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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) 1892-10-01 Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages Page range in volume 149–184 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18921001 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin Che Mutbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vou. III.—No. 5.] OCTOBER 1, 1892. [PRicE SIXPENCE. CONTENTS. PAGE YW Warnings ake ae oye ee wo ase ae ae asc Lk “— Howto Usethe Society... is as oe oe a woo 152 1 The Authors’ Syndicate... cee cae ace A igs we» 152 ”% Notices... ee ae oa a me can en ee eee ty oe “‘AtLast” ... sea a = ons ace as iy wee 154 i) = Literary Property— 1.—Lee v. Gibbings. By Sir Frederick Pollock ... me =e 156 2.—A Publisher’s Bankruptcy... ... ne we moe we 156 3.—The Literary and Artistic Congress... Se ee ans LOT 4.—Godfrey v. Bradley ... ws ae es wee =a nee Oe, “) Our Critics—The Bookseller and the Globe Sew eee 1 ‘tT The New Books we oes ae ae oe eae oe sw» 162 ¥ Notes from Paris. By Robert Sherard ... ae ae eae on 168 * Notes and News. By the Editor... aes a aus we we 165 Feuilleton— PAGE 1.—My First Love ae eis ie é - 168 2.—‘' What is the use? Said the goose ” He ste say 2109 The Shelley Centenary. Address by Mr. Edmund Gosse ... wes 140) The Institute of Journalists. By James Baker ces mee sts LTD Correspondence— 1.—American Copyright os oes ose see ae aes he 2.—'' Cataloguing” oan oes ay cae ate one «. 173 3.—Books for Review ... 73 4.—The Shelley Memorial F ane was wa 174 5,—Literature asa Calling ... fe << ae ree ux lit 6.—The Civil List = ies oe oe ae scnclts ‘At the Author’s Head” ... tte ae aS sas as wee LID From the Papers ae an 5 ess -- on oeaed New Books and New Editions... site es ee ee oe 416 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. The Annual Report. That for January 1892 can be had on application to the Secretary. Be 2. S 3. 1 ‘8. The Author, A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary Property. Issued to all Members. The Grievances of Authors. (The Leadenhall Press.) 2s. The Report of three Meetings on the general subject of Literature and its defence, held at Willis’s Rooms, March, 1887. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Couxss, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C.) 3s. The History of the Societe des Gens de Lettres. By S. Squire Spricax, late Secretary to the Society. Is. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens are given of the most important forms of type, size of page, &c., with estimates showing what it costs to produce the more common kinds of books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squrre Spriear. In this work, compiled from the papers in the Society’s offices, the various kinds of agreements proposed by Publishers to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 3s. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell’s Copyright Bill now before Parlia- ment. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix containing the Berne Convention and the-American Copyright Bill. By J. M. Lury. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1s. 6d. a ; pe  ADVERTISEMENTS. THE LINOTYPE GOMMPOSING MACHINE. SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BOOKWORK. “A MIGHTY BUT PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.” OPINIONS OF VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS ON THE LINOTYPE. For full List of Experts’ Reports and Opinions apply to the Company’s Secretary for Pamphlet. “Tt will do away with type, and composition, and distribution, as now practised, will be known no more.”— Manchester Courier. “ Saves 70 per cent. in cost of composing, and from three- fourths to nine-tenths in time.’’—Shefield and Rotherham Independent. “Tt bids fair to revolutionise the present system, especially of newspaper production, for which it seems peculiarly well adapted. The instrument is one of the most beautiful and ingenious pieces of mechanism ever introduced in connection with the art of printing.” —Scotsman. “The absolute saving of distribution, which is reckoned as equivalent to one quarter of the cost of composition, is an important factor in the economy of this machine. With it comes emancipation from the frequent errors arising from faulty distribution. To pye matter is impossible. Unquestionably the most remarkable machine ever invented in the art of printing.”—The Printers’ Register. “Tt stands to reason that an invention that economises as well as expedites work, without aiming a blow at those who had previously done without it, must be a success.” —Echo. “The rapidity and accuracy of the process impressed Mr. Gladstone very powerfully, or, as he expressed it himself, it ‘ staggered’ him.”—Daily Chronicle. “ One of the most remarkable machines ever invented.’’— Engineer. “A steam-driven, type-composing and casting machine which really promises to bring about a revolution in the composing-rooms of newspaper and book printing offices.” —Home and Colonial Matt. * This remarkable invention promises to revolutionise all our ideas as to type-setting by machinery. It dispenses — with movable type, and substitutes matrices in which the letters are cast in solid lines.” —Leeds Mercury. * One of the most remarkable labour-saving Machines ever devised in an age remarkable for such inventions.” — —Western Mail (Cardiff). “The work never stops, line after line is added with astonishing smoothness and regularity.” —Newcastle Daily Chronicle. “Has come into existence to create amazement, where surprise hitherto found a home. “The Linotype, to be brief, is a machine which does away with the present expensive and slow method of type-setting. It performs all the work of a compositor antomatically, with greater precision and with far more rapidity. The most important feature of the patent, however, lies in the enormous saving it effects in the cost of setting, while a no less startling fact is that the labour of ‘ distributing,’ or the putting of the type back into cases, is dispensed with.’— Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette. “ Printing without types. A marvellous machine that makes fresh types for every line. The advance of industrial science is so rapid that this machine must, sooner or later, come into extensive use.’’—Evening News and Post (London). Pa THE ECONOMIC PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, ©. 39, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C., Having acquired the monopoly of Linotype Machines in London (excepting Newspaper Offices), are in a position to quote decidedly advantageous Prices to Authors for the Composition of Books by Linotype, and also undertake the Printing, being well equipped with Printing Machinery by the best makers.  Che Flutbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vou. IIl.—No. 5.] OCTOBER 1, 1892. [PRicE SIXPENCE. \\ For the Opinions expressed in papers that are oo os [ signed or initialled the Authors alone are responsible. WARNINGS. a Sprcian Warnine. — Readers are most URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their agreements immediately after signature. If this precaution is neglected for three weeks, a fine of £10 must be paid before the agreement can be used as a legal document. In almost every case brought to the secretary the agreement, or the letter which serves for one, is without the stamp. The author may be assured that the other party to the agreement never neglects this simple pre- caution. The stamp duty varies from 6d. up to ros. or more, according to the form of agreement. The Society, to save trouble, undertakes to get all the agreements of members stamped for them at no expense to themselves except the cost of the stamp. Reavers of the Author are earnestly desired to make the following warnings as widely known as possible. They are based on the experience of seven years’ work upon the dangers to which literary property is exposed :— (1.) Never sign any agreement of which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part, until you have proved the figures. (2.) Never enter into any correspondence with publishers, especially with those who advertise for MSS., who are not recom- mended by experienced friends or by this Society. VOL. III, (3.) Nuver, on any account whatever, bind yourself down for future work to any- one. (4.) Never accept any proposal of royalty until you have ascertained what the agreement, worked out on both a small and a large sale, will give to the author and what to the publisher. (5.) Never accept any pecuniary risk or respon- sibility whatever without advice. (6.) Nuver, when a MS. has been refused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises they may put forward, for the production of the work. (7.) Never sign away American rights. Keep them, Refuse to sign any agreement containing a clause which reserves them for the publisher. If the publisher insists, take away the MS. and offer it to another. (8.) Never sign any paper, either agreement or receipt, which gives away copyright, without advice. (9.) Keep control over the advertisements, if they affect your returns, by clause in the agreement. Reserve a veto. If you are yourself ignorant of the subject, make the Society your adviser. (10.) Never forget that publishing is a busi- ness, like any other business, totally un- connected with philanthropy, charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with business men. Society’s Offices :— 4, Portuaat Srreet, Lincouy’s Inn Freups. ey mM 2  HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. 1. Every member has a right to advice upon his agreements, his choice of a publisher, 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 Committee will obtain for him counsel’s opinion. All this with- out any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers’ agreements are not generally 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 repre- sented. This is in order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agreements 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 information thus obtained may prove invaluable. 4. If the examination of your previous business transactions by the Secretary proves unfavour- able, you should take advice as toa change of publishers. 5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the proposed form to the Society for examination. 6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks, of every publishing firm in the country. Remember that there are certain houses which live entirely by trickery. 7. The outward and visible signs of the fraudulent publisher are—(1) a virtuous and benevolent wish to have the unquestioned conduct of your business left entirely in his hands; (2) a virtuous, good man’s pain at being told that his accounts must be audited; (3) a virtuous indig- ~ nation at being asked what his proposal gives him compared with what it gives the author; and (4) irrepressible irritation at any mention of the Society of Authors. 8. 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 inde- pendence of the writer. 152 THE AUTHOR. 9. Send to the Editor of the Author notes of — everything important to literature that you may hear or meet with. eee THE AUTHORS’ SYNDICATE. R. Colles desires to inform readers of the — Author— 1. That the Authors’ Syndicate is now in a position to take charge in whole or in part of the business of members of the Society, _ With, when necessary, the assistance of 2 the advisers of the Society, it will conclude agreements, collect royalties, examine and pass accounts, and, generally, relieve mem- bers of the trouble of managing business details. All accounts opened between the Syndicate and members are duly 4 audited. 2. That the establishment expenses of the Authors’ Syndicate are defrayed entirely | ; out of the commission charged on rights placed through its intervention. This varies, and must vary, according to the nature of the services rendered, but the charges are reduced to the lowest — possible amount compatible with effi- ciency. Meanwhile members will please accept this intimation that they are not entitled to the services of the Syndicate gratis. 3. That he undertakes to work for none but members of the Society. 4. That his business is not to advise members of the Society, but to manage their affairs for them if they please to entrust them to him. 5. That when he has any work in hand he must have it entirely in his own hands; in other words, that authors must not ask him to place certain work, and then go about endeavouring to place it by themselves. 6. That when a MS. has been sent from pub- lisher to publisher, and from editor to editor, in vain, it is most likely impossible to place it. 7. That in the face of the present competition, authors will do well to moderate their expectations. There is an Honorary Advisory Committee whose services will be called upon in any case o  THE J} dispute or difficulty. It is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the Advisory -- Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever = in the Syndicate. To this it may be added, that where advice is », sought, the Secretary of the Society, and not the ‘© Syndicate, must be consulted. Pee NOTICES. 1 HE Editor of the Author begs to remind members of the society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the » cost of producing it would be a very heavy , charge on the resources of the society if a great * many members did not forward to the secretary * the modest 6s. 6d. subscription for the year. | Perhaps this reminder may be of use. With ’ 800 members, besides the outside circulation of } the paper, the Author ought to prove a source , of revenue to the society. The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and communications on all subjects con- nected with literature from members and others. Nothing can do more good to the society than to make the Author complete, attractive, and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this work send their names and the special subjects on which they are willing to write ? ed All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. Members and others who wish their MSS. read are requested not to send them to the Office with- out previously communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in which they are received. It must also be distinctly understood that the Society does not, under any circum- stances, undertake the publication of MSS. ———< >. The Authors’ Club is now opened in temporary premises, at 17, St. James’s Place, St. James’s Street. Address the Secretary for information, rules of admission, &c. AUTHOR. 153 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 or a banker’s order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the trouble of sending out a reminder. ———— Those who are elected members during the last three months of the year are advised that their subscriptions cover the whole of the follow- ing year. Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the warning numbered (3). It is a most foolish and a most disastrous thing to bind yourself to anyone for a term of years. Let them ask them- selves 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 ? soa —— How, we are asked almost every day, is the young writer to make a beginning ? He should first get’ an opinion from one of the Society’s readers as to the merits and chances of his book. It may be that certain points would be suggested foralteration. It may be that he will find himself recommended to put his MS. in the fire. He should, if encouraged, offer his MS. to a list of houses or of magazines recommended by the Society. There is nothing else to be done. No one, we repeat, can possibly help him. If those houses all refuse him, it is not the least use trying others, and, if he is a wise man, he will refuse to pay for the production of his own work. If, how- ever, as too often happens, he is not a wise man, but believes that he has written a great thing, and is prepared to back his opinion to the extent of paying for his book, then let him place his work in the hands of the Society, and it shall be arranged for him without greater loss than the actual cost of production. At least he will not be deluded by false hopes and promises which can end in nothing.  i : H H ql 154 THE AT LAST. Se ROM our point of view the heavy sentences passed during this week by the Common Serjeant upon Sir Gilbert Campbell and Messrs. Morgan, Tomkins, Steadman, Tolmie, and Clarke, has been most righteously deserved. For years the man Morgan, generally with the assistance of Tomkins, has been preying upon literary and artistic aspirants. Now flattering their vanity, now abusing their ignorance, and now appealing to their greed—from which the literary aspirant is by no means more free than other people. The method of swindling em- loyed was always the same. Whether as the Artists’ Alliance or the Authors’ Alliance, as the Charing Cross Publishing Company or the City of London Publishing Company, as Bevington and Co., or Longman and Co., or, lastly, as the International Society of Literature, Science, and Art, the broad plan remained the same. Im- mense advantages in money or prestige were offered to painters who could not sell their pic- tures, to authors who could not find publishers, to unknown musicians, and to provincial patrons of letters, if they would join some institution existing for the purpose of breaking down the barriers existing between them and the admiring notice of the world at large. The co-operative bodies asked for an entrance fee and a subscription; the publishing firm went a little further and asked for manuscripts and cheques. In no case was anything done in re- turn forthe payments. Fellowship of the various alliances brought neither notoriety nor remunera- tion, and cheques to Bevington and Co. or Long- ‘man and Co., although cashed by those enter- prising firms, never resulted in the issue of the manuscripts. Nor were the manuscripts returned. We say “at last,” for we have known of the fraudulent character of the deeds of Morgan and his companions for years, but have been powerless to do more in opposition to them than to warn those who applied to us for advice to beware of ‘the obvious and various traps. Now and again we had détails given to us of some particular piece of swindling perpetrated by Bevington and Co., or by The City of London Publishing Com- pany, but we were always strictly enjoined by the swindled parties to preserve their names a secret. As, also, it is our experience that this sort of rogue never has any money at all that. can be recovered from him, we could hardly recommend our members to prosecute, thereby to reveal themselves as dupes at the expense of their own purses. In 1890 there was started the Inter- national Society of Authors with Sir Gilbert AUTHOR. ‘Publication and’ Perforniance dof Fellows’ ‘and Members’ Campbell for chairman and William James | | Morgan as curator. The country was flooded 4% |. with the following prospectus—we omit the names of the Assistant Secretaries and the “ Councillors” :— THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY of LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, in connection with THE ARTISTS’ ALLIANCE.—Instituted a.p. 1889, under Act of Parlia- ment 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 112—-ExEcuTIve Counciz: Curator, William James Morgan, Esq.; Chairman, Sir G. Campbell, Bart.; Secretary, William Nathan Stedman, Esq.; Assistant Secretaries, .... ; CouNcILLORS: Dayid Tolmie, Esq.,....C. M. Clarke, Esq.,....; CHrer OrricEs, 20, York Buildings, Adelphi, Strand, W.C.; Gallery and West End Offices, The Marlborough Gallery, 39, Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, W., London. The object of this Society is to promote the advancement of Art, Literature, Science, and Music, and the advantage of its Fellows and Members. The means whereby this object is attainable are :— (a) The encouragement of Students and Professors of all ages and of both sexes in all branches of Art, Literature, § @ Science, or Music (i) by purchasing from or publishing for || - Fellows and Members the best results of their geniusor = = their labour; (ii) by the distribution of Prizes; and (iii) by ey affording introductions for the purpose of making a market §9)" for the sale of Fellows’ and Members’ Pictures and other Art rh productions, and for the sale, printing, and publication of tog their Literary and Scientific Works and Musical Com- “ro positions. (b) The publication of a Magazine devoted to the in- terests of Art, Literature, Science, and Music, to which Fellows and Members are invited to contribute. A copy of the Magazine will be forwarded regularly to each Fellow and Member, post free. (c) The enrolment, as Fellows or as Members of the odd Society, of ladies and gentlemen (in all parts of the world) (bls who follow for pleasure or for profit the pursuits of Art, ot Literature, Science, or Music as amateurs or professionals, ale and, as Honorary Fellows or as Honorary Members, all lig 3 those who sympathise generally with the objects of the ont: Society. Arrangements have been made, upon advantageous térms, Ot for :— I.—The Exhibition and Sale of Pictures and other Works At of Art executed by Fellows and Members at the Marl- ecg borough Gallery, 39, Great Marlborough Street, Regent 38% Street, W. IIl—The Reading, Editing, Purchase, Sale, Printing, and Publication of Fellows’ and Members’ manuscript contribu- tions (prose or poetry) in Magazine, and-in Volume or Book form. oes IliIl.—The correction (where necessary), Purchase, Sale, Musical Compositions. ~ : : : IV.—The bestowal of Prizes and other rewards for such Aor £ Inventions, Productions, and Improvements, as tend to the gilt employment of the masses, and the increase of trade; : abs and for meritorious works in all the various departments of 30 & the Fine Arts, Literature, and Science. Fellows and Members of the Society are invited to make use of the Rooms of the Society, for the purposes of re- ceiving or writing letters, making appointments, &c. They are at liberty to use the offices as a London address, and, if desired, letters received there for them will be forwarded on to them by post. It is designed, as soon as is practical, to largely extend the advantages in this direction, so as | oh | d st ash THE AUTHOR. to afford Fellows and Members all the privileges of a first rate London Club. Each Fellow will be entitled to a Free Season Pass (trans- ferable) for himself (or herself) and four friends, admitting to all the Exhibitions or Bazaars held at the Marlborough Gallery, and each Member will be entitled to a similar Pass admitting himself (or herself) and two friends. A Register, open at all times to Art buyers, Publishers, and other employers of artistic, literary, scientific, musical, or educational labour is kept, and Fellows or Members desiring remunerative home or other occupation may have their requirements entered therein free of charge. Fellows and members are invited to contribute to the Journal of the Society, to attend the London and local conversaziones and soirées, to read papers and to join in the discussions. When mutually desired, introductions are given with the view that congenial acquaintanceships and friendships may be thus induced. Correspondents upon all subjects connected with literature, the arts, and the sciences are also introduced to each other in all parts of the world, who thus by letter interchange information peculiar to their own spheres. No entrance fee is required. The subscription dates from the time of payment. Ladies and gentlemen actively engaged in any one or more of the various branches of art, literature, science, or music are eligible for election as Fellows, and have diplomas granted to them with the right of appending the letters F.S.L. to their names. Certificates of membership (M.S.L.) are also issued. The annual subscription as an active or honorary member is one guinea. This subscription may be compounded for for a term of five years upon payment of three guineas, or for life upon payment of seven guineas. The annual sub- seription as a Fellow is two guineas. This subscription may be compounded for for a term of five years upon payment of seven guineas, or for life upon payment of fifteen guineas. Students under twenty-one years of age are admitted as Associate Members or Associate Fellows at half fees. Form or APPLICATION FOR HONORARY OR ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP OR FOR FELLOWSHIP. To the Executive Council.— Please enrol me an™ of the International Society of Literature, Science, and Art, for which I enclose the sum of my + Sub- scription. * State here if Active or Honorary Member or Fellow. +State here if for yearly, for five years, or for life. Name in full* Address Ss Proposed by *If a lady, state whether Miss or Mrs. *.* Cheques and postal orders are to be made payable to the Curator, Mr. W. J. Morgan. Fellows and members, whether honorary or active, incur no pecuniary or other liability beyond the amount of their subscription. This precious document was headed by some hundred names extracted from the Peerage, the Army List, the “Clerical Directory,” and the lists of some of the obscurer learned societies, and the list was a fluctuating one. Many of the names were placed on the list of the Council of Fellows without their owners’ sanction, and when with- drawn were immediately replaced by others equally euphonious and obtained on equally easy terms. Many of these victims to their own importance haying found, from us or from the 155 masterly exposure in Truth, that they were being used to bolster up a cruel system of theft, insisted that their names should be withdrawn from the various compromising documents, but in most cases they experienced great difficulty in getting their wishes attended to. We were able to warn our members against this society at once, not only because the nature of Sir Gilbert Campbell’s institution was revealed in its prospectus sufficiently to all who know, but because we were able to trace the connec- tion between the new swindle and the bye-gone games of Mr. Morgan as Bevington and Co. and others. From letters, prospectuses, and docu- ments in our possession, we knew from the first that the International Society of Literature, Science, and Art was deserving of the character that it has at last obtained, but, save warning all inquirers, and speaking plainly im the pages of the Author, we could do nothing. We could not prosecute, and could find no one willing to do so. Great publicity was, however, let in upon the character of the association by the case of Swindells v. Morgan, tried before Mr. Justice Grantham, in the Queen’s Bench Division, about a year ago. The society furnished information that proved invaluable to the plaintiff, and con- tributed towards the cost of the prosecution, and Mr. Swindells, the author, recovered five hundred pounds, which, as it appears, and as might have been expected, he never cot. At last the Public Prosecutor has interfered, and his interference, although to us it may have seemed a little unduly deferred, has been attended with signal success, and was conducted in a@ manner that called for approval both from judge and public. William James Morgan, the curator, has received eight years’ penal servitude, and Tomkins has received five. Sir Gilbert Camp- bell is sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour, and Steadman to fifteen. These people were not associated with Morgan in his earlier ventures. Tolmie will be imprisoned for six months, and Clarke for four. It only remains for us to say that our informa- tion in this important case was placed in the hands of the Treasury. — et 8  156 THE AUTHOR. - LITERARY PROPERTY. right matter. Assignors should look carefully | {jj to their agreements and receipts to see that they (+4). I do not commit themselves in haste to anything | «a: ; of this kind. Freperick Poniock, j Linn v. GrBpines. : [The statement in the article referred to, that | (a DO not agree with Mr. Justice Kekewich’s — the three publishers all abstained from disclaim. |. « opinion (which was not necessary to the ing the right to alter books as owners of the —/ actual decision) that the author’s cause of copyright, was not advanced as a complaint, but | ji) action against an assignee of the copyright who publishes the work in a mutilated or garbled form must be libel or nothing. The right to reproduce a literary work is not the same thing as the right 11. as a significant fact.—Ep1ror. | to reproduce disjointed parts of it, or to mix other matter with it. Whether the omission, alteration, or addition complained of be such as substantially to disfigure the work must be a ques- tion of fact in each case. I can imagine cases in which the copyright-owner ought to have the power of alteration, though not without warning. It is common to sell the copyright of law books, reserving to the author the option of preparing new editions as required on specified terms. What if a new edition is demanded and the author is unwilling or unable to undertake it ? It may have become necessary to rewrite whole pages of the book to bring it into accordance with the existing state of the law; so that, if the copyright-owner may not touch the original text, the copyright will be worthless. I suppose that similar considerations are more or less applicable to text-books in other sciences. There is a further question, but too purely legal to discuss here, whether the cause of action allowed to be possible by Mr. Justice Kekewich is not really in the nature of slander of title rather than libel proper. The condition of literary property may be chaotic; but the fact that the point in Lee vy. Gibbings has never been raised before seems rather to be to the credit of both authors and publishers than to the discredit of the law. T cannot altogether follow the complaint made in the last number of the Author that the publishers. quoted by Mr. Lee did not express any opinion as to the right of the matter. If they had been called as witnesses, it would have been their business not to give an opinion upon the point of law before the court, but to answer questions of fact as to the practice and under- standing in the trade as known to them by experience. I do not see how they could be expected to go farther in giving voluntary opinions than they would or could have gone as witnesses in court. It may be that assignments of copyright drafted in the interest of the assignee will in future often contain words expressly giving the assignee the right to abridge or alter the copy- Tue BANKRUPTCY OF A PUBLISHER. Recent Far.ures. — Messrs. Trischler and Marsden, publishers and magazine proprietors, carrying on business at 18, New Bridge-street, E.C., against whom a receiving order was made on Aug. 22 last, have lodged with the Official Receiver a proposal for a scheme to be submitted to their creditors. They offer to pay a compo- sition of 7s. 6d. in the pound upon the unsecured debts (except one, which is deferred), by instal- ments extending over a period of fifteen months, from approval, with security, which is specified. From the observations of the Official Receiver (Mr. A. H. Wildy) it appears that the debtor Trischler has been in business since Oct. 1887, and in June 1889 he was joined by Marsden, who paid £5500 for a half-share in the business, and each partner contributed equally towards the joint capi- tal of £4422. On May 15 last a private meeting of creditors was held, at which a proposal was made to convert the business into a limited liability company under which debentures were to be issued to the creditors for the amount of their debts, but, owing to the opposition of one creditor the proposed scheme fell through. The insol- vency is attributable to inability to realise stock and manuscripts owing to the depressed state of the book trade, losses by bad debts, loss on trading caused by over-production, and loss on unprofitable publications. The liabilities, as shown by the joint statement of affairs, amount to £12,238, and the assets are estimated by the debtors at £2294, after payment of preferential claims. The Official Receiver reports that the terms of the proposal, subject to official confirma- tion of the value of the assets, and assuming that the creditors are satisfied with the guarantees offered, are calculated to benefit them. Trischler makes no proposal in respect of his separate estate, but Marsden offers tos. in the pound to his separate creditors, certain claims being with- drawn. The Official Receiver also reports in favour of the latter proposal. Times. The above is instructive as a comment on what has been argued inthe Author (see especially Mr.  Fairbairn’s paper in the September number) on the bankruptcy of a publisher. One can only urge upon our readers the necessity of a pro- tecting clause in case of bankruptcy. TET. Ture Lirprary aNnp ArTIsTIC CoNGRESS. Milan, Sept. 19. At to-day’s sitting of the Literary and Artistic Congress here it was decided that the alienation of a work of art did not carry with it the ght of reproduction. The congress further gave expression to its desire that the appending of forged signatures to works of art should be made a punishable offence, and claimed for architec- tural works the same protection as is offered to other works of art. Sept. 20. The International Literary and Artistic Con- gress to-day decided that the country in which a work is first published should be regarded as the country of origin. In the event, however, of a work being published simultaneously in more than one country, that country which grants the shortest period for the protection of the rights of authors is to be considered the country of origin. It was also resolved to accord protection to authors whose names are attached to their works. Paragraph 3 of the ninth article of the Berne Convention was annulled, and the use of per- forated cards for organettes was declared to be an act of piracy. Protection was afforded to Russian authors against the illegal translation of their works in Russia, and the right of reproduc- tion, including also that of translation, was reserved to the author for a period of ten to twenty years. It was further resolved that authors belonging to the countries of the union should enjoy the right of translation during the period of their protection in the country of origin, provided that they had exercised this right within a period of twenty years. Milan, Sept. 23. At its sitting to-day, the International Literary and Artistic Congress approved of the establish- ment at Berne of an International Statistical Bureau for the registration of the works of authors, together with the date of their publica- tion, and likewise sanctioned the arrangement arrived at for the settlement of the relations between authors and publishers.—feuter. The above paragraphs are from the Times. Have these resolutions of the Congress any other importance than an expression of opinion ? VOL. III. fides was not questioned in the least. THE AUTHOR. 157 IV. GopFrrEy v. BRADLEY AND Co. rt It will be remembered that a note on this case was published in the August number of the Author. Mr. Godfrey, the plaintiff in this case, has written the letter which appears below. It will, therefore, be best to restate exactly the circumstances of the case. I was informed by our secretary, Mr. Thring, in the name of a well-known man of letters, that a case was shortly to be brought before the courts, of alleged plagiarism, and I was asked if I would read the two books in question, and, if invited, give evidence in court. This I declined to do, on the ground that I was already fully occupied. The secretary then informed me that he had been invited to do so in case of my refusal. We con- sidered the matter carefully, It appeared to me so important that a charge of plagiarism, so easily made, should be fairly considered, without bias on either side, that I thought if Mr. Thring was willing to take the trouble, it would be a very fit and proper thing for him, in his position, to undertake. Observe that there was no question of offending publisher in the matter; nothing was imputed against the publisher, whose bona It was simply a question between two novels—a question therefore affecting every novelist. Mr. Thring read both novels. He came to the conclusion that, although there were certain strong similarities of plot, the treatment was quite different. He thought that there was no plagiarism at all, but that there was probably a common origin to both novels. He was, there- upon, subpcenaed to give evidence. After he had been subpeenaed he received a letter from the plaintiff in the case, informing him that he was a member of the Society, and asking for his support. This was actually the very morning when the case came on. As regards my own action in the case, it is quite simple and would certainly be repeated, unless I knew that the plaintiff was a member. In that case I should certainly have called a committee together, and placed the responsibility of giving evidence against a member in their hands. It may be asked whether Mr. Thring exercised sufficient diligence in ascertaining if the plaintiff was a member. Now, let us consider: (1.) The plaintiff is not the writer of the book. He represents the author who is deceased. Is it reasonable to expect that the secretary should know all the works written by the relations of members ? (2.) The novel was written twenty years ago. N ft qy  158 THE AUTHOR. It does not appear to have gone into a second edition. Can we expect a man to remember any- thing about a novel which appeared twenty years ago, “and has never since been reprinted ? (3. ) But he might have observed the name of Godfrey on the list of members. What connection would that suggest? Mr. Godfrey is not a novelist. Should he have written to Mr. Godfrey to ask if he was in any way connected with the plaintiff? I think that could not reasonably be expected. If a member thinks so little of the Society as to bring an action on a point of literary property without consulting, or at least informing, the society, I think he has no reason to complain at any turn that might be taken. As regards Mr. Godfrey’s attempt to show that the society acted wilfulty against a member for an offending publisher, that, as the facts above quoted show, is quite ridiculous. Mr. Godfrey informs me by letter that he con- sulted Mr. Sprigge about the case four years ago. This has nothing to do with the point. He did not inform Mr. Thring, who could not be expected to know anything about a letter written four years ago. As regards the name of the gentleman who sent the case to Mr. Thring, that, of course, can only be published at his own request. The Secretary will not give up the names of any persons who place themselves in communication with him. Otherwise, the whole proceedings of every society or association or company in the world might be advertised in the papers. What I said about plagiarism is not what Mr. Godfrey tries to make out. I said, and I repeat, that there is no charge more easily brought than that of plagiarism, or more difficult to disprove. That has nothing to do with provedtheft. I have not yet read the two books in question, and I hope not to have to read them. Iam, therefore, notin the least concerned with the question of this particular charge of plagiarism, which mav or may not be true. Iam only concerned about the action of our secretary, the responsibility for which lies entirely upon myself. And I have only to repeat that wnder similar circumstances I should do exactly the same thing again in the interests of our members, and for the protection of those among us who are novelists. But members who may be contemplating similar actions, may be assured that if they will take the trouble to inform our secretary beforehand, I will willingly put the responsibility of the case upon the committee. Mr. Godfrey sneers at Mr. Thring’s legal knowledge. In this case, however, no legal know- ledge was required at all, I think I should add, that the abusive letter which follows would certainly not have appeared in the Author, if the person abused had been any other than myself. Water Busant. Chairman, Committee of Management. IL. Garrick Club, W.C., Aug. 22, 1892. Str, In last month’s issue of the Author you pub- lished a report of this case, with certain comments intended to explain away the extraordinary action of the Secretary of the Society of Authors, which, it now appears, was taken under your authority. When the members of the Society have read my statement of the facts I think they will agree with me that your explanation is—to use the mildest terms —an insufficient defence of a lamentable blunder. The following is a brief history of the matter. Some time ago I discovered’ that the London Journal was publishing a story which was a craftily disguised copy of a novel called ‘ Loyal,” written by my wife several years ago. I called the attention of the proprietors to this, and re- ceived in reply an off-hand refusal to discuss the matter. I then took legal action ; the case was tried, and I obtained a verdict, with damages. The judge, in commenting on the evidence, said (I quote from the newspaper reports): “ No one who found a succession of similar passages and the exact similarity of language, both in descrip- tion and in conversation, used as to corresponding characters in corresponding situations, could possibly doubt that the writer of ‘A Mad Mar- siage’ had before her the novel ‘ Loyal.’ He was quite satisfied that the main plot of ‘Loyal’ had been incorporated into ‘A Mad Marriage.’ ” Now in this action, I, a member of the Society of Authors, representing a deceased author, was proceeding against a publisher who was making profits from stolen literary property. I was, in fact, doing exactly the work that the Society professes to do, and so certain did I feel of its sympathy and support that I wrote to the Secre- tary giving him notice of the trial, and sug- gesting that some representative should be present. My amazement may, therefore, be imagined when I found that the principal witness for the publisher and against me was our Secre- tary, who gave evidence which derived its sole weight from the fact that he described himself in his official capacity. What was the natural inference ? What impression was this likely to convey to the judge? That the Society, which was created to ioe authors from publishers, | reat tbe ans |  THE considered this so scandalous an attempt to blackmail a publisher, that it felt bound to unite with the common enemy to defeat a dishonest member of its own body. Fortunately the evidence of this witness went so far as to defeat its mischievous intention. It was as follows: “The Secretary of the Incorpo- rated Society of Authors said there were some incidents which were similar in the two novels, put ‘A Mad Marriage’ was not, in his opinion, an infringement of the copyright in ‘ Loyal.’ He did not think the substance of the plot of ‘Loyal’ had ;been incorporated in ‘A Mad Marriage.’”’ The value of this testimony can be estimated by reference to the judge’s remarks, already quoted. These are the facts. What is your explana- tion? You say you authorised the Secretary of our Society to take part in this case because every novelist of distinction (in which IT assume you rightly include yourself) is from time to time accused of plagiarism. This is equivaient to saying that it is the duty of the Public Prosecutor to defend a receiver of stolen goods because unfounded charges of theft are occasion- ally made. I invite careful consideration of this argument. It at least proves that novelists of distinction may sometimes write amazing non- sense. Possibly your logic may be intended as a pleasantry. I cannot say. My sense of humour is, 1 fear, defective, since I failed to appreciate another comic utterance, contained in a letter you wrote to me, that “Thring’s own sym- pathies seem to have been with you, but as a lawyer he was against you.” From this I appear to have escaped two dangers, for Mr. Thring’s “sympathies”? seem to be as eccentric as his legal knowledge. But, as you add, “ Happily the judge ruled otherwise.” Happily indeed ; but is it not monstrous that the impar- tiality of a judge should be requisite to save me from the hostile vagaries of our paid Secre- tary ? Your main argument of justification I have already dealt with. Others you urge, but they are of so little weight that I will dispose of them ina group. You say that neither you nor Mr. Thring knew who were the parties to the action, that you did not know I was a member of the Society, and that Mr. Thring was compelled to give evidence on a subpena. To all of this I answer that before our Secretary mixed himself up in a literary action it was his duty to ascertain who were the parties to it, that a simple reference to the list of members would have given the other information, and that the omission of such pre- cautions was inexcusable. I will go further and VOL. III. AUTHOR. 199 say that these points are of no importance, and that the Society exists to protect the literary pro- perty of authors under any and all circumstances where justice is on their side, whether they be living or dead, members or non-members, and that the action of the Society as represented by you and the Secretary in ranging itself on the side of a publisher in opposing such a claim was a serious mistake, calculated to lessen confidence in the administration ; for it is clear that members who imagine they are supporting an associa- tion for the defence of their literary rights may at any moment find they are maintaining an engine for their own destruction. Whether such a danger is or is not to continue is now the question. Had you frankly admitted that the action authorised by you was a regret- table mistake, and given me an assurance that care would be taken to prevent its repetition, di should have been satisfied ; but you add discour- tesy to injury in the tone of your comments, not the least offensive of which is the concluding one : “ Mr. Thring’s action was wholly prompted by a laudable desire to forward the interests of the Society and its members.” What does this mean ? How could it have been to the interests of the Society that its Secretary should oppose me unless mine was a dishonourable and improper action ? T ask you, if this action had been brought by you, against a publisher who was selling a piracy. of one of your novels, would you have authorised the Secretary to appear in his official capacity against you ‘in the interests of the Society?’ If not, in the name of reason, why not? IJ am as inca- pable of dishonest action in such a matter as you or any member of Society, and the discourtesy of your suggestion to the contrary (for your words bear no other meaning) compels me to persist in the course I have taken on the advice of several prominent members of the Council, to lay the whole matter before the members at the next general meeting, and leave them to express an opinion upon it. Grorare W. GODFREY. P.S.—One point I find I have overlooked. You say that the Secretary’s interference in this matter was authorised by you at the request of “4, well-known novelist, not concerned in the case.” Ihave already asked by letter to be fur- nished with the name of this gentleman, but with- out success. Tagain ask for this information, and invite the well-known novelist, who I believe to be a member of the Society, to explain his action in enlisting the services of a paid official of the Society against a brother member, and on behalf of a publisher (who is not amember), in an action “in which he was not concerned.” n 2  i 160 III, The following is an account of the part I took with regard to giving evidence in the case of Godfrey and Bradley. Mr. Bradley called here one afternoon with a letter of introduction from a well-known literary man to the chairman of the Society. In his absence I interviewed Mr. Bradley, and he stated that he wanted the chairman to read certain books involved in a case of infringement of copyright, and to give evidence as a technical witness. This, I said, I thought he would not do, and, after some further conversation, he asked me whether I would do so. To this I again demurred, but stated that, with the leave of the managing committee or of the chairman, I would ‘read the books and form the opinion. He there- upon told me the following story, so that I might put the facts before the managing committee or the chairman. In 1872 a novel was published; by Tinsley Brothers called “Loyal.” In 1874 a story was run through the London Journal entitled “A Mad Marriage,’ subsequently published by Tinsleys, which the then proprietor of the London Journal had bought from the authoress, an American. Since 1874 he had become proprietor vf the London Journal, and in 1889 ran “A Mad Marriage” again through his paper. He was now being sued by the executors of the authoress of ‘‘ Loyal” for infringement of copy- right. He then told me that the matter was of impor- tance as the case might come on any day, and he would be glad of my answer as soon as possibie. As it was impossible to call a committee meeting in the time, I put the facts as stated by Mr. Bradley before the chairman, and he told me that he thought it would be a fit and proper thing for me to accept the invitation to read the novels through, and if required give evidence on either side. Upon Mr. Bradley calling the next day I stated that it had been impossible to call a committee meeting, and that Mr. Besant had authorised me, in the absence of the com- mittee, to read the novels through and give evidence if necessary. Mr. Bradley thereupon brought me copies of the two books and I read them through carefully, and came to the con- clusion that “A Mad Marriage” was not such a substantial copy of ‘ Loyal” as to amount to an infringement of copyright, and that, although many of the scenes resembled each other, yet it was quite probable that they had been drawn from a common source. I have seen no reason since to alter that opinion. I was thereupon subpeenaed by Mr. Bradley as a witness in the THE AUTHOR. case. About a week later, on the morning of the day on which the case was heard, I received a letter from Mr. Godfrey, asking me whether I could not render his counsel some assistance with regard to the question of copyright in the action, as he was a member of the Society. This was the first notice I had received that the plaintiff was a member of the Suciety. I had only been told previously that the plaintiff was the exe- cutor of the deceased writer. It was impossible for me at this period not to attend as a witness, as that would have rendered me liable for con- tempt of court, a serious charge. I thereupon went down to the courts to try and see the plaintiff’s solicitor and counsel, to tell them what conclusion I had arrived at, and also to inform them of the fact that I had been subpeenaed as a witness for the other side. I was, however, unable to find them. Later on in the day I was called from my office to give evidence, which I accordingly did, stating my case as I have stated it above. I may further state that the question is not one of law, as Mr. Godfrey seems to think, but absolutely a question of fact, each case being decided on its own merits. I would add that had my opinion been on the side of the plaintiff I should have been equally willing to give evidence to that effect. Mr. Godfrey wrote to me subsequently very angrily on the matter, asking at the same time the name of the gentleman who had introduced Mr. Bradley to the office. To this request I did not accede, as it is impossible for me to give the names of any person corresponding with me, whether he is a member of the Society or other- wise. G. Herpert Turine. Bee. OUR CRITICS, GAIN the Society and its journal have received the wholesome administration of plain truth and candid criticism. This time from several quarters, of which the first is our friend the Bookseller: The -faithful critic has addressed himself to the “Notices’’ which are repeated every month. He is so determined to be faithful that he brings himself perilously near that Division of the High Court of Justice which takes the libel cases. For instance, if by calling the editor a “‘ very sharp man of business indeed,” he implies, as he seems to do, that the editor has any pecuniary interest in the success of the Society or its organ, he has only to repeat the suggestion in order to have an opportunity of proving his statement in that court. esi cee eee > Fe ob ee eee Set ee oe ey =o ia Pe a gee  THE AUTHOR. “Tn paragraph II.” of the notices, says the writer in the Bookseller, “ authors are solicited to contribute gratuitously to the ‘organ.’ The following is paragraph IT. The Editor is always glad to receive short papers and communications on all subjects connected with literature from members and others. Nothing can do more good to the society than to make the Author complete, attractive, and interesting. Will those who are willing to aid in this work send their names and the special subjects on which they are willing to write. Not a word about gratuitous contributions, you see, Whether the Author is written for nothing, and edited for nothing, by our own members, for ourselves, is a question that concerns ourselves alone. “Paragraph III,” says the writer in the Bookseller, “is a request for the sort of informa- tion which is sometimes called Literary Garbage.” Here is paragraph III. : All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of this Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. If contributions by writers ov their own sub- jects are called “ Literary Garbage,” then the Bookseller regards literature from a new point of view. Perhaps the writer of the paper, by the word Garbage, means something not always saleable. However this may be, the tone of the communi- cation and the design of the writer are unqis- takeable. He means to misrepresent and to falsify the work of the society. . Bhe writer then copies out the advice given in our Notices to beginners, which he professes not to understand. It is, of course, perfectly simple and means exactly what it says. He then goes on to say that the members of the Council of the Society do not follow the advice of the Society. Quite so. The members of the Council are not beginners, and the advice is not given to them, but to beginners. Nor is the society a publishing firm. It is a melancholy thing to see such a paper as the Bookseller publishmg 80 spiteful and venomous a paper. The assumption, by the writer, is the stale device, renewed whenever the persons interested in misrepresenting the society can get the chance of implying or stating—either will do —that the society is conducted in hostility to publishers. Nothing, of course, can be farther from the truth. It is hostile, and will continue hostile, to those fraudulent persons who disgrace an honourable calling. ‘There is never a number of the Author in which it is not expressly stated that certain warnings are intended to guard authors—not against publishers— but against 161 certain fraudulent publishers—those who cheat in one or other of the various ways we have detected and exposed. The position is as follows: The Society exists for the defence and maintenance of literary pro- erty. No one will probably object. to the aims of the Society. In the course of its work the Society has discovered the existence of certain frauds. The methods of these frauds it has proceeded, in the interests of those who hold or produce literary property, to expose. It exposes them regularly once a month in the pages of the Author. Can the Bookseller suggest any better way of exposing these frauds? For they must be exposed. And cannot the Bookseller understand that the best interests of those honourable men who follow the calling of which it is the organ are most truly served by making things uncom- fortable and difficult for the unworthy and the dishonest? As for the “ warnings,” there is not one which an honourable publisher can for a single moment consider as directed against himself. : The Globe, again, has a paragraph in which it enlarges and repeats the charges—if they can be called charges—of this indignant person. The writer of the paragraph, pretending to quote from the Bookseller, says: «Among his points, some of the most effective are that writers taught to fancy themselves sweated all round are never- theless invited to work for nothing in the Author ; that by asking for personalia about men of letters, and inserting leaderettes about fourth or fifth-rate authors, the journal encourages the collection of literary garbage; that there are men on the council of the Society who publish their own works in defiance of the very advice they are responsible for. Mr. Besant, therefore, will know that some of his blows have gone home to his foes, the publishers.” The words “ writers taught to fancy themselves sweated all round are nevertheless invited to work for nothing inthe 4 uthor,” refer to nothing at all in the Bookseller except the words “ authors are solicited to contribute gratuitously to the organ ”—already considered. The little enlarge- ment about the sweating is simply invented by the writer of the paragraph. The words “asking for personalia about men of letters and inserting leaderettes about fourth or fifth-rate authors” are also invented by the author of the paragraph. Nothing whatever 1s said in the Bookseller about “ Jeaderettes,’ and, im fact, there have been no “Jeaderettes” in the Author on fourth or fifth- rate authors. Nor, to repeat, has the Author ever asked for “ personalia ” about men of letters. What it asks for, month after month, may be seen by looking at the “Notices ’—i.e., it asks for “ communications on all subjects connected 162 with literature,” and for “any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish.” Lastly, the assertion about the Council has already been met. It is so stupid that one wonders how even the most hostile writer should repeat it. The last words about the “foes” show the spirit of the paragraph. It is, as has been stated above, the commonest way of attacking the Society to repre- sent it as hostile to all publishers. Everybody sees the stupid folly of such hostility, and declares against the stupid folly of the Society. That is to say, since the only foes of the Society are the dishonest persons spoken of above, the Globe charges the whole body of publishers with dis- honesty. It is the accusation of the Globe, not of the Society, or of the Author, or of the editor. Let it be remembered that whoever accuses the Society, or the editor of this paper, with hostility to publishers generally, charges the body of publishers generally with dishonesty. We do not quake, we never have made such a charge, and we never shall. —_— ree THE NEW BOOKS. HE Lists for the Publishing Season are not yet complete. Taking, however, the lists issued in the Atheneum of Sept. 17 and 24 we find the following notes on the number of books announced as about to appear. The order is that in which the lists were published. The Clarendon Press _ ... will produce 51 works. Messrs. Macmillan and (Ol ee . 62. |. Mr. William Heinemann 3 300g Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton 1.0... =. 5 32 Messrs. Williams and Norgate... . 6.) Messrs. Methuen = os 27 Messrs. Warne and Co. ... 3 1S) 4s Messrs. Virtue and Co. ... 3 Messrs. Skeffington and Son ne ‘5 1352; Messrs, James Clark and GOe. Ao = 145, Messrs. Sampson Low and Co.... eee Vado wee ” 52 » Mr. Fisher Unwin ... ... s 45 The Cambridge University ‘ PPORS i is 356s Mr. David Nutt 3 10, Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. ose oue aes wee oe) 25 ? THE AUTHOR. The 8.P.C.K. ... will produce 17 works, Messrs. Chambers ... 18 Messrs. J. and T. Clark a 5a These lists do not contain the new books of Blackwood, Bentley, Black, Blackie, Chatto and Windus, Longman, Smithand Elder, Percival, the Religious Tract Society, and many others. But as eighteen publishers between them are going to produce next month 475 books of sufficient im- portance to be announced, and since there are at least five and twenty others not represented in the lists of these two weeks, it may be fairly estimated that the autumn output of fairly im- portant books amounts to more than a thousand. Next as to the authors of these books. Our President will produce a new volume of poems; George Meredith, another new volume of poems; J. Addington Symons, a Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti; Austin Dobson, a critical biography of Hogarth, illustrated; Mr. Charles Leland, a “ Book of the Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellavia;’’ Professor Seeley, the ‘ Growth of British Policy ;”” Mr. Lewis Morris, the “ Vision of Saints ;”’ Mr. George Saintsbury, a new edition of Florio’s Montaigne; Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie, “Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning ;”” William Watson “The Dream of Man;” Stop- ford Brooke, a ‘‘ History of Early English Litera- ture;” Richard Garnett, a ‘“ Life of Heinrich Heine.” Among others novelists are represented by a smaller list than usual. Among them are Grant Allen, Mrs. Alexander, J. M. Barrie, Amelia Barr, William Black, Walter Besant, Frank Barrett, May Crommelin, Everett Hale, Sarah Doudney, Mrs. Clifford, H. C. Davidson, George Macdonald, Christie Murray, L. T. Meade, Mrs. Molesworth, Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Spender, and Frank Stockton. The list is not complete. We will return to the subject next month. We may note, how- ever, that the production of tooo books in a single month, though this is by far the most fruitful month in the year, proves what we are always proclaiming—the magnitude, the solidity, of literary property. Another point will not escape our readers: the rapid advance made by certain quite young firms. = ; as le  THE AUTHOR. NOTES FROM PARIS. Se Paris, Sept. 23, 1892. NEWSPAPER guerilla war, which, if limited as to the number of the combatants on either side, is bitter in the extreme, is A being waged at present in Paris apropos of the recent formation ofa committee for the erection of a memorial statue to Baudelaire. Rodin, one of ¢he most remarkable of contemporary sculptors has been commissioned to execute the statue, which is to be placed above the poet’s grave. Leconte de Lisle is president of the committee, which includes amongst its members most of the best known poets and littérateurs of France. Our poet Swin- burne, by the way, is also amember. Now, there are a certain number of people in the world of letters in Paris who abhor Baudelaire and all his works, and one of these, that distinguished critic Ferdinand Brunetitre, made the formation of the Baudelaire Committee the occasion for publishing a short but most bitter attack on the great poet inthe Revue des Deux Mondes. The article was remarkable for little but the venom of the attack, nothing fresh in the way of criticism was put for- ward, only the old cowplaints of Saint-Beuve, Scherer, and the rest. Baudelaire’s friends and admirers were not slow to reply to this attack on the dead master, and most of the literary papers contained replies to the Rerue des Deux Mondes article. The quarrel has now settled down into an exchange of personalities between M. Brune- tigre and Albert Delpit the novelist. Up to date of writing it is the latter who has the last word, and amongst other pleasant things that he has had to say about Brunetiére is that he is made up of equal proportions of spite and envy, that his lips curl up showing his canines, which is the true sign of the envious man, that Delpit was his friend for ten years, but can be so no longer at any price, that Brunetitre never took a degree at the University, and that he, Delpit, hopes that he may forget the friend as readily as he has already forgotten the man. I really consider that Brunetiére’s attack was uncalled for. If those of us who admire Baudelaire like to subscribe moneys to place a statue of him on his tomb, which is entirely a private affair, I do not see why this should be made the subject of unfavourable comment in the press. It is not as if the statue was to be put in a public place, which might be interpreted to mean that we wished to force the public to recognise as we recognise it the genius of the dead poet. And in any case it is always regret- 16 able when the life and the work of a man who is dead are bitterly attacked. Baudelaire has, and always will have, a large number of admirers, just as he has, and will always have a number of readers who will turn with disgust from his pages. It is a mere question of what the reader understands by the word “ art.” Nobody denies his perfect mastery of the technique of his art nor his power of music. What Baudelaire’s detractors attack in his work is the unhealthy tone of his thoughts. In contradistinction to that coster with whom the great Chevalier has made us familiar, it’s “the things. he says’ and not “the nasty way he says it” that Baudelaire’s critics object to, ——— +> Baudelaire’s private life has also been dragged into the discussion as if that had anything to do with his merits or demerits as a poet. We have been told for the thousandth time that Baudelaire was an immoral man. This may possibly be the case, although I have always heard from those who had the privilege of his acquaintance that he lived most soberly in his modest furnished lodgings in the Rue d’Amsterdam, and that the only thing that he indulged himself in was charcuterie in various forms. There was doubt- less much more talk than action in Baudelaire’s immorality. He may have wanted to horrify people, much like Byron, about himself, for his great joy, as he once told the Prefet de Police, was to ‘ ¢tonner les sots.” Amongst the many excellent things to be found in “ The Wrecker” the description of Bohemian life in the Latin Quarter in Paris is particularly well done. The days of “ La Vie de Bohéme ” are, by no means, as has been said over and over again, past, and Doppelgangers of every one of famous character in Murger’s book, not excepting Mimi Pinson, could be found to-day over and over again in the hotels meublés of that quarter. They dress a little less raggedly perhaps, and on the whole have more luxurious tastes, for Bohemia has marched with the times also, but there they are just the same. Here, for instance, 1s a scene which I witnessed a few days ago, and which might have come st raight out of the pages of “Vie de Bohéme.”’ I was walking down the Boulevard St. Michel with a young Breton gentleman, who has recently given up the study of medicine for the practice of literature. It was not to be wondered at that his clothes should not be of the best. At the corner of the Rue de Cluny we came upon another man of letters, who though rather shabby as to his hat and boots, 164. wore a magnificent cloth overcoat. I recognised the man as a very well-known poet and writer, who contributes occasionally some most brilliant essays to the press, and who at one time was considered to be the coming man of Paris. As soon as my friend saw him he left my side and crossed over to him and an animated dialogue ensued between the two. I did not hear what they said, but they seemed to be both much excited. In the end, in answer to a particularly vehement speech on the part of the young Breton, the other was seen to unbutton his overcoat, dis- closing therewith that he had nothing on between it and his shirt. My Breton friend presently joined me, and I asked him what the trouble was. “Oh! ce cochon,’’ he said, “he’s got my overcoat on. We lived together a few weeks ago, for we were collaborating. Just before we separated menage X. told me that as he had some business visits to pay, and, as his clothes were too shabby, he would be much obliged to me if I would lend him my overcoat to put on over them so as to hide their tattered condition. I did so, and haven’t seen him since until to-day. I wanted my coat back first, because I, too, am getting very rusty; and, secondly, because here’s the winter coming when it will be needed. Well, he opens it and shows me that he’s telling the truth when he says that he has nothing else to wear. He has sold his coat and waistcoat and couldn’t go out in his shirt-sleeves.”’ I do not know how Bohemians of this class would ever be able to live at all were it not for the large amount of credit which is given by the hotel-keepers. and restaurateurs in the Latin Quarter. The credit system was created for the benefit of the students, but is useful to a number of men of letters, artists, and so forth. Many of these have little else to live upon than the credulity, or rather the faith, of the gargotte- keepers in themselves. They mean to pay as soon as the great picture or the great book, which is to make them famous and rich, shall have been painted or written. Sometimes the book is never written nor the picture painted, and then the creditors get left. I could mention several well- known names of writers here who have about as much order in their affairs as had Dick Swiveller. One very well-known man, whose entire belong- ings consist in his bed and its furniture—which are unseizable under distress warrant in France— got a sound thrashing the other day from a marchand de vins, who met him in Montmartre, and to whom he owed many weeks of board and lodging. If all his creditors were to go for him similarly, I am afraid France would lose a’ poet THE AUTHOR. whom many thousands of admirers consider to be the first poet in France, ; A certain journal has been pitching into me for defending Oscar Wilde against certain abominable attacks which were recently made against him, remarking that Oscar Wilde, least of all men, needs a sandwich man to puff him. If the many writers who cannot stomach the success which this remarkable poet has achieved would leave him alone, his friends and admirers would have no occasion to take up the cudgels on his behalf. “Que Messieurs les—what shall we say ?—commen- cent.” The vegetarians ought to get an interview with Mr. Xavier Marmier, who is the doyen d’age of the French Academy, and who believes and hopes to prolong his life—he is already eighty-eight years old—by a strict course of vegetarianism. For many months past he has not touched meat, and describes himself as having benefited wonder- fully by this régime. He suffers a good deal from rheumatism, but expects to be rid of this also by continuing to avoid meat, and says that his sufferings have notably diminished cf late. Marmier is a splendid old fellow, one of the most sympathetic of the Academicians. He is, how- ever, a decided literary antagonist of Emile Zola, whom he told never to hope for his vote for the Academy. “Zola tried to convince me,” he said, “that it is the novelist’s duty to describe life as he finds it, whether beautiful or ugly, but for all that there are passages in‘ Germinal,’ ‘]’Assom- moir’ and ‘ La Terre,’ which I shall never be able to admit. Altogether, I am afraid that Zola will have to wait for the disappearance of quite a number of the ‘old gang” amongst the Academicians, before the coveted laurel-leaf embroidery shall deck his coat. Iam very sorry to see, from a Scotch paper, that my poor friend, John E. Barlas, the poet, has at last been and gone and done it for himself, and having been “ remitted ”’ by the Crieff autho- rities, consequent on an insane assault he com- mitted in that town, to the sheriff of Perth, has now been remitted to a lunatic asylum. Poor Barlas was a most brilliant scholar, and in the thirteen volumes of poetry which he published, under the pseudonym of Evelyn Douglas, there was much work of really the highest order. He created several new metres, many of most musical effect. I never met an English poet yet who took his vocation so entirely au sérieuw. The late ors  THE AUTHOR. 165 Doctor Hueffer, who read some articles of his about the Paris Salon, sad that they were the best pieces of art criticism which he had read for many years, but Barlas would stick to poetry in spite of my advice. Recently, however, he had taken to prose-writing for the reason that drives most of us unpractical poets to that, and was also trying his hand at fiction. I consider his unhappy end a decided loss to English letters. There was plenty of good stuff in John Evelyn Barlas. Se _ I met Dr. Blanche on the boulevards the other day, and asked him how De Maupassant went. The doctor threw his hands into the air in an un- equivocal gesture of despair. IT would have tried for more detail, only quailed under the eye of that mental juge d’instruction, the greatest mad doctor in Europe. I felt quite relieved when I had got round the corner of the Rue Scribe, and had not been asked by Blanche “to come along o’ me.” Itis pretty well known that De Maupas- sant is totally lost, and that the setting im of paralysis in its worst form is only a question of time. De Maupassant was the most truthful writer of the age. He was a thorough pessimist, and, come frankly, can one study human nature and. be otherwise ? It was grand training to read him, because the moral inoculation of pessimism is as necessary to a man as it is for him to be vacci- nated. If were a despot I should insist on having Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi, and De Maupassant included in the curriculum of my youthful studies. The man who has been so inoculated is prepared for all the filthy sorrows of life. Now JI, for instance, have, during the last months, been the victim of such treachery, cowardice, and vileness, that, but for my schooling, T should certainly have gone under, heart-broken. Well, nothing of the sort ; I was prepared for all these abominations, and to-day can enjoy my cigarette and my pernod aw sucre just as much as before. Your practical pessimist, taught to expect nothing but vileness from human nature, has more joy at one little act of kindness or of loyalty than a hundred optimists. I should like to commend to the notice of my readers a newspaper index which Mr. Edward Curtice, of Romeike and Curtice, proposes to publish daily, commencing on the new year. It is to be a large sheet, published at one penny, and will give the contents of all the publications of the day. This index will be invaluable to those who are interested in questions, and who want to know VOL. III. where to look in the periodical press for the latest utterances on the same. Rosert H. SHERARD. aes NOTES AND NEWS. Ss N looking at the September number of the Idler, I came across a paper by Grant Allen, to which I naturally turned. Presently, to my amazement, T found my own name mentioned in connection with one or two statements, which made me “‘sit-up.” In the first he speaks of the cost of production “so obnoxious to Mr. Walter Besant.” Why is the “cost of production ” obnoxious tome? The Society, through its officers, has, it is true, by dint of great trouble ascertained something like the real cost of producing the ordi- nary book. It has also published the results of this investigation ; and a very valuable work it is for the information and the protection of the author. Further, the Society has discovered that in many cases the author has been grossly over- charged as to the “cost of production.” But why is the cost of production obnoxious to me? The writer says, further, that he once paid a sum of money to get a book produced, and does not grumble—well! but how does that affect me—or anybody? Why, I ask again, is the cost of pro- duction obnoxious to me? ————— Next, Grant Allen says, “Mr. W. B. will have it that there is no such thing as generosity in publishers.” Where have I said anything so silly? Next, I suppose, one will be accused of saying that publishers have no natural affections, no pity, no fear, no anything. He then goes on to say that he has been treated with great generosity by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, who brought out his first book. What I have said over and over again, and probably shall repeat it over and over again, is that it is just as degrading for a man of letters to ask—or to accept—“ geue- rosity,” from a publisher, as it would be for a barrister to ask “ generosity ” of a solicitor. It is not generosity that we want, but justice. The administration, and the acquisition, and the sale of literary property may be governed, and must be governed, as soon as people understand the subject, by the same principles as govern other forms of property. Those who desire the indepen- dence of literature will jom the men and women who are working their hardest to place literary property on a footing equitable both to the author and the publisher. But to stand, hat in hand, blessing the generosity of the man with oO 166 the bag—when shall we agree that the spectacle is humiliating, and the attitude degrading ¥ What, again, is generosity? A publisher knows certainly, that a minimum of so much will be realized by any book that he undertakes. In the case of a new author even, he can, in the case of a novel, pretty certainly arrive at such a minimum. If he is a just and an honour- able man, he will, if he buys the book, give for it a sum calculated, as he considers, justly. The book is then his own. If he afterwards chooses to give the author more in the case of a success, that is due to his sense of justice over and above the letter of the law. But the author has no ground of complaint in any ease. But what of generosity? Where is that? It will be agreed that there is such a thing as a fair division of profits, I suppose. If he gives the author more, he robs himself and degrades the author ; if less, he robs the author and degrades himself. Now, let us look at the case quoted by Grant Allen. Ido not read it a case of “ generosity” at all, but as a case of great clearness of judgment. I can speak of this firm with greater freedom, because no one has as yet ventured to charge me with hostility to Chatto and Windus, who have published books by me for fifteen years, and I hope will continue to do so to the end of the chapter. My reading of the case is this: Mr. Chatto, discovering in Grant Allen a highly promising writer, encouraged him to write a novel; he then read the novel, and saw that it would go; he then bought the novel at what he considered a just price. By so doig he rendered the author the greatest possible ser- vice, a service of which Grant Allen shows himself honourably sensible. -But that a pub- lisher should have the literary acumen to find out a good man and to launch him; and that he should in his business arrangements display a spirit of equity—this reading seems to me far more creditable, as well as the more likely to be true, than the old dream of “ generosity,” which can only mean giving the author more than is his just and rightful due. Not “ generosity,’ my friend Grant Allen. Let us ask for anything but that. Not generosity. The man with the bag loves the word; he loves to be thought the Patron of Literature; he calls himself, whenever he can, the Patron of Literature; well, let him be “generous” to those who love the bended knee and the arching back. We will go rather to the man who stands upright and face to face with us; before whom we stand upright; who agrees with us according to the right and the Justice of the case. THE AUTHOR. Two great Americans have passed away, George William Curtis and the poet Whittier. Of the former, there has appeared in the New York Nation, a biographical paper which makes the English readers of that paper understand for the first time how great was the position occupied by this writer, and how extended was his influence. In this country, no man of letters would be allowed to occupy such a position, nor, I think, does any living man of letters aspire to such a position, That is to say, more than one leader in British politics is a man of letters; but he is a states- man first and a man of letters next. Mr. Glad- stone and Mr. Arthur Balfour are men of letters, but they are statesmen first. George William Curtis, like Lowell, was a man of letters first, and always, a man of letters before everything else. He lived by literature: at first he lectured until he was able to live by writing. He was also an orator: a finished and powerful speaker. He spoke on the anti-slavery side; he delivered eulogies upon Lowell and Bryant. He held numerous public offices. He was chairman in 1871 of the first Civil Service Commission ; he founded the Civil Service Reform Association— which has rescued 36,000 national offices from the old “spoil”? system ; he headed the Indepen- dent party, which refused to have Blaine for President; he was chairman of the Committee on Education—in this capacity he advocated the enlargement of women’s educational advantages ; he was Chancellor of the University of New York; he was President of the Metropolitan Museum; he was President of the National Conference of Unitarian Churches. The follow- ing is the conclusion of the Nation’s paper : In every personal relation he was a good man to know, a better man to love, as relative or friend. He was full of pleasant talk and golden memories of persons and events, nowhere more interesting and engaging than in some friendly circle ; everywhere, and especially in his own home, the least formidable of men, putting the most awkward at their ease. His most remarkable endowment was not any intellectual distinction, any imaginative force or originality of mind, but a character which united in itself the rarest gentleness and the sternest sense of duty and resolve to have it done. He was our Puritan cavalier. His gracious manners masked an iron will. He added nothing to our literature which did not make for kindness, charity, and peace; nothing to our politics which does not shame its ordinary levels and beckon it to higher things. These are very noble words. We who did not know Curtis personally may assume that they are well deserved. Are there many other American men of letters of whom such things could be written ? If so, then, indeed, that country should be proud of its authors. Let us ask, however, what such a man would be in our own country. Probably he would become an anonymous writer of leading articles. In his own circle of intimate E E f 5  THE AUTHOR. friends he would be known as a man of singular gifts, exercising a great and unknown amount of influence; outside his own circle he would be utterly unknown. And our own countryman would voluntarily live in the shade. He would not be able to speak ; he would be a shy man; he would avoid an active part in the work of the day. It is not well done of the modern English littérateur. He should come out of his retreat and take his share in the speaking and the fighting. SS The following lines are quoted by the New York Critic. They are from Lowell’s £ ‘pistle to George Curtis: 1874. Curtis, whose Wit, with Fancy arm in arm, Masks half its muscle in its skill to charm, And who so gently can the Wrong expose As sometimes to make converts, never foes, Or only such as good men must expect, Knaves sore with conscience of their own defect, I come with mild remonstrance. Ere I start, A kindlier errand interrupts my heart, And‘ must utter, though it vex your ears, The love, the honour felt so many years. Curtis, skilled equally with voice and pen To stir the hearts or mould the minds of men,— That voice whose music, for I’ve heard you sing Sweet as Casella, can with passion ring, That pen whose rapid ease ne’er trips with haste, Nor scrapes nor sputters, pointed with good taste, First Steele’s, then Goldsmith’s, next it came to you, Whom Thackeray rated best of all our crew,— Had letters kept you, every wreath were yours ; Had the World tempted, all its chariest doors Had swung on flattened hinges to admit Such high-bred manners, such good-natured wit ; At courts, in senates, who so fit to serve ? And both invited, but you would not swerve, All meaner prizes waiving, that you might In civic duty spend your heat and light, Unpaid, untrammelled, with a sweet disdain Refusing posts men grovel to attain. Good Man all own you; what is left me, then, To heighten praise with but Good Citizen ? But why this praise to make you blush and stare, And give a backache to your Easy-Chair ? * * * * * PostTscRIPT, 1887. Curtis, so wrote I thirteen years ago, Tost it unfinished by, and left it so ; Found lately, I have pieced it out, or tried, Since time for callid juncture was denied. Some of the verses pleased me, it is true, And still were pertinent,—those honouring you. These now I offer: take them if you will, Like the old hand-grasp, when at Shady Hill We met, or Staten Island, in the days When life was its own spur, nor needed praise. x % * * * 167 The death of Whittier removes one of the last surviving American writers of the old school. He, like Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Holmes, and a few others, was lmneally descended from Dryden, Pope, and Gold-mith. We must defer certain remarks on this poet for a month. The following is a list of “ favourite’ books drawn up by Benjamin Franklin in the year 1722, published in the New York Courant. It is reprinted in the New York Critic of August 20. “How many private libraries of the present day,” asks the Critic, “ have these books?” = = have, or have had, myself those marked with a star — rather more than half — and imine is a “ragged” library indeed. History of the Affairs of Europe, * The Tale of a Tub, Josephus Ant, History of France, Her. Moll’s Geography, British Apollo, Heylin’s Cosmography, Sandy’s Travels, * Du Bartas, Theory of the Earth, * Pliny’s Natural History, * Aristotle’s Politicks, * Roman History, * Athenian Oracle, Sum of Christian Theo- logy, Cotton Mather’s History of New England, Oldmixon’s History of American Colonies, Burnet’s History of the Reformation, * Hudibras, * Virgil, * The Spectator, * Milton, * The Turkish Spy, * The Guardian, Art of Speaking, Art of Thinking, The Lover, Bs Oldham’s Works, The Ladies’ Calling, Pacquett * Shakespeare’s Works, * St. Augustine’s Works. The Reader, Cowley’s Works, The Ladies’ Broken Open, * ae Those who love their Rabelais must make a note that the new translation by Mr. WF. Smith, one of the Lecturers and Fellows of St. John’s College, Cambridge, is on the point of appearing. It will be in two volumes royal 8vo., and will contain, as well as the Gargantua and Pantagruel, the minor writings, letters, &e. There are also notes, appendices, &c. Mr. W. F. Smith has long been known as a student of Rabelais. The edition is limited to 750, and is subscribed by Mr. A. P. Watt, 2, Paternoster- square, at 258. a Copy ; put, after a certain number are subscribed the price will be raised, so that those who wish to secure the work should make haste. Ladies of literary pursuits may like to know that the report of the Society for the Em- ployment of Women announces a new—and at present—remunerative field of industry for educated women. It is that of lecturing on domestic science. In many parts of the country 168 THE these lectures have been started, and at the present moment the demand is greater than the supply. The subjects of the lectures are samita- tion, personal and domestic hygiene, nursing, first aid to the injured, and artisan cookery with demonstrations. Instructions in these subjects can be obtained in London and other large centres. The qualities wanted, next to a knowledge of the subject, are especially the power of interesting an audience and of speaking. Perhaps it might prove more satisfa: tory in the long run to take up with lecturing than to crowd the ranks of candi- dates for the post of successful novelist. What has become of the guides to London? Has the scheme collapsed? We were to have had a service of lady guides, with a central office in communication with the great hotels, so that a guide could be obtained and one sent off at short notice. I fear the preliminary studies, without which it is impossible to become a trust- worthy guide, have proved tcoo much It seemed at one time a promising opening. Certainly, speaking as an amateur and occasional guide to London, it is very easy to interest a party. If this note should meet the eye of anyone who helped to start the Lady Guides Association, it would be taken as a kindness if he would send some particulars of the society and its history to the writer. Water Bzsanvt. ec FEUILLETON. i, My First Love. PYNHE children slept. A solitary evening loomed before me. Not the first by many a score and hundred. They had been laboriously filled in. Alisonand Macaulay aided and abetted me. Scott, Bulwer-Lytton, Charlotte Bronté helped ne with all their might. But to night reading palled. I looked around me wondering how I should get through the evening. Thus, with a sudden inspiration, I seized a pen, dashed into a story, and the world was transformed. The bursting of day in the tropics is not more gloom-dispelling. No longer were lonely even- ee a period of dread ; they were ardently longed or. Like secret conspirators my faithful quill and I plotted and wrote till midnight. Time dragged no longer. It flew. A year passed. oe is coming to-night to play chess,” AUTHOR. remarked a pleasant, clear-toned, voice at break. fast time. Its owner claims proprietorship over the house, goods and chattels, including myself. That cabalistic ceremony at St. George's, Hanover-square, has much to answer for. “ He has developed into a full-blown editor.” “B editor! Of what, the Meld or Sport- ing Chronicle?” “ Oh, no,” laughed the voice, muffled in toast. « A new weekly that H is starting, It is to outshine everything, and sell at sixpence.”’ He came, elated to the skies and brimming over with talk of the new project. His beloved chess failed to quash it. Even current rumour on the subject of the famous tournament fell flat. “We have one story by ———”’ (he named a leading author of the day, on the council of the society). ‘‘ But we are at our wits end where to find another. H talks of advertising.”’ My silly little heart gave a bound. In the supremest matter-of-fact tone I said ‘“‘I have one I could finish in a week or two, if you thought it would do.” “You! <A story, a novel!” I don’t know which was the more astonished, B or my husband. Five-and-twenty years ago, the crowd of women writers was infinitely less dense than now. Half exultant, half reluctant, I drew the MS. from its hiding-place. After turning a few pages, ‘ By Jove, it will do,’ exclaimed B : clapping his hands gleefully. ‘I must show it H ; but Iam confident he will have it.” I don’t think terms were ever mentioned or thought of. It was a significant coincidence that on the day of publication I happened to be in the Strand. I looked in at the office, and purchased a couple of numbers. Next day B arrived, to bring me a copy and report progress. Progress! it was stagnation: failure the most pronounced. “Up to five o’clock we had only sold four copies. Then a lady came and bought two. That is the sum total so far.’ But H . persists in being hopeful. ‘These things take time,” he says, ‘“‘and that lady ——” What could my eyes have said? J spoke never a word. “Oh, don’t, don’t,” he broke out in a voice of absolute anguish. ‘‘ Don’t say you were the lady. ‘A lady with a white veil,’ the boy said. You never wear a white veil, now, do you? Oh! it was balm of Gilead, her coming. H. sent for a bottle of fizz to drink it to her. ‘The lady in the white veil!’ Ah, don’t be so cruel as to say it was you. I daren’t tell H——,” followed  THE by a long-drawn sigh ; mournful as midnight breeze on dark Helvellyn. It had been arranged, after H saw it, that I should retain the MS. in my possession. I was anxious to revise it, and they would send for the instalments week by week. Each number was to have one full-page coloured illustration. I was honoured with it, the first number. wretched thing! The third week arrived, but lo and behold! no messenger from the office. Natu- rally I concluded the whole thing had collapsed. But no! In course of time the number appeared, and, located at its usual post, my story ! Had the MS., in desperation, sprouted wings and flown to the office? If so, like a homing pigeon it had returned, for there it lay, still in its brown paper wrapper. In horror I gazed at the heading of the chapter: ‘ My hounds are of the true Spartan breed.” And a lurid light burst upon my bewildered faculties. Dominated by his strong sporting proclivities, B had interpolated a chapter after his own fancy. Greyhounds and “saplings’”’—whatever that may be? I thought they were young trees—the Ridgway Club; Waterloo Cup; Ashdown Park coursing meeting ; poachers and an ancestral ghost swarmed in the foreground of my quiet Warwickshire scene. Explanation and apology followed in due course. Irregularities in the office. “ No one to send.’ “Knew I shouldn't mind;”? and so forth.” Not mind! How to scatter sharp to the four winds of heaven all this wretched rabble of hounds, ghosts, pups, and poachers, I don’t see. But it must be done. It will utterly ruin the next chapter, beside giving me an infinity of trouble. A popular writer—Mr. Percy B. St. John— on an urgent occasion, summoned his victims to the river side, enticed them into a boat, and immediately swamped it. I could not do that, although I had a river handy. Mine would not in “the loomp,’ I imagine, be amenable to reason. Well: H showed considerable mettle, and dropped it. He ran the magazine to some- thing like a dozen numbers before he Jost heart, and succumbed to circumstances. Both tales, as far as I remember, were, by editorial request, expeditiously wound-up. I was paid so much per column. The cheque for the whole was for £15. Many a story, both long and short, has been published since then. But my first love, wooed in secret, while the children were asleep, remains in statu quo to this day; a ghastly memory— dog-encumbered. AUTHOR. 169 1, «* What's the use ?’ Said the goose.” The Goose was old, and grey, and tough, when, by repeated disappointments, she was driven to make the above remark. Michaelmas after Michaelmas had passed over her head, and she ought to have been very thankful that she still possessed a head for another Michaelmas to pass over. It was more than many of her contemporaries could boast. She was a literary goose, be it known ; which, as everybody will admit, is the worst kind of goose possible. The most indigestible and giddy, if not dry and tough. She was born that way, poor thing, so let us not judge her too harshly. The great mistake of her life was, that she would lay nothing but literary eggs. It was foolish and obstinate of her to do. so; for all her best friends had told her, at least once a week, that the market was overstocked already, and the sooner she left off the better. Only a few, dear, foolish Ducks and Goslings of her acquaintance loved and admired them. This encouraged the old goose in her absurd practices, for the small circle of her relations and friends was all the world to her. One unlucky day (she had dreamed about stuffing and green apple-sauce the night before), she was introduced to a gander. Nota literary gander, though such he pretended to be, and he was wise, but he was wicked. Now he flattered this foolish goose, and told her her eggs were worth a lot of money. He could sell thousands of them, if she would only trust him ; and swore upon his honour (of which he had no more than Touchstone’s knight) as a gander and a gentle- man, that he would negotiate the matter success- fully, if she would give him enough green peas to provide him with dinners fora month. The goose, who was always afraid that the eggs would become stale, if not quickly sold, closed with the proposal at once, and, not without considerable difficulty, supplied him with the number of peas he required. The unprincipled gander, however, having eaten all the peas, dropped the basket of eggs and flew away, cackling hideously. Then our goose went home again, her vanity sorely wounded, for geese can be as vain as any other birds, great or small, of the feminine gender. But all her dear ducks and goslings came quacking and cackling round her, and loved and believed in her as fondly as ever. So she laid some more literary eggs (you see she was no fool, for experience did not make her wise); and then, as she gazed at them sadly, she asked the immortal question which rhymes so nicely with the name of her species. Can anyone answer her question ? THE THE SHELLEY CENTENARY. N R. EDMUND GOSSE, at the meeting of 170 the Shelley Centenary, delivered the following address : “We meet to-day to celebrate the fact that, exactly one hundred years ago, there was born, in an old house in this parish, one of the greatest of the English poets, one of the most individual and remarkable of the poets of the world. This beautiful county of Sussex, with its blowing woodlands andits shining downs, was even then not unaccust:med to poetic honours. One hundred and thirty years before it had given birth to Otway, seventy years before, to Collins. But charming as these pathetic figures were and are, not Collis and not Otway can compare for a moment with that writer who is the main intellectual glory of Sussex, the ever-beloved and ethereally illustrious Percy Bysshe Shelley. It has appeared to me that you might, as a Sussex audience gathered in a Sussex town, like to be reminded, before we go any further, of the exact connection of our poet with the county—of the stake, as it is called, which his family held in Sussex—and of the period of his own residence in it. You willsee that, although his native province lost him early, she had a strong claim upon his interests and associations. “Into the particulars of this strange life I need not pass. You know them well. No life so brief as Shelley’s has occupied so much curiosity, and for my patt I think that even too minute inquiry has been made concerning some of its details. The Harriet problem leaves its trail across one petal of this rose; minuter insects, not quite so slimy, Jurk where there should be nothing but colour and odour. We may well, I think, be content to-day to take the large romance of Shelley’s life, and leave any sordid details to oblivion. He died before he was quite thirty years of age, and the busy piety of biographers has peeped into the record of almost every day of the last ten of those years. What seems to me most wonderful is that a creature so nervous, so passionate, sill-disciplined as Shelley was, should be-able to come out of such an unprecedented ordeal with his shining garments so little specked with mire. Let us, at all events, to-day, think of the man only as “the peregrine falcon” that his best and oldest friends describe him. “We may, at all events, while a grateful Iing- land is cherishing Shelley’s memory, and con- gratulating herself on his majestic legacy of song to her, reflect almost with amusement on the very different attitude of public opinion seventy and even fifty years ago. That he should have been AUTHOR. pursued by calumny and’ prejudice through his brief, misrepresented life, and even beyond the tomb, can surprise no thinking spirit. It was not the poet who was attacked, it was the reyo- lutionist, the enemy of kings and priests, the extravagant and paradoxical humanitarian. It ig not needful, in order to defend Shelley’s genius aright, to inveigh against those who, taught in the prim school of eighteenth century poetics, and repelled by political and social peculiarities which they but dimly understood, poured out their reprobation of his verses. Hven his reviewers, ‘perhaps, were not all of them ‘ beaten hounds’ and ‘carrion kites;’ some, perhaps, were very respectable and rather narrow-minded English gentlemen, devoted to the poetry of Shenstone. The newer a thing is, in the true sense, the slower people are to accept it, avd the abuse of the Quarterly Review, rightly taken, was but a token of Shelley’s opulent originality. “To this unintelligent aversion there succeeded in the course of years an equally blind, although more amiable, admiration. Among a certain class of minds the reaction set in with absolute violence, and once more the centre of attention was not the poet and his poetry, but the faddist and his fads. Shelley was idealised, etherialised, and canonised. Expressions were used about his conduct and his opinions which would have been extravagant it employed to describe those of a virgin-martyr or of the founder of a religion. Vegetarians clustered around the eater of buns and raisins, revolutionists around the enemy of kings, social anarchists around the husband of Godwin’s daughter. Worse than all, those to whom the restraints of religion were hateful, marshalled themselves under the banner of the youth who had rashly styled himself an atheist, forgetful of the fact that all his best writings attest that, whatever name he might give himself, he, more than any other poet of the age, saw God in every- thing. This also was a phase, and passed away. The career of Shelley is no longer a battle-field for fanatics of one sort or the other; if they still skirmish a little in its obscurer corners, the main tract of itis not darkened with the smoke from their artillery. It lies, a fair open country of pure poetry, a province which comes as near to being fairy-land as any that literature provides for us. “ We cannot, however, think of this poet as of a writer of verses in the void. He is anything but the ‘idle singer of an empty day.’ Shelley was born amid extraordinary circumstances into an extraordinary age. On the very day, 100 years ago, when the champagne was being drunk in the hall of Field-place in honour of the birth of a son and heir to Mr. Timothy Shelley, the  thundercloud of revolution was breaking over Europe. Never before had there been felt within so short a space of time so general a crash of the political order of things. Here, in England, we were spectators of the wild and sundering stress, in which the other kingdoms of Europe were dis- tracted actors. The faces of Burke and of his friends wore ‘the expression of men who are going to defend themselves from murderers,’ and those murderers are called, during the infancy of Shelley, by many names, Mamelukes and Suliots, Poles and Swedes, besides the all-dreaded one of sans culottes. In the midst of this turmoil Shelley was born, and the air of revolution filled his veins with life. It is not for grey philosophers, or hermits wear- ing out the evening of life, to pass a definitive verdict on the poetry of Shelley. It is easy for critics of this temper to point out weak places in the radiant panoply, to say that this is incohe- rent, and that hysterical, and the other an ethe- real fallacy. Sympathy is needful, a recognition of the point of view, before we can begin to judge Shelley aright. We must throw ourselves back to what we were at twenty, and recollect how dazzling, how fresh, how full of colour, and melody, and odour, this poetry seemed to us— how like a May-day morning in a rich Italian garden, with a fountain, and with nightingales in the blossoming boughs of the orange trees, with the vision of a frosty Appennine beyond the belt of laurels, and clear auroral sky everywhere above our heads. We took him for what he seemed, ‘a pard-like spirit beautiful and swift, and we thought to criticise him as little as we thought to judge the murmur of the forest or the reflec- tions of the moonlight on the lake. He was exquisite, emancipated, young like ourselves, and yet as wise as a divinity. We followed him un- questioning, walking in step with his panthers, as the Bacchantes followed Dionysus out of India, intoxicated with enthusiasm. “Tf our sentiment is no longer so rhapsodical, shall we blame the poet? Hardly, I think. He has not grown older, it is we who are passing further and further from that happy eastern morning where the light is fresh, and the shadows plain and clearly defined. Over all our lives, over the lives of those of us who may be seeking to be least trammelled by the common-place, there creeps ever onward the stealthy tinge of conven- tionality, the admixture of the earthly. We cannot honestly wish it to be otherwise. It is the natural development, which turns kittens into cats, and blithe-hearted lads into earnest members of Parliament. If we try to resist this inevitable tendency, we merely become eccentric, a mockery to others, and a trouble to ourselves. Let us THE AUTHOR. 171 accept our respectability with becoming airs of gravity ; it is another thing to deny that youth was sweet.- When I see an elderly professor proving that the genius of Shelley has been over- rated, I cannot restrain a melancholy smile. What would he, what would I, give for that exquisite ardour, by the light of which all other poetry than Shelley’s seemed dim ? You recol- lect our poet’s curious phrase that to go to him for common-sense was like going to a gin-palace for mutton chops. The speech was a rash one, and has done him harm. But it is true enough that those who are conscious of the grossness of life, and are over-materialised, must go to him for the elixir and ether which emancipate the senses. “Tf Lam right in thinking that you will all be with me in considering this beautiful passion of youth, this recapturing of the illusions, as the most notable of the gifts of Shelley’s poetry to us, you will also, 1 think, agree with me in placing only second to it the witchery which enables this writer, more than any other, to seize the most tumultuous and agitat ing of the emotions, and present them to us coloured by the analogy of natural beauty. Whether it be the petulance of a solitary human being, to whom the little downy owl is a friend, or the sorrows and desires of Prometheus, on whom the primal elements attend as slaves, Shelley is able to mould his verse to the expression of feeling, and to harmonise natural phenomena to the magnitude or the delicacy of his theme. No other poet has so wide a grasp as he in this respect, no one sweeps so broadly the full diapason of man in nature. Laying hold of the general life of the universe with a boldness that is unparalleled, he is equal to the most sensitive of the naturalists in . his exact observation of tender and humble forms. “And to the ardour of fiery youth and the imaginative sympathy of pantheism, he adds what we might hardly expect from so rapt and tempestuous a singer, the artist’s self-restraint. Shelley is none of those of whom we are some- times told in these days, whose mission is too serious to he transmitted with the-arts of language, who are too much occupied with the substance to care about the form. All that is best in his exquisite collection of verse cries out against this wretched heresy. With all his modernity, his revolutionary instinct, his disdain of the unessential, his poetry is of the highest and most classic technical perfection. No one, among the moderns, has gone further than he in the just attention to poetic form, and there is so severe a precision in his most vibrating choruses that we are taken by them into the company, not  172 of the Ossians and the Walt Whitmans, not of those who feel, yet cannot control their feelings, but of those impeccable masters of style, who dwelt by the azure sea Of serene and golden Italy, Of Greece the mother of the free. « And now, most inadequately and tamely, yet I trust, with some sense of the greatness of my theme, I have endeavoured to recall to your minds certain of the cardinal qualities which animated the divine poet whom we celebrate to-day. I have no taste for those arrangements of our great writers which assign to them rank like schoolboys in a class, and I cannot venture to. suggest that Shelley stands above or below this or that brother immortal. But of this I am quite sure, that when the slender roll is called of those singers who make the poetry of England second only to that of Greece (if even of Greece), however few are named, Shelley must be among them. To-day, under the auspices of the greatest poet our language has produced since Shelley died, encouraged by universal public opimion and by dignitaries of all the professions, yes, even by prelates of our national Church, we are gathered here as a sign that the period of prejudice is over, that England is in sympathy at last with her beautiful wayward child, understands his great language, and is reconciled to his harmonious ministry. A century has gone by, and once more we acknowledge the truth of his own words: “The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not ; Like stars to their appointed height they climb.” ee THE INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS. HE conference of the Institute of Journalists (which now numbers 3118 members) at Edinburgh this year proved to be a most interesting and enjoyable gathering. The impor- tant business of the meeting was the discussion and arrangement of the orphan fund scheme, the question of lineage, or the “usage” of news correspondence, which touches most closely the reporter, and the all important matter of estab- lishing an educational test to be applied to all wishing to enter the Institute, either as associates or members. This important step to prevent illiterate and incompetent men posing as journalists, created much discussion, and, incon- gruously enough, as the sitting was in the hall of their own university, the Edinburgh district moved that the time was not yet come for an THE AUTHOR. educational test to be imposed on those wishing to enter the Institute. Their principal reason for this motion appeared to be that in Scotland many men raised themselves from printers to journal- ists; but this was not considered by the con- ference to be a reason why such men should not also educate themselves, and a Mr. Duncan, of Aberdeen, stated that he had stepped from the composing room to the reporter’s desk, but he felt he would have been the better if some such examination had been forced upon him. A very large majority of the Conference were in favour of such a test, and, after a discussion as to whether it should not be more technical than the scheme submitted by the examination com- mittee, and as to the relative merits of Latin, French, and German, it was passed that in future all candidates must pass an examination, or pro- duce a recognised certificate, such as the Oxford or Cambridge examinations, before he would be elected a member of the Institute; Mr. Gilzcan Reid remarking that he hoped some day to see a school for journalists established. 'The members of the Conference were most interestingly enter- tained by the Lord Provost and Council of Edin- burgh, and at the annual dinner Lord Rosebery proposed the toast of the evening, ‘‘ The Institute of Journalists,” in what may be termed a most dramatic and humorous speech. Especially happy was he in comparing the work of a foreign secretary with that of a journalist. Both inter- viewed great personages, both received telegrams ; but the journalist received telegrams which in some way or other miscarried ere they reached the foreign secretary, as in the case of that telegram announcing the evacuation of Egypt. He likened the drawing together of all the journalists of the Empire to Imperial Federation, and he welcomed the fact that political speeches were being curtailed, and home and _ colonial topics more fully discussed. If Lord Rosebery held the audience intent, so also did Professor Masson, ina most earnest and powerful speech upon the power and danger of this huge and grand profession of journalism. With incisive phrases and energetic accents he urged journa- lists to intense accuracy and honourable fairness ; and he asserted that the Universities that were established to acquire knowledge must recognise the pro’ession of journalism, that disseminated knowledge. With apt literary allusion and quota- tion he emphasised his words, and charmed his audience, mostly members of that “‘ dangerous ”’ profession. As a Glasgow editor was elected president of the institute for the coming year, it was a very fitting ending to the Conference that the members went to Glasgow, and were most hospitably entertained by the Lord Provost of dy vfs ple THE AUTHOR. «) that city, the whole proceedings ending with a | day’s run amidst the hills and firths of the Clyde upon the famous steamer “ Columba,” which was placed at the disposal of the institute by Mr. David McBrayne. This last day proved remark- ably fine, and the Kyles of Bute and Arran Hills stood out beneath the blue cloud-flecked sky in all their loveliness as the steamer, with its journalistic freight, steamed amidst them. On the following day those who write newspapers that Sir George Trevelyan, at the Glasgow dinner, asserted all men must read—dispersed to all parts of the empire, for some were present from Europe, the Cape and India, and from Treland and Scotland and England. James BakER. AS CORRESPONDENCE. << S lie American COPYRIGHT. RIOR to the passing of the American Copy- right Bill I sent a short story to one of the London magazines. The editor accepted it, and forwarded me a cheque in payment, at the same time intimating that the copyright would remain my property. A few days after the appearance of the story in the magazine in question I re- ceived a second cheque from the editor for “American rights”—the only notice given me that my work had been used in the States. I was, naturally, very much edified to find that the story had seen the light both here and there, and the second cheque—which I had not anticipated receiving—was especially comforting. The 4th of July passed, and I sent the same magazine another paper, which was published in due course, and again a cheque for “ American rights”’ reached me. But the feeling of satis- faction with which the second cheque had filled me on the former occasion is now tempered by doubts as to the right of the editor to dispose of and republish my work in America without my permission. Whether in so doing he secured for me American copyright I do not quite know, but I observe that the date of the New York journal in which the story appeared—it was sent me by a friend who happened to see it—is four days ahead of the London magazine; the former being published on the 27th of the month, the latter on the 1st of the following month. The above details, it seems to me, bear on a point of the copyright question not hitherto dis- cussed in the Author. I would ask (1) whether an editor is privileged to republish in America #73 a work the copyright of which is the property of the author; and (2) whether, under the circum- stances given, the dual publication secures American copyright. A. B: I: CATALOGUING. In my “green salad” days—before unfor- tunately the Society of Authors was at hand to give advice to the unsophisticated—I signed an agreement with a firm of some repute for several of my books on half share terms. Thinking at that time that the publishers were good kind peopl> to bring out my lucubrations at all, nothing was inserted in the agreement about advertising. The books have had a steady sale ever since. When my first half-yearly account came in, my admiration for these good kind gentlemen was considerably damped when I found that, in addi- tion to charging 15 per cent. for publishing, each book was loaded with a charge of one guinea and a half for cataloguing. This went on for some time, until I became somewhat wiser in my gene- ration, and proceeded to kick at these impositions. Eventually I succeeded in getting half a guinea off each book; but I am sti'l charged two guineas per annum on each for cataloguing. My object in writing is to ask if this charge can be legally sustained? Of necessity most tradesmen must have a list of the wares they have for sale, and why not books? I could, of course, object to their insertion, but should in this case greatly damage their sale. I need hardly say since these days my arrangements as to publishing have become very different, and, thanks to the Society and its mouthpiece the Author, anyone trying to “have me on toast” in a similar way will find they are “ barking up the wrong tree’”’ as our American friends very expressively put it. Tyomas CwMRAG JONES. ———<—<— TT. Booxs For REvIEW. “Frequently books are sent to papers for review, and no review ever appears. When this is the case, should not editors return the books? Perhaps no review is better than a bad one; but this is questionable. — Many persons are not influenced by a review, but would rather judge of a book for themselves, and, unless the name of the book, author, and publisher be brought to their notice in a review or advertisement, how can they possibly judge of the merits of a book ? But when several books are sent to publishers 174 who neither acknowledge nor return them, it is a serious addition to the expenses of launching a book into the world.” [The question seems to resolve itself into this. Do we in sending a@ Lok for review rely on a tacit understanding that it will be reviewed—or do we send it on the chance that the editcr will see fit to give it a review ? | SS IV. Tur SHetLEY MErMoriAt. In the number of the Author for August there is a curiously worded sentence recommending, as a memorial to Shelley, ‘an institute something like the Shakespeare’s house at Stratford.” Which does the writer mean? Shakespeare’s house, his birthplace, or the small remains of the house he built, or the beautiful Memorial Theatre and Library, with the gardens by the side of the Avon, erected in the poet’s honour mainly by one of his fellow-townsmen, with the sympathy and collaboration of admirers throughout the English- speaking world. The cost of each of these three monuments would be easily ascertained, and I should be glad, if the last-named building be the one referred to, to furnish notes on what one man has done for the recovery of England’s greatest poet which might suggest in what manner another poct might be honoured. I may just add that during the thirteen years the Memorial Theatre has been opened twenty-four plays of Shakespeare’s have been produced in strict accordance with the original text; that the library contains an un- exampled collection of Shakespeare literature, including the precious folios and quartos; and that Mr. C. E. Flower has edited a most useful edition of Shakespeare’s plays, either for the stage or for reading aloud. HK. N. P. —— V. LirERATURE AS A CALLING. Mr. James Payn is displeased with Mr. Grant Allen’s pessimistic view of literature as a trade, and persists in recommending it as an agreeable and sufficiently lucrative calling. Mr. Payn* admits that upon the start he found much help and kindness, and, of course, his own talents did the rest. So genial a writer naturally remembers the kindness and the pleasures of success, and forgets the early pangs. But perhaps there are no black periods in his career to remember. Writing as a woman of some literary expe- riences, I am inclined to believe that no view of * Notes of the Week, Illustrated London News, Sept. 17. THE AUTHOR. literature as a pursuit can be too sombre and dis- couraging. It ought to be regarded solely as an affair for people of independent means, though those among my acquaintances rail as bitterly against editors and publishers as we poor wretches who live and eat, say, bread and roots by their good pleasure. I have published half a dozen books, of which one at least has reached a third edition (without lending any extra weight to my purse, alas!). I have had stories in good magazines and articles in good papers, and been permitted at odd times to try my hand upon every kind of journalism, from leading articles, provincial letters, and reviewing, to descriptive reporting and para- graphs. A wealthy newspaper proprietor en- gaged me to write about half of his newspaper, a leaderette, two columns of notes of the week, and usually a couple of miscellaneous articles, as well as the selection of several lots of cuttings. I received the magnificent pay of £1 a week. One year onlydid I make the colossal sum of of £130; every other I am thankful to get as far as £80. Will Mr. Payn contend that these results are satisfactory? ‘True, unlike Mr. Payn, I have never found help or any kindness from my literary superiors—rather the reverse. True also, I am of vagabond tastes, like foreign wanderings and a novel on a sofa rather than the desk. These may be impediments to success, but I have fully tested | the disadvantages of the choice of rash youth, the one thing to which I have shown a misguided fidelity. x VI. Tue Crvin List. On receiving my copy of the Author for September, I was much struck by an article headed “The Civil List,’ from which it appears to me that the writer has not studied his subject with sufficient impartiality. I am not myself aware for what precise class of individuals the benefits of the Civil List Pensions were originally designed, but if, as your correspondent infers, they were for those who have advanced the causes of litera- ture, science, and art, why, in the name of wonder, should consuls and their widows be excluded ? Why should a man be neither literary, scien- tific, nor artistic because he is a consul ? Further on in the same article we are told, with some bitterness, that ‘‘to be the widow of a consul is to be assessed at a pension of £120 a year, while to be the widow of the greatest historian of the day only entitles one to a pension of £100.” Then we hear of “a malign influ- ence ” at work to produce this dire result. Iam far from denying that there may be frequent ani iy 10S fou eu eo  Lah AUTHOR. mistakes in the granting of the pensions dis- cussed, or even that ‘a job” is never known in connection therewith; but surely the bestowers take some account of the pecuniary circumstances of the recipients? If “the greatest historian of the day” has left his widow £20 a year more than the unfortunate consul could leave to his, why should not the difference be adjusted in their respective grants ? But the sentence with which I quarrel the most is the following, evidently written satiri- cally : “Let the pension, which should have been hers (referring to a contemporary novelist), be given to the widows and daughters of men in the Civil Service who have nothing whatever to do with literature, science, or art.” Presumably, this scathing statement applies to consuls, yet without great searchings of memory it appears to me that the Consular Corps has other claims than its civil ones. What about Sir Richard Burton, or Mr. Palgrave, or Mr. Oswald Crauford as far as literature goes ? or say, Consul O'Neill, long at Mozambique, a gold medallist of the Geographical Society, or Sir John Kirk, once one of Livingstone’s party ? Have not these done something for science ? My husband and J, ina very small way, have done something for natural history. That department of the South Kensington Museum has been at various times glad to accept various objects, osteological and otherwise, collected and prepared by us. It has algo shown its apprecia- tion of our efforts by asking us to continue them by collecting some specimens required. Once even, I wrote a story; it was not a pecuniary success; but, as the comforting Author has often assured us, that is no criterion of merit. Yet if I were unfortunately left a needy widow— consuls are not highly paid, their lives are expen- sive, and the contingency is not impossible—I should, according to your correspondent, have no claim on the pension fund because the Consular Corps has nothing to do with either literature, science, or art. A Consuu’s Wire. [Nobody, surely, objects to a pension being bestowed upon a consul’s wife or widow if the consul has literary, scientific, or artistic claims, If he has none, he has no claim to a fund which is granted for literature, science, and art,— Eprror. | ee es SIE eh “AT THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.” M* EDMUND GOSSE joins the company / of novelists. His first work of fiction will be published immediately by Heine- mann. Let us hope that it will be the first of many. A new and cheaper edition of Mr. J. E. Gore’s “ Scenery of the Heavens” will be published immediately by Messrs. R. A. Sutton and Co., 11, Ludgate-hill. Vols. IV. and V. of “The Poets and Poetry of the Century ”’ are the next to appear. The editor, Mr. Alfred H. Miles, is himself responsible for many of the articles, and among the other con- tributors are Dr. Garnett, Dr. Furnivall, Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. A. H. Bullen, Mr. Joseph Knight, Dr. Japp, Mr. Ashcroft Noble, and Mr. Mackenzie Bell. Mr. Andrew W. Tuer, of the Leadenhall Press, is engaged on a little work on Horn-Books, and desires it to be known that he will be grateful for references to material and examples. The June, July, and August numbers of the Eastern and Western Review contain respec- tively a story, ‘The Painter’s Daughter,” a paper on quaint customs in rural Greece, and a tale translated from the Greek of Karkabitsas. By Mrs. E. M. Edmonds. Mrs. Edmonds has also in the press an original story called “The History of a Church Mouse.” Publishers, Messrs. Law- rence and Bullen. Here is a useful little book; not a literary little book: a useful book. It is called “The Best Thing to Do.” It is written by Mr. ©. J. L. Thompson, and it is published at the Record Press, 374, Strand, for one shilling, Those who read this book will have a great deal of practical evidence about common ailments, clothing, sea sickness, accidents, &c. The Record Press is new to us. Its list contains works chiefly on Nursing, Hospital Work, &c. A new edition of “ Steam Pumps and Pumping : a Handbook for Pump Users,’ by Mr. Powis Bale, A.M.L.C.S., has just been issued by Messrs. Crosby, Lockwood, and Son, Stationers’ Hall- court, E.C. The record of the Shelley Centenary Celebra- tion at Horsham is to be preserved in a permanent form. A pamphlet containing Mr. Edmund Gosse’s address, the speeches of Professor J. Nichol and Mr. Frederic Harrison, together with press and personal notices, has been compiled and edited by the Hon. Secs., Messrs. J. Stanley Little and J. J. Robinson, and will be issued shortly. 176 “ An Order to View,” by “ Lohta Talsduan” (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co.), is described by the author as a “ record of pain- ful, personal experiences connected with the dis- posal of a country house.” Thatis his way of putting it. The volume is, in fact, a gossiping, pleasant, rambling talk about a great many things. Mr. Henry Neville’s new collection of stories “Tn the Tilt Yard of Life,’ is published by Ward and Downey. It consists of “ Barbara’s Confession,” ‘ Elizabeth’s Confession,” ‘The Best Friend,” ‘Golden Gates,’ ‘Silas Single- ton,” “A Jew in Moscow,” “ Gritty’s Glove,” &e. The author does not tell us if the stories have already appeared elsewhere. If the reader is not familiar with them, he will do well to get the volume and read the book. Certain remarks were quoted in the August number of the Author as from the Salisbury and Winchester Times. It should have been from the Salisbury and Winchester Journal. A correspondent says: “I not only write my own books, but I print, illustrate, and bind them. I select the material and the type; I design the cover, and I give the book, on commission, to a firm which publishes many books in that way.” His last book is before me. Paper, printing, and binding are all good; the binding especially is excellent. By this plan, the author may pay a little more than a publisher would for production, but then, if the publisher sends in a false return, as is too often done, the author is no better for the saving. He pays a commission-fee, of course, but would a publisher let him off so easily in any other system? The weak point is the advertising. If any reader of these lines wishes to follow this example, the Society would be ready to advise him on this head. A correspondent writes @ propos of the verses, “The Lame Boy,” which appeared in the Author of September. I have just returned from Shet- land, where I met a rising young author, Mr. J. H. B. This young man has so far lost the use of his eyesight that he can no longer read, and can hardly see a few yards. He teaches navigation and other subjects in Lerwick ; is the author of two books, one in prose and one in verse, and is now writing a novel. His poems have gone into a second edition. He is in excel- lent spirits, and the loss of his eyesight does not seem to have had any effect upon him.” The third edition of Mr. J. B. Crozier’s book, “ Civilisation and Progress” will be ready on Noy. 1. Price 14s. Publishers, Messrs. Long- mans and Co. THE AUTHOR. In another column will be found a letter on the subject of books for review. A prospectus of a new paper to be called Pleasure, is lying on the table. In this, the editor promises to return press copies which are sent to him, and do not, for some reason or other, receive a review. Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman has received from Columbia College, the degree of Doctor of Letters. The college deserves our warmest con- gratulations. It is said that Dr. Stedman’s lecture on the “ Nature and Elements of Poetry,” given at the Johns Hopkins, Philadelphia, and Chicago Universities was the last addition to his work and reputation which determined Columbia College. The lecture is to be issued in book form immediately by Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin, and Co. I hope there will be an English edition. Mr. Douglas Sladen has been correcting the proofs for his new book on Japan, which will appear very shortly. Mr. J. Stanley Little continues his articles on “ Aspects and Tendencies of Current Fiction ” in the Library Review, to the September number of which he also contributes a paper entitled “ Why Honour Shelley ?”’ The Independent Theatre Society will give their next performance on Friday evening, Oct. 21, when a new stage version of Webster's tragedy, ‘The Duchess of Malfi,” will be pro- duced with a specially selected caste under the direction of Mr. William Poel, member of council New Shakespeare Society, and Mr. H. de Lange. Dr. G. C. Williamson, of the Mount, Guildford, has in preparation a monograph on John Russell, R.A., the famous crayon artist of the early part of this century. The Queen has granted him permission to photograph five pictures by Russell in her possession. The diploma picture by Russell in the Royal Academy will also be reproduced in the volume. Dr. Williamson invites owners of Russell’s pictures to communicate with him. Mr. Edward Stanford will shortly publish a second edition (considerably rewritten and much enlarged) of Mr. Reynold Ball’s ‘‘ Mediterranean Winter Resorts.” The new edition will contain special articles on the principal invalid stations by eminent medical authorities practising on the Continent. Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell’s yachting story, “ The Wee Widow’s Cruise in quiet Waters,” which has just finished running in the Lady’s Pictorial, is to be published immediately in New York by the Cassell Publishing Company.  THE AUTHOR. H.R.H. The Duchess of Connaught has been pleased to accept the dedication of Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell’s new children’s story “ Only a Guard- room Dog,’ to be published next month by Messrs. Methuen, illustrated by W. Parkinson. Messrs. Chatto and Windus will publish shortly a novel entitled “A Family Likeness,” by Mrs. B. M. Croker. ee FROM THE PAPERS. ? R. LAUDER BRUNTON has made a D discovery which ought to entitle him to the gratitude of all who live by intellectual labour. It is nothing less than the secret of how to have ideas at will. One night, after a long day’s work, this eminent physician was called upon to write an article immediately. He sat down with pen, ink, and paper before him, but not a single idea came into his head, not a single word could he write. Lying back, he then soliloquised, ‘‘ The brain is the same as it was yesterday, and it worked then; why will it not work to-day.” Then it occurred to him that the day before he was not so tired, and that probably the circulation was a little brisker than to-day. He next considered the various experiments on the connection between cerebral circulation and mental activity, and concluded that if the blood would not come to the brain the best thing would be to bring the brain down to the blood. It was at this moment that he was seized with the happy thought of laying his head “flat upon the table. At once his ideas began to flow and his pen to run across the paper.’ By and by Dr. Brunton{thought “I am getting on so well I may sit up now. But it would not do. “The moment,” he continues, “that I raised my head, my mind became an utter blank, so I put my head down again flat upon the table, and finished my article in that position.””—Leeds Mercury, July 30, 1892. It is a great satisfaction to feel that among the many young makers of verse in England there are a few real poets. Among these, and one of the youngest of them, is Mr. William Watson, who recently acquired an enviable prominence as a poet through a slender volume of excellent verse, entitled “‘ Wordsworth’s Grave, and other Poems.” The contents of that volume, with the addition of twenty or more new pieces, now reappear as “Poems by William Watson,” and they are fine enough to convince one that this poet is the fore- 7 most among his contemporaries. He has imagina- tion; he is thoughtful; he has a gift of expression and a freshness of phrase which give a delightful charm to his work; he has style and, above all, a poet’s high regard for the rules governing his art.— New York Critic. ————+ From an address to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 83rd birthday : Last of a line, behold the veteran stand, The lance of wit still trembling in his hand, With locks all whitened now, but holding still A cheerful courage, an enduring will; Last of a race of bards,—too proud to climb Into the saddle of new-fashioned rhyme, Too wise to value art o’er lucid sense, Too brave to draw the curb on eloquence, Not always deep, perhaps, in flow of song, But full-voiced, limpid, tuneful, fluent, strong. A voice, gay, genial, grave,—still true to guide From erring ways kot youth’s impatient stride ; A humour keen, yet with no rankling smart, Its champagne sparkles bubbling from the heart ; A wit perennial and a fancy free, The bloom of spring on life’s long-wintered tree ; A heart as tender as a lover’s thought A falcon spirit, fearless, firmly wrought, Quick to detect, yet tardy to condemn, Well armed with pungent, pointed apothegm ; Shrewd Yankee mind with graft of learning’s fruit ; An ear fine-tuned as Blondel’s joyous lute ; As sly and quaint as Shandy in his style With something of the Frenchman in his smile. At four-score still a bright-eyed, kindly man, Part courtier-cavalier, part Puritan ; Reverend where’er the rose of culture grows, From austral summer to Alaskan snows ; A school-boy’s eye beneath his doctor’s hat, Our love-crowned poet, laureled Autocrat. CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS. New York Critic. What Mr. Stedman did for Austin Dobson ten years ago is done for William Sharpe now by Thomas A. Janvier, whose introduction to “Flower o’ the Vine” is prose with the grace of poetry, happily conceived and felicitously appro- priate. ‘Flower o’ the Vine” contains the sub- stance of two recent volumes of Mr. Sharpe’s verse—“ Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phan- tasy” (London) and “ Sospiri di Roma ” (Rome) Poems of the North and of the South—the first exhibiting a fine power of imagination, the second rich in fancy and exquisite bits of description. Of each of these collections we have already had something to say. Let us now take a word from the genial host who speaks thus of his guest's credentials: “Here, joined, but not blended, is the poetry of the South and of the North. It is an inversion of that curious process by which the waters of the White and Blue rivers, whereof the 178 Nile is made, flowing out from separate sources, journey on together in the same channel for a long while without mingling. In this case, the two streams of verse come from the same source —yet instantly are so distinct and separate that the most acutely critical of observers would not be likely to refer them to a common origin : His ballads are not mere masses of rhymes dexterously fitted together; they are poems with living souls I do hold to be remarkable this merging of two distinct patents of poetic nobility in a single fortunate heir.” “ Flower of the Vine”’ ought. to come into the hands of every lover of fine poetry.— New York Critic. <S—— A check has been put, by the decision of an American judge, upon the attempt to strain the interpretation of a clause in the McKinley Tariff Act in such a way as to prevent the importation duty free into the United States of old books that have been partially rebound within twenty years. The question is one of considerable importance. As book collectors know to their cost, there has long been a considerable demand for old books in this country to be exported to America. As it would be absurd to regard a copy of an old English book—say a first folio of Shakespeare, or the precious little volume contaiming Keats’s “ Tamia,’ and ‘‘ Hyperion”—as competing with any American industry. Congress wisely deter- mined that old books should be exempt, and it fixed the limit at twenty years. But, owing toa construction, which seems to turn partly on the absence of a comma, it was contended that the mere repair of the binding—and most old books in the original binding have been ‘backed ”’ or otherwise repaired — within that time would entail forfeiture of the privilege. Judge Putnam, however, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, has decided that books that have been bound for twenty years are entitled to free entry in spite of -subsequent repairs. 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