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Title A name given to the resource The Author Subject The topic of the resource <em>The Author</em> Description An account of the resource A digitised run of the Society of Authors' monthly periodical, <em>The Author</em>, 1890<span>–</span>1914, made available together for the first time.<br /><br />Currently users can browse issues and <a href="https://historysoa.com/items/browse?search=&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bjoiner%5D=and&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Index&amp;collection=&amp;type=&amp;tags=&amp;exhibit=&amp;date_search_term=&amp;submit_search=Search+For+Items&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle">indices</a> (not available for all volumes). Full text search for all issues, and other additional search functionality, will be added in 2022. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890–1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The-Author-Issues Publication Date The date of an event (in YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD format) 1894-10-01 Volume 5 Issue 5 Pages Page range in volume 113–140 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18941001 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin C be El u t b or, (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESA NT. VoI. W.-No. 5.] OCTOBER 1, 1894. [PRICE SIXPENCE. For the Opinions eaſpressed in papers that are signed or initialled the Authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as eaſpressing the collective opinions of the committee unless they are officially signed by G. Herbert Thring, Sec. HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and requests that all members not receiving an answer to important communications within two days will write to him without delay. All remittances showld be crossed Union. Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered letter only. Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub- jects whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS. *— - --> g- > -º WARNINGS AND ADVICE. {. RAWING THE AGREEMENT.—It is not generally understood that the author, as the vendor, has the absolute right of drafting the agreement upon whatever terms the transaction is to be carried out. Authors are strongly advised to exercise that right. In every form of business, this among others, the right of drawing the agreement rests with him who sells, leases, or has the control of the property. 2. SERIAL RIGHTS.–In selling Serial Rights remember that you may be selling the Serial Right for all time; that is, the Right to continue the production in papers. If you object to this, insert a clause to that effect. 3. STAMP YOUR AGREEMENTs. – Readers are most URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their agreements immediately after signature. If this precaution is neglected for two weeks, a fine of £10 must be paid before the agree- ment can be used as a legal document. In almost every case brought to the secretary the agreement, or the letter which serves for one, is forwarded without the stamp. The author may be assured that the other party to the agree- ment seldom neglects this simple precaution. The Society, to save trouble, undertakes. to get all the agreements of members stamped for them at no ea pense to themselves eaccept the cost of the stamp. 4. ASCERTAIN WHAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT GIVES To BOTH SIDES BEFORE SIGNING IT.-Remember that an WOL. W. reservedly in his hands. arrangement as to a joint venture in any other kind of busi- ness whatever would be instantly refused should either party refuse to show the books or to let it be known what share he reserved for himself. 5. LITERARY AGENTS.–Be very careful. Yow cannot be too careful as to the person whom yow appoint as yowr agent. Remember that you place your property almost un- Your only safety is in consulting the Society, or some friend who has had personal experience of the agent. Do not trust advertisements alone. 6. CoST OF PRODUCTION.—Never sign any agreement of which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part, until you have proved the figures. 7. CHOICE OF PUBLISHERS.–Never enter into any cor- respondence with publishers, especially with those who ad- vertise for MSS., who are not recommended by experienced friends or by this Society. 8. FuTURE Work.—Never, on any account whatever, bind yourself down for future work to anyone. 9. PERSONAL RISK.—Never accept any pecuniary risk or responsibility whatever without advice. Io. REJECTED MSS.—Never, when a M.S. has been re- fused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises they may put forward, for the production of the work. II. AMERICAN RIGHTS.–Never sign away American rights. Keep them by special clause. Refuse to sign any agreement containing a clause which reserves them for the publisher, unless for a substantial consideration. 12. CESSION OF COPYRIGHT.-Never sign any paper, either agreement or receipt, which gives away copyright, without advice. 13. ADVERTISEMENTS. – Keep some control over the advertisements, if they affect your returns, by a clause in the agreement. I4. NEVER forget that publishing is a business, like any other business, totally unconnected with philanthropy, charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with business men. Be yourself a business man. Society’s Offices :— 4, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN's INN FIELDs. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY, I. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. If the advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member M 2  ## p. 114 (#128) ############################################ II 4. THE AUTHOR, has a right to an opinion from the Society’s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel's opinion is desirable, the Com- mittee will obtain for him Counsel’s opinion. All this without any cost to the member. - 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publisher's agreements do not generally fall within the experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually engaged upon such questions for us. 3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past accounts with the loan of the books represented. This is in order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree- ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor- mation thus obtained may prove invaluable. 4. If the examination of your previous business trans- actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should take advice as to a change of publishers. 5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro- posed document to the Society for examination. 6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks of every publish- ing firm in the country. 7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen- dence of the writer. 8. Send to the Editor of the Awthor notes of everything important to literature that you may hear or meet with. *- - -º e- * -s. THE AUTHORS, SYNDICATE. EMBERS are informed : 1. That the Authors' Syndicate takes charge of the business of members of the Society. With, when necessary, the assistance of the legal advisers of the Syndi- cate, it concludes agreements, collects royalties, examines and passes accounts, and generally relieves members of the trouble of managing business details. 2. That the expenses of the Authors' Syndicate are defrayed solely out of the commission charged on rights placed through its intervention. Notice is, however, hereby given that in all cases where there is no current account, a booking fee is charged to cover postage and porterage. 3. That the Authors' Syndicate works for none but those members of the Society whose work possesses a market value. 4. That the Syndicate can only undertake any negotiation whatever on the distinct understanding that those negotia- tions are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all communications relating thereto are referred to it. 5. That clients can only be seen by the Director by appointment, and that, when possible, at least four days’ notice should be given. 6. That every attempt is made to deal with the corre- spondence promptly, but that owing to the enormous number of letters received, some delay is inevitable. That stamps should, in all cases, be sent to defray postage. 7. That the Authors' Syndicate does not invite MSS. without previous correspondence, and does not hold itself responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice. 8. That the Syndicate undertakes arrangements for lectures by some of the leading members of the Society; that it has a “Transfer Department” for the sale and purchase of journals and periodicals; and that a “Register of Wants and Wanted * has been opened. Members anxious to obtain literary or artistic work are invited to com- municate with the Manager. There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose services will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in the Syndicate. * - a -4° NOTICES, HE Editor of the Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 6s. 6d. subscription for the year. The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and communications on all subjects connected with literature from members and others. Nothing can do more good to the Society than to make the Author complete, attractive, and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this work send their names and the special subjects on which they are willing to write P Communications for the Author should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. Members and others who wish their MSS. read are requested not to send them to the Office without previously communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in which they are received. It must also be distinctly under- stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances, undertake the publication of MSS. The Authors’ Club is now open in its new premises, at 3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for information, rules of admission, &c. Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they have paid their subscriptions for the year P If they will do. this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker's order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the trouble of sending out a reminder. Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the warning numbered (8). It is a most foolish and may be a, most disastrous thing to enter into an agreement binding for a term of years. Let them ask themselves if they would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five years to come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest ? Of course they would not. Why then hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign them- selves into literary bondage for three or five years P Those who possess the “Cost of Production ” are requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15 per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble of “doing sums,” the addition of three shillings in the pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be added twenty-four shillings more, so that it now stands at £9 48. The figures in our book are as near the exact truth,  ## p. 115 (#129) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 115 as can be procured; but a printer's, or a binder's, bill is so elastic a thing that nothing more exact can be arrived at. Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged in the “Cost of Production” for advertising. Of course, we have not included any sums which may be charged for inserting advertisements in the publisher's own magazines, or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket, hy inserting any number of advertisements in his own magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those who practise this method of swelling their own profits call it. *- - --> LITERARY PROPERTY. I.—MAYNARD, MERRILL, and Co., appellees, v. WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARRISON, appellant. May, 1894. (Before Judges WALLACE, LACOMBE, and SHIP- MAN, United States Circuit Court of Appeal.) Q(HIPMAN, C.J.-The complainant, Maynard, Merrill, and Co., a corporation duly created under the laws of the State of New York, and having its principal office in the City of New York, was, in June, 1893, the owner of the copyright of a book entitled “Introductory Language Work,” of which Alonzo Reed was the author, and which had been duly copy- righted by him in July, 1891, under the laws of the United States respecting copyrights. The complainant is a book publisher, and has been in the habit of sending the printed and unbound sheets of this book, and of other books which it published, to George W. Alex- ander's bookbindery, in the City of New York, to be stored there until it gave Mr. Alexander an order to bind a specified quantity, who would sometimes bind a lot in anticipation of such orders. On June 21, 1893, a destructive fire occurred in this bindery, the result of which was, as the complainant supposed, to destroy the commercial value of all the property which it had in the building. One of its employés, at its request, examined the débris and reported that there was nothing of value which the complainant could use in the manufacture or sale of books. Alexander there- upon sold the entire débris which had fallen into the cellar to one Fitzgerald, who resold it, with- out moving it, to some Italian dealers in waste paper, and in order to prevent them from using the paper and books for other purposes than paper stock, incorporated the following provision in the contract of sale: “It is understood that all paper taken out of the building is to be utilised as paper stock, and all books to be sold as paper stock only, and not placed on the market as any- thing else.” “The cellar was cleared of this class of mate- rial, and subsequently a quantity of damaged copies of “Introductory Language Work” appeared in the market, as owned and offered for sale by the defendant, William Beverley Harrison, a dealer in second-hand books, and a citizen of the State of New York and residing in the City of New York. The leaves of the books were dis- coloured and stained by smoke and water, but the covers had a respectable appearance, and the complainant supposed that the unbound sheets which had escaped the fire had been rebound by Barrison, or under his direction, or with his privity, and that he was selling such newly bound books, as well as some bound books which had escaped serious injury, and thereupon brought a bill in equity before the United States Circuit Court, to restrain his alleged infringement of its copyright. The bill counted entirely upon the right of the complainant under the copyright statutes of the United States. Upon its motion, the Court granted an injunction pendente lite. Harrison denies, in his affidavit, that he pur- chased any sheets or loose covers of the book. He further says, rather vaguely, that he “learned that certain dealers had come into possession of the salvage from the fire at said Alexander's place; that affiant visited the premises where said salvage was stored, and from them purchased a number of bound and completely finished volumes, some of which were the publications of the complaimant.” He further says that he “pur- chased the said books in the regular course of trade, without any knowledge of any understanding or arrangement, if any there was, between com- plainant and others, and that he accepted the same, as he believes, according to the established usage of the trade, believing them to be books which had been put upon the market as Salvage, as damaged books are bought and sold.” The affidavits show that the complainant, which was the owner of the copyright. permitted Alexander to sell absolutely all its copyrighted books in his cellar, and that his vendee obtained the entire legal title to these damaged volumes. They were sold again, together with other papers and books, under express restrictions against their use for any other purpose than for the manufac- ture of paper. Harrison says that he bought the books in question without knowledge of this restriction. Whether he had notice of facts which should have put a purchaser upon inquiry to ascertain whether he was being made a party to a violation of contract cannot be determined upon the affidavits. The question, as it arises upon the bill and the  ## p. 116 (#130) ############################################ I i 6 THE AUTHOR. affidavits, is, can the owner of a copyright restrain, by virtue of the copyright statutes, the sale of a copy of the copyright book, the title to which he has transferred, but which is being sold in viola- tion of an agreement entered into between him- self and the purchaser; or are the remedies of the original owner confined to remedies for a breach of contract P So long as the owner of a copyright retains the title to the copies of the book which he has the exclusive right to vend, by virtue of the copyright, he can impose restrictions upon the manner in which and upon the persons to whom the copies can be sold. Having the exclusive right to vend, he has the right to appoint to whom the book shall be sold. If his agents, to whom he has intrusted the possession of his books, violate his instructions and fraudulently sell to a person with knowledge or notice of the fraud,-such fraud will be an infringement of the copyright, with which the original owner has never parted, and can be restrained by virtue of the Statutes of the United States. Thus, if the owner of a copyrighted book entrusts copies of the book to an agent or employé for sale only by subscription and for delivery to the subscribers, and the agent fraudu- lently sells to non-subscribers, who have know- ledge or notice of the fraud, such sale is an infringement of the original owner's copyright, who can disregard the pretended sale and have the benefit of all the remedies which the statute or the law furnish. This right to enjoy the benefit of the copyright statutes results from the fact that the owner has never parted with the title to the book or the copyright, although he parted with the possession of the book. But the right to restrain the sale of a parti- cular copy of the book, by virtue of the copyright statutes, has gone when the owner of the copy- right and of that copy has parted with all his title to it, and has conferred an absolute title to the copy upon a purchaser, although with an agreement for a restricted use. The exclusive right to vend the particular copy no longer remains in the owner of the copyright by the Copyright statutes. The new purchaser cannot reprint the copy, he cannot print or publish a new edition of the book; but the copy having been absolutely sold to him, the ordinary inci- dents of ownership in personal property, among which is the right of alienation, attach to it. If he has agreed that he will not sell it for certain purposes, or to certain persons, and violates his agreement and sells to an innocent purchaser, he can be punished for a violation of his agreement, but neither is guilty under the copyright statutes of an infringment. If the new purchaser parti- cipates in the fraud he may also share in the punishment : (“Clemens v. Estes,” 899.) . . . The distinction between the remedy of the owner of a copyright and the books published under its protection, who has retained the title to the books and the copyright, and has been defrauded by an unauthorised sale to a purchaser, with notice, and the remedy of a copyright owner who has parted with his title to a copy of the copyrighted book, and has been injured by the failure of the purchaser to comply with his con- tract in regard to its use, is stated by Judge Hammond in “Henry Bill Publishing Company v. Forsythe’’ (27 Fed. Rep. 914) as follows: “The owner of the copyright may not be able to transfer the entire property in one of his copies, and retain for himself an incidental power to authorise a sale of that copy, or rather the power of prohibition on the owner that he shall not sell it, holding that much, as a modicum. of his former estate, to be protected by the copy- right statute; and yet he may be entirely able, so long as he retains the ownership of a particular copy for himself, to find abundant protection under the copyright statute for his then inci- dental power of controlling its sale. This copy- right incident of control over the sale, if I may call it so, as contradistinguished from the power of sale incident to ownership in all property— copyrighted articles like any other—is a thing that belongs alone to the owner of the copyright itself, and as to him only so long as and to the extent that he owns the particular copies involved. Whenever he parts with that ownership, the ordinary incident of alienation attaches to the particular copy parted with, in favour of the transferee, and he cannot be deprived of it. This latter incident supersedes the other — swallows it up, so to speak—and the two cannot co-exist in any owner of the copy except he be the owner at the same time of the copyright; and, in the Inature of the thing, they cannot be separated so that one may remain in the owner of the copyright as a limitation upon or denial of the other in the owner of the copy.” - The case of “Murray v. Heath " (I Bain & Adol. 804), which is somewhat relied upon by the defendant’s counsel, does not throw a strong light upon a case arising under the statutes of the United States. The question was whether the sale of the engravings was, under the circum- stances of the case, a violation of the English, statutes, which prohibited a piratical publication, of the engravings of another, or was a breach of contract. The Court was of opinion that the statutes were not applicable. - The other cases which were cited on the argu- ment are not applicable to the facts of this case, , 22 Fed. Rep.  ## p. 117 (#131) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 117 although they are instructive upon the rights of copyright owners, under copyright statutes, or of the rights of owners of manuscripts: (“Stephens v. Cady,” 14 How. 529; “Stephen v. Gladding,” 17 How. 447; “Parton v. Prang,” 3 Cliff. 537; “Bartlette v. Chittenden º’ 4 McLean, 3oo; “Prince Albert v. Strange,” 2 De G. & S. 652; “Taylor v. Pillow,” L. R. 7 Eq. Cases, 418; “Howitt v. Hall,” Io Weekly Rep. 381 ; “Hud- son v. Patten,” I Root, Con. 133.) The dis- cussion by Judge Hammond upon the general subject, in “Henry Hill Co. v. Smythe.” (supra) is most valuable, and anyone who has occasion to examine this subject will find that the territory bas been thoroughly explored. Our conclusion is that, upon the facts stated in the bill and in the affidavits, the complainant has no remedy under the copyright statutes of the United States, and, as both parties are deemed to be citizens of the State of New York, the complainant is without remedy in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. The order of the Circuit Court for a preliminary injunction is reversed and set aside, with costs. Wallace and Lacombe, J.J. concur. New York Law Journal, June 13. II.-MUSICAL CoPYRIGHT IN AMERICA. We published in the September number of the Author a letter addressed by Mr. G. Dixey, secretary of the Music Publishers’ Association, on a recent decision in an American court. To repeat the last words of that letter, “The judgment thus delivered has settled the point for the present, and until that judgment is upset or varied it must be accepted that the law of the United States of America is, that the expres- sion “book’ in the Act of 1891 does not include ‘ musical composition and that, consequently it is not necessary that such compositions should be printed in America as a condition of obtaining copyright there.” On this point Mr. R. H. Johnson writes from New York as follows: “I hope the news of the confirmation by the courts of our contention that music does not have to be manufactured here will be widely published in your country. It closes a chapter in the history of International copyright Music is now a thing produced and published, and not subject to exclusion because the method of publication may be like that of books or chromos. My testimony as to the intention of the framers of the bill was part of the plaintiff's brief, and that consideration seems to have had weight in the decision.” - III.-AUTHORSHIP FALSELY AsCRIBED. A publisher of New York printed in 1873 a volume, the authorship of which was ascribed to Bret Harte. This volume contained four chapters of a story that had actually been written by Bret Harte ten years previously, while the remaining chapters making up the volume were written by some person unknown. To the whole story Bret Harte's name was prefixed, but at the end of his portion of the story appeared an explanatory note. . The facts having been proved as above stated, the court granted Harte's application for an injunction under which further sale of the book was restrained. The judge said, in his opinion: “I think that the plaintiff has such an interestin his name and in his reputation as an author as entitles him to invoke the aid of a court of equity in restraining the defendant in falsely repre- senting that a literary production published and sold by the defendant is the work of the plaintiff. . . . It seems to me that the act of the defen- dant is calculated to mislead the public, and induce the purchase of the work referred to in the complaint, under the impression that said work is wholly written by the plaintiff. The case is analogous to that of a trade mark, and the principle on which the relief is granted in such cases is that a defendant shall not be permitted by the adoption of a trade mark that is untrue or deceptive, to sell his own goods as those of the plaintiff, which is injuring the latter and also defrauding the public. In this case the gen ral public would, in my judgment, be misled by the title-page of the book in question into supposing that the whole of the book was a production of the plaintiff, and the facts seem to point strongly to the conclusion that it was the design of the defendant thus to mislead the public. & It is no answer to this to say that every one who read the book must necessarily read the note at page 34, as that note is better calculated to call the attention of the purchaser to the fact that he has been deceived rather than to prevent the deception. Entertaining these views, I shall direct that an order be granted continuing the injunction until the case can be tried, plaintiff to pay all the costs of the motion.” -—-º-º-º-º-º- IV.—HANFSTAENGL v. NEWNEs. The “living picture * cases, Hanfstaeng! v. Newnes, 7 R. Aug. 80; Hanfstaeng! v. Empire Palace, '94, 2 Ch. 1, 7 R. Sept. 84 (both in C.A.), make a good example of the true principles of copyright law. Copyright is not a property in ideas conferred by the law of nature, as certain philosophers have vainly talked, but a monopoly  ## p. 118 (#132) ############################################ 1 18 THE AUTHOR. specially created by law on grounds of public utility, and a monopoly not in ideas or artistic motives in the abstract, but in particular forms of expression. Therefore copyright in a work of literature or art can be infringed only by a repro- duction ejusdem generis, a picture by something pictorial, and so forth. It does not follow, how- ever, that infringement might not be indirectly committed by reconstruction of the original design from something which was not itself an infringe- ment, even if the reconstructor had no direct acquaintance with the original ; it was expressly allowed by the Court of Appeal that it could be so, though they held that in the particular case it was not. The questions of dramatising literary work and of “performing rights * are not touched by these decisions, and stand on a special footing. —Law Quarterly Review for October. *– ~ *-* THE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CONGRESS AT ANTWERP, R. J. E. MUDDOCK, F.R.G.S., was the sole representative of England at the Congress, which closed its sittings on the 26th of August, Mr. Muddock, who went over by special invitation of the committee, speaks in glowing terms of the princely hospitality offered to the foreign delegates by their Belgian confrères Without making any invidious comparison, he wishes to particularise the exceeding kindness and courtesy of the Hon. Paul Cogel, President of the Antwerp Society of Bibliophiles; of M. Victor Robyns, the esteemed President of the Antwerp Cercle Artistique, Litteraire, and Scientific; and M. Franz Gittens, the well-known Belgian dramatic author. Fetes, illuminated corteges, receptions, dinners, excursions, and visits to all that is interesting in Antwerp, were the order of the day, and the wonder is that the guests have survived all this kindness. They have not only survived, however, but are unanimous in their expressions of satisfaction and gratitude for the magnificent hospitality of their hosts. Notwith- standing all the feasting and junketing much solid work was done, as two seances were held each day, and some six hours a day were consumed in this way. At the opening sitting, M. Robyns, in the name of the old and intellectual city of Antwerp, extended a warm welcome to the foreign delegates, and he alluded in graceful terms to the great interest manifested in the Congress by His Majesty the King of the Belgians. It was a good sign when representatives of nearly every European nation assembled to discuss amicabl their mutual interests in the products of intellect, whether such products took the form of litera- ture, art, science, poetry, the drama, or music. Meetings like that did more to bring about the longed for universal brotherhood than anything else could possibly do; for there was no nation- ality in brain work. Literature and art were cosmopolitan, they recognised no frontiers, and gatherings of that kind served to strengthen the bond of good feeling which literary men and women, musicians, artists, composers, &c., enter- tained for one another, irrespective of country. Great strides had been made of late years in securing to authors and artists universal recogni- tion of their rights in the works they created. But there was still much to do, though the good work that had already been done was a guarantee for the future; and it might safely be asserted that there would be no pause until the literary and artistic millenium was reached. Then nations would be compelled to recognise, by the laws of their respective countries, that the products of a man’s brain labour could no more be filched from him with impunity than could his land, his houses, his household effects, or anything that was legitimately his. The sentiments expressed by the President were received with warm approval, and Dr. Albert Osterrieth, who spoke in the name of the Congress of German authors, said that throughout Germany there was a very strong desire to promote in every possible way the interests of international copyright. M. Pfeiffer, of the Syndicate of the Musical Composers of Paris; Dr. Lundstadt, in the name of Swedish publishers, and of the Literary and Artistic Circle of Stockholm ; Herr Stoutz, for Switzer- land; and Mr. J. E. Muddock, for England, said that authors and composers of their respective countries would not rest until their rights in literary and artistic property were fully recognised. At the second sitting there was a very large attendance, including the Princess Napoleon Bonaparte-Weiss, and several women of letters, amongst them being Madame Brun, the well- known Belgian novelist and journalist. When the meeting had been declared open by the President, M. Bonilla, who represented the “Society of Spanish Writers,” rose to address the assembly. Speaking in Spanish, he made a stirring and eloquent appeal for the universal recognition of the results of intellectual labour. He insisted that workers with the pen and pencil had been too long regarded as mere time-servers of the public, whose mission was to give to the world the efforts of their genius, but like the slaves of old they could own nothing. Fortu- nately a more enlightened era was dawning, and  ## p. 119 (#133) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I Ig the day could not be far distant when authors and artists would have cause to rejoice that they had clamoured for an equitable recognition of their interests by all nations. A long discussion followed on the rights of translation. Translation in principle is said to be a mode of reproduction, but while that prin- ciple is admitted in some countries it is contested in others. It was certainly proclaimed at the Brussels Congress in 1858; and since then the International Literary Union has endeavoured to get it universally recognised. Under any cir- cumstances, the desirability was urged of pro- longing the term during which an author's consent has to be obtained before his works can be translated, and twenty years was named as an equitable limit. This was objected to by M. Ernest Eisenmann, an avocat of Paris, and the author of an important work on the rights of authors and journalists. He maintained that if such restrictions were placed upon the rights of translation they would militate against the author's themselves. That would certainly be the case in dramatic and musical composition. When the subject had been well threshed out, without any very definite conclusion being arrived at, M. Alcide Darras, one of the general secretaries of the union, laid before the assembly a brief but lucid account of the legislative move- ments that had been made with regard to inter- national copyright during the past few years. He spoke bitterly of the action of the United States, and said it was something more than an anomaly that Canada should be disposed to favour American writers in preference to all others. England had given copyright to English authors in the whole of the British Empire, and that copyright was secured by an international treaty; nevertheless Canada showed a strong disposition to give American authors Canadian rights, although America had treated English authors so scurvily. Referring to Mexico, M. Darras said it was greatly to the credit of that country that Mexican subjects, or anyone producing a literary work in Mexico, had the advantage of perpetual copyright, while great liberality was shown to authors of all nationalities. It certainly would be more honourable on the part of the Govern- ment of the United States if they took a leaf out of their neighbour's book. At the subsequent sittings of the Congress long and interesting dis- cussions took place on the relations of publishers and authors, in so far as those relations were concerned in contracts of publications. All the speakers pointed out that in every country, as matters now stood, the author was entirely in the hands of his publisher, and if the publisher chose to act dishonestly, as he often did, the author WOL. W. suffered, and had no remedy. It was pertinently asked why literary contracts should not be placed upon the same basis as any other commercial contract. If an author wrote a book, and a publisher undertook to publish it on terms of mutual profit, there was a distinct partnership created. The author's capital in the business was represented by his work, and the value of that work must be taken to be equal in every sense to the amount the pub- lisher invested when he printed and put the work on the market. The author should there- fore be in a position to know precisely what busi- ness is being transacted and what returns are coming in. As matters now stood, he was entirely dependent for this information on the bare statement of the publisher. And, while it was not assumed for a moment that all pub- lishers were dishonest, it could not be denied that the temptation to make a little extra profit by the manipulation of accounts and the suppression of information that ought to be afforded was very great indeed; and human nature was the same in a publisher as it was in other buman beings, often more so. It was admitted that the subject was a very difficult one to deal with in an international sense, for transactions of the kind often had to be determined by local circumstances. But there was no reason why some general principles should not be laid down and adopted by the union. And it was suggested that in default of distinct stipulation to the contrary a contract of publication should be taken to mean one edition only, whether it was of a musical or literary work. The number of that edition should be expressly stated in the contract, and every copy of it should be numbered and signed by publisher and author. This scheme would at once afford an author a ready means of knowing how many copies of his work had been sold, and it would be a safeguard against unauthorised reproduction. Of course the same regulations would apply to any subsequent editions. Although no definite decision was arrived at on this subject owing to various difficulties that presented themselves, it was admitted that it was too important to be shelved, and that it should be brought forward next year, and in the mean- time some concerted plan of action should be. worked out which should aim at doing justice to. all parties without wounding the susceptibilities. of any. Mr. Wolfgang Kirschbach, the well-known. theatrical critic and editor of the Dresdner. Nachrichten, then invited the Congress to meet. next year at Dresden, and he said he was autho- rised to promise a welcome and a reception in the name of the Saxon Government, as well as of the N  ## p. 120 (#134) ############################################ I 20 THE AUTHOR. municipal authorities. And he further promised that the warmest support would be accorded te the work and aims of the Congress by the whole of Germany, North and South. The invitation was accepted, and Dresden fixed as the next place of meeting. Altogether it may be said that the Congress has been productive of many good results, and the work so far achieved is just and equitable to all who labour with their brains. And, as M. Bergerem, the Minister of Justice, said at the grand banquet given by the President to the distinguished foreigners gathered together in Antwerp in the name of literature, science, and art, the objects of the association must, in the end, be universally triumphant. They had right on their side, and they would soon have power to enforce those rights. It is greatly to be regretted that the entire English press, from the Times downwards, should have been so utterly indifferent to this important Congress that no report of it has appeared in any paper in this country. Journalists cannot afford to ignore the aims and objects of the association, and it surely would have been worth while for the great London dailies to have instructed their foreign correspondents to furnish to their respective papers some particulars of the labours of the Congress. It is also a matter of surprise that Mr. Muddock was not supported by some of his London confrères. The question of inter- national copyright is one which very closely affects us as a literary people, and particularly in so far as our dealings with America are concerned. And unless writers and artists here think their property is not worth protecting, they would do well to show that they are in full accord with the spirit and aims of these annual congresses, and attend in numbers to speak and vote on all that tends to promote the common welfare of the great brotherhood of the pen and pencil. *— — —” * * * NOTES FROM PARIS. AM writing this from a fishing village at the extreme southern point of the Bay of Biscay, in a desolate land of dunes, with the purple line of the Pyrenees in front of me, and all around a forest of pine trees. . A coin perdu. if ever there was one, yet at the time of the English rule in Aquitaine, a place of some importance. In the middle of the village rises the “Tower of the English,” and many of the houses were built by English hands. g e gº Is it a fallacy that, as many of us imagine, soli- stude and quiet are very necessary to the man who would produce his best work, and that a man works hardest where there is little tempta- tion for him to leave his writing-table P Zola has recorded the fine fevers of industry which come upon him in the country, but then Zola will work anywhere and under any circumstances. Daudet, on the other hand, has told me that at the seaside at least he is never able to work. “The sea is a terrible waster,” he said, and added that having sought solitude in a little village on the Mediterranean coast, he remained six weeks without putting pen to paper. For my part my experience is that a solitary and monotonous way of life is fatal to literary production. One cannot think when one yawns. And again, the song of the sea is one continual invitation to idleness, whilst the fields and the forest have mysterious and syremlike voices to tempt one away. People who have read “Jack,” will remem- ber the poet D’Argenton, who, having longed for years for a quiet retreat in the country, found, when he was able to afford one, that he could not work there, and wasted six years in idle endea- vours. Perhaps the reason of this is that the country is so delightful that idleness becomes a real pleasure. It is a characteristic trait of the American critics that when reviewing a translation all men- tion of the translator, even in quoting the title of the book, is omitted by them. Translation, it would appear, after their manner of thinking, is and cannot be otherwise than hack work. Yet one of Charles Baudelaire's chief titles to fame is in his masterly translation of Poe's tales. American journalism, by the way, seems to be sinking lower and lower into infamy. Not many days ago I was passing a delightful hour in the pine forest near my house, with my dog and my grey donkey for companions, and an odd volume of Montaigne in my hand. I could see the great red sun going down into the sea, athwart the pines; the air was fresh and balsamous, and only the cooing of the turtle-doves broke the stillness. I was away for the time from everything that was common and cruel, and ugly and human. And then broke in upon my tranquil meditation American journalism, in the form of a cablegram from New York, an unclean thing that I threw away from me with disgust as soon as I had read it. It came from a great American editor, and requested me to nose out the dirty story of an American milliardaire, who, it appears, has fallen into the toils of some Parisian Phryne. I was to “ mail photos,” and to accompany the same with a “rip-roarer story of their intimacy.” After reflection I picked the filthy paper up again, and have pasted it up in my study as a reminder of the things to which American journalism leads.  ## p. 121 (#135) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I 2 I Inasmuch as, by the stress of circumstances, there are many writers who engage in literature in a purely commercial spirit, might not the critics exact that the publishers in sending in ibooks for review should mention, besides the price of each volume, the amount of remunera- tion which was assured to the author when he sat down to the task of its production. This knowledge might dispose them to greater leniency or severity, as the case might be. The critic might be very exacting in the case of a book for which the author had received or was to receive several hundred pounds, and less so in the case of work paid for with as many six- pences. I would like to read some such sentence in a literary critique as the following: “This is a hastily-written book, immaturely considered. Still, when we remember that the author produced it at the rate of fourpence halfpenny for each hour's work, we cannot but commend it as extremely good value for money.” In this matter also the philosophy of Mrs. Gamp holds good, and them as wants titivating must pay accordingly. Alphonse Daudet has just finished a new novel. It is one of the very few of his stories— is it not the only one P-which contains a murder. There are a husband and wife who each suspects the other of the crime, and so on. It ends in a reconciliation. I am glad to say that Daudet's health is improving. I had a long letter from him a few days ago, entirely in his own hand, firm, healthy writing “in his least nervous pen.” Be usually dictates to his secretary, the amiable M. Ebner. He tells me that his son’s book, “Les Morticoles,” is still selling very well, already in a tenth edition, I believe. Apropos of Léon Daudet, who, it will be remembered, married Victor Hugo's grand- daughter, the last time I saw him he told me that Hugo's books were selling very badly indeed, and he is in a position to know the facts, as husband of the lady who is entitled to one half the revenue from the Hugo copy- rights. This disposes of various accounts we have heard of the continued demand for these works. Emile Zola, leaves for Rome next month to collect materials for the second volume of “Les Trois Villes " series, which is to be called “Rome.” I am afraid that he will not succeed, as he had hoped, in securing an interview with the Holy Father, and it is to be feared that the odium theologicum provoked by “Lourdes,” will put many difficulties in his way. In the meanwhile “Lourdes'' is in its hundredth edition, and Charpentier's presses are still hard at work turning out copies by the thousand. It is expeeted WOL. V. that this book will have the largest sale of any of Zola's works. * Edmund de Goncourt, I am sorry to say, is, as I hear from Champrosay, ailing with “a liver crisis.” This splendid old man is, however, so robust that I expect him to outlive us all. He is resting his pen at present, though, of course, he continues to keep his daily diary, as he has done for the past thirty years. The widow of Leconte de Lisle is preparing her late husband's manuscripts for the press. She is working in collaboration with De Héredice, and they hope to collect sufficient material for a volume of poems, which shall add to the reputa- tion of the author of “Poémes Barbares.” The task is a difficult one, as the late poet was very critical about his own work, and they are anxious not to print anything which he would have refused to publish. Leconte de Lisle destroyed more than four thousand lines of verse which he deemed unsatisfactory, and what he published had been revised and revised again. A new life of Napoleon is being prepared in Paris by a Boston Professor, and will run for two years in the Century Magazine. I myself was recently invited by the proprietors of another American magazine to do another life of Napoleon, and very good terms were offered. But the matter fell through when I was informed that Napoleon had to be treated in an entirely favour- able light, as I found it impossible to do so. The Americans all have an immense admiration for Napoleon, chiefly, no doubt, because of the persis- tent way in which he plagued England. A study of Napoleon as the Arch-Anarchist and forerunner of the anarchy of this fin de siècle would be interesting. ROBERT H. SHERARD. Capbreton, Landes, Sept. 19. *– ~ –” g- > -e AUGUSTA WEBSTER, HE death of Augusta Webster on Sept. 5 takes from us a poet of very remarkable powers, and of achievement second to no woman of the age who has attempted poetry. She was a daughter of the late Admiral Davies, who for many years filled the post of Chief Constable for Cambridgeshire, and lived at Cam- bridge. Augusta Davies published her first volume of verse in the year 1861 or 1862. It was entitled “Blanche Lisle,” and bore the assumed name of Cecil Horne. After her marriage to Mr. Thomas Webster, a classical scholar and a Fellow of Trinity, she published under her own name translations of “Prometheous Vinctus ” and the “Medea,” N 2  ## p. 122 (#136) ############################################ I 22 THE AUTHOR. she also published another volume of verse under her nom de plume. The works that followed were “Dramatic Studies” (1866), “A Woman Sold” (1867), “Portraits” (1870), “The Auspicious Day” (1872), “Yu-Pe-Yas's Lute” (1874), “Disguises” (1879), “A Book of Rhyme’” (1881), “In a Day” (1882), “Daffodil and the Croaxaxicans” (1884), and “The Sentence” (1887). In addition to these volumes of verse, Mrs. Webster produced a book of essays called “A Housewife's Opinions.” She wrote for the Eacaminer when William Minto was its editor, and, it is understood, for the Athenæum. She also essayed a novel, but, apparently, without success, and for six years she was a member of the London School Board. It will be seen that her time of greatest activity was in the sixties and the seventies. It seems a long time ago, but the time has not yet come for an estimate of Augusta Webster's place among the poets of the Victorian age—an age which produces more fine verse in a decade than was written during the whole of the last century, and an age in which critics are continu- ally bemoaning the decay of verse; an age in which we are so busy over our own work that we have no time to read the work of others; an age in which a new great Inovelist, if not a new great poet, is boomed every month; an age in which the poet of to-day will be clean forgotten to- morrow. The contemporaries of Augusta Webster—those who lived in the sixties and the seventies—have read her works and found in them qualities of the highest order, purity of thought, beauty of expression, music in rhythm, dexterity in metre, power of conceiving and drawing character. Does the younger genera- tion read her P Ome knows not. Will the works of this singer survive? Out of all she wrote, surely, something. He would be a bold critic who would foretell immortality, even a limited im- mortality—an existence prolonged for three generations—for any poem of the day. But to him who remembers those early volumes—the “Dramatic Studies,” “Portraits,” and the trans- lations—Augusta Webster will always remain a figure in contemporary literature among the fore- most, and among the worthiest. W. B. ** a 2–º r- - -, NOTES AND NEWS. R. JAMES PAYN writes that if he had twenty lives he would give them all to the profession of Letters. He says, moreover, that no profession is more free from jealousies and acrimonies. Well, a certain depress- ing work on the “Quarrels of Authors” is to be found in most of our libraries. Some day it will be brought up to date, and then some very pretty jealousies and acrimonies of the present day, of which the world is now ignorant, will be brought to light. There have been two or three actions in the High Court of Justice produced by “acri- monies’’ of literary men. And there are too often to be seen even in signed articles, criticisms and judgments by literary men concerning other literary men that are certainly not kindly either in phrase or intention. In fact, one of the prin- cipal reasons which has hitherto kept men of letters apart from each other, is the unhappy pre- judice that it is the duty of a writer to criticise and sit in judgment upon other writers, as if the power of writing verse should make a critic as well as a poet. That criticism should be con- temptuous and derisive; that it should not be written with the view of pointing out what ought to be, but to inflict as much pain as possible by exaggerating what is, in the volume: these are articles of belief that seem happily passing away. The editor of the immediate future will certainly insist on as much courtesy in his columns as at his dinner table. I have before me certain extracts from the registers of St. Bartholomew's Church, which formerly stood on the site now occupied by the east wing of the Bank of England. The dates of these registers are from 1568 down to 1720 or thereabouts. There are baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Among them are three entries which are curious. They are all in the burials, and are as follows: 1672. Katharine Dufoe. I687. Katharine Dufoe. 1708. Mary Defoe. Now Daniel Defoe, son of Thomas Foe, of Cripplegate, and said to be the grandson of Thomas Foe, of Elton, assumed the “De '’ about the year 1684. It is generally assumed that he did so in the hope of passing for one of gentle birth. These entries, however, make it clear that there was one family, perhaps two, in the City of the name of Dufoe or Defoe. It is probablé, therefore, that this was the older way of spelling his name, and that he was really connected with families who so spelled the name. The Rev. Dr. Bell, of Cheltenham, calls my attention to the question in the September number of the Author : “Is not the Sheridan family the only family on record which has con- tinued to hand down its best characteristics from One generation to another ?” He reminds me of  ## p. 123 (#137) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I 23 the Arnold family as another which has also done so. He mentions the names of Matthew Arnold, Thomas Arnold, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Oakley Arnold Forster. Undoubtedly this is another case of hereditary genius, which in the domain of literature is exceedingly rare. In music and in law hereditary ability is more often found. What descendants of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, have ever distin- guished themselves in literature ? In another column will be found some kind of answer—though of necessity incomplete—towards the question of what the people read. Setting aside fiction, an army of Io,000 borrowers, in one library, read during one year 65,000 works of history, travels, philosophy, art, and science. This for a body of people only just beginning to read seems pretty well. We must remember that they are nearly all working people; that a great many of them—the women especially—have very long hours of work; that during the summer months they will naturally take their recreation in the open air; and that a large proportion of the men have been accustomed to take their winter recreation in public houses. Let us remember also that without this library only very few of these working men would have read any book at all. Not any book at all. It is rare to find books in a working man's lodging ; it is still rarer to find him buying books. How can he buy books unless out of the twopenny basket P Indeed, to those who ignorantly accuse us, as a nation, of not buying books, the first reply is, that whether we want to buy books or not we cannot afford to do so, because, out of the whole 37,000,000 population or 7,400,000 families in this our United Kingdom, there are but 250,000 families which earn an income of so much as 32OO a year, and not more than 400,000 families which either earn or possess that modest income. Now, with the lowest possible standard of necessary comfort, what margin can be left with an income of £200 for the purchase of books P From time to time we read letters in the papers on the economy of small incomes. Some- thing is put down for the luxury of trips and excursions—for change of air is necessary; the gentility of a pew, instead of a free seat, is never forgotten ; but nothing is ever left for books. Why? Because books cannot be afforded. And those who cannot buy books are now growing eager to read them. “We would buy,” they say, “if we could. But, indeed, we are not able to buy.” -->e- As for those favoured few—the happy 4OO,OOO families—whose income is 32OO a year and over, they have hitherto bought all the books that are sold—new or secondhand—all but the books of elementary education. The new public libraries are now stepping in as purchasers. When we speak of the vast audience which already awaits a success- ful writer, whether historian, poet, exponent of science, preacher, philosopher, or novelist, it must be remembered that this great body of readers who cannot buy will always form the largest part. And if, as seems probable, the 400,000 families above-named become reduced in number, and their incomes grow steadily and yearly less, there will be nobody at all left to buy books, and the libraries will be the only pur- chasers. Meantime what the 400,000 do buy and how much they buy, and how far the reproach is just that they do not buy, must be considered by the light of actual figures. And these figures we will try to collect and to publish. The New York Critic of Aug. 11 contained a paper on Art in the Magazines, suggested by cer- tain comparisons made in these columns between the advance of the American magazines and the seeming decline of our own. The writer says: “Among other reasons advanced for this state of things is the abundance of illustrations that we give, but the most important thing is omitted, viz., their quality. With us illustration is an art; in England it is a pastime—it entertains without instructing. The same class of men do not prac- tise it in both countries; and, furthermore, the English draughtsmen have not yet learned to draw for the photo-engravers, as have the American and the French.” He goes on to criticise the artistic character of a certain English magazine. The remarks under this head may be omitted. The following, however, is an American's opinion on American art. One would like that of an English artist on the same work: Now take the August Harper’s and see the difference between the American process-work and that of England. Note Mr. Smedley’s illustrations in Mr. Ralph's story of “Old Monmouth,” in Mr. Matthews’s “A Vista in Central Park,” or in Mr. Warner's story. They are made by the Kurtz process. Here we have the artist and the process- engraver working in perfect harmony, and the result is almost as fine as that brought about by the graver. Mr. Remington’s illustrations of his own paper are even better. There are few artists who know so well how to work for mechanical engraving as Mr. Remington. An admirable piece of work is Mr. Thulstrup's in “Up the Coast of Norway.” The illustration on page 381 has all the softness and light and shade of a mezzotint engraving. Mr. Du Maurier's illustrations of “Trilby’’ lend themselves parti- cularly well to the work of photo-engraving, because they are pen-and-ink drawings. The engraver could probably not reproduce them any better, if as well. But to see just  ## p. 124 (#138) ############################################ I 24 THE AUTHOR. what delicaey and tone the engraver's hand gives to a picture, we must turm to the frontispiece, “On Shark River,” drawn and engraved by Victor Bernstrom. In Mr. Castaigne we have another artist who is a master of the art of drawing for process-engraving. He is a Frenchman, and learned his art in France, where they have long made a specialty of it. I doubt whether the engraver could do him the justice that the camera does. It would be very difficult to catch his peculiar effects with the hand. His illustrations to “Washington as a Spectacle,” in the Century, make this clear, especially the picture on page 490. Mr. Sterner shows himself in a new light in his illustration of “Poe in the South.” There is an imaginative quality in his work that goes well with that of the author he illustrates. For work with the graver it would be hard to find anything more satisfactory than Mr. Timothy Cole's reproduction of Quentin Matsy’s portrait of his second wife. Here we have something that mechanical engraving can never give—the personality of the engraver, the touch of the artist. In looking at this picture one feels the dignity of handwork over that of the machine. Another fine example of the engraver's art is the frontispiece of Scribner's, Carolus . Duran’s “The Poet with the Mandolin,” engraved by W. B. Closson. Here, again, we have what photo-engraving cannot give. The name of W. S. Vanderbilt Allen is comparatively new in the art world, but it accompanies some spirited scenes of Newport life, which have had the distinction of being engraved. Kaemmerer's illustrations of Professor C. G. D. Roberts's poem would have gained much, had Florian touched them into life; as it is, they have lost by the “process.” On the other hand, it is doubtful whether the engraver could have done more for Castaigne's illus- trations of Mr. Bunner's story. Process work has seldom been seen to better advantage than in the picture opposite page I64. Mr. Sterner's illustrations of “An Undiscovered Murder” are, if anything, better than those he has in the Centwry. They are certainly more pleasing in subject, and the one on page 183 is a gem. No ; one does not find such art in the English magazines. Everybody is interested in the Autocrat of Boston. Therefore I make no doubt that every- body will read the following extract from the New York Critic (Sept. 8, 1894). I had the pleasure of an afternoon with the most amiable of poets and essayists last year. We drove from Salem to Beverly one fine afternoon in July, the party consisting of Prof. Woodberry, Mr. Sprigge, and myself. And we spent a couple of hours talking to the Autocrat, who was in the best spirits, and the best health possible. At Beverly he has a charming country house on a hill with a large garden and a delightful view. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s birthday, of which the Critic had brief mention last week, was celebrated in a very quiet manner, as the poet himself desired. He is not only adverse to publicity on that day, but finds it best to protect his health as far as possible by preventing intrusion into his Sanctum. The good Doctor is always kindly in feeling and expression towards every reporter who calls, but yet has be- come now extremely reserved. To the first reporter who came last week he gave an interview, and then, when the other gentlemen of the press trod the path to his Beverly Summer home, he presented each with a printed slip con- taining this same interview, thus saving time and exertion. The friends who called on his birthday were glad to find that in spite of the prolonged illness which prostrated both mind and body (infact, the doctor himself says that it was the longest, illness he ever had), the Autocrat is regaining his physical strength. He is no longer able to answer the hosts of letters. that pour in upon him as they always have, people by the score having simply flooded his table with queries and with manu- scripts to which they have invited his attention ; and, while the Doctor has always expressed himself as gratified at words. of affection, he has not been able of late to answer even the complimentary notes. Indeed, he does no writing now at all, and whatever dictation he is able to carry out is devoted to the completion of his autobiography, now made his great. lifework, and not destined to be published until after his death. Someone suggested to the Doctor, when the latter spoke of the cramp that affected his hand in writing, that he learn to use the type-writer, but the poet smilingly replied that he did not propose to forsake an old friend for a new one at his time of life. For eight summers now Dr. Holmes has been at Beverly Farms, which he regards as the most perfect of summer resorts (barring the east winds), and he delights in telling visitors about all the surroundings. of the place. He points out, with delightful interest, the two islands in front of his house, quaintly named “Great. Misery" and “Little Misery"—terms derived from a game of cards called Boston,” invented by some British officers. who were quartered upon those islands during the early wars. Of course, the trees still consume a great deal of his attention. Recently, it is said, he has found a new tree in. Beverly, which he considers the most beautiful of all; and to its base he drives several times each week, there to sit in its shade and enjoy its protection. If he can hear of any big tree within any reasonable distance of his home he is sure to visit it. Speaking about his health to a caller, Dr. Holmes said:— “I am afraid that I am commencing to grow old. Since last February, when I had a severe attack of the grip, I have not been very well, and I have been obliged to take. good care of myself. Walking and riding principally, an occasional call and receiving some of my friends who are kind enough to call upon me, form the day’s routine.” He spoke briefly of literary people he had known, stating that he had been visited by almost every literary Englishman, who had come to Boston since Dickens's time. He added sadly, “Lowell’s death affected me keenly, it makes. me feel that I am old, that I have outlived my genera- tion.” It is a well known and remarkable fact that the year which saw Dr. Holmes’s birth, 1809, also saw the births of Tennyson, Darwin, Gladstone, Robert C. Winthrop, and Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Holmes himself once spoke of this, mentioning all except himself in noting: the “wonders” of the year, and when his visitor added, “You have forgot to mention one birth, Doctor, that of Oliver Wendell Holmes,” the Autocrat quickly responded, “Oh, that doesn’t count ; I ‘sneaked in, as it were.” Dr. Holmes’s birthday this year was remembered, as usual, by his publishers, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., with a magnificent. bouquet of eighty-five roses, one for each year of the poet's, life, while other friends sent remembrances. The classification of Literature is a subject which belongs especially to the Institute of Librarians. If, however, the existing methods of classification are to be considered by this body, we may ask to send representatives to the deliberating committee. A letter by Mr. J. Taylor Kay, in the Daily Chronicle for Sept. 18, proposes that a commission consisting of one or  ## p. 125 (#139) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I 25 two members of the crafts of author, publisher, bookseller, journalist, and librarian, shall be appointed to consider existing systems, and to recommend, or to create, a classification for general use. Meantime Mr. Kay gives the classification which he considers the best, that of Mr. Melville Dewey, proposed in 1876. Here it IS :— CLASSES AND DIVISIONs. O 480 Greek. IO Bibliography. 490 Other Languages. 2O Book Rarities and 500 NATURAL SCIENCE. MSS. 5IO Mathematics. 30 General Cyclopedias. 520 Astronomy. 40 Polygraphy. 53O Physics. 50 General Periodials. 540 Chemistry. 6O General Societies. 550 Geology. 70 Bookbinding. 560 Paleontology. 80 Catalogues. 57O Biology. 90 58o Botany. IOO PHILOSOPHY. 590 Zoology. I IO Metaphysics. 6OO USEFUL ARTs. I 20 - 6IO Medicine. 130 Anthropology. 62O Engineering. 140 Schools of Psychology. 630 Agriculture. I 5o Mental Faculties. 64o Domestic Economy. 16O Logic. 650 Communication and 17o Ethics. Commerce. 180 Ancient Philosophies. 660 Chemical Technology. 190 Modern Philosophies. 670 Manufactures. 2OO Theology. 68o Mechanic Trades. 2Io Natural Theology. 690 Building. 22O Bible. 700 FINE ARTs. 23o Doctrinal Theology. 7Io Landscape Gardening. 240 Practical and Devo- 720 Architecture. tional. 730 Sculpture. 250 Homiletical and Pas- 740 Drawing and Design. toral. 75o Painting. 26O Institutions and Mis- 76o Engraving. sions. 77O Photography. 270 Ecclesiastical History. 78o Music. 28o Christian sects. 790 Amusements. 290 Non-Christian Reli- 8oo LITERATURE. gions. 8Io Treatises and Collec- 3OO SOCIOLOGY. tions. 3IO Statistics. 820 English. 320 Political Science. 830 German. 330 Political Economy. 84o French. 340 Law. 85o Italian. 350 Administration. 86o Spanish. 360 Associations and In- 870 Latin. tutions. - 88o Greek. 37O Education. 890 Other Languages. 380 Commerce and Com- 90o HISTORY. - munication. 9IO Geography and De- 390 Customs and Cos- scription. tumes. 920 Biography. 4OO PHILOLOGY. 930 Ancient History. 4IO Comparative. 940 Europe. 42O English. 950 º ſ: 430 German. 96o 3 || Africa. 44O French. 97O 3 4 North America. 450 Italian. 98o 3 | South America. 460 Spanish. 990 Oceanica and 47O Latin. Polar Regions. . . Each of these divisions is, of course, capable of mine further sub-divisions. In adapting the 8th Alabama Regiment. system to shelving arrangements, the above numbers are the subjects or class numbers, and a decimal point number being added, acts at the order of numeration on the shelves, which in each case will, of course, run to infinity. An interesting point in literary history is touched upon by an “Old Novel Reader” (p. 129). He informs us that the first attempt to introduce cheap books was made in Ireland nearly sixty years ago, by Mr. John Simms, of the firm of Simms and MacIntyre, of Belfast. Mr. Henry Herman is dead. One was sur- prised to learn, first, that he was sixty-three years of age, and next, that he was formerly a Confederate officer—Lieutenant-Colonel of the He was the author, in collaboration with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, of the “Silver King,” and he wrote “Claudian.” He also wrote, with Mr. David Christie Murray, two novels, and several without collaboration. He was a man of strong friendships, of great resource, and of wide personal experience. Sir Frederick Pollock (p. 126) objects to the “language” of a note of mine about the importa- tion of Tauchnitz books. He complains that it is a note of “vituperation.” I thought, in my feeble way, that it was a note written in good temper and without any calling of names. I have read it again ; and again I fail to find any “vitupera- tion.” Is it right, or is it not, to bring these books into England P. If it is not right, one is justified in saying so. The reason why the prac- tice is common is that many excellent people who carry it on are ignorant that it is much the same thing as smuggling a roll of lace. And this was pointed out in the note. However, as some readers have not perhaps read the note of September who will read Sir Frederick's remarks in October, I reproduce it, vituperation and all : Every year, as regularly as the showers of August, appears the letter complaining of the bold bad smuggler who imports Tauchnitz editions in his pockets. The whole family, girls and all, enter with zeal into the smuggling business; impromptu pockets are devised in feminine garments; men’s coats are found to contain stowage room previously unsuspected; a successful run is made ; and the family shelves are enriched with another row of Tauchnitz books. They have been bought at half the cost of the English edition, you see. Cheapness before anything. These books, moreover, are openly sold in this country; one may some- times see rows of them in the secondhand shops. What is to be done P. It is impossible to touch the conscience of the traveller homeward bound. He will not smuggle lace, because he understands that lace is property—it is visible property—he must not defraud the revenue ; literary pro- perty he does not understand—he cannot see it. Here is a  ## p. 126 (#140) ############################################ 126 THE AUTHOR. book—why cannot he take the book home with him P Because the law prohibits P Nonsense ; it can hurt nobody. It is impossible to make him see that to import this book is an infringement of right; a robbery of author or publisher, or both. Therefore something else must be attempted. What? Let us take counsel together. There must surely be some way of preventing the smuggling of books. Now the rough and ready way by which dockyard labourers are prevented from stealing dockyard stores might be at- tempted. Wardens of the yard stand at the gates and feel the men as they pass. An expert hand would detect a Tauchnitz in the coat pocket. And a substantial fine judiciously and sternly administered would do the rest. But perhaps some other method might be suggested. About the magnitude of the mischief; Sir Frederick puts it down at £50 or £100. Let us see. Every year there are at least 300,000 travellers from the British Isles on the Continent. These include the people who crowd the hotels of Biarritz, the Riviera, and Italy in the winter; the people who stay at the mountain resorts; and the people who travel in the spring, summer, and autumn. All these people buy for their reading the Tauchnitz books. This collection contains 2Ooo works, I believe, in about 25oo volumes. It is certainly not too much to estimate the annual purchase at one volume for each traveller. If only half of these volumes—say 150,000, repre- senting I2O,OOO works—are brought back to Eng- land, it means that I2O,OOO works printed abroad are annually brought over here, to the great detri- ment and loss of books printed in this country. We certainly must not assume that every book brought over prevents the purchase of an English manufac- tured book. But, remembering the way that books get lent, and that in certain houses, where not much can be spent in new books, every book is circulated, we may be pretty sure that the Tauchnitz books do prevent the purchase of a very large number of English books. I should be disposed, roughly, to estimate the yearly loss at something like 60,000 volumes, which means a good many thousand pounds, and I think that if the Society could do anything to stop the practice of bringing over these books, it would be doing good service to everybody concerned. The new departure which was observed by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. in the publication of Mr. Blackmore’s “Perlycross" has been followed in Mr. William Black's new novel “Highland Cousins.” The first issue of the novel in book form is in one volume at 6s. The edition consisted of 6000 copies, and the 4th, 5th, and 6th thousand are so numbered on the title page. The month which produces “Trilby’’ and “Perlycross” and “Highland Cousins” is fortunate indeed. WALTER BESANT. NOTES BY THE WAY. HE correspondent who complains, in the September number of the Author, that he dares not talk to his publisher like a man of business, has another way open to him. If he really believes in his own estimate of the com- mercial value of his work, he can easily make sure whether his view or the publisher's is right. Let him publish on commission. But this, it may be said, involves risk. Of course it does. Nothing venture, nothing have. In the usual forms of publishing contract the author is insured against risk by the publisher. People will not insure your book against publishing risks for nothing, any more than they will insure your house against fire, or your crops against storm. This insurance is not separately charged, but is one of the many elements determining the author's share of profits. In the case of an author who is already successful, the risk and the insurance premium may be taken as less than any assignable quan- tity. In the case of an unknown or hitherto unsuccessful author they are and must be appre- ciable. The fact that a new author's book suc- ceeds does not show that there was no risk, no more than the fact of one's house not being burnt down or one's ship wrecked shows that it was foolish to insure. For the rest, the Society can and does give information and advice to its members; it cannot provide them with back- bones. 2. I must deprecate the language of the note about importing Tauchnitz editions. It is use- less to call people thieves and robbers for not being in advance of public opinion ; and I must also protest against the suggestion of adding some new inquisitorial procedure to the terrors of our custom houses, which are already, since the dynamite scare of ten or twelve years ago, the most troublesome in Western Europe. Neverthe- less, a law-abiding man ought to satisfy law and conscience, and at the same time do a work of charity to other travellers, by leaving his foreign reprints asan addition to some hotelorship library. Public opinion has to be educated on this point, but it is not to be done by vituperation. Mean- while, I should like to know whether the total loss to British publishers and authors by the private importation of Tauchnitz copies amounts to anything like 3100 or £50 in a year. We certainly cannot assume that every one who brings in a Tauchnitz copy of a popular book would otherwise have bought an English one. It seems to me that we have more important things to attend to, even in this particular line. For example, the book market of the minor colonies is, or very lately was, supplied almost wholly by  ## p. 127 (#141) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 127 pirated issues notwithstanding the efforts already made by the Society to procure better inforce- ment of the law. The same mischief exists, though not so largely, in Canada. 3. The question of filling up the Laureateship iseems to me outside the business of the Society of Authors. Individual members are entitled to their opinions. I shall not state mine, but I feel sure that any corporate attempt at meddling in this matter could only bring the Society into ridicule. 4. I have observed with uneasiness, in the Author and elsewhere, a tendency to revive the high metaphysical theory of copyright as a per- petual and immutable right of property conferred by the law of nature. This theory is, in my opinion, unsound, and at all events it has been definitely rejected by English and American law. 'Copyright is property, but not a property in ideas; it is a monopoly or exclusive franchise, created for reasons of policy, in particular forms whereby ideas are expressed. M. Mallarmé's project is of a different order. It is an instal- ment of Socialism, and points towards a proposal which I quite expect to see seriously made some day, namely, to abolish copyright and substitute the endowment of literature by a State depart- ment, which department would, as a probable though not necessary corollary, be invested with large powers of censorship. Let authors consider how they would like this. - FREDERICK POLLOCK. *— - -º HAMMERSMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY, - HE Report of the Commissioners for the Public Library of Hammersmith for the year 1893-94 has been sent to us. The facts and figures are instructive. By an unfortunate omission the rules of the library are not presented with the report, so that the subscription or price of a ticket for the lending library cannot be learned. That it is very small is shown from the return of receipts for the year, in which 320 Os. 5d. is set down for sales of tickets. Comparing the number of applicants for new tickets with the amount realised, it would seem that 2:#d. was the price of a ticket, but perhaps this is wrong. Bowever, there are about Io,000 borrowers. An analysis of the professions and trades of the 2OOO who enrolled themselves during the year shows 350 belonging to the professional classes, among them two authors, three publishers, one barrister, one solicitor, fourteen clergymen, two missionaries, nine journalists, while the rest are all working men and working women. The library, therefore, belongs to all classes. It con- tains II,500 books, of which more than one-fourth belong to fiction. It is greatly to be hoped that in the next report the commissioners will give an analysis of the books taken out, showing the names of the authors mostly read. There is, however, a classified list showing the number of books in each class. The figures are very satis- factory. The IO,OOO borrowers between them, representing, in the proportion, viz., 18 per cent. of the professional to 82 per cent. of the working classes, read between them the following: Theology and Philosophy 1,958 books History and Biography... 7,088 Voyages and Travels 5,220 , , Law and Politics ......... 679 , Arts and Sciences......... 8,027 , Fiction ..................... I 25,827 , Poetry, Drama, and Classics .................. I,725 23 Miscellaneous and Maga- Zines ..................... 9,469 × Juvenile Literature ... ... 28,350 , Music........................ 1,871 ,, In all they read I 90,214 books, which, divided among the IO, SOO, means very nearly twenty books a-head. Since reading is no longer to the great mass of mankind study but recreation, and since it may be allowed that the Commissioners and the librarian between them know how to present only literature that is worthy of being read, we need not wonder at fiction representing 60 per cent. of the books taken out. If, however, we ask what fiction is read, the answer exactly agrees with what has been repeatedly advanced in these columns; that the general public turned into a public library read exactly what the limited public turned into Mudie’s library read, viz., the newest fiction by living writers first, and that they call for these books oftenest. This must neces- sarily be the case, because the books of the day will always interest more than the books of yesterday. Thus Rider Haggard’s books go out at the rate of 56 copies a year for each volume, but Scott's only 22 ; Thomas Hardy’s novels are taken out at the rate of 47 copies a year for each book; Charles Dickens's at the rate of 35; Thackeray, 23; Charles Kingsley, 36. The dead novelists still in demand at the Hammersmith Library may be classified as follows:– Wilkie Collins ............... 26O4 issues. Harrison Ainsworth ......... I926 , Miss Muloch .................. I 594 3, Lord Lytton .................. I494 3, Anthony Trollope ............ I494 3, Dickens ........................ I388 ,  ## p. 128 (#142) ############################################ fº& THE AUTHOR. Sir W. Scott ~ II 22 issues. Lever ................. ......... 815 , George Eliot .................. 696 » Thackeray ..................... 5I 7 2, Charlotte Bronté ............ 347 , As to the popularity of living authors the returns are not trustworthy, because the collections do not appear to be complete. On the same subject the Tibrarian of the Clerkenwell Public Library—Mr. J. D. Brown— writes as follows: “My experience is that slush and truck are avoided even by the classes who are supposed to have nothing in the nature of educated perception about them. Give even the ordinary public library boy reader his choice between one of Henty’s tales and ‘Broadway Bill’s Adventures in Denver,’ and it will soon be seen that Paternoster-row licks the Bowery.’” • *=~~~~~ --z------- FICTION. HE following is an enumeration of the prin- T cipal novels and tales published in one, two, and three volumes respectively during the last three years—Sept. 1891 to Aug. 1894, both included. It is compiled from the monthly list of , “New Books and New Editions” published in the Author, these lists being prepared from the daily announcements. Each work is counted once only, taking no account of the numerous new editions. Translations are not included :- 1891. 1892. 1893. 1. 2 3 1. 2 3 1 2 3 Vol. Wols. Vols. Vol. Vols. Vols. Vol. Vols. Vols. September ... Ig | 2 || 5 || 2 I | 2 | II || 48 || 1 || 12 October ...... 28 || 4 || 7 || 62 || 2 || 14 || 81 8, 16 November ... 52 || 3 || 6 || 52 || 8 || Io || 75 || 6 || Io December ... 18 || 3 9 || 35 | 5 || 5 || 51 || 6 9 1892. 1893. 1894. January ....., I6 || 2 7 I I I 2 8 || 24 2 6 February ... I9 || 3 || 5 || I4 5 8 || 20 || 4 8 March ...... 28 2 8 || 2I IO || 23 4 4. April ......... I9 || 4 4 || 26 2 6 || 30 7 7 May ......... 35 || 5 || IO 27 | 5 9 || 28 || 4 || 13 June ......... 23 2 6 || 38 || 4 || I4 || 41 || 8 || 14 July ......... 18 4 3 : 36 I 5 || 28 3 3 August ...... I9 2 3 || 25 | I 3 I7 2 2 Totals... 204] 36 || 73 ||368 || 37 IO3|466 55 IO2 Note, in connection with this list, a passage in the Author for Sept. 1894, page IO7:— “Perhaps the most striking, because the most ignorant, comment on the recent three-volume novel discussion is the following:—‘The simple fact is, that until the public can be educated to: buy books instead of borrowing them, the attempt to produce original works of fiction in one volume: must inevitably result in a ruinous failure.’” It will be observed that the one-volume form. has increased in two years from 294 to 466. This. form is produced for the buying public. Some of the books have run into many thousands of copies;, we have not heard of any ruinous failures in consequence of their appearance. II.—THE THREE-VoIUME NOVEL. The London Booksellers’ Society has addressed a letter to publishers. The letter was published on July 18 in the Westminster Gazette, from whose columns it is here quoted. By accident the slip has been delayed two months:– “We observe in the circular addressed to you by Messrs. Mudie and Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, with reference to the price of three-volume: novels, that they suggest—‘That you shall agree not to issue cheaper editions of novels and of other books, which have been taken for library circulation, within twelve months from the date. of publication.” We beg to convey to you our unqualified disapproval of such a proposal, and in the event of your being inclined to entertain the idea, we desire, at this early stage, to enter our formal protest against such an injustice to: the bookseller. At the same time we are very conscious that on this subject your own ideas. and ours run on parallel lines. As the whole question of three-volume novels is now being raised, we should like to say that it would be a great satisfaction to us if good works of fiction ceased to be issued in this way. We are unani- mously in favour of such novels being published at once in a six-shilling form, or, at any rate, at some popular price, and we feel convinced that. not only would the bookseller order such volumes in large numbers, but that the library orders. would not be diminished. As to ‘other books,’ we have long been of opinion that the price at which they are issued upon first publication pro- hibits sales.” III.-LoRD CHESTERFIELD ON NOVELS. In connection with the discussion on the length. of novels, I think the following quotation from Lord Chesterfield is not inapposite: “I am in doubt whether you know what a novel is : it is a little gallant history, which must contain a great deal of love, and not eaceed one or two small, volumes. The subject must be a love affair, the lovers are to meet with many difficulties and  ## p. 129 (#143) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I-29 obstacles, to oppose the accomplishment of their wishes, but at last overcome them all, and the conclusion or catastrophe must leave them happy. A novel is a kind of abbreviation of a romance; for a romance generally consists of twelve volumes, all filled with insipid love nonsense and most incredible adventures.” F. Norreys Conn ELL. IV.--THE Two-WOLUME, NOVEL. As no voice has so far been raised on behalf of the two-volume novel during your late interest- ing discussion upon the rival merits of its longer and shorter sister, might Inow urge my feeble plea for it P. In the first place, would not many three- volume novels be improved in quality by some compression P. How often the padding will come out in that third inevitable volume. Witness even “Lord Ormont and his Aminta.” I am an ancient and omnivorous novel reader, and I speak the name of George Meredith with all due reverence, but here for the first time I did strip some irrelevant (as it seemed to me) details and conversations, not bearing in his usual admirable way upon the plot, which helped to expand two very short first vols. and this filled up last one into the publishers’ fatal three. I speak in ignorance of the financial aspect of the question. Perhaps you would enlighten us a little as to that matter. As regards the reader, his pocket would benefit of course, though less than if the com oression into one solid mass, involving smaller type and poorer margins, became general. But then our eyes. We especially who go on loving fiction in our decrepitude. Besides, who has the courage to face a one-volume “Middlemarch " or “Diana of the Crossways,” if even the shabbiest of second-hand editions in decent print can be had second-hand on easy terms ? May I venture, in my role of sexagenarian, to correct a statement in your August number to the following effect, and by so doing do justice to an enterprising Irish firm of publishers ? “The cheap edition” you say “was introduced about thirty years ago.” It is almost double that term of years since Mr. John Simms, of the firm of Simms and MacIntyre, an old established firm in Belfast, invented the shilling novel. This gentleman is still alive. I inclose his address On the chance that you may care to have a few particulars of his venture. I remember, when a child, the arrival of each gay green monthly volume as it came to be read aloud of an evening, and then added to the long rows of its fellows on the book-shelves. These bore on their backs the names of Miss Mitford, Mary Howitt, Mrs. Gore, shilling. Mrs. Trollope (Anthony's mother), the Banims. (O'Hara family), Carleton, Gerald Griffin, and numbers of other good novelists, to say nothing of the great “Monte Christo,” “Consuelo,” and hosts of the better sort of French and German. stories, translated for the first time into English. All these came to us at the modest price of one With many apologies for intruding on your space, I am, sir, yours faithfully, AN OLD NOVEL READER. THE AUTUMN ANNOUNCEMENTS. Tº: following announcements are reduced and classified from the lists published in the Athenæum up to Sept. 22. The order followed is that of their appearance in that. paper. Among the more important books announced by Messrs. Longmans are Froude's “Life and Letters of Erasmus;” Gardimer’s “History of the Commonwealth;” “Wandering Words,” by Sir Edwin Arnold; Liddon’s “Life of Pusey,” third vol. ; Liddon’s “Clerical Life and Work;” the Bishop of Peterborough’s “Hulsean Lectures. for 1894.” They announce one three volume novel, one novel in one volume, and a complete. set of Mrs. Walford’s books. A new edition of Max Müller’s “Chips from a German Workshop;” a new edition of Chesney’s “Indian Polity;” and a new edition of Leslie Stephen’s “Playground of Europe,” are also in their list of thirty-seven new books. Messrs. Chatto and Windus will produce fifty- seven new books, including three novels in three volumes; five in two volumes; twenty-five- in one volume ; some of these being cheap editions only. In what is called more solid. literature will be issued Wols. III. and IV. of Justin Huntly M*Carthy’s “French Revolution;” the Life and Inventions of Edison ; a translation. of the Memoirs of the Duchess de Gontant ;. Flammarion’s “Popular Astronomy ; ” George MacDonald’s Poetical Works. Not belonging to . “solid" literature, is Lehmann’s “Conversational. Guide to Young Shooters,” from Punch. Messrs. Chambers's announcements are mainly of fiction. Nine one volume novels; four new volumes of popular biographies; and certain. elementary works. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons announce forty-- two works. Among these are biographies and studies of Rufus King, Oliver Cromwell, Tinto- retto, Napoleon, Prince Henry, Julian the Apostate, Louis XIV., Thomas Jefferson, Thomas  ## p. 130 (#144) ############################################ I 30 THE AUTHOR, Paine—a sufficiently miscellaneous collection— and five novels. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. announce in all eighty-two works, including reprints and new editions and selections, and republished essays and papers. Among the reprints and old authors we find Shakespeare: a new Concordance to Shake- speare; Tennyson, “Gulliver's Travels;” Froissart, Thoreau, Chaucer, Keble, Southey, a new version of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and several new editions of classical works. The more important of the new books are Matthew Arnold’s Letters; Mrs. Oliphant’s “Reign of Queen Anne,” Mrs. Steele's “Tales of the Punjab,” novels by Marion Crawford and Sir H. Cunningham, the Life of Dean Church, the Life of Cardinal Manning, the Life of Sir A. C. Ramsay, Frederic Harrison on “The Meaning of History;” Five Lectures by Freeman; Canon Atkinson on “Whitby,” and a book on Sport and Natural History, by the late George Kingsley. Mr. John Nimmo will publish eight new books, and will complete the “Border Waverley.” Among these books will be a biography of the late John Addington Symonds; a posthumous work by Symonds on Boccaccio; and a selection from the stories of Bandello. Mr. Edward Arnold announces twenty-six works, including a Life of Sir John Macdonald ; a Memoir of Maria Edgworth ; the Recollections of the Dean of Salisbury; Robert Sherard’s Life of Alphonse Daudet; Dean Hole's “Thoughts upon England spoken in America; ” and a selec- tion from Ste. Buive. Messrs. Hutchinson announce thirty-four new books. Among these are novels by Mrs. Oliphant, D. C. Murray, Mrs. Spender, the author of the - “Yellow Aster,” F. Frankfort Moore, Mrs. Dilke, Mrs. Alfred Marks, “Rita.” Adeline Sergeant, Amelia Barr, and Sarah Tytler. The Sunday School Union announces five books, including a volume to which Archdeacon Farrar - contributes. - Messrs. Cassell and Co. announce thirty-eight works. These include the second volume of Traill’s “Social History of England; ” George Augustus Sala’s Autobiography; a “Life of Daniel Defoe;” by Thomas Wright; and novels by Frank Stockton, Hesba Stretton, Max Pember- ton, H. Hutchinson, L. T. Meade, Mrs. Alex- ander, Mrs. Molesworth, Anthony Hope, Frank Barrett, Egerton Castle, Maurus Jokai, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Messrs. Partridge and Co. announce twenty- seven works. Among these are Biographies of Reginald Heber, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, and Bishop Alwyn. There are novels by G. Manville Fenn and Sarah Doudney, and there are books for boys and girls. The S.P.C.K. announce sixteen works. Among the writers are Mrs. Charles, Professor Maspero, G. Manville Fenn, F. Frankfort Moore, Harry Collingwood, and others, Messrs. Innes and Co. announce six new books, besides story books, for these children's series. Dorothea Gerard and Stanley Weyman have intrusted them with two novels. Messrs. Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier announce three new books, including one novel by Maggie Swan. Messrs. Bell announce twenty-eight books. Among them are a new volume of Pepys; a History of the British Navy, by Capt. Robinson, R.N. ; a new edition of “Eros and Psyche,” by Robert Bridges; a “Handbook to the Ruins of Rome,” by the Rev. Robert Burn; and a transla- tion of Gregorovius's “History of Rome in the Middle Ages.” Messrs. A. and C. Black announce nineteen works. Among them are Archdeacon Farrar on “The Life of Christ as represented in Art;” an “Introduction to the Book of Isaiah,” by the Rev. T. K. Cheyne; Haikel’s “Monism,” translated; “Syriac Literature,” by the late William Wright; “The Religion of the Semites” (new edition), by the late Professor Robertson Smith ; and three novels. Messrs. Methuen and Co. have forty-six books in preparation. Among them are six selections of English verse and one of English prose; additions to the different series running for this firm ; a History of Egypt, by Professor Flinders Petrie; a book on the French Riviera, by Mrs. Oliphant; a book of Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling; and novels in one volume by Baring Gould, W. E. Norris, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Hope, Conan Doyle, Robert Barr, “X, L.,” and Standish O'Grady. Messrs. Sonnenschein and Co. announce fifty- six works, of which thirteen are educational and thirteen belong to social and political economy. There is a volume of Ethical Discourses by Leslie Stephen; a new series, called “Social Eng- land Series,” will be commenced; and there are four novels. Mr. Fisher Unwin announces fifty-seven works. Among them are a translation of Villari’s Florence ; “A Literary History of the English People,” by M. J. J. Jusserand; the Life of Charles Bradlaugh, by his daughter; a Life of Abraham Lincoln, by John Nicolay and John Hay; Henry Norman's Travels in the Far East; four or five books of new verse; twenty novels, including one by the Rev. S. R. Crockett and one by “Rita; ” the Tales of John Oliver Hobbes, now first collected, in one volume ; and the com-  ## p. 131 (#145) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I31 mencement of a series called the “Criminology Series.” Messrs. Wells Gardner and Co. announce twenty-three works, including seven stories. Mr. John Hogg announces two books, viz., one on Whist and a collection of stories. The Cambridge University Press announce fifty-one books, of which the greater part are theological, classical and educational. Not a single mathematical or scientific work is in the list. The most important of the new books are “The History of English Law,” by Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland; “Chap- ters on the Principles of International Law,” by J. Westlake; “The Growth of British Policy,” by Sir J. R. Seeley; “Outlines of English Industrial History,” by W. Cunningham and E. A. McArthur; “The Europeans in India,” by H. Morse Stephens; and “The Foundation of the German Empire,” by J. W. Headlam. Messrs. Chapman and Hall are producing fifteen new books. The more important are Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker's “Days of a Soldier's Tife,” Col. Malleson’s “Tife of Warren Hastings; Col. Cooper King’s “Life of George Washington,” “Life of General Lee,” by Fitzhugh Lee, his nephew ; six books of sport and travel, and five novels. Messrs. Heinemann has a list of thirty-five new books. Among them may be mentioned “Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,” edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge; “In Russet and Silver,” a new volume of poems by Edmund Gosse; three new volumes of the “Great Educator’”; seven- teen novels by Mrs. Lynn Linton, W. E. Norris, M. L. Pendered, including transla- tions of Björnstjerm, Björnson, Tourjuénief, and Zola. The “Roxburghe Press” announce sixteen books. Among them is the address of the Marquis of Salisbury to the British Association, revised. Mr. David Nutt announces twenty-one books. They are not all reprints of mediaeval and Tudor literature. Among them is Canon Jenkinson's “Cardinal Toussure and the Jesuits in China,” and “Lectures on Darwinism,” by the late Alfred Milne Marshall. - Messrs. Nisbet and Co. announce twenty-five new books, with a note of “several new volumes in the ‘Pilgrim’ and other series.” With the exception of two stories, they appear to be of a religious character. Messrs. Blackie and Sons announce five new books and a new series. Messrs. Routledge and Sons announce six new novels, beginning a series—new editions of Long- fellow, Grace Aguilar, Randolph Caldecott, and “The Three Musketeers,” and Harry Furniss's, Book of Romps. Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton announce thirty works. Of these twelve are devotional, seven are novels, the rest chiefly biographical. Messrs. Henry and Co. announce five books— One of sport, one of rhymes, one of housewifery, and two novels, of which one is by John Oliver Hobbes. Messrs. Oliphant, Anderson, and Farrier announce twelve books. Of these three are bio-- graphical, one is devotional, seven are novels. *- = -º a- - - M. MALLARMES PROPOSAL. MALLARME'S proposal, published in M the month of August, called forth a . * considerable amount of discussion, for the most part favourable as to the general. principle involved, viz., that if literary property is to become everybody’s property after a term. of years it might very well be subject to a . tax, i.e., that those who, for trading purposes, produce books whose time of copyright has expired should pay to the State for that privi-. lege a royalty upon every copy sold. It is not expected that persons interested in this kind. of property should welcome the proposal — indeed, one or two such persons have already cried out pretty loudly against “taxing the public ’’ and “taxing knowledge.” But it would not be taxing the public at all, nor would it. be taxing knowledge; it would be taxing the publisher for permission to use literary pro-. perty for his own individual emolument. We. may be very certain that a book now sold. for a shilling, if it were subject to a half. penny stamp, would continue to be sold for a shilling. The opinion of our Chairman, Sir Frederick Pollock, on the proposal will be found in another column (p. 127). Meanwhile, without consider- ing the possibility or even the wisdom of such a . scheme, let us see how it would work. Suppose such a tax imposed. It would be collected by the simple process of affixing a stamp on every copy that went out of the pub- lisher's office. It would produce say, at a half- penny in the shilling, a small revenue, say, of 320,000 a year. What could be done with that money P Would the heirs of the authors by the sale of whose books it was raised be entitled to take it all? Clearly not, because then the needy author would be induced to sell his possible. claims in futurity as he now sells his copyright, very likely for a mere song. It must, therefore,  ## p. 132 (#146) ############################################ ** * * * I:32: be thrown into a special Fund—not the Literary Fund, which exists only for the relief of occasional distress, but a special Fund which shall distribute the income. The rights of successful books would then belong to the mation in trust. This Fund would be used for the purpose of preventing distress. It is always a miserable and a humiliating thing to appeal to the Literary Fund for assistance; it would be well not to extend the humiliations. Such a Fund as that proposed should be used for conferring pensions on the children and grandchildren of great writers, should they be in want; and in giv- ing pensions to living writers should their works warrant the grant. Such pensions to the living would be like a good-service pension in the navy, an honour and a distinction. It is not, however, in the least likely that the proposal will ever go farther. One point rises out of the discussion. It is fifty years since the question of terminable copy- right was discussed. Perhaps the time has now returned when the question should be again -discussed. If the same arguments would be used which then prevailed they would at least be clothed in new language, and would be set forth by leader writers and magazine writers in language that would be understood by the people. Whatever the conclusion of such a discussion might be as to the law, one good result would certainly follow: that authors would better understand what is meant by copyright, and would more stiffly demand agreements in accordance with their rights of property. It may be quite true that only one book in a thousand enjoys an existence of a hundred years; it is cer- tainly quite true that most agreements are based on the tacit understanding that the work will not become a classic. At the same time, every writer should act as if his book was going to become immortal. *— — —” a- - - A DISHONEST AUTHOR, R. HEINEMANN communicates to the Daily Chronicle the following story: “Years ago a clever author brought to the publisher an incomplete MS., saying that the remainder should be delivered within a few weeks, and pressing the publisher to at once go to press with the part delivered. His plausible and pleasant manner persuaded the unsuspecting publisher to do so, and, with the additional plea of poverty, he obtained a large sum of money on account of the price of the whole. For years the publisher vainly begged, prayed, clamoured, insisted to be given the remainder of that MS., THE AUTHOR. so that the book could be published; but, waiving aside all trivial considerations of honesty and good faith, the author, with a splendid indiffe- rence, steadily declined to again put his pen to paper to complete the work in question. Neither did he vouchsafe any satisfaction to his victim. When all amicable means failed, and the publisher found himself duped and deceived, the arm of the law was called in, but every stick that the author owned had been cleverly donated to another. The book was never completed, never published, except that the author used the identical title for a later work issued through another channel. The publisher, however, resigned himself to his loss, and refrained even from attempting to persuade a British jury that money had been obtained from him under false pretences.” One has heard from time to time of this case, but vaguely. It is like a nursery story beginning “Once upon a time.” It would be well if it were fitted with a name and date. Meantime we may note Mr. Heinemann's sweeping state- ment that publishers are “only too often victims of thieves most cunning, robbers most unscru- pulous.” Only “too often " ? Then let us hear another case or two, if another can be found. No good is accomplished by exaggerating the importance of a single fact so as to make it appear like a typical instead of an isolated fact. Publishers, in fact, are not “too often º’ victims of such dishonesty; though they may be sometimes treated in this manner. No one supposes that every writer is therefore an honourable man. Publishers may also lend money to an author in difficulties, and find it difficult to get that money back, a thing which happens in every profession or trade. Would it not be better to recognise all along that between author and publisher the same business precautions should be observed as between any other two parties to a business transaction ? No one pretends that perfect confidence should be placed in an author because he is an author; nor does any man in any business, except that of publishing, demand that absolute confidence shall be placed in him simply because he is in that business. > º:  ## p. 133 (#147) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I 33 BOOK TALK. R.S. STEVENSON will contribute a new volume to Messrs. Hutchinson’s series of “Homespun Stories.” It will be called “Woodrup's Dinah, a Tale of Nidderdale.” She has also nearly ready a story entitled “Helena Hadley.” Among the reprints announced in the literary columns, the most interesting to one old enough to remember the literature of the sixties is that of Henry Kingsley's novels. He had the misfor- tune to be the rival of his brother, who came first and had the advantage always conferred by a serious and a religious turn. Kingsley's Devon- shire lads who sailed westward ho! all carried a Bible in their pockets, and were extremely careful not to use naughty words. . In “Alton Locke” and in “Yeast ’’ Charles Kingsley was a reformer and a radical ; in “Hypatia” he gave us nineteenth century difficulties discussed by philosophers in Alexandria from an English point ..of view taken about the year 1860. Henry Kingsley, on the other hand, had no reforms to propose, no grievances to remove, no difficulties to encounter. He took the world as he found it; he had no theological difficulties; he was not plagued with “questions; ” and he wrote his stories about the men and women that he knew. Thirty years ago they were rattling good stories—considered as stories, a good deal better than his brother could produce, with a lighter touch and a more dramatic instinct. Whether, after all these years, one would find them as bright and interesting remains to be seen. Mr. Clement Shorter edits the books and contributes a memoir. I have Beard that Henry Kingsley wrote the most delightful letters possible, but I have never had the opportunity of reading any of them. Perhaps Mr. Shorter will be able to give the world an illustration. Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, “The Hispaniola Plate,” will commence in the St. James's Budget, on Friday, the 5th inst., and will be illustrated by M. G. Montbard. In this novel the scene will be laid partly in the present day and partly in the last days of the Stuart period, bothepochs being connected by incidents pertaining to the ends of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The action of the story takes place principally in the Virgin Islands. A translation of “Astronomie Populaire,” by M. Camille Flammarion, the well-known French astronomer, will be published immediately by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. The work, which is a very interesting and popular one, written expressly for the general reader, had an enormous sale in France, no less than IOO,OOO copies having been sold in a few years Several new illustrations have been added, and the work has been carefully brought up to date by the translator, Mr. J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S. Cecil Clarke has just issued a new novel, entitled “An Artist's Fate,” through Mr. Elliot Stock. Mr. Maberly Phillips, F.S.A., of the Bank of England, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has written a book on the History of Banks and Bankers of Northern England. The book deals with early currency, the establishment of the first north- country bank, traces the evolution from their early beginnings of the many well-established banking concerns which now exist, and gives most interesting accounts of the serious failures which attended the efforts of the earlier bankers to cope with the rapid strides in trade and industry which followed the epoch-making inven- tion of steam power. It will be published immediately by Messrs. Effingham, Wilson, and Co. Mr. C. A. M. Fennell, Litt.D., proposes a “National Dictionary of English Language and Literature.” It is to be issued in monthly parts at a subscription of three guineas paid in advance, or four guineas in parts. The work will be based on full indexes of certain selected authors, with quotations from many others. We learn from the New York Critic that Messrs. Dodd, Mead, and Co., of Boston, are about to issue a new edition of Mrs. Trollope's famous “Domestic Manners of the Americans,” in two volumes, with ninety-four illustrations from contemporary drawings reproduced from the first edition of 1832. From the same paper we learn that a new and complete Concordance to Shakespeare, by Mr. John Bartlett, who has been engaged upon the work for eighteen years, will be published in New York immediately. It will fill 1910 double column quarto pages. Also that Mr. Richard Watson Eddis's poems will shortly be issued in a collected form by the Century Company. Max O’Rell sails for America this month on a fourth lecture tour in the States. On Longevity of Authors, “H. G. K.” says: “You might have noted Hobbes, Fontenelle, St. Evremond, and Goethe, whose united ages amount to 368, an average of 92.” A new edition has just appeared of Mr. Powis Bale’s “Handbook for Steam Users” (Long- mans), and a new and enlarged edition of “Wood-  ## p. 134 (#148) ############################################ I34. THE AUTHOR. working Machinery; its Rise, Progress, and Con- struction ” (Crosby, Lockwood, and Son). Early in the autumn a new serial story by Fitz- gerald Molloy, entitled “A Justified Sinner,” will be run through Messrs. Tillotson's syndicate of newspapers. The same author began in the third week of this month (September) a sensational serial novel called “In Shadow of Shame,” in Cassell’s Saturday Journal. This story deals with a cer- tain operation performed on the brain, and the consequences which follow. The incident has not previously been used in fiction. Mr. Fitz- gerald Molloy recently told an interviewer that such a case was brought to his notice by a distinguished surgeon, and that the chapter in which he, the author, deals with the subject is largely copied from the medical reports, all distressing and disagreeable details being omitted. Mr. Thomas Aspden, author of “The House of Stanley,” “Queen Victoria,” &c., will produce a political novel this month called “The Member for Workshire; or Church and State.” The pub- lishers are Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co. Mr James Baker, F.R.G.S., has had two works published during the past month; one, “Pictures from Bohemia,” being this year's volume of the “Pen and Pencil” series of the Religious Tract Society. The volume is very artistic, being illustrated by Walter Crane, Henry Whatley, and other artists who have travelled with the author in distant Bohemia; a country crowded with historical and picturesque and artistic surprises. The second work of Mr. James Baker is wholly historical, entitled “A Forgotten Great English- man.” It deals with the life of Peter Payne, a great leader of men in the 15th century, who, as principal of an Oxford college, had to flee for his opinions, and became a chief in Bohemia of the powerful Hussite movement, being first always in debates, in councils, and in treaties; a man with whom Pope, Kaiser, and kings had to reckon; a leader of thought of his century, and yet forgotten |by his own country, as the letters embodied in the volume from such authorities as the late Pro- fessor E. A. Freeman, Professor J. A. Froude, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Professor James Rowley, and others fully prove. This volume, like the first, is the outcome of Mr. Baker’s travels and researches in Bohemia. Readers and students of Scandinavian litera- ture and history may note that they may obtain catalogues of Scandinavian books at the Skandi- navisk Antiquaria, 49, Gothersgade, Copen- hagen. Mr. Robert Sherard has now completed his biographical study of Alphonse Daudet. It will be published this autumn with a portrait, a fac- simile letter, and other illustrations. Mr. John Codman Roper, author of “The Campaign of Waterloo,” has written the “Story of the American Civil War.” It will be pub- lished by Putnams in three volumes. Mr. James Field has collected his papers, which appeared originally in Scribner's, into a volume, which will be published by the same house. Max O’Rell's new book “John Bull and Co. : the Great Colonial Branches of the Firm,” will be issued simultaneously in England, America, and France. Mr. John Burroughs has a new volume of “Outdoor” essays in the press (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.). Three other “Outdoor” books are announced in the New York Critic from the same firm. The “Book Hunter in London,” by W. Roberts, will appear in the autumn. It will form a companion to M. Octave Uzanne’s “Physio- logie des Quais de Paris,” better known under the title of the English translation of “The Book-Hunter in Paris.” In this contribution to the history of book-collecting the results of many years’ inveterate book-hunting will be chronicled, and the experiences not only of the compiler but of many past and present distinguished “hunters” will be laid under con- tribution. The introductory chapter takes the form of an essay on “The Theory and Practice of Book-Hunting.” This is followed by a disserta- tion on book-hunting in London from the earliest times to the eighteenth century. Other chapters deal with book auctions and auctioneers; with some famous collections and collectors; with book thieves; with bookstalling in London; with famons booksellers; with lady book-col- lectors; with the prices paid for particular books in past and present times, booksellers' catalogues, and other interesting matters connected with the subject. In a book covering such a wide field it is naturally impossible for the efforts of one man to gather into his net all the numerous incidents and anecdotes connected with book- hunting in London. The author, therefore, invites any information or suggestion sent without delay to him, as well as the loan or indication of rare or curious pictorial illustrations of the subject, at 86, Grosvenor-road, S.W. A new method of publication is about to be put to the test by the Roxburghe Press, of 3, Victoria- street, Westminster, and 32, Charing-cross, S.W., who announce a “time ’’ limited edition of  ## p. 135 (#149) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. I 35 “Phantasms,” a volume of original stories, illustrating posthumous personality and character, by Wirt Gerrare, author of “Rufus's Legacy.” Instead of confining the edition to a predeter- mined number of copies, the publishers will supply booksellers until Dec. 31 next, after which date all sales by the publishers will be stopped, and no other edition will be issued during the continuance of the copyright. The sole edition will be popular and modern in price and form, and the limit is made with a view to guard booksellers from deterioration in value of any stock carried over at the end of the season, and as affording a safer investment than offered by the purchase of first editions, subject to cheap reissues and remainder sales. The Roxburghe Press have in preparation “The Magistracy,” being a directory and biographical dictionary of the justices of the peace of the United Ringdom, revised to date and edited by Charles F. Rideal; “Evolution,” a retrospect by the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., being the address (slightly revised by the author) recently delivered before the Royal British Association; a second edition of the “Law and Lawyers of Pickwick,” by Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P., slightly revised, with an original drawing by the author of Mr. Sergeant Buzfuz; a third edition of “Wellerisms” from “Pickwick” and “Master Humphrey's Clock,” selected by Charles F. Rideal,” with an introduction by Charles Kent and an entirely original drawing of “Sam Weller,” by George Cruickshank, jun. ; “Woman Regained,” a novel of artistic life by George Barlow; a second revised edition of “Charles Dickens' Heroines and Women Folk,” some thoughts concerning them, by Charles F. Rideal, with original drawings or Edith Dombey and Dot ; “The Reunion of Christendom,” by Cardinal Vaughan, being the slightly revised address recently delivered before the Catholic Truth Society; “Young Gentlemen of to-day,” by Charles F. Rideal, illustrated by “Crow’”; “Phantasms,” Original stories illustrating posthumous character and personality, by Wirt Gerrare, a time-limited 'edition ; “The Mountain Lake and other Poems,” from the works of Friedrich von Bodenstedt, translated by Mrs. Percy Preston, an edition limited to 450 copies; “Told at the Club,” some short stories, being No. 1 of the “Pot-boiler” series, by Charles F. Rideal; “Accidents,” by I)r. G. M. Lowe, lecturer and examiner to the St. John Ambulance Association; “Young Babies, their Food and Troubles,” by Mrs. Truman and Miss Edith Sykes; and a second edition of 5000 copies of “Food for the Sick” by the same authors; “The Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian Citizen,” by Edward Callow. CORRESPONDENCE, I.—PRoof SHEETs. AY I suggest to writers, especially writers of fiction, that it would be a kindness to - send their proof sheets to any hospital they may choose, for the use of the patients P The lightness of the sheets is a distinct advantage for those who have to read in bed. F. M. PEARD. II.-PERSONAL. Will you allow me, through the medium of The Author, to thank the Society of Authors and their secretary for aiding me to obtain an acknowledgment from two papers of infringe- ment of my copyright in title and matter. The first, a paper, boldly adapted my title of “By the Western Sea.” The second, a case of a reprint of a Canadian article entitled “ British v. German,” which is bodily taken from pages 25, 27, 31, 33, 34, 45, 46, and 95, of my “Our Foreign Competitors.” Individually I doubt if I could have obtained these public acknowledg- ments, as one editor laughed at my first very polite note suggesting an infringement of copy- right had been committed; but the letters from the Society’s secretary had a salutary effect, and tardy and reluctant justice was done to my little book and title, and the acknowledgment given as wished. JAMES BAKER. III.-GEORGE ELIOT. It is a matter of wonder to me that Miss Gilchrist's remarks on George Eliot in the July Author have remained unchallenged. As a lover of George Eliot let me say that I cannot discover the “barren fatalism” in her work. Why, the great difference between the ancients and George Eliot stands in the fact that the former depicted mortals at the mercy of a predestined fate outside their own personality, and independent of it altogether, men and women like CEdipus or Helen being “sculptured in black marble on the wall of their fate,” while the George Eliot made man master of his fate. Let me refer you to Sidney Lanin's masterly essays on the English novel on the subject of George Eliot : “An me peut €tre juste qu’envers ceux qu’en aime.” S. S. Will “Sans Souci.” be so good as to give the Editor an opportunity of answering her letter of Aug. 5* IV.-HEREDITARY GENIUS. The Rev. Dr. Bell, of Cheltenham, writes: “In your brief notice of Lady Dufferin's  ## p. 136 (#150) ############################################ 136 THE AUTHOR. Memoirs, by her son, you ask : “Is not the Sheridan family the only family on record which has continued to hand down its best charac- teristics from one generation to another ?” May I in reply remind you that genius has shown itself to be hereditary in the family of the late Mr. Thomas Arnold, the eminent head master of Rugby, and author of “A History of Rome,” “Lectures on Modern History,” and other valu- able works. Mr. Matthew Arnold, the distin- guished poet, essayist, and critic, was his son, and his place in English Literature has become assured. Another son, Mr. Thomas Arnold, is well known in the literary world as the editor of Pope, the author of a volume on Literature, and is now engaged on a work, likely to add to his reputation, for the Rolls Office on the history of Bury St. Edmunds. His daughter, Mrs. Hum- phry Ward, has won herself a name in literature as the authoress of three novels which have commanded a large share of popular attention, and made their mark in the domain of fiction. Mr. Oakley Arnold Forster, a son of Mr. William Arnold, and grandson of Dr. Thomas Arnold, has a seat in the House of Commons for West Belfast, and has already shown distinct states- manlike qualities which augur well for his future, He also has proved himself possessed of literary powers. All who have the privilege of intimacy with the daughters of Dr. Arnold, one of whom is the widow of the eminent statesman the Right Hon. William Forster, will bear ready witness to their culture, charm, and intellectual powers, both of thought and expression, though those have been confined to the quiet sphere of home, and not sought the suffrages of the public. I may say, however, that Mrs. Forster has edited a new edition of her father's “Sermons on the Interpre- tation of Scripture and the Christian Life.” Surely you will allow that in the Arnold family, as well as in the Sheridan, literary genius is here- ditary. The great grandchildren are too young as yet to prove by their works what they can achieve.” W.—A NEW FoEM OF PAPER FOR TYPE- WIRITER.S. All who use a typewriter know what an amount of time is consumed in putting in, adjusting, and taking out the sheets of finished copy, particularly if one is duplicating by the use of carbon paper. I wish to suggest an improvement which I venture to think will save much time, particularly in MSS. of great length. Instead of the ordinary sheets of paper cut to 8in. by Ioin., or foolscap, why could we not have paper furnished us on rolls 8in. wide, and in lengths that would make IOO or 200 ordinary manuscript pages. The paper could then be put on a little adjustable reel and fed to the machine as the huge rolls of paper are fed to: printing machines. To make a duplicate copy two reels will be required, one placed above the other, and between these a long strip of carbon paper may be inserted. The sheets may be after- wards torn off as one tears off a cheque. I believe this to be perfectly practicable and intend to give it a trial, and will let your readers know the result of my experiment (with your permis- sion) later. J. H. H.ILL. *– ~ *-* *=s NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS, Theology. A KEY TO THE BIBLE. By an Oxford M.A. Marshall. Is. DAVIE, REv. G. J. John Maldonatus’s Commentary on the Holy Gospels. Translated and edited. St. Matthew’s, Gospel. Part IV. Paper covers. John Hodges. Is. net. GIRDLESTONE, CANON. New edition. R.T.S. HEDLEY, JOHN C. A Retreat, consisting of Thirty-three Discourses with Meditations, for the use of the Clergy, Religious, and Others. Burns and Oates. 6s. HOLLAND, REv. W. 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