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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) 1898-07-01 Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages Page range in volume 29–56 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18980701 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin TTbe Hutbot\ (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vol. IX.—No. 2.] JULY i, 1898. [Price Sixpence. For the Opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the Authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the collective opinions of the Committee unless they are officially signed by G. Herbert Thring, Sec. THE 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 should 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. GENERAL MEMORANDA. Ij^OE some years it has been the practioe to insert, in ! every number of The Author, certain " General Con- siderations," Warnings, Notices, &o., for the guidance of the reader. It has been objected as regards these warnings that the trioks or frauds against which they are directed cannot all be guarded against, for obvious reasons. It is, however, well that they should be borne in mind, and if any publisher refuses a clause of precaution he simply reveals his true character, and should be left to carry on his business in his own way. Let us, however, draw up a few of the rules to be observed in an agreement. There are three methods of dealing with literary property:— I. That of selling it outright. This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent. II. A profit-sharing agreement. In this case the following rules should be attended to: (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements VOL. IX. in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise- ments. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for " office expenses," unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the futnre to any one eolioitor or dootor! (7.) To stamp the agreement. HI. The royalty system. In this system, which has opened the door to a most amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the anthor's ignorance, it is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly the truth. From time to time the very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the "Cost of Production." Let no one, not even the youngest writer, sign a royalty agreement without finding out what it gives the publisher as well as himself. It has been objeoted that these precautions presuppose a great success for the book, and that very few books indeed attain to this great success. That is quite true: but there is always this uncertainty of literary property that, although the works of a great many authors carry with them no risk at all, and although of a great many it is known within a few copies what will be their minimum circulation, it is not known what will be their maximum. Therefore every author, for every book, should arrange on the chance of a success which will not, probably, come at all; but which may come. The four points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are:— (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement means. (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld. (3.) That there shall be no secret profits. (4.) That nothing shall be charged which has not been actually paid—for instance, that there shall be no charge for advertisements in the publisher's own organs and none for exchanged advertisements and that all discounts shall be duly entered. If these points are carefully looked after, the author may rest pretty well assured that he is in right hands. At the same time he will do well to send his agreement to the secretary before he signs it. Ii 2  ## p. 30 (#42) ############################################## 3o THE AUTHOR. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. I. "T7WERY 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 Bought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member 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 oost to the member. 2. Bemember 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 bo 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. Bemember 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 advanoing the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen- dence of the writer. 8. Send to the Editor of The Author notes of every- thing important to literature that yon may hear or meet with. 9. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fireproof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con- fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:—(1) To read and advise upon agreements and publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to agreements. 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 communioate 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 present location of the Authors' Club is at 3, White- hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for information, rules of admission, Ac. Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they have paid their subscriptions for the year? 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 following warning. 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 oome, 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 themselves into literary bondage for three or five years? "Those who possess the 'Cost of Production' requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 1 per cent." This clause was inserted three or four years ago. Estimates have, however, recently been obtained which show that the figures in the book may be relied on as nearly correct: as near as is passible. Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged in the " Cost of Production" for advertising. Of oourse, 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, by 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. NOTICES. THE 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 6*. 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 thoir names and the special subjects on which they are willing to write? ;»•<: LITERARY PROPERTY. 1.—Report of the Sub-Committee on the Proposals of the Booksellers' Associa- tion, Approved by the Committee. THE Sub-Committee for the consideration of the discount and other methods connected with the bookselling trade have had under their consideration a scheme which has been pre- pared by two or three booksellers, considered by the Booksellers' Association, and by one meeting  ## p. 31 (#43) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 3» (at least) of local booksellers, by whom it has been approved. The objects of the scheme are as follows :— (1) To give booksellers the same profit off all books (except educational books at 6*. and under) that they at present receive off 6*. novels; while the publishers are not asked to give better terms than they do at present. (2) To enable booksellers to charge more for credit than for cash. Scheme. I. Odd books to be abolished, and all looks to lie supplied at the average present terms. II. The invoiced price of each book to be the lowest cash price to the public. (This rule not necessarily to apply to books supplied in bulk to schools and School Boards.) Thus— (a) Net books would be invoiced at full pub- lished prices. (ft) Novels and similar non-net books at 6s. and under would be invoiced at 2 5 per cent. off published prices. (r) Non-net books above 6s. (on which the price to the public does not need to be "cut so fine ") would be invoiced at not more than 2d. in the i*. off published prices. III. A. minimum trade discount of 20 per cent. to be allowed at settlement to those booksellers icho agree not to sell books to the public below the invoiced price, and to them only. (In the case of educational books published at 6s. and under, the discount at settlement might be 15 per cent. instead of 20 per cent.). The settlement discount for prompt payment might be arranged by publishers and booksellers individually. A Specimen Invoice submitted with the "Scheme.'' Thus. To A. B. (Bookseller). "Tom Jones," a novel, 6s. 4*. 6d. Terms.—A trade discount of 20 per cent. will be allowed off this amount conditionally that the books are not sold beloio the invoiced price of 4s. 6d. Acceptance of goods to be deemed agreement. In addition, a settlement discount of 5 per cent. for prompt payment after the monthly statement is received.* The objects of this Scheme must commend themselves to all who are interested in the welfare • By the words "the books" is meant "this book " or "those books" included in the invoice. By "prompt pay- ment " is meant within a fortnight. of booksellers—i.e., to the author, the publisher, the printer, the paper-maker, the bookbinder, and the Press which receives the advertisements. All alike must be united in desiring to promote the welfare of the bookseller, on whom mainly depend the material interests of literature. Jn any scheme with the praiseworthy object of improving the position of the bookseller two points must be steadily borne in mind: (1) Freedom of contract; and (2) freedom of trade. Thus, it is necessary that the author, the publisher, and the bookseller must be free to contract with one another to produce and sell on whatever terms may be agreed upon. It is not rijrht, nor can it be tolerated, that any one of the three contracting parties shall seek to control the other two and make them bound in the general administration of their business. Thus, the plan recently proposed by the Pub- lishers' Association was objected to by the Sub- Committee on grounds which we need not here repeat at length. The two principal re 1 sons were the state of dependence to which the bookseller would be reduced—i.e., he would be forbidden the least freedom of dealing with his own while he would be condemned to bear on his own shoulders, as he does now, a greater share of risk than is borne by the publisher; and, secondly, the impossibility of carrying out the proposed coercion. It was also pointed out that the pro- posed relief to the bookseller meant at least an equal, if not a greater, increase of profit to the publisher, while nothing whatever was said as to any corresponding advantage that was to be offered to the author. I. The plan before us does not involve any coercion. (1) The author nead not adopt it. It is an individual offer controlled by the ordi- nary rules of trade. This fact is in its favour. (2) The publisher is free to offer his wares, subject to price and conditions. (3) The bookseller is free to accept or decline. II. The next point is that it recognises the 3<7. discount in the case of books in general literature published at 6s. and under. It should thus conciliate those discount book- sellers -who have so long and so earnestly pro- tested against any interference with their freedom of action. III. In the case of a book published at a higher price, it is proposed to let it be sold at a discount of 2d. in the shilling only. Many book- sellers contend that people who can afford to buy a book published at 24*. will not mind much  ## p. 32 (#44) ############################################## 32 THE AUTHOR. whether they get a discount of 2d. or yl.; i.e., whether they pay 18*. or 20*. for the book. IV. The proposal to abolish the " odd copy ": The reasons for this step commend themselves strongly to us. The present system gives a great advantage to booksellers who can afford to order 25 copies, which they get as 24; or 13, which they get as 12; or in some cases 7 copies, which they get a.« 6^. But it is only in the case of books in large demand that the bookseller can afford to order thirteen copies. In the case of highly priced books he cannot think of taking them except by ones and twos. Taking figures that have been supplied to us, the result is that the profit which he gets on, say, a 12s. book taken in single copies is no more than what he gets on a 6s. book. Again, we are assured that with the odd copy the profit on a 5s. book is not equal to that made on two books at 2s. 6d. And the profit on a "js. 6rf. book without the odd copy is no more than that on a 5*. book with the odd copy, and that on a 15*. book without the odd copy is less than on two books at ys. 6d. Now, with a uniform price, and without any odd copy at all, the profit would advance with the price and the bookseller would have a greater inducement to push the higher priced books. There is another argument against the odd copy. It is from the author's point of view. Although the odd copy is by no means a universal privilege to the bookseller—because, as we have said, he cannot afford to order thirteen at a time—some publishers are endeavouring to introduce in their royalty agreements the words "thirteen as twelve "—as if it was a sort of custom of the trade. This practice deprives the author, without the least right, of no less than 8 per cent. of his dues. The author is no party to an arrange- ment which, as booksellers contend, does more harm than good; and if the practice is continued he must refuse agreements when this fine is inflicted. With these considerations before us the Com- mittee are strongly in favour of the abolition of the "odd copy " altogether. V. In the opinion of your Committee the Scheme requires to be strengthened or altered by the addition of two important clauses. These are— (a) A time limit. It is only reasonable that a bookseller who has bought books under the conditions set forth above should be free after a certain time to sell at any price he pleases. The time limit will vary with different kinds of books. When a book appears in the clearance catalogues of Mudie or Smith, it might be necessary for a bookseller to reduce his price if h would sell the book at all. Your Com- mittee are not prepared to define a time limit for any classes of books, but they must call attention to the point as one on which the success of the method proposed must eventually depend. < (6) A method of letting booksellers have books on " sale or return." This was recommended by your Sub-Committee in their previous report. Kecent events have only made them stronger in the belief that such a plan must be brought into general operation. The number of books now published is so enormous, that no bookseller, however wealthy, can afford to buy and to offer for sale all the books which he would like to have in stock. The high- priced books he supplies as a rule only when they are ordered. Thus there are hundreds of books which are produced but not published. That is to say they are not offered to the public. Unless a book is offered to the public it cannot be said to be published. Or, to put it differently, we may define publication as "production, exhibition, and attempt to sell." The first is done by the printer; the second and third by the bookseller. If the bookseller cannot do his share, the book might as well not be produced at all. It is said that books on " sale or return" come home soiled and spoiled. Perhaps so; but not many. The proportion would be comparatively small. And, in any case, these books would have become remainder stock. If a book is a good book there would be but little risk. If it is a poor book the risk is not increased, because the remainder stock would in any case swallow the whole that was lost. And the great advantage remains that the local bookseller would be enabled to make a good show of all the books worth showing. It is for the publishers with the booksellers to devise the details of this system. But in a general adoption of the "sale or return" system the bookseller must have the freedom of choice. That is to say, he must not be bound to accept any quantity of rubbish that may be shovelled on to his shelves. It is the opinion of this Committee that the introduction of some general system of " sale or return" and the abolition of the " odd copy," are essential to the prosperity of the retail book- trade, and that if these general reforms are intro- duced, the terms of sale for each book should be matter of voluntary contract between publisher and booksellers, as suggested in the Scheme herein considered. By order of the Committee, G. Herbert Thring, Secretary.  ## p. 33 (#45) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 33 II.—1)eaft Form of suggested .Royalty Agreement between Author and Pub- lisher, DRAWN UP BY THE COUNCIL OF THE Publishers' Association and submitted to and approved by Mr. Joseph Walton, Q.C., and Mr. Arthur R. Ingpen. Royalty Agreement. Memorandum of Agreement made this day of between (hereinafter termed the Author) of the one part, and (hereinafter termed the Publisher) of the other part, whereby it is mutually agreed between the parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors, administrators, and assigns (or succes- sors, as the case may be), as follows:— 1. The Publisher shall at- his own risk and expense, and with due diligence, produce and publish the work at present intituled by and use his best endeavours to sell the name. 2. The Author guarantees to the Publisher that the said work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing copyright, and that it contains nothing of a libellous or scandalous character, and that he will indemnify the Publisher from all suits, claims and proceedings, damages, and costs which may be made, taken, or incurred by or against him on the ground that the work is an infringement of copyright, or contains anything libellous or scandalous. 3. The Publisher shall during thevlegal term of copyiight have the exclusive right of producing and publishing the work in the Inglish language throughout the world. The Publisher shall have the entire control of the publication and sale and terms of sale of the book, and the Author shall not during the continuance of this agree- ment (without the consent of the Publisher) publish any abridgment, translation, or dramatised version of the work. i- Comments by the Secretary of the Sociirra. Firstly, then, the parties to the agreement. "It is agreed for themselves, their respective administrators, executors, and assigns, or suc- cessors, as the case may be." It is the greatest mistake for an author Ui contract with the executors, administrators, and assigns, or successors of a publisher. The con- tract is between principal and agent, and is a personal contract, and should be maintained as a personal contract. Supposing an author were dealing with one of the best publishing houses in England, and the partners of that publishing house, lor some reason or other, desired to retire from the business; to clear up matters they might put up the contracts for sale by auction or otherwise. Under these circumstances an author might find the right to publish his work pur- chased by some enterprising tradesman, wh*i would bring it out in a manner and form which would be utterly repulsive to the author, and he would have no means of stopping him; and the 6ame thing might occur should a firm go bank- rupt. It is, therefore, a most dangerous thing W allow the agent who is dealing with the property to have a right to assign his agency. In Clause i the publisher undertakes to pro- duce the work with due diligence. These words, as far as they go, are satisfactory, but the clause is not nearly comprehensive enough. The follow- ing points are suggested for consideration: that a date ought to be fixed on or before which the book should be produced; that the form in which the edition is to appear should also be stated, and the price at which it is to be sold to the public. Clause 2 may, on the whole, be passed, with the single exception of the words "incurred by." It is fair as between the parties that the publisher should be protected from all suite against him, but there is no reason why the author should indemnify him from all expenses incurred by him, as he might incur unnecessary expenses without the sanction of the author. There ought, therefore, to be some words of limitation by which the author has a voice in any action taken by the publisher. Clause 3.—It is difficult to deal with Clause 3 without, in fact, re-drafting the whole of the agreement, but it should be pointed out that the rights which the author is expected to transfer by this agreement include the rights of production in. Tauchnitz form and in America. Such rights are generally left in the hands of an agent, and much better so than in the hands of publishers, for this reason—that a publisher does not,as a general rule, undertake the work of the literary agent; that lu*  ## p. 34 (#46) ############################################## 34 J HE AUTHOR. office is not to place literary work in other hands, but to produce literary work for the author; that work of this kind left in the hands of publishers is not likely to receive anything like the same atten- tion as it is if left in the hands of a literary agent; that the publisher is the only person who gains by having control of this work, and that the author loses by leaving it in his hands. It should be further pointed out that the publisher does not anywhere in the agreement undertake to secure the American copyright for the author, nor even to do his best to obtain it. It may pay an English publisher better to sell sheets or stereos to America, and pay the author a royalty, as per Clause 4 (d), " of per cent. of the net amount of the profits remaining after deducting all ex- penses relating thereto." It should be added, although no prices are stated in this agreement, that for this agency work, while the literary agent charges 10 per cent., the publisher actually asks from 30 to 50 per cent.; out of a large series of agreements in my hands from all sorts and conditions of publishers the lowest charge for this literary agency business has been 25 per cent., and this only in one case. The last part of the clause is extraordinary. It seems astounding that the author should not be allowed to deal with the translation and dramati- sation of his own work without the consent of the publisher. An author must be mad to part with his dramatic rights, perhaps more important than all the rest put together. With regard to the question of abridgment even, it is not fair that the author should be bound not to abridge the work unless the publisher is reciprocally bound not to obtain an abridgment or to run any other technical work which is likely to conflict with the author's. So far, this clause has been considered from the general point of view, but from the point of view of the writ-r of technical works, educational, medical, theological, &c., &c., the clause is still more disastrous. Under no circumstances should a writer of technical books hand over to his publisher so large a right of publication. It should be limited, especially as to the number of the edition, giving, if the author thinks fit, an equitable right to produce further editions. A technical writer must keep the command of his work, must be able, if necessary, to alter, amend, amplify. He cannot do this with a free hand if he does not keep undivided control. The publishers' answer will be: "But this is provided for by Clauses 5 and 7." But it is submitted that it is one thing for the author to have unfettered judgment, and another thing to be forced to revise at request of his publisher or sop his work arbitrarily revised by  ## p. 35 (#47) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 35 4. The Publisher agrees to pay the Author the following royalties, that is to say :— (a) A royalty of on the published price of all copies (13 being reckoned as 12 or 25 as 24, as the case may be) of the British edition sold beyond copies. (6) In the event of a cheaper edition being issued, a royalty of per cent. on the published price. (r) In the event of the Publisher disposing of copies or editions at a reduced rate for sale in the United States, or elsewhere, or as remainders, a royalty of per cent. of the amount realised by such sale. (d) In the event of the Publisher realising profits from the sale, with consent of the Author, of early sheets, serial or other rights, or plates for production of the work in the United States or elsewhere, or from claims for infringement of copy- right, a royalty of per cent. of the net amount of such profits remaining after deducting all expenses relating thereto. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away for review or other purposes. VOL. IX. another. Whilst considering this question, it should be mentioned that one of the peculiarities of publishers' contracts is that in the case of technical works a clause is nearly always intro- duced conveying the copyright to the publisher. An agreement containing such a clause should never be signed by an author. Clause 4.—In Section (a) the royalty is to be paid thirteen copies as twelve or twenty-five as twenty-four. The alternative appears to be left wholly to the discretion of the publisher, who naturally will prefer to pay on thirteen as twelve. Royalties should never be calculated on this basis. All the royalty accounts put forward by the Authors' Society have been (wrongly) reckoned on the basis that the royalty is paid on every copy sold, it having been previously taken into account in the Cost of Production that the publisher had to sell thirteen for twelve to the booksellers. This they do not really do, except they sell in quantities, and a great many booksellers are unable to afford to buy in quantities; therefore, in taking the royalty to be paid as in Section (a), the publisher is not only profiting by the liberal estimates of the Society with regard to royalties, but is also endeavouring to take in an extra 8 per cent., and the extra amount on those copies, of which there are miny, sold in less numbers than twelve. This fact should also be made clear, that some of the older and more reliable firms have never put forward in their agreements a clause on this basis, but have always paid on every copy. The clause is also drafted that the royalty should be paid on all copies seld beyond a certain number. This seems to imply that no book can afford to have a royalty paid on it from the beginning. Of course this is not the case, but when such an agreement is placed before an author as an equitable agreement, these points of equity should be clearly explained. If the royalty is to be paid after the sale of a certain number (generally such a number whose sale will cover the cost of production), then the author must take care (1) that a number beyond the number specified is printed (2) that he gets a proportionately higher royalty for foregoing it so long—e.g., he must then get 50 per cent. of the trade price. All royalty agreements should further have the royalty increasing with the sale if they cannot bear a high royalty from the beginning. A royalty increasing with the sale is certainly a fair arrangement as between author and publisher. Section (b.)—The issue of a cheap edition appears under this section, as, indeed, under the drafting of the whole agreement, to lie entirely with the publisher. This is by no means a satisfactory arrangement. Here, again, there is  ## p. 36 (#48) ############################################## 36 THE AUTHOR. 5. The Author agrees to revise the first, and, if necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter that may be needful to keep the work up to date. 6. The Author agrees that all costs of correc- tions and alterations in the proof sheets exceeding no proposed increasing royalty according to the number of the cheap edition sold. Section (c).—It is a common thing for the author to receive a share of the nett amount realised by the sale of remainders, but royalties as a general rule are paid on the published price of the sale of the book in the United States. An author should not allow such a loose clause to be in any agreement with the words "copies or editions sold at a reduced rate should be subject to — per cent. of the amount realised on such sale." Who is to decide what is a reduced rate? There are many different methods of selling books to the trade; many of these might be called books sold at a reduced rate. Under these cir- cumstances it is unfair to the author to obtain a share merely of the amount realised. Royalties must be paid always on the published price, except in the case of a remainder. Section (c) therefore should allow a share of the amount realised on bond fide remainder sales. The rest should be altered. The case of re- mainder sales should be distinguished with great care from the sale of books at reduced prices; this clause cannot but tend to confuse the two issues. Section (d).—If the publisher is successful in doing the agency work stated in that section, it is fair that he should have 10 per cent. commis- sion on the returns, in accordance with the charges of all ordinary agents. He might also perhaps be fairly entitled to a 10 per cent. commission if he was mainly instrumental in recovering money for infringement of copyright. The balance would be paid to the author. The final section of Clause 4 is a little vague. Of course, no royalty ought to be paid to the author on copies given away by him or sent for review, but the words "other purposes" might cover a good deal more than this, and are insuffi- ciently precise. Clause 5.—The wording of the fifth clause is not very satisfactory. In the case of technical works, to which a clause like this specially refers, the publishers should in the first instance be only given a right to publish a limited number of copies, and the author might in equity give him the option of producing further editions, subject to certain limitations. Under those circumstances the right to revise would lie within the author's hands, as it should do with the creator of any work, who ought alone to have power to add or subtract from what he has already put before the world. This has all been explained when com- menting on Clause 3, but the principle is of such importance that it is worth while to repeat it. Clause 6.—The author is not safeguarded hero. Could it not be provided that periodically (say  ## p. 37 (#49) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 37 25 per cent. of the cost of composition shall be deducted from the royalties payable to him. 7. In the event of the Author neglecting to revise an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or in the event of the Author being unable to do so by reason of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing each such future edition for press shall be borne by the Author, and shall be deducted from the royalties payable to him. 8. During the continuance of this agreement, the copyright of the work shall be vested in the who may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. 9. The Publisher shall make up the account annually to and deliver the same to the Author within months thereafter, an 1 pay the balance due to the Author on 10. If the Publisher shall at the end of three years from the date of publication, or at any time thereafter, give notice to the Author that in his opinion the demand for the work has ceased, or if the Publisher shall for sis months after the work is out of print decline or, after due notice, neglect to publish a new edition, then and in either of such cases this agreement shall termi- nate, and, on the determination of this agreement in the above or any other manner, the right to print and publish the work shall revert to the Author, and the Author, if not then registered, shall be entitled to be registered as the proprietor thereof, and to purchase from the Publisher forth- with the plates or moulds and engravings (if any) produced specially for the work, at half-cost of production, and whatever copies the Publisher may have on hand at cost of production, and if the Author does not within three months pur- chase and pay for the said plates or moulds, engravings, and copies, the Publisher may at any time thereafter dispose of such plates or moulds, engravings, and copies, or melt the plates, paying VOL. IX. weekly) during the printing the' author be informed of the cost of corrections? He must in any case be informed what is the cost of com- position, and what is the connection between corrections and shillings. Clause 7 might, under certain circumstances— that is if the publisher has purchased the copy- right—be inserted in an agreement, but in the present form of royalty agreement it should be struck out. There is no need for it. Its imprac- ticability with regard to technical writers during their lifetime has been explained. Clause 8.—There is no neud either for the insertion of Clause 8. The copyright is the author's, and must remain so. The clause is inserted evidently with the idea of the copyright being vested in the name of the publisher. This would be a mistake. Clause 9, the account clause, is so beautifully vague that it is hardly worth while to comment upon it, except to point out that it is a mistake to have accounts made up annually delivered three months after they are made up, with the amounts due payable three months after that,, making it possible for the publisher to retain the author's money for nearly eighteen months. This is a common account clause amongst publishers* and no doubt they find it exceedingly useful to have the control of the author's money for so long a period. The mere interest on such money would go a long way to pay the office expenses in a big office. But the inconvenience to the author, not to mention the danger of bankruptcy or similar contingencies to the firm, is very considerable. Clause 10.—The first part of Clause 10 is certainly necessary for the protection of the author, as it would be very awkward supposing the publisher refused to produce the book when the author had a certain market for it. If, how- ever, as in the case of some educational works,, the publisher desired still to maintain the control of the market, so as not to allow the author to republish a book in competition with one which the publisher had already before the public, it would be easy to evade the clause by having a few copies ready on hand. The latter part of the clause, however, could not possibly be equitable as between author and publisher. It is quite possible that the moulds and engravings might be so worn that they would not be worth half the cost of production, and the copies of the book that the publisher had on hand might not be worth the whole cost of production, as it is quite possible that they might have been damaged or otherwise defaced. If, therefore, the author refused to pur- chase the books at the cost of production on account of some damage that they had received, it e 2  ## p. 38 (#50) ############################################## 3S THE AUTHOR. to the Author in lieu of royalties per cent. of the net proceeds of such sale. 11. If any difference shall arise between the Author and the Publisher touching the meaning of this agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889. 12. The term "Publisher" throughout this agreement shall be deemed to include the person or persons or company for the time being carrying on the business of the said under as well its present as any future style, and the benefit of this agreement shall betrausmissible accordingly. As witness the hands of the parties. would be possible for the author in reproducing the work with some other publisher to be under- sold. The author should have the option of taking over the stock aud plates at a valuation. The danger, however, is not a very large one, as if the book was in such a cond tion that the author dt sired to bring out a new edition and the publisher did not, it would most probably argue that the book had very nearly reached the end of its sale, in which case there would most probably be only a few copies on hand. The danger, how- ever, is one that should be guarded against. Clause 11 ought to be struck out, as, until a dispute arises, it is impossible to say whether it is a fit subject for arbitration; besides, arbitration is more expensive than an action at law. Clause 12 should on no account stand. It is most important, as explained when discussing the parties to this agreement, that the contract should be a personal contract, and this point should always bo before authors when signing agree- ments. They should under no circumstances allow such a cliuse to pass. This is a fair comment on the royalty agree- ment as it stands. Many suggestions might be made as to the insertion of various clauses, and the protection of the author on other points. But, as stated in the opening sentences, these are faults of omission, and the agreement has only been dealt with as regards the drafted clauses. It might be well to mention that some definite time should be fixed on, before which a publisher should not be allowed to make remainder sales. Draft Form of suggested Sharing Profits Agreement between Author and Pub- lisher, DRAWN UP BY THE COUNCIL OF THE Publishers' Association, and submitted to and approved by Mr. Joseph Walton, Q.C., and Mr. Arthur R. Ingpen. Sharing Profits Agreement. Memorandum of Agreement made the day of between (hereinafter termed the Author) of the one part and (hereinafter termed the Publisher) of the other part, whereby it is mutually agreed between the parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors, administrators, and assigns (or suc- cessors, as the case may be), as follows:— The second agreement is one which has to do with the division of profits. This system is always a bad one between author and publisher, as likely to lead to disputes on accounts, and as giving scope for a great many minor difficulties. An author should not, except under very extra- ordinary circumstances, enter into any agreement with a publisher for the sharing of profits. Under no condition ought he to enter into an agreement such as this, although the Publishers' Associa- tion has put it forward as equitable between the parties.  ## p. 39 (#51) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 39 1. The Publisher shall, at his own risk and expense, and with due diligence, produce and publish the work at present intituled by and use his best endeavours to sell the same. 2. The Author guarantees to the Publisher that the said work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing copyright, and that it contains nothing of a iibellous or scandalous character, and that he will indemnify the Publisher from all suits, claims, proceedings, damages, and costs which may be made, taken, or incurred by or against him on the ground that the work is an infringement of copyright, or contains anything libellous or scandalous. 3. The Publisher sLall, during the legal term of copyright, have the exclusive right of pro- ducing and publishing the work in the English language throughout the world. The Publisher shall have the entire control of the publication and sale and terms of sale of the book, and the Author shall not during the continuance of this Agree- ment (without the consent of the Publisher) pub- lish any abridgment, translation, or dramatised version of the work. 4. The net profits arising from the sale of the work and remaining after deduction of the expenses of production and publication, shall be divided into parts, of which part shall be paid to the Author and the remaining part shall belong to and be retained by the Publisher. 5. The expenses of production shall betaken to mean the actual cost of printing, paper, binding, illustrating, and advertising, and all incidental expenditure, and, where the Publisher produces the work wholly or in part on his own premises, such cost shall be calculated at current fair and reasonable trade charges. With regard to the parties to the agreement, and with regard to Clauses 1,2, and 3, the same remarks that have been made on the royalty agree- ment will hold good. The fact that the^ same clauses are inserted in the 'share profit agreement does not in any way alter the position. Clause 4.—With regard to Clause 4, which is the first clause which refers especially to this agreement, little can be said. How the profits should be divided is a matter of arrangement between the parties, and it is only possible there- fore to draft a general clause. Clause 5.—With regard to Clause 5, the author should make it essential that he should know approximately the cost of production of the book beforehand, so that it would be impossible for the publisher to charge what he has not paid. This is provided against where the publisher produces the work wholly or in part on his own premises; but supposing it is not produced wholly or in part on his own premises, the same danger of an excessive cost of production would have to be met. It is a curious point that amongst those pub- lishers who do produce printed work on their own premises the cost of production is generally higher than that of printers in the open market. When the author has obtained the cost of produc- tion, and knows, as he ought to know definitely in the agreement, at what price the book is to sell, he can, on a rough calculation, reason out what the profits are likely to accrue. He must also reckon in an amount to be spent on adver- tisements. It is important that he should have some control over the advertising, that he should have a veto on the amount spent and on  ## p. 40 (#52) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 6. The expenses of publication—viz., rent, rates, and taxes of offices, clerks, travellers, warehouse- men, porters, insurance, and bad debts—shall be fixed at per cent. on the gross receipts from the sale of the work. 7. In ascertaining the net profits of the work, all discounts and allowances received and allowed by the Publisher for cash payments or otherwise shall be brought into account and be credited or debited to the work. 8. The Publisher shall account at the customary trade terms for all copies sold, but, in cases where copies have been sold for export, or at rates below the customary trade terms, as remain- ders or otherwise, such copies shall lie accounted for at the price realised. which the advertisements are allowed to appear, so that he can, if necessary, prevent the publisher charging for advertisements in his own produc- tions ox for exchanges with other papers, which cost him nothing. One publisher in a profit- sharing agreement inserts a clause allowing half the cost for advertisements inserted in his own papers, but this ought not to be allowed, as the cost of mere print and paper is a mere trifle, and the publisher is therefore tempted to advertise largely in his own papers, when such expense will probably swallow up all the profits of the book which should go into the author's pocket. Clause 6 should be removed. It is right that all the expenses that can be shown to apply to a particular book should be charged against that book, but no other expenses, and it is absurd to take other expenses at per cent. of the gross receipts from the sale of the work, especially when the work has a large sale or is a high-priced book. Why, again, should the publisher alone among tradesmen charge for his office expenses? Why does he not allow the booksellers a percentage for their office expenses? Why does not the author receive a percentage for his? Clause 7 will of course stand. Clause 8 is a very disastrous clause. Even in the hands of an honourable publisher it could not be satisfactory. Books should, as a matter of fact, be accounted for at the prices sold and not at some arbitrary price as "the customary trade terms." Customary trade terms unfortunately vary immensely, and as the definition of " customary" is a thing without variation, it is impossible to apply the adjective to "trade terms." If books are sold in numbers they are sold thirteen as twelve. If they are not sold in numbers, they are sold at the full discount price less 10 per cent., or even sometimes 12^ per cent. When books are sold thirteen as twelve they are sometimes sold less 5 per cent., and at other times less 10 per cent. off the discount price. Again, they are not always sold on the discount price. I have examples before me of a 3*. 6d. book. Some of the sales were made at 2s. 4<f., thirteen as twelve, less 10 per cent.; others were sold at 2s. 6d., thirteen as twelve, less 12^ per cent. I have another example of a book at 16*., which sold at 10s., thirteen as twelve, less 5 per cent.; and again 10s., thirteen as twelve, less 10 per cent. The words "customary trade terms" are not the only difficulty in the clause. Who is to decide what are to be called "rates below the  ## p. 41 (#53) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 9. The Author agrees to revise the first, and, if necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter that may be needful to keep the work up to date. 10. The Author agrees to bear all costs of corrections and alterations in proof sheets exceed- ing 25 per cent. of the cost of composition, and such excess shall be deducted from his share of the net profits. 11. In the event of the Author neglecting to revise an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or in the event of the Author being unable to do so by reason of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing each such future edition for press shall be borne by the Author, and shall be deducted from his share of the net profits of the work. 12. Ihiring the continuance of this Agreement, the copyright of the work shall be vested in the who may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. 13. The Publisher shall make up the account of profit and loss annually to and deliver the same to the Author within months thereafter, and the balance appearing in such account to be due to the Author shall be settled on. 14. If the Publisher shall, at the end of three years from the date of publication, or at any time thereafter, give notice to the Author that in his opinion the demand for the work has ceased, or if the Publisher shall for six months after the work is out of print decline or, after due notice, neglect to publish a new edition, then and in either of such cases this Agreement shall termi- nate, and, on the determination of this Agree- ment in the above or any other manner, the right to print and publish the work shall revert to the Author, who shall, if not then registered, be entitled to be registered as the proprietor thereof, and to purchase from the Publisher forthwith the plates or moulds, and engravings (if any) pro- duced specially for the work, at half-cost of pro- duction, and whatever copies the Publisher may have on hand at cost, and if the Author does not customary trade terms," seeing that trade terms vary so enormously? The clause is exceedingly unsatisfactory, and the only cure is for the pub- lisher to account for every copy of the book at the price at which his books must show that it was actually sold, and that he should not be allowed to sell it below a fixed price without an arrangement with the author. With regard, also, to this clause, the option of the sale at a reduced price is left entirely in the hands of the publisher. This should be with the consent of the author. Clauses 9 to 16 have all been dealt with in the article on the royalty agreement. Their situation in the half-profit agreement does not make it necessary to add anything to the remarks already made. The difficulty of allowing them to stand in the agreement has been fully set forth.  ## p. 42 (#54) ############################################## 42 THE AUTHOR within three months purchase and pay for the aid plates or moulds, engravings and copies, the Publisher may at any time thereafter dispose of such plates or moulds, engravings, and copies, or melt the plates, and the net proceeds of such sale shall be brought into the Publisher's account as part of the proceeds of sale of the work. 15. If any difference shall arise between the Author and the Publisher touching the meaning of this Agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1889. 16. The term "Publisher" throughout this Agreement shall be deemed to include the person or persons or Company for the time being carry- ing on the business of the said under as well its present as any future style, and the benefit of this Agreement shall be transmissible accordingly. As witness the hands of the parties. Suggested Terms for Producing and Pub- lishing Books on Commission where the Production and Publication are placed in the Publisher's hands, drawn up and approved by the Council of the Pub- lishers' Association. Terms for Producing and Publishing Books on Commission where the Production and Publi- cation are placed in the Publisher's Hands. 1. A fee of shall be paid to the pub- lisher previous to opening an account for its production and publication. 1. The Publisher will supply the Author with estimates for the printing, and will charge a com- mission of per cent. on the trade prices for printing, paper, binding, advertising, and other disbursements, and reserve to himself the right to take the usual credit or the equivalent cash discount for cash payments, but no such discount shall exceed 75 per cent. The next agreement that comes under discus- sion is a commission agreement. It does not appear from the statement which is endorsed upon it to have been settled by counsel on behalf of the Association, although it appears to have been approved by the Council of the Association. The agreement is headed "Terms for produc- ing and publishing books on commission where the production and publication are placed in the publisher's hands." It would be impossible to approve the terms of this agreement on behalf of an author. In Clause 1 a fee is to be paid to the publisher previous to opening an account. A great deal, of course, would depend upon the amount of the fee asked for. If the fee was a reasonable one the clause might be passed. A fee of this kind, how- ever, has generally in publishers' agreements been subsequently deducted from the commission due to the publisher, but in this agreement no such course is put forward. In Clause 2 the publisher is going to hand in estimates to the author, and on these estimates he is to charge a percentage. This course makes the publisher's and author's interests in direct variance, for the higher the estimates the greater the publisher's percentage. From this point of view the clause is a bad one, quite apart from the right of the publisher to have a percentage on the cost of production at all in addition to all the other profits that he is going to make out of  ## p. 43 (#55) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 43 3. The Author or Proprietor shall, before the work is sent to press, pay the publisher a suffi- cient sum to meet the estimated charges for production and publication, including such a sum for advertising as the Author or Proprietor may deem desirable. The Publisher will charge a commission of per cent on the sales. 5. The Publisher shall account at the customary trade terms for all copies sold, but in cases where copies have been sold for export or at rates below the customary trade terms, as remainders or otherwise, such copies shall be accounted for at such lower prices. 6. The entire management of the production, publication, and sale of the work shall be in the hands of the Publisher. the book. Again, he is to be allowed to take 7! per cent-, discount for cash payments. This discount he will be able to obtain at once, as under Clause 3 the author is to pay the publisher a sum to cover the estimated cost of production before the work is sent to press. More than this, he is to pay for the advertisements at, the same time, when it is hardly possible that the cash will be needod for advertising until three or four months later at the ear lie it. To the end of Clause 2, therefore, the publisher makes in the way of profits a fee to begin with, a percentage on the cost of production, binding, and advertis- ing, it being to the publisher's interest to make these charges as high as possible, and a discount of i\ per cent. on the same items. This is a good beginning when the publisher is to have no risk whatever as regards the book, all expenses being covered by the author. In Clause 3 the author has to pay the sum as stated above before the work is sent to press. This clause could not be reasonable as between author and publisher. That the publisher should have some part of the payment down is quite fair if he was bound to produce the work by a certaiu date, but under the terms as put forward he might put off publication for a very long time, and, in the meautime, would have the use of the author's money. That the author should have to pay the whole sum is absurd. An equitable arrangement suggested would be one-third when the agreement is made, such agreement stating definitely the date on or before which the book should be published, the second third on the final delivery of the proofs, and the final amount on the publication of the book. By Clause 4 t he publisher charges a commission on the sales of the book. This is the general form by which a publisher obtains his profits on a commission book, and is the fairest form, the interests of the publisher and author being com- mensurate. The objections to Clause 5, with regard to customary trade terms, have been put forward in commenting on Clause 8 of the half-profit agree- ment. There is no need to repeat them. Clause 6 should not, on any account, stand in an agreement of this kind. The book is the author's. He pays for it entirely. He is, how- ever, not to have any voice with regard to the papers in which the book is to be advertised, with regard to the price of the book, and other important matters. All these are to be entirely in the hands of the publisher, who possibly might sell the book at such a published price that the author could not possibly be remunerated on his  ## p. 44 (#56) ############################################## 44 THE AUTHOR. 7. Accounts will be made up annually to and rendered within months after the date of making up, and the balance due paid on 8. The Publisher does not undertake to send out copies of the work on sale or return. 9. The Publisher will not be responsible for loss or damage by fire or in transit. 10. The Publisher will deliver the five copies required by Act of Parliament for the British Museum and Public Libraries. 11. The Author shall guarantee to the Pub- lisher that the said work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing copyright, and that it ■contains nothing of a libellous or scandalous character, and that he will indemnify the Pub- lisher from all suits, claims, procedings, damages, and costs which may be made, taken, or in- curred by or against him on the ground that the work is an infringement of copyright, or contains anything libellous or scandalous. 12. When the Publisher considers that the demand for the work has ceased, the unsold stock may be returned to the Author or Proprietor, or disposed of at the Publisher's discretion, after ,due notice of such intention has been given to the Author or his representatives. outlay. Further, if the published price was reasonable, the publisher might sell it at such a reduced rate that the author could not be remu- nerated, and the author would have no voice whatever in stopping such a proceeding. The objections to Clause 7 have been put forward with regard to Clause 9 of the royalty agreement. It is a pity that Clause 8 should be inserted, as the booksellers confess that with expensive books the chance of 6ale is considerably increased by an arrangement for books being forwarded "on sale or return," for the reason that they are unable to stock expensive books. Clauses 9 and 10 may stand, with the excep- tion of wilful neglect in the case of fire, &c. Clause 11 has been already commented on as Clause 2 in the royalty agreement. Clause 12 should not be drawn in the alterna- tive. Here the stock in hand belongs to the author, and is put in the hands of the publisher as his agent. The publisher, however, may either return the unsold stock to the author or dispose of it at his discretion, which is by no means fair to the author. If the author refused to receive the unsold stock when the demand for the work had ceased, then the publisher might have the right of disposing of it at his discretion, but the publisher should not have the right in the alter- native as the clause is at present drawn. Suggested Terms for Publishing Books on Commission where the Publication only is placed in the hands of the Publisher, deawn up and approved by the council of the Publishers' Association. Terms for Publishing Books on Commission where the Publication only is placed in the hands of the Publisher. 1. A fee of shall be paid to the Pub- lisher previous to opening an account for the publication of the work. The last agreement that the publishers put forward is the commission agreement, where the publication only is placed in the hands of the publisher. Like the last one, it does not appear to have been settled by counsel, but is only put forward as approved by the Council of the Pub- lishers' Association. There is very little further to be said on the agreement beyond what has already been said on the prior agreements, especially the last one. Clauses 1, 2, and 3 have already been dealt with.  ## p. 45 (#57) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 45 2. The Publisher will charge a commission of per cent. on the sales. 3. The Publisher shall account at the customary trade terms for all copies sold, but in cases where copies have been sold for export, or at rates below the customary trade terms, as remainders or otherwise, such copies shall be accounted for at such lower prices. 4. No other name but that of shall appear on the title-page as publisher of the work, which is to be sold only through his agency. A proof of the title-page shall be submitted to and approved by the Publisher before printing off. 5. The Publisher will, if desired, act as adver- tising agent for the Author, charging a commis- sion of per cent. on the actual amount expended. 6. The entire management of the publication and sale of the work shall be in the hands of the Publisher. 7. Accounts will be made up annually to and rendered within months after the date of making up, and the balance due paid on 8. The Publisher does not undertake to send out books on sale or return. 9. The Publisher will not be responsible for loss or damage by fire or in transit. 10. The Publisher will deliver the five copies required by Act of Parliament for the British Museum and Public Libraries. 11. The Author shall guarantee to the Pub- lisher that the said work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing copyright, and that it contains nothing of a libellous or scandalous character, and that he will indemnify the Pub- lisher from all suits, claims, proceedings, damages, and costs, which may be made, taken, or incurred by or against him on the ground that the work is an infringement of copyright, or contains any- thing libellous or scandalous. 12. When the Publisher considers that the demand for the work has ceased, the unsold stock may be returned to the author or disposed of at the Publisher's discretion, after due notice of such intention has been given to the Author or his representatives. Clause 4 is a reasonable clause as far as both publisher and author are concerned. Clause 5 is a difficult clause to deal with. It is certainly necessary that, if an author is publish- ing on commission, his books should be advertised in the list of the publisher who is acting for him. It is certain also that the publishers, owing to the large advertisements that they can send round to the papers, get a discount from the papers for advertisements. All discounts thus obtained by the publisher acting as an agent would be credited to the author, and the publisher's percentage reckoned against the lower amount. Clause 6 has been commented on, and the reasons have been put forward very strongly, why the whole management of the publication and sale of the work should not be in the hands of the publisher. The account Clause 7 has also been dealt with. It is only necessary to repeat that it is a bad one. It has been already demonstrated that Clause 8 is unsatisfactory. Clauses 9 and 10 are reasonable clauses, and might well be left, with the exception stated in the former agreement. Clause 11 has been commented on in the former agreement. Clause 12 has also been commented on in t last agreement. It appears that the publishers have not put forward any agreement between an author and themselves with regard to the purchase outright of the copyright, thinking, I suppose, that when  ## p. 46 (#58) ############################################## 46 THE AUTHOR the book is purchased outright they are sufficiently protected and the author also. This is a view that I find it impossible to hold. The publisher, for instance, should be protected against an abridgment. The author should be protected against the non-publication of his work, publication in an altered form, and publication without his name attached. The forms of agreement, therefore, as existing between author and publisher are in reality four:— 1. —Royalty Agreement. 2. —Profit Sharing Agreement. 3. —Agreement for Purchase Outright. 4. —Commission Agreement. (a) Where the publisher produces the book. (6) Where the book is placed in the publisher's hands already printed. It is to be hoped that before circularising thase agreements amongst the various publishing offices, the publishers will seriously consider them again from a fair and moderate point of view. From some points of view the agreements are much worse than those issuing from some of the better and more reliable publishing houses; but it must be stated that, from many points of view, they are better than the agreements which, we regret to say, publishers are now placing before authors which embody every advantage which it is possible for a publisher to acquire without taking into consideration at all the author's rights of dealing with his own property. G. Herbeet Thring, Secretary. The comments on the publishers' agreements drawn by the Secretary of the Society have been carefully considered by the Committee and indorsed by them, and are published in The Author by order of the Committee. G. H. T. FURTHER COMMENTS. SOME time ago, when it was mentioned at a meeting of the Committee that a Publishers' Association was in formation, the Chairman remarked that no more desirable thing could happen. He meant, I supposed, that the better kind among publishers would take the lead: that the practices of the other kinds would be strongly condemned and discountenanced: and that an honest endeavour would be made to put the rela- tions between themselves and the authors on a footing of principle and reason. It was also hoped by some that the practices—which some call fraud — of charging moneys which have not been paid away, and advertisements which have cost nothing: and of overstating—which in every case is a de- liberate LIE—the costs of printing, paper, bind- ing, &c., would be denounced with the plainness of speech which the subject and the good name of the trade demand. Some went so far as to suppose that, in cases where the publishers did not agree with the authors, some reason would be forthcoming; and all supposed, further, that the original demands of authors, put forward at the outset, and again and again repeated in these pages, would be at once recognised by any body of men who wish to be ranked as men of honour. They are these: (1.) We ask for common honesty in dealings. (2.) We ask for agreements that shall plainly set forth what the publisher proposes to take for his own trouble—say, his own trouble and risk, in the few cases where he incurs risk. (3.) We ask for books open to inspection. The last claim is one to which everyone having a share in any enterprise is entitled by common law. Perhaps, therefore, it should be withdrawn. Or, if it stands, it is only to remind both sides that it is a right. The Publishers' Association has not yet fulfilled these expectations. It has now, however, issued a set of " draft agreements," some of which have been approved by Counsel. They have been sent to Mr. Turing, whose comments upon them precede these remarks. The documents, in fact, with these comments, are of the highest importance to everybody concerned with the material well-being of literature: they concern the independence of literature: they concern its dignity and self- respect. If authors can be brought to consent to the degrading terms on which publishers in their collective wisdom, not as individual grabbers, propose in future to manage their affairs, they will rapidly sink back to the position as pub- lishers' hacks which, with a few exceptions, they formerly occupied. For it will be seen that the publishers propose to put the clock back and now lay claim to the whole of literary property—its entire management and nearly all the emolu- ments. A profession to be respected must be indepen- dent. Literature ought to be, and must be, independent. In order to attract the best.  ## p. 47 (#59) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 47 intellects there mu^t be material prospscts and prizes: there must be se'f-respect: there must be independence. Otherwise literature will become once more, as it was fifty years ago, a profession of contempt, honoured only in the persons of half a dozen leaders. And, as it was forty years ago, those who followed the profession of letters because the call was too strong to be neglected, will do so with increased bitterness and resent- ment in their hearts against the intolerable tyranny of the people who live by seizing on the brain work of ihe world and selling it, to their own sole profit and advantage. It has been shown over and over again in these pages, that in the matter of general literature, and setting aside great works, such as encyclo- paedias and dictionaries and so forth, the risk run by the publisher is in most cases either very small, viz., the difference between the first sub- scription and the cost of production: or it is nothing at al'. Thnt is to say, it cannot be too often repeated, that there are hundreds of writers in the various branches of literature whose works carry no risk whatever. In every branch, whether of science, art, belles lettres, history, educational books, poetry, fiction, theology, there are authors —they write nearly all the important books pro- duced—the proceeds of whose works are quite certain to exceed the cost of production. Of those writers whose works do carry risk, by far the greater number are made to pay for the pro- duction, and to pay, in most cases, largely in excess of their cost. In arguing, therefore, about the share due to the publisher we may consider the question of risk separately. What, then, do publishers actually do for the majority of books? They put them through a mechanical process. I have done it myself for something like forty books. My process involved spending a few minutes with a printer and a few minutes with a binder: arranging that they should be paid a certain time after the book was produced, in <rder to avoid paying any money except from the proceeds of the book. In most ,cases there was no money paid except from the proceeds. Yet some of these were books carrying risk, as most publishers would plead. And they cost nothing, because the proceeds covered the risks. Observe that I do not say that a publisher never runs risks. I say that as a matter of fact his risks are few and of very small amount— of even trivial amount—as a rule: and that he need not run risks unless he likes. But a great house—it will be objected—gives the author the benefit of his name. Is that a benefit? How is it, then, that so many successes are made with the name of new and quite small firms? The name of a firm on a title-page is worth exactly nothing to the general public: it carries no weight with the mass of readers: or, if any, then there are fifty houses which carry equal weight. The public cares nothing who publishes a book: of all tradesmen the publisher is the least regarded by the world. There is no single name on a title page, I repeat, which will commend a book to the general public more than any other name. With these considerations let us turn to the "Draft Agreements," and apply the test of a few figures. I. The Royalty Agreement. The agreement demands that the royalty should be paid on thirteen as twelve or on twenty-five as twenty-four, " as the case may be." What case F The publisher's interest, of course. Now, the book is not sold at either thirteen as twelve or twenty-five as twenty-four, except where the bookseller orders a dozen—a very rare occurrence. However, this claim means 8 per cent. in the publishers' pockets. When a deferred royalty has allowed the cost of production to be paid for, the author must have 50 per cent. of the price to the trade, that is to say, at least the half. That is evidently not intended by the agreement, or it would have been so stated. In case of sales to America, the publisher proposes to give the author a royalty. In other words, he claims what he calls publishers' rights for agents' work. Very well. Now let us see what the publisher may get on this agreement, and what he may give to the author. We assume a book which costs 150 to produce an edition of 3000 copies, including advertise- ments. It sells to the trade at an average of 3*. 6d. a copy. Under existing arrangements, what may the author make out of his work? The royalties are estimated at what is called a moderate figure, which gives more than half profits to the publisher. He may get a good price for his English serial right—say, .£400: a lower price for his American serial right—say .£200. Royalties on 3000 copies at 20 per cent., .£180: American royalties at 15 per cent. on 2000, say £90: continental rights, say .£50: translation rights, say £2 5 (these rights are generally nominal): dramatic rights if the book is successfully dramatised, some thou- sands—an unknown quantity. Without reckon- ing the last, which no publisher to my knowledge has ever before ventured to claim, the author, who you will observe is not put forward as one of the most successful, stands to make .£925 for his book, or .£525 in addition to the English serial rights.  ## p. 48 (#60) ############################################## 48 THE AUTHOR. The publisher, under these conditions, makes his profit of .£225 on the volume form—quite enough for the work he has done for it. What does the publisher propose to make under the new proposals? He has not, it must be owned, dared as yet to claim the English serial right. This omission has, I doubt not, made many honourable persons very sad. It is, indeed, truly wonderful that they did forget it. However, he gives the author a royalty, say, of a shilling a copy, which leaves himself .£225: he takes the American serial right and gives the author 10 per cent. royalty on it, leaving himself .£180: he takes the American royalties and gives the author a royalty on them, say of 10 per cent., leaving himself .£81 : in the same way he keeps .£45 out of the continental rights and .£22 out of the translation rights. In all the publisher apparently proposes to take .£553 for himself, and to give the author .£i86 instead of the .£525 which he now takes. Is it possible that any body of men can be brought to believe that any other body of men and women will consent to such wholesale plunder of their property? But this is not enough. They further demand the right of keeping all the money in their own hands for eighteen months before they pay the author! Will any other business man in any other line of business, give us his opinion on this and the other clauses of this brazen claim upon the property of others in return for a service of machinery? II. Let us nest take a Profit-sharing Agree- ment. The author ignorantly supposes that it means a share of profits. It does nothing of the kind. It means a share of the poor remnant when the publisher has laid his hand on everything to which he can make out a claim with or without the least regard to reason or principle. What is it he claims, however? 1. A percentage on the gross receipts for office expenses. Where are the author's office expenses? Where are the booksellers'? Now, the gross receipts may mean a large sum. Mr. Hall Caine's " Christian" is believed to have circulated 160,000 copies. The receipts were probably £2 8,000. Ten per cent. on this means .£2800. This seems a very large sum for the office expenses connected with one book only, and for a very limited period—say four months. One envies the immense salaries of the packers, all, probably, university men and members of West-end clubs. And one pictures the huge warehouses which were built at enormous cost to contain books of a circulation so enormous. But the circulation of this book is excep- tional. Very true. We must, however, always try a proposition by an extreme case. Thus, by this way of reckonining, if a book has no sale at all, it has cost nothing for office expenses: if it has a very small sale, say, of a 100 copies, bringing in .£20, the office expenses have been only £2. Now, it is a fact that a great many publishers do not keep their wares in their own houses, but at the binders', and I have never heard that they have offered to hand over the sums they claim for office expenses to the binders who really defray them. As in every other trade, his "office expenses" are part of the publisher's machinery. He places it at the service of the author: it is all, in most cases, that he does for the book: if he is to be paid for office expenses, so is the author: so, more than than either, is the bookseller. Now, if a be the cost of product;on and b the proceeds the publisher gets for him- self, he first gets 1 0 per cent. on b, that is —. Next he has the power of saying that the books were sold at " customary trade prices," that is at anything he pleases— he may quite safely pocket another 10 per cent on this item. For instance, if he gets 3*. l0d. as the general price for the trade, and 3*. 5*?. for special terms, he may call the "customary trade price," 3*. <-,d, and no one can prevent him. This would give him over 13 percent. He can overcharge the cost of production by what he pleases—say 10 per cent. if he is moderate—and he can make this 10 per cent. even 30 per cent. by charging adver- tisements which he has not paid for. Finally he can keep the money due to the author for eighteen months. How do we stand now? The publisher has taken ^- + A + —a = 2b + ?,a} from tljg returns of 10 10 10 10 the book. There remains b—a— 2^_*_ to be divided. 10 The author, therefore, would get —— 20 for his share of the property. If the book cost £100 and realised .£200, the author would net .£15 ; the publisher would get .£85.  ## p. 49 (#61) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 49 There is a half-profit system! And we have not counted the eighteen months' interest! III. A commission book. Here the victim thinks he has only to pay a commission on the sales. He will learn when the bills come in what the agreement means. The publisher takes (i) a fee—say, ,£i0: (2) a commission on the cost of production—why ?— say 15 per cent.—no amount is proposed. (3) dis- count up to 7§ per cent.—why? (4) the payment of the cost in full, and at once, though it will be three or four months before the book is ready, and six months before he has to pay the printer, so that he gets the use of the money for six months; (5) a commission on sales—say 15 per cent.; (6) permission to set down the sales at anything he pleases, since "customary trade prices " means nothing. This gives him perhaps another 10 per cent., perhaps more. Lastly, he keeps the author's money for eighteen months. You see this is not exactly taking a commission and so to be done with it. If we work it out taking a for the cost of pro- duction, b for the proceeds, and c for the fee: We find that the publisher takes, reckoning the interest at 5 per cent.: c + —5- a H 2- a + - — a + —i b + — 100 200 2 100 100 100 i.e. c + -1 a+ -5- a+ — 0+ JL b+ — 20 40 40 20 10 or , a + b c 4 4 The author will have for his share: b—a—c—a-±* = 3&—5« _c 4 4 Without reckoning the interest for the eighteen months, during which he is kept out of his money. At 5 per cent. this reduces his share and leaves him 37 36—5« _c 40 4 while it increases the publisher's, whose gains now stand at 496 + 250+1600 160 a wonderful fraction—one which raises the Pub- lisher's Association to the level of a Scientific Body. If we omit consideration of this interest, we shall find that, if a book cost £100 and realised £200, the fee being ,£i0, the author, on a com- mission of 15 per cent., which he fondly thought would give the publisher .£30, actually gives him .£85 and himself £15. This is a delightful outcome of commission publishing! There remains one more method, that of giving the publisher the books printed and bound. My advice in such a method, which ought to be a very good one, is not on any account to give it to any publisher who proposes to deal with it in the terms of this agreement. It is to be remarked that there is only one opening here for anything above the commission and that it is eagerly pounced upon. The publisher hopes to become an advertising agent, and to earn an honest penny in addition. It is very kind of him, but all that is required of him is to publish, which includes advertising, and since he will not even consider that this small service is paid for by his commission, the author had better take his work elsewhere. These figures show what is demanded, together with what the author at present receives. And I ask again whether any body of men can think it possible that any other body of men will consent to this wholesale seizure of their property, or will surrender the advantages they have already obtained? Will publishers refuse to grant any other terms? For my own part I should desire nothing better, because we could then proceed at once to create the new machinery which these agreements would force upon us. W. B. NOTES AND NEWS. WE are reminded from time to time of the opinions still held of an author in official circles as well as others. He is regarded as a person who has no property and no interest in any property. He is considered to be a ragged wretch who sits in a garret and produces property for his employer. It is not his property, and if there is any inquiry into it, he is not to be con- sulted. A striking example is before us. A committee of the House of Lords is sitting on the Law of Copyright. The sole creators of literary property are the authors. They are not necessarily the slaves of publishers: some of them retain their rights over their own property. They are not an ignorant and illiterate set of men; some of them are scholars, lawyers, students, historians. They are not all starvelings: some of them live in quite decent houses: some of them are members of the best clubs. What happens, however? The committee meet. The first person they call is a publisher: the second person they call is a publisher: the third person they call is a publisher. Up to the time of writing these remarks no author has been called at all. Perhaps none will ever be called. Could any- thing show more clearly the contempt for the  ## p. 50 (#62) ############################################## 5° THE AUTHOR. calling of letters that is still prevalent in certain quarters? _:_ The present number of The Author is of very great importance. It contains the report of the committee appointed to examine into the scheme of the Booksellers' Association and the draft agreements which the com- mittee of the Publishers' Association advance as representing their views of the situation as regards the author. With regard to the first scheme, it is put forward as a compromise. The booksellers are not called upon to enter into slavery; the discount system is practically allowed to remain where it was: the accursed "odd book" pretence is to be abolished: and there is to be a time limit, beyond which the price of a book will remain in the power of the bookseller: books are to be sent out on sale or return: and there is to be an extended system of "net" price to books over 6s. in price. These reforms are so simple, and so much to the advantage of all con- cerned, that they will probably be adopted without delay. If something is not done, and that quickly, the bookselling trade in this country will be practically killed. What will take its place? The railway stall'r But the railway stall can- not take the place of the bookseller's shop. It cannot contain any but the newest books: of serious and costly literature it can hardly show any. Without the shop, bookselling, properly so called, cannot live. Already the country booksellers are falling right and left. The condition of things concerns us all—readers as well as writers—we are all interested in keep- ing up the bookseller. Now, by the scheme pro- posed he will have the power of exhibiting all the best books: they will be sent to him on "sale or return." The author will be certain also of having his books exhibited. How will it affect the pub- lisher? At present he subscribes a book. Perhaps he subscribes 500 out of an edition of 1500. The rest do not, perhaps, get taken up at all. The book is subscribed by one or two at a time: a copy is sold, and the book is then forgotten. The copies which are left over are remainder stock: they are sold at a few pence each. By the new system the publisher would send out, say, 800 on " sale or return." A book which is exhibited would have a far better chance than a book which is not. When it was sold another copy would be sent; finally, perhaps, a1! would be gone except 300 or so, which would be returned—whether soiled or not would matter nothing, as they would be only remainder stock. There will be no odd copy, tut the publisher would still sell his took at the average price: his accounts would be greatly simplified: and he would be spared the tempta- tion of lying to the author, and pretending, as many do now, that all their books are sold at. "thirteen as twelve." Anything which removes the temptation of lying, and at the same time involves no loss of money, should be, and no doubt will be, gratefully welcomed. A notable article on "Literary Life in London" appeal's in the last number of the North American Review. The author is Mr. W. H. Rideing. To begin with, he knows something of his subject. Probably very few English writers could have written a better or a truer paper about it. There is very little esprit de corps, he says. He should have said, "as yet." Esprit de corps grows from the outside, not from the inside. When the profes- sion of let ers can show that its followers are entirely emancipated from the yoke of the pub- lishers, and can administer their own estates so that the world can understand that their's is not a dependent's work, nor a beggarly work: when the world sees that the national honours are as freely bestowed upon the men of letters as upon many other professions: then the modified con- tempt which still prevails will be changed into unmodified respect, and the men of letters them- selves will respect each other and their calling. It is pleasing to acknowledge that Mr. Rideing recognises that the improved position of the English author is due, not only to international copyright, but also to the "enlightenment which the Incorporated Society of Authors has afforded him as to the proper method of dealing with publishers." He is not right, however, in sup- posing that the improved position is confined to the novelist. Historians—essayists—all—stand in a better position than they did. The improve- ment is not only due to the two causes already mentioned, but also to the great increase in readers, tho increase in libraries, and the increased income of the classes which never used to buy. And this in the face of a decaying book- trade and a decreasing number of booksellers. He falls foul of the Literary Agent, whose business he thinks is simply to relieve the author of the conduct of his own affairs. This, however, involves a great deal. The agent prevents the author from being "bested" by superior know- ledge used for the purpose of deceiving him: and next, in the case of those writers who supply serials, the agent learns where there arc openings,  ## p. 51 (#63) ############################################## 1HE AUTHOR. 5« and the price which ought to be given for the work. But according to Mr. Kideing, his chief business is to create discord batween author and publisher, "and frequently he succeeds in doing it." "Create discord"! Why—when was there concord? When has there been anything but suspicion and jealousy and blind resentment ?" More than one strong house," he goes on, "rather than submit to his extortions and his impudence, has ceased to con- sider the work of the authors who are only acces- sible through him." I wonder what houses these are. I can quite understand a house to which, for very good reasons, a trustworthy and con- scientious agent will not take his author, pre- tending that the refusal comes from their side; but I have never yet discovered any publishing house which will refuse an author on terms which mean money. And, further, I have never learned that any agent has ever offered an author except on terms which do mean money. There is one more charge against the Agent:— The more manuscript he sells and the higher the price he obtains the larger are his own commissions. The young author in his hands who has made a success at the start is not allowed to choose his own time for further work and to prepare for it, but is urged and tempted to add book to book until he beoomes a diffuse and tedious hack, undesired by anybody, undesired even by the literary agent himself. An instance occurs to me. The young anthor was " boomed" so persistently that in order to fulfill his orders he had to lise at four in the morning, and then, sitting down with a typewriter before him and a phonograph at his elbow, he would carry along two stories at onoe. His first book was an instant success when it appeared a few years ago, but his last manusoiipt, delivered as "per invoice" in the words of the agent, his been rejected by thirteen different periodicals, and is at ill in the market. "As per invoice" expresses the agent's view of literature precisely. Now, really one is grateful to Mr. Eideing for an article which is in the main accurate in its details. But this instance—surely, surely, it was narrated in a publisher's back office—I know two back offices, at least, where such pretty stories are daily confected. In them the literary agent is regarded with a holy horror born of baffled intentions. Who is this author? What is his name? I know all the novelists, I believe, who can be described as having made a great success "a few years ago." Not one of them can be the hero of the phonograph and the typewriter. One thing more. "As per invoice" is a com- mercial expression. But the agent cannot be too commercial; he is like the publisher—he can- not lie too commercial. And, again, about this driving of the novelist. He need not be driven unless he pleases. It is his own fault if he his driven. A man who consents to ruin his powers and to destroy his reputation for the sake of a little immediate gain deserves no pity. He need not be driven. The weak point about the article is that it says nothing about the larger Literary Life outside that of the novelist. With a few exceptions the general standard of prosperity has immensely improved all along the line. The demand for, and the prizes for, the dramatist have increased a hundredfold—literally, a hundredfold. The historian: the essayist: the popular poet: the writer on science or on education: all have advanced in demand enormously during the last twenty years. The profession of the journalist has been almost cieated within the last fifty years: it is now a profession with many solid and valuable prizes—especially the prize of being editor to a great daily paper. Two kinds of books have either suffered loss in demand, or have not advanced in proportion to the increase of readers. One is the book of devotions — fifty years ago there were several books of Family Prayers which were comfortable pro- perties—the happy publisher who held one always used it himself morning and evening in order to lend reality to his sense of gratefulness. The other kind which has not advanced is the book of Critical Essays. On all other forms of literature a man may live—and live well. But he can no longer live by writing Family Prayers, and he has never been able to live by writing Critical Essays. Most of the readers of The Author are interested i a the history and preservation of the English language. If they are not, who should be? They will therefore make a note that the English Dialect Dictionary, Parts I.—VI. will be ready in December next. This most important is one which ought to be in every library. I would suggest that my readers should send to Professor J. Wright, Langdale House, Park Town, Oxford, for the papers and form of subscription, and that, if they cannot subscribe themselves, they will do their best to get the work placed in the nearest public library. The Authors' Club has added to its accommo- dation by two or three more rooms. It wanted wider space. It also wants more members, and I venture to recommend the claims of the Club upon our Society. It is a cheerful and sociable club: the members are mostly known to each other, and if not, are accessible and affable: the weekly dinners are an institution: the future of the Club is believed in: and it is an excellent thing that there should be one club, at least, in London  ## p. 52 (#64) ############################################## 5a THE AUTHOR. which should really belong to men of letters and no others. It is also, on the whole, a club of young men of letters. It is useful for such a man to belong to it: he will meet others of his own calling who can tell him all kinds of things which he would not find out for himself. It leads young men of letters to stand by each other and to rely on each other. Add to all this that the Club is carefully administered, and that everything is cheap as well as good. It has now been in existence for three or four years, and on the next year or two depends its future: whether it is to become a great fact in literature, or whether the attempt to combine our young men of the calling into a club of their own is to be set down as a failure. Since the Society goes on increasing the Club ought not to fail. Mr. Thring will be glad to give anybody further information. Walter Besant. BOOK TALE. SIR RICHARD TEMPLE is writing a chatty book on India, for publication in the autumn by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. It will contain illustrations from his own draw- ings, and will be ca led "A Bird's-Eye View of Picturesque India." Sir Richard began service in India in 1S48, and continued till 1880, his last appointment being Governor of Bombay. Miss Rose Kingsley, the daughter of Charles Kingsley, is preparing a handbook on French art, for publication through Messrs. Longmans. Mr. Richard Kerr has written a short popular account of Wireless Telegraphy for immediate issue by Messrs. Seeley. Professor Samuel Rawson Gardiner is writing a new monograph on Cromwell, which will be published, in view of the tercentenary of the birth of the Protector, in the spring of next year. It will be published by Messrs. Goupil and Co. in the same artistic series which already in- cludes "Mary Stuart," "Queen Elizabeth," and "Charles I." For this series also Mr. Andrew Lang is to write " The Young Pretender." Lord Ronald Gower is writing on Sir Thomas Lawrence for a new series of books dealing with famous British artists and their work, which will be published by Messrs. Goupil. Mr. G. W. Perris has written a short bio- graphical and critical account of Count Tolstoy and his work. It will be published by Mr. Unwin under the title, "Leo Tolstov, the Grand Mujik." Mr. Grant Allen is about to add " Venice" to his list of guide-books. It will be published, like the others, by Mr. Grant Richards, whose business, by the way, has been formed into a limited com- pany. Miss Dorothy Leighton is dramatising one of Mr. Allen's earlier novels. The Rev. C. Dudley Lampen's story of adven- ture, " The Queen of the Extinct Volcano," will be published in October by the S.P.C.K. The story deals with an extraordinary incident in the colonisation of the Marquesas Islands by the French, and relates the marvellous adventures of a medical man and an Oxford undergraduate amongst the cannibals who inhabit an extinct crater. Miss Eleanor Holmes is correcting the proofs of a new novel entitled "Life's Fitful Fever," to be issued almost immediately by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett. Mr. John Warden Page is now correcting the proofs of a book entitled "In Russia without Russian." It is an account of a journey made by him in Russia alone, and with no knowledge of the language. He travelled from St. Peters- burg to Moscow, to Nijoi Novgovod in order to see the Great Fair, and about 400 versts up the Volga. The book is illustrated by sketches taken by the author, and is published by Bowering, of Plymouth, and by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The price will be 3*. 6d. Mr. W. H. Dutton is writing a history of the collection of old-time boots and shoes which was exhibited some time ago by the Cordwainers' Company, of which he was warden. Among the foot-wear were sandals worn by Kean when he played in "Brutus" in 1818, and Wellington boots worn by Kemhle some years earlier, both of which trophies belong to Sir Henry Irving. The volume will contain thirty plates, and will be issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Mr. Reeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, who wrote on that colony for the " Story of the Empire" series, is engaged upon a larger work of the same character. While it will be in the form of historical narrative, Mr. Reeves will bring together the experiences of a long period of active life in New Zealand. The book will be published in the autumn by Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son, under the title, " The Fortu- nate Isles: The Story of a Colony." Professor Foxwell has written an introduction for the translation of Dr. Anton Menger's work, "The Right to the Produce of Labour," which Messrs. Macmillan are about to publish in two volumes. Professor Lewis Campbell's Gifford Lectures, on " Religion in Greek Literature," delivered at St. Andrews a few years ago, are to be pub- lished shortly in a volume by Messrs. Macmillan.  ## p. 53 (#65) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 53 Mr. Pitt-Lewis, Q.C, is preparing for publica- tion a collection of curiosities connected with the law and legal literature. His book will be called "The Law's Museum," and Mr. John Long will publish it. Mr. Charles Williams, the well-known war correspondent, has edited a book of Soldiers' Songs for the March, the Camp, and the Barracks, which will be published immediately by Messrs. Routledge. Mr. W. G. Stillman has written the Italy yolume for the Cambridge Historical Series. He begins with Waterloo year. Dr. Brandes is writing a volume on modern Scandinavian literature for Mr. Heinemann's "Literatures of the World" Series. Canon Stanbridge, of York, has compiled a Book of Devotions for Messrs. Methuen's Library series. Mr. James Mortimer, who founded the London Figaro thirty years ago, has returned to the editorial chair of that journal, after an absence of fifteen years. Two volumes of a new and handsome edition— called the Winchester—of Jane Austen's works have been issued by Mr. Grant Richards during the past month. The printing is by Constable, of Edinburgh, and the same type is used as the "Edinburgh" Stevenson is printed with. The edition will consist of ten volumes. Novels by Mrs. W. K. Clifford and Mr. Edward H. Cooper will be issued soon by Messrs. Duck- worth. Mr. Fred. Whishaw has written'" A Russian Vagabond" for Messrs. Pearson's series of "Latter-day Stories." Mr. Walter Wood has finished a romance of love and war, called "Through Battle to Pro- motion," which will be published by Mr. James Bowden. "The Ambassador," the play by "John Oliver Hobbes," which was produced at the St. James's Theatre a month ago, is being published in a volume. A novel by Mrs. Croker, entitled "Pegey of the Bartons," will be published shortly from the house of Methuen. Two stories by Mrs. C. N. Williamson, entitled "Lady Mary of the Dark House" and "The House by the Lock," will be published by Mr. James Bowden. "John Strange Winter's" new long novel, which will be published immediately by Messrs. White, is called " The Price of a Wife." Mr. James M. Graham's romance " The Son of the Czar," formerly interdicted by the Russian censor, has now been permitted to circulate in that empire. Mrs. Sarah Graud will publish in the autumn, through Messrs. Horace Marshall and Son, a volume entitled "The Modern Man and Maid." Two of the essays which it will contain, namely, "On the Choice of a Wife " and "On the Choice of a Husband," appear in the July numbers of the Young Man and the Young Woman respec- tively. Miss Ella d'Arcy is issuing through Mr. Lane a new volume of short stories, entitled " Modern Instances." Mr. Hardy is engaged upon a new novel, but long before it comes out the public will get a volume of his short stories which have appeared in various periodicals. Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., is about to retire, on a pension, from his post of Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. 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Walker, of Halifax, and known as the "Walker Collection," which brought .£105, and Thoresby's and Whitaker's Ducatus Leodiensis, or the Topography of the Ancient Towne and Parishe of Leeds, large paper, extra illustrated, and original water colour drawings, coats of arms emblazoned, 1816, which sold for .£170. "The Addenda to the Methods of Publishing" by G. Herbert Thring (secretary to the Society of Authors) is now completed and can be obtained at the Society's offices (price 2s.). This book, the tenth publication of the Authors' Society, con- tains a quantity of additional facts concerning publishing and publishers' agreements collected since the production of the " Methods" in 1891, with comments and advice. It does not in any way pretend to supplant " The Methods of Pub- lishing," but is merely supplementary to them.  ## p. 54 (#66) ############################################## 54 THE AUTHOR. Under the title of "Forgotten Truths," the Liberty Review Publishing Company is ipsuing, in a cheap form, a selection from the speeches and writings of Edmund Burke, with a biographical sketch by Mr. T. Dundas Pillans. Derek Vane, author of "The Three Daughters of Night," recently published by Messrs. Hutchin- son, is now writing a series of short dramatic stories for Table Talk, entitled " The Adventures of an Adventuress." Novels at sixpence. Rolf Boldrewood's Austra- lian romance, "Robbery under Arms," is the first volume of a series at this price to appear from Messrs. Macmillan, and will be followed, at monthly intervals, by Mr. A. E. W. Mason's "Morrice Buckler," Mr. Marion Crawford's "Mr. Isaacs," Mrs. Oliphant's "Kirsteen," Miss Charlotte Yonge's " Dove in the Eagle's Nest," and Mr. Marion Crawford's "A Roman Singer." 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