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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) 1898-09-01 Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages Page range in volume 81–100 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18980901 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin XL he Hutbor, (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.') CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vol. IX.—No. 4.] SEPTEMBER 1, 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. Commnnioations 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. FOB some years it has been the praotioe to insert, in every number of The Author, certain " General Con- siderations," Warnings, Notioes, &o., for the guidance of the reader. It has been objected as regards these warnings that the tricks 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 TOL. 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 future to any one solicitor or doctor! (7.) To stamp the agreement. HI. The royalty system. In this system, whieh has opened the door to a most amazing amount of overreaching and trading on the author's ignorance, it is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both rides. 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. Headers 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 aooount 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. i 2  ## p. 82 (#94) ############################################## 82 THE AUTHOR. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. I. INVERT member has a right to ask for and to receive IU advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. If the advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member has a right to an opinion from the Society's solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel's opinion is desirable, the Com- mittee will obtain for him Counsel's opinion. All this without any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions connected with oopyright and publisher's agreements do not generally fall within the experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually engaged upon such questions for us. 3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past accounts with the loan of the books represented. This is in order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree- ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor- mation thus obtained may prove invaluable. 4. If the examination of your previous business trans- actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should take advice as to a change of publishers. 5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro- posed document to the Society for examination. 6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in the case of fraudnlent houses—the tricks of every publish- ing firm in the oountry. 7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen- dence of the writer. 8. Send to the Editor of The 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' agreement 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 offera:—(1) To read and advise npon agreements and publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action npon 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 21 st 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 oommunioating 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 come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest? Of course they would not. Why then hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign themselves into literary bondage for three or five years? "Those who possess the 'Cost of Production' are requested to note that the cost of binding has advanoed 15 per cent." This clanse 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 possible. Some remarks have been made upon the amonnt charged in the " Cost of Production" for advertising. Of course, we have not included any sums which may be charged for inserting advertisements in the publisher's own magazines, or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket, by inserting any number of advertisements in his own magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are who call this a form of frand; 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 6s. 6d. subscription for the year. The Editor is always glad to reoeive short papers and communications on all subjects connected with literature from members and others. Nothing oan do more good to the Sooiety than to make The Author complete, attractive, and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this work send their names and the special subjects on which they are willing to write? LITERARY PROPERTY. I.—The Publishers' Draft Agreements. fT^HE following expressions of opinion are S from various sources, in writing and com- municated by word of mouth, abridged and in full. I venture to invite the judgment of all our readers upon these model agreements, but put as briefly as possible. So far there has been complete unanimity of condemnation: with some there has been astonishment, and even a kind of dismay, at the discovery that nothing ever  ## p. 83 (#95) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 83 advanced in The Author or in the papers pub- lished by the Society has fallen so far short of the real truth. An opinion signed has, of course, far more weight than one that is anonymous. 1. I entirely agree with you as to the gross unfairness of the terms which you comment on in The Author as being those indorsed by the Publishers' Association. Only a very weak vessel could possibly be induced to subscribe them, but then the raison d'etre of our Society is precisely that this weaker vessel should be strengthened. That any author should give away his Tauch- nitz rights, American rights, and dramatic rights, in this wholesale way seems inconceivable, but I should have thought it equally inconceivable that any honourable body of men should have asked for such a sacrifice. If in the face of your exposure any author signs such terms, then he deserves his fate. A. Conan Doyle. TJndershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere. 11. I desire to call renewed attention, in addition to the points already raised, to a view of the subject that has not been received with the consideration which it deserves. It is this. The relations of author and publisher have been discussed repeatedly for the last fifteen years. During that time the position of the author and his extremely modest claims have been stated and re-stated over and over again. The latter simply ask for the same safeguards as exist in all other kinds of partnership, and it has been urged over and over again—(1) that the property belongs ,originally to the author: (2) that he has a right to know what any proposed agreement, except that for sale outright, means for either side: and (3) that on any form of profit-sharing agree- ment, including royalty, an audit of the books must be open to the author. Of course, as a matter of fact, it is open by common law, but this fact is studiously concealed. Now, not one of these claims is even noticed. What does this mean? It may mean (1) a resolu- tion to keep silence unless they are forced to speak: or (2) an impudent refusal to answer, or even to consider, the claims of an author: or (3) a real belief that the whole administration of literary property belongs to them as a right, and that they mean to do just what they please with it. But can they believe in this monstrous preten- sion? Can they really think that another man's property is to be treated exactly as they please for their own profit? Why — what is the present position? It is notorious that not a single author of any position in the literary world—not one—would consent to sign an agree- ment on these terms, so humorously styled "equitable"! This they must know perfectly well: they cannot choose but know it. No literary agent would dare to consent to such terms, not one: not even one who sells his clients to the publishers, would dare to accept such an agree- ment. Now since the publication of the meaning of the Cost of Production and the actual trade prices, the pecuniary position of the author has doubled in value. Yet our friends actually believe that we are going to sacrifice all the advance we have made, and to accept terms far more degrading to the author than ever were offered at any period, even the worst and lowest, in the history of literary folk. A. in. These terms by which publishers declare that it is " equitable " for them to have the power of pocketing as much of the profits as they please are the work of a committee which numbers on its body two names which have hitherto commanded general respect. I submit that Messrs. Long- man and Murray owe it to their historical and hereditary position as publishers to explain how they defend these claims, and to show what services they render to a book which can possibly entitle them to load the returns with percentages of whatever they please on every single item either of cost or of sale. They should also explain (1) why they leave themselves the right of charging for advertisements not paid for: (2) why they ignore the common law right of everybody to audit the accounts of his own property; and (3) why they claim office expenses for themselves which they deny to the bookseller and the author. B. IV. I beg to express the hope that the Society of Authors will not be drawn into the snare of arbitrating or submitting these questions to any form of argument. Arbitration means concession. Here there must be no concession. They are against the whole principles of the Society as set forth from the beginning. The only course, I submit, for the Society to follow is to reply by tearing up the documents and refusing even to argue upon them. C. v. I venture to hope that the question of office expenses will not be lost sight of. An agreement which claims for the publisher an allowance for office expenses which it does not allow the book- seller or the author is simply preposterous. The office expenses of the former are a great deal heavier in proportion than that of the publisher, while the author has office expenses sometimes  ## p. 84 (#96) ############################################## 84 THE AUTHOR. of a very heavy nature, especially in copying or typewriting work. D. VI. Has not the time come when the stronger writers should make a stand and insist on the insertion of certain clauses? For instance, the unpaid advertisements and the "exchanges ": the clause providing for an audit: the clause about office expenses. These should all be pro- vided for. It would surely be perfectly easy for the author to give instructions as to these points. There would not be the least difficulty in obtain- ing the concessions at once. I would suggest that the author should be provided with such an agreement by the Secretary, or that the literary agent should be instructed by the author to present an agreement in which such clauses and others should be inserted. The following seem to me the most im- portant: (i.) The right of audit must not be left to a common law right, but must be actually inserted in the agreement and acted upon. (2.) The advertisement plunder must be definitively stopped. (3.) Office expenses must be allowed, if at all, then for all parties concerned—say 2^ per cent. to author, publisher, and book- seller. Of course this allowance may not pay the office expenses, especially of the author. But the allowance will at least recognise them. (4.) The author if he pleases may have a veto on the papers used for advertising in. (5.) No percentages at all to be charged upon anything. And any discounts allowed must be entered in the accounts. Do you think that the publisher will refuse these terms to an author of repute 'i If so, let the author come to me, and I think I can show him a better way. E. VII. It is greatly to. be hoped that the publication of these agreements may hurry up the inevitable, namely, that publishing must become a business conducted on the same terms as all others: that of competition. So long as money is to be made out of selling the works of an author, people will be found to compete for his work, and to make, if they can, their own terms, screwing out of him as much work for as little pay as possible, and screwing out of the bookseller as much money as they can. This has always been going on under various pretences: risk, to begin with: friendship: bad times: awful expenses of pro- duction—we know the rest. Now that we know what these things really mean, we ought to be able to fight our battles for ourselves. But since authors are not great at conducting their own affairs, we have to call in an agent whose neart should be like the nether millstone for hardness. He will not drink champagne: he will not weep over bad times: he smiles at the " heavy cost: he will not admit the risk: he is inflexible about office expenses: and will not admit of friendship in business. The ways of business for all others are hard: the publishers for too many years have made their ways easy and tender for themselves. They are now entering upon paths that are gritty and ways that are thorny, like other men who buy and sell. F. II.—The Country Bookseller. Being away from home, and alone in a large provincial town of 140,000 people, I wanted something to read. I went out to look for a bookseller's shop, and tramped through the prin- cipal streets in search. I had almost given up my quest when I found one, and entered. "I think you must be the only bookseller in the town," said I. "I am the only real bookseller. There is one other, but he goes in for photographs, painted tambourines, and such like, as well as books." "Do you really mean to say that one bookseller is enough for the wants of a town of a hundred and forty thousand inhabitants?" I asked, astounded. "Yes, sir. That is the sad fact." "But even you are not what I call a bookseller. Where are the novels of the day?" He took me outside, and pointed proudly to a six-shilling book. "There is the novel of the hour," he said. And sure enough, in company with perhaps two dozen others, was the book; its name I will not mention. "Have you got ?" I asked. "No, sir, I'm afraid not." I had asked for a book which last year ran into, I think, 50,000 copies. No; with the exception of the few books in his window he had no other new literature. "I suppose," I said, "that the big draper up the street who is selling cheap reprints at four- pence ha'penny spoils your trade? "Not a bit, he answered. "The call for that stuff is going off; in fact, some of them can't sell the stock they've got." "Then do you sell many copies of six-shilling books?" "Well, no; unless there is a great talk of a book we sell very few. The price will have to come down to three shillings, and I think that  ## p. 85 (#97) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 85 will kill the libraries. They are the things that stop the sale of new books." I chose a cheap reprint, and went out to think over what I had seen and heard. A large and important provincial town, known the world over, with but one bond fide book- seller! One to 140,000! Under such circumstances, how is the unknown author to have a fair chance? Alan Oscar. III.—The Publishing Trade in Germany. Exclusive of specialist publications, 3477 political and advertising papers were issued in 1752 German centres last year, being at the rate of one per 12,092 inhabitants, or per 157 square kilometres, In Switzerland the proportion is one to 7581 inhabitants, or 107 square kilometres, while in Austria the corresponding figures are 72,290 and 1167. This is, no doubt, a conse- quence of the different legislation in these countries. Austria still retains the newspaper stamp. Germany has nine papers that appear more than twice daily, and 79 that appear twelve to thirteen times a week, 1185 six to seven times, and 1745 two to five times. The number of specialist publications is 3056. The export trade in German books amounted in 1896 to the value of about 62 million marks, and the import of foreign books to 20 millions. Austria-Hungary bought 28 million marks' worth, Switzerland (in millions 0f marks) 7.6, the United States 7.2, Russia 5.8, England 3.2, Holland 2.8, France 2, Belgium and Scandinavia 1.2, and Italy and Denmark 800,000 marks' worth. From Austria-Hungary Germany imported 7.2 million marks' worth of b0oks; from Switzerland, 3.2; from France, 3.8; from Holland and the United States, 1.6; from Russia, more than 700,000 marks' worth; and from England, 650,000 marks' worth. The small value of the books imported from England is evidently due t0 the fact that Tauchnitz and other German firms publish enormous numbers of English works.—Standard. IV.—The Internationale Liteea. TUEBEEICHTE. Those members of the Society of Authors who read German may be glad to be made acquainted with the fortnightly Internationale Litera- turberichte (Leipzig, Grimmaischer Steinweg, No. 2 ; quarterly subscription, 1.75 marks, annual ditto, including postage to England, 7.50 marks), the official organ of the " Deutscher Sehriftsteller- Verband," "Verein fur Massenverbreitung guter Schriften," "Litterarischen Vereine Minerva und Neue Klause," "Deutscher Shriftstellerinnen- buud," and of the " Deutscher Press Club zu New York." For some little time the periodical has been courteously forwarded to our offices by the editor, and we have much pleasure in recommend- ing it to the notice of our readers. Its contents are not merely official. Two or more articles on literary subjects of the day appear in each number, and in addition to these, very useful lists of new books in German, French, English, and Italian. Newly appearing German periodicals are also announced. In conclusion, some literary gossip, a few short notices of books, and (a feature interesting to book collectors) announce- ments of the latest catalogues published by the principal German secondhand booksellers make up a goodly amount of information in return for the very moderate price of the publication. V.—The Right to Destroy. Mr. D. F. Hannigan sends us the following letter, together with the post-card referred to. The latter simply says that the firm will be pleased to receive 4d. in stamps, to cover postage of the MS., " otherwise we must destroy it." The qu- s- tion is, whether they have the right to destroy a MS. under the circumstances. Of course it may be argued that an author cannot expect any house to keep a MS., after refusal, indefinitely, and then comes the question what to do if the author does not send stamps. The Editor, The Author.—Dear Sir,—I would like to know whether, when an author submits a MS. to a publisher, and omits to enclose stamps for return of the MS., the pub- lisher has a right to destroy the MS. I happen to be a barrister, and I was oertainly under the impression that the destruction or mutilation of MSS. without authority from the owner was a criminal offence. Early in January, 1897,1 submitted a MS., entitled " Tales of Witchcraft," to Mr. David Nutt. I intended, as I had heard from him that he did not see his way to undertake the publication at his own cost, to send him stamps for return. By inadvertence I neglected to do so. Judge of my astonishment at receiving from him a post-card (which I enclose) stating that, unless stamps were sent, he would destroy the MS. Has he any snch right by law ?—Yours faithfully, D. F. Hannioan. [Note by the Seceetary.—The answer to this paragraph seems to be quite clear. Mr. Nutt would have no right whatever to destroy the MS. If he did so destroy it he certainly would not be open to criminal proceedings, but the author could bring an action for damages. If, however, the author did not return the stamps the publishers of course might be free either to return the MS. postage not paid, or return it postage paid and sue the author (the latter would be a bad plan from the publishers' point of view) or retain it at his office until the author . hose to comply with his request.—G. Herbert Thring.]  ## p. 86 (#98) ############################################## 86 THE AUTHOR. VI.—The Book Trade with America. The book trade between the United Kingdom and the United Stites for the eleven months ending May 1897 was as follows: Exported from England, duty free" .£177,496 „ „ dutiable 167,076 Imported from the States during the same period 166,712 For the eleven months ending May, 1898: Exported from England, duty free .£118,678 „ dutiable 177,13 7 Imported from the States 154,839 These figures are quoted, with others showing the whole book trade of the States, in the Publishers' Circular from the New York Pub- lishers' Weekly. VII.—Amalgamation of Publishers. The firm of Bentley is absorbed by the firm of Macmillan. Whether the absorption will in any way advance the interests of literature or the position of literary people remains to be seen. Those who formerly rallied round Bentley will perhaps rally round Macmillan, and perhaps they will not. The papers have been giving the history of the Bentleys, which is interesting on account of the names which have been from time to time connected with them. Some of them have dwelt upon the honourable character of the late firm, a thing which one is always pleased to learn, especially if the assurance is based upon the evidence of the authors concerned. IN MEMORIAM.-E. LYNN LINTON. Reverberant in the van her trumpet blew; Tried Champion of the weak against the strong, For cause she loved, 'gainst cause she loathed as wrong. "Ever a fighter," her keen sword she drew, Eager to smite the ignoble thro' and thro', Bnt tenderest of the tender—Where the Song To shrine thy name for aje above the throng, O Woman sweet, and truest of the true! Now, where o'er Cumbria's crags grey mists are curl'd, No more with Thoughts illusive strivings vex't, No more by Life's enigma dread perplez't, She sleeps - her armour doffed, her banner furled: Brave worker in the vineyard of this world, Flash yet diviner influence from the next! C. A. Kelly. NOTES AND NEWS. IN another column will be found a note in which a writer complains of having to sign a docu- ment resigning his copyright. It is a very common trick to send a printed form of receipt which the author is expected to sign without per- ceiving that by doing so he has been trapped into resigning his copyright. In such a case as this the author only has to remember that he must put his pen thruugh the words which con- vey the forfeiture of copyright, and that he must substitute for them the words " Serial right only in England," or words to that effect. By this means he may preserve his property. The words are, generally, " for the whole rights of," &c. Of course, if the editor bargains beforehand for the copyright, it becomes then a simple question of acceptance or refusal. "The authors and writers of Great Britain are under lasting obligations to Sir Walter Besant. Under the title of The Aut/wr that gentleman publishes each month a journal that offers to the professional and amateur writer so able and con- vincing a proof of his superiority to the publisher that the entire guild could be readily pardored for rising and calling the editor blessed. In the June number of The Author (which is published, of course, in London) the ways of the grasping and mercenary publisher of books are laid bare in a dozen ways. The long-suffering writer is taught how vast a profit there always is in the publication of his work; he is shown how easily and consciencelessly he is robbed; he is implored not to dispose of anything so valuable as a virgin manuscript until he has secured a contract giving himself all the profits and the publishers nothing but deficits and debts. The Author should flourish amazingly. It doubtless does."—The Criterion (New York), July 23. The above was sent to me by three or four anonymous persons, acting independently, yet with one consent, all presumably anxious to con- vince me that a certain portion of the Press of New York still maintains its reputation. I do not know the paper—the Criterion—at all, save from the single number sent to me, which con- tains this remarkably truthful statement. The trick of it is to state a small portion of the truth sandwiched between other statements that not even Barnum could call truths. Thus The Author does really, as stated by the fabricator, lay bare the ways of the grasping and merce- nary publishers in as many ways as can be discovered—thanks to the committee of the  ## p. 87 (#99) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 87 Publishers' Association we have now learned a good many more than were previously suspected by most of us. But as the editor is not engaged in publisbing, there is no possible question of " superiority " to publishers. Again, the writer is nowhere taught by The Author " how vast a profit there always is in the publication of his work"—the word "always," instead of "may be," conveys the fabrication: he is shown how easily he is robbed: that is true: he is not implored to secure all the profits and "give the publisher all the deficits and debts ": that is a falsehood: nor is it possible, if you come to think of it, for the same book to have both profits and deficits. We are accustomed to this sort of thing in one or two of our own papers: it occurs in them when- ever the editor can be persuaded to slip in such a paragraph. But why does a New York paper go out of its way to invent stuff like this about a matter with which its readers can have no possible concern? And why this parade of misrepresen- tation over the management by English writers of their own property? It is not the first time that an American paper has offered a prayer to the Father of Fabrications, and obtained that prayer, for freedom of imagina- tion in speaking about me. In my humble person I have received several courtesies of the same pleasing kind from the same quarter. On another occasion in instance, a Boston paper of the baser sort informed its readers that I had for a whole twelvemonth been lecturing through the States "on Theosophy, accompanied by a lady who was not his wife." I do not know which was the more impudent charge. And another paper, whose name I forget, once informed its readers that, in certain writings or remarks of mine, I had been comparing myself with Thackeray, "to the great disadvantage of the latter!" Meantime The Author, and the Society which publishes it, are as prosperous as can be expected, and their friends the publishers have now condemned themselves in far plainer and harder language than The Author has ever used concerning them. No one must judge of America or the Ameri- cans by quotations or extracts from certain speci- mens.of their Press. It is quite possible to have troops of friends in the States, and yet to receive such tributes as these. In one sense the writers are impartial: like the sunshine and the rain they bless all alike, the small as well as the great. There are papers in our own country, I dare say, which are as bad as any in America, but we need not rake the gutters to find them. It must be remembered, when we speak of the American YOL, ix, Press, that it is not all like the Criterion and the other papers I have mentioned: that the leading articles: the "London Letters" and telegrams: and the columns of news in American papers do contain a great deal that is fair and appreciative, while it is critical, concerning our ways, our actions, and our people. It must also be remembered that the American point of view is not ours. Especi- ally have I observed this desire to be fair in their London Letter, which seems to me, so far as I have had the opportunity of reading it in Ameri- can papers, to be generally written in a spirit of which we have nothing to complain. Of course, I have not seen the London Letter, if there is one, of the New York Criterion. If one could venture to suggest anything to the editor of a London daily, I would ask him to think over the appoint- ment of an American journalist to write for his London columns a London Letter on English affairs as they seem to an American with friendly critical eyes. Such a letter would sometimes lead that editor's readerR to consider themselves. The Committee canmt be expected to trans- act any business of importance at this time of year. Nothing further, therefore, has been done with reference to the Draft Agreements of the Publishers' Association. I trust that something will be done, and I hope that the expression of opinion which will be found in another column will be continued. Above all, it is to be hoped that the leading and more successful writers, to whom no publisher would dare to present any one of their Draft Agreements, will consider their less successful brethren and make a public stand. It is not enough to say: "These Agreements make no difference to me, because I should never consent to them in my own case." It is necessary to take care that they should be offered to no one, and that the voice of condemnation should be loud and unmistakable. A line or two in a letter of Robert Browning's, written in the year 1868, makes one ask whether, in the year 1868, publishers hsld the same remarkable views about profits and their "equitable " share of them which they boldly advance thirty years afterwards? From my own recollection I am inclined to think that ths practice was the same, but that the profession was different. This is what Browning says of his new poem: "One "—that is, a publisher, only Browning calls him by his old-fashioned name, a "bookseller "—" sent to propose last week to publish it at his risk, giving me all the profits, and to pay me the whole in advance, 'for the incidental advantages of my name.'" Generous creature!" All the profits.' K  ## p. 88 (#100) ############################################# 88 THE AUTHOR. What could be more noble? And for himself? —nothing. Only the " incidental advantages " of the poet's name. Now, we have seen that the profits due to the author, based on the " equit- able " wisdom of the united publishers, mean— or that they may mean, because the more greatly daring may make them mean much less—15 per cent. of the real profits; the remaining 85 per cent. going to the publisher. This newly dis- covered result of equitable treatment of the ques- tion was no doubt pretty well known to the disinterested gentleman who proposed to give Browning all the profits. In another column will be found a little piece of literary history which will interest many. The Critic of New York having become a monthly instead of a weekly journal, there remains only the Dial of Chicago to represent literature and literature only. The fact is remarkable: we should not have expected Chicago to be a centre of American literary criticism: yet it is not only a centre of criticism, but it is becoming a centre of literary produc- tion. Chicago is not altogether, therefore, gone over to the making of money. Walter Besant. THE BACONIANS. WHILE it is obvious to all who have any considerable acquaintance with the writings of Bacon and Shakespeare, that the process of destroying the theorists' arguments, by detecting their logical inconsequence, is satis- factory, yet to those who cannot bring a knowledge of the two men's work and times to assist them it would prove less convincing than one more dependent upon tangible facts. From my expe- rience of Baconians, as they call themselves, I have little doubt that the conduct of their arguments is invariably defective, and I am always pleased to discover the fallacies; but there is much more enjoyment to be got out of giving the lie direct to their major premises. It is curious that this is so seldom done, seeing how difficult it appears to be for these people to speak the truth, and how many of their statements—and those, too, the most striking —admit of such contradiction. I think I shall make myself clear by one example out of the many I could give. From an article in the last December number of Pearson's Magazine, which a friend showed me with fear and trembling for the empire of Shakespeare, I gather that the "Promus argument" is still considered a strong- hold by Baconians, and is therefore proper for my purpose. It is roughly as follows: Baeon's "Promus " is a collection of some 1700 proverbs, words, turns of speech, &c., which are of frequent occurrence in Shakespeare's plays, but are not to be found in the literature of his period. Two men alone and independently cannot use hundreds of identical words, &c.; therefore, it is concluded, Bacon, who noted down the words, must have written the plays. Here it is possible, doubtless, to attack and destroy the minor premises and the con- clusion, but there is a simpler and more effective method of procedure, namely, to deny the truth of tin major. It is neither true that Shakespeare use.s the proverbs and expressions to any surprising extent, nor is it true that the words and turns of speech are confined to the "Promus" and the plays. The effort made by Mrs. Pott, who is the authority on this point, to establish Shakespeare's use of the "Promus" entries is for the most part frivolous, and her ignorance of sixteenth century literature incredible. At the end of her edition of the "Promus " is a list of about 6000 books read by her or other Baconians, with the intention of finding " Promus" entries, and a column of those they found is adjoined. What they did with their eyes while employed in the search goodness only knows, for in every case in which I have tested the result I have found them blind. Some- times, where they have marked down one or two, I have discovered as many as fifty to a hundred instances; and even their pet expressions, such as "good morrow" and "good night," I have found to be the commonest of common property. For proof, let your office boy compare the "Promus" with Caxton's "Reynard the Fox," Barnfield's "Poems," Chettle's " Patient Grissel," Heywood's "Fair Maid of the Exchange," and Lodge's "Rosalynd," which Mrs. Pott calls a play. I suspect my power to slaughter Baconians would last out a good deal longer than your patience in listening to the story of their deaths, but I will confine myself to saying that I believe the theory would come to a sudden termination if some well informed student of Elizabethan literature would take upon himself the examina- tion of the statements on which it is based—he would not need to trouble his head about the quality of the deductions drawn from them. H. P. Gilbert.  ## p. 89 (#101) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 89 !rHE ISSUE OF POPULAR COPYBIGETS. SIR GEORGE NEWNES presided at the first general meeting of the shareholders of Messrs. George Newnes, Limited, and in a speech on the "busy and prosperous year" which the firm had experienced he referred, among other subjects, to the large business they were doing in the issuing of popular works in parts. Some of the large eminent book-publishing houses had recognised that they (Messrs. Newnes) were specially able to do that successfully. He recalled the fact that Messrs. Constable, who gave .£10,000 for Dr. Nansen's copyright, came to them, and they accepted their proposal to publish Dr. Nansen's book in pamphlet form. It had been a wonderful success. Messrs. Bartholomew had brought them the "Citizen's Atlas," which was going wonderfully well in parts. The firm of John Murray had also come to them, and as soon as the holidays were over they should begin publishing in pamphlet form some of Mr. Murray's most popular copyrights, commencing with Du Chaillu's " Land of the Midnight Sun." STEVENSONIANA. f"|">HE additional volume in the collected Edin- I burgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson has just been published. Mr. Sidney Colvin writes a preface, and describes the book as "a medley, made up of items, some serious and some trifling." It contains a great deal of personal light upon the life of the late author, and subscribers will be pleased to receive so unexpectedly such an interesting book. The preface he wrote, but never printed, for his "Master of Ballantrae" is here; also "reflections and remarks on human life " ; and many other remnants in prose and verse. His ideal home was one that would have a little cosy room in warm colours, the sofas and floor thick with rich furs, and three shelves filled with "eternal books that never weary." Among these are Shake- speare, Moliere, Montaigne, Lamb, Sterne, De Musset's Comedies, the " Arabian Nights," George Borrow's "Bible in Spain," "The Pilgrim's Progress," "Guy Mannering," "Rob Roy," and "immortal Boswell, sole among biographers." In case of insomnia there should be within reach of the bed books of a " particular and dippable order "—" Pepys," the "Paston Letters," Burt's "Letters from the Highlands," and the " Newgate Calendar." At Davos Platz he made verses and drawings—reproduced in the volume—for the amusement of his stepson and himself. He also reviewed a thrilling little tale of his stepson's, called "Black Canyon; or, Wild Adventures in the Far West," in these terms:— A very remarkable work. Every page produces an effect. The end is as singular as the beginning. I never saw such a work before. There are "Moral Emblems" and "Moral Tales" in the book, among them this one describing the drawing of an explorer: The frozen peaks he once explored, But now he's dead and by the board. How better far at home to have stayed Attended by the parlour-maid, And warmed his knees before the fire Until the hour when folks retire! So if you would be spared to friends Do nothing but for business ends. And this is shot at the reader at the close of a description of a pirate: You also soan your life's horizon For all that you can clap your eyes on. Finally, we quote the following more serious verses from one of two lighthouse poems: The brilliant kernel of the night, The flaming ligbtroom circles me; I sit within a blaze of light Held high above the dusky sea. Far off the surf doth, break and roar Along bleak miles of moonlit shore, Where through the tides of tumbling wave Falls in an avalanche of foam, And drives its churned waters home Up many an undercliff and care. » « • • The night is over like a dream: The sea-birds cry and dip themselves; And in the early sunlight, steam The newly-bared and dripping shelves, Around whose verge the glassy wave With lisping wash is heard to lave; While, on the white tower lifted high, With yellow light in faded glass The oirclii g lenses flish and pass, And siokly shine against the sky. An entertaining letter of Stevenson's on the education of women, dated Nov. 1870, lately came into possession of Mr. Walter T. Spencer, the secondhand bookseller of New Oxford-street. It is written to a cousin. We extract the following sentences: You will probably know how nicely Women's Bights were reoeived by some of my fellow students the other day. The female medicals were hooted, hissed, and jostled till the police interfered. My views are very neutral. I quite believe that Miss and the rest of our fellow studentesses are the first of a noble army, pioneers, Columbuses, and all that sort of thing. But at the same time Miss is playing for the esteem of posterity. Soit, I give her posterity, but I won't marry either her or her fellows. Let posterity marry them. If posterity gets hold of this letter I shall probably be burnt in effigy by some Royal Female College of Surgeons of the future..  ## p. 90 (#102) ############################################# go THE AUTHOR. DE. BEANDES'S SHAKESPEAEE. AFTER reading the account Professor Brandes gives of Shakespeare, I am struck by the insistence with which he dwells on every biographical fact which it is possible or impossible to seize hold of with certainty, as a context to the study of Shakespeare's plays in sequence. He desires to prove that the plays are genuine, though there may be occasional foreign interpolations, and he ends the work by saying that his aim has teen to prove "not that thirty-six plays and several poems can be read in unconnected fashion, but that Shakespeare was a man who felt and thought, rejoiced and suffered, pondered, dreamed, and wrote poetry." When the professor visited Ann Hathaway's house at Shottery, near Stratford, and was shown with pride by a distant descendant of the Hathaway family the open Bible containing family names as well as other relics and portraits of Shakespeare, he tells us how he inquired of her whether she had read the plays. And on her replying, "Oh! / read my Bible," he assumes that if a descendant of that family can be thus ignorant, we have proof enough that poor Shakes- peare was afflicted with a most ignorant and unsympathetic wife and surroundings. This may or may not have been the case, and indeed Professor Brandes draws a tedious and gloomy picture of Shakespeare's last years at Stratford- on-Avon. Though his study of the plays is interesting, I would like to draw attention to the dillerent paneg>ric which we find in Heinrich Heine's "Miittchen and Frauen" (Notes on Shakespeare's Heroines), where he says :— "Shakespeare is as true to nature as he is faithful in delineating history. It is often said that he holds up a mirror to nature. This is not correct, as these words convey a wrong impression concerning the relations in which a poet stands to nature. .Nature is not reflected in the poet's mind; he is endowed with the innate capacity for representing nature, which representation is akin to the most faithful reflection; he comes into the world a world-wise man, and every part of the external world is immediately understood by him in its entirety when he awakens from the dreams of his childhood and attains to a knowledge of himself. For his mind bears an impress of the whole; he knows the ultimate reasons of all phenomena which to the ordinary mind appear problematic, and which to the ordinary investi- gator seem difficult if not impossible of solution. . . . Just as the mathematician can immediately explain the whole circle and its centre if he is shown the smallest part of a circle, so also the poet in the very act of contemplating the infinitesimal part of objective things realises the connection between this part and ail other things. He seems to know the circle of things and their centre, and sees things in their widest dimensions and to the inmost core. "But before the poet awakens to this marvellous comprehension, he must always be brought in contact with some portion of the objective world. This perception of a fragment of the phenomenal world is reached by means of his senses, and forms, as it were, the outward event determining those inward revelations of which his works are the result. And the greater the poet the more is our curiosity excited concerning those external occurrences which first called his works into being. We like to hunt up the actual facts of a poet's life. This curiosity is all the more foolish, as, according to what was previously stated, the importance of external occurrences bears no pro- portion to the importance of the creations emanat- ing from them. These occurrences may be, and usually are, as trivial and insignificant as the poet's life ordinarily is. I say trivial and insig- nificant, for I will not make use of sadder words. Poets present themselves to the world through the halo of their works, and, when looked at from afar, they dazzle us by their glory. Let us never inspect their lives too closely. We may compare them to those bright beacons shining athwart lawn and bower, which we take for the stars of the world—for diamonds and emeralds, costly jewels which king's children playing in the garden have hung on to the shrubs and then forgotten . . . for bright dewdrops which have rolled away into the high grass, and are now refreshing themselves in the cool night air, sparkling with joy until the approach of day, when the rosy dawn draws them back into herself. . . . Oh! let us not seek the track of these stars, jewels, and dewdrops by the light of day. In their stead we shall perceive a poor, discoloured worm, crawling miserably across our path— hateful to look upon, and yet which, owing to a curious feeling of pity, we refrain from crushing." Heine had no love for "critics," though his mind was eminently critical. But, though Professor Brandes has given the world a deeper critical study of Shakespeare's plays, I doubt whether we can read in it a higher appreciation of Shakespeare. Ida Benecke. i 8, Canfield-gardens, N.W.  ## p. 91 (#103) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 9« THE PASSING OF THE "CHAP-BOOK." rf^HE following circular has been sent out from | the office of the Dial, Chicago. It will be of interest to those who are concerned wiih American contemporary criticism. It is here abridged: "By arrangement with Messrs. Herbert S. Stone and Co., the owners of the Chap-Book, the subscription list, the name, and the goodwill of that publication have been purchased by the Dial, which will fill out all subscriptions. The last issue of the Chap-Book was that of July i. The magazine was first published on May 15, 1894, in Cambridge, Mass., by Messrs. Stone and Kimball, both members of which firm were then undergraduates in Harvard College. It was in form a small duodecimo pamphlet, issued semi- monthly, and was at first meant to be little more than an attractive kind of circular for advertising the books published by the firm. But its instant and somewhat unexpected popularity led its pub- lishers at once into an attempt to make the maga- zine an organ of the younger American writers, and a means of introducing to the public new and curious developments in foreign literatures. The Chap-Book was either praised as being up to date, or denounced as being ' decadent,' and had considerable vogue. Publications which were evidently imitations of it, both in form and spirit, sprang up in many quarters, and its editors have collected something like 150 of these curious ventures. "In October, 1894, the periodical was removed from Cambridge to Chicago, and since that date has been continuously issued from the latter city on the ist and 15th of every month. May 1, 1896, it was transferred by its original owners to the new publishing firm of Herbert S. Stone and Co. It has been edited from the start by Mr. Herbert S. Stone, with the assistance of Mr. Bliss Carman at the beginning, and of Mr. Harrison Garfield Rhodes during the last four years. In January, 1897, the Chap-Book was enlarged to quarto size, and introduced reviews of current literature as a prominent feature of its contents. This change brought with it a marked increase of dignity and authority; it became more serious than it had been, yet it did not cease to be enter- taining. Editorially it was conducted with inde- pendence and vigour, and occupied to a consider- able extent a field which it had made its own. 100 numbers were issued altogether, sixty-four in the smaller and thirty-six in the larger form. When purchased by the Dial four numbers of the ninth volume had appeared. The Chap-Book has had a distinguished list of contributors, in- cluding most of the poets, novelists, and essayists both of England and the United States, whose names are widely known to the reading public, and its pages have furnished forth the contents of several volumes of stories and essays. It has, in a word, done services both sturdy and valu- able in behalf of good literature, and made an honourable record for itself during the four years of its existence. "By this accession the Dial gains a new and important constituency. While features likely to increase its interest and value may be added, the journal will in the main adhere to the well-defined aims and principles which have governed it for nearly twenty years. But the absorption of the Chap-Book will give it a certain stimulus and a widened range, and the recent change of the Critic of New York from the form of a weekly paper to that of a monthly magazine will leave the Dial in practical possession of the field of dis- tinctively literary journalism in the United States. As long ago as 1892 Whittier called it ' the best and ablest literary paper in the country,' and competent critical opinion from many quarters has repeatedly confirmed this judgment." A PROPOSED BUREAU. ACORRESPONDENT, in another column, advocates the establishment of a literary bureau to which writers would send their papers and editors would apply in seaiv.h of papers. The difficulty of establishing such a bureau would be so great as to make it practically impossible. For, first, it would have to become recognised and used both by writers and editors. It would be necessary that both writers and editors should see their advantage iu adopting this method. As regards the writer he must be persuaded that he would have a better chance of getting his work taken by a bureau than by direct offer. Who should persuade him!' It might happen that he had two papers taken in one year before joining the bureau and only one in the year after joining it; then he would declare that the bureau was useless. Again, there are a dozen possible writers ou any subject: if one belongs to the bureau and eleven send in the old way to the editor, how is that one benefited, and why should the editor go to the bureau? If, however, to save himself trouble the editor should prefer the bureau the thing might be feasible. All these methods and complaints ignore the ground feature of the situation: viz., that the editor is absolute master of it.  ## p. 92 (#104) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. The only way to make such a bureau possible is to make editors see their advantage in it. Could something be attempted in the way of receiving names with credentials, &c., from mem- bers willing to furnish papers on certain subjects, and then to supply editors with the list, and with an offer to procure for them papers on these subjects at short notice and with- out fee? It might save editors trouble to have such a list ready to hand. It would, however, only be useful to them in the case of specialists: and again only in the case of those writers who possess special knowledge, but are not of such standing as to command a hearing and advanced terms. For instance, the unknown man who has lived in China, or the man who has travelled in China, or the man who has studied Chinese institutions and literature, might at the present moment be a very useful person for an editor, if he could get at him. But could our proposed bureau catch him? Again, if we had such a list it might be useful to any literary agent, with whom the Society could treat. But it would be of no use whatever to the man who was willing to write on any subject that offered. That man's only chance is to please an editor by his style and methods of treatment in a paper offered on the present system. CORRESPONDENCE. I.—The Fate of MSS., and a Literary Bureau. THE burden of complaint in many letters published in The Author is that editors keep MSS. intrusted to them for an in- definite time before returning or accepting them. Editors have been accused of discourtesy and rudeness by indignant writers. I am afraid, however, that all the strictures and advice possible will not move their obdurate hearts. Editors study themselves, and not their would-be contri- butors; in fact, they please themselves. My own experiences—extending over a decade of years—have told me that editors as a rule, in spite of those delusive words in italics, tee are always pleased to consider any MSS. sent us-~ seldom require any outside contributions. They have their own staff and troops of friends and relations whose work, if only near up to the mark, is more acceptable than that of a stranger. Some years ago, when a certain weekly paper was started, the editor asked me to write regularly for it. I am. sure the MSS.. he received from outsiders were better than mine, which he used because he knew me. Of course, editors may receive and use a paper on a subject which he may happen to want, but this is only a chance. Some time ago, when a certain magazine, which is still in existence, was about to appear, the editor's sanctum was literally piled with hundreds of MSS., which had been sent in on approval. One morning the editor instructed a clerk to return them all, when suddenly his glance alighted on one whose super- scription was very neatly written. He opened it, read it, liked it, and published it, and the lucky author afterwards wrote regularly for the magazine. The others, which had not been opened, were declined with thanks. I can vouch for this fact to prove how MSS. are not read, and how chance is often alone the arbiter of their destinies. I happened to call one day on a friendly sub- editor of a weekly journal. As we were talking, a MS. was delivered by the postman. My friend took it up, opened it, and handed it to me. "See what this is like," he said. Glancing at it, I discovered that it was in a literary friend's handwriting, which induced me to read it attentively. It was not bad; it was not good, but passable. Naturally, in my desire to help a fellow scribbler, I recommended it, and it was at once sent off to the printer in my hear- ing. Now, had I not been in the room at the time, I am certain that it would have been returned unread. I could multiply other instances in my experience if space afforded it. Now, all my remarks point to one conclusion, and this is the crux of the matter. There ought to be no need for any writer to send his work hap- hazard, broadcast, on the poor chance of accept- ance. Let there be a combination amongst writers to abandon this undignified practice, and let a literary bureau be formed by the Authors' Society where all MSS. can be sent to await the time when editors happening to want an article on a particular subject—a dialogue, poem, short story, or what not—will be forced to apply for their wants. Why need writers beg for recognition, and submit to the thousand and one annoyances, indignities, and disappointments consequent upon scattering their writings about? I have in a previous issue advocated the need and the uses of such a bureau, and I am ready at any time to formulate a plan of its modus operandi to any practical person who is ready to start and bring the idea to " a consummation devoutly to be wished." Isidore G. Ascher. 7, Bullingham-uiansions, Kensington, W.  ## p. 93 (#105) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 93 II.—The Futuee of the Short Story. When a writer has obtained or made his "public," he has obtained or made for himself a "quotation " in the market; he writes so many words and he expects to receive so many pence, shillings, or pounds. I have no quarrel with this arrangement naturally educed out of the laws of supply and demand. The publisher has appeared to me individually as a gentleman, the editor as courteous, the reviewer—well! in some cases, as a reviewer, in other cases as a pedal unconsciously receiving pressure from fashion or conventionality. The object of my letter, then, is not to air a grievance, but to examine conditions. I do not desire to abuse, but to direct attention to the future of the short story. We are told, on the authority of the publisher, that, save in the cases of an established reputa- tion, the public will not now buy volumes of short stories. The writer, then, must look for his reward from the journals to which he con- tributes, and with no significant hope of repro- duction in volume form. What do they offer? A varying publicity and a remuneration which oscillates between Mi0 and .£15. The latter sum is a round one. It is; but does it lead to an eventual quotation of the writer in the market? My experience is that it does not do so. And it appears to me to be uncommonly doubtful whether the short story writer, who may be provident as well as artistic, will think it worth his while in the future to introduce strong energy of originality and artistic finishinto compositions that go to dull shelves, leaving him again haggling for a remuneration varying from .£10 to .£15. Your opinion upon these points, sir, would doubtless be as interesting to the readers of The Author as they would be to A Countryman. [Surely a writer of short stories whose name is appended to all his work should make his clientele of people anxious to read him and really to buy journals in which that work appears. When his name is established competition begins. If his nume does not appear there can be, of course, no chance of advance.—Ed.] III.—Why "Disgeaceful " '( In an article in the Westminster Review (June) on poets and poetry, the writer says, "it is a deplorable fact that even those who are gifted by nature with poetic abilities, with a heart full of love, sympathy, and passionate emotions, are disgracefully trying their very best to suppress those feelings, to be carried away by them under the magic influence of materialism." Now, sir, this is in my opinion a pretty touch of genuine insight on the part of the writer, But what prompts the suppression of those feelings? Is it not merely that they don't bring bread and cheese? A man must live, and possibly has to help to keep others living, and those feelings have to be suppressed and replaced by others in consonance with materialistic occupa- tion in order that body and soul, or bodies and souls, may be kept together. You quoted in The Author some months ago from the Glasgow Herald a proposal for the endowment of poets by the State. I do not say that I should support such a scheme, but in the absence of any pro- v sion to enable true poets to develop themselves, I wish to protest against the reproach of "dis- gracefully." A. L. IV.— JoTJBNALISTIC ETIQUETTE. I beg to send you the following account of my experience at the hands of the editor of a certain newly-started "Society" paper, in the hope that it may prove a warning to other young writers. About four weeks ago I submitted to the editor in question some personal paragraphs, which he accepted, and asked me to send others. At the same time he expressed his willingness to consider any short stories I cared to submit. Accordingly I left two with him. The first batch of para- graphs having been published, 1 forwarded some more, together with a letter in which I asked, tasually, if any decision had been arrived at regarding the stories. This was not answered, and the paragraphs did not appear. The following week I sent a third batch, and inquired if the editor intended using any of the second lot. This brought me the following letter, signed by the sub-editor: Dear , You cannot be well versed in journaliatio etiquette if you do not know that editors never advise contributors whether they intend to use oopy submitted or not. I have charge of the short story department here, and I had put aside your stories for careful consideration later on, but as you are so incessantly worrying me for news about them, I simply have no alternative but to send them back to you, as I do now, with many tbanks. My editor, as far as I know, is not using your paragraphs, so that you have full liberty to submit them elsewhere. Several of them consist of re-written matter. Yours truly, (Signed) , Sub-editor. P.S.—I have just shown this letter to my editor, who fully approves of it, and wishes me to add that one of the paragraphs you have submitted to him has already appeared in a recent number of the paper. This courteous letter contains several mis- statements. None of my paragraphs consisted of re-written matter. The expression "incessant  ## p. 94 (#106) ############################################# 94 THE AUTHOR. worrying" is totally unwarranted by the mere fact of my having on one occasion only casually alluded to the matter of a contribution being under the editor's consideration. My experience of " journalistic etiquette" may not be as profound as this gentleman's, but it has taught me that under no circumstances is an article published by a well-conducted paper without the contributor being advised before- hand. Finally, with regard to the allegation that I forwarded as original matter items obtained from his own paper, it is too absurd to suppose that any journalist would do such a thing. I obtained the item of news in question from a perfectly legitimate source, and was unaware it had appeared in print a day or two before I sub- mitted it. As I was absent from town, I commissioned a friend of mine to call at the office and demand from the editor an explanation of this letter, and the reasons which had led him to sanction it, as other letters I had previously received from him had been couched in most amiable terms. He refused point-blank to discuss the matter, although admitting that his subordinate's letter was written with his own knowledge and ap- proval. Yours, sadder and wiser, A Woman Writer. [Our correspondent is not quite accurate in her opinion that contributions to a paper are never inserted without the contributor being advised beforehand. There are circumstances in which it is impossible to wait while the contributor is advised. Generally, of course, a proof is the form by which the contributor is advised.—Ed.] V.—The Struggle for Recognition. May I be allowed to suggest, in reference to the editor's concluding remarks on " The Struggle for Recognition," that whereas in the time of Dickens and Marryat there were, say, fifty promising literary aspirants, there are now a thousand or more. It is the same in art of all kinds. Hence the keenness of competition and the necessity of money and interest in securing a hearing. The endless magazines that are floated, with very often their own staff of contributors, when, in the time of Dickens, journals were comparatively few and editors were less bombarded with copy, all tell in many ways against the literary aspirant and outsider. Then there are the various cliques and rings. What are the chances of the poor novelist? The public invari- ably rush after a name that is generally procured by preliminary puffs, beating the drum, and Press booms. The struggling outsider must be sweated, and think him sell highly honoured in securing i hat privilege, or he will starve. Annabel Gray. VI.—The Book and the Reviewer. On reading in The Author for August your remarks under the heading "The Book and" the Reviewer," I am tempted to bring under the notice of your readers an example of the un- satisfactory and slipshod way in which books are sometimes reviewed. As I am the author of the book in question, I will not (in order to avoid any appearance of wishing to advertise my own wares) give the name of the book; nor, with your permission, append my name to this letter; and shall, as f*r as possible, avoid saying anything by which the book can be recognised by those who have not read it. It is the history of a campaign in which I took part some thirty years ago, thrown into the form of a semi-political novel, embracing politics in one country and war in another, and when my tale is told I add a chapter entitled " L'Avenir," ventur- ing a prophecy as to what will occur in the near future when a Bourbon sits again on the throne of France, and describing the death of my hero as if that event had already occurred. Anyone reading the book with the slightest attention, and who possessed the smallest amount of historical knowledge, even if ignorant of the meaning of the words "L'Avenir," would perceive that the incidents recounted in the last chapter could not possibly as yet have happened. Before me lie at this moment a number of reviews of this book. The first I take up does not say a word as to its literary merits or de- merits, but deliberately, or perhaps carelessly, takes passages, which do not bear on each other, from different pages and strings them together as if they were consecutive and referred to the same person, which they do not, and then turns the whole into ridicule because the political views of the author do not agree with the politics of the newspaper in which this review appears. The second review I take up states that my hero violently checked " the vagaries of a drunken policeman," though there is no reference what- ever to a drunken policeman in the book. The third gives in inverted commas distorted quotations, substituting the reviewer's words for those of the author, and thereby totally altering the style. The fourth praises the book in the most exaggerated terms, and entirely above its deserts. This reviewer, I am given to understand, is a personal friend of the publisher,  ## p. 95 (#107) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 95 One review attacks the book in very vulgar and seemingly vindictive language. The reviewer being, I have reason to suspect, a man whom I took to task some time ago for a breach of literary etiquette. Two of these reviews—possibly written by the same individual, although appearing in publica- tions of diametrically opposite principles—state that my hero was killed in the presence of a certain personage who has now been dead for more than twenty years, while, as a matter of fact, I state that my hero still lives, and his death has yet to take place in " L'Avenir." By the irony of fate the publication which attacked my book the most violently now devotes a whole page to an advertisement quoting the opinions of other reviewers who bestow on it unqualified praise! A Member of the Authors' Society. VII. — From Magazine Publisher to Author. "Dear Sir,—We have at present in course of preparation a new serial dealing with dangers incurred and dangers escaped, and I am proposing to include in it a chapter on Australian bush- rangers and their ways, describing in a vivid and dramatic style a few of the more exciting cases of 'Hands up!' "The length of the chapter will be about 5000 words, and the fee I am authorised to offer for the copyright is ten pounds (.£i0). I should want the MS. by the end of the present month. "Will you kindly let me know whether you can undertake the MS. chapter? As the time is rather short an early answer will greatly oblige, "Yours faithfully, "The Editor." "I should be glad if you will treat this letter as confidential." Note.—Do Messrs. require this to be confidential because they are afraid their other .contributors would resent my having such mag- nificent prices for special knowledge, or can it be that they are ashamed of offering them? Author. VIII.—Proposed Journal for Amateurs. In reply to the question asked by " Inconnu," I am not in the least ashamed to own that I have several times contributed to amateur magazines (when I've had something to say which no editor wished to pay for), and that I believe in them. They have two virtues. In the first place they give the beginner an opportunity of trying his pin feathers, and seeing the difference between handwriting and print, showing how the former "boils down," and the value of knowing how to paragraph effectually; in the second place, they weed out immature talent from impotent conceit. They encourage the best and let the worst down gently. The Arts Monthly, edited by J. Hannaford Bennett, was the most successful amateur magazine I have known, often containing really good things and always entertaining. I wrote some articles in it which the late Mrs. Lynn Linton was good enough to praise as "capital work in the present and full of promise for the future" (I was quite unknown to her), and thus I received encouragement through its pages for which I shall always be grateful. My impres- sion is that if an amateur monthly could be started under able editorship, and with some capital behind, it might be made extremely educa- tional and financially successful; especially if criticism of its contents by esteemed authors could be arranged as a feature. This, I believe, has never been tried. The amateur magazine should not be amateurishly managed, as it generally is, but should be in the hands of well- qualified persons. "Inconnu" is right. Three of my novels have been published by well-known firms in England and America and one has been translated into German. I have now seldom any difficulty in selling what I consider to be my worst work —that upon which I expend least thought and pains; and I would advise any writer who wishes to get on rapidly not to cultivate style or attempt a psychological study of humanity. A cheap public likes wading into shallows, and abhors depths, judging from the stuff one sees on book- stalls. This leads me to the article by "N. C," and I want to learn where he thinks the country book- seller is going to put all those less successful works which at present" decay on warehouse shelves "'( A bookseller's shop is generally a stationer's shop, and there is never much room in it for books at all. If a third of the well-known authors were kept in stock no one would ever get in at the doors!" Pity 'tis, 'tis true." What is to be done? There seems to be no possible answer. Mary L. Pendered. IX.—The Seamy Side. I have often thought with Mr. Stanhope Sprigs (see August number) how rarely it is that we hear anything of the kindness and consideration of editors and publishers. May I be allowed to give a brief sketch of my experiences, which, how- ever, I did not think were at all unusual until I read the letters on the subject in The Author. I began to write before I was out of the school-  ## p. 96 (#108) ############################################# 96 THE A UTHOR. room, and never has any remuneration been sweeter to me than the modest i0*. paid for my first attempt—a contribution to Aunt Judy's Magazine. This was the opening of a journalistic career during which I have worked more or less regularly for between thirty and forty journals and magazines. Once only have I received my conge under circumstances other than the dis- continuance of the publication. In this one case a "new broom" in the shape of an editor promptly swept me out, but in the course of a few months I had the satisfaction of being recalled with equal promptitude after the depar- ture of my enemy. The MSS. lost during my years of work could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and throughout I have met with friendship and courtesy from every publisher and editor with whom I have been brought into con- stant communication. Once only have I had any serious difficulty in getting the promised jiay- ment for work done, and then, thanks to the Society, all came right in the end. I have been on the staff of three journals in particular for six, eight, and eleven years, to another I have been an occasional contributor for twenty years, and in neither case have I ever had the slightest difference of opinion with those in authority. In my "free-lancing" days editors did not lose, tear, or dog's-ear my copy, they did not smear or blot my drawings, or keep my contributions an un- reasonable time. I can lay claim to no genius, merely to business capacity and a love of work. I have never paid one farthing to get any of my writings printed or published. Friends tell me I cannot help being " lucky," having been born on a Sunday; but however this may be, certain it is, if the pessimism of other writers is to be believed in, that I am as fortunate an author (in a small way of business) as ever lived. My interest is as fresh in my work as it was when I first ventured in fear and trembling to send a MS. to one of the dreaded race of editors, but then—I am happy in being able to use my writing as a staff rather than a crutch. Ellen T. Masters. X.—Forfeiture of Copyright. Perhaps my recent experience re the uncer- tainty of publication in magazines may interest readers of The Author. Last autumn the "editress " of a penny weekly wrote saying if I cared to submit seven stories, about 1200 words each, she would consider them. I sent in a series of character sketches, and heard no more about them till, glancing at the journal for July 2,1 saw the first story. Five appeared week by week, till on July 23 the publishers sent me a cheque for A'1 17s. 6d., with a printed receipt to sign, by which I discovered I had forfeited my copyright without any terms having been offered or proofs sent to revise. They also enclosed a note saying they would retain the two last stories until the new editress decided whether they were to be inserted or not. Perhaps this is only the usual way of "doing business" in small journals, but it seems unfair to insist on an author resigning copyright after the publication of his MSS. without warning. The artistic effect of the series was quite spoilt by the alteration of their insertion, and probably people will have lost all interest in the characters by the time the remainder appear, if ever. E. L. Williams. BOOK TALE. AS our list of books in this number shows, August was a slack month. The holidays, the heat, and the general lull that inter- venes before the autumn season begins, all con- tributed to keep the output of books a very small one. A member of this Society has lost, no doubt through unintentional forgetfulness on the part of a borrower, vol. 1 of Capt. Gronow's Remini- scences aud Recollections. It contains the book- plate, a peculiar one, of the owner, who would be greatly obliged by the return of the volume to the Athenseum Club, Pall Mall. The event of the past month in the book- producing world has been the business change whereby the old publishing firm of Bentley becomes merged into that of Macmillan. Messrs. Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton, have just published an Index to Collinson's History of Somerset, edited by the Rev. F. W. Weaver, M.A., and the Rev. E. H. Bates, M.A., including a Supplemental Index (Alphabet and Ordinary) to all the armorial bearings mentioned in the work, contributed by Lieutenant-Colonel J R. Bramble, F.S.A. Only 500 copies printed, 20s. 6d. Large paper edition, of which only 25 copies are printed, 31s. (id. post free. Contains upwards of 30,000 references. "Songs of Somerset," by Joseph Heury Steven- son, M.A., Rector of Lympsham, and Treasurer and Prebendary of Wells Cathedral (6*. 6d., post free), will be published by the same firm. Messrs. Blackie will publish "The Skipper: the Story of an Old Sea-Dog," a new children's story, by Mrs. Edith E. Cutell, whose "Only a Guard-room Dog " is in a second edition.  ## p. 97 (#109) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 97 A small volume called "The Theft of the Princes," by F. Bayford Harrison, will be pub- lished in the autumn by the S.P.C.K. The story, which is historical, is that of a romantic adventure which happened to an ancestor of the Queen and of the late Prince Consort. As we mentioned in the June number, a third volume of the history of the Blackwood publishing house is to be published; that is, a volume sup- plementary to the two written by Mrs. Oliphant. With it the record will be brought down to com- paratively recent years. The book will come out in the autumn. Jan. 16 next will be the three hundredth anni- versary of the death of Edmund Spenser, which occurred in King-street, Westminster. Prince Demidoff, a well-known European sports- man, has written a book on Sport in the Caucasus, which Mr. Rowland Ward will publish in the autumn. Mr. Edward Carpenter in his new book "Angels'Wings" treats of painting, scuJpture, literature, and music in relation to the changes they have undergone through growth of the democratic idea. Nature and Realism; Tradition and Convention; Wagner; Beethoven and his Music; Whitman; the Art of Life—are some of the subjects of Mr. Carpenter's chapters. The book will be issued by Messrs. Swan Sonnen- schein. Mr. A. B. Rathbone spent fifteen years in the Malay Peninsula, and is writing a book to be called "Camping and Tramping in Malaya." Count Tolstoy has contributed to the New Aye a work which he apparently thinks will be his last message to the world. In his introduction to the opening chapters the author says: So that I am urged to what I do, not by wish for gain or fame, nor by any worldly considerations, but only by fear to fail in what is required from me by Him who has sent me into this world, to Whom I am hourly expecting to return. I, therefore, beg all those who shall read this to follow and understand my writing, putting aside, as I did, all worldly considerations, and, holding before them only that eternal Principle of trnth and right, by whose Will we have come into the world, whence, as beings in the body, we shall very soon disappear; without hurry or irritation, let them under- stand and judge what I say. If they disagree, let them correct me; not with contempt and hatred, but with pity and love. If they agree, let them remember that if I speak trnth, that trnth is not mine, but God's, and only casually part of it passes through me, just as it passes every one of us when we behold truth and transmit it to others. An edition of Ben Jonson's celebrated comedy, "Volpone; or the Foxe" is being published by Mr. Leonard Smithers, with a cover design, a frontispiece in line, and five initial letters, deco- rative and illustrative, reproduced from pencil drawings by the late Mr. Aubrey Beardsley. A reviewer in the Daily Chronicle the other day remarked on the number of misprints to be met with in books nowadays. "We notice these trifles," said the writer " because it seems to us that there is a growing tendency towards careless proof-reading in some of our best printing offices. We could name more than one series of popular reprints at present on the market which are rendered almost valueless to the student by their abounding errors of the press." Mrs. Alathea Weil has written a work of Italian history, "The Romance of the House of Savoy," which is to be published in two volumes by Messrs. Putnam. "Legends of the Saints," in original verse, by the Rev. G. R. Woodward, of St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico, will be published shortly by Messrs. Kegan Paul. The next volume in the Gadshill edition of Dickens, published by Messre. Chapman and Hall, will contain " Hard Times," " A Holiday Romance," "Hunted Down," and " George Silver- man's Explanation," with new illustrations by Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen. An edition of the "Rowley Poems" of Chatterton has been prepared by Mr. Robert Steele, and will be published by Messrs. Hacon and Ricketts. The text is founded on the first edition by Tyrwhitt in 1777, compared with the firsts of previously printed poems, and with such of the reputed originals as exist. Miss Hewlett, of the C.E.Z.N.S., for many years superintendent of St. Catherine's Hospital, Amritsar, in the Panjab, and well known in this country as a gifted speaker on missionary topics, has in the press a new work entitled, "They shall see His Face: Stories of God's Grace in Work among the Blind and others in India." The book will be uniform with the author's previous works, " Daughters of the King," " The Wellspring of Immortality," " None of Self," &c., and will be illustrated with thirteen full-page illustrations from original photographs. Its publishers will be Messrs. Alden and Co., of the Boeardo Press, Oxford, and its price will be 3s. 6d. Mr. Robert Cromie's new story, originally called "The Uncharted Island," has been changed, the title having been claimed by another author. This affords another instance of the present unsatisfactory method of regis- tering book names. Mr. Cromie's story will now be published with the name, " The Lost Liner." A chatty volume of light essays, with the rather curious title of "Nothing Personal," will be issued by Messrs. J. Baker and Son in their Square series of is. books in September. It is  ## p. 98 (#110) ############################################# 98 THE AUTHOR. by Ralph Harold Bretherton, a West of England journalist. Mr. Thomas Hardy's new volume of collected stories, and Mr. William Black's new romance of the Highlands, are among early publications. The latter, however, will appear first. The story of "Wild Eelin" is exceedingly romantic, and has a very tragic and (to the reader) unexpected ending. Mr. Grant Allen's new story is about a Tyrolese peasant who becomes a great singer, and the novelist has given it the title of " Linnet." Mr. Grant Richards will publish it very soon. Venice is the subject of the next volume in Mr. Allen's series of Guide Books. It will be out this month. The biography of the late Duchess of Teck may not now appear until next spring. It is being written by Mr. C. Kinlock Cooke, and is based on the private diaries and letters of the Duchess. Mr. Murray is publisher. Mr. Edwin A. Pratt has written a biography of Mrs. Gladstone, entitled "Catherine Glad- stone: Her Life, Good Works, and Political Efforts." He has done it with the approval of the family. Mr. Pratt is already the author of "Pioneer Women in Victoria's Reign." Messrs. Sampson Low will issue the new book imme- diately. A volume of poems by Sir. W. B. Yeats and one by Mr. Henry Newbolt are promised for this autumn. Mr. Andrew Balfour, author of a historical romance which appeared a year ago, called "By Stroke of Sword," is bringing out a new romance of the 1715 Rebellion. Mr. W. Pett Ridge's story " Mord Em'ly " has run its course in To-Day, and will be published in volume form this month (Pearson). It is about a South London girl's early life. Mr. Felix Moscheles is bringing out a second instalment of his reminiscences. The first was principally about the late George Du Maurier. In the forthcoming book Mr. Moscheles will go back to his boyhood in England and Germany. His father was a distinguished musician, and Mendelssohn was one of the figures in his circle. Another artist who is writing reminiscences is Mr. G. A. Storey. He knew Dickens and many other interesting people. Paris and Spain are as open books to him. His work—with, of course, pictures — will be called "Sketches from Memory." Australian bush stories, by Mr. William S. Walker, under the title of "When the Mopoke Calls," will be published in a volume by Mr. John Long. Mr. Walker is an Australian, and nephew to Rolf Boldrewood. London life is the theme of Mr. G. B. Burgin's new book, to be published shortly by Messrs. Pearson. "Settled out of Court " is the title. A new serial by Mr. Burgin is being published, which is called "The Hermits of Gray's Inn," and tells of a band of old schoolfellows, who, being jilted, vowed to cut off their lives from feminine influences. There is a defaulter, how- ever; he marries and is cast out, and on his death-bed he works out a scheme for the redemp- tion of his old friends. Professor Dill, of Queen's College, Belfast, has completed an account of Roman society during the last century of the Western Empire. It will be published during the autumn by Messrs. Mac- millan. Mr. Herbert Fisher, Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, has also finished, after labouring at it for some years, a work dealing with the Mediaeval Empire, and the same firm will publish it. "Joan the Curate" is the title of Miss Florence Warden's new novel, which Messrs. Chatto and Windus will have ready on the 15th. Sixpenny editions are extending to boys' books. This month Messrs. Sampson Low will bring out Mr. Henty's "Jack Archer: a Tale of the Crimea," and Mr. Kingston's "With Axe and Rifle," at the popular price. Novels about to appear include the following: —"A Tragedy in Marble," by Mr. Adam Lilburn; "The Church of Humanity," by Mr. David Christie Murray; "The Sireu's Web," a romance of London society, by Annie Thomas; and "Mrs. Carmichael's Goddesses," by Sarah Tytler, all to come from Chatto and Windus. "A Drama in Sunshine," by Mr. Horace A. Vachell; "Michael Gargrave," by Mrs. Riddell; and " Off the High Road," by Miss Eleanor C. Price, will be published by Messrs. Bentley. A new edition of FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is to be issued by Messrs. Macmillan, with decorations by Mr. W. B. Macdougall. There is still much knock- ing at Messrs. Macmillan's door for a cheap edition of the classic, such as the United States possesses two or three times over. Many poor lovers of the Persian poet turn envious eyes to the realms of book piracy. Mr. Richard Marsh's novel, "Ada Vernham, Actress," will be published by Mr. John Long this month. "P. P. C." is the title of Mrs. B. M. Croker's new novel, which Messrs. Chatto will publish. It has run serially in the weekly edition of the Times.  ## p. 99 (#111) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 99 A work on the native tribes of Central Austra- lia is shortly to appear, from the pens of Pro- fessor Baldwin Spencer, of the University of Melbourne, and Mr. F. J. Gillen, special magis- trate and sub-inspector of the aborigines of South Australia. Messrs. Macmillan are the publishers. Miss Kingsley, the traveller, is preparing her expected volume of " West African Studies" for publication by Messrs. Macmillan. Sir Walter Besant's articles on South London, which have run in the Pall Mall Magazine for a number of months, will be published shortly in a volume, with considerable additions and many illustrations, by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. Dr. G. H. Oarwin, the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, is publishing a new book through Mr. Murray, entitled "The Tides and Kindred Phenomena." Professor Ridgeway, of Cambridge, has written a work entitled "The Early Age of Greece." which is almost ready. Natural history is again engaging the pen of Mr. Richard Kearton. It will be written in a '•popular" vein. Mr. Kearton was in the Shetland Isles lately, and, with his brother, succeeded in finding and photographing a rara avis—the great skua. The last pair of phalarope, or wading birds, had, however, been shot just before Mr. Kearton's visit. A novel laid in Parma during the insurrec- tionary days of 1831 was left in manuscript by the late Antonio Gallenga of the Times. The author's own reminiscences contribute to the story, which Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. are to bring out. Mr. Savage Lindor's record of his interesting and awful experiences in Thibet, in two volumes, published by Mr. Heinemann, may be out next month. A collected edition of Tennyson's works is pro- jected by Messrs. Macmillan. Each volume will be I2.v. 6rf. net, and there are to be a dozen. A thousand copies will be printed for England. The volumes will appear at the rate of one per mouth, beginning October. The house to which Shelley went in Wales, and where he received Harriet Westbrook's doleful letters, is reported to be on the eve of disappear- ing. It is called Cwm Elan, and its situation is the Elan Valley, from which Birmingham is drawing its new water supply. Literary associa- tions, therefore, are once more being swept away by the heavy hand of the engineer. Mr. A. G. Bradley has written the text for a volume on "Highways and Byways of North Wales," which will be illustrated by Mr. Joseph Pennell and Mr. Hugh Thompson. The pub- lishers of it, Messrs. Macmillan, have also in preparation volumes dealing in a similar style with Yorkshire and the North of Ireland. The Dome will be converted from a quarterly to a monthly magazine on Oct. 1. Among the contributors to the next number are Mr. Stephen Phillips, Mr. W. B. Yeats, and Mr. Lawrence Binvon. 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