, contrary to &ldquo;Dick v. Yates,&amp;quot; clusion that the state of the law permitted one&lt;br /&gt;
decided almost entirely on the aspect of the trade man to make profit and to appropriate to himself&lt;br /&gt;
mark. Certain papers register titles, and pro- the labour, skill, and capital of another. And it&lt;br /&gt;
duce periodically dummy copies in the hope of is not denied that in this case the defendant seeks&lt;br /&gt;
obtaining some kind of property. Anyone who to appropriate to himself what has been produced&lt;br /&gt;
has studied the question would at once know that by the skill, labour, and capital of others. In the&lt;br /&gt;
this labour is wasted, and that this kind of pro- view I take of this case, I think the law is strong&lt;br /&gt;
perty can only be claimed when a title has enough to restrain what, to my mind, would be a&lt;br /&gt;
become associated with a certain commodity by a grievous injustice. The Copyright Act confers&lt;br /&gt;
continued public circulation.&lt;br /&gt;
what it calls &amp;#039;copyright,&amp;#039; which means the right&lt;br /&gt;
How can a paper of which one copy only is to multiply copies, which it confers on the authors&lt;br /&gt;
published even every day claim to be such a of the books first published in this country. That&lt;br /&gt;
public commodity ?&lt;br /&gt;
the publication in question, namely, &amp;#039; Reports of&lt;br /&gt;
The contention is absurd.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s Speeches,&amp;#039; are simply copies of&lt;br /&gt;
From the most practical point of view, there what was first printed in the Times is not denied.&lt;br /&gt;
fore, it is best for the author not to name the And further, it has not been, and cannot be, denied&lt;br /&gt;
title of his book until his book is produced, if he that they were originally as in the Times, a sheet&lt;br /&gt;
considers that there is any particular power in or sheets of letterpress, and came within the&lt;br /&gt;
the words he is using.&lt;br /&gt;
definition of the Act as a book. The speeches,&lt;br /&gt;
Those who through personal experience have therefore, and the sheets of letterpress in which&lt;br /&gt;
come across the question of title for the first they were contained, were books first published in&lt;br /&gt;
time consider the matter as a difficulty but this country, and I confess, upon looking at the defi.&lt;br /&gt;
recently discovered, which needs immediate nition and the right conferred, I am wholly unable&lt;br /&gt;
amendment; they may, however, rest assured to discover why they are not protected by the statute&lt;br /&gt;
that the question of legislating more fully on the from being pirated by unauthorised persons.&lt;br /&gt;
point has been deeply and thoroughly discussed I do not understand the explanation the Court&lt;br /&gt;
and considered by all those who have attempted of Appeal gives of the application of the word&lt;br /&gt;
to legislate on copyright or who are interested in &amp;quot;author&amp;#039; to such publications as directories,&lt;br /&gt;
the affairs of authorship. It is not a simple or red-books, maps, &amp;amp;c. If the maker of a direc-&lt;br /&gt;
one-sided question. It is exceedingly complicated tory, red-book, or map is an author, one has to&lt;br /&gt;
and has many sides.&lt;br /&gt;
- analyse what the distinction between the author&lt;br /&gt;
At present no remedy has been devised suffi. as thus referred to, and the author of a spoken&lt;br /&gt;
ciently satisfactory to embody in any of the speech. If the producer of such a book can be&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bills, and the solution of each case is an author within the meaning of the Act, I am&lt;br /&gt;
based upon the common law. On the whole, it unable to understand why the labour of reproduc.&lt;br /&gt;
may be considered that this is the most satisfac- ing spoken words into writing or print and first&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
65&lt;br /&gt;
publishing it as a book does not make the person qualities, but because, as I have endeavoured to&lt;br /&gt;
who has so acted as much an author as the person point out, neither the one nor the other are con.&lt;br /&gt;
who writes down the names and addresses of the ditions precedent to the right created by the&lt;br /&gt;
persons who live in a particular street. The judg. statute. That right, in my view, is given by the&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the Court of Appeal rests solely on the statute to the first producer of a book, whether&lt;br /&gt;
use of the word &amp;quot;author,&amp;#039; and I cannot help that book be wise or foolish, accurate or inaccurate,&lt;br /&gt;
thinking that some confusion has been created of literary merit or of no merit whatever. It is&lt;br /&gt;
between two very different things. One, the said that in the view I have suggested there would&lt;br /&gt;
proprietary right of every man in his own lite. be as many copyrights as reporters. I do not see&lt;br /&gt;
rary composition, and the other the copyright, the difficulty. Each reporter is entitled to report,&lt;br /&gt;
that is to say, the exclusive privilege of making and each undoubtedly would have a copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
copies created by the statute. The question is his own published report. But where is the&lt;br /&gt;
solely whether this book (to use the language difficulty ? Suppose &agrave; favourite view&mdash;a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
of the statute), printed and published and exist. artists take independently their own representa-&lt;br /&gt;
ing as a book for the first time, can be copied tion of it. Is there any reason why each should not&lt;br /&gt;
by someone else than the producer of it, by those have his own copyright, or even a photograph,&lt;br /&gt;
who have not produced it themselves, but have where each photograph is taken from the same&lt;br /&gt;
simply copied that which others have laboured to point, and in the same state of the light, would&lt;br /&gt;
create by their own skill and expenditure. It is be identical in all respects. There is, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
admitted, apparently, by the Court of Appeal no copyright in the view itself, but in the supposed&lt;br /&gt;
(and, indeed, insisted on as part of the reasons picture or photograph there is. It may be there&lt;br /&gt;
for their judgment) that the owner of an unpub. is a confusion of thought between the difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
lished manuscript, although not the author of it, of proof of the piracy and the existence of piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
acquires copyright in it by first publishing it. There, as I have said before, no such difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
And I observe that it is said Lord Rosebery had arises, since it is admitted that the report of&lt;br /&gt;
no copyright in his speech, and, although he these speeches is not the result of independent&lt;br /&gt;
could have acquired copyright in it by putting it labour, but is taken from the Times. I think&lt;br /&gt;
into writing and printing and publishing it, he the judgment of Mr. Justice North was right,&lt;br /&gt;
did not do so. Here, again, the implied proposi. and that the only answer sought to be given to it&lt;br /&gt;
tion is that the only person who could gain copy. by the Court of Appeal was the restricted use of&lt;br /&gt;
right in his speech is the person who spoke it, the word author&amp;#039; with which I have endea-&lt;br /&gt;
and that the word original must by construc- voured to deal. I, therefore, move your Lord.&lt;br /&gt;
tion be read into the statute&mdash;that the true ships that the judgment of the Court of Appeal&lt;br /&gt;
analogy is the true and first inventor of the be reversed with costs, and the judgment of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Patent Laws. I think the analogy is a false one. Justice North restored.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
But if it were strictly pursued I think it would Lords Davey, James of Hereford, and Bramp-&lt;br /&gt;
not be favourable to the defendant. An importer ton concurred, but Lord Robertson differed, hold.&lt;br /&gt;
of a foreign invention is, for the purpose of the ing that, however skilful or well qualified a&lt;br /&gt;
Patent Laws, an inventor, and, as Lord Brougham reporter might be, he could not be considered an&lt;br /&gt;
said, there were two species of public benefactors author within the meaning of the Act.&lt;br /&gt;
-the one, &ldquo;those who benefit the public by their The injunction to restrain the publication was&lt;br /&gt;
ingenuity, industry and science, and invention made perpetual, and the respondents ordered to&lt;br /&gt;
and personal capability; the other, those who pay costs.&lt;br /&gt;
benefit the public without any in&ccedil;enuity or inven-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of their own by the appropriation of the&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;MERIVALE v. HARVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
results of foreign inventions. Now, the latter is This case has come before the Court of Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
a benefit to the public incontestably, and therefore The plaintiff, Mr. Herman Merivale, agreed to&lt;br /&gt;
they renderthemselves entitled to be put upon some. write for the defendant, Mr. Martin Harvey,&lt;br /&gt;
what if not entirely the same footing as inventors. a play connected with the exploits of Don&lt;br /&gt;
I might paraphrase Lord Brougham&amp;#039;s language Juan. Disputes arose with regard to the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
by asking whether those who preserve the duction of the play and the plaintiff&amp;#039;s fees,&lt;br /&gt;
memory of spoken words which are assumed to be and eventually the plaintiff brought the action,&lt;br /&gt;
of value to the public are not entitled to the claiming damages from the defendant for his&lt;br /&gt;
analogous merit which Lord Brougham attributes breach of contract in refusing to accept the play.&lt;br /&gt;
to the importer of foreign inventions ? I have The defence was a denial of the contract, and the&lt;br /&gt;
not insisted upon the skill and accuracy of those submission that the non-fulfilment was brought&lt;br /&gt;
who produce in writing or print spoken about by the plaintiff&amp;#039;s own conduct. Defendant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
words. It is not because I think the less of those counter-claim was for damages for alleged libel,&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 66 (#96) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
66&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
which was contained in a letter written by plain sittings awakened much enthusiasm. &ldquo;Let us&lt;br /&gt;
tiff to Mr. Acton Bond. The jury (see The honour and f&eacute;te Joseph Lister,&amp;quot; wrote Dr. de&lt;br /&gt;
Author for June) found a verdict for the plaintiff Fleury on the morrow of the banquet given in&lt;br /&gt;
on the claim for &pound;500 damages, and with regard the British savant&amp;#039;s honour by the Medical&lt;br /&gt;
to the counter-claim they found there was no Faculty of Paris ; &amp;quot; ..innovators who&lt;br /&gt;
libel. The defendant now appealed.&lt;br /&gt;
bring about such complete and magnificent&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Edward Clarke, in the course of his argu- upheavals in the sphere of our activity are rare.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, said he would agree, in order to avoid a new The work of this scientific son of the great&lt;br /&gt;
trial on the counter-claim, that Mr. Merivale Pasteur is of incalculable import; scientific&lt;br /&gt;
should submit to a verdict against him in regard surgery dates from him.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
to the alleged libel for &pound;50.-Mr. Chambers said As to the Philosophy Congress, a full report of&lt;br /&gt;
if this order was coupled with a withdrawal of all communications read therein will shortly be&lt;br /&gt;
all imputations on the defendant he would accept published in four volumes respectively entitled :&lt;br /&gt;
it.&mdash;Sir E. Clarke assented to this, and the court &laquo; (1) Philosophie g&eacute;n&eacute;rale et metaphysique; (2)&lt;br /&gt;
gave judgment for the plaintiff on the claim for Morale; (3) Logique et Histoire des Sciences;&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;500, and for the defendant on the counter. (4) Histoire de la Philosophie.&amp;quot; Subscriptions&lt;br /&gt;
claim for &pound;50. There were to be no costs of the for the same are being received by the secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Xavier L&eacute;on, 5, rue de Mezi&egrave;res, Paris. Great&lt;br /&gt;
poco&lt;br /&gt;
Britain is represented on the list of the Honorary&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of the Philosophy Congress by the&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
names of MM. Balfour, Herbert Spencer, and&lt;br /&gt;
Stirling.&lt;br /&gt;
4, rue des Beaux Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
NHE great Exhibition is, financially, a failure.&lt;br /&gt;
A PRODIGIOUS IMAGINATION.&lt;br /&gt;
I Nevertheless, congresses, lectures, and The great Balzac was not particularly successful&lt;br /&gt;
soir&eacute;es de gala abound. The extraordi. as a dramatist. Undeterred by this fact, an enter-&lt;br /&gt;
nary alternations of the thermometer appear prising playwright has already announced a new&lt;br /&gt;
merely to affect the attendance&mdash;not the duration play taken from &ldquo; Cousin Pons,&amp;quot; the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;of the various ceremonies. The seventh Inter of the Balzacian novels having expired on the&lt;br /&gt;
national Press Congress (which has, I believe, twentieth of last month. M. G&eacute;mier is consider-&lt;br /&gt;
chiefly occupied itself in discussing the reduction ing a three-act play, adapted from &ldquo; Colonel&lt;br /&gt;
of the postal tariff on printed matter and the Chabert&amp;quot; by M. Louis Forest; and several other&lt;br /&gt;
minimum fee for Press dispatches) was inaugu. stage-writers are likewise busy in exploiting the&lt;br /&gt;
rated under the presidency of M. William Singer, great &ldquo;Com&eacute;die Humaine,&amp;quot; which promises to&lt;br /&gt;
proprietor of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, and prove a second El Dorado to needy and skilful&lt;br /&gt;
president of the committee of the Central Bureau adapters in search of thrilling situations. The&lt;br /&gt;
of Press Associations. Prior to the invariable fertility of Balzac&amp;#039;s imagination was extraordinary.&lt;br /&gt;
shower of compliments with which each orator In this respect he was never surpassed. The&lt;br /&gt;
considers it necessary to asperge the Exhibition, following anecdote (vouched for by M. Barr&eacute;)&lt;br /&gt;
M. Singer explained the object of the present attests the truth of almost incredible narratives&lt;br /&gt;
congress.&lt;br /&gt;
extant on the subject :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;We have desired,&amp;quot; said he, &ldquo;by an inter. On one occasion, having promised M. Lireux,&lt;br /&gt;
national organisation to offer our contribution to manager of the Od&eacute;on, a five-act drama, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
the advent of concord&mdash;if not among the nations - Les Ressources de Quinola,&rdquo; Balzac duly&lt;br /&gt;
themselves, at least among those who form the van appeared at the appointed hour, and-leaning&lt;br /&gt;
guard of every people, viz., the journalists. ... carelessly against a window&mdash;unhesitatingly read&lt;br /&gt;
Thus we have decided to organise a great inter to the committee the promised five acts. After&lt;br /&gt;
national fraternity composed of important Press the usual compliments and congratulations&lt;br /&gt;
associations, a literary Red Cross union ... had been exchanged, M. Lireux proceeded to&lt;br /&gt;
based upon mutual respect and firmly bound examine the manuscript, and found merely four&lt;br /&gt;
together by the community of professional acts written&mdash;the pages devoted to the fifth act&lt;br /&gt;
interests.&amp;quot; About 400 persons were present at being still blank. He immediately informed&lt;br /&gt;
the inaugural meeting. The tragic death of Balzac of his discovery. The great writer was in&lt;br /&gt;
the Italian king prevented the attendance of the no wise disconcerted.&lt;br /&gt;
French President.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; It is true,&rdquo; he blandly acknowledged, &ldquo; that I&lt;br /&gt;
BRITISH SAVANTS.&lt;br /&gt;
have not yet written my fifth act, but I have it&lt;br /&gt;
A propos of the International Medical Congress, so well in my head that I am able to repeat it&lt;br /&gt;
the appearance of Lord Lister to attend its precisely as if I read it from the manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
67&lt;br /&gt;
Besides, I have two other d&eacute;nouements quite against any subsequent accusation of plagiarism.&lt;br /&gt;
ready-in case you are not satisfied with the one The sensible verdict given by the Third Civil&lt;br /&gt;
I have just recited to you!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Chamber a short time ago re the dispute between&lt;br /&gt;
We doubt if the dying century can boast a two well-known dramatic authors&ndash;MM. Lecocq&lt;br /&gt;
similar &ldquo;record&rdquo; memory.&lt;br /&gt;
and Bisson-is largely responsible for this com-&lt;br /&gt;
mendable state of affairs. The chamber pro-&lt;br /&gt;
MM. FRANCE AND LOTI.&lt;br /&gt;
nounced in the defendant&amp;#039;s favour, declaring that&lt;br /&gt;
That modern classic, M. Anatole France, is the plaintiff had done his comrade a grave injury,&lt;br /&gt;
engaged on a new play entitled &ldquo;La Gerbe,&amp;quot; and one meriting compensation, in thus publicly&lt;br /&gt;
destined for the Porte Saint-Martin Theatre. accusing him of plagiarism. It also expressed&lt;br /&gt;
This will be M. France&amp;#039;s second contribution to its opinion that &ldquo;the author who knows&lt;br /&gt;
the Parisian stage. The brilliant Academician&amp;#039;s how to digest the works of others; who knows&lt;br /&gt;
name first adorned the theatrical posters in 1899 how to assimilate them in his brain; who, later,&lt;br /&gt;
in connection with &ldquo;Le Lys Rouge,&rdquo; which was at the moment when he wishes to originate in&lt;br /&gt;
highly praised&mdash;but hardly popular. M. France his turn, sees them in consequence awake in his&lt;br /&gt;
visited London last March. The &amp;#039;impression imagination; who allows them to mingle in.&lt;br /&gt;
left on his mind is scarcely favourable. He sensibly with his own conceptions; that author-&lt;br /&gt;
considers the Londoners&amp;#039; enthusiasm automatic, very far from then meriting the reproach of&lt;br /&gt;
their loyal demonstrations lacking in warmth, plagiarism-only draws from his reminiscences&lt;br /&gt;
richness, spontaneity. The decorations in our the legitimate recompense of a meritorious employ&lt;br /&gt;
capital show the puerility of the national taste. of his faculties.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Even our Rubens&amp;#039; are less powerful than those in For which and other reasons the Third Civil&lt;br /&gt;
the Louvre.&lt;br /&gt;
Chamber acquitted M. Bisson, ordering the inser.&lt;br /&gt;
Nor is M. Pierre Loti a great lover of our race. tion of its judgment in three papers at the plain-&lt;br /&gt;
In the description of his Eastern travels lately tiff&amp;#039;s expense. Whereby it considerably lightened&lt;br /&gt;
published by the Figaro, he expressly states that its future labours.&lt;br /&gt;
the harrowing account he gives of the rarages&lt;br /&gt;
made by the famine in India is not intended as a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Gyp&rdquo; (COMTESSE DE MARTEL).&lt;br /&gt;
sinister attack on &ldquo;nos ennemis les Anglais,&rdquo; but The novels of &ldquo;Gyp,&rdquo; great-niece of Mirabeau,&lt;br /&gt;
merely as a new appeal to their charity. At the are highly popular here. Twelve editions of her&lt;br /&gt;
present moment M. Pierre Loti-otherwise M. le &ldquo;Trop de Chic&rdquo; are reported to have been dis-&lt;br /&gt;
capitaine de fr&eacute;gate Viaud&mdash;is en route for China, posed of in three days. Her late extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
serving on board the Redoutable as first aide-de- adventure&mdash;or hallucination &mdash; has proved an&lt;br /&gt;
camp to Admiral Pottier. He has already written excellent expedient for whetting public curiosity&lt;br /&gt;
several spirited and pathetic sketches dealing anew. At the present moment the sale of &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
with heroic combats between the French sailor and Journal d&amp;#039;Une qui s&amp;#039;en fiche&rdquo; bids fair to equal,&lt;br /&gt;
the cruel, dastardly Chinese. He will probably if not surpass, that of the most favoured of its&lt;br /&gt;
add to these pages on his return. Nor is it impos predecessors. The pages of an ancient confes-&lt;br /&gt;
sible that his present experiences may lead to a sional album have given us the following infor-&lt;br /&gt;
modification of his opinion re the Britisher abroad. mation respecting the countess&amp;#039; private sentiments&lt;br /&gt;
and inclinations.&lt;br /&gt;
A SENSIBLE DECISION.&lt;br /&gt;
Her favourite occupation is riding; her&lt;br /&gt;
Several dramatists have recently notified in the favourite food and drink are fruit and milk.&lt;br /&gt;
daily papers a similarity existing between the Solitude forms her beau-ideal of happiness, while&lt;br /&gt;
plots or titles of their half-finished productions the principal defect of her nature is her too con.&lt;br /&gt;
with those of their brethren of the pen. Amongst fiding disposition. The ass is her favourite&lt;br /&gt;
others, M. Lemonnier stated in an open letter animal; the sparrow, her favourite bird. Her&lt;br /&gt;
that he bad been engaged for the last year (in &middot; greatest misfortune would be a long life, and she&lt;br /&gt;
collaboration with M. Burani) on a four-act considers simplicity the most desirable quality in&lt;br /&gt;
play entitled &ldquo;La Marquise de Pompadour,&rdquo; a woman. The character of M. Thiers inspires&lt;br /&gt;
destined for R&eacute;jane. Suddenly he discovers that her with the deepest aversion, her principal trait&lt;br /&gt;
M. Emile Bergerat is also engaged in writing a being &mdash; ne pas &ldquo;m&amp;#039;gober&amp;quot; !&amp;#039; Maupassant is&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; Pompadour&rdquo; for Mlle. Bartet. He immediately her favourite prose author; Heine, Baudelaire,&lt;br /&gt;
announces the fact in the papers, and the matter and Bouchor are her favourite poets. Berlitz,&lt;br /&gt;
ends there. M. Paul Souday has drawn up the Saint Sa&euml;ns, and Offenbach, are the composers&lt;br /&gt;
rough skeleton of a new play when he makes she prefers; while the military feat of arms she&lt;br /&gt;
an almost similar discovery. He forthwith most admires is &ndash; the Rape of the Sabine&lt;br /&gt;
employs the same method of protecting himself Women!&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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68&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Was the latter penchant a presentiment ? asks&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKSELLER 1. STORE.&lt;br /&gt;
her witty comrade, Sergines.&lt;br /&gt;
The booksellers attribute their troubles to the&lt;br /&gt;
APROPOS OF M. ZOLA.&lt;br /&gt;
big &ldquo; department&amp;quot; stores. They say that so long&lt;br /&gt;
Two revivals of plays drawn from this&lt;br /&gt;
as books are sold in department stores at prices&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s works (&ldquo;L&amp;#039;Assommoir&rdquo; and &ldquo; Le&lt;br /&gt;
with which the regular bookseller finds it impos-&lt;br /&gt;
R&ecirc;ve&amp;quot;) are now being rehearsed&mdash;the first at&lt;br /&gt;
sible to compete, the regular tradesman cannot&lt;br /&gt;
keep his doors open. Take the case, for example,&lt;br /&gt;
the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre, the second at&lt;br /&gt;
the Op&eacute;ra Comique. &ldquo;La Sorci&egrave;re&rdquo; of M.&lt;br /&gt;
of an enormously popular novel called &ldquo; Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Carvel.&rdquo; &ldquo;Richard Carvel&rdquo; was put on the market&lt;br /&gt;
Victorien Sardou (who has just been created&lt;br /&gt;
by the Appletons to be sold at retail at one dollar&lt;br /&gt;
grand officer of the Legion of Honour) has been&lt;br /&gt;
accepted by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt; M. de&lt;br /&gt;
and fifty cents. The price at the department&lt;br /&gt;
Porto Riche is engaged on two new plays, re-&lt;br /&gt;
stores was one dollar and fourteen cents (45. 7d.),&lt;br /&gt;
spectively destined for the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise and&lt;br /&gt;
and in some it was sold at eighty-one cents&lt;br /&gt;
the Vaudeville; and M. Maurice Donnay is like-&lt;br /&gt;
(38. 4şd.), which is the publisher&amp;#039;s wholesale price.&lt;br /&gt;
wise completing a four-act play for the latter&lt;br /&gt;
Now, many of the retailers could not buy in&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently large quantities to enable them to&lt;br /&gt;
theatre. M. Jean Richepin has written an his-&lt;br /&gt;
torical drama, entitled &ldquo;La Du Barry,&amp;quot; for Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
obtain the book at the lowest wholesale price, and&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Carter M. Belasco is responsible for its&lt;br /&gt;
as for selling it at eighty-one cents, the proposi.&lt;br /&gt;
translation into English.&lt;br /&gt;
tion was absurd. Of course, the retailer does not&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
encounter this difficulty in the sale of every book&lt;br /&gt;
on his list, but this condition alone cuts him off&lt;br /&gt;
from his readiest source of profit.&lt;br /&gt;
It is now for the publishers to determine&lt;br /&gt;
whether they can afford to help the regular&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
retailers at the expense, if necessary, of the&lt;br /&gt;
jobbers. One proposed plan is to fix a net retail&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, Aug. 13. price for all books published by members of the&lt;br /&gt;
CYO ready are the people of these States to cry association. From this price the retailer would&lt;br /&gt;
out in horror against any combination of get a certain discount, but before he was permitted&lt;br /&gt;
capital, that the recently formed Publishers&amp;#039; to buy a copy of the book he would be required&lt;br /&gt;
Association was bitterly pronounced a trust by to agree not to sell any copies at retail for less than&lt;br /&gt;
Press and public, and anathematised as an unboly the price stipulated. &ldquo;In fixing the stipulated&lt;br /&gt;
thing. As a matter of fact it would be about as price it would be put at such a figure as experi.&lt;br /&gt;
easy to form a &ldquo;trust&rdquo; of book publishers as it ence has taught should yield a fair profit to the&lt;br /&gt;
has been to communicate with the Legations at retailer of conservative business methods. This&lt;br /&gt;
Peking. The essential nature of the business pre- plan would apply only to the publications issued&lt;br /&gt;
cludes it. Another wild story concerning the after the plan is adopted; no attempt under it&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association ran to the effect that the would be made to regulate the price of old&lt;br /&gt;
object of the movement was to reduce the royal publications.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ties and other compensation paid to authors in the Such a scheme would carry the benefit to the&lt;br /&gt;
future. This report occasioned so much concern author which always is the producer&amp;#039;s when a&lt;br /&gt;
that it seemed worth while to the officers of the uniform and fair price is maintained for the&lt;br /&gt;
association to disclaim any such unreasonable product.&lt;br /&gt;
and absurd motive.&lt;br /&gt;
A SCHEME TO REGULATE PRICES.&lt;br /&gt;
The real causes of the formal banding together But no bridge yet has been crossed, and the&lt;br /&gt;
of American publishers are interesting and in- American Publishers&amp;#039; Association is little more&lt;br /&gt;
structive. The association owes its being to the than organised. Mr. Charles Scribner is the&lt;br /&gt;
earnest appeals on the part of the retail book- president, Messrs. A. C. McClurg and George&lt;br /&gt;
sellers all over the country that the publishers Mifflin are the vice-presidents, Mr. George P.&lt;br /&gt;
should try to change existing conditions in the Brett is the secretary, and Col. G. B. M. Harvey&lt;br /&gt;
trade so that the retailers could make a living the treasurer. The experiment will be watched&lt;br /&gt;
For the past half a dozen years the retailer over with interest. Will the organisation stray from&lt;br /&gt;
here has been losing money. His plight has now its present avowed path, and if so, to what end ?&lt;br /&gt;
reached a pass where the publisher must act or Will it fall to pieces of its own weight, as similar&lt;br /&gt;
the bookseller must close out his business. The organisations have done before it? Whatever the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers therefore have organised themselves for outcome, this action of the publishers is certainly&lt;br /&gt;
the purpose of helping the men who make it of the greatest significance in our American book&lt;br /&gt;
possible for a publishing house to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
world, and pregnant with engaging possibilities,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ho&lt;br /&gt;
Along this line a further consideration presents Byron&amp;#039;s Profession.&amp;#039;&rdquo; Mr. Shaw continued : &ldquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
itself. The encouragement of the retail book. seems to me that the principle involved is worth&lt;br /&gt;
seller means the promotion of the reading of affirming by an English author in the only way&lt;br /&gt;
better books. A lamentable result of our trade which will convey any solid impression of his&lt;br /&gt;
conditions here has been that it is difficult to find being in earnest-namely, when he stands to lose&lt;br /&gt;
a good assortment of good books in the retail by it. On the other hand, as American pub-&lt;br /&gt;
shop. The dealers, owing to the general cutting lishers as a body have been repeatedly accused&lt;br /&gt;
of prices, are all for ephemeral &laquo; leaders,&rdquo; and by Englishmen of letters of &amp;quot;pirating&amp;#039; copy-&lt;br /&gt;
they are actually unable to handle works of more rights-an imaginary offence, as that which does&lt;br /&gt;
solid merit. Through some reasonable regulation not exist cannot be stolen-it is well that they&lt;br /&gt;
of prices the interests of good literature may be too should have a printed instance on record in&lt;br /&gt;
furthered so that dealers will be enabled to offer which that viow has been repudiated from this&lt;br /&gt;
their customers a wider range of choice. It may side of the Atlantic.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
be that the whole tone of the bookselling trade One need not comment. Harper and Brothers&lt;br /&gt;
will be correspondingly raised. This is, at least, refused to accept even this as the proper conclu.&lt;br /&gt;
a pleasant picture not only to the buyers of the sion of the correspondence, and so, as a solution&lt;br /&gt;
best books, but also to the writers of them.&lt;br /&gt;
to the singular deadlock, the honorarium was&lt;br /&gt;
finally turned over to the American Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
MR. SHAW AND &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
League, where, let us hope, it rests peacefully&lt;br /&gt;
We are talking here over a correspondence, just after its fitful wanderings.&lt;br /&gt;
made public, between Mr. Bernard Shaw and the&lt;br /&gt;
house of Harper and Brothers. In November BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
of last year Mr. Shaw offered to return to the The English Bibliographical Society has many&lt;br /&gt;
publishers an honorarium of ten pounds which American members, but not one of them has&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers, in the eighties, had sent to the ever read a paper at the society&amp;#039;s meetings or&lt;br /&gt;
author in consideration of such moral claim as contributed a monograph for publication under&lt;br /&gt;
he could give them on &ldquo;Cashel Byron&amp;#039;s Pro. its auspices. It is therefore with some gratifica-&lt;br /&gt;
fession.&rdquo; Mr. Shaw was of opinion that this sum tion that we note a strong plea, made in a&lt;br /&gt;
should be repaid because a new edition of the magazine article by Mr. Josephson, of Chicago,&lt;br /&gt;
novel had since been issued by Messrs. Brentano, for an endowed bibliographical institute here.&lt;br /&gt;
of New York, and because the &amp;quot;moral claim&rdquo; The purpose is to be the preparation of a biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
was worth nothing from the date of the Brentano graphy covering the entire field of American&lt;br /&gt;
publication. And then he went on to say: &amp;quot;I literature. At the last meeting of the American&lt;br /&gt;
entirely disagree with the ideas of twenty years Library, held at Montreal during July, a com-&lt;br /&gt;
ago as to the piratical&amp;#039; nature of American mittee reported favourably upon Mr. Josephson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
republications of non-copyright books. Unlike scheme, which is, briefly, a co-operative cata-&lt;br /&gt;
most authors, I am enough of an economist to loguing of the various public libraries in this&lt;br /&gt;
know that unless an American publisher acquires country. The editing and publishing, as well&lt;br /&gt;
copyright he can no more make a profit at my as the scientific direction, of the work would be&lt;br /&gt;
expense than he can at Shakespeare&amp;#039;s by repub- in the hands of the staff of the proposed biblio.&lt;br /&gt;
lishing &lsquo;Hamlet.&amp;#039; The English, when taxed for graphical institute. The realisation of this&lt;br /&gt;
the support of the author by a price which plan would surely be acclaimed by English&lt;br /&gt;
includes author&amp;#039;s royalties, whilst the American speaking readers everywhere, and the results of&lt;br /&gt;
nation escapes that burden, may have a grievance such an achievement can hardly be estimated.&lt;br /&gt;
against the American nation; but that is a very&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
different matter from a grievance against the&lt;br /&gt;
American publisher.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Messrs. Harper were so impressed by this&lt;br /&gt;
illumination that they politely declined to retain&lt;br /&gt;
the ten pounds; they thought that they had no&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
right to it. Mr. Shaw, in reply, insisted that&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;though you are good enough to say that you N interesting correspondence on the&ldquo; Manu.&lt;br /&gt;
have no right to it, it is clear that I have no&lt;br /&gt;
facture of a Series&rdquo; has been recently&lt;br /&gt;
right to it&mdash;and, indeed, never had&mdash;though I Ane published in the Athen&aelig;um. The author&lt;br /&gt;
have ingeniously excused myself from paying you concerned pointed out that he was offered a sum&lt;br /&gt;
interest on it, on the ground that the moral of money down&mdash;say &pound;50&mdash;and after 5000 copies&lt;br /&gt;
right&amp;#039; it secured you was respected up to the had been sold, the handsome royalty of a farthing&lt;br /&gt;
date of Messrs. Brentano&amp;#039;s reprint of Cashel a copy. The price of the book was 18. He&lt;br /&gt;
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70&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
refused indignantly. The editor, however, made but for recreation, we ought surely to be satis-&lt;br /&gt;
haste to point out that the price originally con- fied when we hear that they buy the standard&lt;br /&gt;
templated was 6d., not is., and that the royalty authors first and fiction next.&lt;br /&gt;
would be increased. It does not appear what the&lt;br /&gt;
increase really meant. Now, the small sum down,&lt;br /&gt;
The extracts from the New York paper, read&lt;br /&gt;
followed by the small royalty, after a large sale,&lt;br /&gt;
with the remarks of our New York correspondent&lt;br /&gt;
has become quite a common offer. Its applica-&lt;br /&gt;
on the question of the American Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
tion to a &ldquo;series,&rdquo; of which there are so many, is&lt;br /&gt;
Association, are of great interest to authors on this&lt;br /&gt;
in this way. One or two men, ignorant or vain,&lt;br /&gt;
side of the Atlantic. We shall perhaps learn more&lt;br /&gt;
are induced to give in their names as contributors&lt;br /&gt;
about the work of the Association. Meuntime,&lt;br /&gt;
on certain miserable terms. The names are used&lt;br /&gt;
it is a pity that the Booksellers of the United&lt;br /&gt;
as an inducement to get other well-known men States cannot form their own Association and&lt;br /&gt;
to contribute. The sum paid down in advance&lt;br /&gt;
manage their business for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
of royalties for each volume of the series&lt;br /&gt;
is in many cases absurdly small. That it is&lt;br /&gt;
so small is due mainly to the vanity of the&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the booksellers are trying to get more&lt;br /&gt;
authors, who think themselves honoured and&lt;br /&gt;
net books. This is exactly what I expected. The&lt;br /&gt;
their reputation advanced by figuring as con.&lt;br /&gt;
partial surrender of the Englishman&amp;#039;s liberty to&lt;br /&gt;
tributors to a twopenny and an unsuccessful&lt;br /&gt;
manage his business his own way is leading to&lt;br /&gt;
series. The sum of &pound;50 down and a farthing more complete subjection. Since the booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
after 5000 copies have been sold is quite muni have been unable to use their own association for&lt;br /&gt;
ficent. Of course, when the initial cost has been the regulation of their own trade, they will desire&lt;br /&gt;
repaid, the cost of the book is very small indeed, more and more to put their necks under the yoke.&lt;br /&gt;
so that the farthing is a hollow mockery. The&lt;br /&gt;
Let it be remarked that booksellers seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
deferred royalty is, in fact, now being used like the only class unable to associate for trade&lt;br /&gt;
the old &ldquo; half-profit&rdquo; method as the easiest way purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
to escape paying the author anything and to get Of course, publishers will be very ready to yield&lt;br /&gt;
his property for nothing. Let it be understood to pressure so long as the proposed restrictions&lt;br /&gt;
plainly that if the royalty is deferred until the are in their own interest; so long as they think&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production is paid it should be explained the public will support them; and so long as&lt;br /&gt;
at the outset what this cost means, and the&lt;br /&gt;
they are allowed by authors to manage the&lt;br /&gt;
royalty, when commenced, must be at least half the business for their own profit. The Association&lt;br /&gt;
trade price of the book for the rest of the edition.&lt;br /&gt;
of Booksellers, if it would only realise the con-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions, is in complete command of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;
A bookseller has been lamenting, to a represen. It may fix the trade price wbich it will consent to&lt;br /&gt;
tative of the Daily Chronicle, the deplorable run pay publishers : it may fix the discount if it&lt;br /&gt;
upon fiction. He says that people buy nothing chooses, or, if it prefers, it may leave it to any&lt;br /&gt;
else. He also savs, in the same breath. that bookseller to charge the public just what he&lt;br /&gt;
everybody buys the English standard authors. pleases. I rejoice to see that Literature remains&lt;br /&gt;
Well, but if the latter proposition is true, what sound and firm upon the point: &ldquo;There certainly&lt;br /&gt;
about the former? Granted that the public does not seem to be any reason to expect that&lt;br /&gt;
buy the standard authors, they have on their enduring advantage will result from interference&lt;br /&gt;
shelves a good corpus of literature: enough to with the competitive tendencies of human nature&lt;br /&gt;
last them all their lives : they need not go out in the book trade, any more than in the trade in&lt;br /&gt;
side their own shelves at all. What else should bicycles, in boots, in patent medicines, or any&lt;br /&gt;
they buy but fiction ? Poetry? The general other commodities.&rdquo; It is, indeed, obvious that&lt;br /&gt;
public has never greatly cared for new poetry. the attempted system of slavish subjection cannot&lt;br /&gt;
Essays? There are a few writers-e.g., Louis long continue. It is as impossible for publishers&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson and Augustine Birrell&mdash;whose essays to dictate the terms of the retailers&amp;#039; dealings with&lt;br /&gt;
are bought and read : the greater number of&lt;br /&gt;
the public as for manufacturers of cottons or of&lt;br /&gt;
essayists appeal only to scholars. Scientific any other produce. The partial success that has&lt;br /&gt;
books? They are bought by scientific men. hitherto seemed to attend the attempt is only&lt;br /&gt;
Sermons and religious books? They also are illusory. Being interpreted, it means nothing&lt;br /&gt;
bought by religious people, especially Noncon- but the despair, and perhaps also the indebted-&lt;br /&gt;
formists. Books of travel, history, biography ? ness, of a decaying trade.&lt;br /&gt;
They are mostly too dear. Of philosophy ? They&lt;br /&gt;
are above the comprehension of the people. When In Literature of July 28 is a list of thirty-four&lt;br /&gt;
we consider also that people read, not for study, novels by the most popular novelists of the day&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
71&lt;br /&gt;
which are announced or understood to be forth. The decision of the House of Lords in the case&lt;br /&gt;
coming this autumn. The names of J. M. Barrie of Walter v. Lane has been received with a good&lt;br /&gt;
and Conan Doyle are not among them. As deal of difference in opinion. One point cannot&lt;br /&gt;
regards the latter there is very good reason for be denied : the report of a speech represents the&lt;br /&gt;
his silence. One or two names have since been special expenditure of money and work by the&lt;br /&gt;
added to the list. It does not seem, therefore, at proprietors of the paper. It is reasonable at least&lt;br /&gt;
first as if the prospects of the season were so very that this special expenditure should be recognised&lt;br /&gt;
bad after all. At the same time it must be and respected. The report of a speech, again, is&lt;br /&gt;
remembered that in all seasons there is a demand its publication by tacit permission of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
for the popular novelist. It is the novel that is He grants this permission to any newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
not so much in demand&mdash;the novel by the new wbich will go to the expense of paying a reporter&lt;br /&gt;
hand, or by the hand which, so far, has shown to take down his words. This understanding is a&lt;br /&gt;
promise only&mdash;that will suffer by the bad season. kind of agreement. The right of the paper is,&lt;br /&gt;
If war does harm to the bookseller, then we have however, now established. Perhaps, if the new&lt;br /&gt;
three wars on hand : and the Americans have Copyright Bill is allowed next year to pass, it will&lt;br /&gt;
two. But there will be, in all probability, a contain clauses for copyright in news, as well as in&lt;br /&gt;
General Election here : and in America there will reported speeches and reports of all kinds. Once&lt;br /&gt;
be a Presidential Election. It will surely be the law is established there will be no more diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
common prudence to keep back doubtful.books, culties of this kind. It is quite as bad that news&lt;br /&gt;
or books whose subjects are out of harmony with obtained at enormous expense should become&lt;br /&gt;
the excitement and rush of politics, until the common property as soon as it is published as&lt;br /&gt;
elections are over-i.e., until the beginning of the that the report of a speech should be considered&lt;br /&gt;
new year. It needs no prophetic spirit to common property.&amp;#039; _&lt;br /&gt;
perceive that from the moment of the dissolution&lt;br /&gt;
of Parliament to the conclusion of the General I have before me a communication from Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Election in this country and from the present to Betham Edwards to the editor of &ldquo; M. A. P.,&rdquo; in&lt;br /&gt;
the Presidential Election of the United States which that lady laments over the good old time&lt;br /&gt;
there will be nothing heard but the voice of the when there were such cordial relations between&lt;br /&gt;
candidate, the roaring of the multitude, and the author and publisher, and the latter was so&lt;br /&gt;
exaggerations and distortions of the party courteous and so generous, and invited the poor&lt;br /&gt;
speaker.&lt;br /&gt;
author to dinner sometimes, as one invites the&lt;br /&gt;
poor relation. The paper proves the strength of&lt;br /&gt;
A new monthly magazine, the Monthly Review, old traditions. The author formerly was by no&lt;br /&gt;
is to be commenced this month by the house of means too proud to be the recipient of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
Murray. Their last venture into the field of lisher&amp;#039;s &ldquo;generosity,&amp;quot; which has now become a&lt;br /&gt;
monthly magazines was not, apparently, a word of degradation. The relations were cordial&lt;br /&gt;
success. The editor of this new venture will be because the author placed his property unre-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Newbolt, who will be responsible for servedly and without any nasty conditions, and&lt;br /&gt;
unsigned&amp;quot; editorials &rdquo; which are to form part of without inquiry as to its value, in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
each number. The rest of the magazine will be the publisher. &ldquo;Take my work,&amp;quot; he said to&lt;br /&gt;
like the other reviews. It is quite possible that the publisher, who, noble-hearted creature, was&lt;br /&gt;
the editor will be able to impress his own person. only too ready to respond in sympathetic vein.&lt;br /&gt;
ality upon the editorials, in which case the &ldquo;Take my work. It is very likely a mine of&lt;br /&gt;
success of the review will be assured. Nothing gold. Take it. Give me whatever you please :&lt;br /&gt;
belps a paper more than the belief in the power you are always generosity itself. I am very poor.&lt;br /&gt;
the principle, and the integrity, of one man. It I am glad and thankful for anything. What?&lt;br /&gt;
was the strong personal element in the Spectator In two figures ? Oh! Large-hearted, generous&lt;br /&gt;
that created the success of the paper. The patron of literature ! You will ruin yourself in&lt;br /&gt;
Cornhill flourished while Thackeray held it. your kindness to the poor author! And a dinner&lt;br /&gt;
Other examples might be quoted, but they would as well, at your own hospitable&amp;#039; table&mdash;in the&lt;br /&gt;
be too personal. As regards the signed articles bosom of your amiable family? With a glass of&lt;br /&gt;
they will at least enlarge the field for authors. wine, just as if I was your equal, one of your&lt;br /&gt;
There are plenty of capable writers on every ordinary friends ? Too much! It is too much!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
conceivable subject, but on any one subject But Miss Betham Edwards is quite wrong in&lt;br /&gt;
there are only two or three writers--perhaps considering that golden age as lost beyond&lt;br /&gt;
only one &mdash; capable of presenting the subject recovery. The time of confidence and of depen-&lt;br /&gt;
attractively. I wish Mr. Newbolt every possible dence is not by any means rendered impossible&lt;br /&gt;
success....&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; by the Authors&amp;#039; Society or by any syndicate.&lt;br /&gt;
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72&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The author has only to go back to the old con- coupon conferring benefits on young writers, ten&lt;br /&gt;
ditions. He must not presume to ask what his times more valuable than the price of the book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
property means, or what the man who so gene- What can those benefits be ?&lt;br /&gt;
rously relieves him of it makes out of it. There If the book contains the whole art of author.&lt;br /&gt;
are many publishers living who would be willing ship, what remains ? Something ten times more&lt;br /&gt;
to forget and forgive the cruel suspicions of the valuable than the price of the book. That is to&lt;br /&gt;
day, and to go back to the old happy conditions. say, ten half-crowns, or &pound;1 58. What is the valu.&lt;br /&gt;
Let those who lament the past remember that it able article which can be purchased for 258.? It&lt;br /&gt;
is always in their power to restore it. The past must be something useful to the young author-&lt;br /&gt;
may come back again, with the courtesy so dear a pair of boots, perhaps, or a silk umbrella.&lt;br /&gt;
to the feminine heart, and the tact and good Whatever it is, we thank the spirited and&lt;br /&gt;
feeling which prompt the publisher not to speak reverend donor for this spontaneous gift to the&lt;br /&gt;
about figures-sordid things !--and fill him with literary profession. We need, it is true, all we&lt;br /&gt;
ruinous generosity and the author with tearful can get.&lt;br /&gt;
gratitude. Let everyone who laments the past The third appearance of the Rev. J. Meldrum&lt;br /&gt;
take these simple steps to recover and to re Dryerre is as an editor. He has already, it&lt;br /&gt;
store it.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. seems, conveyed into port a barque containing&lt;br /&gt;
twenty stories by twenty writers, which can be&lt;br /&gt;
obic&lt;br /&gt;
had for the ridiculously small charge of 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
ANOTHER BENEFACTOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The method pursued is as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. The stories are not to be more than 2000&lt;br /&gt;
TT is now some time since an opportunity was&lt;br /&gt;
words in length.&lt;br /&gt;
1 afforded us of bringing to notice any of the&lt;br /&gt;
2. Each author, if his story is accepted,&lt;br /&gt;
benevolent methods by which earnest and&lt;br /&gt;
becomes responsible for &pound;1 58. Is it a coin-&lt;br /&gt;
disinterested. vessels offer assistance, wealth, and&lt;br /&gt;
cidence that this sum is ten times the price of&lt;br /&gt;
fame to the aspiring author. It would almost&lt;br /&gt;
the half-crown book already offered? Can the&lt;br /&gt;
seem as if these persons were weary of well.&lt;br /&gt;
wall&lt;br /&gt;
P&lt;br /&gt;
promised coupon be ten copies of that work?&lt;br /&gt;
doing; or as if their offers were met with cold 3;&lt;br /&gt;
3. The book of collected stories is to be sold at&lt;br /&gt;
distrust. However, we are now favoured with 38.0&lt;br /&gt;
one more enterprising and sporting proposal.&lt;br /&gt;
4. All the profits to be divided among the&lt;br /&gt;
The leader, guide, and friend, the Codlin of the au&lt;br /&gt;
his authors. Noble, indeed !&lt;br /&gt;
whole business. is a gentleman named &amp;quot; Rey J. 5. The editor to be recouped &ldquo;necessary&lt;br /&gt;
Meldrum Drverre.&rdquo; He is a &amp;quot; wellknown&amp;quot; expenses,&amp;quot; and to receive commission of 2d. a&lt;br /&gt;
author-he says so himself, therefore not to&lt;br /&gt;
volume.&lt;br /&gt;
know him is to confess ignorance and obscurity.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Nobody is to be admitted into this fortunate&lt;br /&gt;
He appears before us in a four-fold capacity.&lt;br /&gt;
company who cannot command among his friends&lt;br /&gt;
First as an advertiser. He there describes himself&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of at least a dozen copies at 2s. 8d. -&lt;br /&gt;
as a &ldquo;successful&rdquo; author. It is therefore, one Let us see how the plan works out.&lt;br /&gt;
presumes, out of pure Christian benevolence that There are twenty writers at &pound;1 58.; that makes&lt;br /&gt;
he undertakes certain duties not generally per- &pound;25, which is two-thirds of the cost of produc-&lt;br /&gt;
formed by successful writers. He offers lessons tion. This therefore is &pound;37 108. Very mode-&lt;br /&gt;
in authorship-he is so successful that he is rate, too. It would seem to represent an edition&lt;br /&gt;
above the restriction of grammar. Why should of 500 copies of an 8vo. volume containing 160 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
he aim at grammar when he can make himself of 250 words each--that is to say, five sheets.&lt;br /&gt;
understood without ? Thus, who can fail to It can be done for the money, binding and all.&lt;br /&gt;
understand the following? &ldquo;Lessons in Author- If it is done for less who pockets the difference ?&lt;br /&gt;
ship offered by a successful author. Terms And what about advertising the book ?&lt;br /&gt;
stamp.&amp;quot; His next appearance is as the author of But the book is &ldquo; pushed&rdquo; by the authors.&lt;br /&gt;
a book on the &ldquo; Art of Authorsbip by a well- Beautiful development of the literary life! The&lt;br /&gt;
known Author.&rdquo; He thus describes it&mdash;again author has to go round begging his friends to&lt;br /&gt;
scorning the trammels of grammar: &ldquo;This book, give him 28. 8d. each. Well : such a book as&lt;br /&gt;
giving the experience of most of our leading &ldquo;Lorna Doone,&amp;quot; or a round score of masterpieces,&lt;br /&gt;
authors, is intended to aid those desiring to enter can be had for sixpence apiece&mdash;why, then, should&lt;br /&gt;
the literary life. Practical and sympathetic- anyone buy, let us say, not a masterpiece, for&lt;br /&gt;
characterise it correctly.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
28. 8d.? However, by dint of push and touting&lt;br /&gt;
But there is more. &ldquo;Each book&rdquo;&mdash;this is one of the fortunate twenty gets rid, suppose, of&lt;br /&gt;
very mysterious and attractive&mdash;&amp;quot;contains a fifteen copies, which at 28. 8d. means 408. If he&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
73&lt;br /&gt;
is wise he will repay himself that 258., and editors and publishers&amp;#039; readers so often reject&lt;br /&gt;
forward the rest to the editor. Suppose that the good articles and books is because they are no&lt;br /&gt;
whole twenty get rid of fifteen copies each. judges of literature until it is printed and bound.&lt;br /&gt;
That means 300 copies, or &pound;40. How does it Even typewriting does not assist their judgement,&lt;br /&gt;
work out?&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; galley&rdquo; proof but little more. Indeed, the&lt;br /&gt;
The editor takes his &ldquo;necessary expenses &amp;quot;- Ideal Editor prefers handwriting to typewriting ;&lt;br /&gt;
say &pound;2 108. The rest goes to the printer, or, if it seems to give him the author&amp;#039;s thought more&lt;br /&gt;
the cost has been less than the estimate, the fresh and hot; it helps to bring out for him the&lt;br /&gt;
margin will pay something towards that ad, a literary physiognomy of the story or article.&lt;br /&gt;
copy, which amounts to &pound;2 ios. How much is The Ideal Editor appreciates style, but is no&lt;br /&gt;
left for the Company of Twenty? But the stylomaniac. If the subject be of sufficient&lt;br /&gt;
British public may buy the volume eagerly. interest he will accept an article and print it as&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps ; on the other hand, perhaps it will not. it stands, even if it be indifferently written.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, however, a fourth character in which To give style to a man who has it not is to&lt;br /&gt;
this versatile and reverend gentlemen appears. deprive him of marked individuality. Impotence,&lt;br /&gt;
He has a &ldquo; Literary Bureau &rdquo; of which he is inability to express in writing may become an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Hon. Sec.&rdquo; It is generally understood that interesting and entertaining phenomenon of which&lt;br /&gt;
an &ldquo;Hon. Sec.&rdquo; is unpaid. The Bureau buys it would be wrong to deprive readers, as witness&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.; sells MSS. at a 10 per cent. commission: many well-known cases. The Ideal Editor does&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; considers &amp;quot; MSS. with a view to publication in not regard it as his business to touch up the&lt;br /&gt;
book form : gives lessons in writing short stories : style of articles until they bear no reseinblance to&lt;br /&gt;
in writing for the Press generally : and criti. the original. Have we not seen one or two&lt;br /&gt;
cises MSS. at 28, 6d. each if not more than 4000 magazines in which each article, however diverse&lt;br /&gt;
words in length. The Bureau has been estab the subject, seemed to be the contribution of the&lt;br /&gt;
lished for ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
same pen? This was the handiwork of a stylo.&lt;br /&gt;
One would like to ask a few questions :&lt;br /&gt;
maniac. The ideal editor&amp;#039;s corrections are con.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) Have the authors of the volume already fined to slips in grammar, and even here he uses&lt;br /&gt;
published received any of their money back? his power sparingly. It has happened to the&lt;br /&gt;
(2) What becomes of the difference when the present writer that a purist editor&mdash;the least ideal&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production is less than the estimate ? type of them all-has altered the expression&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Who makes up the difference when it is &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s me!&rdquo; into &ldquo;It is I!&amp;quot; The Ideal Editor has&lt;br /&gt;
greater?&lt;br /&gt;
been known to make changes in spelling and&lt;br /&gt;
(4) What advertising is done?&lt;br /&gt;
punctuation, but again only sparingly, for in&lt;br /&gt;
(5) What were the details and the amount of both he prefers to leave free play to the individu.&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;necessary expenses&rdquo;?&lt;br /&gt;
ality which both are capable of expressing. He&lt;br /&gt;
(6) Whether the Rev. J. Meldrum Dryerre is would never, for instance, alter &ldquo;shew&rdquo; into&lt;br /&gt;
the unpaid secretary of the Bureau ? If not, &ldquo;show&rdquo; or drop the &amp;quot;e&amp;quot; in judgement, but he&lt;br /&gt;
why he calls himself &ldquo;Hon. Sec.&amp;quot; ?&lt;br /&gt;
tries to preserve for us old friends and pleasant&lt;br /&gt;
(7) To what authors or to what works can memories, and changes &ldquo; Kalendar&amp;quot; into &ldquo; Calen-&lt;br /&gt;
he refer as a successful and competent literary dar,&amp;quot; and Aachen into Aix-la-Chapelle.&lt;br /&gt;
agent? It is customary for literary agents to The Ideal Editor has no other profession and is&lt;br /&gt;
produce these references in proof of competence. very diligent in his own. He keeps a MS. but a&lt;br /&gt;
short time when it is not his intention to keep it&lt;br /&gt;
altogether. The Ideal Editor is a gentleman, and&lt;br /&gt;
therefore polite solicitude is another of his many&lt;br /&gt;
THE IDEAL EDITOR.&lt;br /&gt;
excellencies. A tender consideration, even for&lt;br /&gt;
(From the occasional contributor&amp;#039;s point of view.) the obscure and troublesome, animates his whole&lt;br /&gt;
conduct. If the contributor has sent his MS.&lt;br /&gt;
F the Ideal Editor&amp;#039;s literary qualification this unfolded in a stiff cardboard case, the editor will&lt;br /&gt;
U paper sayeth nought; its object is rather return it in the same case; if the contributor has&lt;br /&gt;
to set forth, to the shame of his Philistine folded his MS. the editor will observe the same&lt;br /&gt;
compeer, the excellencies of his rule of conduct pleats in folding and not brutally roll and crumple&lt;br /&gt;
and the praiseworthiness of his methods of pro. it as his Philistine compeer does ; if only postage&lt;br /&gt;
cedure.&lt;br /&gt;
stamps and no wrapper accompanies the MS., the&lt;br /&gt;
The first general excellency of the Ideal Editor editor in returning it is careful to use wrappers&lt;br /&gt;
is that he can judge of the merits of a contribu. that cover the whole width of the MS., so that it&lt;br /&gt;
tion in its MS. form. This may sound a truism, may in no way become soiled or defaced by post-&lt;br /&gt;
but it is none the less a fact that the reason why marks or postage stamps. He has a kind heart,&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 74 (#104) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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74&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS&amp;#039; ASSOCIATION.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
TNDIANAPOLIS, July 20. &mdash; The Bowen-&lt;br /&gt;
| Merrill Company of this city, the largest&lt;br /&gt;
publishing firm in the State, has received a&lt;br /&gt;
circular letter from Eastern publishers asking&lt;br /&gt;
representatives to attend a meeting to be&lt;br /&gt;
held in New York on Wednesday next to&lt;br /&gt;
consider a plan of co-operation whereby author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
royalties may be decreased. The circular says&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo;if the publishers and booksellers can&lt;br /&gt;
arrange matters satisfactorily, the sellers will&lt;br /&gt;
not handle books of publishers not in the&lt;br /&gt;
association and the publishers will not sell to&lt;br /&gt;
outsiders.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Nothing is said in the circular of capitalisation&lt;br /&gt;
or the number which it is proposed to take into&lt;br /&gt;
the combine. &mdash;New York Sun, July 21, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
the Ideal Editor, and knows that one journey&lt;br /&gt;
through the post will often give a MS. a sadly&lt;br /&gt;
rejected look. Moreover, he is acquainted with&lt;br /&gt;
the postal regulations; he can distinguish between&lt;br /&gt;
home and foreign ; he is aware that the minimum&lt;br /&gt;
for MSS. abroad is 2 d. and not&mdash;as the Philis-&lt;br /&gt;
tines all think-id. It would grieve him to the&lt;br /&gt;
soul to be instrumental in inflicting a postal fine&lt;br /&gt;
on a starving contributor or to add to the&lt;br /&gt;
exchequer of a rapacious foreign Government&lt;br /&gt;
Further, he never sends proofs or MSS. abroad in&lt;br /&gt;
an open gummed envelope, for he knows that&lt;br /&gt;
certain foreign postal officials, whose patriotism&lt;br /&gt;
gets the better of their honesty, are quite&lt;br /&gt;
capable of closing the gummed envelope and&lt;br /&gt;
no upon the unfortunate. perhaps&amp;#039; stary.&lt;br /&gt;
ing, contributor a postal fine of the value of a&lt;br /&gt;
luncheon.&lt;br /&gt;
When he has made up his mind to accept an&lt;br /&gt;
article, the Ideal Editor does not selfishly nurse&lt;br /&gt;
the fact in his bosom for six months or a year ;&lt;br /&gt;
he is a humane man, and immediately informs&lt;br /&gt;
the contributor of the good news. It is asking&lt;br /&gt;
too much, but there does exist a high-souled&lt;br /&gt;
editor-creature almost of another world&mdash;who&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledges every MS. as he receives it. promis&lt;br /&gt;
ing &ldquo;attention in due course.&rdquo; This of itself&lt;br /&gt;
softens the blow when the &ldquo;attention &rdquo; eventually&lt;br /&gt;
does not take the form of retention ; and, when&lt;br /&gt;
accepted, the contributor has not over long to&lt;br /&gt;
wait for an appearance. The Ideal Editor accepts&lt;br /&gt;
with judgement; therefore his pigeon-holes are&lt;br /&gt;
never unduly cluttered up, not even with&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; middles.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Ideal Editor always sends two proofs-one&lt;br /&gt;
to be returned and one to be retained. The con&lt;br /&gt;
tributor corrects both, and is thus able to see for&lt;br /&gt;
himself that the proof is actually printed as it&lt;br /&gt;
leaves his hands. For I need scarcely say that if&lt;br /&gt;
the Ideal Editor makes any changes-suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
he would prefer me to call them&mdash;they are always&lt;br /&gt;
made in the proof, which is never touched again&lt;br /&gt;
after it leaves the author&amp;#039;s hands. (N.B. The&lt;br /&gt;
two proofs are invariably accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
MS., without which a writer cannot comfortably&lt;br /&gt;
correct the proof of a difficult article). The&lt;br /&gt;
Philistine editor never returns the MS., even if&lt;br /&gt;
.the substance of the article is composed of intri.&lt;br /&gt;
cate statistics.&lt;br /&gt;
Such, then, set forth without hyperbole, are&lt;br /&gt;
some of the excellencies of the Ideal Editor. All&lt;br /&gt;
honour to him. When the Philistine who is&lt;br /&gt;
encamped over against the Sion of his sanctum&lt;br /&gt;
shall hatte been subdued to a like rightmindedness&lt;br /&gt;
and gentlemanliness of procedure, then the lite-&lt;br /&gt;
rary millennium will be nigh, and the contribut.&lt;br /&gt;
ing lamb may lie down without fear by the side&lt;br /&gt;
of the once-dreaded editing lion. M, C.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
The American Publishers&amp;#039; Association was&lt;br /&gt;
formed on last Wednesday, Charles Scribner&lt;br /&gt;
being elected president. The news of the forma-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the association was printed on the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
ing day, together with many reasons for its being.&lt;br /&gt;
Nearly every reason given was incorrect and quite&lt;br /&gt;
at variance with the real purpose of the organisa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. The story most widely circulated was sent&lt;br /&gt;
out from Chicago and was to the effect that the&lt;br /&gt;
principal book publishers of the United States&lt;br /&gt;
had decided to band themselves into a trust, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the formation of an association was the first&lt;br /&gt;
number on their programme. Another story sent&lt;br /&gt;
out from Chicago or some more windy Western&lt;br /&gt;
town, had it that the main object of the new&lt;br /&gt;
organisation was to reduce the compensation to be&lt;br /&gt;
paid to authors in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
So far as the promoters of the organisation&lt;br /&gt;
have read, not one of the stories printed relative&lt;br /&gt;
to the reason for organisation and the plans for&lt;br /&gt;
the future is correct. And right here it may be&lt;br /&gt;
well to correct one or two of these stories. In&lt;br /&gt;
the first place, it was never the intention of any&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishers who had a hand in organising&lt;br /&gt;
the association to form a trust. Anyone at all&lt;br /&gt;
familiar with the business of book publishing&lt;br /&gt;
knows that it would be about as easy to form a&lt;br /&gt;
trust of book publishers, on account of the very&lt;br /&gt;
nature of the business, as it has been to com.&lt;br /&gt;
municate with the legations in Peking. Further-&lt;br /&gt;
more, the association was not formed for the&lt;br /&gt;
purpose of buying manuscripts at reduced rates&lt;br /&gt;
or for the purpose of reducing royalties. In fact,&lt;br /&gt;
the relations of author and publisher were not&lt;br /&gt;
even considered in the formation of the new&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 75 (#105) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
75&lt;br /&gt;
association. It was not even suggested that booksellers as well as the regular retailers, and,&lt;br /&gt;
these relations were any part of the business or furthermore, the department stores bought many&lt;br /&gt;
concern of such an association.&lt;br /&gt;
more new books for which there was a popular&lt;br /&gt;
So much for the reasons that didn&amp;#039;t lead to the demand than most of the regular retailers. The&lt;br /&gt;
formation of the association and for the plans department stores were good customers, and the&lt;br /&gt;
which it never had any intention of carrying out. publishers did not feel inclined to interfere with&lt;br /&gt;
Now, as a matter of fact, this association was their business. The demands and the pleadings&lt;br /&gt;
formed at the request of retail booksellers all over and the requests of the retailers kept coming in,&lt;br /&gt;
the country and after repeated and earnest plead. however, and finally, a few months ago, some of the&lt;br /&gt;
ings on the part of the retailers that the pub publishers decided that they must do something.&lt;br /&gt;
lishers try to do something to change existing Some of them made individual investigation as to&lt;br /&gt;
conditions in the trade, and work out some scheme the extent to which the business of the regular&lt;br /&gt;
by which the retailers could at least make a dealer was impaired by the book shops in the&lt;br /&gt;
living. They have been requesting for the last department stores.&lt;br /&gt;
two or three years. More recently they have Their investigation led them to inquire about&lt;br /&gt;
fairly demanded some assistance from the pub. the sale of some of the popular novels. They found&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, representing that, if they didn&amp;#039;t get it, that the sale of &ldquo; David Harum,&rdquo; for instance, had&lt;br /&gt;
many retail booksellers would either have to close reached, at the time the investigation was made,&lt;br /&gt;
out their business or be sold out. It was as a 500,000 copies; of &ldquo;Richard Carvel,&rdquo; 438,000&lt;br /&gt;
somewhat tardy answer to this cry for help, copies had been sold. &ldquo;To Have and to Hold,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
coming from all parts of the country, that the 200,000; &ldquo; Janice Meredith,&rdquo; 250,000; and &ldquo;Red&lt;br /&gt;
association was formed.&lt;br /&gt;
Rock,&amp;quot; 84,000 copies. It has not been deter-&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore, instead of banding together to do mined just what percentage of the total sale of&lt;br /&gt;
the public or do the authors, the publishers have the books mentioned must be credited to the&lt;br /&gt;
really organised themselves for the purpose of department stores, but it is known to be large.&lt;br /&gt;
helping the men who make it possible for a pub. The investigators then tried to get at the loss to&lt;br /&gt;
lishing house to exist. It was simply a case of somebody by the cut rates at which these books&lt;br /&gt;
helping others and thereby helping themselves. were sold in the department stores. They took&lt;br /&gt;
For the benefit of those not familiar with the &ldquo;Richard Carvel &rdquo; for their purpose because&lt;br /&gt;
book trade it may be said that during each certain department stores were advertising this&lt;br /&gt;
succeeding year for the past five or six years and book extensively. The book was put out by the&lt;br /&gt;
more, the retail bookseller&amp;#039;s business has been Appletons to be sold at retail for i dollar 50 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
growing poorer and poorer. The inventory at the It was found that the price in many department&lt;br /&gt;
close of each year has shown that the profit from stores was i dollar 14 cents., while at some it was&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of books alone was less than the sold as low as 81 cents., the publisher&amp;#039;s price at&lt;br /&gt;
year before. The retailers saw that this thing wholesale. The cut from the regular retail price&lt;br /&gt;
must stop or they would have to do something was therefore 36 cents. a copy in some cases and&lt;br /&gt;
else to make a living. And yet they could see no 69 cents. in others.&lt;br /&gt;
way by which they could change the conditions. They saw at once that the volume of business&lt;br /&gt;
because they knew the chief cause and they were done by many retailers who had to compete with&lt;br /&gt;
powerless to remove it.&lt;br /&gt;
these department stores was not such as to make&lt;br /&gt;
The alleged chief cause of the decline in the it possible for tbem to meet even the higher of&lt;br /&gt;
trade of the retail booksellers has been the alleged the two cut prices. In the first place, many of&lt;br /&gt;
cause of decline in other particular lines of trade the retailers could not buy in sufficiently large&lt;br /&gt;
for many years. The booksellers laid all their quantities to enable them to buy the book at the&lt;br /&gt;
troubles to the department store, as the shoe lowest wholesale price. From all the information&lt;br /&gt;
dealer and the butcher and the greengrocer and that could be gathered it seemed to be true that,&lt;br /&gt;
the &thorn;ardware dealer had done before them. They in the case of many of the retailers, they could&lt;br /&gt;
asserted to the publisher that, so long as book&amp;#039;s not realise a decent profit and cut under i dollar&lt;br /&gt;
were sold in department stores at prices with 50 cents. As for selling the book at 81 cents.,&lt;br /&gt;
which the regular bookseller found it utterly the price made by the publishers to jobbers and&lt;br /&gt;
impossible to compete, the regular men in the others who bought in large quantities, that was&lt;br /&gt;
trade could not do business at a profit. It was to utterly out of the question. It was then for the&lt;br /&gt;
save them from the department stores that the publishers to determine whether they could afford&lt;br /&gt;
retailers appealed to the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
to help in some way the regular retailers at the&lt;br /&gt;
For some time the publishers could not see expense, if necessary, of the department store.&lt;br /&gt;
their way clear to assist the retailers. They were What determination was reached may be inferred&lt;br /&gt;
compelled to look upon the department stores as from the forming of the association.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 76 (#106) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
76&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
You couldn&amp;#039;t get a publisher to admit that the&lt;br /&gt;
association intends to antagonise a single depart.&lt;br /&gt;
ment store in a single city in the country. On&lt;br /&gt;
the contrary, they say they are going to get the&lt;br /&gt;
department store to help them in the work they&lt;br /&gt;
have undertaken. Just how they are going to do&lt;br /&gt;
this they do not say, and it is probably true that&lt;br /&gt;
they do not yet know. As a matter of fact, the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers haven&amp;#039;t got that far yet. They have&lt;br /&gt;
really only effected an organisation and elected&lt;br /&gt;
officers. A committee has been appointed to&lt;br /&gt;
draft articles of association, and when it is ready&lt;br /&gt;
to report, another meeting of the association will&lt;br /&gt;
be held.&lt;br /&gt;
Although no plan for aiding the retailers is now&lt;br /&gt;
under consideration by the association as a body,&lt;br /&gt;
the individual members are considering a scheme&lt;br /&gt;
proposed by a man who has been in the publish.&lt;br /&gt;
ing business over forty years in New York. At&lt;br /&gt;
present the plan is looked upon with much favour,&lt;br /&gt;
and it looks now as if it, or some slight modifica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of it, would be adopted by the association.&lt;br /&gt;
Under this plan a net retail price for all books&lt;br /&gt;
published after the adoption of the plan would be&lt;br /&gt;
fixed by the association. The general scale of the&lt;br /&gt;
prices fixed would be much lower than the retail&lt;br /&gt;
prices now suggested by publishers to be charged&lt;br /&gt;
for books. For instance, a book that would sell&lt;br /&gt;
at retail, without any requirement from the pub:&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, at I dollar 50 cents, would then be&lt;br /&gt;
required to be sold at i dollar 25 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
From this price the retailer would get a certain&lt;br /&gt;
trade discount, but before he was permitted to&lt;br /&gt;
buy a copy of the book he would be required to&lt;br /&gt;
agree not to sell any copies at retail for less than&lt;br /&gt;
the price stipulated by the publisher. In fixing&lt;br /&gt;
the stipulated price it would be put at such a&lt;br /&gt;
figure as experience has taught should yield a fair&lt;br /&gt;
profit to the retailer of conservative business&lt;br /&gt;
methods. This plan, as has been stated, would&lt;br /&gt;
apply only to the publications issued after the&lt;br /&gt;
plan is adopted. No attempt under it would be&lt;br /&gt;
made to regulate the retail price of old publica&lt;br /&gt;
tions. When this plan was outlined to a Sun&lt;br /&gt;
reporter yesterday, the reporter asked the man&lt;br /&gt;
who explained it if he expected such a scheme to&lt;br /&gt;
be readily accepted by the department stores. His&lt;br /&gt;
answer was:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I think we can show the department store&lt;br /&gt;
proprietors that it will not be a bad thing for&lt;br /&gt;
them. Of course, the publishers will continue to&lt;br /&gt;
give the largest discount to the purchasers of the&lt;br /&gt;
largest bill of goods, and the department stores&lt;br /&gt;
will get the benefit of that discount. The regular&lt;br /&gt;
retailers can find no fault with that. But it is a&lt;br /&gt;
question of live and let live. The publishers can&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
live off the department stores alone, and the&lt;br /&gt;
regular retailers can&amp;#039;t live with the department&lt;br /&gt;
stores under the present conditions. I think the&lt;br /&gt;
whole thing can be laid before the department&lt;br /&gt;
store men in such a way that they will accept it.&lt;br /&gt;
If they don&amp;#039;t, why we shall have to treat them, if&lt;br /&gt;
this plan be adopted, just as we would have to&lt;br /&gt;
treat a regular retailer who refused to accept the&lt;br /&gt;
terms of the plan. We should then be compelled&lt;br /&gt;
to refuse to sell to them.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;But there are others to be considered besides&lt;br /&gt;
the department stores. It is not well, for instance.&lt;br /&gt;
to forget altogether the public. The adoption of&lt;br /&gt;
this plan, or one something like it, would be of&lt;br /&gt;
great benefit to the buyers of books. In the first&lt;br /&gt;
place, the majority will be able to get their books&lt;br /&gt;
cheaper than they would if no such plan were in&lt;br /&gt;
force, because the majority of the buyers of high-&lt;br /&gt;
class books, such as the members of this associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion publish, do not buy them from department&lt;br /&gt;
stores. Therefore, if the plan were not in force,&lt;br /&gt;
the majority would buy their books at the present&lt;br /&gt;
higher scale of retail prices.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Another class that would be benefited by such&lt;br /&gt;
a scheme would be the authors. In showing that&lt;br /&gt;
the scheme would benefit them, I show how silly&lt;br /&gt;
was the story that the publishers were combining&lt;br /&gt;
against them. When it can be brought about&lt;br /&gt;
that a uniform and fair price can be maintained&lt;br /&gt;
for a product, the producers are always benefited.&lt;br /&gt;
This applies to authors as well as mill hands, and&lt;br /&gt;
the adoption of some such scheme would enable&lt;br /&gt;
us to pay better instead of poorer rates to authors,&lt;br /&gt;
even had we ever thought of trying to get authors&lt;br /&gt;
to work for less.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ſt was recalled by another publisher that, so far&lt;br /&gt;
as authors are concerned, they, as a class, are not&lt;br /&gt;
so dependent on the publishers as the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
are on them. Of poor authors, it was said, there&lt;br /&gt;
are plenty, but good ones are rare, and high-class&lt;br /&gt;
publishers can never afford to work against their&lt;br /&gt;
interests, and never have since books were pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lished. As showing the character and standing&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishing houses represented at the&lt;br /&gt;
organisation of the association, it may be stated&lt;br /&gt;
that the following were represented :&lt;br /&gt;
D. Appleton and Co.; Bowen-Merrill Company,&lt;br /&gt;
of Indianapolis ; Century Company; Henry T.&lt;br /&gt;
Coates and Co, of Philadelphia ; Thomas Y.&lt;br /&gt;
Crowell and Co.; Dodd, Mead, and Co.; Double-&lt;br /&gt;
day, Page, and Co.; Funk and Wagnalls ; Harper&lt;br /&gt;
and Brothers; Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.; John&lt;br /&gt;
Lane; Lee and Shepard, Boston; the J. B.&lt;br /&gt;
Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia; Little,&lt;br /&gt;
Brown, and Co., of Boston; Longmans, Green,&lt;br /&gt;
and Co.; McClure, Phillips, and Co.; the Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
millan Company; Thomas Nelson and Sons ;&lt;br /&gt;
G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons; James Pott and Co.;&lt;br /&gt;
Fleming H. Revell Company; R. H. Russell;&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons; Silver, Burdett, and&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 77 (#107) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
77&lt;br /&gt;
Co.; Mays, Maynard, and Co.; and Frederick A.&lt;br /&gt;
Stokes and Co.&mdash;New York Sun, July 29, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
The weakest wills are often hardest to forecast&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;like the weather.&lt;br /&gt;
Virtue cannot be defined by code, for it is&lt;br /&gt;
infinite.&lt;br /&gt;
FINLAY GLENELG.&lt;br /&gt;
REFLECTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
RT&amp;#039;S chief end is not to teach, but to touch.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
Genuine gospels are not sad.&lt;br /&gt;
The only irony in Nature lies in our.&lt;br /&gt;
selves.&lt;br /&gt;
1.-GOOD AND BAD ENGLISH.&lt;br /&gt;
It is often easier to blame Providence than to MAN YOU explain what vexes my old-fashioned&lt;br /&gt;
learn wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;
I mind-namely, the use of the adverb once&lt;br /&gt;
Microbes of misfortune thrive in the malaria of to mark time without its former companion&lt;br /&gt;
misunderstanding.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;when.&amp;quot; Taken alone, it means simply that an&lt;br /&gt;
Disease is due to lower lifeincluding our event happened on only one occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
own.&lt;br /&gt;
I have been obliged to look back or forward to&lt;br /&gt;
Lower life may help the higher&mdash;to under see whether&ldquo; once&amp;quot; meant&ldquo; once on a time &amp;quot; long&lt;br /&gt;
stand.&lt;br /&gt;
ago, or whether it was used as showing that when&lt;br /&gt;
Pessimism is a symptom of disease, sometimes some object was completed the rest followed. I&lt;br /&gt;
canonised as natural science.&lt;br /&gt;
have often met with it in books, and passed it as&lt;br /&gt;
All genius, like all love, is miraculous.&lt;br /&gt;
slip-slop-perhaps American; but I have just&lt;br /&gt;
All science is superficial, and so is even religion. found it in a leading article in a contemporary.&lt;br /&gt;
Genius never produces unhappiness&mdash;in the &ldquo;Once, moreover, the decision has been taken,&lt;br /&gt;
wisest.&lt;br /&gt;
very little time is required to send out, &amp;amp;c.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Good artists enjoy life&mdash;when free and wise. Surely it would have cost even less time to begin&lt;br /&gt;
Freedom alone cannot guarantee wisdom. the sentence with &ldquo; When once,&amp;quot; instead of com.&lt;br /&gt;
Absolute freedom is only for the perfectly wise mitting a barbarism of which no quotation in&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;the unknown.&lt;br /&gt;
Webster&amp;#039;s dictionary gives an instance.&lt;br /&gt;
No one is ever too good, or even too bad, for&lt;br /&gt;
ONCE AND EVER A LOVER OF GOOD&lt;br /&gt;
this world.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGLISH&lt;br /&gt;
The absolutely impossible is unknown to us.&lt;br /&gt;
The unwise will blame Nature for their own&lt;br /&gt;
vain visions.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-WALTER v. LANE.&lt;br /&gt;
We do not know the effect of too much wisdom, The decision of the House of Lords in the case&lt;br /&gt;
for we have never tried it.&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;Walter v. Lane&rdquo; goes far to carry the point&lt;br /&gt;
Were disease always ugly, its career would be that I first urged at a meeting of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
shorter.&lt;br /&gt;
Society in the year 1891, as reported in The&lt;br /&gt;
When Nature seems unjust, or Providence Author for Feb. 1891. What I claimed was a&lt;br /&gt;
unwise, we only see our own images.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright in literary style in news description ;&lt;br /&gt;
The sub-human often mistakes itself for the i.e., I see an event, or railway accident, or fire, or&lt;br /&gt;
supernatural.&lt;br /&gt;
a Tsar&amp;#039;s coronation, and I describe it in a certain&lt;br /&gt;
The unique is only the usual.&lt;br /&gt;
fashion; in fact, putting myself into the descrip-&lt;br /&gt;
It is often harder to improve ourselves than to tion, and for such work I claim a copyright. Others&lt;br /&gt;
reprove society.&lt;br /&gt;
may describe the same event or incident, but if&lt;br /&gt;
Love cannot fail, even when inexpert lovers they copy or choose my words, my mannerisms,&lt;br /&gt;
must.&lt;br /&gt;
my style, then they infringe my copyright. This&lt;br /&gt;
All art must succeed when wise&mdash;however is just what the Times claims for its report&lt;br /&gt;
invisibly.&lt;br /&gt;
of Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s speeches. Since 1891 I have&lt;br /&gt;
All worries are born of our weaknesses.&lt;br /&gt;
used every opportunity for urging this claim to&lt;br /&gt;
Facts are poor without reasons, and reasons copyright in literary style in news description, and&lt;br /&gt;
seem poorer without sympathies.&lt;br /&gt;
have spoken upon it at the International Press&lt;br /&gt;
Humour is the offspring of sense and of senti. Congress at Bordeaux, Rome, &amp;amp;c., and at Rome&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
the International Press Bureau accepted the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Ideal justice is still beyond human ken.&lt;br /&gt;
position, and it will be embodied in a bill to&lt;br /&gt;
Novel truth may become dangerous when be laid before the Berne Convention; so that in&lt;br /&gt;
wisdom does not pilot us.&lt;br /&gt;
time the paragraphist, who from his local know-&lt;br /&gt;
The nether side of unhappiness is unhealthiness. ledge gives true colour or scientific insight into&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 78 (#108) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
78&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
a descriptive note, will be able to prevent dozens Mr. Mackenzie Bell&amp;#039;s poem, &ldquo;Lord, teach us to&lt;br /&gt;
of journals immediately seizing upon his well Pray,&amp;quot; has just been published by Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
written &ldquo; par.&rdquo;&mdash;for surely England, that suffers Vincent, arranged as an anthem by Herr Georg&lt;br /&gt;
most from such &ldquo;commandeering,&rdquo; will not be Liebling, Court pianist to the Duke of Saxe.&lt;br /&gt;
bebind the internationalists in journalist legisla- Coburg and Gotha.&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&lt;br /&gt;
- JAMES BAKER. Dr. Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s history of the South African&lt;br /&gt;
War is in preparation, and will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
III.-ENGLISH AUTHORS IN THE UNITED STATES.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely the comment upon &ldquo; Maxwell Gray&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
After the flood of books on mountaineering&lt;br /&gt;
experience is quite obvious. There are various&lt;br /&gt;
which recent seasons have witnessed, there is&lt;br /&gt;
justifications for the role of literary agent, but&lt;br /&gt;
evidently to be a cessation now. So far, the only&lt;br /&gt;
no part of his function can be, for writers of any&lt;br /&gt;
my book of the kind announced for publication in&lt;br /&gt;
standing, more important than knowledge of and&lt;br /&gt;
the autumn is &ldquo;In the Ice World of the Himalaya,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
a hold upon the whole international market. If&lt;br /&gt;
by Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Maxwell Gray&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; affairs had been in the bands&lt;br /&gt;
William Hunter Workman, who had many&lt;br /&gt;
of a competent agent-by which is implied an&lt;br /&gt;
interesting adventures in their travels.&lt;br /&gt;
agent with, among other things, an American&lt;br /&gt;
representative-none of these troubles could have&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Slaves of Society&rdquo; is the title of an&lt;br /&gt;
arisen. And surely, if the Authors&amp;#039; Society is&lt;br /&gt;
anonymous satire on modern social life and&lt;br /&gt;
wise enough not to undertake agent&amp;#039;s work in this usages, which Messrs. Harper are to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
country there can be no call for it to attempt to Mr. J. Ashby-Sterry is issuing through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
do it in New York, where, it being a civilised Sands a new collection of his essays.&lt;br /&gt;
place, the business of literary agent is perfectly Mrs. Humphry Ward&amp;#039;s new novel will be pub.&lt;br /&gt;
well understood. THE LITERARY AGENCY. lished in the autumn. It has been appearing in&lt;br /&gt;
5, Henrietta-street, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Harper&amp;#039;s, and is called &ldquo; Eleanor.&rdquo; The scene is&lt;br /&gt;
laid in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
The novel upon which John Oliver Hobbes is en-&lt;br /&gt;
gaged will be called &ldquo;Love and the Soul Hunters.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Mary E. Mann has written a novel&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Among the Syringas,&rdquo; in which a&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Rev. C. Dudley Lampen&amp;#039;s new story, to country clergyman is the chief character. The&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Everett and Co. book will be published by Mr. Fisher Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
shortly, is entitled &ldquo;Barcali, the Mutineer: M. Leroy-Beaulieu, the well-known French&lt;br /&gt;
a Tale of the Great Pacific.&rdquo; It deals with the economist and authority on colonial affairs, has&lt;br /&gt;
discovery of a strange colony and the doings of recently published in Paris a work of great&lt;br /&gt;
a clever but exceedingly wicked chief engineer. interest at the present time, entitled &ldquo;La Renova-&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen and Co. are publishing at tion de l&amp;#039;Asie.&amp;quot; An English translation of this&lt;br /&gt;
once Mr. J. Bloundelle-Burton&amp;#039;s new romance,&lt;br /&gt;
book is to be brought out by Mr. Heinemann. It&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;Servants of Sin,&rdquo; the action of which will be edited, with a preface, by Mr. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
takes place during the regency of the Duke of Norman, of whose &ldquo;Peoples and Politics of the&lt;br /&gt;
Orleans, and during the time of the downfall of Far East&rdquo; Mr. Fisher Unwin is now publishing&lt;br /&gt;
Law&amp;#039;s Mississippi scheme and that of the Great a new edition.&lt;br /&gt;
Plague of Marseilles. The main incidents of this The first number of a new half-a-crown review,&lt;br /&gt;
story are founded upon fact, and many of the edited by Mr. Henry Newbolt, will be published&lt;br /&gt;
characters are, under other names, persons who by Mr. Murray on Sept. 19. The founders &ldquo;wish&lt;br /&gt;
actually existed at the period; while the actual it to take its place among its old competitors in a&lt;br /&gt;
facts themselves were unearthed by Mr. Bloun. modest and orderly manner, believing that neither&lt;br /&gt;
delle-Burton in the libraries of Paris while &amp;#039;pushfulness&amp;#039; nor loud promises are likely to&lt;br /&gt;
engaged in writing a history of the &ldquo; Three attract the readers they desire.&amp;quot; It is to be&lt;br /&gt;
Louis&rdquo; (Louis XIII., XIV., and XV.), on which called the Monthly Review.&lt;br /&gt;
he has for some years been occupied.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frederick A. Cook, who acted as surgeon,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. S. Ellis, who was closely associated anthropologist, and photographer to the &ldquo;Belgica&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
with William Morris, has since the death of his expedition to the Antarctic region, is writing an&lt;br /&gt;
friend been engaged upon a translation of &ldquo;The account of that adventure. It will be published&lt;br /&gt;
Romance of the Rose.&amp;quot; This work will form three by Mr. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
volumes of the Temple Classics, and the first of A cheap issue of Dr. George Macdonald&amp;#039;s novels&lt;br /&gt;
these is just being published by Messrs. Dent. has been begun by Messrs. Kegan Paul.&lt;br /&gt;
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A new book by Mr. F. C. Selous, entitled &ldquo; English Nell,&rdquo; the new pla y by Mr. Anthony&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Sport and Travel, East and West,&rdquo; will be pub- Hope and Mr. Edward Rose-founded on &ldquo; Simon&lt;br /&gt;
lished in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Dale&rdquo;&mdash;was produced at the Prince of Wales&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leslie Stephen&amp;#039;s work &laquo; The English Theatre on Aug. 21. The heroine, as in the&lt;br /&gt;
Utilitarians,&rdquo; will be published in a few days. It Haymarket production referred to above, is Nell&lt;br /&gt;
is in three volumes (Duckworth).&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynne.&lt;br /&gt;
In the July number of The Author a reference&lt;br /&gt;
A play by Mr. T. P. O&amp;#039;Connor, M.P., entitled&lt;br /&gt;
was made to the American novel &ldquo; To Have and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Lost Leader,&rdquo; will be produced shortly at&lt;br /&gt;
to Hold,&rdquo; by Miss Mary Johnston. It should be the Crown Theatre, Peckham. It is founded&lt;br /&gt;
explained, however, that the title this book bears upon incidents in the career of Mr. Parnell. The&lt;br /&gt;
in England is &ldquo; By Order of the Company.&rdquo; The leading part will be played by Mr. Laurence&lt;br /&gt;
former title was used in England by Miss Irving.&lt;br /&gt;
Sarah Stredder, who published a novel entitled In Mr. Cecil Raleigh&amp;#039;s new drama, &ldquo; The Price&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; To Have and to Hold &rdquo; sixteen years ago. of Peace,&rdquo; the opening scene is placed in a ward&lt;br /&gt;
The first long novel that Mr. Louis Becke has of St. Thomas&amp;#039;s Hospital; then the action passes&lt;br /&gt;
written will be published shortly by Mr. Fisher to the Houses of Parliament, and it is under-&lt;br /&gt;
Unwin. It will be called &ldquo; Edward Barry, South stood that the play has a political interest&lt;br /&gt;
Sea Pearler.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
throughout. Mr. Henry Neville and Miss Lettie&lt;br /&gt;
A collection of articles on European sport is Fairfax will take the chief parts, and it is hoped&lt;br /&gt;
being edited by Mr. F. G. Aflalo for publication to produce the play at Drury Lane on Sept. 15.&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Sands in a volume which will be called Mr. Barrie has written a new play, &ldquo; Two&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sport in Europe.&amp;quot; Among the contributors are Kinds of Women,&amp;quot; with which Mr. Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Demidoff, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., and Bourchier will reopen the Garrick Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. A. Baillie Grohman.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Alec Tweedie is leaving shortly for Canada&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson&amp;#039;s new work on the and the United States to pay several visits, and&lt;br /&gt;
living races of mankind is to appear in fortnightly she purposes spending next winter in Mexico in&lt;br /&gt;
parts, beginning immediately. Mr. Hutchinson order to write a new book on that country. Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
has been assisted by Mr. Lvdekker, Mr. J. W. Alec Tweedie&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo;Through Finland in&lt;br /&gt;
Gregory, and other authorities.&lt;br /&gt;
Carts,&rdquo; is just ready in a new edition. An up-to-&lt;br /&gt;
Collectors will be interested to note the prices date political chapter has been added, and a&lt;br /&gt;
realised by Mr. Swinburne&amp;#039;s books in the auction portrait of the author. Finland is of particular&lt;br /&gt;
rooms. The following copies which were sold by interest at the moment, in consequence of the&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sotheby were presented by the author to Tsar&amp;#039;s strange attempt to rob that interesting&lt;br /&gt;
the late Dr. Grosart, and bore inscriptions to that country of the political rights which he himself&lt;br /&gt;
effect :- SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES (1880),&lt;br /&gt;
swore to uphold when he ascended the throne.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5 128. 6d.; MARY STUART (1881), &pound;5 158.; The Russian language is being introduced ;&lt;br /&gt;
TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE (1882), &pound;5 178. 6d.; Finnish newspapers are suppressed ; the stamps&lt;br /&gt;
A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS (1883), 26 128. 6d.; and the currency are in jeopardy. Indeed, Russia,&lt;br /&gt;
MARINO FALIERO (1885), &pound;5 178. 6d. ; LOCRINE in spite of her peace manifesto, is doing her best&lt;br /&gt;
(1887), 26; A STUDY OF BEN JONSON to exterminate the independence of poor Finland.&lt;br /&gt;
(1889), &pound;6 29. 60.; A Tale OF BALEN (1896), It is an interesting struggle.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5 178. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Julia Neilson is just producing at the&lt;br /&gt;
Haymarket (Aug. 30) Mr. Kester&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Sweet Nell&lt;br /&gt;
of Old Drury.&amp;quot; Mr. George Alexander also is&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
now (Sept. 1) producing &ldquo;A Debt of Honour,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s new play.&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
A special matin&eacute;e has been organised by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Penley in aid of Mr. Arthur Pearson&amp;#039;s Fresh Air&lt;br /&gt;
DARTMOOR, by S. Baring Gould (Methuen, 68.), for a.&lt;br /&gt;
Fund for the Poor, and will take place at the&lt;br /&gt;
holiday tourist of some reading and imagination, will be&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo;a most delightful book. Soenic&lt;br /&gt;
Great Queen-street Theatre on Sept. 15. Two&lt;br /&gt;
description, anecdotes racy of the Devonian soil, antiquities,&lt;br /&gt;
new plays by Mr. Edward Jones will be produced are here poured forth with a profusion which Mr. Baring&lt;br /&gt;
on this occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
Gould&amp;#039;s lightness of touch and sense of order prevent&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips&amp;#039;s forthcoming play,&lt;br /&gt;
from being for an instant wearisome.&amp;quot; The Daily Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
says the book &ldquo;is in many respects a model of its sort. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Herod the King,&amp;quot; will follow &ldquo; Julius C&aelig;sar&amp;quot; at&lt;br /&gt;
Baring Gould has lived all his life in the neighbourhood&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
which he describes Dartmoor has been to him, as he says,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;a passion,&amp;#039; and he has indulged that passion in intimacy&lt;br /&gt;
and sympathy.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ESSAYS OF JOHN DRYDEN, selected and edited by W. P.&lt;br /&gt;
Ker (Clarendon Press, 108. 6d.), consists, for the most part,&lt;br /&gt;
of essays which were furnished as prefaces to plays or&lt;br /&gt;
poems. &ldquo;Professor Ker&amp;#039;s introductions,&amp;quot; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle,&amp;quot; have grip and suggestiveness. The notes are&lt;br /&gt;
concise and always to the point.&rdquo; Literature says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Professor Ker has earned the gratitude of all who love&lt;br /&gt;
English literature by collecting and editing these scattered&lt;br /&gt;
prefaces. His part of the work is conspicuously good.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
i There is a bibliography and an index, and in some cases&lt;br /&gt;
various readings are added from later editions which are&lt;br /&gt;
most instructive.&rdquo; &ldquo;Here at last,&rdquo; says the Spectator,&amp;quot; the&lt;br /&gt;
work of Dryden is set forth with learning, taste, and&lt;br /&gt;
restraint.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICA&amp;#039;S WORKING PEOPLE, by Charles B. Spahr&lt;br /&gt;
(Longmans, 5s. net), &ldquo;is an interesting book,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle. &ldquo;Mr. Spahr draws with a firm hand and&lt;br /&gt;
a loving touch, broadly, yet not without detail, the varieties&lt;br /&gt;
of the great Labour class as he has studied them in different&lt;br /&gt;
parts of his own land. He has a passion, all too rare&lt;br /&gt;
amongst economists, for knowing about things as they are ;&lt;br /&gt;
and in his pages we find the old factories and the new,&lt;br /&gt;
the border community, the iron centre, and above all, the&lt;br /&gt;
northern farm, sketched from the life, with other studies of&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary industries and communities, alike vivid and&lt;br /&gt;
instructive.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A SPORTSWOMAN IN INDIA, by Isabel Savory (Hutchin.&lt;br /&gt;
son, 168.) &ldquo;No better written book on Indian sport has&lt;br /&gt;
come our way these ton years,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The romance of the gorgeous Eastern cities,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &ldquo;is told with much picturesqueness, but the&lt;br /&gt;
author is far more at home in the lonely hill.camp or beating&lt;br /&gt;
in the jungle. To anyone who wishes to live for some hours&lt;br /&gt;
in a fascinating world of sport and adventure nothing could&lt;br /&gt;
be better than this gallant and light-hearted book.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
book, says the Guardian, is &amp;quot;simply a record of a most&lt;br /&gt;
enjoyable visit to India by a young lady, full of high spirits&lt;br /&gt;
... and with plenty of sound common sense and &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
temperament that enabled her to think as well as to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is this extremely pleasant volume, for the author,&lt;br /&gt;
as the guest of Sir George Wolseley, had every opportunity&lt;br /&gt;
of seeing the best and brightest aspects of the country.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Many of the personal adventures she records, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph, are &ldquo; worthy of a hardened Nimrod.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE UTTERMOST FARTHING, by P. B. Neuman (Black.&lt;br /&gt;
wood, 68.), &ldquo;is a very clever piece of work,&rdquo; says Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
** The story, though trivial and unimportant, is well put&lt;br /&gt;
together and well told, though the probabilities are not very&lt;br /&gt;
carefully respected.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle calls it &ldquo;clever&lt;br /&gt;
and decidedly original.&rdquo; Medlett and Crofts are two City&lt;br /&gt;
men, apparently good friends, who become bitter enemies&lt;br /&gt;
through the issue of a speculation which ruins one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
The main theme of the story, says the Daily News, &amp;quot; is a&lt;br /&gt;
family fead, its leading sentiment revenge-revenge, how-&lt;br /&gt;
ever, not of the Corsican quality, but the plain English&lt;br /&gt;
middle-class brand.&rdquo; It is &ldquo;a good wholesome story, told&lt;br /&gt;
in a plain onadorned and yet forcible manner.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ON ALIEN SHORES, by Leslie Keith (Hurst and Blackett,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), is described by the Daily Chronicle as &amp;quot;altogether a&lt;br /&gt;
well-studied and interesting story.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is something&lt;br /&gt;
of Datoh fidelity in the author&amp;#039;s painting of the Edinburgh&lt;br /&gt;
home.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is a quietly amusing story,&amp;quot; says the Spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tator, &amp;quot; not too short, written with great care, and, above&lt;br /&gt;
all, with a real power of describing human nature ; and&lt;br /&gt;
people who like these qualities will find this novel more than&lt;br /&gt;
merely readable.&rdquo; &ldquo;The heroine, brought up in luxury in&lt;br /&gt;
Portland Place, and then making the best of her stolen&lt;br /&gt;
marriage with a City clerk, is well-drawn and lifelike.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mis&rsquo;ESS Joy, by John Le Breton (Macqueon, 68.), &ldquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
as steeped in irony,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; as Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hardy&amp;#039;s masterpiece Tess,&amp;#039; though hardly of so intense&lt;br /&gt;
and tragic a cast.&rdquo; &ldquo;The story is a remarkable one, and well&lt;br /&gt;
as Mr. Le Breton has already written, it is by far the best&lt;br /&gt;
work we have had from his pen.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE, by Edith Wharton (Murray,&lt;br /&gt;
28. 6d. net), is &amp;quot;a work of great interest,&amp;quot; says Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The book is a purely introspective study. A man of&lt;br /&gt;
delicate fibre commits a coarse act. He publishes the&lt;br /&gt;
letters-practically the love-letters-of a woman who wrote&lt;br /&gt;
them in utter confidence.&rdquo; &ldquo;The book is chiefly concerned&lt;br /&gt;
with his repentance after his shabby deed has brought him&lt;br /&gt;
all the good things he wanted, and the study in souls,&rdquo; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Spectator, &ldquo;is well and cleverly done. Readers who&lt;br /&gt;
like motives, emotions, and soul-searchings will be much&lt;br /&gt;
interested in the story.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE STRONG ARM, by Robert Barr (Methuen, 6s.), con-&lt;br /&gt;
sists, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; of one longish story and&lt;br /&gt;
several short ones, more or less connected together by a&lt;br /&gt;
continuous thread of interest.&rdquo; &ldquo;There are robber barons&lt;br /&gt;
and outlaws, and intriguing archbishops, and love, and war&lt;br /&gt;
and all sorts of exciting things.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A PRINCE OF SWINDLERS, by Guy Boothby (Ward,&lt;br /&gt;
Lock, and Co., 68.) is a series of stories, linked together by&lt;br /&gt;
the identity of the hero. &ldquo;Mr. Gay Boothby gives us,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Spectator, &amp;quot; the portrait of a magnificent impostor&lt;br /&gt;
who unites the salient points of Messrs. Lecoq, Sherlock&lt;br /&gt;
Holmes, and Charles Peace, the whole seen through a&lt;br /&gt;
powerful magnifying glass.&rdquo; &ldquo;The stories are ingenious if&lt;br /&gt;
not very convincing, and readers who like sensationalism&lt;br /&gt;
and plenty of it will very likely be amused by the book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE CRIMSON WEED, by Christopher St. John (Duck-&lt;br /&gt;
worth, 68.), is, says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot;a study of one of&lt;br /&gt;
those passions that can ruin a lifetime.&amp;quot; Revenge is the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;crimson weed,&rdquo; which takes root in the mind of Luke&lt;br /&gt;
Grey. The book &ldquo;gives evidence of considerable literary&lt;br /&gt;
and dramatic power. The scenes are vividly realised, and&lt;br /&gt;
the characters live, and the story, such as it is, is told with&lt;br /&gt;
no little passion and spirit.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE DESCENT OF THE DUCHESS, by Morley Roberts&lt;br /&gt;
(Sands, 38. 6d.), is &ldquo;&amp;amp; thoronghly admirable piece of&lt;br /&gt;
fooling,&amp;quot; in the opinion of the Daily News. &ldquo;It does not&lt;br /&gt;
palpitate with actuality,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;but&lt;br /&gt;
for the filling up of an hour&amp;#039;s leisure in a shady corner of&lt;br /&gt;
the garden on a hot afternoon it will do extremely well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE DEAN&amp;#039;S APRON, by C. J. Wills and Godfrey&lt;br /&gt;
Burchett (Ward, Lock, and Co., 38. 6d.) is described by the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph as &ldquo;an exceptionally clever story of&lt;br /&gt;
clerical life in a cathedral town, abounding in graphic and&lt;br /&gt;
convincing word-pictures of envious persons and scandal.&lt;br /&gt;
mongers, obviously sketched from life.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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Vol. XI.&mdash;No. 5.]&lt;br /&gt;
OCTOBER 1, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
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Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property-&lt;br /&gt;
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2. The Sixpenny Book ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
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5. Resolutions of the Institute of Journalists&lt;br /&gt;
The Manufacture of a Series&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Letter ...&lt;br /&gt;
Notes and News. By the Editor... ...&lt;br /&gt;
The Coming Season ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
R3 The Seventh International Press Congress&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence-A Query ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Careers Made Easy&lt;br /&gt;
Book and Play Talk...&lt;br /&gt;
86 | Books and Reviews ...&lt;br /&gt;
85&lt;br /&gt;
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(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMAYNIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
il agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. Bat 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;
agree&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 ap 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;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal aathority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con.&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
L 2&lt;br /&gt;
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82&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con.&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Shonld&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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 dramatio con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
aa a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
T Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work whicb&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s 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 the loan of the books 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 the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
I.-A VERY IMPORTANT WARNING.&lt;br /&gt;
A S during the past three months many cases&lt;br /&gt;
have come before the Authors&amp;#039; Society&lt;br /&gt;
wbere a half-profit or other agreement&lt;br /&gt;
has been entered into with a publisher and the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher in the same agreement binds the author&lt;br /&gt;
for the next two books on the same terms, it is&lt;br /&gt;
our duty again to repeat that both these clauses&lt;br /&gt;
are disastrous, the latter especially so. In many&lt;br /&gt;
cases accounts have been brought in showing&lt;br /&gt;
a sale of 2000 copies or thereabouts, with a return&lt;br /&gt;
to the author on &ldquo;half profits &rdquo; of perhaps &pound;5!&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
.: 83&lt;br /&gt;
Two more books on the same terms would be the sale of the sixpenny book is simply ruining&lt;br /&gt;
quite sufficient to break any person who is striving the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
to live by writing. It is only hoped that those 6. The author on a royalty of id., which is&lt;br /&gt;
houses especially given to this kind of contract&lt;br /&gt;
much larger than is generally offered,&lt;br /&gt;
may be the first to become bankrupt.&lt;br /&gt;
cannot expect more than &pound;156 for 50,000&lt;br /&gt;
copies. On a 20 per cent. royalty for the&lt;br /&gt;
same book at the nominal price of 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;THE SIXPENNY Book.&lt;br /&gt;
he would have &pound;60 for every thousand&lt;br /&gt;
I have now been able to ascertain the figures&lt;br /&gt;
copies, or for 2500, &pound;150. So that unless&lt;br /&gt;
respecting the production of the sixpenny book.&lt;br /&gt;
twenty copies are taken at 6d. to one at&lt;br /&gt;
From estimates before me&mdash;those of a printing&lt;br /&gt;
68., the author will be a loser.&lt;br /&gt;
firm of old standing&mdash;I learn that the cost of an&lt;br /&gt;
7. There are now a great many sixpenny books&lt;br /&gt;
average sixpenny book of 16opp. may be computed&lt;br /&gt;
on the market : and they are increasing&lt;br /&gt;
at 1 d. a copy for an edition of 50,000 copies&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
rather than diminishing. Publishers, in&lt;br /&gt;
i.e., about &pound;340. This does not include advertis-&lt;br /&gt;
fact, seem vying with each other in the&lt;br /&gt;
ing. These copies are sold to the retail bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
madness of the sixpenny book.&lt;br /&gt;
at 3 d. each, and to the wholesale bookseller at 8. The dangers resulting from this misplaced&lt;br /&gt;
3d. The latter price, however, is by far the more&lt;br /&gt;
cheapness are briefly these :-&lt;br /&gt;
important, and may be taken as the average. (a) So long as books are on the stall or&lt;br /&gt;
The cbarge to the public is 4 d. at places where&lt;br /&gt;
counter which can be bought for 6d.,&lt;br /&gt;
discount is allowed, and 6d. at other places.&lt;br /&gt;
the general public will not look at a book&lt;br /&gt;
From these figures we get the following&lt;br /&gt;
priced more highly.&lt;br /&gt;
facts :-&lt;br /&gt;
It has been urged that a new public is&lt;br /&gt;
1. The publisher, in order to clear his bare&lt;br /&gt;
approached with the sixpenny book.&lt;br /&gt;
costs, must get rid of 27,200 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
This is perhaps true, but it includes and&lt;br /&gt;
2. If he has to pay the author a royalty, these&lt;br /&gt;
swamps the old book-buying public.&lt;br /&gt;
figures must be materially altered. Thus,&lt;br /&gt;
The public are induced to believe that&lt;br /&gt;
if the author gets id.-sometimes he is&lt;br /&gt;
6d. is the just and proper price of a&lt;br /&gt;
offered a simple farthing !&mdash;the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
book of any kind. This evil, which so&lt;br /&gt;
must get rid of more than 36,000 copies&lt;br /&gt;
largely contributed to the International&lt;br /&gt;
in order to clear these bare costs.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act in the United States, has&lt;br /&gt;
3. He is then left with 13,720 copies. On the&lt;br /&gt;
already begun in this country. It will&lt;br /&gt;
whole, if he clears off the complete edition,&lt;br /&gt;
of necessity produce the same effects&lt;br /&gt;
he makes the sum of &pound;128, out of which&lt;br /&gt;
here as were complained of there&mdash;viz.,&lt;br /&gt;
he has to pay for such advertising as he&lt;br /&gt;
the impossibility of the author making a&lt;br /&gt;
thinks necessary, and his office expenses,&lt;br /&gt;
livelihood by his work. Now, for imagi.&lt;br /&gt;
travellers, clerks, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
native work it is most important that&lt;br /&gt;
4. Most of the books offered at 6d. belong to&lt;br /&gt;
the author should be independent and&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher, and are not loaded with any&lt;br /&gt;
should be able to live in a certain amount&lt;br /&gt;
royalty. In that case, the sale of the com.&lt;br /&gt;
of ease.&lt;br /&gt;
plete edition would produce about &pound;285,&lt;br /&gt;
The people cease to prize what they can&lt;br /&gt;
subject to the above deductions. The&lt;br /&gt;
get for nothing. They have to pay a&lt;br /&gt;
question then arises whether, for the sake&lt;br /&gt;
shilling for a seat in the gallery of a&lt;br /&gt;
of this profit, it is worth while to lose the&lt;br /&gt;
theatre: if they can get the finest work&lt;br /&gt;
sale of the more highly-priced works.&lt;br /&gt;
of contemporary fiction for 6d., which&lt;br /&gt;
5. The bookseller, on the other hand, sells the&lt;br /&gt;
will they value the more highly, an&lt;br /&gt;
book at 4 d., and gets a profit of one&lt;br /&gt;
evening at the play or a novel by &mdash; ?&lt;br /&gt;
penny.&lt;br /&gt;
They imbibe a contempt for literature&lt;br /&gt;
A London bookseller of importance computes&lt;br /&gt;
as a thing which by those who produce&lt;br /&gt;
that he disposes of the sixpenny book at the rate&lt;br /&gt;
it is considered of no value.&lt;br /&gt;
of 500 copies a week. That is to say, he realises&lt;br /&gt;
The bookseller, already on the verge of&lt;br /&gt;
a profit of a little over &pound;2 a week, which does not&lt;br /&gt;
ruin, is driven down still lower.&lt;br /&gt;
even cover his rent. It is not likely that many 9) The author of the sixpenny book suffers,&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers get through a greater number every&lt;br /&gt;
as we have seen, but the author of the&lt;br /&gt;
week.&lt;br /&gt;
6s. book is in imminent danger of&lt;br /&gt;
Another bookseller reports that no one will look&lt;br /&gt;
extinction.&lt;br /&gt;
at any other book so long as the sixpenny book It seems as if the rational method of procedure&lt;br /&gt;
can be obtained. It is obvious, therefore, that would be to reserve for the sixpenny editions&lt;br /&gt;
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84&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
only those books which have stood the test of of Canada to legislate for itself in such a manner&lt;br /&gt;
time, and have become popular works. It may as to override the Imperial Act; but fortunately&lt;br /&gt;
then be presumed that the earlier edition is in the no Canadian legislation upon these lines ever&lt;br /&gt;
hands of all who can afford to give the higher obtained the Royal Assent.&lt;br /&gt;
price, while the cheap edition appeals to the wide In 1895, when the discussion was very acute,&lt;br /&gt;
class of those who cannot afford to give so much. the Society of Authors, whose sense of responsi-&lt;br /&gt;
It would be still more rational if the lowest bility as to the question had been constant and&lt;br /&gt;
price of the popular book were to be one shilling. sincere, considered what further steps should be&lt;br /&gt;
Would it not be possible for the author to taken to put forward clearly the case of Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
guard against the danger, in his own interests as copyright. Mr. Hall Caine was at that time&lt;br /&gt;
well as those of other writers, of booksellers, about to leave England on a tour in America, and&lt;br /&gt;
and the general public, by inserting a clause in the committee of the Society gladly accepted his&lt;br /&gt;
his agreements forbidding the sixpenny edition services as a delegate of the Society during his&lt;br /&gt;
except with the consent of the author himself or visit to Canada. Mr. Hall Caine rendered mate-&lt;br /&gt;
his agent ?&lt;br /&gt;
W.B. rial help to the cause in which the Society was&lt;br /&gt;
---&lt;br /&gt;
interested, and received the committee&amp;#039;s cordial&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledgment of his zealous and valuable aid.&lt;br /&gt;
III.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not, however, necessary now to enter into&lt;br /&gt;
(Reprinted by kind permission from the Times of Aug. 31.) the details of his negotiations, since the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
The question of Canadian copyright, which has question entered on a fresh phase with Sir John&lt;br /&gt;
been the stumbling-block to copyright legislation Thompson&amp;#039;s death. A new Government suc-&lt;br /&gt;
and to copyright reform for the past thirty ceeded, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier became Premier&lt;br /&gt;
years, seems now to be within reasonable distance of Canada.&lt;br /&gt;
of settlement. This desirable situation is largely In the beginning of 1898, Mr. Gilbert Parker,&lt;br /&gt;
owing to the constant attention and labour of the a member of the committee of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Incorporated Society of Authors. In 1875 the Authors, learnt that the question of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Government brought in a Copyright was again likely to be brought forward; and the&lt;br /&gt;
Bill for Canada which obtained the Royal Society of Authors at once drew up a statement&lt;br /&gt;
Assent, but this Act was unsatisfactory to the as to the course which copyright legislation&lt;br /&gt;
Canadians, as, though it was considered that it should take according to their opinion for the&lt;br /&gt;
would override the Imperial Act, their courts benefit of all authors of the Empire. In the&lt;br /&gt;
decided in Smiles v. Belford that this view of summer of that year, when certain Canadian&lt;br /&gt;
the law could not stand. In 1886 the Imperial Ministers were in England, the secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament removed another colonial difficulty by Society had a long interview with them at Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
giving copyright to a book wherever published Parker&amp;#039;s house. It was then thought well that&lt;br /&gt;
within the British Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
the Society should send over a delegate to Canada&lt;br /&gt;
Still, for various reasons which it is unnecessary to put forward their views. The secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
to enumerate here, the Canadians were discon. Society was appointed to fill the post. Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
tented ; and, in the early nineties, soon after the legislation was, however, postponed in Canada ior&lt;br /&gt;
passing of the American Act, Sir John Thompson, the moment; but in the autumn of the following&lt;br /&gt;
thinking, no doubt, that the Canadian trades had year-1899&mdash;at the expense of the Society, the&lt;br /&gt;
been injured by this Act, issued a report which secretary sailed for Canada. Mr. Gilbert Parker,&lt;br /&gt;
was based on a desire to stimulate the trade of who had taken so inuch interest in the matter,&lt;br /&gt;
the printers and publishers in Canada to the was in Canada at the same time, and had informed&lt;br /&gt;
disadvantage of Canadian authors and tbeir the Society of Authors that he would give his&lt;br /&gt;
property, as well as of British authors and their best assistance to the secretary in order to help&lt;br /&gt;
property. The Authors&amp;#039; Society did not find it him to carry through this important question.&lt;br /&gt;
possible to support this report, thinking it The secretary had the honour to interview the&lt;br /&gt;
antagonistic to the proper evolution of copyright Premier and other members of the Canadian&lt;br /&gt;
law. The Society based their opinion on the fact Government who were especially concerned with&lt;br /&gt;
that an author&amp;#039;s work is his own property, and the question of copyright legislation; and he was&lt;br /&gt;
should not be hampered by any trade considera assured not only that the Government was&lt;br /&gt;
tion the effect of which was to deprive the author sympathetic towards the views put forward by&lt;br /&gt;
of his legitimate profits.&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, but also that the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
During the next few years Sir John Thompson printing clause and the licensing methods which&lt;br /&gt;
carried on the agitation very keenly. It would had been put forward on previous occasions would&lt;br /&gt;
appear that he was concerned to raise a Consti- be practically laid aside. After discussing this&lt;br /&gt;
tutional and Imperial question as to the rights difficult question with all those in Canada who&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 85 (#119) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us go on to the book of which 3000 at least&lt;br /&gt;
are printed. The cost of this edition, including&lt;br /&gt;
advertising, may be set down at about &pound;150.&lt;br /&gt;
The average price being 38. 7d., we have the&lt;br /&gt;
following results if the whole edition is sold out:&lt;br /&gt;
On a royalty, per cent. ... | 10 15 20 25 30 35&lt;br /&gt;
were chiefly concerned, and after obtaining the&lt;br /&gt;
support of the Canadian Society of Authors, then&lt;br /&gt;
in its infancy, the secretary returned to London&lt;br /&gt;
with the promise that, if possible, the Canadians&lt;br /&gt;
would legislate on the lines suggested.&lt;br /&gt;
At the beginning of this year a Bill was&lt;br /&gt;
brought forward by the Minister of Agriculture,&lt;br /&gt;
within whose department copyright business lies,&lt;br /&gt;
giving to the Canadian publisher complete secu-&lt;br /&gt;
rity where he had contracted with the author for&lt;br /&gt;
the exclusive right of publication in Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
without burdening the author with any trade&lt;br /&gt;
restrictions. This Bill received the assent of the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Parliament in July, and practically&lt;br /&gt;
closes in a satisfactory way to all those concerned&lt;br /&gt;
this very difficult and troublesome, but important,&lt;br /&gt;
question.&lt;br /&gt;
There is only one thing left to be the crowning&lt;br /&gt;
point of the work of the Society in this direction&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;that is, the passing of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copy.&lt;br /&gt;
right Bill in the next Session. The Bill embodies&lt;br /&gt;
the terms of the Canadian Act just passed, and&lt;br /&gt;
if it becomes law will practically confirm the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian legislation on this question.&lt;br /&gt;
Author.............................. | 90 135 180 225 270315&lt;br /&gt;
Pablisher ....&lt;br /&gt;
297 | 252 | 207 162 117 72&lt;br /&gt;
But the net system is being introduced. The&lt;br /&gt;
public will before long find out that this means&lt;br /&gt;
taking more money out of their pockets; and&lt;br /&gt;
taking more money, out of their pocke&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers will find out, sooner or later, that&lt;br /&gt;
they cannot become slaves and clerks to pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers. Meantime, if the 6s. book is to be sold&lt;br /&gt;
at 58. net, the trade price is 38. rod. Now, let us&lt;br /&gt;
see what royalties mean on this scale, taking as&lt;br /&gt;
before an edition of 3000.&lt;br /&gt;
On a royalty per cent. 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 |&lt;br /&gt;
The author will receive 75 112 150 187 225 262 300&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher&lt;br /&gt;
1350 1313 275/238 200 | 163 125&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-THE MEANING OF ROYALTIES. * Royalties must not be counted 13 as 12.&lt;br /&gt;
It is now some three years since the meaning&lt;br /&gt;
The author must be very careful, therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
of Royalties was set forth in these pages. It is&lt;br /&gt;
understand that under a net system royalties&lt;br /&gt;
now time to repeat, with some amendments and&lt;br /&gt;
mean figures very different from those where&lt;br /&gt;
discount prevails. Part of the eagerness with&lt;br /&gt;
corrections.&lt;br /&gt;
We take, as usual, the 68. book&mdash;not necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
which some publishers want to extend the net&lt;br /&gt;
a novel,&lt;br /&gt;
system is due to the ignorance of authors as to&lt;br /&gt;
First, an edition of 1000 copies-10 sheets of&lt;br /&gt;
the meaning of royalties.&lt;br /&gt;
32pp. each, about 30 lines or 280 words to a&lt;br /&gt;
But, it will be argued, the whole edition of&lt;br /&gt;
page, small pica type&mdash; costs about &pound;60, with such&lt;br /&gt;
3000 copies may not be sold out. What would&lt;br /&gt;
small advertising as an edition of this number&lt;br /&gt;
happen then?&lt;br /&gt;
can bear, about $70 at the outset.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us take two cases&mdash;one in which 2000&lt;br /&gt;
The price to the trade averages 38. 9 d., to the&lt;br /&gt;
copies are sold and one in which 2500 copies are&lt;br /&gt;
distributors about 28. sd. The average is about sold. In both cases a certain amount of binding&lt;br /&gt;
38. 7d., in some cases perhaps 38.6d. We 18 saved-say, &pound;10 and 5 respectively.&lt;br /&gt;
formerly took it at 38. 7d.&lt;br /&gt;
Then for a sale of 2000 copies we have:&lt;br /&gt;
Every edition gives, on the estimate stated at&lt;br /&gt;
the Congress of Publishers, &ldquo;overs&rdquo; at the rate of On a royalty per cent. | 10 | 15 | 20&lt;br /&gt;
10 15 20 25 30 35 40&lt;br /&gt;
2 per cent., i.e., so many copies not used in making&lt;br /&gt;
up deficiencies. We may deduct forty copies for The author receives ..50&lt;br /&gt;
Press, which leaves 980, and we will suppose that Tbe publisher receives 193 168&lt;br /&gt;
the book is one of the half successes which sells&lt;br /&gt;
these 980 copies and no more. The publisher&lt;br /&gt;
On a sale of 2500 :&lt;br /&gt;
therefore pays &pound;70 for 980 copies, which are sold&lt;br /&gt;
at 38 7d., producing say &pound;175. If he gives the&lt;br /&gt;
On a royalty per cont. 10 15 20 25&lt;br /&gt;
author a shilling royalty the latter makes &pound;49&lt;br /&gt;
and the publisher &pound;56. If he gives the author The author receives ... 62 91 124 186&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;20 down and a royalty of a shilling to begin&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher receives / 272 243 216|179&lt;br /&gt;
179 148&lt;br /&gt;
after 600 are sold, he gets a little more and the&lt;br /&gt;
author a little less. It would hardly be worth&lt;br /&gt;
while to consider this class of book, but for the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that there are so many of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 86 (#120) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
86&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;THE INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.&lt;br /&gt;
At the annual conference of this Institute, held&lt;br /&gt;
in London under the presidency of Sir James&lt;br /&gt;
Henderson, the following were among the resolu.&lt;br /&gt;
tions adopted :&lt;br /&gt;
That the Copyright Bill recently before Parliament was&lt;br /&gt;
ansatisfactory, inasmuch as clause 12, in attempting to&lt;br /&gt;
institute copyright in news, gives no protection to the&lt;br /&gt;
individual journalist who supplies news, but only to the&lt;br /&gt;
nowspaper proprietor or the news agency which publishes&lt;br /&gt;
it, and fails to show how nows wbich has become common&lt;br /&gt;
property (as it does on publication) can be made the basis&lt;br /&gt;
of an action without andae restraint of journalistic enter.&lt;br /&gt;
prise and freedom; and this conference is of opinion that&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; clause which more strictly defines the right of a reporter&lt;br /&gt;
or contributor in the literary form of bis report or com.&lt;br /&gt;
munication, will be of more value to the working journalist&lt;br /&gt;
than any attempt to create copyright in nows qua news.&lt;br /&gt;
That editors be discouraged from inviting oontribations&lt;br /&gt;
to their journals from persons of wealth and position, thus&lt;br /&gt;
depriving of valuable space those who are journalists by&lt;br /&gt;
profession, and who have no means of living except by their&lt;br /&gt;
profession.&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
THE MANUFACTURE OF A SERIES.&lt;br /&gt;
HE following printed letters are taken from&lt;br /&gt;
the Athen&aelig;um of Aug. 4, 1900:-&lt;br /&gt;
THE MANUFACTURE OF A SERIES.&lt;br /&gt;
The following correspondence is interesting as throwing&lt;br /&gt;
an ugly light on the way in which a series may be manu.&lt;br /&gt;
factured. A well-known author writes to us :&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Some time ago I got an offer to write a book for a small&lt;br /&gt;
sum down (I forget how much-say &pound;50), and then, after&lt;br /&gt;
the sale of 5000 copies, to receive &pound;1 per 1000 copies as&lt;br /&gt;
royalty. I scoated the proposal, as one of the many tentative&lt;br /&gt;
ones I have had, to see how many innocent or vain men of&lt;br /&gt;
letters could be enticed to work for nothing, and I said so.&lt;br /&gt;
After some months the following correspondence ensued,&lt;br /&gt;
which I think bighly instructive, and perbaps worth pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing (1) in order to warn simple people, (2) in order to&lt;br /&gt;
test whether my inclosed letter, sent back to me as very&lt;br /&gt;
improper, is indeed so objeotionable a document:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;&amp;#039; DEAR SIR, -You may remember that some months ago&lt;br /&gt;
I wrote inviting you to contribute to &amp;amp; series of -&lt;br /&gt;
Manuals. Mesers. have been distressed to find what&lt;br /&gt;
had not been brought to their notice, that, besides the sum&lt;br /&gt;
offered for the work, a royalty so small as &pound;i per thousand&lt;br /&gt;
after the sale of 5000 copies was proposed. This was, I can&lt;br /&gt;
gay, a remnant of the smaller form in which the scheme was&lt;br /&gt;
started. I feel it only due to them to stato, even at this late&lt;br /&gt;
date, that upon discovery of the error thoy at once autho-&lt;br /&gt;
rised me to saggest a royalty much more adequate for a&lt;br /&gt;
book reaching a sale of 5000 copies.-Regretting the acoi.&lt;br /&gt;
dental oversight, I am yours faithfully, i&lt;br /&gt;
&laquo;&bull; DEAR SIR,-I am obliged for your further note, and&lt;br /&gt;
hope that as Messrs. &mdash; have recognised the great&lt;br /&gt;
inadequacy of the offer originally made for them, you have&lt;br /&gt;
acquainted such authors as were induced to acquiesce therein&lt;br /&gt;
Otherwise these poor people will be the&lt;br /&gt;
victims of a serious mistake.--I am, yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
who declined or were unable to contribute. The sum&lt;br /&gt;
offered, down, for the work was approved by the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
But the royalty to be paid after the sale of 5000 copies bad&lt;br /&gt;
been overlooked by their literary adviser, and not been&lt;br /&gt;
brought before their notice until after some of the proposals&lt;br /&gt;
had been made. The pound per thousand was a remnant of&lt;br /&gt;
the suheme when it was intended to issue the books at 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
For similar books at that price (sold at 4&pound;d.) - ased&lt;br /&gt;
to give that royalty with less money down. When it was&lt;br /&gt;
decided that the price should be a shilling, this matter was&lt;br /&gt;
overlooked not through my mistake or the publishers&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
They were distressed [!] when they found that a farthing a&lt;br /&gt;
copy after a book bad proved itself successful bad been&lt;br /&gt;
offered. I spontaneously proposed to write to all and&lt;br /&gt;
pravent misapprehension. I have taken trouble to make the&lt;br /&gt;
whole case plain to you. I have received several replies ;&lt;br /&gt;
none, like yours, gratuitously anxious about my &ldquo;poor&lt;br /&gt;
victims.&rdquo; That you should have oriticised the terms as to&lt;br /&gt;
royalty was only proper. But as to the tone and taste of&lt;br /&gt;
your last letter-dear, dear! I hope you may wish to put&lt;br /&gt;
it in your own fire! All the same, although I have secured&lt;br /&gt;
some good writers of note, I could have wished that you&lt;br /&gt;
had seen your way to contribate, and that the probable&lt;br /&gt;
returns on a shilling book had justified the offer of a more&lt;br /&gt;
tempting sum.-I am, yours faithfully, - -&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
The correspondence is exceedingly interesting&lt;br /&gt;
to all technical writers, men of science, medicine,&lt;br /&gt;
theology, &amp;amp;c., and points clearly to the fact that&lt;br /&gt;
the same methods are still being pursued upon&lt;br /&gt;
wbich the Society of Authors has from time&lt;br /&gt;
to time thrown strong light-methods which,&lt;br /&gt;
entirely satisfactory to the publisher, afford to&lt;br /&gt;
the author but a small return for what must be&lt;br /&gt;
the result of a long study. The reason why these&lt;br /&gt;
methods are still-pursued and are still successful&lt;br /&gt;
lies chiefly in the fact that the authors entrapped&lt;br /&gt;
are not in the first instance authors that live by&lt;br /&gt;
their pen, but those who, giving a constant and&lt;br /&gt;
laborious study to one of the learned professions&lt;br /&gt;
or sciences, desire from time to time to proclaim&lt;br /&gt;
those studies to the public. With the very best&lt;br /&gt;
intentions, therefore, they are constantly under-&lt;br /&gt;
selling not only writers in their own profession,&lt;br /&gt;
but in the profession of letters generally. In a&lt;br /&gt;
small pamphlet issued by the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
and circulated largely among educational writers,&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with the publication of educational works,&lt;br /&gt;
the subject of the sort of agreements that are&lt;br /&gt;
offered by publishers has been fully dealt with,&lt;br /&gt;
and it would be as well to reprint part of that&lt;br /&gt;
statement here.&lt;br /&gt;
The agreement, it will be noticed, quoted in the&lt;br /&gt;
first paragraph, bas some remarkable features in&lt;br /&gt;
common with the agreement in the correspond-&lt;br /&gt;
ence. The fact, however, need not necessarily be&lt;br /&gt;
deduced that both agreements emanated from the&lt;br /&gt;
same publishing house.&lt;br /&gt;
DEFERRED ROYALTY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The worst feature that one observes is the deferred&lt;br /&gt;
royalty. Tbe author is induced by the bribe of a small&lt;br /&gt;
sum, generally &pound;25, to accept an agreement by which he&lt;br /&gt;
actually gives tbe publisher many thousand-say, soven to&lt;br /&gt;
ument:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;DEAR SIR,--My recent note needed no acknowledg.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, but your reply requires a word of notice. Your kind&lt;br /&gt;
hope that I acquainted contributors with the improved terms&lt;br /&gt;
is justified. I did so at once before writing to those&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 87 (#121) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
87&lt;br /&gt;
ten-copies for himself, should the book succeed! After , Or the book might be transferred to some other house&lt;br /&gt;
this the author is to have 10. or perhaps 15 per cent. Let where it would conflict with another book on the same&lt;br /&gt;
us, remembering that even with books actually carrying subject. Such transfers are not unknown.&lt;br /&gt;
great risk the publishers never used to venture on asking Or the publishers might resolve not to re-edit the book in&lt;br /&gt;
for more than half profits, consider what this means.&lt;br /&gt;
favour of a new one which might sell better.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of these works are small books, published at 28. or&lt;br /&gt;
half-a-crown. It must be a very expensive little book that,&lt;br /&gt;
Right OF AUTHOR TO RE-EDIT.&lt;br /&gt;
offered at 28. 6d., would cost more than 6d. to produce in a 13. One additional proviso should be added to the present&lt;br /&gt;
large edition of 6000, including advertising. This means notes. In a case where the author sells his copyright, a&lt;br /&gt;
an apparent risk of &pound;75. As for the cost of advertising, system of which the Society gravely doubts the expediency,&lt;br /&gt;
the sum of &pound;10 spent in advertising means no more than but which perhaps for some reason the author might desire&lt;br /&gt;
kd. a volume for an edition of 6000. As educational books to adopt, it is absolutely essential that the author should&lt;br /&gt;
are published, the publisher gets about 18. 3d. a copy, or bind the pablisher, in caso a fresh edition is wanted, to give&lt;br /&gt;
gd. a copy profit, taking, of course, an average book of the him the option to re-edit upon a fixed notice. The following&lt;br /&gt;
size and price ander consideration. So that in, say, 6000 clause appears in a publisher&amp;#039;s agreement where he has pur-&lt;br /&gt;
copies he gains &pound;250, less what he advanced the author, chased the copyright:&lt;br /&gt;
say &pound;25. In fact, this agreement says, practically, to the &ldquo; &ldquo; The said author, in consideration of the payments and&lt;br /&gt;
author : &ldquo; Yours is the book : it is your property, your royalties reserved to him ander this agreement, undertakes,&lt;br /&gt;
estate: if I administer it I must have for the first 6000 as occasion may require, to edit new editions of the said&lt;br /&gt;
copies nine times your share. Afterwards, at a 10 per work, and supply any new matter that may be necessary to&lt;br /&gt;
cent. royalty, I am to have three times your share.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
bring the information contained in the work up to date.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
What is the way to put an end to the acceptance of This is very clumsily expressed. The author, so far as&lt;br /&gt;
these one-sided terms ? The first thing is to pour a flood&lt;br /&gt;
the words go, binds himself to re-edit, but the publisher, on&lt;br /&gt;
of light upon the situation, so that everyone shall clearly the other hand, does not bind himself to ask the author to&lt;br /&gt;
understand it. Afterwards to refuse the agreement on sach&lt;br /&gt;
do so. If this be the proper construction of the clause, the&lt;br /&gt;
terms, and to take the book elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
author might find himself in the position of having his book&lt;br /&gt;
ro-edited by an incompetent hand with no redress.&lt;br /&gt;
AMOUNT OF ROYALTIES.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Ten per cent. aged to be considered a very fair royalty. [The above paragraphs are irregularly numbered&lt;br /&gt;
This means, however, that with a large sale the publisher owing to the fact that the least important have&lt;br /&gt;
generally gets about three times what he gives the author! been cut out owing to pressure of space.]&lt;br /&gt;
SMALL Sums PAID TO GREAT SCHOLARS.&lt;br /&gt;
Though these warnings still hold good, and&lt;br /&gt;
4. There is a certain series of books, all of which have&lt;br /&gt;
should be carefully considered by all those to&lt;br /&gt;
run into many thousands of copies. It will hardly be whom the publishers are making offers, yet it is&lt;br /&gt;
believed that the publishers have actually offered one of our not these warnings which are especially the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest living scholars &pound;35 and &pound;40 respectively for the subject of this paper, but the methods publishers&lt;br /&gt;
preparation and editing of two books in this series !&lt;br /&gt;
employ to inveigle an author to write for these&lt;br /&gt;
BINDING CLAUSES.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;scientific or educational series, and No. 4 of the&lt;br /&gt;
7. The author frequently contracts not to write another &amp;quot;paragraphs printed above is the first step the&lt;br /&gt;
book on the subject. We never find, however, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
publisher generally adopts. He offers a price up&lt;br /&gt;
entering into a similar contract not to publish another book&lt;br /&gt;
to, say, &pound;50 to the best known authority on one of&lt;br /&gt;
on the subject. It is essential that either both or neither of&lt;br /&gt;
the parties to the contraot should be bound by such a&lt;br /&gt;
the subjects of the special series which he is&lt;br /&gt;
stipulation.&lt;br /&gt;
about to produce, for choice selecting an indivi.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;ODD COPIES.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
dual who is known to the world rather as a&lt;br /&gt;
9. In one case a publisher so far presumed upon the student than as a writer. The person with whom&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of his author as to insert a clause stating that for&lt;br /&gt;
he corresponds, sometimes forgetful that the book&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; odd copies&amp;quot; no royalty should be granted ! In other&lt;br /&gt;
words, if a bookseller ordered single copies of the work, the&lt;br /&gt;
he is asked to write is the result of years of&lt;br /&gt;
aathor was to have nothing. Res ipsa loquitur.&lt;br /&gt;
research and labour, only for the moment con.&lt;br /&gt;
scious that he has the knowledge at his finger&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; 13 AS 12.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ends, and that the only labour to him is the&lt;br /&gt;
10. In some agreements the royalties have to be&lt;br /&gt;
labour of putting it down on paper, at all times&lt;br /&gt;
paid on the sale of &ldquo;13 as 12.&rdquo; This means knocking&lt;br /&gt;
entirely ignorant of the fair market price of his&lt;br /&gt;
off 8 per cent. from the author&amp;#039;s profits, and as the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher does not sell thirteen copies as twelve except in work and the profits it will bring, accepts the&lt;br /&gt;
special cases where a batch is ordered, be must not account proposition without a murmur. The publisher&lt;br /&gt;
at this rate as if the practice were universal.&lt;br /&gt;
is generally aware that this will be the case, but&lt;br /&gt;
SALE OF COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
on occasions the specialist may demur to the&lt;br /&gt;
12. Perhaps the most unfair clause of these agreements is&lt;br /&gt;
terms. He then tries someone else who has an&lt;br /&gt;
that which assigns the copyrights of the book to the pub. equally large knowledge of one of the other&lt;br /&gt;
lisher. The dangers behind this clause are unbounded. subjects which goes to compose the series until at&lt;br /&gt;
Above all things, an educational writer must keep the last a contract is settled. The matter. however.&lt;br /&gt;
control of now editions. This he cannot do if the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
is in the hands of his publisher, nor can he prevent addi.&lt;br /&gt;
is generally settled at the first offer.&lt;br /&gt;
tions, alterations, and omissions to the book except by&lt;br /&gt;
To all those who are constantly writing either&lt;br /&gt;
expensive lawsuits, which may, after all, go against him. on technical subjects or general literary matter&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 88 (#122) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
88&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
there is considerable experience as to the prices biographer who is writing in order that his&lt;br /&gt;
that should be demanded and are readily paid friend&amp;#039;s memory may live. There is the philosopher&lt;br /&gt;
by publishers, and the gentleman whose name who wishes to embody the thoughts of a lifetime in&lt;br /&gt;
starts the series would be the last, if the matter one volume. There are others of the same kind&lt;br /&gt;
was put before him, to crush down or undersell too numerous to mention.&lt;br /&gt;
his own profession, but this result unfortunately In many cases the publisher goes to these dis-&lt;br /&gt;
happens owing to his ignorance of the current tinguished people and makes them an offer, and&lt;br /&gt;
price.&lt;br /&gt;
the contract is signed before they can take advice,&lt;br /&gt;
The next step in the publisher&amp;#039;s tactics is to or if they take advice, they take the advice of&lt;br /&gt;
draw up a prospectus and to issue a circular. those who themselves know nothing of the&lt;br /&gt;
This he sends round to the other well-known matter.&lt;br /&gt;
students and writers of the different professions, There are some of these distinguished people&lt;br /&gt;
or the different branches of study with which he who go direct to the publisher. In this case they&lt;br /&gt;
is concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
are to a large extent at the mercy of the house&lt;br /&gt;
Very often these are men who are writers with which they are dealing, but in all cases a&lt;br /&gt;
rather than students, to the same degree as the man who writes a single book falls an easy prey&lt;br /&gt;
leader of the series who is already bound was and gets absolutely inadequate terms. Many of&lt;br /&gt;
student rather than writer.&lt;br /&gt;
these books of memoirs go into numerous editions,&lt;br /&gt;
In consequence, he is often met with a remon- and are, even under disadvantageous terms, a pro-&lt;br /&gt;
strance at the miserable terms offered and the perty to the author; only by some stray chance&lt;br /&gt;
unsatisfactory agreement proposed. The reply his eyes are opened to the fact that with a reason-&lt;br /&gt;
of the publisher is ready at once. Mr. --, or able contract he might have obtained at least&lt;br /&gt;
Lord &mdash; , or Professor , has consented to three times as much as the amount he has&lt;br /&gt;
open the series on an agreement similar to the received&lt;br /&gt;
one offered, and if these gentlemen can write on It is more difficult for the Society and the&lt;br /&gt;
these terms, surely the objector cannot think of Society&amp;#039;s work to reach the author of the one book&lt;br /&gt;
asking terms higher than those who with so large than it is to reach the writer in a series, for in a&lt;br /&gt;
a reputation have already given their consent. series it often happens that inter-correspondence&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, the publisher succeeds in getting his takes place, whereas in the other case the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
series completed on a set of contracts highly position is isolated.&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory to himself, but of poor value to the&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. Thring.&lt;br /&gt;
author. T&amp;#039;he publisher is not to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
He trades on the credulity of writers to the&lt;br /&gt;
14-&lt;br /&gt;
same extent as other traders do in dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
their customers, but he has one larger factor in&lt;br /&gt;
his favour-namely, the ignorance of authors.&lt;br /&gt;
To avoid, if possible, the occurrence of the&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
same tactics, the Society of Authors has from INTERNATIONAL congresses are still a&lt;br /&gt;
time to time printed statements analogous to the favourite feature of the great Exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;
statements placed here. It is only by spreading&lt;br /&gt;
They arouse little enthusiasm here, and&lt;br /&gt;
such statements widely that the difficulty can be appear comparatively barren of result. The&lt;br /&gt;
avoided, and it is hoped that every writer before Academical Congress-one of the most important&lt;br /&gt;
whom this paper falls will endeavour to commu- of the series, to which delegates from all the prin-&lt;br /&gt;
nicate it to those other members of his profession cipal European universities were invited-was&lt;br /&gt;
who are in ignorance of its substance.&lt;br /&gt;
not particularly brilliant. The Fourth Inter-&lt;br /&gt;
As a corollary to this it would be as well to national Psychological Congress awoke more inte.&lt;br /&gt;
put forward the case of those writers also who rest. It was presided over by M. Ribot, member&lt;br /&gt;
for some reason are writers of one book only. of the French Institute and author of the famous&lt;br /&gt;
There are hundreds of writers who come within &ldquo;Maladies de la M&eacute;moire,&rdquo; &ldquo;Psychologie des&lt;br /&gt;
this category, and nearly all of them fall into Emotions,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c. M. Charles Richet, of the Revue&lt;br /&gt;
the same trap.&lt;br /&gt;
Scientifique, was vice-president; while the post&lt;br /&gt;
There is, for instance, the man who has lived of secretary-general was filled by M. Pierre Janet,&lt;br /&gt;
an active life, and would like to record his supplementary professor of experimental psycho-&lt;br /&gt;
memoirs. There is, again, the man who has logy at the Sorbonne, whose able treatises on&lt;br /&gt;
attempted to reach the North Pole, and would &ldquo;Automatisme Psychologique,&rdquo; &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Etat mental&lt;br /&gt;
like to give a description of his voyage, or the des Hyst&eacute;riques,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., have won their author a&lt;br /&gt;
man who has crossed South Africa, and would European renown. The congress was sub-divided&lt;br /&gt;
like to describe his adventures. There is the into six sections, respectively dealing with com-&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
89&lt;br /&gt;
parative, introspective, experimental, pathologic,&lt;br /&gt;
The Grand Prix GOBERT.&lt;br /&gt;
hypnotic, and social and criminal psychology. The French Academy has bestowed the Grand&lt;br /&gt;
The subject was evidently popular. Authors, Prix Gobert on M. Pierre de La Gorce for his&lt;br /&gt;
philosophers, doctors, priests, Jesuits, Dominicans, &ldquo;Histoire du Second Empire&rdquo;-an unfinished&lt;br /&gt;
physiologists, spiritualists, Brahmins, Hindoos, work which already comprises four ponderous&lt;br /&gt;
criminologists, and a goodly number of the fair tomes and fifteen out of the twenty years&amp;#039; reign&lt;br /&gt;
sex, attentively followed the somewhat languid of Napoleon III. It is to be hoped that this&lt;br /&gt;
discussions which only once kindled into warmth premature recompense will not deter M. de La&lt;br /&gt;
during a debate on hypnotic and suggestive Gorce from finishing his undertaking, as was the&lt;br /&gt;
psychology&lt;br /&gt;
case with two of his predecessors. His history&lt;br /&gt;
Twenty-two nations sent representatives to the embraces a period extending from the coup d&amp;#039;&eacute;tat&lt;br /&gt;
International Congress of Librarians, presided of 1851 to the morrow of Sadowa. It is written&lt;br /&gt;
over by M. L&eacute;opold Delisle, general administrator in a masterly style &mdash; clear, nervous, animated&lt;br /&gt;
of the Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale. Its sittings - and well merits the signal honour it has&lt;br /&gt;
terminated with the decision that henceforth an received, the Grand Prix Ğobert being one of&lt;br /&gt;
International Congress of Librarians should be the most coveted distinctions in the gift of the&lt;br /&gt;
held once in every five years. This appears to French Academy. No Academician being allowed&lt;br /&gt;
have been its most important motion. Three to compete, Augustin Thierry, the historian,&lt;br /&gt;
anonymous donors have offered prizes varying formerly preferred obtaining the Gobert prize to&lt;br /&gt;
from twenty to forty pounds for the best memo- donning the palms of the Immortals.&lt;br /&gt;
randum on the most efficacious method of destroy. The Goncourt prize has not yet been awarded.&lt;br /&gt;
ing the insects which infest books. Intending It will become the property of the author who&lt;br /&gt;
.competitors who desire further information on the shall have produced the best prose work of imagi-&lt;br /&gt;
subject are asked to communicate with the secre- nation during the course of the present year, the&lt;br /&gt;
tary-general of the Librarians&amp;#039; Congress, M. ten members comprising the Goncourt Academy&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Martin, Biblioth&egrave;que de l&amp;#039;Arsenal, Paris. being judges on this delicate point. In his latest&lt;br /&gt;
testament M. de Goncourt further expresses the&lt;br /&gt;
A Good YEAR FOR DRAMATISTS AND&lt;br /&gt;
desire that this prize be given &ldquo;&agrave; la jeunesse, &agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
COMPOSERS.&lt;br /&gt;
l&amp;#039;originalit&eacute;, au talent, aux tentatives nouvelles et&lt;br /&gt;
The annual report of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Auteurs et hardies de la pens&eacute;e et de la forme.&amp;quot; A good&lt;br /&gt;
Compositeurs Dramatiques states that the Parisian chance for the rising author.&lt;br /&gt;
theatres have paid in royalties the sum of&lt;br /&gt;
2,123,847 francs 50 centimes during the year&lt;br /&gt;
STAGE LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
1899-1900, being 4276 francs 15 centimes less The lights of the dramatic fraternity are all&lt;br /&gt;
than the amount previously registered. The under arms for the approaching Christmas&lt;br /&gt;
Departmental theatres have disbursed 968,575 season. M. Abel Hermant &ldquo; tr&egrave;s snob, d&eacute;licat,&lt;br /&gt;
francs 60 centimes in royalties, showing an la moustache l&eacute;g&egrave;re,&rdquo; is established at the Villa&lt;br /&gt;
augmentation of 12,372 francs 35 centimes on Bassaraba (Haute-Savoie), engaged on a five-act&lt;br /&gt;
the sum paid during the preceding year. The play. That prolific writer, M. Gaston Devore, is&lt;br /&gt;
foreign theatres have expended 300,223 francs at Ballaigues (Switzerland), occupied in putting&lt;br /&gt;
70 centimes in royalties, being an advance of the finishing touches to as many as four new&lt;br /&gt;
11,967 francs 15 centimes on the amount regis contributions to stage literature--to wit, &ldquo;Les&lt;br /&gt;
tered in 1898-99. The sixty Parisian caf&eacute;s. Complaisances,&amp;quot; a five-act play; &amp;quot;La Domes-&lt;br /&gt;
concerts have done still better, having paid tique,&rdquo; a domestic drama in five acts, destined for&lt;br /&gt;
265,742 francs 70 centimes in royalties, showing the Antoine Theatre; &ldquo;Le R&ecirc;ve,&amp;quot; a philosophical&lt;br /&gt;
an increase of 56,443 francs on the sum paid play written for the Vaudeville; and a drama&lt;br /&gt;
during the preceding year. One hundred and dealing with social problems entitled&ldquo;L&amp;#039;Individu.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
five new associates have been admitted to the M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, now at Trondhjem (Norway),&lt;br /&gt;
society, and five members have received pensions. has just finished a piece in four acts entitled&lt;br /&gt;
The number of pensioners now on the society&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Unis,&rdquo; which has been accepted by the manager&lt;br /&gt;
books is no fewer than in persons. Six hundred of the Vaudeville Theatre, while M. Jules&lt;br /&gt;
new plays have likewise been catalogued by the Chancel is writing a play drawn from M.&lt;br /&gt;
society as having been performed either in France Pr&eacute;vost&amp;#039;s two latest novels, &ldquo;Fr&eacute;d&eacute;rique&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
or abroad during the year 1899. In short, the &ldquo;L&eacute;a.&rdquo; The erudite M. Stanislas Rzewuski is&lt;br /&gt;
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques completing two plays commenced long since. The&lt;br /&gt;
shows a most praiseworthy budget, and is to be first is a study of modern manners, whose title&lt;br /&gt;
congratulated on the success which has attended has not yet been decided on; the second is a&lt;br /&gt;
its efforts.&lt;br /&gt;
sumptuous historical drama entitled &ldquo;Louise de&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 90 (#124) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
90&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
San-Felice.&rdquo; The plot of the latter is laid in accomplished-after twenty years&amp;#039; wrangle there-&lt;br /&gt;
Italy at the beginning of the eighteenth century. on. Greater laxity will henceforth be shown in&lt;br /&gt;
It depicts the pretended rivalry existing between all Government examinations, and a host of minor&lt;br /&gt;
Maria-Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples, and innovations and simplifications will be admitted-&lt;br /&gt;
a fictitious heroine created by the author. The or rather tolerated by the State examiners. The&lt;br /&gt;
chivalric General Championnet, the subtle Cima stringent rules respecting the accord between the&lt;br /&gt;
rosa, a sphinx-like Horatio Nelson, and the past participle (when construed with the first&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful Emma, Duchess of Hamilton, are among auxiliary) and its complement are no longer&lt;br /&gt;
the dramatis persona. M. Henri Lavedan is immutable as the laws of the Medes and&lt;br /&gt;
likewise engaged on a new play, as are also MM. Persians ; while the ubiquitous hyphen has&lt;br /&gt;
Maurice Ordonneau, Pierre Valdagne, Eug&egrave;ne ceased to be a primary necessity. M. Georges&lt;br /&gt;
Berteaux, Pierre Wolff, Arthur Bern&egrave;de, Leygues, Minister of Public Instruction, has&lt;br /&gt;
Alexandre Bisson, Henry Kistemaeckers, Antony undoubtedly been lenient ; which leniency has&lt;br /&gt;
Mars, Pierre Decourcelle, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
given rise to some lively discussion. In an able-&lt;br /&gt;
and interesting article on the subject, published&lt;br /&gt;
MEMORANDUM DE BARBEY D&amp;#039;AUREVILLY. in the Revue des Deux Mondes, M. Bruneti&egrave;re&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Le Premier Memorandum de Barbey d&amp;#039;Aure. sensibly remarks : &ldquo;A language is an historical&lt;br /&gt;
villy,&rdquo; now published by Lemerre, is anterior by formation; and in its history the only facts to&lt;br /&gt;
twenty years to the volume issued in 1883 under be taken into account are the works of the great&lt;br /&gt;
the same title. The present edition records the writers.&rdquo; M. Leygues is evidently of the same&lt;br /&gt;
mode of life and daily impressions of the great opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
French writer during his early youth. The&lt;br /&gt;
New PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
analytic talent which won him fame in later &ldquo;Blancador l&amp;#039;Avantageux,&amp;quot; by M. Maurice&lt;br /&gt;
years is here clearly apparent, scenes and persons Maindron ; &ldquo; Edition d&eacute;finitive de Balzac,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
being portrayed with the minute precision of a edition comprises fifty volumes (chez Ollendorff);&lt;br /&gt;
Pepys and the psychological intuition of a &ldquo; La Vie &agrave; Paris (1899),&rdquo; being a continuation of&lt;br /&gt;
Bourget. In one of Count Fleury&amp;#039;s latest works, the annual collection of daily articles by M. Jules&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Louis XV. intime et les petites ma&icirc;tresses,&rdquo; a Claretie (chez Charpentier); &ldquo;La Charpente,&rdquo; a&lt;br /&gt;
list is given of the natural children and descen- social study by M. J. H. Rosny (&agrave; la Revue&lt;br /&gt;
dants of that monarch. Among the latter figures Blanche); &ldquo; Les Victimes Grimacent !&rdquo; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
the name of Barbey d&amp;#039;Aurevilly.&lt;br /&gt;
Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Boutet, a novel dealing with the vices of&lt;br /&gt;
The second volume of the late Francisque the classes and the misery of the masses; a trans-&lt;br /&gt;
Sarcey&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Quarante ans de th&eacute;&acirc;tre &rdquo; has just been lation from the Polish of the famous &ldquo;Quo.&lt;br /&gt;
issued by the library of &ldquo;Les Annales politiques Vadis ? &rdquo; of M. H. Sienkiewicz; &ldquo;Les Rois du&lt;br /&gt;
et litt&eacute;raires.&amp;quot; It is devoted to appreciating Ruisseau,&rdquo; by M. Maurice Astier, being a detailed&lt;br /&gt;
the works of Moli&egrave;re, and the classic school account of the manners, customs, and habits of&lt;br /&gt;
represented by Regnard, Marivaux, and Beau. that curious biped, le chiffonnier&mdash;the French &ldquo;rag&lt;br /&gt;
marchais, also of Le Sage, Piron, Gresset, Favart, and bone&rdquo; man (Libraire du Livre Moderne);&lt;br /&gt;
and Sedaine. No man ever had a keener percep and the &ldquo; M&eacute;moires de Rossignol,&rdquo; ex-police&lt;br /&gt;
tion than Sarcey of the perplexities wbich beset the inspector, a terrible narrative of the crimes,&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic critic&amp;#039;s path. &ldquo; The theatrical critic,&amp;quot; passions, and weaknesses of the darker side of&lt;br /&gt;
wrote &ldquo;the good uncle&rdquo; on one occasion, &ldquo;must humanity.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
also have his scale of proportion understood by&lt;br /&gt;
the public. But what shall it be? This is a grave&lt;br /&gt;
question, and one more difficult to resolve than is&lt;br /&gt;
generally imagined. To crush M. d&amp;#039;Ennery under&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
the name of Corneille, to measure MM. Marc-&lt;br /&gt;
Michel and Labiche with Beaumarchais would DROFESSOR DOWDEN suggests in Litera.&lt;br /&gt;
be an absurdity, if not an injustice. But on the P ture the celebration of the opening of the&lt;br /&gt;
other hand, are all souvenirs of the past, all the&lt;br /&gt;
20th century by an &ldquo;adequate&rdquo; history&lt;br /&gt;
conditions of antique art, to be cast asideas of English literature. If the Professor would&lt;br /&gt;
has been done with the ell and other ancient elaborate the scheme for such a history it&lt;br /&gt;
measures ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
would be a practical step. Perhaps no one&lt;br /&gt;
could be found among the critics of the day&lt;br /&gt;
ORTHOGRAPHY AND SYNTAX REFORM.&lt;br /&gt;
who would be more generally accepted as the&lt;br /&gt;
The reform of French orthography and the editor of such a work. It would be a colossal&lt;br /&gt;
abolition of the incomprehensible &ldquo; chinoiseries &amp;quot; undertaking, but the success of other great&lt;br /&gt;
of the old French grammar have at last been undertakings&mdash;the &ldquo;Encyclop&aelig;dia Britannica&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 91 (#125) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
91&lt;br /&gt;
and of the antiquary we should have a judicious&lt;br /&gt;
blend. Let us seriously consider the formation of&lt;br /&gt;
such a company.&lt;br /&gt;
for instance, and the &ldquo; Dictionary of Biography&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-should be an encouragement. I would suggest&lt;br /&gt;
the formation of a company for the purpose. The&lt;br /&gt;
capital required would depend upon the scheme&lt;br /&gt;
itself&mdash;the number of volumes necessary; the&lt;br /&gt;
payment of contributors; the office expenses;&lt;br /&gt;
the price of the work when complete and in&lt;br /&gt;
parts. Thus there would be:&lt;br /&gt;
(1) The preliminary expenses.&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The expenses of office rent, clerks, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) The editor&amp;#039;s salary.&lt;br /&gt;
(4) The pay of the contributors.&lt;br /&gt;
(5) Cost of printing, paper, binding, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
The volumes would have to be issued regularly&lt;br /&gt;
at intervals of a quarter. From certain rough&lt;br /&gt;
calculations I believe that the whole expense&lt;br /&gt;
would amount to less than &pound;2000 a volume of the&lt;br /&gt;
size of the &ldquo; Dictionary of National Biography.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
How many volumes would Professor Dowden &aring;sk&lt;br /&gt;
for?&lt;br /&gt;
As regards the success, we must remember that&lt;br /&gt;
the establishment everywhere of the free library&lt;br /&gt;
greatly helps the production and lessens the risk&lt;br /&gt;
of embarking in these large enterprises. We&lt;br /&gt;
might expect a thousand copies at least to be&lt;br /&gt;
taken up by the free libraries all over the English.&lt;br /&gt;
speaking world, provided that the work was not&lt;br /&gt;
only written by scholars, but also by attractive&lt;br /&gt;
writers. There would be no publisher behind&lt;br /&gt;
it: the company would be an ordinary trading&lt;br /&gt;
company. I believe not only that it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
most useful contribution to the history of litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, but that it would be immensely successful.&lt;br /&gt;
I beg to invite very serious attention to the&lt;br /&gt;
warning under the head of Literary Property. It&lt;br /&gt;
is directed against the practice, common with one&lt;br /&gt;
or two minor publishers, of inserting a clause in&lt;br /&gt;
the agreement promising the publisher the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s next two books! Anything more foolish&lt;br /&gt;
than to accede to the impudent demand it is&lt;br /&gt;
difficult to imagine. Does a physician make a&lt;br /&gt;
patient promise to come to him with his next two&lt;br /&gt;
ailments? Does a solicitor bind down a client&lt;br /&gt;
for his next two cases ? It comes to this : that&lt;br /&gt;
although an author may be fleeced and robbed by&lt;br /&gt;
his publisher, he will go to him twice more!&lt;br /&gt;
Great as may be the desire to see oneself in print,&lt;br /&gt;
there should be, one would think, some restrain.&lt;br /&gt;
ing force in self-respect. WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
THE COMING SEASON.&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
\HE following is a classification of the books&lt;br /&gt;
announced in the Athen&aelig;um between&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 18 and Sept. 29 inciusive:&lt;br /&gt;
The publishers represented are Messrs. George&lt;br /&gt;
Allen, Burns and Oates, Chambers, Constable,&lt;br /&gt;
Clark, Chatto and Windus, Cambridge University&lt;br /&gt;
Press, Cassell, Clarendon Press, Dent, Duckworth,&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann, Hutchinson, Methuen, Macmillan,&lt;br /&gt;
Maclehose, Marshall, Richards, Sampson Low,&lt;br /&gt;
Sonnenschein, Seeley, Skeffington, Unwin, Whit-&lt;br /&gt;
aker, Wells Gardner, Black, Rivington, Chapman&lt;br /&gt;
and Hall, Matthews, and Bemrose. The list is&lt;br /&gt;
not therefore complete, but there are not many&lt;br /&gt;
left of the publishers worth considering.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is interesting. It comes out as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:&lt;br /&gt;
. Works announced.&lt;br /&gt;
Theology ...&lt;br /&gt;
......... 98&lt;br /&gt;
History and Biography ..............&lt;br /&gt;
Travel ......&lt;br /&gt;
Science ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Scholarship .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Philosophy&lt;br /&gt;
Law&lt;br /&gt;
Political Economy&lt;br /&gt;
Essays ......&lt;br /&gt;
Fiction ........&lt;br /&gt;
.................. 164&lt;br /&gt;
Children&amp;#039;s books ......................... 30&lt;br /&gt;
Poetry and Plays......&lt;br /&gt;
............ 29&lt;br /&gt;
There are a few difficult to classify. There are&lt;br /&gt;
also translations and new editions which are not&lt;br /&gt;
entered in the above list. In connection with this&lt;br /&gt;
list it will be interesting to watch and to classify&lt;br /&gt;
the books which appear from day to day in the&lt;br /&gt;
114&lt;br /&gt;
One thing is most important. I am sure that&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Dowden would agree in my contention&lt;br /&gt;
that it is a great mistake to suppose that because&lt;br /&gt;
a man has written poetry or fiction with more or&lt;br /&gt;
less success, he is therefore a critic.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The critical&lt;br /&gt;
The critical&lt;br /&gt;
faculty is not the same as the imaginative; one&lt;br /&gt;
might even go further and say that the develop-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the critical power tends to destroy the&lt;br /&gt;
imagination. There are at the present moment&lt;br /&gt;
half-a-dozen critics who stand in the front rank.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be invidious to mention their names,&lt;br /&gt;
Not one of these has distinguished himself&lt;br /&gt;
by any imaginative work. On the other hand,&lt;br /&gt;
there are as many writers on literature, writers of&lt;br /&gt;
appreciation, who are most attractive and delight-&lt;br /&gt;
ful, yet are not critics. There are also anti-&lt;br /&gt;
quaries who collect facts and figures and write&lt;br /&gt;
about them, but they are not critics. Of the&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen who write &ldquo;reviews,&rdquo; log roll and&lt;br /&gt;
depreciate, set up little c&eacute;nacles and make a fuss,&lt;br /&gt;
I do not speak, because the editor of this great&lt;br /&gt;
work will assuredly have none of them. But of&lt;br /&gt;
the true critic and of the man who can appreciate&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
......&lt;br /&gt;
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92&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
morning papers as &ldquo; Publications of the Day.&amp;quot; M. Hebrard, of Le Temps ; England, Mr. S.&lt;br /&gt;
One notes that the publishers of fiction seem to Campion, J.P., of the Northampton Mercury,&lt;br /&gt;
be decreasing in number. Seven publishers bave Miss G. B. Stuart being the English secretary ;&lt;br /&gt;
120 novels between them.&lt;br /&gt;
Germany, Hans Tournier; America, Mr. Young;&lt;br /&gt;
There follows next the somewhat delicate ques Sweden, M. Beckman; Hungary, M. Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
tion: how many of these books will pay ? This Veszi. The abstention of a goodly number of&lt;br /&gt;
involves the question : how many are paid for by well-known French journalists from being present&lt;br /&gt;
their authors ?&lt;br /&gt;
proved that, like the Institute of Journalists in&lt;br /&gt;
We may rank them in four classes :&lt;br /&gt;
England, they have their little dissensions amongst&lt;br /&gt;
* 1. Those which are quite certain to allow of a themselves. M. Jean Bernard again brought&lt;br /&gt;
large edition or several editions with a good margin. forward his project for making the staff of a&lt;br /&gt;
2. Those which will allow of a single edition newspaper participators in the profits; at Rome&lt;br /&gt;
with a small margin.&lt;br /&gt;
he argued warmly for this, and he was now&lt;br /&gt;
3. Those which are doubtful.&lt;br /&gt;
requested to draw up a report upon the subject-&lt;br /&gt;
4. Those which will not pay expenses, unless an interesting but somewhat impossible proposi.&lt;br /&gt;
the reader&amp;#039;s judgment is wholly incompetent. tion. M. Taunay, the energetic and ever-affable&lt;br /&gt;
It would, of course, be invidious to name the general secretary, then brought forward his&lt;br /&gt;
books which belong to any of the four classes. report upon a card of identity for journa-&lt;br /&gt;
It is, however, noteworthy that, taking only lists, members of the various societies affiliated&lt;br /&gt;
fiction, no fewer than sixty belong undoubtedly to the International Bureau. Armed with&lt;br /&gt;
to the first class, while the second class is this card the journalist in any country is&lt;br /&gt;
represented in fiction alone by about sixty more. to address himself to the representatives of&lt;br /&gt;
What is wanted by writers of the first and second the committee of direction, or to the local&lt;br /&gt;
classes is to remember that they have property associations, correspondents of the Bureau, and&lt;br /&gt;
in their hands as real as, say, horses or cattle, he will have all facilities given him as a local&lt;br /&gt;
which are, like most books, perishable. The journalist. The question of tariff for the post of&lt;br /&gt;
whole parade and pretence about risk, office ex. newspapers was next considered, Signor Berger&lt;br /&gt;
penses, and percentages should be pushed aside. arguing that the cost should never exceed two&lt;br /&gt;
The only question is on what terms the adminis. centimes, instead of five, for international&lt;br /&gt;
iration of the property should be granted, or at postage, and a half, or at most one, centime for&lt;br /&gt;
what price it should be sold.&lt;br /&gt;
interior postage; and the Bureau was authorised&lt;br /&gt;
to take up negotiations with the various Govern. ,&lt;br /&gt;
ments to obtain some reductions in the tariffs.&lt;br /&gt;
The subject of telegraph tariffs was again intro-&lt;br /&gt;
THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PRESS&lt;br /&gt;
duced by Se&ntilde;or de Berazza, the Spanish dele.&lt;br /&gt;
CONGRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
gate, and he was able to announce that, in&lt;br /&gt;
By JAMES BAKER, F.R.G.S.&lt;br /&gt;
addition to the conventions between France and&lt;br /&gt;
Spain, Luxembourg, and Portugal, this year&lt;br /&gt;
INHE meeting this year was arranged for under certain conditions the convention and&lt;br /&gt;
T Paris, to coincide with the Great Exhibi. restriction had been agreed to between France&lt;br /&gt;
tion; and at Rome last year great were the and England, but Italy still failed to fall into&lt;br /&gt;
rumours of what this Congress was to be. How line, while pourparlers were still going on with&lt;br /&gt;
it was to eclipse all former Congresses in work and Sweden and Norway.&lt;br /&gt;
in play, in hospitality and in excursions; one Following this a discussion occurred on&lt;br /&gt;
excursion, it was hinted, would include Algiers. an abbreviated code for telegrams, and a&lt;br /&gt;
But there is a French proverb of few words, prize is to be offered for the best working&lt;br /&gt;
L&amp;#039;Homme propose mais Dieu dispose, and not code. The other subjects discussed included&lt;br /&gt;
only the fates, but the weather, seemed to defeat the constitution of an international tribunal of&lt;br /&gt;
the generously hospitable aims of the French arbitration for journalistic matters. Upon&lt;br /&gt;
organisers.&lt;br /&gt;
this a brisk discussion ensued, and a M.&lt;br /&gt;
On the first morning of the Congress the news Rouzier claimed attention for a tribunal to&lt;br /&gt;
arrived of the assassination of King Humbert, settle disputes between directors of journals and&lt;br /&gt;
and so all official entertainments were cancelled, reporters. Tbe evergreen, but never settled,&lt;br /&gt;
and the President of the Republic was not subject (either in England or with the inter-&lt;br /&gt;
present at the opening s&eacute;ance in the Amphi. nationalists) of a school of journalism was brought&lt;br /&gt;
th&eacute;&acirc;tre of the Sorbonne. At the first business up by M. Bernard under the presidency of&lt;br /&gt;
meeting on the following morning the presidents M. Beckman, the learned Swedish delegate.&lt;br /&gt;
for each nation were elected&mdash;viz., for France, The Belgian delegate, Heinzman-Savino, declared&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
93&lt;br /&gt;
that the quickest way to vulgarise the teaching right to it and may do what he chooses with it-&lt;br /&gt;
of journalism, or at least of certain subjects e.g., sell it for publication with or without the&lt;br /&gt;
necessary to journalism, was to obtain the estab. author&amp;#039;s name? This might certainly not be&lt;br /&gt;
lishment of courses upon the subjects in the agreeable to the author of the matter in question,&lt;br /&gt;
universities. At Heidelberg already Professor but what is the law ?&lt;br /&gt;
DusTMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
Koch has a journalistic course. The final [The case quoted above is sadly wanting in&lt;br /&gt;
subject discussed was the rights of illustrators, legal exactness, and it is exceedingly difficult to&lt;br /&gt;
and M. Janzon proposed that the central com. give a definite opinion on it. The finder might&lt;br /&gt;
mittee make a study of the status of the journalist have a right to sell the paper with the writing&lt;br /&gt;
in various countries. At the conclusion of the upon it, but certainly not the right of publication.&lt;br /&gt;
work Mr. P. W. Clayden, the English president, The publication of a MS. is an entirely distinct&lt;br /&gt;
gave a formal invitation to the Congress from the property, and cannot be thus dealt with.-G. H.&lt;br /&gt;
city of Glasgow to assemble there in 1901. This THRING.]&lt;br /&gt;
invitation was referred to the Central Bureau.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be as well for the Congress to meet in&lt;br /&gt;
Great Britain, and for once to adopt English&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY CAREERS MADE EASY.&lt;br /&gt;
rules of debate. The Je demande la parole of&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen who have already spoken a dozen times In the old-fashioned days when a man wrote a book,&lt;br /&gt;
delays real progress.&lt;br /&gt;
That was all there was for him to do ;&lt;br /&gt;
If they made it worth while for the author he took&lt;br /&gt;
The English papers prepared for the Congress&lt;br /&gt;
were: by Mr. F. Dolman, on &ldquo;The Advantages&lt;br /&gt;
Up bis pen and reeled off something new.&lt;br /&gt;
of International Association,&amp;quot; an advantage which&lt;br /&gt;
Bat to-day, when a man writes a book tbat&amp;#039;s a hit,&lt;br /&gt;
Why, that&amp;#039;s jast made a sort of a start,&lt;br /&gt;
is immense, as I have proved in such countries as For he has to write others explaining how it&lt;br /&gt;
Poland, Galicia, &amp;amp;c.; and a well-written, eloquent Came out of his houd and his heart.&lt;br /&gt;
paper on &ldquo;Ideals of Journalism,&amp;quot; by Mr. S. He must tell how he thought of the story and when-&lt;br /&gt;
Campion, in which he pleaded that the Press How many words daily he wrote -&lt;br /&gt;
should not become a cloaca maxima ; that evils If he set down the lines with a pencil or pen-&lt;br /&gt;
and festering sores of humanity should be treated&lt;br /&gt;
These are things he must carefully note.&lt;br /&gt;
with the surgeon&amp;#039;s knife, and not &ldquo; with the He must give us the names of the people he took&lt;br /&gt;
lingering affection of gbouls for f&aelig;tid corrup-&lt;br /&gt;
For nis models, and nothing omic !&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In these days when a man makes a bit with a book&lt;br /&gt;
He can write all his life about it!&lt;br /&gt;
The social functions were, alas, almost oblite-&lt;br /&gt;
Chicago Times-Herald.&lt;br /&gt;
rated ; and as if Nature also worked against&lt;br /&gt;
the French organisers, the great representation in&lt;br /&gt;
the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre d&rsquo;Orange in the Dauphin&eacute;-to which&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
and the Loire district excursions were organised&lt;br /&gt;
-was terribly marred by an awful mistral that&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY concerns are for the moment in&lt;br /&gt;
in August froze the spectators. Other excursions&lt;br /&gt;
were to Chantilly and Pierrefonds, to S&egrave;vres and&lt;br /&gt;
1 tbe background, like everything else that&lt;br /&gt;
Versailles, so that the Congressites enjoyed much&lt;br /&gt;
is not politics. But the General Election&lt;br /&gt;
has drawn an unusual number of writers before&lt;br /&gt;
hue&lt;br /&gt;
refreshment after their polyglottic labours.&lt;br /&gt;
Death has been terribly busy with the members&lt;br /&gt;
The electors. Up to the time of writing, we&lt;br /&gt;
of the bureau during the past two years, and since&lt;br /&gt;
observe among the candidates for Parliamentary&lt;br /&gt;
the Rome meeting two excellent confr&egrave;res-&lt;br /&gt;
honours Dr. Conan Doyle, Mr. Gilbert Parker,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Norman, Sir George Scott Robertson,&lt;br /&gt;
Signors Bonfadini and Torelli-Viollier&mdash;have&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. J. Mackinder, and Mr. Mullett Ellis.&lt;br /&gt;
passed onward ; let me end with this word of&lt;br /&gt;
homage to their memory.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins was among the&lt;br /&gt;
number, but he has been obliged owing to sudden&lt;br /&gt;
illness to withdraw the candidature he had&lt;br /&gt;
contemplated.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Alexander Michie, the well-known authority&lt;br /&gt;
on China, has written &aring; life of Sir Rutherford&lt;br /&gt;
A QUERY.&lt;br /&gt;
Alcock, in which is narrated the progress made&lt;br /&gt;
TF a man throws a thing away, to whom does it by Engli&lt;br /&gt;
to whom does it.. by Englishmen in that country during the past&lt;br /&gt;
j legally belong? Surely the finder. Following sixty years. The subject of the biography was,&lt;br /&gt;
this reasoning, am I right in supposing that of course, at one time British Minister in Peking.&lt;br /&gt;
if an author writes something and then throws it The third volume of Professor S. R. Gardiner&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
away, any person who happens to find it has a legal history of the Commonwealth and Protectorate&lt;br /&gt;
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94&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
may be looked for early next year. Mr. Morley&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
biography of Cromwell will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Macmillan during the present month.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. J. Mackinder, who last year made the&lt;br /&gt;
first ascent of Mount Kenya, narrates this&lt;br /&gt;
remarkable achievement in a volume which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann will publish shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
The 23rd inst. is the date fixed for the produc-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of Mr. Zapgwill&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Mantle&lt;br /&gt;
of Elijah &rdquo; (Heinemann).&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Gilbert Parker&amp;#039;s tales of Pontiac, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Lane that Had no Turning,&amp;quot; and Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Steel&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Hosts of the Lord,&rdquo; will&lt;br /&gt;
be published about the middle of this month by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
A new story by Miss Carey, entitled &ldquo;Rue with&lt;br /&gt;
a Difference,&rdquo; will be published on Oct. 2, and&lt;br /&gt;
one by Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Modern Broods,&amp;quot; on Oct. 5, both by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of stories by the Rev. W. J. Dawson&lt;br /&gt;
is being published by Mr. Grant Richards under&lt;br /&gt;
the title &ldquo; The Doctor Speaks.&rdquo; ,&lt;br /&gt;
A new edition of Mr. Whistler&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Gentle&lt;br /&gt;
Art of Making Enemies&rdquo; will be published&lt;br /&gt;
shortly. The work has been out of print.&lt;br /&gt;
A new work by Deas Cromarty, entitled &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Heart of Babylon,&amp;quot; will be published shortly by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son.&lt;br /&gt;
The first volume of Professor Saintsbury&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sbury&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; History of Criticism and Literary Taste from&lt;br /&gt;
the Earliest Times to the Present Day&rdquo; will be&lt;br /&gt;
published shortly by Messrs. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr Charles G. Harper has added to his series&lt;br /&gt;
of books on our great highways two volumes on&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Great North Road.&rdquo; These will be pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and will&lt;br /&gt;
contain numerous illustrations.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frank T. Bullen&amp;#039;s work on &ldquo;The Men of&lt;br /&gt;
the Merchant Service&rdquo; will be published on&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 10 by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
: &ldquo; Webs of Mystery&amp;quot; is the title of Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
G. Rowe&amp;#039;s first book. It is a volume of detective&lt;br /&gt;
stories, and is published by Messrs. Walter Scott&lt;br /&gt;
Limited. The young author has also written a&lt;br /&gt;
five-act drama, which is likely to be produced&lt;br /&gt;
shortly by a well-known provincial actor-manager,&lt;br /&gt;
and is at present busy revising his new novel&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A King of Busbrangers,&amp;quot; already published&lt;br /&gt;
serially, for book form.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Albert Lee, who wrote &ldquo; The Gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
Pensioner,&amp;quot; which was so successful in this&lt;br /&gt;
country and in America, has just completed a new&lt;br /&gt;
historical romance entitled &ldquo; The Emperor&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Trumpeter,&rdquo; dealing with the downfall of Robes-&lt;br /&gt;
pierre and the military career of Bonaparte. It&lt;br /&gt;
will first appear as a serial in the new volume of&lt;br /&gt;
Young England.&lt;br /&gt;
The following are among the forthcoming&lt;br /&gt;
publications of Mr. John C. Nimmo: &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Amusements of Old London,&amp;quot; in two volumes,&lt;br /&gt;
being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea&lt;br /&gt;
gardens and parks, playhouses, and other diver-&lt;br /&gt;
sions of the people of London from the 17th to the&lt;br /&gt;
beginning of the 19th century, by W. B. Boulton ;&lt;br /&gt;
&laquo; English Historical Memoirs is (1 volumes).&lt;br /&gt;
by John Heneage Jesse; &ldquo; Reminiscences of a&lt;br /&gt;
Falconer,&amp;quot; by Major Charles Hawkins Fisher;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;A History of Steeplechasing,&amp;quot; by William&lt;br /&gt;
C. A. Blew, M.Ă.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. will publish&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. C. H. Malcolm&amp;#039;s new novel &ldquo;Robert Kane&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
about the second week of this month, at the&lt;br /&gt;
published price of 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Reynolds-Ball gives an account of his&lt;br /&gt;
recent cycling experiences among the Piedmontese&lt;br /&gt;
Alps in a long and admirably illustrated article&lt;br /&gt;
in the September issue of the Cyclists&amp;#039; Touring&lt;br /&gt;
Club Gazette.&lt;br /&gt;
The Oxford University Press, which is exhibit.&lt;br /&gt;
ing in three different groups at the Paris Exhibi.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, has gained the unique distinction of being&lt;br /&gt;
awarded three Grands Prix-one each for higher&lt;br /&gt;
education, book-binding, and Oxford India paper.&lt;br /&gt;
Derek Vane&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Ye shall be as&lt;br /&gt;
Gods,&amp;quot; will run as a serial in Great Thoughts,&lt;br /&gt;
beginning in October, before heing published in&lt;br /&gt;
volume form. It deals with a curious develop-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of character in a woman who has elected to&lt;br /&gt;
live apart from the world, and shows how a feeble&lt;br /&gt;
nature may live on and absorb a strong one.&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously&lt;br /&gt;
pleased to accept a copy of the new musical novel&lt;br /&gt;
(published by Sands and Co.) entitled &ldquo;A 439:&lt;br /&gt;
being the Autobiography of a Piano,&amp;quot; written&lt;br /&gt;
gratuitously by &ldquo;Twenty-five Musical Scribes.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The profits go entirely to the orphanage of the&lt;br /&gt;
Incorporated Society of Musicians, which was&lt;br /&gt;
founded at the time of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s first jubilee.&lt;br /&gt;
A letter, dated the 21st ult., from the private&lt;br /&gt;
secretary, to the editor, Mr. Algernon Rose, says&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo; The Queen desires her thanks to be&lt;br /&gt;
returned for the book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Isaac Henderson, author of the Criterion&lt;br /&gt;
comedy entitled &ldquo;The Silent Battle.&amp;quot; has written&lt;br /&gt;
a new play, called &ldquo;The Mummy and the&lt;br /&gt;
Humming Top,&rdquo; for Mr. Wyndham. The first&lt;br /&gt;
production at Wyndham&amp;#039;s Theatre, however, will&lt;br /&gt;
be the new play in four acts by Mr. Henry Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
puuro Charles G. Hart highways two will be&lt;br /&gt;
rhet uitously by &amp;quot;ography of a entitled &amp;quot;A 430&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
95&lt;br /&gt;
or&lt;br /&gt;
especial benefit to conductors, and secretaries of&lt;br /&gt;
provincial musical societies desiring information&lt;br /&gt;
concerning suitable orchestral works by British&lt;br /&gt;
composers, or information regarding British&lt;br /&gt;
soloists and players generally.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, 80 far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, in which Mr. Wyndham (in the part of an&lt;br /&gt;
eminent lawyer), Miss Lena Ashwell, and Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Mary Moore will appear.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Haddon Chambers has written a new play&lt;br /&gt;
for Mr. Alexander.&lt;br /&gt;
In Mr. Tree&amp;#039;s production at Her Majesty&amp;#039;s of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Herod the Great,&rdquo; Mr. Stephen Phillips&amp;#039;s poetic&lt;br /&gt;
drama, the following will be in the cast : Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Maud Jeffries, Mrs. Crowe, Miss Calhoun, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
C. W. Somerset, and Mr. King Hedley.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will reopen the Royalty&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on Oct. 8.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Jobn Farrington and Mr. A. H. Canby will&lt;br /&gt;
reopen Terry&amp;#039;s Theatre in a few days with the&lt;br /&gt;
play by Charles H. Hoyt, entitled &ldquo;A Parlour&lt;br /&gt;
Match.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Among the new plays in London during&lt;br /&gt;
September were &ldquo;The Scarlet Sin,&rdquo; by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
George R. Sims and Mr. Arthur Shirley, at the&lt;br /&gt;
Crown, Peckham; &ldquo; Self and Lady,&rdquo; by M. Pierre&lt;br /&gt;
Decourcelle, at the Vaudeville ; &ldquo;The Price of&lt;br /&gt;
Peace,&amp;quot; by Mr. Cecil Raleigh, at Drury Lane;&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Barrie&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Wedding Guest&rdquo; at the&lt;br /&gt;
Garrick.&lt;br /&gt;
The new play at the Lyceum by Mr. Seymour&lt;br /&gt;
Hicks and Mr. F. Latham, which is to be pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced on Oct. 6, is called &ldquo;For Auld Lang Syne.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Mollison, Miss Lily Hanbury (as a&lt;br /&gt;
hospital nurse), Miss Fanny Brough, Mr. W. L.&lt;br /&gt;
Abingdon, and Mr. Leonard Boyne will play the&lt;br /&gt;
principal parts.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. R. Benson&amp;#039;s company will open its&lt;br /&gt;
second season in London at the Comedy on&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 19. On three nights of each week the stage&lt;br /&gt;
will be held by the German company, the Benson&lt;br /&gt;
company occupying the remaining three nights&lt;br /&gt;
and two matin&eacute;es.&lt;br /&gt;
Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness&lt;br /&gt;
the Princess of Wales, the Westminster Orchestral&lt;br /&gt;
Society is about to commence its sixteenth season.&lt;br /&gt;
At the forthcoming orchestral concert, the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
gramme will, as usual, include several new works&lt;br /&gt;
of interest by British composers. In response to&lt;br /&gt;
the wish of many music lovers resident in the&lt;br /&gt;
country to assist in the patriotic and valuable&lt;br /&gt;
work the society has so long carried forward,&lt;br /&gt;
the committee have decided to enrol a limited&lt;br /&gt;
number of country members at a nominal fee of&lt;br /&gt;
half a guinea a year, in return for which sub-&lt;br /&gt;
scription such members are entitled to receive&lt;br /&gt;
the society&amp;#039;s i ublications, and, when visiting&lt;br /&gt;
London, the privileges of one-guinea members.&lt;br /&gt;
Applications should be addressed to the hon.&lt;br /&gt;
secretary, Mr. Algernon Rose, Town Hall, West-&lt;br /&gt;
minster. Such membership should be found of&lt;br /&gt;
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH POLITICS, by John M.&lt;br /&gt;
Robertson (Richards, 108. 6d.) is, says the Times, &ldquo; an ambi.&lt;br /&gt;
tious, and it is fair to add, a clever book.&rdquo; The Daily&lt;br /&gt;
News begins by describing it as &amp;quot;a very eloquent, striking,&lt;br /&gt;
powerful, but not convincing book,&amp;quot; and concludes by saying&lt;br /&gt;
that&ldquo; the English politics to which Mr. Robertson&amp;#039;s long,&lt;br /&gt;
depressing survey is an Introduction are not those of bound.&lt;br /&gt;
less hope in the future, as all true Liberal politics must be,&lt;br /&gt;
but are much more like the politics of oynical disbelief in&lt;br /&gt;
the wisdom which guides mankind.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, by Andrew Lang (Goupil,&lt;br /&gt;
638. net), is &amp;quot;an admirable piece of work,&rdquo; says the Times,&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; a real contribution to historical knowledge.&rdquo; For the&lt;br /&gt;
first time the Stuart papers at Windsor Castle have been&lt;br /&gt;
thoroughly examined, and they form the basis of the&lt;br /&gt;
volume. Mr. Lang, says the Spectator, &ldquo;has never been&lt;br /&gt;
more happily inspired than in this study of the broken life-&lt;br /&gt;
story of one who will always be a premier figure in romance&lt;br /&gt;
-the last conspicuous prince of an ill-fated house and the&lt;br /&gt;
centre of a movement wbich he did not comprehend. He&lt;br /&gt;
has given as the severe truth, leaving no source unsearched.&lt;br /&gt;
to find the facts of a difficult career, and at the same time-&lt;br /&gt;
he has invested the whole narrativa, splendid and sordid,&lt;br /&gt;
with an unreal fairy-tale atmosphere, which is the true one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle refera to the account of the little-&lt;br /&gt;
known engagement at Falkirk &amp;quot; as &ldquo;an excellent example of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lang&amp;#039;s descriptive style.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THROUGH THE FIRST ANTARCTIC NIGHT, by Frederick.&lt;br /&gt;
A. Cook, MD. (Heinemann, 208.), gives, says Literature,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;a striking and graphic account of the voyage of the&lt;br /&gt;
Belgica. The book, in fact, strikes us as a work of greater&lt;br /&gt;
merit than the expedition itself, which seems, if we correctly&lt;br /&gt;
anderstand Dr. Cook, to have been led in a rather a muddle..&lt;br /&gt;
beaded manner.&rdquo; &ldquo;His book is interesting as, to use his&lt;br /&gt;
own words, &amp;#039; a contribution of new human experience in a.&lt;br /&gt;
new inhuman world of ice.&amp;#039; ... As a rule there is a&lt;br /&gt;
certain air of jollity in the stories of those who have&lt;br /&gt;
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THE WHISTLING Maid, by Ernest Rhys (Hutobinson,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), &ldquo;sets forth with real charm of expression and an&lt;br /&gt;
unfailing sense of the picturesque,&amp;quot; says the Spectator,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;the adventures on field and flood of a young Welsh damsel&lt;br /&gt;
of high degree.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle characterises it as&lt;br /&gt;
genuine romance&mdash;&amp;quot;a romance written, not from the point&lt;br /&gt;
of view of the chap-book and the county bistory, but as a&lt;br /&gt;
the result of a true and sensitive romantic spirit, a work, in&lt;br /&gt;
a word, of spontaneous and sincere artistry.&amp;quot; Similarly the&lt;br /&gt;
Literary World, which adds: &ldquo;There is no more charming&lt;br /&gt;
creation in modern literature than the heroine, Luned, the&lt;br /&gt;
maid of the silver pipe, who leaves ber bome wben the raid&lt;br /&gt;
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through trackless forest country to find ber father, and&lt;br /&gt;
bring him to the rescue.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
SENATOR NORTH, by Gertrude Atherton (Lane, 68.), is&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;essentially an American story,&amp;quot; says tbe Daily News.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;It deals with the political and social life of Washington.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
There is in the story a &amp;quot;terrible tragedy that shows how&lt;br /&gt;
beavy lies the shadow of the curse apon the blacks in the&lt;br /&gt;
Southern States. Mrs. Atherton&amp;#039;s pages are crowded&lt;br /&gt;
with portraits of men and women in various grades of&lt;br /&gt;
society. These portraits are very clean cut.&rdquo; The Spectator&lt;br /&gt;
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unbappy balf-breed, with her abiding melancholy, her social&lt;br /&gt;
ambitions, her strange lapses into vulgar barbarism, and&lt;br /&gt;
her fatal mendacity, is of painfully engrossing interest.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;She writes of humanity,&rdquo; says the Daily Telegraph, &ldquo;but&lt;br /&gt;
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great and noticeable success;&amp;quot; and the Daily Chronicle&lt;br /&gt;
describes the work as &ldquo; full of intellect, of character, and of&lt;br /&gt;
movement.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG, by Mark&lt;br /&gt;
Twain (Chatto, 68.), contains, says the Spectator, &amp;quot; a quantity&lt;br /&gt;
of excellent mixed reading.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Whatever the theme or its&lt;br /&gt;
treatment, it is good to notice that there is not the slightest&lt;br /&gt;
trace of fatigue in the mind of the writer.&rdquo; &ldquo;The whole,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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things in the book, echoes of Austrian Parliamente, of the&lt;br /&gt;
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the Daily Telegraph) is described in the Literary World as&lt;br /&gt;
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SONS OF THE MORNING, by Eden Phillpotts (Methuen,&lt;br /&gt;
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fiction.&rdquo; The idea and central thread of the story (which&lt;br /&gt;
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farnieress, in love with two good men at once-a situation&lt;br /&gt;
80 frequent with women in real life, so rarely handled in&lt;br /&gt;
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The Fourth GENERATION, by Sir Walter Besant&lt;br /&gt;
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too, with a pleasant, whimsical humour.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE SOFT SIDE, by Henry James (Methaen, 68.), con.&lt;br /&gt;
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admiration.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
THE GATELESS BARRIER, by Lucas Malet (Methuen, 68.),&lt;br /&gt;
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&ldquo;Genuine imagination and charm have been at work here,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE Mystic NUMBER 7, by Annabel Gray (Simpkin,&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, 38. 6d.), &amp;quot;shows keen psychological interest and&lt;br /&gt;
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ber subject, and writes in a fashion that should be popular&lt;br /&gt;
with the readers of her many other books.&amp;quot; The West-&lt;br /&gt;
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A MASTER OF CRAFT, by W. W. Jacobs (Metbuen, 68.),&lt;br /&gt;
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A PRIEST&amp;#039;S POEMs, by K. D. B. (Catholic Truth Society),&lt;br /&gt;
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Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property&lt;br /&gt;
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The Pension Fund of the Incorporated Society of Authors...&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Letter. By Darracotte Scott&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
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The Four Winds ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 107&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence-1. Live and Let Live,&amp;quot; 2. What is a Fair&lt;br /&gt;
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Book and Play Talk... ...&lt;br /&gt;
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III.-The Acts of Uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;
&raquo; VII.&mdash;Table of principal Judicial Decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;The Prayer Book and Rubrics.&lt;br /&gt;
APPENDIX.-Ecclesiastical Bills&mdash;Comprehension Bill of 1689. Ecclesiastical Appeals Bill 1850. Church Discipline&lt;br /&gt;
Bill of 1899. Statements by English Church Union and Church Association. Extracts from Decrees and&lt;br /&gt;
Canons of Council of Trent. The Creed of Pope Pius the Fourth as added to by Pope Pius the Ninth.&lt;br /&gt;
And a Copious Index.&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON: HORACE cox WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAM&rsquo;S BUILDINGS, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 97 (#137) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.-No. 6.]&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XL_NO.6.]&lt;br /&gt;
NOVEMBER I, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
I remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sab.&lt;br /&gt;
jocts whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
IT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &amp;quot; office expenses,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT,&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 98 (#138) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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98&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
IL&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e., members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors shonld remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&rsquo;s-inn.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
VVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor. the member has a right to an opinion &amp;#039;from the 1.-AN EXAMPLE OF COMMISSION PUBLISHING.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s I beg to place the following facts and figures at your&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him &middot; disposal :-&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member. A London publisher offered to produce the inclosed work,&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright &ldquo;with stiff paper cover,&amp;quot; at &pound;15 for 1000 copies, or &pound;13 108.&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the for 500 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple Another London publisher offered to produce 1000 copies,&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
also with stiff paper cover, for &pound;12 108.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past I have had 1000 copies printed, as you see, without the&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The stiff cover, for &pound;3 38. by a country printer whose name is on&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new the pamphlet.&lt;br /&gt;
G. B.&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus To the Secretary of the Authors&amp;#039; Society.&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
T INVITE very special attention to the above&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
1 letter. Observe that the actual cost of the&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlet was &pound;3 38. It is a brochure of&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are 20pp. in long primer, a full page of about 600&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 99 (#139) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
99&lt;br /&gt;
words. One publisher offered to produce it, on for advertising as the author or proprietor shall&lt;br /&gt;
commission, for &pound;15: another for &pound;12 10s., both deem desirable.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
offering a &ldquo; stiff paper cover.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
An important point in this clause has been&lt;br /&gt;
The author bad it printed, as he says, for &pound;3 38., overlooked in the Society&amp;#039;s comments. It is this.&lt;br /&gt;
but without the stiff paper cover. The name of The publisher claims a percentage on all &ldquo;dis-&lt;br /&gt;
the printing firm is given on the inside of the bursements,&rdquo; and, in the very next clause, declares&lt;br /&gt;
title page. A note is made of the firm for future that he will disburse nothing! In that case what&lt;br /&gt;
use.&lt;br /&gt;
claim has he for any percentage ?&lt;br /&gt;
Let us put down the paper cover at &pound;1. The Another point. In going to a publisher, the&lt;br /&gt;
proposals then mean that a pamphlet costing author naturally expects the whole machinery of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;3 38. is to be charged at &pound;14 or at &pound;u 108. his office, together with his skill and experience,&lt;br /&gt;
It may be urged that every tradesman has a to be placed at the service of his book. The most&lt;br /&gt;
right to put any price he pleases on his own important part, perhaps, is the knowledge when&lt;br /&gt;
wares. So he has, provided he does not deceive to advertise and to what extent. The publishers&lt;br /&gt;
his customers. Now, when an author goes to a refuse any help. They say, &ldquo; Such a sum as the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher he accepts his statement about the cost author or proprietor may deem desirable.&rdquo; Nothing&lt;br /&gt;
of printing and paper as an honest statement. is more undesirable to a general publisher than&lt;br /&gt;
It is not enough, as some publishers do, to say the success of a commission book, because if it&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;our charge&rdquo; is so and so, because the author, should succeed the bulk of the profit goes to the&lt;br /&gt;
even if he allows the publisher some profit-which author-a thing by no means in their interests.&lt;br /&gt;
ought to be plainly and honestly stated-does not This should be thoroughly understood. What&lt;br /&gt;
imagine that the profit is to be three, four, or five they prefer is a so-called &ldquo; half-profit&rdquo; system, the&lt;br /&gt;
times the actual cost.&lt;br /&gt;
very name of which now stinks, or a &ldquo; deferred&lt;br /&gt;
That the publishers in question venture to royalty &rdquo; with a large margin before it begins-a&lt;br /&gt;
make this exorbitant profit is probably due to the method the reek and stench of which is fast be-&lt;br /&gt;
baleful influence of the &ldquo; Publishers&amp;#039; Form of coming a rival even to that of the &ldquo; half-profit.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Agreement.&rdquo; What is the clause regulating this&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
assumed right of overcharge? &ldquo;The publisher&lt;br /&gt;
will supply the author with estimates for the II.-A DRAMATIST ON THE COPYRIGHT BILL.&lt;br /&gt;
printing and will charge a commission of per &ldquo;Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill from the&lt;br /&gt;
cent. on the trade prices for printing, paper, point of view of a playwright?&rdquo; Well, it is not&lt;br /&gt;
binding, advertising, and other disbursements, conceived from that point of view; it is con-&lt;br /&gt;
and reserve to himself the right to take the ceived from the point of view of authors who are&lt;br /&gt;
usual credit or the equivalent cash discount for not playwrights. To the novelist it affords a&lt;br /&gt;
cash payments, but no such discount shall exceed protection which he does not at present possess,&lt;br /&gt;
7) per cent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and to which he is entitled; and in that respect&lt;br /&gt;
All that we can say in this case is that the is a righteous and beneficent measure. On the&lt;br /&gt;
pnblishers, with this clause to guide them, playwright, beyond the extension of the term of&lt;br /&gt;
interpreted the percentage allowed in a large and his protection, it confers, to the best of my judg-&lt;br /&gt;
liberal spirit. They merely said, &ldquo; We will make ment, no benefit whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
it 300 or 400 per cent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
First, as regards the duration of the &ldquo;per-&lt;br /&gt;
It is not often that we find the publishers&amp;#039; forming right,&rdquo; which playwrights call &ldquo;stage-&lt;br /&gt;
agreements &ldquo;equitable&amp;quot; reduced to so delightful right,&rdquo; and thereby save two syllables, I think&lt;br /&gt;
an absurdity as this. Meantime, the Society&amp;#039;s that is sufficient. It is sometimes argued that&lt;br /&gt;
exposure of those firms, with comments, has now stage-right should descend to a playwright&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
gone into a second edition. Members of the representatives in perpetuity. I quite agree&lt;br /&gt;
Society will do good service by sending copies to that both copyright and stage-right should be&lt;br /&gt;
those of their friends who are concerned with perpetual; but in my view, after a certain period,&lt;br /&gt;
literary property.&lt;br /&gt;
they should become the property of the State.&lt;br /&gt;
I would next call attention to the clause which There is no such person as an absolutely original&lt;br /&gt;
follows the one already quoted. You observe author; the most nearly original author draws&lt;br /&gt;
that the publisher demands a blank percentage bis inspiration from his experience, his reading,&lt;br /&gt;
on all &ldquo; disbursements.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
his observation, his environment. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
Now read the next clause.&lt;br /&gt;
munity is part author of everything. By limiting&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The author or proprietor shall, before the the period of protection, the community comes&lt;br /&gt;
work is sent to press, pay the publisher a suffi- into its rights, but not, I submit, in the right&lt;br /&gt;
cient sum to meet the estimated charges for way. Why should a manager be able to play&lt;br /&gt;
production and publication, including such a sum Shakespeare for nothing, and so accustom hiuiself&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 100 (#140) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
If a man writes and publishes a play, pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sumably he means it to be acted for the benefit&lt;br /&gt;
of himself and his assigns; and to say so on the&lt;br /&gt;
title-page is superfluous. It might even be&lt;br /&gt;
argued that section 7 is retrospective.&lt;br /&gt;
The injustice arises through the lumping&lt;br /&gt;
together of playwrights with librettists, com-&lt;br /&gt;
posers, and vocalists, whose interests are in some&lt;br /&gt;
respects diametrically opposite. If the Bill&lt;br /&gt;
created in every literary work other than a&lt;br /&gt;
libretto two inherent rights, copyright and stage-&lt;br /&gt;
right, which not only might but must be assigned&lt;br /&gt;
separately, everybody would be protected, and&lt;br /&gt;
nobody would be troubled. As the Bill stands I&lt;br /&gt;
am compelled to the conclusion that (apart from&lt;br /&gt;
the duration of protection) it weakens the present&lt;br /&gt;
position of the playwright and strengthens that&lt;br /&gt;
of the pirate.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
to the nefarious practice of evading author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
fees? He ought to pay fees to the State. So&lt;br /&gt;
far as the author&amp;#039;s representatives are concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s term of thirty complete years&lt;br /&gt;
after death seems reasonable.&lt;br /&gt;
I am afraid this is all that can be said in&lt;br /&gt;
favour of the Bill from a playwright&amp;#039;s point of&lt;br /&gt;
view.&lt;br /&gt;
Clause 5, section 5, revives the ancient formula&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo;performing right shall not subsist in any&lt;br /&gt;
profane, indecent, seditious, or libellous dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
or musical work.&rdquo; So that a thief has only to&lt;br /&gt;
add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel to his&lt;br /&gt;
theft to be exempted from the penalty of his dis-&lt;br /&gt;
honesty. It seems scarcely a benefit to public&lt;br /&gt;
morals that protection should be extended to&lt;br /&gt;
unauthorised performances of profane, indecent,&lt;br /&gt;
seditious, and libellous works. Sections 6 and 7&lt;br /&gt;
of the same clause proceed to strew the path of&lt;br /&gt;
the pirate with roses.&lt;br /&gt;
(6) Where a dramatic or musical work is published as a&lt;br /&gt;
book, and it is intended that the performing right should be&lt;br /&gt;
reserved, the owner of the copyright, whether he has parted&lt;br /&gt;
with the performing right or not, shall cause notice of such&lt;br /&gt;
reservation to be printed on the title page or in a con.&lt;br /&gt;
spicuous part of every copy of such book.&lt;br /&gt;
(7) Where proceedings are taken for the infringement&lt;br /&gt;
of the performing right in any dramatic or musical work&lt;br /&gt;
published as a book, the defendant in such proceedings may&lt;br /&gt;
be acquitted of such infringement, and may be entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
the costs of resisting the proceedings, if he proves to the&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction of the court that he has in his possession a copy&lt;br /&gt;
of the book containing such dramatio or musical work, and&lt;br /&gt;
that such copy was published with the assent of the owner&lt;br /&gt;
of the copyright, and does not contain the notice required&lt;br /&gt;
by this Act of the reservation of the performing right; but&lt;br /&gt;
in any such case the owner of the performing right, if he is&lt;br /&gt;
not also the owner of the copyright, shall be entitled to&lt;br /&gt;
recover from the owner of the copyright damages in respect&lt;br /&gt;
of the injury he may have incurred by the neglect of the&lt;br /&gt;
owner of the copyright to cause due notice to be given of&lt;br /&gt;
the reservation of the performing right.&lt;br /&gt;
I find no such vexatious provisions in the case of&lt;br /&gt;
a work which is not dramatic in form. The result&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be this: that the theatrical possibilities&lt;br /&gt;
of a novel, which is not necessarily intended for&lt;br /&gt;
the stage, are automatically protected; whilst a&lt;br /&gt;
work the very form of which shows that it is&lt;br /&gt;
intended for the stage, if published as a book,&lt;br /&gt;
must be conspicuously labelled with such intention,&lt;br /&gt;
or it is at the mercy of any thief who comes along,&lt;br /&gt;
who is positively indemnified for his &ldquo;costs&rdquo; of&lt;br /&gt;
fighting the rightful owner! Let me put a case.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Second Mrs. Tanqueray&rdquo; is published as a&lt;br /&gt;
book. If, through inadvertence, a single copy&lt;br /&gt;
were issued without this label, the value of the&lt;br /&gt;
right of representation might be lost to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero for ever. This negotiable copy would&lt;br /&gt;
carry the right of representation on its face, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Pineru&amp;#039;s own original MS. might become so&lt;br /&gt;
much waste paper.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;THE SIXPENNY Book.&lt;br /&gt;
The Manchester Guardian has a few remarks&lt;br /&gt;
on my paper in last month&amp;#039;s Author concerning&lt;br /&gt;
the sixpenny book. The writer does not agree&lt;br /&gt;
with me. He says:&lt;br /&gt;
We should be inclined rather to think that a sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
edition of a new and successful writer&amp;#039;s first book may intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duce his work to many who would otherwise have ignored&lt;br /&gt;
it, but who may then think it worth while to bay his next&lt;br /&gt;
books in a dearer form or to order them from the libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
He also thinks that the sixpenny novel is&lt;br /&gt;
bought in the train in the place of a magazine or&lt;br /&gt;
a journal.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody, he says, who has any respectable&lt;br /&gt;
library is likely to put sixpenny books on his&lt;br /&gt;
shelves : he buys them to read and throw away.&lt;br /&gt;
He also says that I speak on the evidence of a&lt;br /&gt;
single bookseller.&lt;br /&gt;
It always does gond to hear an opposite&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. As to the above objections, I admit&lt;br /&gt;
that the production of a new and unknown&lt;br /&gt;
writer&amp;#039;s book in a sixpenny form might give him&lt;br /&gt;
the start that he wants. There is, however, an&lt;br /&gt;
objection in limine. No publisher will venture&lt;br /&gt;
to bring out a book by a new writer at sixpence.&lt;br /&gt;
The risk is too great: the public can hardly be&lt;br /&gt;
expected to buy, even at sixpence, the work of a&lt;br /&gt;
new and unknown writer to the number of some&lt;br /&gt;
40,000, which must be taken up in order to pay&lt;br /&gt;
expenses.&lt;br /&gt;
That a sixpenny book may be bought in a train&lt;br /&gt;
instead of a magazine or a paper is certainly possi.&lt;br /&gt;
ble: nay, it bappens every day and all day long.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody who has a respectable library, will put&lt;br /&gt;
sixpenny books on their shelves. That is also&lt;br /&gt;
true. But should we offer good books in such&lt;br /&gt;
garb as to be unfit for decent shelves ?&lt;br /&gt;
It is not one bookseller, but persons in the&lt;br /&gt;
book trade, publishers as well as booksellers, who&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 101 (#141) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
101&lt;br /&gt;
have spoken to me to this effect concerning the&lt;br /&gt;
fatal sixpenny book.&lt;br /&gt;
My objections remain :&lt;br /&gt;
1. People very soon get accustomed to pay six-&lt;br /&gt;
pence for a book and will not, if they can help it,&lt;br /&gt;
give more.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The low price encourages a low view of&lt;br /&gt;
literature. Who will value a thing that costs six-&lt;br /&gt;
pence, amuses for an hour, and then is thrown&lt;br /&gt;
away? How much does one value a sixpenny toy ?&lt;br /&gt;
3. The American example is still fresh in one&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
mind, where the market was flooded with sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
books&mdash;the best and most valued productions of&lt;br /&gt;
the best authors. The public bought them;&lt;br /&gt;
read them for amusement; read them uncritically&lt;br /&gt;
and carelessly; threw them away, and thought&lt;br /&gt;
no more about book or author.&lt;br /&gt;
4. I do not say that the sale of a sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
book always prevents the sale of a dearer book.&lt;br /&gt;
I do say, however, that in many, very many, cases&lt;br /&gt;
it does, and that it takes a great many sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
books to make up, either for publisher or author,&lt;br /&gt;
one six-shilling book.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Also I do say that the instance I recorded&lt;br /&gt;
where, at an important railway stall, I found&lt;br /&gt;
actually no new books at all except the sixpenny&lt;br /&gt;
book, is not a solitary case.&lt;br /&gt;
6. And I do say, also, that the experience of&lt;br /&gt;
the manager of that railway bookstall, to the&lt;br /&gt;
effect that no one would look at a book priced&lt;br /&gt;
higher than sixpence, is not a solitary experience.&lt;br /&gt;
I would also say this. I have received many&lt;br /&gt;
letters on this subject. I find that there is a&lt;br /&gt;
large class of people with very small incomes who&lt;br /&gt;
are delighted at the chance of getting good books&lt;br /&gt;
at so cheap a price. One cannot but feel the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest sympathy with these people. Their case&lt;br /&gt;
might surely be met by a simple limitation of the&lt;br /&gt;
sixpenny issue to books which have stood the test&lt;br /&gt;
of time--say, for ten or fifteen years. Books in&lt;br /&gt;
demand after that time are pretty sure to be good&lt;br /&gt;
books, while their sale at so low a price would not&lt;br /&gt;
probably affect the sale of the new and higher&lt;br /&gt;
priced candidates for success.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
lawfully published in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions&lt;br /&gt;
other than Canada, and if it is proved to the satisfaction of&lt;br /&gt;
the Minister of Agriculture that the owner of the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
so subsisting and of the copyright acquired by such publi.&lt;br /&gt;
cation has lawfully granted a license to reproduce in Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
from movable or other types, or from stereotype plates, or&lt;br /&gt;
from electro-plates, or from lithograph stones, or by any&lt;br /&gt;
process for facsimile reproduction, an edition or editions of&lt;br /&gt;
such book designed for sale only in Canada, the Minister&lt;br /&gt;
may, notwithstanding anything in the Copyright Act, by&lt;br /&gt;
order under his hand, prohibit the importation, except with&lt;br /&gt;
the written consent of the licensee, into Canada of any&lt;br /&gt;
copies of such book printed elsewhere ; provided that two&lt;br /&gt;
such copies may be specially imported for the bona fide use&lt;br /&gt;
of any public free library or any university or college&lt;br /&gt;
library, or for the library of any duly incorporated instita.&lt;br /&gt;
tion or society for the use of the members of such institu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion or society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Suspension or revocation of prohibition.-The Minister&lt;br /&gt;
of Agriculture may at any time in like manner, by order&lt;br /&gt;
under his hand, suspend or revoke such prohibition upon&lt;br /&gt;
importation if it is proved to his satisfaction that,&lt;br /&gt;
(a) the license to reproduce in Canada has torminated or&lt;br /&gt;
expired; or&lt;br /&gt;
(6) the reasonable demand for the book in Canada is not&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently met without importation; or&lt;br /&gt;
(c) the book is not, having regard to the demand therefor&lt;br /&gt;
in Canada, being suitably printed or published; or&lt;br /&gt;
(d) any other state of things exists on account of which it&lt;br /&gt;
is not in the public interest to further prohibit&lt;br /&gt;
importation.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Failure of licensee to supply book. -At any time after&lt;br /&gt;
the importation of a book has been prohibited under&lt;br /&gt;
section 1 of this Act, any person resident or being in&lt;br /&gt;
Canada may apply, either directly or through a bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
or other agent, to the person so licensed to reproduce such&lt;br /&gt;
book, for a copy of any edition of such book then on sale&lt;br /&gt;
and reasonably obtainable in the United Kingdom or some&lt;br /&gt;
other part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions, and it shall then be&lt;br /&gt;
the duty of the person so licensed, as soon as reasonably&lt;br /&gt;
may be, to import and sell such copy to the person so&lt;br /&gt;
applying therefor, at the ordinary selling price of such copy&lt;br /&gt;
in the United Kingdom or such other part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
dominions, with the duty and reasonable forwarding charges&lt;br /&gt;
added ; and the failure or neglect, without lawful excuse, of&lt;br /&gt;
the person so licensed to supply such copy within a reason.&lt;br /&gt;
able time, shall be a reason for which the Minister may, if&lt;br /&gt;
he sees fit, suspend or revoke the prohibition upon impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tation.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Customs Department to be notified.-The Minister&lt;br /&gt;
sball forth with inform the Department of Customs of any&lt;br /&gt;
order made by him ander this Act.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Penalty for unlawful importation.-All books im-&lt;br /&gt;
ported in contravention of this Act may be seized by any&lt;br /&gt;
officer of Customs, and shall be forfeited to the Crown and&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed; and any person importing, or causing or per-&lt;br /&gt;
mitting the importation, of any book in contravention of&lt;br /&gt;
this Act shall, for each offence, be liable, upon summary&lt;br /&gt;
conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.&lt;br /&gt;
It is almost impossible to overrate the import-&lt;br /&gt;
ance of the Act from the point of view of Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
copyright. Articles have been from time to time&lt;br /&gt;
printed in The Author dealing exhaustively with&lt;br /&gt;
the history of Canadian copyright and the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian book trade. In these the practical ruin&lt;br /&gt;
of the Canadian book trade by the Foreign&lt;br /&gt;
Reprints Act, and the subsequent struggle by the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian printer and the Canadian trades under&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT Act.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the text of the Canadian&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act passed on July 18, 1900 :&lt;br /&gt;
63 &amp;amp; 64 VICTORIA, CHAP. 25.&lt;br /&gt;
An Act to amend the Copyright Act.- Assented to 18th&lt;br /&gt;
July, 1900.]&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the&lt;br /&gt;
Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:&lt;br /&gt;
1. In case of license to reprint book copyrighted in United&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom or British possession, Minister may prohibit im.&lt;br /&gt;
portation of other reprints. If a book as to which there is&lt;br /&gt;
subsisting copyright under the Copyright Act has been first&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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102&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the leadership of Sir John Thompson, have also THE PENSION FUND OF THE INCORPO-&lt;br /&gt;
been reviewed. It has been demonstrated that RATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
the passing of the American Copyright Law,&lt;br /&gt;
falsely supposed to injure the Canadians, in M HE scheme of the Pension Fund as finally&lt;br /&gt;
reality was the turning point in favour of the settled was printed in the July number of&lt;br /&gt;
book trade, and that the refusal of the Canadian - The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Government to collect royalties under the Foreign The Committee now desire to inform the&lt;br /&gt;
Reprints Act gave that trade an additional members of the Society that the fund is legally&lt;br /&gt;
impetus. Those who care to study the reasons constituted, and hasten to acknowledge the&lt;br /&gt;
for these deductions are referred to the past valuable suggestions that were received prior to&lt;br /&gt;
numbers of The Author. One point, however, its final settlement.&lt;br /&gt;
was wanting to secure a completely satisfactory Mr. J. M. Lely, Mr. E. Clodd, and Mr. Douglas&lt;br /&gt;
settlement, namely, legislation by the Canadian W. Freshfield have kindly consented to act as&lt;br /&gt;
Government along the right lines. Sir John trustees of the Fund, and have signed all the&lt;br /&gt;
Thompson had fought the cause of the printer deeds necessary to confirm their appointment.&lt;br /&gt;
and the tradesman against the author whose The Pension Fund Committee will be appointed,&lt;br /&gt;
property was being much dealt with.&lt;br /&gt;
as provided by the scheme, at the next annual&lt;br /&gt;
Did Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet desire general meeting. Notice will be given in The&lt;br /&gt;
to adopt a similar point of view ?&lt;br /&gt;
Author as to the method of nominating candi-&lt;br /&gt;
There were two aspects to this question : (1) dates, and it is hoped that a large number of the&lt;br /&gt;
The Imperial and International; (2) the Cana members of the Society will show their interest&lt;br /&gt;
dian. If Sir John Thompson&amp;#039;s methods were in the scheme by voting on that occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
followed it appeared clear that the present The following details as to the present position&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial and International legislation would of the Fund will be of interest to the members :&lt;br /&gt;
become chaotic, and that any future beneficial The sum total of donations promised and paid&lt;br /&gt;
legislation would be indefinitely postponed. To amounts to &pound;1169 48. 6d. Of this total nearly&lt;br /&gt;
counteract this the supposed benefit to the &pound;1000 has been received, and by far the greater&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian would be in reality but a fresh disaster. portion is already invested in the names of the&lt;br /&gt;
Four or five years ago, before the present Govern trustees.&lt;br /&gt;
ment in Canada came into power, the Committee The sum total of annual subscriptions amounts&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors saw clearly that the to &pound;94 138.&lt;br /&gt;
settlement of the Canadian question involved the It is calculated that the investment of the&lt;br /&gt;
larger issue, and accordingly struggled to get donations will produce about &pound;30 a year; this sum,&lt;br /&gt;
the matter satisfactorily settled. In 1895 Mr. together with the proportion of subscriptions&lt;br /&gt;
Hall Caine consented at the request of the available for pensions under the scheme, will make&lt;br /&gt;
Committee to act as the Society&amp;#039;s delegate in the total amount available about &pound;60.&lt;br /&gt;
Canada. The position that Mr. Caine combated In this calculation, however, no margin is&lt;br /&gt;
was, however, subsequently altered owing to the allowed for working expenses, and it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
sudden death of Sir John Thompson.&lt;br /&gt;
expected that services in connection with the Fund&lt;br /&gt;
Early in 1898 the Committee prepared an hitherto given gratuitously should not in the&lt;br /&gt;
exhaustive report on the question, and appointed future involve a charge on the Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. H. Thring, the Secretary of their Society, In any event it is hoped that the Pension Com-&lt;br /&gt;
to represent them on a mission to Canada.&lt;br /&gt;
mittee, when elected, will be in a position at once&lt;br /&gt;
A report of this mission and its object has been to allot a substantial pension. It is most desir-&lt;br /&gt;
printed in the October number of The Author, able that they should be able to grant at least one&lt;br /&gt;
and the above print of the Bill is all that is neces. other adequate pension immediately, besides&lt;br /&gt;
sary to complete the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
meeting all working expenses.&lt;br /&gt;
It may be confidently asserted that, owing to The establishment of the Fund has been re-&lt;br /&gt;
the steps which have been taken by Sir Wilfrid ceived with general approvement by&lt;br /&gt;
Laurier and his able colleague, Mr. Sydney but at present actual pecuniary support has&lt;br /&gt;
Fisher, in whose hands lies the copyright matter been given by a comparatively small number of&lt;br /&gt;
in Canada, the Imperial Government will be persons.&lt;br /&gt;
free to take up Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, which has The Committee would impress upon the Society&lt;br /&gt;
the support in its main features of the authors the desirability of widening the field of support,&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers of Great Britain, and, it it hoped, not merely from the point of view of increasing&lt;br /&gt;
of the Colonial Governments also. If this result the Fund, but of identifying the Society at large&lt;br /&gt;
is obtained a great advance will have been made with this effort to provide for deserving, but com-&lt;br /&gt;
in the history of copyright legislation.&lt;br /&gt;
mercially unsuccessful, authors.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
103&lt;br /&gt;
Annual subscriptions from 58. and upwards are&lt;br /&gt;
cordially invited, and should be notified to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary without delay.&lt;br /&gt;
They may be paid together with the annual&lt;br /&gt;
subscriptions either by banker&amp;#039;s order (which is&lt;br /&gt;
preferred) or direct to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, reprinted from The Author, may&lt;br /&gt;
be had on application to the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Great Exhibition is slowly drawing&lt;br /&gt;
towards its apogee-and its end. Inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national congresses are still its favourite&lt;br /&gt;
diversion. The memorandum of the five days&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
International Peace Congress included the pass.&lt;br /&gt;
ing of a vote of censure on Great Britain for her&lt;br /&gt;
action in South Africa. Among other speakers.&lt;br /&gt;
the well-known French writer Mme. S&eacute;verine&lt;br /&gt;
delivered an address with her usual eloquent&lt;br /&gt;
volubility. She declared herself struck by the&lt;br /&gt;
despondent tone which prevailed among the&lt;br /&gt;
orators present.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;What matter if the present escape us?&rdquo; cried&lt;br /&gt;
she. &ldquo;An invisible harvest is sprouting. The&lt;br /&gt;
words of Peace and Justice have penetrated the&lt;br /&gt;
deepest strata of humanity. Let us continue our&lt;br /&gt;
labour, as did those generations of slaves who&lt;br /&gt;
constructed the Pyramids without knowing what&lt;br /&gt;
form they would one day have. We shall not&lt;br /&gt;
house the harvest, certes. What does that&lt;br /&gt;
matter? If only a single ear of corn one day&lt;br /&gt;
sprouts on our tombs, we shall be sufficiently&lt;br /&gt;
paid for having believed and willed !&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Apropos of the other international assemblages&lt;br /&gt;
-the Congress of Spiritualists, patronised by MM.&lt;br /&gt;
Anatole France and Victorien Sardou, aroused&lt;br /&gt;
much interest among the initiated. The pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ceedings of the Women&amp;#039;s Congress were generally&lt;br /&gt;
remarkable for their sobriety of speech and&lt;br /&gt;
logical perception of the end in view, while the&lt;br /&gt;
papers read at the Sociology Congress were&lt;br /&gt;
highly interesting from a technical point of view.&lt;br /&gt;
The next Sociology Congress will be held at&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow; and the memoranda forwarded by&lt;br /&gt;
foreigners unable to attend during the sittings of&lt;br /&gt;
the present congress will shortly be published by&lt;br /&gt;
M. Ren&eacute; Worms, secretary-general, in the Annales&lt;br /&gt;
de l&amp;#039;Institut International de Sociologie.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Coquelin, senior, is registering a golden&lt;br /&gt;
harvest for the Association des Artistes Drama&lt;br /&gt;
tiques by the personal sale of tickets for a grand&lt;br /&gt;
lottery on behalf of the superannuated female&lt;br /&gt;
members of the association of which he is pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sident. The Soci&eacute;te des Auteurs et Compositeurs&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatiques has also obtained an unexpected&lt;br /&gt;
stroke of good luck. In renewing his contract&lt;br /&gt;
with the committee of the latter society, M.&lt;br /&gt;
Antoine (director of the theatre of the same&lt;br /&gt;
name) spontaneously offered to raise the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
royalty from 10 to 12 per cent. Needless to add&lt;br /&gt;
that this generous proposition was gratefully&lt;br /&gt;
accepted by M. Sardou, president of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo; Patrie &rdquo; of the above celebrated drama-&lt;br /&gt;
tist will be one of the first plays performed in the&lt;br /&gt;
new Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise, which is expected to&lt;br /&gt;
open about Dec. 29. The building will be lit by&lt;br /&gt;
2500 electric lamps, which are reported to give a&lt;br /&gt;
light 25 per cent. stronger than that which&lt;br /&gt;
formerly illuminated the scene of this historic&lt;br /&gt;
building.&lt;br /&gt;
POPULAR PLAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
Meantime the &ldquo; Aiglon&rdquo; of M. Edmond&lt;br /&gt;
Rostand (Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Sarah Bernhardt) is enjoying&lt;br /&gt;
the phenomenal success which usually attends&lt;br /&gt;
that famous author&amp;#039;s productions. Its receipts&lt;br /&gt;
have already surpassed two million francs, show-&lt;br /&gt;
ing an average of 10,373 francs 15 cents per&lt;br /&gt;
performance. M. Rostand has recently quitted&lt;br /&gt;
Paris in accordance with his physician&amp;#039;s advice, in&lt;br /&gt;
order to recuperate his health by a temporary&lt;br /&gt;
residence at Cambo-les-Bains.&lt;br /&gt;
The respective revival of &ldquo; Le R&ecirc;ve&amp;quot; of M.&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Gallet (Op&eacute;ra Comique), adapted from M.&lt;br /&gt;
Zola&amp;#039;s celebrated novel of the same name, and of&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;Demi Vierges &rdquo; of M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost&lt;br /&gt;
(Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e Theatre), have likewise been drawing&lt;br /&gt;
crowded houses. M. Bruneau, the &ldquo;innovator&lt;br /&gt;
and iconoclast who has proscribed the cavatina&lt;br /&gt;
and arioso,&amp;quot; is responsible for the superb music&lt;br /&gt;
which accompanies the former play. He is also&lt;br /&gt;
the ardent friend and disciple of M. Zola, for&lt;br /&gt;
whom he avows &ldquo;an unbounded admiration and&lt;br /&gt;
a filial affection.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is by reading Zola&amp;#039;s works&lt;br /&gt;
that I have understood my vocation,&amp;quot; he remarked&lt;br /&gt;
on one occasion. &ldquo;It is Zola who made me com-&lt;br /&gt;
prehend that it was possible to attempt in music&lt;br /&gt;
what he has himself realised in literature.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
first performance of the &ldquo; Assommoir&rdquo; of the&lt;br /&gt;
latter author is announced for November i at the&lt;br /&gt;
Porte-Saint-Martin theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, the author of the &ldquo;Demi&lt;br /&gt;
Vierges,&amp;quot; is one of the most popular writers in&lt;br /&gt;
Paris. None have better understood, or more&lt;br /&gt;
finely portrayed, the mysteries of the complex&lt;br /&gt;
heart and mind of the Parisienne fin de si&egrave;cle.&lt;br /&gt;
As a psychological vivisectionist of the feminine&lt;br /&gt;
mind he occupies a unique position in French&lt;br /&gt;
literature. M. Bourget analyses the past and&lt;br /&gt;
present, while M. Pr&eacute;vost develops the types of&lt;br /&gt;
the future.&lt;br /&gt;
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104&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
A MORTUARY PARAGRAPH.&lt;br /&gt;
writer over the minds of his readers. Under&lt;br /&gt;
Three deaths have been deplored in literary these circumstances it is not surprising that the&lt;br /&gt;
circles during the past month :-&lt;br /&gt;
latest volume of the &ldquo; Oeuvres compl&egrave;tes&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That of M. Adolphe Hatzfield, &ldquo; docteur d&rsquo;Alphonse Daudet &rdquo; (issued by M. A. Houssiaux)&lt;br /&gt;
&egrave;s lettres &rdquo; and professor of rhetoric at the Louis should be reported as having a brisk sale. It is&lt;br /&gt;
le-Grand College, who had the happiness to survive cleverly illustrated by M. Dawant. Alphonse&lt;br /&gt;
until the publication of his monumental achieve Daudet particularly insisted on the necessity of&lt;br /&gt;
ment, &ldquo; Le Dictionnaire de la langue Fran&ccedil;aise,&rdquo; absolute exactitude in the reproduction of a&lt;br /&gt;
which has recently been awarded a Grand Prix personage in print, &ldquo;jusqu &agrave; la couleur des&lt;br /&gt;
by the Exhibition commissioners. At the date cheveux, &agrave; la forme du nez, &agrave; un tic, &agrave; une&lt;br /&gt;
when he commenced this work (in collaboration grimace qui semblent n&eacute;cessaires, indispensables&lt;br /&gt;
with MM. Thomas and Darmesteter), M. Hatz. &agrave; la silhouette !&rdquo; Nature&mdash;that marvellous artist&lt;br /&gt;
field counted on finishing it in three years. The -in accentuating a character (so he asserted) com-&lt;br /&gt;
undertaking, however, proved more arduous than pleted the physical by the moral in such a manner&lt;br /&gt;
be anticipated. Nearly thirty years have expired that the least modification appeared a trickery.&lt;br /&gt;
between the commencement and conclusion of this The individual type carries with him son mobilier,&lt;br /&gt;
Herculean labour, begun in 1870. M. Hatzfield, ses v&ecirc;tements, sa mani&egrave;re, tout son cadre!&lt;br /&gt;
who was of Hebrew origin, had attained the It is this absolute fidelity to nature, this&lt;br /&gt;
mature age of seventy-five years.&lt;br /&gt;
masterly reproduction of outline and colouring&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Likewise of Hebrew origin was the gentle united to a poetical imagination, which have won&lt;br /&gt;
poet Louis Ratisbonne, who died at the ancient Alphonse Daudet the high place he occupies&lt;br /&gt;
Palais de Luxembourg (Palais du Senat), where among modern French writers.&lt;br /&gt;
he filled the post of librarian. Colleague and Two new busts have, likewise, been voted by&lt;br /&gt;
friend of Leconte de Lisle, Charles Edmond. the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. The first to&lt;br /&gt;
Anatole France, Albert Sorel, Jules Janin, and a M. E. Hamel, whose efforts have greatly benefited&lt;br /&gt;
host of other celebrities; author of &ldquo; La Com&eacute;die the society; the second to M. Emile Richebourg,&lt;br /&gt;
Enfantine.&rdquo; &ldquo; Les Petites Femmes.&amp;quot; ~ Les Petits the popular novelist. The statue of Balzac&lt;br /&gt;
Hommes,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les Figures Jeunes,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les Six (modelled by Falqui&egrave;re) will shortly be erected in&lt;br /&gt;
Alsaciennes,&amp;quot; and other poems of merit, he still the Place du Palais Royal, in front of the&lt;br /&gt;
counted among his proudest distinctions that of Minist&egrave;re des Finances.&lt;br /&gt;
being the friend and testamentary executor of&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred de Vigny, and the editor of the latter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
BULLETINS DE SANT&Eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
two posthumous works respectively entitled Mme. Juliette Adam has recovered her usual&lt;br /&gt;
Les Destin&eacute;es&rdquo; and &ldquo; Le Journal d&amp;#039;un Po&egrave;te.&rdquo; health, and is now intent on launching a new fort-&lt;br /&gt;
In his own last testament (dated Feb. 15, 1900) nightly publication entitled Parole Fran&ccedil;aise &agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Ratisbonne directed that his mortal l&amp;#039;&eacute;tranger, in which she proposes dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
remains should be incinerated and placed in an foreign politics and other interesting topics.&lt;br /&gt;
urn surmounted by a stela. He further added Previous to her temporary retirement, Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
that if this urn were taken to the Montmartre Adam occupied the post of editress of the&lt;br /&gt;
cemetery and placed as near as possible to the Nouvelle Revue during a period of twenty years.&lt;br /&gt;
tomb of his friend and benefactor, the great poet M. Henri de Regnier, who has been suffering&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred de Vigny, his shade would rest content from congestion of the lungs, is reported con-&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) His unfortunate brother-poet, Gabriel valescent. His illness is attributed to overwork,&lt;br /&gt;
Vicaire, generally known as the author of and the fatigues incurred during his American&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; &Eacute;maux Bressans,&amp;quot; died in a maison de sant&eacute; in trip. According to the New York papers, M.&lt;br /&gt;
Montsouris Park, aged fifty-two years. Highly Gaston Deschamps will be the next French&lt;br /&gt;
appreciated by his literary comrades, his best pro lecturer at the Harvard University, under whose&lt;br /&gt;
ductions remained comparatively unknown to the auspices he will deliver eight lectures on &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
multitude. He was also the author of several Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Contemporain.&rdquo; M. Deschamps proposes&lt;br /&gt;
successful plays and of a satirical work entitled leaving Paris in the beginning of February and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Les D&eacute;liquescences d&amp;#039;Ador&eacute; Floupette,&amp;quot; which returning about the middle of May, employing&lt;br /&gt;
enjoyed great popularity.&lt;br /&gt;
the intervening time in lecturing in the principal&lt;br /&gt;
American universities.&lt;br /&gt;
M. ALPHONSE DAUDET.&lt;br /&gt;
The large number of subscriptions already&lt;br /&gt;
New Books.&lt;br /&gt;
received by the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres for Among interesting publications of the month&lt;br /&gt;
the erection of an Alphonse Daudet monument will be found :-&ldquo; &Eacute;tudes sur l&amp;#039;Esth&eacute;tique Musi-&lt;br /&gt;
shows the influence still wielded by the defunct cale,&rdquo; by M. Ch. Grandmougin, a volume com-&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 105 (#145) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; 105&lt;br /&gt;
mencing with the Ancient Greeks and ending&lt;br /&gt;
with the great French and German composers of&lt;br /&gt;
our own day; a volume of soliloquies entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Dol&eacute;ances,&rdquo; by Jehan Rictus, a work suitable&lt;br /&gt;
for those readers who do not disdain &ldquo; le spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tacle des plus hideux bas-fonds sociaux&rdquo;;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Corridas de Toros,&amp;quot; by M. D. Cialdine, a&lt;br /&gt;
book whose title sufficiently explains its subject&lt;br /&gt;
(Soci&eacute;t&eacute; libre d&amp;#039;&eacute;dition des Gens de Lettres);&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; S&eacute;r&eacute;nissime,&amp;quot; by M. Ernest La Jeunesse, a&lt;br /&gt;
highly improbable narrative reputed to be a&lt;br /&gt;
roman &agrave; clef (chez Charpentier); &ldquo; Croquis&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;outre-Manche,&amp;quot; being the outcome of the obser-&lt;br /&gt;
vations and investigations nade for that purpose&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Hector France during his stay in England;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; La Trilogie d&amp;#039;Amour,&rdquo; a posthumous poem&lt;br /&gt;
edited by the family of a deceased young poet&lt;br /&gt;
and painter of great promise, M. Marin Follet.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
that the writer would try again. He wrote soon&lt;br /&gt;
after reporting renewed failure, and proposed to&lt;br /&gt;
publish the volume himself if the author would&lt;br /&gt;
take &pound;15 worth of orders for the book at 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
and guarantee another &pound;15 in the event of the&lt;br /&gt;
sales to the public not amounting to so much. He&lt;br /&gt;
obtained a third sum of money out of the author&lt;br /&gt;
for alterations and additious. The book came out.&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody bought a copy, and Mr. Morgan is now&lt;br /&gt;
threatening Mr. N. with legal proceedings for the&lt;br /&gt;
recovery of &pound;15. Iu other words, he wants to get&lt;br /&gt;
altogether &pound;35 for the book. The editor of Truth&lt;br /&gt;
says that he has seen the book, and taken estimates&lt;br /&gt;
of the cost of production, and that &pound;25 would&lt;br /&gt;
fully pay the cost of an edition of 500 copies.&lt;br /&gt;
But has he printed and bound 500 copies ?&lt;br /&gt;
Probably he has printed and bound about 100&lt;br /&gt;
- the unfortunate author taking &pound;15 worth,&lt;br /&gt;
or eighty-six copies.&lt;br /&gt;
Truth proceeds to point out that the whole trans-&lt;br /&gt;
action is a swindle. The author has been induced&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
to believe that there will be no profits until &pound;30&lt;br /&gt;
worth has been sold. But there will then already&lt;br /&gt;
IT is now eight years since the exposure by be a profit in the publisher&amp;#039;s hands. Next, the book&lt;br /&gt;
1 Truth of a gang who preyed on the credulous never had a chance of making a profitable sale, a&lt;br /&gt;
by means of a bogus &ldquo;Literary Association&rdquo; thing which Morgan must have i nown very well.&lt;br /&gt;
led to the trial and conviction of the principals. The idea that a collection of trifles by an unknown&lt;br /&gt;
The leader, one Morgan, was sentenced to eight author will sell at all is ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;
years penal servitude, the severity of the sentence&lt;br /&gt;
marking the heinousness of the offence. Morgan&lt;br /&gt;
is now reported to be out again, and to have&lt;br /&gt;
I quite agree with every word. I would, how-&lt;br /&gt;
returned without any delay to his old courses.&lt;br /&gt;
ever, point out that another form of the trick,&lt;br /&gt;
He is said to have started another &ldquo; Literary&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
which we have exposed over and over again, is&lt;br /&gt;
society. Membership means a guinea a year:&lt;br /&gt;
quite as dishonest. The way of it is this (for&lt;br /&gt;
in return the &ldquo; proprietor&rdquo; kindly offers to&lt;br /&gt;
the hundredth time): A writer sends his MS. to&lt;br /&gt;
place the MSS. of authors before publishers&lt;br /&gt;
one of the worthy merchants who live by this&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;who pay from &pound;50 to &pound;200 for reliable&lt;br /&gt;
and similar methods. He receives back a reply-&lt;br /&gt;
three - volume novels.&rdquo; Observe that since&lt;br /&gt;
almost always in these words :&lt;br /&gt;
his seclusion the three-volume novel has become&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Our reader reports so favourably of your&lt;br /&gt;
extinct; as they do not supply the daily and&lt;br /&gt;
MS. that we are induced to offer you the follow-&lt;br /&gt;
weekly papers in the mansion where Morgan&lt;br /&gt;
ing favourable terms. You to pay us &pound;75 (or&lt;br /&gt;
spent his eight years he may be excused for not&lt;br /&gt;
any other fancy figure)-half on signing the agree-&lt;br /&gt;
knowing the fact. However, the &ldquo;proprietor&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ment, and the other half on receiving the first&lt;br /&gt;
saves himself by offering to place other and&lt;br /&gt;
proofs (or some other time). This will constitute&lt;br /&gt;
shorter stories, music, paintings, &amp;amp;c. He also&lt;br /&gt;
your sole liability. We will undertake all future&lt;br /&gt;
proposes to found a magazine for the contri-&lt;br /&gt;
editions to meet the demand, and we will divide&lt;br /&gt;
butions of his members. This is all in the old&lt;br /&gt;
the profits, giving you two-thirds and taking one-&lt;br /&gt;
style co inuch admired by the judge in the year&lt;br /&gt;
third to ourselves.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
1892. Truth has begun a new exposure of this&lt;br /&gt;
Sometimes they offer the author apparently&lt;br /&gt;
worthy. It gives the particulars of one case,&lt;br /&gt;
much better terms, and they generally end with&lt;br /&gt;
which is as follows.&lt;br /&gt;
these words : &ldquo;We shall be glad to have your&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance of this offer, and to put the work in&lt;br /&gt;
A member of this precious society named N. hand at once. We have proved that the month of&lt;br /&gt;
confided a MS. to the proprietor. After a short&lt;br /&gt;
is the best time of the year for publishing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
delay, he received a note speaking in high praise&lt;br /&gt;
of the work, lamenting the &ldquo;blindness &rdquo; of pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, and stating that it had so far failed, but&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 106 (#146) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
106&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Observe that there are two or three houses literature may bring about the manufacture of books like&lt;br /&gt;
which do hardly any other kind of publishing, and&lt;br /&gt;
the manufacture of bicycles, and their distribution by&lt;br /&gt;
commercial travellers like the other products of the mana-&lt;br /&gt;
several which try the same game. The swindle is&lt;br /&gt;
facturers. In that case the publisher will have just the&lt;br /&gt;
the same as Morgan&amp;#039;s. They lead the author to same standing in the business world as any other manu-&lt;br /&gt;
believe that there will be further editions, and facturer, and will not impose upon the public any longer as&lt;br /&gt;
that there will be profits. Now they know per. a necessity in the literary field.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
fectly well that the MS. is in almost every case One remarks that the writer considers 10 per&lt;br /&gt;
pure rubbish, and absolutely certain not to sell any cent. the general royalty paid to authors. But&lt;br /&gt;
copies to speak of ; that there will be no future the English author in America does a great deal&lt;br /&gt;
editions ; and that there can be no profits. How better than that, while with us a 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
can we bring these creatures to justice ?&lt;br /&gt;
royalty could only be offered either to unknown&lt;br /&gt;
writers or under some exceptional conditions.&lt;br /&gt;
What is said about a time limit is well worth&lt;br /&gt;
There is at the office of the Society a collection consideration. The method has been adopted&lt;br /&gt;
of letters of this kind in which every month, by some authors already. But there is a danger&lt;br /&gt;
except one, is in turn alleged to be the best time which must be guarded against. The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
of the whole year for publishing.&lt;br /&gt;
even under a time agreement, claims the right of&lt;br /&gt;
selling off what remains. He may even, unless&lt;br /&gt;
prevented, issue a new edition immediately before&lt;br /&gt;
Another merry trickster&amp;#039;s game is this. The the termination of his time, and go on selling&lt;br /&gt;
publisher makes the author guarantee a sale of this edition until it has run out.&lt;br /&gt;
so many hundred copies in so many months-say&lt;br /&gt;
400 in six months&mdash;or the difference between the&lt;br /&gt;
number sold and that number. Sometimes he&lt;br /&gt;
Literature (Oct. 27) reports that in Belgium,&lt;br /&gt;
offers a small royalty on a second edition. But under the title &ldquo;Ligue pour le Livre Belge,&amp;quot; a&lt;br /&gt;
he never says anything about the first edition. society is being founded which, by means of sub-&lt;br /&gt;
There is nothing to prevent him, if the book scriptions, will assure a regular reading public&lt;br /&gt;
should have a circulation, from making his first&lt;br /&gt;
in their own country to Belgian authors. The&lt;br /&gt;
edition any number he pleases : the author will&lt;br /&gt;
new league will supplement the lending library,&lt;br /&gt;
have nothing out of it. And suppose he chooses&lt;br /&gt;
and enable the public to buy new works more&lt;br /&gt;
to begin advertising six months after the work is frequently. It has secured the patronage and&lt;br /&gt;
nominally produced. What then? Who is to&lt;br /&gt;
co-operation of &ldquo; nearly all the foremost men of&lt;br /&gt;
stop him ? Morgan! Hapless Morgan! It is literature and art.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
an unequal world. Thy fate was hard. Skilly&lt;br /&gt;
and a narrow cell and an un&aelig;sthetic prison Two members of the Committee of Management&lt;br /&gt;
chapel, while thy brother in tricks and traps goes of the Society of Authors have been elected to&lt;br /&gt;
attired in broadcloth to a lovely church and, the new Parliament. Mr. Gilbert Parker won&lt;br /&gt;
after the service, home to roast beef and pudding! Gravesend for the Conservative party by a&lt;br /&gt;
majority of 738 over the Liberal candidate; and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Norman captured for the Liberals&lt;br /&gt;
The following is an extract from a letter by a the constituency of Wolverhampton (South),&lt;br /&gt;
distinguished American author:-&lt;br /&gt;
gaining a majority of 169 votes over his Liberal&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I certainly do not think our own publishers, the best of Unionist opponent. Both gentlemen enter&lt;br /&gt;
them, have been as grasping and greedy as yours, but they&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament for the first time. Let us wish them&lt;br /&gt;
bave fallen into the habit of considering the author as their&lt;br /&gt;
own private property, to be exploited for the pecuniary&lt;br /&gt;
all the success that they can desire in this new&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of the publisher. As you know, our pretty uniform&lt;br /&gt;
field.&lt;br /&gt;
practice in this country is for the author to receive 10 per&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
cent. on the retail price of all books sold. Some of the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers reckon this to be equal to half profits, and I&lt;br /&gt;
fancy that in rendering the half-profit account they would&lt;br /&gt;
make it come to about 10 percent. I think our main&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty here would be met largely if we could return to the&lt;br /&gt;
old practice of letting the publisher print a certain number&lt;br /&gt;
of books or for a certain period of time, and let the author&lt;br /&gt;
resume control at the end of it. Doubtless the publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
a necessary factor in a country the size of oars, and I see&lt;br /&gt;
at present no way of eliminating him, especially as the&lt;br /&gt;
bookseller himself has practically disappeared as an intel.&lt;br /&gt;
ligent agent and become a mere dealer in Yankee notions&lt;br /&gt;
and periodicals; but the present commercial tendency in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 107 (#147) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
107&lt;br /&gt;
THE FOUR WINDS.&lt;br /&gt;
work. &ldquo; Cheap and Nasty &amp;quot; is the burden of the&lt;br /&gt;
song.&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the North,&lt;br /&gt;
Now, sir, although all may be &ldquo;fair in love and&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the Norland onows,&lt;br /&gt;
war,&rdquo; the commonest of &ldquo; Cheap Jacks&rdquo; would&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the winnowed skies, and sbarp, clear stars, --&lt;br /&gt;
scorn the idea of comparing his wares with those&lt;br /&gt;
Blow cold and keen across the naked bills,&lt;br /&gt;
of his pal over the way. Is it not enough that&lt;br /&gt;
And crisp the lowland pools with crystal films,&lt;br /&gt;
And blar the casement squares with glittering ice,&lt;br /&gt;
his own are dirt cheap at double the price? And&lt;br /&gt;
But go not near my love.&lt;br /&gt;
yet, from some singular oversight, you permit a&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the West,&lt;br /&gt;
regular advertiser, as aforesaid, not only to vaunt&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the few, far clouds,&lt;br /&gt;
the superiority of his typing over that of a&lt;br /&gt;
Wiod of the gold and crimson sunset lands,&lt;br /&gt;
brother struggler for a livelihood, but to vilify&lt;br /&gt;
Blow fresh and pare across the peaks and plaine,&lt;br /&gt;
the latter&amp;#039;s unseen fruit of toil as necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
And broaden the blae spaces of the beavens,&lt;br /&gt;
inaccurate and illiterate. Why? Because the&lt;br /&gt;
And sway the grasses and the mountain pines,&lt;br /&gt;
But let my dear one rest.&lt;br /&gt;
price of 8d. per 1000 is ruinous to his market,&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the East,&lt;br /&gt;
forsooth! Perhaps this Academical typer is not&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the sunrise Beas,&lt;br /&gt;
aware that even our self-willed Kaiser of yore,&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the clinging inists and gray, harsh rains,-- Harry VIII., egregiously failed in an attempt to&lt;br /&gt;
Blow moist and chill across the wastes of brine,&lt;br /&gt;
regulate the price of labour. Who, then, is&lt;br /&gt;
And shut the sun out, and tbe moon and stars,&lt;br /&gt;
this rival to the most thorough-going ruler&lt;br /&gt;
And lash the boughs against the dripping eaves,&lt;br /&gt;
Yet keep thou from my love.&lt;br /&gt;
England ever had ?&lt;br /&gt;
Now it so happens that a corresponding crime&lt;br /&gt;
But thou, sweet wind !&lt;br /&gt;
Wind of the fragrant South,&lt;br /&gt;
--that of poverty-has brought me into contact&lt;br /&gt;
Wind from the bowers of jasmine and of rose, -&lt;br /&gt;
and fellowship with this daring interloper in the&lt;br /&gt;
Over magnolia blooms and lilied lakes&lt;br /&gt;
public market with the following result :-&lt;br /&gt;
And flowering forests come with dewy wings,&lt;br /&gt;
(1) Being an invalid and addicted to pencil&lt;br /&gt;
And stir the petals at her feet, and kiss&lt;br /&gt;
scribbling on any available scrap of paper, often&lt;br /&gt;
The low mound where she lies.&lt;br /&gt;
in a style of kakography that would make the&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES HENRY LUDERS.&lt;br /&gt;
cleverest compositor&amp;#039;s hair stand on end-the&lt;br /&gt;
The above poem appears in Mr. E. C. Stedman&amp;#039;s typist&amp;#039;s copy has been promptly returned without&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; American Anthology,&rdquo; a long-expected work a flaw, quite a picture of delight. This pencilled&lt;br /&gt;
which has just been published in the United scrawl with the typed copy is a too favourable&lt;br /&gt;
States. We take it from the Evening Post of case in point.&lt;br /&gt;
New York, which refers to the poem as &ldquo;an (2) I have further treated my poor, disabled&lt;br /&gt;
instance of the fine forgotten things&rdquo; that this brother tu transcribing work from books, involv.&lt;br /&gt;
Anthology brings to light again.&lt;br /&gt;
ing hieroglyphic references here, there, and every-&lt;br /&gt;
where; and it has been returned executed with&lt;br /&gt;
intelligent skill.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) I have sent him undecipherable letters from&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
learned scholars, and received them accurately&lt;br /&gt;
and sensibly rendered into legible English, and&lt;br /&gt;
all without a grumble.&lt;br /&gt;
1.-&ldquo; LIVE AND LET LIVE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Every atom of this I can prove in detail, and I&lt;br /&gt;
IT NOWING how well you merit the famous am willing, on my friend&amp;#039;s behalf, to challenge a&lt;br /&gt;
n motto, sans peur et sans reproche, I have competition by way of earnest of good faith as&lt;br /&gt;
full confidence in submitting a point of well as faith in a gentleman personally unknown&lt;br /&gt;
business etiquette to your notice. I refer to the to me. I have, however, heard that he is one of&lt;br /&gt;
newly appointed order of gens d&amp;#039;industrie that, those heroes of industry early struck down in the&lt;br /&gt;
for the sake of shortness and accuracy, may be battle of life by rheumatic fever, and yet toiling&lt;br /&gt;
called Typists or Typers-poetically authors&amp;#039; along, cheerfully and peacefully, to keep the wolf&lt;br /&gt;
blessings.&lt;br /&gt;
from the door-suffering under but one jarring&lt;br /&gt;
Naturally vour journal is a favourite organ for discord arising from the croaking of a jealous and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; bold advertisement,&rdquo; and equally so every probably prosperous rival. J. S. LAURIE.&lt;br /&gt;
vendor of bis wares is entitled to vaunt their un-&lt;br /&gt;
paralleled excellence and price to his or her heart&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
content. But it seems to me the bounds of fair&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;WHAT IS A Fair Price ?&lt;br /&gt;
competition are transgressed when pains are &ldquo;A Typist &amp;quot; sends me, as a proof that 8d. per&lt;br /&gt;
taken by one of your clients, actually without 1000 words is a common charge for copying ordi-&lt;br /&gt;
verification, to depreciate the character of a rival&amp;#039;s nary MS., six advertisements, cut from London&lt;br /&gt;
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108&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
daily papers, all offering work at that price. -turned a fact into fiction in the following&lt;br /&gt;
Another correspondent asks that The Author extract :-&lt;br /&gt;
would name a fair price. This is impossible, &ldquo;There is in London what is called a Society&lt;br /&gt;
manifestly. In all kinds of work, competition, of Authors, which is supposed to resemble the&lt;br /&gt;
supply, and demand regulate prices. I should Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres in Paris, but the&lt;br /&gt;
think that handwriting would have something to English society appears to be chiefly an associa-&lt;br /&gt;
do with the &ldquo;fair price&rdquo; of typing. For instance, tion for the multiplication and publication of&lt;br /&gt;
the handwriting of Dean Stanley was almost inferior works, and its authority on literature is&lt;br /&gt;
illegible. His friend, the late Sir George Grove, nil.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
put a great deal of his work through the Press. It is a pity that Ouida&amp;#039;s explorations in the&lt;br /&gt;
and was, I believe, the only man who was able, land of facts could only induce her to indite this&lt;br /&gt;
and that with difficulty, to read the MS. His monstrous fiction. Comment is unnecessary.&lt;br /&gt;
writing resembled the movements of a fly rescued&lt;br /&gt;
ISIDORE G. ASCHER.&lt;br /&gt;
from the ink. Surely, with such writing special&lt;br /&gt;
terms would be required. I can only advise the&lt;br /&gt;
obvious course that typewriters should continue&lt;br /&gt;
V.&ndash;For Nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
to charge a price that affords them a fair return&lt;br /&gt;
Does it not seem unfair that the rejected work&lt;br /&gt;
for their work as long as competition allows them of amateur authors is yet so frequently used by&lt;br /&gt;
to get it, and that writers who have every reason the editors of journals who set literary competi-&lt;br /&gt;
to be satisfied with the work done for them tions ?&lt;br /&gt;
should not strive to get it done. at starvation&lt;br /&gt;
Woman, a paper which had a reputation con.&lt;br /&gt;
prices. Above and beyond all others, writing siderably higher than that of any other feminine&lt;br /&gt;
persons ought to study the needs and necessities weekly, now offers a competition for a &ldquo;storyette.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of those who work for them.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B. The final rule asserts that the editor &ldquo;reserves&lt;br /&gt;
the right to use any story sent in for competition&lt;br /&gt;
that does not win a prize, as well as the prize-&lt;br /&gt;
III.-&mdash;&ldquo; Young&amp;quot; FICTION WRITERS AND THE winner&amp;#039;s.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
WAR FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely the least that can be done with rejected&lt;br /&gt;
Would you allow me through your columns to MSS. is to destroy them, and that any decent&lt;br /&gt;
thank those ladies and gentlemen who replied to editor should regard them as serviceable free&lt;br /&gt;
my letter (re the above heading) in the May &ldquo;copy&rdquo; is as unscrupulous a mode of business&lt;br /&gt;
number? A large number of contributions to as any other method of obtaining goods without&lt;br /&gt;
the proposed volume have now come in-many payment, I venture to think.&lt;br /&gt;
from well-known writers. Miss W. M. Willis-&lt;br /&gt;
Swan is kindly assisting me in the compilation&lt;br /&gt;
of the volume, and together we hope to bring it&lt;br /&gt;
to a successful issue. I should like all the&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
contributors to understand that if the scheme&lt;br /&gt;
eventually falls through, their MS. will be duly&lt;br /&gt;
T ORD ROSEBERY has been engaged for&lt;br /&gt;
returned to them; but the difficulties in our way&lt;br /&gt;
some time on a study of Napoleon during&lt;br /&gt;
may necessitate the retention of the contributions&lt;br /&gt;
the closing years of his life at St. Helena.&lt;br /&gt;
for some length of time.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is a volume to be published shortly,&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 5, 1900. James BAGNALL-STUBBS. entitled &ldquo; Napoleon : The Last Phase.&amp;quot; In one&lt;br /&gt;
of the sixteen chapters Lord Rosebery reviews&lt;br /&gt;
all the important books on the history of Bona-&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-Fact versus Fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
parte.&lt;br /&gt;
The fiction of Ouida has in its time held me Among the new books about to be issued from&lt;br /&gt;
spell-bound, and though the popularity of hosts the Oxford University Press are &ldquo; The Oxford&lt;br /&gt;
of modern novels have thrust her particular merits Book of English Verse, 1250-1900,&amp;quot; poems chosen&lt;br /&gt;
aside. the author of &ldquo;Held in Bondage &amp;quot; can and edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch, in two sizes,&lt;br /&gt;
still arrest and compel attention. Her romantic one edition being on Oxford India paper; &ldquo; An&lt;br /&gt;
Aights, her byways of adventure in the fields of English Miscellany,&amp;quot; presented to Dr. Furnivall&lt;br /&gt;
the novelist, her compact plots, her ideal heroes, in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday, and con-&lt;br /&gt;
the charm of her descriptions, and, above all, her tributed to by some fifty authorities in this&lt;br /&gt;
musical and rich rhetoric--all can still delight country and abroad on philology and early&lt;br /&gt;
and entertain the present generation. Unfortu. English literature; and &ldquo;Studies in Foreign&lt;br /&gt;
nately, however, this authoress, in a passage in Literature,&rdquo; being the Taylorian lectures, 1889-&lt;br /&gt;
her &ldquo;Critical Studies,&rdquo; has&mdash;inadvertently, I hope 1899, delivered by S. Mallarm&eacute;, W. Pater, W. P.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 109 (#149) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
[09&lt;br /&gt;
Ker, H. Brown, A. Morel Fatio, E. Dowden,&lt;br /&gt;
F. W. Rolleston, W. M. Rossetti, P. Bourget,&lt;br /&gt;
C. H. Herford, and H. Butler Clarke. The same&lt;br /&gt;
publishers have issued a charming pocket edition&lt;br /&gt;
of the early poems of Alfred Tennyson, set in very&lt;br /&gt;
clear type which is easy to read. All lovers of&lt;br /&gt;
Tennyson will be attracted by the beautiful&lt;br /&gt;
manner in which it is got up.&lt;br /&gt;
In consequence of the success of Miss Nora&lt;br /&gt;
Vynne&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo;The Priest&amp;#039;s Marriage,&rdquo; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Burleigh is trying a new experiment &mdash; that of&lt;br /&gt;
bringing out a cheap edition at 1s., concurrently&lt;br /&gt;
with a further edition of the six-shilling volume.&lt;br /&gt;
The cheap edition will be on thin paper, with a&lt;br /&gt;
ith a&lt;br /&gt;
pa per cover.&lt;br /&gt;
From New York comes the intelligence that&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. D. Howells will take charge of the &ldquo; Easy&lt;br /&gt;
Chair Department&rdquo; (an old feature revived) of&lt;br /&gt;
Harper&amp;#039;s Magazine, to whose publishers, Harper&lt;br /&gt;
and Brothers, he will become literary adviser.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Howells will also contribute a monthly&lt;br /&gt;
article on contemporary literary affairs to the&lt;br /&gt;
North American Review.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Brimley Johnson is just publishing an&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated volume of verses for schoolroom and&lt;br /&gt;
nursery by Miss Annie Matheson called &ldquo; Snow.&lt;br /&gt;
flakes and Snowdrops.&rdquo; The verses of this&lt;br /&gt;
collection run through a cycle of &ldquo; The Seasons,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and are illustrated with three sketches by Mr. F.&lt;br /&gt;
Carruthers Gould and numerous drawings by&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Winifred Hartley.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Theodore Martin&amp;#039;s biography of the late&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished shortly by Messrs. Blackwood, and is likely&lt;br /&gt;
to be of singular interest to the theatrical pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fession.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Mary F. S. Hervey has completed an&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated volume on Holbein&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Ambassadors,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
me on Holbein&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Ambassadors.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published soon by Messrs. Bell.&lt;br /&gt;
Two works which need not be expected for a&lt;br /&gt;
year or two are in progress. First, Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Dill is engaged on an historical work dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
the Flavian and Antonine periods. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Macmillan. Second, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Paget Toynbee is preparing a new edition of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Letters of Horace Walpole,&rdquo; which will include&lt;br /&gt;
a great deal of new correspondence. She appeals&lt;br /&gt;
to the possessors of letters to send them, or copies,&lt;br /&gt;
to her at Dorney Wood, Buro ham, Bucks. This&lt;br /&gt;
edition will be published by the Clarendon&lt;br /&gt;
Press.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Spencer Wilkinson has written, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Caton Woodville and Mr. Melton Prior have&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated, a popular history of the South African&lt;br /&gt;
War, which the Illustrated London News Com.&lt;br /&gt;
pany is about to issue&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Meynell has contributed an introductory&lt;br /&gt;
chapter to &ldquo;The Confessions of St. Augustine,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published by Mr. Grant Richards in&lt;br /&gt;
a few days as the first volume of a new &ldquo;Religious&lt;br /&gt;
Life&amp;quot; series.&lt;br /&gt;
A new volume of verse by Mr. Charles Whit-&lt;br /&gt;
worth Wynne, entitled &ldquo; Songs and Lyrics,&amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
be published shortly by Mr. Grant Richards.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Samuel Gordon has finished his new novel,&lt;br /&gt;
which he calls &ldquo; Sons of the Covenant.&rdquo; It is a&lt;br /&gt;
study of the main characteristics which have&lt;br /&gt;
helped the Jew to his position as a factor in&lt;br /&gt;
European society. Messrs. Sands will publish it&lt;br /&gt;
in a few days.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Whiteing&amp;#039;s articles on &ldquo; Paris of&lt;br /&gt;
To-Day,&amp;quot; which have been appearing in the&lt;br /&gt;
Century Magazine, will be published shortly in&lt;br /&gt;
volume form by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Spencer Ashbee bequeathed his&lt;br /&gt;
valuable collection of books to the British Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
The rarest things in it are the French books&lt;br /&gt;
printed in small editions for the members of&lt;br /&gt;
several short-lived &ldquo;bibliopbile&rdquo; clubs. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Ashbee, who died at Hawkhurst, Kent, three&lt;br /&gt;
months ago, was a wealthy City man for whom&lt;br /&gt;
book-collecting was a hobby. Many of the&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful French books had been specially&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated for him by eminent French book&lt;br /&gt;
artists.&lt;br /&gt;
An account of Abyssinia by Mr. A. B. Wylde,&lt;br /&gt;
who knows the country at first hand, will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs. Methuen.&lt;br /&gt;
lished by Messrs&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Joseph Conrad and Mr. Ford Madox&lt;br /&gt;
Hueffer are joint authors of a novel entitled &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Inheritors,&rdquo; which Mr. Heinemann is to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. Ashby Sterry is publishing through&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sands &agrave; volume containing thirty of&lt;br /&gt;
his papers on all kinds of topics. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
called &ldquo;The Bystander ; or, Leaves for the&lt;br /&gt;
Lazy,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss L. E. Tiddeman is about to publish&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Celia&amp;#039;s Conquest&rdquo; (Chambers, 28. 6d.); &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Apple of His Eye&rdquo; (Jarrold, 18. 6d.); and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Seeing is Believing&rdquo; (Nister, 9d.)&lt;br /&gt;
Naunton Davies, author of &ldquo; Chester Cress-&lt;br /&gt;
well &rdquo; and otber novels, has written a comedy&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Foiled,&rdquo; which has already been pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced at Llandilo with success. &ldquo;Foiled&rdquo; will&lt;br /&gt;
be acted in Cardiff in December, and will, it is&lt;br /&gt;
hoped, later be produced in London.&lt;br /&gt;
An interesting series of articles is at present&lt;br /&gt;
appearing in the Genealogical Magazine, on the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Descents, and in the recent numbers an&lt;br /&gt;
attempt has been made to trace out the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
the living descendants of Mary, Queen Consort of&lt;br /&gt;
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110&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
France, and Duchess of Suffolk, the younger&lt;br /&gt;
daughter of King Henry VII. Royal Descents&lt;br /&gt;
in this country are not uncommon, but nearly all&lt;br /&gt;
well-known ones are traced from the Plantagenet&lt;br /&gt;
kings, and a descent from the Princess Mary is&lt;br /&gt;
seldom put forward. Patience and care, however,&lt;br /&gt;
demonstrate that the descendants of this princess&lt;br /&gt;
must be numbered by hundreds. Already No. 300&lt;br /&gt;
has been passed, although little more than one-&lt;br /&gt;
twentieth part of the various lines of descent have&lt;br /&gt;
been followed up. Amongst those whose names&lt;br /&gt;
have been included up to the present are:&lt;br /&gt;
Baroness Kinloss, the heir of line and first in&lt;br /&gt;
seniority, Earl Temple, the Duke of Buccleuch,&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Dalkeith, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, the&lt;br /&gt;
Marchioness of Lothian, Lord Jedburgh, Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron of Lochiel, Lady Mary Trefusis, the&lt;br /&gt;
Earl of Courtown, Lord Stopford, Lady Mary&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley, Lady Grace Bridges, Lady Lily Conyng-&lt;br /&gt;
ham Greene, Col. J. F. Cust, Lady Hampson, the&lt;br /&gt;
Earl of Romney, Lady Florence Hare, and many&lt;br /&gt;
other well-known people.&lt;br /&gt;
The Spectator in a recent number discusses the&lt;br /&gt;
fitness of authors to be politicians, and sums up&lt;br /&gt;
the question as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
The modern novelist, in short, is ex hypothesi omniscient;&lt;br /&gt;
baving largely usurped the function of the dramatist, the&lt;br /&gt;
preacher, tbe pamphleteer, and the historian, he is bound to&lt;br /&gt;
krow a good deal about everything, from metaphysics and&lt;br /&gt;
the higher criticism to the manufacture of tin-tacks or the&lt;br /&gt;
method of pilchard fishing. Take the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
bousing of the poor, and where could you find a better&lt;br /&gt;
expert than Mr. Artbur Morrison ? Or if agricultural&lt;br /&gt;
de pression were the theme of discussion, who would be&lt;br /&gt;
better fitted to serve on a committee than Mr. Rider&lt;br /&gt;
Haggard ? Outside the ranks of trained engineers, wbo&lt;br /&gt;
would be better equipped to assist the inquiry into the&lt;br /&gt;
efficiency of machinery-say, water-tube boilers&mdash;than Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling? Lastly, for sane, stimulating, and businesslike&lt;br /&gt;
criticism of our military system, where can we look, even&lt;br /&gt;
among Service membere, for a better and sounder critic tban&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Conan Doyle? We are very far from contending that the&lt;br /&gt;
ability to produce a popular novel is a guarantee of Parlia&lt;br /&gt;
mentary capacity. But we assert without fear of con.&lt;br /&gt;
tradiction tbat the preparation involved in the writing of a&lt;br /&gt;
seriods novel dealing with tbe social problems of the bour&lt;br /&gt;
constitutes a far better claim to the confidence of the&lt;br /&gt;
electorate than the equipment of the company promoter or&lt;br /&gt;
the professional politician.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Grossmith, jun., and Mr. Yorke&lt;br /&gt;
Stephens have written a comic opera, &ldquo; The Gay&lt;br /&gt;
Pretenders,&rdquo; which will be produced at the Globe&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on Nov. 10. The music is by Mr. Claude&lt;br /&gt;
Nugent.&lt;br /&gt;
When the run of &ldquo;For Auld Lang Syne&amp;quot; is&lt;br /&gt;
terminated, Mr. Henry Hamilton&amp;#039;s version of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Three Musketeers&rdquo; will be produced at&lt;br /&gt;
the Lyceum by Mr. Mollison, with Mr. Lewis&lt;br /&gt;
Waller in his old part of D&amp;#039;Artagnan. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Waller will subsequently appear in a revival of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;King Henry V.&rdquo; at the same theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
During Mr. F. R. Benson&amp;#039;s Shakespearian&lt;br /&gt;
season at the Comedy eight plays will be produced&lt;br /&gt;
(including &ldquo;Coriolanus &amp;quot;), a fortnight being&lt;br /&gt;
given to each. The season lasts from Dec. 19 to&lt;br /&gt;
April 8.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Henry Irving, in opening the new Grand&lt;br /&gt;
Tneatre and Opera House at Woolwich on Oct. 18,&lt;br /&gt;
remarked that a well-conducted theatre was a&lt;br /&gt;
necessary adjunct to true civic life. Public&lt;br /&gt;
opinion in regard to the stage was governed on&lt;br /&gt;
the whole, he believed, by a robust common sense&lt;br /&gt;
which rejected the notion that the theatre, if&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to exist at all, should be a place where&lt;br /&gt;
human nature must not be exhibited.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Patience&rdquo; is to be revived at the Savoy on&lt;br /&gt;
Nor. 7, and will be played until the new comic&lt;br /&gt;
opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. Basil Hood&lt;br /&gt;
is ready.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hermann Vezin was entertained at dinner&lt;br /&gt;
by the Pen and Pencil Club of Glasgow on the&lt;br /&gt;
occasion of his jubilee as an actor. Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Provost Chisholm presided.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Savile Clarke&amp;#039;s adaptation of &amp;quot; Alice&lt;br /&gt;
in Wonderland,&rdquo; with music by Mr. Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Slaughter, will be revived at the Vaudeville&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre about the beginning of December.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. W. K. Clifford&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo;The Likeness of&lt;br /&gt;
the Night,&rdquo; was successfully produced at the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, on Oct. 18 by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. and Mrs. Kendal.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. R. C. Carton, in an interview which&lt;br /&gt;
appears in Cassell&amp;#039;s Saturday Journal for Oct. 10,&lt;br /&gt;
niakes the following statement in reply to the&lt;br /&gt;
question &ldquo;Is the aspiring author boycotted by&lt;br /&gt;
managers ??&lt;br /&gt;
I strongly resent the folly that is talked about the diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
culties a young writer experiences in securing a hearing. It&lt;br /&gt;
has always been a struggle to succeed at first, and it always&lt;br /&gt;
will be ; but in these days it is so obviously to the advan-&lt;br /&gt;
tage of the managers to break up the limited area of&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic writing that they are very keenly on the lookout&lt;br /&gt;
for anything that is worth having. The trouble is that&lt;br /&gt;
there is so much competition that managers have to make&lt;br /&gt;
their arrangements ahead, and, as you can perceive for&lt;br /&gt;
yourself, they can&amp;#039;t very well trust entirely to untried&lt;br /&gt;
authors. They go to the tried man because tbey feel more&lt;br /&gt;
safe in so doing. If an individaal&amp;#039;s leg is to be taken off,&lt;br /&gt;
be engages, if he can afford to do so, the best and most&lt;br /&gt;
expensive surgeon, even though others might perform the&lt;br /&gt;
operation equally well, and certainly at a cheaper price.&lt;br /&gt;
What he wants is to minimise risk. Therefore he tries to&lt;br /&gt;
pat the handcuffs on Fate.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 111 (#151) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
III&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
(In these columns notes on books are given from reviews&lt;br /&gt;
which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned,&lt;br /&gt;
logrollers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Among the books issued in October were: LIFE AND&lt;br /&gt;
LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, by his son Leonard&lt;br /&gt;
Huxley (Macmillan, 308. net); MEMOIRS AND CORRE.&lt;br /&gt;
SPONDENCE OF COVENTRY PATMORE, by Basil Champneys&lt;br /&gt;
(Bell, 328. net); and OLIVER CROMWELL, by John Morley&lt;br /&gt;
(Macmillan, 108. net).&lt;br /&gt;
THE GREAT BOER WAR, by A. Conan Doyle (Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder, 78. 6d.), reviews the whole course of the war. The&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Chronicle says that &ldquo;Dr. Conan Doyle has written&lt;br /&gt;
about as satisfactory and sound a book as one could imagine&lt;br /&gt;
on a subject so recent, so vital, and so distracted with&lt;br /&gt;
controversy.&amp;quot; The narrative is told &amp;quot; always in vigorous,&lt;br /&gt;
often in stirring, language,&amp;quot; says the Times; while the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily News pronounces the book &amp;quot; a masterly performance.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;He tells his story,&amp;quot; says the Daily Telegraph, &ldquo; in vivid&lt;br /&gt;
chapters which make the pulse of the reader beat faster as&lt;br /&gt;
he reads.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
IAN HAMILTON&amp;#039;S MARCH, by Winston Churchill (Long.&lt;br /&gt;
mans, 68.), is a narrative of the marching and fighting done&lt;br /&gt;
by General Ian Hamilton&amp;#039;s column after it moved out of&lt;br /&gt;
Bloemfontein on April 22. &ldquo;Mr. Churchill&amp;#039;s writing is&lt;br /&gt;
highly inspiriting,&rdquo; says the Spectator, which also speaks of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the great picture which he unrolls before us&rdquo; in this&lt;br /&gt;
book. - This is Mr. Churchill&amp;#039;s strength,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, &ldquo; that he recognises the interest of his subject to&lt;br /&gt;
be sufficient, and is content simply and clearly to set it in&lt;br /&gt;
array before yon.&rdquo; &ldquo;Of the complicated operations he gives&lt;br /&gt;
an excellent description,&rdquo; says the Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot;and&lt;br /&gt;
supplements his tactical explanations by some very good&lt;br /&gt;
sketch maps.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING, by Angus Hamilton (Methuen,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), &ldquo;is another in Messrs. Methuen&amp;#039;s excellent series of&lt;br /&gt;
books dealing with special events and periods of the war,&lt;br /&gt;
and it is likely,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;to be as&lt;br /&gt;
popular as the rest.&amp;quot; For the most part the story Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hamilton tells is a record of what he himself saw and&lt;br /&gt;
endured. &ldquo;The hard prosaic features of the fight, the&lt;br /&gt;
endless tedium of waiting for relief, and the monotony of&lt;br /&gt;
semi-starvation, with a hundred minor points of life in a&lt;br /&gt;
besieged town which are apt to be forgotten in the glamour&lt;br /&gt;
of ultimate success, are presented forcibly to us,&rdquo; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Daily Telegraph, &amp;quot; in this picturesque and truthful record.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
How WE ESCAPED FROM PRETORIA, by Captain Aylmer&lt;br /&gt;
Haldane (Blackwood, 18.), tells of a feat which, says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &amp;quot; is among the most brilliant exploits of the war.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And after the unfailing courage of the three determined&lt;br /&gt;
to escape, that which is pleasantest in this amazing narrative&lt;br /&gt;
is the unselfish and never failing loyalty of those who helped&lt;br /&gt;
their companions on the road to liberty.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
TOMMY AND GRIZEL, by J. M. Barrie (Cassell, 68.), &ldquo; is a&lt;br /&gt;
delightful book,&amp;quot; says the Daily News, &amp;quot; full of its author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
nameless charm-his elusive and ethereal humour.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is&lt;br /&gt;
a book of extraordinary power and even of extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
beauty,&amp;quot; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; the work of a poet and&lt;br /&gt;
a psychologist born and bred.&rdquo; Grizel, says the Times, is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;as true and lovable a woman as novelist ever created.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
QUISANT&Eacute;, by Anthony Hope (Methuen, 68.) &amp;quot; is a study,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
says the Daily News, &ldquo;worthy of one of the most brilliant&lt;br /&gt;
of our living novelists.&rdquo; &ldquo;The story does not, in Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hope&amp;#039;s earlier manner, flit pleasantly along the surface of&lt;br /&gt;
things, but planges rather into the depths, into complex&lt;br /&gt;
feelings and emotions.&amp;quot; The principal figure in the book is&lt;br /&gt;
a successful politician. The Daily Chronicle pronounces it&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Anthony Hope&amp;#039;s best.&rdquo; The Spectator describes the&lt;br /&gt;
story as &ldquo;the apotheosis of the brilliant oad.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
is never dull,&rdquo; says the Times ; &amp;quot;his electioneering is the&lt;br /&gt;
very thing, and his minor people... are quite de-&lt;br /&gt;
lightful.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING, by Gilbert Parker&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 68 ) &amp;quot; deals mainly,&rdquo; says the Daily News,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;with his favourite and happy hunting-ground of French&lt;br /&gt;
Canada, Pontiac, the idyllic Pontiac, the well-beloved&lt;br /&gt;
Seigneury, with an accompaniment of those charming rustics&lt;br /&gt;
and village characters so well-known already to this author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
readers. The first story in the volume is a really&lt;br /&gt;
masterly piece of work, a dramatic plot excellently well&lt;br /&gt;
imagined and carried out.&rdquo; &ldquo;Not even in &amp;quot;The Seats of&lt;br /&gt;
the Mighty,&amp;#039;&rdquo; says the Times, &ldquo; does Mr. Parker suggest&lt;br /&gt;
such an impression of his strength as in the most important&lt;br /&gt;
of these stories ... the other stories are slighter and&lt;br /&gt;
less ambitious, but scarcely less impressive.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHosts, by A. T. Qailler-&lt;br /&gt;
Couch (Cassell, 68.) is praised by the Daily Chronicle for&lt;br /&gt;
its purpose and workmanship. &amp;quot;A careless estimate might&lt;br /&gt;
call it &amp;amp; volume of ghost stories, but as that phrase is&lt;br /&gt;
popularly accepted, it falls quite short of a description.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mr. Couch&amp;#039;s method is largely his own, and his toach is so&lt;br /&gt;
simple and direct as to divest the other side of death of&lt;br /&gt;
almost everything that is terrible, and to present it in a&lt;br /&gt;
relation to life amenable, humane and helpful.&rdquo; &ldquo;Without&lt;br /&gt;
exactly making one&amp;#039;s flesh creep,&rdquo; says the Daily News,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;these stories produce a delightful yet ancanny effect of&lt;br /&gt;
magic and of the incomprehensible.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
JOSEPH GLANVILL: A Study in English Thought and&lt;br /&gt;
Letters of the Seventeenth Century, by Ferris Greenslet&lt;br /&gt;
(Macmillan, 6s.) tells us, says the spectator, &ldquo;all of Glan-&lt;br /&gt;
vill which it is possible to know, and that is not very much.&lt;br /&gt;
Of few English writers of equal power do we know so little.&lt;br /&gt;
But Dr. Greenslet has done something more asefal than&lt;br /&gt;
gossip about a dead author; he has related him to the&lt;br /&gt;
general intellectual movement of the time, and has there.&lt;br /&gt;
fore written a valuable chapter in the history of English&lt;br /&gt;
philosophic thought.&rdquo; The Daily Chronicle calls it &ldquo;a&lt;br /&gt;
creditable and interesting book, which is specially deserving&lt;br /&gt;
of readers to-day, when the Cambridge Platonists are in&lt;br /&gt;
greater vogue than they have ever been since the publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of &amp;#039;John Inglesant.&amp;#039;&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
THE STORY OF FLORENCE, by Edmund G. Gardner&lt;br /&gt;
(Dent, 48. 6d. net.), &ldquo;is not only a history,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, &ldquo;but a guide which every tourist should take&lt;br /&gt;
with him to Florence ... for it will bring succinctly&lt;br /&gt;
under his survey the crowded and glorious history of&lt;br /&gt;
Florence, and will show the conditions under which her&lt;br /&gt;
literature and art were evolved.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Gardner has done&lt;br /&gt;
wisely,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; in confining himself to&lt;br /&gt;
an account of the most salient events and the most striking&lt;br /&gt;
personalities.&rdquo; .&lt;br /&gt;
THE MEN OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE, by Frank T.&lt;br /&gt;
Ballon (Smith, Elder, 78. 6d.), is described in the sub-title&lt;br /&gt;
as &ldquo; being the polity of the Mercantile Marine for Long.&lt;br /&gt;
shore Readers.&amp;quot; Mr. Arnold White, reviewing it in the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, declares that &ldquo; Mr. Bullen has done good national&lt;br /&gt;
service in writing this book,&amp;quot; and that &ldquo; he&lt;br /&gt;
whose experience has burnt into his soul the realities of sea&lt;br /&gt;
life on a British merchant ship.&rdquo; The Globe remarks that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;it is not often that a work so thoroughly practical is put&lt;br /&gt;
before the public.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the Man and the Statesman, by&lt;br /&gt;
N. Murrell Marris (Hutchinson, 108. net), is a &ldquo;fairly&lt;br /&gt;
interesting &rdquo; compilation, says Literature. &ldquo;It is not, and&lt;br /&gt;
does not claim to be, critical.&rdquo; Miss Marris acknowledges&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
in her preface the aid which she bas received from the&lt;br /&gt;
Chamberlain family, and, says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;this&lt;br /&gt;
elaborate study of the present Secretary of State for the&lt;br /&gt;
Colonies has all the accuracy and personal interest which&lt;br /&gt;
might be expected in the circumstances. &ldquo;The book will&lt;br /&gt;
serve a useful purpose, although,&amp;quot; says the Daily News, &ldquo;it&lt;br /&gt;
cannot fail to be treated as controversial by those who&lt;br /&gt;
cannot accept the exaltation of Mr. Chamberlain&amp;#039;s colonial&lt;br /&gt;
policy.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THIRTEEN STORIES, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham&lt;br /&gt;
(Heinemann, 6s.), are described by the author as &ldquo;sketches,&lt;br /&gt;
stories, studies, or what you call them,&rdquo; and the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Chronicle, after giving a few quotations to show the spirit&lt;br /&gt;
of the book, says tbat&ldquo; po patoby quotations can do justice&lt;br /&gt;
to its proud and fastidious rebellion against the common-&lt;br /&gt;
place.&amp;quot; Literature describes&amp;quot; Rothenberger&amp;#039;s Wedding &rdquo; as&lt;br /&gt;
an amusing satiric sketch, &ldquo; La Clemenza de Tito&amp;quot; a well.&lt;br /&gt;
observed study,&amp;quot; but among the lesser stories of the thirteen&lt;br /&gt;
we like best the account of how Amarabat, the runner, failed&lt;br /&gt;
to take &amp;#039;The Gold Fish&amp;#039; from Rabat to the Sultan at Tafileh.&lt;br /&gt;
This has the true fatalistio note of the East and is told with&lt;br /&gt;
exquisite skill.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CUNNING MURRELL, by Arthur Morrison (Methuen, 68.)&lt;br /&gt;
-Literature says of this book : &ldquo;Hadleigh and its neigh-&lt;br /&gt;
boarhood had at the time of the story overlooked the&lt;br /&gt;
passage of time and still held to the ideas of an earlier&lt;br /&gt;
period. Thas Cunding Murrell could exercise those queer&lt;br /&gt;
arts of his which awed the simple country folk. He himself&lt;br /&gt;
believed in his occult powers. . . . He puts apon&lt;br /&gt;
Dorrily Thorn&amp;#039;s aunt, Mrs. Martin, the stigma of witchcraft.&lt;br /&gt;
In discovering how this tragedy works out the reader will&lt;br /&gt;
have perused &amp;amp; very successful and interesting example of&lt;br /&gt;
the modern novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE BRASS BOTTLE, by F. Anstey (Smith, Elder, 68.).&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In his logical conduct of an absurd proposition, in his&lt;br /&gt;
fantastic handling of the supernatural, in his brisk dialogue&lt;br /&gt;
and effective characterisation, Mr. Anstey,&rdquo; says the Spec.&lt;br /&gt;
tator, &ldquo; has once more shown himself to be an artist and a&lt;br /&gt;
hamourist of uncommon and enviable merit.&amp;quot; Blackwood&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine says &amp;quot; Mr. Anstey ban not written anything in&lt;br /&gt;
better heart or in higher spirits since he presented a&lt;br /&gt;
delighted public with Mr. Baltitude.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MOTHER-SISTER, by Edwin Pugh (Hurst and Blackett,&lt;br /&gt;
68.).&mdash;&ldquo;Mr. Pugh studies poor-life as Mr. Morrison and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pett Ridge study it,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle,&amp;quot; and he&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly deserves to be in the same olass with them. This&lt;br /&gt;
is a somewbat new thing, this humorous study of poverty ;&lt;br /&gt;
it has great uses ; it presents pathos without mawkishness,&lt;br /&gt;
and makes us feel none the less the need for pity.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE NEW ORDER, by Oswald Crawfurd (Richards, 68.).&lt;br /&gt;
_&ldquo;The argument,&rdquo; says the Times, &ldquo;is that although there&lt;br /&gt;
may be wealth in free trade, it would be cheaper in the end&lt;br /&gt;
to revive agricultural prosperity as a guarantee against an&lt;br /&gt;
international blockade. There is a great deal of good argu-&lt;br /&gt;
ment and sound sense in the book.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mr. Crawfurd&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
heroes are no effeminate dreamers, they are all athletes and&lt;br /&gt;
emphatically men of action.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE INFIDEL, by M. E. Braddon (Simpkin, 68.), is a tale&lt;br /&gt;
of George II.&amp;#039;s day, the heroine of which &amp;quot; is the daaghter&lt;br /&gt;
by an Italian mother of an anfrocked priest, a hireling Grub&lt;br /&gt;
Street scribe, who has imbued her with his own Voltairean&lt;br /&gt;
scepticism, but failed to impair the inherent nobility of her&lt;br /&gt;
character.&rdquo; The story is admirably &amp;quot;staged,&amp;quot; says the&lt;br /&gt;
Spectator, and wiss Braddon&amp;#039;s style &amp;quot;leaves nothing to be&lt;br /&gt;
desired in terseness and lucidity.&rdquo; &ldquo;The old ability,&amp;quot; says&lt;br /&gt;
the Daily Chronicle, &amp;quot; to set forth, with a richness of&lt;br /&gt;
cursory information surpassed by no writer of fiction,&lt;br /&gt;
apparently any story in any period, is still in evidence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
WINEFRED, by S. Baring-Gould (Methaen, 68.), &ldquo;is a&lt;br /&gt;
capital story,&amp;quot; says the Times, &ldquo; full as usual of violent&lt;br /&gt;
sensations, admirable in its vivid descriptions of the cliff&lt;br /&gt;
scenery, and with more humour than most of its pre-&lt;br /&gt;
decessors.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
SERVANTS OF Sin, by J. Bloundelle-Burton (Methuen,&lt;br /&gt;
68.), &ldquo; amply justifies its title,&amp;quot; observes the Times. The&lt;br /&gt;
date of the story is the Regency during the minority of&lt;br /&gt;
Louis XV. &ldquo;We are introduced to the most villainous&lt;br /&gt;
society imaginable. Mr. Bloondelle-Barton takes a less&lt;br /&gt;
lenient view of the Regent Orleans than Dumas, and he has&lt;br /&gt;
depicted the reign of the rou&eacute;s in the most larid colours.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a capital story nevertheless.&rdquo; The Spectator says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; by readers who like the costume-romance&amp;#039; it will be pro-&lt;br /&gt;
nounced a very good specimen of this class of novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE COURTESY DAME, by R. Marray Gilchrist (Heine-&lt;br /&gt;
mann, 68.), is &ldquo;decidedly good reading,&rdquo; says the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraph. Mr. Gilchrist, says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo; still&lt;br /&gt;
keeps as in and about the Peakland district of Derbyshire,&lt;br /&gt;
with which and with whose inhabitants he bas already made&lt;br /&gt;
us so familiar.&rdquo; &ldquo;This time we are introduced to a rather&lt;br /&gt;
loftier level than usual. &ldquo;The Coartesy Dame&amp;#039; is a well-&lt;br /&gt;
written and interesting novel.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
LIFE OF SIR JOHN FOWLER, by Thomas Mackay&lt;br /&gt;
(Murray, 168.).--&amp;quot;Of a life so full of interesting and im&lt;br /&gt;
portant action,&rdquo; says the Daily Chronicle, &ldquo;this memoir,&lt;br /&gt;
excellent as it is, is only too short.&rdquo; &ldquo;The life of a great&lt;br /&gt;
engineer,&rdquo; says the Daily News, &ldquo; cannot be expected to be&lt;br /&gt;
rich in romantic and picturesque incident, but Mr. Mackay&lt;br /&gt;
has at least furnished in a sober and business-like style&lt;br /&gt;
abundance of interesting details.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
FIRST FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN, by Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Victor Spiers (Simpkin, 28. 6d. or 38.), &ldquo;has the ad.&lt;br /&gt;
vantage,&rdquo; says the Educational Times, &ldquo; of being written&lt;br /&gt;
directly for English children, and not adapted from the&lt;br /&gt;
German.&rdquo; &ldquo;Professor Spiers,&amp;quot; says the Journal of Education,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;who has long been known as one of the most successful&lt;br /&gt;
teachers of higher French, bas here attempted the humbler,&lt;br /&gt;
but harder, part of nursery governess. Nursery rhymes for&lt;br /&gt;
repetition, music, simple conversations, and pictures galore&lt;br /&gt;
--all these combine to make a most attractive book.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
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effective, the reform must begin with the very foundations,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and adds that the book &amp;quot;may prove a golden bridge from&lt;br /&gt;
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3. Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act [title only] [title only).&lt;br /&gt;
17. County Courts (Investment) Act.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Census (Great Britain) Act.&lt;br /&gt;
26. Land Charges Act.&lt;br /&gt;
48. Oompanies Act.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Army (Annual) Act.&lt;br /&gt;
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8. Electoral Disabilities (Military Service) [title only).&lt;br /&gt;
52. Naval Reserve Act.&lt;br /&gt;
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11. Uganda Railway Act (title only).&lt;br /&gt;
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62. Colonial Stock Act.&lt;br /&gt;
16. District Councillors and Guardians (Term 36. Public Works Loans Act [title only]. 63. Local Government (Ireland) Act [title only).&lt;br /&gt;
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jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
UT ERE 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. THAT OF SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to : .&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo;office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
anless 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;
&iacute; (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Peroentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 114 (#162) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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114&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 pablication.&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 authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
1 branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
I Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate&lt;br /&gt;
to the Editor any points connected with their work which&lt;br /&gt;
it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
ball court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. LA VERY. member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
experienoe 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 the loan of the books represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, now&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 the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
I.-THE PUBLISHER AND THE AGENT.&lt;br /&gt;
THE business of the literary agent is not run&lt;br /&gt;
on philanthropic lines any more than the&lt;br /&gt;
- business of the publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
In each case the first aim is entirely a selfish&lt;br /&gt;
one&mdash;to obtain a living wage, the amount of the&lt;br /&gt;
living wage-varying according to the ambition of&lt;br /&gt;
the worker; the next is to benefit the author&lt;br /&gt;
whose work is being undertaken.&lt;br /&gt;
In an article which appeared in The Author for&lt;br /&gt;
July, 1900, evidence was given of a series of con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts which might be worked beneficially for the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher and disastrously for the author,&lt;br /&gt;
although the agreements on the face of them&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 115 (#163) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
115&lt;br /&gt;
appeared to be reasonable and just, the fault&lt;br /&gt;
lying in the action of the publisher rather than&lt;br /&gt;
in the form of agreement. It is possible also&lt;br /&gt;
that under certain circumstances an agent while&lt;br /&gt;
appearing to work for the author&amp;#039;s benefit may&lt;br /&gt;
really be playing into the publisher&amp;#039;s hands, and&lt;br /&gt;
it is necessary therefore from time to time to call&lt;br /&gt;
the attention of authors to the difficulties that&lt;br /&gt;
may beset their path when under the guidance of&lt;br /&gt;
an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
It should, however, in all justice be remarked&lt;br /&gt;
that in many cases an agent&amp;#039;s assistance is&lt;br /&gt;
essential to the author, and that there are agents&lt;br /&gt;
who work unreservedly for the author&amp;#039;s interest,&lt;br /&gt;
to whom the following remarks do not apply&lt;br /&gt;
To begin with, literary agents are not as a rule&lt;br /&gt;
lawyers, and, therefore, are hardly competent to&lt;br /&gt;
draw up a legal document or to advise the author&lt;br /&gt;
on signing the same.&lt;br /&gt;
This point has become apparent on reviewing a&lt;br /&gt;
series of contracts which have been, during the&lt;br /&gt;
last few months, brought to the Society&amp;#039;s offices,&lt;br /&gt;
unfortunately after signature and after accepting&lt;br /&gt;
the agent&amp;#039;s advice.&lt;br /&gt;
An agent has allowed an author to enter into&lt;br /&gt;
half-profit agreements and royalty agreements&lt;br /&gt;
with exceedingly low royalties, and to bind him.&lt;br /&gt;
self to the publisher for the next two books on the&lt;br /&gt;
same terms.&lt;br /&gt;
That the agent should pass an agreement for&lt;br /&gt;
half profits and for low royalties might perhaps&lt;br /&gt;
be excusable under exceptional circumstances,&lt;br /&gt;
but that an agent should pass the two-book clause&lt;br /&gt;
is absolutely and entirely inexcusable. Such&lt;br /&gt;
action shows either a complete disregard of the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s business or an absolute ignorance of his&lt;br /&gt;
(the agent&amp;#039;s) own, unless, absit omen, there are&lt;br /&gt;
other and deeper reasons for the step.&lt;br /&gt;
This rule must be laid down as absolute: No&lt;br /&gt;
author should, under any circumstances, bind&lt;br /&gt;
himself to a publisher for more than one book.&lt;br /&gt;
It is better for the author that the book should&lt;br /&gt;
not be published at all than published on these&lt;br /&gt;
terms. But what does the publisher say in his&lt;br /&gt;
defence ?&lt;br /&gt;
He states&mdash;the Society has letters to show it,&lt;br /&gt;
that, unless he has the control of the next two&lt;br /&gt;
books, he will not take the same interest in the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s work, and will not push it to the same&lt;br /&gt;
extent.&lt;br /&gt;
A candid confession, indeed, for an honourable&lt;br /&gt;
publisher!&lt;br /&gt;
But what is the real result? The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
having secured the handling of the next two&lt;br /&gt;
books on ridiculously low terms, runs the first&lt;br /&gt;
book until it has covered its expenses and put the&lt;br /&gt;
usual 15 to 20 per cent. in his pocket, and then&lt;br /&gt;
neglects to push it any further.&lt;br /&gt;
Not all the lamentations of the author will&lt;br /&gt;
move him. The publisher is anxious to push&lt;br /&gt;
other books forward. He has taken the cream off&lt;br /&gt;
the milk.&lt;br /&gt;
For the reason of this action by the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
reference is again made to the article, entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Trade Methods,&amp;quot; that appeared in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
of July, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
Do not sign agreements containing the above&lt;br /&gt;
condition, not even though the agent may stand&lt;br /&gt;
over you pen in hand and demand your signature,&lt;br /&gt;
stating that he can do no more for you if you&lt;br /&gt;
refuse to sign.&lt;br /&gt;
The conclusion, then, to be arrived at is that&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher, as he has the refusal of two more&lt;br /&gt;
books at cheap terms, gives really less attention&lt;br /&gt;
to the author&amp;#039;s success and takes less pains than&lt;br /&gt;
if he had one work only.&lt;br /&gt;
For in the latter case, if the publisher believes&lt;br /&gt;
in his author, he is anxious to do his best for him&lt;br /&gt;
that the author may come to him again-a course&lt;br /&gt;
the author gladly takes when he has been well&lt;br /&gt;
treated.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, agreements that have passed through an&lt;br /&gt;
agent&amp;#039;s hands are frequently brought forward,&lt;br /&gt;
which assign translation rights, Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights, American rights, and even dramatic rights&lt;br /&gt;
to the publisher, and the author has to allow the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher 50 per cent. if he succeeds in selling or&lt;br /&gt;
getting rid of them.&lt;br /&gt;
Now, it is not the publisher&amp;#039;s business to sell&lt;br /&gt;
these rights, as will be further explained below.&lt;br /&gt;
In any case, the publisher is not entitled to 50 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent of the returns.&lt;br /&gt;
Another form of agreement sanctioned by an&lt;br /&gt;
agent, equally disastrous to the author, is the&lt;br /&gt;
following :-&lt;br /&gt;
An author published a book at his own expense&lt;br /&gt;
and the edition was limited. The agreement&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to the publisher 15 per cent. on the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production including advertisements, and 15&lt;br /&gt;
per cent. on the produce of the sales, and the&lt;br /&gt;
number of the edition was such that if all sold&lt;br /&gt;
at the full price the author was bound to lose.&lt;br /&gt;
Now 15 per cent. both ways is a percentage far&lt;br /&gt;
too heavy, and 15 per cent. on the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction does not naturally induce the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
to keep it as low as possible.&lt;br /&gt;
In this particular case the author had to pay&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers according to the accounts a sum of&lt;br /&gt;
over &pound;60.&lt;br /&gt;
The agent if he had known his business should&lt;br /&gt;
certainly have pointed out that the edition limited&lt;br /&gt;
to the number proposed in the agreement and&lt;br /&gt;
selling at the price proposed could not possibly&lt;br /&gt;
cover the cost. The book is still selling, but as&lt;br /&gt;
the type has been distributed it is impossible now&lt;br /&gt;
to print any more in order to secure the author.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 116 (#164) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
116&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
From these examples it is evident that agents publisher may put a great deal of other business&lt;br /&gt;
are not only in many cases incompetent to act as through an agent&amp;#039;s hands. The agent naturally&lt;br /&gt;
legal advisers, but that often they are wanting in desires to keep such a good source of income, and,&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of their business as the confidential in return, when a promising young author comes&lt;br /&gt;
assistants of authors.&lt;br /&gt;
forward he takes the book to his friend the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
If authors have any doubt about the document lisher, and if the terms offered consist, in addition&lt;br /&gt;
laid before them they should certainly consult to other clauses, of an assignment to the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, even though the agent may see objec. of minor rights and two more books under similar&lt;br /&gt;
tions, as he surely will, to their adopting this conditions, the author is told that it is all-&lt;br /&gt;
course.&lt;br /&gt;
important that his book should be produced on&lt;br /&gt;
There are agents, well known to the Society, any terms.&lt;br /&gt;
who have a very strong objection that these It is possible that the author may demur, but&lt;br /&gt;
matters should be placed before the Secretary his scruples are easily overcome, as he is working&lt;br /&gt;
The deduction is obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
in the dark.&lt;br /&gt;
There may be another reason, however, besides An agent should advise that a book should&lt;br /&gt;
incompetence which may induce an agent to act never be published, rather than published on such&lt;br /&gt;
on lines disadvantageous to the author, namely, conditions. He should have tried every reputable&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that he may be directly or indirectly publisher in England rather than sanction such&lt;br /&gt;
under the control of a publisher. It has been an agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out in this article that sometimes an This is no place to discuss the moral aspect of&lt;br /&gt;
agent allows an author to sell his minor rights to the question, we are dealing merely with the&lt;br /&gt;
a publisher, in other places it bas been shown business view as to how the author&amp;#039;s interests are&lt;br /&gt;
that publishers have with increasing effort been effected.&lt;br /&gt;
endeavouring to obtain these rights when nego. Again, it is possible that such a case as the&lt;br /&gt;
tiating directly. (See &ldquo; Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements, following might occur:&lt;br /&gt;
with Comments,&amp;quot; issued by the Society.)&lt;br /&gt;
An agent is exceedingly busy with the works&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the business of the publisher to act as of many authors. It is important that he should&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; agent, and very often with these rights get some of them settled and off his hands at the&lt;br /&gt;
in their hands they do not know how to market earliest opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;
them or do not care about taking the trouble. Therefore, in a moment of carelessness he&lt;br /&gt;
They put them into the hands of an agent and advises an author to accept such terms as would&lt;br /&gt;
are willing to take any price for them they can not be on the whole satisfactory in their result to&lt;br /&gt;
get, without thinking of the author&amp;#039;s reputation the author.&lt;br /&gt;
or the market value of his writing, merely hoping This case, like the former, points to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that they may make &pound;50 or &pound;60 extra to increase that the author cannot be too careful about what&lt;br /&gt;
the already assured profit from the production of agreement he enters into, whether such agree-&lt;br /&gt;
the book.&lt;br /&gt;
ment is put before him directly by the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
It may therefore occur that an agent is at one or by the publisher through his (the author&amp;#039;s)&lt;br /&gt;
and the same time selling the same author&amp;#039;s work own agent.&lt;br /&gt;
for the author and for the publisher. He may T&amp;#039;he mere question of the financial terms of an&lt;br /&gt;
wish for some special reason (this is no impossible agreement is by no means the only one which&lt;br /&gt;
supposition) to keep in with the publisher, and should be looked into. In some cases the control&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly undersells the author in his own of the property is even of more importance to the&lt;br /&gt;
market.&lt;br /&gt;
author than the financial question.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a very dangerous position, and the In conclusion, therefore, before signing any&lt;br /&gt;
author should be exceedingly careful never under agreement, read carefully and study &ldquo;Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
any circumstances to sell these rights to the pub- Agreements, with Comments,&amp;quot; issued by the&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, not even on the agent&amp;#039;s advice.&lt;br /&gt;
Society.&lt;br /&gt;
It is the publisher&amp;#039;s duty to publish in book Never sign any agreement that gives the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
form, subject to whatever limitations the author lisher the control of future work. Rather refrain&lt;br /&gt;
may think fit to impose upon him.&lt;br /&gt;
from publishing altogether.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the duty of the publisher to obtain Never give the publisher the control of minor&lt;br /&gt;
the minor rights of the author and sell them for rights, which are usually handled by an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
his own benefit.&lt;br /&gt;
Never allow an agent to persuade you to any&lt;br /&gt;
It is possible, again&mdash;this example would not of these acts, even though he assures you that he&lt;br /&gt;
have been brought forward if the extraordinary will not act further for you if you refuse.&lt;br /&gt;
agreements which had been passed by agents had And be sure to refer any points about which you&lt;br /&gt;
not come to the notice of the Society-that a may be doubtful to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 117 (#165) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
117&lt;br /&gt;
Lastly, remember that agents are but human, states: &ldquo;If through inadvertence a single copy&lt;br /&gt;
they may have other axes to grind besides the were issued without this label&rdquo;-i.e., the notice&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s, and that they, in some cases, have a required by the Act that the performing rights&lt;br /&gt;
pronounced objection to having any agreement or are reserved&mdash;&ldquo;the value of the right of represen-&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement which may be in dispute placed tation might be lost.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
before the Society for its Secretary to criticise.&lt;br /&gt;
The section, however, runs :&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
The defendant in such proceedings may be acquitted of&lt;br /&gt;
such infringement, and may be entitled to the costs of&lt;br /&gt;
II.-DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.&mdash;LORD MONKS-&lt;br /&gt;
resisting the proceedings, if he proves to the satisfaction of&lt;br /&gt;
WELL&amp;#039;S BILL.*&lt;br /&gt;
the court that he has in his possession a copy of the book&lt;br /&gt;
As one who has made a careful study of the containing such dramatic or musioal work, and that such&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Law and the new Bill I should like to copy was published with the assent of the owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
say a few words on Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s interesting copyright and does not contain the notice, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
article in your November number. He opens the From this it is clear that (1) the onus probandi&lt;br /&gt;
article by stating that the Bill is not drafted from lies with the defendant; (2) &ldquo; that the book con-&lt;br /&gt;
the point of view of a playwright. Here I beg to taining, &amp;amp;c.,&amp;quot; must be published with the assent&lt;br /&gt;
differ from him. A careful jerusal of the Bill of the owner of the copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
will tend to show that this point of view bas N ow I take it that after the passing of this Act&lt;br /&gt;
been considered equally with that of the writer no dramatic work will be published without the&lt;br /&gt;
of books (the novelist is not the only literary notice &ldquo; with the assent of the author.&rdquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
person considered), and perhaps over-considered. appears that if a book is published without the&lt;br /&gt;
Over-consideration has a tendency to produce an notice the question will be: Did the author assent&lt;br /&gt;
unsatisfactory result.&lt;br /&gt;
to the book being published in the particular&lt;br /&gt;
The next point in Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s letter is the form and without this notice ? &mdash;and the question&lt;br /&gt;
duration of copvright. Here I am entirely in must be dealt with from the point of view of the&lt;br /&gt;
accord with him. Copyright ought to be per- activity, not the passivity, of the author; commis-&lt;br /&gt;
petual, and no doubt will be some day. But life sion, not omission. In this case there would be&lt;br /&gt;
and thirty years is better than the present no &ldquo; inadvertence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement, although I think a struggle should Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s remark, &ldquo;It might then be&lt;br /&gt;
be made to bring it up to life and fifty, with a argued that section 7 is retrospective,&amp;quot; appears to&lt;br /&gt;
view of bringing our new legislation into line be quite untenable.&lt;br /&gt;
with that of other nations, an important point Clause 5, sections 6 and 7, though unsatis-&lt;br /&gt;
which is being too much overlooked.&lt;br /&gt;
factory to the dramatist, appears to be the result&lt;br /&gt;
Here the dramatic author is dealt with on an rather of over-consideration of his point of view&lt;br /&gt;
equal basis with the writer of books.&lt;br /&gt;
than non-consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
The point of view of both is equally considered. That the Bill as a whole weakens the power of&lt;br /&gt;
His view of clause 5, section 5, is interesting. the dramatic author cannot be admitted; that it&lt;br /&gt;
First, however, let it be said that again as to this is not absolutely satisfactory (what human&lt;br /&gt;
clause the dramatic author is dealt with on an measure is ?) is no doubt true.&lt;br /&gt;
equal basis with the writer of books, and that a It is not absolutely satisfactory to any body of&lt;br /&gt;
similar clause (clause 4) applies to books also. authors, literary, musical, or dramatic, but the&lt;br /&gt;
The clause refers to indecent profane, &amp;amp;c., dramatic receive quite as many plums as the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic or musical work in which no copyright others.&lt;br /&gt;
is given. Mr. Grundy says: &ldquo;so that a thief has Finally, Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s article is entirely destruc-&lt;br /&gt;
only to add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel tive. It would have been more satisfactory if,&lt;br /&gt;
to his theft to be exempted from the penalty of after he bad pulled the edifice to the ground, he&lt;br /&gt;
his dishonesty.&rdquo; Now, this deduction is distinctly had pointed out how it might be re-constructed&lt;br /&gt;
amusing.&lt;br /&gt;
on happier lines.&lt;br /&gt;
A LAWYER.&lt;br /&gt;
There is another form of lawmask the Public&lt;br /&gt;
Prosecutor--that deals with indecent, &amp;amp;c., works,&lt;br /&gt;
III.-PUBLISHERS AS AGENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
and the author that indulges in infringement of The following paragraph appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright works by adding indecency, &amp;amp;c., falls Publishers&amp;#039; Circular of Oct. 27, 1900:&lt;br /&gt;
out of the frying-pan into the fire.&lt;br /&gt;
Notwithstanding the high prices paid to authors who&lt;br /&gt;
In clause 5, sections 6 and 7 (quoted in full in have made a name and manage to keep it, the position of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Grundy&amp;#039;s letter) he makes an absolutely sound the less fortunate ones seems to become increasingly difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
and satisfactory suggestion, but here again his We have before us a case in which a new story by a writer&lt;br /&gt;
who some years ago had a decided vogue has been offered&lt;br /&gt;
example is not satisfactory, for this reason. He&lt;br /&gt;
for exclusive publication in a paper reserving three counties&lt;br /&gt;
* See page 132.&lt;br /&gt;
as its area, one of the counties being the most populous in&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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118&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
England outside of London, at-wbat figures do our readers Statute Law designed to protect it from common&lt;br /&gt;
suppose? They are not likely to guess, so we will name it; robbers who were something more than plagiarists.&lt;br /&gt;
it was &pound;5. The story, it may be mentioned, runs to nearly&lt;br /&gt;
The dramatic pickpockets who stole literary hand-&lt;br /&gt;
100,000 words, and is offered at the figure we have named&lt;br /&gt;
not by a syndicate, but by a firm of publishers. Is it&lt;br /&gt;
kerchiefs, picking the initials of the owners out&lt;br /&gt;
prudent to cat prices in this way? The story that is worth of the corners and substituting their own, were&lt;br /&gt;
only &pound;5 for serial rights in three counties is worth nothing overlooked with contempt, as the property they&lt;br /&gt;
at all, for the story that is worth anything is worth more&lt;br /&gt;
stole was considered to have no literary value;&lt;br /&gt;
than &pound;5 for such an area. We confess we were a good&lt;br /&gt;
and the stage, supplied and satisfied with this&lt;br /&gt;
deal surprised when particulars of the case under con.&lt;br /&gt;
sideration were placed before us, and we cannot believe reruse, was never thought likely to burgle the&lt;br /&gt;
that business done on a principle of unreasonable or indis. strongholds of literature-properly so called. The&lt;br /&gt;
criminate catting is to the advantage of either author or chartered felony of Shakespeare in one age and&lt;br /&gt;
publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
one language, and the equally chartered and more&lt;br /&gt;
Attention is drawn to the paragraph for this impudent felony of Moli&egrave;re in another age and&lt;br /&gt;
very important reason, that over and over again in another language, did not disturb this complacent&lt;br /&gt;
the publications of the Society, the Secretary has theory, and the statutory definition of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
warned authors against assigning to publishers never coutemplated such a thing as stage-right,&lt;br /&gt;
what may be called &ldquo;outside rights,&rdquo; and the&lt;br /&gt;
or the power of selecting plot, story, characters,&lt;br /&gt;
danger of such an assignment. Those members names, titles, dialogue, &amp;amp;c., at will from any work&lt;br /&gt;
of the Authors&amp;#039; Society who care to refer to the&lt;br /&gt;
of fiction, re-arranging them in any form that&lt;br /&gt;
articles must look at &ldquo;the Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements, might please the selecter, and using them for&lt;br /&gt;
with Comments,&rdquo; published by the Society, and an fame and profit, not only without the consent,&lt;br /&gt;
article entitled &ldquo;The Publisher and the Agent,&rdquo; but often in defiance of the active opposition of&lt;br /&gt;
in The Author of July 1, 1899. The main points, the original creator and owner. This was not&lt;br /&gt;
however, to notice are these: (1) The publisher, justice, but it was law&mdash;a legalised form of&lt;br /&gt;
as an almost universal rule, claims 50 per cent. robbery, and those who objected to it had the&lt;br /&gt;
for the sale of serial rights and translation rights. stone wall of costs to knock their heads against.&lt;br /&gt;
He even claims the same on dramatic rights. The first and greatest victim of recent times&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The publisher&amp;#039;s business is not the sale of was Mrs. Henry Wood, the novelist, whose&lt;br /&gt;
these rights but the publication in book form.&lt;br /&gt;
popular story of &ldquo; East Lynne&rdquo; was pounced&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher has not the facilities that either an upon by some nameless hack who used the licence&lt;br /&gt;
author or an author&amp;#039;s agent has for obtaining given him by a highly-paid legislature and drama-&lt;br /&gt;
a market. And lastly (3) the new danger which tised the work without the slightest communica-&lt;br /&gt;
is shown to arise from the paragraph printed tion with the author. The result of this robbery&lt;br /&gt;
above-namely, that an author by placing these by Act of Parliament has been that Mrs. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
rights in the hands of a publisher, may not only Wood, with her heirs, executors, and assigns,&lt;br /&gt;
be underselling his own work, but may also at have been despoiled during the allotted span of&lt;br /&gt;
the same time be seriously underselling the work copyright of a sum that at the lowest computa-&lt;br /&gt;
of other authors, as the publisher&amp;#039;s one desire is tion may be taken at a quarter of a million&lt;br /&gt;
not so much to get the highest price possible for sterling, supposing her equitable stage-right had&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s benefit, but to get a quick market been enforced with the business ability which&lt;br /&gt;
for his wares.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
directs the operations of a Pinero or a Barrie.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
This unblushing encouragement of a &ldquo; Thieves&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Kitchen &rdquo; by the legislature&mdash;an encouragement&lt;br /&gt;
that has been stigmatised by public writers for&lt;br /&gt;
LEGALISED ARTISTIC ROBBERY.&lt;br /&gt;
more than a quarter of a century-naturally&lt;br /&gt;
Republished from Literature, Oct. 20, 1900, by kind&lt;br /&gt;
stimulated authors with a legal training to take&lt;br /&gt;
permission of the proprietors and of the author.&lt;br /&gt;
steps for their own protection. One of the earliest&lt;br /&gt;
Go, little book, from this, my solitude,&lt;br /&gt;
and most successful of these authors who could&lt;br /&gt;
I cast thee on the waters, -wend thy ways,&lt;br /&gt;
take care of themselves was the late Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
And if, as I believe, thy plot be good,&lt;br /&gt;
Reade&mdash;a writer who possessed the unusual double&lt;br /&gt;
The stage will grab thee before many days.&lt;br /&gt;
gift of novelist and dramatist. I say unusual,&lt;br /&gt;
THEN it first entered the minds of our because neither Thackeray nor Dickens possessed&lt;br /&gt;
appointed legislators that literary pro it. To be a dramatist was one of Thackeray&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
duce, like more vulgar and material unsatisfied ambitions, and Dickens positively&lt;br /&gt;
produce, had a claim (far more shadowy, of smelt of the footlights. Charles Reade produced&lt;br /&gt;
course) to be considered as property, it occurred a drama at Drury Lane Theatre, which I should&lt;br /&gt;
to them that it would be advisable to supplement almost be justified in describing as a theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
the rough equity of the Common Law with a &ldquo;man-trap and spring-gun.&rdquo; It was called&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
119&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Gold,&rdquo; and it contained in solution the seeds The late Watts Phillips, a dramatist by profes-&lt;br /&gt;
of another drama and a powerful novel. &ldquo;Gold&rdquo; sion, as well as a novelist, the late Charles Mackay,&lt;br /&gt;
ran its allotted time, and in due course the novel Tom Taylor, Westland Marston, William Gilbert,&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s Never Too Late to Mend&rdquo; appeared, to Sir Charles Young, Florence Marryat, and Pal.&lt;br /&gt;
be followed by a carefully-prepared drama bear grave Simpson all write in the same strain, with&lt;br /&gt;
ing the same title. Some time before Charles W. S. Gilbert, F. W. Robinson, and other writers&lt;br /&gt;
Reade&amp;#039;s version of his novel found its way to the still living. An Authors&amp;#039; Protection Society was&lt;br /&gt;
stage, the hot and eager &amp;quot;adapters,&amp;quot; as they were the outcome of this agitation (for it assumed the&lt;br /&gt;
politely called, tumbled over each other in their form of an agitation), and a Royal Commission&lt;br /&gt;
haste to utilise the novelist&amp;#039;s invention. Ile was was appointed, consisting of Lord John Manners,&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for them. He selected one &ldquo; adaptation&rdquo; the Earl of Devon, Sir Charles Young, Sir Henry&lt;br /&gt;
(they used stronger terms in &ldquo;Old Fagin&amp;#039;s&rdquo; Holland, Sir John Rose, Sir Louis Mallet, Sir H.&lt;br /&gt;
days) as a test-case, and easily proved that in Drummond Wolff, Sir Julius Benedict, Mr. Daldy,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Gold&rdquo; he had anticipated the pirates and had Mr. Froude, Mr. Herschell, Dr. W. Smith, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
secured his stage-right in &ldquo;It&amp;#039;s Never Too Late FitzJames Stephen, Mr. Edward Jenkins, M.P., and&lt;br /&gt;
to Mend&rdquo; by priority of production.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Trollope. Our committee comprised&lt;br /&gt;
This signal victory obtained over legalised fraud Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Charles Dickens, jun., Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
by an author who combined in his single person B. L. Farjeon, Mr. Charles Gibbon, Mr.J. Glaisher,&lt;br /&gt;
novelist, dramatist, and sharp attorney roused F.R.S., Mr. Joseph Hatton, Mr. Edward Jenkins,&lt;br /&gt;
novelists to a sense of the value of stage-right. M.P., Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, Mr. Charles Reade,&lt;br /&gt;
but few of them had the energy or were in the and Mr. Moy Thomas, who consented to act as&lt;br /&gt;
position to take action. Their stories, such as honorary secretary. The Commission sat and&lt;br /&gt;
they were, were printed and published (some of took long, exhaustive, and varied evidence, and&lt;br /&gt;
them, perhaps, with a weak and valueless noti. its report was published in 1878. It advocated&lt;br /&gt;
fication that the &ldquo;right of dramatisation &rdquo; had the protection of the novelist. Twenty-two years&lt;br /&gt;
been reserved), and as such, according to the late have passed, and the Blue-book still paves the&lt;br /&gt;
Chief Justice Cockburn, were &ldquo; dedicated to the vaults of Westminster.&lt;br /&gt;
public,&rdquo; giving any would-be adapter the right to To make a workable play out of a novel, not&lt;br /&gt;
use names, titles, incidents, plot, and anything he written with an eye to the stage, requires much&lt;br /&gt;
could find within the four corners of the binding labour and ingenuity, and a special talent not&lt;br /&gt;
for the purpose of stage-representation, but not always possessed by the ordinary writer of fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
for printed publication. Naturally writers of In the novel the descriptive writer is perfectly&lt;br /&gt;
fiction fretted under this deprivation of a valuable unfettered. He describes his scenery and sur-&lt;br /&gt;
right. As far back as 1873, the late &ldquo; George roundings, and in many cases his characters&lt;br /&gt;
Eliot&amp;quot; wrote to me :&lt;br /&gt;
impress themselves upon the reader with the&lt;br /&gt;
I thoroughly concar in the opinion that the law of copy. smallest possible amount of dramatic dialogue&lt;br /&gt;
right in relation to the dramatisation of novels ought to be and the largest possible amount of descripe&lt;br /&gt;
changed, and I gball willingly give my adhesion to any tive writino In the drama this process is&lt;br /&gt;
energetic effort towards attaining that end.&lt;br /&gt;
reversed. The scenery is handed over to the&lt;br /&gt;
The late Lord Lytton :-&lt;br /&gt;
scene-painter, and the dress and appearance of&lt;br /&gt;
I heartily sympathise with your efforts, and shall be very&lt;br /&gt;
the characters are the work of the costume and&lt;br /&gt;
willing to co-operate to obtain such an amendment of the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright law as may prevent the unauthorised dramatisation wig maker, plus the interpretation of the actor&lt;br /&gt;
of novels.&lt;br /&gt;
and actress. The words of the dialogue have to&lt;br /&gt;
The late Wilkie Collins :-&lt;br /&gt;
be subordinated to the action, and if they throw&lt;br /&gt;
My &ldquo; Poor Miss Finch&rdquo; has been dramatised, without no light on the inner character of the puppets&lt;br /&gt;
asking my permission, by some idiot in the country. I they are worse than useless, and become what the&lt;br /&gt;
have been asked to dramatige it, and I have refused, because stage-manager irreverently calls &laquo; cackle&rdquo; This&lt;br /&gt;
my experience tells me that the book is eminently unfit for shows that the man who possesses the true optique&lt;br /&gt;
stage purposes. What I refuse to do with my own work&lt;br /&gt;
du th&eacute;&acirc;tre may be a valuable collaborateur as a&lt;br /&gt;
another man (unknown in literatare) is perfectly free to do&lt;br /&gt;
against my will and (if he can get his rubbish played) to&lt;br /&gt;
reformed thief in the hands of a writer of no&lt;br /&gt;
the prejudice of my novel and my reputation.&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic talent who is willing to condone a felony.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss M. E. Braddon :-&lt;br /&gt;
The copyright law entirely overlooks the possi.&lt;br /&gt;
I have written twenty-four novels, many of these have bilities of such beneficial partnerships, where&lt;br /&gt;
been dramatised, and a fow of the dramatic versions still one man supplies just as much literature, or&lt;br /&gt;
hold the stage. I have never received the smallest pecu.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; cackle,&rdquo; as may be wanted, and the other the&lt;br /&gt;
maplele&amp;quot; as mo&lt;br /&gt;
niary advantage from any of these adaptations, nor does the&lt;br /&gt;
law of copyright in any way assist me to protect wbat&lt;br /&gt;
stage-carpentry-and this law gives the same&lt;br /&gt;
appears to be a valuable portion of my copyright-namely, legal protection, neither more nor less, to the thief&lt;br /&gt;
the exclusive right to dramatise my own creation.&lt;br /&gt;
who finds his play practically ready made as it does&lt;br /&gt;
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I 20&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
to the thief who merely steals rough materials, and wise reflections: &ldquo;It is,&amp;quot; said M. H&eacute;brard, &ldquo;by&lt;br /&gt;
has to shape them together. A case of this kind drawing closer together; by maintaining a taste&lt;br /&gt;
is in the Law Reports-Toole v. Young-in the for fraternal intercourse, for amicable conversa-&lt;br /&gt;
seventies. A short story was written in Good tion; by learning to know better, and to esteem&lt;br /&gt;
Words in such a form (nearly all dialogue) that frankly, the estimable men who do not think as&lt;br /&gt;
it could be transferred to the stage without the we do, that we shall, little by little, introduce into&lt;br /&gt;
addition of a dozen words. It was so transferred the Press the habit of courteous polemics, a habit&lt;br /&gt;
by an unauthorised so-called adapter, and pro- which excludes neither love for the cause defended&lt;br /&gt;
duced in defiance of the writer (myself) and the nor ardent sincerity in the opinions expressed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
owner by purchase, Mr. J. L. Toole. The action &ldquo;Nos associations,&amp;quot; he concluded, &ldquo;sont sorties&lt;br /&gt;
before the late Chief Justice Cockburn brought de la presse d&amp;#039;hier ; la presse de demain sortira&lt;br /&gt;
out the &ldquo; dedication to the public&amp;quot; theory and des associations ! &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the judgment that the &ldquo;original source&rdquo; (the book D espite the popularity enioved by the minor&lt;br /&gt;
or the magazine) was open for the whole world&lt;br /&gt;
songsters of the caf&eacute; concerts and Montmartre,&lt;br /&gt;
to go to and pick out what it fancied. This judg- the Congr&egrave;s de la Chanson was not particularly&lt;br /&gt;
ment was upheld on appeal, in spite of the able successful. From fifty to sixty persons made the&lt;br /&gt;
opposition of the late Sir John Karslake.&lt;br /&gt;
vastness of the huge salle more apparent during the&lt;br /&gt;
Within the last few years a new and almost three days that the session lasted. The Immortals&lt;br /&gt;
comic interpretation of a bad statute law has held assiduously aloof from this assemblage of&lt;br /&gt;
been acted upon by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett in their humbler brethren, the rythmic exponents of&lt;br /&gt;
protecting her &ldquo;stage rights&rdquo; in &ldquo;Little Lord the transient sentiment of the boulevards. A&lt;br /&gt;
Fauntleroy.&rdquo; The Copyright Act, the Printing group of the most eminent literary members of&lt;br /&gt;
and Publishing Act&mdash;was dragged in to fire a the French Institute were confidently and joyfully&lt;br /&gt;
broadside at the pirates, and it was contended expected; one and all sent excuses at the last&lt;br /&gt;
that the &ldquo; copying of parts&rdquo; for use at rehearsals, moment. The classics of the people are its song-&lt;br /&gt;
and the actors to study, was a &ldquo;multiplication of writers.&amp;quot; wrote M. Jules Claretie some years ago;&lt;br /&gt;
copies&rdquo; within the meaning of the Copyright yet the director of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise was&lt;br /&gt;
Act. Mr. Justice Stirling, a sound judge on among the celebrities conspicuous by their&lt;br /&gt;
these questions, before whom the case was tried, absence at the Congr&egrave;s de la Chanson. In 1892&lt;br /&gt;
upheld this view, and, for the present, this the French Academy formally refused the honour&lt;br /&gt;
decision holds the field. It is difficult to speak of bestowing an annual donation of 10,000 francs&lt;br /&gt;
about such a decision, on such pettifogging on the author of the best song which had appeared&lt;br /&gt;
grounds, with becoming respect, and it would be during the year. Hence the present attitude of&lt;br /&gt;
foolish to prophesy the result if the case is ever its members.&lt;br /&gt;
carried to the Court of Appeal. The weighty&lt;br /&gt;
and valuable property of &amp;quot;stage right&amp;quot; ought&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIFE OF PASTEUR.&lt;br /&gt;
not to be left trembling on such a foundation. This voluminous work (published chez Hachette)&lt;br /&gt;
John HOLLINGSHEAD. is one of the most intensely interesting of recent&lt;br /&gt;
publications. &ldquo;La Vie de Pasteur,&amp;#039;&amp;#039; writes a&lt;br /&gt;
French critic, &ldquo;is like a chapter added to Plutarch&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
biographies. It is a page of morality in action.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
Everything there is pure; a subtle perfume of&lt;br /&gt;
virtue envelops it. This man loved truth above&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, Rue des Beaux Arts. everything in the world.&rdquo; The noble spirit in&lt;br /&gt;
MONG the memorable speeches which pre which he carried out his great work is amply&lt;br /&gt;
luded the close of the Great Exhibition exemplified in his biography. Written in a&lt;br /&gt;
not the least impressive was that delivered masterly style by M. Ren&eacute; Vallery - Radot,&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Adrien H&eacute;brard at the breakfast given by Pasteur&amp;#039;s son-in-law, it relates succinctly every&lt;br /&gt;
the Superior Press Committee of the Exhibition step achieved in the colossal experimenter&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
to the members of the Departmental and Parisian career until its peaceful close in the quiet chamber&lt;br /&gt;
Press Associations. Five hundred members overlooking the fair woods of Marnes. The&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the invitation. M. H&eacute;brard presided, and friendship existing between Pasteur and Alex-&lt;br /&gt;
at the end of the repast delivered a pithy allocution, andre Dumas fils is well known. In describing a&lt;br /&gt;
prefacing his remarks with a toast in honour of visit paid by the latter to Pasteur&amp;#039;s sick-room,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Jean Dupuy (Minister of Agriculture), presi. M. Radot writes : &ldquo; Dumas, who had observed&lt;br /&gt;
dent of the Paris Press Syndicate and of the men well, loved and admired Pasteur, who was a&lt;br /&gt;
General Syndicate of Press Associations, who genius without pride and full of benevolence.&lt;br /&gt;
occupied a seat at his right hand. Among other On this New Year&amp;#039;s afternoon he commenced to&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
121&lt;br /&gt;
talk to the invalid with a cordiality somewhat&lt;br /&gt;
resembling the exuberant gaiety of his father.&lt;br /&gt;
In this chamber close to the laboratories, how far&lt;br /&gt;
was he removed from all the spheres that he had&lt;br /&gt;
scrutinised in which whirled the personages he&lt;br /&gt;
had depicted &amp;#039;poor vibrios in human form,&amp;#039; as&lt;br /&gt;
he called them-ridiculous, dangerous, or vile!&lt;br /&gt;
. . . For there was in this dramatist a man&lt;br /&gt;
eager for moral action; there was in this realist,&lt;br /&gt;
a symbolist; in this satirist, a mystic..&lt;br /&gt;
And the glance of his blue eyes, usually cold and&lt;br /&gt;
keen, penetrating the most secret thoughts; that&lt;br /&gt;
ironical glance, always on its guard, softened into&lt;br /&gt;
an expression of venerating friendship for him&lt;br /&gt;
whom he called &amp;#039; notre cher et grand Pasteur.&amp;#039;&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M. SARDOU&amp;#039;s Decision.&lt;br /&gt;
The Exhibition has decidedly not been favour.&lt;br /&gt;
able to an overflowing literary barvest. A well.&lt;br /&gt;
known critic recently fell back on past publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, because, so he asserted, there were so few&lt;br /&gt;
new ones sufficiently interesting to arouse public&lt;br /&gt;
curiosity. Meantime, the drama is more in&lt;br /&gt;
favour than ever. All rising young authors flock&lt;br /&gt;
to the footlights as the swiftest and most effec.&lt;br /&gt;
tive method of reaching the public at large. And&lt;br /&gt;
speaking of the stage reminds me of an error in&lt;br /&gt;
my last notes. It was not M. Antoine who grate-&lt;br /&gt;
fully profferred his homage to the drama, in the&lt;br /&gt;
shape of an additional 2 per cent. added to the&lt;br /&gt;
e&lt;br /&gt;
established 10 per cent. royalty received by the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist. Here is what M. Deval (manager of&lt;br /&gt;
the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e Theatre) says on the subject in an&lt;br /&gt;
open letter addressed to the Figaro&amp;#039;s theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
correspondent :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Certes non! I have not asked for an augmen-&lt;br /&gt;
tation of the dramatists&amp;#039; royalty at the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e.&lt;br /&gt;
On the contrary, it has been summarily imposed&lt;br /&gt;
on me.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I have been called before the inexorable com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee. &amp;quot;You make the maximum every evening&lt;br /&gt;
with the &ldquo; Demi-Vierges&rdquo;?&amp;#039; said the terrible&lt;br /&gt;
President.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;* But-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Chut! Do you make the maximum ?&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Yes, but my expenses are enormous with&lt;br /&gt;
Hading, Mayer, Čarlix, Hirch - .-&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Chut! Do you make the maximum ? &amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; &middot; Yes&mdash; but &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Twelve per cent. The Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e is a classified&lt;br /&gt;
theatre. Be quiet, and go&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; And I was obliged to go, much vexed,&lt;br /&gt;
I confess, at being obliged to pay 12 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
despite myself.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;May the joyous maximum console me long!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
sighs M. Deval in conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;
The Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Auteurs et Compositeurs&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatiques will undoubtedly re-echo the wish.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
AN OLD JOURNALIST.&lt;br /&gt;
By the death of M. Pierre V&eacute;ron, the French&lt;br /&gt;
Press loses a journalist of nearly fifty years&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
standing. * His name may be cited among the&lt;br /&gt;
rare examples of journalists who have made a&lt;br /&gt;
fortune solely by journalism. He edited the&lt;br /&gt;
Charivari for more than thirty years, and was an&lt;br /&gt;
assiduous contributor to Le Monde Illustr&eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
None knew better than he how to depict the&lt;br /&gt;
varying phases of the boulevards. He also wrote&lt;br /&gt;
a number of airy, piquant volumes dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
the picturesque physiognomies, fashions, and&lt;br /&gt;
frolics of Paris boulvardier. Among these&lt;br /&gt;
works may be mentioned &ldquo; Paris s&amp;#039;amuse,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Les&lt;br /&gt;
Pantins du Boulevard,&rdquo; &ldquo;Les Grimaces Parisi.&lt;br /&gt;
ennes,&rdquo; &ldquo;Les Propos d&amp;#039;un Boulevardier,&rdquo; &ldquo; Les&lt;br /&gt;
Marionnettes,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
Pierre V&eacute;ron had the misfortune to outlive the&lt;br /&gt;
larger number of his contemporaries. Of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;sacred phalanx&rdquo; which formerly frequented&lt;br /&gt;
Tortini, only Aur&eacute;lien Scholl, Philibert Aude-&lt;br /&gt;
brand, and &amp;#039;Henri Rochefort are still, I believe.&lt;br /&gt;
in existence. Everything had changed since the&lt;br /&gt;
far-off days when the handsome young journalist&lt;br /&gt;
was one of the ornaments of the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s&amp;#039; fouer.&lt;br /&gt;
He alone had not changed, save in appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus a slow misunderstanding rose between the&lt;br /&gt;
old man, still standing erect, and the rising&lt;br /&gt;
generation. And since he no longer understood&lt;br /&gt;
--or was understood-he became a prey to&lt;br /&gt;
pessimism and bitterness of spirit.&lt;br /&gt;
His hospitality continued unabated to the end.&lt;br /&gt;
His conversation was occasionally biting, yet he&lt;br /&gt;
had few enemies; and more than one writer of&lt;br /&gt;
to-day will remember his name with gratitude.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;He never wished to be anything outside his&lt;br /&gt;
profession, and he never used his influence except&lt;br /&gt;
for good,&rdquo; wrote a colleague on the morrow of&lt;br /&gt;
Pierre V&eacute;ron&amp;#039;s death. A truer or more concise&lt;br /&gt;
epitome of the man would be hard to find.&lt;br /&gt;
A Famous ENCOUNTER.&lt;br /&gt;
A recent Press dispute which ended in the&lt;br /&gt;
clashing of cold steel recalls to mind the famous&lt;br /&gt;
encounter of the late Francisque Sarcey and&lt;br /&gt;
Aur&eacute;lien Scholl re an extremely offensive critique&lt;br /&gt;
published by the latter in the Figaro. Its&lt;br /&gt;
object was to force the pacific Uncle into fighting&lt;br /&gt;
his adversary; since Villemessant, founder of&lt;br /&gt;
the Figaro, had wagered Scholl twenty pounds&lt;br /&gt;
that Sarcey could not be induced to fight. The&lt;br /&gt;
* Since our correspondent wrote his letter, the death of&lt;br /&gt;
another eminent French journalist bas been announced.&lt;br /&gt;
This is M. Valfrey, the foreign leader-writer (&ldquo; Whist &amp;quot;) of&lt;br /&gt;
the Figaro. The Westminster Gazette rightly says that&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;M. Valfrey&amp;#039;s articles had become almost a European&lt;br /&gt;
institution, and with his death a distinct political force&lt;br /&gt;
disappears.&lt;br /&gt;
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122&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ruse succeeded, and the good Uncle sent his and publishers might shoot at one another, under-&lt;br /&gt;
seconds to M. Scholl, demanding immediate neath was human sympathy and the desire to help&lt;br /&gt;
satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;
one another in time of trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I hope you will not hurt me badly,&amp;quot; said This assurance is very gratifying. Now there&lt;br /&gt;
Sarcey to his antagonist, when the pair met on the happens to be at the present moment a case of&lt;br /&gt;
ground.&lt;br /&gt;
real and deep trouble. It is a document entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Rest easy-I will be on my guard,&rdquo; replied &ldquo; Form of Agreement issued by the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Scholl, good-humouredly.&lt;br /&gt;
Association.&rdquo; Mr. John Murray himself was a&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And if I am short of breath you will give member of the Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
me time to rest ? &rdquo; pursued the corpulent, peace This document makes the following claims,&lt;br /&gt;
loving Sarcey.&lt;br /&gt;
among others, upon authors:&lt;br /&gt;
Scholl agreed to this also. But no sooner 1. All the rights of a book, including those of&lt;br /&gt;
were the combatants in position than the appear. translation and even dramatic rights!&lt;br /&gt;
ance of three gendarmes on horseback forced 2. The reckoning of royalties at thirteen as&lt;br /&gt;
them to retire to their carriages, and retreat at twelve, whether the book is so sold or not.&lt;br /&gt;
full gallop.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The interest on money due to the author for&lt;br /&gt;
Arrived at Maubeuge: &ldquo;We cannot return a period not defined. This means, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
to Paris without having fought,&rdquo; said Scholl, inflicting a fine upon him, large or small, accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ominously. &ldquo;The injury was bloody ; its d&eacute;noue ing to the sum due. Thus, if &pound;500 is due, and&lt;br /&gt;
ment must be so also.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the money is kept back for six months, the&lt;br /&gt;
A hasty consultation, and Baden-Baden is author at 4 per cent. is mulcted of &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
decided on. Twelve hours&amp;#039; railway travelling, 4. The right to charge a percentage for his&lt;br /&gt;
and the party arrive at the place chosen, a spot office expenses&mdash;a right which is not conceded to&lt;br /&gt;
not far from the hunting lodge of the King of booksellers or to authors. Nor is it claimed by&lt;br /&gt;
Prussia. It is Scholl who tells the story.&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors, barristers, and professional men, nor by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sarcey put on an enormous pair of spectacles, any trade.&lt;br /&gt;
I adjusted my eye-glass.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The right in commission books to charge&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;* Allez, messieurs !&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
a percentage on every item of the cost, and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Clic! clac ! several thrusts&mdash;and I tear the to take for hinıself discount on all payments.&lt;br /&gt;
sleeve of my adversary&amp;#039;s shirt. A slight pin. In other words, the document claims the&lt;br /&gt;
prick, a mere leech-bite. But I was aided by right of the publisher&mdash;the &amp;quot;equitable&amp;quot; right,&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Th&eacute;venet, a personage well known among so called&mdash;to get the book printed at as high&lt;br /&gt;
duellists. This excellent man had brought, in a cost as he can, in order to increase his own&lt;br /&gt;
his surgical case, a small phial of blood, a por profit.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of which served to colour the wound more 6. There is no clause recognising the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
vividly. The remainder was poured on Sarcey&amp;#039;s legal right to an audit. Perhaps none is&lt;br /&gt;
shirt.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
wanted. Nor is there any safeguard against&lt;br /&gt;
Thus ended this famous encounter; and none dishonesty.&lt;br /&gt;
laughed more heartily over its recital than the 7. There is complete silence as to charging for&lt;br /&gt;
good Uncle himself, the third volume of whose advertisements in a publisher&amp;#039;s own papers or&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Quarante Ans de Th&eacute;&acirc;tre &rdquo; will appear in a few magazines.&lt;br /&gt;
days.&lt;br /&gt;
Since so much has been said and written on&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. this subject, the silence must be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
intentional. That is to say, there is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
to prevent the publisher from sweeping the&lt;br /&gt;
whole returns of the book into his own pocket&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
by charging for advertisements in his own&lt;br /&gt;
papers, and by exchanges. There is no possible&lt;br /&gt;
T the dinner given to Mr. John Murray protection for the author if he chooses to do&lt;br /&gt;
by the Authors&amp;#039; Club, which is not the so. It is no answer to say that he would not&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; Society as some of the papers do so. By this suppression, he seems to purpose&lt;br /&gt;
seem to think, pleasant things were said both by charging what he pleases under this head. If the&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman of the guest, and by the guest silence was unintentional perhaps Mr. Murray will&lt;br /&gt;
himself. Among others the guest is reported to make haste to explain it.&lt;br /&gt;
have said that he had discovered among the These claims, with others of less impor-&lt;br /&gt;
papers of his house the causes of all the troubles tance, form the present trouble. After Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
that were apt to spring up between authors and Murray&amp;#039;s public assurance that authors and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
publishers. He also said that though authors lishers&ldquo; deal with one another as brethren with&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
123&lt;br /&gt;
friendly feelings, and without difficulty, or&lt;br /&gt;
hostility, or friction,&amp;quot; we may look forward with&lt;br /&gt;
perfect confidence to Mr. Murray&amp;#039;s immediate&lt;br /&gt;
withdrawal, so far as he is concerned, from this&lt;br /&gt;
document.&lt;br /&gt;
per cent., which gives him &pound;17 58. more. So that,&lt;br /&gt;
in this simple and guileless way, he &ldquo;bags,&rdquo; say,&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;77 58., all at the author&amp;#039;s expense and out of&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s pocket before the sales begin. What,&lt;br /&gt;
to repeat, is that elementary law quoted above&lt;br /&gt;
from the daily paper ?&lt;br /&gt;
A man who undertakes work, whether pablic or private,&lt;br /&gt;
as a trustee for others, ought not to place himself in such a&lt;br /&gt;
position that his personal gain must conflict with his duty&lt;br /&gt;
to those who have trusted him.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is an axiom cut out of a daily paper :-&lt;br /&gt;
A man who undertakes work, whether public or private,&lt;br /&gt;
as a trustee for others, ought not to place himself in such a&lt;br /&gt;
position that his personal gain must conflict with his duty&lt;br /&gt;
to those who have trusted him.&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose that everybody will agree with this&lt;br /&gt;
elementary law : everybody, that is, except the&lt;br /&gt;
committee of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association. They&lt;br /&gt;
say, practically, &ldquo; we are not bound by the ordi-&lt;br /&gt;
nary laws which govern ordinary folk in fiduciary&lt;br /&gt;
relations. We claim to make our personal gain&lt;br /&gt;
dependent on the amount we can charge for cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production. We demand a percentage on that&lt;br /&gt;
that&lt;br /&gt;
charge: in other words, the higher the charge the&lt;br /&gt;
worse it will be for the author but the better&lt;br /&gt;
for us.&amp;quot; We have only to read the Forms of&lt;br /&gt;
Agreement to understand this remarkable atti.&lt;br /&gt;
tude.&lt;br /&gt;
A case in point has been shown me by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Thring. The agreement claimed 15 per cent. on&lt;br /&gt;
the printing, paper, and binding, 15 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
on the advertisements, and 15 per cent. on the&lt;br /&gt;
sales.&lt;br /&gt;
The interests of the author, for whom the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is acting as a fiduciary relation, are thus&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly at variance with those of the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
himself. The larger he can make the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, the better it will be for him and the&lt;br /&gt;
worse for the author. Everybody knows the wide&lt;br /&gt;
differences in printers&amp;#039; estimates.&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher has only to take the highest.&lt;br /&gt;
This will probably be 50 per cent higher than the&lt;br /&gt;
lowest. To the publisher this means 22} per&lt;br /&gt;
cent. instead of 15 per cent. Then there is an ugly&lt;br /&gt;
claim in the &ldquo;Forms&rdquo; about discount, in which&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s interest and the publisher&amp;#039;s are again&lt;br /&gt;
at variance. In the agreement before me the&lt;br /&gt;
edition was so limited that the author, on the&lt;br /&gt;
most favourable conditions, was bound to lose&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;20, while the publisher for his part actually&lt;br /&gt;
made &pound;60 without counting the discount. .&lt;br /&gt;
Take a simple case. Suppose the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction should not exceed &pound;100. The publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
allowing a charge of &pound;150, pockets &pound;22 108.&lt;br /&gt;
With the advertisements, which in such a limited&lt;br /&gt;
edition should not be more than &pound;15 or so, he&lt;br /&gt;
may first advertise more than is necessary in the&lt;br /&gt;
daily and weekly journals-say, &pound;50-and may&lt;br /&gt;
then charge another &pound;30 for advertisements in&lt;br /&gt;
his own organs and by exchange. He therefore&lt;br /&gt;
makes &pound;37 108. Next, he gets discount at 7&lt;br /&gt;
The Manchester Guardian returns to the ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the sixpenny book. The writer says that&lt;br /&gt;
one of my reasons is &ldquo;rather distressing.&amp;quot; He&lt;br /&gt;
quotes my words.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The low price encourages a low view of literature.&lt;br /&gt;
Who will value a thing that costs sixpence, amuses for&lt;br /&gt;
an hour, and then is thrown away? How much does&lt;br /&gt;
one valae a sixpenny toy ?&amp;quot; The Society of Authors, led&lt;br /&gt;
by Sir Walter Besant, has done such excellent work for&lt;br /&gt;
the good of all writers that one regrets that it will make&lt;br /&gt;
sport for the Philistines by putting forth remarks of this&lt;br /&gt;
kind, which lend great colour to the hostile assertion that&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society see nothing in literature bat the&lt;br /&gt;
material of commerce, and value an author parely by his&lt;br /&gt;
price per thoasand words.&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose that I expressed my meaning badly,&lt;br /&gt;
yet I fail to see in it the least indication of con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidering literature as nothing but material of&lt;br /&gt;
commerce. What I meant was simply what I&lt;br /&gt;
said : that and nothing more. We want litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture to be valued, books to be cherished, authors&lt;br /&gt;
to be considered as separate and distinct, criti.&lt;br /&gt;
cism to be encouraged, standards and canons of&lt;br /&gt;
art to be created in the minds of readers. What&lt;br /&gt;
was the experience of America at the time when&lt;br /&gt;
all English books of any interest were brought&lt;br /&gt;
out at sixpence in wretched print and on wretched&lt;br /&gt;
paper ? They were bought for a railway journey:&lt;br /&gt;
they were read in the train : when they were&lt;br /&gt;
finished they were thrown out of window or left&lt;br /&gt;
on the seat. That is not the way to make litera.&lt;br /&gt;
ture respected. If they had had to pay a dollar&lt;br /&gt;
and a half for that book they would have taken it&lt;br /&gt;
home, put it upon their shelves, and read it again&lt;br /&gt;
and again. I should like to understand what&lt;br /&gt;
sport the Philistines can make out of this state.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, or how it can possibly touch on the&lt;br /&gt;
price of an author per thousand words. And,&lt;br /&gt;
further, I would far rather hear that a book&lt;br /&gt;
of mine had circulated a few hundreds only at&lt;br /&gt;
a price which would ensure the respect always&lt;br /&gt;
paid to things that have cost money, than many&lt;br /&gt;
thousands at a price which would allow it to be&lt;br /&gt;
thrown away as not worth preserving. What has&lt;br /&gt;
the Philistine to say to that?&lt;br /&gt;
I have on several occasions asked the meaning&lt;br /&gt;
of the reproach hurled at the unfortunate author&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
about the thousand words. A MS. intended for&lt;br /&gt;
a book, a magazine, or a daily paper must pay&lt;br /&gt;
some regard to length. Its length may be&lt;br /&gt;
estimated by the sheet of sixteen pages, or by&lt;br /&gt;
the page, or by the column; but then it can only&lt;br /&gt;
be expressed by the number of words. Why not&lt;br /&gt;
the number of words? If, again, MSS. are to be&lt;br /&gt;
paid for according to length, that length must&lt;br /&gt;
depend on the number of words. As for the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s price, the Society has nothing whatever&lt;br /&gt;
to do with it, except, in general terms, to expose&lt;br /&gt;
sweating, which is a form of robbery ; to insist&lt;br /&gt;
on the safeguard of an agreement drawn up with&lt;br /&gt;
the advice of experts : and to let the other side&lt;br /&gt;
know that the agreement has got to be kept. To&lt;br /&gt;
suppose that the Society is interested in increas&lt;br /&gt;
ing the &ldquo; price of an author per thousand words&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is to be wholly ignorant of its principles and its&lt;br /&gt;
methods.&lt;br /&gt;
reading of the working classes, which should do&lt;br /&gt;
something to introduce a little common sense into&lt;br /&gt;
the ignorant talk that we constantly hear. The&lt;br /&gt;
working class we are told reads nothing but&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;slush &rdquo; &mdash; well &mdash; their favourite authors are&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens, Scott, and Marryat. They read nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but novels&mdash;ask the librarian to name offhand&lt;br /&gt;
a few of the books they take out. That popular&lt;br /&gt;
novelist, on whom all the critics delight&lt;br /&gt;
to jump, sells by the hundred thousand. This,&lt;br /&gt;
it is said, shows what the working class read.&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, but the working classes do not buy books&lt;br /&gt;
at all, not even by this popular novelist. Now,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Phillips claims for the reading of fiction&lt;br /&gt;
that it is not a disease but &ldquo;a symptom of&lt;br /&gt;
interest in things that are brighter and more&lt;br /&gt;
alluring than that everyday dull greyness which&lt;br /&gt;
surrounds the lives of so many people in this land&lt;br /&gt;
of ours. And again :&lt;br /&gt;
In view of their squalid daily environment the revelations&lt;br /&gt;
of a different world as depicted by the novelist, the fair&lt;br /&gt;
scenes of mountain, valley, and river, uncontaminated by&lt;br /&gt;
the ugly factories and workshops of industrial progress, the&lt;br /&gt;
vivid descriptions of works of art and beauty, the account&lt;br /&gt;
of rich dresses and splendid mansions, the clash of swords&lt;br /&gt;
and noise of battle, or the armoured panoply of chivalric&lt;br /&gt;
times, have an amount of attraction that cannot be very&lt;br /&gt;
well understood by those whose lives have been cast in&lt;br /&gt;
more favourable circumstances. I cannot see or feel that&lt;br /&gt;
this is in any way to be deplored. Before you can raise&lt;br /&gt;
the class level of intelligence you must first show the indi-&lt;br /&gt;
vidual members something better, and the way to attain.&lt;br /&gt;
thereto, so that they may make their endeavour accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
If reading is to be cultivated at all it must be from the&lt;br /&gt;
point of interest, and I maintain that the novelist, and he&lt;br /&gt;
alone ap to the present, has bad any portion in providing&lt;br /&gt;
the material wherewith to establish the love of reading in&lt;br /&gt;
the masses on a firm and fruitful basis.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is an American view of American poetry&lt;br /&gt;
(the Dial, Chicago) :-&lt;br /&gt;
Good and sound and of excellent workmanship is the&lt;br /&gt;
great mass of recent American literature; but as the&lt;br /&gt;
idealist gazes on it be seems to see the vision of a great&lt;br /&gt;
strand whereon some tempest has driven a fleet of deeply.&lt;br /&gt;
laden ships. Everything for human needs is strewn about&lt;br /&gt;
---food and raiment, and toole, and precious objects. And&lt;br /&gt;
many of the ships are seaworthy; but no flood comes and&lt;br /&gt;
no wind rises to waft them off the sand. The agitating&lt;br /&gt;
power of poetry, the tempestuous stir of great ideas, are&lt;br /&gt;
wanting to make the fleet march again in triumph over the&lt;br /&gt;
deep.&lt;br /&gt;
And here is an appreciation, from the same&lt;br /&gt;
paper, of the late Charles Dudley Warner, whose&lt;br /&gt;
death is deplored on this side of the Atlantic as&lt;br /&gt;
much as on his own side :-&lt;br /&gt;
: Charming as are these many volumes of essays and&lt;br /&gt;
impressions de voyage, we are inclined to believe that Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Warner made his most enduring contribution to literature&lt;br /&gt;
when he wrote, during the last ten years of his life, the&lt;br /&gt;
series of tbree novels which provide so suggestive a por-&lt;br /&gt;
trayal of what American life has become in its older centres&lt;br /&gt;
of civilisation, and in these latter days of frenzied com-&lt;br /&gt;
mercialism and pitiful social ideals. &amp;quot;A Little Journey in&lt;br /&gt;
the World,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Golden House,&rdquo; and &ldquo;That Fortune&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
make up a sort of novel-trilogy which will always have&lt;br /&gt;
deep interest as a set of social documents, and which comes&lt;br /&gt;
near to the high-water mark of American fiction. There is&lt;br /&gt;
in these books a riper thought and a deeper humanity than&lt;br /&gt;
were wont to characterise the author&amp;#039;s earlier writings; if&lt;br /&gt;
they are lacking in the quality that goes to the making of&lt;br /&gt;
the best class of novels, it is because they are essentially&lt;br /&gt;
the product of the critical rather than of the creative&lt;br /&gt;
intellect. But their mellow optimism, and their persistent&lt;br /&gt;
exaltation of ideals of conduct that have gone too much out&lt;br /&gt;
of fashion of late years, give these three novels a place all&lt;br /&gt;
but the highest in our fiction, and set a wortby crown upon&lt;br /&gt;
the activities of a long and helpful life.&lt;br /&gt;
One might also point out that in the evening&lt;br /&gt;
when the working man goes to the free library, he&lt;br /&gt;
has had a hard day&amp;#039;s work and is tired. Very&lt;br /&gt;
few of his class are so strong as to desire&lt;br /&gt;
study over any intellectual pursuit after a hard&lt;br /&gt;
day&amp;#039;s work. Why should we expect of him what&lt;br /&gt;
we never look for in our own young men ? The&lt;br /&gt;
lad who has sat at a desk, or attended classes, or&lt;br /&gt;
worked at his profession from nine o&amp;#039;clock till six&lt;br /&gt;
does not devote his evening as a rule to the&lt;br /&gt;
pursuit of science or to study of any kind. We&lt;br /&gt;
do not expect or look for such a thing. Why.&lt;br /&gt;
then, cast it in the teeth of the craftsman that,&lt;br /&gt;
when he knocks off the work that is his livelihood,&lt;br /&gt;
he does not take up another and a harder kind of&lt;br /&gt;
work? All that we can do is to exhort librarians&lt;br /&gt;
to admit only the best current fiction, and to exert&lt;br /&gt;
a steady pressure in the choice of books, and to&lt;br /&gt;
encourage, in addition to fiction, the reading of&lt;br /&gt;
biographies and essays and history. In course&lt;br /&gt;
of time there may arise a few who will even read&lt;br /&gt;
Literature has published a letter from a Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Cliffe Phillips, of Cardiff, on the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 125 (#173) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
125&lt;br /&gt;
philosophy; but whatever happens, fiction will&lt;br /&gt;
always be the staple--the most delightful form of&lt;br /&gt;
reading, the most favourite form of recreation.&lt;br /&gt;
We fain would let thy memory dwell&lt;br /&gt;
Where rush the tideways of the sea,&lt;br /&gt;
Where storms will moan or calms will tell&lt;br /&gt;
To all the world our love for thee&lt;br /&gt;
Whom all men loved in this old land,&lt;br /&gt;
And all men loved across the sea-&lt;br /&gt;
We well may clasp our brethren&amp;#039;s hand,&lt;br /&gt;
And light the beacon light for thee!&lt;br /&gt;
The above lines, by Lord Archibald Campbell,&lt;br /&gt;
will be inscribed on the beacon tower which is&lt;br /&gt;
now being erected at Duart Point, Mull, in&lt;br /&gt;
memory of the late Mr. William Black.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
came out in a handsome volume, very well illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated, and had all the external appearance of a&lt;br /&gt;
classic. Alas! no one wanted to read any longer&lt;br /&gt;
about Titus and his friend &rsquo;Arry. One hears con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinually of similar revivals. Mostly they depend&lt;br /&gt;
upon illustrations : in some cases they become&lt;br /&gt;
school prizes and gift books. As a rule they are&lt;br /&gt;
not successful.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, of very popular authors-poets and&lt;br /&gt;
novelists especially&mdash;the world makes a selection&lt;br /&gt;
and refuses to look at any more. &ldquo; The Cloister&lt;br /&gt;
and the Hearth&rdquo; represents Charles Reade;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Woman in White&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Moonstone&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
represent Wilkie Collins ; his shorter poems repre-&lt;br /&gt;
sent Browning ; his earlier poems, Tennyson. As&lt;br /&gt;
regards, however, the revival of writers who were&lt;br /&gt;
in some vogue fifty years ago, the question is&lt;br /&gt;
whether with them the human interest is so great&lt;br /&gt;
as to overcome the bygone fashion of setting,&lt;br /&gt;
language, ideas, and dress. It will be interesting&lt;br /&gt;
to find out whether this can be said of Smedley&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
REVIVALS AND REPRINTS.&lt;br /&gt;
USE OF THE SOCIETY&amp;#039;S NAME.&lt;br /&gt;
TT may interest some of the readers of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author to have once more put before them&lt;br /&gt;
- a point which has been raised not only in&lt;br /&gt;
these columns, but also in some of the reports of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, namely, that it is not an uncominon&lt;br /&gt;
thing for those who are not members to use the&lt;br /&gt;
Suciety&amp;#039;s name and the Society&amp;#039;s prestige for&lt;br /&gt;
bringing recalcitrant editors and publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
book.&lt;br /&gt;
TT is announced that new editions are to be&lt;br /&gt;
| published of the late Mr. Smedley&amp;#039;s three&lt;br /&gt;
novels&mdash;were there only three ? -&ldquo; Frank&lt;br /&gt;
Fairlegh&rdquo;; &ldquo;Lewis Arundel&rdquo;; and &ldquo;Harry&lt;br /&gt;
Coverdale&amp;#039;s Courtship.&rdquo; How long is it since&lt;br /&gt;
those novels appeared ? Between forty and fifty&lt;br /&gt;
years, I believe. They were not popular in the&lt;br /&gt;
sense that Marryat and Dickens were popular,&lt;br /&gt;
but they enjoyed a very considerable amount of&lt;br /&gt;
popularity. Partly this was due to the cheerful.&lt;br /&gt;
ness of their atmosphere: partly to the well-worn,&lt;br /&gt;
but at the time still acceptable nature of the inci.&lt;br /&gt;
dents&mdash;runaway ponies : long-lost heirs : rescue&lt;br /&gt;
of an old gentleman (who proves grateful) from&lt;br /&gt;
the footpad : and so forth. Perhaps there is also&lt;br /&gt;
a bull in a field : or a rock and a rising&lt;br /&gt;
tide: or a sprained ankle: if I remember&lt;br /&gt;
right there is a villain in every one. I am&lt;br /&gt;
curious to watch this revival. In all popular&lt;br /&gt;
fiction there must be something that belongs to&lt;br /&gt;
the time: something that, after fifty years, no&lt;br /&gt;
longer belongs to the time. It is wonderful to&lt;br /&gt;
note in Dickens how much the strong human&lt;br /&gt;
element which belongs to all time overcomes the&lt;br /&gt;
situations and the characters which could not&lt;br /&gt;
exist at a later time. Yet even in Dickens&lt;br /&gt;
the younger generation finds a good deal&lt;br /&gt;
that has passed away and is no longer inter-&lt;br /&gt;
esting. In other writers this is very remark-&lt;br /&gt;
able. The &ldquo;Scenes from Clerical Life,&amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
instance, have an antiquated air already :&lt;br /&gt;
and, for my own part, I dread to look at &ldquo;Jane&lt;br /&gt;
Eyre &rdquo; for fear of finding already a note of the&lt;br /&gt;
things passed away. Some years ago the late&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Bentley attempted to revive Albert&lt;br /&gt;
Smith&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Adventures of Titus Ledbury.&rdquo; It&lt;br /&gt;
The following case has recently occurred :-A&lt;br /&gt;
certain gentleman, who shall be nameless, has&lt;br /&gt;
confessed that on two occasions he wrote to an&lt;br /&gt;
editor who had not returned his MSS., and stated&lt;br /&gt;
that he should apprise the Editor of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
if he did not get an answer to his repeated com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications.&lt;br /&gt;
In both cases this had the effect of bringing&lt;br /&gt;
back the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
The gentleman is not a member of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
and, on the Secretary writing to remonstrate with&lt;br /&gt;
him on the unwarrantable use he had made of the&lt;br /&gt;
name of the Society and that of the Editor of The&lt;br /&gt;
Author, he replies as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
I simply told the editor I had written to The Author&lt;br /&gt;
anent his conduct, with the result of frightening him.&lt;br /&gt;
He continues with the amazing statement :&lt;br /&gt;
Whe&lt;br /&gt;
for&lt;br /&gt;
writers like myself, then I may aspire to join it.&lt;br /&gt;
Why, he has just confessed that the mere&lt;br /&gt;
unwarranted use of the Society&amp;#039;s name has been&lt;br /&gt;
of use to him!&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 126 (#174) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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126&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
In answer to this letter, the Secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society wrote as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,-I beg to thank you for your letter, and would&lt;br /&gt;
like to draw your attention to the following points :-&lt;br /&gt;
Firstly, that yoаr letter to Sir Walter Besant would lead&lt;br /&gt;
one to suppose you bad mentioned his name.&lt;br /&gt;
Secondly, that the Society of Autbors, through its organ&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, has on two occasions already benefited you,&lt;br /&gt;
according to your own statement.&lt;br /&gt;
Thirdly, that there is the larger point of view that the work&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society does, not only by looking after copyright law,&lt;br /&gt;
but in keeping publisbers to their agreements and editors to&lt;br /&gt;
their contracts, benefit indirectly all authors.&lt;br /&gt;
In the case quoted above the demand for the&lt;br /&gt;
return of the MSS. was no doubt reasonable and&lt;br /&gt;
justifiable. That has nothing to do with the&lt;br /&gt;
question. It is absolutely monstrous that an&lt;br /&gt;
individual who is not a member of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
should put forward the Society&amp;#039;s name in making&lt;br /&gt;
a demand whether it was either reasonable or&lt;br /&gt;
the contrary. This danger to the Society, as its&lt;br /&gt;
power increases, is a very real one, if only because&lt;br /&gt;
it would tend to spread, among those whose action&lt;br /&gt;
the Society opposes, a belief that the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors affords its countenance&lt;br /&gt;
to the support of cases and actions which cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be justified by any proper thinking person.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
progress of time; hut while in the future they&lt;br /&gt;
might not be able to say that&ldquo; the pen is mightier&lt;br /&gt;
than the sword,&rdquo; they would go on saying that&lt;br /&gt;
the printing press was mightier than the sword.&lt;br /&gt;
This invention of multiplying words by a&lt;br /&gt;
mechanical process was probably the most impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tant, the most far-reaching, and the most revolu-&lt;br /&gt;
tionary invention which the world had ever&lt;br /&gt;
known. And now printing was going on to fresh&lt;br /&gt;
triumphs. Having conquered the art of repro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing words, and so multiplying thoughts, it&lt;br /&gt;
was approaching and essaying the art of repro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing pictures. Thus, it not only multiplied&lt;br /&gt;
thought, but beauty too, and the process of print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing pictures opened a new and magnificent future&lt;br /&gt;
to the art of printing. .&lt;br /&gt;
The speaker having suggested in his remarks&lt;br /&gt;
on Samuel Richardson that they could not do&lt;br /&gt;
better than instal a bust to that writer in the St.&lt;br /&gt;
Bride Foundation Institute, Mr. PASSMORE&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARDS subsequently offered to present a&lt;br /&gt;
marble bust as a memorial to the novelist and&lt;br /&gt;
an ornament to the building.&lt;br /&gt;
-oo&lt;br /&gt;
MR. BIRRELL ON EDUCATION.&lt;br /&gt;
The prizes gained by students at the Borough-&lt;br /&gt;
road Polytechnic, Southwark, were presented on&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 21 by Mr. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, Q.C., who&lt;br /&gt;
remarked that that institute, though only founded&lt;br /&gt;
in 1892, had a membership of 3602&mdash;more than&lt;br /&gt;
the number of students at one time at any of&lt;br /&gt;
our Universities; and that its whole work was an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to the grumblers who were very full of&lt;br /&gt;
what was being done in Germany or America, but&lt;br /&gt;
who would not take the trouble to learn of what&lt;br /&gt;
was going on at their very doors. In the matter&lt;br /&gt;
of education, however, the British were a most&lt;br /&gt;
close-fisted nation. As a lawyer he had often&lt;br /&gt;
been privately consulted by wealthy men with&lt;br /&gt;
money to dispose of, and he had noticed how&lt;br /&gt;
averse they always were to anything like educa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. In America, millionaires, who made their&lt;br /&gt;
money out of, say, boots and shoes and pork,&lt;br /&gt;
often felt it their duty to found a university.&lt;br /&gt;
But he did not despair of English millionaires,&lt;br /&gt;
poor and distressed as they often were, and&lt;br /&gt;
his advice to them was that they would be doing&lt;br /&gt;
a minimum of harm if they would but visit&lt;br /&gt;
these institutions in their lifetime, and at the&lt;br /&gt;
end of it assign to them a fraction of their large&lt;br /&gt;
estates.&lt;br /&gt;
THI&lt;br /&gt;
m&lt;br /&gt;
CERTAIN LITERARY SPEECHES.&lt;br /&gt;
MR. A. H. HAWKINS IN FLEET-STREET.&lt;br /&gt;
D HE St. Bride Foundation Institute, which is&lt;br /&gt;
| primarily a technical printers&amp;#039; institute,&lt;br /&gt;
- situated in a narrow lane behind Fleet-&lt;br /&gt;
street, celebrated its sixth anniversary on the&lt;br /&gt;
evening of Nov. 20, when Mr. ANTHONY HOPE&lt;br /&gt;
HAWKINS &amp;quot;inaugurated&rdquo; the Talbot Baines Reed&lt;br /&gt;
collection (about 2000 volumes) in the Pass-&lt;br /&gt;
ds Library. That library, said Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, constituted one more of a long roll of&lt;br /&gt;
munificent and wise donations which had been&lt;br /&gt;
given by Mr. Passmore Edwards. The volumes&lt;br /&gt;
which had been gathered together in the Insti-&lt;br /&gt;
tute were examples of works from the best presses&lt;br /&gt;
of Europe, from the beginning of the art down to&lt;br /&gt;
and including specimens of the Kelmscott Press,&lt;br /&gt;
to which the late William Morris bad contributed&lt;br /&gt;
so much. Mr. Morris was a great example of the&lt;br /&gt;
association between literature and printing : a&lt;br /&gt;
great author and a great printer. There was&lt;br /&gt;
another connected with the history of the locality,&lt;br /&gt;
Samuel Richardson, often called the father of&lt;br /&gt;
the English novel ; he was not only a novelist,&lt;br /&gt;
but he had the wisdom to ally that precarious&lt;br /&gt;
occupation with a good printing business, which&lt;br /&gt;
he carried on first in Fleet-street, and after-&lt;br /&gt;
wards in Salisbury Court. There were many&lt;br /&gt;
arts which would become obsolete with the&lt;br /&gt;
THE POET LAUREATE ON THE PRACTICAL&lt;br /&gt;
TEMPERAMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Chaucer Memorial window in St. Saviour&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Church, Southwark, was unveiled on Oct. 25 by&lt;br /&gt;
the Poet Laureate, Mr. ALFRED AUSTIN, who, in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
127&lt;br /&gt;
an address, referred to Chaucer as a type of what some fellow-creature not so well endowed with&lt;br /&gt;
they all felt to be the English temperament and stability and sense ? In that singular situation I&lt;br /&gt;
character. In his love of Nature he anticipated fancy the world would put up its shutters, many&lt;br /&gt;
by centuries the life of Wordsworth. This note, pulpits would be vacant, and the business of con-&lt;br /&gt;
the love of Nature, was also the note of Burns tinuing the human race would suffer a disastrous&lt;br /&gt;
and Scott. But Chaucer was not wholly or exclu- check. I am inclined to think that these mis-&lt;br /&gt;
sively insular. From Italy he brought back the fortunes will be averted, and that even the theatres&lt;br /&gt;
self-same kind of inspiration which influenced will not close their doors.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Milton, affected Shakespeare, and laid such hold&lt;br /&gt;
on Byron. Then Chaucer had the practical&lt;br /&gt;
temperament, the business-like capacity. In his&lt;br /&gt;
(Mr. Austin&amp;#039;s) opinion no man could be a great&lt;br /&gt;
OF EDITORS.&lt;br /&gt;
poet who might not equally have been a successful&lt;br /&gt;
man of affairs, a model administrator, a sagacious&lt;br /&gt;
statesman, a victorious general, or a circumspect COW may these beings be most successfully&lt;br /&gt;
and impressive archbishop. Whether it was&lt;br /&gt;
and safely approached ? This is a&lt;br /&gt;
because of its limited possession of this practical&lt;br /&gt;
question that the journalistic world asks&lt;br /&gt;
temperament that the Celtic race, which had itself very often, and to which there has never&lt;br /&gt;
produced so many beautiful and exquisite poets, been a satisfactory reply yet. Journalists talk&lt;br /&gt;
had not yet produced a really great poet, he would casually of &ldquo;my editor&rdquo; as if the term signified&lt;br /&gt;
not presume to determine, but he thought it some tame creature who is exclusively the speaker&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
was more or less certain that because of the property, and is kept in the back garden.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
fundamentally practical, weighty, massive element It would be an immense boon to outsiders if&lt;br /&gt;
in the English character, England had given the weeklies would try and induce their editors to&lt;br /&gt;
birth to the greatest poets, and to the greatest set apart a day once a fortnight in which out-&lt;br /&gt;
number of them.&lt;br /&gt;
siders, beginners, and the rank and file of&lt;br /&gt;
journalism could obtain access to the August&lt;br /&gt;
AN ESTIMATE OF MACAULAY.&lt;br /&gt;
Presence. Five minutes would be sufficient,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Richard Webb, M.P., delivered a lecture on you can say a lot in five minutes if you know&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Macaulay&amp;quot; at the London Institution on Nov. what you want to say, and I venture to think that&lt;br /&gt;
19, and referred to the charge of partisanship. editors, male and female, would discover many&lt;br /&gt;
Every writer, said the lecturer, was entitled to new ideas among these people, ideas which under&lt;br /&gt;
his own inferences: what Burke said was true, the present system must inevitably perish and&lt;br /&gt;
that historians owed to the public not only their disappear.&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge, but their judgment. It was no longer This personally conducted MS. need not be&lt;br /&gt;
contended that Macaulay was shallow or super- read then and there, but each author would be&lt;br /&gt;
ficial. In the power of telling a story dramati. able to say what induced him or her to think the&lt;br /&gt;
cally no writer of fiction had excelled Macaulay, subject treated of was interesting. Then again,&lt;br /&gt;
and beyond this power he had another gift more time, stamps, and language would be economised&lt;br /&gt;
distinctively his own, that of managing a complex if only editors would be a little more human in&lt;br /&gt;
narrative, in which a number of streams were their treatment of MSS. Do not, oh, gentle editor,&lt;br /&gt;
tributary to the main current of events. His allow your digesters to keep MSS. until all value&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Essays&amp;quot; were the best of their kind in Europe, has evaporated from them. You would not keep&lt;br /&gt;
and no doubt would live ; but when they were tradesmen&amp;#039;s goods sent on approval for fourteen&lt;br /&gt;
used for purposes of education, students should days. MSS. are equally goods submitted for&lt;br /&gt;
be warned against the errors which many of them approval, and deteriorate by detention ; be kind,&lt;br /&gt;
contained. Readers will find a full summary of therefore, in your methods of despatch.&lt;br /&gt;
the lecture in the Daily News of Nov. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
Digestors know almost at a glance what is or&lt;br /&gt;
is not suitable. A well-trained one, in perfect&lt;br /&gt;
condition, should be able to assimilate from&lt;br /&gt;
Sir HENRY IRVING TO CRITICS OF THE STAGE. twenty-five to thirty-five MSS. between the hours&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; What would become of the world,&rdquo; said Sir of 9.30 to 6.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Irving to his hosts of the Glasgow Pen Do not ask it to work longer, for a digestor&lt;br /&gt;
and Pencil Club on Nov. 22, &amp;quot;if a man were to &ldquo;off colour&rdquo; is a most dangerous thing; it sees&lt;br /&gt;
undertake no business or pleasure until he had merit where there is none, and flaws in good&lt;br /&gt;
first assured himself that under no condition work.&lt;br /&gt;
could the same enterprise, perfectly wise and Women, as a rule, make better digestors than&lt;br /&gt;
prudent for himself, upset the moral balance of men. They are more patient, and take more&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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i 28&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
trouble to find the really best, in their opinion; days; for a magazine it will, I am sorry to say,&lt;br /&gt;
but, as a rule, they are by no means the best be as many weeks. At the end of the considera-&lt;br /&gt;
judges of what is universally interesting. They iion one will be accepted, and orders given for the&lt;br /&gt;
are apt to be influenced by pleasant descriptions, other to be returned. So far good. Four days&lt;br /&gt;
and what may be described for want of a better is not a long time to wait, and even a newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
word as &amp;quot;atmosphere.&rdquo; In my opinion, a woman article has not lost much of its freshness. But&lt;br /&gt;
editor should have a man as digestor&mdash;the other does the rejected one return ? Generally not,&lt;br /&gt;
way about. In this manner they would counteract unless the discipline in the office is very strict.&lt;br /&gt;
each other.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor supposes that it has gone, and is much&lt;br /&gt;
I have had the editors of the great weeklies in astonished on receiving a letter from the author&lt;br /&gt;
my mind when writing this. My perscnal experi. asking its fate. Inquiries are made and the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
ence goes to show that when you have obtained is found, but, of course, valueless. Who is to&lt;br /&gt;
an interview with the particular editor you are blame? This leads me to think that the question&lt;br /&gt;
hunting, he is usually a quiet, pleasant of notice to contributors is largely a question of&lt;br /&gt;
mannered person, willing to listen to what you office discipline.&lt;br /&gt;
have to say, and quite ready to put your name There is a pleasing feeling rife among writers&lt;br /&gt;
down for future use. It does not mean anything, that all MSS. coming to the offices of magazines&lt;br /&gt;
though if you happen to be a new hand, you and newspapers are actually read by the editor.&lt;br /&gt;
fancy yourself already on the highway to fame This idea is awful to contemplate calmly, and is&lt;br /&gt;
and fortune ; at least, it has never meant any. of course a phantom of the author&amp;#039;s brain. No&lt;br /&gt;
thing in my case ; but it costs nothing and gives editor of a paper of any size could possibly do&lt;br /&gt;
a pleasant, friendly tone to things.&lt;br /&gt;
it (and it was a mistake on their part ever to let&lt;br /&gt;
There is another person attached to the staff of the idea take root); hence readers, and it is to&lt;br /&gt;
a big paper, and that is the manager. I have them that writers should appeal in the first place,&lt;br /&gt;
never had the functions of this individual clearly for they are largely to blame. There appears to&lt;br /&gt;
explained to me ; at the back of my mind there me to be no rule anywhere as to how long MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
dwells a hazy notion that he is a kind of literary are kept before being read. If every newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Bill, the Lizard,&rdquo; and can fill the editorial chair and magazine had a fixed rule as to time it would&lt;br /&gt;
or a book of paste cuttings with equal facility. make contributors&amp;#039; lives much easier.&lt;br /&gt;
Over and above these things he is probably art &middot; B. How can we draw the attention of editors to&lt;br /&gt;
editor (if the paper is pictorial), has to look up this question? This is the real difficulty-editors&lt;br /&gt;
the advertisements, to quarrel with the book are hard to approach as individuals, as a body they&lt;br /&gt;
stalls and shipping agents, and to be all things to have no being. Someone with pretty manners&lt;br /&gt;
all men at the office and out of it. I may be and leisure might be deputed to go round and&lt;br /&gt;
wrong in some of my surmises, but I fear the gently draw their attention to this subject, but it&lt;br /&gt;
estimate is pretty correct.&lt;br /&gt;
would take time and probably lead nowhere.&lt;br /&gt;
There is no new light shed by my investigations Some of our chiefs in the Society of Women&lt;br /&gt;
on this subject, and unless editors will condescend Journalists are members of this powerful band;&lt;br /&gt;
to entertain the one day per fortnight idea, I fear let us, then, approach them with honeyed words and&lt;br /&gt;
there will be no amelioration in our lot. The ask them to take the matter up. Let us ask :-&lt;br /&gt;
plan can do them no harm and may do us a lot of 1. That accepted MSS. be acknowledged by&lt;br /&gt;
F. L. L. post-card at once.&lt;br /&gt;
2. That no MS. be kept longer than seven days&lt;br /&gt;
unless reserved for second consideration, when a&lt;br /&gt;
At the last meeting of the Society of Women card notifying the fact be sent.&lt;br /&gt;
Journalists the subject under discussion was that 3. That accepted MSS. should appear within&lt;br /&gt;
of notice to contributors from editors, and the two months of acceptation; if kept longer due&lt;br /&gt;
following reflections have presented themselves to notice of probable date to be sent.&lt;br /&gt;
me on the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
4. All payments to be made on acceptation, not&lt;br /&gt;
A. Are editors personally responsible for due on appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
notice? Theoretically they are; legally, all things 5. That the stamps enclosed with MSS. be&lt;br /&gt;
done in a newspaper office are supposed to come returned to authors on acceptation.&lt;br /&gt;
from the editor&amp;#039;s initiative.&lt;br /&gt;
These five requests involve no hardship to any.&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers arrive at the office simultaneously; one. The accepted post-card would be printed,&lt;br /&gt;
both treat of the same subject, and the editor and only need signature and address.&lt;br /&gt;
likes both, but has only space for one. He or No. 2 presents no greater difficulty than that&lt;br /&gt;
she will require time to consider. For a news- somebody should see that seven-day-old MSS. are&lt;br /&gt;
paper this will be probably from four to five duly read and returned or accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
good.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
129&lt;br /&gt;
N.B.&mdash;For the instruction of this department, I Moore, one of his co-directors of the club, took&lt;br /&gt;
recommend Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s advice vide first the chair.&lt;br /&gt;
verse in italics of &ldquo;The &amp;#039;Ethen&rdquo; in &ldquo; Barrack The reception given to Dr. Conan Doyle was of&lt;br /&gt;
Room Ballads.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
a most enthusiastic character, and he made a&lt;br /&gt;
No. 3 would check editors in a growing habit characteristic and remarkable speech.&lt;br /&gt;
of accepting a great deal more than they are ever Mr. Frankfort Moore proposed his health,&lt;br /&gt;
likely to use. The mere fact of a fixed date dwelling under the circumstances naturally upon&lt;br /&gt;
appearing against the name of a MS. would be a the part he had taken in the South African&lt;br /&gt;
help.&lt;br /&gt;
campaign, and Dr. Conan Doyle in response,&lt;br /&gt;
No. 4 would remove a heavy strain from the touching on many points of the war, made the&lt;br /&gt;
shoulders of the weaker brethren.&lt;br /&gt;
following statements :&lt;br /&gt;
No. 5 would only affect the office boys, who, it That, in the first instance, not only the War&lt;br /&gt;
is my firm belief, annex the stamps and retail Office, but the whole of England, had under-&lt;br /&gt;
them. I have only twice had stamps sent back estimated the number of men it would be neces-&lt;br /&gt;
to me.&lt;br /&gt;
sary to send out &mdash; the largest estimate given&lt;br /&gt;
Let our editresses approach the editors, pointing by anyone prior to the war was 100,000 men. He&lt;br /&gt;
out that, for the honour of the Fourth Estate, these knew that someone would have to prove the scape-&lt;br /&gt;
grievances should be looked into.&lt;br /&gt;
goat, though the whole nation was really respon-&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Journalists in its might would sible.&lt;br /&gt;
easily find means of imposing its will, and life He then touched upon the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
would go more smoothly for everyone.&lt;br /&gt;
hospitals, and stated that it was geographically&lt;br /&gt;
But, above all things, let us do something; impossible for the requisite hospitals to be at the&lt;br /&gt;
do not let us be content to say &ldquo; Kismet.&rdquo; That front, when you had to take into consideration&lt;br /&gt;
is how abuses grow up.&lt;br /&gt;
that an army of 200,000 men had to be supplied&lt;br /&gt;
FLORA LANCASTER LUCAS (S.W.J.).&lt;br /&gt;
with provisions, and that by a single line of rail&lt;br /&gt;
38, Cathcart-road, Redcliffe-gardens,&lt;br /&gt;
which was liable to be cut at any moment, while&lt;br /&gt;
in many places the trucks had to be taken singly&lt;br /&gt;
S.W., Oct. 30.&lt;br /&gt;
across drifts or rivers.&lt;br /&gt;
He assured his hearers that the Army Medical&lt;br /&gt;
Department had worked nobly throughout the&lt;br /&gt;
campaign. No doubt Mr. Burdett Coutts&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB DINNERS.&lt;br /&gt;
figures and statements were correct, but there&lt;br /&gt;
was one weak point in his case on which he had&lt;br /&gt;
N Monday, Oct. 29, the Authors&amp;#039; Club gave&lt;br /&gt;
never been able to give any explanation&mdash;that&lt;br /&gt;
a dinner to Mr. A. W. &agrave; Beckett to con-&lt;br /&gt;
with all these grievous complaints against the&lt;br /&gt;
gratulate him on his appointment as Pre-&lt;br /&gt;
Army Medical arrangements, he had never referred&lt;br /&gt;
sident of the Institute of Journalists for the&lt;br /&gt;
any one of them to the head of the Medical Depart-&lt;br /&gt;
current year.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, General Wilson. This was not playing the&lt;br /&gt;
Owing to the fact that the home-coming of the&lt;br /&gt;
game fairly. Dr. Doyle went on to state that&lt;br /&gt;
City Imperial Volunteers had been postponed&lt;br /&gt;
when he had a serious complaint to make he&lt;br /&gt;
10 Monday there were not quite so many members&lt;br /&gt;
had gone straight to the General, and found that&lt;br /&gt;
assembled at the dinner as would otherwise have&lt;br /&gt;
Lothervise have the complaint was at once attended to and set&lt;br /&gt;
been present. Journalistic duties make impera-&lt;br /&gt;
right.&lt;br /&gt;
tive calls.&lt;br /&gt;
He proceeded to give some slight account of&lt;br /&gt;
However, between thirty to forty members of&lt;br /&gt;
the different actions he had himself witnessed,&lt;br /&gt;
the club sat down, under the chairmanship of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
and the incidents of the patience and endurance&lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Hope Hawkins.&lt;br /&gt;
of the British troops.&lt;br /&gt;
Both Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins&amp;#039;s speech and&lt;br /&gt;
On sitting down he was greeted with loud and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. &agrave; Beckett&amp;#039;s reply were clever and amusing,&lt;br /&gt;
prolonged cheers.&lt;br /&gt;
dealing as they did with the ethics of journalism. On Nov. 26 the club gave a dinner to Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
Among the members present were Mr. P. W. Murray. This dinner gives occasion to a few&lt;br /&gt;
Clayden, a former president of the Institute, Mr. remarks on p. 122.&lt;br /&gt;
H. R. Tedder, Mr. Bloundelle-Burton, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Poultney Bigelow, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
On Monday, Nov, 12, the club gave a dinner to&lt;br /&gt;
their chairman, Dr. Conan Doyle, as a welcome on&lt;br /&gt;
his return from South Africa, Mr. Frankfort&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 130 (#178) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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130&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr E. F. Benson has completed a new story&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Luck of the Vails.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
AJOR A. W. A. POLLOCK, who was a Professor Hans Meyer, of Leipzig, has just&lt;br /&gt;
correspondent of the Times in the South acquired, says the Morning Post, a large number&lt;br /&gt;
African war, is writing an account of his of hitherto unutilised Heine manuscripts and&lt;br /&gt;
personal experiences, which began with Stormberg letters. The gem of this very valuable collection&lt;br /&gt;
and ended with the relief of Mafeking and&lt;br /&gt;
consists of the earliest manuscript &ldquo; Atta Troll,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Hunter&amp;#039;s march from Maribogo to Krugersdorp embracing 200 sheets containing many correc-&lt;br /&gt;
and Johannesburg. The book will be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
tions. There are also about 100 sheets of poems,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; With Seven Generals in the Boer War,&rdquo; and considerable fragments of the &ldquo;Rabbi von&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. Skeffington.&lt;br /&gt;
Bacharach,&rdquo; of the &ldquo;Gest&auml;ndnisse,&amp;quot; of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Churton Collins, we learn from the &ldquo; Harzreise,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Faust,&rdquo; &ldquo;Romantischen Schule.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Academy,&ldquo; will in his next book tell some plain &ldquo;Lutetia,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., in all some 1500 sheets of Heine&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
truths about current literature.&rdquo; The volume handwriting and 1000 sheets written by an&lt;br /&gt;
will be called &ldquo;Ephemera Critica,&rdquo; and Mr. amanuensis, but bearing Heine&amp;#039;s corrections.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins has this to say in his preface :--&lt;br /&gt;
Valuable light on phases of Heine&amp;#039;s life may be&lt;br /&gt;
These essays are parti, a protest and partly an experi gathered from the letters, numbering about 1000,&lt;br /&gt;
ment. As a protest they explain, and, I hope, justify addressed to the poet by Laube, Dingelstedt,&lt;br /&gt;
themselves ; as an experiment they are an attempt to illus- Barnhagen, Rahel, Robert Schumann, Meyer-&lt;br /&gt;
trate what we should be fortunate if we could see more beer. Hiller. Lewald. Count Auersperg, A. Weill,&lt;br /&gt;
frequently illustrated by abler hands. They are a series of&lt;br /&gt;
studies in serious, patient, and absolutely impartial criti.&lt;br /&gt;
and Heine&amp;#039;s mother, sister, and brothers.&lt;br /&gt;
ciems, having for its object a comprehensive survey of the Mr. Walter Walsh has completed a new book&lt;br /&gt;
vices and defects, as well as of the merits, characteristic of&lt;br /&gt;
on what he regards as the Romeward tendencies&lt;br /&gt;
current Belles Lettres.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Church of England, from the year 1833.&lt;br /&gt;
Our readers will be interested to know that the It will be published immediately by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
literature sent out to the South African hospitals Nisbet.&lt;br /&gt;
in response to the appeal of Miss Edith Rhodes,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Sarah Tytler&amp;#039;s new story, &ldquo; Jean Keir of&lt;br /&gt;
which was published in the April number of&lt;br /&gt;
Craigneil,&rdquo; has just been published by Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, has been very acceptable, and that&lt;br /&gt;
the hospital gardens, planted with seeds sent by&lt;br /&gt;
English contributors, have been of great use and&lt;br /&gt;
The same publisher has bought the copyrights in&lt;br /&gt;
a source of pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
the following novels by Florence Warden, and in&lt;br /&gt;
future they will be published from his office :-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. MacColl, who has been chief editor of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Bohemian Girls,&rdquo; &ldquo;Kitty&amp;#039;s Engagement,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Athen&aelig;um since 1869, retires from that position&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Our Widow,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Mystery of Dudley&lt;br /&gt;
on Jan. 1, and will be succeeded by his assistant&lt;br /&gt;
Horne.&rdquo; He has also acquired the copyright in&lt;br /&gt;
editor. Lord Frederic Hamilton is succeeded in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Wooing of Monica,&rdquo; by Mrs. L. T. Meade,&lt;br /&gt;
the editorship of the Pall Mall Magazine by the&lt;br /&gt;
and in future this novel will be issued by him.&lt;br /&gt;
art editor, Mr. George R. Halkett. Mr. Douglas&lt;br /&gt;
Story is taking over the editorship of the New&lt;br /&gt;
A seventh edition of &ldquo;A Handbook for Steam&lt;br /&gt;
Century Review.&lt;br /&gt;
Users,&rdquo; by M. Powis Bale, will shortly be issued&lt;br /&gt;
A new series of prose fancies by Mr. Richard by Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Le Gallienne is on the eve of publication by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
of publication by Mr. Mr. Ferrar Fenton is issuing, through Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Lane.&lt;br /&gt;
Horace Marshall and Son, &ldquo; The Bible in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Rulers of the South &amp;quot; is the title of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Modern English, direct from the original&lt;br /&gt;
Marion Crawford&amp;#039;s latest work, which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek.&rdquo; The first volume&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan are publishing. It consists of historical&lt;br /&gt;
of this work will consist of the &ldquo; Five Books of&lt;br /&gt;
studies of Sicily, Calabria, and Malta.&lt;br /&gt;
Moses,&amp;quot; with critical notes of a philological&lt;br /&gt;
nature.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is an extract from a letter&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. have just pub-&lt;br /&gt;
inclosed with review copies of a book sent out&lt;br /&gt;
lished a new book by Mark Ashton, the author of&lt;br /&gt;
by an American firm in London the other&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;She Stands Alone.&rdquo; The book is entitled&lt;br /&gt;
day :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Haggith Shy, Quakeress&rdquo;; it is now to be&lt;br /&gt;
The accompanying &ldquo; literary notice&amp;quot; is inclosed after the&lt;br /&gt;
American fashion, simply to aid those reviewers who may be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained at Mudie&amp;#039;s and all circulating libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
pressed for time. We prefer your thought of the book in&lt;br /&gt;
The Oxford University Press has issued a new&lt;br /&gt;
your own form.&lt;br /&gt;
edition of Miss Matheson&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Selected Poems,&lt;br /&gt;
Could anything be kinder, more thoughtful, Old and New.&rdquo; The volume is prettily bound in&lt;br /&gt;
than this&lt;br /&gt;
a specially designed cover in white and gold.&lt;br /&gt;
Long.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 131 (#179) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
131&lt;br /&gt;
Professor C. H. Herford has written the preface, Mr. Charles Brookfield and Colonel Nugent,&lt;br /&gt;
and he directs special attention to Miss Mathe. of the Irish Guards, are collaborating on a new&lt;br /&gt;
son&amp;#039;s Christmas Carol, which is absent from the play of a semi-military character.&lt;br /&gt;
former edition, and is here enclosed in a border&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Benson&amp;#039;s Shakespearean season opens at&lt;br /&gt;
designed by Mr. Herbert George, the Paris the Comedy on Dec. 1o. On or about Dec. 22&lt;br /&gt;
medallist for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Mollison will produce his revival of &ldquo;King&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Montgomery Campbell&amp;#039;s book, entitled Henry V.&rdquo; at the Lyceum, the cast including&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Not Wise but Fair&rdquo; (Messrs. Jarrold), is very Mr. Lewis Waller. Mr. Tree&amp;#039;s next Shake-&lt;br /&gt;
well spoken of. One review says that &ldquo;it should spearean production at Her Majesty&amp;#039;s will be&lt;br /&gt;
go into every village in the Kingdom, and would &amp;quot;Twelfth Night,&rdquo; in which he will appear in the&lt;br /&gt;
do more good than tons of tracts and cartloads of character of Malvolio.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday sermons.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Julia Neilson and Mr. Fred Terry will&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Isabel Smith&amp;#039;s story of &ldquo;The Minister&amp;#039;s revive &ldquo;Sweet Nell of Old Drury&rdquo; at the&lt;br /&gt;
Guest&rdquo; has received excellent reviews from the Globe Theatre about the middle of January.&lt;br /&gt;
leading literary columns, and promises to meet&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Colin Campbell and Miss Clo Graves&lt;br /&gt;
with a highly satisfactory success.&lt;br /&gt;
have together written a comedy which Mr. and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Path of Thorns&rdquo; is a story by Mr. Ernest Mrs. Kendal will produce.&lt;br /&gt;
Vizetelly, the translator of Zola, which is about to&lt;br /&gt;
The Actors&amp;#039; Association matin&eacute;e will take&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
place at the Haymarket on Dec. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
In this month&amp;#039;s (December) Chambers&amp;#039; Journal&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Reynolds-Ball deals with the present-day&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bernard Shaw&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Three Puritan Plays&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
condition of travel in China in an article entitled&lt;br /&gt;
will be published shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; China of the Globe-trotter.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. T. Bullen&amp;#039;s new work, &ldquo; With Christ at&lt;br /&gt;
The editor of the &ldquo;Literary Year Book&rdquo; will be&lt;br /&gt;
Sea,&rdquo; is being published by Messrs. Hodder and&lt;br /&gt;
glad to receive notice from members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton.&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors of omissions from the direc-&lt;br /&gt;
tory of authors, now being corrected for the new&lt;br /&gt;
issue, which will be published by Mr. George&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen on Jan. 15 next. The editor will be glad&lt;br /&gt;
also to receive corrections and suggestions from&lt;br /&gt;
I.-WANTED, A REFERENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
anyone engaged in literary work. All com MYOULD any of your readers be so kind as to&lt;br /&gt;
munications should be addressed to the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
U state to whom, and when, and under what&lt;br /&gt;
of the &ldquo;Literary Year Book,&amp;quot; 156, Charing u circumstances, Dr. Johnson said &ldquo;I have&lt;br /&gt;
Cross-road, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
found you a reason, sir, but I am not bound to&lt;br /&gt;
A poetic drama by Mr. John Davidson, entitled find you an understanding,&rdquo; and whereabouts in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Self&amp;#039;s the Man: a Tragic Comedy,&amp;quot; will be &ldquo; Boswell&amp;#039;s Life of Johnson,&rdquo; if anywhere, the&lt;br /&gt;
published shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
observation is to be found chronicled ?&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. W. K. Clifford&amp;#039;s play, &ldquo;The Likeness of&lt;br /&gt;
Goa J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
the Night,&rdquo; has been published by Messrs. A.&lt;br /&gt;
and C. Black.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-A JUST PROTEST.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Barrie&amp;#039;s latest play, &ldquo;The Wedding May I beg space to expose a mistake which is&lt;br /&gt;
Guest,&rdquo; is published in the December number often made by the public and by reviewers&mdash;a&lt;br /&gt;
of the Fortnightly Review.&lt;br /&gt;
mistake that can be set right only by aid of the&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Max Beerbohm has dramatised his short&lt;br /&gt;
Press? I refer to the erroneous association of my&lt;br /&gt;
story, &ldquo; The Happy Hypocrite,&rdquo; into a one-act&lt;br /&gt;
name with the numerous &ldquo; statistical &rdquo; articles&lt;br /&gt;
play, at the request of Mrs. Patrick Campbell,&lt;br /&gt;
that have been published in magazines and&lt;br /&gt;
who will shortly produce it at the Royalty as&lt;br /&gt;
newspapers during the last two years.&lt;br /&gt;
a curtain-raiser.&lt;br /&gt;
I desire strongly to protest against this associa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of my name with writings that have no&lt;br /&gt;
A new farcical comedy by Mr. Robert&lt;br /&gt;
similarity to my own work other than the mere&lt;br /&gt;
Ganthony, entitled &ldquo;The Ring Mistress,&amp;quot; will&lt;br /&gt;
surface likeness these articles are made to show.&lt;br /&gt;
be produced at the Lyric just before Christmas, To speak plainly, the numerous articles to which&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss Kate Phillips. It will inaugurate a I refer are too often silly as regards subject, con-&lt;br /&gt;
season of matin&eacute;es, five representations weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
fusing in treatment, based on artificial &ldquo; facts,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Court Theatre has been acquired by Mr. and lacking qualities that are valued by every&lt;br /&gt;
H. T. Brickwell.&lt;br /&gt;
sincere literary craftsman.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
Some years ago the idea occurred to me that who steals a clean play is a thief, and Lord&lt;br /&gt;
many subjects of social interest and of national Monkswell protects the author against him; a&lt;br /&gt;
importance could be satisfactorily handled by pirate who steals an unclean play is not only a&lt;br /&gt;
means of diagrams, &amp;amp;c. I realised my idea, thief, but an unclean thief, and Lord Monkswell&lt;br /&gt;
bringing to the work professional actuarial know. does not protect the unclean author against him,&lt;br /&gt;
ledge of many years, and I was pleased to read So that the pirate has only to add uncleanliness&lt;br /&gt;
the unanimous opinions of the Press which told to dishonesty by stealing a work originally&lt;br /&gt;
me that I had succeeded in a task that was not unclean (not by adding immoral passages), to be&lt;br /&gt;
too easy.&lt;br /&gt;
exempted from the penalty of his dishonesty. I&lt;br /&gt;
I find that during 1899 and 1900-a period do not regard the matter as of importance, because&lt;br /&gt;
when these imitative articles have been specially he is not exempted from the penalty of his&lt;br /&gt;
numerous&mdash;I have published thirty or forty mis- uncleanliness, and the unauthorised performances&lt;br /&gt;
cellaneous articles, and of these only five have could be stopped ; but it seems illogical to con-&lt;br /&gt;
been statistical diagrammatic articles. All these done theft because another offence has been added&lt;br /&gt;
five articles were written upon important subjects, to it. I am, Sir, &amp;amp;c. SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
and they were well reviewed by the Press. But I Nov. 21, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
read lately in an important London newspaper a&lt;br /&gt;
statement made by a reviewer to the effect that I Sir,-Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s explanation in the&lt;br /&gt;
am constantly publishing statistical diagrammatic Daily News of to-day of the meaning of his&lt;br /&gt;
articles. This quite erroneous statement was remarks in the current number of The Author,&lt;br /&gt;
obviously based upon the false impression con. upon the subject of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
veyed by the innumerable statistical articles Bill, is apparently founded upon a misconception,&lt;br /&gt;
written by other persons, and the specific instances for Mr. Grundv places himself in a more unten.&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned by the reviewer had no connection able position than that in which he conceives&lt;br /&gt;
with any of my writings. The foregoing example himself to be placed by your critic&amp;#039;s &ldquo; misunder-&lt;br /&gt;
of the mistake I desire to correct is only one of standing&rdquo; of the dramatist&amp;#039;s attitude towards&lt;br /&gt;
several similar instances of my work being con the &ldquo; pirates&rdquo; and &ldquo;thieves,&rdquo; whose fortune and&lt;br /&gt;
fused with that of others.&lt;br /&gt;
reputation are derived from plays taken without&lt;br /&gt;
All my published work is invariably signed by so much as &amp;quot; by your leave&rdquo; from other authors.&lt;br /&gt;
me, and I may justly ask to be released from this As Mr. Grundy says, with not exactly &ldquo;virtuous&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
burden of erroneously-ascribed authorship of indignation, &ldquo;the pirate who steals an unclean&lt;br /&gt;
articles not written by me, and of an erroneously play is not only a thief, but an unclean thief, and&lt;br /&gt;
ascribed sympathy with such articles&mdash;a burden Lord Monkswell does not protect the unclean&lt;br /&gt;
that has been put ou me by persons who have author against him.&rdquo; I have no pity for the&lt;br /&gt;
been misled by the imitative articles in question. unclean author. Surely Mr. Grundy cannot&lt;br /&gt;
I regret to see the useful and worthy tool- seriously be asking for &ldquo; protection&rdquo; for writers&lt;br /&gt;
diagrammatic illustration-mishandled to such of indecency. &ldquo; Protection &amp;quot; from what? It is&lt;br /&gt;
poor purpose, but I do not ascribe the frequent enough for the law to &ldquo;protect&rdquo; the public from&lt;br /&gt;
mistake connected with my name to any cause the &ldquo;unclean&rdquo; thing !-Yours truly,&lt;br /&gt;
other than sheer error produced by the circum-&lt;br /&gt;
E. A. M.&lt;br /&gt;
stances I have stated.&lt;br /&gt;
31. James-street-mansions, Bucking.&lt;br /&gt;
JOHN HOLT SCHOOLING.&lt;br /&gt;
ham-gate, S.W., Nov. 22, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
(&amp;quot;J. HOLT SCHOOLING.&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 6, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;THE AUTHOR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sir,&mdash;In your issue of Nov. 19, there is a mis-&lt;br /&gt;
understanding of my remark in The Author, that,&lt;br /&gt;
under Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, &ldquo;a thief has only&lt;br /&gt;
to add profanity, indecency, sedition, or libel to&lt;br /&gt;
his theft to be exempted from the penalty of his&lt;br /&gt;
dishonesty.&amp;quot; Upon this you comment: &ldquo;We&lt;br /&gt;
need hardly say that no thief could, by adding&lt;br /&gt;
immoral passages to a play not in itself immoral,&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 8.]&lt;br /&gt;
JANUARY 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
T remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub.&lt;br /&gt;
joots whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
setarned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TITERE 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 &amp;quot;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;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatio contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
s 2&lt;br /&gt;
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134&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen-&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
d ue according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
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;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
1. DVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici-&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments 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 the loan of the books 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 the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battlos of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
ELECTION TO THE COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
T\HE attention of members is called to Clause 9&lt;br /&gt;
of the Pension Fund Scheme :-&lt;br /&gt;
Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
Committee by the members of the Society (not being&lt;br /&gt;
a retiring member of such Committee) shall be&lt;br /&gt;
nominated in writing to the secretary at least three&lt;br /&gt;
weeks prior to the general meeting at which such&lt;br /&gt;
candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 135 (#189) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
135&lt;br /&gt;
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oooooooooeren oo oooo !&lt;br /&gt;
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO 000000000&lt;br /&gt;
each such candidate shall be subscribed by at least&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
three members of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)......&lt;br /&gt;
A list of the names of the candidates 80 nomi-&lt;br /&gt;
Avory, Harold ..........&lt;br /&gt;
.........&lt;br /&gt;
nated shall be sent to the members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
with the annual report of the Managing Committee, Boevey, Miss Crawley ..&lt;br /&gt;
and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the Besant, Sir Walter...........&lt;br /&gt;
general meeting shall be elected to serve on the&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. ............&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R&lt;br /&gt;
Members of the Society are required, in accord Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated&mdash;for&lt;br /&gt;
ance wita this rule, to send in the names of 1900) ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A..............&lt;br /&gt;
those members whom they desire to nominate to&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S............................................&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors, 4, Guthrie, Anstey.&lt;br /&gt;
Portugal-street, London, W.C., ON OR BEFORE Gwynne, S. ............................................&lt;br /&gt;
FEBRUARY ist.&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis........&lt;br /&gt;
A nomination paper will be found enclosed in&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K. ..............&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W..&lt;br /&gt;
this number of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee beg to inform the members of Pinero, A. W....&lt;br /&gt;
the Society that at the meeting of the Committee, Rose, Edward ...........&lt;br /&gt;
held on the 3rd Dec., they elected the following&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. ....&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..&lt;br /&gt;
as their nominees to the said Committee :&lt;br /&gt;
X. Y. ......&lt;br /&gt;
SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, K.C.B., F.R.S.;&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &agrave; BECKETT;&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
sic&lt;br /&gt;
MRS. CRAIGIE (JOHN OLIVER HOBBES).&lt;br /&gt;
Any member desiring a copy of the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
Fund Scheme can obtain the same at the offices&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the list of donations and&lt;br /&gt;
I.-CANADIAN ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
subscriptions at present promised or received :-&lt;br /&gt;
Graves v. Gorrie.&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
(Argued Sept. 19, 1900.)&lt;br /&gt;
A.S. ......&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E...&lt;br /&gt;
TOV. 6, 1900.-Rose, J.-The question to&lt;br /&gt;
50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
be determined here is whether the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida .....................&lt;br /&gt;
3 0 0 &amp;#039; right conferred by 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68&lt;br /&gt;
Begant, Sir Walter..................&lt;br /&gt;
was confined to Great Britain or whether it&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
0 3 6&lt;br /&gt;
extended throughout the dominions of the Crown.&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss .....&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
As said by Lord Cranworth in Routledge v.&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan.&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Low (L. R. 3 H. L. at p. 113): &ldquo; The British&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Miss Rentoul .........&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament in the time of Queen Anne must be&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T..............&lt;br /&gt;
taken prima facie to have legislated only for&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W.................&lt;br /&gt;
Great Britain just as the present Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .............&lt;br /&gt;
must be taken to legislate only for the United&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom.&rdquo; And in Penley v. Beacon Assurance&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur...&lt;br /&gt;
0 0 Company (10 G. R. at p. 428), Vankoughnot, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
said: &ldquo;While I admit the power of the Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard&lt;br /&gt;
Legislature to apply by express words their&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J.&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ....&lt;br /&gt;
enactments to this country, I will never admit&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George&lt;br /&gt;
that without express words they do apply or are&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope.....&lt;br /&gt;
intended to so apply.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E......&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
It is necessary, therefore, carefully to examine&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston&lt;br /&gt;
the language and effect of the statute to see&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert ......&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock, Sir Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
whether, either by express words or at least by&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
necessary implication, it extended to the dominions&lt;br /&gt;
Rogsetti, W. M. .......................&lt;br /&gt;
of the Crown.&lt;br /&gt;
8. B.&lt;br /&gt;
In the most carefully prepared and able argu-&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. .............&lt;br /&gt;
2 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
ments that were addressed to me by the counsel&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E...&lt;br /&gt;
engaged in this case, much was said with reference&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec.&lt;br /&gt;
5oo to the effect of the language of the first section of&lt;br /&gt;
oo&lt;br /&gt;
5&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
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0&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
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100&lt;br /&gt;
5&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
.....&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 136 (#190) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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136&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the Act, Mr. Small relying upon that as showing the In that Act, sect. 15, it is provided &ldquo; that if&lt;br /&gt;
intention to legislate so as to extend the benefits any person shall in any part of the British&lt;br /&gt;
of the Act not only to Great Britain but also to dominions after the passing of this Act print or&lt;br /&gt;
the Colonies.&lt;br /&gt;
cause to be printed ... such offender shall&lt;br /&gt;
There had been some discussion as to the be liable to a special action on the case. ..&lt;br /&gt;
persons to whom the benefits of prior legislation to be brought in any Court of Record in that&lt;br /&gt;
respecting copyright had been extended : (see part of the British dominions in which the offence&lt;br /&gt;
Jeffery v. Boosey, 4 H. L. C. 215), and possibly shall be committed.&rdquo; Sect. 17 prohibits the&lt;br /&gt;
the language of sect. I was made expressly to importation&ldquo; into any part of the United King-&lt;br /&gt;
prevent any doubt as to the persons who should dom or into any other part of the British&lt;br /&gt;
have the benefit of the Act. The words are: dominions.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The author, being a British subject or resi- But it is said that the language of sect. 10,&lt;br /&gt;
dent within the dominions of the Crown, every cap. 68, shows that no &ldquo; repetition, copies, or&lt;br /&gt;
original painting, drawing, and photograph which imitations of paintings, drawings, or photographs&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
shall be or shall have been made either in the should be made in any foreign State or in any&lt;br /&gt;
British dominions or elsewhere.shall part of the British dominions without the consent&lt;br /&gt;
have the sole and exclusive right of copying, of the proprietor of the copyright thereof. No&lt;br /&gt;
engraving, reproducing, and multiplying such doubt for anyone to make a repetition or copy or&lt;br /&gt;
painting or drawing. . . .&rdquo; These words imitation of a painting, drawing, or photograph&lt;br /&gt;
clearly confer copyright upon all British subjects, without the consent of the proprietor would be a&lt;br /&gt;
and upon all persons, whether British subjects wrong done to such proprietor, but it is apparent&lt;br /&gt;
or not, resident within the dominions of the that the only protection that that section gives&lt;br /&gt;
Crown, in respect to every original painting against such wrong is the prohibition against&lt;br /&gt;
drawing, or photograph, whether made in the importation of any such unlawful repetition, &amp;amp;c.,&lt;br /&gt;
British dominions or in a foreign country; but into the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
it is quite consistent with that language that the Looking at the Act itself and comparing it with&lt;br /&gt;
copyright thus conferred should be confined to 5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict. cap. 45, I have to come to the conclu-&lt;br /&gt;
Great Britain. By sect. 4 no proprietor of any sion that there is nothing on its face to indicate&lt;br /&gt;
such copyright is entitled to the benefit of the that the copyright thereby conferred extended&lt;br /&gt;
Act until registration at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall. As beyond the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
has been pointed out in the cases, the copyright I find that Lindley, L.J., in Tuck and Sons v.&lt;br /&gt;
is conferred by sect. I, but the benefit of the Act Priester (19 Q. B. D. at p. 643) was apparently&lt;br /&gt;
is withheld until registration. By sect. 6 penal- of that opinion. His language was: &ldquo;It appears&lt;br /&gt;
ties are enacted for importation into any part of to me, therefore, that there was vested in the&lt;br /&gt;
the United Kingdom of paintings, &amp;amp;c., which are present plaintiffs a copyright in this picture, but&lt;br /&gt;
an infringement of the copyright. By sect. 8 it that that copyright was conferred by the Act and&lt;br /&gt;
is provided that pecuniary penalties may be was confined to this country. They had no copy-&lt;br /&gt;
recovered before certain courts in England, right abroad. There was no piracy ; there was&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland, and Scotland, and sect. 9 gives power to nothing &amp;#039;unlawful&amp;#039; in copying in Germany or&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty&amp;#039;s Superior Courts of Record at West elsewhere abroad that picture in which the plain-&lt;br /&gt;
minster and in Dublin to give protection and tiffs had acquired a copyright under this Act. If&lt;br /&gt;
relief in cases of infringement. By sect. 10 by virtue of the international treaties the plaintiffs.&lt;br /&gt;
importation into the United Kingdom is pro- have a copyright in Germany we have not been&lt;br /&gt;
hibited.&lt;br /&gt;
informed of it, and I assume they have not. They&lt;br /&gt;
So far, apart from the prohibition on importa. are not at liberty, therefore, to complain under&lt;br /&gt;
tion, there is nothing to indicate any intention this Act of any infringement of their copyright&lt;br /&gt;
to deal with any act done outside of the United which took place abroad, for they had no copy-&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
right abroad.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
These actions to which I have referred, when Although the learned judge was not dealing&lt;br /&gt;
contrasted with the provisions of 5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict. with an infringement within the dominions of the&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 45, which is made expressly to extend to Crown, it is, I think, clear that he would have&lt;br /&gt;
every part of the British dominions, give great used similar language if he had been dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
strength to the argument that it is manifest that such a case, and his language is a complete answer&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament in passing 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68, to the argument which was based upon the lan-&lt;br /&gt;
was legislating only for copyright in the United guage of sect. 10 of cap. 68&mdash;namely, &amp;quot; which con-&lt;br /&gt;
Kingdom, and was not dealing with a copyright trary to the provisions of this Act shall have been&lt;br /&gt;
conferred for the whole of the dominions of the made in any foreign State or in any part of the&lt;br /&gt;
Crown.&lt;br /&gt;
British dominions.&rdquo; It was urged that that&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
137&lt;br /&gt;
language showed that an infringement made in Mollwo 1. Court of Wards (1872) (L. R. 4, at p.&lt;br /&gt;
any part of the British dominions was contrary 173); Earl of Shrewsbury v. Scott (1859) (6&lt;br /&gt;
to the provisions of that Act, but if so equally C. B. N. S., at p. 141); Metcalfe v. Hanson&lt;br /&gt;
would be an infringement outside of the British (1866) (L. R., at 250); Labrador Company r. The&lt;br /&gt;
dominions.&lt;br /&gt;
Queen (1893) (A. C. 104).&lt;br /&gt;
But it was further urged that the effect of As I read cap 33 of 49 &amp;amp; 50 Vict. I do not&lt;br /&gt;
49 &amp;amp; 50 Vict. cap. 33, the International Copy- find any declaration of the meaning of cap. 68 of&lt;br /&gt;
right Act 1886 was to extend the provisions of 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict.&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 68 to all parts of the British dominions, and The concluding words of sect. 9 were much&lt;br /&gt;
if not, that the language, especially of sects. 8 pressed upon me by Mr. Small : &ldquo; But save as&lt;br /&gt;
and 9, amounted to a declaration by the Imperial provided by such declaration the said Acts and&lt;br /&gt;
Parliament that the provisions of 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. this Act shall apply to every British possession&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 68 did so extend.&lt;br /&gt;
as if it were a part of the United Kingdom.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It must be remembered that 49 &amp;amp; 50 Vict. When we come to see what the words &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 33 was passed to extend to authors of literary said Acts and this Act&rdquo; embraced, we find by&lt;br /&gt;
and artistic works first published in a foreign looking at the first schedule that only sect. 12&lt;br /&gt;
country copyright in Great Britain in return for of cap. 68 is included. But Mr. Small urged&lt;br /&gt;
copyright extended to British authors in such that as sect. 12 of cap. 68 introduced into that&lt;br /&gt;
foreign country, and was not intended to extend Act the provisions of Imp. 7 &amp;amp; 8 Vict. cap. 12, it&lt;br /&gt;
the copyright conferred by any previous Act. showed manifestly that cap. 68 extended the&lt;br /&gt;
We should not, therefore, expect to find a copyright to the whole of the dominions of the&lt;br /&gt;
clause declaring that the copyright conferred by Crown,&lt;br /&gt;
cap. 68 was extended beyond the territorial limits When we look at the provisions of Imp. 7 &amp;amp; 8&lt;br /&gt;
named in that Act, unless, indeed, it were neces Vict. c. 12, we find that its effect is stated in the&lt;br /&gt;
sary for the working out of the provisions of that last recital as follows : &ldquo;And whereas the powers&lt;br /&gt;
Act.&lt;br /&gt;
vested in Her Majesty by the said International&lt;br /&gt;
Sect. 8 provides: &ldquo;The Copyright Acts&rdquo;. Copyright Act are insufficient to enable Her&lt;br /&gt;
(which include 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68) &ldquo;shall, Majesty to confer upon authors of books first&lt;br /&gt;
subject to the provisions of this Act, apply to a published in foreign countries copyright of like&lt;br /&gt;
literary or artistic work first produced in a duration, and with the like remedies for the&lt;br /&gt;
British possession in like manner that they apply infringement thereof which are conferred and&lt;br /&gt;
to a work first produced in the United Kingdom.&rdquo; provided by the said Copyright Amendment Act&lt;br /&gt;
This did not extend the language of sect. I of with respect to authors of books first published&lt;br /&gt;
25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68, which conferred copy. in the British dominions ..and it is&lt;br /&gt;
right upon the persons within the class named expedient to vest increased powers in Her Majesty&lt;br /&gt;
with respect to every painting, &amp;amp;c., whether made in this respect. . . .&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
in British dominions or elsewhere, unless the There is nothing here to show that by its&lt;br /&gt;
word &amp;quot;production&rdquo; includes more than the word introduction into cap. 68 it was intended to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;made,&amp;quot; which I do not understand to be the extend the limits of the copyright conferred by&lt;br /&gt;
case, and in any event the section only enlarges that Act. The confining of the declaration in&lt;br /&gt;
the rights and privileges of the proprietors of such sect. 9 of 45 &amp;amp; 50 Vict. cap. 33 to sect. 12 of&lt;br /&gt;
works, and does not purport to extend the rights cap. 68 is significant. Either sect. I of cap. 68&lt;br /&gt;
is of copyright conferred by the copy. did confer copyright extending throughout&lt;br /&gt;
right Acts.&lt;br /&gt;
the dominions of the Crown, or it did not. If it&lt;br /&gt;
It must be remembered that in drafting did, then sect. 12 would be as wide in its applica-&lt;br /&gt;
sect. 8 the draftsman had in mind that he was tion as sect. i for the purpose for which it was&lt;br /&gt;
preparing a section wbich must cover not only enacted, and there was no necessity for declaring&lt;br /&gt;
25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68, but cap. 45 of 5 &amp;amp; 6 Vict. that either section extended beyond the United&lt;br /&gt;
I see nothing in sect. 8 which indicates any inten- Kingdom; and, if it did not, the confining of the&lt;br /&gt;
tion to extend the copyright conferred by that declaration to sect. 12, and thus excluding sect. I,&lt;br /&gt;
Act beyond the limits of the United Kingdom. shows that Parliament carefully avoided extend-&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the language of sect. 8 is more pecu- ing the effect of sect. I as originally passed. I&lt;br /&gt;
liarly applicable to the provisions of cap. 45. find noihing iu sect. 12 of cap. 68, or in 7 &amp;amp; 8&lt;br /&gt;
Even if that section was passed in forget&iacute;ulness Vict. cap. 12, or in 49 &amp;amp; 50 Vict. cap. 33, or in the&lt;br /&gt;
of the fact, if it be a fact that the copyright con- reason for passing such Act, to lead me to the&lt;br /&gt;
ferred by 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68 did not extend conclusion tbat it was intended to extend the&lt;br /&gt;
beyond the United Kingdom, such forgetfulness copyright conferred by sect. I of cap. 68 beyond&lt;br /&gt;
or mistake would not enlarge scope of such Act: the limits of the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
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138&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is that I must hold that the copy- play they apply of necessity, in almost all cases, to&lt;br /&gt;
right conferred by 25 &amp;amp; 26 Vict. cap. 68, sect. 1, Messrs. French, who have what is, in effect, a&lt;br /&gt;
was confined to the United Kingdom and did not monopoly of such performances (for it is obviously&lt;br /&gt;
extend to Canada, and that the plaintiff is not only the amateurs who could need any safeguard.&lt;br /&gt;
entitled to the injunction asked for. His motion, ing in this matter). And Mr. French&amp;#039;s manager&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, must be dismissed with costs in the has told me many times that virtually every&lt;br /&gt;
cause to the defendant in any event.&lt;br /&gt;
application to act a copyright play in public, is&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the cases to which I have accompanied by a request that the author will&lt;br /&gt;
referred, the following further authorities may consent to forego his fee,&ldquo; since the performance is&lt;br /&gt;
be referred to :&mdash;Smiles v. Belford (1877) (1 for a charity&rdquo;&mdash;as all amateur performances are.&lt;br /&gt;
A. R. 436); &ldquo; Copinger on Copyright,&rdquo; 3rd Thus the public knows perfectly well that if it&lt;br /&gt;
edit.; &ldquo;Scrutton on Copyright,&amp;quot; 3rd edit.; wants to perform a play it must pay the author.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Winslow on Artistic Copyright&rdquo;; and &ldquo;Lefroy Moreover, the author is in a totally different posi-&lt;br /&gt;
on Legislative Power in Canada.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
tion from that of the musician. It is as much a&lt;br /&gt;
necessity for the composer of ballads to publish&lt;br /&gt;
his work, as it is for the novelist; so that he, by&lt;br /&gt;
II.-THE NEW COPYRIGHT BILL.&lt;br /&gt;
mere custom, knows what publication means and&lt;br /&gt;
involves&mdash;and if he does not his publisher, as a&lt;br /&gt;
May I write to confirm Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s matter of course, can tell him. But it is not the&lt;br /&gt;
statement that the Copyright Bill is &ldquo; not drafted custom of English dramatists to publish copies of&lt;br /&gt;
from the point of view of a playwright&amp;quot; ?&lt;br /&gt;
their plays - indeed, they cannot do so without&lt;br /&gt;
The framers of the Bill have assumed that the certain troublesome precautions, if they desire to&lt;br /&gt;
positions of the dramatist and the musical com retain their American rights; and all but a very&lt;br /&gt;
poser are the same. They are, as a fact, diametri. few publishers are, in consequence, quite as&lt;br /&gt;
cally opposite.&lt;br /&gt;
ignorant of the laws affecting play-publication as&lt;br /&gt;
In practically every case the composer of a song the authors.&lt;br /&gt;
makes his profit out of the sale of printed copies Suppose, then, that a dramatist publishes his&lt;br /&gt;
of that song. Far from charging the performer play out of a laudable ambition to prove that it&lt;br /&gt;
anything, he sometimes pays him a commission is literature&mdash;or, if he is a beginner, with a&lt;br /&gt;
on the sale of these copies.&lt;br /&gt;
desperate hope that some stray manager, seeing&lt;br /&gt;
In practically every case the dramatist makes it reviewed, may buy a copy; and suppose, in&lt;br /&gt;
his profit out of the fees paid to him by managers this latter case, that he has it printed and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
who perform his plays. When he prints and lished by some local printer who has never been&lt;br /&gt;
publishes copies, it is generally for the sake of inside a theatre-a thing I have done a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
getting them acted, or for convenience in acting; times myself, and Mr. Louis Parker, and other&lt;br /&gt;
occasionally from a lingering desire to prove that dramatists I could name. Here is then a trap&lt;br /&gt;
the drama may still be literature; hardly ever to set for such a dramatist&mdash;who, if he omits to put&lt;br /&gt;
make money by their sale.&lt;br /&gt;
on his title-page a statement which the custom&lt;br /&gt;
It has been proved by the notorious &ldquo;Harry of the profession has made quite unnecessary,&lt;br /&gt;
Wall&rdquo; cases that the public needs to be pro. forfeits-according to this new Bill&mdash;every penny&lt;br /&gt;
tected in the matter of songs whose &ldquo;perform- of author&amp;#039;s fees which that play might have&lt;br /&gt;
ing right&rdquo; is reserved. Singers know so well brought him in.&lt;br /&gt;
that, in nearly all cases, a musician is only &ldquo;Ă Lawyer,&amp;quot; in your last issue, asked for some&lt;br /&gt;
too glad to have his song performed without practical suggestion, not mere destructive criti-&lt;br /&gt;
charge, that they are apt to take a song and sing cism. I would suggest that the omission of the&lt;br /&gt;
it as a matter of course, without asking questions: words &ldquo; or dramatic&rdquo; in clause 5, section 7, of&lt;br /&gt;
thus falling into the trap set for them by any Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill would remedy a defect&lt;br /&gt;
owner of a copyright who desires, in effect, to which, as it stands, must set every dramatist&lt;br /&gt;
blackmail them. And the custom of the pro- against the Bill. And I may add that the&lt;br /&gt;
fession is so universal that a composer who did Dramatic Sub-committee of the Authors&amp;#039; Society&lt;br /&gt;
not wish his songs to be performed gratis would were unanimous on this point.&lt;br /&gt;
know that he must specially announce the fact;&lt;br /&gt;
EDWARD Rose.&lt;br /&gt;
so that there is no hardship in his being legally 30, Lynd&lt;br /&gt;
obliged to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 8, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
But the plea of public advantage cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
11.&lt;br /&gt;
put forward in the case of dramatic works; at &ldquo;A Lawyer&rdquo; raises very courteously and clearly&lt;br /&gt;
least it cannot be put forward with truth. When certain points which I anticipated would be raised,&lt;br /&gt;
members of the public desire to perform a modern and which I respectfully submit are unsound. In&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
139&lt;br /&gt;
reference to clause 5, section 7, he writes : &ldquo;It rights, copyright and stage-right, for the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
appears that if a book&rdquo; of a play is published life and for thirty or fifty years after his death-&lt;br /&gt;
without the notice&rdquo; reserving the performing rights which must be separately assigned even if to&lt;br /&gt;
right, &ldquo;the question will be: Did the author the same person, so that the assignment of the&lt;br /&gt;
assent to the book being published in the par- one did not convey the other unless it were&lt;br /&gt;
ticular form and without this notice ?&rdquo; To me specifically mentioned &mdash; what more would any&lt;br /&gt;
it appears that under that section the question author want. The writer of books would be&lt;br /&gt;
will be: Did the owner of the copyright assent to protected, the writer of plays would be protected,&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of the copy of the book, and there would be no vexatious formalities, and the&lt;br /&gt;
as a matter of fact does it or does it not pirate would be checkmated. Rather than throw&lt;br /&gt;
contain this notice? The owner might very well the whole subject into confusion, for the sake&lt;br /&gt;
assent to the publication and forget all about the of protecting vocalists who innocently sing copy.&lt;br /&gt;
notice, or even be unaware that any red tape was right songs--and this is where all the trouble&lt;br /&gt;
necessary in so simple a matter. To justify &ldquo; A comes in---let them be dealt with hy a special&lt;br /&gt;
Lawyer&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; contention, the section should run: provision.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; And that from such copy the notice was omitted I am sure we are all deeply grateful to Lord&lt;br /&gt;
with the express assent of the owner of the copy. Monkswell for endeavouring to improve our&lt;br /&gt;
right.&rdquo; But it runs quite differently : &ldquo;And that positions ; but apart from the period of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
such copy was published with the assent of the tection, playwrights are perfectly satisfied with&lt;br /&gt;
owner of the copyright, and does not contain the the law as it stands, and I cannt agree with &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
notice.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Lawyer&rdquo; that in other respects, so far as play-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Lawyer&amp;quot; dismisses as &ldquo; quite untenable&rdquo; wrights are concerned, the Bill does anything but&lt;br /&gt;
my view that &ldquo;it inight even be argued that the make crooked what is already perfectly straight.&lt;br /&gt;
section is retrospective&rdquo;; but he does not point&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
out where the section provides that &ldquo;such copy&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
must have been published after the Act has come&lt;br /&gt;
into force. The section says simply, &ldquo;a copy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
III.--THE AMERICAN SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
I submit, it might be an old copy. If I were the The following paragraph has been takeu from&lt;br /&gt;
judge, I should probably decide against this the bulletin of the Society of Am-rican Authors:&lt;br /&gt;
view; but why leave the wording ambiguous ?&lt;br /&gt;
REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON AUTHORS&amp;#039; MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
I quite agree with &ldquo;A Lawyer&amp;quot; that my unclean The (American) Society proposes to resume actively its&lt;br /&gt;
thief&ldquo; falls out of the frying-pan into the fire&rdquo;; work for the reduction of postage on authors&amp;#039; MSS. upon&lt;br /&gt;
but that is no answer to the argument. However the opening of Congress in December. Every author is&lt;br /&gt;
much he may be punished elsewhere for his interested in this matter, and shoald give the Society his or&lt;br /&gt;
immorality, his theft is condoned. &ldquo;A Lawyer&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&Agrave; L . her earnest support and assistance A personal interview&lt;br /&gt;
or a letter to a member of Congress will be of material&lt;br /&gt;
does not controvert the fact that Lord Monkswell,&lt;br /&gt;
benefit.&lt;br /&gt;
in his anxiety to boycott the immoral author, has&lt;br /&gt;
In the same magazine there is an article on&lt;br /&gt;
taken the immoral thief to his bosom. It 18 a Authors v. Publishers, by an American publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
quaint vindication of virtue.&lt;br /&gt;
who states as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
On reflection, does not clause 5, section 5, mise&lt;br /&gt;
One reason why the agent is less in evidence in this&lt;br /&gt;
the whole question of morality in art ? Just as country than in Eogland is the greater loyalty of American&lt;br /&gt;
the defaulting speculator may plead gaming as a authors to their publishers. Over there you will find a&lt;br /&gt;
defence, might not the pirate say of any play : successful writer often represented in the lists of many&lt;br /&gt;
* What you accuse me of stealing is immoral,&lt;br /&gt;
different publishers. Here there is a much greater tendency&lt;br /&gt;
therefore there is no copyright? &rdquo; Even if the&lt;br /&gt;
among authors to stay by the houses that have made a&lt;br /&gt;
success of their works and that have become identified with&lt;br /&gt;
pirate be estopped from raising this defence, might them, and this tendency is not encouraging to the activity&lt;br /&gt;
the point not be raised by the judge on a question of the literary agent, among the more successful of them at&lt;br /&gt;
of non-suit, and a profound problem in ethics be any rate.&lt;br /&gt;
substituted for a simple question of copyright ? We should like to point out, however, that&lt;br /&gt;
What is the use of this section ? There is already there is no question of loyalty between an author&lt;br /&gt;
a law to deal with immorality, sedition, &amp;amp;c. ; why and a publisher, it is merely a matter of business.&lt;br /&gt;
mix them up with copyright?&lt;br /&gt;
One reason why the successful writer in Eng-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Lawyer&rdquo; says my remarks are &ldquo;entirely land has taken lately to changing his publisher&lt;br /&gt;
destructive.&amp;quot; Maj I call his attention to the has been fully explained in last month&amp;#039;s Author.&lt;br /&gt;
penultimate passage of my article, and ask him The publisher binds the author to him for two&lt;br /&gt;
to consider how much ground is covered by the and sometimes three successive books, with the&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion it contains ? If there were vested in disastrous result, as shown exhaustively in the&lt;br /&gt;
every literary work two separate and distinct article referred to, that he practically neglects the&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. II.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 140 (#194) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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140&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
pushing of the author&amp;#039;s book beyond a certain Is this matter one which, like royalty and&lt;br /&gt;
limit, as he feels quite safe in securing the next advertising accounts, must be necessarily confided&lt;br /&gt;
two. This treatment at the hands of a publisher to the virtue of the publisher ? Or, would the&lt;br /&gt;
naturally makes the author turn to someone who publisher&amp;#039;s contention be that in the event of such&lt;br /&gt;
will treat him better.&lt;br /&gt;
an infringement an author&amp;#039;s action would lie, if&lt;br /&gt;
The English author is as willing as the anywhere, against the reader personally ?&lt;br /&gt;
American author to keep his books in the hands&lt;br /&gt;
of one publisher if that publisher will give him&lt;br /&gt;
A RISKY JOB.&lt;br /&gt;
a fair contract and will take an interest in pusbing The inquiry is not without interest because of&lt;br /&gt;
the work he produces.&lt;br /&gt;
the likelihood of unconscious appropriation. I&lt;br /&gt;
Another reason why sometimes the publisher know an aspiring playwright who wished to have&lt;br /&gt;
is changed does not spring from the author, but his efforts examined by Mr. Bronson Howard,&lt;br /&gt;
springs froin the competition in the publishing the dean of our dramatists. Mr. Howard cour-&lt;br /&gt;
trade.&lt;br /&gt;
teously refused. He said that once he had&lt;br /&gt;
The following paragraph comes from the same innocently embodied in one of his own pieces an&lt;br /&gt;
paper :&lt;br /&gt;
pisode contained in a friend&amp;#039;s manuscript play&lt;br /&gt;
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY INCORPORATED. which had been submitted to him for his advice.&lt;br /&gt;
The D. Appleton Company, of New York City, with a The play had been forgotten, but the incident&lt;br /&gt;
capital of 3,000,000 dollars, has been incorporated. The&lt;br /&gt;
stuck in a corner of his mind, and when he found&lt;br /&gt;
purposes for which the company is to be formed are to&lt;br /&gt;
it there, many years afterwards, it had all the ear-&lt;br /&gt;
purchase, acquire, and carry on the book-printing and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing and other business of D. Appleton and Company,&lt;br /&gt;
marks of an original idea. His angry friend&lt;br /&gt;
the Appleton Manufacturing Company, and the A. J. accused him of treachery and theft, and he then&lt;br /&gt;
Johnson Company, and to continue and carry on the publi. and there solemnly vowed never again to read an&lt;br /&gt;
cations heretofore owned and carried on by said corpora-&lt;br /&gt;
unproduced or unprinted dramatic composition.&lt;br /&gt;
tions.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Howard&amp;#039;s experience is common enough, I&lt;br /&gt;
daresay. From the author&amp;#039;s standpoint, the ideal&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript reader is a person to whom the career&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
of writer is an accursed and forbidden thing, but&lt;br /&gt;
where such a rarity can be found the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, Dec. 11, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
neither knows nor cares. He relies pleasantly&lt;br /&gt;
upon the average honesty of mankind. Moreover,&lt;br /&gt;
I UST a publishing house insure an author &amp;#039; lax treatment of manuscripts occasionally pre-&lt;br /&gt;
V against the possible dishonesty of its vails here which might disturb our authors were&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript readers The other day a there not counter-irritants. One editor, for&lt;br /&gt;
young and unknown writer submitted a manu-&lt;br /&gt;
example, is in the habit of reading unpublished&lt;br /&gt;
script novel for the consideration of a New York and unaccepted manuscripts to his family and to&lt;br /&gt;
publisher. At the conclusion of the introductory the guests fortunate enough to be within his&lt;br /&gt;
interview the author asked for a guarantee that hospitable gates. In theory, at least, this prac.&lt;br /&gt;
in case the book was declined, none of her ideas tice has its risks.&lt;br /&gt;
would be stolen, consciously or unconsciously, by&lt;br /&gt;
the editorial examiners in the publisher&amp;#039;s employ.&lt;br /&gt;
MARK TWAIN AT HOME.&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher was amused, surprised, and ulti. The public welcome of Mark Twain to his&lt;br /&gt;
mately puzzled. He had some difficulty in con. native land came somewhat tardily, but for the&lt;br /&gt;
vincing himself that the request was unreasonable. past month Mr. Clemens has been dined, supped,&lt;br /&gt;
The author argued that the publisher was in the and breakfasted to the content of his heart and&lt;br /&gt;
legal position of a voluntary bailee of literary the probable damage of his digestion. His friends&lt;br /&gt;
property, for the integrity of which he was tempo. and fellow-craftsmen were curious to learn in&lt;br /&gt;
rarily responsible. He would be clearly liable what way Mr. Clemens&amp;#039;s residence in England&lt;br /&gt;
if the manuscript itself were stolen by a clerk. had affected his Americanism. Their curiosity&lt;br /&gt;
But the extraordinary nature of the property has now been appeased. Before Mr. Clemens&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
exposes it to extraordinary danger, which must sea legs had adjusted themselves, he procured the&lt;br /&gt;
be considered by one dealing in it. What arrest and punishment of a rapacious New York&lt;br /&gt;
if the conception of the story were stolen by the cabman who overcharged his cook. Sad to relate,&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s reader, afflicted with the perilous it is unusual here thus to sacrifice time and&lt;br /&gt;
combination of dishonesty and cacoethes scribendi? take trouble to improve the public service,&lt;br /&gt;
This particular publisher speedily discovered the and Mr. Clemens&amp;#039;s course awakened inuch favour.&lt;br /&gt;
solution of the problem. He declined the manu- able comment, in which it was pointed out that&lt;br /&gt;
script without further delay.&lt;br /&gt;
this was the &ldquo; London way of doing things.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
141&lt;br /&gt;
Moreover, the episode gave Mr. Clemens a chance Edward Bok, director of the Ladies&amp;#039; Home&lt;br /&gt;
to coin one of his characteristically neat phrases, Journal. Mr. Bok is going forth a-lecturing this&lt;br /&gt;
wbich ran : &ldquo;Every good citizen is an unclassified winter upon the general subject of editorial&lt;br /&gt;
policeman.&rdquo; It has been announced that, under methods and the way to meet them. His pro-&lt;br /&gt;
a special agreement, Mr. Clemens will write exclu. spectus promises a complete disclosure of the&lt;br /&gt;
sively for the house of Harper and Brothers. secrets of the prison house. He will explain, he&lt;br /&gt;
You doubtless know that Mr. W. D. Howells is says, why bad manuscripts are accepted and why&lt;br /&gt;
bound by a similar agreement to the same firm; good manuscripts are declined; he will set forth&lt;br /&gt;
furthermore, he serves the house regularly as the advantages and the disadvantages of a per-&lt;br /&gt;
literary adviser-in-chief, and writes a department sonal acquaintanceship with the editor, and the&lt;br /&gt;
in its monthly magazine. With both Mr. Clemens truth about cliques in magazine offices; and he&lt;br /&gt;
and Mr. Howells under their banner, the re- will tell the aspirants how to behave when they&lt;br /&gt;
organised Harpers are resuming their march with interview a publisher, and coach them in the most&lt;br /&gt;
a more hopeful and a firmer stride.&lt;br /&gt;
approved systems of compelling the acceptance&lt;br /&gt;
of their manuscripts. Mr. Bok is a clever young&lt;br /&gt;
REDUCING EXPENSES.&lt;br /&gt;
man. Popular interest in the subject of his&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Wanamaker, the proprietor of Every lecture is ready-made in advance, and success may&lt;br /&gt;
body&amp;#039;s Magazine, has latterly accomplished an be predicted for his venture, both in the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
interesting divorce between the purely commercial tickets and in advertising the Ladies&amp;#039; Home&lt;br /&gt;
and the purely literary sides of magazine making. Journal. The hint is worth cultivating, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Wanamaker is of a thrifty turn of mind, and in other fields.&lt;br /&gt;
it occurred to him that the editorial expenses of&lt;br /&gt;
Everybody&amp;#039;s were making a hole in his profits.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PUBLISHERS&amp;#039; ASSOCIATION.&lt;br /&gt;
Query : Why support a separate editorial office In one direction there was significance in our&lt;br /&gt;
for his monthly? Why not farm out the editing book trade, too often a meaningless mass of&lt;br /&gt;
to some publishers whose plant is already volumes thrown helter skelter upon the market.&lt;br /&gt;
equipped for such work, and who might be This year, however, there seemed to be a marked&lt;br /&gt;
willing to job the editorial labour for a lump and commendable increase in sound, dignified&lt;br /&gt;
sum, less than the amount which Mr. Wanamaker editions of the classics, designed primarily for the&lt;br /&gt;
was compelled to pay for a private editorial season, but minus the conventionally flashy&lt;br /&gt;
establishment ? No sooner said than done; it is adornments which are supposed to embellish the&lt;br /&gt;
now reported, on what seems to be good autho usual Christmas publications. The Scribners&lt;br /&gt;
rity, that the firm of Doubleday, Page and Co. offer a Dickens; the Harpers, a Scott; Crowell&lt;br /&gt;
will hereafter edit Everybody&amp;#039;s Magazine, select and Company advertise Balzac and Tolstoi ;&lt;br /&gt;
the material, and layout its policy. Mr. Thomas Nelson has a new Thackeray; Brentano a&lt;br /&gt;
Wanamaker prints it, sells it, and takes the &ldquo;Pilgrim&amp;#039;s Progress,&amp;quot; and so on. The promised&lt;br /&gt;
financial consequences. A scheme of this kind effect of the uew&ldquo; Publishers&amp;#039; Association &amp;quot; was&lt;br /&gt;
allows a publishing concern to edit any number not in evidence, nor does it yet appear. Our&lt;br /&gt;
of magazines at wholesale rates. In fact, Messrs. retail bookseller is having as hard a time as ever&lt;br /&gt;
Doubleday and Page already have a periodical in his apparently hopeless competition with the&lt;br /&gt;
of their own, called The World&amp;#039;s Work. A vast large jobber, who can buy so many books from&lt;br /&gt;
editorial clearing house is suggested by Mr. the publisher that he obtains an exceptional&lt;br /&gt;
Wanamaker&amp;#039;s enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;
discount. Indeed, I am not aware that the&lt;br /&gt;
heralded association has accomplished anything&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bok Aş COACH.&lt;br /&gt;
at all except the election of officers.&lt;br /&gt;
The recent phenomenal success in this country&lt;br /&gt;
of previously untried writers of fiction has had&lt;br /&gt;
MR. KIPLING&amp;#039;S LAWSUIT.&lt;br /&gt;
the effect of enormously increasing the output of Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s litigations in our courts always&lt;br /&gt;
amateurs&amp;#039; manuscripts. It is a constant marvel attract attention. &Agrave; deposition made by him&lt;br /&gt;
how so many people find time to write so much. before a London notary was received the other&lt;br /&gt;
Stimulated by the fact that two or three novelists day. It is one of the papers in the suit brought&lt;br /&gt;
have become capitalists in a few years, the recruit by Mr. Kipling for alleged infringement of copy.&lt;br /&gt;
ing lists of the army of would-be authors are right against various American publishers. It&lt;br /&gt;
assuming proportions which are alarming. In will be remembered that he declares the &ldquo;Out-&lt;br /&gt;
this state of things one would think that the ward Bound &rdquo; edition, published by the Scribners,&lt;br /&gt;
editors would only find despair and vexation of to be the only one authorised by him. The docu-&lt;br /&gt;
spirit, but one editor, at least, proposes to turn ment recently received is voluminous, and said to&lt;br /&gt;
the situation to profitable account. This is Mr. contain startling statements concerning American&lt;br /&gt;
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142&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, and facts relating to the editing and&lt;br /&gt;
rearrangement of the Kipling stories. Upon the&lt;br /&gt;
objection of the author&amp;#039;s attorney, however, the&lt;br /&gt;
reporters were not allowed to copy any of it. The&lt;br /&gt;
trial is set for February, when the mysterious&lt;br /&gt;
affidavit will be made public.&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL Davidson.&lt;br /&gt;
-(1) That of the elder of the two sons of the&lt;br /&gt;
vivacious &ldquo;Gyp&rdquo; (Comtesse de Martel); (2)&lt;br /&gt;
that of the unfortunate Mr. Oscar Wilde ; (3)&lt;br /&gt;
that of M. Armand Fresnau, the blind senator,&lt;br /&gt;
who died leaving in a half-finished condition&lt;br /&gt;
his interesting &ldquo;M&eacute;moires Parlementaires,&amp;quot; a&lt;br /&gt;
voluminous autobiography, which he was dictat-&lt;br /&gt;
ing to his younger daughter ; (4) that of Mme.&lt;br /&gt;
Edgar Quinet, whose &bull; Cinquante ans d&amp;#039;amiti&eacute;&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
appeared a few months ago; and (5) that of M.&lt;br /&gt;
Edmond Tarb&eacute;, an esteemed Parisian journalist,&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist, and novelist.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
M. ZOLA ON THE MODERN NOVEL.&lt;br /&gt;
T HE death of M. J. Valfrey, who (under the MM. Th&eacute;odore Cahu and Forest are the authors&lt;br /&gt;
I pseudonym of &ldquo;Whist &amp;quot;) had for years of a recent novel entitled &ldquo;Vers la Paix,&rdquo; which,&lt;br /&gt;
contributed to the Figaro a series of among other dedicatory notices to crowned heads&lt;br /&gt;
brilliant articles on foreign politics, occurred and illustrious personages, contains one addressed&lt;br /&gt;
immediately after the despatch of my last letter to M. Emile Zola, who &amp;quot; shook the world without&lt;br /&gt;
A man of high moral value, remarkable insight, a sword and conquered it without an army.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
and lofty ideal, he, nevertheless, can scarcely be &ldquo; Travail &rdquo; of the latter author is now appearing&lt;br /&gt;
regarded as a typical Parisian writer, since, in serial form in the Aurore, while his &ldquo; Assom-&lt;br /&gt;
despite his superior abilities, he never occupied moir&rdquo; has just scored a big success at the Porte-&lt;br /&gt;
the prominent position in the public eye and Saint-Martin Theatre. The great novelist lately&lt;br /&gt;
sympathy to which Francisque Sarcey, Pierre expressed himself in the following terms when&lt;br /&gt;
V&eacute;ron, and other lesser journalists attained. asked his opinion re the tendency of the modern&lt;br /&gt;
Characteristic anecdotes of the man himself are novel :-&lt;br /&gt;
strangely lacking, considering the importance &ldquo;Nothing is more difficult than to determine&lt;br /&gt;
attached to his political articles by European the evolutions of literature. .. You cannot&lt;br /&gt;
diplomatists. Of bourgeois origin, he quitted follow a straight line; ... the novel is a&lt;br /&gt;
his native Besan&ccedil;on, and established himself at social and human manifestation. It goes from&lt;br /&gt;
an early age in Paris, where having attracted , one Pole to the other, from realism to idealism&lt;br /&gt;
attention by several historical appreciations whose (r&eacute;ve) in obeying multiple evolutions. It under&lt;br /&gt;
merit was at once recognised-he entered the goes continual fluctuations. In addition, the&lt;br /&gt;
diplomatic corps under the patronage of Count geniuses, yet unborn, who will displace and&lt;br /&gt;
Chaudordy. In 1878 the Conservatives went out change everything, have to be taken into&lt;br /&gt;
of power. At that moment Valfrey, who filled account. ...&lt;br /&gt;
the posts of Minister-Plenipotentiary and member &ldquo;Does the novel show a greater bias towards&lt;br /&gt;
of the Superior Commission of the Quai d&amp;#039;Orsay perversity and obscenity than towards honest and&lt;br /&gt;
Archives, was about to become Ambassador. He healthy passions ? Qui en sait-on ? There are&lt;br /&gt;
steadfastly refused to continue in office under the filthy minds everywhere.... Certain works&lt;br /&gt;
new Ministry, preferring to share the downfall of are necessary to certain people. . . .&lt;br /&gt;
his friends. He, however, consented to remain a &ldquo;I believe in a humanity which advances&mdash;as&lt;br /&gt;
member of the Quai d&amp;#039;Orsay Commission. Shortly much from a literary as a social point of view.&lt;br /&gt;
after he became a contributor to the Moniteur Humanity is, advancing some-whither. Slowly it&lt;br /&gt;
Universel, and it paramount authority on all directs itself towards its goal-three steps for-&lt;br /&gt;
questions connected with foreign politics. He ward, two backward. But the ground gained&lt;br /&gt;
quitted the Moniteur to enter the Figaro staff, remains. The truths acquired can never more&lt;br /&gt;
where he remained until his death.&lt;br /&gt;
become errors....&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Upright in all his actions, a sure and faithful &ldquo;Since, in the domain of science, ideas have&lt;br /&gt;
friend, benevolent, tolerant, ironical without enlarged, it would be singular if writers did not&lt;br /&gt;
gall, witty without bitterness, never blindly con- advance also-not towards more genius, but&lt;br /&gt;
demning his adversaries, but professing for the towards more truth. And if there be a d&eacute;noue-&lt;br /&gt;
convictions of others the respect he demanded ment, it will be that of the art of reality. The&lt;br /&gt;
for his own&rdquo;-such is the testimony borne him oscillations of the pendulum of literature are&lt;br /&gt;
by his comrades of the Figaro.&lt;br /&gt;
more and more lengthened towards truth, more and&lt;br /&gt;
Five other deaths connected with literature more shortened towards error. For myself, I am&lt;br /&gt;
have likewise occurred during the past month : inclined to believe that--if there be a return to&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 143 (#197) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
143&lt;br /&gt;
idealism-it will be only temporary. ...&lt;br /&gt;
The future belongs to the novel of observation.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
FOREIGN INFLUENCES.&lt;br /&gt;
One of the most important results of the&lt;br /&gt;
great Exhibition from a literary point of view&lt;br /&gt;
has, perhaps, been the stimulus given to public&lt;br /&gt;
curiosity regarding the national literature of the&lt;br /&gt;
late foreign guests of France. The immense&lt;br /&gt;
success of Count Wodzinoki&amp;#039;s translations of the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Quo Vadis&rdquo; and &ldquo;Par le Feu et par le Feu&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
of the celebrated Polish novelist, M. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
Sienkiewicz, has paved the way for a crowd of&lt;br /&gt;
foreign authors. Judging from appearances, the&lt;br /&gt;
translation of &ldquo;La Mort des Dieux&rdquo;&mdash;a romance&lt;br /&gt;
of the life of the Roman Emperor Julian the&lt;br /&gt;
Apostate, by M. Dmitry de Merejkowsky, one of&lt;br /&gt;
the most talented chiefs of the younger school of&lt;br /&gt;
Russian novelists-is also likely to boast more&lt;br /&gt;
than a hundred editions. Meantime Mme. Judith&lt;br /&gt;
Gautier is engaged in dramatising the famous&lt;br /&gt;
Japanese legend of the Cavalier and the Geisha,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Emile Moreau having just concluded the same&lt;br /&gt;
friendly office for &amp;quot;Quo Vadis&rdquo; - which play is&lt;br /&gt;
now being rehearsed at the Purte-Saint-Martin&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre. Nor have representative Spanish and&lt;br /&gt;
German artistes had any reason to do otherwise&lt;br /&gt;
than applaud the welcome received, as both&lt;br /&gt;
Senor Diaz de Mendoza and Fra&uuml;lein Marie&lt;br /&gt;
Barkany can respectively testify. Japan is&lt;br /&gt;
further represented by an interesting account of&lt;br /&gt;
the Japanese novel published in the Revue des&lt;br /&gt;
Revues by M. Hitomi, delegate of the Formosa&lt;br /&gt;
Government; while extracts from Lord Rosebery&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
impartial and masterly work on Napoleon have.&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in several journals and met with general&lt;br /&gt;
appreciation and approval. M. Augustin Filon&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
French translation of the latter volume will&lt;br /&gt;
shortly be issued by Hachette.&lt;br /&gt;
MESSIEURS LES &Eacute;TUDIANTS.&lt;br /&gt;
The newly-founded Society of the &ldquo; Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;
Co-operatif des &Eacute;tudiants du Quartier Latin &amp;quot;-&lt;br /&gt;
due to the praiseworthy initiative of M. Henri&lt;br /&gt;
Hayem, a young legal student of that quarter-&lt;br /&gt;
cannot be too highly commended. Its object is&lt;br /&gt;
to provide a good and healthy repast to the needy&lt;br /&gt;
student&mdash;the chrysalis author and embryo genius&lt;br /&gt;
-at a minimum fee. It inculcates habits of&lt;br /&gt;
temperance by strictly prohibiting the sale of&lt;br /&gt;
alcohol on its premises. A capital of 30,000 francs&lt;br /&gt;
is secured by means of 1200 shares at 25 francs&lt;br /&gt;
each. A first deposit of 2 francs 50 centimes is&lt;br /&gt;
required, the remainder of the 25 francs being&lt;br /&gt;
accumulated by the payment of a halfpenny per&lt;br /&gt;
meal. With two meals per day, in less than&lt;br /&gt;
eight months the student becomes the owner of a&lt;br /&gt;
share which brings him in 4 per cent. interest.&lt;br /&gt;
On the administrative council of the society&lt;br /&gt;
we find the names of M. Charles Gide, Professor&lt;br /&gt;
we find the names of&lt;br /&gt;
of Social Economy at the Ecole de Droit, and M.&lt;br /&gt;
Tannery, sub-director of the Superior Normal&lt;br /&gt;
School.&lt;br /&gt;
The association entitled &ldquo;Solidarit&eacute; universi-&lt;br /&gt;
taire&rdquo; is also of recent origin and merits&lt;br /&gt;
encouragement. It endeavours to draw together&lt;br /&gt;
poor students of all nationalities, in order to aid&lt;br /&gt;
them in gaining a livelihood by procuring them&lt;br /&gt;
suitable employment, &mdash;-viz., summaries of impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tant works, bibliographical referenda, transla-&lt;br /&gt;
tions of foreign books and memoranda, copies of&lt;br /&gt;
extracts, or architectural designs, &amp;amp;c. A com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent committee superintends the careful execu-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of any work entrusted to the association.&lt;br /&gt;
During the six months the &ldquo;Solidarit&eacute; univer-&lt;br /&gt;
sitaire&rdquo; has been in existence it has received,&lt;br /&gt;
and satisfactorily carried out, orders amounting&lt;br /&gt;
to a total of 7000 francs.&lt;br /&gt;
MODERN &AElig;sthetics.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The people have a right to beauty. ..&lt;br /&gt;
The education of the people is achieved little by&lt;br /&gt;
little. The first step is to give it a taste for the&lt;br /&gt;
theatre... It is the imperious duty of a&lt;br /&gt;
democracy to invite all its children to spectacles&lt;br /&gt;
of artistic beauty. Art, like science, is a universal&lt;br /&gt;
property.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The above phrases form part of the creed of&lt;br /&gt;
M. Gustave Charpentier, the young and talented&lt;br /&gt;
composer of Louise. He has endeavoured to&lt;br /&gt;
realise his generous theories by asking the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic authors of the French stage to relin-&lt;br /&gt;
quish their &ldquo; billets d&amp;#039;auteur&amp;quot; every Monday, so&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo;a spectacle of artistic beauty&amp;quot; may rejoice,&lt;br /&gt;
once a year, the unaccustomed eyes of the thirty&lt;br /&gt;
thousand little workwomen of Paris. The boon&lt;br /&gt;
he asks means only a small sacrifice to the&lt;br /&gt;
wealthy and popular dramatist. But what about&lt;br /&gt;
the young and needy play-writer who dares not&lt;br /&gt;
avow his poverty-whom the proposed innovation&lt;br /&gt;
must necessarily rob of the few luxuries which he&lt;br /&gt;
has so dearly earned, and so rarely enjoys ?&lt;br /&gt;
Space forbids more than a passing mention of&lt;br /&gt;
the foundation of the College of Modern&lt;br /&gt;
&AElig;sthetics, &ldquo; soci&eacute;t&eacute; d&amp;#039;art et de solidarit&eacute;,&amp;quot; directed&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Saint-Georges de Bouh&eacute;lier, the young&lt;br /&gt;
chief of the naturalistic school. Its aim is to&lt;br /&gt;
inculcate the cult of beauty, to group the new&lt;br /&gt;
artists, and to form a kind of common meeting&lt;br /&gt;
place where poets, authors, painters, musicians,&lt;br /&gt;
sculptors, can meet and fraternize together. M.&lt;br /&gt;
Emile Zola has accepted the post of honorary&lt;br /&gt;
president to the new college.&lt;br /&gt;
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;L&amp;#039;Aiglon,&amp;quot; of M. Edmond Rostand, in book&lt;br /&gt;
form, whose sale--through some publishing ruse&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 144 (#198) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
-was reported to have reached its fifty-first that the annual subscriptions will be partly-&lt;br /&gt;
edition in a single day; &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Auteur Mondain,&amp;#039; a namely, two-thirds-transferred to the principal&lt;br /&gt;
most interesting roman &agrave; clef, dealing with the account. Thus out of every $100 subscribed&lt;br /&gt;
literary and Academical side of Parisian life, annually, &pound;66 will go to swell the capital and &pound;33&lt;br /&gt;
written by M. Edmond Deschaumes, the friend odd will be available for pension purposes. In&lt;br /&gt;
of Alexandre Dumas fils, and the bermit of a this way, every &pound;100 of subscriptions will in&lt;br /&gt;
little &ldquo; Trappe&rdquo; at Marly-le-Roi; &ldquo;Au pays ten years&amp;#039; time become &pound;660 of additional capital,&lt;br /&gt;
Natal,&rdquo; by M. Henry Bordeaux, being the first wbile &pound;330 will have been used for pension pur-&lt;br /&gt;
novel of the young and brilliant critic of the poses. We begin in February next with a&lt;br /&gt;
Revue Hebdomadaire ; &ldquo; Newman, sa vie et ses modest income, therefore, available for pensions&lt;br /&gt;
Euvres,&rdquo; by Mlle. Lucie Faure, daughter of of about &pound;54. This is not much, but it is a good&lt;br /&gt;
the late French President; and the thirteenth beginning, and the constitution of the Fund with&lt;br /&gt;
edition, augmented and revised, of M. Dieula. the names of the trustees and of the committen&lt;br /&gt;
foy&amp;#039;s celebrated &amp;quot;Manuel de Pathologie Interne,&amp;quot; of management will certainly inspire confidence.&lt;br /&gt;
whose sale has long since broken the literary&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
record of French pathological works. &ldquo; La Demi&lt;br /&gt;
R&eacute;publique,&amp;quot; by M. L&eacute;ouzon Le Duc, a volume&lt;br /&gt;
Meantime, the members of the Society must&lt;br /&gt;
of notes and reflections on the political condition&lt;br /&gt;
realise that in creating this Fund we are doing&lt;br /&gt;
of France, which has given rise to much discus.&lt;br /&gt;
for Literature what has never been done before : that&lt;br /&gt;
sion in certain circles; &ldquo;Les Deux &Eacute;treintes,&amp;quot; a&lt;br /&gt;
the success of the Fund concerns every member,&lt;br /&gt;
sensational novel, by M. L&eacute;on Daudet; &ldquo;Un&lt;br /&gt;
rich or poor, because it is the interest of the&lt;br /&gt;
Homme d&amp;#039;Affaires,&amp;quot; a volume of short tales by&lt;br /&gt;
richer members that Literature shall support&lt;br /&gt;
M. Paul Bourget; and &ldquo; Amour, amour ------ &amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
those who are broken down in their work, and&lt;br /&gt;
M. Pierre Veber, a journalist, novelist, critic, and&lt;br /&gt;
because there is no member who may not look&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist, well acquainted with the humours of&lt;br /&gt;
forward to possible help from this source? It&lt;br /&gt;
the Parisian public.&lt;br /&gt;
becomes, therefore, the plain duty of every&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
member to help on the Fund. The Committee&lt;br /&gt;
want the scheme to be supported by all alike :&lt;br /&gt;
but they do not expect from everybody large sub-&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
scriptions. Those who cannot afford to give largely&lt;br /&gt;
may send up annual subscriptions of quite small&lt;br /&gt;
IT had been intended to present, especially for&lt;br /&gt;
sums. They need not be in the least ashamed of&lt;br /&gt;
this small amount. The great thing is that,&lt;br /&gt;
| the information of those publishers who&lt;br /&gt;
go about saying that the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
among the 1500 members of the Society, we&lt;br /&gt;
has done &ldquo;no harm,&amp;quot; meaning that it has&lt;br /&gt;
should get a recognition of the principle that the&lt;br /&gt;
effected for the authors no good, a short account&lt;br /&gt;
time for begging of the public has gone by, and&lt;br /&gt;
of what the Society has actually accomplished in&lt;br /&gt;
that Literature should be well able, like any&lt;br /&gt;
spite of the enormous difficulties which at the other profession, to keep those of its members&lt;br /&gt;
outset stood in its way. It bad also been intended&lt;br /&gt;
who are old, or sick, or broken down.&lt;br /&gt;
to present some of the possibilities of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
and the aims which the members ought to keep&lt;br /&gt;
Consider in how prosperous a condition the&lt;br /&gt;
before themselves. It has been found impossible Pension Fund would be if 1200 of the members&lt;br /&gt;
for various reasons to carry out this intention for could give it each ios. a year! That would mean&lt;br /&gt;
the January number. It is, however, hoped that we &pound;600 a year, or &pound;400 transferred to capital and&lt;br /&gt;
shall be able to do so for the following number&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;200 given in pensions every year. In ten years&lt;br /&gt;
there would be from this source alone &pound;4000, or&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;100 a year, which with the third of the subscrip-&lt;br /&gt;
It has been suggested that a very useful con. tions would give us &pound;300 a year for Pensions :&lt;br /&gt;
tribution to these pages would be a few plain and ten at &pound;30 a year, or six at &pound;50 a year.&lt;br /&gt;
simple directions as to the publication of books at&lt;br /&gt;
the cost of the authors. For many reasons this&lt;br /&gt;
The Society has been created and has so&lt;br /&gt;
information is very much wanted. The Author&lt;br /&gt;
in an early number will supply it.&lt;br /&gt;
far been successfully run on the principle of&lt;br /&gt;
united action for the defence of literary pro.&lt;br /&gt;
perty. We ask now for an extension of the&lt;br /&gt;
The Pension List (see p. 134) has made a very principle, viz., for united action in the main-&lt;br /&gt;
fair start. The principal starts with an investment tenance of the few who want lifelong assistance.&lt;br /&gt;
of over &pound;1250 and with a promised subscription, to Surely in such a cause we shall not ask in vain!&lt;br /&gt;
begin with, of &pound;100 odd. It must be remembered&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
-145&lt;br /&gt;
ON BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
the n+ith edition. But, when they have time to&lt;br /&gt;
read, they do buy the works of those novelists&lt;br /&gt;
TN another columu will be found a letter from who can write; to whom they can look with con-&lt;br /&gt;
1 a correspondent who advances two proposi. fidence for a few hours&amp;#039; magnetic absorption ;&lt;br /&gt;
tions: first, that authors do not buy books, whom they have learned to respect and to trust.&lt;br /&gt;
and next, that reviews are intended for the guidance And I find that the libraries of these novelists&lt;br /&gt;
of readers. With regard to the first proposition, continually grow : on their shelves you will find&lt;br /&gt;
one would object that those authors who write many of the best novels of the day-not all the&lt;br /&gt;
on special subjects, whether of history, politics, best, not the most popular, perhaps, but some&lt;br /&gt;
literature, or social science in any branch : of the best, with a catholic taste for all kinds&lt;br /&gt;
theology in any of its branches : educational books among the best. That these shelves also contain&lt;br /&gt;
in any branch: political economy : science of the other new books on other subjects is an indication&lt;br /&gt;
past and present: trade and commerce : mechanics and a measure of their general culture, in which it&lt;br /&gt;
and engineering : travel and geography: anthro. will not be pretended that novelists are behind the&lt;br /&gt;
pology: surgery and medicine : physiology, or, rest of the educated world.&lt;br /&gt;
indeed, any other subject on which there exists&lt;br /&gt;
a literature, must have a library and must buy the&lt;br /&gt;
new books on their own subjects. This disposes The second proposition is that reviewing, or&lt;br /&gt;
of a very large number of authors--by far the criticism, is intended as it guide to readers. The&lt;br /&gt;
vreater number--who must be excepted from this statement assumes a very limited function for the&lt;br /&gt;
proposition. We may take next essayists; critic. That the reader should turn to the&lt;br /&gt;
critics; those who, without being critics, write columns of criticism for guidance is natural, but&lt;br /&gt;
appreciative, and in some cases delightful, papers these columns are by no means necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
and books on literary subjects and on writers; meant for him. They are-or should be, which&lt;br /&gt;
and those who devote themselves to one author is not quite the same thing-designed, first of all,&lt;br /&gt;
to whose life, letters, friends, and circumstances to mark and to illustrate the present condition&lt;br /&gt;
they devote the best of their own lives; such an of literature: to maintain a standard, and to&lt;br /&gt;
one for instance as the late Dykes Campbell, keep before the world the canons of criticism.&lt;br /&gt;
whose labours on Coleridge will be remembered They are designed, in the next place, to consider&lt;br /&gt;
long after most of the present generation of the work of an author by means of these canons :&lt;br /&gt;
writers are clean forgotten. All these writers to examine into the original intention of his&lt;br /&gt;
must have a library : must keep up with their work, and to show how that intention has been&lt;br /&gt;
own subjects: must find new material continually, carried out, with special reference to other condi-&lt;br /&gt;
and must buy new books. Then follow the tions in the work. In poetry and fiction the&lt;br /&gt;
poets. My own experience is that poets are the artistic treatment of the subject must be con.&lt;br /&gt;
most &ldquo; literary &rdquo; of all men : that they delight, sidered ; in didactic work, lucidity of expression&lt;br /&gt;
above all others, in a library: and that they buy and clearness of ideas; in history and biography&lt;br /&gt;
all the new books which attract them. As regards the building up of character, the following of&lt;br /&gt;
the dramatists, my experience is smaller. So far, effect on cause; and in every case, style. The&lt;br /&gt;
it amounts to this, that every thing which belongs critic therefore is--or should be, which, again, is&lt;br /&gt;
to a theatre, to the history of the drama, to the not the same thing--the watchdog of literature.&lt;br /&gt;
lives of players, interests them, and that they buy refusing an entrance to the aspirant except on&lt;br /&gt;
books on these subjects, and delight in improving conditions : he should also be the judge. the&lt;br /&gt;
and increasing their libraries. Lastly, there re. corrector, the admonisher, the distributor of&lt;br /&gt;
mains the Noble Company of Novelists. Perhaps praise or condemnation to the writer under con.&lt;br /&gt;
my correspondent, in speaking of &ldquo;authors,&rdquo; was sideration. If he is a bad critic he may be&lt;br /&gt;
thinking of novelists. Even if that was the case, easily known and recognised by his refraining&lt;br /&gt;
can his proposition be allowed? Some novelists, we from praise--because, which is evident if you&lt;br /&gt;
must remember, are not rich : they cannot afford think of it, praise commits him to something&lt;br /&gt;
the luxury of buying books. Some, again, are definite, a thing from which his incompetence&lt;br /&gt;
absorbed in their own work, and pay little atten. naturally shrinks. Fault-finding of a petty kind&lt;br /&gt;
tion to other writers, except in the intervals of is, however, easy for anyone : it requires no&lt;br /&gt;
their own work. My own proposition would be kind of critical power, and no kind of critical&lt;br /&gt;
this. Those novelists who can afford to buy books cultivation. Even the bad critic, however, does&lt;br /&gt;
do not go to the stall and take the first that not write professedly to guide the reader; he&lt;br /&gt;
offers : nor do they follow the opinions of the still keeps up the ancient tradition that he is&lt;br /&gt;
reviewers&mdash;for there is no consent among them; called upon to pronounce a judgment on the&lt;br /&gt;
nor do they buy a book because it is labelled as in author.&lt;br /&gt;
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146&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Of course, there is a kind of &ldquo;reviewing&rdquo; which &ldquo;Noticing,&amp;quot; not reviewing or criticising, is meant&lt;br /&gt;
may be frankly intended as a guide to the reader. by the &ldquo;Jumping&rdquo; of books. Merely in order to&lt;br /&gt;
In this kind must be classed the &ldquo;reviews&rdquo; of &ldquo;notice,&rdquo; it is certainly not necessary to read: one&lt;br /&gt;
books which are all lumped together, a dozen in may skim-even then it must be weary, dreary,&lt;br /&gt;
a batch, with a few lines&mdash;say a dozen or twenty dreadful work-half a dozen books a day. The&lt;br /&gt;
-devoted to each. The question is whether reduction to an absurdity is when half a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
these paragraphs, mostly vague and uncertain, columns or so are every year devoted to Christmas&lt;br /&gt;
can or do guide any conceivable reader. For my books. I suppose that no one would pretend that&lt;br /&gt;
own part I very much doubt it. The ordinary any reader could possibly be influenced by the line&lt;br /&gt;
reader passes them over: why should he read or two devoted to one book among so many. The&lt;br /&gt;
them? Why should he pay the least attention reason for these columns is, presumably, to please&lt;br /&gt;
to them? Among a dozen weak and flabby publishers, whose advertisements are certainly an&lt;br /&gt;
sentences or clauses&mdash;they are certainly not judg. important consideration. Now publishers seem&lt;br /&gt;
ments-concerning as many new books, unread, quite satisfied--I do not understand why-with&lt;br /&gt;
what is there to arrest his mind, or to remain in a single vague line that they can quote.&lt;br /&gt;
his memory? It must be borne in mind that the&lt;br /&gt;
writer of notices &amp;quot; in the lump&rdquo; cannot possibly,&lt;br /&gt;
as a rule, read the books about which he prattles. The reviews of books in a lump: the columns&lt;br /&gt;
Let us take the Spectator for an illustration of of small type under various names : the &ldquo; literary&lt;br /&gt;
what I mean. If the columns called &ldquo;Novels of the supplement&rdquo;: are all survivals of eighty or a&lt;br /&gt;
Week&rdquo; are written by one person-they certainly hundred years ago. The reading public was then&lt;br /&gt;
have a show of internal evidence which points to small; it was also scholarly and critical; the&lt;br /&gt;
their proceeding from one pen&mdash;then that most production of books was limited. There was,&lt;br /&gt;
unfortunate person-presumably, still from in. it is true, a certain amount of rubbish produced&lt;br /&gt;
ternal evidence, a woman-is actually obliged to by aspirants, who were received with a savage&lt;br /&gt;
read eight novels, each, say, of 320 pages, or onslaught and a merciless belabouring which are&lt;br /&gt;
2560 pages in all, every week: that is to say, one very rightly regarded at the present day as simply&lt;br /&gt;
novel and a third every day; she has then to dish blackguard. There are still one or two organs&lt;br /&gt;
up some kind of paragraph on each from ten to where the old blackguard slating is allowed, but&lt;br /&gt;
five-and-twenty lines in length-even sometimes as they are few, happily. Apart from the feeble&lt;br /&gt;
much as forty or fifty lines. Now let anyone ask bleatings in verse and fiction, such as are now&lt;br /&gt;
himself what sense of art, of literary style, of courteously allowed to die unnoticed, every book&lt;br /&gt;
instruction, of characterisation, of dramatic power was received as a literary event which demanded&lt;br /&gt;
would be left to a helpless reviewer week by week of a serious critical judgment. The monthly maga-&lt;br /&gt;
one novel and a third every day, together with the zine first, and the literary journals next, supplied&lt;br /&gt;
spinning of the paragraph proffered as&mdash;what ?- this judgment. What followed was this: a&lt;br /&gt;
a criticism? It cannot be a criticism. A judg- rapid increase in the production of books; an&lt;br /&gt;
ment? Of eight books in a week ? A review? enormous, increase of readers; a consequent&lt;br /&gt;
With no time to think over the various essentials increase in the demand for new books; the&lt;br /&gt;
which are required in a novel, and no time even natural springing up of a supply to meet the&lt;br /&gt;
to look for them in the pages of the book? A popular taste for what can hardly be called litera-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;notice&rdquo;? Yes : it may be a&ldquo; notice,&amp;quot; because a ture; the continually increasing demand for new&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;notice&amp;quot; may mean anything. What is generally reading; and, with all this, the survival of the&lt;br /&gt;
proffered is a brief and bald sketch of the plot. old tradition that every book is a literary event,&lt;br /&gt;
Now, for a reviewer of a novel to reveal the plot is and that every book must necessarily pass through&lt;br /&gt;
by mauy considered as a breach of confidence. the critical mill. In this way we arrive naturally&lt;br /&gt;
As for intelligent criticism : for the application at the &ldquo;review&rdquo; of books in a lump: at the&lt;br /&gt;
of any canons of criticism : for the presenta small type columns of &ldquo;brief notices&amp;quot;: at the&lt;br /&gt;
tion of an artistic point of view: for a com- &amp;quot;literary supplement&rdquo;: at the transformation of&lt;br /&gt;
parison of the author&amp;#039;s conception and inten. &ldquo;criticism&rdquo; into &ldquo;notices&rdquo;: and with all this,&lt;br /&gt;
tion with his execution-you may look in at the decay, which might have been expected,&lt;br /&gt;
those columns yourselves, and form your own in the respect due even to books which with.&lt;br /&gt;
judgment. I have named the Spectator : of out doubt do belong to literature. A most&lt;br /&gt;
course, there are many other papers which do the amazing and instructive example of this decay&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;lumping&rdquo; business If the columns referred to in the mere power of recognising genius, or even&lt;br /&gt;
are done by more than one hand, the remarks importance in literature, was furnished some few&lt;br /&gt;
about the time bestowed on reviewing each book years ago, when, in a certain important literary&lt;br /&gt;
must be taken as referring to some other paper, journal, a novel by George Meredith-by George&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
147&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, if you please, no less !-was actually him see that I noticed it, and shaking him&lt;br /&gt;
received and &ldquo;reviewed&rdquo; in a vague little para cordially by the hand, invited him to be seated,&lt;br /&gt;
graph between two novels by a couple of school when he began :-&lt;br /&gt;
girls or their equivalent!&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Mr. Sartain, I have come to you for a refuge&lt;br /&gt;
and protection ; will you let me stay with you ?&lt;br /&gt;
It is necessary to my safety that I lie concealed&lt;br /&gt;
The old tradition must be abandoned if for a time.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
criticism is to return to its former authority and I assured him that he was welcome, that in my&lt;br /&gt;
position. The review of a book must become house he would be perfectly safe, and he could&lt;br /&gt;
a distinction and a recognition. One does not stay as long as he liked, but I asked him what&lt;br /&gt;
demand that there should be nothing but praise. was the matter. He said it would be difficult for&lt;br /&gt;
We call for criticism which shall be an intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
me to believe what he had to tell, or that such&lt;br /&gt;
judgment by an educated and competent critic, things were possible in this nineteenth century. I&lt;br /&gt;
able to administer praise, to point out failings, to made him as comfortable as I could, and then&lt;br /&gt;
consider, in fact, a work from the literary point of proceeded with my work, which was pressing.&lt;br /&gt;
view. There are, indeed, very few such critics in After he had had time to calm down a little he told&lt;br /&gt;
this country : but there are some : and there are me that he had been on his way to New York,&lt;br /&gt;
quite enough for the few papers which are likely but he had overheard some men who sat a few&lt;br /&gt;
to make a bid for the lost position of literary seats back of him plotting how they should kill&lt;br /&gt;
authority which has been held from time to time him and then throw him off from the platform of&lt;br /&gt;
by certain papers, and may be again achieved by the car. &middot; He said they spoke so low that it would&lt;br /&gt;
those papers whose editors care for such a position. have been impossible for him to hear and under-&lt;br /&gt;
It should be a most desirable position for a journal: stand the meaning of their words had it not been&lt;br /&gt;
it is one which would command the attention and that his sense of hearing was so wonderfully&lt;br /&gt;
the respect of scholars and all who love literature: acute. They could not guess that he heard them,&lt;br /&gt;
it would attract readers : and, in the long run, as he sat so quiet and apparently indifferent to&lt;br /&gt;
it would com pel advertisements. It requires, in what was going on, but when the train arrived at&lt;br /&gt;
the first place, a literary editor competent by Bordentown station he gave them the slip and&lt;br /&gt;
natural gifts and by education : entirely free remained concealed until the cars moved on&lt;br /&gt;
from the little coteries and schools &rdquo; of the club again. He had returned to Philadelphia by the&lt;br /&gt;
smoking-room : and able to make his selections first train back and hurried to me for refuge.&lt;br /&gt;
without respect to persons and without the rolling I told him that it was my belief the whole&lt;br /&gt;
of logs. As regards the books to be selected, there scare was the creation of his own fancy, for what&lt;br /&gt;
are certainly not more books published every year interest could those people have in taking his&lt;br /&gt;
than would give a selection important enough life, and at such risk to themselves ? He said,&lt;br /&gt;
one does not say good enough, but important &ldquo;It was for revenge.&rdquo; &ldquo; Revenge for what?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
enough &mdash; to fill all the columns of a literary said I. He answered, &ldquo; Well, a woman trouble.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
paper. In the matter of novels alone, two might Now and then some fragmentary conversation&lt;br /&gt;
be selected every week&mdash;this was forinerly the passed between us as I engraved, and shortly I&lt;br /&gt;
wholesome and intelligent practice of the began to perceive a singular change in the current&lt;br /&gt;
Saturday Review. Can anyone pretend that there of his thoughts. From such fear of assassination&lt;br /&gt;
are more than one hundred novels every year which his mind gradually veered round to an idea of&lt;br /&gt;
are worthy of the distinction and the recognition self-destruction, and his words clearly indicated&lt;br /&gt;
--evea for condemnation-bestowed by a com this tendency. After a long silence he said, sud-&lt;br /&gt;
petent and serious criticism in the columns of a denly : &ldquo; If this moustache of mine were removed&lt;br /&gt;
literary paper of authority ?&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
I should not be so readily recognised; will you&lt;br /&gt;
lend me a razor, that I may shave it off ? &rdquo; I&lt;br /&gt;
told him that as I never shaved I had no razor,&lt;br /&gt;
but if he wanted it removed I could readily do it&lt;br /&gt;
POE&amp;#039;S LAST DAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
for him with scissors. Accordingly I took him to&lt;br /&gt;
the bath room and performed the operation suc-&lt;br /&gt;
M HE last time I saw Poe was late in 1849, cessfully.&lt;br /&gt;
and then under such peculiar and almost After tea, it being now dark, I saw him prepar-&lt;br /&gt;
fearful conditions that the experience can ing to go out; and on my asking him where he&lt;br /&gt;
never fade from my memory. Early one Monday was going, he said, &ldquo;To the Schuylkill.&rdquo; I told&lt;br /&gt;
afternoon he suddenly entered my engraving room him I would go too; it would be pleasant in the&lt;br /&gt;
looking pale and haggard, with a wild and moonlight later, and he offered no objection. He&lt;br /&gt;
frightened expression in his eyes. I did not let complained that his feet hurt him, being chafed&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 148 (#202) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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148&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
by his shoes, which were worn down on the outer boiling spirits. He asked me if I would not like&lt;br /&gt;
side of the heel. So for ease and comfort he wore to take a drink. I declined, but had I said yesy&lt;br /&gt;
my slippers, which he preferred to my shoes as what do you suppose would have happened ?&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
less ill-fitting. When we had reached the corner I said I could not guess.&lt;br /&gt;
of 9th and Chesnut streets we waited for an &ldquo;Why, I should have been lifted over the brim&lt;br /&gt;
omnibus some minutes, which were passed in con- and dipped into the hot liquid up to the lip, like&lt;br /&gt;
versation, and among the many things he said Tantalus.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
was that he wished I would see to it after his &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said I, &ldquo;but that would have killed&lt;br /&gt;
death that the portrait Osgood had painted for him you.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
should go to his mother (meaning Mrs. Clemm). &ldquo;Of course it would,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;that&amp;#039;s what&lt;br /&gt;
I promised that as far as I could control it that they wanted ; but, you see, again I escaped the&lt;br /&gt;
should be done. After getting the omnibus we spare. So, at last, as a means to torture me and&lt;br /&gt;
rode to its stopping place, a little short of Fair. wring my heart, they brought out my mother,&lt;br /&gt;
mount, opposite a tavern on the north side of Mrs. Clemm, to blast my sight by seeing them&lt;br /&gt;
Callowhill-street, at the bend it makes to the first saw off her feet at the ankles, then her legs&lt;br /&gt;
north-west to reach the bridge over the river. At to the knees, her thighs at the hips, and so on.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the spot a bright light shone out through the The horror of the imagined scene threw him&lt;br /&gt;
open door of the tavern, but beyond all was pitchy into a sort of convulsion. This is but a very&lt;br /&gt;
dark. However, forward into the darkness we faint sample of the talk I listened to up there in&lt;br /&gt;
walked. I kept on his left side, and on approach the darkness. I had been all along expecting the&lt;br /&gt;
ing the foot of the bridge guided him off to the moon to rise, forgetting how much it retarded&lt;br /&gt;
right by a gentle pressure, until we reached the every evening, and the clouds hid the light of&lt;br /&gt;
lofty flight of steep wooden steps which ascended the stars. It came into my mind that Poe might&lt;br /&gt;
almost to the top of the reservoir. There was a possibly in a sudden fit of frenzy leap freely&lt;br /&gt;
landing with seats, and we sat down to rest. At forth with me in his arms into the black depth&lt;br /&gt;
this time I had contrived to hold him in conversa below, so I was watchful and kept on my guard.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, except while we were labouring breathless I asked him how he came to be in Moyamensing&lt;br /&gt;
up that long, breakneck flight of stairs.&lt;br /&gt;
prison. He answered that he had been suspected&lt;br /&gt;
There he told me his late experiences, or what of tryirg to pass a fifty-dollar counterfeit note.&lt;br /&gt;
he believed to be such, and the succession of The truth is, he was there for what takes so many&lt;br /&gt;
images that his imagination created he expressed there for a few hours only&mdash;the drop too much.&lt;br /&gt;
in a calm, deliberate, measured utterance as facts. I learned later that, when his turn came in the&lt;br /&gt;
These were as weird and fantastic as anything to motley group before Mayor Gilpin, someone said,&lt;br /&gt;
be met with in his published writings. Of course, &ldquo;Why, this is Poe, the poet,&amp;quot; and he was dis-&lt;br /&gt;
it is altogether beyond me to convey even a faint missed without the customary fine.&lt;br /&gt;
idea of his wild descriptions.&lt;br /&gt;
When he alluded to his mother, which was.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I was confined in a cell in Moyamensing always with feelings of affectionate devotion, it&lt;br /&gt;
prison,&rdquo; said he, &amp;quot;and through my grated window was not his own natural mother, who died when&lt;br /&gt;
was visible the battlemented granite tower. On he was in his infancy, but Mrs. Clemm, his.&lt;br /&gt;
the topmost stone of the parapet, between the mother-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;
embrasures, stood perched against the dark sky a I suggested at last that as it appeared we were&lt;br /&gt;
young female, brightly radiant, like silver dipped not to have the moon we might as well go down&lt;br /&gt;
in light, either in herself or in her environment, again. He agreed, and we descended the steep&lt;br /&gt;
so that the cross-bar shadows thrown from my stairway slowly and cautiously, holding well to&lt;br /&gt;
window were distinct on the opposite wall. From the hand rails. Being down, I kept this time, on&lt;br /&gt;
this position, remote as it was, she addressed to our return walk, on his right side, and did not&lt;br /&gt;
me a series of questions in words not loud but suffer the conversation to flag. On arriving at&lt;br /&gt;
distinct, and I dared not fail to hear and make the omnibus waiting for passengers at the tavern&lt;br /&gt;
apt response. Had I failed once either to hear door I pressed gently against him and he raised&lt;br /&gt;
or make pertinent answer, the consequences to me his foot to the step, but instantly recollecting&lt;br /&gt;
would have been something fearful : but my himself drew back. I urged him in, and, being&lt;br /&gt;
sense of hearing is wonderfully acute, so that I seated beside him, said: &ldquo;You were saying ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
passed safely through this ordeal, which was a The conversation was resumed, I got him safe&lt;br /&gt;
snare to catch me. But another was in store. home and gave him a bed on the sofa in the&lt;br /&gt;
An attendant asked me if I would like to take a dining room, while I slept alongside him on three&lt;br /&gt;
stroll about the place, I might see something &middot; chairs without undressing.&lt;br /&gt;
interesting, and I agreed. In the course of our On the second morning he appeared to have&lt;br /&gt;
rounds on the ramparts we came to a cauldron of become so much like his old self that I trusted&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
149&lt;br /&gt;
him to go out alone. Rest and regular meals had&lt;br /&gt;
had a good effect, although his mind was not yet&lt;br /&gt;
entirely free from the nightmare. After an hour&lt;br /&gt;
or two he returned, and then told me he had come&lt;br /&gt;
to the conclusion that what I said was true; that&lt;br /&gt;
the whole thing had been a delusion and a scare&lt;br /&gt;
created by his own excited imagination. He said&lt;br /&gt;
his mind began to clear as he lay on the grass,&lt;br /&gt;
his face buried in it and his nostrils inhaling the&lt;br /&gt;
sweet fragrance mingled with the odour of the&lt;br /&gt;
earth. While he lay thus the words he had&lt;br /&gt;
heard kept running in his thoughts, but he tried&lt;br /&gt;
in vain to connect them with the speaker, and so&lt;br /&gt;
the light gradually broke in upon his dazed mind&lt;br /&gt;
and he saw that he had come out of a dream.&lt;br /&gt;
Being now all right again, he was ready to depart&lt;br /&gt;
from New York. He borrowed what was needful,&lt;br /&gt;
and I never saw him again.-From &ldquo;Recollections&lt;br /&gt;
of a Very Old Man,&rdquo; by John Sartain ; published&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
with my subject are handed to me, and I have&lt;br /&gt;
to choose those which are suitable, and see that&lt;br /&gt;
those which I reject are returned. Some of them&lt;br /&gt;
are of course quite unsuitable, but others are of&lt;br /&gt;
such a kin as can be held over for several months&lt;br /&gt;
in favour of another class consisting of current&lt;br /&gt;
matter. Authors of the class of article which&lt;br /&gt;
can be held over have sometimes written to me&lt;br /&gt;
as often as once a week, and the letters have not&lt;br /&gt;
always been courteous, and occasionally imperti-&lt;br /&gt;
nent, notwithstanding the fact that I have written&lt;br /&gt;
to the author saying that I must hold the article&lt;br /&gt;
over. I have also frequently received abusive letters&lt;br /&gt;
from authors who have either not sent me an&lt;br /&gt;
article at all, or have forgotten to write their&lt;br /&gt;
name and address on their MSS., and do not&lt;br /&gt;
mention the title of the article in the abusive&lt;br /&gt;
letter. I offer this as an explanation of part, at&lt;br /&gt;
any rate, of the complaints against editors.&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES WALKER.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
I._USE OF THE SOCIETY&amp;#039;S NAME.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE article describing a case of the&lt;br /&gt;
unwarranted use of the Society&amp;#039;s name,&lt;br /&gt;
- published under the above heading in&lt;br /&gt;
the December number of The Author, must&lt;br /&gt;
suggest to many of the members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
that a very simple way of checking this&lt;br /&gt;
abuse would be to publish the names of the&lt;br /&gt;
offenders when, as was apparently the case&lt;br /&gt;
in the instance in question, the name of the&lt;br /&gt;
person is known to one of the officials or&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society. It is obvious, as stated&lt;br /&gt;
in the article, that as the influence of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
increases, so will this abuse, indeed it is very&lt;br /&gt;
probable that the abuse will grow much more in&lt;br /&gt;
proportion than does the influence of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
It is quite possible that at first such a course&lt;br /&gt;
would involve the Society in some legal expenses,&lt;br /&gt;
but the money would certainly not have been&lt;br /&gt;
wasted. If the abuse grows, as it will unless&lt;br /&gt;
some such drastic measure is adopted, it is very&lt;br /&gt;
likely to become generally known among writers&lt;br /&gt;
that the advantages of the Society may be enjoyed,&lt;br /&gt;
to some extent at any rate, by those who are not&lt;br /&gt;
members. Unfortunately, just those persons who&lt;br /&gt;
are not a credit to the profession are those who&lt;br /&gt;
will act upon such knowledge and are most likely&lt;br /&gt;
to possess it. Besides this, the abuse must tend&lt;br /&gt;
to prevent desirable people from joining the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, and is an injustice to the members.&lt;br /&gt;
For several years I have edited a department&lt;br /&gt;
of a sporting weekly, and a large number of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. pass through my hands. The MSS. dealing&lt;br /&gt;
II.-Do AUTHORS READ REVIEWS ?&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, at any rate the majority, do not read&lt;br /&gt;
reviews; consequently it has always struck me&lt;br /&gt;
that the pages headed &ldquo; Books and Reviews,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which frequently appear in The Author, are some-&lt;br /&gt;
what out of place. Reviews are intended to&lt;br /&gt;
guide readers, showing them what to read and&lt;br /&gt;
what to let alone; thus a review appearing in a&lt;br /&gt;
paper largely circulated amongst the reading&lt;br /&gt;
public is always valuable ; but The Author is not&lt;br /&gt;
intended for the reading public, it is for the&lt;br /&gt;
writers of books who seldom care to read reviews&lt;br /&gt;
of either their own or other writers&amp;#039; works.&lt;br /&gt;
Then again, do authors buy books ? Putting&lt;br /&gt;
aside the rich members of the profession, who, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, subscribe to the circulating libraries, I&lt;br /&gt;
do not suppose one author in a hundred ever&lt;br /&gt;
thinks of buying a novel. I never bought one in&lt;br /&gt;
my life, and would not do so on principle. A&lt;br /&gt;
great number of authors are also reviewers; thus&lt;br /&gt;
they obtain more general literature than they&lt;br /&gt;
ever attempt to read. There is a pile (gradually&lt;br /&gt;
increasing) of books in beautiful bindings and&lt;br /&gt;
bearing nice titles, awaiting my attention now;&lt;br /&gt;
by the time I have &ldquo;reviewed&rdquo; these books 1&lt;br /&gt;
shall be sick of reviews generally, even though&lt;br /&gt;
they may appear in The Author. I venture to&lt;br /&gt;
say that many writers feel like myself, so would&lt;br /&gt;
it not be better to insert in place of &ldquo; Books and&lt;br /&gt;
Reviews&rdquo; some article of a technical nature&lt;br /&gt;
interesting to the writers for whom The Author&lt;br /&gt;
is intended ?&lt;br /&gt;
J. BAGNALL-STUBBS.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;LEGALISED Artistic ROBBERY. have often wondered why. No doubt a book&lt;br /&gt;
The man who, without an author&amp;#039;s consent, or which was&ldquo; most interesting&rdquo; on the 15th of&lt;br /&gt;
even knowledge, dramatises his work must have April may have entirely ceased to be so by the&lt;br /&gt;
the instincts of a Houndsditch huckster, and Port. Ist of May. We live in fast times, and the minor&lt;br /&gt;
land is too good for him. But I can conceive no author must not complain. But if the non-&lt;br /&gt;
better advertisement for a young author than to appearance of the review had anything to do&lt;br /&gt;
have his stories dramatised, even though he may with my refusal of my photograph and details of&lt;br /&gt;
not receive a farthing on the dramatic profits, my &ldquo; career,&amp;quot; there, I think, is a just cause of&lt;br /&gt;
but it ougbt to be made compulsory, at any rate, complaint. It is surely a grievance if an author&lt;br /&gt;
for the thief to state where he got his plot. just is to lose useful recognition of good poiots in his&lt;br /&gt;
as goods are marked &ldquo;Made in Germany,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c. work because he desires to remain anonymous.&lt;br /&gt;
Commercial people are protected, so ought&lt;br /&gt;
C. S.&lt;br /&gt;
authors to be. To protect myself I have hit on&lt;br /&gt;
a novel plan, which I believe would hold good.&lt;br /&gt;
Having studied music, I wrote a dance, and&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
having had a very laudatory letter about it from&lt;br /&gt;
my kind friend, Herr Meyer Lutz, one of the&lt;br /&gt;
NR. OSMUND AIRY has written a Memoir&lt;br /&gt;
finest judges of theatrical dances in London, I&lt;br /&gt;
of Charles the Second, which will be the&lt;br /&gt;
had the music copyrighted and inserted in the&lt;br /&gt;
next volume in Messrs. Goupil&amp;#039;s splendid&lt;br /&gt;
book. The story of the French Revolution lends illustrated series. It will contain reproductions&lt;br /&gt;
itself for a dramatic piece, and anyone may turn&lt;br /&gt;
from Van Dyck, Kneller, Cooper, Lely, and other&lt;br /&gt;
it into a play. I care for nothing so long as I&lt;br /&gt;
artists of the period. The book is expected to be&lt;br /&gt;
am told of it, but if I were not informed of&lt;br /&gt;
ready in April or May.&lt;br /&gt;
it, I would quickly come down on them for&lt;br /&gt;
infringing my musical copyright. This is one Professor Carnpbell Fraser has been preparing&lt;br /&gt;
way of catching dramatic pickpockets, and I for some time a new issue of his edition of Bishop&lt;br /&gt;
wonder others have not thought of it.&lt;br /&gt;
Berkeley&amp;#039;s complete works, which was published&lt;br /&gt;
A YOUNG AUTHOR. by the Clarendon Press thirty years ago. This&lt;br /&gt;
will be ready shortly in four large volumes, and&lt;br /&gt;
contains new notes and introductions, with a short&lt;br /&gt;
IV.&mdash;THE END OF THE CENTURY. memoir of Berkeley.&lt;br /&gt;
The following curiosity in the ethics of modern Professor Joseph Wright. editor of the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewing may be of interest to you or your &laquo; English Dialect Dictionary,&rdquo; is engaged upon&lt;br /&gt;
readers. In the spring of this year I published a&lt;br /&gt;
an English dialect grammar. He is now collect-&lt;br /&gt;
book-practically my first. About a fortnight&lt;br /&gt;
after its appearance, I received through the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher a very flattering letter from the editor&lt;br /&gt;
as an aid in preparing the grammar, and partly in&lt;br /&gt;
order to preserve for posterity a speaking record&lt;br /&gt;
of a certain literary paper. It ran as follows: of the dialects of to-day.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; In the forthcoming issue of the&lt;br /&gt;
there&lt;br /&gt;
will appear a very favourable review of your&lt;br /&gt;
A new and cheaper edition of Stevenson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
most interesting new book, and I should very&lt;br /&gt;
Letters which is being brought out will contain&lt;br /&gt;
much like to reproduce your portrait in our&lt;br /&gt;
several letters to Mr. Meredith and Mr. Kipling&lt;br /&gt;
columns ... and should esteem it a great&lt;br /&gt;
which have not been published before.&lt;br /&gt;
favour if you would be good enough to send me Dr. William Bright, Regius Professor at&lt;br /&gt;
some particulars of your work-how you came to Oxford, has finished a new work of ecclesiastical&lt;br /&gt;
choose your present subject, and some details of history, &ldquo;The Age of the Fathers.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
your career.&rdquo; I replied to this letter, as I felt,&lt;br /&gt;
The Manchester Guardian of Dec. 10 contains&lt;br /&gt;
most gratefully. There happened to be reasons&lt;br /&gt;
why a review in this particular paper, and the&lt;br /&gt;
an article on &ldquo; Some De Quincey Documents&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
opportunity of saying a few words about the&lt;br /&gt;
which will be interesting to students of that&lt;br /&gt;
writer. The documents which are quoted were&lt;br /&gt;
disputed topic of my book, would be extremely&lt;br /&gt;
useful to me. I, however, in the politest possible&lt;br /&gt;
formerly in the possession of Mr. John Ludlow, a&lt;br /&gt;
terms, declined to send my photograph for publi-&lt;br /&gt;
Manchester correspondent of De Quincey.&lt;br /&gt;
cation, or to say anything about my &amp;quot; career &amp;quot; Court life and the manners of Society during&lt;br /&gt;
(which didn&amp;#039;t happen to exist!). Never, from the reigns of the first two Georges is the subject&lt;br /&gt;
that day to this&mdash;and I have patiently waited six of an historical work by Mr. W. H. Wilkins,&lt;br /&gt;
months-have I heard a word more about the entitled &ldquo; Caroline of Anspach.&rdquo; It will be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;very favourable review,&amp;quot; nor has it appeared. I lished in two volumes by Messrs. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
151&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fifty Years of Catholic Life and Progress in Mr. C. E. Clark has written a sequel to his&lt;br /&gt;
England &rdquo; is the title of a new work which Mr. series of articles contributed to Pearson&amp;#039;s Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
Percy Fitzgerald is writing. The record begins in It is entitled &ldquo;More Mistakes We Make,&amp;quot; and&lt;br /&gt;
the time of Cardinal Wiseman, and will be in will be published by Messrs. Horace Marshall and&lt;br /&gt;
two volumes, to be published by Mr. Fisher Son this month.&lt;br /&gt;
Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
Lieut.-Col. E. Gunter has published (W.Clowes&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Archer is editing a new edition of and Sons) a fifth edition of his well-known&lt;br /&gt;
Henrik Ibsen&amp;#039;s prose dramas, which Mr. Walter &ldquo;Officer&amp;#039;s Field Note and Sketch Book,&rdquo; and a&lt;br /&gt;
Scott is about to publish. Ten years have passed third edition of his &ldquo;Outlines of Modern&lt;br /&gt;
since the publi&amp;#039;ation of the collected edition in Tactics.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
five volumes. &ldquo;The translations,&amp;quot; says Mr. Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to&lt;br /&gt;
Archer, &ldquo;have served their purpose well enough, accept a copy of Major A. W. Pollock&amp;#039;s new&lt;br /&gt;
yet there was in all of them ample room for book &amp;quot; With Seven Generals in the Boer War&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
improvement. While they have in no case&lt;br /&gt;
they have in no case (Skeffington and Sons, Piccadilly).&lt;br /&gt;
seriously misrepresented the poet&amp;#039;s meaning they&lt;br /&gt;
have done some injustice to his manner, especially&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Stella D&uuml;ring, the author of &ldquo; Between the&lt;br /&gt;
by laying too great stress on the colloquialism of&lt;br /&gt;
Devil and the Deep Sea,&amp;quot; &ldquo; In the Toils,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., is&lt;br /&gt;
bis dialogue. In the present edition innumerable bringing out a new novel entitled &ldquo; Outrageous&lt;br /&gt;
small changes have been made, producing, it is Fortune,&amp;quot; which will be run serially in the Argosy.&lt;br /&gt;
hoped, a pervasive modification for the better. beginning this month.&lt;br /&gt;
Many changes of greater individual importance A new romance by John Bloundelle-Burton&lt;br /&gt;
bave also been made, with a view to reproducing entitled &ldquo; The Year One,&amp;quot; a page of the French&lt;br /&gt;
more accurately the finer shades of the poet&amp;#039;s Revolution, will, by an appropriate coincidence,&lt;br /&gt;
meaning.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
begin to appear serially in London and Australia&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Coulson Kernahan gave &ldquo;Confessions of a in the first week of the new century. In the former&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Adviser&rdquo; at the London Institution on it will run in the Navy and Army Illustrated.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 3. and incidentally told the following and will be illustrated by Mr. John Jellicoe: and.&lt;br /&gt;
anecdote of the late Gustave Dor&eacute;. When in the latter, in the pages of the Australasian&lt;br /&gt;
Tennyson was nearing sixty years of age, and his the weekly edition of the Melbourne Argus. It&lt;br /&gt;
fame might fairly be assumed to be world-wide, will be published later in the year by Methuen&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Edward Moxon, the publisher, decided to and Co., London.&lt;br /&gt;
approach Dor&eacute; and ask him to illustrate &ldquo;Idylls Mr. W. B. Lappin, an author of the Emerald&lt;br /&gt;
of the King.&rdquo; After Dor&eacute; had considered the Isle, has just returned to his home in the north&lt;br /&gt;
proposal, he asked &ldquo; Who, then, is this Mr. Tenny. of Ireland after a visit to Rome, in which city he&lt;br /&gt;
son?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
intends to place the principal scenes of a new&lt;br /&gt;
A collection of papers dealing with Mr. Henley&amp;#039;s novel to be commenced early this year.&lt;br /&gt;
essay on Burns, edited by Mr. John D. Ross, Miss M. A. Ellis has written a book on &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
LL.D., is about to be published by Mr. Eneas Human Ear: Its Identification and Physi.&lt;br /&gt;
Mackay, Stirling. The volume is to be called&lt;br /&gt;
ognomy,&amp;quot; chiefly in reference to the &ldquo;non-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Henley and Burns; or, The Critic Censured.&rdquo; criminal&rdquo; classes. It has just been published&lt;br /&gt;
The two series of lectures delivered by Professor by Messrs. A. and C. Black.&lt;br /&gt;
Courthope at Oxford on &ldquo;Life in Poetry&rdquo; and Mr. R. Brimlev Johnson, of 8, York-buildings,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Law in Taste&rdquo; will be published shortly by Adelphi, announces that from the beginning of&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
this year the Westminster Review will be issued&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Gregory is editing a volume on &ldquo;Ideals from his house.&lt;br /&gt;
in Ireland,&rdquo; which will contain contributions from&lt;br /&gt;
A new periodical, entitled The Thrush, is to be&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. George Moore, Dr. Douglas&lt;br /&gt;
published immediately. It is a novel and interest-&lt;br /&gt;
Hyde, and others. One of the articles will be ing departure from ordinary ventures in modern&lt;br /&gt;
printed in the Irish language and character. The journalism, being composed entirely of hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
volume will be published by the Unicorn Press. unpublished poetry. The opening sonnet is from&lt;br /&gt;
Under the title of &ldquo; England&amp;#039;s Neglect of the pen of Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., editor of&lt;br /&gt;
Education&amp;quot; Professor John Perry, President of the the Standard Library of Famous Literature. It&lt;br /&gt;
Institution of Electrical Engineers, has written a will endeavour to reach the masses and to foster&lt;br /&gt;
plea for reforms in the educational system of and encourage the cult of poetry amongst the&lt;br /&gt;
the country. The book will be published shortly people. The Thrush is to be published every&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Fisher Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
month at 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Flick of Fortune&amp;quot; is the title of a novel At a lecture delivered by Mr. Harry Furniss&lt;br /&gt;
which Messrs. F. V. White and Co. announce. before the 0. P. Club in the Criterion Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;
The author is Mr. Thomas Parkes, and the price on Dec. 9, several letters were read from authors&lt;br /&gt;
of the book is 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
on the subject of the conduct of theatre audiences&lt;br /&gt;
Mr Poultney Bigelow&amp;#039;s forthcoming book will on &ldquo;first nights.&amp;quot; Mr. Henry Arthur Jones said&lt;br /&gt;
deal with the various colonial systems in existence,&lt;br /&gt;
that &amp;quot;booing&rdquo; was chiefly a matter of good or&lt;br /&gt;
mainly from personal observation in various parts bad manners, and he did not think it had any&lt;br /&gt;
of the world. The title will be: &ldquo; Colonisation very great influence one way or the other.&lt;br /&gt;
and its Problems.&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
American audiences never &ldquo; boo&amp;#039;d&rdquo; a piece ; they&lt;br /&gt;
The daily papers are unanimous in speaking of&lt;br /&gt;
simply walked out. Mr. George Grossmith said&lt;br /&gt;
the Report on Technical Education by Mr. James&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the audience has a perfect right to express its&lt;br /&gt;
Baker, F.R.G.S., as a highly important and&lt;br /&gt;
opinion in any way short of actual assault&rdquo; ; and&lt;br /&gt;
valuable work. The Times on Christmas Day&lt;br /&gt;
he also referred to the American method as &ldquo;less&lt;br /&gt;
devoted a leader to it, and a large number of&lt;br /&gt;
disconcerting to the players.&rdquo; Mr. Wilson&lt;br /&gt;
journals, including the Morning Post, Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Barrett said he had &ldquo;absolute proof that in five&lt;br /&gt;
News, Standard, Daily Graphic, and most of&lt;br /&gt;
instances disturbances were arranged before the&lt;br /&gt;
the leading papers in Birmingham, Leeds, Man-&lt;br /&gt;
performance began.&rdquo; Mr. Bernard Shaw declared&lt;br /&gt;
chester, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Belfast, have&lt;br /&gt;
that an opinion which could be conveyed by the&lt;br /&gt;
.also given leaders upon the report.&lt;br /&gt;
word &ldquo;boo&amp;quot; was not worth expressing. &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
first-night verdict, whether bellowed or written,&lt;br /&gt;
An executive committee of representative Phila-&lt;br /&gt;
is not worth a rap on the box-office.&rdquo; Mr. Jerome&lt;br /&gt;
delphians has undertaken to appoint committees&lt;br /&gt;
K. Jerome said, &ldquo;I think an audience has a&lt;br /&gt;
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CHAPTER 1.-Pre-Reformation Law.&lt;br /&gt;
| CHAPTER V.-The Benefuos Act.&lt;br /&gt;
, II.-Reformation Law, except the first three , VI.&mdash;Table of principal Statutes repealed and&lt;br /&gt;
Aots of Uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;
unrepealed&lt;br /&gt;
... III.-The Acts of Uniformity.&lt;br /&gt;
, VII.--Table of principal Judicial Decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bill of 1899. Statements by English Church Union and Church Association. Extracts from Decrees and&lt;br /&gt;
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reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
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6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
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(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OT PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
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5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Sbould&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;
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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
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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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
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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 authors desirous of further informa tion are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
2180 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;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
ball court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. .&lt;br /&gt;
advic&lt;br /&gt;
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
is such as can be given best by a solici&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 155 (#215) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
155&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Unfortunately the book grew more popular,&lt;br /&gt;
and the steady sale continued. When the edition&lt;br /&gt;
sold out the author received a letter stating that&lt;br /&gt;
I.-AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher could not afford to pay the higher&lt;br /&gt;
TN The Author for July last an article was royalty, although there was a demand for a fresh&lt;br /&gt;
| printed showing how, under certain circum- edition, and that unless the author consented to&lt;br /&gt;
stances, publishers acting for their own take a lower royalty the publisher would not&lt;br /&gt;
benefit, and entirely disregarding the affairs of reproduce another edition, but that the author&lt;br /&gt;
the author, were in the habit of killing books was at liberty to take the book elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
and stopping the sales without contravening their The author could not hope to receive a larger&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
royalty from another house, as the type would&lt;br /&gt;
The following facts, to which the attention of again have to be reset. The publisher knew his&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society is particularly called, advantage, for the author must either take the&lt;br /&gt;
show how a publisher, by placing the author on lower royalty or get no further sales.&lt;br /&gt;
the horns of a dilemma after the agreement is In both these cases publishing houses of the&lt;br /&gt;
signed, forces him to alter his agreement to his first standing, disregarding the spirit and letter of&lt;br /&gt;
deliberate disadvantage and to the publisher&amp;#039;s the agreement, brought pressure to bear upon the&lt;br /&gt;
gain.&lt;br /&gt;
author. No doubt this is what is technically&lt;br /&gt;
I. A publis ber entered into an agreement with called &ldquo;business,&amp;quot; but again it would be interest-&lt;br /&gt;
an author for the production of an educational ing to know what would take place if the author&lt;br /&gt;
book, on which he offered the author a certain in like manner brought pressure to bear on the&lt;br /&gt;
royalty. The book had an enormous sale, and was publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
adopted by nearly all the educational centres in III. The third case is on somewhat similar lines.&lt;br /&gt;
England. In consequence, large sales had to be The publisher is again trying to violate his&lt;br /&gt;
made to certain institutions at a reduced rate. agreement by bringing pressure to bear on the&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher r fused to supply these orders author.&lt;br /&gt;
unless the author took half the amount of royalty. The publisher refuses to go on with the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher contended that he was unable to lication of the book, although there is a formal&lt;br /&gt;
pay so large a royalty on the reduced price. agreement existing, and refers the author to his&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps this was right, though I do not admit lawyer if he (the author) does not take less pay-&lt;br /&gt;
it. If, however, it was so, the royalty should ment than the sum agreed upon.&lt;br /&gt;
have been reduced in proportion to the reduction The author&amp;#039;s agreement is quite clear. The&lt;br /&gt;
in the sale price of the book. This, however, publisher has, however, owing to a miscalcula-&lt;br /&gt;
was not the case. The author was to reduce his tion, involved himself in a greater expense than&lt;br /&gt;
profits by 50 per cent., whereas the publisher was he thought he would, with the result that he does&lt;br /&gt;
losing only about 15 per cent. of his profits. not care to act up to the agreement as it is&lt;br /&gt;
The author was, therefore, placed in this posi. drawn. The author is again in difficulties. Either&lt;br /&gt;
tion : Either he had to accept the publisher&amp;#039;s he is bound to accept less payment or he is forced&lt;br /&gt;
offer or he had to transfer the book to another into a wearisome and tedious legal correspon-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, even if, indeed, he succeeded in finding dence, or perhaps even has to bring an action&lt;br /&gt;
another publisher to take up the work.&lt;br /&gt;
before he can obtain his rights; in the end he&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher was no doubt quite aware of loses the market on his books. G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
these points, and took advantage of the position&lt;br /&gt;
to the detriment of the author. This is hardly&lt;br /&gt;
playing the game; an agreement is an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;MR. Kiplina&rsquo;s Action.&lt;br /&gt;
in any event. If the author bad desired the Judge Lacombe, in the United States Circuit&lt;br /&gt;
publisher to alter an unfair arrangement by Court on Dec. 26, denied the motion made by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
pressure of this kind, what would the publisher Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s attorn ys to restrain R. F.&lt;br /&gt;
have said ?&lt;br /&gt;
Fenno and Co. from publishing and selling&lt;br /&gt;
II. A similar case is the following. A pub- editions of his works on which an elephant&amp;#039;s head&lt;br /&gt;
lisher entered into an agreement to pay an author a was used. The case was argued in November,&lt;br /&gt;
certain royalty; after the sale of a certain number and attracted a great deal of attention. The&lt;br /&gt;
of copies the royalty was to be increased. The question of copyright was eliminated by the&lt;br /&gt;
book sold steadily bnt not very rapidly. In consent of both parties. Judge Lacombe said&lt;br /&gt;
consequence the publisher omitted to take that Mr. Kipling had not established a common-&lt;br /&gt;
moulds, thinking, no doubt, that the sales would law trade mark, and there was no suggestion of a&lt;br /&gt;
not reach the amount on which a larger royalty statutory trade mark. He said that there was no&lt;br /&gt;
was to be paid.&lt;br /&gt;
apprehension that purchasers of the &ldquo; Elephant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 156 (#216) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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156&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
rthur......&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Arthur.&lt;br /&gt;
...........&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Head&rdquo; edition might be misled by supposing&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
that they were buying the &ldquo;Outward Bound&rdquo; or&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A..............&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott&lt;br /&gt;
any other edition of his works.&mdash;Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard ... ......&lt;br /&gt;
Weekly (New York).&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ..............................&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ..........................&lt;br /&gt;
III.-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope......... ........................&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; A warning has been forwarded to the Athen&aelig;um Norris, W. E. ......&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. G. A. Brett, president of the Macmillan&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston .....................&lt;br /&gt;
Company, New York. It is to the effect that in tarker, Gloer -... ******&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden .......&lt;br /&gt;
order to protect themselves authors must insist Pollock, sir Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
upon their books or articles when published in Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
America being prefaced or accompanied by a note Rossetti, W. M. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
that they are copyrighted. This is done quite&lt;br /&gt;
S. B. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. ........&lt;br /&gt;
simply by inserting the word copyright, followed&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof. ....&lt;br /&gt;
by the name of the author and the date. Thus,&lt;br /&gt;
r and the date. Thus, Spielmann, M. H. ...&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Copyright by Conan Doyle, 1901,&amp;quot; for an Stanton, Miss H. M. E .............&lt;br /&gt;
example. The announcement costs nothing and &middot; Tweedie, Mrs. Aleo........&lt;br /&gt;
may prevent piracy. Mr. Brett gives a case in Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
which an article appearing in an English monthly&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
review and duly copyrighted has been pirated in&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)......&lt;br /&gt;
three instances by publishers of magazines. The&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold ...&lt;br /&gt;
author can have reco rse to law; but the law&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ...&lt;br /&gt;
provides that the &ldquo;owner of the copyright shall Besant, Sir Walter.&lt;br /&gt;
show what damages he has suffered by the Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
unauthorised publication of his material.&rdquo; Mr. Brodhurst, Spencer...........&lt;br /&gt;
Brett&amp;#039;s warning does not state how the addition&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
of the words proposed will safeguard an article.&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R.&lt;br /&gt;
Surely if publishers of magazines pirate a paper Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
in reliance on the expense and uncertainty of the 1901) ........&lt;br /&gt;
law, they will do so whether these words are&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A..&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
added or not. At the same time the words may&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S....&lt;br /&gt;
possibly deter some from an act which thus&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey&lt;br /&gt;
becomes wilful and open piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ........................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis......&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K.&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M. ........&lt;br /&gt;
PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max........&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L.&lt;br /&gt;
NHE following is the list of donations&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W.....&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or Roberts, Morley ........................&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ...&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ...&lt;br /&gt;
O 100&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
.......... &pound;100 0 0 Stanley, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ............&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A. ............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....&lt;br /&gt;
I 0&lt;br /&gt;
**********........................&lt;br /&gt;
X. Y.&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Boevey, Miss Crawley ..............................&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice .................&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Mies .................. ..................&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs. ..............&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan .....&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, Jan. 11, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for tbree years) ............&lt;br /&gt;
D ECENTLY in Boston, Massachusetts, failed&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V. ...&lt;br /&gt;
the publishing house of Badger, a young&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T ...&lt;br /&gt;
firm, but of sufficient importance withal to&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W....&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss ...............&lt;br /&gt;
leave many authors in the lurch by its collapse.&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .........&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the most particular grievance of the&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
..... 20 o writing men was their ignorance of the sales&lt;br /&gt;
8&lt;br /&gt;
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........&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
DO&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 157 (#217) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
157&lt;br /&gt;
ink.&lt;br /&gt;
accounts; it is doubtful even now if the lawyers absurd when their printed transcript of the&lt;br /&gt;
will disclose them until a court order makes them lecture is available for his use. To this the&lt;br /&gt;
subject to the gaze of the general public. The plaintiff answers that the published version was&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty is familiar enough, so familiar that it so garbled and misused in the composing room as&lt;br /&gt;
would not be worth mentioning were it not for a to be entirely valueless. The editor will be put&lt;br /&gt;
small but energetic meeting of indignation at to it to prove that this contention is groundless.&lt;br /&gt;
which several authors assembled in Boston shortly&lt;br /&gt;
after the eclipse of Mr. Badger. Boston has been&lt;br /&gt;
Who Owns THE MANUSCRIPT ?&lt;br /&gt;
the scene of many indignation meetings of vary. We are quite ready here for judicial enlighten-&lt;br /&gt;
ing degrees of potency and reason, and it may be ment upon the legal status of manuscripts as&lt;br /&gt;
that this convention of literary labourers will property. Except in the cases of eminent authors,&lt;br /&gt;
come to something. You in England, perhaps, American editors seldom print strictly &ldquo;as it was&lt;br /&gt;
have passed the stage of spasmodic agitation, written.&rdquo; Having purchased a story or an&lt;br /&gt;
but on this side the Atlantic the mildest asser- article, outrageous things are sometimes done to&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the rights of the literary producer it for reasons dictated by policy, whim, or&lt;br /&gt;
must, seemingly, be pricked and noted in scarlet mechanical convenience of make-up. Be it said,&lt;br /&gt;
however, that the author is presumably advised&lt;br /&gt;
The gathering at Boston, then, considered the of such alterations, and that a formal consent&lt;br /&gt;
question of regulating and verifying the reports thereto is not slow in coming from the average&lt;br /&gt;
which printers make to their authors and render aspirant for a place in a magazine. The real&lt;br /&gt;
ing the dependence of the author upon the honesty question arises after publication. In the absence&lt;br /&gt;
and goodwill of the publisher a trifle less com- of a prior agreement, who owns the manuscript ?&lt;br /&gt;
plete. It was said, with touching aptness, that When radical changes have been made by the&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;precariousness of the publishing trade under editor the manuscript itself shows physical&lt;br /&gt;
certain conditions&rdquo; made such a movement desir- evidence of them; more often than not it is&lt;br /&gt;
able-in short, tbat it has been found that the hacked, interlined, or at best wofully dis.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; honesty and goodwill &rdquo; of some publishers can- figured. If the author wishes for any reason&lt;br /&gt;
not endure the strain of adversity. The Boston to restore it to its original shape he is obliged&lt;br /&gt;
authors declared themselves in favour of a to devote much labour to the task, provided&lt;br /&gt;
system of numbering each volume as published, always that he is fortunate enough to lay his&lt;br /&gt;
and thus furnishing a check upon the returns hands on it.&lt;br /&gt;
and a means of ascertaining the disposition The practical solution, of course, is to pre.&lt;br /&gt;
of every book. This is doubtless good so far serve a copy. This is a safeguard generally&lt;br /&gt;
as it goes, but who is to do the numbering ? adopted, but the advisability of it cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
Haply the author and the publisher together said to meet the legal point at issue.&lt;br /&gt;
hand in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of the publishers of our periodicals&lt;br /&gt;
apparently move upon the theory that, when the&lt;br /&gt;
ACTION FOR Loss OF COPY.&lt;br /&gt;
matter is not expressly stipulated beforehand,&lt;br /&gt;
A cause which promises to bring forth some- the purchase of material for serial publication&lt;br /&gt;
thing of interest is the suit of a professor of Yale passes the absolute ownership of it, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
University against one of the newspapers pub- book rights and the manuscript itself are obtain.&lt;br /&gt;
lished in New Haven. Professor Parker is an able by the author only through the courtesy of&lt;br /&gt;
instructor in the theory of music, and had pre- the publisher. I suppose that our courts would&lt;br /&gt;
pared a number of lectures on the subject which apply the rules ordinary in cases of implied con.&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered in several New England cities. A tracts, viewing the custom of the trade, the&lt;br /&gt;
local journal asked for the privilege of printing one intent of the parties, and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;
of the lectures, and for that purpose Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Parker loaned the manuscript to the editor, who&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN CHAUVINISM.&lt;br /&gt;
ordered it to be put in type and then promptly lost An anonymous contributor to the Atlantic&lt;br /&gt;
it. The author is now suing the newspaper for Monthly has given tongue to a sensible protest&lt;br /&gt;
10,000 dollars (about 2000 guineas), alleging against what he calls the cant of American&lt;br /&gt;
that in measuring his damage the court must Chauvinism,&ldquo; which affects to decry all literature&lt;br /&gt;
consider both his intention to publish a book of produced in this country that does not portray&lt;br /&gt;
the lectures and the fact that he has no way of American characters and paint American life in&lt;br /&gt;
replacing the manuscript in question, having kept what it is pleased to call the American manner.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
no copy of it. The journalists, on the other We have certainly had too much of this sort of&lt;br /&gt;
hand, admit that they are in fault, but assert opinion. Our wisely patriotic critics, on the&lt;br /&gt;
that Professor Parker&amp;#039;s measure of damage is contrary, believe that American literature means&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 158 (#218) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
158&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the English literature of the United States, and&lt;br /&gt;
THE POPULAR Books.&lt;br /&gt;
that, to use the words employed in the Atlantic, The Bookman&amp;#039;s last list of new books in order&lt;br /&gt;
the great American novel, for which we have of demand is a reliable index of what we are&lt;br /&gt;
come to be on the perpetual look-out, will be a reading. It is compiled from returns sent to the&lt;br /&gt;
great novel written by an American, no matter periodical by booksellers in thirty-two cities in&lt;br /&gt;
where the scene is laid or of what nationality the United States and the Dominion of Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
the characters may be. &ldquo;Must English litera- and runs as follows: &ldquo; Alice of Old Vincennes&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ture,&amp;quot; asks the indignant writer, &ldquo;forfeit the (Thompson), &ldquo; Eben Holden&rdquo; (Bacheller). &ldquo; In&lt;br /&gt;
name and fame of Burns, Scott, and Stevenson, the Palace of the King&amp;quot; (Crawford), &ldquo; Eleanor&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
because their genius was so markedly Scottish, or (Ward), &laquo; Tominy and Grizel&rdquo; (Barrie), and&lt;br /&gt;
of Maria Edgeworth and Tom Moore, because &laquo;The Master Christian&rdquo; (Corelli). It is com-&lt;br /&gt;
theirs was Irish? What would Apuleius and fortable to note that the two leading places are&lt;br /&gt;
Augustine and Synesius have said to the men occupied by novels written by American authors&lt;br /&gt;
who should propose to place them apart from the&lt;br /&gt;
upon American subjects. The conditions of the&lt;br /&gt;
general list of Latin authors, and call their litera-&lt;br /&gt;
holiday trade are said to have been encouraging,&lt;br /&gt;
ture &lsquo;African&amp;#039;? What would the French say&lt;br /&gt;
and trade brisk. One observes, however, that&lt;br /&gt;
to-day if Switzerland should claim as a classic of&lt;br /&gt;
several inspiring plans looking to the publication&lt;br /&gt;
hers Rousseau, who lived so little in France, or&lt;br /&gt;
of new magazines have failed to become effective&lt;br /&gt;
Voltaire, who lived so long in Switzerland ? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-in one case after a corps of editors had been&lt;br /&gt;
What, indeed ?&lt;br /&gt;
engaged, a plant established, and material pur.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Omar KHAYYAM&rdquo; ON THE STAGE.&lt;br /&gt;
chased for the first three issues. But the owners&lt;br /&gt;
and managers of American periodicals are&lt;br /&gt;
The dramatised novel continues with us to be hardened to tribulation. A British newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
the reigning fashion in matters theatrical. So&lt;br /&gt;
magnate would have us turn our dailies into&lt;br /&gt;
intense is the vogue of it that one of our play-&lt;br /&gt;
magazines, when our magazines, perhaps, will&lt;br /&gt;
producing &ldquo;syndicates&rdquo; employs a gentleman&lt;br /&gt;
whose sole business is to read the output of&lt;br /&gt;
assume the newspaper form and prosper accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly.&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
fiction as it comes wet from the press, and deter-&lt;br /&gt;
mine its value for dramatic purposes. This&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
having been determined, the syndicate&amp;#039;s play-&lt;br /&gt;
wright sets to work&mdash;and, behold ! our modern&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
drama. At seven New York theatres this week,&lt;br /&gt;
for example, the entertainment provided is drawn&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
from this generous source. No story writer who INHE great event of the month has been the&lt;br /&gt;
accords the slightest glance to the commercial&lt;br /&gt;
inaugural performances of the new&lt;br /&gt;
side of his profession would think of producing a&lt;br /&gt;
e Com&eacute;die-Francaise-the historical Maison&lt;br /&gt;
novel without considering carefully its possibili. de Moli&egrave;re, that shining glory of the French&lt;br /&gt;
ties as stage material. A lamentable feature of drama, founded in 1680 by order of Louis XIV.&lt;br /&gt;
the situation seems to be that the actual play in and partially destroyed by conflagration in the&lt;br /&gt;
such instances is something about which the year 1900. It was resuscitated, fireproof-on&lt;br /&gt;
theatre-going public has little concern. It is the last day of the old year&mdash;to greet the new&lt;br /&gt;
their popular book which they wish to &amp;quot;see.&rdquo; century. No renewal of the catastrophe is to be&lt;br /&gt;
One theatrical manager declared that he feared in the present building&mdash;the stage itself,&lt;br /&gt;
would not be afraid to invest his money in a the staircases, and all appurtenances possible,&lt;br /&gt;
stage presentment of the city directory if this being reconstructed in solid iron. The remaining&lt;br /&gt;
present craze keeps up; and it has been an paraphernalia have been so thoroughly permeated&lt;br /&gt;
nounced that Mr. Richard Mansfield, a leading with uninflammable matter that its ignition,&lt;br /&gt;
actor-manager, is going to appear in a dramatisa. under any circumstances, would be little short of&lt;br /&gt;
tion of &ldquo; Omar Khayyam.&rdquo; It would be as prac. a miracle. Congratulatory despatches from all&lt;br /&gt;
ticable to dramatise the Book of Proverbs, and, parts of the civilised world assured M. Jules&lt;br /&gt;
in truth, one can expect almost anything in this Claretie, the indefatigable director of the Maison&lt;br /&gt;
direction.&lt;br /&gt;
de Moli&egrave;re, of the universal sympathy felt with&lt;br /&gt;
It is only fair to add that among the play. him on this occasion. The medal struck by M.&lt;br /&gt;
house sensations and successes of the past month Chaplain in commemoration of the event bears, on&lt;br /&gt;
in New York have been pieces by Shakespeare, one side, the head of Moli&egrave;re in profile; on the&lt;br /&gt;
Rostand, Ibsen, Sudermann, and Pinero, so you other, a phanix rising from the flames, surrounded&lt;br /&gt;
are not to set us down as altogether lacking in with laurels. Nor are the inevitable tragic and&lt;br /&gt;
theatrical opportunities and taste.&lt;br /&gt;
comic masks, and the two memorable dates (1680.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
159&lt;br /&gt;
1900) forgotten. The inscription is in Moli&egrave;resque The Ibsens and Bj&ouml;rnsons, too, had something to&lt;br /&gt;
Latin, being taken from the closing phrases in say that they esteemed left unsaid by George&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; Malade.&rdquo; They are reported to be the last Sand and Charles Dickens. They said it; and,&lt;br /&gt;
sentences penned by the great dramatist. &ldquo;Mille, in their manner of saying it, their compatriots&lt;br /&gt;
mille annis. Vivat, cent fois vivat.&rdquo; A happy recognised their own Scandinavian attributes.&lt;br /&gt;
augury for the future of the new Com&eacute;die !&lt;br /&gt;
M. Bj&ouml;rnstjerne Bj&ouml;rnson&amp;#039;s presence in&lt;br /&gt;
Its director (and administrator-general) enjoys Paris lends additional interest to all discussion&lt;br /&gt;
the reputation of being one of the busiest and of Scandinavian literature. He possesses a&lt;br /&gt;
most intelligent men in France. &ldquo;The Com&eacute;die. singularly noble and picturesque physique, and is&lt;br /&gt;
Fran&ccedil;aise,&rdquo; he wrote on one occasion, &ldquo;must not extremely proud of his alliterative appellation,&lt;br /&gt;
be confounded with other subsidised theatres. wbich signifies : &ldquo; Bear&amp;#039;s forehead, bear&amp;#039;s son.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It is in the hands of the State, represented by one The Parisians have dubbed him the Victor Hugo&lt;br /&gt;
of its Ministers, who delegates to an administrator, of Norway, and he intends to remain here&lt;br /&gt;
named by him, the diverse powers with which he several months, being engaged in finishing a&lt;br /&gt;
is invested. In conceding it a subsidy, the State three-act drama entitled &ldquo; Laboremus,&amp;quot; which is&lt;br /&gt;
has reserved to itself guarantees, the right of to be performed simultaneously at &amp;quot;Christiania&lt;br /&gt;
direction, and other advantages and compensa- and Berlin. The fact that one of his daughters&lt;br /&gt;
tions. On its side, the Com&eacute;die propagates and bas married Sigurd Ibsen gives piquancy to the&lt;br /&gt;
spreads abroad the sentiment of the beautiful and following appreciation of Henrik Ibsen&amp;#039;s merits,&lt;br /&gt;
the artistic. By the number of places which it commonly attributed to M. Bj&ouml;rnson: &ldquo; There&lt;br /&gt;
gives, and which-taking one year with another&mdash; are two men in Europe who possess genius,&lt;br /&gt;
amount from 130,000 to 150,000 (representing an myself and Ibsen-admitting that Ibsen has it!&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
average of from 600,000 to 800,000 francs) it Alexandre Dumas p&egrave;re could scarcely have ex-&lt;br /&gt;
considers it has the right to say that it aids in pressed his opinion with more characteristic&lt;br /&gt;
the diffusion of literature. , . . It has, like. modesty.&lt;br /&gt;
wise, the obligation of performing plays which&lt;br /&gt;
NEW YEAR HONOURS.&lt;br /&gt;
please the crowd and satisfy the &eacute;lite. And it is Literature and the drama are well to the fore in&lt;br /&gt;
in this that it has always merited, not only the the New Year decorations bestowed by Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
encouragement of the king who founded it, of the ment. &ldquo;Behold &middot; Va-t-en-Guerre&amp;#039; who gains the&lt;br /&gt;
emperor who gave it its charter, but of the battle!&rdquo; Fortune favours the brave; though&lt;br /&gt;
nation which is proud of it, and of that literary Fate has willed, as a parting irony, that M. Emile&lt;br /&gt;
France which draws from it&mdash;not its vanity-but Bergerat attain the coveted distinction at the&lt;br /&gt;
its pride.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
same moment as his ancient Odeonic foe, M. Paul&lt;br /&gt;
To M. Jean Richepin belongs the honour of Ginisty. Henceforward M. Bergerat may bury&lt;br /&gt;
having furnished a prologue for the re-opening the hatchet. He has no longer any valid&lt;br /&gt;
ceremony of the Com&eacute;die-Fran&ccedil;aise. This pro. grievance against his contemporaries. Success&lt;br /&gt;
logue will shortly be issued by Fasquelle in book awaits him on all sides&mdash;in the Old World as in&lt;br /&gt;
form.&lt;br /&gt;
the New. In Paris he ranks among the rare&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;UN SI&Egrave;CLE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
prophets who are honoured in their own country.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Un Si&egrave;cle&amp;quot; (Mouvement du Monde) is the In New York, his &ldquo; Plus que Reine &rdquo; is pursuing&lt;br /&gt;
title of a new volume, the work of a group of its triumphant career, and his name stands&lt;br /&gt;
eminent writers, published by H. Oudin. In second only to those of MM. Victorien Sardou&lt;br /&gt;
it we find a most able essay by that learned and Edmond Rostand. It is true that in&lt;br /&gt;
Academician and fervent disciple of Bossuet, the exciting steeplechase to place the &ldquo; Pompa-&lt;br /&gt;
M. Ferdinand Bruneti&egrave;re, analysing the develop. dour&rdquo; M. Alphonse Lemonnier came in fore-&lt;br /&gt;
ments of literature during the last hundred most; and it is no less true that the puissant&lt;br /&gt;
years. He sapiently discusses the universal author of &ldquo; Fracasse&rdquo; was one of the first to&lt;br /&gt;
tendency to &ldquo;Europ&eacute;anisation&rdquo; in all national congratulate his successful rival on his victory.&lt;br /&gt;
literature, and esteeins that his brethren of the &ldquo;Caliban Bergerat&rdquo; is becoming unrecognisably&lt;br /&gt;
pen show a marked predilection towards literary urbane.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;socialisation.&amp;quot; Among all European literatures Among the other recipients of New Year&lt;br /&gt;
he affirins that of France to have always been honours of diverse degrees are:-M. Sully-Prud-&lt;br /&gt;
the most social and the most human. Apropos homme, who sits among the Immortals, and whose&lt;br /&gt;
of other nations, M. Bruneti&egrave;re considers that graceful, poetic verses are, perhaps, better known&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of the Russian novel marked a than the poet himself ; M. Catulle Mend&egrave;s, presi-&lt;br /&gt;
literary epoch in the past century, the Tolsto&iuml;s and dent of the Critic Club, likewise poet, critic, and&lt;br /&gt;
Dostoievskis having done as much for Russia novelist of no mean talent; M. Emile Pouvillon,&lt;br /&gt;
as either Peter the Great or the Grand Catherine. one of the few popular Parisian authors who&lt;br /&gt;
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160&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
imitates Mistral and Loti in preferring the at the Acad&eacute;mie des Sciences. M. Henri&lt;br /&gt;
tranquil charm of country life to the brilliant Lavedan has written a new play entitled &ldquo;Les&lt;br /&gt;
turbulence of the city; M. Gosslin Len&ocirc;tre, than M&eacute;dicis,&rdquo; which is now being rehearsed at the&lt;br /&gt;
whom none has written more learnedly on the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s Th&eacute;&acirc;tre, while the &ldquo; Cavali&egrave;re&amp;quot; of&lt;br /&gt;
revolutionary period at Paris; M. Gustave &ldquo;Jacques, son of Jean&rdquo; (Richepin) is being&lt;br /&gt;
Reynier, director of La Revue Universitaire, and rehearsed at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. The&lt;br /&gt;
author of a series of remarkable articles in the united ages of this promising young dramatist&lt;br /&gt;
Semaine politique et litt&eacute;raire, Revue de Paris, and his leading lady amount to forty-five years.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c.; M. Henri Demesse, successor of Eugene&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;J&Eacute;SUITES.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Sue, one of the most popular novelists of the&lt;br /&gt;
day, formerly vice-president of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;J&eacute;suites &rdquo;-a defence, and explanation, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Gens de Lettres; M. Rodocanachi, most erudite&lt;br /&gt;
means employed and the ends desired by this&lt;br /&gt;
member, and M. Chauchard. generous M&aelig;cenas powerful, subtile order&mdash;is the most-talked-of&lt;br /&gt;
of the latter society; M. Jules Claretie, director book of the moment. It is the work of the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise ; M. Antoine, founder&lt;br /&gt;
P&egrave;re du Lac, whose portrait has been so finely&lt;br /&gt;
and director of the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Libre; MM. Grisier,&lt;br /&gt;
drawn by M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost in &ldquo;Le Scorpion,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mounet-Sully, Delaunay, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
under the pseudonym of the P&egrave;re de l&amp;#039;&Eacute;tang.&lt;br /&gt;
Divided into three parts, respectively dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY Gossip.&lt;br /&gt;
the past, present, and future of Jesuitism, it is&lt;br /&gt;
At this moment of comparative literary stagna- written throughout in an extremely clear, read.&lt;br /&gt;
tion much interest is felt in the new volume able fashion. The reverend father is an able&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with the Communistic era (entitled &ldquo;La refuter of the accusations levelled against his&lt;br /&gt;
Colonne&rdquo;) on which M. Lucien Descaves is order from its creation up to the present day.&lt;br /&gt;
reported to be engaged. This clever pessimist Strict impartiality could scarcely be expected&lt;br /&gt;
has made his mark in fiction, journalism, and from such a champion ; but the whole work bears&lt;br /&gt;
playwriting, having !signed &ldquo; La Cage,&rdquo; and the stamp of genuine conviction on the part of&lt;br /&gt;
collaborated with M. Maurice Donnay in writing the writer. The emphatic denial (chapter I.,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;La Clairi&egrave;re,&rdquo; one of the best expositions of the part 3) that the Company of Jesus has ever been&lt;br /&gt;
strong and weak points of the socialist theory in any measure a political society, and the chal.&lt;br /&gt;
ever performed on the French stage. M. Clemen- lenge to whoever is able to prove a single act of&lt;br /&gt;
ceau is busy on Le Bloc, a new weekly publica, political intervention on the part of the Jesuits, is&lt;br /&gt;
tion which will make its d&eacute;but within a few days. likely to awaken lively discussion. The personality&lt;br /&gt;
In general appearance it will bear a strong family of the writer gives weight to the challenge. For&lt;br /&gt;
resemblance to the Lanternes, Diable &agrave; quatre, years P&egrave;re du Lac has been regarded, both by&lt;br /&gt;
and Grimaces of the last century. M. Henri friends and adversaries, as one of the leading&lt;br /&gt;
Rochefort, ex-editor of the defunct Lanterne and exponents and lights of Jesuitism in France. His&lt;br /&gt;
present director of the Intransigeant, has been book is published chez Plon.&lt;br /&gt;
officially recognised by the bureau of the Muni.&lt;br /&gt;
cipal Council as the leader of the Nationalist&lt;br /&gt;
New PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
party. The official reception of M. Emile Faguet &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Art en Silence,&amp;quot; an interesting critique of&lt;br /&gt;
at the French Academy is deferred until April, the art and moral ideas of the present day, by M.&lt;br /&gt;
owing to the prolonged absence of M. Emile Camille Mauclair (Ollendorff); &ldquo;La Philosophie&lt;br /&gt;
Ollivier in the South. In the meantime the de la Long&eacute;vit&eacute;,&rdquo; a curious and interesting work&lt;br /&gt;
unfledged Immortal has accepted (in an admirable by M. Jean Finot, editor of the Revue des Revues ;&lt;br /&gt;
open letter) the post of honorary president to the &ldquo;Seconde Patrie,&amp;quot; a tale of adventure by M.&lt;br /&gt;
Poitevin section of the Patrie Fran&ccedil;aise League. Jules Verne (Hetzel collection); &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Affaire&lt;br /&gt;
M. de Guichard has temporarily succeeded Tukanthor,&rdquo; a work by M. Hess, narrating the&lt;br /&gt;
M. Gaston Mayer as secretary-general of the recent campaign in France in favour of the King&lt;br /&gt;
Foreign Press Association, the latter having sent of Cambodge, and the French Indo-Chinese pro-&lt;br /&gt;
in his d&eacute;mission owing to a difference with the tectorates and colonies; &ldquo;Le Tour du Globe d&amp;#039;un&lt;br /&gt;
president of that association. Dr. Maurice de Bachelier,&amp;quot; by M. Andr&eacute; Laurie (College Life&lt;br /&gt;
Fleury (medical contributor to the Figaro) has series); &amp;quot;Les Cath-drales de France,&amp;quot; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
carried off one of the most important prizes in Arthur Loth (chez H. Laurens); &ldquo; Florence et la&lt;br /&gt;
the gift of the Acad&eacute;mie de M&eacute;dicine (prix Herpin, Toscane,&amp;quot; by M. E. M&uuml;ntz, containing a graphic&lt;br /&gt;
de Gen&egrave;ve, 3000 francs) for his able treatises on description of the artistic masterpieces of&lt;br /&gt;
neurasthenia, epilepsy, and the maladies of the the Renaissance epoch; and &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Espion de&lt;br /&gt;
nervous system, in addition to having been pro- l&rsquo;Empereur,&rdquo; an historical novel, by M. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
claimed laureate of one of the Lallemand prizes Laurent (Ollendorff). DARRACOTTE SCOTT.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
161&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
of the paper, we leave that to the Institute of&lt;br /&gt;
Journalists. The paper, however, concludes with&lt;br /&gt;
M HE biography of Emma Marshall, by her certain notes about magazines which should&lt;br /&gt;
I daughter, is an amazing story of industry concern our readers. In New York every man&lt;br /&gt;
and perseverance. The maintenance of a who calls upon the editor is sure of a courteous&lt;br /&gt;
large family seems to have been laid upon her; reception and a patient hearing. The editors of&lt;br /&gt;
she succeeded by dint of untiring energy. The the monthly magazines in New York are always&lt;br /&gt;
following is a highly suggestive statement : at their offices&mdash;where we never expect to find an&lt;br /&gt;
So, with amazing plnok, allowing no discouragement to&lt;br /&gt;
English editor. Not only are they always acces.&lt;br /&gt;
daunt her, she hoped and worked on. It was not her way&lt;br /&gt;
sible, but they are prompt in the consideration of&lt;br /&gt;
to put her pen down to reflect, when she had finished one a MS., rarely keeping it more than two days&lt;br /&gt;
story, before starting another. Indeed, she had often as before coming to a decision. Those which they&lt;br /&gt;
many as three or four tales on the stocks at once. A list&lt;br /&gt;
propose to publish they pay for at once. Their&lt;br /&gt;
of girls&amp;#039; stories filling nearly two pages, written for one&lt;br /&gt;
publisher alone, to whom she sold the copyright of each,&lt;br /&gt;
scale of payment ranges from &pound;5 to &pound;8 a thousand&lt;br /&gt;
lies before me now. One of them is in its twelfth, many words, and even more when the contributor is a&lt;br /&gt;
in their fifth, sixth, and seventh thousand, which serves to well-known writer. The English magazine offers,&lt;br /&gt;
show that the sam she received thankfully for the MS. has as a rule, a pound a page of a thousand words.&lt;br /&gt;
in every case been repaid over and over again.&lt;br /&gt;
The result is that the standard of the English&lt;br /&gt;
This, of course, we may assume, without magazine is getting lower, save in those two or&lt;br /&gt;
asking what the sum paid for each might be. three magazines where the articles are contributed&lt;br /&gt;
There is printed at the end of the book a list of (1) by writers who do not care about the pecuniary&lt;br /&gt;
books published by Seeley and Co. They consist side, and are only anxious to get their papers pub-&lt;br /&gt;
of nineteen stories at 5s. each; twelve at 38. 6d.; lished : and (2) by men of mark invited by the&lt;br /&gt;
and six at is. The 58. books, omitting one of editor, who send in their papers without reference&lt;br /&gt;
whose circulation there is no record, include to money.&lt;br /&gt;
between them a sale of 109,000 copies. Now, in The complaints made continually about the&lt;br /&gt;
the case of an author so popular as Mrs. delays of editors are easily accounted for when&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, the royalty on a 6s. book would be at we consider that in the States an editor receives,&lt;br /&gt;
least 18. 3d., and therefore on a 5s. book at least sav, &pound;3000 a year, and gives all his time, all his&lt;br /&gt;
18. In other words, she doubtless received thought, all his resource, to the magazine, while&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;5450 for this list of books published by Seeley here the editor generally draws &pound;300, carries&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. The list, however, does not seem to be on literary work of all kinds, and shows up at&lt;br /&gt;
that mentioned by the biographer as covering the office once a week or so. How is such a man&lt;br /&gt;
two pages. One knows not the price of each to consider MSS. ? How is he to return MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
or anything about them, but the fact that they with an opinion or a judgment in a reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at the fifth to the twelfth thousand is space of time? The magazine, of course, is not&lt;br /&gt;
suggestive. Could the publishers be our old edited : the papers are &ldquo; chucked in,&rdquo; the fiction&lt;br /&gt;
friends, the S.P.C.K. : In any case the author is by old hands, as good as can be had for the&lt;br /&gt;
was surely ill-advised to accept sums of which money. The most remarkable case in point was&lt;br /&gt;
her biographer could say that they were &ldquo;repaid that of the late Sir George Grove. There was no&lt;br /&gt;
over and over again.&rdquo; It appears to be a man, certainly, more strenuous in work; more&lt;br /&gt;
lamentable case of neglect to use the advice and&lt;br /&gt;
capable of work. He was secretary of the Crystal&lt;br /&gt;
the experience of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Palace, a post which should have taken the whole&lt;br /&gt;
of his time-indeed, I was always astonished that&lt;br /&gt;
In another place Mrs. Marshall writes to Mr. the directors did not insist upon having his whole&lt;br /&gt;
Richmond Seeley :&lt;br /&gt;
time. But in addition to this work he was&lt;br /&gt;
I suppose the interest in my books may increase for a offered, and accepted, the editorship of Mac-&lt;br /&gt;
time at my death. Will it be necessary to make any millan&amp;#039;s Magazine. Consider how, with the best&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangements as to who shall receive the benefit intentions, he could have edited the magazine. Of&lt;br /&gt;
then?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
course, I have no means of knowing whether the&lt;br /&gt;
It would be interesting to learn if the interest magazine went up or down under the editorship.&lt;br /&gt;
in her books did increase after her death, and if I only want to take this case as an illustration of&lt;br /&gt;
any benefit accrued to her children.&lt;br /&gt;
the English way of editing compared with the&lt;br /&gt;
American way.&lt;br /&gt;
An important and instructive article on English&lt;br /&gt;
and American journalism, very much to the letter was published in the Outlook three or&lt;br /&gt;
advantage of the latter, appeared in the Daily four weeks ago, in which the writer expressed a&lt;br /&gt;
News of Jan. 5. As regards the journalistic part mild surprise at the fact&mdash;which he had only just&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
assisting their oppressors, which is about as plucky and&lt;br /&gt;
useful as to operate on a cat tied down to a vivisection&lt;br /&gt;
trough. In future, though, I sball boldly announce that&lt;br /&gt;
you intend to do everything you can to help the editorial&lt;br /&gt;
fraternity who, as you may read in the correspondence&lt;br /&gt;
column of the Daily News, treat Shaveling Grub Streeters&lt;br /&gt;
in so handsome a manner. Why pay any homage to Justice&lt;br /&gt;
or Virtue ? I have received The Author this month for&lt;br /&gt;
presentation to the Cheltenham Free Library, but if it is&lt;br /&gt;
filled with abuso and misrepresentation of myself and other&lt;br /&gt;
journalistic vermin, and eulogy of the noble hearts of the&lt;br /&gt;
editorial brotherhood, I think we can do without it.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT,&lt;br /&gt;
THE UNCRITICAL COMMONPLACE.&lt;br /&gt;
learned that a great many books reviewed (!)&lt;br /&gt;
are not even read. He said that everybody with&lt;br /&gt;
any sense of fairplay must admit that this is an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; evil.&rdquo; Of course it is an evil, and a most crying&lt;br /&gt;
evil. Some editors, however, have lost their sense&lt;br /&gt;
of responsibility in this matter. They know&mdash;they&lt;br /&gt;
must know-they cannot help knowing&mdash;that the&lt;br /&gt;
writers to whom they confide the books for review&lt;br /&gt;
simply cannot afford the time to read the books&lt;br /&gt;
they notice. How can a busy man stop to read&lt;br /&gt;
a book which he is expected to review in half a&lt;br /&gt;
dozen lines? Last month we called the attention&lt;br /&gt;
of our readers to the Spectator with eight novels&lt;br /&gt;
a week in two columns. It has had ten novels in&lt;br /&gt;
one week since then. But, indeed, the Spectator&lt;br /&gt;
is only one of many papers which lump all the&lt;br /&gt;
books together. The only remedy-a drastic one&lt;br /&gt;
-is for certain authors to withdraw the adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisements of their books and to give these papers&lt;br /&gt;
no books for review. Now, the writer of the&lt;br /&gt;
letter in the Outlook&mdash;which does not lump books&lt;br /&gt;
together-went on to state that the Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
Herald had adopted the system of having a large&lt;br /&gt;
staff of competent persons-private persons&mdash;who&lt;br /&gt;
were asked to review books, but not more than one&lt;br /&gt;
a week, and were paid by keeping the books.&lt;br /&gt;
This method does not &amp;quot;lump&rdquo; the books: it&lt;br /&gt;
ensures that they shall be read, and it must give&lt;br /&gt;
a certain amount of space to each. The weak&lt;br /&gt;
point is the competence of these private persons.&lt;br /&gt;
One would much rather see the books sent to&lt;br /&gt;
literary men and journalists, as at present, with&lt;br /&gt;
the proviso that they are to have but one book a&lt;br /&gt;
week, and that a reasonable space shall be&lt;br /&gt;
accorded to each. -&lt;br /&gt;
It has been found necessary for the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
to write a letter of warning against the habit&lt;br /&gt;
of certain persons who, without being members&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society, use its name as a threat with&lt;br /&gt;
editors or publishers with whom they have&lt;br /&gt;
some disagreement. A particularly bad case was&lt;br /&gt;
that of a certain person who, when the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
called upon him for explanation, stated that he&lt;br /&gt;
had twice used the name of the Society as a&lt;br /&gt;
threat, and each time successfully : he added.&lt;br /&gt;
with a really beautiful inability to understand&lt;br /&gt;
the situation, that if the Society was likely to do&lt;br /&gt;
him any good he should join it! So he prefers&lt;br /&gt;
getting good out of the Society by using its&lt;br /&gt;
name without being a member. This wonderful&lt;br /&gt;
creature, on the appearance of the Secretary&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
letter in the papers, sent him the following&lt;br /&gt;
delicate and gentlemanly epistle :&lt;br /&gt;
I have read letter in the Chronicle. Not being able to&lt;br /&gt;
assist struggling authors in any way against their oppres.&lt;br /&gt;
gors, I suppose you feel you must do something to justify&lt;br /&gt;
your position and consequently adopt the easy method of&lt;br /&gt;
NHE following paragraph is from the Spec-&lt;br /&gt;
tator of Jan. 12 :&lt;br /&gt;
In our own country Edmund Spenser died &amp;quot; for&lt;br /&gt;
lack of bread&rdquo;: Milton lived in poverty : Goldsmith was&lt;br /&gt;
hunted by dans from cradle to grave : Johnson walked&lt;br /&gt;
the night round St. James&amp;#039;s-square in lieu of a bed : Haxley&lt;br /&gt;
in his early days found it hard to earn a living : Carlyle&lt;br /&gt;
daring the first forty years of his literary life never earned&lt;br /&gt;
more than an average grocer: Browning during the greater&lt;br /&gt;
part of his career never made a penny by his poems.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a formidable array of charges against&lt;br /&gt;
the public. It would, however, be difficult to&lt;br /&gt;
present in seven or eight lines a greater number&lt;br /&gt;
of uncritical commonplaces. They are, to be sure,&lt;br /&gt;
statements consecrated by many years of uncritical&lt;br /&gt;
repetition : they are set down, without examina-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, because they have been set down so often&lt;br /&gt;
that they seem to want no examination. Let us&lt;br /&gt;
take these in detail and subject them to a little&lt;br /&gt;
simple consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The death of Spenser. Ben Jonson, speak-&lt;br /&gt;
ing loosely, says that Spenser died &ldquo;for lack of&lt;br /&gt;
bread.&rdquo; It is usual for the uncritical mind to&lt;br /&gt;
accept this statement, which was Ben Jonson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
exaggeration, as if he meant it to be taken&lt;br /&gt;
literally, and as if Spenser was actually starved&lt;br /&gt;
to death. Now we find (1) that Spenser refused&lt;br /&gt;
money from the Earl of Essex-starving people&lt;br /&gt;
do not refuse money, especially at a time when&lt;br /&gt;
there is no shame in taking it from a patron ; (2)&lt;br /&gt;
there is no question at all of Spenser&amp;#039;s wife&lt;br /&gt;
starving&mdash;she was with him at the time of his&lt;br /&gt;
death, and not only survived him, but she married&lt;br /&gt;
again; (3) Spenser at this very time had his&lt;br /&gt;
pension of &pound;50 a year, and he had as well his&lt;br /&gt;
Irish estates on which he might have raised&lt;br /&gt;
money had he wanted it. These estates descended&lt;br /&gt;
to his son, his grandson, and his great grandson;&lt;br /&gt;
the last of his descendants died in Ireland about&lt;br /&gt;
a hundred and fifty years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Milton &ldquo; lived in poverty.&rdquo; The commercial&lt;br /&gt;
value of his poems was certainly small. The writer&lt;br /&gt;
in the Spectator seems to believe that the com-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
163&lt;br /&gt;
mercial value of a book has some connection with But, if Johnson walked round the square for&lt;br /&gt;
its literary value: au opinion which is contra- want of a bed, he must have carried with him-a&lt;br /&gt;
dicted by the whole history of literature. We point which has entirely escaped the notice of the&lt;br /&gt;
know the sum received by Milton for his great writer in the Spectator :&lt;br /&gt;
epic. What connection had this sum with the (1.) His wardrobe-Johnson was not a beggar :&lt;br /&gt;
literary value of the poem? However, &ldquo; Milton he must have had a change of linen at least, with&lt;br /&gt;
lived in poverty.&rdquo; It would be no slur upon the the indispensable part of a man&amp;#039;s toilette gear.&lt;br /&gt;
time if he did-i.e., on the supposition that he There was no cloak-room in those days, nor could&lt;br /&gt;
lived on literature. But what sort of poverty he leave the things in a lodging without being&lt;br /&gt;
was it? Was Milton ever in pecuniary straits? able to take a bed.&lt;br /&gt;
Had he ever, at any time of his life, to deny (2.) His MSS.&mdash;a pretty voluminous bundle.&lt;br /&gt;
himself in anything? Did he ever live otherwise (3.) His books&mdash;Johnson accumulated books as&lt;br /&gt;
than in comfort? Could a man who occupied he wanted them: he could not get along at all&lt;br /&gt;
that very comfortable and commodious house in without books. There were then no libraries for&lt;br /&gt;
Petty France be described, except from the point the student.&lt;br /&gt;
of view of a very rich merchant or a landed Imagine, therefore, if you can, Johnson toiling&lt;br /&gt;
grandee, as a man in poverty ?&lt;br /&gt;
round and round St. James&amp;#039;s-square carrying his&lt;br /&gt;
3. Goldsmith and his duns. Goldsmith was clothes, his books, and his MSS! After the first&lt;br /&gt;
extravagant and improvident. It is not true that round he would certainly have set down the bundle&lt;br /&gt;
he was &ldquo; haunted by duns&rdquo; during his whole life. and mopped his brow and refused to carry the&lt;br /&gt;
There was a time when he was making a large load round the square any more. Again, if he had&lt;br /&gt;
income by his pen. He was not &ldquo; haunted with no bed and no money to engage a lodging, we must&lt;br /&gt;
duns&rdquo; during this period of prosperity. In his imagine him lugging that terrible bundle about&lt;br /&gt;
time, as in every other time, the man who pro- with him all that day and the next night and every&lt;br /&gt;
duced popular work made a good income, and the day until he got some money. Now to get money&lt;br /&gt;
man who did not, although his work might be from Lichfield would take about eight days.&lt;br /&gt;
very fine from a literary point of view, received a I think it will be acknowledged that Johnson&lt;br /&gt;
very small income. That he was haunted at any could not have passed that night in the way that&lt;br /&gt;
time by duns had nothing to do with his work, Reynolds is said to have reported.&lt;br /&gt;
but everything to do with his follies, and his 5. Huxley, in his early days, found it difficult&lt;br /&gt;
vices, and his extravagancies.&lt;br /&gt;
to live. Bless the Spectator ! what would he&lt;br /&gt;
4. Johnson for want of a bed walked all round have? Huxley began as a medical practitioner.&lt;br /&gt;
St. James&amp;#039;s-square. Did he? The statement is Will anyone pretend that it is usual for a young&lt;br /&gt;
advanced as Johnson&amp;#039;s own, made by him to professional man to make a large income at&lt;br /&gt;
Reynolds : the statement is at second-hand : if starting? Of course he found the usual difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;
made by Johnson at all it was probably in old 6. Carlyle made no more than the &ldquo;average&lt;br /&gt;
age, when he was inclined to exaggerate things. grocer.&rdquo; If a man writes books which are&lt;br /&gt;
Thus he said that Garrick came to town with three- unpopular he is very lucky indeed if he can make&lt;br /&gt;
halfpence in his pocket : Garrick, who came to as much as the &ldquo;average grocer.&amp;quot; I do not know&lt;br /&gt;
London in order to enter at the Inns of Court what the &ldquo;average grocer&rdquo; makes, but the writer&lt;br /&gt;
and to become a barrister&mdash;on three halfpence! we are discussing seems to know. For my own&lt;br /&gt;
However, let us examine this statement about St. part I should be inclined to think that the average&lt;br /&gt;
James&amp;#039;s-square. First of all, it must have been grocer makes a great deal more than the writer of&lt;br /&gt;
before Mrs. Johnson came to London. Certainly unpopular works. I find, therefore, no cause for&lt;br /&gt;
that estimable woman did not, at any time, tramp complaint against the public that Carlyle did so.&lt;br /&gt;
around St. James&amp;#039;s-square all night for want of a poorly, or so well.&lt;br /&gt;
bed, nor was there any necessity for doing so. 7. Lastly, there is the case of Browning. It&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Johnson had money of her own, and always is doubtless true that for many years Browning&lt;br /&gt;
lived in respectable lodgings. This limitation, made nothing by his poems. What could he&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, reduces the possible time for the all. expect? His was a case in wbich it was a good&lt;br /&gt;
nigbt tramp to three months or so, namely, when thing for the world that Browning had private&lt;br /&gt;
Johnson came first to London. Now it is known means. It would be absurd to find fault with the&lt;br /&gt;
that during this period Johnson occupied several world for not accepting him as a popular poet.&lt;br /&gt;
different lodgings : that for the greater part of The thing was simply impossible. Browning&lt;br /&gt;
the time he lived at Greenwich in order to work went on working. He attracted a following little&lt;br /&gt;
undisturbed : and that he lived with the greatest by little. Before he died he had the pleasure of&lt;br /&gt;
frugality because he was making next to nothing seeing his work take its true place in the poetry&lt;br /&gt;
and he wished to spare his wife&amp;#039;s purse.&lt;br /&gt;
of the century.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 164 (#224) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
164&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE METHOD OF THE FUTURE.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENT says: &ldquo;I should be&lt;br /&gt;
glad to see in The Author the question of&lt;br /&gt;
Publication by Authors&amp;#039; fully dealt&lt;br /&gt;
with ; expenses and modes of advertising, advice&lt;br /&gt;
as to the number of a first edition, probable gain&lt;br /&gt;
or loss to the author, policy of stereotyping, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
On a six-shilling book, would the author count on&lt;br /&gt;
receiving 3s. if he pays for the publishing of the&lt;br /&gt;
book?&rdquo; Let us attempt an answer to these&lt;br /&gt;
points.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
The first point to observe is that the author&lt;br /&gt;
who goes to the general publisher with a book of&lt;br /&gt;
which he is willing to pay for the production will&lt;br /&gt;
almost certainly lose his money. Thus in the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Draft Agreements &amp;quot; issued by the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Association it is claimed that a publisher under&lt;br /&gt;
these circumstances has the right of charging a&lt;br /&gt;
blank percentage upon paper, printing, binding,&lt;br /&gt;
and all other expenses incurred. Nothing is said&lt;br /&gt;
as to charging for advertisements not paid for,&lt;br /&gt;
as, for instance, those in their own organs or&lt;br /&gt;
those by exchange. They mean, therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
charge for these with a percentage besides. They&lt;br /&gt;
also claim the right of charging a fee at&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning, taking discounts, and exacting&lt;br /&gt;
payment in advance. Thus, with Houses called&lt;br /&gt;
respectable, the author who pays for the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction of his book would have some such&lt;br /&gt;
account as the following, reckoning the per-&lt;br /&gt;
centage at fifteen and the commission on the&lt;br /&gt;
sales at the same amount.&lt;br /&gt;
If the actual cost of production is &pound;100,&lt;br /&gt;
including advertising: if &pound;25 is charged for&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements not paid for, on account of&lt;br /&gt;
which the publisher claims a blank percentage :&lt;br /&gt;
if the fee is &pound;15: if the sales amount to 1000&lt;br /&gt;
copies at 3s. 6d., or &pound;175 in all : if the per-&lt;br /&gt;
centage charged is 15%: if the discount charged&lt;br /&gt;
is 72%: we have the following results, without&lt;br /&gt;
counting interest on money paid in advance :&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher&amp;#039;s profit will be &pound;70 155. 7d.&lt;br /&gt;
The author&amp;#039;s account will be as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;&lt;br /&gt;
$. d.&lt;br /&gt;
Cost of production, includ-&lt;br /&gt;
ing discount. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Fee .........&lt;br /&gt;
......&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; $. d.&lt;br /&gt;
175 00&lt;br /&gt;
26 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
By sales .......&lt;br /&gt;
Less commission at 15%&lt;br /&gt;
8&lt;br /&gt;
154 10&lt;br /&gt;
15 0&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
Loss to author&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;148 15&lt;br /&gt;
20 15&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;169 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;169 100&lt;br /&gt;
It is almost impossible for the author to there are ten chances to one against the book,&lt;br /&gt;
prevent, under these conditions, the publisher not advertised or pushed, selling more than a&lt;br /&gt;
from appropriating the greater part, if not the hundred or so among the author&amp;#039;s own friends.&lt;br /&gt;
whole, of the proceeds. Therefore one must on There are other variants, but these are the&lt;br /&gt;
no account go to a general publisher with a most important. Our author must not go to a&lt;br /&gt;
commission book.&lt;br /&gt;
general publisher on any consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
There are, however, other methods.&lt;br /&gt;
Two or three firms practise a trick which&lt;br /&gt;
Cost OF PRODUCTION.&lt;br /&gt;
has been exposed over and over again, yet never&lt;br /&gt;
I take an ordinary 6s. book, 320pp., 253 words to&lt;br /&gt;
fails to catch the simple. They offer to produce a page, small pica type, sheet of 16 pp., JOOO copies.&lt;br /&gt;
the book if the author will pay so much down, It must be observed that printers estimates&lt;br /&gt;
the firm to take all other expenses and to give differ enormously. The author will do well to&lt;br /&gt;
the author two-thirds or nine-tenths-it makes get a good many estimates. Some printers think,&lt;br /&gt;
no difference&mdash;of the proceeds, and to bear the when a private person comes with a book, that&lt;br /&gt;
cost of &ldquo;all subsequent editions.&amp;quot; There never they may charge him anything they please. What&lt;br /&gt;
are any returns and there never are any subse-&lt;br /&gt;
they ought to charge may be learned from the&lt;br /&gt;
quent editions.&lt;br /&gt;
following comparative estimate. The book was&lt;br /&gt;
A more impudent method is to make the one of 20 sheets of 16pp. each : or 10 sheets of&lt;br /&gt;
author guarantee so inany copies to be sold in 32 pp. The type was small pica: there were 29&lt;br /&gt;
six months : at the end of that time the author lines to a page :&lt;br /&gt;
to pay the difference, and the publisher to take Composition per sheet of 32pp. ... (1) &pound;2 5 3&lt;br /&gt;
over the whole of the rest of the edition. Now,&lt;br /&gt;
(2) 2 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
it is to his interest that the book shall not&lt;br /&gt;
(3) 2 7 6&lt;br /&gt;
be pushed for six months : in any case he is&lt;br /&gt;
(4) 2 12 0&lt;br /&gt;
secured against loss with a very fair profit :&lt;br /&gt;
(5) 3 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 165 (#225) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
165&lt;br /&gt;
Either one of the first three charges may be advertising-i.e., there is a limit beyond which&lt;br /&gt;
called moderate. The composition per sheet money spent in advertising it is thrown away.&lt;br /&gt;
of 32pp. may be set down at a fair average In the case of a book paid for by the author he&lt;br /&gt;
of &pound;2 78.&lt;br /&gt;
should feel his way carefully, and when the&lt;br /&gt;
The printing of 1000 copies may be set down demand ceases he would do well to try a little&lt;br /&gt;
at 178. a sheet of 32 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
more advertising, and if this fails to move the&lt;br /&gt;
The paper at 28s. a sheet of 32pp.&lt;br /&gt;
book further he should stop altogether. The&lt;br /&gt;
The binding may be done for 35d. a copy amount to be spent in advertising, then, should&lt;br /&gt;
or even less, but a more general price to pay be from &pound;10 to &pound;20, or in case of a success &pound;30,&lt;br /&gt;
is 4d.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;40, or &pound;50 as the book goes.&lt;br /&gt;
Apply this estimate to the book :&lt;br /&gt;
Composition, 10 sheets at &pound;2 78. = &pound;23 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
REVIEW COPIES.&lt;br /&gt;
Printing, 10 sheets at 178. ... ... ... = 8 10 O It seems to be the belief of certain papers and&lt;br /&gt;
Paper, io sheets at 28s. ............ = 14 0 0 journals that they are entitled to copies of a book&lt;br /&gt;
Binding, 300 at 4d. ...................= 5 0 0 for review. This is, of course, absurd. The author&lt;br /&gt;
Corrections .....................&lt;br /&gt;
............... = 3 o o should make a list of the papers which seem to him&lt;br /&gt;
- to present criticism of the fairest and justest kind,&lt;br /&gt;
and should send his book to them.&lt;br /&gt;
wui&lt;br /&gt;
It is not prudent to bind at first more than will&lt;br /&gt;
NUMBER OF FIRST EDITION.&lt;br /&gt;
be wanted. It is always easy to bind more.&lt;br /&gt;
If the author has reason to believe that his&lt;br /&gt;
The cost of production, then, of such a book as&lt;br /&gt;
we are considering is &pound;54 at the outset, binding&lt;br /&gt;
book will obtain a certain popularity let him&lt;br /&gt;
only a small number to begin with.&lt;br /&gt;
print 1000 copies. If the subject is such as to&lt;br /&gt;
confine the demand for his book to a limited&lt;br /&gt;
public he would print 500 copies only. In that&lt;br /&gt;
ADVERTISING.&lt;br /&gt;
case the estimate given above would be reduced&lt;br /&gt;
It is very important that the advertising by some &pound;10.&lt;br /&gt;
should be considered very carefully so as not to&lt;br /&gt;
STEREOTYPING.&lt;br /&gt;
waste money. Nothing is more certain than the&lt;br /&gt;
The printers will allow the type to stand&lt;br /&gt;
absolute waste of money by certain publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not desirable to name papers.&lt;br /&gt;
for a month or so. During that time it will&lt;br /&gt;
Certain&lt;br /&gt;
be possible to form an opinion as to the future&lt;br /&gt;
jules, however, may be laid down.&lt;br /&gt;
of the book. If that opinion is favourable&lt;br /&gt;
1. The best medium for advertising is the&lt;br /&gt;
it should be moulded in readiness for stereo-&lt;br /&gt;
daily paper-not, however, all the daily&lt;br /&gt;
typing. Moulding costs about ios. a sheet of&lt;br /&gt;
papers.&lt;br /&gt;
32pp. Stereotyping costs about 16s. a sheet&lt;br /&gt;
2. The next best medium is the weekly paper of 32pp.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;not all the weekly papers, but a selec- These figures are average: they fluctuate :&lt;br /&gt;
tion: those especially which go into the they are always liable to alteration.&lt;br /&gt;
houses and the hands of reading people.&lt;br /&gt;
3. A few provincial papers.&lt;br /&gt;
Gain or Loss to the Author.&lt;br /&gt;
The amount to be spent is another most serious This may be seen by the following tables.&lt;br /&gt;
consideration. Some publishers seem to believe Fifteen per cent. commission is deducted from&lt;br /&gt;
that a book can be forced down the throat of the the sales-reckoned at 38. 6d. Advertising is&lt;br /&gt;
public by larga advertising. This is absurd. No reckoned at &pound;16. After 300 another 300 are&lt;br /&gt;
book can stand more than a certain amount of bound; after 600 another 400.&lt;br /&gt;
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000&lt;br /&gt;
Sales ...... &pound;29 15 &pound;44 12 6 459 10 $74 76 &pound;89 50 &pound;104 2 6 &pound;119 &pound;133 17 6 &pound;148 15&lt;br /&gt;
Cost ...... 700 70 00 75 0 75 OO 75 OO 82 O 82 82 00 82 0&lt;br /&gt;
The table shows that 500 copies must be sold&lt;br /&gt;
before any return at all is made, and that the sale&lt;br /&gt;
of the whole edition of 1000 produces no more than&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;60, allowing for bad debts and review copies&lt;br /&gt;
My correspondent asks if the author can&lt;br /&gt;
expect a return of 38. a copy. Most certainly&lt;br /&gt;
not. Under the most favourable terms as&lt;br /&gt;
shown here, viz., on the sale of 1000 copies,&lt;br /&gt;
he can expect at best no more than 18. old.&lt;br /&gt;
or is. 2 d. a copy. It is when a book goes&lt;br /&gt;
into a large edition that the returns are also&lt;br /&gt;
large.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 166 (#226) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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166&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher, to repeat, must not be a general Mr. Barry Pain has prepared a &ldquo;book about&lt;br /&gt;
publisher. He must be a publisher of commission a book&rdquo;-in other words, a satire entitled&lt;br /&gt;
books only, otherwise the fate of that author will &ldquo; Another Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters.&amp;quot; It&lt;br /&gt;
be such as is set forth above.&lt;br /&gt;
will be published with the following statement&lt;br /&gt;
from Mr. Barry Pain regarding the author-&lt;br /&gt;
ship :-&lt;br /&gt;
The way in which the absolute necessity for publication&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
bas arisen cannot be more clearly indicated during the life&lt;br /&gt;
of the present Emperor of China, and no clae to the mystery&lt;br /&gt;
will be found in the letters themselves. Those who know&lt;br /&gt;
THE volume on Rome in Messrs. Dent&amp;#039;s will keep silence; if anyone speaks, that may be taken as&lt;br /&gt;
T &ldquo;Mediaeval Towns&rdquo; series will be written evidence that he does not know. And in this way I trust&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Norwood Young, and illustrated by&lt;br /&gt;
that the mystery may be preserved and the sale of the book&lt;br /&gt;
stimulated.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Erichsen.&lt;br /&gt;
Roman Catholicism as a factor in European&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bret Harte contributes a foreword to a&lt;br /&gt;
politics is the subject of a book by Mr. F. C.&lt;br /&gt;
book on himself which Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton&lt;br /&gt;
Conybeare. This question-or at least that part&lt;br /&gt;
has written, entitled &ldquo; Bret Harte: a Treatise and&lt;br /&gt;
of it dealing with the temporal power of the Pope&lt;br /&gt;
a Tribute.&rdquo; The volume is being published&lt;br /&gt;
-has been much discussed during the past&lt;br /&gt;
shortly by Messrs. Greening.&lt;br /&gt;
month, on account of the address presented to the&lt;br /&gt;
The late Sir Benjamin Richardson&amp;#039;s work, Pope by the Duke of Norfolk on behalf of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Disciples of &AElig;sculapius; Biographies of Catholic Union.&lt;br /&gt;
Leaders of Medicine,&rdquo; which has long been&lt;br /&gt;
The scene of Dr. Barry&amp;#039;s new story. &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
preparing for publication, will be issued at an&lt;br /&gt;
Wizard&amp;#039;s Knot,&rdquo; is the south-west of Ireland half&lt;br /&gt;
early date.&lt;br /&gt;
a century ago. The book will be published in&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Hugh Fraser has written a novel entitled March.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Little Grey Sheep,&amp;quot; the scene of which is&lt;br /&gt;
laid in Devonshire and the Thames Valley. It&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leonard Courtney has now finished the&lt;br /&gt;
work upon which he has been engaged for a&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in a few days.&lt;br /&gt;
considerable time: &ldquo; The Working Constitution&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Beard, a founder of Ruskin House, of England.&rdquo; It will be published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford, is writing a book on the Industrial&lt;br /&gt;
Dent immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
Revolution of England, which will be published&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of poems by Mr. Stephen Gwynn will&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Sonnenschein.&lt;br /&gt;
be published shortly by Mr. Lane, entitled (after&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Edward Malet, the well-known diplomatist, the first poem) &ldquo;The Queen&amp;#039;s Chronicler.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is writing his &ldquo;Reminiscences.&amp;quot; The work will&lt;br /&gt;
be published soon by Mr. Murray, from whom Mr. Henry Harland is writing a novel.&lt;br /&gt;
also will come Sir Edward Hertslet&amp;#039;s volume, &middot; Mr. Frankfort Moore&amp;#039;s new novel is called&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Recollections of the Old Foreign Office.&rdquo; &ldquo; According to Plato.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A new edition of &amp;quot; Chambers&amp;#039;s Cyclop&aelig;dia of Mr. Borchgrevink, the commander of the recent&lt;br /&gt;
English Literature,&rdquo; in three volumes, will be Antarctic expedition, has completed an account of&lt;br /&gt;
published this year&mdash;the first volume probably his voyage in the Southern Cross and bis adven-&lt;br /&gt;
in the spring. It is being edited by Dr. tures near the South Pole. The volume will be&lt;br /&gt;
David Patrick, assisted by Mr. Francis Hindes published immediately by Messrs. George Newnes&lt;br /&gt;
Groome.&lt;br /&gt;
Limited.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Louis Becke has collected his reminiscences&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Graham Balfour&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Life of Robert Louis&lt;br /&gt;
of fishing and natural history in Australia and&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson&rdquo; is expected to be ready for publica-&lt;br /&gt;
the South Seas, which, with some short stories,&lt;br /&gt;
tion in the autumn. Mr. Balfour is a cousin of&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in a volume entitled &ldquo;By Rock&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson, with whom he spent two years in&lt;br /&gt;
and Pool.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Samoa.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John G. Millais is the author of a quarto&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Leslie Stephen, says the Athen&aelig;um, is&lt;br /&gt;
volume on &ldquo; The Wildfowler in Scotland.&rdquo; &ldquo;Ever&lt;br /&gt;
collecting materials for a memoir of the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
since the age of nine,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;when I first&lt;br /&gt;
J. R. Green.&lt;br /&gt;
began collecting British birds in real earnest, I&lt;br /&gt;
have made a special study of the pursuit and The life of the late Professor Henry Sidgwick&lt;br /&gt;
natural history of the wildfowl that frequent our is being written by his widow, in conjunction&lt;br /&gt;
coasts.&amp;quot; The book will be published by Messrs. with his brother, Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, Reader in&lt;br /&gt;
Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
Greek in the University of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
167&lt;br /&gt;
The following letter from the secretary of the Britain.&rdquo; This book forms part of a larger&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association to the editor of the work on the origin of Imperial Britain, upon&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Circular appeared in that journal which Professor Cramb has been at work for a&lt;br /&gt;
on Jan. 12 :&lt;br /&gt;
considerable time.&lt;br /&gt;
I am instructed to inform you that Messrs. F. and E. A new and cheaper edition of Mr. R. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Stonebam, of Cheapside and elsewhere, have written to the&lt;br /&gt;
Holmes&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Queen Victoria &rdquo; is being published&lt;br /&gt;
council of the Publishers&amp;#039; Association to say that they will&lt;br /&gt;
not hencefortb sell net books to the public at less than full&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Longmans, with a photogravure&lt;br /&gt;
prices, and undertaking to send a circular to their onstomers&lt;br /&gt;
portrait and a supplementary chapter bringing&lt;br /&gt;
to this effect.&lt;br /&gt;
the memoir down to the date of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Under these circumstances the council bas much pleasure death.&lt;br /&gt;
in announcing that the embargo on the supply of net books&lt;br /&gt;
at trade prices to Messrs. Stoneham is now removed.&lt;br /&gt;
A facsimile, by the collotype process, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Commenting on this announcement, the Pub-&lt;br /&gt;
First Folio of Shakespeare will be published next&lt;br /&gt;
lishers&amp;#039; Circular congratulates &ldquo;all concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
autumn by the Delegates of the Clarendon Press,&lt;br /&gt;
including Messrs. Stoneham themselves, on the&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford. By permission of the Duke of Devon-&lt;br /&gt;
fact that they have decided no longer to sell net&lt;br /&gt;
shire, the Chatsworth copy has been placed on&lt;br /&gt;
books at a discount. . . . The enterprising&lt;br /&gt;
loan in the Bodleian Library for the purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
firm which has so long stood out has at last&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sidney Lee, who has pronounced this to be&lt;br /&gt;
given way; the result will, we fully believe, prove&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the most interesting and valuable book in the&lt;br /&gt;
whole range of English literature,&rdquo; will contribute&lt;br /&gt;
a net gain to them as well as to the trade&lt;br /&gt;
a brief introduction, and give as full a list as&lt;br /&gt;
generally.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
possible of all known copies of the First Folio,&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Skeat is now collecting a number of&lt;br /&gt;
with bibliographical details. He requests owners&lt;br /&gt;
short articles upon English etymology which have&lt;br /&gt;
of the First Folio who have not yet done so to&lt;br /&gt;
appeared from time to time in the Philological&lt;br /&gt;
communicate with him.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s Transactions and elsewhere. Together&lt;br /&gt;
with other notes of a similar character, they&lt;br /&gt;
The third and fourth volumes of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
will shortly be issued by the Clarendon Press,&lt;br /&gt;
McCarthy&amp;#039;s &ldquo;History of the Four Georges and&lt;br /&gt;
the title of the work being&ldquo; English Ety.&lt;br /&gt;
of William IV.&rdquo; will be ready early in March.&lt;br /&gt;
mologies.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
These will complete the work.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. S. Arthur Strong, Librarian to the House&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. A. and C. Black write to the Glasgow&lt;br /&gt;
of Lords, is translating, from the German,&lt;br /&gt;
Herald to correct a statement which appeared in&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Kristeller&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Andrea Mantegna : His Life&lt;br /&gt;
that paper to the effect that we are not to have a&lt;br /&gt;
and Works.&rdquo; The book will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
re-issue of the Encyclop&aelig;dia Britannica&rdquo; for&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
thirty years. Messrs. Black write : &ldquo; As such a&lt;br /&gt;
statement is misleading, we beg to say that while&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Samuel Butler has written a sequel to&lt;br /&gt;
it is true an agreement has been entered into f..r&lt;br /&gt;
his well-known story, which will be entitled&lt;br /&gt;
the protection of The Times suppleinent, yet the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Erewhon Revisited.&rdquo; The discoverer visits the&lt;br /&gt;
interval decided upon is not thirty years, but less&lt;br /&gt;
country, in disguise, twenty years after his&lt;br /&gt;
than half that period.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
escape from it with his bride in a balloon.&lt;br /&gt;
Among other things he learns that he has&lt;br /&gt;
On the last Sunday of the year Professor Earl&lt;br /&gt;
been accorded divine honours in the interval. Barnes delivered an address at South Place&lt;br /&gt;
The adventures of the hero&amp;#039;s son, who visited Chapel, London, on &ldquo;Present Tendencies in&lt;br /&gt;
Erewhon ten years later, are also narrated in the Popular Literature,&amp;quot; a report of which will be&lt;br /&gt;
new story.&lt;br /&gt;
found in the Daily News for Dec. 31. He said&lt;br /&gt;
that in our attitude towards printed matter we&lt;br /&gt;
As a memorial to the late Miss Mary Kingsley,&lt;br /&gt;
were passing through a very important change-&lt;br /&gt;
it is proposed to erect a hospital for the treatment&lt;br /&gt;
a change that might be described as the demo-&lt;br /&gt;
of tropical diseases in connection with the Liver-&lt;br /&gt;
cratisation of literature. Four-fifths of the people&lt;br /&gt;
pool School of Tropical Medicine, and also to&lt;br /&gt;
had acquired the reading habit. The new demo-&lt;br /&gt;
establish a &ldquo;Mary Kingsley Society of West&lt;br /&gt;
cracy demanded emotionalism and got it. Watch&lt;br /&gt;
Africa,&rdquo; to stimulate research and collect informa-&lt;br /&gt;
the majority of people selectiog books at Mudie&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
tion regarding that country.&lt;br /&gt;
They were bent on living vicariously, in the pages&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Cramb, of Queen&amp;#039;s College, London, of novels, all the things they did not dare to do&lt;br /&gt;
whose lectures on Imperialism attracted atten. actually. But he must not be understood as con-&lt;br /&gt;
tion a month or two ago, has just published demning popular education. It was the subject&lt;br /&gt;
(through Macmillan) a volume entitled &ldquo;Reflec- to which he had devoted his life. Nor should&lt;br /&gt;
tions on the Origins and Destiny of Imperial they inveigh against the tendencies he had&lt;br /&gt;
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168&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
B&lt;br /&gt;
A new stuart&lt;br /&gt;
Flors&lt;br /&gt;
PL&lt;br /&gt;
described. As had been said, &ldquo;The best way to&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
make a thing that is not bad, bad, is for good&lt;br /&gt;
people never to do it.&rdquo; And those tendencies&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
were really sane, right, normal, true, and here&lt;br /&gt;
TN reply to the letter in the January number&lt;br /&gt;
was the point-capable of infinite development.&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author entitled &ldquo;Do Authors read&lt;br /&gt;
They must work from scrappy bits towards larger&lt;br /&gt;
- Reviews,&rdquo; I wish to say that I am personally&lt;br /&gt;
wholes. They must start from sensationalism,&lt;br /&gt;
much indebted to The Author for many items&lt;br /&gt;
but with as much intellectual accompaniment&lt;br /&gt;
of great interest in the columns entitled &ldquo; Books&lt;br /&gt;
as the minds of the masses could stand. Also&lt;br /&gt;
and Reviews,&amp;quot; which might otherwise have&lt;br /&gt;
they must seek increasingly to make worthy&lt;br /&gt;
escaped my notice, and I have no doubt that&lt;br /&gt;
literature gather around worthy personalities.&lt;br /&gt;
many of the members&mdash;with the exception of&lt;br /&gt;
. . . A Salvation Army movement was&lt;br /&gt;
those who are reviewers&mdash;feel the same.&lt;br /&gt;
needed in connection with the great mass of&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the purchase of books, I can&lt;br /&gt;
democratised literature. The people wanted&lt;br /&gt;
quite believe that a man who is satiated with&lt;br /&gt;
leading in reading.&lt;br /&gt;
novels to review would not buy them, but I cannot&lt;br /&gt;
A new comic opera by Mr. Owen Hall and Mr. understand any writer asserting-apparently with&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Stuart will be produced at the Lyric pride&mdash;that he never buys a novel on principle.&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre after &ldquo; Florodora&rdquo; is taken off. The Authors, I should say, are great buyers of&lt;br /&gt;
cast will include Miss Madge Lessing, Miss books when they can afford them, and for the&lt;br /&gt;
Nancie Girling, Mr. Louis Bradfield, and Mr. best of reasons&mdash;because they are, or should be,&lt;br /&gt;
Willie Edouin.&lt;br /&gt;
book-lovers. Books form to them a little world&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Coriolanus&rdquo; is to be revived by Sir Henry of their own, and the real book-lover will, if&lt;br /&gt;
Irving when he returns to the Lyceum in April, necessary, deprive himself of many things in&lt;br /&gt;
with Miss Ellen Terry as Volumnia.&lt;br /&gt;
order to obtain a much-coveted book, be it a&lt;br /&gt;
The first performance of Mr. Haddon&lt;br /&gt;
novel, a technical work, or a volume of poems.&lt;br /&gt;
And how he prizes his books! None but the&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers&amp;#039;s new play, &ldquo;The Awakening,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
book-lover can realise how much they mean to&lt;br /&gt;
was postponed on account of the death of the&lt;br /&gt;
Queen, will take place at St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre on&lt;br /&gt;
him, as he lovingly handles them, reading and&lt;br /&gt;
Wednesday, Feb. 6.&lt;br /&gt;
re-reading his favourite pages or paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be a grand thing for authors and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Comyos Carr has adapted Carlo Goldoni&amp;#039;s booksellers alike if all the people who wished to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; La Locandiera&rdquo; for Miss Ellen Terry.&lt;br /&gt;
buy books could fully gratify that desire.&lt;br /&gt;
A new play by Mr. Pinero is likely to be the Unfortunately many of those who would most&lt;br /&gt;
vext attraction at the Garrick, and a comedy by prize books are unable to obtain them, or can get&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Carton at the Criterion ; but neither need be them only in very, very limited numbers.&lt;br /&gt;
expected for some little time, as the present plays To return to the subject, I merely offer these&lt;br /&gt;
at these houses&mdash;&ldquo; The Wedding Guest&rdquo; and remarks to express an opinion, and not by way of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Noble Lord&rdquo; respectively&mdash;continue to be complaint should the pages-entitled &ldquo; Books and&lt;br /&gt;
popular.&lt;br /&gt;
Reviews &amp;quot; be omitted in future numbers of The&lt;br /&gt;
Lecturing at Toynbee Hall, Mr. Sidney Lee&lt;br /&gt;
Author, for I have no doubt that they will be&lt;br /&gt;
regretted that the public had not had more&lt;br /&gt;
replaced by other articles equally useful or&lt;br /&gt;
opportunities of seeing Shakespeare&amp;#039;s plays on&lt;br /&gt;
H. M. E. STANTON.&lt;br /&gt;
interesting&lt;br /&gt;
the stage in the closing years of the last&lt;br /&gt;
century, but pointed out that the new century &amp;quot; THE AUTHOR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
had opened in London with a promise of better&lt;br /&gt;
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
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Owing to want of support on the part of the&lt;br /&gt;
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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&ndash;No. 1067&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 10.)&lt;br /&gt;
_&lt;br /&gt;
MARCH 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
MARCH 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert 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;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
jocts whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS. 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;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
IT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
agreement. There are four methods of dealing to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
I. SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&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;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of 1. NTEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the manager.&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
anless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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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 the loan of the books 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 the pro.&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
lence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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;
cracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
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technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
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NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
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;
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The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White.&lt;br /&gt;
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information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. DVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
L 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 solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
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LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
1.-FRANCE LEADS THE WAY.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE following interesting case, which has&lt;br /&gt;
passed through the office, is placed before&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Society, as the opinion&lt;br /&gt;
which has been obtained is of interest to all&lt;br /&gt;
writers and tends to show the liberality with&lt;br /&gt;
which the French nation in copyright legislation&lt;br /&gt;
have treated authors all over the world. In the&lt;br /&gt;
legislation for the production of literary and&lt;br /&gt;
artistic works the French nation has always been&lt;br /&gt;
in the vanguard.&lt;br /&gt;
A member of the Society, American by birth&lt;br /&gt;
and nationality, residing in England, came to the&lt;br /&gt;
Society for assistance in regard to what he&lt;br /&gt;
thought was a piracy of his work in France. The&lt;br /&gt;
question that arose was what interpretation the&lt;br /&gt;
French would give to the international arrange-&lt;br /&gt;
ments between England and America as affecting&lt;br /&gt;
the terms of the Berne Convention. The secre-&lt;br /&gt;
tary accordingly immediately wrote to the Soci&eacute;t&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
des Gens de Lettres in Paris, giving particulars&lt;br /&gt;
of the case, which were as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; An author of American nationality who is&lt;br /&gt;
domiciled in England produces a book in 1899&lt;br /&gt;
simultaneously in England and America, securing&lt;br /&gt;
thereby under the existing arrangement between&lt;br /&gt;
England and America copyright in both countries.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; The book is then pirated by a French pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, and a French translation is put on the&lt;br /&gt;
market in Paris and sells well.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The author remonstrated with the publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
but the publisher refused to pay any compensa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, on the grounds that he pirated from&lt;br /&gt;
America.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Under the Berne Convention an English&lt;br /&gt;
author who has copyright in England is entitled&lt;br /&gt;
to protection in France for his translation during&lt;br /&gt;
ten years. The question that now arises is,&lt;br /&gt;
whether under the French interpretation of inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national law an American citizen domiciled in&lt;br /&gt;
England, who has obtained English copyright, is&lt;br /&gt;
entitled to the benefits of the Berne Convention&lt;br /&gt;
as existing between England and France ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The French Society, with great courtesy and&lt;br /&gt;
promptitude, wrote back and stated that they&lt;br /&gt;
would gladly put the question before their own&lt;br /&gt;
counsel, and would obtain an opinion for the&lt;br /&gt;
Society on the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
Accordingly, in due course the secretary re-&lt;br /&gt;
ceived the following opinion :-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;In reply to the question proposed by your&lt;br /&gt;
English correspondent: &mdash; To commence. In&lt;br /&gt;
France, in principle, no translation of any work,&lt;br /&gt;
French or foreign, can be published without the&lt;br /&gt;
authorisation of the author of the work. The&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
author of the translation is certainly invested&lt;br /&gt;
with the rights of an author as regards his trans-&lt;br /&gt;
lation ; but, as regards the author of the original,&lt;br /&gt;
he is guilty of infringement if he has not asked&lt;br /&gt;
for authorisation. This is the principle applied&lt;br /&gt;
by French jurisprudence by the interpretation of&lt;br /&gt;
our law of 1703, of the decree of February, 1810,&lt;br /&gt;
and of that of May 28, 1852, without any ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of reciprocity on the part of the foreigner.&lt;br /&gt;
- In any case the effect of the terms of the&lt;br /&gt;
articles 2, 3, and 5 of the International Conven-&lt;br /&gt;
artin&lt;br /&gt;
tion of Sept. 9, 1885 (Berne Convention), is&lt;br /&gt;
that, without entering into any question of the&lt;br /&gt;
dispositions of the American law, or of the par-&lt;br /&gt;
ticular arrangements existing between England&lt;br /&gt;
and America, or between America and France&lt;br /&gt;
(Federal law of May 3, 1891, and declaration&lt;br /&gt;
respecting Belgium, France, Great Britain, and&lt;br /&gt;
res&lt;br /&gt;
Switzerland of July 1.1801). the American author.&lt;br /&gt;
who has published his work at the same time in&lt;br /&gt;
England and America, enjoys in France the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
tection of his rights of translation for ten years&lt;br /&gt;
at least from the date of the publication in&lt;br /&gt;
England.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;To sum up, by placing himself under the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
tection of the Berne Convention, the American&lt;br /&gt;
author, although his country has not entered into&lt;br /&gt;
the International Union, is protected in France so&lt;br /&gt;
far as regards his right of translation, at least for&lt;br /&gt;
ten vears, by the mere fact (article 2 of the Con.&lt;br /&gt;
vention) that his work has been published in a&lt;br /&gt;
upionist country-to wit, England.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;But it must, of course, be understood that&lt;br /&gt;
the protection is dependent upon (article 4 D,&lt;br /&gt;
March 28, 1852, and 6 Law of July 19, 1893) the&lt;br /&gt;
deposit of the copies of the original work in the&lt;br /&gt;
Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale&mdash;that is to say, at present&lt;br /&gt;
at the Ministry of the Interior.&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
The opinion is that of Mr. Alfred Mack,&lt;br /&gt;
advocate to the Court of Appeal in Paris, 9, rue&lt;br /&gt;
de Septembre.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee felt deeply indebted to the&lt;br /&gt;
French Society for the prompt assistance it gave,&lt;br /&gt;
and passed a unanimous vote of thanks for their&lt;br /&gt;
courtesy and kindness. The opinion of the&lt;br /&gt;
French advocate will be interesting to all&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
It is pleasant to state, in addition, that the&lt;br /&gt;
French publisher who pirated the work paid an&lt;br /&gt;
agreed compensation to the author before he had&lt;br /&gt;
received the opinion of the French counsel.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H, T.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;THE COPYRIGHT Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
The King&amp;#039;s Speech at the opening of Parlia-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, delivered in person by His Majesty,&lt;br /&gt;
announced that &ldquo;legislation has been prepared&lt;br /&gt;
for amending the law of literary copyright.&amp;quot; In&lt;br /&gt;
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172&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the House of Commons on the same day (Feb. 14) out of the first edition &mdash; they therefore have&lt;br /&gt;
the Right Hon. Gerald Balfour, President of the certainly paid the cost of production: of the&lt;br /&gt;
Board of Trade, stated his intention of bringing remaining thirty-nine, sixteen are by authors&lt;br /&gt;
in on an early day a measure consolidating and popular enough to insure the success of their&lt;br /&gt;
amending the law of literary copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
books&mdash;perhaps not a big success, but more than&lt;br /&gt;
The Copyright Bill, which is about to be intro. enough to cover cost of production and royalties&lt;br /&gt;
duced by the Board of Trade, will run closely on or purchase, and to leave some kind of profit to&lt;br /&gt;
the lines of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill which passed the publisher. There remain twenty-three, or&lt;br /&gt;
the House of Lords last summer, and which was nearly one-half, of which the outsider can only&lt;br /&gt;
drafted by Lord Thring. As soon as it is possible say that they are doubtful. These figures show&lt;br /&gt;
to obtain a draft of the same, such draft will be rather more than one in a dozen which succeed.&lt;br /&gt;
printed in The Author, and the differences exist. But there is much more to be considered. The&lt;br /&gt;
ing between the Board of Trade&amp;#039;s and Lord outsider does not know the reader&amp;#039;s opinion: the&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bills will be dealt with at length. whole of these twenty-three books may have been&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T. most warmly recommended; nor does he know&lt;br /&gt;
how many are paid for by the author, a practice&lt;br /&gt;
III.- PROJECTED NEW GERMAN COPYRIGHT becoming more and more common, and as disas-&lt;br /&gt;
LAW.&lt;br /&gt;
trous in its results as can be expected, considering&lt;br /&gt;
The Deutsche Reichstag, on its reassembling on the monstrous claims of the Publishers&amp;#039; Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 8, proceeded to a first reading of the project Nor, again, does the outsider know how many&lt;br /&gt;
of a law respecting copyright in works of litera- copies are taken at the outset by the circulating&lt;br /&gt;
ture and music. No very great interest is libraries : how many are subscribed by the trade:&lt;br /&gt;
apparently taken in the new law, but it is a how many go to the colonies: how many are&lt;br /&gt;
hopeful sign that the discussion appears to be copyrighted in the States.&lt;br /&gt;
proceeding independently of any party politics. That there is over-production it would be&lt;br /&gt;
Our contemporary Das Rechte Feder is dis mischievous to deny. Booksellers, however, are&lt;br /&gt;
tinctly despondent about the protection of becoming wary: they cannot be readily talked&lt;br /&gt;
authors from publishers, which it compares to over into subscribing a novel : their shelves are&lt;br /&gt;
protecting sheep from wolves. Several of the filled with failures and losses. Now, if booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
remarks made in the course of the discussion of will not subscribe a book, and if libraries will&lt;br /&gt;
the new law indicate on the part of the speakers not take a book, what harm is done to the public&lt;br /&gt;
a very elementary idea even of what copyright is. by over-production ? There is more work thrown&lt;br /&gt;
on the paragraph-reviewer : and that is all. The&lt;br /&gt;
public does not see the books: the bookseller&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; IV.-OVER-PRODUCTION.&lt;br /&gt;
does not subscribe for them : nobody sees them :&lt;br /&gt;
The Publishers&amp;#039; Circular calls attention to the there are hundreds of books produced every year&lt;br /&gt;
over-production of six-shilling novels. Not long which are not published, because publishing means&lt;br /&gt;
ago a bookseller had fifteen offered him in one exhibition and offering to the public as well as&lt;br /&gt;
day, and refused to take any. Not one of these printing.&lt;br /&gt;
novels in a dozen, the Circular thinks, pays for the Again, to return to the over-production. There&lt;br /&gt;
cost of production. It then advises publishers has arisen quite recently a kind of gambling in&lt;br /&gt;
to keep before them for reference the net result of novels. A publisher makes an unexpected&lt;br /&gt;
each novel published during the year, and thinks success. He thinks that he may make another.&lt;br /&gt;
that the contemplation of these figures will He can afford to lose a certain sum in the experi-&lt;br /&gt;
act as a wholesome restraint for the future. ment. How much is his risk? He binds very&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps it might: but one always imagines that few copies : he spends very little money in adver-&lt;br /&gt;
every man of business must observe the simple tising the renture: the libraries take a limited&lt;br /&gt;
precaution of knowing how his goods sell.&lt;br /&gt;
number: the risk is thus reduced to a very small&lt;br /&gt;
Let us, however, descend from vague talk to sum. The actual loss may equal the risk; but&lt;br /&gt;
facts and figures. It is, of course, easy to say he bas had his venture. And the whole reason&lt;br /&gt;
that not one novel in a dozen pays. What kind for the production of so many novels is just the&lt;br /&gt;
of dozen is it? Not a baker&amp;#039;s dozen, certainly. chance of making a great and unexpected success&lt;br /&gt;
For instance, an examination of the advertising &mdash;that and nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;
pages of the Athen&aelig;um of Feb. 23 shows that&lt;br /&gt;
eleven publishers &mdash; the number may be taken&lt;br /&gt;
as representing the fifty or sixty who need be&lt;br /&gt;
considered &mdash; are advertising, as current novels,&lt;br /&gt;
fifty altogether. Of these eleven have passed&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
173&lt;br /&gt;
V.&mdash;CANADIAN Notes.&lt;br /&gt;
pages additional are devoted to an explanation of&lt;br /&gt;
On behalf of Morang and Co., owners of the the methods used in making this inquiry, with&lt;br /&gt;
British copyright in &ldquo; Ăn Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love the Commissioner&amp;#039;s summing up of such evidence&lt;br /&gt;
Letters,&amp;quot; we have just succeeded in obtaining as he has succeeded in collecting.&lt;br /&gt;
judgment of injunction against two local firms&lt;br /&gt;
Tables are printed showing (a) the number of&lt;br /&gt;
who have been importing cheap American copyright entries, and amount of fees applied,&lt;br /&gt;
reprints. The book, unfortunately for the house from July 10, 1870, to Dec. 31, 1900; (6) the&lt;br /&gt;
of John Murray, was not copyrighted in the number of entries of foreign and United States&lt;br /&gt;
States.&lt;br /&gt;
productions respectively, and the fees for the&lt;br /&gt;
I notice that a public document of more than same from July 1, 1895, to Dec. 31, 1900; and&lt;br /&gt;
usual interest has just been published in the (c) the number of articles deposited at the Copy-&lt;br /&gt;
United States in the shape of the report of the right Office during the last three fiscal years. In&lt;br /&gt;
Commissioner of Labour in response to the this last table the articles are arranged by classes,&lt;br /&gt;
resolution of the Senate of Jan. 23, 1900, direct but no distinction has been made between pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ing that official to investigate the effect upon ductions of foreign authorship and works by&lt;br /&gt;
labour production and wages of the International native authors, so that it is difficult to see how&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act, 1891, and report the result of his any deductions can rightly be made from these&lt;br /&gt;
inquiries. The large majority of the opinions tables as to the effect of the law upon the number&lt;br /&gt;
got heartily favour the law, but the individuals of entries made or articles deposited. It is&lt;br /&gt;
or firms represented favour certain changes. assumed that one effect of the law has been&lt;br /&gt;
[For list of these see article below on the greatly to increase the number of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
International Copyright Act. - ED. Author] entries, because the year 1890 (that immedi-&lt;br /&gt;
The fourth proposition&mdash;&amp;quot; That the publica- ately preceding the passage of the Act)&lt;br /&gt;
tion in the United States of unauthorised trans. shows an increase of but 1813 entries over the&lt;br /&gt;
lations of copyrighted books of foreigners, number for 1889, while the year 1891 shows&lt;br /&gt;
other than English, should be prohibited &rdquo;&mdash;is an increase over 1890 of 6119 entries, although&lt;br /&gt;
apparently met by the provision in the present&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;the Act did not become operative until&lt;br /&gt;
United States Revised Statutes, section 4952, as&lt;br /&gt;
July 1 of that year.&rdquo; A careful examination,&lt;br /&gt;
amended by the Act of March 3, 1891, reading as&lt;br /&gt;
however, of the table of entries and fees, from&lt;br /&gt;
follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
1870 down, shows such noticeable fluctuations&lt;br /&gt;
&laquo; And authors or their assigns shall have exclu. that it is doubtful if such an assumption can&lt;br /&gt;
sive right to dramatise or translate any of their safely be made. Unfortunately, no exact figures&lt;br /&gt;
works for which copyrights shall have been are available for the foreign and United States&lt;br /&gt;
obtained under the laws of the United States.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
entries, respectively, up to July 1, 1897, but for&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BARWICK.&lt;br /&gt;
the three calendar years following the entries&lt;br /&gt;
are: 1898, foreign, 7779, United States, 69,095 ;&lt;br /&gt;
(Barwick, Aylesworth, and Wright, Barristers&lt;br /&gt;
1899, foreign, 8122, United States, 78,370; 1900,&lt;br /&gt;
and Solicitors.)&lt;br /&gt;
foreign, 8478, United States, 89,489, while the&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto.&lt;br /&gt;
increase in the entries, foreign and United States,&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&mdash;THE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT.&lt;br /&gt;
respectively, for the last two years was : 1899,&lt;br /&gt;
foreign, 343, United States, 9275; 1900, foreign,&lt;br /&gt;
[From the New York Evening Post.]&lt;br /&gt;
356, United States, 11,119, showing that, of the&lt;br /&gt;
A public document of more than usual yearly increase, the foreign entries made a very&lt;br /&gt;
interest is the report of the Commissioner of small proportion. It is probable that, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Labour in response to the resolution of the total increase from 1890 to 1891, a larger per-&lt;br /&gt;
Senate, of Jan. 23, 1900, directing that official to centage was due to entries for foreign pro-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; investigate the effect upon labour, production, ductions, but even so, it was probably a small&lt;br /&gt;
and wages of the International Copyright Act, proportion of the total increase of 6119; and&lt;br /&gt;
approved March 3, 1891, and report the results up to 1900, inclusive, the highest number of&lt;br /&gt;
of his inquiries.&amp;quot; Such results as were obtainable entries for the productions of foreign authors,&lt;br /&gt;
are set out in a pamphlet of ninety-nine pages, of &amp;amp;c., in any one year, since the Act went into&lt;br /&gt;
which the last eleven pages consist of a republica force, July 1, 1891, was only 8478.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the copyright laws in force. Of the The Commissioner explains that, on its becoming&lt;br /&gt;
remaining text, seventy-seven pages contain apparent that detailed statistical information of&lt;br /&gt;
verbatim statements from publishers, leading the character contemplated by the resolution&lt;br /&gt;
printers, the American Copyright League, &amp;amp;c., could not be secured, an endeavour was made to&lt;br /&gt;
giving opinions, pro and con, as to the value and obtain expressions of opinion from the class of&lt;br /&gt;
effect of the Act in question, and less than six people whose conclusions would be of most value&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
z 2&lt;br /&gt;
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174&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
-publishers, printers, and the official members induced led to cheap work, and consequently&lt;br /&gt;
of printing unions and allied trades unions-by narrowed the compensation earned by printers as&lt;br /&gt;
addressing to them a series of seven questions compared with that obtained through the higher&lt;br /&gt;
designed to bring out the views of the persons quality of book production under the protection&lt;br /&gt;
and establishments to whom they were submitted, of the copyright law.&lt;br /&gt;
regarding the general results of the law as The questions sent out were as follows: (1.)&lt;br /&gt;
affecting labour and production. Altogether, Has the international copyright law been detri-&lt;br /&gt;
seventy responses were received, of which fifty mental or beneficial to (a) publishers or book&lt;br /&gt;
five are set down as regarding the law and its manufacturers ; (6) compositors, pressmen, book-&lt;br /&gt;
results more or less favourably, while fifteen binders, and employers generally; (c) American&lt;br /&gt;
consider it detrimental.&lt;br /&gt;
authors; (d) foreign authors; (e) the book-&lt;br /&gt;
Commissioner Wright points out that the purchasing public ? (2.) In what respects has&lt;br /&gt;
clause requiring the manufacture in the United the law been detrimental or beneficial to each of&lt;br /&gt;
States of copyright works, the feature of the law the above-mentioned classes ? (3.) Has the&lt;br /&gt;
directly affecting &ldquo;labour, production, and effect of the law been to increase or to reduce the&lt;br /&gt;
wagas,&amp;quot; was adopted at the instance of the selling price of books ? About how much per&lt;br /&gt;
typographical unions; but although prominent cent. ? (4.) Was &ldquo;piracy,&rdquo; as practised prior to&lt;br /&gt;
members of the International Typographical the enactment of the international copyright law,&lt;br /&gt;
Union in several principal cities were personally beneficial or injurious to printers or publishers ?&lt;br /&gt;
interviewed, and requested to submit facts and (5.) Do American and European publishers&lt;br /&gt;
their own views regarding the beneficial or detri. exchange stereotype plates, or are European plates&lt;br /&gt;
mental effects of the Act, only oral statements used to any extent in the production of books in&lt;br /&gt;
could be obtained from some of them, to the America ? (6.) What is your general opinion as to&lt;br /&gt;
effect &amp;quot;that, in their opinion, the law has been the operation and effect of the international copy-&lt;br /&gt;
of no real benefit to printers or allied crafts- right law ? (7.) In what respects do you think&lt;br /&gt;
men ; that the manufacturing clause of the the law in question should be amended or changed ?&lt;br /&gt;
law, requiring copyrighted works of foreign The responses to these questions indicate,&lt;br /&gt;
authors to be printed from type set or from according to the summary, that a large majority&lt;br /&gt;
plates made from type set in the United States of the establishments interviewed heartily favour&lt;br /&gt;
is violated to a considerable extent by the fraudu- the law, believing it to be highly beneficial in its&lt;br /&gt;
lent importation from Europe of stereotype general operation and effect, although some of&lt;br /&gt;
plates, which are used for the printing of such them criticise certain of its features, and express&lt;br /&gt;
works in the United States ; and that the effect their views as to amendments of the law that are&lt;br /&gt;
of the law is to confine the labour of production deemed desirable. On ihe other hand, &ldquo;a com-&lt;br /&gt;
of each copyrighted work to the employees of the paratively small but highly respectable number&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
single establishment to whom the monopoly of of establishments are said to be &ldquo;utterly opposed&lt;br /&gt;
publication is secured under the law, whereas to the law,&rdquo; believing it to be pernicious in prac-&lt;br /&gt;
were it not for the law, the works of many&lt;br /&gt;
tice and wrong in principle.&lt;br /&gt;
foreign authors would be published by several&lt;br /&gt;
Whether favourable or adverse to the law, the&lt;br /&gt;
different establishments, thus giving employment&lt;br /&gt;
to a largely increased number of operatives.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
individuals or firms represented favour certain&lt;br /&gt;
The Coinmissioner adds that effort was made to&lt;br /&gt;
changes in the copyright laws now in force, the&lt;br /&gt;
secure definite statements giving instances of&lt;br /&gt;
principal alterations proposed being summarised&lt;br /&gt;
as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
violation of the &ldquo; manufacturing clause,&amp;quot; but&lt;br /&gt;
none could be obtained, and no expression of&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) It is believed by many publishers that the &amp;quot;manu.&lt;br /&gt;
facturing clause,&amp;quot; requiring the manufacture wholly within&lt;br /&gt;
views beyond oral ones, such as quoted, could be&lt;br /&gt;
the United States of copyrighted books, photograpbs,&lt;br /&gt;
secured.&lt;br /&gt;
chromos, or lithographs, whether the work of residents or&lt;br /&gt;
It is to be presumed that the statement that, non-residents, should be abrogated.&lt;br /&gt;
were it not for the existing law, the works of (2.) That the requirement of publication of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
many foreign authors would be published by&lt;br /&gt;
works in the United States not later than the date of their&lt;br /&gt;
publication in any other country (which has the effect of&lt;br /&gt;
several different establishments, thus giving&lt;br /&gt;
requiring simultaneous publication on both sides of the&lt;br /&gt;
employment to a largely increased number of&lt;br /&gt;
Atlantic of the works of English (and American] authors)&lt;br /&gt;
operatives, is made in remembrance of the old should be changed so as to allow a reasonable time to elapse&lt;br /&gt;
times of literary piracy, when there was a possi between publication abroad and at home.&lt;br /&gt;
bility of free scrambling for the works of popular&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) That the term of existence of copyright should be&lt;br /&gt;
extended beyond the limited period now granted.&lt;br /&gt;
foreign authors; but the document under con-&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) That the publication in the United States of un-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration contains evidence from most competent authorised translations of copyrighted books of foreigners&lt;br /&gt;
sources that the competition this very scramble other than English should be prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
175&lt;br /&gt;
OUTU&lt;br /&gt;
........&lt;br /&gt;
This last proposition would seem to be&lt;br /&gt;
adequately met by the provision in the present&lt;br /&gt;
law, Revised Statutes, section 4952, as amended&lt;br /&gt;
by the Act of March 3, 1891, reading as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And authors or their assigns shall have exclu.&lt;br /&gt;
sive right to dramatise or translate any of their&lt;br /&gt;
works for which copyright shall have been&lt;br /&gt;
obtained under the laws of the United States.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
What is desired, apparently, is that in the case&lt;br /&gt;
of books in foreign languages, not now copy.&lt;br /&gt;
righted in the United States by reason of the&lt;br /&gt;
type-setting stipulation, the author or assignee&lt;br /&gt;
should be allowed to secure copyright on an&lt;br /&gt;
authorised English translation, to the exclusion&lt;br /&gt;
of any unauthorised translation into Englisb.&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks are due to Commissioner Wright for&lt;br /&gt;
having elicited and brought together the very&lt;br /&gt;
interesting and valuable opinions on this impor-&lt;br /&gt;
tant subject printed in his report, and we hope&lt;br /&gt;
in a subsequent article to present a collated&lt;br /&gt;
summary of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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New York City, Feb. 12.&lt;br /&gt;
HE United States Senate last year passed a&lt;br /&gt;
resolution which directed the Bureau of&lt;br /&gt;
Labour to investigate the effect of the&lt;br /&gt;
International Copyright Act upon labour, pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, and wages in this country. The Bureau&lt;br /&gt;
has made its report, through Mr. Commissioner&lt;br /&gt;
Wright, who sought the required information&lt;br /&gt;
among the heads of the International Typo-&lt;br /&gt;
graphical Union, the leading American book&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, and the documents on file in the Con.&lt;br /&gt;
gressional Library and the Treasury Department.&lt;br /&gt;
Such reports are doubtless more significant to&lt;br /&gt;
those who happen to know precisely what the&lt;br /&gt;
.......&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Bureau wished to find, than they are to those in This last sentiment of Colonel Watterson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of the Bureau&amp;#039;s desires, but neverthe- comment is familiarly prevalent with us, where,&lt;br /&gt;
less the recommendations made to the Senate indeed, the man of letters seldom enters with&lt;br /&gt;
may be of general importance and interest either force or grace upon the discussion of public&lt;br /&gt;
(see p. 174).&lt;br /&gt;
questions. Mark Twain, for example, has pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Congress has taken no action upon the results voked a sizeable storm by an article in the last&lt;br /&gt;
of the investigations of its commission. We do number of the North American Review. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
not believe that any change in the law would be Clemens&amp;#039;s effort is called &amp;quot;To the Person sitting&lt;br /&gt;
proposed without obtaining the testimony of in Darkness&rdquo;; and, while our famous humorist&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
working authors, to whom apparently the Bureau purpose in writing it is not quite clear, it seems&lt;br /&gt;
of Labour did not appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
to be an arraignment of the methods of civilisa-&lt;br /&gt;
An editorial writer of the New York Book tion in dealing with the non-civilised. He pays&lt;br /&gt;
Buyer makes the meaty suggestion that the his respects to Mr. Chamberlain, Emperor William,&lt;br /&gt;
growth of the American reading public has not and President McKinley. &ldquo;Mr. Chamberlain&lt;br /&gt;
been quite so great as has been believed of late, manufactures a war out of materials so inade-&lt;br /&gt;
but rather that the international copyright Act quate and so fanciful that they make the boxes&lt;br /&gt;
has given our writers an equal opportunity by grieve and the gallery laugh, and he tries hard&lt;br /&gt;
outlawing the cheap and pirated English reprints. to persuade himself that it isn&amp;#039;t purely a private&lt;br /&gt;
We are reminded of the ingenuous lady in &ldquo; The raid for cash, but has a sort of dim, vague re-&lt;br /&gt;
Rise of Silas Lapham &rdquo; who asks: &ldquo;Is &middot; Daniel spectability about it somewhere, if he could only&lt;br /&gt;
Deronda&amp;#039; a new book? It has only just got into find the spot; and that, by-and-by, he can scour&lt;br /&gt;
the Seaside Library.&rdquo; Good writers are now the flag clean again after he has finished dragging&lt;br /&gt;
brought at once before the public, without the it through the mud, and make it shine and fash&lt;br /&gt;
offices of Seaside Libraries, and make their great in the vault of Heaven once more as it shone and&lt;br /&gt;
and popular successes, but we must not forget flashed there a thousand years in the world&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
that the old collections of unauthorised reprints respect until he laid his unfaithful hand upon it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
were evidences of a vast reading public in the Mr. Clemens&amp;#039;s animadversions on McKinleyism&lt;br /&gt;
United States before the days of &ldquo;Richard are, to us at least, even more surprising. Our&lt;br /&gt;
Carvel&rdquo; and &ldquo; To Have and to Hold.&rdquo; For the administration in the Philippines, he observes,&lt;br /&gt;
vogue of American authors among us, we must has treacherously stamped out a just and intelli-&lt;br /&gt;
thank the advocates of international copyright gent and well-ordered republic; has stabbed an&lt;br /&gt;
while we doff caps to the talented young oppor- ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest ;&lt;br /&gt;
tunism of American literary workers.&lt;br /&gt;
has invited our clean young men to shoulder a&lt;br /&gt;
We have regarded with especial interest the discredited musket and to do bandit&amp;#039;s work under&lt;br /&gt;
political aspirations of Mr. Hope and other a flag which bandits have been accustomed to&lt;br /&gt;
British men of letters. Within the month, two fear, not to follow ; has debauched America&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
of our popular authors have had a try at states honour and blackened her face before the world.&lt;br /&gt;
manship, with results which cannot be called It appears that Mark Twain is Colonel Watter-&lt;br /&gt;
entirely gratifying. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, son&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; hopeless politician&rdquo; in more senses than&lt;br /&gt;
the pleasant creator of &ldquo; Colonel Carter of one, but it is something of a comfort to remark&lt;br /&gt;
Cartersville,&amp;quot; has announced that Mrs. Stowe&amp;#039;s that American authors are more concerned by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Uncle Tom&amp;#039;s Cabin &rdquo; did as much as any one Mr. Clemens&amp;#039;s pyrotechnical exhibition than is&lt;br /&gt;
thing to precipitate our Civil War, and that the the American public at large. As a real factor&lt;br /&gt;
novel was a &ldquo;vicious, appalling, criminal mis. in our politics, the literary man is still reputed&lt;br /&gt;
take.&rdquo; Mr. Smith advances it as his opinion generally negligible.&lt;br /&gt;
that the very reason why a compromise between Another enlivenment of the winter has been the&lt;br /&gt;
the North and the South was impossible was appearance of M. Coquelin upon the witness&lt;br /&gt;
because books of that sort were written, and that stand in Chicago and his evidence in a law suit&lt;br /&gt;
poor Mrs. Stowe brought about the war by brought by a Mr. Gross, of that sprightly metro-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; viciously&rdquo; presenting a mistaken and distorted polis, for the purpose of establishing Mr. Gross&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
view of the situation. Many critics have taken legal rights as the author of &ldquo;Cyrano de&lt;br /&gt;
issue with Mr. Smith, and none in a more con. Bergerac,&amp;quot; ordinarily set down as the work of M.&lt;br /&gt;
vincing vein than Colonel Watterson, a well. Rostand. Mr. Gross asserts that several years&lt;br /&gt;
known Southern editor, who declares that Mrs. ago he wrote a piece called, unless I am mistaken,&lt;br /&gt;
Stowe&amp;#039;s novel was merely a spoke in an inexor- &ldquo;The Merchant Prince of Corneville,&rdquo; that this&lt;br /&gt;
able wheel, which for the time being represented masterpiece was for a lengthy period in the hands&lt;br /&gt;
perpetual motion, and that there &ldquo; never was yet of M. Rostand, and that most of it was incorpo-&lt;br /&gt;
a literary man who was not a hopeless politician.&rdquo; rated, with neither acknowledgment nor remune-&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
177&lt;br /&gt;
ration, into the play in which M. Coquelin is so&lt;br /&gt;
MORTUARY PARAGRAPH.&lt;br /&gt;
successful. The Chicagoan has been persistent Prominent in the obituary list of the past&lt;br /&gt;
in his claim&mdash;so persistent, it seems, that M. month figure the names of two eminent Acade-&lt;br /&gt;
Coquelin spent an entire morning in giving micians&mdash;the Duc de Broglie and the Vicomte Henri&lt;br /&gt;
his evidence, and sustained his part with his de Bornier. The former-symbol in his later years&lt;br /&gt;
usual careful facility. After it was over the of moderation, wisdom, and comprehensive&lt;br /&gt;
distinguished Frenchuan said, with tears in his indulgence&mdash;was an erudite writer, an ardent&lt;br /&gt;
eyes, that he had wasted two hours and a half of Conservative, and a defective politician. Though&lt;br /&gt;
his life. Mr. Gross&amp;#039;s suit is as yet undetermined, &ldquo; he acted the part of Richelieu to that modern&lt;br /&gt;
but Mme. Bernhardt and M. Čoquelin have not Louis XIII. called MacMahon, and leaves no other&lt;br /&gt;
excluded &ldquo; Cyrano&amp;quot; from their repertory.&lt;br /&gt;
trace in French history than the record of an&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
impossible enterprise and two incoherent endea-&lt;br /&gt;
vours &rdquo;&mdash;his historical research, literary talent,&lt;br /&gt;
and political probity earned him the respect and&lt;br /&gt;
esteem of his colleagues. &ldquo;Le Secret du Roi,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Marie-Th&eacute;r&egrave;se et Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric II.,&rdquo; and &ldquo; L&amp;#039;Histoire&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
de l&amp;#039;Eglise chr&eacute;tienne au quatri&egrave;me si&egrave;cle&rdquo; (the&lt;br /&gt;
latter being a collection of rather remarkable&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
articles, formerly published in the Revue des&lt;br /&gt;
Deux Mondes, etc.), rank among M. de Broglie&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; It was just that Providence destined the Queen best-known works. He had attained the ripe&lt;br /&gt;
of the greatest maritime Power of the adiverse to breathe&lt;br /&gt;
her parting sigh in this Osborne residence, in this Isle of age of eigay..years.&lt;br /&gt;
Wight bathed by the waves, facing tbe Portsmouth Arsenal,&lt;br /&gt;
In the Vicomte Henri de Bornier France&lt;br /&gt;
symbol of Imperial power and soul of the British Navy. It mourns one of her noblest sons and most gifted&lt;br /&gt;
was just that the English fleet should be the first to render&lt;br /&gt;
poets. His life was pure and good. All his&lt;br /&gt;
the last rites to Queen Victoria. It was just, also, that&lt;br /&gt;
the maritime Powers of the world&mdash;from France to Japan,&lt;br /&gt;
writings were characterised by a chivalrous en-&lt;br /&gt;
from Portugal to Germany-should take part in this cere-&lt;br /&gt;
thusiasm and lofty patriotism. His physical&lt;br /&gt;
mony. ... in rendering a supreme homage to the defects were forgotten immediately he opened his&lt;br /&gt;
Queen of whom posterity will anite with her contemporaries lips. Nothing was niggardly in this little man,&lt;br /&gt;
in saying that as perfect wife, mother, and sovereign, she save his stature. He came to Paris, poor and&lt;br /&gt;
carried with her to the tomb the respect and admiration of friendless, over fifty years ago. A shabby garret&lt;br /&gt;
all the nations of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;
in the rue du Bac was the only shelter within the&lt;br /&gt;
CYUCH was the tribute paid our late beloved limits of his narrow purse; an evening stroll&lt;br /&gt;
Sovereign by the Figaro correspondent in among the narrow streets and quaint bookstalls&lt;br /&gt;
a leading article detailing the impressive of the Latin Quarter his favourite recreation.&lt;br /&gt;
concluding pageant of her long and illustrious Lingering wistfully one evening outside the&lt;br /&gt;
reign. Nor have the other standard French Od&eacute;on theatre, he encountered a discontented&lt;br /&gt;
papers been a whit behindhand in their expres- habitu&eacute; who good-naturedly offered the stripling&lt;br /&gt;
sions of esteem and regret. Le Matin alone the use of his check. The young de Bornier&lt;br /&gt;
ventured on essaying a caustic tone; but the force eagerly accepted the proffered ticket, and made&lt;br /&gt;
of cultivated public opinion speedily induced the the acquaintance of the Od&eacute;on fencing-master,&lt;br /&gt;
adoption of a more respectful and dignified to whom he timidly submitted an historical drama&lt;br /&gt;
phraseology. Among the upper classes, and in entitled &ldquo;Du Guesclin.&rdquo;. Shortly after he pub-&lt;br /&gt;
official circles, the manifestations of sympathy lished a volume of poems, &ldquo; Premi&egrave;res Feuilles,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and regret were undoubtedly sincere. But the which was honoured with the approbation of Victor&lt;br /&gt;
feeling of the bulk of the population remains Hugo, Chateaubriand, and B&eacute;ranger. In 1848&lt;br /&gt;
unchanged. A certain most impolitic publica he entered the Arsenal library (of which he became&lt;br /&gt;
tion hawked in the street, and the inimical curator in 1889), and in 1895 his magnificent&lt;br /&gt;
caricatures of the new monarch which appeared epic drama, &ldquo;La Fille de Roland,&amp;quot; was per-&lt;br /&gt;
on the boulevards ere the week was out, sufficiently formed with unprecedented success at the Th&eacute;atre&lt;br /&gt;
indicated the sentiments of the masses. The Fran&ccedil;aise by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and M.&lt;br /&gt;
demagogues of the French Press assuredly envy Mounet Sully. &ldquo; Les Noces d&amp;#039;Attila&rdquo; and&lt;br /&gt;
our Royal House the loyal esteem of its subjects, &ldquo;Le Fils de l&amp;#039;Ar&eacute;tin&rdquo; were followed in 1899&lt;br /&gt;
since they so persistently seek to tarnish its by a second dramatic masterpiece entitled&lt;br /&gt;
merits in the eyes of their own countrymen. &ldquo; France. . d&amp;#039;Abord!&rdquo; M. de Bornier was&lt;br /&gt;
Under these circumstances their disparagement elected a member of the French Academy in&lt;br /&gt;
must be accepted as an involuntary and reluctant 1893. He died eight years later, Jan. 29, aged&lt;br /&gt;
seventy-six years.&lt;br /&gt;
homage.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
M.Jules Barbier (born 1825), author of upwards&lt;br /&gt;
of a hundred popular plays and librettos, and&lt;br /&gt;
several volumes of graceful verse; Mme. Edmond&lt;br /&gt;
Caro, an agreeable novelist and accomplished&lt;br /&gt;
member of Parisian society; M. Arthur Desjardins,&lt;br /&gt;
a thoughtful writer, whose articles on the Peace&lt;br /&gt;
Conference at The Hague and the Transvaal War&lt;br /&gt;
made quite a sensation here; and M. Maurice&lt;br /&gt;
Block, economist and statistician (born in 1816),&lt;br /&gt;
contributor to the Figaro, Temps, Journal des&lt;br /&gt;
Economistes, &amp;amp;c., have likewise passed away since&lt;br /&gt;
my last letter,&lt;br /&gt;
A THREEFOLD PROGRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
Three new institutions-marking three distinct&lt;br /&gt;
steps in advance in the respective domains of&lt;br /&gt;
feminism, psychology, and &auml;sthetics&mdash;have held&lt;br /&gt;
their inauguration fetes within a few days of one&lt;br /&gt;
another. (1) L&amp;#039;Association des &Eacute;tudiantes de&lt;br /&gt;
Paris (8, rue Danton); (2) L&amp;#039;Institut Psycho-&lt;br /&gt;
logique International; (3) Le Coll&egrave;ge d&amp;#039;Esth&eacute;tique&lt;br /&gt;
Moderne. The object of the Association des&lt;br /&gt;
&Eacute;tudiantes is a rapprocher les &eacute;tudiantes de&lt;br /&gt;
diverses facult&eacute;s, &agrave; faire na&icirc;tre entre elles des liens&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;intimit&eacute; et de solidarit&eacute;, &agrave; les encourager dans&lt;br /&gt;
leurs &eacute;tudes en leur fournissant un appui moral et&lt;br /&gt;
des secours mat&eacute;riels. Non-members are admitted&lt;br /&gt;
to the lectures given at the Feminine Students&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Club. L&amp;#039;Institut Psychologique International is&lt;br /&gt;
reported to have already established branch&lt;br /&gt;
societies in London and in several Continental&lt;br /&gt;
towns. Its exponents assert that this science will&lt;br /&gt;
play an important role in the criminal jurispru.&lt;br /&gt;
dence, pedagogy, and therapeutics of the future.&lt;br /&gt;
Information re the progress achieved by the&lt;br /&gt;
various sections of the society will be published&lt;br /&gt;
in the Bulletin de l&amp;#039;Institut. (3) M. Bj&ouml;ern.&lt;br /&gt;
stjerne Bj&ouml;rnson, the great Norwegian writer,&lt;br /&gt;
t;&lt;br /&gt;
presided ai the inauguration ceremony of the&lt;br /&gt;
Coll&egrave;ge d&amp;#039;Esth&eacute;tique, of which M. Emile Zola has&lt;br /&gt;
accepted the office of honorary president. A&lt;br /&gt;
number of literary celebrities were present on&lt;br /&gt;
this occasion. M. de Bouh&eacute;lier dwelt at some&lt;br /&gt;
length on the object of the foundation, and M.&lt;br /&gt;
Le Blond on the practical advantages to be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained from the mutual federation of the&lt;br /&gt;
representatives of literature, art, and science.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Modern Beauty&rdquo; was the appropriate title of&lt;br /&gt;
the first lecture delivered under the auspices of&lt;br /&gt;
the new college.&lt;br /&gt;
Famous AUTOGRAPHS.&lt;br /&gt;
The various prices obtained at recent sales for&lt;br /&gt;
sundry autograph letters, signed by illustrious&lt;br /&gt;
defunct writers, give a tolerably correct idea of&lt;br /&gt;
the actual mercantile value and popularity of the&lt;br /&gt;
works of those lights of literature, to wit :-&lt;br /&gt;
A letter written by Voltaire fetched 135&lt;br /&gt;
francs ; a literary letter (lettre litt&eacute;raire), by&lt;br /&gt;
Sainte-Beuve, 120 francs; seventeen letters of&lt;br /&gt;
Madame de Stael were sold for 410 francs; a&lt;br /&gt;
letter from Chateaubriand to M. de Vitrolles&lt;br /&gt;
immediately fetched 105 francs; a letter from&lt;br /&gt;
Diderot to Grimm, 380 francs; a letter from&lt;br /&gt;
Barbey d&amp;#039;Aurevilly to a lady, 120 francs ; a&lt;br /&gt;
genuine Balzac autograph (in the commencement&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo; P&egrave;re Goriot &amp;quot;), 52 francs; while a letter&lt;br /&gt;
written by Alexandre Dumas fils to a literary&lt;br /&gt;
critic obtained 125 francs, being 67 francs in&lt;br /&gt;
advance of the sum given for an autograph letter&lt;br /&gt;
written by Cath&eacute;rine de M&eacute;dicis to her Royal&lt;br /&gt;
son, Charles IX. A literary letter from Emile&lt;br /&gt;
Augier to a dramatic critic fetched the compara-&lt;br /&gt;
tively small sum of 29 francs; while a literary&lt;br /&gt;
letter from M. Paul Bourget&amp;#039;s pen obtained 30&lt;br /&gt;
francs-notwithstanding the fact that its author&lt;br /&gt;
is still living. The autographs of George Sand&lt;br /&gt;
are rare, and, consequently, much sought after.&lt;br /&gt;
An expert is reported to have asserted that an&lt;br /&gt;
autograph letter of George Sand is worth more&lt;br /&gt;
at the present time than the amount originally&lt;br /&gt;
received by the famous author for several of her&lt;br /&gt;
most popular works.&lt;br /&gt;
IN THE LAW COURTS.&lt;br /&gt;
Legal arbitration is slowly but surely super-&lt;br /&gt;
seding the homicidal duel which was so highly&lt;br /&gt;
in favour during certain epochs in the last&lt;br /&gt;
century. That an historian can, when necessary,&lt;br /&gt;
quote a passage from an article, book, or speech,&lt;br /&gt;
without the author&amp;#039;s authorisation, is established&lt;br /&gt;
by the &ldquo; Droit de Citation Litt&eacute;raire.&rdquo; Whether&lt;br /&gt;
an editor or author can likewise reproduce a&lt;br /&gt;
sketch or caricature, without the artist&amp;#039;s permis-&lt;br /&gt;
sion, is the question the law has been called on to&lt;br /&gt;
decide in the action brought by M. Ibels, carica-&lt;br /&gt;
turist of the Sifflet, against M. Grand-Carteret re&lt;br /&gt;
the latter&amp;#039;s interesting publication, &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Affaire et&lt;br /&gt;
l&amp;#039;Image.&amp;quot; Ma&icirc;tre Labori pleaded on behalf of&lt;br /&gt;
M. Ibels; Ma&icirc;tre G. Maillard upheld the right of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Citation Graphique&rdquo;; and Ma&icirc;tre Levy-Salle&lt;br /&gt;
appeared on behalf of the Si&egrave;cle, at whose office&lt;br /&gt;
the offending work was published.&lt;br /&gt;
A propos of the action for libel brought by M.&lt;br /&gt;
Bruyerre, the well-known dramatist, against his&lt;br /&gt;
political adversary, M. Montorgueil of the Eclair,&lt;br /&gt;
on account of an injurious personal article pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished in the latter paper Feb. II, 1900, the&lt;br /&gt;
First Civil Chamber has at last arrived at the&lt;br /&gt;
following decision :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Seeing that&mdash;in an article entitled &amp;#039;L&amp;#039;Envers&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;un drame,&amp;#039; published in the &Eacute;clair, Feb. 11,&lt;br /&gt;
1900&ndash;Georges Montorgueil has imputed to&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Bruyerre actions hurtful to his honour,&lt;br /&gt;
and prejudicial to his public reputation; ...&lt;br /&gt;
that Montorgueil vainly asserts to have been&lt;br /&gt;
within his right in censuring the private indi-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 179 (#245) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
179&lt;br /&gt;
viduality of a writer who had himself given to&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
the publicity of the stage a domestic drama in&lt;br /&gt;
which he was one of the actors; that, though the &amp;quot;T ITERATURE&rdquo; puts in a timely word in&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic and literary author&amp;#039;s work may be&lt;br /&gt;
favour of the recognition of men and&lt;br /&gt;
within the critic&amp;#039;s jurisdiction, it is not the same&lt;br /&gt;
women of letters. It points out that,&lt;br /&gt;
with his private conduct&mdash;whether or not the according to some, an Academy of Letters would&lt;br /&gt;
latter be in harmony with his work&rdquo;-for these, be a foundation worthy of a new reign. The&lt;br /&gt;
and sundry other reasons duly detailed by the subject is thorny, and must be discussed else-&lt;br /&gt;
First Chamber, M. Montorgueil was condemned where. It also points to a reform in the distri-&lt;br /&gt;
to pay one thousand francs indemnity to bution of pensions never intended for the widows&lt;br /&gt;
M. Bruyerre, as compensation for the injurious of Government officials, and further suggests&lt;br /&gt;
article published in the Eclair. The last that a more adequate recognition should be given&lt;br /&gt;
cited phrases in the above judgment, joined to the claims of men and women of letters. The&lt;br /&gt;
to the 5000 francs (2000 francs d&amp;#039;amende, 3000 Author has advocated these reforms for some&lt;br /&gt;
francs de dommages int&eacute;r&ecirc;ts), which the Ninth vears, and we ought to rejoice that a paper&lt;br /&gt;
Civil Chamber has ordered the director of the&lt;br /&gt;
of wide circulation has at last taken up the&lt;br /&gt;
Petit Caporal to disburse for having indulged in subject. Of course, the initial objection will be&lt;br /&gt;
a somewhat similar freedom of language regarding raised that authors themselves may be jealous&lt;br /&gt;
the Seine-et-Oise deputy, M. Perillier, afford&lt;br /&gt;
whatever distributions are granted. Perhaps :&lt;br /&gt;
matter for wholesome reflection to several but this point may be neglected. There are dis-&lt;br /&gt;
impetuous French journalists who are extremely contented members of the Bar and of the medical&lt;br /&gt;
redoubtable&mdash;in print.&lt;br /&gt;
profession, but the fact does not interfere with&lt;br /&gt;
the recognition of lawyers and doctors as worthy&lt;br /&gt;
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
of the national distinctious. It is not in order to&lt;br /&gt;
. &ldquo;Monsieur Bergeret &agrave; Paris,&amp;quot; by M. Anatole&lt;br /&gt;
please writers that we ask for recognition of&lt;br /&gt;
France (chez the Figaro), which is asserted to&lt;br /&gt;
letters: it is in order to teach the people the very&lt;br /&gt;
have attained its thirty-ninth edition in three&lt;br /&gt;
great and necessary lesson that literature is an&lt;br /&gt;
days; &ldquo;Le Friquet,&rdquo; by &ldquo;Gyp&rdquo; (chez E. Flam-&lt;br /&gt;
occupation, profession, or calling that is worthy&lt;br /&gt;
marion); &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Essai d&amp;#039;une psychologie politique&lt;br /&gt;
of respect. When the State begins to honour&lt;br /&gt;
du peuple Anglais au dix-neuvi&egrave;me si&egrave;cle,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
letters systematically, the people will begin to&lt;br /&gt;
M. E. Boutmy (chez Armand Colin), a most inter-&lt;br /&gt;
respect the calling of literature.&lt;br /&gt;
esting work whose import is sufficiently indicated&lt;br /&gt;
by its title; &ldquo; Probl&egrave;mes politiques du temps&lt;br /&gt;
pr&eacute;sent,&rdquo; by M. Emil Faguet (chez Armand Colin); The following passage is taken by permis-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fl&eacute;au qui passe,&amp;quot; a sensational novel by M. sion from Mr. Churton Collins&amp;#039;s new volume,&lt;br /&gt;
Ernest Daudet, the clever inheritor of a famous &ldquo;Ephemera Critica,&rdquo; which has just been pub-&lt;br /&gt;
patronymic; &ldquo; Vallobra,&amp;quot; by M. Paul Alexis, lished by Messrs Constable :-&lt;br /&gt;
which narrates the history of a well-known&lt;br /&gt;
Matthew Arnold very truly observed that one of the&lt;br /&gt;
Parisian statesman under the transparent dis most unfortunate tendencies of our time was the tendency&lt;br /&gt;
guise of a fictitious personage; &ldquo;Notre Ennemi,&amp;quot; to over-estimate the performances of &ldquo;the averago&lt;br /&gt;
by M. Cattier, being a well-written novel, dealing&lt;br /&gt;
man.&amp;quot; The over-estimation of these performances is&lt;br /&gt;
no longer a tendency, but an established custom.&lt;br /&gt;
with the pernicious effects caused by alcohol;&lt;br /&gt;
Literature in all its branches is rapidly becoming his&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Midship,&rdquo; a promising first novel by M. Pierre&lt;br /&gt;
monopoly. As judged and judge, as author and critic,&lt;br /&gt;
Custot, a young author of talent; &ldquo; &Eacute;tudes et there is every indication that he will proceed from&lt;br /&gt;
R&eacute;flexions d&amp;#039;un pessimiste,&amp;quot; by M. Challemel. triumph to triumph, and establish his cult wherever books&lt;br /&gt;
Lacour (chez Fasquelle), the said pessimist being&lt;br /&gt;
are read. Now the only sphere in which &ldquo; the average&lt;br /&gt;
man&amp;quot; is entitled to homage is a moral one, and he is most&lt;br /&gt;
an elegant and interesting writer; and &ldquo; Les&lt;br /&gt;
venerable when he is passive and anambitious. But if&lt;br /&gt;
Femmes docteurs en m&eacute;decine, dans tous les&lt;br /&gt;
ambition and the love of fame are awakened in him, he is&lt;br /&gt;
pays,&rdquo; by Madame Haryett Fontanges.&lt;br /&gt;
capable of becoming exceedingly corrapt and of forfeiting&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
every title to veneration. He is capable of resorting to all&lt;br /&gt;
the devices to which men are forced to resort in manufac.&lt;br /&gt;
turing factitious reputations, to imposture, to fraud, to&lt;br /&gt;
circulating false currencies of his own, and to assisting&lt;br /&gt;
others in the circulation of theirs. Even when he is free&lt;br /&gt;
from these vices, so far as their deliberate practice is con-&lt;br /&gt;
cerned, he is scarcely less mischievous if he be ancontrolled.&lt;br /&gt;
To say that his standard is never likely to be a high one,&lt;br /&gt;
either with reference to his own achievements or with&lt;br /&gt;
reference to what he exacts from others, and to say that&lt;br /&gt;
the systematic substitution of inferior standards for high&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 180 (#246) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
180&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
ones must affect literature and all that is involved in its&lt;br /&gt;
infuence, most disastrously, is to say what will be generally&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledged. And he has everything, unhappily, in his&lt;br /&gt;
favour-numbers, influence, the spirit of the age. For one&lt;br /&gt;
who sees through him and takes his measure, there are&lt;br /&gt;
thousands who do not: for one who could discern the&lt;br /&gt;
justice of an exposure of his shortcomings, there are&lt;br /&gt;
thousands who would attribute that exposure to personal&lt;br /&gt;
enmity and to dishonest motives. His power, indeed, is&lt;br /&gt;
becoming almost irresistible. The one thing which he and&lt;br /&gt;
bis fellows thoroughly anderstand is the formidable advan.&lt;br /&gt;
tage of co-operation. The consequence is that there are pro-&lt;br /&gt;
bably not half a dozen reviews and newspapers now left which&lt;br /&gt;
they are not able practically to coerce. An editor is obliged&lt;br /&gt;
to assume honesty in those who contribute to his columns,&lt;br /&gt;
and also to avail himself of the services of men who can&lt;br /&gt;
write good articles, if they write bad books. In the first&lt;br /&gt;
case, it is not open to him to question the justice of the&lt;br /&gt;
verdict pronounced ; in the second case, the courtesy of&lt;br /&gt;
the gentleman very naturally and properly predominates,&lt;br /&gt;
onder such circumstances, over public considerations&mdash;and&lt;br /&gt;
bow can truth be told ? Nor is this all. Assuming that&lt;br /&gt;
an editor is free from such ties, be bas to consult the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of bis paper, to study popularity, and not to&lt;br /&gt;
estrange those who are, from a commercial point of view,&lt;br /&gt;
the mainstay of all our literary journals, those who adver&lt;br /&gt;
tise in them&mdash;the publishers. &ldquo;If,&rdquo; said an editor to me&lt;br /&gt;
once, &ldquo;I were to tell the truth as forcibly as I could wish&lt;br /&gt;
to do, about the books sent to me for review, in six months&lt;br /&gt;
my proprietors would be in the bankruptcy court.&amp;quot; It is in&lt;br /&gt;
the power of the pablishers to ruin any literary journal.&lt;br /&gt;
There is probably not a single review in London which&lt;br /&gt;
would survive the withdrawal of the publishers&amp;#039; advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments.&lt;br /&gt;
equality in his work to over-production. A letter which&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Marsh has just addressed to the chief literary journals&lt;br /&gt;
explains both the inequality and the apparent rapidity of&lt;br /&gt;
his work. It seems that the publishers to whom his earlier&lt;br /&gt;
work was sold are taking advantage of his present popalarity&lt;br /&gt;
in a fashion that must be called at least disingenuous.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;During the last year or two,&rdquo; says Mr. Marsh, &ldquo;work of&lt;br /&gt;
mine which appeared in print twelve years ago has been&lt;br /&gt;
brought out as new. The impression has consequently&lt;br /&gt;
grown up that I flood the market with books turned out by&lt;br /&gt;
machinery. ... An author can have no reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
objection to the production of fresh editions of his books,&lt;br /&gt;
but he has every right to protest against his old work being&lt;br /&gt;
issued by owners of copyrights as if it were new. It is&lt;br /&gt;
unfair to the public, to reviewers, and to the writer himself.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
With this protest we are entirely in accord. Only it must&lt;br /&gt;
be said that the author has always a prospective remedy&lt;br /&gt;
against this sort of ill-usage by declining to part with the&lt;br /&gt;
copyright of his books. No doubt at present this is a&lt;br /&gt;
counsel of perfection. The young writer who can only get&lt;br /&gt;
his works issued on condition that he sells them outright can&lt;br /&gt;
hardly be expected to choose the alternative of not appear-&lt;br /&gt;
ing in print. But the sooner the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
succeed in getting every writer to follow their banner in the&lt;br /&gt;
contest for the author&amp;#039;s full rights the better it will be for&lt;br /&gt;
the writing and reading world. In the apparent remoteness&lt;br /&gt;
of that happy consummation it ought to be no difficult&lt;br /&gt;
thing to guard against this particular trick of the unscrupo-&lt;br /&gt;
lous publisher by inserting in the next Copyright Act a&lt;br /&gt;
brief clause to ensure that the date of original publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion shall be placed on the back of the title-page of every&lt;br /&gt;
new edition. Messrs. Macmillan and some other publishers&lt;br /&gt;
have already adopted this plan, which is most helpful to the&lt;br /&gt;
bibliographer. We gbould like to see it made compulsory,&lt;br /&gt;
whether by legislation or by the force of public opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
The above extract, made by permission of the&lt;br /&gt;
author, should be very carefully considered by&lt;br /&gt;
our readers. Brief comments, or additional evi.&lt;br /&gt;
dence, on the subject are invited, but not vague&lt;br /&gt;
talk. It is hoped to return to the subject in&lt;br /&gt;
the April number. There are not many points&lt;br /&gt;
connected with the well-being, the interests, and&lt;br /&gt;
the independence of literature more important&lt;br /&gt;
than those raised by Mr. Collins.&lt;br /&gt;
I have received, by the kindness of Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Clementina Black, one of the vice-presidents of&lt;br /&gt;
the Women&amp;#039;s Industrial Council, their report for&lt;br /&gt;
the last year. An appeal is there made for&lt;br /&gt;
additions to the library. The books, which now&lt;br /&gt;
number over 1000, are used for twenty-seven&lt;br /&gt;
associations, each of which is entitled to so many&lt;br /&gt;
volumes a year. There is very little margin for&lt;br /&gt;
the purchase of books, and the report asks for&lt;br /&gt;
be report asks for&lt;br /&gt;
presents of books. Will members and readers&lt;br /&gt;
make a note of the request and write for a copy&lt;br /&gt;
Copy&lt;br /&gt;
of the report? The office of the Council is at&lt;br /&gt;
12, Buckingham-street, Strand. Members would&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps see their way to sending copies of their&lt;br /&gt;
own books.&lt;br /&gt;
The foregoing note is from the Manchester&lt;br /&gt;
Guardian. The grievance is, as there stated, the&lt;br /&gt;
republication of old work as if it was new. That&lt;br /&gt;
is to say, most agreements, whether of royalty, or&lt;br /&gt;
of profit sharing (?), or of commission, or by&lt;br /&gt;
sale outright, include the power of republication&lt;br /&gt;
in any form and at any time. This, however, is&lt;br /&gt;
not necessarily the sale of copyright. The dis-&lt;br /&gt;
tinction has been often laid down by Mr. Thring,&lt;br /&gt;
and will be explained again. As regards, how-&lt;br /&gt;
ever, the right of republication, with which we are&lt;br /&gt;
here concerned, it would be possible, perhaps, to&lt;br /&gt;
get a short clause to the effect suggested inserted&lt;br /&gt;
in the Bill, but in the case of young writers,&lt;br /&gt;
anxious above all things to get their chance of&lt;br /&gt;
being heard, nothing would be easier than a clause&lt;br /&gt;
in the agreement securing that right to the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher despite the&lt;br /&gt;
lisher despite the Copyright Bill. No clause in&lt;br /&gt;
an Act, I believe, can be so framed as not to be&lt;br /&gt;
set aside by agreement. The only possible way&lt;br /&gt;
to meet this difficulty, and a great many others&lt;br /&gt;
of the same kind, is what I have elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;
described as the &ldquo; Method of the Future,&amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
is simply for a writer of position in any branch to&lt;br /&gt;
take over the publication of his own work with a&lt;br /&gt;
commission publisher who is nothing else. As&lt;br /&gt;
soon as this system is universally adopted&mdash;there&lt;br /&gt;
The surprising fecundity of a novelist of some reputation,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Ricbard Marsb, has been more than once commented&lt;br /&gt;
opon by the critics, who have attributed a certain lack of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 181 (#247) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
181&lt;br /&gt;
is no trouble about it, and in the case of such a&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHING ON COMMISSION.&lt;br /&gt;
writer no risk-the ordinary publisher would be&lt;br /&gt;
left with the rubbish to deal with as he pleases. CYOME interest has been awakened by the&lt;br /&gt;
We should then hear no more of those monstrous&lt;br /&gt;
paper in the February number of The&lt;br /&gt;
claims advanced by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association &amp;quot; Author on the &ldquo; Method of the Future.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
which demand practically the right to take just Letters have been received by the Editor asking&lt;br /&gt;
whatever they please for themselves, with com- if the facts and conclusions there stated can&lt;br /&gt;
missions on everything and unlimited power over possibly be based on agreements issued by&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
respectable firms. One writer abuses the Editor&lt;br /&gt;
in round terms for untruthfulness in letting it&lt;br /&gt;
Meantime, and until writers of distinction&lt;br /&gt;
be supposed that the terms as set forth in that&lt;br /&gt;
understand their own power as a commercial paper can really be advanced in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
factor, and are prepared to take as much care with the conditions of the Publishers&amp;#039; Associa-&lt;br /&gt;
over their literary property as they now take over tion. It would, indeed, be difficult to believe&lt;br /&gt;
an estate, a house, a coal mine, the only thing to that such figures were possible were not the&lt;br /&gt;
do is to insist upon a clause in the original agree. documents before the world as issued by the&lt;br /&gt;
ment to the effect pointed out by the Manchester comunittee of that body-documents which are,&lt;br /&gt;
Guardian. This clause should be adopted at indeed, truly wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;
once by all literary agents. Perhaps the Com. In justification of that paper let us quote the&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of the Society will take up the matter. documents themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
The meaning of publishing by commission has&lt;br /&gt;
There is, of course. no hope whatever that a hitherto been understood to be that the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher who is in possession of an early and a lisher puts the book through the press&mdash;the&lt;br /&gt;
forgotten work by an author who becomes&lt;br /&gt;
corrections being, of course, made by the author&lt;br /&gt;
popular will not take advantage of that popularity&lt;br /&gt;
-advertises it, and sends it round the trade in&lt;br /&gt;
for his own interests. As well believe what some the usual routine. For this work he was con-&lt;br /&gt;
publishers still pretend, that the trade exists for sidered to be properly paid by a commission on&lt;br /&gt;
no other purpose than the advancement of litera- the sales. Observe that he ran no risk: his&lt;br /&gt;
ture. One might as well pretend that a glover in&lt;br /&gt;
work was of a purely routine character: it takes&lt;br /&gt;
Bond-street exists for no other purpose than the&lt;br /&gt;
a few minutes only to decide the type, paper,&lt;br /&gt;
improvement and advancement of the tannery&lt;br /&gt;
and binding-I speak from experience, because I&lt;br /&gt;
interest. Both glover and publisher exist for the&lt;br /&gt;
have done this work myself for many books.&lt;br /&gt;
sake of making money by their trade. The state-&lt;br /&gt;
For the use of his office, and for that very&lt;br /&gt;
ment is not an accusation: it is a plain fact. In small amount of personal service, he received a&lt;br /&gt;
the same way brewers, although they are some-&lt;br /&gt;
commission.&lt;br /&gt;
times raised to the House of Lords, exist for the All this is now altered. The publishers demand&lt;br /&gt;
purpose of making money by their trade. The in addition to the commission a blank percentage&lt;br /&gt;
same thing may also be said, of course, as regards upon everything. In addition, mind, not in sub-&lt;br /&gt;
the professions. Anyone, in fact, who is paid for stitution for a commission. In addition, every-&lt;br /&gt;
the exercise of his skill is, in a sense, a trades- thing is to be so charged as to make it the interest&lt;br /&gt;
man. If we recognise this fact in all its bearings&lt;br /&gt;
of the publishers to make the unhappy author&lt;br /&gt;
we shall be saved a large amount of gush and&lt;br /&gt;
accept as high an estimate as they think will&lt;br /&gt;
subsequent ill-feeling. We come back, over and&lt;br /&gt;
be possible, an estimate furnished, observe, by&lt;br /&gt;
over again, to the broad distinction between litera-&lt;br /&gt;
themselves, not by printers, binders, and paper-&lt;br /&gt;
ture as an art and literature as a profession, trade,&lt;br /&gt;
makers. Here, however, are the exact terms,&lt;br /&gt;
or calling. And from the former point of view taken from their own published &ldquo; Forms of Agree-&lt;br /&gt;
there is no possibility of estimating literature by ment&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;
means of money-eg., a writer who is indignant (1) There is to be a blank fee paid in advance,&lt;br /&gt;
because Milton received only &pound;10 for &ldquo; Paradise in order, one supposes, to meet the case in which&lt;br /&gt;
Lost&rdquo; misunderstands the whole question, there would be no sales. It should be a fee&ldquo; on&lt;br /&gt;
while the sum paid for &ldquo; Paradise Lost&amp;quot; should account&rdquo; of commission, which, if moderate,&lt;br /&gt;
in equity-perhaps it did-represent the com-&lt;br /&gt;
would be fair.&lt;br /&gt;
mercial value of the poem at the time.&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The estimate above-mentioned to be sent&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
in by the publisher (!) on which he is to charge a&lt;br /&gt;
commission. So that the door is left open to&lt;br /&gt;
direct fraud and overcharge in the estimate, on&lt;br /&gt;
which, not on the actual cost, the publisher is to&lt;br /&gt;
charge a commission.&lt;br /&gt;
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182&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
But why even on the exact cost? What is notices of certain books. Among other short&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher paid for at all, except for the very articles is an extract from the New York Tribune&lt;br /&gt;
trifling service of sending the book to the on the literary agert. It is sad to observe that&lt;br /&gt;
printers ? He receives a commission on the sales, the American publisher loves him not. The&lt;br /&gt;
for which he gives the use of his office and such reason is, according to the Tribune, not that he&lt;br /&gt;
personal service as he renders.&lt;br /&gt;
conducts affairs of business from a business&lt;br /&gt;
(3) A discount added to the commission on the point of view, but because he breaks up &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
charges of not more&mdash;which, of course, will be pleasant personal relations between the authors&lt;br /&gt;
interpreted &amp;quot; not less &amp;quot;&mdash;than 71 per cent. and the publishers.&rdquo; It is not for us to&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Payment of all their charges in advance. inquire into the history of those relations in&lt;br /&gt;
(5) A blank commission on the sales.&lt;br /&gt;
the United States. On our side the relations&lt;br /&gt;
(6) Accounts rendered and payment made a have been pleasant, very pleasant-for publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
blank number of months afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;
that is, so long as authors never inquired what&lt;br /&gt;
If the reader will apply figures to these con- they meant. When an abominable and deplor-&lt;br /&gt;
ditions it will be found that the paper in able spirit of curiosity impelled them to ascer-&lt;br /&gt;
The Author understated the case.&lt;br /&gt;
tain for themselves the meaning of royalties,&lt;br /&gt;
In addition, however, to these conditions the &ldquo;half profits,&rdquo; advertisements, printing, paper,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; draft agreements&rdquo; preserve an absolute silence and binding, there was an outcry. The ways&lt;br /&gt;
about charging advertisements not paid for, i.e., in of pleasantness and the paths of peace were&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers&amp;#039; own organs and by exchange. disturbed. The old friendly relations were&lt;br /&gt;
This silence must be designed in the face of the destroyed. In other words, the old suspicions&lt;br /&gt;
representations continually made as to these and heartburnings which characterised the old&lt;br /&gt;
charges. Nothing, observe, is to prevent a pub- relations were explained and investigated. So&lt;br /&gt;
lisher from charging whatever he pleases for far, the position of the author, with us, has been&lt;br /&gt;
advertising a book in a way which costs him enormously improved, while the publisher has&lt;br /&gt;
nothing. And not one word is said by the ceased to maunder and to mourn over the&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&amp;#039; Association in condemnation of this imaginary friendly relations of old. Occasionally,&lt;br /&gt;
power or the practice.&lt;br /&gt;
too, he still catches an author who is credulous&lt;br /&gt;
Observe, also, that, so far as is known, not a enough to believe that in publishing, alone among&lt;br /&gt;
single publisher has remonstrated with these all transactions affecting property, the word of&lt;br /&gt;
monstrous claims : so that not only the small fry, one side is to be accepted without question or&lt;br /&gt;
but also the most important houses, have endorsed doubt.&lt;br /&gt;
and approved these Forms.&lt;br /&gt;
Under these circumstances it is surely common&lt;br /&gt;
prudence not to give a book to be published on CANADIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
commission to a general publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
The conditions thus set forth are not hard to REPORT READ AT THE ANNUAL MEET-&lt;br /&gt;
understand. Readers will be able to strengthen&lt;br /&gt;
ING&mdash;TORONTO, JAN. 21, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
the Society&amp;#039;s hands very materially by making THE Canadian Society of Authors was formed&lt;br /&gt;
them known among their friends.&lt;br /&gt;
W. B. 1 at a meeting summoned by circulars&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to all known writers in Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
and held at the Canadian Institute, Feb. 6, 1899,&lt;br /&gt;
on a resolution moved by Hon. G. W. Ross,&lt;br /&gt;
THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. seconded by the late Professor Rand, and carried&lt;br /&gt;
with practical unanimity. Through a variety of&lt;br /&gt;
THE Bulletin of this Society for Dec. 1900 is causes, however, the holding of the first annual&lt;br /&gt;
1 before us. It contains an account of a meeting has been delayed until the present date,&lt;br /&gt;
dinner given to Mark Twain, with his although, according to ordinary routine, it would&lt;br /&gt;
speech on the occasion-an excellent speech, of have been held at an earlier period.&lt;br /&gt;
course. There is no one in this country who is After inauguration, the following officers of the&lt;br /&gt;
not prepared to acknowledge the tribute of the Society were elected :-Hon. President, Goldwin&lt;br /&gt;
Washington Post quoted in the Bulletin. Only, Smith, D.C.L. ; President, Hon. G. W. Ross;&lt;br /&gt;
instead of &ldquo;this vast country,&amp;quot; one would be dis- Vice-presidents, Hon. J. W. Longley (Halifax),&lt;br /&gt;
posed to substitute the words &ldquo;the vast territories W. D. Lighthall (Montreal), and Professor&lt;br /&gt;
governed by the Anglo-Saxon communities.&rdquo; Mavor (Toronto); Secretary, Bernard McEvoy ;&lt;br /&gt;
The rest of the Bulletin is made up mainly of Executive, Messrs. James Bain, O. A. Howland, J.&lt;br /&gt;
short paragraphs. There is nothing in it con- Castell Hopkins, John A. Cooper, B. E. Walker,&lt;br /&gt;
cerning literary property. There are, however, and Pelham Edgar.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
183&lt;br /&gt;
Immediate efforts to increase the number of Your secretary has collected a considerable&lt;br /&gt;
members were made by correspondence with quantity of information regarding the writings&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian authors, and a membership of eighty- of members of the Society, which is available for&lt;br /&gt;
three has been enrolled, of which thirty reside in any future action that may be taken in connection&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto, twenty-eight in other parts of Ontario, with it.&lt;br /&gt;
twelve in Quebec, two in Nova Scotia, four in Your Society has to lament the loss of two&lt;br /&gt;
British Columbia, three in London (England), members by death-viz., Professor Theodore&lt;br /&gt;
two in the North-West Territory, one in California, Rand, of Toronto, and Hon. J. Marchand, of&lt;br /&gt;
and one in New York. Numerous letters were Quebec.&lt;br /&gt;
received, approving of the incorporation of&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian authors into a permanent organisa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FRASER HOMES FOR INDIGENT&lt;br /&gt;
Your Society early gave its attention to the&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
study of the question of Canadian Copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
which, at its inception, was in an unsettled and NHE homes at Colinton, to found which the&lt;br /&gt;
unsatisfactory state. In accordance with a reso-&lt;br /&gt;
late Sir William Fraser, K.C.B., LL.D.,&lt;br /&gt;
lution of your Society, the president prepared a - bequeathed &pound;25,000, have now been built,&lt;br /&gt;
comprehensive memorandum on the subject which and are ready for occupation. Sir William, it&lt;br /&gt;
was printed and freely distributed. This was may perhaps be remembered, directed his trustees&lt;br /&gt;
subsequently the basis of discussion at several to apply the sum mentioned &amp;quot; in the foundation&lt;br /&gt;
meetings of your executive, and ultimately and endowment of certain homes for the poor in&lt;br /&gt;
certain clauses were agreed upon which it was the city or county of Edinburgh,&rdquo; declaring it to.&lt;br /&gt;
recommended should form a part of any fresh be his wish that the persons to be benefited&lt;br /&gt;
legislation on the subject that might shortly be &ldquo;should include preferentially those who may be&lt;br /&gt;
introduced in the Dominion Parliament, while ascertained to be authors or artists, and who,&lt;br /&gt;
Vice-President Professor Mavor, who was going either from non-success in the profession or work&lt;br /&gt;
to England, was deputed to lay the views of your of literature or of art, or from whatever other&lt;br /&gt;
Society before a Committee of the House of cause, are in necessitous circumstances, the&lt;br /&gt;
Lords, which at that time was considering a new character of the said beneficiaries being always&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act. This he did with considerable found to be satisfactory to the administrators.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
success, appearing on several occasions before the The rules and regulations to be made for admis.&lt;br /&gt;
Committee, and interviewing many persons con- sion to the homes, and for their management,&lt;br /&gt;
cerned. Messrs. 0. A. Howland and A. H. F. were left entirely to the discretion of the trustees.&lt;br /&gt;
Lefroy also gave careful attention to important Ground was feued by Sir William&amp;#039;s trustees in&lt;br /&gt;
legal aspects of the question, and made a valuable the vicinity of Colinton railway station, and the&lt;br /&gt;
report thereupon, which was laid before the work of building the houses was begun in May&lt;br /&gt;
Ministers at Ottawa who were considering a new last. The site is an excellent one. It is on the&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act. Professor Mavor subsequently high ground to the north of the railway, and&lt;br /&gt;
attended at Ottawa and explained the views of overlooking the village of Colinton. The build-&lt;br /&gt;
your Society to several members of the Cabinet. ings consist of twelve houses, forming three sides&lt;br /&gt;
Your Society may therefore legitimately consider of a square, and facing a central court. This&lt;br /&gt;
that it exerted a proper and significant influence court has been nicely laid out, and has a terraced&lt;br /&gt;
in connection with the preparation and passing walk round it, and a small fountain in the centre.&lt;br /&gt;
of the fairly satisfactory Copyright Bill which The houses vary in size from two to four rooms,&lt;br /&gt;
received the assent of the Governor-General last and are fitted up with all the latest sanitary and&lt;br /&gt;
year, and that it has done its best to place its other conveniences. There is a large hall and&lt;br /&gt;
ideas on the subject of copyright before the reading room which is to be used by the inhabi.&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial authorities in London.&lt;br /&gt;
tants of the homes in common. The buildings&lt;br /&gt;
On Oct. 24, 1899, your Society held a banquet have a highly picturesque appearance. They are&lt;br /&gt;
at the Temple Caf&eacute;, Toronto, which was attended of stone, and are harled and whitewashed, the&lt;br /&gt;
by about sixty members and friends, the guests red corn-sickle dressings standing out boldly&lt;br /&gt;
being Mr. Gilbert Parker and Mr. George against the white surroundings. The court has&lt;br /&gt;
Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Society of a southern aspect, and commands a magnificent&lt;br /&gt;
Authors, Great Britain.&lt;br /&gt;
view, bounded only by the Pentlands.&lt;br /&gt;
On April 9, 1900, your Society gave an evening The balance of the &pound;25,000, after payment of&lt;br /&gt;
reception to Louis Frechette, C.M.G., at the the cost of erecting the homes, is to be invested&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Institute, which was attended by about by the trustees, and the income applied in the&lt;br /&gt;
100 members and friends.&lt;br /&gt;
upkeep of the buildings, and other necessary&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 184 (#250) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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184&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
expenditure. The balance of income still remain-&lt;br /&gt;
ing is to be applied for behoof of the inmates of&lt;br /&gt;
the homes. The trustees also reserve to themselves&lt;br /&gt;
power to receive donations.-Scots Pictorial.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
owners of the copyright something; I never&lt;br /&gt;
heard of an English reprinter sending those who&lt;br /&gt;
are morally the holders of the copyright a six-&lt;br /&gt;
pence.&lt;br /&gt;
I have been told, on what I believe to be good&lt;br /&gt;
authority, that at least one &ldquo;eminent&rdquo; publish-&lt;br /&gt;
ing firm have reprints of popular books ready to&lt;br /&gt;
bring out the moment they are free of the law.&lt;br /&gt;
I remember, when I first knew anything of the&lt;br /&gt;
publishing trade (alas, &amp;#039;tis hard on sixty years&lt;br /&gt;
since), two publishers&mdash;Tegg and Daly-used to&lt;br /&gt;
be spoken of as by no means reputable because&lt;br /&gt;
their chief trade was that of pouncing on books&lt;br /&gt;
the copyright of which had expired. Moral&lt;br /&gt;
feeling does not appear to have grown stronger in&lt;br /&gt;
fifty years.&lt;br /&gt;
F. S. ELLIS.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;THE MOTE AND THE BEAM.&lt;br /&gt;
TN times gone by English publishers have been&lt;br /&gt;
1 as loud as English authors in their con-&lt;br /&gt;
demnation of the practice of literary piracy&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States of America. I imagine they&lt;br /&gt;
would still think themselves aggrieved where books&lt;br /&gt;
are reprinted of which the publisher has neglected&lt;br /&gt;
or been unable to fulfil the conditions of the&lt;br /&gt;
American Copyright Act. But will the English&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, who make it a practice to pounce down&lt;br /&gt;
on the works of any popular author the moment&lt;br /&gt;
they are out of copyright, explain to us how&lt;br /&gt;
much better they are than their American&lt;br /&gt;
brethren whom they so freely and justly&lt;br /&gt;
condemn ? The answer or excuse is the same in&lt;br /&gt;
both cases. &ldquo;There is no copyright.&rdquo; &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
copyright has expired.&rdquo; I would ask these&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen what would be the case with them if&lt;br /&gt;
the law protected the author for twenty years&lt;br /&gt;
instead of forty, or ten, or five, or one? If their&lt;br /&gt;
conscience allows them to appropriate a book as&lt;br /&gt;
soon as the law ceases to protect it, would they&lt;br /&gt;
be a bit more scrupulous if they had immunity&lt;br /&gt;
after a shorter period ?&lt;br /&gt;
A particularly outrageous, not to say dis-&lt;br /&gt;
graceful, form of this practice I complain of is,&lt;br /&gt;
where cheap reprints are issued of early editions&lt;br /&gt;
of books which were afterwards revised and&lt;br /&gt;
recast by the author, misleading those who know&lt;br /&gt;
no better to suppose they are buying a complete&lt;br /&gt;
book, when they are in truth having imposed&lt;br /&gt;
upon them a book which the author would desire&lt;br /&gt;
to withdraw from circulation. The case of&lt;br /&gt;
avowed facsimile reprints is, of course, another&lt;br /&gt;
matter; to those I do not refer.&lt;br /&gt;
I lately came on a reprint of the first and&lt;br /&gt;
boyish version of a poem, which the author&lt;br /&gt;
subsequently rewrote, put forth without one word&lt;br /&gt;
of explanation. This crude version was printed&lt;br /&gt;
in a magazine in 1850, while the author&amp;#039;s revised&lt;br /&gt;
version did not appear till 1870. Hence the&lt;br /&gt;
sketch is at the mercy of the pirate while the&lt;br /&gt;
complete version is not. The English publisher&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
code of honour in reprinting &ldquo;out of copyright&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
books seems to me to be exactly on a par with&lt;br /&gt;
that of the American publisher who reprints &amp;quot; no&lt;br /&gt;
copyright&rdquo; books. But there is a difference.&lt;br /&gt;
Many of the American houses would send the&lt;br /&gt;
II.-BOOKS AND REVIEWS-A REPLY.&lt;br /&gt;
I did not think that the propositions which I&lt;br /&gt;
presumed to advance in the January Author&lt;br /&gt;
would call forth such an interesting paper as that&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;Books and Reviews,&rdquo; by our Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
As my few remarks have caused a little interest,&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps I ought to say something to vindicate&lt;br /&gt;
my position, which I find rather awkward owing&lt;br /&gt;
to the indefinite nature of certain sentences in&lt;br /&gt;
my first letter.&lt;br /&gt;
I certainly said that &ldquo;reviews are intended for&lt;br /&gt;
the guidance of readers,&rdquo; but I did not add&lt;br /&gt;
criticism, which the Editor has done, in the&lt;br /&gt;
first sentence of his second paragraph. I must&lt;br /&gt;
express my sorrow for not placing the term&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;review&amp;quot; between inverted commas, which I&lt;br /&gt;
meant to do, and thus should have run less risk&lt;br /&gt;
of being misunderstood. It is the &ldquo; reviewing,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
or lumping system, to which I referred, for the&lt;br /&gt;
word conveyed very little other meaning to me,&lt;br /&gt;
True! I always thought there might be a subtle&lt;br /&gt;
significance in the term-a hidden meaning&lt;br /&gt;
known only to the writers&mdash;but to me such&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;reviews&rdquo; only meant a guide to readers ; criti.&lt;br /&gt;
cism has always appeared to me to be quite&lt;br /&gt;
another matter.&lt;br /&gt;
Our editor very rightly says that these&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; reviews should be, first of all, designed to mark&lt;br /&gt;
and to illustrate the present condition of litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture; to maintain a standard, and to keep before&lt;br /&gt;
the world the canons of criticisms.&amp;quot; Very true;&lt;br /&gt;
they should have this intention, but have&lt;br /&gt;
they? If they are so designed, very few signs of&lt;br /&gt;
such intentions are visible. After reading the&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s article I made a careful study of the&lt;br /&gt;
review columns in the principal literary papers,&lt;br /&gt;
and the conclusion I was compelled to form was&lt;br /&gt;
that very few papers indeed act up to the ideal of&lt;br /&gt;
criticism so ably portrayed by him. There are a&lt;br /&gt;
few which do so, but I need only mention two of&lt;br /&gt;
the best&mdash;the Scotsman and the Manchester&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 185 (#251) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
185&lt;br /&gt;
un U-&lt;br /&gt;
Guardian. I don&amp;#039;t know what the system to literature. Here let me say in reply to&lt;br /&gt;
of these papers may be, but as nearly every H. M. E. Stanton&amp;#039;s letter that I am a devoted&lt;br /&gt;
review, even in the same class of litera- book lover ; to me books are the dearest things&lt;br /&gt;
ture, differs from the others in the general on earth; they are materialised thoughts, and as&lt;br /&gt;
character and style of writing, I should say that such I love to review them, no matter how bad&lt;br /&gt;
they adopt the system of the Glasgow Herald, they inay be, for even in those amateurish&lt;br /&gt;
and give one book per week to a private reviewer. attempts which no one will review I find grains&lt;br /&gt;
No matter how they work it, their critical columns of golden thought, even though they are expressed&lt;br /&gt;
are worth reading, both as specimens of critical in unliterary and ungrammatical words. These&lt;br /&gt;
art, and also as guides to the best in literature books have no claim to be called contributions to&lt;br /&gt;
No doubt the old-fashioned critical articles were literature, yet I review them all the same-for&lt;br /&gt;
the best; blackguardly though they may have been, my own benefit; the editors for whom I work&lt;br /&gt;
one would prefer those murderous slatings of fifty would not use the reviews if I sent them. Such&lt;br /&gt;
years ago rather than the &ldquo;review&rdquo; of to-day. books come in the parcels with the good ones-&lt;br /&gt;
A book must have been a contribution to literature evidently the editors who send them think they&lt;br /&gt;
to get even condemnation; to-day neither the may be useful to my barber ; but the barber does&lt;br /&gt;
author nor the public can know of what literary not see them; they are stored upon my shelves&lt;br /&gt;
value a book is from the Press notices. Have we with any little good points carefully marked.&lt;br /&gt;
to assume that with the higher standard of educa- To me they are the dead and gone fancies of&lt;br /&gt;
tion, the greater output of good books, the many a struggling mind, and I love them.&lt;br /&gt;
correspondingly greater number of critical readers, I do not go so far as to suggest the wholesale&lt;br /&gt;
and last, but by no means least, the rapid publication of bad books, but I do say that there&lt;br /&gt;
advances made in journalism, the standard of may be good even in the worst. Certainly a book&lt;br /&gt;
criticism has degenerated ? I greatly fear that should not be condemned for, perhaps, a few&lt;br /&gt;
this melancholy question must be answered in the phrases of questionable morale, as so many are.&lt;br /&gt;
affirmative. Why should the greater output of Like immoral pictures, immoral books can be&lt;br /&gt;
books have this result, assuming that every book exquisite works of art, and should be treated as&lt;br /&gt;
is to-day regarded as a literary event, to be such ; their literary value should be discussed&lt;br /&gt;
judged accordingly? Even the few brief lines apart from the critic&amp;#039;s notions of morality. The&lt;br /&gt;
given in the&ldquo; lumping &amp;quot;columns of the Spectator reviewer is not required to give his religious&lt;br /&gt;
might be in accordance with the canons (sic) opinions, but his literary judgment, which should&lt;br /&gt;
of criticism. Better still, if a book ought to be not be so much his own opinion as a proper expo-&lt;br /&gt;
noticed at all, why should it not receive a para- sition of the canons of literature.&lt;br /&gt;
graph of some few dozen lines, and let these With regard to my other proposition, that&lt;br /&gt;
lines be well written? Let praise or condemna authors &ldquo; do not buy books,&rdquo; I referred more to&lt;br /&gt;
tion be given in well-formed sentences, stating novels&mdash;modern novels. Of course, every author&lt;br /&gt;
the literary reasons why such praise or condemna -and novelist-buys his Scott, Dickens, and&lt;br /&gt;
tion is given. There is too much of the personal Thackeray, if he can afford it, and also the works&lt;br /&gt;
element in modern &amp;quot;reviewing,&amp;quot; and &agrave; propos of our great contemporaries; but I do not think&lt;br /&gt;
of this a reference pregnant with meaning they buy novels that are talked about in the&lt;br /&gt;
is given by Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton in his papers as other members of society are supposed&lt;br /&gt;
newly-published treatise on Bret Harte, concern to do. Again, in reply to H. M. E. Stanton, it is to&lt;br /&gt;
ing the first appearance of &ldquo; The Luck of Roaring this kind of literature that my &ldquo;principle&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Camp.&amp;quot; A narrow-minded printer and a prudish applies. I never bought a modern &ldquo;popular&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
young lady proof-reader objected to a phrase in novel, but I have bought, and love to buy, as&lt;br /&gt;
the story, with the result that a magnificent piece many books as I can afford from the pens of&lt;br /&gt;
of word-painting was nearly lost to the world. It such writers as our editor, J. M. Barrie, and&lt;br /&gt;
was only through the firmness of both author George Meredith. Books from these masters are&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher that the story was printed. One is as necessary to the young writer as books on&lt;br /&gt;
inclined to think that much of this sort of thing anatomy are to the medical student. No; I am&lt;br /&gt;
still goes on. How many good books are not tired of the books, even after I have&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;slated&rdquo; through the prejudice taken by some &ldquo;reviewed&rdquo; them&mdash;they are always things of&lt;br /&gt;
narrow-minded reviewers against certain phrases joy; but I certainly weary of the long, &ldquo; lump-&lt;br /&gt;
in them? I venture to say there are many ing&amp;quot; columns of Press notices which are in every&lt;br /&gt;
hundreds. We want&mdash;very much want-review- way so useless. There is both instruction and&lt;br /&gt;
ing done for the sake of pure art; each article interest in such critical articles as appear in the&lt;br /&gt;
should in itself be a specimen of critical art; and Saturday Review, and monthly in the Bookman,&lt;br /&gt;
it should treat its subject also as a contribution which of all purely literary papers is distinctly&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the best. The criticisms contained in this latter&lt;br /&gt;
journal combine nearly all the designs of criti.&lt;br /&gt;
cism mentioned by Sir Walter Besant; but, alas!&lt;br /&gt;
when will the dailies and weeklies turn out such&lt;br /&gt;
paragraphs as the Bookman ? Certainly all of&lt;br /&gt;
us who have the privilege of reviewing&mdash;and a&lt;br /&gt;
noble work it is, if well done-should aim at&lt;br /&gt;
attaining this high standard.&lt;br /&gt;
Jas. BAGNALL-STUBBS.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
DROFESSOR YORK POWELL is engaged&lt;br /&gt;
on a book which will be called &ldquo; The Reign&lt;br /&gt;
he Reign&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Constable.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Fish Crown in Dispute,&rdquo; the fairy tale&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss F. Lancaster Lucas, which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Skeffington and Son will publish at Easter, is of&lt;br /&gt;
interest as being the first book dedicated to&lt;br /&gt;
H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall and York in her&lt;br /&gt;
new title, she having graciously accepted the&lt;br /&gt;
dedication.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. H. Bellyse Baildon will issue a book through&lt;br /&gt;
Chatto and Windus this month, entitled &ldquo;Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Louis Stevenson : a Life Study in Criticism.&rdquo; Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Baildon was a schoolfellow of Robert Louis&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson, and in later life correspondence kept&lt;br /&gt;
them in touch with each other. When Steven.&lt;br /&gt;
son had made a name, Dr. Baildon had become&lt;br /&gt;
a lecturer on English Literature to German&lt;br /&gt;
students on the Continent, and he tried to infuse&lt;br /&gt;
into his pupils an admiration for Stevenson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
work as being something more than mere adven.&lt;br /&gt;
ture books. The book will contain a portrait&lt;br /&gt;
hitherto unpublished, and will be uniform with&lt;br /&gt;
the six-shilling edition of Stevenson&amp;#039;s works.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Katharine S. Macquoid, the novelist and&lt;br /&gt;
travel - book writer, quietly kept her golden&lt;br /&gt;
wedding day on Jan. 28. She has been working&lt;br /&gt;
for the public for nearly forty years. Her health&lt;br /&gt;
is delicate, but she still works, when health&lt;br /&gt;
permits, with her accustomed spirit. She has&lt;br /&gt;
lately finished a historical romance.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. B. T. Batsford announces a second issue&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Edwin 0. Sachs&amp;#039;s monumental work,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Modern Opera Houses and Theatres,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
will be published in the spring. Mr. Sachs&amp;#039;s work&lt;br /&gt;
comprises three grand folio volumes with two&lt;br /&gt;
hundred and twenty plates, and over one thousand&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations, and the first edition appeared&lt;br /&gt;
between 1896 and 1898, after having required&lt;br /&gt;
more than eight years&amp;#039; preparation. The work is&lt;br /&gt;
the most comprehensive on any special architec-&lt;br /&gt;
tural subject published during the past century,&lt;br /&gt;
The new issue will be in no wise inferior to the&lt;br /&gt;
original, and will contain a special prefatory&lt;br /&gt;
note dealing with the latest developments and&lt;br /&gt;
improvements in theatre architecture which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Sachs has to such a great extent been instru-&lt;br /&gt;
mental in bringing about, not only at home, but&lt;br /&gt;
in foreign countries.&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel is announced by Miss Mina&lt;br /&gt;
Sandeman, entitled &ldquo; Veronica Verdant.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frederic Carrel, the author of &ldquo;The Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
gress of Pauline Kessler,&amp;quot; is now reading the&lt;br /&gt;
proofs of his new novel &ldquo; Paul Le Maistre.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Grant, the author of &ldquo;The Middle&lt;br /&gt;
Temple,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Baltic Cruise,&rdquo; &ldquo;La Marguerite,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is writing an account of his cruise to the Mediter-&lt;br /&gt;
is writing&lt;br /&gt;
ranean, and of his travels in Sicily, Sardinia,&lt;br /&gt;
and Corsica. The book will be ready early&lt;br /&gt;
in March.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Poultney Bigelow sails for America imme-&lt;br /&gt;
diately in order to lecture at Yale and Columbia&lt;br /&gt;
Universities on the History of Colonies and their&lt;br /&gt;
Administration. He proposes to return as soon&lt;br /&gt;
as the lectures have been given.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Cordy Jeaffreson died on Feb. 2, at&lt;br /&gt;
Maida Vale. London, in his seventy-first year.&lt;br /&gt;
Although chiefly known for his works on the&lt;br /&gt;
learned professions&mdash;&ldquo;A Book about Doctors,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Book about Lawyers,&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Book about&lt;br /&gt;
the Clergy&rdquo;_Mr. Jeaffreson&amp;#039;s work in fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
especially &ldquo; Not Dead Yet,&amp;quot; was also popular.&lt;br /&gt;
A book of his personal reminiscences appeared&lt;br /&gt;
about seven years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
The Rev. Henry Grey Graham, author of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Social Life in Scotland in the Eighteenth Cen-&lt;br /&gt;
tury,&rdquo; which has been published in a one-volume&lt;br /&gt;
edition, is engaged on a volume dealing with the&lt;br /&gt;
Scottish literature and literary men of the same&lt;br /&gt;
period. It will not be ready till about the end of&lt;br /&gt;
the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Wright&amp;#039;s forthcoming edition of&lt;br /&gt;
Cowper&amp;#039;s Letters will contain many new letters.&lt;br /&gt;
cowpers&lt;br /&gt;
from the original manuscripts.&lt;br /&gt;
The author of &ldquo;An Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love&lt;br /&gt;
Letters,&rdquo; concerning whose identity there has&lt;br /&gt;
been so much feverish curiosity, is stated to be&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Laurence Housman.&lt;br /&gt;
The Life of the late Bishop of London (Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mandell Creighton) has been undertaken by Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Creighton, and will be published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Longmans, Green and Co. Mrs. Creighton&lt;br /&gt;
appeals to those who may have letters from the&lt;br /&gt;
Bishop to lend them to her for the purposes of&lt;br /&gt;
the work.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
187&lt;br /&gt;
A history of the recent campaign in Ashanti&lt;br /&gt;
by an officer who was with the relieving force is&lt;br /&gt;
about to be published by Messrs. Methuen. The&lt;br /&gt;
author is Captain H. J. C. Biss. The book will&lt;br /&gt;
be fully illustrated with photographs and plans.&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Hodgson, wife of Sir Frederic Hodgson,&lt;br /&gt;
formerly Governor of the Gold Coast, has written&lt;br /&gt;
an account of the siege of Coomassie, which is&lt;br /&gt;
published by Messrs. Pearson.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Anticipations&rdquo; is the title of a new work upon&lt;br /&gt;
which Mr. H. G. Wells is at present engaged.&lt;br /&gt;
It is to be a series of speculations on the world&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
development, based on scientific knowledge and a&lt;br /&gt;
reasoned survey of the tendencies of the age.&lt;br /&gt;
The work will first appear serially in one of the&lt;br /&gt;
monthly reviews.&lt;br /&gt;
Literature understands that the late Mr. Stephen&lt;br /&gt;
Crane&amp;#039;s uncompleted novel &ldquo; The O&amp;#039;Ruddy,&rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
being finished by Mr. A. E. W. Mason, and will&lt;br /&gt;
be dramatised and produced by Mr. David&lt;br /&gt;
Belasco.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. C. Bradley, who has been Professor&lt;br /&gt;
of Modern Literature at University College,&lt;br /&gt;
Liverpool, and at Glasgow University, now&lt;br /&gt;
succeeds Professor Courthope in the Chair of&lt;br /&gt;
Poetry at Oxford. Mr. W. J. Woodhouse,&lt;br /&gt;
M.A., Lecturer in Ancient History and Political&lt;br /&gt;
Philosophy at St. Andrew&amp;#039;s, has been elected&lt;br /&gt;
to the Professorship of Greek at the Univer-&lt;br /&gt;
sity of Sydney. Mr. Woodhouse&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Tutorial&lt;br /&gt;
History of Greece&amp;quot; will be published in a few&lt;br /&gt;
months.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A State Secret, and Other Stories,&amp;quot; by Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Croker, and a novel entitled &ldquo;A Narrow Way,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss Mary Findlater, are being published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen.&lt;br /&gt;
A recent number of Light, the weekly organ of&lt;br /&gt;
spiritualism, contained the following curious&lt;br /&gt;
announcement from the hon. secretary of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Spiritists:&lt;br /&gt;
We have received two or three messages from Florence&lt;br /&gt;
Marryat-the first on the day of her funeral, and others at&lt;br /&gt;
different times since then, during our materialisation&lt;br /&gt;
s&eacute;ances. She stated that she hoped to communicate with&lt;br /&gt;
as abortly, but that she would never materialise, as that&lt;br /&gt;
was not a part of her work in the other life, but we ander.&lt;br /&gt;
stood that she would dictate a book to us of experiences&lt;br /&gt;
since she crossed the river. She wished it taken down in&lt;br /&gt;
shorthand, and we have made arrangements for this to be&lt;br /&gt;
done.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Archer contributes to the Inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national Monthly for February (London: The&lt;br /&gt;
International News Company) a paper entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; The Real Ibsen.&rdquo; He remarks at the outset&lt;br /&gt;
that Henrik Ibsen has been more widely miss&lt;br /&gt;
understood than any artist, past or present.&lt;br /&gt;
After dealing with the points upon which he&lt;br /&gt;
claims that Ibsen has been misunderstood, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Archer in conclusion says:&lt;br /&gt;
T he people who seek to construct a &amp;quot;gospel,&rdquo; a consistent&lt;br /&gt;
body of doctrine, from bis works, are spinning ropes of&lt;br /&gt;
sand. He is &ldquo;everything by turns and nothing long.&amp;quot; He&lt;br /&gt;
is neither an individualist nor a socialist, neither an aristo.&lt;br /&gt;
crat nor a democrat, neither an optimist nor a pessimist.&lt;br /&gt;
He is simply a dramatist, looking with piercing eyes at the&lt;br /&gt;
world of men and women, and translating into poetry this&lt;br /&gt;
episode and that from the inexhaustible pageant. Poetry-&lt;br /&gt;
poetry: that is the first word and the last of any true&lt;br /&gt;
appreciation of Ibsen. It is largely because he has applied&lt;br /&gt;
to purposes of poetry a vehicle hitherto ased only for&lt;br /&gt;
prosaio ends that he has been so strangely misunderstood.&lt;br /&gt;
But the period of misunderstanding is passing away, and&lt;br /&gt;
the real Ibsen is emerging from the mists in which pre-&lt;br /&gt;
jadice and imperfect knowledge have enveloped him, to take&lt;br /&gt;
his predestined place among the great poets of the nine-&lt;br /&gt;
teenth century.&lt;br /&gt;
Journalism is in a flourishing condition in the&lt;br /&gt;
Argentine Republic, where it enjovs perfect&lt;br /&gt;
liberty, and, according to the U.S. Education&lt;br /&gt;
Report, is constantly increasing in influence and&lt;br /&gt;
improving in quality. In 1881 only 165 news-&lt;br /&gt;
papers and periodicals were published in the&lt;br /&gt;
entire country, but in 1896 the number had&lt;br /&gt;
increased to 610, of which 279 were published in&lt;br /&gt;
the capital city, 327 in the provinces, and four in&lt;br /&gt;
the national territories. The best newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
correspond in size to the leading daily papers of&lt;br /&gt;
the United States. They have a complete tele-&lt;br /&gt;
grapbic service, and publish every day dispatches&lt;br /&gt;
giving the important news from all parts of the&lt;br /&gt;
world.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Premi&egrave;res of the Year&rdquo; is a volume by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
J. T. Grein, which Mr. Macqueen is about to&lt;br /&gt;
publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Max Pemberton&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Pro Patria,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
which ran serially in the Windsor Magazine, will&lt;br /&gt;
be published this month by Messrs. Ward, Lock&lt;br /&gt;
and Co. It is reported that Mr. Pemberton has&lt;br /&gt;
written a comedy for Miss Julia Neilson and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Fred Terry.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Aylmer Gowing&amp;#039;s new novel, entitled &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
Spider&amp;#039;s Web,&amp;quot; is now ready, and may be&lt;br /&gt;
had of all booksellers. It is described as a&lt;br /&gt;
work of considerable strength and of sustained&lt;br /&gt;
interest.&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel by Mrs. de Courcy Laffan (Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Leith Adams) may be looked for early in the&lt;br /&gt;
spring. It will be entitled &ldquo; The Vicar of Dale&lt;br /&gt;
End: a Study,&amp;#039; and dedicated, by special permis-&lt;br /&gt;
sion, to Sir Henry Irving. The story is founded&lt;br /&gt;
on certain facts that happened about a hundred&lt;br /&gt;
years ago. A volume of collected stories (from&lt;br /&gt;
All the Year Round and Household Words), by&lt;br /&gt;
the same writer, is in the press, and will shortly&lt;br /&gt;
be published; as also a third and cheaper edition&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot;The Prince&amp;#039;s Feathers.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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188&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Jarrold and Sons have issued a new to-day seems too crude to deal with its delicate&lt;br /&gt;
two-shilling edition of Mrs. de Courcy Laffan&amp;#039;s perfection. The front, in Shaftesbury-avenue,&lt;br /&gt;
earlier works, under the title of &ldquo; The Imperial reminds one of a pavilion in the park of Versailles,&lt;br /&gt;
Series.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
although at the same time it asserts itself as&lt;br /&gt;
On Feb. 6, Mrs. Laffan lectured before a&lt;br /&gt;
undoubtedly a theatre.&rdquo; The house was opened&lt;br /&gt;
crowded and distinguished audience, at the&lt;br /&gt;
with &ldquo;The Belle of Bohemia,&rdquo; a musical farce&lt;br /&gt;
Sesame Club, on &ldquo;Fictional Literature as a&lt;br /&gt;
written by Mr. Harry B. Smith, the music by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Profession for Women.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Ludwig Englander.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. D. Bvrne has translated Sudermann&amp;#039;s The new Savoy opera, &ldquo; The Emerald Isle,&rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Johannisfeur&amp;quot; on an order from Mrs. Patrick&lt;br /&gt;
intended for production about Easter. The&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell. It is a four-act play in the East&lt;br /&gt;
libretto is by Captain Basil Hood, and the late&lt;br /&gt;
Prussian dialect. The English title given is&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Arthur Sullivan&amp;#039;s partial setting is being&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Bonfire Night,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
completed by Mr. Edward German.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. S. Crockett is the author of a book on&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Langtry will open the reconstructed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Scott Country.&rdquo; which Messrs. A. and C. Imperial Theatre, on April 18, with her new play&lt;br /&gt;
Black are about to publish. It aims at present.&lt;br /&gt;
founded on the life of Marie Antoinette.&lt;br /&gt;
ing information upon the district associated with A dramatised version of &ldquo; Vanity Fair&rdquo; has&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Walter Scott upon a more compact and com- been secured by Mr. Frank Curzon, and will&lt;br /&gt;
prehensive plan than has yet been attempted. probably be the next production at the Prince of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Crockett is the author of &ldquo;In Praise of Wales&amp;#039;s Theatre. Miss Marie Tempest, who is&lt;br /&gt;
Tweed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
now playing in &ldquo; Peg Woffington&rdquo; at that&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Masson is writing his &ldquo;Reminiscences theatre, is spoken of for the part of Becky Sharp.&lt;br /&gt;
of a Literary Life.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A new modern comedy by Mr. R. C. Carton&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. Lys Baldry is engaged on a large illus-, will be produced at the Criterion about Easter.&lt;br /&gt;
trated volume to be called &ldquo; Professor Hubert Meanwhile that house is about to witness a&lt;br /&gt;
von Herkomer and his Works.&rdquo; It is not revival of Mr. Sydney Grundy&amp;#039;s adaptation from&lt;br /&gt;
expected to be ready before the autumn. Messrs. &ldquo;Les Surprises du Divorce,&rdquo; entitled &ldquo; Mamma.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Bell are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Henry Irving has accepted a play by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mme. Sarah Grand&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Babs the Fergus Hume.&lt;br /&gt;
Impossible,&rdquo; will be published in a few weeks by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hutchinson. The same firm will issue&lt;br /&gt;
A morning performance of Mr. Zangwill&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Adeline Sergeant&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Trea-&lt;br /&gt;
comedy, &ldquo; The Revolt of the Daughters,&amp;quot; is being&lt;br /&gt;
arranged by Mr. J. T. Grein for a day in March.&lt;br /&gt;
sure of Captain Scarlett.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Forbes Robertson begins his management&lt;br /&gt;
Mr Warwick H. Draper has written a book on of the Comedy on April 20.&lt;br /&gt;
King Alfred, which Mr. Elliot Stock is publishing,&lt;br /&gt;
It will have an introduction from the pen of the&lt;br /&gt;
Bishop of Hereford.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Neil Munro&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Doom Castle,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which is appearing serially, will be published in&lt;br /&gt;
a month or two by Messrs. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
Earl Percy has written a volume on the High-&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. XI.&mdash;No. 11.)&lt;br /&gt;
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graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
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Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
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(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;
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(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
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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;
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Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
IT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
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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;
duotion 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,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely carefal in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such &amp;amp; contract shoald 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;
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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 the loan of the books 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 the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
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will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipte&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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
0. 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;
&middot; 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;
cracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
TEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
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NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
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of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
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All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
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tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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M&lt;br /&gt;
- &Ocirc; oon on ouren ooenou-meno oor ons&lt;br /&gt;
-oo o o o oeroeren- onen--005 Ocean&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
33&lt;br /&gt;
Do years)&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
I00&lt;br /&gt;
IO&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
. 1901) ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A..............&lt;br /&gt;
...........&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Egmond, H. V. .....................&lt;br /&gt;
HE following is the list of donations Gilbert, W. S............&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or&lt;br /&gt;
Goldemith, W. H. ............&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
Gribble, F. ......&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey .............&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. ........&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
.................................. ... ... ............ &pound;100&lt;br /&gt;
.........&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E. ...............&lt;br /&gt;
............ 50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ...&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous ............................................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis....&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ............&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M...&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter...............&lt;br /&gt;
Macdonald, Mrs.......................................&lt;br /&gt;
Boevey, Miss Crawley .............&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max.&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L.&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs..&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W....&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts, Morley&lt;br /&gt;
O 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years)&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ....................&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ............................&lt;br /&gt;
O 10&amp;#039; 0&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T.....&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W.........&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ............................... 10 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss .............&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P.......&lt;br /&gt;
II 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss. Beatrice ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .......&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H..&lt;br /&gt;
The first meeting of the Pension Fund Com-&lt;br /&gt;
Jacberns, Raymond .................&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur....&lt;br /&gt;
50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
mittee was held at the offices of the Society on&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott&lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, March 7, at four o&amp;#039;clock, when the&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
following resolutions, proposed by Mr. Morley&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts and seconded by Mr. M. H. Spielmann,&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R. ........&lt;br /&gt;
10 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
for the conduct of applications for pensions for&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
1901 were passed unanimously :&lt;br /&gt;
Miles, Eastace .............................. ....... I&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;In the month of April the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope.........&lt;br /&gt;
IO I Committee will proceed to consider applications&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah, Herbert ......................&lt;br /&gt;
for pensions to be granted under the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Fund scheme of the Society of Authors. Pur-&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert ..&lt;br /&gt;
suant to the power to make bye-laws for regu-&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden ...&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 0 lating applications for pensions vested in the&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock, Sir Frederick ...........&lt;br /&gt;
committee by the scheme, the Committee have&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
made and hereby give notice of the following&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti, W. M. .&lt;br /&gt;
regulations:&lt;br /&gt;
S. B.........&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. .................................&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;1. All applications must be in writing and&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof.&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Secretary of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors at the offices of the Society (4, Portugal-&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E.&lt;br /&gt;
........&lt;br /&gt;
street, W.C.) and must reach the Secretary on or&lt;br /&gt;
Toplis, Miss G.&lt;br /&gt;
........... 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec&lt;br /&gt;
before Saturday, April 20, 1901. Envelopes&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P....&lt;br /&gt;
should be marked &bull; Confidential.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Weyman, Stanley ...&lt;br /&gt;
26 5 0 &ldquo;2. Applications may be made (a) by the&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0 applicant for a pension, (6) by any two members&lt;br /&gt;
Williams, Mrs. E. L. ......&lt;br /&gt;
I 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society on the applicant&amp;#039;s behalf. In the&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Ernest ...............&lt;br /&gt;
0 6 0&lt;br /&gt;
latter case the Committee may require the appli-&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
cant to signify in writing his willingness to&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)...... 10 00&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
I 10&lt;br /&gt;
accept a pension if granted.&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold .....&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; 3. Applications must state, to the best of the&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ...&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge and belief of the person or persons&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter..........&lt;br /&gt;
making the same:&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;(a) The full name, description, and present&lt;br /&gt;
Brodhurst, Spencer.......&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
address of the applicant. If the applicant&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ......&lt;br /&gt;
has written under an assumed name such&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R.&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
name should also be given.&lt;br /&gt;
2&lt;br /&gt;
0-0 enero - &Ouml;NNON Om o meno ---Sen 6-N 86-8 &ouml;wen 8 senonowo - 8&lt;br /&gt;
000&lt;br /&gt;
o ono oro ao &ouml;en o ono o o ono ono oo On 7 - 05--000-00000 &Otilde;woooow No 00-00&lt;br /&gt;
en onnoinen en om&ouml;&lt;br /&gt;
O&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
O&lt;br /&gt;
..........&lt;br /&gt;
O&lt;br /&gt;
O 100&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 192 (#264) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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192&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (6) The age of the applicant, and the date&lt;br /&gt;
at which the applicant became a member&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society. If the applicant has&lt;br /&gt;
ceased to be a member, the date of his or&lt;br /&gt;
her retirement must be given.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;(c) The financial position of the applicant,&lt;br /&gt;
including an account of the applicant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
entire annual income from all sources&lt;br /&gt;
(including voluntary allowances if any).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (d) The names of the publications relied on&lt;br /&gt;
to establish the merit of the applicant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
literary work.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;4. Applications may, if desired, be accom.&lt;br /&gt;
panied by not more than two testimonials to the&lt;br /&gt;
applicant&amp;#039;s character, and to merits of the appli.&lt;br /&gt;
cant&amp;#039;s works or eitber of them, and by a further&lt;br /&gt;
statement of the applicant&amp;#039;s financial position&lt;br /&gt;
from some person acquainted therewith.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;5. Avplications and the contents of all state-&lt;br /&gt;
ments relating thereto will be treated as confi.&lt;br /&gt;
dential, the names of the recipients of the&lt;br /&gt;
pensions and the amounts granted alone being&lt;br /&gt;
stated in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;6. All communications whatever must be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Secretary, and to him only.&lt;br /&gt;
Canvassing of members of the Committee, either&lt;br /&gt;
by or on behalf of the applicant, is prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;7. The first pensions created will be granted&lt;br /&gt;
as from March 25, 1901, and will be payable, as&lt;br /&gt;
to the first instalment immediately, and there-&lt;br /&gt;
after in quarterly instalments in advance on the&lt;br /&gt;
usual English quarter days.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
By order of the Pension Fund Committee,&lt;br /&gt;
G. HERBERT THRING, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Arrondissement; and Coupri, Sculptor,&lt;br /&gt;
Livry, Seine et Oise.)&lt;br /&gt;
3. The author&amp;#039;s rights in connection with&lt;br /&gt;
reproductions by means of mechanical appliances;&lt;br /&gt;
perforated cards, projecting processes, phono-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs, cinematographs, &amp;amp;c. (M. Jean Lobel,&lt;br /&gt;
10, Rue Captal, Paris, IX. Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
4. Dramatic art. The author&amp;#039;s right appertain.&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the actor ; creation of character, costumes,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. Rights attributable to inventors of mise en&lt;br /&gt;
sc&egrave;ne, theatrical decorations, sets, machinery, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
(MM. G. Lefeuve, 3, Rue de la Bienfaisance,&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. Arrondissement; and G. Pfeiffer, 40, Rue&lt;br /&gt;
Condoret, IX, Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
5. Examination of the new German law re-&lt;br /&gt;
specting publishers&amp;#039; agreements. (M. Eisenmann,&lt;br /&gt;
2, Cit&eacute; Rougemont, IX. Arondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
Will you oblige us by communicating with the&lt;br /&gt;
above-named gentlemen with a view to the&lt;br /&gt;
formation of the committees and the furthering&lt;br /&gt;
of their objects.&lt;br /&gt;
For information please address M. G. Maillard,&lt;br /&gt;
general referee, or the permanent secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Jules Lermina, 19, Boulevard Port Royal,&lt;br /&gt;
XIII. Arrondissement.&lt;br /&gt;
The association is at the same time preparing&lt;br /&gt;
an important work which demands the assistance&lt;br /&gt;
of all its members. This is a history of the&lt;br /&gt;
progress of the National and International Law&lt;br /&gt;
of Copyright during the XIX. Century. (MM, A.&lt;br /&gt;
Darras, 97, Boulevard St. Michel; and Jules&lt;br /&gt;
Lermina.)&lt;br /&gt;
We earnestly beg you to give in your name to&lt;br /&gt;
one or more of the above committees, so that&lt;br /&gt;
these questions may be treated with the same&lt;br /&gt;
precision and fulness which they merit. After&lt;br /&gt;
names have been received the invitations will be&lt;br /&gt;
sent out at an early date.&lt;br /&gt;
EUGENE POUILLET, President.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
II.-INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC&lt;br /&gt;
AssociATION.&mdash;FORTHCOMING CONGRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
We have the honour of informing you that&lt;br /&gt;
the Twenty-third Congress of the International&lt;br /&gt;
Literary and Artistic Association (founded by&lt;br /&gt;
Victor Hugo in 1878) will be held in the town&lt;br /&gt;
of Vevey, Switzerland, in the first fortnight in&lt;br /&gt;
August.&lt;br /&gt;
The following are among the questions which&lt;br /&gt;
will be discussed, and we add the names of those&lt;br /&gt;
of our confr&egrave;res who bave undertaken to collect&lt;br /&gt;
information and to arrange the committees who&lt;br /&gt;
will consider the various subjects :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. An investigation of modifications to be&lt;br /&gt;
made in the text of the Berne Convention. The&lt;br /&gt;
appointment of a permanent international com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission for the interpretation of the said con-&lt;br /&gt;
vention. (M. G. Maillard, 241, Boulevard Saint&lt;br /&gt;
Germain, Paris, VI. Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
2. The protection of works of art, whatsoever&lt;br /&gt;
may be their aim, even if but purely commercial.&lt;br /&gt;
(MM. Soleau, 127, Rue de Turenne, Paris,&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;COPYRIGHT REFORM IN GREECE.&lt;br /&gt;
The Greek Chamber has voted, for April 1,&lt;br /&gt;
a first reading of a new law of copyright, which&lt;br /&gt;
was proposed last year. The copyright law&lt;br /&gt;
of Greece is at present very unsatisfactory, even&lt;br /&gt;
native authors enjoying an extremely limited&lt;br /&gt;
protection. The proposed law will to some&lt;br /&gt;
extent remedy this unsatisfactory state of things.&lt;br /&gt;
But from an interesting article on the new law&lt;br /&gt;
in our valuable contemporary Le Droit d&amp;#039;Auteur&lt;br /&gt;
we gather that far too little is likely to be&lt;br /&gt;
done for the foreign author-an omission much&lt;br /&gt;
to be regretted in the case of Greece, a country&lt;br /&gt;
which, though the native modern literature com-&lt;br /&gt;
pares favourably with that of the other&lt;br /&gt;
southern European peninsulas (particularly if&lt;br /&gt;
the recent date of the regeneration of Greece&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 193 (#265) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
193&lt;br /&gt;
is taken into consideration), borrows an immense&lt;br /&gt;
amount of learned and scientific literature&lt;br /&gt;
from the countries of northern and western&lt;br /&gt;
Europe. What is really to be desired is that&lt;br /&gt;
Greece should enter the Berne Convention and&lt;br /&gt;
level her domestic legislation up to the modern&lt;br /&gt;
international lines. The last is perhaps too much&lt;br /&gt;
to expect from a country recently liberated from&lt;br /&gt;
Turkish barbarism, when it is remembered how&lt;br /&gt;
very loth English legislation is to see things&lt;br /&gt;
from the point of view of broad cosmopolitan&lt;br /&gt;
principles.&lt;br /&gt;
must be printed in Canada in order to obtain local copy.&lt;br /&gt;
right. The following is the section referred to:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; If a book as to which there is subsisting copyright&lt;br /&gt;
under the Copyright Act has been first lawfully published&lt;br /&gt;
in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions other than Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
and if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister of&lt;br /&gt;
Agriculture that the owner of the copyright 80 subsisting&lt;br /&gt;
and of the copyright acquired by such publication bas&lt;br /&gt;
lawfully granted a licence to reproduce in Canada, from&lt;br /&gt;
movable or other types, or from stereotype plates, or from&lt;br /&gt;
electro plates, or from lithograph stones, or by any process&lt;br /&gt;
for facsimile reproduction, an edition or editions of such&lt;br /&gt;
book designed for sale only in Canada, the minister may,&lt;br /&gt;
notwithstanding anything in the Copyright Act, by order&lt;br /&gt;
ander his hand, prohibit the importation, except with the&lt;br /&gt;
written consent of the licensee, into Canada of any copies&lt;br /&gt;
of such book printed elsewhere, provided that two such&lt;br /&gt;
copies may be specially imported for the bona fide use of&lt;br /&gt;
any public free library or any university or college library,&lt;br /&gt;
or for the library of any duly incorporated institution or&lt;br /&gt;
society for the use of the members of such institution or&lt;br /&gt;
society.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Does this support the idea that Canadian copyright is&lt;br /&gt;
ondangered, and that local copyright may be obtained&lt;br /&gt;
without printing ?&lt;br /&gt;
It is farther stated in your report that Mr. W. P. Gundy&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;made it clear that the English Bill omitted the clause of&lt;br /&gt;
compelling printing in this country.&rdquo; The English Bill does&lt;br /&gt;
not compel this country to do anything if it does not see fit&lt;br /&gt;
to. The question raieed at tbe meeting is an old one. It&lt;br /&gt;
has failed time and time again, and it is this : Certain&lt;br /&gt;
parties in Canada want to reprint English books whetber&lt;br /&gt;
the English authors consent to it or not. In my opinion&lt;br /&gt;
tbis course would be destructive of Canadian pablishing and&lt;br /&gt;
the interests connected with it, because it would destroy the&lt;br /&gt;
existing friendly relations between Canadian publishers and&lt;br /&gt;
English publishers and authors, and would prevent the&lt;br /&gt;
growth of native literature as a similar polioy did in the&lt;br /&gt;
United States prior to the American legislation of 1891.&lt;br /&gt;
Piracy is fatal.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE N. MORANG.&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto, Feb. 19.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Canadian copyright question has been&lt;br /&gt;
again raised by an article in the Toronto Globe&lt;br /&gt;
of Feb. 19, under a flaring big type heading :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Endangers our Copyright.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The article was a report of a meeting of certain&lt;br /&gt;
trade bodies of Toronto, and bears out the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that the best interests of Canada on this ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion are altogether inadequately understood by&lt;br /&gt;
the trades concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
The wider question of whose property is being&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with-that of the author - was of course&lt;br /&gt;
not considered at all. However, we are glad to&lt;br /&gt;
report that the stir made by this meeting has&lt;br /&gt;
somewhat subsided, and there appears to be no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt, owing chiefly to the efforts of Mr. G. N.&lt;br /&gt;
Morang, the Toronto publisher, that the matter&lt;br /&gt;
has been clearly put before the trades, and&lt;br /&gt;
laboriously explained to their representatives.&lt;br /&gt;
The trade bodies have now given their approval&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Amendment Act (Canada) of&lt;br /&gt;
last year and the proposals contained in Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill. We have pleasure in printing&lt;br /&gt;
herewith a letter from Mr. Morang to the&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto Globe of Feb. 20, and an article on&lt;br /&gt;
Canaoian Copyright that appeared in the Toronto&lt;br /&gt;
Mail and Empire of the same date.&lt;br /&gt;
Both these communications are full of interest,&lt;br /&gt;
and show a thorough knowledge of the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT NOT ENDANGERED.&lt;br /&gt;
To tbe Editor of the Globe,&mdash;The report of the meeting&lt;br /&gt;
of tbe booksellers&amp;#039; section of the Board of Trade appearing&lt;br /&gt;
in your paper this morning is, I think, likely to give a&lt;br /&gt;
wrung ia pression of what took place, while the heading you&lt;br /&gt;
bave put to it, &ldquo; Endangere our Copyright,&rdquo; may unneces.&lt;br /&gt;
sarily alarm tbe public. In the first paragraph it is stated&lt;br /&gt;
that the Copyright Bill now before the House of Lords will&lt;br /&gt;
give Canadian copyright to a book without its being printed&lt;br /&gt;
here. Tbis is not tbe fact. Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, which&lt;br /&gt;
is framed to deal with Imperial copyright, contains a clause&lt;br /&gt;
wbich gives any colody a right to pass a local Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Aot which prohibits the importation of English editions if&lt;br /&gt;
such colony reprints or imports for sale under a licence&lt;br /&gt;
from the owner of the Imperial copyright. Anyone reading&lt;br /&gt;
the Bill will see that an option is implied, and in the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Act of 1900 not a single word is said about the&lt;br /&gt;
importing of &amp;quot;sheets,&rdquo; but it distinctly states that a book&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be a misfortune if anything occurred in Canada&lt;br /&gt;
at the present time that might be construed as antagonistic&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Bill wbich will shortly come before the&lt;br /&gt;
British Parliament ander the sponsorship of Lord Monks.&lt;br /&gt;
well. Tbat Bill is conceived in a large and Imporial spirit,&lt;br /&gt;
and it takes into consideration the needs of the empire as a&lt;br /&gt;
whole. No one who bas duly considered its provisions can&lt;br /&gt;
fail to come to this conclusion. It is no hurriedly.drawn&lt;br /&gt;
makeshift ; its fairness to all parties is undeniable, and the&lt;br /&gt;
idea that it will militate against Canadian interests is&lt;br /&gt;
absurd. As a matter of fact, the Canadian Bill of last year&lt;br /&gt;
that dealt with copyright, and Lord Monks well&amp;#039;s Bill that&lt;br /&gt;
will undoubtedly become law in the near future, place&lt;br /&gt;
copyright matters on a sounder basis than they have ever&lt;br /&gt;
before occupied.&lt;br /&gt;
The desiderata with reference to copyright are that the&lt;br /&gt;
author shall have reasonable protection for the fruit of his&lt;br /&gt;
brain throughout the empire of wbich he is a citizen, and&lt;br /&gt;
that colonies that have arrived at the adalt stage, and&lt;br /&gt;
have printing and publishing facilities of their own, shall&lt;br /&gt;
be able to reserve their own markets for their own prodao-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of such authors&amp;#039; works, if they wish to do so, and are&lt;br /&gt;
disposed to take the risk of printing them. Let us take an&lt;br /&gt;
example. Mr. A. is a world-known writer, whose books&lt;br /&gt;
bave sold by the thousand throughout the English-speaking&lt;br /&gt;
markets of the globe. He publishes a new book which is&lt;br /&gt;
BB&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 194 (#266) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
194&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted in England. That copyright is valid all over defendants ? Did the delay damage the book ?&lt;br /&gt;
the British Empire. He arranges with a British publisher If so to what extent?&lt;br /&gt;
to issue it. What does the copyright mean in that case ?&lt;br /&gt;
The defence introduced points which bad&lt;br /&gt;
Undoubtedly it means that the edition of that particular&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is the only one that can be legally sold wherever nothing to do with the case : as that we plant&lt;br /&gt;
the flag flies. In Canada, for instance, that edition can had paid &pound;110 for the cost of production : that&lt;br /&gt;
keep out the importation of United States editions of the the firm had lost money by the book : that they&lt;br /&gt;
samo work, and this has recently been determined by the had spent so much in advertising : that no one&lt;br /&gt;
courts. Now that is satisfactory as far as Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
copyright is concerned. But a colony baving the status&lt;br /&gt;
would buy the book : that they had sold less than&lt;br /&gt;
that Canada has, naturally says: &ldquo; We can print and 100 copies : that the book had been &ldquo;pushed &rdquo;-&lt;br /&gt;
publish our own books. We bave a great paper all this was &ldquo; garnish&rdquo; and had nothing whatever&lt;br /&gt;
industry, we have a very large printing interest; our to do with the case, which simply consisted of&lt;br /&gt;
bookbinding concerns compare favourably with those of&lt;br /&gt;
those questions mentioned above.&lt;br /&gt;
New York and London. Why should we not make&lt;br /&gt;
The true defence was an allegation that the&lt;br /&gt;
an arrangement with the copyright owner whereby we can&lt;br /&gt;
print the work in Canada, on paper made in Canada, and plaintiff was the cause of the delay himself by&lt;br /&gt;
have it bound by Canadian bookbinders ?&rdquo; It was this mis-spelling a title page : that the book&lt;br /&gt;
query that commended itself to the common sense of Parlia. required a certain kind of type: and that no&lt;br /&gt;
ment last session, when they passed the Canadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
damage was done to the book by the delay.&lt;br /&gt;
Act, which received Government and Opposition support,&lt;br /&gt;
and the same thing also appealed to the sense of justice of&lt;br /&gt;
1. As regards the mis-spelling of the title page :&lt;br /&gt;
the framers of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill. The provisions of the defendant should bave been asked how many&lt;br /&gt;
both these measures are in harmony with Canadian interests. copies were bound up with the mis-spelt page :&lt;br /&gt;
They distinctly provide that when a copyright owner makes how long it took to take out that page and to&lt;br /&gt;
an arrangement with a colonial publisher to print or publish&lt;br /&gt;
substitute another. It does not appear that he&lt;br /&gt;
a work in that colony, he shall be protected even against&lt;br /&gt;
was asked this simple but very important ques.&lt;br /&gt;
the incoming of the English edition. Canada bas taken&lt;br /&gt;
advantage of this disposition on the part of the British autho tion.&lt;br /&gt;
rities, and bas enacted legislation providing that when a copy. 2. As regards the type wanted, the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
right work is printed in Canada it shall stand against all should have been asked why they made the con-&lt;br /&gt;
comers, English included. There is nothing in the Act of tract-which was not denied before sending the&lt;br /&gt;
1900 wbich gives imported &ldquo;sheets&rdquo; local copyright. Not&lt;br /&gt;
only oan the publisher keep out the United States reprint,&lt;br /&gt;
book to be printed. If they found out, after&lt;br /&gt;
but he can invoke the Customs authorities to restrain signing the contract, that this delay would be&lt;br /&gt;
English importations. This, let it be distinctly remarked, caused, the plaintiff was certainly not to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
is contingent upon the Canadian production of the work, It does not appear from the report that this ques-&lt;br /&gt;
and the Canadian production of the work implies of course tion was asked.&lt;br /&gt;
the employment of Canadian printers, papermakers, book.&lt;br /&gt;
binders, et al. If no special arrangements are made Old&lt;br /&gt;
On the subject of delay, Mr. Murray is reported&lt;br /&gt;
Country publications are of course free to come in to to have said that the loss of the Easter demand&lt;br /&gt;
Canada on payment of the duty that all countries pay. We would be prejudicial. Mr. F. Macmillan is&lt;br /&gt;
do not suppose that anybody in these days would wish to reported to have said that it would not be pre-&lt;br /&gt;
restrict this freedom. But no one can read the Act that is&lt;br /&gt;
judicial. Certain booksellers declared that it was&lt;br /&gt;
the Canadian Parliament passed last year, or the text of&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monks well&amp;#039;s Bill, without feeling that together they&lt;br /&gt;
e not prejudicial. A traveller said that booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
embody a large and statesmanlike settlement of the subject. would not subscribe the book.&lt;br /&gt;
- Toronto Mail and Empire, Feb. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
All this evidence, apparently contradictory, is&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
true, but it should be explained. There can&lt;br /&gt;
be no doubt whatever that there is a greater&lt;br /&gt;
V.--WHITE 1. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND Co. demand at Easter than a month after Easter-for&lt;br /&gt;
The hearing of this case took place on Friday, books in demand. For books not popular there&lt;br /&gt;
March 22. According to the reports it was pre is no time more favourable than any other times,&lt;br /&gt;
sented and argued on grounds which appear to because at no season are they wanted. If book-&lt;br /&gt;
have been chiefly irrelevant and superfluous. sellers will not subscribe a book there is no&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff&amp;#039;s case was quite simple. He market for it, either at Easter or at any other&lt;br /&gt;
alleged that the defendants had contracted to time. To what class-popular or unpopular-&lt;br /&gt;
produce his book by March 20: that they delayed did this book belong? If to the latter, the book-&lt;br /&gt;
it till April 20: that they lost thereby the Easter sellers who denied that it was injured by the&lt;br /&gt;
market : that the course of events caused the loss of the Easter demand were undoubtedly&lt;br /&gt;
postponement of reviews of his book until August right. If to the former, Mr. Murray&amp;#039;s general&lt;br /&gt;
and thereby further prejudiced the sale of the proposition applied to this book, and it was&lt;br /&gt;
book.&lt;br /&gt;
injured. But the difference required to be pointed&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen that these allegations required out. We are not arguing that the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
simply question and answer. Was the contract were to blame or that the plaintiff was wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
correctly stated ? Was the delay due to the Weare only showing that, according to the report,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 195 (#267) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
195&lt;br /&gt;
the issues were confused by the introduction of Pension Fund of the Society. He said he had&lt;br /&gt;
superfluous considerations, and that the real much pleasure in stating that this scheme had&lt;br /&gt;
causes of the delay, as stated by the plaintiff, do been started so far satisfactorily, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
not appear to have been kept in the front at trustees had declared a sum of &pound;66 available&lt;br /&gt;
all. Two points are instructive: the willingness for pensions for the current year through the&lt;br /&gt;
of the plaintiff to pay the cost of production, scheme. He desired, however, to draw the atten-&lt;br /&gt;
and the remarkable unanimity of the booksellers tion of the members to the fact that, though the&lt;br /&gt;
in refusing to subscribe the book. The author scheme had been well supported, he hoped a&lt;br /&gt;
clearly believed that his book would have a run large body of the members would become sub-&lt;br /&gt;
-to recoup his &pound;110 would have required a sale scribers of sums, however small, annually, and&lt;br /&gt;
of 700 copies at least, and the publisher sold that the scheme would be supported in the&lt;br /&gt;
less than 100. As booksellers refused to take it, future by annual subscriptions as well as by&lt;br /&gt;
the book was not published. That is to say, it substantial donations. He then drew attention&lt;br /&gt;
was printed but not offered to the public to the financial statement, and declared that the&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps literary aspirants will understand the position of the Society was on the whole satis-&lt;br /&gt;
difference. A publisher cannot offer a book to factory.&lt;br /&gt;
the public : he can produce it-print it, bind it, The next item was the election of members to&lt;br /&gt;
advertise it, and offer it to the booksellers. When the Pension Fund Committee by the members&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; MS. has been refused by the publishers it is of the Society. Mr. Hawkins read out the&lt;br /&gt;
tolerably certain that even if an author pays for it names of the candidates and their proposers as&lt;br /&gt;
the book will not be published. It will fall flat: it follows:-MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE, nominated by&lt;br /&gt;
will never be put on exhibition : its production is a J. M. Barrie, Anstey Guthrie, Herbert Trench;&lt;br /&gt;
waste of money and time, and a bitter disappoint- MR. MORLEY ROBERTS, nominated by E. W.&lt;br /&gt;
ment to the author. And, if he takes his reputa. Hornung, W. Morris Colles, H. A. Bryden ; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
tion and his shattered hopes into court, he will M. H. SPIELMANN, nominated by W. M. Rossetti,&lt;br /&gt;
probably find, as in the case of White v. Henry Cresswell, A. S. Rose. He stated that, as&lt;br /&gt;
Constable, that his case is treated as a fitting peg there were only three candidates for the three&lt;br /&gt;
for a succession of lively jokes.&lt;br /&gt;
vacancies, they might be declared elected.&lt;br /&gt;
Accordingly their election was formally ratified.&lt;br /&gt;
On the Chairman resuming his seat, MR.&lt;br /&gt;
BERNARD Shaw asked a few questions about the&lt;br /&gt;
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
action which the Society was taking with regard&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Bill. He trusted that they were&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; looking closely into the matter, and were taking&lt;br /&gt;
M HE general meeting of the shareholders care that the interests of authors and dramatists&lt;br /&gt;
(the Council) of the Society of Authors were sufficiently protected. The Chairman made&lt;br /&gt;
was beld at 20, Hanover-square, W., at a short statement in reply, putting forward the&lt;br /&gt;
3.30, on Thursday, Feb 28. The chairman of the steps that the Committee had taken, and stating&lt;br /&gt;
managing committee, MR. A. HOPE HAWKINS, that the course of the measure would be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
presided, and the report, balance-sheet, and watched.&lt;br /&gt;
accounts were laid before the meeting and Subsequently several members made sugges-&lt;br /&gt;
unanimously adopted.&lt;br /&gt;
tions as to increasing the efficiency of the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
At 4.15 on the same day the general meeting Fund. Mr. Prelooker, Miss Friswell, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors was held at the same J. Louis considered that conversaziones and other&lt;br /&gt;
place. Mr. A. HOPE HAWKINS again took the social functions would be desirable. Mr. Bernard&lt;br /&gt;
chair.&lt;br /&gt;
Shaw and Mr. H. N. Hutchinson also spoke on&lt;br /&gt;
The proceedings were opened by the Chairman the subject of the Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
making a short statement with regard to the The Chairman replied that the matter would&lt;br /&gt;
accounts and The report. He pointed out the be laid before the Pension Fund Committee, who&lt;br /&gt;
successful steps the Society had taken with regard would carefully consider the suggestions put&lt;br /&gt;
to copyright legislation both in Canada and in forward.&lt;br /&gt;
England, and referred to tbe fact that the MR. BERNARD Shaw paid an eloquent tribute to&lt;br /&gt;
Government were about to bring forward the the work that the Society was doing for authors,&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bill. He then drew attention to the and stated that he thought all authors should join&lt;br /&gt;
strong support the Society had received from the Society, as if they were not obtaining help&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic authors, and to the sub-committee that individually, collectively, no doubt, they obtained&lt;br /&gt;
had been formed to deal with dramatic ques. considerable advantage from the efforts of the&lt;br /&gt;
tions. The next point he dealt with was the Society on their behalf,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 196 (#268) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
196&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss CLEMENTINA BLACK suggested that, if&lt;br /&gt;
possible, the work of the Society should be&lt;br /&gt;
advertised more widely, in order that it might be&lt;br /&gt;
made known to the younger authors.&lt;br /&gt;
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman (pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed by Mr. A. W. &agrave; Beckett) the proceedings&lt;br /&gt;
terminated.&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
the business in the various towns in the faster&lt;br /&gt;
selling books, such as novels and other light&lt;br /&gt;
literature.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
NET PRICES IN FUTURE.&lt;br /&gt;
The publishers&amp;#039; agreement provides in sub-&lt;br /&gt;
stance that all copyrighted books first issued by&lt;br /&gt;
members of the association after May 1, 1901,&lt;br /&gt;
shall be published at net prices; that such net&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted books shall be sold by the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
to those booksellers only who will maintain the&lt;br /&gt;
retail price of such net copyrighted books for one&lt;br /&gt;
year, and to those booksellers and jobbers only&lt;br /&gt;
who will sell their books further to no one known&lt;br /&gt;
to them to cut such net prices or whose name has&lt;br /&gt;
been given to them by the association as one who&lt;br /&gt;
cuts such prices; that after the expiration of a&lt;br /&gt;
year from the publication of any such net copy-&lt;br /&gt;
righted book dealers shall not be held to these&lt;br /&gt;
restrictions and may sell such book at a cut price,&lt;br /&gt;
but if, on learning of such action, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
shall desire to buy back at the purchase price the&lt;br /&gt;
copies then remaining in the dealer&amp;#039;s hands, they&lt;br /&gt;
must be resold to him on demand.&lt;br /&gt;
It is noted that the Harpers have published&lt;br /&gt;
recently a novel listed at the net retail price of&lt;br /&gt;
one dollar and twenty cents. The book is one&lt;br /&gt;
which would be priced at one and one-half dollars&lt;br /&gt;
under the old order of things. Thus the experi-&lt;br /&gt;
ment may be said to be fairly started; the out-&lt;br /&gt;
come will be interesting, for if our publishers can&lt;br /&gt;
effectively organise for this particular object,&lt;br /&gt;
other purposes will suggest themselves which wil.&lt;br /&gt;
make the American Publishers&amp;#039; Association a&lt;br /&gt;
powerful factor in the commerce of letters.&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, March 8, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
UR American Publishers&amp;#039; Association at last&lt;br /&gt;
has manifested itself; the visible sign of&lt;br /&gt;
its activity takes the form of an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
by which the retail prices of books are to be main-&lt;br /&gt;
tained at the catalogue prices, and a reduction is&lt;br /&gt;
to be made in the net price for the ben-fit of the&lt;br /&gt;
retail dealers, whom the low prices of the depart-&lt;br /&gt;
ment stores have almost driven out of business.&lt;br /&gt;
In England, I believe, vet prices prevail ; but the&lt;br /&gt;
custom of the trade has been different with us,&lt;br /&gt;
and because of the evils of the &ldquo;cutting&rdquo; system&lt;br /&gt;
the Publishers&amp;#039; Association was organised. This&lt;br /&gt;
custom of &ldquo;cutting&rdquo; prices in books, which now&lt;br /&gt;
affects all concerned in their production, can&lt;br /&gt;
be no better described than by quoting Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
John H. Dingman&amp;#039;s article in the American&lt;br /&gt;
Printer :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;At first the supposed interests of a rival book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller led the latter to offer certain volumes at a&lt;br /&gt;
price lower than the retail, this procedure being&lt;br /&gt;
immediately met by his neighbour, and that&lt;br /&gt;
action in various localities has been followed by&lt;br /&gt;
the cutting of prices from a living margin of&lt;br /&gt;
profit to a price in many cases approaching the&lt;br /&gt;
cost, and sometimes reaching it and going below&lt;br /&gt;
it. The extreme cuts in prices, however, have&lt;br /&gt;
been made by department stores, whose proprie&lt;br /&gt;
tors, finding the intense interest of the public in&lt;br /&gt;
books of superior quality, by noted authors, bave&lt;br /&gt;
come to use such books as inducements to secure&lt;br /&gt;
the attendance of customers at their stores, where,&lt;br /&gt;
having secured their presence, they have been able to&lt;br /&gt;
sell them other articles of merchandise. upon&lt;br /&gt;
which they could make their usual profit, though&lt;br /&gt;
they lost almost all or the whole of the profit on&lt;br /&gt;
the books offered. It can be readily seen that&lt;br /&gt;
this proceeding could tend only to damaging the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of those who kept books alone for sale,&lt;br /&gt;
and who depended entirely upon them for a&lt;br /&gt;
living. This has so resulted, and has done mate.&lt;br /&gt;
rial injury to many careful and conservative book&lt;br /&gt;
sellers, some of whom have been driven out of&lt;br /&gt;
the business. It has also come about-slowly,&lt;br /&gt;
but nevertheless surely&mdash;that the larger de part.&lt;br /&gt;
ment stores have secured a material proportion of&lt;br /&gt;
An Artful Evasion.&lt;br /&gt;
An ingenious American publisher (presumably&lt;br /&gt;
not a member of the association) is said to have&lt;br /&gt;
conceived the idea of securing a manuscript by an&lt;br /&gt;
English author, setting the type in New York&lt;br /&gt;
and printing half-a-dozen advance copies here,&lt;br /&gt;
making application for copyright at Washington,&lt;br /&gt;
shipping the plates to England, manufacturing an&lt;br /&gt;
edition there, reshipping bound copies back again&lt;br /&gt;
for sale, and then claiming a perfect copyright&lt;br /&gt;
under the laws of the United States. This&lt;br /&gt;
reported scheme was laid before the Librarian of&lt;br /&gt;
Congress, with a request for an interpretation of&lt;br /&gt;
the law bearing upon it, the principal question&lt;br /&gt;
being whether all of the books that are sold in&lt;br /&gt;
the United States under the Act must be printed&lt;br /&gt;
or manufactured here. The Register&amp;#039;s reply is&lt;br /&gt;
printed at length in Literary Life.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Solberg, after premising that his office is&lt;br /&gt;
purely an office of record and can give no autho-&lt;br /&gt;
ritative construction of the law, observes that there&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be no explicit stipulation in the Act that&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 197 (#269) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
197&lt;br /&gt;
press work on books for which its protection is These zealous critics have attracted undue&lt;br /&gt;
claimed shall be done within the limits of the attention, perhaps, because our public libraries&lt;br /&gt;
United States. &ldquo; It is, of course,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;a now are very steadily in the public eye. The&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable assumption that in making this pro. total number of books reported in 1876 by 3600&lt;br /&gt;
vision of law Congress supposed that if the type libraries having 300 or more each was 12,277,000;&lt;br /&gt;
was set in the United States the press work would the total number reported in 1896 by 7200&lt;br /&gt;
also be done in the United States.&rdquo; But where libraries was 34,600,000. The growth and&lt;br /&gt;
the impression is from plates rather than type the increase of such establishments have been&lt;br /&gt;
supposition does not follow so logically. At best remarkable. In the past decade there have been&lt;br /&gt;
the point is indefinite, and presents one of the erected or begun five library buildings &mdash; the&lt;br /&gt;
considerations which will probably lead sooner or Library of Congress, the public libraries of&lt;br /&gt;
later to a revision of the statute in toto.&lt;br /&gt;
Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pittsburg-&lt;br /&gt;
whose aggregate cost will exceed fifteen million&lt;br /&gt;
THE PIRATE&amp;#039;S OPPORTUNITY,&lt;br /&gt;
dollars, or about three million pounds. The free&lt;br /&gt;
While upon this subject I must record two&lt;br /&gt;
circulation of books for home use from public&lt;br /&gt;
curious instances of thriftlessness. Neither&lt;br /&gt;
libraries throughout the country is estimated by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Elizabeth and Her German Garden&rdquo; nor &ldquo;An&lt;br /&gt;
an expert at 40,000,000 a year.&lt;br /&gt;
Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters&rdquo; was copyrighted&lt;br /&gt;
THE LITERATURE OF POWER.&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States, and the rush of the pirates&lt;br /&gt;
reminded one of the good old times before the&lt;br /&gt;
The public librarian at the city of Providence&lt;br /&gt;
passage of the international Act. The excellence&lt;br /&gt;
has caused his institution to be talked of by&lt;br /&gt;
and the variety of the American authorised&lt;br /&gt;
equipping therein a room which is to be devoted&lt;br /&gt;
editions of these books seem to have spoiled the&lt;br /&gt;
to what he calls &ldquo; the literature of power.&rdquo; &ldquo;In&lt;br /&gt;
market for the cheap and irregular issues by the&lt;br /&gt;
the literature of knowledge,&amp;quot; he explains,&ldquo; the&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen under the black flag; but the short-&lt;br /&gt;
fundamental consideration is a technical one,&lt;br /&gt;
sightedness of the English publishers and their while in the literature of power it is the under-&lt;br /&gt;
failure to copyright here is inexplicable. In a&lt;br /&gt;
lying spirit that. dominates, and as soon as any.&lt;br /&gt;
second edition of &ldquo; Elizabeth and Her German thing practical becomes the end in view, the work&lt;br /&gt;
Garden&rdquo; some new matter was added, and this passes into the realm of knowledge rather than&lt;br /&gt;
was legally protected. The pirates who reprinted&lt;br /&gt;
that of power.&amp;quot; Upon a wall of this special room&lt;br /&gt;
the second edition, therefore, are struggling&lt;br /&gt;
in the Providence library is the inscription :&lt;br /&gt;
against prosecutions for infringement.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The books invite you not to study, but to taste&lt;br /&gt;
and reap.&rdquo; A thousand books have been deemed&lt;br /&gt;
BOSTONIAN TASTE.&lt;br /&gt;
worthy of admission there; it is supposed that&lt;br /&gt;
they were not chosen by the Examining and&lt;br /&gt;
The Examining and Reading Committee of the Reading Committee of Boston. The plan is not to&lt;br /&gt;
Boston Public Library have recently contributed form a small model collection on the lines of Sir&lt;br /&gt;
much to the gaiety of the nation by making a John Lubbock&amp;#039;s, but to select authors who&lt;br /&gt;
report in which they censor modern fiction in attract readers rather than impart knowledge,&lt;br /&gt;
surprising fashion. The list of successful novels and the scheme impresses one as novel and com.&lt;br /&gt;
which have been rejected as unfit for general mendable.&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
circulation has amazed the public, in view of the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the committee is a large one, and that&lt;br /&gt;
the members are selected because of their catholic&lt;br /&gt;
and cultivated taste. From the shelves of the&lt;br /&gt;
institution, which is one of the greatest and most&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
influential in the country, they have excluded&lt;br /&gt;
stories by Harold Frederic, S. R. Crockett,&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, Rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
Egerton Castle, Robert Barr, Maarten Maartens, &ldquo;MSAY the good God grant me an end like&lt;br /&gt;
Maurice Hewlett, Sir Walter Besant, Henry V his!&rdquo; wrote the poet Mistral to his&lt;br /&gt;
James, and William Dean Howells. Of Mrs. A friend Mariani, on hearing of Armand&lt;br /&gt;
Ward&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Eleanor&rdquo; the report remarks: &ldquo;It is Silvestre&amp;#039;s death. The latter event took place in the&lt;br /&gt;
full of uncertain notes because it comes out of an poet&amp;#039;s native town of Toulouse, whither he was&lt;br /&gt;
unsettled mind. It would not be good for girls. conveyed in accordance with his own desire) as&lt;br /&gt;
They would be casting about for Manistys, as soon as all hope of his eventual recovery was&lt;br /&gt;
girls of a bygone time looked for Rochesters.&amp;quot; abandoned. An enormous crowd was present at&lt;br /&gt;
The Bostonian young person must be guarded, the interment, on which occasion eloquent orations&lt;br /&gt;
and so out goes &amp;quot; Eleanor.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
were delivered by the respective representatives&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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198&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
of the Government, the Press, the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens mising the success of a new play by a fore-&lt;br /&gt;
de Lettres, and the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise. Military knowledge of its intrigue will be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;
honours were paid the dead; and among the Whether this measure will restore the primitive&lt;br /&gt;
pyramid of floral tributes offered by sorrowing enthusiasm of the Parisian theatre-goer remains&lt;br /&gt;
friends and admirers bloomed conspicuous the to be seen.&lt;br /&gt;
sweet Toulousan violet, whose praises the dead A purer era seems dawning in stage literature.&lt;br /&gt;
man had so often sung. M. Armand Silvestre Several clever plays dealing with a comparatively&lt;br /&gt;
was born in 1838. He entered Government new phase of life--the duties and responsibilities&lt;br /&gt;
employ in 1859, and shortly after made his of existence-have recently been performed amid&lt;br /&gt;
literary d&eacute;but by the publication of a collection of the applause of an audience wearied of the&lt;br /&gt;
poems of no ordinary merit. His &ldquo; Renaissances,&rdquo; unsavoury complications of the &ldquo; m&eacute;nage &agrave; trois.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Paysages metaphysique,&rdquo; &ldquo;Vers pour &ecirc;tre M. Franck, of the Gymnase, is to be congratu-&lt;br /&gt;
chant&eacute;s,&rdquo; and &ldquo; Sonnets pa&iuml;ens&amp;quot; rank among the lated on having followed M. Antoine&amp;#039;s lead. No&lt;br /&gt;
finest lyric productions of the modern Parnassian fewer than five new plays by unknown authors&lt;br /&gt;
school. &ldquo;They are the hymns of the ancient in the have been received at his theatre. Among them&lt;br /&gt;
mouth of a modern,&rdquo; was George Sand&amp;#039;s verdict, may be reckoned the *&ldquo; Domaine&rdquo; of M. Lucien&lt;br /&gt;
on reading the latter work. Later M. Silvestre Besnard (whose maiden effort was, I believe,&lt;br /&gt;
attempted the Rabelaisian style in prose. He accepted by M. Antoine). The dialogue of this.&lt;br /&gt;
published numerous tales verging ou the obscene clever, incisive portrayal of the combat between&lt;br /&gt;
-which added to his revenue, but scarcely to his the old and new r&eacute;gime, of the struggle between&lt;br /&gt;
credit. His official career was, meantime, pursued classes and masses, is remarkably well-written.&lt;br /&gt;
with unabated vigour. He was nominated It was applauded by the general public and even&lt;br /&gt;
chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1892 by the representatives of the class whose foibles&lt;br /&gt;
was promoted to the post of inspector of Fine it unveiled. M. Besnard belongs to the risiny&lt;br /&gt;
Arts. He also found time to write a large number generation, having been born in 1872.&lt;br /&gt;
of reputable critiques on art and the drama, in&lt;br /&gt;
addition to collaborating in the production of&lt;br /&gt;
M. EUGENE BRIEUX.&lt;br /&gt;
innumerable plays, sacred and historical dramas,&lt;br /&gt;
farces, operettas, &amp;amp;c., and becoming a valued con-&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;Rempla&ccedil;antes&rdquo; of M. Brieux likewise&lt;br /&gt;
tributor to several papers.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Brieux is no&lt;br /&gt;
deserves special mention.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Setting aside the&lt;br /&gt;
talent manifested in his lyric poems, Armand&lt;br /&gt;
neophyte in such matters, having already given&lt;br /&gt;
Silvestre still retains the originality of having&lt;br /&gt;
the French stage about a dozen thoughtfully&lt;br /&gt;
sounded the two chords situated at the farthest&lt;br /&gt;
written plays, each denouncing some social abuse,&lt;br /&gt;
extremes of the poetic lyre,&rdquo; writes M. Lemaitre.&lt;br /&gt;
some hidden gangrene in that vast psychological&lt;br /&gt;
machine called modern society. This &ldquo; Don&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;His double work furnishes a striking commen-&lt;br /&gt;
tary to Pascal&amp;#039;s reflection on man the angel and&lt;br /&gt;
Quichotte of the Faubourg Saint Antoine&rdquo; is a&lt;br /&gt;
true son of the people, having laid down the&lt;br /&gt;
man the beast.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The last verses written by the deceased poet&lt;br /&gt;
plane to take up the pen. His latest work brings&lt;br /&gt;
before the Parisian public the fatal consequences&lt;br /&gt;
were those comprising the final soliloquy of&lt;br /&gt;
Charlotte Corday in her prison (which drama,&lt;br /&gt;
of the fashionable custom of paying an illiterate&lt;br /&gt;
bearing its heroine&amp;#039;s name, is now being performed&lt;br /&gt;
peasant mother to perform the first duties of&lt;br /&gt;
maternity. The mortality of new-born infants in&lt;br /&gt;
at the Op&eacute;ra Populaire). They finish thus :-&lt;br /&gt;
the districts from which these luckless substitutes&lt;br /&gt;
Et l&amp;#039;aube du jour qui s&amp;#039;appr&ecirc;te&lt;br /&gt;
M&amp;#039;apporte l&amp;#039;immortalit&eacute; !&lt;br /&gt;
are principally drawn is reported to amount to&lt;br /&gt;
no less than forty, fifty, and even seventy per&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC SURVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
cent. A ghastly figure truly!&lt;br /&gt;
The lassitude of the Parisian public &agrave; propos&lt;br /&gt;
M. George Ohnet&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Les Rouges et les Blancs&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of dramatic representations has been uneasily&lt;br /&gt;
(written at the truant M. Coquelin&amp;#039;s request, and&lt;br /&gt;
remarked by more than one critic. Managers are&lt;br /&gt;
performed at the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre)&lt;br /&gt;
did not fulfil popular expectation. Nor has&lt;br /&gt;
endeavouring to combat this indifference by&lt;br /&gt;
retrenching the indiscriminate issue of compli.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Henri Lavedan&amp;#039;s &ldquo; M&eacute;dicis,&amp;quot; a witty satire on&lt;br /&gt;
mentary tickets and the time-honoured press&lt;br /&gt;
bourgeois snobs, false connoisseurs, and spurious&lt;br /&gt;
pass. In some theatres standard dramatic critics&lt;br /&gt;
vertu-hunters, fared much better at the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s.&lt;br /&gt;
alone will henceforth be admitted to the full-&lt;br /&gt;
dress rehearsal. Editors, reporters, correspon-&lt;br /&gt;
AMONG THE NOVELISTS.&lt;br /&gt;
dents, and like small fry will be invited to the Here, also, a curious inertia prevails. Not&lt;br /&gt;
first-night performance in company with the that the output of fiction has lessened, but that it&lt;br /&gt;
general public. Hence the danger of compro- appears monthly becoming rarer to find a novel&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
199&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly rising above the level of talented A little later he carried his &ldquo; Taverne des&lt;br /&gt;
mediocrity. &ldquo;Of making many books there is &Eacute;tudiants&amp;quot; to the Odeon. On seeing him enter&lt;br /&gt;
no end,&amp;quot; quoth Solomon the Wise. &ldquo;What with a manuscript, the concierge exclaimed :&lt;br /&gt;
doth it profit one, then, to have added to the &ldquo;Ah! ah! yet another! This is the fiftieth&lt;br /&gt;
overmath ? might be the r&eacute;plique of hundreds which has been brought here to-day!&rdquo; Never-&lt;br /&gt;
of weary hack-writers, aghast at the minimum theless, it was accepted; though, owing to a&lt;br /&gt;
result of a lifetime&amp;#039;s labour. Experience teaches political intrigue, it proved a signal failure.&lt;br /&gt;
that the remedy lies in co-operation, and a strict Nothing daunted, the young Sardou set to&lt;br /&gt;
adherence to business principles.&lt;br /&gt;
work and wrote an article on J&eacute;rome Cardan. It&lt;br /&gt;
The sad examples of Mme. Camille Bias, cost him seven months&amp;#039; research; he received&lt;br /&gt;
author of over forty successful&mdash;and, in some thirty-two francs in remuneration. His collabora-&lt;br /&gt;
instances, notable&mdash;novels, who at eighty years tion in the &ldquo;Biographie g&eacute;n&eacute;rale&rdquo; of Firmin&lt;br /&gt;
of age was forced to appeal to public charity Didot, and tbe lessons given to a wine merchant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
for the necessary daily pittance; and Mme. son at Charenton, alone kept the wolf at bay&lt;br /&gt;
Moreton-Chabrillan, whose early follies were during those dark days. His &ldquo;Candide&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
expiated by forty years&amp;#039; hard literary labour, accepted by the manager of the D&eacute;jazet theatre,&lt;br /&gt;
including the production of a large number of but failed in passing the censorship. Finally,&lt;br /&gt;
popular novels and plays (evanescent successes &ldquo;M. Garat&rdquo; and &ldquo; Premi&egrave;res armes de Richelieu,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of the moment !), and who finally found herself, performed at the same theatre, proved the inau-&lt;br /&gt;
at seventy-five years of age, reduced to penury, guration of that triumphant literary career which&lt;br /&gt;
furnish a striking apologue to a certain well has won M. Sardou a European reputation as the&lt;br /&gt;
known fable&mdash;and a dreary subject of reflection first dramatist in France. He is likewise reputed&lt;br /&gt;
to the victims of unbusiness-like transactions to be one of the best business men on record.&lt;br /&gt;
Suggestive and pathetic, too, the following&lt;br /&gt;
advertisement of some hapless literary abortive&lt;br /&gt;
New PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
in the columns of the Biblioth&egrave;que register:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Cinq Ans de ma Vie&rdquo; (1894-1899), by M.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I do everything in literature-prose, poetry, Alfred Dreyfus, advertised as appearing shortly,&lt;br /&gt;
copies, catalogues, translations, historical re- is eagerly awaited by the partisans of the Affair ;&lt;br /&gt;
searches. I undertake novels, dramas, plays, though the recently published &ldquo; La V&eacute;rit&eacute; en&lt;br /&gt;
vaudevilles, simple frame-work or distribution Marche &rdquo; of M. Emile Zola, dealing with the same&lt;br /&gt;
into acts, scenes, and dialogues&mdash;with or without subject, does not appear to be enjoying an abnor-&lt;br /&gt;
copy, au net for reading, at a price which defies mally large sale. Nor has the small illus-&lt;br /&gt;
all competition. References permitted to Messieurs trated volume issued by the Henri Daragon firm,&lt;br /&gt;
X- , member of the French Academy; Y&mdash; , including samples (photographic and otherwise)&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Dramatic Authors; 2- of of the seventeen songs and hundred bibelots-&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of Authors (Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Kruger-pipe, Kruger-plate, Kruger-knife, Kruger-&lt;br /&gt;
Lettres).&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
studs, &amp;amp;c.-manufactured in France in honour of&lt;br /&gt;
M. VICTORIEN SARDOU.&lt;br /&gt;
the ex-president of the Transvaal, had any excep-&lt;br /&gt;
The brilliant revival of &ldquo;Patrie&amp;quot; (Com&eacute;die tional vogue. &ldquo;La Presse fran&ccedil;aise au XXe.&lt;br /&gt;
Fran&ccedil;aise) has brought M. Victorien Sardou Si&egrave;cle,&amp;quot; by M. Henri Avenel, is an interesting&lt;br /&gt;
vividly before the public mind. The d&eacute;but of the work whose title sufficiently indicates its import;&lt;br /&gt;
future president of the Dramatic Authors&amp;#039; &ldquo; Jos&eacute;phine R&eacute;pudi&eacute;e,&amp;quot; by M. Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Masson,&lt;br /&gt;
Society was hardly encouraging.&lt;br /&gt;
faithfully continues the portrayal of the forsaken&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I wish to be a writer,&amp;quot; said he, on arriving at wife of the great Napoleon ; while &ldquo; Le Mariage&lt;br /&gt;
seventeen years of age. His father offered him de Louis XV.,&amp;quot; by M. Gautier-Villars, is a well-&lt;br /&gt;
the choice between a legal and medical career. written book, a true &ldquo;find&rdquo; for the popular&lt;br /&gt;
He chose the latter, esteeming it particularly historian; as is also &ldquo;Mes Souvenirs,&rdquo; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
useful to an author to know the scientific secrets Moreau, edited with copious notes by M. Camille&lt;br /&gt;
of a doctor&amp;#039;s profession. Eighteen months&amp;#039; Hermelin (chez Plon).&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
apprenticeship in the Neckar Hospital was the I n fiction, the most talked-of books of the&lt;br /&gt;
result of this decision. Here (I believe) he moment are : &ldquo; Le Fant&ocirc;me,&amp;quot; by M. Paul Bourget&lt;br /&gt;
commenced his &ldquo;Reine Ulfra,&amp;quot; which he found (chez Plon), a psychological study of an unsavoury&lt;br /&gt;
means to bring under the notice of the celebrated incident; &ldquo;La Trag&eacute;die du Nouveau Christ,&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
Rachel.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Saint-Georges de Bouh&eacute;lier, which represents&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A tragedy whose scene is laid in Sweden ? the Saviour reincarnated under the form of a&lt;br /&gt;
Never!&rdquo; cried she, emphatically. &ldquo;Let the poor vagabond in the midst of a needy manu-&lt;br /&gt;
young man write a Greek piece, and I may facturing population;&rdquo; &ldquo;Jours d&amp;#039;Et&eacute;,&rdquo; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
play it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Andr&eacute; Theuriet; &ldquo;Heureux M&eacute;nage,&amp;quot; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
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200&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, who is at present engaged in another sum of &pound;1046 10s. 8d. The management&lt;br /&gt;
dramatising this novel for the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e theatre; expenses were covered by the sum of &pound;539, which&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;Les Tron&ccedil;ons du Glaive,&amp;quot; by MM. Paul is very small. Is Sir Theodore reported correctly?&lt;br /&gt;
and Victor Margueritt&eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
Have the receipts of the society decreased ? One&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. would like the point explained. At the same time&lt;br /&gt;
the customary begging dinner is to be held, with&lt;br /&gt;
the usual talk, no doubt, about necessitous authors&lt;br /&gt;
and the usual entreaty to the public to assist a&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
society which has nearly &pound;60,000 invested, and&lt;br /&gt;
could only last year find thirty-one cases deserving&lt;br /&gt;
of assistance. I said last year, and I repeat it,&lt;br /&gt;
M HE death of Charlotte Yonge at the age of that the Royal Literary Fund has quite as much&lt;br /&gt;
seventy-eight cannot be said to have been money as it wants : that to go every year to the&lt;br /&gt;
- unexpected. At the same time it is a grave public and beg for more can only be justified on&lt;br /&gt;
loss. Her activity of mind was maintained almost the ground of the necessities of literature: that&lt;br /&gt;
to the very end, though the message which she these necessities are amply provided for: and&lt;br /&gt;
had to deliver belonged to a past generation. It that to continue the dinner and the appeal is a&lt;br /&gt;
was her lot to educate the young English gentle- needless humiliation to the cause of Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
woman. Charlotte Yonge took her out of the&lt;br /&gt;
conventionalities with which, fifty years ago, she&lt;br /&gt;
was surrounded and brought up: the conven- A bookseller assured me the other day that the&lt;br /&gt;
tional religion of an unreal Calvinism which the Net System was gaining ground every day: that&lt;br /&gt;
Englishwoman applied to her friends but not to the trade liked it: that the public liked it. These&lt;br /&gt;
herself; the conventional views of life, based vague statements could easily be tested. I had,&lt;br /&gt;
upon ignorance ; a conventional Art, conventional lying on my table, another bookseller&amp;#039;s catalogue&lt;br /&gt;
manners, conventional talk, conventional affecta- of new books and reprints, with their prices for&lt;br /&gt;
tions. Charlotte Yonge made her life real for her one month. I therefore took the trouble to run&lt;br /&gt;
before the realities of maternity opened her eyes: through the list, and this is what I found: There&lt;br /&gt;
she gave her views of conduct, of Art, of occupa- were 388 books in the list, of which a few were&lt;br /&gt;
tion, of responsibilities. The younger generation, mere catalogues, calendars, and the like, which are&lt;br /&gt;
which has been brought up in the ideas first not books. Of the 388, there were 124 marked as&lt;br /&gt;
taught by this writer, does not know what her &ldquo;net&rdquo;-that is to say, one-third of the books in&lt;br /&gt;
influence meant to the elders. Perhaps&mdash;but I do this list are &ldquo;net&rdquo; books. This fact, taken alone,&lt;br /&gt;
not know &mdash; someone in the next century, in supports the evidence of the bookseller. I next&lt;br /&gt;
considering the history of Englishwomen in proceeded to classify this third. I found that&lt;br /&gt;
the Victorian era, will restore and prove what medical books, highly priced, and published&lt;br /&gt;
Charlotte Yonge did for them. If one had the solely for the use of medical men, took twenty-&lt;br /&gt;
time a study of the Englishwoman as Miss Yonge four of them; that religious books took another&lt;br /&gt;
found her compared with the same woman as nineteen; that there were fifteen books on&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Yonge left her would be as instructive as it science, mostly highly priced; that history&lt;br /&gt;
would certainly be surprising.&lt;br /&gt;
and biography took fourteen; art, trade, and&lt;br /&gt;
crafts, six ; poems, six ; essays and philosophy,&lt;br /&gt;
five; sport, two; travel, six; and novels, two, of&lt;br /&gt;
At the annual meeting of the Royal Literary which one was a translation. Finally, there were&lt;br /&gt;
Fund on March 13 it was stated that the number twenty-five reprints and new editions of standard&lt;br /&gt;
of grants made in the year 1900 was thirty-one, authors. Therefore one deduces the conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
the aggregate sum given amounting to &pound;2085. that, so far, net books are such as the public does&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Theodore Martin is reported to have attributed not greatly covet or need, such as medical and&lt;br /&gt;
a decrease in the grants to a decrease in the scientific books: or such as the public will buy&lt;br /&gt;
receipts of the fund. I have before me the report without looking too closely into the price, such&lt;br /&gt;
for the year 1898&mdash;those for 1899 and 1900 I have as religious books: or such as very few people&lt;br /&gt;
mislaid. I there find that the grants for that want, as new poems : or such old books as a&lt;br /&gt;
year amounted to &pound;1905, and that the average good many people want to possess. It is, there-&lt;br /&gt;
for ten years had then been &pound;2164 ; that the fore, fair to conclude, with this list before us,&lt;br /&gt;
total sum invested is &pound;56,269 168. 8d., pro- that the net system, so far, has hardly touched&lt;br /&gt;
ducing an income of &pound;1700 128. gd.; that the the great book market, nor is it easy to under-&lt;br /&gt;
annual dinner produced $938 158. od.; and stand that it ever will. One cannot make books&lt;br /&gt;
that other subscriptions and donations yielded more popular by making them dearer.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
201&lt;br /&gt;
I have always been of opinion that the true way threat should not be uttered. With all respect&lt;br /&gt;
of publishing is to send to booksellers their own for a paper which does so much for the true&lt;br /&gt;
choice of books on sale or return. I think, interests of Literature as that named after the&lt;br /&gt;
further, that the price at which they buy of the cause, it is quite certain that there are papers&lt;br /&gt;
publishers has nothing to do with the public, so which depend entirely on publishers&amp;#039; advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
that any bookseller would place his own price ments and would perish if these were withdrawn.&lt;br /&gt;
upon his books. I have now, however, come to&lt;br /&gt;
the conclusion that the bookseller does not like&lt;br /&gt;
Literature, on the other hand, puts in a word&lt;br /&gt;
the sale or return system : he would rather keep&lt;br /&gt;
to the old ways : * stock&rdquo; his shelves himself :&lt;br /&gt;
of plain sense for the mass of &ldquo;respectable&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and sell his own wares, even though he consents&lt;br /&gt;
work which certainly does not bear upon it the&lt;br /&gt;
to the fetters of a &ldquo; net&rdquo; system.&lt;br /&gt;
stamp of genius. It may receive its due commen-&lt;br /&gt;
It remains to&lt;br /&gt;
be seen what developments may take place in&lt;br /&gt;
dations, regard being paid to the circumstances&lt;br /&gt;
other directions. A pushing, energetic trade in&lt;br /&gt;
and the reason of its production: the intention of&lt;br /&gt;
the author and the way in which that intention&lt;br /&gt;
cheap literature or in books taken on sale or&lt;br /&gt;
return would perhaps sweep away altogether the&lt;br /&gt;
has been carried out. The uses of &ldquo;respectable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
present system by which the whole risk is generally&lt;br /&gt;
literature are shown in a thousand books of&lt;br /&gt;
laid upon the back of the bookseller, who accepts&lt;br /&gt;
travel, of biography, of compilation ; even of&lt;br /&gt;
it without a murmur simply because he has always&lt;br /&gt;
poetry, fiction, and essays written for the great&lt;br /&gt;
class who are not scholars and capable of raising&lt;br /&gt;
accepted it.&lt;br /&gt;
their thoughts to a somewhat higher elevation :&lt;br /&gt;
but not written over their heads. But we must&lt;br /&gt;
The Literary Year Book for 1901 has made a&lt;br /&gt;
not confuse this kind of work with the rare and&lt;br /&gt;
belated appearance. A notice of the book will&lt;br /&gt;
appear in the May number of The Author. Mean.&lt;br /&gt;
precious gifts of genius.&lt;br /&gt;
time it may be observed that I have looked in&lt;br /&gt;
vain for any information on the most essential I have had a few letters on the subject&mdash;not so&lt;br /&gt;
points of all-viz., the cost of production and the many as might have been expected on a point of&lt;br /&gt;
connection between that amount, the trade price, such vital importance. One need not quote these&lt;br /&gt;
and the question of royalty; further, that as a good letters in full. The points chiefly touched seem&lt;br /&gt;
deal may have to be said about the chapter on to be as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
agreements, members of the Society will kindly 1. The treatment of the average man by the&lt;br /&gt;
remember that any advice or information on this critics is such as to place him on a level with the&lt;br /&gt;
subject which is furnished by a private person writer of genius.&lt;br /&gt;
cannot possibly in the nature of things be so com 2. He is backed by the critics who over-esti.&lt;br /&gt;
plete and trustworthy as that furnished by the mate his productions, not as a tendency, but as&lt;br /&gt;
Society itself with its access to agreements an established custom.&lt;br /&gt;
innumerable and its knowledge of what they 3. So far there seems a general agreement with&lt;br /&gt;
mean.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Collins. On the other hand, to say that an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;editor is obliged to assume honesty in his con-&lt;br /&gt;
Except in Literature, I have not seen any tributor&amp;quot; is to say that an editor is obliged to&lt;br /&gt;
comments on the exposure by Mr. Churton lay down his authority. Suppose a critic on the&lt;br /&gt;
Collins of the present condition of criticism. In subject of gloves were to recommend the bad&lt;br /&gt;
Literature there is an answer which I fear Mr. gloves sold br a friend; how long would he be&lt;br /&gt;
Collins will not accept as decisive. &ldquo;It is allowed to continue? Then why is inferior litera-&lt;br /&gt;
human,&amp;quot; the writer says, &ldquo; to speak up for a ture allowed to be recommended and stamped&lt;br /&gt;
friend: to be angry if your wares are condemned: with approval ? Anyone who knows the name of&lt;br /&gt;
to wish to stand well with persons with whom one the writer of a review can at once tell whether he&lt;br /&gt;
does business.&rdquo; Undoubtedly it is human. But is an honest man or not. Then why should not&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Collins&amp;#039;s contention is that a book sent out the editor be able to tell ? Of course he knows,&lt;br /&gt;
for review demands impartiality, although parti. but he does not care. That is the burden of&lt;br /&gt;
ality is &ldquo;human.&rdquo; If the editor were to say half-a-dozen letters.&lt;br /&gt;
boldly that log-rolling was allowed in his columns 4. The deference of editors to publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
because it is human he would get no books to another writer points out, is shown by the review-&lt;br /&gt;
review. Literature says that &amp;quot;publishers who ing of books in a batch. When to one woman&lt;br /&gt;
approach the editor in the no song no supper (who does the job cheaply) is assigned a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
style are a figment of Mr. Churton Collins&amp;#039;s novels every week, the publisher of each can&lt;br /&gt;
imagination.&rdquo; It needs not, however, the ex. generally find a line or a disconnected adjective&lt;br /&gt;
pressed threat: it is much more polite that the to quote; but the weight of criticism is destroyed :&lt;br /&gt;
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202&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the public are no longer influenced : they do not be quite as productive of good as the great&lt;br /&gt;
read the short paragraphs: the paper has prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
surrendered its authority- and for what? For It will be noticed that the benefits of the&lt;br /&gt;
an advertisement which it would probably have foundation are to be open to all nationalities&lt;br /&gt;
obtained under other circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
without distinction. No restriction of sex is&lt;br /&gt;
5. Another point alleged is that Mr. Churton mentioned in the statutes.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins thinks too highly of the power of criticism. The Nobel Foundation is based on the will of&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the critic who brings a book into demand Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, dated Nov. 27, 1895,&lt;br /&gt;
or kills a book. Log-rolling, personal malice, of which the following passage contains the&lt;br /&gt;
incompetence, recklessness, the review of books stipulations with regard to the foundation : &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
in batches, have between them killed the power of residue of my realisable property left after my&lt;br /&gt;
the very best and most competent critic. Books death shall be disposed of as follows: The&lt;br /&gt;
are advanced by word of mouth : &ldquo; Have you capital, invested in safe investments by the&lt;br /&gt;
read&rdquo; this or that book ? and so the book grows executors of my will, shall constitute a fund of&lt;br /&gt;
in demand, whether the critic speaks well of it which the interest shall be distributed annually&lt;br /&gt;
or ill.&lt;br /&gt;
as a reward to such persons as have rendered to&lt;br /&gt;
6. There are critics left, and good critics. Let humanity the greatest services during the pre-&lt;br /&gt;
us implore them to go on giving us their best. ceding year. The total amount shall be divided&lt;br /&gt;
The time will come when their services will into five equal parts, and allotted, one (part to&lt;br /&gt;
once more be valued as they should be, and the person who has made the most important&lt;br /&gt;
when an editor will no longer be restrained discovery or invention in the physical sciences;&lt;br /&gt;
by feelings of courtesy from showing to the another (part] to the person who has made the&lt;br /&gt;
door the reviewer who has betrayed the con- most important discovery or the greatest improve-&lt;br /&gt;
fidence reposed in him, and has damaged the ment in chemistry ; the third to the author of&lt;br /&gt;
influence of the paper by false opinion, sup the most important discovery in the domain of&lt;br /&gt;
pression of the truth, incompetence, and log- physiology or medicine; the fourth to the person&lt;br /&gt;
rolling&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. who has produced the most remarkable literary&lt;br /&gt;
work of an idealist tendency; and, finally, the&lt;br /&gt;
fifth to the person who has done most, or laboured&lt;br /&gt;
best, for the cause of fraternity among different&lt;br /&gt;
THE NOBEL FOUNDATION AND THE&lt;br /&gt;
peoples, for the suppression or reduction of&lt;br /&gt;
NOBEL PRIZES.&lt;br /&gt;
standing armies, or for the formation and pro-&lt;br /&gt;
motion of peace congresses.&lt;br /&gt;
The prizes shall be awarded as follows:-For&lt;br /&gt;
LFRED BERNHARD NOBEL, the in- physics and chemistry by the Swedish Academy&lt;br /&gt;
ventor of dynamite, died in 1896, leaving of Sciences; for work in physiology and medicine&lt;br /&gt;
the residue of bis great fortune, estimated by the Caroline Institute of Stockholm ; for&lt;br /&gt;
at about &pound;2,000,000 sterling, for the foundation of literature by the Stockholm Academy; and,&lt;br /&gt;
five annual prizes, to be awarded for the most finally, for the cause of peace, by a commission of&lt;br /&gt;
important discoveries in physics, chemistry, and five members elected by the Norwegian Storthing.&lt;br /&gt;
physiology or medicine, for the most remarkable It is my express desire that in the award of the&lt;br /&gt;
literary work of an idealist tendency, and for the prizes no account shall be taken of nationality, so&lt;br /&gt;
greatest service rendered to the cause of peace that each prize may go to the most worthy,&lt;br /&gt;
during the year. The value of each prize will be whether he be Scandinavian or not.&lt;br /&gt;
about &pound;8000.&lt;br /&gt;
An agreement was made with certain heirs to&lt;br /&gt;
An official French translation of the statutes a smaller portion of Dr. Nobel&amp;#039;s property, by&lt;br /&gt;
and regulations relating to the Nobel Foundation which they renounced the inheritance for them-&lt;br /&gt;
has just been issued. The original documents selves and their heirs, on the express condition&lt;br /&gt;
received the sanction of the King of Sweden on that-&lt;br /&gt;
June 29, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
(a) The general statutes regulating the award&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen that the text of the will has&lt;br /&gt;
of the prizes by the competent authorities&lt;br /&gt;
received a liberal interpretation. In addition to&lt;br /&gt;
should be drawn up in concert with a&lt;br /&gt;
the prizes, provision is made for the establish-&lt;br /&gt;
delegate representing the Robert Nobel&lt;br /&gt;
ment of Nobel institutes where researches may&lt;br /&gt;
family, and submitted for approval to the&lt;br /&gt;
be carried on, and of special funds from which&lt;br /&gt;
King of Sweden.&lt;br /&gt;
grants may be given to promote the objects which (6) That certain permanent regulations, stated&lt;br /&gt;
the founder had at heart; and both institutes&lt;br /&gt;
below, should be passed with regard to&lt;br /&gt;
and special funds are likely, to say the least, to&lt;br /&gt;
the award of the prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
203&lt;br /&gt;
TUTES.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&mdash;THE STATUTES.&lt;br /&gt;
person or body of persons qualified to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) The General Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
Regulations defining the categories of persons&lt;br /&gt;
1. The General Fund is to be controlled by a qualified to propose works for the competitions are&lt;br /&gt;
council of administration. composed of five given below under the special regulations for the&lt;br /&gt;
members, of Swedish nationality, sitting at Stock&lt;br /&gt;
various sections. No person may propose his own&lt;br /&gt;
holm. The president is to be nominated by the&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
King of Sweden. The four other members are to 4:&lt;br /&gt;
4. Each proposal must be accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
be elected by a body of fifteen representatives,&lt;br /&gt;
written works and documents on which the&lt;br /&gt;
chosen by the corporate bodies named in the will&lt;br /&gt;
(See 2, below.)&lt;br /&gt;
support of the proposal. The corporate body&lt;br /&gt;
A deputy is also to be elected to act in the&lt;br /&gt;
with whom the award of a prize lies shall be dis-&lt;br /&gt;
absence of the president, and two deputies are to&lt;br /&gt;
pensed from proceeding toa detailed examination&lt;br /&gt;
be elected for each of the other members of the of any proposal in the following cases : (1) if the&lt;br /&gt;
council.&lt;br /&gt;
proposal or works presented are not written either&lt;br /&gt;
The members and deputies will be elected in&lt;br /&gt;
in one of the Scandinavian languages or in&lt;br /&gt;
future for a period of two years, the term of office&lt;br /&gt;
English, French, German, or Latin ; (2) if the&lt;br /&gt;
beginning on May ist. But two of the members&lt;br /&gt;
majority of the corporate body in question would&lt;br /&gt;
of the first council, selected by lot, will retire,&lt;br /&gt;
be required, in order to appreciate the proposed&lt;br /&gt;
after a single year of office, so that in future two&lt;br /&gt;
work, to acquaint themselves with a memoir&lt;br /&gt;
may retire annually.&lt;br /&gt;
written in a language of which the interpretation&lt;br /&gt;
The council will elect one of its members as&lt;br /&gt;
would entail special difficulties or considerable&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; director and admioistrator&rdquo; (directeur-g&eacute;rant).&lt;br /&gt;
expense.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Of the fifteen representatives, six are to be&lt;br /&gt;
5. The proposals received from the previous&lt;br /&gt;
chosen by the Academy of Sciences (for the two&lt;br /&gt;
ist of February to the ist of February in each year&lt;br /&gt;
sections of physics and chemistry), and three are&lt;br /&gt;
shall be considered together. The will prescribes&lt;br /&gt;
to be chosen by each of the other corporate bodies that prizes shall be awarded for work done &ldquo;in&lt;br /&gt;
In addition the Academy of Sciences will nomi.&lt;br /&gt;
will nomi. the preceding year,&amp;quot; but this expression is to be&lt;br /&gt;
nate four deputy-representatives, and each of the&lt;br /&gt;
taken to mean &ldquo; that the object of the awards&lt;br /&gt;
other corporate bodies two, to act for representa-&lt;br /&gt;
shall be (as a rule] the most recent fruit of efforts&lt;br /&gt;
tives prevented from so doing.&lt;br /&gt;
in the fields designated in the will, but that it&lt;br /&gt;
The representatives will hold office for two&lt;br /&gt;
may be] older work in [exceptional] cases where&lt;br /&gt;
years. They will elect a president from among&lt;br /&gt;
its importance has only recently been demon-&lt;br /&gt;
their number. Nine representatives will form a&lt;br /&gt;
strated.&lt;br /&gt;
quorum.&lt;br /&gt;
6. If no work be regarded as deserving of a&lt;br /&gt;
In certain cases the representatives may be prize in any section the amount of the prize is to&lt;br /&gt;
called on to control the management of the&lt;br /&gt;
be held over until the next year; if the prize be&lt;br /&gt;
foundation by the council.&lt;br /&gt;
not awarded then, the money may be either&lt;br /&gt;
3. The functions of the council include the pay-&lt;br /&gt;
returned to the General Fund by the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the money value of prizes to the prize&lt;br /&gt;
body concerned or invested to form a special fund&lt;br /&gt;
winners and the payment on requisition of all&lt;br /&gt;
for the section, the income from which is to be&lt;br /&gt;
expenses incurred in the award of prizes, the pay-&lt;br /&gt;
used to promote the chief objects of the founder,&lt;br /&gt;
ment of sums due to the Nobel Institutes, and of&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise than by the award of a prize. (See&lt;br /&gt;
sums required for all other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
also under special funds, below.) In accordance&lt;br /&gt;
4. One-tenth of the net annual revenue from the&lt;br /&gt;
with an agreement made with certain heirs of&lt;br /&gt;
General Fund is to be added to the capital; and&lt;br /&gt;
Nobel, referred to above, it is stipulated, for all&lt;br /&gt;
the interest on sums for prizes not awarded is also&lt;br /&gt;
future time, that in each section a prize shall be&lt;br /&gt;
to be added to the capital till such sums have&lt;br /&gt;
awarded at least once in each consecutive period&lt;br /&gt;
been returned to the General Fund or transferred&lt;br /&gt;
of five years; and that the value of the prize&lt;br /&gt;
to a special fund.&lt;br /&gt;
given shall not be less than sixty per cent. (60&deg;)&lt;br /&gt;
of the total amount available for the prize, and&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The Nobel Prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
that it shall not be divided into more than three&lt;br /&gt;
1. The prizes are to be awarded as a rule prizes. The present statutes provide that the&lt;br /&gt;
annually. The first award of prizes in all the amount of a prize may be equally divided between&lt;br /&gt;
sections will take place, if possible, in 1901. two works, both being judged worthy of the prize.&lt;br /&gt;
2. For a work to be admitted to compete for a A prize may be awarded to the joint work of&lt;br /&gt;
prize it musi have been printed and published. two or more collaborators.&lt;br /&gt;
3. In order to be admitted to the competition The corporate bodies are allowed to decide if&lt;br /&gt;
each work must be proposed in writing by some prizes within their respective jurisdictions may,&lt;br /&gt;
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204&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the Spanish Academy, which resemble&lt;br /&gt;
this Academy in their organisation and&lt;br /&gt;
aims.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) Members of the literary sections of other&lt;br /&gt;
Academies and members of literary&lt;br /&gt;
societies similar to Academies.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) University professors of &aelig;sthetics, litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, and history.&lt;br /&gt;
This regulation is to be published at least once&lt;br /&gt;
every five years in an official journal or in one of&lt;br /&gt;
the newspapers most widely read in the three&lt;br /&gt;
Scandinavian countries and the principal countries&lt;br /&gt;
of the civilised world.&lt;br /&gt;
or may not, be awarded to an institution or a&lt;br /&gt;
society.&lt;br /&gt;
7. The four prizes for physics, chemistry,&lt;br /&gt;
literature, and medicine will be awarded by the&lt;br /&gt;
corporate bodies named in the will, after receiving&lt;br /&gt;
a report in each case from a special committee,&lt;br /&gt;
to be called a Nobel committee, and consisting of&lt;br /&gt;
three or five members elected by the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
body concerned. The &ldquo; Peace&rdquo; prize will be&lt;br /&gt;
awarded by a commission of the Norwegian&lt;br /&gt;
Storthing in accordance with the terms of the&lt;br /&gt;
will. Members of the Nobel committees and of the&lt;br /&gt;
commission of the Storthing may be of foreign&lt;br /&gt;
nationality. In special cases the corporate bodies&lt;br /&gt;
concerned may add to the Nobel committees&lt;br /&gt;
additional members possessing special com-&lt;br /&gt;
petence.&lt;br /&gt;
Members of the Nobel committees may receive&lt;br /&gt;
a suitable remuneration for their work, to be&lt;br /&gt;
fixed by the corporate body concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Against the decisions with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
award of prizes no appeal can be made.&lt;br /&gt;
If in the deliberations with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
award any difference of opinion should arise, it&lt;br /&gt;
shall neither be mentioned in the minutes of the&lt;br /&gt;
proceedings nor otherwise revealed in any way.&lt;br /&gt;
9. A solemn assembly will be held on the ioth&lt;br /&gt;
of December in each year, the anniversary of the&lt;br /&gt;
death of the founder, at which the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
bodies charged with the award of the prizes will&lt;br /&gt;
publicly announce their decisions, and will present&lt;br /&gt;
to each successful candidate an order for the&lt;br /&gt;
amount of his prize, a diploma, and a gold medal&lt;br /&gt;
bearing the effigy of the donor, and an appro-&lt;br /&gt;
priate inscription.&lt;br /&gt;
10. Each prizeman is bound, unless he is pre-&lt;br /&gt;
vented from doing so (&agrave; moins d&amp;#039;emp&eacute;chement),&lt;br /&gt;
to deliver a public lecture on the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;
work to which the prize was awarded. The&lt;br /&gt;
lecture in the case of the first four prizes is to be&lt;br /&gt;
delivered at Stockholm, in the case of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Peace&rdquo; prize, at Christiania.&lt;br /&gt;
Il. SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR THE SECTION&lt;br /&gt;
OF LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The corporate body for the section is the&lt;br /&gt;
Swedish Academy&lt;br /&gt;
According to the statutes the term &ldquo; literature&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in the will is intended to apply not only to purely&lt;br /&gt;
literary works, but to all other works possessing&lt;br /&gt;
from their form and style literary value.&lt;br /&gt;
The Nobel Prize in Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The following institutions and persons are&lt;br /&gt;
to be entitled to nominate competitors for the&lt;br /&gt;
prizes, in accordance with the statutes.&lt;br /&gt;
(i.) Members of the Swedish Academy (re.&lt;br /&gt;
ferred to hereafter as &ldquo;the Academy&rdquo;)&lt;br /&gt;
and members of the French Academy and&lt;br /&gt;
The Nobel Literary Institute.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The institute will include an important&lt;br /&gt;
library devoted chiefly to modern literature. The&lt;br /&gt;
Academy will nominate a librarian with one or&lt;br /&gt;
more assistant librarians, and also a number of&lt;br /&gt;
qualified literary assistants, titular and supernu-&lt;br /&gt;
merary, whose duty it will be to draw up reports&lt;br /&gt;
on questions relating to the prize and on recent&lt;br /&gt;
foreign literature, and to execute such translations&lt;br /&gt;
of foreign works as may be required.&lt;br /&gt;
of foreign works as m&lt;br /&gt;
The institute will be placed under the super.&lt;br /&gt;
vision of an inspector nominated by the King of&lt;br /&gt;
Sweden and under the immediate direction of one&lt;br /&gt;
of the members of the Academy nominated&lt;br /&gt;
specially by this body.&lt;br /&gt;
The Special Fund for Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
4. The Academy has power to use the special&lt;br /&gt;
fund to encourage, in accordance with the chief&lt;br /&gt;
objects of the founder, all literary activity, in&lt;br /&gt;
Sweden and abroad, of such kind as may be&lt;br /&gt;
regarded as of importance to civilisation, especi-&lt;br /&gt;
ally in the intellectual domain to which it is the&lt;br /&gt;
duty of the Academy to devote its attention and&lt;br /&gt;
care. (See below.)&lt;br /&gt;
III.-THE CORPORATE Bodies MENTIONED IN&lt;br /&gt;
THE WILL OF THE FOUNDER.&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Academy of Sciences (Kongl. Veten-&lt;br /&gt;
skaps Akademien) of Stockholm was founded in&lt;br /&gt;
1739. Its present statutes bear the date July 13,&lt;br /&gt;
1850. Its object is to encourage the sciences, to&lt;br /&gt;
aid in their development, and to spread scientific&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge by means of printed publications.&lt;br /&gt;
The King of Sweden is the patron of the&lt;br /&gt;
Academy, which includes 100 Swedish and Nor-&lt;br /&gt;
wegian, and seventv-five foreign members. The&lt;br /&gt;
national members are divided into nine sections,&lt;br /&gt;
as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. Pure Mathematics.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Applied Mathematics.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Applied Mechanics.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Physical Sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
205&lt;br /&gt;
V. Chemistry, Geology, and Mineralogy.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Botany and Zoology.&lt;br /&gt;
VII. The Medical Sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
I.-BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. Technology, Economics, and Statistics. I N reading some passages of the letters recently&lt;br /&gt;
IX. The Sciences and Scientific Professions published in your columns one can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
generally.&lt;br /&gt;
repress a smile at the counsel of perfection so&lt;br /&gt;
The president of the Academy is elected freely tendered to the scribes who &ldquo;review&amp;quot; books&lt;br /&gt;
annually, and there are several other officers, for the daily Press. Do the gentlemen who give&lt;br /&gt;
including a perpetual secretary, whose especial such good advice know under what conditions most&lt;br /&gt;
business it is to manage the affairs of the of the &ldquo;reviewing&rdquo; in the dailies is done ? I&lt;br /&gt;
Academy.&lt;br /&gt;
am referring more particularly to the provincial&lt;br /&gt;
The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) dailies, of course, when I say that as a rule the&lt;br /&gt;
of Stockholm was founded on March 20, 1786, by only pay which a &ldquo;reviewer&rdquo; gets from them is&lt;br /&gt;
Gustavus III., and at the same time received its the permission to retain the book &ldquo;reviewed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
statutes, which are still in force. It is devoted The said volume may be nominally worth 4s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
to literature, including both prose and poetry; net; but usually these &ldquo;reviewers&amp;quot; will be per-&lt;br /&gt;
and the chief object of the Academy is to labour fectly willing to supply you with their &ldquo;acquisi.&lt;br /&gt;
for the purity, the vigour, and the elevation of tions&rdquo; by the dozen at a shilling each. This is&lt;br /&gt;
the Swedish language, in scientific works, and certainly the condition of things upon the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
especially in the various branches of poetry and vincial daily with which I am connected. We&lt;br /&gt;
prose, including those which serve for the inter- regular members of the staff are expected to&lt;br /&gt;
pretation of religious truths. It is the duty of &ldquo;review&rdquo; books on these terms&mdash;though fortu.&lt;br /&gt;
the Academy to compile a dictionary and a nately I myself don&amp;#039;t get much of this lucrative&lt;br /&gt;
grammar of the Swedish language, and to publish work to do&mdash;and upon my casually expressing a&lt;br /&gt;
treatises tending to strengthen and develop lite. certain admiration for a good deal of present-day&lt;br /&gt;
rary taste (le bon go&ucirc;t). The Academy awards fiction one of the &ldquo;reviewers &rdquo; laughingly said :&lt;br /&gt;
annual prizes for competitions in prose and &ldquo;My dear fellow, I&amp;#039;ve got 500 volumes at home,&lt;br /&gt;
poetry. The King is the patron of the Academy. any of which you are welcome to at a shilling&lt;br /&gt;
The Academy includes eighteen members, who each.&rdquo; Looking at the conditions under which&lt;br /&gt;
must be of Swedish nationality. The officers such &ldquo; reviewing &rdquo; is done, can any reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
include a director, a chancellor, and a perpetual man expect it to be of higher quality than it is?&lt;br /&gt;
secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps not more than four or five men on the&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Caroline Institute of Medicine staff do the whole of the &ldquo; reviewing&rdquo; between&lt;br /&gt;
and Surgery (Kongl, Karolinska Medico-Kirur- them; and most probably not one of the five is&lt;br /&gt;
giska Instituet) of Stocknolm dates from the really capable of criticising more than one-fourth&lt;br /&gt;
year 1815. The statutes at present in force of the books he &ldquo;reviews&amp;quot; with such easy facility.&lt;br /&gt;
received the sanction of the King of Sweden on The natural and inevitable consequence is that&lt;br /&gt;
April 29, 1886. The Academy corresponds to a three-fourths of that paper&amp;#039;s &ldquo; reviewing &rdquo; is the&lt;br /&gt;
Faculty of Medicine, and has the same powers as merest twaddle. And the journal I am engaged&lt;br /&gt;
the Faculties of Medicine in the Universities of on is by no means an unimportant one. It is a&lt;br /&gt;
Upsala and Lund. The institute carries on the penny morning sheet, and is published in a town&lt;br /&gt;
theoretical and practical teaching of the medical of more than 500,000 inhabitants. If, then, the&lt;br /&gt;
sciences, and awards diplomas to medical students pay for &ldquo;reviewing&rdquo; in such a journal is so&lt;br /&gt;
by examination.&lt;br /&gt;
munificent, we must not expect it to be better in&lt;br /&gt;
The direction and administration of the insti. the many hundreds of dailies of lesser con-&lt;br /&gt;
tute are in the hands of a rector, elected by the sequence. Hence it follows, &ldquo;as the night the&lt;br /&gt;
College of Professors from among the members. day,&amp;quot; that the bulk of provincial &ldquo;reviewing &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The present number of Professors is thirty must be trashy and worthless; and no reason.&lt;br /&gt;
three.&lt;br /&gt;
able man will expect any other result from such a&lt;br /&gt;
The Norwegian Stortbing is the Legislative system. Of course there are papers like the Scots-&lt;br /&gt;
Assembly of Norway. It is elected indirectly by man, Manchester Guardian, Glasgow Herald, and&lt;br /&gt;
universal suffrage triennially. It consists of 114 a few others, to which the above remarks would&lt;br /&gt;
members.&lt;br /&gt;
P. J. HARTOG. by no means apply ; but these are merely the&lt;br /&gt;
exceptions proving the rule. The criticism which&lt;br /&gt;
I should be inclined to pass upon seven-eighths&lt;br /&gt;
of provincial &ldquo;reviewing &rdquo; work would be short&lt;br /&gt;
but expressive. It would be concentrated into&lt;br /&gt;
one word&mdash;&ldquo; Bosh.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
SUB-EDITOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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206&lt;br /&gt;
TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
untv&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
tion&rdquo; in the current number of the Pall Mall&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine :-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hardy: I think the rule ought to be that favourable&lt;br /&gt;
DROFESSOR R. Y. TYRRELL has compiled&lt;br /&gt;
criticisms may be unsigned, but that the critic should be&lt;br /&gt;
an anthology of Latin Poetry, in which he bound to take the responsibility of an unfavourable judg.&lt;br /&gt;
has endeavoured to bring together charac. ment. There aboald be no stabbing in the dark. Not that&lt;br /&gt;
teristic rather than merely beautiful extracts.&lt;br /&gt;
I, personally, have any wish to complain of criticism signed&lt;br /&gt;
The work will be published by Messrs. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
or unsigned.&lt;br /&gt;
W. A. : It seems to me that reviewing, as a whole, is&lt;br /&gt;
This firm will publish shortly a volume of papers&lt;br /&gt;
becoming more conscientious, if not more competent.&lt;br /&gt;
on Oxford in the Eighteenth Century, by the late Mr. Hardy: I remember a case in which a critic seemed&lt;br /&gt;
John Richard Green. The majority of the papers to me to carry conscientiousness to an inconvenient pitch.&lt;br /&gt;
appeared originally in the Oxford Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
Writing of my &ldquo;Wessex Poems,&amp;quot; this gentleman said that&lt;br /&gt;
when he first read the book he thought it rather good, but&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. H. Rose is engaged upon a &ldquo;Life of being determined not to be taken in, and to be conscientious&lt;br /&gt;
Napoleon Bonaparte,&rdquo; which Messrs. Bell will&lt;br /&gt;
at all hazards, he made a point of getting ap to re-read it&lt;br /&gt;
publish in two volumes. Mr. Rose is the author&lt;br /&gt;
on a wet morning before breakfast, and then found that it&lt;br /&gt;
was worth very little. That seemed to me an excessive&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot; The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era&amp;quot; in&lt;br /&gt;
devotion to critical daty.&lt;br /&gt;
the Cambridge Historical Series.&lt;br /&gt;
Articles by Mr. R. E. Leader, which have been&lt;br /&gt;
. A volume of imaginative essays by Mr. H. W. appearing in the Sheffield Independent, will be&lt;br /&gt;
Nevinson, entitled &ldquo;The Plea of Pan,&rdquo; will be published from the office of the journal in a&lt;br /&gt;
published this month by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
volume entitled &ldquo; Reminiscences of Sheffield in the&lt;br /&gt;
Eighteenth Century.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Henry Norman (M&eacute;nie Muriel Dowie)&lt;br /&gt;
has completed a new novel, which Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
An uncut copy of Shelley&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Alastor: or, The&lt;br /&gt;
will publish in the summer. The title will&lt;br /&gt;
Spirit of Solitude,&rdquo; first edition, in original boards,&lt;br /&gt;
probably be &ldquo; Which was Love?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1816, was sold in London last month for &pound;66.&lt;br /&gt;
The whole edition of the work by Jaakoff&lt;br /&gt;
The Marian controversy is the subject not only Prelooker entitled &ldquo;Under the Czar and Queen&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Andrew Lang&amp;#039;s forthcoming book, but of Victoria : the Experience of a Russian Reformer,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
another, the result of life-long study, by Mr. published by James Nisbet and Co., at 78. 6d.,&lt;br /&gt;
Samuel Cowan. This will be called &ldquo; Mary, has been bought by a few friends interested in&lt;br /&gt;
Queen of Scots, and Who Wrote the Casket&lt;br /&gt;
Russian subjects, and is now offered to the public&lt;br /&gt;
Letters ? &rdquo; The work will be published by at the low price of 2s. 6d. The book is profusely&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sampson Low. A particular feature is illustrated, and as the Academy gays, &ldquo;should&lt;br /&gt;
the portraits which it will contain. An American be purchased as a work of reference on things&lt;br /&gt;
author, Mr. M. M. Shoemaker, has nearly finished Russian, as well as for its intrinsic charm as an&lt;br /&gt;
an illustrated work on the palaces, prisons, and autobiography.&rdquo; At the price of 2s. 6d. the book&lt;br /&gt;
resting-places of Mary Queen of Scots. This cau be had from the author only (21, Paternoster-&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. H. Virtue and Co.,&lt;br /&gt;
square, E.C.), adding four penny stamps for&lt;br /&gt;
Art Journal Office.&lt;br /&gt;
postage.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. S. Fletcher is publishing a new novel The Archbishop of Canterbury is to preside at&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; The Three Days&amp;#039; Terror.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. G. Wells&amp;#039;s new work, &ldquo; Anticipations,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
May 17. At the annual meeting on March 13,&lt;br /&gt;
begins its serial course in the Fortnightly Review&lt;br /&gt;
Sir E. Mountstuart Grant-Duff in the chair, the&lt;br /&gt;
for April.&lt;br /&gt;
report for 1900 showed that thirty-one grants bad&lt;br /&gt;
been given, amounting in all to &pound;2085. Eight&lt;br /&gt;
Benjamin Swift&amp;#039;s forthcoming work is a survey&lt;br /&gt;
writers in arch&aelig;ology, history, and biography had&lt;br /&gt;
of modern knowledge with reference to conduct.&lt;br /&gt;
received &pound;445 from the Fund, two authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
It gives the inner experiences of a modern mind&lt;br /&gt;
drama and poetry &pound;260, and four novelists &pound;265.&lt;br /&gt;
which has lost hold of the orthodox beliefs and&lt;br /&gt;
The recipients of relief included eight women-&lt;br /&gt;
has attempted to restate the problems of life in an&lt;br /&gt;
five writers and three widows. Sir Theodore&lt;br /&gt;
unconventional way. This work will be published&lt;br /&gt;
Martin, the registrar, attributed the fact that the&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Heinemann under the author&amp;#039;s real name recipients were fewer than in the year 1899 not so&lt;br /&gt;
-W. R. Paterson.&lt;br /&gt;
much to the diminution of necessitous cases as to&lt;br /&gt;
So much has been written of late on reviewing the decrease in the receipts of the Fund. Sir&lt;br /&gt;
that readers will be interested in the following Lewis Morris and Dr. A. W. Ward, Master of&lt;br /&gt;
insight into Mr. Hardy&amp;#039;s mind on the subject of Peterborough, were appointed to the vacancies on&lt;br /&gt;
signed and unsigned criticism. The passage the council caused by the deaths of Professor&lt;br /&gt;
occurs in Mr. William Archer&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Real Conversa- Max M&uuml;ller and Bishop Creighton.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
207&lt;br /&gt;
Lieut.-Colonel A. F. Montanaro, R.A., and&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Armitage, D.S.O., are writing aebook on&lt;br /&gt;
the recent Ashanti campaign. Both were with&lt;br /&gt;
the relief force. The volume, entitled &ldquo; The Siege&lt;br /&gt;
and Relief of Kumassi,&rdquo; will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sands.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Cyril Scudamore is the author of a book&lt;br /&gt;
on Belgium, which Messrs. Blackwood are pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing. It will be illustrated, and is intended to&lt;br /&gt;
give people who propose to visit Belgium a preli.&lt;br /&gt;
minary idea of the country and the people.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. H. Wilkins has edited the letters&lt;br /&gt;
written from the Cape of Good Hope by Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Anne Barnard to the first Viscount Melville (then&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Dundas) during the years 1797-1801.&lt;br /&gt;
These will be published shortly by Messrs. Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder, and Co., under the title &ldquo; South Africa a&lt;br /&gt;
Century Ago.&rdquo; Mr. Wilkins has written a&lt;br /&gt;
memoir of Lady Anne Barnard for the volume.&lt;br /&gt;
The Academy hears of two new editions of the&lt;br /&gt;
complete works of Count Tolstoy. &ldquo;One is&lt;br /&gt;
announced definitely by Mr. Grant Richards. The&lt;br /&gt;
other is being planned elsewhere. Possibly, in&lt;br /&gt;
the end, only one of these editions will see the&lt;br /&gt;
light.&rdquo; It is stated that the title of Count&lt;br /&gt;
Tolstoy&amp;#039;s new novel will be &ldquo;P&egrave;re Serge.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The first congress of the International Associa.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the Principal Scientific and Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Academies of the World will take place in Paris&lt;br /&gt;
on April 13, 14, and 15.&lt;br /&gt;
Alterations have been carried out upon Burns&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
cottage at Alloway, near Ayr, with a view to&lt;br /&gt;
making it as nearly as possible what it was when&lt;br /&gt;
the poet lived there. Relics and photographs&lt;br /&gt;
will still be sold, but the sale of refreshments&lt;br /&gt;
within the precincts has been stopped. The&lt;br /&gt;
birthplace of the poet was visited by 50,000&lt;br /&gt;
persons last year. The dinner of the Edinburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Burns Club took place on March 23, when&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Conan Doyle, in proposing the principal&lt;br /&gt;
incipal&lt;br /&gt;
toast, said there was no reason to think that&lt;br /&gt;
Burns&amp;#039;s fame would have been increased by a&lt;br /&gt;
longer life.&lt;br /&gt;
The King and Queen have accepted copies of&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Aylmer Gowing&amp;#039;s sonnet, &ldquo;The Passing of&lt;br /&gt;
the Queen&amp;quot;; also of a short poem, &ldquo;Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts &mdash; a Welcome,&rdquo; which is dedicated to&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Roberts, and sold for the benefit of the&lt;br /&gt;
Soldiers&amp;#039; and Sailors&amp;#039; Families Association.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador, who&lt;br /&gt;
spoke at Chelsea after Mr. Birrell&amp;#039;s lecture on the&lt;br /&gt;
literature of the nineteenth century, referred to&lt;br /&gt;
the subject of international copyright. &ldquo;As all&lt;br /&gt;
readers everywhere,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo; got the benefit of&lt;br /&gt;
the brains of all authors, was it a mere fanciful&lt;br /&gt;
dream, or would it be realised in the distant&lt;br /&gt;
future, that all authors would get the reciprocal&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of all their readers without regard to inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national or colonial limits, so that a copyright&lt;br /&gt;
property secured anywhere would be good any.&lt;br /&gt;
where, like any other right of property ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A historical essay by Professor Earle on the&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred jewel will be published shortly by the&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford University Press.&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel Ian Hamilton, who has returned from&lt;br /&gt;
the Boer war, was the guest of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Club at a recent Monday dinner. He remarked&lt;br /&gt;
that the English language would never be&lt;br /&gt;
ousted by the Dutch language in South Africa,&lt;br /&gt;
because the Boer girls preferred the English&lt;br /&gt;
novels.&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Augusta Noel has written a novel&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Wise Man of Sterncross,&amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
The Postmaster-General has issued an order&lt;br /&gt;
stating that in the regulations respecting the&lt;br /&gt;
staff the word &ldquo;intoxicated&rdquo; is to be substituted&lt;br /&gt;
for &ldquo; getting drunk.&rdquo; Intoxicated is defined as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Noticeably under the influence of drink or&lt;br /&gt;
suffering from its effects.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. B. Irving has written a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Studies of French Criminals,&rdquo; which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann will publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morley&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Life of Gladstone&rdquo; is expected&lt;br /&gt;
to be finished by next October.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Alfred Milner and His Work&rdquo; is a volume&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Iwan M&uuml;ller, which will narrate the career&lt;br /&gt;
of the present High Commissioner for South&lt;br /&gt;
Africa. Sir Alfred Milner and his biographer&lt;br /&gt;
were friends before and during their residence at&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford. The book will be published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walter Wood has written for Mr. Grant&lt;br /&gt;
Richards two opening volumes of a series entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;British Regiments in War and Peace.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
first, &ldquo; The Rifle Brigade,&rdquo; has been pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished, and the second, &ldquo; The Northumberland&lt;br /&gt;
Fusiliers,&amp;quot; is in the press. A military serial by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Wood has been written for the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Express, another is being published in a syndi-&lt;br /&gt;
cate of newspapers, and he is at work on a&lt;br /&gt;
volume which is to be issued in the autumn. A&lt;br /&gt;
military series by him is running through&lt;br /&gt;
the Northern Counties Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Walter F. Adeney is editing &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Century Bible,&rdquo; whose object is to extend interest&lt;br /&gt;
in the Bible not merely as a source of religious&lt;br /&gt;
edification but as literature and history. Each&lt;br /&gt;
book of the Bible will be a separate volume.&lt;br /&gt;
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208&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
The idea is to issue the books on the same plan&lt;br /&gt;
as is adopted for standard editions of the great&lt;br /&gt;
classics. The first volume-St. Matthew-with&lt;br /&gt;
its introduction, notes, and two texts will contain&lt;br /&gt;
350 pages. The question of authorship will be&lt;br /&gt;
discussed in the introduction to each volume.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The standpoint of the writers throughout,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
says the prospectus, &ldquo;is that of a frank recogni-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the ascertained results of criticism, united&lt;br /&gt;
to a sympathetic perception of the value of the&lt;br /&gt;
books under study, and in the spirit of Christian&lt;br /&gt;
faith.&rdquo; Messrs. Jack, of Edinburgh, are the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bourchier has let the Garrick Theatre for&lt;br /&gt;
four months and will reopen it for the autumn&lt;br /&gt;
season with a new play.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips is engaged upon a drama&lt;br /&gt;
in which Ulysses is to be the central figure. It&lt;br /&gt;
will be produced by Mr. Beerbohm Tree at Her&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty&amp;#039;s Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
At the St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre the next production&lt;br /&gt;
will be a comedy of modern manners by Mr. H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, entitled &ldquo;The Wilderness.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Alexander has accepted a four-act&lt;br /&gt;
play by Mr. W. R. Walkes.&lt;br /&gt;
A new play by Mr. Anthony Hope was pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced for purposes of copyright on March 18 at&lt;br /&gt;
the Garrick Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
A four-act play by Miss Jean Macpherson has&lt;br /&gt;
been accepted by Mr. Forbes Robertson.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Alexander, speaking at the annual&lt;br /&gt;
dinner of the Playgoers&amp;#039; Club, said he was&lt;br /&gt;
delighted to do anything in furtherance of the&lt;br /&gt;
drama, and to prove this he would ask the Play-&lt;br /&gt;
goers to elect a reading committee. They were&lt;br /&gt;
to choose the best modern English play sub-&lt;br /&gt;
mitted to them and he would produce it at a&lt;br /&gt;
matin&eacute;e at the St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre. The club&lt;br /&gt;
has accordingly taken the matter in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Tree intends this season to give matin&eacute;e&lt;br /&gt;
performances of Messrs. Henley and Stevenson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
play&ldquo; Beau Austin,&amp;quot; and to produce their&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Robert Macaire,&rdquo; with Mr. Cyril Maude as&lt;br /&gt;
Jacques Strop.&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Basil Hood&amp;#039;s new comedy, &ldquo; Sweet and&lt;br /&gt;
Twenty,&rdquo; will be produced at the Vaudeville&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on or about April 24. Miss Terriss, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Seymour Hicks, and Mr. Holbrook Blinn will&lt;br /&gt;
appear in the principal parts.&lt;br /&gt;
R. FREDERICK STARTRIDGE ELLIS&lt;br /&gt;
died at Sidmouth, on Feb. 26, from&lt;br /&gt;
* pneumonia. Mr. Ellis, who was born in&lt;br /&gt;
1830, was a thorough bibliophile. For many&lt;br /&gt;
years he was in business as a bookseller and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, and he was long a friendly rival of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Quaritch. Friend of Ruskin and Burne-Jones,&lt;br /&gt;
publisher and friend of Rossetti, and colleague of&lt;br /&gt;
William Morris in the work of the Kelmscott&lt;br /&gt;
Press, Mr. Ellis was not only interested in pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing artistic books. He edited Shelley, Herrick,&lt;br /&gt;
Cavendish&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Wolsey,&rdquo; Caxton&amp;#039;s&ldquo;Golden Legend,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. Mr. Ellis retired from business in 1885. His&lt;br /&gt;
version of the &ldquo; Romaunt of the Rose&rdquo; was pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lished only a few months ago in the Temple&lt;br /&gt;
Classics; and he was in course of writing his&lt;br /&gt;
reminiscences when he died. Our readers will&lt;br /&gt;
hardly need to be reminded of Mr. Ellis&amp;#039;s letter&lt;br /&gt;
on book piracy in last month&amp;#039;s Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. GEORGE CHARLES WINTER WARR, Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fessor of Classical Literature in King&amp;#039;s College,&lt;br /&gt;
London, and of Latin in Queen&amp;#039;s College, London,&lt;br /&gt;
died suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Warr was&lt;br /&gt;
born in 1845, and in 1870 he was elected to&lt;br /&gt;
a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, but&lt;br /&gt;
refused to accept it on account of the religious&lt;br /&gt;
tests. He was general editor of a series of works&lt;br /&gt;
on the Athenian Drama (published by Mr. George&lt;br /&gt;
Allen), and had himself undertaken the volumes&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with &AElig;schylus and Aristophanes, the&lt;br /&gt;
former of which has appeared.&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&mdash;No. 12.]&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
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Memoranda ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property-&lt;br /&gt;
1. Goldwin Smith on Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
2. Copyright in Austria&lt;br /&gt;
3. Capadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
4. &amp;quot;The Literary Year Book&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
5. A New Trick ...&lt;br /&gt;
6. White v. Constable ... &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Letter. By Darracotto Scott&lt;br /&gt;
... 211&lt;br /&gt;
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212&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
American Letter. By J. R. Davidson ..&lt;br /&gt;
... 218&lt;br /&gt;
Notes and News. By the Editor...&lt;br /&gt;
... 220&lt;br /&gt;
Civil List Pensions. By W. Morris Colles&lt;br /&gt;
222&lt;br /&gt;
The Society&amp;#039;s Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
The Authors&amp;#039; Club ...&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence. - 1. Literature. 2. Commercial Morality.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Young Fiction Writers. 4. Editors ...&lt;br /&gt;
Book and Play Talk... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 226&lt;br /&gt;
... 228&lt;br /&gt;
224&lt;br /&gt;
214&lt;br /&gt;
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Annual Report for the current year. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Property. Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 6s. 6d. per annum,&lt;br /&gt;
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5. The Cost of Production. (Out of print.)&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the&lt;br /&gt;
papers in the Society&amp;#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the&lt;br /&gt;
various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. 38.&lt;br /&gt;
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the office of the Society since the publication of the &ldquo;Methods.&rdquo; With comments and&lt;br /&gt;
advice. 28.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill of 1890. With&lt;br /&gt;
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the&lt;br /&gt;
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LUNGE, J.U.D. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association; with Comments. By G. HERBERT&lt;br /&gt;
THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
[All prices net. Apply to the SECRETARY, 4, Portugal Street, London, W.C.]&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author,&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. XI.&ndash;No. 12.)&lt;br /&gt;
MAY 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert 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;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances shonld be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
jocts whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS. 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;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property:&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
I. SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. Bat the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely carefal in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pooket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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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 the loan of the books 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&amp;#039; thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
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 (b.) 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 one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
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 exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
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 dramatio con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&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 of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one gainea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
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;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;g-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
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;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
hall.court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. TIVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
L advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispate arising in the condact 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 solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable; the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
2 II&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
It also adopted a resolution calling on the&lt;br /&gt;
Government to modify the protection of copyright&lt;br /&gt;
I. &mdash; GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE COPYRIGHT&lt;br /&gt;
at present existing in treaties with France, Italy,&lt;br /&gt;
and Great Britain on the lines of the agreement&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTION.&lt;br /&gt;
with Germany, and to take steps with a view to&lt;br /&gt;
HE copyright question, on which Professor&lt;br /&gt;
concluding international treaties for the protection&lt;br /&gt;
Mavor, who has mastered it, has given you&lt;br /&gt;
of copyright with Switzerland, Russia, Roumania,&lt;br /&gt;
an article, is, of course, greatly, almost&lt;br /&gt;
and the United States. The proposal in regard&lt;br /&gt;
fatally, complicated by the prevalence of an&lt;br /&gt;
to the United States had particular reference to&lt;br /&gt;
illiberal protectionism in the United States. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
* Mr. the protection of musical works.&lt;br /&gt;
unk, the eminent New York publisher, some time The House also adopted a resolution requesting&lt;br /&gt;
ago, in a letter to The Times on &ldquo;The United the Government to subscribe to the Berne Conven-&lt;br /&gt;
States and Copyright,&amp;quot; adverted to the refusal of&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&lt;br /&gt;
the United States to allow the British applicant The Minister of Justice agreed to the introduc-&lt;br /&gt;
for their copyright to print in his own country,&lt;br /&gt;
tion of a Bill embodying these resolutions, and&lt;br /&gt;
while Great Britain allows the American applicant stated that the United States had declared its&lt;br /&gt;
for her copyright to print in his. He ascribed&lt;br /&gt;
willingness to conclude a separate treaty which was&lt;br /&gt;
this to the influence exercised by the American&lt;br /&gt;
particularly important in regard to musical works,&lt;br /&gt;
Printers&amp;#039; Union and its allied trades over the&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;Reuter.&lt;br /&gt;
Government of the United States. He was, no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt, right as to the fact. It is true that the&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
universal interests of literature, science, and art&lt;br /&gt;
The order printed below is the first that has&lt;br /&gt;
are sacrificed to those of a local handicraft. But&lt;br /&gt;
it would surely be paying a poor compliment to&lt;br /&gt;
been issued under the new Canadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Act of 1900. The order is exceedingly interest.&lt;br /&gt;
the American Government to plead on its behalf,&lt;br /&gt;
as an excuse for its failure to do justice, its sub-&lt;br /&gt;
ing from many points of view, but chiefly to the&lt;br /&gt;
jection to a sinister interest.&lt;br /&gt;
readers of The Author, because the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
The American printer, under the existing&lt;br /&gt;
Authors has made such strenuous endeavours to&lt;br /&gt;
support the view of the copyright law which has&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement, not only secures his own share of&lt;br /&gt;
the printing, but robs the English printer of that&lt;br /&gt;
resulted in the passing of this Act. As stated in&lt;br /&gt;
the report for last year, this Act practically closes,&lt;br /&gt;
which properly belongs to him.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a pity, as it seems to me, that matters&lt;br /&gt;
in a way satisfactory to all those concerned, a&lt;br /&gt;
difficult and troublesome but important question.&lt;br /&gt;
should ever have been allowed to rest on such a&lt;br /&gt;
footing. This is not free trade; it is connivance &ldquo; Department of Agriculture,&lt;br /&gt;
on the part of Great Britain at the most mani-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ottawa, Ont., March 15, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
festly unjust protection. Great Britain should &ldquo;Whereas, by an Act passed in the sixty-third&lt;br /&gt;
surely have said to the Americans that she was and sixty-fourth year of the reign of Her late&lt;br /&gt;
going into the Berne Convention, and they could Majesty, entitled - An Act to amend the Copy.&lt;br /&gt;
go into it or not as they thought best, but that right Act, it was provided that if a book as to&lt;br /&gt;
they could not expect to share its benefits without which there is a subsisting copyright under the&lt;br /&gt;
fulfilling its conditions. Had this been done, Copyright Act has been first lawfully published&lt;br /&gt;
there would have been an effort on the part of in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s Dominions other&lt;br /&gt;
the literary interest in the United States to bring than Canada, and if it is proved to the satisfac.&lt;br /&gt;
about a better arrangement, such as Mr. Funk&amp;#039;s tion of the Minister of Agriculture that the owner&lt;br /&gt;
house, to its honour, desires. At present there of the copyright so subsisting and of the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
is none.&lt;br /&gt;
right acquired by such publication has lawfully&lt;br /&gt;
That an Imperial copyright law as well as an granted a licence to reproduce in Canada from&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial marriage law and an Imperial patent law movable or other types, or from stereotype plates,&lt;br /&gt;
are the natural accessories of a united Empire or from lithograph stones, or by any process for&lt;br /&gt;
seems to me a position which is very difficult to facsimile reproduction an edition or editions of&lt;br /&gt;
assail.-GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L., in the Univer- such book designed for sale only in Canada, the&lt;br /&gt;
sity of Toronto Monthly.&lt;br /&gt;
Minister of Agriculture may, notwithstanding&lt;br /&gt;
anything in the Copyright Act, by order under&lt;br /&gt;
his hand, prohibit the importation, except with&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;COPYRIGHT IN AUSTRIA.&lt;br /&gt;
the written consent of the licensee, into Canada&lt;br /&gt;
The Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath of any copy of such books printed elsewhere ;&lt;br /&gt;
to-day (March 29) passed the Literary Convention provided that two such copies may be especially&lt;br /&gt;
with Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
imported for the bona fide use of any public free&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 212 (#290) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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212&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
library or any university or college library or any The following remarks and comments on the&lt;br /&gt;
duly incorporated institution or society.&lt;br /&gt;
agreements may be useful to authors. There is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;And whereas there is subsisting copyright in no doubt that a great many authors purchase and&lt;br /&gt;
the Copyright Act as to the book the title of which read &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; with a desire&lt;br /&gt;
is &bull; The Lane which had no Turning,&amp;#039; which book to get useful hints as to the management of&lt;br /&gt;
was first lawfully published in Great Britain, their property. These, no doubt, in many instances&lt;br /&gt;
and whereas it has been proved to my satisfaction they might acquire, but ihey cannot be too careful&lt;br /&gt;
that Gilbert Parker, the owner of the copyright how they deal with their agreements, and it is for&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; so subsisting and of the copyright acquired by their guidance that the following remarks are&lt;br /&gt;
such publication, has lawfully granted to George made:&lt;br /&gt;
N. Morang and Co. Limited, a licence to repro Firstly, the author of the article states as&lt;br /&gt;
duce in Canada editions of such book designed follows: &ldquo; The Copyright Act of 1842 gives the&lt;br /&gt;
for sale only in Canada.&lt;br /&gt;
author of a published book copyright in it on his&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I do hereby order, subject to the proviso registering it at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall.&rdquo; This state-&lt;br /&gt;
contained in the said Act, that the importation, ment is very misleading, as it is not necessary to&lt;br /&gt;
except with the written consent of George N. register at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall in order to obtain&lt;br /&gt;
Morang and Co. Limited, into Canada, of the copyright. Copyright is obtained by publication.&lt;br /&gt;
said book printed elsewhere, be and the same is It is only necessary to register at Stationers&amp;#039; Hall&lt;br /&gt;
hereby prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
prior to taking action for infringement.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Given under my hand and seal on the day With regard to the royalty agreement he then&lt;br /&gt;
and date above written.&lt;br /&gt;
states on the question of how far the contract&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (Signed) SIDNEY FISHER,&lt;br /&gt;
for publication should be a personal one or not:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Minister of Agriculture.&rdquo; &ldquo; It ought to be presumed that a publisher who&lt;br /&gt;
conducts a respectable and honourable business&lt;br /&gt;
will, when he retires from it, probably do so,&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-AGREEMENTS AND &ldquo;THE LITERARY YEAR however suddenly, respectably and honourably;&lt;br /&gt;
Book.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and he ought not to be deprived of the right,&lt;br /&gt;
The new issue of &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; is which he himself allows the author, of assigning&lt;br /&gt;
now before the public, and on the whole the his interest in the work if necessary. Deprived&lt;br /&gt;
editor is to be congratulated on the results of his of that right he would be justified in making the&lt;br /&gt;
efforts. But from the authors&amp;#039; point of view, hardest bargain possible for a mere life-interest&lt;br /&gt;
that is, from the point of view of the owners of in the property.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
literary property&mdash;the article on agreements must Perhaps lack of space has prevented this&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily meet with severe strictures.&lt;br /&gt;
matter from being dealt with fully; there are&lt;br /&gt;
In the introduction the editor says that in this two or three points, however, which should be dis-&lt;br /&gt;
book he takes &ldquo;the value of the author and the tinctly pointed out: firstly, that the property is&lt;br /&gt;
honesty of the man of business with whom he the author&amp;#039;s, that therefore he should have the&lt;br /&gt;
deals for granted,&rdquo; but in dealing with the ques. right of dealing with it; secondly, that many of&lt;br /&gt;
tion of agreements the honesty of the publisher the best known business houses are limited liability&lt;br /&gt;
is not in dispute. The real issue is whether a companies; thirdly, that the question of liquida-&lt;br /&gt;
book like &ldquo; The Literary Year Book&rdquo; should deal tion and bankruptcy has been overlooked, and the&lt;br /&gt;
with agreements from the standpoint of the possibility that misfortune might fall to the lot&lt;br /&gt;
author or the publisher. The editor remarks, of even the best houses. In this third case the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Impartiality is our key-note&amp;quot;; if this were author&amp;#039;s property and the right of dealing with&lt;br /&gt;
possible, it is not expedient when an appeal is it might be sold under an order of the court to&lt;br /&gt;
being made to authors, and if it were expedient, the highest bidder, and the position of the author&lt;br /&gt;
the doctrine has hardly been carried out in the would be unsatisfactory and his property im-&lt;br /&gt;
article referred to. If the line of impartiality perilled.&lt;br /&gt;
had been carried out, it would have been neces- In Clause I as put forward for the reader&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sary to draft a clause and elaborate the arguments consideration the publisher undertakes to pro-&lt;br /&gt;
pro and con. This would have entailed great duce &ldquo;at his own risk and expense&amp;quot; and &ldquo; with&lt;br /&gt;
labour, a larger knowledge, and larger scope. It due diligence,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;to use his best endeavours&lt;br /&gt;
follows, therefore, that the agreements should to sell the book.&rdquo; The remark passed by the&lt;br /&gt;
either have been dealt with exhaustively or not writer is as follows: &ldquo; Part of the undertaking&lt;br /&gt;
at all, and the same remark applies equally to would seem superfluous on the part of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
other articles contained in this book. The space lisher.&rdquo; In an article published in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
given is too small to deal with the question in for July, 1900, this subject was fully dealt with,&lt;br /&gt;
a satisfactory manner.&lt;br /&gt;
and examples there quoted&mdash;examples which have&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 213 (#291) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
213&lt;br /&gt;
come before the Society-show distinctly that in case&mdash;that is, through an agent--at a charge of&lt;br /&gt;
many instances the publisher does not publish 10 per cent. only. Again, when a publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
with due diligence and does not use his best given the right to produce throughout the world,&lt;br /&gt;
endeavours to sell the book. Full knowledge it very often pays him better, missing the American&lt;br /&gt;
tends to show that an undertaking such as put copyright for the author, to sell stereos to the&lt;br /&gt;
forward in Clause 1 is by no means superfluous, United States. This course, however, is by no&lt;br /&gt;
in many cases it is absolutely necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
means so satisfactory for the author.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to Clause 2, which deals with the With regard to Clause 4 (the clause for pay-&lt;br /&gt;
indemnity to the publisher against loss for libellous ment of royalties), one very important point has&lt;br /&gt;
and scandalous matter contained in the book, been missed out-namely, that several of the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
some clause on this basis is absolutely necessary lishers put net books on the market; and it&lt;br /&gt;
and fair to the publisher, but the clause put should be expressly stated in the agreement&lt;br /&gt;
down is much too wide and gives too large a whether the book is sold net or subject to the&lt;br /&gt;
scope. Again, the comment on this clause runs as usual discounts. If the book is sold net, the&lt;br /&gt;
follows : &ldquo;And the publisher may usually be author&amp;#039;s royalty should be raised proportionately.&lt;br /&gt;
entrusted with the discretionary power.&amp;quot; But if In any case it is of vital importance that the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is indemnified it is really of little lished price of the book should be inserted in the&lt;br /&gt;
importance to him how expensive the cost may be agreement. This point has been touched on by&lt;br /&gt;
One instance was brought to the notice of the the writer of the article.&lt;br /&gt;
Society in which the publisher under this indem- &ldquo;Where copies or sheets of the actual book&lt;br /&gt;
nity clause was not only anxious to fight a very itself are exported, payment should be by way of&lt;br /&gt;
expensive case in America on behalf of the author, royalty on the English published price.&amp;quot; This is&lt;br /&gt;
but desired to carry it to the higher courts. not the usual custom, nor is the method satis-&lt;br /&gt;
There is no doubt that the author should have factory. On colonial editions a sum is generally&lt;br /&gt;
some power of limiting expensive costs.&lt;br /&gt;
paid on every copy when exported in sheets.&lt;br /&gt;
In Clause 3 the publisher is given the right to It is impossible to deal with these two last&lt;br /&gt;
publish for the legal term of copyright. The clauses exhaustively. The reader can only be&lt;br /&gt;
importance of this clause cannot be over-esti. referred to the Society&amp;#039;s books &ldquo; The Methods of&lt;br /&gt;
mated. It should be pointed out that in the Publishing,&amp;quot; &ldquo; The Addenda to the Methods,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
other clauses referring to a royalty agreement, &ldquo;The Forms of Agreement issued by the Pub-&lt;br /&gt;
there is no arrangement for remuneration of the lishers&amp;#039; Association, with Comments by the Secre-&lt;br /&gt;
author on the sale of serial publication and of his tary of the Society,&amp;quot; and to Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
minor rights. The answer, no doubt, would be &ldquo;The Pen and the Book.&rdquo; The question embraced&lt;br /&gt;
that in Clause 3 the publisher has only the right in these two clauses is so large and of such&lt;br /&gt;
to publish in book form. This, however, is not importance to the author that a superficial com-&lt;br /&gt;
stated, and the point is vital when the propertyment on a superficial and inadequate statement&lt;br /&gt;
of the author is being dealt with. Some of the is more likely to throw the author into difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
comments by the writer are satisfactory and than to assist him in coming to any satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
sound, especially with regard to the price of the conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;
book. The day of publication is also an impor. The account clause follows next. Semi-annual&lt;br /&gt;
tant point, as many authors have more than one accounts should be preferred (see the books&lt;br /&gt;
contract for book publication, and it is of vital already referred to). Thirteen copies should not&lt;br /&gt;
importance that two books should not be issued be reckoned as twelve. If thirteen cupies are&lt;br /&gt;
simultaneously. The question of American pub- reckoned as twelve then the royalty should he&lt;br /&gt;
lication necessitates that care should be taken proportionately increased. The remarks with&lt;br /&gt;
with regard to the date on which a book is pro. regard to the amount allowed for corrections are&lt;br /&gt;
duced, but the whole question is dealt with by by no means in accord with the majority of agree-&lt;br /&gt;
the writer too superficially, either because he did ments put forward by publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
not care to deal with the author&amp;#039;s side of the Clause 6 refers to the revision of the book by&lt;br /&gt;
case, or through ignorance or want of space. the author, and on this clause no comment is&lt;br /&gt;
The remarks with regard to the sale of serial made, as it is stated that no comment is neces-&lt;br /&gt;
and rights other than book rights are useful. It sary. But a comment is exceedingly necessary as&lt;br /&gt;
should, however, be pointed out that a publisher it is of the greatest importance, especially in the&lt;br /&gt;
usually asks 50 per cent. of the returns on the case of technical work, that the author should&lt;br /&gt;
sale of these rights, and takes very little trouble retain the right of revision and not permit that&lt;br /&gt;
with regard to selling them ; whereas an author the book should be arbitrarily dealt with by the&lt;br /&gt;
can place these rights either by himself or through publishers. This point should be made quite&lt;br /&gt;
an agent to greater advantage, and in the latter clear. The clause as it stands is not so, as from the&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 214 (#292) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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214&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
There is one publisher certainly who states his&lt;br /&gt;
terms in the manner and order set out in the&lt;br /&gt;
Year Book, one publisher whose agreements have&lt;br /&gt;
often been commented on by the Society. No&lt;br /&gt;
author, however, should sign an agreement such&lt;br /&gt;
as is put forward in &ldquo; The Literary Year Book.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
comments on most of the points at fault have&lt;br /&gt;
been exhaustively made in the agreements issued&lt;br /&gt;
by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association and printed by&lt;br /&gt;
the Society in pamphlet form.&lt;br /&gt;
latter part of it it would appear that if the author&lt;br /&gt;
neglected to revise the book, considering, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;
that it did not need revision, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
might arbitrarily revise it, and deduct what&lt;br /&gt;
ever cost there was from the returns to the&lt;br /&gt;
author. Again it should be remarked that the&lt;br /&gt;
property is the author&amp;#039;s, and the author must have&lt;br /&gt;
the right of safeguarding it.&lt;br /&gt;
The last clause, with regard to the remaindering&lt;br /&gt;
of the book, again gives the publisher too large a&lt;br /&gt;
power. He alone has the right to remainder the&lt;br /&gt;
book when he pleases. The author&amp;#039;s reputation&lt;br /&gt;
is in no way taken into consideration. From&lt;br /&gt;
examples that have been brought to the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
notice it is shown to be of importance to prevent&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher from remaindering the work until&lt;br /&gt;
after it has had a fair chance of sale.&lt;br /&gt;
It is not infrequently the case that a publisher&lt;br /&gt;
may desire to get the book off his shelves when&lt;br /&gt;
it may be selling from the author&amp;#039;s point of view&lt;br /&gt;
quite satisfactorily. The real point to be remem-&lt;br /&gt;
bered is, to allow the author some satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
control.&lt;br /&gt;
This is the&rsquo;end of the comments on the royalty&lt;br /&gt;
agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
It must not be thought that all suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
ught that all suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
made are unsatisfactory and inadequate; some of&lt;br /&gt;
them are excellent, if lukewarm, but the omissions&lt;br /&gt;
are glaring.&lt;br /&gt;
If the only fault to find with the proposed&lt;br /&gt;
agreements were faults of omission little need&lt;br /&gt;
have been said, but from the authors&amp;#039; point of&lt;br /&gt;
view the mistakes of commission necessitate&lt;br /&gt;
putting forward these corrections for their&lt;br /&gt;
guidance and their safeguard.&lt;br /&gt;
The next agreement put forward is the share&lt;br /&gt;
profit agreement. It is absolutely impossible for&lt;br /&gt;
the contributor to &ldquo;The Literary Year Book&rdquo; to&lt;br /&gt;
deal with such a complicated and dangerous sub.&lt;br /&gt;
ject in anything like a reliable manner in two&lt;br /&gt;
pages. It will be only necessary to state that, of&lt;br /&gt;
the comments made, the one with regard to adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tisements is entirely misleading. The author ought&lt;br /&gt;
to have a veto on the amount spent in advertising&lt;br /&gt;
and the place where the advertisements are pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duced, and no advertisements on any account&lt;br /&gt;
should be made in the publisher&amp;#039;s own magazines&lt;br /&gt;
without special leave of the author, and then at&lt;br /&gt;
simply the cost of setting up the type and print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing. This subject has been fully dealt with in&lt;br /&gt;
the books published by the Society. Authors&lt;br /&gt;
should strongly guard against adopting this&lt;br /&gt;
method of production. The last agreement that&lt;br /&gt;
will be dealt with is where the publisher is com-&lt;br /&gt;
missioned to publish the book at the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
own expense. The writer of the article states&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the terms of such business are usually stated by&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher in the following manner and order.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
V.-A New TRICK.&lt;br /&gt;
I send you herewith a letter which I clipped&lt;br /&gt;
out of a late number of the Nation which calls&lt;br /&gt;
attention to a new system of deception, apparently,&lt;br /&gt;
that is being developed to the injury of authors.&lt;br /&gt;
It would appear that certain persons buy from&lt;br /&gt;
the authorised publishers printings of sheets of a&lt;br /&gt;
book and then add matter of some kind or other.&lt;br /&gt;
divide up the bulk into a large number of&lt;br /&gt;
volumes, and put these out as &ldquo;an edition &amp;quot; at&lt;br /&gt;
fancy prices-prices probably which no person&lt;br /&gt;
would pay, knowing the facts. The result is that&lt;br /&gt;
when the author comes to prepare a genuine&lt;br /&gt;
edition, intended for book lovers and those who&lt;br /&gt;
would ordinarily pay for fine editions of such&lt;br /&gt;
works, he finds that the market has already been&lt;br /&gt;
supplied in the way suggested in the inclosed&lt;br /&gt;
lettter.&lt;br /&gt;
A. T. GURLITZ.&lt;br /&gt;
PEPys&amp;#039;s Diary.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir,-A few days ago a book agent, representing a subscrip-&lt;br /&gt;
tion house, called upon me and offered a set of Wheatley&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
edition of &ldquo; Pepys&amp;#039;s Diary&rdquo; in eighteen volumes, at prices&lt;br /&gt;
ranging from about 50 dollars in buckram binding to I don&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
know how much in &amp;quot;crushed levant.&rdquo; He unblushingly&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that it was the &ldquo; only complete&amp;quot; edition, and was&lt;br /&gt;
imported from abroad by his firm As a caution to others&lt;br /&gt;
who may be called upon in the same way, allow me to state&lt;br /&gt;
that the only complete copyright edition of &ldquo;Pepys&amp;#039;s Diary,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
edited by Wheatley, is published by the Macmillan Com-&lt;br /&gt;
pany, in nine volumes, at i dollar 50 cents a volume. The&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan Company sold 500 sets of the sheets, printed from&lt;br /&gt;
their plates at the Norwood Press, to a subscription house for&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;extra illustrating,&amp;quot; and this is the so-called &amp;quot; imported &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
edition which is being foisted off on an unsuspecting-or&lt;br /&gt;
credulous-public in eighteen volumes at a price anywhere&lt;br /&gt;
from 3 dollars a volume ap.-Louis N. Wilson, Librarian,&lt;br /&gt;
Clark University, Worcester, Mass, Feb. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
VI.&mdash;WHITE v. CONSTABLE.&lt;br /&gt;
We have received a communication from the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff in this case. It contains :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. The report of the case from the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Circular.&lt;br /&gt;
2. A letter from the plaintiff addressed to that&lt;br /&gt;
paper.&lt;br /&gt;
3. A statement of the case by the plaintiff.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 215 (#293) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
215&lt;br /&gt;
In the last number of The Author attention&lt;br /&gt;
was called to the very strange and unintelligible&lt;br /&gt;
reports of the trial. The whole case, however,&lt;br /&gt;
seems worse-even more unintelligible-than&lt;br /&gt;
appeared from these reports.&lt;br /&gt;
By the written agreement the book had to be&lt;br /&gt;
produced on or before March 20, 1898.&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff states that by this agreement the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers were to receive as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;For the edition,&rdquo; meaning, one&lt;br /&gt;
supposes, composition, print-&lt;br /&gt;
ing, paper, and binding (query,&lt;br /&gt;
corrections as well ?)............ 95 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
For advertising ..................... 15 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies free, say, at 3s. 6d. ... 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Moulding (68. a sheet of 2 1 sheets) 6&lt;br /&gt;
aooo&lt;br /&gt;
oooo&lt;br /&gt;
Total .........................&pound;133 16 0&lt;br /&gt;
They were to pay the author 28. 6d. a copy for&lt;br /&gt;
all copies over and above the first 100, and they&lt;br /&gt;
were to issue an edition of 1500.&lt;br /&gt;
With these figures, suppose 600 copies were to&lt;br /&gt;
be sold. How would the author and publisher&lt;br /&gt;
respectively stand ?&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHER. &pound; $. d.&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies free........................ 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
500 copies at 38. 6d. less royalty?&lt;br /&gt;
at 28. 6d. ...&lt;br /&gt;
olo o&lt;br /&gt;
the edition sells the publisher makes &pound;87 108.,&lt;br /&gt;
the author &pound;58 145.&lt;br /&gt;
Or, to put it another way, 1030 copies must be&lt;br /&gt;
sold before the author realises his advance, and in&lt;br /&gt;
the most favourable event possible&mdash;a most&lt;br /&gt;
unlikely event-he can only realise &pound;58 148., from&lt;br /&gt;
which must be deducted any extras that may be&lt;br /&gt;
charged.&lt;br /&gt;
These figures suppose that the publisher made&lt;br /&gt;
no profit on the money advanced. It was stated,&lt;br /&gt;
however, in the course of the trial that the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers had lost money by the transaction.&lt;br /&gt;
This evidence had nothing to do with the point&lt;br /&gt;
at issue. It is a pity that this was the case. An&lt;br /&gt;
examination into the figures would have been&lt;br /&gt;
interesting.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. White&amp;#039;s communication opens up a great&lt;br /&gt;
many points, all of which might have formed&lt;br /&gt;
subjects for cross-examination, but as they&lt;br /&gt;
turn upon verbal agreements, which are always&lt;br /&gt;
liable to misunderstanding, it is not desirable to&lt;br /&gt;
touch upon them here. The first and most im-&lt;br /&gt;
portant question is as to the cause of the delay.&lt;br /&gt;
There is nothing at all in the evidence to show&lt;br /&gt;
that the plaintiff caused the first fortnight&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
delay : the evidence as reported tends quite in the&lt;br /&gt;
other directionthat the sheets should have been&lt;br /&gt;
placed in the binder&amp;#039;s hands in time to bring out&lt;br /&gt;
the book on the 20th: that the binders were&lt;br /&gt;
ready for them : that they only got &ldquo;some early&lt;br /&gt;
copies&rdquo; on March 31, so that the agreement was&lt;br /&gt;
then broken by nearly a fortnight: and that&lt;br /&gt;
the subsequent delay, even if it were caused&lt;br /&gt;
by the plaintiff, could not remedy the loss of&lt;br /&gt;
that fortnight and the breaking of the agree.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, if his statement as to the contract is&lt;br /&gt;
correct.&lt;br /&gt;
The second and most important question is as&lt;br /&gt;
to the amount of damage suffered by the plaintiff.&lt;br /&gt;
It is easy to be wise after the event, but would it&lt;br /&gt;
not have been better to have accepted the amount&lt;br /&gt;
paid into court rather than win the case but&lt;br /&gt;
lose the costs ?&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff&amp;#039;s letter to the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular&lt;br /&gt;
on April 6 fully sets out the inaccuracy of the&lt;br /&gt;
report.&lt;br /&gt;
The Circular expressed sorrow for its in-&lt;br /&gt;
accuracies. The Report was made up, it said,&lt;br /&gt;
from three sources. One would like to know from&lt;br /&gt;
which of the three the following interesting little&lt;br /&gt;
allegations were gathered :&lt;br /&gt;
J. That the plaintiff had &ldquo;sought and found&lt;br /&gt;
bad advice from some other London publisher.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
2. That he had given &pound;110&ldquo; towards&rdquo; the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production, whereas he gave &pound;95 for the cost&lt;br /&gt;
of production-a very different thing, especially&lt;br /&gt;
considering that the book, as the author alleges,&lt;br /&gt;
was printed in Holland.&lt;br /&gt;
Total...........................&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;42 10&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
500 copies at 2s. 6d. ...&lt;br /&gt;
Less money advanced ............... 116&lt;br /&gt;
Juu wpies du 28. Oll. ...............&lt;br /&gt;
02 10&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
Loss ............... &pound;53 16 0&lt;br /&gt;
This is an excellent arrangement for the pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, as, without taking any risk if the book&lt;br /&gt;
sells only 600 copies, he makes &pound;42 10s., but the&lt;br /&gt;
author loses &pound;53 16s.&lt;br /&gt;
Suppose the 1500 copies all sold :&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHER. &pound; s. d.&lt;br /&gt;
100 copies, free ...... ....... 17 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
1400 copies at 1s. .................. 70 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
ܝܘ ܘ ܘ | ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
Total.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;87 100&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
1400 copies at 28. 6d. ............... 175&lt;br /&gt;
Less money advanced ...... 116&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
6&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;58 14 0&lt;br /&gt;
Here, again, the publisher&amp;#039;s sound position is&lt;br /&gt;
established. The author takes all the risk. If&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 216 (#294) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
216&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
For other points we refer the reader to Mr. made the fortune of its predecessor. The first&lt;br /&gt;
White&amp;#039;s letter in the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular. The issues prognosticate a higher literary level.&lt;br /&gt;
editor, after stating that the Report was made up M. Juven is a man wise in his generation. This&lt;br /&gt;
from three different sources, says that he &ldquo; put in time he can afford to be a little more scrupulous.&lt;br /&gt;
the account just as it came&rdquo; to him. But it&lt;br /&gt;
came from three sources; someone, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;
M. DESCHAMPS AND OTHERS.&lt;br /&gt;
must have pieced it together; and someone must M. Deschamps is winning golden opinions in&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the &ldquo;inaccuracies&rdquo; admitted the United States. His series of lectures on&lt;br /&gt;
by the editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Le Th&eacute;&acirc;tre contemporain en France,&amp;quot; dealing&lt;br /&gt;
In this treatment of the case we have to with the French drama from Dumas fils down&lt;br /&gt;
express some sympathy with the defendants. It to the present day (including a survey of the&lt;br /&gt;
was clearly not their fault that a case involving works of MM. Paul Hervieu, Maurice Dounay,&lt;br /&gt;
literary property should have been treated with so Henri Lavedan, Victorien Sardou, the late Henri&lt;br /&gt;
much levity, and reported with so much inaccuracy. de Bornier, Jean Richepin, Edmond Rostand,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c.) is reported to have been highly appreciated by&lt;br /&gt;
the members of the Harvard University. The&lt;br /&gt;
remaining twenty-two universities and literary&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
associations which seconded the Harvard French&lt;br /&gt;
Club&amp;#039;s invitation will, undoubtedly, prove an&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
equally grateful audience.&lt;br /&gt;
THE present and future relations of Great Meantime, M. Edmond Rostand, who is engaged&lt;br /&gt;
| Britain and France have of late occupied on a new play entitled &ldquo;La Maison des Amants,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
- the attention of more than one writer. for the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise ; M. Georges de Porte-&lt;br /&gt;
One of the most practical articles on this knotty Riche, delicate versifier and successful dramatist ;&lt;br /&gt;
subject is that which appeared in the Nouvelle M. St&eacute;phen Li&eacute;geard, whose distinguished poetical&lt;br /&gt;
Revue, with the signature of M. Louis Jadot. record is reinforced by his upwards of thirty&lt;br /&gt;
Its general tenor may be gathered from the years&amp;#039; close friendship with the late Henri de&lt;br /&gt;
following extract:&lt;br /&gt;
Bornier; and M. Edmond Haraucourt, im.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The English and French temperaments are passioned poet and vigorous writer, are among&lt;br /&gt;
too different ever to admit of a very lively the candidates whose names are announced as&lt;br /&gt;
sympathy between the two nations, but that need preparing to contest the vacant de Bornier&lt;br /&gt;
not prevent a discreet and pacific understanding, fauteuil. Leconte de Lisle entertained a warm&lt;br /&gt;
in the maintenance of which both parties have an admiration for the last-named candidate&amp;#039;s works.&lt;br /&gt;
interest. We have, in 1900, imported goods to In his solitary contribution to the &ldquo; Anthologie&lt;br /&gt;
England amounting to over 1,300,000,000 francs; des po&egrave;tes fran&ccedil;ais,&rdquo; we find this flattering&lt;br /&gt;
while England, on her side, has exported to us judgment: ..&lt;br /&gt;
productions amounting to about 500,000,000 &ldquo; Among all the young poets who have revealed&lt;br /&gt;
francs. Two nations having such important com themselves during these latter years, Haraucourt&lt;br /&gt;
mercial exchanges may sulk, but not fall out is assuredly the most remarkable and the best&lt;br /&gt;
with each other; they may the less do so since gifted, both as thinker and writer.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
they constitute two important factors of civilisa. The French Academy ratified this verdict by&lt;br /&gt;
tion, which implies in each the existence of an bestowing on M. Haraucourt the &ldquo;Prix de&lt;br /&gt;
amount of intelligence, energy, science, and labour, Po&eacute;sie.&rdquo; But that was before M. Rostand&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
which imposes esteem.&lt;br /&gt;
star had reached its zenith, eclipsing all lesser&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Do not let us be led astray by the aggressive lights. Needless to add that the latter is gene-&lt;br /&gt;
tone of our own or the English Press; but let us rally expected to be the successful candidate.&lt;br /&gt;
study and seek to comprehend the social, The election will probably take place towards the&lt;br /&gt;
economical, and political life of our neighbours, end of May, as the official receptions of the last&lt;br /&gt;
in order that we may take of their good qualities newly-fledged pair of immortals (MM. Faguet&lt;br /&gt;
that which is assimilable with our temperament, and Berthelot) have been postponed the first to&lt;br /&gt;
and avoid the defects this study will have revealed April 18 or 25, the second to May 2 or 9.&lt;br /&gt;
to us.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
A salutary counsel which, if put into practice,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LES HABITS VERTS.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
can scarcely fail to be otherwise than beneficial to The French Academy has unanimously bestowed&lt;br /&gt;
both parties. &Agrave; propos of the subject, it is to be the Jouy prize (value 14,000 francs) on M.&lt;br /&gt;
hoped that La Contemporaine, the new periodical Adolphe Brisson. This prize is awarded every&lt;br /&gt;
launched by M. Juven, founder of Le Rire, will two years to the author of the best work, which&lt;br /&gt;
not degenerate into the rabid Anglophobia which has appeared during that period&mdash;&ldquo;soit d&amp;#039;observa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 217 (#295) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
217&lt;br /&gt;
tion, soit d&amp;#039;imagination, soit de critique, ayant The &ldquo; Euvres de Moli&egrave;re &rdquo; (1666), 2 vols., in&lt;br /&gt;
pour objet l&amp;#039;&eacute;tude des m&aelig;urs actuelles.&rdquo; In his duodecimo, Mercier binding, fetched 1860 francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
amusing sketch entitled &ldquo;Les Habits Verts&rdquo; a second &ldquo; (Euvres de Moli&egrave;re &rdquo; (1673), 8 vols. in&lt;br /&gt;
(viz., the green coats adorned with palms which&amp;#039; 12, ancient binding, was bought for 7720 francs ;&lt;br /&gt;
form the ceremonial uniform de rigueur of while a third edition of the same author (1674-&lt;br /&gt;
members of the French Academy) M. Brisson 1675), 7 vols. in 12, Frantz-Bauzonnet binding,&lt;br /&gt;
asserts the coveted garment to be an equivocal obtained 1950 francs. A fourth edition (1682),&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure to fat men. It irresistibly attracts the bearing the La Reynie arms, Frantz-Bauzonnet&lt;br /&gt;
eye, and throws up the physical imperfections of binding, fetched 13,200 francs. The original&lt;br /&gt;
the wearer. We are informed that the celebrated editions of &ldquo; Les Pr&eacute;cieuses Ridicules&amp;quot; (1660), in&lt;br /&gt;
Ernest Renan was the greatest martyr to the 12, Mercier binding; of &ldquo; Sganarelle&amp;quot; (1660), in&lt;br /&gt;
green coat who has yet existed. After having 12, Cuzin binding; of &ldquo;Le Tartuffe&amp;quot; (1669), in&lt;br /&gt;
disbursed the necessary 750 francs for his 12, Cuzin binding; of &ldquo;L&amp;#039;Amour M&eacute;decin &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Academical costume, he confidingly imagined the (1666), in 12, Mercier binding; of &ldquo;Le Bour-&lt;br /&gt;
matter was finished. But he reckoned without geois Gentilhomme&amp;quot; (1671), in 12, Frantz-Bau-&lt;br /&gt;
his bost. Immediately after his nomination he zonnet binding; of &ldquo;Psych&eacute;&rdquo; (1671), in 12,&lt;br /&gt;
commenced to expand immoderately. Each time Cuzin binding; and of the &ldquo; Recueil des Ballets&lt;br /&gt;
he was forced to don the regulation garb:&lt;br /&gt;
et F&ecirc;tes de la Cour,&rdquo; by the same author, were&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Il constatait avec d&eacute;sespoir que ce damn&eacute; respectively sold for 5100 francs, 3000 francs,&lt;br /&gt;
v&ecirc;tement semblait s&amp;#039;&ecirc;tre r&eacute;tr&eacute;ci. &ldquo;Il for&ccedil;ait, il 1220 francs, 1000 francs, 1060 francs, 2525&lt;br /&gt;
for&ccedil;ait!... Il arrivait bien &agrave; s&amp;#039;introduire francs, and 2405 francs; &ldquo; Les Sentiments de&lt;br /&gt;
dans la carapace, mais il ne pouvait plus remuer l&amp;#039;Acad&eacute;mie Fran&ccedil;aise sur le Cid&rdquo; (1638), in 8,&lt;br /&gt;
les bras. On eut dit une tortue dress&eacute;e en bearing the Cardinal de Richelieu&amp;#039;s arms, Le&lt;br /&gt;
&eacute;quilibre sur ses pattes de derri&egrave;re.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Gascon binding, fetched 9420 francs; while the&lt;br /&gt;
Several times be sent for his tailor and avowed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Euvres de Louise Lab&eacute;&rdquo; (1555), ancient&lt;br /&gt;
his suffering. The tailor finally hinted that the&lt;br /&gt;
binding, obtained 5000 francs. The &ldquo; Euvres&lt;br /&gt;
best remedy was to order a new coat. But the&lt;br /&gt;
pat. But the Compl&egrave;tes &rdquo; of Rabelais (1556), in 16, were&lt;br /&gt;
author of &ldquo;La Vie de J&eacute;sus &rdquo; turned a deaf ear&lt;br /&gt;
bought for 3000 francs ; and the original&lt;br /&gt;
to the suggestion. He had no mind to disburse editions of La Fontaine&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Contes et Nouvelles&lt;br /&gt;
a second 750 francs. Instead of doing so, he put&lt;br /&gt;
en Vers,&rdquo; in 12, in red morocco binding and&lt;br /&gt;
on his most affable air, and with the episcopal&lt;br /&gt;
gilded, and &ldquo; Fables Choisies&amp;quot; (1668) respectively&lt;br /&gt;
unction with which all his speeches and gestures&lt;br /&gt;
fetched 800 and 1060 francs. The original&lt;br /&gt;
were impregnated :&lt;br /&gt;
edition of the &ldquo;Esther&rdquo; of Racine (1689), bear-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Look you, friend,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo; you are a skil-&lt;br /&gt;
ing Mme. de Maintenon&amp;#039;s arms, ancient binding,&lt;br /&gt;
ful man. You know all the secrets of your art.&lt;br /&gt;
was bought for 7500 francs; while the &ldquo; (Euvres&lt;br /&gt;
Do you not think that an adroit repairing might&lt;br /&gt;
de Racine&amp;quot; (1697), 2 vols., Frantz-Bauzonnet&lt;br /&gt;
restore to this garment its lost elegance? I am&lt;br /&gt;
binding, fetched only 1050 francs.&lt;br /&gt;
like B&eacute;ranger; I love my old coat. It would be&lt;br /&gt;
A BOLD-FACED Piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
painful to me to separate myself from it.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
M. Henry Fouquier, the well-known dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
The tailor was touched by the appeal. He did&lt;br /&gt;
critic of the Figaro, recently appeared before the&lt;br /&gt;
his utmost. The coat was transformed into a&lt;br /&gt;
Sixth Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine,&lt;br /&gt;
comfortable garment. &ldquo;And,&rdquo; adds M. Brisson,&lt;br /&gt;
suing for damages from M. Cios (advertising&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; the great philosopher had the happiness of&lt;br /&gt;
agent) on account of a bold-faced act of literary&lt;br /&gt;
dying without having renewed his Academical&lt;br /&gt;
piracy perpetrated by the latter gentleman to the&lt;br /&gt;
costume !&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
detriment of M. Henry Fouquier and of the&lt;br /&gt;
THE DE VILLENEUVE SALE.&lt;br /&gt;
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. M. Cios had&lt;br /&gt;
The following prices offered at the De Ville obtained from Mme. Sarah Bernhardt the mono-&lt;br /&gt;
neuve sale (H&ocirc;tel Drouot for choice editions of poly of the sale of the &ldquo; Aiglon&rdquo; programme.&lt;br /&gt;
the respective works below cited will rejoice all Being desirous to avoid paying for the analysis of&lt;br /&gt;
loyal bibliophiles and, likewise, the fortunate the play usually contained in such booklet-&lt;br /&gt;
possessors of rare volumes. It will be remembered programmes, he hit upon the expedient of copying&lt;br /&gt;
that the late M. Guyot de Villeneuve was for verbatim the critique on the &ldquo; Aiglon &amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
many years president of the Society of French appeared in the Figaro above the signature of&lt;br /&gt;
Bibliophiles. The sum total realised by the sale the dramatic critic of that paper. M. Fouquier&lt;br /&gt;
of his magnificent library&mdash;now irretrievably duly explained to the Tribunal that, being a&lt;br /&gt;
dispersed-amounted to 399,947 francs (almost member of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres, he&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;16,000).&lt;br /&gt;
was unable to authorise any person to reproduce&lt;br /&gt;
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218&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the article in question. Had Mme. Bernhardt Samuel L. Clemens as an expert witness, called&lt;br /&gt;
herself requested him to abandon the royalty due by Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s attorney to testify to the value,&lt;br /&gt;
to him therefrom, he could only have refunded as an author&amp;#039;s asset, of an author&amp;#039;s distinctive&lt;br /&gt;
her the money after it had been regularly trade-mark. Mr. Clemens&amp;#039; trade-mark is &ldquo;Mark&lt;br /&gt;
collected by the society. He therefore demanded Twain &rdquo;; Mr. Kipling&amp;#039;s trade-mark in the United&lt;br /&gt;
from M. Cios 3000 francs damages, since that States is the elephant-headed Ganesha, the god of&lt;br /&gt;
gentleman had not only reproduced the Figaro auspicious beginnings, and, although the analogy&lt;br /&gt;
article without authorisation, but had obtained seems fanciful to the layman, Mr. Clemens was per-&lt;br /&gt;
important profits by his dishonest proceeding. mitted by the commissioner to expound upon the&lt;br /&gt;
M. Fouquier won the case. The defendant not right of an author to exclusive ownership in any&lt;br /&gt;
appearing, judgment by default was pronounced pen-name and device whicb he chooses to adopt.&lt;br /&gt;
against him.&lt;br /&gt;
The informal character of the semi-judicial pro-&lt;br /&gt;
IN MEMORIAM.&lt;br /&gt;
ceedings allowed Mr. Clemens to smoke several&lt;br /&gt;
The death of M. Philippe Gille, journalist, cigars while addressing the tribunal ; he appeared&lt;br /&gt;
dramatist, and literary critic of the Figaro, has to enjoy himself, and he asserted vigorously that&lt;br /&gt;
been widely regretted. &ldquo; He read everything Mr. Kipling should defend to the last ditch his&lt;br /&gt;
conscientiously; he analysed admirably; he property in Ganesha, as would the humorist&lt;br /&gt;
quoted judiciously; and he judged impartially, himself defend his own property in the noin de&lt;br /&gt;
never forgetting the respect due to successful plume &ldquo; Mark Twain.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
talent, nor the encouragement necessary to the Mr. Clemens will soon have the opportunity so&lt;br /&gt;
young and diffident writer.&rdquo; A worthy record to do. A Western house has printed a volume&lt;br /&gt;
that any critic might be proud to merit!&lt;br /&gt;
advertised, on the title page, as &ldquo; by Mark Twain,&lt;br /&gt;
For several months previous to his death he and others.&amp;quot; The author has brought suit. Of&lt;br /&gt;
had been laid aside by a terrible malady course the words &ldquo;and others&amp;quot; were added in&lt;br /&gt;
hemiplegia, complicated by the rupture of the diamond type.&lt;br /&gt;
thyroid artery; and when, at last, the end came&lt;br /&gt;
to this conscientious worker and loyal comrade it&lt;br /&gt;
PROPOSED LAW AGAINST SMALL TYPE.&lt;br /&gt;
was welcome. His body was interred in the&lt;br /&gt;
A member of the New York State Legislature,&lt;br /&gt;
family mausoleum at Montmartre, being accom- by the way, wishes to protect the eyes of the&lt;br /&gt;
panied thither by a lengthy cavalcade including American public against any type smaller than&lt;br /&gt;
all that Paris contains of most brilliant and&lt;br /&gt;
eight-point. The suggested law is interesting,&lt;br /&gt;
illustrious in the triple realm of literature, art,&lt;br /&gt;
for, so far as I know, it is the first proposition of&lt;br /&gt;
and the drama.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
its kind. The statute takes the form of an&lt;br /&gt;
amendment to the Health Law, and its more im-&lt;br /&gt;
portant paragraphs provide that books, news-&lt;br /&gt;
papers, or serial literature shall not be published&lt;br /&gt;
in type smaller than eight-point, of which the&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
lower-case alphabet measures less than fourteen&lt;br /&gt;
ems; that the lines of type shall be separated by&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, April 12, 1901. at least two-point leads; and that this shall not&lt;br /&gt;
M R. RUDYARD KIPLING&amp;#039;S suit for apply to print contained in foot notices or indexes,&lt;br /&gt;
I damages by infringement against the or to books or other printed matter intended for&lt;br /&gt;
e house of Putnam has been given this reference use only. It is specified that any&lt;br /&gt;
week a place upon the calendar of the United person violating the regulation shall be guilty of&lt;br /&gt;
States Circuit Court, and before these words are a misdemeanour, punishable by fine of not less&lt;br /&gt;
in type the evidence will have been heard by than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand&lt;br /&gt;
judge and jury. The same distinguished author dollars.&lt;br /&gt;
has instituted an action against the Fennos, who I t is needless to describe how the indignant&lt;br /&gt;
published, as it is alleged, several of the Kipling publishers united their forces in order to secure&lt;br /&gt;
stories without any right thereto, and who added the defeat of this Bill by an adverse vote of the&lt;br /&gt;
insult to injury, according to the plaintiff&amp;#039;s claim, Assembly. From our State legislatures we are&lt;br /&gt;
by imprinting a duplicate of the famous elephant&amp;#039;s accustomed to expect anything in the way of wild&lt;br /&gt;
head designed by Mr. John Lockwood Kipling law making, but this &ldquo;eight-point law&rdquo; exhibits&lt;br /&gt;
for the authorised &ldquo;Outward Bound&rdquo; edition a desire to interfere in the making of books to&lt;br /&gt;
which was issued by the Scribners. A pre- which there would be no limit if an entering&lt;br /&gt;
liminary hearing in this latter cause is now wedge were driven. On the same ground,&lt;br /&gt;
slowly proceeding before the commissioner. It pictures poorly reproduced might be interdicted,&lt;br /&gt;
was enlivened recently by the introduction of Mr. or flimsy bindings, or even uncut edges, because&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
219&lt;br /&gt;
the nerves of the public might be unhealthfully be worth, Mr. Carnegie is quite competent to&lt;br /&gt;
strained thereby. No wonder that the publishers startle us with a scheme of this description.&lt;br /&gt;
were alarmed.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GLARE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MAGAZINES AND The &ldquo;book-play&rdquo; craze has received several&lt;br /&gt;
LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
body blows during the present theatrical season,&lt;br /&gt;
Every English writer who keeps a commercial in the shape of half a dozen preposterous dramati.&lt;br /&gt;
eye on remunerative American magazine editors sations of popular novels. The Critic magazine&lt;br /&gt;
will be more or less enlightened by the obiter tells an amusing illustration of this dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
dicta of Mr. Walter H. Page, perhaps the most fashion. It seems that one of our theatre&lt;br /&gt;
purposeful and progressive among the younger managers, who had been unlucky in his attempts&lt;br /&gt;
editors of our periodicals. Last week Mr. Page to secure the stage rights of record-breaking&lt;br /&gt;
delivered an after-dinner speech about the novels, determined to start from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
American Magazine. A newspaper report made He brushed up his United States history, selected&lt;br /&gt;
him say: &ldquo; The good editor ought to be able to a set of characters and episodes which appealed&lt;br /&gt;
see just how far each phase of development in life most strongly to his theatrical instinct, and then&lt;br /&gt;
has advanced, and then to point out how it can go a approached a successful novelist with a propo.&lt;br /&gt;
little further. Men are divided everywhere into sition to write a story about them. The manager&lt;br /&gt;
two classes. They live in two houses the house was to have the dramatic rights, the author to&lt;br /&gt;
of do&amp;#039; and the house of .don&amp;#039;t.&amp;#039; It is for the have all the novel would make. Upon these&lt;br /&gt;
former that the American magazines must be&lt;br /&gt;
terms the book has been written, and it appears&lt;br /&gt;
written.&rdquo; And again : &ldquo;The editor should have upon the spring list of a prominent publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
a well-trained sense of literary values, but he&lt;br /&gt;
Even in the absence of such an antecedent agree.&lt;br /&gt;
should not think that a magazine ought to have ment our novelists nowadays compose, consciously&lt;br /&gt;
anything to do with literature. The making of&lt;br /&gt;
or unconsciously, with the glare of the footlights&lt;br /&gt;
magazines is not literature: it is journalism. distracting the artistic vision. The output of&lt;br /&gt;
Those editors who are trying to get out monthly current fiction is inevitably affected.&lt;br /&gt;
literature are making dull magazines. It is not&lt;br /&gt;
Unfortunately, however, the selection of books&lt;br /&gt;
the magazine that ought to produce literature, but for stage purposes is, based, apparently, upon the&lt;br /&gt;
the book.&rdquo; Certainly this sort of editorial policy circulation and not upon genuine dramatic pos-&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be prevalent with us, and the wise con. sibilities, and the acting versions in some later&lt;br /&gt;
tributor will govern himself and his manuscripts cases have been as bad as could be, made usually&lt;br /&gt;
accordingly. The literary magazine &ldquo;article&rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
by mechanical and unsympathetic workmen. In&lt;br /&gt;
not in vogue, and even in periodical fiction the&lt;br /&gt;
the meantime our real playwrights are dejected&lt;br /&gt;
note is that of activity and achievement and and our critics bewail. Thus, for example, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
modernity. Does one whisper &ldquo; Kipling&amp;quot;? It Norman Hapgood in the Bookman : &ldquo; When an&lt;br /&gt;
would be unsafe to ascribe the condition to any American author of world-wide fame returned&lt;br /&gt;
single cause, however pointed the example.&lt;br /&gt;
recently to New York, after several years abroad,&lt;br /&gt;
his cominent on the stage in this city was that it&lt;br /&gt;
MR. CARNEGIE AND THE THEATRE.&lt;br /&gt;
seemed to be run to meet the taste of donkeys.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has escaped miraculously There has been no month within some time to&lt;br /&gt;
the desire to found a magazine, and in the multi. justify this verdict more neatly than the one just&lt;br /&gt;
tude of his educational charities his deliverance past.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
from such an enterprise is nothing short of provi.&lt;br /&gt;
A CHECK TO PIRATES.&lt;br /&gt;
dential. But it is suggested that the great Certain piratical dealers in dramatic literature&lt;br /&gt;
philanthropist has been attacked by the bacillus have been checkmated by an opinion of the&lt;br /&gt;
of an &ldquo;Independent Theatre.&rdquo; In the public Attorney-General of the United States regarding&lt;br /&gt;
Press he has invited responses to the question: the importation of Rostand&amp;#039;s &ldquo; L&amp;#039;Aiglon&rdquo; in book&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; What is truth on the stage?&rdquo;-a problem which, form. M. Rostand&amp;#039;s agent in this country&lt;br /&gt;
apparently does not present the slightest difficulty secured American copyright for the French pub-&lt;br /&gt;
to a small army of sages who have answered it to lisher, M. Fasquelle, and the Brentanos bought&lt;br /&gt;
their own satisfaction, if not to that of Mr. the book rights for the United States. But it&lt;br /&gt;
Carnegie. One of the New York papers was uncertain whether the latter house could&lt;br /&gt;
announces that Mr. Carnegie has in mind the prevent the wholesale and unauthorised importa-&lt;br /&gt;
endowment of an &ldquo;International&rdquo; theatre, to tion of French copies. The Attorney-General&lt;br /&gt;
unite in its dramatic bonds Great Britain and holds that the French book &ldquo; L&amp;#039;Aiglon,&amp;quot; printed&lt;br /&gt;
these States, and that Sir Henry Irving is to abroad, is prohibited importation, because it was&lt;br /&gt;
direct its operation. Whatever this gossip may copyrighted under the laws of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
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220&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
T&lt;br /&gt;
The opinion should have all the effect of a judicial with his chapter on &ldquo;Agreements,&amp;quot; it is the more&lt;br /&gt;
ruling, and is a notable interpretation of the pleasant to express unqualified assent to three&lt;br /&gt;
International Act. I&lt;br /&gt;
to John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
propositions which he there advances. He says :&lt;br /&gt;
(1) &amp;quot; Literature is not adequately represented&lt;br /&gt;
- in this country.&rdquo; It is not, in fact, represented&lt;br /&gt;
at all. Nor can it be until something in the&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
nature of an Academy is created. The Bar is&lt;br /&gt;
represented; medicine is represented ; surgery,&lt;br /&gt;
HE question of sale or return seems so&lt;br /&gt;
architecture, art, actuary work, are all represented ;&lt;br /&gt;
simple as not to require any argument to&lt;br /&gt;
Literature is not. What, then, is the work and&lt;br /&gt;
recommend it. Booksellers are always&lt;br /&gt;
what the position of the Royal Society of Litera-&lt;br /&gt;
complaining of poverty; they cannot possibly,&lt;br /&gt;
ture? It may be anything that its members&lt;br /&gt;
which is quite evident, subscribe to many new&lt;br /&gt;
claim except the one thing for which it was&lt;br /&gt;
books; most new books, therefore, do not get&lt;br /&gt;
founded-the representation of Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
published at all, because publication means pro-&lt;br /&gt;
(2) What about the Society of Authors ? It&lt;br /&gt;
duction with exhibition and an offer of the book&lt;br /&gt;
represents, as Mr. Morrah points out, &ldquo;nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but the material side of Literature.&rdquo; Its one&lt;br /&gt;
to the public. Yet there is a common complaint&lt;br /&gt;
that books sent out on sale or return come back&lt;br /&gt;
object is the maintenance and defence of literary&lt;br /&gt;
unsold and soiled. It is apparently obvious that property in the interests of the author, its creator&lt;br /&gt;
they have had their chance. But have they ?&lt;br /&gt;
and owner. A humble function, perhaps, but&lt;br /&gt;
Do booksellers freely offer and push books which&lt;br /&gt;
recognised by a good many writers as useful and&lt;br /&gt;
are not their own? In many cases they certainly&lt;br /&gt;
productive of results which benefit other writers,&lt;br /&gt;
do not. Books sent on sale or return are, it is&lt;br /&gt;
including those who at present hold aloof from it,&lt;br /&gt;
said, put up on shelves and left there. This&lt;br /&gt;
and even misrepresent it and deride it while they&lt;br /&gt;
seems a very short-sighted policy. Surely it is&lt;br /&gt;
profit by it.&lt;br /&gt;
better to make a selection and to say, &ldquo; Send me&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Membership of the Society conveys, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
these books on sale or return and I will do my&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah very rightly states, no more distinction&lt;br /&gt;
best with them,&rdquo; rather than to put on a&lt;br /&gt;
than may be boasted by anyone who writes a&lt;br /&gt;
shelf books so sent and to go on pushing books,&lt;br /&gt;
book, however bad. In other words, there is no&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps of far inferior attractions, &ldquo;subscribed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
distinction in membership of the Society. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
It seems, however, that the method of sale or&lt;br /&gt;
bave any of its leaders ever pretended that there is.&lt;br /&gt;
return has been recently adopted by certain pub-&lt;br /&gt;
The Publishers&amp;#039; Circular has been apparently&lt;br /&gt;
lishers, and that, in one case at least, the results&lt;br /&gt;
having a little playful gambol. How playful it is&lt;br /&gt;
bave proved eminently satisfactory. The change&lt;br /&gt;
may be inferred from the concluding paragraph :&lt;br /&gt;
may very possibly lead to such a revolution in D&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;All we deplored was that the &middot; Literary Year&lt;br /&gt;
bookselling methods as we are all anxiously await.&lt;br /&gt;
Book &amp;#039;should say that the Authors&amp;#039; Society did not&lt;br /&gt;
ing and desiring. Meantime, which is better, to&lt;br /&gt;
represent Literature, and that it is no distinction&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; subscribe&amp;quot; for so many copies of a book on the&lt;br /&gt;
to belong to it: if that is not lamentable, we are&lt;br /&gt;
assurance of an interested traveller; to take all&lt;br /&gt;
sorry.&rdquo; It is not lamentable at all; but so long as&lt;br /&gt;
the risk in the hope of selling them; or to select&lt;br /&gt;
the Circular is sorry and penitent all is well.&lt;br /&gt;
books at no risk whatever, and to offer them with&lt;br /&gt;
the certainty of no loss, whatever happens ? In&lt;br /&gt;
the first case the bookseller has already suffered&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. P. J. Hartog writes as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
himself to be bound and fettered by the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
There is published in this month&amp;#039;s number of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
lisher as to the price of his books; he can no&lt;br /&gt;
an article on the Nobel Foundation to wbich my signature is&lt;br /&gt;
appended, and which appears, therefore, as if it had been&lt;br /&gt;
longer deal with his own property as he chooses ;&lt;br /&gt;
specially contributed to your journal. I feel sure that it&lt;br /&gt;
why, then, should he continue to take upon his is only through inadvertence that the origin of the article&lt;br /&gt;
own long-suffering shoulders the greater share of has not been explained. I should be obliged if you&lt;br /&gt;
the risk? In the other case he frankly becomes&lt;br /&gt;
woald kindly state in your next issue that the article in&lt;br /&gt;
little better than a commission agent, incurring&lt;br /&gt;
question is extracted from a summary of the regulations for&lt;br /&gt;
15 the Nobel Foundation drawn up by me, and recently issued&lt;br /&gt;
no risk, and only exercising a certain selection-&lt;br /&gt;
and that as wide a selection as his shelves will&lt;br /&gt;
allow--of the new books which are published.&lt;br /&gt;
No further explanation seems necessary. The&lt;br /&gt;
paper is an official paper sent to the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors presumably by the Board of Education,&lt;br /&gt;
In the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular of April 6 there is and signed with the name of P. J. Hartog, and&lt;br /&gt;
a letter from Mr. Herbert Morrah with which we reproduced in accordance with the right tacitly&lt;br /&gt;
entirely agree. And as we do not agree entirely conceded to the Press of publishing official&lt;br /&gt;
a of&lt;br /&gt;
e Board of Ed&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 221 (#299) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
221&lt;br /&gt;
documents. If this Society is not concerned&lt;br /&gt;
with the Nobel Foundation, it is difficult to under-&lt;br /&gt;
stand what body, or what people, are so con.&lt;br /&gt;
cerned. The paper as published in these columns&lt;br /&gt;
gave only so many of the regulations as concern&lt;br /&gt;
literature and its makers. One does not know&lt;br /&gt;
who is responsible for the distribution of copies,&lt;br /&gt;
but it seems evident that Mr. Hartog is not. It&lt;br /&gt;
is not generally considered necessary to point out&lt;br /&gt;
that official papers having the signature of official&lt;br /&gt;
persons are not sent out by those persons. But,&lt;br /&gt;
since Mr. Hartog wishes it to be so stated, let it&lt;br /&gt;
be understood that he did not send the document&lt;br /&gt;
to the Society, which will, however, continue to&lt;br /&gt;
publish extracts from Blue Books, reports of&lt;br /&gt;
commissions, and other public documents with&lt;br /&gt;
or without the official signatures which accom-&lt;br /&gt;
pany them. If, however, the &ldquo;summary.&amp;quot; is a&lt;br /&gt;
private document, the fact should have been&lt;br /&gt;
stated and confidence would have been respected.&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; name.&rdquo; This author is said to make about &pound;2000 a&lt;br /&gt;
year, partly by the aid of such spiritual assistance.&lt;br /&gt;
This method has been adopted in America within our&lt;br /&gt;
own knowledge. We know of a young writer, industrious,&lt;br /&gt;
ingenious, and anknown, who came into relations with one&lt;br /&gt;
of the most successful writers of sensational fiction, who&lt;br /&gt;
loved drink, and hated work. For some time the young&lt;br /&gt;
writer wrote under the more famous name, received a third&lt;br /&gt;
of the generoas proceeds, while the remaining two-thirds&lt;br /&gt;
were devoted to the more famous man&amp;#039;s whisky.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be curious and interesting to learn&lt;br /&gt;
how far the practice of wearing borrowed plumes&lt;br /&gt;
prevails. Some years ago a story was brought to&lt;br /&gt;
me, the names being given, in which a certain&lt;br /&gt;
writer, not unknown to the public, had actually&lt;br /&gt;
taken over and published in his own name a M&Scaron;.&lt;br /&gt;
committed to his charge. More than one novel&lt;br /&gt;
has been written with such a fraud as the motif.&lt;br /&gt;
Some ten years ago a man, assuming the name of a&lt;br /&gt;
well-known publisher, advertised for MSS. to be&lt;br /&gt;
sent to him at an office near Chancery-lane. As&lt;br /&gt;
soon as the thing became suspected he vanished&lt;br /&gt;
it with all his MSS. Were there none among them&lt;br /&gt;
of literary and commercial value? It is, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, most difficult to prove such cases; but if&lt;br /&gt;
the readers of The Author can furnish informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion on the subject they would be doing good&lt;br /&gt;
service by sending their experiences to this paper&lt;br /&gt;
for publication.&lt;br /&gt;
From time to time a protest is sent to this&lt;br /&gt;
paper by authors who complain of their critics.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be well were they to consider what good&lt;br /&gt;
purpose would be served by inserting their com-&lt;br /&gt;
plaints, either in their own interests or in the&lt;br /&gt;
general interest. A statement which is false, i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
not an opinion, but a statement of alleged fact,&lt;br /&gt;
may be advantageously corrected, but not an&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. Thus, a critic says that an author has&lt;br /&gt;
been publishing feeble rubbish. That is an&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. What good does an author do hinıself&lt;br /&gt;
by writing to protest? He advances his own&lt;br /&gt;
opinion as to his own work-certainly a favour-&lt;br /&gt;
able opinion-against a critic&amp;#039;s opinion, which, in&lt;br /&gt;
the eyes of the world, is judicial. The only&lt;br /&gt;
answer to an adverse judgment is either an appeal&lt;br /&gt;
to a recognised Court of Criticism&mdash;which does&lt;br /&gt;
not exist&ndash;or, which is the method adopted by&lt;br /&gt;
wise authors, a silent appeal to the public.&lt;br /&gt;
History is full of mistaken judgments. Not the&lt;br /&gt;
Qaarterly only, but Byron himself, failed to see&lt;br /&gt;
the powers of Keats. Let the example of Keats&lt;br /&gt;
console and stimulate the author under discipline.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps the critic may be right: he certainly is&lt;br /&gt;
not always wrong. All the more reason for con-&lt;br /&gt;
solation and an appeal to the judgment of Time.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is from the Chronicle, Brookline,&lt;br /&gt;
Mass. It is pleasant to find that this important&lt;br /&gt;
literary organ approves of the action of the Boston&lt;br /&gt;
Library. The readers for the library have&lt;br /&gt;
certainly, as the Brookline Chronicle asserts,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;done their work with a greater display of skill&lt;br /&gt;
and good judgment than one would expect them&lt;br /&gt;
to show.&amp;quot; The only consolation for the novelist&lt;br /&gt;
is that he is excluded in what he has hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
regarded as good company. He will now probably&lt;br /&gt;
proceed to study his art by new and hitherto&lt;br /&gt;
despised methods.&lt;br /&gt;
CENSORS OF Novels.&lt;br /&gt;
Amoog the books which have been &amp;quot;tabooed&rdquo; by the&lt;br /&gt;
examining committee of the Boston Public Library, and have&lt;br /&gt;
been refused admission to the archives of the library, are the&lt;br /&gt;
following. Many of them, it will be noticed, are well-known&lt;br /&gt;
books :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;David Harum,&amp;quot; George Ade&rsquo;s &ldquo;Fables in Slang,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Winston Churchill&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Celebrity,&amp;quot; Paul Bourget&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Domestic Dramas,&amp;quot; Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Change-&lt;br /&gt;
ling,&rdquo; Lilian Bell&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Instinct of Step-Fatherhood,&rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
William Le Queux&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Scribes and Pharisees,&amp;quot; Captain&lt;br /&gt;
Charles King&amp;#039;s &ldquo;A Wounded Name,&amp;quot; Mary E. Wilkins&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; The People of Our Neighbourhood,&rdquo; Catcliffe Hyne&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Adventares of Captain Kettle,&rdquo; Mrs. Barton&lt;br /&gt;
Harrison&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Good Americans,&rdquo; Paul Leicester Ford&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Tattle-Tales of Capid,&rdquo; Harold Frederic&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Gloria Mundi,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Amelia E. Barr&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Trinity Bells,&rdquo; S. R. Crockett&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Ione&lt;br /&gt;
March,&rdquo; Egerton Castle&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Young April,&rdquo; Mary Hartwell&lt;br /&gt;
Catherwood&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Spanish Peggy,&rdquo; W. Pett Ridge&amp;#039;s &ldquo; A Son of&lt;br /&gt;
the State,&amp;quot; Jesse Lynch Williams&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Adventures of a&lt;br /&gt;
Freshman,&amp;quot; Gertrude Atherton&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Californians,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle quotes the following&lt;br /&gt;
notice on &ldquo;Literary Ghosts&rdquo;:&lt;br /&gt;
Not long ago a story was going round as to the&lt;br /&gt;
method adopted by a certain successfal author. He adver-&lt;br /&gt;
tised for amateurs to send on their stories to a given&lt;br /&gt;
address, whence he filcbed their plots. That is the story.&lt;br /&gt;
Bat the correspondent has a personal experience. He was&lt;br /&gt;
approached by an aathor of repute with the proposal that&lt;br /&gt;
he should write stories and send them for the man with the&lt;br /&gt;
name to &ldquo;touch up.&amp;quot; Then they were to be published under&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 222 (#300) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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222&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Senator North,&rdquo; and &ldquo; A Daughter of the Vine,&rdquo; R. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers&amp;#039;s &ldquo;In the Quarter,&rdquo; &ldquo; Outsiders,&rdquo; and &ldquo; The Con&lt;br /&gt;
spirator, &rdquo; Molly E. Seawell&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; The Loves of Lady Arabella,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Henry James&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Two Magics,&rdquo; Robert Barr&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Tekla,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&bdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Maarten Maartens&amp;#039; &ldquo; Her Memory,&amp;quot; Julia Magruder&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Struan,&rdquo; Jules Verne&amp;#039;s &ldquo; An Antarctic Mystery,&rdquo; Emile&lt;br /&gt;
Zola&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Stories for Ninon,&rdquo; Robert Barr&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; Jeannie Baxter,&lt;br /&gt;
Journalist,&rdquo; E. W. Hornung&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Amateur Cracksman,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Robert Herrick&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Love&amp;#039;s Dilemma,&amp;quot; Amelia E. Barr&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Was it Right to Forgive ?&rdquo; E. W. Hornung&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Dead Men&lt;br /&gt;
Tell No Tales,&amp;quot; Shan F. Bullock&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Barrys,&amp;quot; Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
Hatton&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; When Rogues Fall Out&rdquo; and &ldquo; The White King&lt;br /&gt;
of Manoa,&amp;quot; Edward S. Van Zile&amp;#039;s &ldquo;With Sword and&lt;br /&gt;
Crucifix.&rdquo; Stanley Waterloo&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The Seekers,&rdquo; Edith&lt;br /&gt;
Wharton&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Touchstone,&rdquo; Arlo Bates&rsquo;s &ldquo;Love in a&lt;br /&gt;
Cloud,&rdquo; Lilian Bell&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Expatriates,&amp;quot; and John Kendrick&lt;br /&gt;
Banga&amp;#039; &ldquo; The Idiot at Home.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A book may be rejected at the public library for any one&lt;br /&gt;
of the following reasons, or for many others :-&lt;br /&gt;
It is immoral. It is below the author&amp;#039;s usual standard.&lt;br /&gt;
The library has enough of that author anyway. It is poorly&lt;br /&gt;
written. It does not tend to promote caltare. It is too&lt;br /&gt;
sensational. It is a plagiarism. It would tend to create&lt;br /&gt;
anarchy. The money could be better spent for another&lt;br /&gt;
book, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
Most of the exclusions seem just. . . . At any rate, it is&lt;br /&gt;
certain that the readers whose daty it is to examine and&lt;br /&gt;
report upon new books do their work conscientiously, and,&lt;br /&gt;
fortunately, with a greater display of skill and good judg.&lt;br /&gt;
ment than one would expect them to show. In fact, we&lt;br /&gt;
ought to be grateful for the good sense underlying most of&lt;br /&gt;
these decisions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Women Journalists has arranged&lt;br /&gt;
to hold afternoon receptions on the last Tuesday&lt;br /&gt;
in each month at Essex Hall, Essex-street,&lt;br /&gt;
Strand, with a view to promoting social inter-&lt;br /&gt;
course between members and their friends. The&lt;br /&gt;
first, held in March, was attended by more than&lt;br /&gt;
two hundred guests. Several popular artists con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributed to the success of the occasion&mdash;among&lt;br /&gt;
them Madame Amy Sherwin, Miss Madeleine&lt;br /&gt;
O&amp;#039;Connor, Miss Helen Mar, Mr. Reginald&lt;br /&gt;
Kenneth, and Mr. George Giddens.&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
loose expression &ldquo; such persons as have just claims&lt;br /&gt;
on the Royal beneficence&rdquo; led to the bestowal&lt;br /&gt;
of these grants upon a large number of service&lt;br /&gt;
pensioners or their surviving relatives at the&lt;br /&gt;
expense of literature, science, and art. I dealt&lt;br /&gt;
with the whole question in &ldquo; Literature and the&lt;br /&gt;
Pension List,&rdquo; an investigation conducted and&lt;br /&gt;
published for the Incorporated Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
in 1889. This was followed up by a memorial&lt;br /&gt;
presented by the Society to the late Mr. W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith praying for further legislation for the&lt;br /&gt;
following purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
(a) The restriction of the grant of pensions&lt;br /&gt;
on the Civil List within ascertained limits.&lt;br /&gt;
(6) The allocation of pensions amounting to not&lt;br /&gt;
less than &pound;800 in each year to those who by their&lt;br /&gt;
useful discoveries in Science, or attainments in&lt;br /&gt;
Literature and the Arts, have merited the gracious&lt;br /&gt;
consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitude&lt;br /&gt;
of their country, or their widows or children.&lt;br /&gt;
(c) The increase of the Royal Bounty Fund&lt;br /&gt;
and the Civil List Pension Fund so that Her&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty may be enabled to reneve distress and&lt;br /&gt;
reward merit in a manner worthy of the dignity&lt;br /&gt;
of the Crown.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Smith, who declined to receive a deputa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, gave no encouragement whatever to the&lt;br /&gt;
prayer of the memorial, and defended the practice&lt;br /&gt;
of the Treasury on the ground of the existence of&lt;br /&gt;
certain undisclosed &ldquo;regulations,&amp;quot;* which, inter&lt;br /&gt;
alia, excluded novelists, unless &ldquo;historical&lt;br /&gt;
novelists,&rdquo; from the benefit of the Fund. He&lt;br /&gt;
further complained that &ldquo;to make such changes&lt;br /&gt;
as the memorial suggests would necessitate a new&lt;br /&gt;
Act of Parliament&rdquo;; and defended the grant of&lt;br /&gt;
pensions on the Civil List for services performed&lt;br /&gt;
in the Army, Navy, Diplomatic, Civil, and Colonial&lt;br /&gt;
Services on the ground that these are &ldquo;services&lt;br /&gt;
to the Sovereign,&amp;quot; and that the First Lord enjoys&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; that discretion which must in such cases finally&lt;br /&gt;
rest with some one responsible Minister.&rdquo; .&lt;br /&gt;
The present opportunity of redressing all these&lt;br /&gt;
grievances is, therefore, of the highest import-&lt;br /&gt;
ance. Genuine regulations should be framed to&lt;br /&gt;
restrict the grant of pensions, not upon an artificial&lt;br /&gt;
theory, but in accordance with the findings of the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of 1837. It may, too, be asked&lt;br /&gt;
whether a scale struck sixty-four years ago is&lt;br /&gt;
adequate to the needs of to-day. It cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
questioned that if the necessity were shown to exist&lt;br /&gt;
-an easy matter&mdash;the country would support&lt;br /&gt;
such a use of public money. It is the unanimous&lt;br /&gt;
testimony of every First Lord of the Treasury&lt;br /&gt;
that he is every year obliged to refuse many&lt;br /&gt;
deserving applicants, and The Author has called&lt;br /&gt;
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE demise of the Crown and the resulting&lt;br /&gt;
T revision of the Civil List Act, in accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ance with the report of the Select Com.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; mittee appointed to consider the whole question,&lt;br /&gt;
affords an important opportunity for the reform&lt;br /&gt;
of the system under which Civil List Pensions&lt;br /&gt;
are granted. The main purpose of these pensions&lt;br /&gt;
as defined by the resolution of the House of&lt;br /&gt;
Commons of 1834, and by i Vict. c. 2, s. 6, was&lt;br /&gt;
the reward of those who &ldquo; by their useful dis.&lt;br /&gt;
coveries in Science and attainments in Literature&lt;br /&gt;
and the Arts have merited the gracious considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their&lt;br /&gt;
country.&amp;quot; But the insertion in the Act of the&lt;br /&gt;
* In the House, in answer to Mr. Bryce, he acknowledged&lt;br /&gt;
that there were no such regulations.--W. B.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 223 (#301) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
223&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
attention to many such refusals. The practice of&lt;br /&gt;
the Treasury has immensely improved since the&lt;br /&gt;
Society exposed the mismanagement of the Fund,&lt;br /&gt;
but every year grants are made to classes of&lt;br /&gt;
persons not contemplated by Her late Majesty&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Civil List Act. The further continuance of such&lt;br /&gt;
no of such&lt;br /&gt;
a state of things can and must now be rendered&lt;br /&gt;
impossible.&lt;br /&gt;
W. MORRIS COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
......&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
IO&lt;br /&gt;
The following note is from the report of the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee of the House of Commons on the Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List:-&lt;br /&gt;
Your committee recommend that the new Civil List should&lt;br /&gt;
be fixed according to the following estimate :&lt;br /&gt;
First Class.&mdash;Their Majesties&amp;#039; Privy Purse......... &pound;110,000&lt;br /&gt;
Second Class.-Salaries of His Majesty&amp;#039;s House-&lt;br /&gt;
hold and Retired Allowances.......................&lt;br /&gt;
125,800&lt;br /&gt;
Third Class.-Expenses of His Majesty&amp;#039;s House-&lt;br /&gt;
hold ..............&lt;br /&gt;
............ 193,000&lt;br /&gt;
Fourth Class.-Works .........&lt;br /&gt;
20,000&lt;br /&gt;
Fifth Class.-Royal Boanty, Alms, and Special&lt;br /&gt;
Services...............&lt;br /&gt;
13,200&lt;br /&gt;
Sixth Class.&mdash;Unappropriated .........&lt;br /&gt;
8,000&lt;br /&gt;
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ao ouro ou ooo ooo @en O OOONO&Ouml;-00--000&lt;br /&gt;
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...&lt;br /&gt;
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...............&lt;br /&gt;
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..............................&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
Smrt&lt;br /&gt;
Total for the Civil List ......... &pound;470,000&lt;br /&gt;
In the foregoing no reference has been made to the&lt;br /&gt;
pensions granted ander sections 5 and 6 of the last Civil&lt;br /&gt;
List Act, commonly called &ldquo; Civil List Pensions.&rdquo; With&lt;br /&gt;
regard to these no baggestion bas been made for any altera.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and the committee accordingly recommend the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinuance of the present system, except that the variable&lt;br /&gt;
amounts payable under this head (Appendix, Part III.)&lt;br /&gt;
should no longer form a nominal class of the Civil List,&lt;br /&gt;
but should be separately entered in the Consolidated Fand&lt;br /&gt;
Accounts.&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur........&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott .............&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard .........&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. .............&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R. ................&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ....................&lt;br /&gt;
Miles, Eastace ...............&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope...........&lt;br /&gt;
Montresor, Miss F...........&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah, Herbert ........&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E. .............&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert .......&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock, Sir Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti, W. M. ...&lt;br /&gt;
S. B. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E. .............................&lt;br /&gt;
Toplis, Miss G. ......&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Aleo...&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P...&lt;br /&gt;
Weyman, Stanley ...&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Williams, Mrs. E. L. ..&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Ernest .............&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)......&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. .....&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ..&lt;br /&gt;
Bebant, Sir Walter.&lt;br /&gt;
Bond, R. Warwick ..&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Brodbarst, Spencer....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward .&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R. ........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
1901) ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S......&lt;br /&gt;
Goldemith, W. H. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Gribble, F.&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. .......&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K......&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Macdonald, Mrs.....&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max.&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W......&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts, Morley ...............................&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ..................................&lt;br /&gt;
Rumble, Mrs. ......................&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. .....&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ..............&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P.....&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
50&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the list of donations&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
............. &pound;100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous ........&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Arnim, The Countess von&lt;br /&gt;
5 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A.&lt;br /&gt;
I 0&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ....&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ........................ ............&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter......&lt;br /&gt;
............ 100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Boevey, Miss Crawley ..&lt;br /&gt;
2 2 0&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice ............&lt;br /&gt;
0 3 6&lt;br /&gt;
Clifford, Mrs W. K.&lt;br /&gt;
5 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss ...&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs. ......&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan .....&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years)&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T...........................&lt;br /&gt;
10 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W................................&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss ..........................&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .....&lt;br /&gt;
200 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H. ............&lt;br /&gt;
2 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jacberns, Raymond ..........&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Senerowowowen&lt;br /&gt;
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-&ouml;nrooo &otilde;enovier-oner --&lt;br /&gt;
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 224 (#302) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
224&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
N Monday, April 15, the Authors&amp;#039; Club&lt;br /&gt;
1.-&ldquo; LITERATURE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
entertained Dr. J. A. H. Murray at dinner. V OUR friendly criticisms on the remarks&lt;br /&gt;
Professor W. W. Skeat, of Cambridge,&lt;br /&gt;
made in Literature of March 16 on&lt;br /&gt;
took the chair. Fewer members of the club than&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Critical Standards,&amp;quot; &agrave; propos of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
usual sat down at the table, owing to the unfor- Churton Collins&amp;#039;s recent book, are likely, I think,&lt;br /&gt;
tunate fact that the first performance of &ldquo; Corio. to convey a wrong impression of what the writer&lt;br /&gt;
lanus&rdquo; at the Lyceum Theatre had been fixed for in Literature actually said.&lt;br /&gt;
the same evening. Those members who were You say: &amp;quot;&bull; It is human,&amp;#039; the writer says,&lt;br /&gt;
present, however, greeted Dr. Murray most to speak up for a friend : to be angry if your&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiastically, and a very pleasant evening wares are condemned: to wish to stand well&lt;br /&gt;
was spent. In response to his health the guest with persons with whom one does business.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
made a long and interesting speech explaining Undoubtedly it is human. But Mr. Collins&amp;#039;s con-&lt;br /&gt;
some of the difficulties and some of the tention is that a book sent out for review demands&lt;br /&gt;
labours connected with the editing of a large impartiality, although partiality is human.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
dictionary. He stated that he had collected These are not our words ; but it is a fair&lt;br /&gt;
over five tons of material, and that he had over summary of three sentences in the note in&lt;br /&gt;
five million quotations bearing on words in the Literature. It conveys, however, a wrong&lt;br /&gt;
English language and in English literature. impression when the sentence which follows is&lt;br /&gt;
Such a statement made it apparent at once that omitted. The writer continued :&lt;br /&gt;
the labour involved in editing the work was What is human, however, we need scarcely add, is not&lt;br /&gt;
almost beyond the powers of one man. He men necessarily rigbt; and it is necessary to face the question&lt;br /&gt;
tioned at the same time some of the more - Does this obviously human attitude of reviewers towards&lt;br /&gt;
humorous sides of the work, and pointed out&lt;br /&gt;
books exist to any large extent, and does it produce such&lt;br /&gt;
that on many occasions when he had asked some terrible consequences, and cause such a failure of justice,&lt;br /&gt;
as Mr. Churton Collins imagines in his wrath ?&lt;br /&gt;
specialist with regard to the definition of technical&lt;br /&gt;
words, in a short time letters had been addressed&lt;br /&gt;
I think this puts a different colour upon the&lt;br /&gt;
to him from other gentlemen asking him to rem&lt;br /&gt;
remarks which The Author quoted, and I venture,&lt;br /&gt;
forward the details which he himself required.&lt;br /&gt;
reanired therefore, to ask you to allow me to call your&lt;br /&gt;
Therefore, to&lt;br /&gt;
What had taken place was quite clear the readers&amp;#039; attention to them.&lt;br /&gt;
specialist, although he was constantly using the&lt;br /&gt;
THE EDITOR OF &ldquo;LITERATURE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
word, had no idea of its origin, and had applied&lt;br /&gt;
to someone else, who, in his turn, had applied to&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
II.-ON COMMERCIAL MORALITY.&lt;br /&gt;
The evening ended by Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Mercury was the god of thieves and of&lt;br /&gt;
C.B., proposing the health of the chairman.&lt;br /&gt;
merchants. Oh, you libellous Ancients ! to place&lt;br /&gt;
these two classes of men under the same&lt;br /&gt;
tutelage!&lt;br /&gt;
The general meeting of the Authors&amp;#039; Club was&lt;br /&gt;
If a pickpocket abstracts my purse, my shoe-&lt;br /&gt;
held on Monday, April 15, at five o&amp;#039;clock. Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
: maker or my butcher are greatly shocked, yet the&lt;br /&gt;
Conan Doyle, as chairman, had the satisfaction one will charge for a pair of boots and the other&lt;br /&gt;
of putting before the members a balance-&lt;br /&gt;
for a leg of mutton which were never delivered,&lt;br /&gt;
sheet showing how the club had prospered&lt;br /&gt;
and neither will scruple to accept payment for&lt;br /&gt;
during the past year. Sir Walter Besant and&lt;br /&gt;
the same if he happens to escape detection. A&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monkswell resigned in rotation from the&lt;br /&gt;
practice which your highly respectable publisher&lt;br /&gt;
directorate, but still kept their names on the&lt;br /&gt;
shudders at. Nevertheless, he will charge&lt;br /&gt;
general committee, and promised their strong&lt;br /&gt;
an unsuspecting author, who was fool enough&lt;br /&gt;
support in the future. Mr. E. W. Brabrook,&lt;br /&gt;
to accept a half-profit agreement, 428. for&lt;br /&gt;
C.B., and Mr. Morley Roberts were elected to fill&lt;br /&gt;
binding 100 of his volumes, till it is found&lt;br /&gt;
the vacant positions. The club has had a steady&lt;br /&gt;
out that the real cost was 298. per 100&lt;br /&gt;
increase of members during the past vear, and&lt;br /&gt;
volumes. He charges the unlucky half-profit&lt;br /&gt;
now embraces among its members many of the&lt;br /&gt;
book heavily for exchange advertisements which&lt;br /&gt;
best known writers of the day.&lt;br /&gt;
cost him next to nothing, and he produces&lt;br /&gt;
as vouchers receipts for full value, because the&lt;br /&gt;
conspiring publishers place these author-defraud.&lt;br /&gt;
ing instruments into each other&amp;#039;s hands. But,&lt;br /&gt;
Heaven forbid ! they are not pickpockets, nor yet&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
225&lt;br /&gt;
defrauding tradesmen-not they. Or say an its expenses. The following letter from Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
author of a school-book has, after years of toil Skeffington and Son, who were doing their&lt;br /&gt;
and thought, worked out a new system of teach utmost for us, at once showed me that it was&lt;br /&gt;
ing, say, reading or arithmetic, or any other useless to proceed further in the matter : &ldquo;I am&lt;br /&gt;
subject, forthwith your honest publisher employs clearly of opinion that the co-operation of the&lt;br /&gt;
his hack-writer to filch the idea and evade the Princess Christian in your book is as necessary as&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, for &ldquo;there is no copyright in ideas&rdquo;; ever, if not more so. But in truth it (i.e., the&lt;br /&gt;
in other words, where there is no policeman it is Queen&amp;#039;s death) will be a sad blow to all works of&lt;br /&gt;
permissible to steal. And what of those paste fiction, and indeed to most books for some time&lt;br /&gt;
and scissors using piratical backs; are they to come.&rdquo; I feel confident that Mr. Skeffington&lt;br /&gt;
much better than the light-fingered gentry? did what he could, and for my sake alone he&lt;br /&gt;
Well might Napoleon say, &ldquo;Le commerce c&amp;#039;est would have produced the book if it had been&lt;br /&gt;
un brigandage bien organis&eacute;.&rdquo; Against some of possible to do so with any chance of success. I&lt;br /&gt;
these ills there is no remedy, but the publishers wish particularly to thank the following ladies&lt;br /&gt;
could be brought to book. Let authors form and gentlemen for their great consideration and&lt;br /&gt;
themselves into an &ldquo; Authors&amp;#039; Publishing Union,&rdquo; help, and for their enthusiastic reception of my&lt;br /&gt;
and publish their own books, and then it will no proposal: M. M. Macpherson, Esq., Paris; Allen&lt;br /&gt;
longer be said, &ldquo;Now, Barabbas was a publisher.&rdquo; Oscar, Esq.; L. A. Harker, Esq.; Miss E. G.&lt;br /&gt;
A MUCH-DEFRAUDED AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Rev. C. Dudley-Camplin, Miss J. M.&lt;br /&gt;
Waterhouse, B. W. Wentworth, Esq.; Miss M.&lt;br /&gt;
Baines, Miss B. C. Hardy, Miss J. Montgomery.&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell, M. Penrose, Esq.; Frank Hopwood,&lt;br /&gt;
III.-YOUNG FICTION WRITERS AND THE WAR&lt;br /&gt;
Esq.; G. Rennie Powell, Esq.; Mrs. Isabella&lt;br /&gt;
FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Taylor, H. R. Wintle, Esq., F.R.G.S.; Miss&lt;br /&gt;
My proposal, made in The Author for May of Gibbs, Miss L. G. Moberley, W. H. Robinson,&lt;br /&gt;
last year, resulted in such a large number of Esq., F.R.A.S. In Miss W. M. Willis-Swan I&lt;br /&gt;
encouraging letters from authors of all standing found a most able and considerate fellow editor,&lt;br /&gt;
that, in spite of the many difficulties in our way, and one who did not spare time or labour to&lt;br /&gt;
we felt that we ought to proceed with the idea. bring the proposed volume to a satisfactory issue.&lt;br /&gt;
Consequently, it is with the greatest reluctance If we have failed it has not been for the want of&lt;br /&gt;
that I am compelled to write this letter acknow hard work and kindly interest. It would seem&lt;br /&gt;
ledging our defeat. At the outset we knew fully that the times and fate have alone been against&lt;br /&gt;
what to expect, and we received the following us.&lt;br /&gt;
Jas. BAGNALL-STUBBS.&lt;br /&gt;
letter from our editor :-&ldquo;I am afraid you will April 5, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
find considerable difficulty in floating the volume&lt;br /&gt;
which you propose. The young writers must&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-EDITORS.&lt;br /&gt;
make their own names first separately before they Is it not an unusual thing for an editor to&lt;br /&gt;
can do anything in association. I would not accept a poem, and then to repudiate that accept-&lt;br /&gt;
willingly throw cold water on your admirable ance without any presumable reason ?&lt;br /&gt;
project, but I am afraid that the attempt The editor of the Free Lance wrote to me on a&lt;br /&gt;
would only result in disappointinent.&rdquo; Never. post card, on receipt of a poem : &ldquo; All right!&lt;br /&gt;
theless, Sir Walter quite recently consented When I can find a comfortable corner.&rdquo; (I hold&lt;br /&gt;
to write a preface to the book, provided that this post card). Does not this amount to&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher&amp;#039;s agreement was a satisfactory accepting it, or am I drawing over much on my&lt;br /&gt;
one.&lt;br /&gt;
imagination so to interpret it?&lt;br /&gt;
At first we had a good chance of obtaining the Later on the poem was lost in the Free Lance&lt;br /&gt;
interest of a prominent member of the Royal office, and I sent another copy, which was returned&lt;br /&gt;
Family, and up to the death of Her Majesty to me with thanks.&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Victoria (to whom we hoped to have dedi. Again, the editor of the Pictorial Magazine&lt;br /&gt;
cated the volume) things were looking very is always expressing himself as most eager to&lt;br /&gt;
cheerful. Clearly we, like many others, have oblige his readers in any way he can. This is as&lt;br /&gt;
suffered greatly by the great national bereave it should be, but when I sent an addressed reply&lt;br /&gt;
ment.&lt;br /&gt;
post card asking for the name of the author of a&lt;br /&gt;
It is practically impossible to make a volume certain ghost story that had appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
of short stories a success, and though the many P.M. he took no notice of my request. I&lt;br /&gt;
publishers to whom I mentioned the matter were wished to locate the name of a certain decoy in&lt;br /&gt;
most kind and considerate, they were unanimous Lincolnshire, mentioned in the said story? Was&lt;br /&gt;
in their opinion that the book could not recoup this a presumptuous request ?&lt;br /&gt;
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226&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
I make no commeuts, but would like to know&lt;br /&gt;
what you and your readers think of this?&lt;br /&gt;
I even went so far as to apologise to the editor&lt;br /&gt;
of the Free Lance for my audacity in asking for&lt;br /&gt;
the insertion of an accepted poem.&lt;br /&gt;
Karsfield, Torquay. F. B. DOVETON.&lt;br /&gt;
[It seems that the editor of the Free Lance&lt;br /&gt;
might very fairly reply that he has not yet been&lt;br /&gt;
able to find a &ldquo;comfortable corner.&rdquo; The accept-&lt;br /&gt;
ance of the poem was clearly conditional. But as&lt;br /&gt;
regards the other point, if the story was anony.&lt;br /&gt;
mous the editor was surely bound to respect that&lt;br /&gt;
fact. Mr. Doveton&amp;#039;s better course would have&lt;br /&gt;
been to ask the editor to forward his question to&lt;br /&gt;
the anonymous writer. There could have been&lt;br /&gt;
no objection to such a question. It is evident&lt;br /&gt;
that if an editor is to be called upon to reveal the&lt;br /&gt;
names of his anonymous writers there is no&lt;br /&gt;
possibility of preserving an incognito which is&lt;br /&gt;
often most desirable.- ED.]&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Richard Garnett has written a series of&lt;br /&gt;
essays on Peacock, Beckford, Matthew Arnold,&lt;br /&gt;
Shelley, Lord Beaconsfield, and other writers.&lt;br /&gt;
The volume will be published by Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
under the title &ldquo; The Essays of an Ex-Librarian.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The prevailing idea that Mr. George Smith was&lt;br /&gt;
to be credited with the inception of the Pall Mall&lt;br /&gt;
Gazette, of which he was the original proprietor,&lt;br /&gt;
has been corrected in some of the obituary&lt;br /&gt;
notices of the late publisher. It was to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Frederick Greenwood that the Pall Mall owed&lt;br /&gt;
its form as a new spirit in journalism.&lt;br /&gt;
We are glad to learn that the health of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith is improved.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morley&amp;#039;s Life of Gladstone is expected&lt;br /&gt;
to be ready in October. Another forthcoming&lt;br /&gt;
volume of political interest is the autobiography&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Henry Broadhurst, M.P., one of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Gladstone&amp;#039;s Under-Secretaries of State, which&lt;br /&gt;
is being prepared for publication by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson. Mr. Broadhurst was at one time&lt;br /&gt;
an operative mason, and tramped a thousand&lt;br /&gt;
miles in winter in search of work.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Battell Loomis tells in the Atlantic&lt;br /&gt;
Monthly for March &ldquo;how to write a novel for the&lt;br /&gt;
masses.&rdquo; &ldquo;You must admit,&rdquo; he says in the&lt;br /&gt;
course of his article, &ldquo; that the vast majority of&lt;br /&gt;
the reading public is made up of dull, unthink-&lt;br /&gt;
ing people, so why should writers spend so much&lt;br /&gt;
time substantiating facts, studying costumes and&lt;br /&gt;
scenery and other details that do not affect the&lt;br /&gt;
real interest of the story, which is and must be&lt;br /&gt;
the romantic portion of it?&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
The following are among the novels announced&lt;br /&gt;
for early publication :-&ldquo; Jack Raymond,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Voynich; &ldquo; The Second Dandy Chater,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Tom Gallon; &ldquo; The Sea hath its Pearls,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Nellie Blissett; &ldquo; Voysey,&rdquo; by Mr. Richard&lt;br /&gt;
0. Prowse; &amp;quot;A Daughter of the Veldt,&amp;quot; by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Basil Marnan; &ldquo;The Extermination of Love,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
E. Gerard; and &ldquo;Lady Haife,&amp;quot; by Mr. Neil&lt;br /&gt;
Wynn Williams.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. J. Stillman&amp;#039;s autobiography is being&lt;br /&gt;
published by Mr. Grant Richards, who also&lt;br /&gt;
announces a history of Rome, designed for&lt;br /&gt;
advanced students of the subject, by Mr. Eustace&lt;br /&gt;
H. Miles.&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent issue, Literature disposes of the&lt;br /&gt;
many accounts that have been published of the&lt;br /&gt;
way the &ldquo; Recessional&rdquo; reached the Times, by&lt;br /&gt;
printing the following letter which enclosed the&lt;br /&gt;
WISS CHRISTABEL COLERIDGE is to&lt;br /&gt;
write the biography of the late Miss Char.&lt;br /&gt;
lotte Yonge. It is requested that letters&lt;br /&gt;
or papers relating to Miss Yonge&amp;#039;s life and works&lt;br /&gt;
should be forwarded to Miss Coleridge, at Cheyne,&lt;br /&gt;
Torquay, whence they will be duly returned to the&lt;br /&gt;
owners.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Marion Crawford is writing a Life of the&lt;br /&gt;
Pope.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. S. Lilly&amp;#039;s new work on the Renaissance&lt;br /&gt;
will be published shortly by Mr. Fisher Unwin.&lt;br /&gt;
He studies the subject as exhibited in the careers&lt;br /&gt;
of five representative men ---- Michael Angelo,&lt;br /&gt;
Erasmus, Reuchlin, Luther, Sir Thomas More.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Gissing&amp;#039;s new novel. - The Char.&lt;br /&gt;
latan,&amp;quot; will be published shortly by Messrs. Chap-&lt;br /&gt;
man and Hall, as well as his book of travel, which&lt;br /&gt;
will be called &ldquo; By the Ionian Sea.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. J. Ford has written a history of the&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge University Cricket Club. It will be&lt;br /&gt;
published immediately by Messrs. Blackwood.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hall Caine&amp;#039;s new book will probably be&lt;br /&gt;
published in August.&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel by Mr. David Christie Murray&lt;br /&gt;
will be published this month by Messrs. Chatto&lt;br /&gt;
and Windus.&lt;br /&gt;
The title of Mr. Douglas Sladen&amp;#039;s new novel is&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;My Son Richard : Ă Romance of the River&lt;br /&gt;
between Maidenhead and Marlow.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Dear -&lt;br /&gt;
Enclosed pleased find my sentiments on things--which I&lt;br /&gt;
hope are yours. We&amp;#039;ve been blowing up the Trumpets of&lt;br /&gt;
the New Moon a little too much for White Men, and it&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
about time we sobered down.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
227&lt;br /&gt;
If you would like it, it&amp;#039;s at your service-on the old won golden opinions. Since this appeared Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
conditions that I can use it if I want it later in book form. Prichard has by himself published an important&lt;br /&gt;
The sooner it&amp;#039;s in print the better. I don&amp;#039;t want any proof.&lt;br /&gt;
book of travel entitled &ldquo;Where Black Rules&lt;br /&gt;
Couldn&amp;#039;t you run it to-night so as to end the week piously?&lt;br /&gt;
If it&amp;#039;s not your line, please drop me a wire.&lt;br /&gt;
White&amp;quot;; and he is now in Patagonia, leading an&lt;br /&gt;
Ever yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
R. K. expedition of great geographical and scientific&lt;br /&gt;
The poem was published the next morning.&lt;br /&gt;
importance.&lt;br /&gt;
Literature adds that &ldquo;Mr. Kipling was asked to On May 7 there will appear simultaneously in&lt;br /&gt;
name his own price, but absolutely declined all England and America the &ldquo; Further Memoirs of&lt;br /&gt;
payment.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Marie Bashkirtseff,&amp;quot; the publication of which&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Mitchell and Co., of 18, New Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;
has been looked forward to with much eagerness.&lt;br /&gt;
street, E.C., and of Arundel, have just published,&lt;br /&gt;
The volume will be illustrated and will contain a&lt;br /&gt;
under the title of&ldquo; Vexed Questions &rdquo; (price 6d.),&lt;br /&gt;
diary, a very daring correspondence with Guy de&lt;br /&gt;
a collection of twenty-two articles contributed by&lt;br /&gt;
Maupassant, and an introduction by Mr. G. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Perris. Mr. Grant Richards is the English&lt;br /&gt;
Rachel Challice to the West Sussex Gazette on&lt;br /&gt;
such topics as &ldquo;Spinster Sisters,&rdquo; &ldquo; Bachelor&lt;br /&gt;
publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
Brothers,&rdquo; &ldquo;Husbands&amp;#039; Hobbies,&rdquo; &ldquo; Wives&amp;#039; &ldquo;On Peter&amp;#039;s Island,&rdquo; by Arthur R. Ropes and&lt;br /&gt;
Work,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bloodsuckers,&rdquo; and other social sub. Mary E. Ropes, has just been published by John&lt;br /&gt;
jects. Racbel Challice is the translator of &ldquo;The Murray in London and Charles Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons&lt;br /&gt;
Grandee&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Fourth Estate.&rdquo; by Se&ntilde;or A. in New York. The book deals with the fortunes&lt;br /&gt;
Pal&aacute;cio Vald&eacute;s, and the essay by the same author of a petroleum refinery, and with the story of a&lt;br /&gt;
on &ldquo; The Decadence of Modern Literature&rdquo; in young Pole and his sister, about the beginning of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Library of Famous Literature.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the reign of Alexander III. Nihilist secret socie-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Spick and Span,&rdquo; a book for children, bas&lt;br /&gt;
ties play a part in the tale, as they did in Russia&lt;br /&gt;
at the period in which the story is laid.&lt;br /&gt;
gone into a third edition. Readers wil take&lt;br /&gt;
notice that the book is published by, and can be&lt;br /&gt;
Two new romances, by the Rev. C. Dudley&lt;br /&gt;
obtained of, the writer. &amp;quot;His address is Llwny-y.&lt;br /&gt;
Lampen, will be published during the present&lt;br /&gt;
brain, Whitland, S. Wales. He has in the press&lt;br /&gt;
year. The first, which is entitled &ldquo;O&amp;#039;Callaghan,&lt;br /&gt;
another story called &ldquo; Tom Genuflex,&rdquo; price 48.&lt;br /&gt;
the Slave Trader,&amp;quot; deals with West Africa and&lt;br /&gt;
the former traffic in human flesh. The second,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Basil Tozer&amp;#039;s new book on &ldquo;Free Lance entitled &ldquo;The Servants of the Rod.&amp;quot; is a story of&lt;br /&gt;
Journalism &rdquo; appeared on Thursday, April 4. It adventure, the scenes being laid amid the wilds&lt;br /&gt;
will be found especially helpful to the young of New Guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
journalist, for whom it is intended.&lt;br /&gt;
The William Black Memorial at Duart Point,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton&amp;#039;s new novel-a Mull, has now been completed, and the Commis-&lt;br /&gt;
story of to-day-entitled &ldquo;A Vanished Rival&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
sioners of Northern Lighthouses have given&lt;br /&gt;
will be published at once by Cassell and Co. notice that on and after the night of Monday,&lt;br /&gt;
Limited. The scene is laid in the mountains of May 13, there will be shown from the &ldquo; William&lt;br /&gt;
Haute Savoie, near Evian-les-Bains, the cha-&lt;br /&gt;
Black Memorial Tower&amp;quot; a group-flashing light,&lt;br /&gt;
racters being English.&lt;br /&gt;
showing three flashes in quick succession every&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Mystery of the Moat House,&amp;quot; by Derek fifteen seconds. The memorial has been erected&lt;br /&gt;
Vane, which was very popular as a serial, is to on a point six cables south of Duart Castle.&lt;br /&gt;
be published by the Cosmopolitan Publishing London has been chosen as the place of meet.&lt;br /&gt;
Company in their new sixpenny series.&lt;br /&gt;
ing for the Congress of Academical Societies in&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Poultney Bigelow has just returned from 1904.&lt;br /&gt;
America, where he has been lecturing at various General Sir H. E. Colvile is correcting the&lt;br /&gt;
Universities on British Colonial Administra proofs of his book entitled &ldquo;The Work of the&lt;br /&gt;
tions and the Colonial History of different Ninth Division.&amp;quot; This addition to the literature&lt;br /&gt;
Colonising Powers. His forthcoming book of the Boer War will be published shortly by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Children of the Nations,&amp;quot; will be Arnold.&lt;br /&gt;
published early in this month by McClure.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Aylmer Maude has completed a work of&lt;br /&gt;
The announcement by Messrs. Archibald Con- an expository character entitled &ldquo; Tolstoy and His&lt;br /&gt;
stable and Co. of a new book by K. and Hesketh Problems.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Prichard suggests again to us the pleasing and Among the forthcoming novels on Mr. Heine-&lt;br /&gt;
uncommon relationsbip existing between these mann&amp;#039;s list are &ldquo; The Right of Way,&amp;quot; by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
two writers-namely, that mother and son colla- Gilbert Parker, M.P.; &amp;quot;Boylett&amp;#039;s Land&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
borate. Their first book, &amp;quot; A Modern Mercenary,&rdquo; Mrs. Henry Dudeney ; &ldquo; Four-leaved Clover,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Maxwell Gray; and &ldquo;The Luck of the Vails,&rdquo; edition, with explanatory notes by the author on&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. E. F. Benson.&lt;br /&gt;
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Photographs are frequently lost through the carelessness&lt;br /&gt;
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and the Editor has a large number of photographs which&lt;br /&gt;
he is unable to return for this reason. All photographs&lt;br /&gt;
should have their description, and the name and address of&lt;br /&gt;
the sender, on the back, faintly written in pencil.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is pleased to receive drawings of any events&lt;br /&gt;
of public interest, or of general subjects; and is glad at&lt;br /&gt;
any time to receive suggestions from artists or photo-&lt;br /&gt;
graphers.&lt;br /&gt;
All payments are made promptly on acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;BOOKMAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for the Editor must be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Editor of The Bookman, 17, Paternoster&lt;br /&gt;
Row, London, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
No unused communications will be returned, whether&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are enclosed for that purpose or not, and to this&lt;br /&gt;
rule we can make no exception.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; BRITANNIA.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive original tales for con-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration, with proposals of terms. Preference will be&lt;br /&gt;
given to type-written copy on account of superior legibility,&lt;br /&gt;
but clearly-written MSS. are also suitable. Short stories,&lt;br /&gt;
of a few pages in length, to appear in a single issue are&lt;br /&gt;
preferred.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CAPTAIN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any&lt;br /&gt;
MSS., photographs, or drawings submitted to him, but&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed he will endeavour to return&lt;br /&gt;
those contributions of which he cannot make use.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CHURCH OF IRELAND.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot promise to insert in the following&lt;br /&gt;
Friday&amp;#039;s issue any letter received after Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;
Rejected MSS. can only be returned when accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by a stamped and addressed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are requested to write as legibly as&lt;br /&gt;
possible, and on one side of the paper only, and not to&lt;br /&gt;
write on Post Cards.&lt;br /&gt;
All letters and MSS. intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Editor at the Office of the Church of&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland Gazette.&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous letters will not be refused publication, if&lt;br /&gt;
they are otherwise fit for insertion ; but no anonymous&lt;br /&gt;
letter can be inserted unless accompanied by the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the writer, as an evidence of good faith.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold himself responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
facts or opinions of his correspondents.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CORNHILL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Communications to the Editor should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
care of Messrs. Smith, Elder &amp;amp; Co., 15, Waterloo Place,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
All contributions are attentively considered, and un-&lt;br /&gt;
accepted MSS. are returned when accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
necessary stamps for postage ; but the Editor cannot hold&lt;br /&gt;
himself responsible for any accidental loss. MSS. cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be delivered on personal application, nor can they be&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded through the post when only initials are given.&lt;br /&gt;
Every contribution should be type-written, on one side of&lt;br /&gt;
each leaf only, and should bear the name and address of&lt;br /&gt;
the sender.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; COUNTRY LIFE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CASSELL&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Illustrated contributions for the &ldquo; Something New&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
pages are invited by the Editor, who will be glad to pay for&lt;br /&gt;
original paragraphs or photographs which are accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
Out-of-the-way and curious natural phenomena and freaks&lt;br /&gt;
of nature, as well as portraits and views likely to be of&lt;br /&gt;
topical interest two or three months after they are submitted,&lt;br /&gt;
are sure of prompt and careful consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are requested, when applying to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor for the names and addresses of the persons from&lt;br /&gt;
whom further particulars respecting articles may be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained, to forward a stamped and addressed envelope&lt;br /&gt;
for reply.&lt;br /&gt;
All contributions for the Editor&amp;#039;s consideration must be&lt;br /&gt;
type-written, and submitted at the sender&amp;#039;s risk. The&lt;br /&gt;
Editor accepts no responsibility for unsuiiable papers and&lt;br /&gt;
stories, but will use his best endeavour to return such as&lt;br /&gt;
are accompanied by stamped and addressed wrappers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CATHOLIC TIMES.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications which do not belong to the Business&lt;br /&gt;
Department of the Catholic Times and are intended for&lt;br /&gt;
insertion should be addressed to the Editor. They should&lt;br /&gt;
be plainly written, if possible in ink, and invariably on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper. Special care should be taken that names&lt;br /&gt;
of places, countries, proper names, and uncommon words&lt;br /&gt;
have every letter perfectly legible. Figures must also be&lt;br /&gt;
clear and distinct. Ivattention to these directions will&lt;br /&gt;
often compel either rejection or considerable abridgment&lt;br /&gt;
of contributions. The writers of unsolicited articles sent&lt;br /&gt;
for insertion must state clearly if payment is expected for&lt;br /&gt;
them. All communications intended for insertion must be&lt;br /&gt;
authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good&lt;br /&gt;
faith. No notice will be taken of anonymous letters.&lt;br /&gt;
Rejected communications will not be returned.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are reminded that the earlier their com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications reach this office the better the chance of their&lt;br /&gt;
publication, and all communications intended for insertion&lt;br /&gt;
in the current issue should reach us not later than Tuesday ;&lt;br /&gt;
the Editor reserves Wednesday for special correspondents&lt;br /&gt;
and telegraphic news.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CHAMBERS&rsquo; JOURNAL.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1st. All communications should be addressed - To the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, 339, High Street, Edinburgh.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
2nd. For its return in case of ineligibility, postage-stamps&lt;br /&gt;
should accompany every manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
3rd. To secure their safe return if ineligible, all manu-&lt;br /&gt;
scripts, whether accompanied by a letter of advice or&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise, should have the writer&amp;#039;s name and address&lt;br /&gt;
written upon them in full.&lt;br /&gt;
4th. Poetical contributions should invariably be accom-&lt;br /&gt;
panied by a stamped and directed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; CHURCHMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to &amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Editors, 2, Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS, should bear name and address of writer and&lt;br /&gt;
be accompanied by stamps for return. The Editors will&lt;br /&gt;
endeavour to return all such MSS. : but can accept no&lt;br /&gt;
responsibility for uninvited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors accept no responsibility for opinions expressed&lt;br /&gt;
in correspondence or signed articles.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; CHURCHWOMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Editors, 2, Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. should bear name and address of writer and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by stamps for return. The Editors will&lt;br /&gt;
endeavour to return all such MSS. ; but can accept no&lt;br /&gt;
responsibility for uninvited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive for consideration&lt;br /&gt;
photographs, instantaneous or other wise, besides literary&lt;br /&gt;
contributions, in the shape of articles and descriptions, as .&lt;br /&gt;
well as short stories, sporting or otherwise, not exceeding&lt;br /&gt;
2,000 words. Contributors are specially requested to place&lt;br /&gt;
their names and addresses on their MSS, and on the backs&lt;br /&gt;
of photographs. The Editor will not be responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
return of artistic or literary contributions which he may&lt;br /&gt;
not be able to use, and the receipt of a proof must not be&lt;br /&gt;
taken as evidence that an article is accepted. Publication&lt;br /&gt;
in Country Life alone will be recognised as acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
Where stamps are enclosed, the Editor will do his best to&lt;br /&gt;
return those contributions which he does not require.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to photographs, the price required for repro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction, together with all descriptive particulars, must be&lt;br /&gt;
plainly stated, otherwise, when jayment is requested, it&lt;br /&gt;
must be understood that the usnal rates of the paper will&lt;br /&gt;
be paid. If it is desired that the photograph should be&lt;br /&gt;
returned, a sufficiently stamped and directed envelope must&lt;br /&gt;
be enclosed for the purpose.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;COUNTRY SPORT.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot undertake the return of any rejected&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript, unless same is accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
addressed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive for consideration any&lt;br /&gt;
interesting, original paragraphs, sporting anecdotes, or&lt;br /&gt;
other suitable matter for insertion under this heading.&lt;br /&gt;
A postal order for 78. will be remitted immediately after&lt;br /&gt;
publication of any accepted manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CRAMPTON&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Communications to the Editor should be addressed to 5,&lt;br /&gt;
Henrietta Street, London, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Every MS. should bear the name and address of the&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
sender, and should be accompanied by a stamped envelope&lt;br /&gt;
for return in cese of rejection.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the loss of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; DAILY GRAPHIC.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The proprietors cannot hold themselves responsible for&lt;br /&gt;
loss or damage to MSS., sketches, or other contributions&lt;br /&gt;
arising from any cause whatever. A sufficiently stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and directed envelope must accompany contributions when&lt;br /&gt;
their return is desired.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; EXAMINER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Editorial Offices, 56, Ludgate Hill, E.C., where all com&lt;br /&gt;
munications for the Editor should be addressed. Letters&lt;br /&gt;
intended for publication must be authenticated in every&lt;br /&gt;
case by the name and address of the writer, and be written&lt;br /&gt;
on one side of the paper only. Unsolicited MSS. cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be returned unless accompanied by stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondents are reminded that we cannot insert any&lt;br /&gt;
letters that are not authenticated by the name and address.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;GLOBE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
sent to &amp;quot; The Editor,&amp;quot; and be accompanied by the writer&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
name and address, not necessarily for insertion, but as a&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee of good faith.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for any&lt;br /&gt;
rejected MS. nor to return any contribution unaccompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by a stamped and directed envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;GRAPHIC.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Graphic does not publish regularly a notice of&lt;br /&gt;
the terms on which they deal with contributors, but&lt;br /&gt;
occasionally inserts a paragraph as follows : &amp;quot;Every care&lt;br /&gt;
will be taken of all sketches received, and those not used&lt;br /&gt;
will be forwarded to any address furnished by sender; but&lt;br /&gt;
the proprietors cannot hold themselves responsible for loss&lt;br /&gt;
of or damage to MSS., sketches, or other contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
arising from any cause whatever. A sufficiently stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and directed envelope must, when possible, accompany&lt;br /&gt;
contributions where their return is desired.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
HARMSWORTH BROS.&amp;#039; PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
In regard to short stories, they must be sent direct to&lt;br /&gt;
the Editors of the respective journals chosen by the&lt;br /&gt;
contributor. The following are the lengths most suitable :&lt;br /&gt;
Answers, 2,100 words ; Home, Sweet Home, 5,000 words ;&lt;br /&gt;
Home Chut, 1,000 to 3,000 words ; Forget-Me-Not, some&lt;br /&gt;
1,800, and others 7,000; Harm sucurth Magazine, 1,500 to&lt;br /&gt;
4,000 words.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;HARMSWORTH MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Cash for Ideas.--The Editor is always glad to receive&lt;br /&gt;
ideas for articles and pictures. All readers are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
contribute to this magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Pictures and photographs are essential to all articles, and&lt;br /&gt;
must be bright and interesting.&lt;br /&gt;
All stories, articles, and photographs submitted to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor for consideration must bear the names and addresses&lt;br /&gt;
of the senders, be typewritten and accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and addressed envelopes, otherwise they cannot be considered&lt;br /&gt;
or returned. MSS. must be folded, and not rolled.&lt;br /&gt;
It must be understocd that while every care is taken of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS., they are sent at the author&amp;#039;s risk, and the Editor is&lt;br /&gt;
not responsible for their safe custody or return.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications should be addressed to the Editor,&lt;br /&gt;
Harmsworth Magazine. Carmelite House. London. E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
- FINANCE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors will not be responsible for MSS. sent to&lt;br /&gt;
them, but will make every endeavour to return rejected&lt;br /&gt;
communications when accompanied by a stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; FREE LANCE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to consider MSS. of any description&lt;br /&gt;
that may fairly be regarded as suitable for publication in&lt;br /&gt;
this journal.&lt;br /&gt;
The Free Lance stands on an exceedingly broad platform,&lt;br /&gt;
and is always open to publish paragraphs and articles of a&lt;br /&gt;
general, descriptive, or critical nature, provided they be&lt;br /&gt;
topical, interesting to both men and women, always in&lt;br /&gt;
good taste, and not too remote or too academic in style.&lt;br /&gt;
Articles must not exceed from 1,500 to 2,000 words in&lt;br /&gt;
length, and should be light and bright in treatment, full of&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;points,&amp;quot; free of verbiage, and rendered readable by new&lt;br /&gt;
ideas and new points of view. Subjects may be treated&lt;br /&gt;
seriously or humorously, frankly, blandly, or caustically,&lt;br /&gt;
or merely from the informative aspect.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions referring to dead personages, party politics,&lt;br /&gt;
theological questions, Continental matters, and events of&lt;br /&gt;
years gone by are not required.&lt;br /&gt;
Accepted MSS. will be paid for during the week of&lt;br /&gt;
publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Every endeavour will be made to return unused con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributions, provided a stamped envelope be enclosed, but&lt;br /&gt;
the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the return of&lt;br /&gt;
any MSS. submitted.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. sent without stamped envelopes will be destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be typewritten (whenever possible) on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper, and should have the author&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address on the back of each sheet, and should be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Editor, Free Lance, 15, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; JEWISH WORLD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Jewish World will not in any case be&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for the return of rejected contributions. He&lt;br /&gt;
will, however, always be prepared to consider MSS. and&lt;br /&gt;
sketches that have a distinctly Jewish interest, and where&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are enclosed, and name and address of sender&lt;br /&gt;
legibly written on the manuscript, every effort will be&lt;br /&gt;
made to return rejected contributions promptly. MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
must be clearly written on one side of the paper only.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;GENTLEMAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. should be addressed, prepaid, to Sylvanus&lt;br /&gt;
Urban, care of Messrs. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus, 111, St. Martin&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Lane, W.C. Every MS. should bear the writer&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address, and be accompanied by postage stamps for its&lt;br /&gt;
return if not accepted, but the Editor cannot hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for any accidental loss.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;KING.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All manuscripts, photographs, drawings, and other&lt;br /&gt;
contributions must be plainly marked with the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of each sender, for quick identification in case of&lt;br /&gt;
return. Each photograph must have the title thereof&lt;br /&gt;
plainly written on the back, and, where possible, a few&lt;br /&gt;
words of description.&lt;br /&gt;
All available matter will be paid for on acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
The receipt of a proof, however, will not be a guarantee of&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
All unavailable matter will be promptly returned pro-&lt;br /&gt;
viding stamps are enclosed with contributions, but the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor will not hold himself liable for accidental loss.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications must be addressed to the Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;GENTLEWOMAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
No notices with regard to the MSS, of contributors are&lt;br /&gt;
printed, but any that are sent in have immediate&lt;br /&gt;
consideration, and are returned if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
stamped and addressed envelope should accompany the&lt;br /&gt;
MS. if the writer wishes it to be returned in case of non-&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance. The editor can in no case hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for accidental loss. All communications should&lt;br /&gt;
be addressed to the Editor of Longman&amp;#039;&amp;amp; Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LA DIES&amp;#039; FIELD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be glad to receive photographs and to&lt;br /&gt;
consider special articles on any subject of interest to cultured&lt;br /&gt;
women.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold herself responsible for rejected&lt;br /&gt;
contributions, though, if stamps are enclosed, together with&lt;br /&gt;
the full name and address of the writer, every effort will&lt;br /&gt;
be made to return them. Contributors desiring remunera.&lt;br /&gt;
tion must mention the price asked for photos. or MSS. at&lt;br /&gt;
the time of sending.&lt;br /&gt;
The receipt of a proof must not be taken as evidence&lt;br /&gt;
that an article is accepted. Publication in The Ladies&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Field will alone be recognised as acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
All correspondence concerning letterpress or illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
published in The Ladies&amp;#039; Field should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; MACMILLAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Every MS. should bear the name and address of the&lt;br /&gt;
writer, and be accompanied by sufficient postage stamps for&lt;br /&gt;
its return if necessary. Every endeavour will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
send back unaccepted articles, but the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee their safe return. Under no conditions will he&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the return of contributions in verse.&lt;br /&gt;
There is no rule in this magazine entitling a contributor&lt;br /&gt;
to the publication of his signature. This and all kindred&lt;br /&gt;
matters rest solely in the Editor&amp;#039;s discretion.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADIES&amp;#039; GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All literary communications should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions are invited upon any subjects of interest&lt;br /&gt;
to women. Articles may be illustrated with non-copyright&lt;br /&gt;
photographs. The remuneration required should be stated&lt;br /&gt;
on the MSS. All MSS. should be typewritten, and must&lt;br /&gt;
have a stamped, addressed envelope enclosed for return.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor does not hold herself responsible for loss of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADY&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always glad to receive ideas for bright&lt;br /&gt;
articles, especially those that will illustrate well by&lt;br /&gt;
photography. While not holding himself responsible for&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and drawings sent on approval, the Editor will at all&lt;br /&gt;
times be ready to consider such contributions, and, where&lt;br /&gt;
stamps are inclosed, every effort will be made to secure their&lt;br /&gt;
safe return in case of rejection. All MSS. should be&lt;br /&gt;
typewritten, or in very clear handwriting.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications should be addressed to the Editor, The&lt;br /&gt;
Lady&amp;#039;s Magazine, Pearson&amp;#039;s, Henrietta Street, London,&lt;br /&gt;
W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LADY&amp;#039;S WORLD.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will not be responsible for the safe return of&lt;br /&gt;
any MSS. In all cases they must bear the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender, and be accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
and addressed envelopes. Consideration will be specially&lt;br /&gt;
given to articles and stories which are typewritten&lt;br /&gt;
All drawings sent to the office for consideration must&lt;br /&gt;
also bear the names and addresses of the senders, and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by stamps for return, but the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be responsible for the safety of same.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications to be addressed The Editor, The&lt;br /&gt;
Lady&amp;#039;s World.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;M. A. P.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will always be happy to consider MSS. sent&lt;br /&gt;
in by any competent contributor--whether a professed&lt;br /&gt;
journalist or not-provided they be typewritten, on one&lt;br /&gt;
side of the paper only, and endorsed on each slip with the&lt;br /&gt;
name and address of the sender. Contributions must be&lt;br /&gt;
formally declared in a brief covering letter to be original,&lt;br /&gt;
and should deal with personal matters directly within the&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of the writer. Paragraphs relating to celebrities&lt;br /&gt;
of the past, or to notable men and women of Continental&lt;br /&gt;
or trans-Atlantic reputation only, are quite unavailable.&lt;br /&gt;
New, true, and original anecdotes relating to men and&lt;br /&gt;
women of the day will be considered with especial care. -&lt;br /&gt;
Every endeavour will be made to return unsuitable con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributions, if a stamped addressed envelope be enclosed,&lt;br /&gt;
but the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted on approval. When no stamped envelope is&lt;br /&gt;
submitted on androval When nos&lt;br /&gt;
enclosed, the Editor will assume that authors do not desire&lt;br /&gt;
the return of their MSS., which will consequently be&lt;br /&gt;
destroyed, if found, upon reading, to be unsuitable for&lt;br /&gt;
M. A. P. As regards short stories, these must be either&lt;br /&gt;
1,500 or 2,200 words in length, and, in keeping with the&lt;br /&gt;
atmosphere of the pages among which they are intended to&lt;br /&gt;
appear, must have a pleasant tone and a pleasant ending.&lt;br /&gt;
Personal interviews are granted to contributors by written&lt;br /&gt;
appointment, on Tuesdays only, from 12 to 1, and from 2.30&lt;br /&gt;
to 6 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;MCCLURE&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
There are no fixed terms for dealing with manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
sent in voluntarily, as each contribution which is accepted&lt;br /&gt;
is dealt with on its own merits and valued accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
With the exception of short stories, which are obtained&lt;br /&gt;
mainly from America, very little contributed matter is&lt;br /&gt;
found available, nearly all of the special articles being&lt;br /&gt;
written by members of the editorial staff. No notice&lt;br /&gt;
concerning the method of dealing with the matter of&lt;br /&gt;
contributions is printed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;METHODIST TIMES.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; LEISURE HOUR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All manuscripts should be sent to the Editor, The Leisure&lt;br /&gt;
Hour, 56, Paternoster Row, and must have the name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender clearly written thereon, and in any&lt;br /&gt;
accompanying letter the title of the MS. must be given.&lt;br /&gt;
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.&lt;br /&gt;
Writers are recommended to keep copies of their MSS&lt;br /&gt;
A stamped addressed envelope should accompany each&lt;br /&gt;
communication. Payment for accepted manuscripts is&lt;br /&gt;
made on publication.&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for publication should be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Office, and not to the Editor&amp;#039;s prirate&lt;br /&gt;
address. No letters can be returned, whether accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by stamps or not Correspondents will, therefore, please&lt;br /&gt;
discontinue asking for the MSS. of letters which have not&lt;br /&gt;
appeared. No notice will be taken of anonymous com-&lt;br /&gt;
munications. Contributions written on both sides of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper cannot be printed.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;LONGMAN&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor requests that his correspondents will be good&lt;br /&gt;
enough to write to him informing him of the subject of any&lt;br /&gt;
article they wish to offer, before sending the MS. &Agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;MORNING POST.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All letters intended for insertion in the Morning Post&lt;br /&gt;
should be written on one side of the paper, and must be&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
authenticated by the name and address of the writer ;&lt;br /&gt;
either for publication, if desired, or as a confidential&lt;br /&gt;
communication to the Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
We cannot undertake to return the MSS. of such articles&lt;br /&gt;
as we may find it impossible to insert.&lt;br /&gt;
found more satisfactory, both to the author and to the&lt;br /&gt;
management, for this arrangement to obtain. When an&lt;br /&gt;
article is considered suitable, a formal offer is sent the&lt;br /&gt;
author, and if this is accepted, payment is made at once,&lt;br /&gt;
although the article may not appear for some months&lt;br /&gt;
afterwards. The only exception to this rule is in the case&lt;br /&gt;
of payment for ideas for articles.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PILOT.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Contributors are requested, in all cases, to write name&lt;br /&gt;
and address on the MSS.; and, if they are sent for&lt;br /&gt;
consideration, a fully addressed and stamped envelope&lt;br /&gt;
should be forwarded at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;
If these conditions are complied with, the Editor will&lt;br /&gt;
do his best to return unused articles. Only appearance in&lt;br /&gt;
The Pilot constitutes acceptance. Contributions stand a&lt;br /&gt;
better chance of receiving full consideration if they are&lt;br /&gt;
typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; MOTOR-CAR JOURNAL.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All communications intended for insertion in this Journal&lt;br /&gt;
or relating to Editorial matters should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editorial Department, Motor-Car Journal, 39 and 40, Shoe&lt;br /&gt;
Lane, London, E.C., and must be written on one side of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper only. Letters must in all cases be accompanied by&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address of the writer, as no notice will be&lt;br /&gt;
taken of anonymous communications.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors cannot undertake to return MSS. or draw.&lt;br /&gt;
ings, although every effort will be made to do so in the&lt;br /&gt;
case of rejected communications. Where such are regarded&lt;br /&gt;
as of value, correspondents are requested to retain copies.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editors and Publishers beg also to state that they&lt;br /&gt;
will accept no responsibility for unsolicited contribu-&lt;br /&gt;
tions, even if used, unless payment for same is directly&lt;br /&gt;
specified in forwarding, and the terms arranged before&lt;br /&gt;
publication.&lt;br /&gt;
To insure insertion communications and contributions&lt;br /&gt;
must be in the Editors&amp;#039; hands by Tuesday forenoon of the&lt;br /&gt;
week in which the same are intended to appear. Disap-&lt;br /&gt;
pointment may be caused by non-compliance with this&lt;br /&gt;
rule, and to avoid this, earlier receipt, if possible, is&lt;br /&gt;
necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;ONLOOKER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Contributions.&mdash;The Editor will at all times be pleased&lt;br /&gt;
to consider short stories, articles, verses, paragraphs, etc.,&lt;br /&gt;
and will do his best to return them promptly if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope, and should be typewritten. Such communica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions should bear a note stating the rate of remuneration&lt;br /&gt;
expected, and payment will be made after insertion only.&lt;br /&gt;
It should, however, be understood that the Editor cannot&lt;br /&gt;
kundertake any responsibility for unsolicited contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
All editorial letters and copy should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, and not to anyone by name,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; PRESBYTERIAN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is pleased at all times to consider MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to him, but they must be sent at the writers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
own risk. Every care will be taken, however, to return&lt;br /&gt;
unsuitable contributions when stamps are enclosed.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PALL MALL GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette does not in any&lt;br /&gt;
case hold himself responsible for the return of rejected&lt;br /&gt;
contributions. He is, however, always glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and sketches; and, where stamps are enclosed and&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address are written on the manuscript,&lt;br /&gt;
every effort will be made to return rejected contributions&lt;br /&gt;
promptly. To ensure this it is absolutely necessary that&lt;br /&gt;
the name and address of the contributor should be written&lt;br /&gt;
on the manuscript itself. The sending of a proof is no&lt;br /&gt;
guarantee of the acceptance of the article.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;PUNCH.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Punch publishes no notice of the terms on which MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
is dealt with&mdash;with the exception of an intimation on the&lt;br /&gt;
cover that they should be accompanied by stamped&lt;br /&gt;
directed wrappers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;QUEEN.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the safety&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS. He will, however, endeavour to return articles&lt;br /&gt;
and sketches when accompanied by a stamped addressed&lt;br /&gt;
wrapper or envelope. All contributions should be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;QUIVER.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Ladies or gentlemen who propose offering MSS. for&lt;br /&gt;
insertion, if approved, in The Quirer, are requested to&lt;br /&gt;
forward in the first place, or accompanying a MS., a short&lt;br /&gt;
abstract of the story or paper to be submitted. This&lt;br /&gt;
precaution will save much valuable time to all concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract should not, as a rule, exceed 250 words in&lt;br /&gt;
length.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor would be obliged if, in future, all MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to him for approval be typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
No responsibility will be taken for loss or miscarriage&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;REGIMENT.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always glad to consider short interesting&lt;br /&gt;
stories and articles, with a view to publication. MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
should, if they are not typewritten, be written very&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly. Drawings of an interesting or comic nature&lt;br /&gt;
are also considered.&lt;br /&gt;
Whilst doing his best to return unaccepted contributions&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed, the Editor will not be responsible&lt;br /&gt;
for their loss or damage in transit, although he will use his&lt;br /&gt;
utmost endeavours to avoid such.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;PALL MALL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. submitted to the Editor for consideration must&lt;br /&gt;
bear the names and addresses of the Authors, be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written, and accompanied by stamps, otherwise they will&lt;br /&gt;
not be read or returned. It must be understood that they&lt;br /&gt;
are sent at the Author&amp;#039;s risk, and the Editor is not&lt;br /&gt;
responsible for their safe custody or return. All drawings&lt;br /&gt;
submitted must also bear the names and addresses of&lt;br /&gt;
the persons forwarding them, and must be accompanied&lt;br /&gt;
by stamps to defray the cost of return. MSS. and drawings&lt;br /&gt;
should be addressed to the Editor, Pall Mall Vagazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; ROYAL MAGAZINE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will always be ready to consider contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
whether literary or pictorial, and, where stamps are&lt;br /&gt;
enclosed, will make every endeavour to ensure their safe&lt;br /&gt;
return in the event of their proving unsuitable, although&lt;br /&gt;
he cannot hold himself responsible for any MSS. or drawings&lt;br /&gt;
or photographs sent on approval,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;PEARSON&amp;#039;S WEEKLY.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The rate of payment for Pearson&amp;#039;s Weekly varies in&lt;br /&gt;
accordance with the merit of the article. It has been&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
requested to send stamped and addressed envelopes for&lt;br /&gt;
the return of their MSS. in case of non-acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SANDOW&amp;#039;S MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will at all times be glad to consider articles,&lt;br /&gt;
stories, and sketches addressed to him at Crown and Sceptre&lt;br /&gt;
Court, but in order to avoid waste of time, contributors&lt;br /&gt;
would do well to submit suggestions for his approval before&lt;br /&gt;
sending in their work. Literary MSS. should be type-&lt;br /&gt;
written. In no case can the editor be responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
safety of unsolicited sketches and literary matter, but&lt;br /&gt;
where stamps are enclosed he will do his best to secure&lt;br /&gt;
their return if unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; SUNDAY STRAND.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. and drawings must be submitted at the owner&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
risk, and the Editor will not guarantee their safety, though&lt;br /&gt;
when stamps are enclosed he will endeavour to return them.&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be typewritten.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SCIENCE GOSSIP.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Notice.-Contributors are requested to strictly observe&lt;br /&gt;
the following rules. All contributions must be clearly&lt;br /&gt;
written on one side of the paper only. Words intended&lt;br /&gt;
to be printed in itulics should be marked under with a&lt;br /&gt;
single line. Generic names must be given in full, excepting&lt;br /&gt;
where used immediately before. Capitals may only be&lt;br /&gt;
used for generic, and not specific names. Scientific names&lt;br /&gt;
and names of places to be written in round hand,&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is not responsible for unused MSS., neither&lt;br /&gt;
can he undertake to return them unless accompanied with&lt;br /&gt;
stamps for return postage.&lt;br /&gt;
- SPARE MOMENTS.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
We offer a prize of Ten Shillings every week for the most&lt;br /&gt;
laugbable story.&lt;br /&gt;
The name and address of the sender should accompany&lt;br /&gt;
the Competition. If original, a declaration to that effect&lt;br /&gt;
must be inclosed ; if cut from another paper, the name and&lt;br /&gt;
date of the paper from which it was taken must be forwarded.&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor will be the sole judge of the contributions,&lt;br /&gt;
and his decision will be final. We reserve the right of&lt;br /&gt;
dividing the 108., should we think proper, and of publishing&lt;br /&gt;
any of the stories sent in.&lt;br /&gt;
Any number of stories may be sent in by the same com-&lt;br /&gt;
petitor, but in all cases the words - Fanny Story Competition&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
must be written on the envelope. Stories will not, under&lt;br /&gt;
any circumstances, be returned.&lt;br /&gt;
Successful competitors are not debarred from again&lt;br /&gt;
contributing,&lt;br /&gt;
We do not require stories that have appeared in other&lt;br /&gt;
papeis the previous week, nor do we want stories that have&lt;br /&gt;
been already published in Spare Woments.&lt;br /&gt;
Competitions should reach the offices of Spare Woments,&lt;br /&gt;
12-14, Fetter Lane, London, E.C., not later than Friday&lt;br /&gt;
of each week. Any arriving later will be placed in the&lt;br /&gt;
following competition.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;THE SPHERE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Photographe. &mdash; The Editor will be pleased to receive&lt;br /&gt;
photographs of important current events, of interesting&lt;br /&gt;
houses, and of notable persons. These should be invariably&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by full descriptive matter, with name and&lt;br /&gt;
address of the sender written upon the reverse of the&lt;br /&gt;
photograph. It must be distinctly understood that no one&lt;br /&gt;
living in a country under the Berne Copyright Convention&lt;br /&gt;
will be treated with who is not the owner of the copyright&lt;br /&gt;
of the photograph submitted, or who has not the permission.&lt;br /&gt;
in writing of the owner of the copyright to submit the&lt;br /&gt;
photograph to the Editor of The Sphere for reproduction.&lt;br /&gt;
All photographs used will be liberally paid for. Any&lt;br /&gt;
photograph will be returned after reproduction if&lt;br /&gt;
desired.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Januscripts. &ndash; The Editor must decline to consider&lt;br /&gt;
manuscripts of any kind unless he has been previously&lt;br /&gt;
approached as to their possible utility. This particularly&lt;br /&gt;
applies to short stories, of which the Editor has sufficient&lt;br /&gt;
in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;THE TATLER.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Literary matter.&mdash;The Editor will always be pleased to&lt;br /&gt;
consider MSS. sent in by any contributor - whether&lt;br /&gt;
professed journalist or not-provided they are of a nature&lt;br /&gt;
suitable for The Tatler. Intending contributors are par-&lt;br /&gt;
ticularly recommended to read carefully the columns of&lt;br /&gt;
The Tatler before contributing. What the Editor requires&lt;br /&gt;
are short, bright, personal paragraphs about living celeb.&lt;br /&gt;
rities directly within the knowledge of the writer. New,&lt;br /&gt;
true, and original anecdotes relating to men and women of&lt;br /&gt;
the day are especially acceptable. Paragraphs compiled&lt;br /&gt;
from biographical works are not invited. As regards short&lt;br /&gt;
stories, these must be from 2,000 to 3,000 words in length&lt;br /&gt;
and in keeping with the atmosphere of the pages of the&lt;br /&gt;
paper in which they are intended to appear. All para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs and stories should be addressed to the society Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
Where a stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed every&lt;br /&gt;
effort will be made to return promptly unsuitable MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
and photographs.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; TEMPLE BAR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. should be addressed, post-paid, to the Editor of&lt;br /&gt;
Temple Bar. Each MS. should bear the name and address&lt;br /&gt;
of the writer (not necessarily for publication), and be&lt;br /&gt;
accompanied by postage stamps for its return in case of&lt;br /&gt;
non-acceptance. Every care will be taken, but neither the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, nor the publisher, can be responsible for accidental&lt;br /&gt;
loss. MSS. should be written in a clear hand on one side&lt;br /&gt;
of the paper only, and the leaves should be fastened&lt;br /&gt;
together, and paged.&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence- Allarticles sent are carefully considered,&lt;br /&gt;
but it is impossible to advise beforehand what subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to meet with acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SPEAKER.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor cannot hold himself responsible for the loss&lt;br /&gt;
or miscarriage of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to him,&lt;br /&gt;
though he will make every effort to return such safely, if a&lt;br /&gt;
stamped and addressed envelope is sent with them.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;SPECTATOR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A notice is printed that &amp;quot; The Editor cannot return MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
under any circumstances.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; SUNDAY AT HOME.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Sunday at llome professes only to return rejected&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. which are accompanied by stamps.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SUNDAY CHRONICLE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor is always pleased to consider articles on&lt;br /&gt;
topical subjects and short stories. Contributors are&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; VANITY FAIR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The only terms that the Editor of Vanity Fair has with&lt;br /&gt;
regard to contributors of uninvited manuscripts are, that&lt;br /&gt;
if stamps are enclosed and the address is written on the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript, he makes every effort to return it, and he does.&lt;br /&gt;
not hold himself liable for accidental loss. Manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 9 (#317) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
are sometimes kept for some time under consideration,&lt;br /&gt;
especially when they are stories which are not of topical&lt;br /&gt;
interest ; and it must be understood that such delay does&lt;br /&gt;
not imply acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;
Contributors are specially requested to put their names and&lt;br /&gt;
addresses on their manuscripts. Address : Tudor Street,&lt;br /&gt;
Whitefriars, E.C. Telegraphic address, &ldquo; Lobby,&rdquo; London.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;VEGETARIAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Vegetarian cannot hold himself&lt;br /&gt;
responsible in any case for the return of MSS. or&lt;br /&gt;
Sketches. He will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions which may be submitted to him ; and&lt;br /&gt;
when postage stamps are enclosed every effort will be&lt;br /&gt;
made to return rejected contributions promptly. Con&lt;br /&gt;
tributors are requested to put their names and addresses&lt;br /&gt;
on their manuscripts. Address: 33, Paternoster Row,&lt;br /&gt;
London, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; WINDSOR MAGAZINE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
All MSS. (which should be type-written) and drawings&lt;br /&gt;
submitted must bear the names and addresses of the senders,&lt;br /&gt;
and be accompanied by stamps ; otherwise they will not&lt;br /&gt;
be considered. The Editor does not hold himself responsible&lt;br /&gt;
for the safety of any contributions forwarded for his&lt;br /&gt;
inspection. All communications must be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor, Windsor Vagazine.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;WOMAN.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are invited to contribute long complete stories.&lt;br /&gt;
They should be 4,500 words in length.&lt;br /&gt;
Enclose stamped addressed envelope in case of rejection.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; WESTMINSTER BUDGET.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Westminster Budget cannot old&lt;br /&gt;
herself responsible in any care for the return of MSS. or&lt;br /&gt;
sketches. She will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions, literary or pictorial, which may be&lt;br /&gt;
submitted to her ; and when postage stamps are enclosed&lt;br /&gt;
every effort will be made to return rejected contributions&lt;br /&gt;
promptly. All illustrations appearing in The Westminster&lt;br /&gt;
Budget are copyright. Applications for permission to&lt;br /&gt;
reproduce, or for purchase of blocks, to be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The Editor of The Westminster Gazette cannot hold&lt;br /&gt;
himself responsible in any case for the return of MS. or&lt;br /&gt;
Sketches. He will, however, always be glad to consider&lt;br /&gt;
any contributions, literary or pictorial, which may be sub-&lt;br /&gt;
mitte ito him ; and when postage-stamps are enclosed every&lt;br /&gt;
effort will be made to return rejected contributions promptly.&lt;br /&gt;
The following Papers and Magazines do not print any&lt;br /&gt;
notice with regard to contributions :-&lt;br /&gt;
British Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
Short Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Church Bells.&lt;br /&gt;
Sketchy Bits.&lt;br /&gt;
Church Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Lloyd&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday Times.&lt;br /&gt;
Modern Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Contemporary Review,&lt;br /&gt;
Observer.&lt;br /&gt;
English Illustrated.&lt;br /&gt;
People.&lt;br /&gt;
Fortnightly Review,&lt;br /&gt;
Referee.&lt;br /&gt;
Review of Reviews.&lt;br /&gt;
Reynolds.&lt;br /&gt;
Scribner&amp;#039;s Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Scraps.&lt;br /&gt;
United Service Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Select Stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Wide World Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Shooting Times.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 10 (#318) #############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MANAGEMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.&lt;br /&gt;
action against an editor a case of contributory neglige ce&lt;br /&gt;
where the author failed to keep a copy of his own composi.&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and that though the Society would be willing to assist&lt;br /&gt;
those who are unable to recover their MSS. when the case&lt;br /&gt;
is clear and the editor has been guilty of wilful neglect, yet&lt;br /&gt;
in the ordinary course of business, touching the circulation&lt;br /&gt;
of MSS., it should be remembered that a great deal depen&amp;#039;ls&lt;br /&gt;
upon the machinery being carefully oiled-in other words,&lt;br /&gt;
upon the courtesy and tact of the authors themselves in the&lt;br /&gt;
matter.&lt;br /&gt;
No excuse is put forward for repeating these statements&lt;br /&gt;
or for reproducing Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion, as it appears many of&lt;br /&gt;
the more recent members have no knowledge of the facts,&lt;br /&gt;
and many have forgotten them.&lt;br /&gt;
LIOR various reasons it is necessary to say a few words&lt;br /&gt;
i about the position of editors with regard to MSS. and&lt;br /&gt;
about the action of authors generally in the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
There are two fundamental principles, and if author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
adhered to them the complaint of the detention of MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
would not be so frequently heard. Firstly, MSS., when&lt;br /&gt;
sent to magazines, should be typewritten, and secondly, an&lt;br /&gt;
author should invariably keep a copy of his MS.&lt;br /&gt;
Next, authors should be careful about the magazines they&lt;br /&gt;
send their MSS. to&mdash;in the first instance, that the magazines&lt;br /&gt;
are periodicals of substance and reputation ; secondly, that&lt;br /&gt;
the MSS. are suitable to the particular magazines to which&lt;br /&gt;
they are sent. In forwarding MSS. stamps and a directed&lt;br /&gt;
envelope should be enclosed, and the author&amp;#039;s name and&lt;br /&gt;
address should be written on the MSS. In some magazines&lt;br /&gt;
editors invite MSS, to be sent to them, but the author must&lt;br /&gt;
remember that when demanding the return of a MS, he&lt;br /&gt;
must be able to show that it has reached the office, and not&lt;br /&gt;
only has reached the office, but has come into the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
a responsible party. In other magazines the editor makes&lt;br /&gt;
no request for MSS., and therefore his position with regard&lt;br /&gt;
to the possession of MSS, is slightly different from that of&lt;br /&gt;
the editor mentioned above. In the first case, if the MS.&lt;br /&gt;
has reached his hands, he will be bound to take rather&lt;br /&gt;
more care of it than in the latter case, but in neither case&lt;br /&gt;
may the editor be wilfully neglectful of the property in his&lt;br /&gt;
charge. If, however, the MS. has not been acknowledged&lt;br /&gt;
and letters have been left unanswered, it is exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
difficult for the author to show that the MS. has reached&lt;br /&gt;
the office, that it has come into the hands of a responsible&lt;br /&gt;
party, and that it has been lost through the wilful neglect&lt;br /&gt;
of the editor. It is a simple matter, if the author has a&lt;br /&gt;
copy of his MS., to write to the editor and state that he&lt;br /&gt;
withdraws the offer of the MS, unless he hears definitely&lt;br /&gt;
before a certain date, and that he will try to place it&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
The Secretary of the Society has found as a general rule.&lt;br /&gt;
on his intervening, that editors are courteous, obliging, and&lt;br /&gt;
businessiike, and will do their best to assist authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
recovery of their MSS., but authors at the same time must&lt;br /&gt;
remember that editors are overwhelmed with MSS. of all&lt;br /&gt;
sorts and kinds, and after all, they are but human.&lt;br /&gt;
It is quite certain that some of the so-called rudeness&lt;br /&gt;
and unbusinesslike conduct of editors is due to corresponding&lt;br /&gt;
characteristics in the authors who put forward their MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
It is exceedingly difficult for the Society to act in cases of&lt;br /&gt;
this kind where the editor has been roundly abused by an&lt;br /&gt;
author without any apparent cause or reason. It has,&lt;br /&gt;
however, frequently occurred that the Society has been&lt;br /&gt;
able to obtain a satisfactory answer from an editor and a&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory explanation when the author has been unable&lt;br /&gt;
to do so. In many cases this is due to the position which&lt;br /&gt;
the Society now holds, and in other cases it is due to the&lt;br /&gt;
fact of the author&amp;#039;s unbusinesslike correspondence.&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, it should be made clear to all authors that it is&lt;br /&gt;
very doubtful, now that it is so easy to obtain typewritten&lt;br /&gt;
copies of MSS., whether it might not be considered in an&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s Opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR AND AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
1. I am of opinion that if a manuscript be sent to the&lt;br /&gt;
editor of a magazine without any previous request or agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment, the editor is not responsible for its loss while in his&lt;br /&gt;
possession unless the loss be due to some gross negligence&lt;br /&gt;
on his part. So long, however, as the manuscript remains&lt;br /&gt;
in his possession the editor is bound to return it on demand,&lt;br /&gt;
and the publication in his magazine of a notice that he will&lt;br /&gt;
not return manuscripts does not, in my opinion, alter his&lt;br /&gt;
liability in this respect towards an author who was not&lt;br /&gt;
cognizant of such notice when he sent in the manuscript.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor&amp;#039;s responsibility for the manuscript while in&lt;br /&gt;
his possession is, in my opinion, that of a gratuitous or&lt;br /&gt;
voluntary bailee, who is answerable for loss through his&lt;br /&gt;
gross negligence, but not for any ordinary neglect. (See I&lt;br /&gt;
Smith&amp;#039;s Leading Cases, 10th edition, pp. 189 et seq.) If the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript has been lost, the onus lies upon the author to&lt;br /&gt;
show that the loss was caused by the editor&amp;#039;s gross negligence,&lt;br /&gt;
for which alone the editor is answerable. (See Story on&lt;br /&gt;
Bailments, 9th edition, s. 410, and the cases referred to in&lt;br /&gt;
the notes there.)&lt;br /&gt;
If the manuscript was in the editor&amp;#039;s possession when its&lt;br /&gt;
return was demanded, the editor is liable, in my opinion, to&lt;br /&gt;
an action of detenue if he refuse to return it. Evidence&lt;br /&gt;
that the editor received the manuscript would raise a pre-&lt;br /&gt;
sumption that it was still in his possession when the demand&lt;br /&gt;
was made. But the editor could rebut that presumption by&lt;br /&gt;
proving that the manuscript was lost prior to the demand,&lt;br /&gt;
The editor would not escape liability by proving that he&lt;br /&gt;
had improperly destroyed or wrongfully parted with the&lt;br /&gt;
manuscript (see Jones r. Dowle, 9 M. &amp;amp; W. 19), or had lost&lt;br /&gt;
it through his gross negligence (see Reeve r. Palmer, 5 C.B.,&lt;br /&gt;
N.S. 81). But it would be a good defence for the editor to&lt;br /&gt;
show that before its return was demanded the manuscript&lt;br /&gt;
was lost without default on his part (see 5 C.B., N.S.&lt;br /&gt;
pp. 85-89), or in some minner which could not be ascer.&lt;br /&gt;
tained. In the latter cise the editor would not be liable&lt;br /&gt;
unless the author could adle athrmative eridence of gross&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;regligence (see Powell r. Graves, 2 Times L. R. 663; Howard&lt;br /&gt;
r. Harries, C. &amp;amp; E. 253).&lt;br /&gt;
2. I am of opinion that if in the particular case referred&lt;br /&gt;
to the author sent bis manuscript to the editor in ignorance&lt;br /&gt;
of the existence of any such note 4 that which is in the&lt;br /&gt;
magazine, then the editor could not successfully rely upon&lt;br /&gt;
the notice as a defence to any action brought against him.&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the notice would, in my opinion, be immaterial,&lt;br /&gt;
but, of course, the editor might have a complete defence on&lt;br /&gt;
other grounds, such as those I have already referred to in&lt;br /&gt;
my answer to the first question. If the author saw or&lt;br /&gt;
knew of the notice before he sent his manuscript, I think&lt;br /&gt;
he would be held to have sent it on the terms of such&lt;br /&gt;
notice : (see Parker v. South Eastern Railway Company,&lt;br /&gt;
2 C. P. D. 416 ; Richards *. Rowntrte (1894) A. C. 217).&lt;br /&gt;
The exact part of the magazine in which the notice is&lt;br /&gt;
inserted is immaterial, except in so far as it ienders it&lt;br /&gt;
more or less likely that the author in fact saw or did not&lt;br /&gt;
see the notice, assuming that he ever saw the magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
3. 1 am of opinion that the burden of proving that the&lt;br /&gt;
author was cognizant of the notice would lie upon the&lt;br /&gt;
editor.&lt;br /&gt;
T. WILLES CHITTY,&lt;br /&gt;
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